History Webcomic / Earthsong

** [[spoiler:Skogul reveals that Alyss' remnant was of her being beaten to death by people on her planet who owned her as a slave and that Nanashi has just sent her back to that reality.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Morgan, Tengu, Nanashi.]]

* KnightTemplar: Nanashi's top priority is the safety of Earthsong, and she will go to extremes to ensure her safety.

[[http://www.earthsongsaga.com/index.html Available here.]]

%% * AllYourPowersCombined: Nanashi.
* AmazonBrigade: Haven's Guard, with the exception of Zaebos.
%% * {{Animesque}}
* AntiVillain: Most of the Mandragora, especially Tristram. They are kept against their will and fear for their lives. Beluosus constantly lies to them to ensure their compliance, [[spoiler:and in the end, "eats" their soulstones]].
%% * ArtEvolution

%% * BadassBookworm: [[PlayingWithFire Zaebos]].
* BadassNormal: [[EmpoweredBadassNormal Not any more]], but Nanashi started out as this, hitting a god in the head with a stick.
* BerserkButton / BewareTheNiceOnes: Earthsong. Do NOT threaten [[spoiler: her eve.]]
%% * BlowYouAway: Skogul.

%% * CanNotSpitItOut: Zaebos, about K'Thonya

%% * CuteBruiser: Alyss.
* CuteLittleFangs: K'Thonya, Felucca, Neuria, Tristram... the list goes on.
%% * ElementalPowers: Zaebos, Skogul, Tengu, K'Thonya and Tristram.
%% * ExploringTheEvilLair: Subverted.

%% * GenkiGirl: Felucca.

%% * HandsomeLech: Jormand.
%% * HealingHands: Tristram.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Tengu, along with the rest of her species.

%% * {{Invisibility}}: Nanashi.
%% * IntangibleMan: Ulkurz.

%% * LifeEnergy
* LimitedWardrobe: Apparently, most of the guard have multiple identical sets of clothing.

* MeaningfulName: Virtually everyone has a meaningful name, based on the namer's (Nanashi, a japanese meaningful name in itself) assessment of their character or species.
%% * MindOverMatter: Nanashi.
%% * MineralMacGuffin: Soulstones
%% * MotorMouth: Felucca.
%% * NewFirstComics: The Redux
* NoodleIncident: "If such is not the case, I will have no qualms about informing Nanashi just WHO was responsible for the 'noodle incident.'" See [[http://www.earthsongsaga.com/vol2/28.html here.]]

* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Each race is based on some mythical creature, so the list is huge, including dragons, elves, faeries, demons, gorgons, harpies, goblins, giants, all the way up to hindu gods. (Case in point: Alyss is a prepubescent giant...meaning that she's [[NotGrowingUpSucks stuck]] at [[PintSizedPowerhouse less than half her ten-foot adult height]].)

* ParentalFavoritism: [[spoiler:Earthsong to Willow, her Eve and real daughter. Nanashi is quickly being shunned to the side.]]
%% * PerpetualFrowner: Gwen.
%% * PersonalityPowers: In spades.

%% * PlayingWithFire: Zaebos.
%% * PrehensileHair: K'Thonya.
%% * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Felucca.

%% * ShockAndAwe: Tengu.

%% * SuperSpeed: Neuria.

* {{Telepathy}}: The long-speculated-on [[spoiler:human]] soulstone power. Also an ability of Spinster's race, but to a lesser extent.
%% * TheOneGuy: Zaebos.

%% * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Felucca.
* WallsOfText: Suffers from it.

!!This comic provides examples of:

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** PuppyDogEyes: From a [[http://earthsongsaga.com/vol4/63.php giant humanoid spider]], no less.

* ChekhovsSkill: Spinster needs to touch most people's foreheads to read their minds and mentally collaborate with them on their outfits. Yet when he asks Nanashi what kind of evening wear she wants, she simply stares at him and her [[GlowingEyes eyes glow]] for one panel, though before now they only glowed when she used the power of the Sidera. She leaves, and Spinster sadly comments with, "A lovely choice..." It's later revealed that the soulstone power of humans (Gaia's children), Nanashi included, is [[spoiler: telepathy and mind control]].

* {{Telepathy}}: The long-speculated-on [[spoiler:human]] soulstone power. Also the soulstone power of Spinster's race, but to a lesser extent.

* ChekhovsSkill: Spinster needs to touch most people's foreheads to read their minds and mentally collaborate with them on their outfits. Yet when he asks Nanashi what kind of evening wear she wants, she simply stares at him and her [[GlowingEyes eyes glow]] for one panel, though before now they only glowed when she used the power of the Sidera. She leaves, and Spinster sadly comments with, "A lovely choice..." It's later revealed that the soulstone power of humans (Gaia's children), Nanashi included, is [[spoiler: a more powerful form of telepathy than that of Spinster's race]].

* {{Telepathy}}: The long-speculated-on [[spoiler:human]] soulstone power.

* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Strictly, the other way around. We never see aliens from non-Earthlike planets because planets have to make themselves Earthlike should they wish to support life.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Nanashi.

* {{Animesque}}

* ArtEvolution

* BadassBookworm: [[PlayingWithFire Zaebos]].

* BlowYouAway: Skogul.

* CanNotSpitItOut: Zaebos, about K'Thonya
* CuteBruiser: Alyss.

* ElementalPowers: Zaebos, Skogul, Tengu, K'Thonya and Tristram.
* ExploringTheEvilLair: Subverted.

* GenkiGirl: Felucca.
* HandsomeLech: Jormand.
* HealingHands: Tristram.

* {{Invisibility}}: Nanashi.
* IntangibleMan: Ulkurz.

* LifeEnergy

* MindOverMatter: Nanashi.
* MineralMacGuffin: Soulstones
* MotorMouth: Felucca.
* NewFirstComics: The Redux

* PerpetualFrowner: Gwen.
* PersonalityPowers: In spades.

* PlayingWithFire: Zaebos.
* PrehensileHair: K'Thonya.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Felucca.

* SeriesHiatus: At least two.

* ShockAndAwe: Tengu.

* SuperSpeed: Neuria.

* TheOneGuy: Zaebos.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Felucca.

!!This WebComic contains examples of the following tropes:

* BadassNormal: [[BadassAbnormal Not any more]], but Nanashi started out as this, hitting a god in the head with a stick.

* AntiVillain: The Mandragora. They are kept against their will and fear for their lives. Beluosus constantly lies to them to ensure their compliance, [[spoiler:and in the end, "eats" their soulstones]].

** Nanashi is a heroic version. She dutifully serves Earthsong, but basically treats people and their feelings with contempt and doesn't care about 'a little girl's feelings' when Willow finds out they were lying to her. Gwendolyn as well for calling Willow 'as dangerous as a ball of fluff and half as useful'.

* ShapeshifterBaggage: where does the rest of Felucca come from when she goes all dragony?

* WallsOfText: Suffers from it

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Nanashi.
** TheLancer: Gwendolyn
** TheSmartGuy: Zaebos.
** TheBigGuy: Tengu/Felucca.
** TeamMom: K'thonya.
** TheChick[=/=]SixthRanger: Willow.
** TeamPet: Felucca.
** [[{{Mentors}} The Mentor]]: Earthsong.

The art style is somewhat manga-inspired.

** This is a rare case of science getting a say in fiction--most astronomers think that planets would have to be Earthlike to support life at all, and therefore sci-fi movies such as StarWars are inaccurate from the get-go.

* ThisIsSPARTA: "Let. Her. GO!"

* ShoutOut: Felucca is based off the characters of ''{{Gargoyles}}''.

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