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* AndIMustScream: Feylen is still somewhat present and aware inside his mind, but can't control the god that has taken up residence in his body. He's also been locked in a stone prison for years, unable to die, aware, but also unable to move.
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* AndIMustScream: Feylen is still somewhat present and aware inside his mind, but can't control the god that has taken up residence in his body. He's also been locked in a stone prison for years, unable to die, aware, aware all the while, but also unable to move.
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Altan's lieutenant and the Cike's [[BlindSeer Seer]]. He's also Qara's twin brother.
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* TwinTelepathy: If he dies, then Qara dies. If she dies, he goes too. They can also sense each other's pain.
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* PolarOppositeTwins: The complete opposite of Qara in every way.
* TwinTelepathy: If he dies, then Qara dies. If she dies, he goes too. They can also sense each other's pain.
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* DrillSergeantNasty/SadistTeacher: He's a DrillSergeantNasty to most of his students, forcing his students to train outside in the biting cold and pushing them beyond their physical limits. To Rin, he comes off as a SadistTeacher. He bans Rin from attending his class, forcing her to teach herself and clearly favors Nezha, the son of a Warlord.
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One of the Cike's other front-line specialists. He worships a monkey god (think ''Franchise/DragonBall'' giant monkey).
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* TheBerserker: Channels the power of a very angry boar.
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* BeneathNotice: Presumably how he gathers intelligence.
* CowardlyLion: He's not much of a fighter and easily frightened. He's still alive and sane, as well as a capable scout.
* CowardlyLion: He's not much of a fighter and easily frightened. He's still alive and sane, as well as a capable scout.
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* JerkassGods: They show absolutely no regard for TheBerserker: Very close to losing control of his powers and his sanity. He's an unstoppable wall of muscle on the wellbeing battlefield though.
* TheBigGuy: The primary muscle oftheir worshippers or the mortal world squad, along with Baji. He's huge even when not channeling his god.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Gains these when channeling. Rin describes them as empty of any humanity, filled only with a malevolent glee.
* CarpetOfVirility: Covered ingeneral. At ''best'', they treat humans like hair all over his body. When channeling his god, the hair gets thicker and can repel swords.
* DumbMuscle: He can't be controlled once he gets going. The only thing his commander can do is point him in atoddler treats their playthings.
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* HearingVoices: Hears a multitude of voices shouting at him in his head.
* SanitySlippage: Just one bad day away from completely losing his mind.
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The sixty-four gods of the Nikara Empire, thought to be long dead after Nikara's defeat at the hands of the Mugenese Federation.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses a nine-pointed rake.
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* GuysAreSlobs: Implied. He doesn't clean his weapon after battle, leaving a crust of blood and viscera on the tines.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses a huge nine-pointedrake.rake. He's very skilled with it.
* NoIndoorVoice: Described as having a loud, booming voice.
* TheBerserker: Channels the power of a very angry boar.
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One of the more...unusual members of the Cike, even by their standards. He resides in a barrel of water, which the others have to carry around. Aratsha worships a minor river god.
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* MakingASplash: Can control other sources of water.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Known as the Bizarre Children.
* BadassNormal: Not a shaman, but can do just as much damage with his explosives.
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* ArcherArchetype: Cold, quiet, supports the front-line fighters with her arrows and her birds.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Maintains this mindset regarding all the terrible things that she has to do.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can shoot extremely quickly and accurately.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Qara has dark hair and eyes, Chaghan has white hair and eyes (with no pupils or irises). Qara can communicate with birds, while Chaghan is the [[BlindSeer seer]]. Qara isquiet quiet, down-to-earth and efficient, while Chaghan is the InsufferableGenius.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Can talk to birds.
* TheStoic: She's curt and blunt, rarely expressing anything other than mild annoyance.
* TwinTelepathy: She and Chaghan are 'anchor twins'. That means that if one dies, the other will follow. They can both feel the other's pain as well.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Maintains this mindset regarding all the terrible things that she has to do.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Can shoot extremely quickly and accurately.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Qara has dark hair and eyes, Chaghan has white hair and eyes (with no pupils or irises). Qara can communicate with birds, while Chaghan is the [[BlindSeer seer]]. Qara is
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Can talk to birds.
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* TwinTelepathy: She and Chaghan are 'anchor twins'. That means that if one dies, the other will follow. They can both feel the other's pain as well.
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* ArousedByTheirVoice: A mild platonic example. Rin notes that his voice is very smooth and deep, which instantly relaxes her.
* TheMedic: He's a mixture of this and an apothecary. He mixes and measures out the psychedelics required by the shamans.
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* HumanoidAbomination: The ultimate fate of all shamans that do not die in battle. They become demi-gods: more forces of nature than human, no longer in control of their bodies, and impossible to kill.
* FightingFromTheInside: Regains control of his body for a brief moment.
* HumanoidAbomination: What he is at this point.
* HumanoidAbomination: What he is at this point.
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* BigBrotherWorship: Looks up to Altan as an older brother.
* ChildSoldier: Appears to be no older than 15 years old, making him this.
* DemolitionsExpert: Makes all of the explosives that the squad requires, including some of his own design.
* EyeScream: Lost his eye in a fire.
* ToiletHumour: Uses feces in some of his bombs, to his squadmates' dismay. He also apparently [[ExcrementStatement crapped on Baji's pillow at some point.]]
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* CastingAShadow: Can become part of the shadows, removing the need to eat and drink for the duration. He cannot be detected while hiding.
* SacrificialLion: Gets betrayed and murdered by the Empress, revealing her plot with the Federation and showing what is at stake in the coming war.
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* AndIMustScream: Feylen is still somewhat present and aware inside his mind, but can't control the god that has taken up residence in his body. He's also been locked in a stone prison for years, unable to die, aware, but also unable to move.
* BlowThemAway: Channels the God of the Four Winds.
* DemonicPossession: Has long since lost control of his abilities. Feylen is no longer at the wheel; instead, the God of the Four Winds controls his body.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Unable to die, [[AndIMustScream Feylen is trapped within a body no longer under his control.]]
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* AndIMustScream: Feylen is still somewhat present and aware inside his mind, but can't control the god that has taken up residence in his body. He's also been locked in a stone prison for years, unable to die, aware, but also unable to move.
* BlowThemAway: Channels the God of the Four Winds.
* DemonicPossession: Has long since lost control of his abilities. Feylen is no longer at the wheel; instead, the God of the Four Winds controls his body.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Unable to die, [[AndIMustScream Feylen is trapped within a body no longer under his control.]]
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Gets increasingly frustrated by the Warlords and Militia as the siege of Khurdalain goes from bad to worse. He gets treated like a callow child or a scapegoat.
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* MurderInc: An officially sanctioned one. Unlike the Militia, the Cike is not tasked with military operations. Instead, the Cike carries out assassinations and sabotage jobs.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The Cike is mostly comprised of shamans. All shamans, regardless of ability, will eventually lose control of their powers and become a danger to both themselves and everyone around them.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The Cike is mostly comprised of shamans. All shamans, regardless of ability, will eventually lose control of their powers and become a danger to both themselves and everyone around them.
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* AllTheOtherReindeer: The other military branches consider the Cike freaks and outcasts.
* FantasticRacism: The Cike's reputation isn't helped by the fact that it draws recruits from the Hinterlands and Speer.
* LegionOfLostSouls: Recruits anyone that is too useful to kill, but is unable to fit in with the normal Militia. This includes criminals from the Baghra Desert prisons and shamans.
* MurderInc: An officially sanctioned one. Unlike the Militia, the Cike is not tasked with military operations. Instead, the Cike carries out assassinations and sabotagejobs.
jobs. They answer to the Empress, but are otherwise self-governing and lack the structure of the Militia.
* {{Supersoldier}}: In general, the shamans tend to be stronger, faster, and more resilient than the average soldier when channeling their god. They are also capable of performing supernatural feats.
* TailorMadePrison: Chuluu Korikh, a mountain capable of suppressing a shaman's power. Every Cike commander that hasn't died in action has been locked up in Chuluu Korikh.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The Cike is mostly comprised of shamans. All shamans, regardless of ability, will eventually lose control of their powers and become a danger to both themselves and everyone around them. Once that happens, the next in line to command gets to drag their former commander off to Chuluu Korikh.
* FantasticRacism: The Cike's reputation isn't helped by the fact that it draws recruits from the Hinterlands and Speer.
* LegionOfLostSouls: Recruits anyone that is too useful to kill, but is unable to fit in with the normal Militia. This includes criminals from the Baghra Desert prisons and shamans.
* MurderInc: An officially sanctioned one. Unlike the Militia, the Cike is not tasked with military operations. Instead, the Cike carries out assassinations and sabotage
* {{Supersoldier}}: In general, the shamans tend to be stronger, faster, and more resilient than the average soldier when channeling their god. They are also capable of performing supernatural feats.
* TailorMadePrison: Chuluu Korikh, a mountain capable of suppressing a shaman's power. Every Cike commander that hasn't died in action has been locked up in Chuluu Korikh.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The Cike is mostly comprised of shamans. All shamans, regardless of ability, will eventually lose control of their powers and become a danger to both themselves and everyone around them. Once that happens, the next in line to command gets to drag their former commander off to Chuluu Korikh.
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* HumanoidAbomination: He's not human, but he's not a god either. He's capable of feats far beyond human abilities and exists on a time scale beyond human comprehension.
* TheMagnificient: The Gatekeeper.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Has pure white hair, but doesn't appear old enough to have gained it naturally. It turns out that he's not human and has existed for a very, very long time.
* TheMagnificient: The Gatekeeper.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Has pure white hair, but doesn't appear old enough to have gained it naturally. It turns out that he's not human and has existed for a very, very long time.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: The Cike is mostly comprised of shamans. All shamans, regardless of ability, will eventually lose control of their powers and become a danger to both themselves and everyone around them.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: The Cike is mostly comprised of shamans. All shamans, regardless of ability, will eventually lose control of their powers and become a danger to both themselves and everyone around them.
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* BystanderSyndrome: Jiang tends to run away from problems that he doesn't want to deal with. Altan gets snapped up into the military-industrial complex, at the cost of his mental and spiritual well-being? Rin voices a desire to weaponize the gods? Run away and avoid them! Altan and Rin want to unleash the prisoners of Chuluu Korikh upon the world? Give them a verbal warning and seal yourself back up again!
* TheCassandra: Has repeatedly tried to warn others about the dangers of channeling the gods, but no one listens to him. The very existence of Chuluu Korikh should be proof enough of his warnings, but apparently not.
* TheCassandra: Has repeatedly tried to warn others about the dangers of channeling the gods, but no one listens to him. The very existence of Chuluu Korikh should be proof enough of his warnings, but apparently not.
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* SealedBadassInACan: Other characters imply that Jiang has had his powers and memories sealed. The seal is partially undone during the attack on Sinegard -- enough that he can unleash a huge blast of power that levels the East Gate.
** Afterwards, Jiang locks himself in stasis at Chuluu Korikh.
* SealedBadassInACan: Other characters imply that Jiang has had his powers and memories sealed. The seal is partially undone during the attack on Sinegard -- enough that he can unleash a huge blast of power that levels the East Gate.
** Afterwards, Jiang locks himself in stasis at Chuluu Korikh.
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* GateGuardian: A metaphorical one. As the Gatekeeper, Jiang guards the gate separating the mortal world from the world of the gods.
* GodzillaThreshold: He spends most of Rin's apprenticeship warning her of the dangers of channeling the gods. When Sinegard is attacked, he partially undoes the Seal separating the worlds and unleashes a horde of terrible monsters upon the world. He does come to regret this later.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Comes off as a complete space-case, but is far smarter and more competent than he seems.
* GodzillaThreshold: He spends most of Rin's apprenticeship warning her of the dangers of channeling the gods. When Sinegard is attacked, he partially undoes the Seal separating the worlds and unleashes a horde of terrible monsters upon the world. He does come to regret this later.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Comes off as a complete space-case, but is far smarter and more competent than he seems.
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* WaxOnWaxOff: Favors this style of teaching. In order to increase Rin's strength and stamina, Jiang makes her carry a pig up and down a mountain every day. A rapidly growing pig that soon becomes big enough to outweigh her.
* WaxOnWaxOff: Favors this style of teaching. In order to increase Rin's strength and stamina, Jiang makes her carry a pig up and down a mountain every day. A rapidly growing pig that soon becomes big enough to outweigh her.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Treats Rin like crap because she's an orphaned peasant girl, treats Altan (and the rest of the Cike) terribly because he thinks that they're freaks, and only shows favoritism towards nobility.
* {{Jerkass}}: Treats Rin like crap because she's an orphaned peasant girl, treats Altan (and the rest of the Cike) terribly because he thinks that they're freaks, and only shows favoritism towards nobility.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: At first glance, he seems flighty, fidgety, irreverent, and never bothers teaching classes. He interrupts other classes regularly while half-naked and singing dirty songs, and keeps a garden full of psychedelic-producing plants. Despite that, he's a highly competent martial artist and shaman.
* EccentricMentor: Jiang teaches in a very roundabout, confusing manner that forces Rin to think ''way'' outside the box. He assigns her seemingly unrelated tasks and never gives a straightfoward answer if he can help it.
* TheGadfly: Loves to push people's buttons, ''especially'' Jun's.
* TheStoner: All shamans use some kind of hallucinogen to commune with their gods, but Jiang takes it a step further by having an entire garden dedicated to producing mind-altering substances.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: At first glance, he seems flighty, fidgety, irreverent, and never bothers teaching classes. He interrupts other classes regularly while half-naked and singing dirty songs, and keeps a garden full of psychedelic-producing plants. Despite that, he's a highly competent martial artist and shaman.
* EccentricMentor: Jiang teaches in a very roundabout, confusing manner that forces Rin to think ''way'' outside the box. He assigns her seemingly unrelated tasks and never gives a straightfoward answer if he can help it.
* TheGadfly: Loves to push people's buttons, ''especially'' Jun's.
* TheStoner: All shamans use some kind of hallucinogen to commune with their gods, but Jiang takes it a step further by having an entire garden dedicated to producing mind-altering substances.
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* CombatPragmatist: Not afraid to fight dirty.
* WhatTheHellHero: Kitay is appalled when he learns that Rin willingly committed genocide on an island full of innocent people.
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* HeroicWillpower: Having acquired an addiction to heroin from a very early age (at ''4-years-old''), [[HurtingHero he constantly suffers from withdrawal symptoms symptoms]] throughout his life. He never shows this outwardly.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: Uses a trident as leader of the Cike. He uses it to disarm opponents wielding swords.
* SanitySlippage: Steadily loses his composure as the siege on Khurdalain goes increasingly sour. He starts lashing out at his subordinates and proposing bigger, crazier plans.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Planned to release the prisoners of Chuluu Korikh and weaponize them against the Federation. He was fully aware of the dangers of releasing a horde of undying, highly unstable shamans on the world, but insisted that he could control them.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gets flayed alive for all of Golyn Niis to hear.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Acted as one to both Rin and Altan. Once the war begins, Irjah is one of the only people to try to get the feuding Warlords to coorperate.
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* ClassicalAntiHero: Rin lacks the good looks and magnetic charm of a Byronic Heroine. She's also fairly mediocre in terms of intelligence and physical prowess, only making up for it by sheer determination. While at school, she's a social pariah. Then, she gets recruited to the Cike, which are looked down upon by the regular Militia. She regularly suffers from self-doubt and has to claw her way up, contrasting her with the naturally-gifted Nezha.
* HeartbrokenBadass: After Altan dies.
* LostOrphanedRoyalty: It's implied that she's the long-lost daughter of the last queen of Speer, Tearza.
* UncertainDoom: He's last seen being exposed to (presumably) mustard gas and dragged off by Federation soldiers. It's unclear if he survived, since he doesn't show up again.
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* ByronicHero: Altan is an attractive, intelligent, and perceptive man with a talent for both martial arts and shamanism. His stoic demeanor hides a deep well of unending hatred and a crippling drug addiction caused by his [[DarkAndTroubledPast experiences as a human guinea pig.]] He's also willing to do anything to avenge Speer, even if it puts everybody's lives in danger. Despite all that, Rin finds herself falling in love with him.
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* ByronicHero: Altan is an attractive, intelligent, and perceptive man with a talent for both martial arts and shamanism. His stoic demeanor hides a deep well of unending hatred and a crippling drug addiction caused by his [[DarkAndTroubledPast experiences as a human guinea pig.]] He's also willing to do anything to avenge Speer, even if it puts everybody's lives the entire nation in danger. Despite all that, Rin finds herself falling in love with him.
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* BadassBookworm: An interesting take on this, considering that she isn't naturally book-smart or well-read. Being a poor peasant girl, she lacks the years and years of tutoring that noble kids have. She makes up for it by forcibly memorizing the necessary reading material by rote. This lets her achieve the highest Keju score in the Rooster Province, gaining her admission to Sinegard, the country's most illustrious military academy. Once there, she not only manages to keep up with her classmates in schoolwork, she gets private tutoring from Jiang to become a skilled martial artist.
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* FunctionalAddict: Becomes one after contracting with the Phoenix.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The full reality of what she's done to the Mugen islands hit her once she's rescued by the remaining Cike members. Qara advises her to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo think of her actions as necessary,]] if only to maintain her sanity.
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* NeverBeHurtAgain: Ignores all warnings against contracting with the Phoenix so that she will never be powerless or lose anyone ever again.
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* AMillionIsAStatistic: After destroying the Mugen island, she finds herself unable to deal with the sheer enormity of what she's done. Killing a single enemy soldier was difficult, but killing an entire civilization? Easy.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Displays this when justifying her genocidal actions to Kitay. To Rin, all Mugenese are evil demons that don't deserve mercy. Ending the war means crushing the Mugenese people entirely, civilians be damned. It doesn't matter to her that the Nikara Empire is just as bad.
* BrokenPedestal: Although she never gets that close to Jiang, Rin still looks up to him during her apprenticeship. When he refuses to help repel the Federation and closes himself back into his stone prison, she's crushed.
** The Empress as well. Rin considered herself a loyal soldier, willing to serve her country and Empress in anything. Then, the Empress abandoned her people and went into hiding, and betrayed the Cike to Federation soldiers. Rin vows vengeance on the Empress once she finds this out.
* BrokenPedestal: Although she never gets that close to Jiang, Rin still looks up to him during her apprenticeship. When he refuses to help repel the Federation and closes himself back into his stone prison, she's crushed.
** The Empress as well. Rin considered herself a loyal soldier, willing to serve her country and Empress in anything. Then, the Empress abandoned her people and went into hiding, and betrayed the Cike to Federation soldiers. Rin vows vengeance on the Empress once she finds this out.
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* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Her act of genocide against the Mugenese cements her as this. Although her [[WellIntentionedExtremist intentions were good]], Rin's decision to kill an island full of innocent civilians that had nothing to do with the war [[MoralEventHorizon makes her no different than the Federation soliders that sacked Golyn Niis. Niis.]] Kitay is utterly horrified when he finds out what she did.
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** MagmaMan: It turns out that the Phoenix's powers also extend to volcanoes, since Rin causes a long dormant volcano to erupt on the longbow island.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Forms a pact with the Phoenix, giving Rin unimaginable powers in exchange for her worship. The bad thing is, the Phoenix considers rampant death and destruction worship and constantly urges Rin to give in to it.
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* FinalSolution: Destroys the longbow islands and thusly, island with the entirety of Phoenix's power, thus ending the war by killing every single Mugen people.citizen living there.
* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: It's revealed that Rin is the last female Speerly left. After Altan dies, Rin is the last Speerly left alive, period.
* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: Averted. Ramsa asks if Rin and Altan will get together and make baby Speerlies, but Rin has already destroyed her uterus and can't bear children.
* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: Averted. Ramsa asks if Rin and Altan will get together and make baby Speerlies, but Rin has already destroyed her uterus and can't bear children.
** She doesn't learn about her Speerly heritage until about halfway through the book. Since the only other Speerly alive is Altan, who was kidnapped from his home at a very young age, Rin knows nothing about Speerly culture or their shamanistic traditions.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Gains bright red eyes after contracting with the Phoenix.
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* PlayingWithSyringes: Dr. Shiro used Altan as a guinea pig, cutting Altan open and dosing him with high doses of heroin.
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* ByronicHero: Altan is an attractive, intelligent, and perceptive man with a talent for both martial arts and shamanism. His stoic demeanor hides a deep well of unending hatred and a crippling drug addiction caused by his [[DarkAndTroubledPast experiences as a human guinea pig.]] He's also willing to do anything to avenge Speer, even if it puts everybody's lives in danger. Despite all that, Rin finds herself falling in love with him.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Altan's entire life is a long TraumaCongaLine. First, he was abducted by Mugen scientists as a little kid and experimented on for years. He gained a crippling addiction to heroin from those experiments and got to watch his fellow countrymen get vivisected. Then, after he was taken in by Sinegard, he was trained as a living weapon for the Nikara Empire. Jiang tried to help him, but was unable to override the Empress' orders. Throughout all of this, Altan was continually fed a stream of opium to both manage his addiction and keep him under control.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Altan's entire life is a long TraumaCongaLine. First, he was abducted by Mugen scientists as a little kid and experimented on for years. He gained a crippling addiction to heroin from those experiments and got to watch his fellow countrymen get vivisected. Then, after he was taken in by Sinegard, he was trained as a living weapon for the Nikara Empire. Jiang tried to help him, but was unable to override the Empress' orders. Throughout all of this, Altan was continually fed a stream of opium to both manage his addiction and keep him under control.
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* HeroicWillpower: Having acquired an addiction to heroin from a very early age (at ''4-years-old''), he constantly suffers from withdrawal symptoms throughout his life. He never shows this outwardly.
* HeroicSacrifice: Goes out in a literal blaze of glory, destroying the Mugenese research base and giving Rin time to escape.
* LastOfHisKind:The Thought to be the last Speerly. Speerly in existence, at least until Rin is revealed to be a Speerly as well.
* LogicalWeakness: Water. He can't reignite his flames immediately after getting soaked with water, leaving him vulnerable until he dries out.
* HeroicSacrifice: Goes out in a literal blaze of glory, destroying the Mugenese research base and giving Rin time to escape.
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* LogicalWeakness: Water. He can't reignite his flames immediately after getting soaked with water, leaving him vulnerable until he dries out.
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Played for laughs during the first-year final exams. All the first-years scramble to cram as much as they can for their exams...except for Kitay. He doesn't need to cram since his PhotographicMemory recalls everything he reads with perfect clarity, much to the annoyance of the others.
* OnlyFriend: He's the only person to befriend Rin and stay friends with her once she's declared a social pariah by Nezha.
* TheSmartGuy: Thanks to his PhotographicMemory, he got the highest Keju score in the Sinegard Municipality. He's extremely well-read even outside of school materials and wanted to be a scholar.
* SpoiledSweet: He's the son of the Empire's defense minister and grew up in luxury. Despite this, he shows none of the snobbishness of Nezha and Venka.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Played for laughs during the first-year final exams. All the first-years scramble to cram as much as they can for their exams...except for Kitay. He doesn't need to cram since his PhotographicMemory recalls everything he reads with perfect clarity, much to the annoyance of the others.
* OnlyFriend: He's the only person to befriend Rin and stay friends with her once she's declared a social pariah by Nezha.
* TheSmartGuy: Thanks to his PhotographicMemory, he got the highest Keju score in the Sinegard Municipality. He's extremely well-read even outside of school materials and wanted to be a scholar.
* SpoiledSweet: He's the son of the Empire's defense minister and grew up in luxury. Despite this, he shows none of the snobbishness of Nezha and Venka.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets stabbed through the stomach twice by a Mugenese soldier. He Her miraculously survives in just three months.survives.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Recovers from getting stabbed in just three months, which should be impossible without the aid of the supernatural.
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* FunctionalAddict: Hooked on opium. Prior to the siege on Khurdalain, he managed to keep his addiction controlled and only smoked once a month.
* PrettyBoy: Noted by Rin to be very good-looking.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Possesses bright red eyes and can summon fire at will. He's also a very talented martial artist and deeply troubled.
* ThePowerOfHate: What fuels his apparent mastery of the Phoenix's power. He despises the Mugen Federation for annihilating his people and is home, as well as for experimenting on him.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Possesses bright red eyes and can summon fire at will. He's also a very talented martial artist and deeply troubled.
* ThePowerOfHate: What fuels his apparent mastery of the Phoenix's power. He despises the Mugen Federation for annihilating his people and is home, as well as for experimenting on him.
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The sixty-four gods of the Nikara Empire, thought to be long dead after Nikara's defeat at the hands of the Mugenese Federation.
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* {{Determinator}}: She will stop at ''nothing'' to achieve her goals.
* FirstPeriodPanic: Thinks that she's going to die when she gets her first period.
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* RapeForDrama: After Golyn Niis falls, Venka is taken to a 'relaxation house' by the Mugen troops. She's repeatedly raped by soldiers, to the point where she blacks out repeatedly and wakes up to find them still going. Her mental state is understandably battered afterwards.
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* OrphansOrdeal: Because Rin has no family, she lacks any connections necessary to move up in the world. Her only options are marriage or acceptance into Sinegard.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets stabbed through the stomach twice by a Mugenese soldier. He miraculously survives in just three months.
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* AbusiveParents: The Fangs, particularly Auntie Fang, beat Rin and exploited her for free labor for the first 15 years of her life.
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* BrokenAce: Handsome, an extremely talented fighter, and admired by all the other students. However, his calm facade hides seething rage and an all-consuming desire for vengeance.
* LastOfHisKind: The last Speerly.
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* PowerIncontinence: The first two times she uses her powers, she's unable to turn it off. It's only with the help of Jiang (and later, the Empress) that she's able to stop before she burns herself to ash.
* SelfHarm: Deliberately burns herself with candle wax to keep herself awake while cramming for the Keju.
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* ChildhoodFriends: Grew up with Kitay and Venka, although Kitay got excluded from the friend group.
* JerkJock: Excels at martial arts even before going to Sinegard, but has a snobby, self-assured attitude. He makes sure that the other students know that Rin is at the bottom of the social totem pole.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Initially, before he cuts off most of his hair under Jun's tutelage. Rin makes note multiple times of his flawless appearance.
* TookALevelInKindness: Is much nicer to Rin after he nearly died defending Sinegard. He apologizes to her for his behavior at Sinegard.
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* JerkJock: Excels at martial arts even before going to Sinegard, but has a snobby, self-assured attitude. He makes sure that the other students know that Rin is at the bottom of the social totem pole.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Initially, before he cuts off most of his hair under Jun's tutelage. Rin makes note multiple times of his flawless appearance.
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* CountryMouse: Coming from a tiny town in the countryside of the Rooster Province, Rin is unaccustomed to the noise and bustle of the city. The Sinegardian students make fun of her for her country accent and her darker skin.
* FinalSolution: Destroys the longbow islands and thusly, the entirety of the Mugen people.
* HotHeaded: Rin has a sharp temper, which can put her at odds with her classmates and superiors. She does ''not'' take insults lightly and will retaliate with extreme prejudice. Just ask Nezha.
* PlayingWithFire: Produces uncontrollable flames when channeling the Phoenix.
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* FinalSolution: Destroys the longbow islands and thusly, the entirety of the Mugen people.
* HotHeaded: Rin has a sharp temper, which can put her at odds with her classmates and superiors. She does ''not'' take insults lightly and will retaliate with extreme prejudice. Just ask Nezha.
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'''WARNING:''' Contains unmarked spoilers. Please note that names are written in Chinese name order: family name first, given name second.
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!!The Nikara Empire
[[folder:The Trifecta]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Twelve Warlords]]
[[/folder]]
!!Others
[[folder:The Woman]]
[[/folder]]
