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* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: The fight choreography has the blind archers taking only short-range shots. Justified since they are aiming either by sound or by sighted spotters telling them how to aim. Haniwa takes many longer-range shots, since she is sighted herself.
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* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: The fight choreography has the blind archers taking only short-range shots. Justified since they are aiming either by sound or by sighted spotters telling calling them how to aim.directions. Haniwa takes many longer-range shots, since she is sighted herself.
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* ShownTheirWork: The writers and directors took great pains to realistically portray how entire societies of blind people would live, build and even fight.
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* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: The fight choreography has the blind archers taking only short-range shots. Justified since they are aiming either by sound or by sighted spotters telling them how to aim. Haniwa takes many longer-range shots, since she is sighted herself.
* ShownTheirWork: The writers and directors took great pains to realistically portray how entire societies of blind people would live,build build, and even fight.
* ShownTheirWork: The writers and directors took great pains to realistically portray how entire societies of blind people would live,
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It is set in the future near what used to be called the Ohio River valley; a few centuries after an apocalyptic plague reduced the human race to less than two million worldwide. Those who survived and their descendants were struck blind and are forced to live using their remaining senses. Some believed that the plague was sent by God to take away humanity's sight and as time passed the ability to "See" has been almost totally forgotten except by those who consider "Vision" and "Color" and "Reading" to be evil and heretical.
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It is set in the future near in what used to be called the Ohio River valley; a few centuries after an apocalyptic plague reduced the human race to less than two million worldwide. Those who survived and their descendants were struck blind and are forced to live using their remaining senses. Some believed that the plague was sent by God to take away humanity's sight and as time passed the ability to "See" has been almost totally forgotten except by those who consider "Vision" and "Color" and "Reading" to be evil and heretical.
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* LanguageDrift: Some of the place and nation names are derived from real locations, justifiably changed by language drift because nobody could read surviving records of their original names. The Payan capital of Kanzua appears to be the real Kinzua Dam in Pennsylvania. Before they are forced to relocate in the first episode; the Alkenny nation appears to have lived in the Allegheny Highlands, which are upstream from the Kinzua Dam.
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Specifying that the series happens along the Ohio River valley, given events set in Pittsburgh. Meaning those mountains are north Appalachia versus the Ozarks.
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It is set a few centuries in the future after an apocalyptic plague reduced the human race to less than two million worldwide, near what used to be called the Mississippi river. Those who survived and their descendants were struck blind and are forced to live using their remaining senses. Some believed that the plague was sent by God to take away humanity's sight and as time passed the ability to "See" has been almost totally forgotten except by those who consider "Vision" and "Color" and "Reading" to be evil and heretical.
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It is set in the future near what used to be called the Ohio River valley; a few centuries in the future after an apocalyptic plague reduced the human race to less than two million worldwide, near what used to be called the Mississippi river.worldwide. Those who survived and their descendants were struck blind and are forced to live using their remaining senses. Some believed that the plague was sent by God to take away humanity's sight and as time passed the ability to "See" has been almost totally forgotten except by those who consider "Vision" and "Color" and "Reading" to be evil and heretical.
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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: There are slavers, essentially packs of nomads who wander around grabbing anyone they think they can get a good price for. One of the main reasons most people live in communities like the Alkenny. [[spoiler: Baba Voss used to be part of one.]]
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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: There are slavers, essentially packs of nomads who wander around grabbing anyone they think they can get a good price for. One of the main reasons most people live in communities like the Alkenny. [[spoiler: Baba Voss used to be part of one.a slaver group.]]
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** Edo Voss' army operates out of the ruins of a Pittsburgh hospital. There is no indication that they know what the building was originally used for.
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* NoHealthcareInTheApocalypse: Played with. Paris and a few other characters are trained in basic medical care like stitching lacerations and uncomplicated baby deliveries. They do as well as one could with limited equipment and while working by touch. But Tormada's "experiments" at surgically restoring sight are explicitly nothing but ineffective torture. Even Jerlamarel and his older sighted children are unable to perform eye surgery while having old medical texts to refer to.
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* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Of the two sighted siblings, Kofun is content to continue their peaceful lives while Haniwa is eager to begin restoring humanity to their former place, even making ranged weapons only they can use.
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* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Of the two sighted siblings, Kofun is content to continue their peaceful lives while Haniwa is eager to begin restoring humanity to their former place, pre-plague status, even making ranged weapons only they can use.use.
* NationalGeographicNudity: Since the ability to See nudity no longer exists, the entire purpose of clothes is reduced to practical necessity. If a person is not wearing clothes around another than there simply isn't a need to be concerned about it since there are, as far as is known, only three people in the world with working eyes.
* NationalGeographicNudity: Since the ability to See nudity no longer exists, the entire purpose of clothes is reduced to practical necessity. If a person is not wearing clothes around another than there simply isn't a need to be concerned about it since there are, as far as is known, only three people in the world with working eyes.
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* OurNudityIsDifferent: Since the ability to See nudity no longer exists, the entire purpose of clothes is reduced to practical necessity. If a person is not wearing clothes around another than there simply isn't a need to be concerned about it since there are, as far as is known, only three people in the world with working eyes.
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** More extremely; the last scene in the series, when [[spoiler:Haniwa and Wren get to the sighted enclave at the old public library in New York.]] There are holes in the roof, but everything inside the building is pristine.
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* InstantDeathBullet: Averted for the guns from Jerlamarel's stash - his daughter Sheva tends to DoubleTap people when she shoots them. But played straight for Haniwa's arrows, except when the plot demands otherwise.
* InstantDeathStab: Averted and discussed when Baba Voss describes to his son how to feel when you've cut through enough muscles and arteries to be sure that an opponent will both go down and stay down.
* InstantDeathStab: Averted and discussed when Baba Voss describes to his son how to feel when you've cut through enough muscles and arteries to be sure that an opponent will both go down and stay down.
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* SuperpowerfulGenetics: At first appears to be invoked - all of Jerlamarel's biological children are sighted like he is. Then subverted when [[spoiler:Kofun's son and hence Jerlamarel's grandson is blind]].
** Any blind children Jerlamarel had would not appear in the story because he only left directions for sighted people to find him.
* SuperSupremacist: Jerlamarel. It does [[EyeScream not end]] [[OffWithHisHead well for him]].
** Any blind children Jerlamarel had would not appear in the story because he only left directions for sighted people to find him.
* SuperSupremacist: Jerlamarel. It does [[EyeScream not end]] [[OffWithHisHead well for him]].
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* SlashedThroat: Sibeth Kane has a nasty habit of suddenly cutting people's carotid arteries with concealed blades - including multiple midwives who try to help her when she is pregnant and [[spoiler:has a miscarriage]].
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* SlashedThroat: Sibeth Kane has a nasty habit of suddenly cutting people's carotid arteries with concealed blades - including multiple midwives who try to help treat her when she is pregnant and [[spoiler:has a miscarriage]].pregnant. She also threatens to [[spoiler:cut her own infant son's throat]].
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* SuperweaponSurprise: Villainous example with the Trivantian Army at the end of the second season and in the third season. After a humiliating defeat by an alliance led by Baba Voss, the Trivantians force sighted children to read through pre-plague books for descriptions of weapons and to [[spoiler:make hundreds of bombs & land mines]].
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Tamacti Jun spent two decades brutally interrogating every village he came across about Jerlamarel. Queen Kane is horrified to realize this means he was essentially acting as a prophet, spreading the legend of Jerlamarel's power far more effectively than he could have done on his own.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Tamacti Jun spent two decades brutally interrogating every village he came across about Jerlamarel. Queen Kane is horrified to realize this means he was essentially acting as a prophet, spreading the legend of Jerlamarel's power far more effectively than he could have done on his own.'
* NonHeteronormativeSociety: Nobody cares that Haniwa likes women or that Queen Kane is bi.
* NonHeteronormativeSociety: Nobody cares that Haniwa likes women or that Queen Kane is bi.
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* TheyHaveTheScent: Invoked both by humans by themselves and human trackers handling dogs. The standard trope of the trackers' target trying covering up their own scent with something offensive follows; but is then doubly subverted when it does not fool the dogs - but does fool their human handlers, who cannot see the deception.
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** In the third season; Baba Voss rescues a dog from a trap. The dog then follows him everywhere, but [[BlatantLies Baba insists it is not his dog]].
