Line #12 Webcomic/TenEarthShatteringBlows


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Landa and "Monster"]]
3	''[[http://www.tenearthshatteringblows.com Ten Earth Shattering Blows]]'' is a fantasy webcomic created in 2017 by Tommaso Devito, under the nickname of Nuclearpasta.
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5	Lady Landabella Trastan, a noblewoman from the rich city of Vezenia, travels across the desert with a skimpy escort. Her quest: to kill the "evil witch" that resides in the fortress of Saltfall. Her motives: unknown. What is certain is that she hugely underestimates the task. Caught between ruthless slavers and lizard-riding marauders, she soon discovers that the authority of her noble status is worth nothing in a lawless, unforgiving land.
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8	!!This Webcomic provides examples of:
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10	* BrawnHilda: "Monster" ([[spoiler:Joy]]), who uses her strength to great effect.
11	* BreakTheHaughty: Landa thinks her high status will help her. Boy, how wrong she is.
12	* CatapultToGlory: Don Caronja brought along a trebuchet mounted on the back of an extremely long lizard. He alternates between firing incendiary projectiles and the bodies of Landa's former escorts.
13	* ClothingDamage: The escape from Don Caronja and the subsequent chase has had a serious impact on both women's wardrobes. Landa lost her shoes and then her skirt (good thing [[ProperTightsWithSkirt she was wearing tights]]), while "Monster" has lost her helmet and body armor.
14	* CoolMask: Landa usually wears a mask to prevent "lowborn" people from seeing her uncovered face (a common practice among Venezian nobles). [[spoiler:Oddly enough, Joy is also looking for a masked man. She describes him as wearing "the mask that eats itself". That is, a mask that has a small copy of itself located in the larger mask's open mouth.]]
15	** CoolHelmet: "Monster" was first introduced wearing a stylized helmet[=/=]mask combo, which was locked on her head.
16	* {{Curse}}: Landa has been cursed with something unique. [[spoiler:In times of great stress, a being known as an "orc" will emerge from her face. Exactly what it's supposed to do is unclear.]]
17	* DualWielding: "Monster" finds herself pitted against a warrior using two swords at once, and very effectively at that. Realizing that she is outmatched, she decides to get creative.
18	** CombatPragmatist: Using the fact that they're fighting next to a large trebuchet (on the back of a giant lizard) against her opponent, she maneuvers him into position so when she cuts the rope, he [[CatapultToGlory gets caught in the sling]].
19	* DamselInDistress: Landa, oh so much.
20	* EveryoneChasingYou: When "Monster" and Landa escape from Don Caronja (doing considerable damage in the process), the Don decides to pursue them...with everything he's got.
21	* FatBastard: Don Caronja, The Lord of the Well. He's the head of an alliance of bandits and slavers of the desert.
22	* FantasticDrug: A special kind of bug, [[http://tenearthshatteringblows.com/archives/comic/1x10 crushed and snorted]]. We can assume it has an effect akin to cocaine.
23	* HorseOfADifferentColor: Vezenians ride giant boars, while the people of the desert ride giant lizards.
24	* MissingChild: "Monster" sometimes has nightmares about her child, who has been missing for some time. Apparently they were forcibly separated.
25	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Monster", the masked gladiator. [[spoiler:Later on, we learn that her real name is "Joy".]]
26	** MeaningfulName: "Monster" was once known as "Joy of Destruction", which is interesting, since [[spoiler:her real name is Joy.]]
27	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A cursed noblewoman (Landa), a notorious gladiator ([[spoiler:Joy]]), a disgraced cleric (Ander), a fighter with a weird prosthetic nose (Durt), and a big brawler (Luthar). Oh, and somehow they are connected by prophecy.
28	** OnlyInItForTheMoney: Alright, technically Durt and Luthar are only there because Ander is paying them, but still...
29	* SlasherSmile: "Monster" sports a ''really'' nasty one [[https://tenearthshatteringblows.com/archives/comic/3x65 in the last panel]].
30	-->"You...haven't seen '''madness''' yet."
31	* TitleDrop: [[spoiler:When the orc emerged in Chapter Two, it looked right at Joy and spoke these words.]]
32	--->'''Orc''': Joy of Destruction...give me ten...yesss...give me...TEN EARTH-SHATTERING BLOWS!
33	** Landa thinks that the Orc is referring to her family motto, the "Ten Pillars of the Earth": Home, blood, steel, gold, faith, blood, heart, beauty, zeal, and order.

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