It was the final straw in a series of traumatic events that lead her to the decision to abandon her humanity and become a literal monster. Combat by Champion: The war between the Ishgar Republic and the Empire ends after the Hero of the Chaos defeats the Hero of the Hammer. Every time he is addressed, whether by a character speaking of him or in narration, his name, gender, and even title change without warning. From there the story revolves around watching Boxxy grow into a fully sapient monster with a Horror Hunger to match.

I Just Want to Be Normal: After Keira's status as a Hero becomes public, one of her subordinates makes a comment about how awesome being a Hero must be. every time something good happened, like going up a level, acquiring a new skill or hitting an enemy with a nasty attack.The long dead Elf Empire once enslaved most other species and conducted horrible experiments on their fellow enlightened beings. Indeed, Ambrosia is more pissed off at FIZZY for revealing the mind control and allowing her to shake it off, as she would have much rather just remained happy and ignorant.

However, Boxxy keeps interrupting him by tossing daggers in his direction, which keep harmlessly bouncing off the warlock's shield.Kryptonite Factor: All monsters have a bane, a specific form of attack such as fire or acid, that will do much more damage to them than normal. In Series Nick Name: "Carl" is merely the alias he uses when conversing with mortals, mostly because it's easier to say than his real name. All Love Is Unrequited: Her affections for Boxxy are completely wasted as it has no concept of love and treats the sexual romps she asks for as little more than a chore to keep one of her familiars happy. An Aesop: The names of the arcs about the war between the Ishgar Republic and the Lodrak Empire: Those Who Are Right; Those Who Are Left.

The Blight treats all these rules as a checklist, which is why every god is united against its forces — it's an omnicidal genocidal ecocidal self-propagating curse-like effect which also uses the dead for construction materials. Kora: All that potential for lewdness, perversity and all around carnal depravity - wasted on a creature with absolutely no sex drive. All There in the Manual: The comments section is a treasure trove of information as the author often answers reader's questions. out of 5 is the very best I can do, merely because I hope in the next book she takes some form of closure-vengeance.Morality Chain: Pedro admits to Kora while they're rehabilitating Theresa that he considers the Goddess of Justice to be his moral anchor, since she keeps him honest and is someone to compete with. The conflict would allow him to finally master his various Spy job skills note since peacetime doesn't offer many opportunities for spywork, and he really doesn't care that the Republic is innocent or that thousands of people will die on both sides just so he can Level Grind.