History Literature / ElfslayerChronicles

* MasterOfIllusion: OP's Modus Operandi. Through disguises and technical truths, he is able to create a clean narrative that both gives him an alibi and can fool any witnesses.

* WarIsHell: But only for the elves, who are losing badly. For the humans, the war has revitalized the economy and brought about a surge of patriotism. apparently this was put in so the DM could show [[HumansAreBastards how greedy the humans were]], but it bit her in the arse when OP used the fact that the war was good for his kingdom as his motive for continuing it.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Humans, as expected in a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters story like this]]. Described as being hidebound, homophobic, greedy, elf-hating warmongers. The fun starts when OP decides to start playing his character as a hidebound, homophobic, greedy, elf-hating warmonger.
** After killing off the Elf Captain of the Guard, OP avoids sending news of his victory back to the human kingdom for fear that the DM will use this trope against him by having his superiors [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill him]] and claim credit for his actions.

* BigBad: OP. He organises a series of murders in order to fuel a war and briefly muses about kidnapping a princess, although it never does go through.
** OP suspects that the DM was trying to turn him into this by introducing him to the [[ArtifactOfDoom Eye of Blight]] in order to get the party to kill him.

* TheChessmaster: OP.

* [[spoiler:DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale]]: When interrogated regarding the party, the half-orc ranger stated she carried OP's illusionist to his bed-chambers. When asked what she did then, she stated honestly that she [[spoiler:slept with the illusionist. Said illusionist was blind-drunk (and too weak to fight back even if sober) and not aware of having been laid until the interrogation.]] While jokes were made about the event, OP considered it somewhat creepy, especially after the DM just up and accepted it.

** OP has also clearly spent a lot of time [[Deconstruction finding the holes in the logic]] of a supposedly functional society that has no existing infrastructure to deal with criminals, to the point of being able to make seemingly helpful suggestions to the out-of-their-depth guardsmen that actually serve his purposes instead.

** The most important part of the above is that the DM firmly established the rules of the human kingdom such that the player could justify all of his actions in terms of loyalty to his people. This meant that, mechanically, he wasn't "evil" in the sense that various divination spells and targeted effects could verify, and in fact could have argued that he was "lawful neutral" if his alignment was magically measured (because he was demonstrably willing to risk his own welfare for his people's honor and traditions), making his word theoretically more trustworthy rather than less if it came to that.

* OurElvesAreDifferent: The elves in the campaign are standard D&D elves and eladrin,presented by the DM as peaceful and more culturally advanced than other races, are far more accepting of homosexual relationships, they have very little crime and they don't believe in disturbing the dead. They also appear to be xenophobic, since the human kingdom also houses half-orcs, tieflings and dwarves while the elf kingdom does not.
** According to OP, the elven culture was a mix of Eladrin and normal elves. The Human Prince's lover in particular was an Eladrin Swordmage.

** As of the last post, it also seemed that the campaign was still ongoing.

* SpannerInTheWorks: The DM's plans for pretty much everything are unraveled because of OP's decision that he would ''not'' be an exception to the HumansAreBastards themes of the campaign. The Weeaboo also ''tries'' to be this for OP, but he isn't quite up to snuff, and ends up implicating himself more than OP.

** If you define "good" as the party rebelling against a campaign involving copious quantities of [[CantArgueWithElves Our Elves Are Mary Sues]], then the "weeaboo" is the TokenEvilTeammate.

* XMeetsY: HighFantasy meets Manga/DeathNote.

* PragmaticVillainy: OP's illusionist character is motivated by what they consider best for the human empire, as well as what might provide a boost in personal power. Being lead to believe that the war with the elves leads to a surge in patriotism, an economic boost and potential access to a great source of lumber, he endeavours to keep such a war going.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The DM claimed the humans were homophobic warmongers. The OP decided to roleplay this.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The OP's justification for attacking the prince is that his nation was homophobic, according to the DM, so OP wouldn't accept the prince being gay. Additionally, the DM commenting that elves had so little crime and therefore didn't have holding cells allowed [[spoiler:OP to set up the scene for the Captain of the Guard's murder.]]

* DesignatedVillain: Humans. The GM tries to invoke this by virtue of humans not being elves. The narrator decides to enforce it.

* AuthorAppeal: The DM built the campaign on her preference of elves and Yaoi. The only reason dwarves and tieflings were allowed as player characters was that she didn't like them, so she was fine with them being allied with the [[DesignatedVillain evil humans]].

* OurElvesAreDifferent: The elves in the campaign are presented as peaceful and more culturally advanced than other races, according to the DM. They are far more accepting of homosexual relationships, they have very little crime and they don't believe in disturbing the dead. They also appear to be xenophobic, since the human kingdom also houses half-orcs, tieflings and dwarves while the elf kingdom does not.

* BigBad: OP. He organises a series of murders in order to fuel a war and briefly muses about kidnapping a princess.

* NoEnding: There's no real resolution to the plot; it just stops a short while after OP kills the Elf Guard Captain.

* MetaGuy: The Tiefling, or Weeaboo as OP calls him, who constantly rails against OP both in character and out.

* [[spoiler:DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale]]: When interrogated regarding the party, the half-orc ranger stated she carried OP's illusionist to his bed-chambers. When asked what she did then, she stated honestly that she [[spoiler:slept with the illusionist. Said illusionist was not aware of that fact until the interrogation.]] While jokes were made about the event, the DM's acceptance of this was considered creepy.

* LieDetector: There are spells in TabletopRPG/DungeonsAndDragons that can function as such, and you can imagine the DM used it quite liberally. Unfortunately for the elves, the spells aren't perfect. The dwarves of the party decided to have a bit of fun with it: one twin was a SpoonyBard whose charisma was so high he could effortlessly fool the spell, but the other twin didn't and couldn't. So they would constantly spout lies to give conflicting readings on the same statements.

* DesignatedVillain: Humans, by virtue of not being elves.

** According to OP, the elven culture was a mix of Eladrin and normal elves. The Human Prince's lover was an Eladrin Swordmage.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Played with. While the dwarf brothers describe elaborate dwarf history about the cultural significance of different styles of beard (a braid can refer to a family or a military rank and a shaved beard typically refers to a criminal), the stories told vary with each telling.

* ThoseTwoGuys: The dwarves, Bali and Baldin. They don't directly help with the gambit, but actively mess with the interrogators whenever possible. They would both tell the same story, using the one brother's high bluff skill and the other's abysmal skill to read the same story as both true and false. They would

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Op's escapades can be summed up as what happens when a human in a story where HumansAreTheRealMonsters decides to [[AlwaysChaoticEvil act in character]].