History Webcomic / Aurora2019

* EldritchAbomination:
** The primoridials are bizarre beings who, when they died, became the world of Aurora.
** The monster at the end of the dungeon arc is possibly the most bizarre, terrifying creature introduced in the comic so far. [[spoiler:It's a slimy, oily, mass with many reaching arms, and it has the ability to scream. It also has eyes and bones, too. When it touches Dainix's face, it does ''something'' that makes him have bad flashbacks and leaves him catatonic.]]

* EveryoneIsBi: [[WordOfGod Word of Red]] is that the constant for the world is bisexuality

* TheNoseKnows: [[BeastMan Falst]] is able to smell [[spoiler:the sedative powder that Shrike's mercenaries use on Tess]], even though they're in a city and some distance away.

As of April 2023, the webcomic is 21 chapters into the first arc. It is updated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

* ArtShift: The comic takes on a sketchier, simpler style when flashing back to past events like Tynan's original defeat or the formation of the Paladins.

* JustAMachine: Briefly {{discussed|Trope}} in chapter 20 when Falst pulls out the lacrima that had been powering the Ancient automaton, to Dainix's discomfort.
-->'''Falst:''' You need light, right?\\
''{{Beat}}''\\
'''Dainix:''' Did... you just pull out its brain?\\
'''Falst:''' Okay, mister picky, want me to put it back? Besides, it's just a lacrima. This thing was never alive.\\
'''Dainix:''' I know. But that doesn't mean it couldn't think.

* SelfGuardingPhlebotinum: The life lacrima emits so much energy that touching it could induce mutations.

* FloatingContinent: The Flying Islands, an airborne island chain that was magically lifted from the surface several centuries ago and is now home to the cloud elves.

* RediscoveringRootsTrip: After getting her spark, Tess travels all the way back to Ironhill to reconnect with her family, but finds that it isn't her home.

'''Erin:''' What do you MEAN ''"feel it out"?!''

** Dragons are the most common users of this, with different varieties having different effects. For a few examples, a burrower wyrm's breath disintegrates stone, a crystal drake's breath causes rapid crystal growth, and a whispdragon's breath is a [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic attack]].

* GlowingEyes: So, ''so'' many. Kendal when he's talking to Vash or using Starfire, Alinua when she's channeling Life, ''any'' mage when they're casting, Dainix when he's transforming, Falst and Trusk in the dark, the Chimeras, ''all gods''... it'd be faster to list the character's who's eyes ''don't'' glow.

** Falst gets this to the extreme when fighting cave crawlers in the ancient bunker, as it brings back memories of [[his mother's corruption]], causing him to fly off the handle and start mauling instead of focusing on survival.

* TraumaButton: Erin inadvertently pushes this for Alinua when he casually mentions how uncommon cloud elves are outside of the [[FloatingContinent Flying Islands]]. It turns out the reason she lives on the surface is because when she was born her birth parents ''threw her off the edge''.

As of March 2023, the webcomic is 21 chapters into the first arc. It is updated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

* * OurGhostsAreDifferent: Normally, a person's soul unravels after their death and rejoins the ambient soul energy that permeates everything, meaning that traditional ghosts don't really happen. However, most people's souls are linked to a god, who has to sever the connection when they die. If for whatever reason that doesn't happen (like how Vash can't release all of his dead people on account of being kidnapped), then their souls are [[BarredFromTheAfterlife forced to stick around]].* OurSoulsAreDifferent: The in-universe explanation for souls is that people are concentrated amounts of soul-energy, with gods having extremely high amounts of soul energy. How Kendal factors into all of this has yet to be explained.

* AuraVision: When the Void Dragon looks at Alinua, instead of her physical body, he sees [[primordial Life]].

* BeastMan: Ferin, the descendants of people cursed by an extremely well-traveled wizard a thousand years back, who was seemingly obsessed with turning people he disliked into humanoid/animal hybrids. The earlier people to be cursed, and consequently their descendants, could transform either randomly or at will between fully humanoid and fully animalistic shapes, making them more like were-creatures than anything, but later ferin were permanently turned into forms that hybridize human and animal traits. Ferin are deeply feared and distrusted in society, and while ones based on more docile prey animals can find some form of acceptance in society, "predator ferin" are often forced to live alone deep within the wilderness.

* FishPeople: In addition to traditional merfolk, there's the Sekrai, who fit this trope nicely.

* OurElvesAreDifferent: Elves are one of the three primary mortal races, alongside humanity and the long-vanished Ancients. They're very closely tied to the elements of wind and lightning, whereas humans are collectively balanced between all six. Physically, they share long, pointed ears and skin in shades of the sky; they also live longer than humans on average. They are often weather mages, and possess literally "airy" dispositions and less cultural or emotional stability than usual in humanity. Multiple populations exist, including the main divide between wind elves (more tied to wind, taller and with lighter skin) and storm elves (more tied to lightning, shorter, stockier, and with darker skin and smaller ears). Smaller groups include the dark elves, who live underground and have skin mottled with star-like spots, and the poorly-known cloud elves, an extremely isolationist folk who live in a chain of [[FloatingContinent floating islands]] with little contact with other folk. Notably, this isolationism is highly atypical in-universe, and most elves have few issues living and working alongside humans.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Normally, a person's soul unravels after their death and rejoins the ambient soul energy that permeates everything, meaning that traditional ghosts don't really happen. However, most people's souls are linked to a god, who has to sever the connection when they die. If for whatever reason that doesn't happen (like how Vash can't release all of his dead people on account of being kidnapped), then their souls are [[BarredFromTheAfterlife forced to stick around]].
* OurGodsAreDifferent: In the setting, there are two very distinct classes of divine being.
** True gods are described in [[https://comicaurora.com/gods-and-sentinels/ an official lore page]] as "nothing more than vast, self-sustaining lattices of soul energy", and tend to form as embodiments of a specific concept or of a place such as a city, a mountain or a forest. The bodies they use to interact with the world are temporary constructs that hold a small part of the god's essence, and no matter what happens to them the actual entity will survive. A god's actual consciousness is spread throughout their domain; it's speculated that in this state they have a much more diffuse mental state, as some gods imply that taking corporeal form helps them to think and perceive things in a clearer manner.
** The six Primordials are immense entities that existed long before the gods or anything else, and each represents one of the six in-setting elements. They died in the distant past, their bodies forming the physical world, but their souls still linger and can be induced to inhabit small portions of their bodies again, forming the basis of elemental magic.
* OurHumansAreDifferent: Humans are one of the three primary mortal races, alongside elves and the long-vanished Ancients. They're generally defined by adaptability, by being attuned to all six elements, and through that by possessing a degree of stability that the wind- and lightning-aligned elves lack. They're the most widespread species in the world and have adapted to life in multiple environments, although in the process have split into a considerable number of HumanSubspecies that can vary significantly from the human baseline, such as the horned Stonekin with rocky plates in their skin, the metal-skinned Ironhill people, and the bioluminescent, ocean-dwelling [[FishPeople Sekrai]].
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: The in-universe explanation for souls is that people are concentrated amounts of soul-energy, with gods having extremely high amounts of soul energy. How Kendal factors into all of this has yet to be explained.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Although vampires as a species don't truly exist within the setting, the lore page on the "seventh element" mentions "Upyre", a victim of cave corruption who gained a thirst for blood.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: The first ferin to be created were people cursed by a wizard to alternate between human and animal shapes. The very first did so uncontrollably, shifting between forms either randomly or based on their emotional states, while later ones could do so at will. Their humanoid forms typically still sported tells of their true nature, typically in the form of odd eye or hair colors. Later ferin were instead cursed into permanent, hybrid BeastMan forms, but as ferin breed true the earlier strains still exist alongside them.

* {{Precursors}}: The Ancients, the first people to emerge on the surface and who built the world's first great civilization. The humans and elves already existed in their days, but were forced to remain underground due to the dangerous elemental winds still blowing in ancient times -- the Ancients, being wholly magically inert, faced no danger from these. They were extremely technically skilled, and without the ability to control magic themselves still created great cities, spread their civilization across three continents, and constructed artificial means of storing magic to power vast automatons. The destroyed themselves in civil war when the humans and elves were only just beginning to emerge from the underworld, and nowadays their legacy only endures through ruins in the desert, wrecked but sometimes still operational hulks of ancient machinery, and traces of their blood among modern human and elven peoples.

* IKnowYourTrueName: Truename magic does see use alongside standard elemental magic.

* MilitariesAreUseless: For all Zuurith’s power-grabbing and industrializing, he couldn’t do shit against Tynan.

As of March 2023, the webcomic is twenty chapters into the first arc. It is updated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

The webcomic can be found [[https://comicaurora.com/ here]]; a mirror also exists on Tumblr, [[https://comicaurora.tumblr.com/post/654546833938497537/intro-ch1-p1-7 here]], as a backup in case of site difficulties. The official Twitter account (run by Red) can be found [[https://twitter.com/AuroraWebcomic here]]. If you want to talk about the comic, you can go to the [[https://discord.gg/hJMABqSz9z discord]] or the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AuroraComic/ subreddit]]. Additionally, a fandub ([[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr9IVB6eSJ6Yqm8nsAqKg3g here]]) is in the process of recording. Other forms of media with a similar name can be found [[{{Main/Aurora}} here]].

As of December 2022, the webcomic is twenty chapters into the first arc. It is updated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While all the villains faced so far have either been armored or inhuman, Kendal and Dainix spend a lot of time shirtless, and Falst and Alinua have a few scenes. Played With by Erin, who only starts showing some skin once he's possessed.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: If you look on the walls of [[spoiler:Jolon's clinic, you can see diagrams comparing human and ferin characterstics]].

* PunchCatch: After his attempt to talk to Falst goes wrong thanks to Alinua and Erin, Kendal grabs Falst's hand and''snaps his wrist''.

* BarredFromTheAfterlife: The souls of the citizens of Vash-the-city can't be released from their bodies until Vash-the-god formally releases them. As Vash is unavailable, that means they're all currently trapped in should-be-dead bodies screaming for help.

* BarredFromTheAfterlife: The souls of the citizens of Vash-the-city can't be released from their bodies until Vash-the-god formally releases them. As Vash is unvailable, that means they're all currently trapped in should-be-dead bodies screaming for help.

* GlowingEyes: A common feature of gods, and Alinua's eyes glow green when she uses her powers.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Chimeras have glowing green eyes.