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=== ''Burying the Shadow'' provides examples of the following tropes: ===
* [[A Cup Angst]]: At one point Rayojini expresses dismay at being flat-chested.
* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: Sammael spends centuries alone in a tower because [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|he gets fed up]] with the eloim and their ideas of how to live on Earth.
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* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: Eloat is Sammael's father. He is, technically, the father of all eloim.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Rayojini's favorite coat is fairly long, long enough to get all muddy when trudging through rain.
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* [[Bi the Way]]: Almost out of the blue, Rayojini asks another woman to sleep with her. The woman's easy acceptance of the offer indicates that in their culture [[Everyone Is Bi]]. [[Three Way Sex|It gets better]].
* [[Black Sheep]]: Salyon Tricante. As a child, his family barely talks about him when he's ill. As an adult, he's something of an embarrassment.
* [[Brother
* [[Burn the Witch]]: The nomads aren't fond of soulscapers and are known to lynch them if agitated.
* [[Child Hater]]: Both Rayojini and Gimel express a dislike of children.
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* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: Add this onto the [[Dream Weaver]] abilities and you get the ability of the scryers.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: How the Fear manifests in the eloim. The page quote is Gimel's poetic expression of this phenomenon.
* [[Eerie Pale
* [[Eldritch Location]]: Nothing in the soulscape makes sense physically.
* [[Enemy Within]]: The Fear.
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* [[Journey to The Center of The Mind]]: All in a day's work for a soulscaper, but Rayojini takes this [[Up to Eleven]]. Subverted in that it is done with consent.
* [[Lady in Red]]: Hadith Sarim, the first time Rayojini meets her. Incidentally, Rayo is also wearing red at the time, but this mostly serves to highlight the differences between them as sexually experienced woman and virgin.
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* [[The Lost Woods]]: The city of Taparak is built into a huge petrified forest, not unlike a [[Lord of the Rings]] elf settlement.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: Did Rayojini hallucinate what happened in Yhkey, or did it actually happen? All such incidents are hinted to have actually happened, though clear answers aren't always given.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Rayojini is forced to euthanize a boy when she realizes most of his soul is gone already. She's also done this four times in the past.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Gimel and Beth do this, albeit with a very light touch, when they become part of Rayojini's initiation ceremony.
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* [[No Biological Sex]]: The eloim, being a race of angels, are this in their true forms.
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Rayo is too stubborn to admit that her feelings for Q'orveh are deeper than lust because of their many differences. [[Love Epiphany|She realizes the truth too late]].
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]: Every one of Rayojini's encounters with Gimel and Beth, the most notable offense being when Beth rapes her.
* [[Our Angels Are Different]]/[[Our Vampires Are Different]]: The eloim are spiritual beings that require human blood to maintain human form.
* [[Parental Incest]]: Metatron has apparently taken Gimel to his bed hoping to sire a child on her. Gimel hints that Metatron has sex with Beth, too.
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** The nomadic tribes of Khalt.
* [[What the Hell Dad|What the Hell, Mom?]]: Rayojini's mother more or less trusts Rayo to raise herself. They actually probably work best that way.
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* [[Woman in White]]: Perdina and Voile Tricante, helping their [[Creepy Twins]] image.
* [[You Imagined It]]: This is ultimately how Rayojini resolves the issue of her "dream" encounters with the eloim and other strangeness. It is also the core belief of the soulscapers--all strangeness is created by human imagination.
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