This story contains examples of:
- Arson, Murder, and JaywalkingJaynix:You've murdered countless innocent people, you've started countless pointless wars, and you've made countless grammar mistakes I've kindly not pointed out!
- Church Militant: Ranka, and any Church members you happen to see with heavy weaponry.
- Creepy Crows: The hell ravens and the hell crows.
- Minimalist Cast: Never really expands beyond Jaynix, Langely, Giles, Ranka, Inaba, & Xander.
- Older Than They Look / Really 700 Years Old: Inaba, who looks about twelve and is at least 500.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: All of the mages have two-part names, but they all sans (Xander) are referred to by their mage names.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: The 9 Ruins was made from the incinerated leftovers of nine different cities and their citizens.
- X Meets Y: Author thought this up when trying to think of what a crossover between A Certain Magical Index, Fate/stay night, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Touhou Project would be like. Urgh.
