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* Orren (Knowledge): Shapeshifting mercurial otterfolk with a tendency to go hyperactive under stress. Described as having "species-wide ADD." Explicitly labeled the [[Jack of All Stats]].

''Less Common''

* Gormoror (Control+Destruction): Mighty bears with a magic honor sense. [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] is their hat.

* Sleeth (Change): Non-anthropomorphic big cats with telekinesis over flesh-based objects and the [[Verbal Tic]] of speaking in present tense.

* [[Benevolent Architecture]]: The gods filled the world with inhabitable land and other resources for the primes...

* [[Malevolent Architecture]]: ...And put all the livable areas on branches whose edges, up to twenty-five miles away, are filled with custom-designed monsters.

* [[BFS]]: The three-handed sword, a popular weapon among Herethroy warriors, who have enough limbs and coordination to actually use one effectively.

* [[Blessed With Suck]]:

* [[Lost Technology]]: Much of society was wiped out during The Holocaust Wars, which means that ancient artifacts are frequently found by adventurers. However, the trope is notably subverted in that magic theory has advanced significantly over time. So while the artifacts may be valuable for their historical significance, their effects tend to be crude and trivial by modern standards. The sourcebook mentions a famous enchanted weapon that would be considered a homework assignment for second year students at most academies. Holocaust War artifacts may be especially potent because nobody would dare make such destructive things anymore, but probably not because they're beyond the reach of modern enchanters to make. On the other hand, the gods ''did'' get more personally involved in the old days; god-touched artifacts are ''much'' less common now (and were never exactly plentiful).

* [[Made of Iron]]: Justified, since there's plentiful healing magic, and survival is more dependent on the ability of a creature's spirit to hold on to its body (see the example on [[Hit Points]]) than the survival of any specific part of the body; even if there's an arrow through your heart, if the spirit clings well enough, it can keep beating.

* Magitech: Magic ''is'' the technology. Why use expensive glass to make a crude tool that imitates an off-the-shelf microscopic-vision spell?

** Though there are some reasons to use such things, especially where information-gathering is concerned - information-spells are inherently unreliable. Sometimes you'll know they went wrong. Others, you won't - and that's when they're most likely to be ''horribly'' wrong.

* [[Villain Ball]]: Used with some of the gods. We're told that Gnarn (Change) would have been Goddess of Destruction, but let her "brother" Accanax have the job.

* [[Weather Dissonance]]: Built right in; a one-month-long season known as [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Surprise]] involves all nature of interesting and odd weather, in addition to typically being very hot or very cold for the entire month. The rest of the time the air elementals in charge of weather behave... more or less, and getting a universe like the World Tree to have mostly temperate, liveable weather means those elementals are doing a great deal of work indeed.

* [[World Tree]]: Explicitly, with literal branches and leaves and amber.

 

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