History Literature / Sekhmet

* AdultFear: The trope has the following examples:

* {{Asexuality}}: Both Fay and Keira mention at several points in the story that they have no interest in either sex or dating.
** In fact, this is how Delta realize something is wrong. Keira starts talking about getting some from one of the guards.

* {{Demigod}}: Kieran and Seraphine are this as well as their siblings. Their father and mother are both gods, though they are not gods themselves. They have immortality and strong magic, but that seems to be it. They a

* GoodParents: Most the parents, but averted with Keira's mother who is said to be neglectful. Though it is not shown on the page. Surprisingly, Sekhmet seems to be this to her daughter.

* Myra was sent to the Hyena Island, a place where the crown sends the most dangerous prisoners, while she was pregnant with Kalima and grieving the loss of both her parents. She escaped from the island and challenges Anastasia, her sister, for the queenship. Anastasia is turned to stone and Myra has to take care of her niece, Caterina. Then five years later, Caterina disappears.

* AdultFear: Myra was sent to the Hyena Island, a place where the crown sends the most dangerous prisoners, while she was pregnant with Kalima and grieving the loss of both her parents. She escaped from the island and challenges Anastasia, her sister, for the queenship. Anastasia is turned to stone and Myra has to take care of her niece, Caterina. Then five years later, Caterina disappears.

TheVoiceless: Henrik, Cassandra, and Nathaniel never speak in their appearences on screen.

** Imagine how Akela must have felt coming back from his Father's funeral to find his wife missing and his sister-in-law onthe throne. Then he can't spend time with his daughter unless he pretends to be a guard.

* DragonHoard: Mentioned as a thing, but not shown. There are several jokes told about it

to Delta and be slightly condescending.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Marigold according to Delta's POV. The worst she is shown to do is make a few catty comments.

* AmbiguousDisorder: The story is set in a medieval fantasy world that seems to follow ThereIsNoTherapists.

* AerithAndBob: Names run from Aleksandr, Kalima, Delta, Rekasha, Jinx, and Nix to Lyra, Caterina, Vera, Kisa, and Henry.
* AmazonBrigade: The Champions. Aside from Kieran, Nix, and Aleksandr, the token guys, they are mostly women. The Volcanic Plains is mentioned to be mostly woman and is shown to be a warrior culture.
* AmazonianBeauty: Rakasha. Mentioned to be both ripped and gorgeous in the text.
* AmazonChaser: The Volcanic plains as a whole is said to favor strong women. Frey is most impressed when Myra acts queenly.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Marigold according to Delta's POV. The worst she is shown to do is make a few catty comments to Delta and be slightly condescending.

* BadassGay: Most of the Volcanic Plains is said to be this along with Caterina, Lyra, and Sekhmet, the big bad who mentions having a wife and daughter. Seraphine is into women and takes down a goddess with help.

* TheCaligula: How Panthera thinks of the Zonyian kings.
* TheChessmaster: The Icy Mountains are said to be this though they are not shown in the story. To a lesser extent, Delta and Keiran. Delta is mentioned to have plans though this may be part of her disorder. Kieran has several plans in motions at any time and wants to get out of the prison world, so he can put them in order.
* DragonHoard: Mentioned as a thing, but not shown. There are several jokes told about it

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: This is what happens to champions that pass on in rewards for their service.

* HappilyAdopted: Delta and her cousin, Damian. They were adopted by Kisa and her sister, Vera while Delta is shown to happy with her Mama, Damian is only mentioned until book two.

* LipstickLesbian: Seraphine likes girls and dresses up in Gothic styles. Doe wears a lot of pink, write poetry, and is in a relationship with Ayala. Ayala is an aspiring dressmaker who is in a relationship with Doe.

The first chapter can be read here [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21468802/chapters/51163114]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: The story is set in a medieval fantasy world that seems to follow ThereIsNoTherapist

This story tells how the current champions cane to be founded. Bastet comes to a young princess named Kalima who is told she needs to gather the other champions before the world is destroyed and she needs to test the wards in Set's prison world. Along the way, she comes to terms with her place in the world. Along with finding out what happened to her disappeared cousin.

* RoyalInbreeding: Zonyia's government as mentioned in the story. It's joked that you marry your cousin and mate with your sister in Zonyia though it isn't shown to be true in the current generation.

* MistakenForDead: Kalima spent eleven years believing Caterina was dead after she fell into the world pool.

The story follows sixteen and a half year old Princess Kalima. She feels overwhelmed by her overprotective mother, but she is soon gifted a chance when the Goddess Bastet tells her that she has been chosen as her champion and must find the rest of the champions and test the wards in a prison world. Her sister and shield is also informed that she has been chosen. As the story continues, Kalima is invited to got see her friend's, Delta, sibling's naming day. Her mother decides to make a vacation of it.

There Kalima is introduced to Jinx, Nix, and Fay's twin sister Doe. After the naming ceremony, they go to the dragon caves where they are bonded with dragon. Kalima gets a purple dragon named Sakura who prefers Sora, Fay receives a young red name Ryu who is crushing on Sora, and Nix receives a blue named Tadashi. With the young dragons, the clan goes to the moon pool to meet Arella, the priestess who tends it, and her two children. They drink of the pool and face their worst fears before they are taken to the godly realm. Bastet has another talk with Kalima, this time with her sister, Erica. There Bastet gives her instructions on how to enter the prison world.

Kalima uses the instructions, after a journey that reveals her lost cousin is still alive, along with help from her friends and family to reach the prison world, but entering the world has reduced her magic stores to dangerously low levels and is knocked out. One of the people inside rescues her and brings her to their house. There she starts a romance with Kieran and a friendship with his twin sister, Seraphine. They tell her of their worries that they will never leave the place and Kieran express rage at the unfairness of it as any teenager would. At the end of the month inside of it, Bastet releases them from the world. Freya invites everyone in high command to a dinner to meet her family again. From there, Lady Astrid announces a festival to celebrate Freya's return. During the festival, Set is taken over by the goddess, Sekhmet, and Freya attacks him to give the people a chance to escape. They leave the festival to the eternal fields of Punishment where the group bands together to get Set back to normal. Princess Vanessa is constructing a spell that will free her father from Sekhmet's control, so the group strikes out against Sekhmet to give her time to complete the spell.

Kalima, thinking her mother died during the attack, petitions the council for blood feud against the goddess which they grant. Her great great great grandmother rounds up her pride and goes with Kalima to face the goddess. They journey through the greatly changed landscape until she is kidnapped by Sekhmet in another form. The goddess toys with the group before she goads Aleksandr into a poker game. She leaves after realizing she was tricked into attaching Panthera again. The gods choose their champions and the book then turns to Caterina being reunited with her father and his pack and the champions working out their new abilities.

%%* AmbiguousDisorder: This is to be expected as it is set in a medieval setting.

* AmazonBrigade: The Champions. Aside from Kieran, Nix, and Aleksandr, the token guys, they are mostly women. %%The Volcanic Plains is mentioned to be mostly woman and is shown to be a warrior culture.

%%* AmazonChaser: The Volcanic plains as a whole is said to favor strong women. Frey is most impressed when Myra acts queenly.
%%* {{Asexuality}}: Both Fay and Keira mention at several points in the story that they have no interest in either sex or dating.
%%*BadassFamily: Kalima's family. Myra and Frey talk about the days they fought in wars, Kalima is a champion though she is still learning, her grandmother leads her family to battle against a god. Freya and Set have thirteen children. Seraphine and Kieran are champions. Eliza used to be a champion.
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing: Marigold according to Delta's POV. The worst she is shown to do is make a few catty comments to Delta and be slightly condescending.
%%* {{Berserker}}: Fay and Doe are said to be this. Though in this world, it seems to mean they are born without magic rather then the typical portraits.
%%* BigBad: Sekhmet tries to take over the world in this story though she merely casts a few illusion spells and leaves without much of a fight.
%%* BadassGay: Most of the Volcanic Plains is said to be this along with Caterina, Lyra, and Sekhmet, the big bad who mentions having a wife and daughter. Seraphine is into women and takes down a goddess with help.
%%* ButtMonkey: Aleksandr. Everyone seems to delight in taking shots at him.
%%* TheClan: Volcanic Prides lead by Jarls. Kalima's father's pride is said to have two hundred members.
%%* TheCaligula: King Harold though he is not shown.
%%* TheChessmaster: The Icy Mountains are said to be this though they are not shown in the story. To a lesser extent, Delta and Keiran. Delta is mentioned to have plans though this may be part of her disorder. Kieran has several plans in motions at any time and wants to get out of the prison world, so he can put them in order.
%%* DragonHoard: Mentioned as a thing, but not shown. There are several jokes told about it
%%* {{Demigod}}: Kieran and Seraphine are this as well as their siblings. Their father and mother are both gods, though they are not gods themselves. They have immortality and strong magic, but that seems to be it. They a
%%** Kalima, Fay, and Doe are descended from a past champion of Erica, but don't seem to have any special magics because of it.
%%* DeityOfHumanOrigin: This is what happens to champions that pass on in rewards for their service.
%%* {{Doorstopper}}: It has twenty-five chapters and 145027 words.
%%* TheEmpire: What the Volcanic Plains was mentioned to be named. Though the text doesn't state how far it expanded it the past.
%%* EveryoneIsRelated: The Volcanic Plains are all related to each other through a system of intermarriage of the prides. Plus, most of the protagonists have some manner of family to each other. Keira's older brother is marrying Kalima's cousin, Flora. Caterina is dating Lyra who's brother is dating Sofia. Fay mentions that she is descended from the past queen of Panthera who banished Set, Kieran and Seraphine's dad, along with Kalima being her descendant to.
%%* TheExile: Kagura, Fay and Doe's mom, is mentioned to have been exiled from the clan for cowardice.
%%* ExoticExtendedMarriage: Mentioned as the norm in the Volcanic Plains due to a gender rarity towards female birth.
%%* FieryRedhead: Lyra, literally in her case as she is chosen by the goddess Phyrra. Her brother is averted as he is more easy going and bookdumb.
%%* FurryReminder: It is mentioned that Kanjis go into heat every month. They are anthropomorphic felines and they express displeasure by hissing or growling. They also smile without showing their teeth as it is considered a threat gesture. They also mention that they have litters.
%%* GodCouple: Freya and Set are the immortal rulers of the Eternal fields of Punishment. Sol and Bastet are immortal and together. Though they don't get much page time to act as such. Phyrrah and Artemis are together and immortals to boot.
%%* GodEmperor: Freya and Set ruled over the Eternal Fields of Punishment and the Volcanic Empire. After their return, they are referred to as the Empress and Emperor in narration.
%%* GoodParents: Most the parents, but averted with Keira's mother who is said to be neglectful. Though it is not shown on the page. Surprisingly, Sekhmet seems to be this to her daughter.

%%* HappilyMarried: Frey and Myra though they bicker more than is common for this trope. Freya and Set are said to be this. Eliza and Ragnar are mentioned to be this though it is not shown as they get very little page time.
%%* HappilyAdopted: Delta and her cousin, Damian. They were adopted by Kisa and her sister, Vera while Delta is shown to happy with her Mama, Damian is only mentioned until book two.
%%* LoveGoddess: Erica. Strange for this trope, she seems to be the goddess of family love.
%%* LipstickLesbian: Seraphine likes girls and dresses up in Gothic styles. Doe wears a lot of pink, write poetry, and is in a relationship with Ayala. Ayala is an aspiring dressmaker who is in a relationship with Doe.
%%* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Keira's family overlapping with the clan. Her mom has over sixty children, her ten grandmothers had fifteen children who have four to twenty children each.
%%* {{Matriarchy}}: Panthera is this with a queen passing the crown to her daughter. %%The Volcanic Plains used to be an extreme version of it, but have toned it down in recent years.
%%* ProudWarriorRace: The Volcanic Plains in spades.
%%* RulingCouple: Freya and Set though not shown in the book mentioned as part of the backstory.
%%* RoyalInbreeding: Zonyia's government as mentioned in the story.

* AmbiguousDisorder:

* AmazonBrigade: The champions. Aside from Kieran and Aleksandr, the token guys, they are mostly women. %%Also, the volcanic plains.

%%* AmazonChaser: The Volcanic Plains Ideal woman. Frey is most impressed when Myra acts queenly.
* {{Asexuality}}: Both Day and Keira mention at several points in the story that they have no interest in either sex or dating.
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing: Marigold according to Delta's POV.
%%* {{Berserker}}: Fay and Doe. Though in this world, it seems to mean they are born without magic rather then the typical portrails.
%%* BigBad: Sekhmet.
%%* BadassGay: Most of the Volcanic Plains along with Caterina, Lyra, and Sekhmet, the big bad who mentions having a wife.
* ButtMonkey: Aleksandr. Everyone seems to delight in taking shots at him.
%%* TheClan: Volcanic Prides lead by Jarls.

%%* TheChessmaster: The Icy Mountains. To a lesser extent, Delta and Keiran.
%%* DragonHoard: Mentioned, but not shown.
%%* {{Demigod}}: Kieran and Seraphine are this as well as their siblings. They have immortality and strong magic, but that seems to be it.

* {{Doorstopper}}: It has twenty-five chapters and 145027 words.
%%* TheEmpire: What the Volcanic Plains used to be. Though the text doesn't state how far it expanded it the past
* EveryoneIsRelated: The Volcanic Plains are all related to each other through a system of intermarriage of the prides. Plus, most of the protagonists have some manner of family to each other.
%%* TheExile: A punishment by the Volcanic Plains.

* FurryReminder: It is mentioned that Kanjis go into heat every month.
%%* GodCouple: Freya and Set. Sol and Bastet. Phyrrah and Artemis. Sekhmet and her wife.
%%* GodEmperor: Freya and Set.
%%* GoodParents: Most the parents, but averted with Keira's mother. Suprisingly, Sekhmet seems to be this to her daughter.
%%* HappilyMarried: Frey and Myra. Freya and Set. Eliza and Ragnar.
%%* HappilyAdopted: Delta and her cousin, Damian.
* LoveGoddess: Erica. Strange for this trope, she seems to be the goddess of family love.
%%* LipstickLesbian: Seraphine, Doe, Ayala, and Caterina. To a lesser extent, Lyra.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Keira's family overlapping with the clan. Her mom has over sixty children, her ten grandmothers had fifteen children who have four to twenty children each.
* {{Matriarchy}}: Panthera is this with a queen passing the crown to her daughter. %%The Volcanic Plains used to be an extreme version of it, but have toned it down in recent years.

%%* RoyalInbreeding: Zonyia's government.

* AmazonianBeauty: Rakasha. Mentioned to be both ripped and gorgeous.

* {{Asexuality}}: Fay and Keira are the sex repulsed version. Kisa is sex neutral version. %%Kalima is struggling with her identity, but she falls into this.

%%* {{Demigod}}: Kieran and Seraphine as well as their siblings. They have immortality and strong magic, but that seems to be it.

%%* TheEmpire: What the Volcanic Plains used to be.

%%* RoyalInbreeding: Zonyia's government.
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* FurryReminder: Ayala is deaf as most white furred and blue eyed felines are.
** It is mentioned that Kanjis go into heat every month.

* AmazonBrigade: The champions aside from Kieran and Aleksandr, the token guys, they are mostly women. %%Also, the volcanic plains.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Keira's Family overlapping with the clan. Her mom has over sixty children, her ten grandmothers had fifteen children who have four to twenty children each.