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[[File:LAW_5486.jpg|frame|From left to right: [[First Love|Marianne]], [[Loveable Rogue|Armin]], [[The Hero|Ryan]], [[Girl Next Door|Lavie]], [[Genius Bruiser|Henrik]] and [[Mysterious Past|Juno]].]]
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''Love and War'' is set in the world of Terra, an [[Alternate Reality]] Earth which has been ravaged by war for centuries. The people of Terra have assembled into five nations, which are more or less constantly in conflict, until the Crown Prince of the Zion Empire, [[The Good King|Lord Geraud Valtemond]], convinces the countries to unite in the cause of peace. His ideals lead to the formation of [[One World Order|the Commonwealth]], a multinational body which - after some false starts - manages to keep the peace for over three hundred years.
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After a mysterious opening, the story begins light-heartedly enough, with situations based on the joys and trials of adolescence. However, as the game progresses, we slowly begin to learn about political unrest in Terra, and by the end, our hero and his friends have all been touched by it.
Currently, Act I ("The Ties That Bind") of the story is complete, and can be downloaded [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101100328/http://antioch.snow-fall.com/law/downloads.shtml here]. A [http://www.antioch.snow-fall.com/law/downloads/Law2-DEMO.zip playable demo] of Act II is also available. The author's site, including side projects based on the '''Love And War''' universe, can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101181422/http://antioch.snow-fall.com/law/about.shtml here.]
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Greg, with his lame pick-up lines and his love of alcohol, is this for Lavie.
* [[Alcoholic Parent]]: {{spoiler|Lavie's father, Sigmund Regale, if we believe Henry the bartender, who tells Lavie that he has a long, unsettled bar tab.}}
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* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: After battling the Lekutak, a fish-like monster, in Ozunhold, Armin complains that his pants are wet. Cue much mockery from Henrik and Ryan, and Armin protesting that [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|it was from the splash of water, and that he was standing closest to the pool.]] Needless to say, they don't quite believe him.
* [[British English]]: Ryan's home country, Galvenia, is rather like England (independent from the rest of its continent, boasting of an ancient king named Richard Lionheart, and ruled as a parliamentary monarchy), and its characters make full use of common British idioms and phrases.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Joshua Evens, Headmaster of the Archery Academy at Mann Island. He has a remarkably short attention span, spends a lot of his time making jokes that fall flat, and his reaction to growing a head of hair is, well, [[
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Lavie '''will''' accompany Ryan on his second trip, whether he likes it or not.:
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Armin. Watching his unsuccessful attempts to pick up girls is an enduring source of humour.
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* [[Missing Mom]]: Henrik's mother, Barbara Spenson, whom he was very close to, died when he was about fourteen.
{{quote|'''Henrik:''' ''(sadly)'' "When she took ill and died, I didn't think I could go on..."}}
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Lavie Regale in the webcomic, ''Love And War: Scattered Pictures''. Pictorial proof [http://antioch.snow-fall.com/law/misc/sp/LAWsp03-4.jpg here.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Juno, a classmate of Ryan's who is spoiling for a fight with him. Unlike the other characters, we learn very little about his family or his motivations for this.
* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: This is one likely explanation for why Ryan stonewalls Lavie's increasingly obvious attempts at getting closer to him.
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* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Lavie's hunting garments place her in Grade B, if the official art (shown above) is a reliable indication.
* [[Actor Shared Background]]: Princess Carranya plays her own ancestress, Lady Penelope, in a play about the Galvenian War of Independence.
* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Princess Carranya, which is why she {{spoiler|stows away on the HMS Paradiso to meet the Zion Emperor}} to prevent a potential war involving Galvenia and Zion on one side, and the Varald Directorate on the other.
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