History Literature / EverybodyLovesLargeChests

* CoversAlwaysLie: That woman proudly depicted right in the center of the cover? She's not the protagonist. She appears in a single chapter before being summarily killed off by the actual protagonist.

* OurNymphsArePrettier: Dryads are powerful spirits present in the elven Ishgar Republic. Each one is tied to a mighty, magical Hylt tree, [[{{Synchronization}} which acts as an extension of their own bodies, and vice-versa]]. Dryads are seldom seen, if ever, because they spend thousands of years at a time asleep until something rouses them, but once awake they're so powerful that appealing to their wants and needs is a good way to get an eternally protective ally, and angering them is likely to be the last mistake you'll ever make.

* OurElvesAreBetter: Averted by having the elf nation possessing inferior military might when compared to its neighbors, in both quantity and quality of troops.
** Play straight at one point in time, as the long dead Elf Empire once enslaved most other species and conducted horrible experiments on their fellow enlightened beings.

* FictionalGenevaConventions: several divine rules deal with war. Perpetrating a knowing and willing breach of said rules will add the aforementioned "Taboo" skill to the perpetrator's status. The specific war-related crimes listed by deity and domain are the following:
** murder (and presumably any mistreatment) of PoWs (and presumably noncombatants) - taboo of Axel, the war (and generally conflict) god;
** genocide of sapient life - taboo of Solus, the sun god;
** ecocide - taboo of Zephyra, the nature and weather goddess;
** creation of curses and cursed artifacts (i.e. magical WMDs) - taboo of Lunar, the magic and knowledge goddess;
** necromancy / desecration of the dead - taboo of Mortimer, the death and commerce god; however, obtaining contractual permissions from volunteers to be raised to fight again would be acceptable.
*** The Blight treats these rules as a checklist - it's an omnicidal genocidal ecocidal self-propagating curse-like effect which also uses the dead for construction materials. The artifact factory of the fallen machine god Udar is another multiple offender: it creates technomagical "seeds" which forcibly turn all sapients into golem soldiers who in turn proceed to wipe out all organic life.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Himmel. Without him, Boxxy would have been killed by the much more cautious adventurers who came after him and none of the rest of the story would have even happened.

* FunWithAcronims: L.I.A.R. (Librarium Infinitus Arcana Refactorium) and D.I.L.D.O. (Direct Impact Lightning Discharge Oscillator). The first one is a deliberate joke by a trickster deity. The second one is accidental, because the device in question was manufactured by a sentient golem, who knew very little about sexual practices of "meatbags".

* CatGirl: Kiera Morgana, a spunky red-headed teenager who loves to cuddle.

* LiteralGenie: [[spoiler: When Kiera and Boxxy develop into separate personalities in the same bodies, Boxxy tries to use his IOU from Bob to try and get rid of her. His exact words; “I want to be rid of this liability!” Unfortunately for Boxxy, Bob takes the opportunity to make Kiera into a separate individual and give her all the power and status Boxxy had earned as hero of chaos and using Kiera's name.]]

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: When Boxxy starts noticing holes in its memory, this is the cause. Kiera is the split personality and she has no idea she's a cover identity for a former Mimic.]]

* TechnicalVirgin: Boxxy encounters a nun taking it in the butt from her supposed cousin. Apparently, it's not uncommon for nuns to circumvent their vows or chastity this way, claiming that anal doesn't count. Apparently, their gods agree, since violating one's oath to a god has consequences.

It has also been published on Amazon with the title of ''Morningwood: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol.1)'' and has an audiobook narrated by Jeff Hays.

** Likewise, several people, Boxxy included, get away with violating Taboos because you have to both ''willingly'' and ''knowingly'' commit the crime. For example, the Goddess of Fertility forbids sexual relations with monsters or animals. But if you don't know that you're having sex with a shapeshifter, you won't trigger the Taboo.

* GenderEqualsBreed: A child will always be born as the same race as their mother, but incorporate a number of traits from their mother. For example, Zone is a human like her mother, but has reptilian eyes and an odd, almost EmotionlessGirl mindset from her raptor father.

* HealingPotion: Usually used for healing set amounts of HP, and come in a variety of types.

* ThatsNoMoon: [[spoiler:The Palace of the Crystal Maiden ''isn't'' a palace. It's an enormous golem.

* BrokeTheRatingScale: Boxxy made an inventory list cataloguing all of its shinies, listing them by market price, quantity, and of course, how shiny it is. One of its prize possessions, a Masterwork-quality mithril rapier named Feathersting, gets a Shininess rating of 11 out of 10. [spoiler:Fizzy the mithril golem gets a Shininess rating of ''15'', with a market value of ''Priceless'']].

* BrokeTheRatingScale: Boxxy made an inventory list cataloguing all of its shinies, listing them by market price, quantity, and of course, how shiny it is. One of its prize possessions, a Masterwork-quality mithril rapier named Feathersting, gets a Shininess rating of 11 out of 10. [spoiler:Fizzy the mithril golem gets a Shininess rating of ''15'', with a market value of ''Priceless''.[/spoiler].

* BrokeTheRatingScale: Boxxy made an inventory list cataloguing all of its shinies, listing them by market price, quantity, and of course, how shiny it is. One of its prize possessions, a Masterwork-quality mithril rapier named Feathersting, gets a Shininess rating of 11 out of 10.

* AuthorAppeal: Exterminatus has stated the Kora is this.

* LoopholeAbuse: Boxxy manages to use Xera as a sacrifice because it doesn't understand what "pure" means (it assumed it just meant "clean and without disease"), and it made her grow an external heart to satisfy the requirement for a heart. It should be noted that Boxxy did this on accident; Demons 'R Us lets it get away with the trick because it wasn't ''trying'' to trick anything, it was just honestly trying to fulfill the ritual requirements. They make sure it knows it's not allowed to do that again, though.

* Main/{{Xenofiction}}: The main character is a dungeon mimic who eventually evolves into other species.

* LoopholeAbuse: Boxxy manages to use Xera as a sacrifice because it doesn't understand what "pure" means (it assumed it just meant "clean and without disease"), and it made her grow an external heart to satisfy the requirement for a heart. It should be noted that Boxxy did this on accident; Demons 'R Us lets it get away with the trick because it wasn't ''trying'' to trick anything, it was just honestly trying to fulfill the ritual requirements. They make sure it knows its not allowed to do that again, though.