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A [[Dark Fic]] [[Alternate History]] from [[
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* [[Affably Evil]]: The Hali culture. They'll invite you into their homes, politely respect your differences of opinion, and engage you in a discussion about the translated works of Charles Dickens. And then you find out that the Hali's hat is cold blooded torture. Even their women and children enjoy it as a recreational activity.
* [[The Alliance|Alliance, The]]: The Southern Pact, an alliance of European and South American against the expansive Tsalal in Southern Cone.
* [[Alternate History]]: You wouldn't want to live in [[Dark Fic|this one]]!
* [[Badass]]: The original survivors who founded the Tsalal society. Unfortunately, the very beginnings of Antarctic human civilization were a pure [[Start of Darkness]].
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: This happens repeatedly in Tsalal history. That's how Antarctica gets the way it does.
* [[Black Speech]]: Most Tsalal languages sound this to people from the outside world.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Johnny Tsalal. Hunter S. Thompson took comfort in this.
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* [[Crapsack World|Crapsack Continent]]
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]] & [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: Becouse of their Australoid origins and about 40000 years of social selection preferring black skin, Tsalal skin tones are as dark as humanly possible. Hair colors show more variety, but those redheads are quite rare.
* [[Death World]]: The native lifeforms of Antarctica are just plain ''nasty''. There are the Gugs, ants that shoot fire, giant platypi that have evolved convergently similar to crocodilians, and a kind of small mammal whose bite sends humans into comas. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|And that's just the tip of the iceburg...]]
* [[Drop Bear]]: the Southern Koala is this, with some flavoring of [[Alien (franchise)|Xenomorph]]. A dreaded taboo creature [[Eviler Than Thou|even for the Tsalal]].
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The Nightmare Children ([[Child Soldiers]] who were raised to be complete and utter psychopaths from birth) were viewed as horrific and cruel even by the Tsalal.
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: More like "Everyone of the Tsalal is bi, if it's a way of degrading your inferiors. Or their [[I Love the Dead|dead bodies]].
** Especially if the Body's going to be ''part of the buffet'' that night.
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: The other Tsalal consider the Cold Islanders to be this.
** For reasons that an outsider would consider trivial, such as wearing the color white. {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist|And being obsessed with creating]] "[[Body Horror|Remade Men]]"}}
* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]: The Sicaripods.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Face-crotch Guy. He's Hali.
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: Antarctic teratorns (type C) are two hundred pound acid spewing, horn-tufted killer birds with faces sort of like a big cat, a tiger or lion, except with a jagged beak instead of a muzzle.
* [[God Is Evil]]: The central tenet of the Zhu religion.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: A whole continent of them.
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* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]: The Devils, lampshaded in-series.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: The author described the Flayermen as "sort of like Nazi Pedophile Vampire Ninja, except unfriendly and evil".
* [[Oedipus Complex]]. In time's of famine, it's perfectly acceptable in Tsalal culture for a boy to kill and eat his father, and then take his mother and sister as his wives. That is assuming his father doesn't do it first.
* [[Orange and Blue Morality]]: The Tsalal civilization in general, but especially the Hali.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: The Tsalal use children as guidance systems for their bigger rockets and space program. And they don't understand why the Northerners are so upset about it.
* [[Prison Rape]]: The Ptarh culture is built on it. Ironically, the same culture also lacks real prison.
* [[Rule of Scary]]
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: The Antarctic natives discover things like coal mining, rocketry, and domesticated monkeys way, way ahead of time. Guns, not so much.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Howard Phillips' Flayerman mask.
* [[Secret Police]]: Probably.
* [[Shout-Out]] / [[Homage]]:
** To [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and his famous adventure/horror novella ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]''. The very name of the disturbing Antarctic natives of this [[Alternate History]] is kind of a dead giveaway. The story by Poe featured the "Tsalals", black-skinned, black-toothed evil natives living near the South Pole. The author has acknowledged this series was [[Inspired By]] them.
** Also, to virtually every other [[Mysterious Antarctica]] piece of fiction ever written. including those by H.P. Lovecraft : The ''[[Cthulhu Mythos|Plateau of Leng]]'', complete with wierd landscape, architecture and really disturbing inhabitants. That, and... Suprise ! [[Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman|Lovecraft himself is a journalist]] in this [[Alternate History]], who travels to Antarctica to study all the weird and creepy native civilizations (and get some ideas for his short stories, presumably).
** To ''[[The King in Yellow]]'', not only with the obvious "kings in yellow", but also by using other names supposedly present in the fictional play, like Hali.
* [[Slave Race]]: All other humans. The Gugs.
** The Gugs (mentioned above) are a a kind of [[Bee People|eusocial]] Monkey the size of gorillas that drag their prey under ground, rip their legs off so they can't get away, keep them alive so they can "use" (rape) them, and then eventually eat them. However, the Tsalal have found a way to domesticate them. This involves the Gug master wearing the skin of a Gug king, castrating the young males, and raping and beating them daily to show them who's boss. They are used in both mine labor, and as shock troops. They are also smart enough to use human tools and weapons.
* [[Snow Means Death]]: The Tsalal attitude.
** Justified by the long, deadly, and very snowy winter.
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