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* BlueBlood: The Sindermans are a wealthy, high-ranking noble family highly concerned with their status and image. [[GildedCage Serinepth does not share their sentiments.]]

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* BlueBlood: The Sindermans are a wealthy, high-ranking noble family highly concerned with their status and image. image, and expect Serinepth to behave in a manner befitting of this status, [[GildedCage Serinepth though she does not share their sentiments.the sentiments of her parents.]]



* BreakTheCutie: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Mira. She gains a connection to the ancient Sheoran Empress Terassis, who unexpectedly replaces her left arm with a magical transforming snake. She later loses her other arm to [[TheGreatSerpent Neska]], and the experience makes her want to be left out of any of these adventures for a time. Later, when trying to negotiate a deal between Laud the Slaad and Ferdinand the witch, Mira offers Laud the chance to kill Ferdinand, with a promise to Ferdinand that she would bring her BackFromTheDead, only for Laud to [[OffWithHerHead decapitate Ferdinand]], preventing Mira's Revivify spell from working and forcing Mira to live with the guilt of her broken promise. Her troubles only continue to pile up from there, as she is essentially forced to become an attendant to the Lady of the Woods, Ala Algrim, ruler of the kingdom of Ophelian, thanks to her knowledge of the ancient secrets of Wildcliff, which leads to her being in charge of a magically comatose Angelika Lindeman.]]

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* BreakTheCutie: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Mira. [[spoiler:Mira. She came to Wildcliff as a cheerful young woman just wanting to learn bardic magic and mak new friends, but instead has found herself trapped in a tangled web of expectations placed on her by various powerful entities and fighting deadly and even potentially [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world-ending]] threats.]]
** [[spoiler:Her adventure at the Sunken Hatch at the start of the year
gains her a connection to the ancient Sheoran Empress Terassis, who unexpectedly replaces her left arm with a magical transforming snake. She snake.]]
** [[spoiler:She
later loses her other arm to [[TheGreatSerpent Neska]], and the experience makes her want to be left out of any of these adventures for a time. Later, time.]]
** [[spoiler:Later,
when trying to negotiate a deal between Laud the Slaad and Ferdinand the witch, Mira offers Laud the chance to kill Ferdinand, with a promise to Ferdinand that she would bring her BackFromTheDead, only for Laud to [[OffWithHerHead decapitate Ferdinand]], preventing Mira's Revivify spell from working and forcing Mira to live with the guilt of her broken promise. Her troubles only continue to pile up from there, as she promise.]]
** [[spoiler:She
is essentially forced to become an attendant to the Lady of the Woods, Ala Algrim, ruler of the kingdom of Ophelian, thanks to her knowledge of the ancient secrets of Wildcliff, which leads to her being in charge of a magically comatose Angelika Lindeman.]]
** [[spoiler:She successfully revivifies the giant Graist after he is killed while defending Troisle, but this complicates things due to the giants' cycle of reincarnation. The giants believe that Mira is connected to their goddess Sésul, and despite her protests to the contrary, they assign her the task of guiding Graist on a pilgrimage into the catacombs beneath Troisle to search for answers to the significance of his revival.
]]
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* LoserBuysLunch: Integrity challenges Murundeen to a race while on a field trip in Isathil while she's carrying both teams' supplies, wagering that the loser must buy the winner 20 gold's worth of snacks from the campus store. [[spoiler:Murundeen wins the race.]]
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** [[Mira revives the giant Graist after he gets killed by a [[CreepyCentipedes Remorhaz]], which complicates things as the giants exist in a cycle of reincarnation, so reviving the dead is not something they take lightly.]]

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** [[Mira [[spoiler:Mira revives the giant Graist after he gets killed by a [[CreepyCentipedes Remorhaz]], which complicates things as the giants exist in a cycle of reincarnation, so reviving the dead is not something they take lightly.]]

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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:After his soul is placed in a new body, Artis reveals that he could still see and hear while his soul was [[SupernaturalSealing trapped in the pebble]].]]

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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:After his soul is placed in a new body, Artis reveals that he could still see and hear while his soul was [[SupernaturalSealing trapped in the pebble]]. Needless to say this also applies to all the other souls imprisoned by the pebble demon.]]



* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The witch Ferdinand was killed by the slaad Laud after she scammed him, but she managed to escape from hell and return to the world of the living.]]
** [[spoiler:Mira negotiates a deal between Laud and Ferdinand that would've brought her BackFromTheDead a second time, but because Laud [[OffWithHerHead cuts Ferdinand's head off]], Mira's Revivify spell fails to bring her back.]]

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* BackFromTheDead: BackFromTheDead:
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[[spoiler:The witch Ferdinand was killed by the slaad Laud after she scammed him, but she managed to escape from hell and return to the world of the living.]]
** *** [[spoiler:Mira negotiates a deal between Laud and Ferdinand that would've brought her BackFromTheDead a second time, but because Laud [[OffWithHerHead cuts Ferdinand's head off]], Mira's Revivify spell fails to bring her back.]]
** [[spoiler:During the ritual to transfer Artis's soul from the pebble into a new body, the FleshGolem expells excess lightning energy as Artis's soul is placed into it, killing Delnys, Mira's roommate Allena, and the Kobold Duet, who are quickly revived by Mira and Professor Allaro afterwards.]]
** [[Mira revives the giant Graist after he gets killed by a [[CreepyCentipedes Remorhaz]], which complicates things as the giants exist in a cycle of reincarnation, so reviving the dead is not something they take lightly.
]]



* BeleagueredAssistant: Kenneth Horsewrangler is this to Headmaster Crowe.

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* BeleagueredAssistant: Kenneth Horsewrangler is this to Headmaster Osei Crowe.



* BreakTheCutie: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Mira. She loses her arm, and is frequently put into situations where she temporarily loses the other one. The experience makes her want to be left out of any of these adventures for a time. Later, when trying to negotiate a deal between Laud the Slaad and Ferdinand the witch, Mira offers Laud the chance to kill Ferdinand, with a promise to Ferdinand that she would bring her BackFromTheDead, only for Laud to [[OffWithHerHead decapitate Ferdinand]], preventing Mira's Revivify spell from working and forcing Mira to live with the guilt of her broken promise.]]

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* BreakTheCutie: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Mira. She gains a connection to the ancient Sheoran Empress Terassis, who unexpectedly replaces her left arm with a magical transforming snake. She later loses her arm, and is frequently put into situations where she temporarily loses the other one. The arm to [[TheGreatSerpent Neska]], and the experience makes her want to be left out of any of these adventures for a time. Later, when trying to negotiate a deal between Laud the Slaad and Ferdinand the witch, Mira offers Laud the chance to kill Ferdinand, with a promise to Ferdinand that she would bring her BackFromTheDead, only for Laud to [[OffWithHerHead decapitate Ferdinand]], preventing Mira's Revivify spell from working and forcing Mira to live with the guilt of her broken promise. Her troubles only continue to pile up from there, as she is essentially forced to become an attendant to the Lady of the Woods, Ala Algrim, ruler of the kingdom of Ophelian, thanks to her knowledge of the ancient secrets of Wildcliff, which leads to her being in charge of a magically comatose Angelika Lindeman.]]



** Giants commonly have silent S's in their names, such as Graist, Haist, Baist, and Casde, whose names are pronounced like "great", "hate", "bait", and "Cade", respectively.
* NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom:
** The Nebulosis StreetUrchin Rat-Licker, who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin licks rats]].
** The Kobold [[OverlyLongName The Cobalt Butterfly Kissed The Dew-Wet Rose in the Morning Sun]], who goes by Duet for short.



* OurGiantsAreBigger: Giants exist in a cycle of reincarnation of fire, stone, frost, and cloud giants, where as the last of one type of giant dies, the giants of the next type in the cycle are reborn in the world. [[spoiler:The cycle of four is broken very rarely by the birth of hill giants during times of great peace, and less rarely by the birth of storm giants during times of great turmoil. [[OhCrap Graist is reborn as a storm giant at the end of his pilgrimage to the temple of the goddess Sésul]].]]
* OverlyLongName: The Kobold [[NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom The Cobalt Butterfly Kissed The Dew-Wet Rose in the Morning Sun]], who quite understandably goes by Duet for short.



* PrecociousCrush: Ax Lightsun, the young child of the chieftain of Lightmere, becomes convinced that Serinepth is a dragon disguised as a human after mistaking the [[LittleBitBeastly scales]] she inherited from a [[DragonAncestry distant dragon ancestor]] for a GlamourFailure, and believes that him finding out her "secret" means that she now has to marry him, based on a story he was told.

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* PrecociousCrush: Ax Lightsun, Light-Sun, the young child of the chieftain of Lightmere, becomes convinced that Serinepth is a dragon disguised as a human after mistaking the [[LittleBitBeastly scales]] she inherited from a [[DragonAncestry distant dragon ancestor]] for a GlamourFailure, and believes that him finding out her "secret" means that she now has to marry him, based on a story he was told.


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* StreetUrchin: Orphans and runaway kids in the city of Nebulosis are forced to turn to a life of crime in order to find treasures to pay to Zanak, a Djinn who dwells in the City of Ghosts below Nebulosis, who in turn allows them to stay in his party palace.
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** [[spoiler:Mira's tattoo [[AnimatedTattoo comes alive]] and grows to an immense size on the full moon in Troisle and starts vandalizing things and attacking people.]]

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** [[spoiler:Mira's crow tattoo [[AnimatedTattoo comes alive]] and grows to an immense size on the full moon in Troisle and starts vandalizing things and attacking people.]]



* LittleBitBeastly: Though Serinepth is basically just human for all intents and purposes, she has small patches of blue scales on her face and body as a result of her DragonAncestry. Her father has similar patches of scales.

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* LittleBitBeastly: Though Serinepth is basically just human for all intents and purposes, she has small patches of blue scales on her face and body as a result of her DragonAncestry. Her father has similar patches of scales.scales, albeit to a lesser extent.

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