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!!Tropes include:
%% * BigBad: Althen Bior.
%% * BilingualBonus: Many of them, mainly in Finnish, French, and Russian.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Vor Tekr injures his leg and is unable to feel anything in it. How is this a Chekhov's Gun? Well, later on, he gets his lower leg blown off by a cannon, but he doesn't feel anything and keeps fighting.]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Red Bokiro and Blue Bokiro.
* CombatPragmatist: The Trajak faction invoke this heavily. From spreading a disease to causing massive deflation, anything goes.
%% * ConLang: Five of them!
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Invoked due to the conlangs in the story. The Defet, Kydic, Trajak, and Vjulti each refer to their lands as (race) land, and their language as (race) language. It is implied the other races translate these names phonetically.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Each race has one.
** Trajak = Mongols or other steppe horde, with shades of [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orc]].
** Defet = Russians
** Vjulti = Finns
** Bokiro = Chinese
** Humans (Wialn) = France/England
** Kyndic = Italian City States, especially Genoa and Venice
** Nogor = [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwarves]]
** Thalef = [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elves]]
** Ekin = Korea
%% * FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Vor Tekr is The Cynic, Kaaro is The Optimist, Lokxen is The Realist, Pav is The Apathetic.
%% * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Vor Tekr is Choleric, Kaaro is Sanguine, Lokxen is Phlegmatic, Pav is Melancholic.
* GoodColoursEvilColours: Inverted in that the Red Bokiro ally with the protagonists and the Blue Bokiro with the antagonists.
* GoodWeaponEvilWeapon: The side with the guy who uses the double-headed axe, the guy who uses the mace, the guy who uses the poisoned arrows, and the guy who uses the broken sword and dagger? Yeah, they're the [[InvertedTrope good guys]].
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Both factions use torture and other underhanded acts that wouldn't fly today but one is mainly in self-defence and the other in aggression.
%% * HumansAreBastards
* PatchworkMap: Avoided somewhat, but there are still shades of it (A permafrost-covered tundra right next to a bog, and near that a fertile valley, for instance)
