History Webcomic / Aurora2019

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: In life, Primordial Stone is shown to have had six arms, which they used to wield a massive sword and shield [[spoiler:against the Void Dragon]].

** Vash tries to fight the Collector, [[OutsideContextProblem not knowing that she's immortal]]. She crushes his city, ignores his attacks entirely, and tears his soul out in one stab.

* CurbStompBattle: Vash tries to throw down with the collector. She crushes his city, ignores his attacks entirely, and tears his soul out in one stab.

** On the walls of Jolon's clinic in Chapter 9, [[spoiler: there are diagrams comparing human and ferin characteristics, foreshadowing Jolon's interest in studying the Ferin curse]].

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: If you look on the walls of [[spoiler:Jolon's clinic, you can see diagrams comparing human and ferin characteristics]].
* MenacingHandShot: we get one of Falst’s dad right before he [[spoiler: kills what’s left of his wife.]]

''Aurora'' is an ongoing webcomic started in April 2019 written and illustrated by Red of [[WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions Overly Sarcastic Productions]]. It is a [[HighFantasy High]] {{Fantasy}} webcomic that begins when an entity known as the Collector steals the soul of the god Vash and departs with it. However, Vash’s body is not ready to die and somehow retains an entirely new consciousness who sets out with a mage named Alinua to get back Vash’s soul.

* BlessedWithSuck: The Chimeric Plague. Children with the plague are extraordinarily talented life mages, able to heal and encourage plant growth since birth. However, they always end up losing control of their power and explode into a wave of raw life energy, which both kills them and mutates anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in the blast into insanity.

* EmissaryFromTheDivine: Emissaries are mortals born with their souls connected to a particular god. This relationship is not chosen by the god or the mortal, and only the mortal's death can end it. The only emissaries introduced in the comic so far have been emissaries of city gods, who have a special intuition for some aspect of governance and assist their god in that area. [[WordOfGod Red has established]] that other types of gods also have emissaries; emissaries of nature gods usually serve as intermediaries between the nature god's domain and the local mortal community, while emissaries of conceptual gods are rare, legendary figures with extraordinary powers.

* FantasticRacism: Ferin, people cursed into lycanthropic or BeastMan forms, are deeply feared and distrusted in human and elf societies. They're seen as inherent threats to others' safety and to civilization, and often considered to be essentially animals. When they're tolerated, this is often on the basis of their perceived threat level. "Prey ferin", with the nature of more docile animals, can make a life in urban areas, but "predator ferin" are usually forced out into the wilderness. Acceptance has been growing over time, and in more metropolitan areas ferin can live with a minimum of distrust, but it's slow going.

As of November 2023, the webcomic has concluded the final chapter of its first arc, with the second due to begin on New Year's Day 2024. It is updated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

As of July 2023, the webcomic has begun the 22nd and final chapter of its first arc. It is updated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

** Erin had goggles in Chapter 4, but they're nowhere to be seen when Kendal and Alinua actually meet him one chapter later.

** Red's art has evolved so much between Vash's first appearance and his second appearance that Vash's first appearance in Ch1 retroactively becomes this trope.

** There's more internal monologues in the first two mini-arcs. After Erin's intro monologue in Ch4, however, internal monologues are rare and we don't get another one until Erin's monologue in Chapter 16.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Humans are for the most part limited to real-life shades, but elementally-adapted populations can possess skin in multiple striking shades. Elves likewise tend to have colorful skin as a baseline trait, most often in sky-like colors such as blues, purples, and pale greys. As a consequence, even background characters have a wide variety of skin tones ranging through the whole color spectrum.

** [[https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-2-7/ 1.2.7]]:
--->yeah stab wounds are the WORST

CurbStompBattle: Vash tries to throw down with the collector. She crushes his city, ignores his attacks entirely, and tears his soul out in one stab.

* OddShapedPanel: [[spoiler:When Alinua uses her powers to attack the Sentinel]], the panels at the bottom half of the page are divided by what looks like cracks, mirroring [[spoiler:Alinua's plants making cracks in the Sentinel.]]

* SingleStrokeBattle: Before Zuurith can even throw a punch, Tynan destroys his incarnation in one massive bolt of lightning.

* WreckedWeapon: Tess blocks one of Tynan's blades with her forearm, shattering it in half.

* EldritchAbomination: 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 badly shaken.]]

* FantasticRacism: Ferin, people cursed into lycanthropic or BeastMan forms, are deeply feared and distrusted in human and elf societies. They're seen as inherent threats to others' safety and to civilization, and often considered to be essentially animals. When they're tolerated, this is often on the basis of their perceived threat level. "Prey ferin", with the nature of more docile animals, can make a life in urban areas, but "predator ferin" are usually forced out into the wilderness. Acceptance has been growing over time, and in more metropolitan areas ferin can live with a minimum of distrust, but it's slow going.

* TheNoseKnows: [[BeastMan Falst]] has a stronger sense of smell than most people, which has proven to be helpful on multiple occasions.
** In the Zuurith arc, 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.
** Subverted in the dungeon -Falst does notice a strong, unpleasant smell, but he initially mistakes it for the strong-smelling medicine that Dainix is currently using on him. Only when it starts getting stronger does Falst realize that [[spoiler:it's actually cave crawlers]], and by the time he does notice, they're already in danger.
** Minutes before that, when Falst is ranting about the downsides of being a Ferin, he cites his sensitive nose as one of the more annoying parts of being a Ferin.

-->'''Doctor Jolon:''' Let me tell you a story I'm sure you're familiar with.\\