History Webcomic / Exiern

->'' InAWorld where [[http://www.exiern.com/?p=8 Unicorns purr...]] ''

->'' It is a world of magic...mystery...and [[WorldOfBuxom really big boobs]]! ''

[[http://www.exiern.com/ Exiern]] is a fantasy webcomic about a reluctantly female barbarian. The plot, which began as a riff off of [[http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2003-05-14 an early storyline of]] ''TheWotch'', is relatively simple: Evil wizard Faden, about to fall to the sword of hulking barbarian warrior Typhan-knee, tries to [[BalefulPolymorph transform the hero into an animal]] and somehow transforms him into [[GenderBender a woman]] instead. [[FirstLawOfGenderbending Since it can't be undone]], the barbarian, now going by the name of Tiffany, goes on a variety of adventures.

* {{Mythopoeia}}: See ItsAllThereInTheManual

* WhatAPieceOfJunk: North Wind, an unassuming longsword with absolutely no ornamentation whatsoever that nevertheless is imbued with powerful magic. It's done things such as render its blows nonlethal despite Tiffany's lethal intent when killing would be an immensely bad idea for her (such as when she tried to take the sword to King Urtica).

* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: [[spoiler:AvertedTrope - Typhan-Knee's AttemptedRape of a young male in his youth has the subject crying as he holds and undresses him and Typhan-Knee sported quite the horrific SlasherSmile expression while he did it.]]

* CatFolk: What looks like a tiger person turns up as a [[http://www.exiern.com/?p=43 background character]] in ''{{Exiern}}'''s spoof of the YouAllMeetInAnInn trope.

* TransEqualsGay: Denver halfheartedly invokes this when Tiffany finally reveals that she was gay before her GenderBender; Tiffany's having none of it.

[[http://www.exiern.com/ Exiern]] is a fantasy webcomic about a reluctantly female barbarian. The plot, which began as a riff off of [[http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2003-05-14 an early storyline of]] ''TheWotch'', is relatively simple: Evil wizard Faden, about to fall to the sword of hulking barbarian warrior Typhan-knee, tries to [[BalefullPolymorph transform the hero into an animal]] and somehow transforms him into [[GenderBender a woman]] instead. [[FirstLawOfGenderbending Since it can't be undone]], the barbarian, now going by the name of Tiffany, goes on a variety of adventures.

[[http://www.exiern.com/ Exiern]] is a fantasy webcomic about a reluctantly female barbarian. The plot, which began as a riff off of [[http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2003-05-14 an early storyline of]] ''TheWotch'', is relatively simple: a hulking barbarian warrior is fighting against an evil wizard. About to fall by the hero's sword, the wizard tries to use his dying breath to transform him into an animal, but somehow makes him [[GenderBender a woman]] instead. [[FirstLawOfGenderbending Since it can't be undone]], the barbarian, now going by the name of Tiffany, goes on a variety of adventures.

* BrickJoke: When we learn that Tiffany is learning to read, the first thing she does is to hit Peony for lying about what her shirt said.

* WhatAPieceOfJunk: North Wind, an unassuming longsword with absolutely no ornamentation whatsoever that nevertheless is imbued with powerful magic. It's done things such as render its blows nonlethal despite Tiffany's lethal intent when killing would not help her case, for example.

* AbominationAccusationAttack: Tiffany despises Teresa, among other things because Teresa is happy with having been magically turned into a woman. In one very public argument, with the population of Teresa's home city as audience, Tiffany talks as if it was a fact and common knowledge that Teresa is a PedophilePriest child-molester.

* SdrawkcabName: "Drowemos" has nothing to do with [[DungeonsAndDragons elves]] and even less to do with [[{{Emo}} whiny failed goth wannabes]]; in fact, it was just a sarcastic response to someone who suggested he pick "some word" as a pen name.

* RedEyestakeWarning: Cytx, when his EvilHand takes over.

* MusclesAreMeaningful: Suddenly losing her biceps and abs is one of the first signs that TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody effect of Tiffany's curse has occured, making her weak enough to hurt herself when she slaps someone.

* UnstoppableRage: The norhern barbarians call it "going pyro".

* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler:The Ash Tribe shaman insists he the blame for his mate's insane revenge plot to pit Typhan-Knee and Wyll-Line against each other, to ensure that Wyll's enemies can't use the whole sordid affair to derail his surprisingly progressive and prosperous reign as chieftan. This involves execution, sadly, much to the lament of Wyll.]]

* SpotTheThread: The three anecdotal accounts of that fateful night where Typhan-Knee's and Wyll-Line's dad was killed, compared to Tiff's first-hand account. Two of them are factual to a point and then go into supposition, The third [[spoiler:or technically the first one regaled]] directly contradicts Tiff's first-hand account. [[spoiler:It's told by the true source of the assassination job on Tiff, in a mad revenge plot against the brothers and their father.]]

* ShamefulStrip: Turns up too many times to count, but always PlayedForLaughs. Wyll-Line attempts to invoke this when trying to avoid a duel with [[TheDreaded Tiff]] by saying honor duels are to be done bare-chested... but Tiff has none of it, doffs her armor and undergarment, and calls him out on his chauvinism anyway.

* ShamefulStrip: Turns up too many times to count, but always PlayedForLaughs.