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5	->''"You won’t smell the lingering reek of sulfur or brimstone. This presence transcends the physical senses. Breathing becomes difficult. You have to force yourself to take in air that cloys the lungs. The chest constricts, goes cold in the body’s desperate attempt to makes sense of what the soul knows. That here, creation has suffered a glimpse of what it is to be damned."''
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8	''[[http://tapas.io/series/LegioArcana Legio Arcana]]'' is an ongoing contemporary urban fantasy set in Seattle.
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10	After a spate of deaths in their ranks, Tim is recruited by members of the Legion, an ancient order whose mission it is to protect the general population from the supernatural. Tim, Nolan, Thalia, Oded, Lucy, and Marianne take on werewolves, demons, threats from beyond the grave, and a nefarious coven.
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12	!!Legio Arcana provides examples of:
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14	%%* ActionGirl: Thalia and Lucy. Marianne was this before she became a dog
15	* AffablyEvil: Eve is remarkably polite and charming even when she’s withering flowers with her hands, threatening members of the Legion, and performing a vivisection on a pig.
16	* AndIMustScream: The [[DemonicPossession demonically possessed]] [[spoiler:Nolan]] sheds tears believing that he has [[spoiler:killed Thalia with her own sword]]. In the same chapter, he also tears an innocent bystander in half
17	* AprilFoolsDay: The splash page released on April 1st 2019 for chapter 5 revealed a love triangle plot complete with Thalia sweeping Tim off his feet
18	%%* BackFromTheDead: Lucy’s sister Marianne, in the form of a talking dog
19	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Eve has no qualms about torturing pigs
20	* CaughtMonologuing: The heroes are able to get a few shots in as the demon in chapter 4 cannot resist gloating
21	* ContinuityNod: In chapter 3, one of the sleeves on Tim’s jacket is bitten through by a werewolf. At the end of chapter 4, Tim is seen wearing the same jacket with a patch over that spot on the sleeve.
22	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Marianne is a human soul trapped in a dog’s body. Clearly, something is going on there. Chapter 5 hints at one for Oded. Tim had a difficult relationship with his mother who [[spoiler:put him into a mental institution.]] His [[spoiler:younger brother Jonah passed away ten years]] before the start of the series.
23	* DeadlyDeferredConversation: [[spoiler:Nolan]] promises to call [[spoiler:Ana]] after he’s done checking in on an incident to let her know he’s okay. Subverted when he is revived.
24	%%* DyingAsYourself:[[spoiler:Nolan]] after he is freed from the demon. Subverted when he is revived
25	* FightingFromTheInside:
26	** Jay in werewolf form seems to respond to Tim’s encouragement for him to regain control of his human mental faculties
27	** Possessed by a demon, [[spoiler:Nolan]] breaks through, pleads for the priest to continue with the exorcism, and completes a prayer.
28	%%* FightingYourFriend: The Legion against [[spoiler: Nolan]]
29	%%* FriendOnTheForce: Bamber is this to the Legion.
30	* FriendshipMoment: Thalia reveals a more tender side when she hugs Nolan, relieved to find that he is alright
31	* GoodCopBadCop: Lucy and Marianne pull this routine with Lucy being rather pleasant and Marianne emitting a threatening aura, snarling, and baring teeth against a man ObfuscatingStupidity
32	* GoryDiscretionShot: We are spared the images of a monster tearing into and eating a woman alive.
33	* HeroicBSOD: Chapter 4 ends with [[spoiler: Nolan]] in a wheelchair unresponsive to his girlfriend and his friends after [[spoiler: surviving a demonic possession]].
34	%%* YourHeartsDesire: The Lamia weaponizes this against Tim
35	* HopeSpot:
36	** Just as the demon possessing Tony begins to tempt and attack Nolan, Thalia and Lucy arrive, drive the demon out of Tony and seal it away. The seal does not hold.
37	** [[spoiler:Nolan]] is [[DemonicPossession demonically possessed]] in chapter 4. After wreaking havoc on his friends, they are able to trap him and have a priest perform an exorcism. [[spoiler:Nolan]] is able to pray along with the priest and is freed from the demon however, he succumbs to his injuries a moment later. Subverted when [[spoiler: Tim and Barry]] intervene to bring him back.
38	* HowWeGotHere: Chapter 4 opens with Tim chasing and shooting arrows at a bleeding Nolan before the comic picks up 79 minutes earlier.
39	* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler: Nolan]] finds[[spoiler:Maya]], the werewolf the Legion had been tracking, in the forest bleeding out from her gunshot wounds. She begs him to end it.
40	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Subverted. Just as [[spoiler:Thalia]] gets the upper hand and is prepared to stab the demonically possessed [[spoiler:Nolan]] with a sword, [[spoiler:Nolan]] regains his normal appearance and calls out to her to stop. The demon takes advantage of her hesitance to attack and nearly kills her.
41	* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Nolan does this to get information on the werewolf attacks
42	* JoggersFindDeath: Invoked within the first few panels
43	* LampshadeHanging: The Legion are trying to take out an Asura in chapter 1. Unable to actually kill it, they decide to bind it to a Christmas cactus with the binding spell written in marker on the clay pot. Marianne suggests they take the price tag off of it first.
44	* LotusEaterMachine: The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Lamia]] uses this against its victims in chapter 5. It uses a youth outreach group to lure troubled teens in before feasting on them. Disturbingly enough, the staff members are in on it in exchange for an escape into illusions of the life they wish they had.
45	* MysteriousProtector: Barry shows up at the beginning of chapter 4. Oded remarks that he hasn’t aged in 22 years and that they don’t know much about him. Barry disappears after somehow [[spoiler: healing Thalia, preventing her from dying from her wounds]], playing a role in [[spoiler: reviving Nolan]], and dropping Thalia and Tony off at the hospital
46	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Legion manage to find and subdue the werewolves until the armed agents of the Strategic Administration of Research and Science (SARS), directed by Agent Clara Heath burst in on the scene. Multiple people are shot in the chaos and the werewolf gets away.
47	* NoodleIncident: Lucy references one involving a ritual at someone’s grave that Marianne won’t let her live down.
48	* OhCrap: Lucy has one when the meteor hammer containing the sealed demon inside it cracks.
49	%%* PalmBloodletting: Oded and Ana in invoking the Loa
50	* PrecisionFStrike: Thalia gets one when an armed SARS agent shoots Tim with a tranquilizer
51	-->'''Thalia:''' Son of a bitch! What d’you think you’re doing?!
52	* RefugeInAudacity: With two members of the Legion out of commission and having not slept in two days, the overworked Tim drags the bodies out the brood of vampires he wiped out into the backyard and sets them on fire in an effort to clean up after himself and save time. The sensational and contradictory nature of the witness accounts allows Tim to get away with it.
53	* ThatCameOutWrong: Lucy accidentally makes a pass at Tim in chapter 2.
54	%%* TheAgeless: Barry
55	* TheLostLenore: A wedding photograph and his reaction to it reveals that [[spoiler:Oded]] has one
56	* TrackingSpell: An unusual variant in that the tracking spell is actually the spirit of a deceased member of the Legion bound to a coin worn around Marianne’s neck that serves as a sort of compass to where the source of the necromancy is.
57	%%* VengefulGhost: Ethan, a former Legion member killed in chapter 1.
58	* VoiceOfTheLegion: The [[DemonicPossession demonically possessed]] characters have this, illustrated by distorted, black speech bubbles

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