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[[File:officialcouple_9168.jpg|frame| As the author, I"Thrythlind" seesees the two angriest people with an intense dislike for each other's races as the official couple. "What's wrong with me?"]]
 
{{quote| "[[Badass Boast|I am skilled and not unbloodied]]"- |Toshiko Kikage before exile<br />}}
{{quote|"[[Ironic Nursery Tune|Red meets yellow...]]" "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|...kills a fellow]]" |A bandit realizing what [[No Name Given|the Woman With No Name]] is before she finishes the statement for him, with example. }}
 
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110831041139/http://thryth.webs.com/zodiacs.htm Zodiacs] is a [[Sourcebook]] written by [[Tropers/Luke "Thrythlind|Thrythlind]]" Green intended for use by gamers. The sourcebook contains a two-three page discussion of several of the more common gaming systems and mechanics along with discussion of pros and cons. However, beyond that, there is no mention of statistics in the sourcebook.
 
The book contains sections on:
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In addition to the sourcebook, there is a short story book which is the author's rendition of what would happen if you used his campaign with his characters played the way he would play them.
 
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''Note from the Author: I tend to use these pages as sounding boards for ideas as well as a form of self-promotion. For my original fictions, I do most of my troping on my own files offline, because I don't want to spoil anything...as I am want to do when ranting about my stories. However, currently most of the entries were done by me as part of a way of figuring out how to summarize the setting. From here on out, however, this page will be only occasionally updated by me specifically. (Though I might run a promotion that involves troping my stuff.)''
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* [[Samurai Cowboy]]: The setting as a whole.
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: The Woman With No Name
* [[Shout -Out]]: Pretty much part of the intention of the setting and the example characters.
** Jun the Cook/Toshiko Kikage: Her story borrows heavily from the 47 Ronin and can be considered a shout out to Yukimura Sanada as well.
** Enkil: is a shout out to Streetfighter characters as well as [[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|Inigo Montoya]]
** The Woman With No Name: is a shout out to [[Clint Eastwood|Clint Eastwood's]] Man With No Name as well as [[Once Upon a Time Inin Thethe West|Harmonica]] and [[Tombstone Doc Holiday]]
** Sigurd: a shout out to various viking myths, [[Jackie Chan]] and the good-guy versions of [[Streetfighter Zangief]]
** Acacia: was originally a [[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Kodachi Kuno]] shout out, but has been buried under other things
** Xun Fu: Is a shout out to [[MacGyver|Macgyver]] and [[Robin Hood]]
** Rama: Is a shout out to [[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma Saotome]] and [[Kung Fu (TV)|Kwai Chang Kain]]
** Adrasteia: Is a shout out to {{Ranma1/2[[Ranma ½|Kodachi Kuno}}]] as well as the [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Literaturenovel)|Evil Queen]] of Snow White
** Ryouiki as a culture is a shout out toward Japanese and Celtic myth
*** The capital of Ryouiki is "Deishi" (D.C)
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