History Webcomic / TheDreamlandChronicles

* DreamLand: Averted. It's a MagicalLand accessed through dreaming, one which persists and develops regardless of which humans are present in it.

* CassandraTruth: Nobody believes Alex about Dreamland at first. Dan comes around early one, only because Alex is his brother. [[spoiler:Nicole only does after discovering that Alex is dreaming about her childhood friend Felicity.]]

* DreamLand: Obviously.

* TheAtoner: Dwarven King Bognok after defying Nicodemus from years of loyalty.

* GreenEyedMonster
* HappilyEverAfter

* ItsPersonal
* ItWasAGift

* NotAGame
* NotNowKiddo

* SomeCallMeTim

* WeWillMeetAgain

* PortalNetwork: [[spoiler:Abbadon builds one, linking the Nightmare Realm to places all over Earth as part of Gilgamesh's plan to TakeOverTheWorld.]]

* TheAtoner

* {{Blade Brake}}: Alex does this, leaving a good 50-foot slice in the {{Big Bad}} castle.

* {{Chiaroscuro}}

* ComesGreatResponsibility

* {{Curse}}: [[spoiler:Nicodemus put a curse on King Arthur's descendants that takes away their ability to dream to prevent them from entering Dreamland, usurping human reign over Dreamland for the first time.]]

* DividedWeFall

* EvilGloating: Nicodemus taunts Dwarven King Bognok that he lied to the Dwarves that they have always sided with the King of Dreamland; in actuality there were rebelling Dwarves when Nicodemus usurped the throne but they were dealt with.

* FalseFriend

* FlawExploitation
* AFriendInNeed
* GoodOldWays

* HonoraryUncle
* HostageSituation

* INeedAFreakingDrink: When ordered to go [[spoiler:into the Nightmare Realm by Alex with no plan, little magic, a damaged ship, and a badly wounded crew]], the dwarf king asks if there's any ale left.

* KickTheDog

* KingInTheMountain

* LikeASonToMe

* MaliciousSlander

* MoreHeroThanThou

* TheNoseKnows

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame
* OurElvesAreBetter

* PowerGlows
* PowerOfFriendship
* PowerNullifier
* ThePromise

* SacredHospitality
* SayingTooMuch: The wraiths of the Nightmare Realm who [[spoiler:destroyed nearly all of the Tigrin]] indulge in some EvilGloating, telling the golems trying to protect the last one that they are invulnerable so long as they are wrapped in shadows. [[WeakenedByTheLight Guess what]] the golems do next.
* ScarsAreForever

* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Nicodemus insists on the title "King" to Oberon who vehemently disapproves along with the rest of his Kingdom of his status as King of all Dreamland.

* WartsAndAll: When Nicodemus tells Dan he is mortally wounded and does not expect to outlast the day, Dan promises that history will remember both the good dragon and the bad.

* YouAreNotAlone: Orion, the leader of the Centaurs pledges this to Alex given that with being King of Dreamland ComesGreatResponsibility in both the real world and Dreamland. He then gives him a pouch that allows things from the real world to be transferred to Dreamland.

* EvilGloating

* OddShapedPanel

* ShiningCity: Ashendel, The Elves' homeplace. [[http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/comic/page-154-155/ Its view from a distance is truly gorgeous.]]

* Subject101
* [[TellMeAboutMyFather Tell Me About My Parents]]

* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs
* ThickerThanWater
* TrueCompanions

* UnhandThemVillain

* WhatIsEvil
* YouAreNotAlone

* ShiningCity

* NarniaTime: Less than a minute passes between Alex's first and second adult dream in Dreamland but his friends managed to age into adults in his prolonged absence.

* {{Curse}}

* MasterOfIllusion: Abaddon is said to be one of these, and it has used this power to taunt Alexander with illusions of Nastajia.

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Nicodemus is severely wounded in the fight for the capital and sinks beneath the waters. Naturally, he turns up again later in the Nightmare Realm. This is immediately lampshaded, with Alex and Nastajia discussing how obvious it is that Nicodemus survived.]]

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

* RealMenWearPink: Paddington is a dance instructor.

* AlienBlood: Most of the non-humanoids have green blood.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Pretty much the essence of Dreamland, including centaurs, elves, rock giants, merpeople, pixies, dwarves, etcetera.

* GentleGiant: Paddington

* SiblingYinYang: Alexander and Dan

Less clichéd than it sounds.

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl:
** Later, when he asks Niviene if her ability to pass objects between worlds via the magic looking glass could be used for people, she states that sending something that big through would be far too dangerous. [[spoiler:He does it anyway, pulling her through to Earth away from Abaddon and pushing himself into Dreamland, resulting in a massive magical explosion. It luckily turns out for the best since it takes out half of Abaddon's army and Alex is saved from dying by Excalibur's scabbard, but doesn't change the fact that he did it out of reckless devotion to Nastajia]]. He then proceeds to ask the King of Dwarves to invade the most heavily fortified part of the Nightmare Realm with no plan, little magic, a damaged ship, and a badly wounded crew.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:The Dreamer is said to be human, but he is far larger than it is possible for a human to be. Which is appropriate since he's actually a demigod.]]

* CastFromLifespan: [[spoiler:Niviene uses her magic to open a portal between Dreamland and Earth meant only for small objects. Alex forcefully pulls her through away from Abbadon, putting a serious strain on her and causing her to age rapidly.]]

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Seems to be the case with Felicity, who was already a thieving street rat as a kid. Subverted with Nastajia; finding her parents becomes a major plot point.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Niviene, the Lady of the Lake, has lived far longer than mermaids are normally able. She was rumored to have become TheAgeless thanks to the magic she learned from Merlin. In actuality, she owes it to [[spoiler:the [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Sibu Issahir Amelu]], the plant stolen from Gilgamesh in his quest for immortality]].

* CannotSpitItOut: To a lesser extent, Felicity to Alex, but he's already involved with Nastajia.
* CatFolk: Felicity, who is also a [[StealthPun cat burgular]].

* HealingVat: [[spoiler:The first king, an ancient human, has been preserved in one of these for over three thousand years.]]

* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Dan is trained in lucid dreaming techniques. As a result, he is able to conjure a suite of armor, not that he really needs it.
* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler:Gilgamesh has been keeping himself alive by feeding on the nightmares of children.]]
* ImmortalitySeeker: The main objective of the real BigBad, [[spoiler:known as the Dreamer and the first king. He was the first human to cross over into Dreamland and asked Abbadon for immortality. Abbadon was able to give it to him, but not the kind he hoped for since it left him locked in a HealingVat. Unsurprisingly the first king is revealed to be the original immortality seeker, [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]].]]

* LastOfHerKind: Felicity is the last Tigrin known to still exist, the rest of them having been wiped out by the Wraiths of the Nightmare Realm.

* LoveableRogue: Felicity

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The reason the Nightmare Realm has been kidnapping the dream forms of children? [[spoiler:It's king, Gilgamesh, has been powering his HealingVat with their nightmares.]]

* SemiDivine: [[spoiler:As in mythology, the BigBad, Gilgamesh, is a demigod.]]

* SoulEating: [[spoiler:Gilgamesh eventually goes beyond consuming the nightmares of children and starts devouring their very souls, killing them.]]
* SpikesOfVillainy: [[spoiler:Gilgamesh's armor has this design.]]
* StreetUrchin: Felicity grew up in the streets of Astoria and knows nothing of her origins.

* TakeOverTheWorld: [[spoiler:The Dreamer's main objective is to become immortal and rule all worlds.]]

* ActionGirl: Nastajia can do a ''lot'' of damage with a bow and arrow.

* BigBad: Nicodemus starts out as this, but turns out to have been an UnwittingPawn of the ''real'' BigBad, [[spoiler:Gilgamesh]], the ruler of the Nightmare Realm and usually referred to by Abaddon as The Dreamer.

* CannotSpitItOut: Dan to [[spoiler:Nicole]] in later chapters. [[spoiler:They eventually become a couple.]] To a lesser extent, Felicity to Alex, but he's already involved with Nastajia.

* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Young Alex wanders into a cave, finds a cool new sword, and... is accosted by a [[BigBad dragon]].

* DefrostingIceQueen: First with Nastajia, and later [[spoiler:Dan achieves this with Nicole]].
* [[DidntSeeThatComing Didn't See That Coming]]: Somehow, Nicomedus, all this time, was under the impression that [[spoiler:KingArthur was ''still alive'', despite 400 years ruling Dreamland. When the Sword of Kings tells him otherwise, along with the fact that Alex is Arthur's successor to the throne, able to enter Dreamland through a loophole in the rules, the dragon doesn't take it well. Nicodemus actually had reason to believe this, as Arthur had been trapped in a state between life and death for centuries. But when Alex drew the Sword of Kings from the stone, Arthur passed on.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Nastajia, the Elvin princess-turned-queen.
* EvilChancellor - Nicodemus, draconic ruler of all Dreamland, used to be one of these.

* KillItWithFire: This is basically what Nicodemus ''does''.

* PaintingTheMedium: Nicodemus' dialogue is written in a yellow word balloon with red outline and text.

* ShownTheirWork - The author knows his dreams.
* SiblingYinYang - Alexander and Dan

* TreacherousAdvisor: Nicodemus in the past. Notable in that ''actually told his liege he would betray him,'' though only if he kept trying to bring more humans to Dreamland.

* UnwittingPawn: Nicodemus was tricked into believing that the humans had attempted to invade. He felt that he was protecting Dreamland from humanity and from war with the Nightmare Realm by siding with Abbadon. But in actuality, he fell right into Abbadon's hands.

* VillainousBreakdown: Nicodemus completely loses his composure when the Sword of Kings tells him to his face that [[spoiler:Arthur is long dead and Alex is his successor, as well as the fact that Alex is not a first born of his generation, finding a loophole in one of Dreamland's rules and undermining the dragon's claim to the throne.]]

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Nastajia, natch.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** [[spoiler:What Gilgamesh tells a dying Nicodemus, who turned on Gilgamesh when he learned what Gilgamesh was planning to do to Dreamland.]]

** When Nicodemus asks [[spoiler:Alex to fend off the half of Abaddon's army invading Dreamland, he would rather save Nastajia so that she could reunite with her parents alive and well, much to Nicodemus' grave dismay after all his troubles to side with Alex.]] [[DefiedTrope Defied]] when [[spoiler:Alex prompts the dragon to fix it instead and he does—by undoing the very spell he put to ensure Arthur's descendants never get into Dreamland and restoring Daniel's ability to both dream and enter Dreamland at the expense of Alex's.]]

* ArbitrarySkepticism - Nicole is very skeptical of Dreamland, even when faced with proof ''she'' supplied.

* {{BFS}}: Alexander has one to complement the whole [[ChosenOne chosen one]] thing he has going.

* CannotDream: Dan, even though [[spoiler:he may be the ''real'' ChosenOne]].

* ChosenOne: Alexander's basic role in the story. Although, [[spoiler:it was meant for his brother Dan. Niviene, the Lady of the Lake believes in that too along with the other descendants of King Arthur.]]
* CollapsibleHelmet: Comes with the Elven armor Alex receives.

* FamedInStory: Alex finds he's this when he returns to Dreamland as an adult.

* {{Hero}}: Alex, in spades. As the comic goes on [[CharacterDevelopment he becomes more responsible and thoughtful.]]

* InstantExpert: [[spoiler:Daniel once he is able to enter Dreamland, tying to his intellect and extensive research into Dreamland beforehand.]]

* {{Meganekko}} - Nicole. Glasses aren't so large, but she follows every other aspect.

* NerdsAreSexy: Nicole again. Also Dan.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Nicodemis is severely wounded in the fight for the capital and sinks beneath the waters. Naturally, he turns up again later in the Nightmare Realm. This is immediately lampshaded, with Alex and Nastajia discussing how obvious it is that Nicodemus survived.]]
* NighInvulnerability: Dan is trained in lucid dreaming techniques and thus has total control over his dream form. As a result, his dream form cannot be damaged by anything Abaddon can throw at him.

* PoweredArmor: Alex wears a magical version.

* SuperStrength: One of Dan's abilities in Dreamland.

* TitleDrop: Alex's brother wrote up his stories as ''The Dreamland Chronicles''.

** [[spoiler:Nicodemus to Alex upon declaring he would put the entirety of Dreamland at the mercy of the Nightmare horde just for Nastajia.]]

* YoungestChildWins

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:The Dreamer is said to be human, but he is far larger than it is possible for a human to be.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Nicodemus to Alex upon declaring he would put the entirety of Dreamland at the mercy of the Nightmare horde just for Nastajia.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Gilgamesh, the Dreamer and by extension Abaddon.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Gilgamesh, the first Dreamer and by extension Abaddon.]]