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* [[Beautiful All Along]]: In a rare example not featuring any change of appearance. {{spoiler|After becoming the executioner, Jebel has his choice of any virgin in Wadi and chooses "the most beautiful girl in Wadi"; not the stunning but shallow Wadi princess Debbat but her dowdy servant girl, Bas.}}
* [[Character Development]]: Jebel starts out as arrogant and abusive towards Tel Hesani, regularly threatening to beat him to death. {{spoiler|Ultimately, though, when the moment comes, Jebel chooses not to sacrifice Tel to Sabbah Eid, even though Tel is mortally wounded.}}
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* [[Complete Monster]]: All three villains certainly qualify. Qasr Bint is a cannibalistic, sadistic religious fanatic who believes he alone is the most pure person in the world and that everyone else must mutilate themselves until they die to earn the favour of the gods, and pursues his quest of conversion with a perverse lust and religious fervour that would put [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|Frollo]] to shame. Master Bush and Master Blair are greedy, cruel, amoral conmen and murderers who winter by graverobbing and approach all their villainy in a casual, affable tone.
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: After journeying across the entire land of Makhras, being enslaved multiple times, {{spoiler|killing three sadistic villains, fighting scores of insane cannibals and getting captured by the god of death, Jebel refuses to sacrifice Tel Hesani to Sabbah Eid, even though Tel is mortally wounded anyway and Sabbah Eid is threatening him with death by fire. Even with the wrath of the fire-god looming, Jebel refuses to kill the man who has become the father his father never was for his own selfish reasons, choosing to let him die with dignity, not slaughtered like a pig.}}
** One word: {{spoiler|"Bas"}}.
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