...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Reign of the Seven Spellblades

1573 statements
310 feature instances
280 referencing feature instances

Reign of the Seven Spellblades	type	TVTItem
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	label	Reign of the Seven Spellblades
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	page	ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	comment	As spring dawns in year 1532 of the Great Calendar, fifteen-year-old mages from all walks of life arrive at Kimberly Magic Academy to begin their seven-year-long formal education in the arts of magic. An altercation with a troll at the entrance ceremony forges bonds between six of them that will serve them well, for life at Kimberly is anything but safe.And for series protagonist Oliver Horn, talented mainly at adapting and modifying others' techniques, those bonds—especially with Nanao Hibiya, a samurai of the far east for whom magic is more instinct than thought—are as much complication as boon, for he came to Kimberly carrying secrets darker than the labyrinth that lies below it.Reign of the Seven Spellblades (ä¸ƒã�¤ã�®é”å‰£ã�Œæ”¯é…�ã�™ã‚‹ Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai Suru) is a Dark Fantasy light novel series with Teen Drama elements written by Bokuto Uno (author of Alderamin on the Sky) with illustrations by Miyuki Ruria, published under Kadokawa's Dengeki Bunko imprint beginning in September 2018. There is also a Spin-Off volume, Side of Fire: Chronicle of Purgatory, released 7 July 2023, which fills out the backstory of Student Council President Alvin Godfrey and the Kimberly Campus Watch.A manga adaptation by Sakae Esuno (creator of Future Diary) was serialized in Monthly ShÅ�nen Ace from 7 September 2018 to 11 November 2023, adapting the first three volumes of the original novels.The novels and manga were licensed by Yen Press for English publication beginning in 2021.An anime adaptation from J.C. Staff and Warner Bros. Japan, directed by Masato Matsune, was announced during the 2021 Dengeku Bunko Winter Festival. It premiered 7 July 2023note in an after-midnight time slot, Tokyo time on Tokyo MX and BS11, and was simulcast on Crunchyroll with English, Hindi, and German dubs. It ran for fifteen episodes and concluded on 13 October, adapting the first three volumes of the original novels. The Blu-ray set includes a bonus Short Story from Bokuto Uno titled "Encore", filling in some of the events in the aftermath of volume 3.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	fetched	2024-04-26T18:47:57Z
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	parsed	2024-04-26T18:47:58Z
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to AkashicRecords: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to Downplayed: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to GenreBusting: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to HarryPotter: Not a Feature - ITEM
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone: Not a Feature - ITEM
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to Inverted: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to JackOfAllTrades: Not a Feature - ITEM
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to NamedInTheAdaptation: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to Prequel: Not a Feature - ITEM
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingComment	Dropped link to ShellGame: Not a Feature - ITEM
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingUnknown	Downplayed
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingUnknown	Inverted
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingUnknown	NamedInTheAdaptation
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	processingUnknown	ScrewThisImOutOfHere
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	isPartOf	DBTropes
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1036c075	comment	Second, Oliver corners her in their base, she thinks he's about to excoriate her for her behavior earlier, but he instead returns her Forceful Kiss and tells her, "You're not the only one who's been restraining yourself!" They spend the night in bed together, and he finally admits the next morning that he's in love with her.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1036c075	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1036c075	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1036c075
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_118f2b11	type	Counterspell
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_118f2b11	comment	Spells can be counterspelled if you synchronize to their elemental cores or intercept them with an oppositional element. Nanao can do this instinctively with just her sword, which becomes known as the "Two-Handed Flow Cut" after a similar technique from the Koutz Style.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_118f2b11	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_118f2b11	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_118f2b11
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12beeeb2	type	Non-Heteronormative Society
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12beeeb2	comment	Non-Heteronormative Society: Played with. Chela mentions in volume 2 that Muggle society is fairly heteronormative, but among mages, the only thing that really matters is your own abilities: at least eleven named characters including main cast member Pete Reston are known to be some flavor of queer, and this is considered unremarkable or even a point in their favor. That said, there is some stigma around Sex Magic, enough that there's campus club for students with gender- and sex-related magical traits which serves as the In-Universe equivalent of an LGBT student union (founder Carlos Whitrow is nonbinary and asexual, with a Beautiful Singing Voice that counters other sex-related magics).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12beeeb2	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12beeeb2	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12beeeb2
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: A flashback in volume 10 depicts The Patriarch of the Sherwood clan ordering a pubescent Oliver drugged into a hyper-aggressive state and locking him in his cousin Shannon's bedroom with the intent of producing an heir to the dynasty with Chloe's Superpowerful Genetics. The result is horrifying to read, and Oliver still feels deeply guilty over it in the present day (even though Shannon forgave him since it blatantly wasn't voluntary) and has lingering PTSD that hampers his attempts to be intimate with Nanao when they finally become a couple.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12dd1d4c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12dd1d4c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_12dd1d4c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_146e133b	type	Tamer and Chaster
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_146e133b	comment	Tamer and Chaster: The original novels include a lot of fairly frank discussion of sexuality that is dropped from or diminished in the adaptations. Neither adaptation includes Chela's suggestion from volume 2 that Pete take advantage of his reversiism to experiment sexually, and episode 13 of the anime cuts Miligan making a pass at Oliver after the Battle of Hell's Armies. Downplayed with Ophelia Salvadori, whose Sex Magic and backstory of sex abuse are so key to volume 3's story it's impossible to avoid completely. However, she's depicted visibly pregnant by rape in the flashback to her first meeting with Carlos Whitrow; the corresponding scene in episode 13 downplays the then-current pregnancy (her baby bump is much less obvious), but keeps her line asking Carlos if they're the next "man" she's expected to breed with. Episode 14 also bowdlerizes the discussion of Oliver's Raging Stiffie to just the Perfume making him horny, and episode 15 cuts the brief flashback to Ophelia's mother making her watch her rape a man.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_146e133b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_146e133b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_146e133b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_149f7447	comment	Alvin Godfrey was pursued in the past by both Tim Linton (who fell for him after Godfrey saved his life) and Ophelia Salvadori (who became attracted to him after he went the extra mile to make her feel welcome in the Watch), plus Leoncio Echevalria having a Villainous Crush on him. This one ends on No Romantic Resolution: Ophelia had a major falling-out with the Watch after her turn to villainy, but there's no indication that Godfrey has any romantic interest in Tim either, and while he respects Leoncio's abilities, he personally despises him. Additionally, their nonbinary friend Carlos Whitrow was also in love with Ophelia, and chose to express it by trying to ensure she was happy and surrounded by friends, even if that meant she ended up with Godfrey.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_149f7447	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_149f7447	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_149f7447
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15afb02	type	Gruesome Grandparent
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15afb02	comment	Gruesome Grandparent: Ursule Valois was told she was underdeveloped in the family's arts and sent to live with her grandmother, who denied her food for days on end unless she could cross a frictionless floor to get it, and intentionally inducing Stockholm syndrome about the treatment. She also gave her a kitten to raise only to then force her to kill it with her bare hands, to get her to accept the idea of using any creature as a familiar including humans. Oliver Horn was put through the wringer by his and the Sherwood siblings' great-grandfather, who pushed his father into repeatedly training him to the point of death so that he could perform a Merger of Souls with the remnants of his mother Chloe, then drugged a newly pubescent Oliver into raping Shannon in the interest of producing a pure-blooded heir. And it was All for Nothing: the baby was stillborn, leading Oliver to subconsciously conclude he was destined to suffer forever (which proved the Traumatic Superpower Awakening he needed to crack the Fourth Spellblade). In hindsight, it makes perfect sense that Chloe went no-contact and attended Kimberly under the pseudonym "Halford".
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15afb02	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15afb02	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15afb02
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: Elves are about the only species of demihumans treated as equals by mages, and sometimes interbreed with them: Chela is half-and-half and can take on a fully elven form to increase her spellcasting ability for short periods. Khiirgi "Avarice" Albschuch, a sixth-year aligned to the conservative faction, is the only full-blooded elf character introduced so far, and is an iconoclastic Jerkass who was expelled from elven society over her past behavior.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15fc9fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15fc9fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_15fc9fb
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: In volume 9, Stacy Cornwallis and Fay Willock, formerly "master and knight", have actively fallen into a sort of Courtly Love, motivating them to join the combat leagues in hopes of forcing her family to allow them to be a couple. Despite losing in the finals, Theodore is impressed enough he promises to make her family accept the relationship. In volume 10, after a lot of soul-searching following events in the previous volume, Oliver returns the favor with Nanao and takes her to bed, admitting to himself the next morning that he's in love with her.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_161f1ebf	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_161f1ebf	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_161f1ebf
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1667cb1	type	Calvinball
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1667cb1	comment	Calvinball: In volume 6, Nanao proposes a game of "demons", what we would call zombie tag, to treat Oliver feeling uncomfortable in his own skin due to the growth spurt he suddenly had as a result of having Cast from Lifespan during the Assassination Attempt against Enrico Forghieri. So the Sword Roses spend literally hours chasing each other around their laboratory and making up new rules as they go along by collective agreement. They decide to keep the "rule" about "free hugs on request" permanently even after the game is over.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1667cb1	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1667cb1	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1667cb1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_169d22e6	type	Villain Team-Up
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_169d22e6	comment	Villain Team-Up: Technically more of an Antagonist Team-Up. In volume 7, three of Oliver's previously defeated class rivals—Richard Andrews, Joseph Albright, and Tullio Rossi—team up for the combat leagues, hoping for a rematch. Their wish is ultimately granted in volume 9 when they wind up the co-finalists opposite Oliver, Nanao, and Yuri Leik.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_169d22e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_169d22e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_169d22e6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_16dda55f	type	Simple Solution Won't Work
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_16dda55f	comment	Simple Solution Won't Work: In volume 2 (anime episode 9), the Sword Roses take a lengthy trek through the labyrinth to reach the laboratory their senpai Vera Miligan offered them. The next morning (episode 10), she shows them a shortcut, a Portal Pool that crosses over to a second-floor classroom in the school building. Asked why she didn't tell them they could use the Portal Pool to get to the laboratory and save the trip, Miligan reminds them that the labyrinth has a mind of its own: that entrance isn't always accessible, and if they can't safely reach the laboratory by other paths, then it's probably too dangerous for them to be down here in the first place.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_16dda55f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_16dda55f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_16dda55f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_18ca6144	type	Sorting Algorithm of Threatening Geography
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_18ca6144	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Threatening Geography: The known layers of the labyrinth escalate from "livable if you're careful" to "dangerous even for experienced mages". The upper layer is a maze of ruined, crumbling stone full of traps and fauna both benign and dangerous. Below that is the Bustling Forest, a vast expanse of habitable but dangerous woodlands with a gigantic World Tree in the center, and giant bees often nesting in the ceiling. At the end is the Battle of Hell's Armies, two armies of undead warriors that eternally reenact the ancient Battle of Diama and only allow mages to pass who can defeat the historical winner. The third layer is the Miasma Swamp, which is exactly what it sounds like. The fourth layer, Library Plaza, suddenly takes you back to a sort of civilization: it's a Great Big Library of Everything watched over by the untiring seraphs of the dead god, including the reapers that are also tasked with slaying humans who live to the age of 200. You have to earn access to the stacks on each visit by surviving simulations of historical events recorded in the library. Below the library is Firedrake Canyon, a desolate landscape of scorched rock inhabited mostly by dragons.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_18ca6144	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_18ca6144	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_18ca6144
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Nanao is on the receiving end repeatedly in the early books: Early on it's because she's a Mage Born of Muggles, and her inexperience with magic leads to multiple characters mistakenly thinking she's easy prey: Richard tries to duel her in class, only for Oliver to step in thinking she needs protecting from their aristocratic classmate. They're both wrong, as Nanao's combat experience and natural mana flow make her a terrifyingly strong swordswoman for her age. Evelynn Odets repeats their mistake at the start of the Tournament Arc in volume 2. By volume 10, most of the school has learned this lesson, especially after watching her in the combat leagues, which she actually finds frustrating since nobody ever tries to fight her anymore. Fortunately for her, Teresa Carste is too jealous of her relationship to Oliver to think straight, and ambushes her in the labyrinth thinking her lord needs protecting—only to discover that Nanao is far stronger than she anticipated: never mind winning, it's all Teresa can do just to escape. The conspirators assume that Demitrio Aristides will be a relatively easy target since he carries no athame at all, so all they have to do is get Oliver into the one-step, one-spell distance to use a spellblade. Not so much: not only is he a Reality Warper via tapping into the Akashic Records, but he's able to wield the Fifth Spellblade with only a wand. He defeats Oliver's Fourth Spellblade and immobilizes the entire hit team. Oliver is only able to turn the tables because Yuri Leik's personality reasserts itself within Demitrio's psyche at a critical moment and starts Fighting from the Inside.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1a8dc238	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1a8dc238	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1a8dc238
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1ba34641	type	The Glomp
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1ba34641	comment	The Glomp: Nanao is already prone to being physically clingy to Oliver, "stuck to him like a burr" as she once puts it. At lunch in volume 4, she gives him a bear hug after imbibing a beverage that turned out to have a lot more alcohol than anybody realized. Oliver has to run for the bathroom to cool off because the proximity to Nanao set off Ophelia's lingering Perfume and gave him a Raging Stiffie.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1ba34641	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1ba34641	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1ba34641
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1c0d4155	type	Necessary Drawback
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1c0d4155	comment	Half-werewolves like Fay Willock are able to partake of both their human and lupine abilities, though Fay is the first to ever to master spellcasting while wolfed out. The Necessary Drawback is that he's in constant, severe pain while transformed.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1c0d4155	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1c0d4155	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1c0d4155
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Mage society as a rule has a tendency to default to this, since its overriding ethos is to push the limits of magic whatever the cost. At Kimberly Magic Academy in particular, the winning faction in the upperclassmens' combat league is likely to also win the poll for Student Council President (who then gets to appoint the rest of the student council), which takes place shortly after. This tendency causes an extra wrinkle in volume 7 when outgoing president Alvin Godfrey, who leads the Campus Watch, is severely wounded by Cyrus Rivermoore, who steals his sternum and a chunk of his etheric body right after the qualifying round. In volume 8 the Watch organizes a posse to go after Cyrus, while his Social Darwinist opponent Leoncio Echevalria conspires to delay the posse so that Watch candidate Vera Miligan loses to his Puppet King Percival Whalley.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1cc527d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1cc527d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1cc527d7
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1d52b714	type	Self-Parody
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1d52b714	comment	Self-parodied in one of the anime omakes, where Katie walks in on Oliver and Chela arguing again and thinks they've restarted the sword arts argument from earlier. Nope, this time they're debating the relative merits of various breakfast breads.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1d52b714	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1d52b714	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1d52b714
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1df43cbe	type	Shapeshifters Do It for a Change
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1df43cbe	comment	Neither adaptation includes Chela's suggestion from volume 2 that Pete take advantage of his reversiism to experiment sexually, and episode 13 of the anime cuts Miligan making a pass at Oliver after the Battle of Hell's Armies.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1df43cbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1df43cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1df43cbe
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1f75bca8	type	Wizard Duel
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1f75bca8	comment	Wizard Duel: Kimberly Magic Academy is a de facto training ground for an order of Military Mages called the Gnostic Hunters,note That is, it isn't actually part of the organization, but it's a major recruiting ground and many of the teachers used to be Gnostic Hunters. and its curriculum therefore puts significant emphasis on use of magic in combat. An entire class is devoted to teaching "sword arts", i.e. the use of blades and spells together in close combat. Nonlethal duels with both magic and sword are a common way of settling student conflicts, and Tullio Rossi organizes a dueling tournament in volume 2 to decide on the strongest first-year. In volume 6, Teresa Carste also gets into an argument with a classmate, Dean Travers, which devolves into a playground brawl when he hits her Relative Button. The climax of volume 1 pits Oliver and Nanao in a duel against fourth-year Vera Miligan, in order to rescue Katie after Miligan kidnapped her to do some exploratory surgery when she was able to get Marco the troll to talk. In the epilogue of volume 1, Oliver faces Professor Darius Grenville, one of his mother's murderers, in a Duel to the Death, which Oliver wins in a Single-Stroke Battle by using the Fourth Spellblade to cut Darius's hand off.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1f75bca8	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1f75bca8	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1f75bca8
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: Vanessa Aldiss's specialty is weaponized transformation of her body: most commonly of her arms, but her whole body can be modified on the fly to be weapon, defense, or both at the same time. She can even grow mouths on her hands and eat with them, which she does to a Gnostic cultist in the opening scene of volume 2. In volume 2, half-mage, half-werewolf Fay Willock doesn't have direct control over his werewolf transformations, but his partner Stacy Cornwallis can make his body do it with a spell that simulates the light of the full moon. She only does this with his permission (though he never says no) since he's in constant severe pain while transformed. By volume 9, however, he's figured out how to trick himself into transforming by visualizing the image of the moon, and can flexibly transform only portions of his body.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fb440a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fb440a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fb440a6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fcda164	type	Latin Is Magic
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fcda164	comment	Most spells require incantations consisting of Latin words, and the longer the incantation, the more powerful the spell but the harder it is to cast (and therefore the more vulnerable a mage is to attack while casting). It's normally impossible for a first-year student to "double-cast" (cast a spell with a two-word incantation), though Chela can pull it off in elf form. These escalate up to reality-warping "Grand Arias", which require incantations minutes long. Conversely, certain very weak spells, called "spatial magic", can be cast nonverbally, but you have to be creative to use them effectively.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fcda164	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fcda164	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_1fcda164
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The Union has a rigid class system with mages firmly at the top. Muggles are second-class citizens, and intelligent nonhumans are third-class if they're lucky. Furthermore, the typical mage morality prioritizes pushing the limits of magical research above all other concerns. While there is a decently strong Internal Reformist movement, people who try to reject this system outright tend to turn to cults of the gods of other worlds, Eldritch Abominations that see "our" world as easy pickings due to an ancient alliance of mages and demihumans having killed its god fifty thousand years ago, and are pursued by an order of Military Mages called the Gnostic Hunters that seek to stamp out the cults and their masters at all costs.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_21d70919	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_21d70919	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_21d70919
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Volume 3 of the novels just ended on the deaths of Ophelia and Carlos and moved straight to Bokuto Uno's afterword. Episode 15 of the anime adds an epilogue segment narrated by Oliver, showing the students returning to the surface in the aftermath of Ophelia and Carlos's death and life in the student body getting back to business as usual, with Guy, Katie, and Marco getting Mandatory Lines after they had been mostly absent since episode 12.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23473ae7	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23473ae7	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23473ae7
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23a1e2a9	type	Adaptation Deviation
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23a1e2a9	comment	Adaptation Deviation: In the novel and manga, Professor Garland explained the concept of a Spellblade on the first day of class. The anime moves this to the second day. Both the manga and anime cut the scene where the Sword Roses try to get the pride plants to tell them who cast the spell on Katie at the entrance ceremony by making them laugh, in favor of having Richard Andrews make Mackley fess up to repay Oliver and Nanao for saving his life when the garuda attacked. In volume 2, the first broom-riding class and the discovery that Pete is a Reversi both happened after the start of the dueling tournament. The anime moves both events earlier in the chronology to episode 7, and the tournament starts in episode 8. In volume 2, Pete's request for extra sword arts training from the other Sword Roses is motivated by a loss in class to a one-off first-year named Hughes. Episode 8 of the anime replaces Hughes in the scene with Tullio Rossi. The episode also alters the order of events: in the book, Rossi announced the dueling tournament in chapter 1, while Pete's sparring match and training request happened in chapter 2. The potions that Vera Miligan supplies Oliver to resist Ophelia Salvadori's Perfume in episodes 12 and 14 are original to the anime. In volume 3 of the novels he was stuck having to just grin and bear it.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23a1e2a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23a1e2a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_23a1e2a9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_24181f1e	type	Graduate from the Story
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_24181f1e	comment	Much of the plot of volumes 6-10 revolves around the fact he's getting ready to Graduate from the Story at the end of 1534 and the old council, led by his rival and ex-election opponent Leoncio Echevalria, wants to retake control and turn the clock back. The Sword Roses' senpai Vera Miligan runs as the pro-Watch candidate. In the end, Tim Linton wins a Dark Horse Victory when Godfrey nominates him at the last minute.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_24181f1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_24181f1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_24181f1e
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_246c9dc5	comment	The main plot of Volume 2 revolves around a sword arts tournament among the first-years, organized by Tullio Rossi, an Ytallian student with a (mostly imagined) rivalry with Oliver. Each participant is given a medallion and duels others to take theirs, with the students with the most medallions at the end of the week advancing to the playoff round. The tournament is aborted before the playoffs when Ophelia Salvadori is consumed by the spell in an unrelated incident and kidnaps several of the participants.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_246c9dc5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_246c9dc5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_246c9dc5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_253daa59	type	Multiple-Choice Future
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_253daa59	comment	The Fourth Spellblade, "Angustavia, the thread that crosses the abyss", which explores possible futures to find one where the wielder succeeds in striking down their opponent. Previously learned by Chloe Halford, her son Oliver is able to use it in extremis by drawing on his mother's Ghost Memory from her soul contained within him. He uses it in a one-cut duel with Darius Grenville, and as a Finishing Move against Enrico Forghieri. Though in volume 10, we learn that Oliver in fact uses a slight variation on this Spellblade: unlike his mother's original version, he doesn't pick the most desirable outcome, but rather the one that causes him to live to suffer the most—a consequence of his past Trauma Conga Line causing a subconscious conviction that he's destined to never be happy again.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_253daa59	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_253daa59	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_253daa59
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2593d18f	type	Anime Theme Song
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2593d18f	comment	Anime Theme Song: "Kenka" ("Sword Rose") by Kujira Yumemi, with vocals by Mimizuku And Fukuro. It's a neoclassical pop tune that serves as an Image Song for Oliver: the lyrics describe him as the "master of overlapping shadows", torn between his relationship to the other Sword Roses, "friendship that bloomed in a moment", and "the shadow of my mother who never returned", i.e. his Series Goal to avenge Chloe Halford's murder.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2593d18f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2593d18f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2593d18f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_259dd888	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_259dd888	comment	Set Swords to "Stun": Students are able to cast anti-lethality enchantments on their weapons which make them unable to deal lethal damage. Naturally, these enchantments are required for training duels between students. Unfortunately, it's possible to break these enchantments, as happened in Oliver's duel with Nanao. The instructor immediately called a halt to the match. Oliver was understandably deeply horrified to learn the enchantments had been broken and he and Nanao nearly killed each other. It's also possible to deliberately set the dulling spell at half-strength, which allows a weapon to draw blood while still not permitting any lethal injuries. Normally only upperclassmen are allowed to do this, but the Sword Roses fight two duels in volume 2 in the labyrinth, without any teachers or upperclassmen around to enforce this rule. Inverted by the opposite spell Acutus, which puts a lethal edge back onto a weapon.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_259dd888	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_259dd888	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_259dd888
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_275a13d1	type	Half-Sibling Angst
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_275a13d1	comment	Half-Sibling Angst: Stacy Cornwallis was conceived by Theodore McFarlane with a woman from a McFarlane branch family to be the backup in case his legal daughter Michela didn't work out or died. She grew up ostracized by her stepfather and half-siblings because she was a more naturally talented mage than his children by blood, and got it into her head to overtake Chela and force her biological father to recognize her. For her part, Chela resented not being allowed to acknowledge Stacy as her sister and hated that they were estranged because of it, and meanwhile Stacy's maternal half-sister Lynette briefly expresses frustration that she's so obsessed with Chela.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_275a13d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_275a13d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_275a13d1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_297ab1b9	comment	Theodore McFarlane refuses to treat Stacy Cornwallis as anything more than another student despite being her biological father, which caused her to also be shunned by her stepfather. In volume 9, though, after she and Fay perform well as a Battle Couple in the Tournament Arc, he promises to make her family allow their romance rather than force them onto the Courtly Love path.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_297ab1b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_297ab1b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_297ab1b9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: The majority of the teachers are this. The headmistress of Kimberley openly states during orientation that about twenty percent of entrants will not survive to graduate. It's meant to be Training from Hell for battlemages called Gnostic Hunters.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2a6a8e89	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2a6a8e89	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2a6a8e89
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2b42db02	type	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2b42db02	comment	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Downplayed with Headmistress Esmeralda's insider group among the faculty. They have a series of secret meetings around in the series, but are all clearly identified and are as much in the dark about Oliver Horn's conspiracy to kill them as the student body. While their overall goals and their reason for murdering Oliver's mother Chloe Halford remain vague, they take significantly more concrete action to smoke out the competing conspiracy starting in volume 6 after the conspirators fail to conceal the assassination of Enrico Forghieri.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2b42db02	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2b42db02	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2b42db02
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: So far the only time Oliver's class rival Tullio Rossi has beaten him at the sword is during a sparring match in volume 6 when Oliver is feeling uncoordinated due to the aftereffects of the battle with Enrico Forghieri.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c628d38	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c628d38	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c628d38
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c98f475	type	Leonine Contract
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c98f475	comment	Leonine Contract: Subverted in volume 3 (episode 12 of the anime). Katie offers herself to Vera Miligan as an experimental subject, who previously attempted to vivisect her to figure out how she was able to get Marco the troll to talk, in hopes of getting her help rescuing Pete after he's kidnapped by Ophelia Salvadori. Oliver and Chela naturally object, but Miligan makes the much more acceptable counterproposal of having Katie become her research assistant (de facto apprentice, though she frames it as an equal partnership).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c98f475	featureApplicability	-0.3
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c98f475	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2c98f475
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d3d3e0c	comment	Disqualification-Induced Victory: Played for Drama in volume 9. At the climax of their match against Team Andrews, Chela turns into elf form and defeats Rossi in nothing flat, only for her father to interrupt the match and order her to transform back, since he had previously ordered her not to use her Super Mode as a condition of letting her join Stacy's team. Chela tries to attack him in a rage and he knocks her out cold with an Offhand Backhand. Stacy and Fay having already been defeated, this means Team Andrews wins by default—to the pleasure of nobody present, including the audience.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d3d3e0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d3d3e0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d3d3e0c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ophelia Salvadori has a Grand Aria go wrong near the end of volume 2, causing her chimeras and Perfume to go out of control and driving her Ax-Crazy.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d4fa515	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d4fa515	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d4fa515
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e06a5f8	type	Undead Laborers
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e06a5f8	comment	Undead Laborers: Zombie labor used to be very common in mage civilization, but necromancers had to spend a lot of time consoling the spirits of the dead (mainly through Magic Music). Above a certain quantity, this tended to become logistically impractical, leading to Zombie Apocalypse scenarios called "maelstroms" that are compared to entire towns being consumed by the spell. This is what happened to the Parsu precursor civilization who originally built the labyrinth under Kimberly Magic Academy; recurring character Cyrus Rivermoore is one of their descendants and is working to recover their lost necromantic arts.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e06a5f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e06a5f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e06a5f8
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e9641d7	type	Flashback Echo
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e9641d7	comment	Oliver's Flashback Echo in volume 2 of helping heal a woman for pregnancy-induced mana disruptions? It was his cousin Shannon, and he was the father, after being drugged by their great-grandfather into raping her.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e9641d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e9641d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2e9641d7
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2edf787f	type	Significant Birth Date
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2edf787f	comment	Significant Birth Date: Author Bokuto Uno listed off a number of the major characters' birthdays in a 2024 tweet, and several have noteworthy birthdays. Nanao Hibiya's birthday is the first day of the seventh month. This is another example of the significance of 7 to Nanao (and the series): her name is a version of the number seven, and she created the Seventh Spellblade. Tim Linton's birthday is 2/14, i.e. Valentine's Day, which is deeply funny given he's a Camp Gay Wholesome Crossdresser with an unrequited crush on his senior Alvin Godfrey. Professor Demitrio Aristides's his birthday is 9/9. The number 9 is associated with suffering in (predominantly Christian) folklore, fitting into the suffering he first endured in his Start of Darkness, then inflicted on Chloe Halford in her Plot-Triggering Death which indirectly caused her son Oliver to go through a horrific Trauma Conga Line.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2edf787f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2edf787f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2edf787f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: In the anime, the track "ã‚ªãƒªãƒ�ãƒ¼ æ£ç¾© (Oliver Justice)" has an orchestral crescendo that often plays as a leitmotif when Oliver takes the gloves off with an opponent, such as his comeback in his duel with Tullio Rossi.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f50c5bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f50c5bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f50c5bf
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f6a98f5	type	Student Council President
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f6a98f5	comment	Student Council President: The council president serves a single three-year term beginning at the start of the school year following their election, and gets to appoint the rest of the council at will (as well as their replacement should they graduate during their term). The actual powers of the student council aren't clearly defined, but it's clear they have a lot of influence on the student body culture, and the election is complicated by the fact that it runs concurrently with the triennal combat leagues: as mages as a whole tend to believe in Asskicking Leads to Leadership, teams that perform well in the tournament tend to boost the electoral performance of candidates they support. At the start of the series, the incumbent is Alvin Godfrey, a fifth-year who was elected at the end of the year before the Sword Roses enroll, and has led a big, though still ongoing, shift in Kimberly's student culture: he got his start as a campus organizer trying to protect weaker and underprivileged students from bullies and predatory upperclassmen, whereas the old council let them run riot. Much of the plot of volumes 6-10 revolves around the fact he's getting ready to Graduate from the Story at the end of 1534 and the old council, led by his rival and ex-election opponent Leoncio Echevalria, wants to retake control and turn the clock back. The Sword Roses' senpai Vera Miligan runs as the pro-Watch candidate. In the end, Tim Linton wins a Dark Horse Victory when Godfrey nominates him at the last minute.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f6a98f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f6a98f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2f6a98f5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_31237f3e	type	Custom Uniform
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_31237f3e	comment	Custom Uniform: Kimberly seems to offer students a lot of latitude in their student uniforms. These range from minor changes like Guy skipping the necktie or Katie tying it in a bow instead of wearing it with a Windsor knot, up to large changes such as Ophelia Salvadori wearing a slinky purple ball gown slit to the hip and refashioning her uniform jacket into a bolero.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_31237f3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_31237f3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_31237f3e
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_315b877e	type	Resolved Noodle Incident
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_315b877e	comment	Resolved Noodle Incident: Volume 10 does this multiple times: Oliver's Flashback Echo in volume 2 of helping heal a woman for pregnancy-induced mana disruptions? It was his cousin Shannon, and he was the father, after being drugged by their great-grandfather into raping her. That gag in volume 6 about Tim Linton once gassing the Fellowship? Not so funny when we're told the context: it was basically an attempted school shooting brought on by Tim being in a really bad headspace due to his Dark and Troubled Past, and Alvin Godfrey saved his life from the attempted Murder-Suicide.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_315b877e	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_315b877e	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_315b877e
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_332005d9	type	Third Wheel
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_332005d9	comment	Their friend Katie Aalto has a crush on Oliver and tends to get a little irritable when Nanao acts too clingy (despite their otherwise close friendship). It's nonetheless clear pretty early that she's firmly the Third Wheel, which becomes a significant source of angst as Oliver and Nanao's relationship gets more serious over the years. She's also a little jealous of Oliver's (affectionate but completely platonic) relationship with his cousin Shannon, getting worked up when Shannon greets him with a kiss on the cheek when they run into each other at lunch in volume 1.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_332005d9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_332005d9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_332005d9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3322f20c	type	Virtuous Character Copy
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3322f20c	comment	Virtuous Character Copy: Where Oliver reminds of Harry Potter, Richard Andrews fills much the role of Draco Malfoy: a haughty aristocratic racist who becomes The Rival to the protagonist. Unlike with Draco and Harry, however, their dispute is mostly based on a misunderstanding and is settled after they fight the garuda together; Richard subsequently views Oliver as a competitor but not an enemy, and stops acting like a jerkass to the Sword Roses. Marco resembles the troll from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, both physically and in narrative role: both trolls attack (one of) the girl(s) due indirectly to the meddling of an antagonist, and defeating either troll solidifies the main cast's years-long friendship. However, Marco later bonds with Katie and helps save her from a rogue upperclassman, while the troll who attacked Hermoine disappears from the narrative after he's defeated. Chela's father Theodore McFarlane has a lot of similarities to Gilderoy Lockhart, as a foppish and rather silly world-traveler and book author who fills in after another teacher is indisposed. However, unlike Lockhart, he actually did have all the adventures he claims to have done and is quite competent when he puts his mind to being so: he's even a Spellblade wielder. Katie's similarities to Hermione Granger are significant, but there are some differences. Hermione was (controversially) roundly mocked for her activism on behalf of the House-Elves, whereas Spellblades portrays Katie's views as completely correct and the people bullying her over her views as wrong; she's just a little naive and inexperienced at first. Katie is also a Nice Girl through and through, lacking the vicious streak that Hermione displays in the later books.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3322f20c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3322f20c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3322f20c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33db913f	type	Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33db913f	comment	Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Oliver has a bit of a problem with this, especially early in the series. During the first sword arts lesson, Richard Andrews volunteers to cross swords with Nanao, but Oliver jumps in instead, saying that he met her first and they even fought the troll together. Richard gets very angry at this, and Oliver realizes Richard was one of the students who ran for it while he and the other Sword Roses were holding the troll off, and that he's made an enemy of Richard by accidentally calling attention to it. Oliver tries to reassure Katie after she's bitten by the magical silkworm, and makes an allusion to an angel coming down to Earth. Katie turns bright red, and Oliver realizes he laid it on way too thick.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33db913f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33db913f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33db913f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33ebf487	type	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33ebf487	comment	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: The origin of sword arts was a swordsman killing a noted mage in a fair duel, after which the mages realized that from a mutual cold start, a man with a sword can close with and strike a mage twelve feet away in the time it takes for that mage to cast a single spell. As a consequence, most mages began carrying short swords, "athames", for close-in defense, which double as spellcasting foci.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33ebf487	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33ebf487	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_33ebf487
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_348c1707	type	Sword Beam
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_348c1707	comment	Sword Beam: Mages can use their athames as magic foci, not just as swords, which saves them the trouble of having to switch between athame and wand in a fight.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_348c1707	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_348c1707	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_348c1707
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: Because Bokuto Uno didn't think to mention in volume 3 that the Sword Roses and Miligan had brought their Flying Broomsticks along until they actually became relevant, the anime doesn't think to depict them from episode 12 until episode 15 when they suddenly appear out of nowhere.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_356b1efb	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_356b1efb	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_356b1efb
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_35cae9cc	type	Sex Magic
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_35cae9cc	comment	In volume 4, Oliver is suffering aftereffects of the previous volume antagonist's Sex Magic. His friend Chela corners him in a restaurant bathroom after he has an episode, and informs him that, As You Know, if he's still feeling the effects of succubus Perfume this long after the incident, then the only way to clear it out of his system will be to satisfy the urge, and not by himself. After suggesting he try approaching his Love Interest Nanao for sex without getting a response,note The two have admitted to their attraction at this point but aren't quite ready for a Relationship Upgrade. she manipulates him into some Intimate Healing that amounts to a magic-assisted handjob through their clothes, to which he never clearly consents. To Chela's credit, she feels extremely guilty about it afterwards: they're not attracted to each other that way and she worries she might have irreparably damaged their friendship by trying to help him. (He does briefly criticize her for it in volume 5, but doesn't seem to be holding any hard feelings.)
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_35cae9cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_35cae9cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_35cae9cc
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_361a1d26	comment	Volume 10: Nanao tries to apologize for the kiss in volume 9, but Oliver tells her, "I'm not letting you off that easily." He then kisses her back with equal force, then tells her, "You're not the only one restraining yourself!" and sweeps her off her feet with another kiss.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_361a1d26	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_361a1d26	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_361a1d26
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_375e702b	type	Brits Love Tea
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_375e702b	comment	Brits Love Tea: The series is set in Yelgland, a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to England, so consequently tea is the beverage of choice for almost the entirety of the cast.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_375e702b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_375e702b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_375e702b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_382a150e	type	Sex Shifter
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_382a150e	comment	Pete Reston begins suffering painful mana disruptions upon becoming a Sex Shifter. According to main character Oliver, this is a fairly common side effect of changes in the body among mages: in addition to normal puberty and illness sometimes causing it, he recalls helping a woman through mana disruptions caused by a pregnancy. It was his cousin Shannon.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_382a150e	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_382a150e	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_382a150e
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38464861	type	Profanity Police
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38464861	comment	Profanity Police: Played for Laughs after Oliver and Nanao's aborted first attempt to consummate their relationship: Oliver is appalled by her unladylike description of the event.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38464861	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38464861	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38464861
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Volume 5, Chapter 4. Oliver's easy victory over Darius Grenville with the Fourth Spellblade belied just how dangerous the teachers actually are compared even to Kimberly upperclassmen: Oliver and thirty-two of his comrades prepare an ambush for Enrico Forghieri in the labyrinth, only for him to assault through it and kill eleven of his attackers and get in a nasty Breaking Speech against Oliver before he's finally brought down. Furthermore, we begin to see the true costs of Oliver's revenge to himself: his Unique Protagonist Asset is Cast From Hitpoints and Lifespan, and just acquiring it permanently changed his soul and cost him his ability to be funny, dooming his childhood dream of being a comedian.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38ad0e6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38ad0e6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_38ad0e6a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenager: Reconstructed: the series is pretty straightforward about the fact that most of the cast members, school faculty excepted, are teenagers and young adults, so obviously they're going to be interested in sex to some extent, but mostly treats it as a normal part of growing up without being prurient or titillating about it. Oliver and Chela even give The Talk to the other Sword Roses in volume 4, wherein Chela says that about four Kimberly students out of five will have had their first sexual experience by the time they graduate, and warns them to keep contraception handy at all times.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b27cf16	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b27cf16	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b27cf16
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b99a9e0	comment	The conspirators assume that Demitrio Aristides will be a relatively easy target since he carries no athame at all, so all they have to do is get Oliver into the one-step, one-spell distance to use a spellblade. Not so much: not only is he a Reality Warper via tapping into the Akashic Records, but he's able to wield the Fifth Spellblade with only a wand. He defeats Oliver's Fourth Spellblade and immobilizes the entire hit team. Oliver is only able to turn the tables because Yuri Leik's personality reasserts itself within Demitrio's psyche at a critical moment and starts Fighting from the Inside.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b99a9e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b99a9e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3b99a9e0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Kevin "The Survivor" Walker managed to get lost in the labyrinth, survive for six months (long enough he was declared dead and his funeral held), and finally climb back out little worse for wear. Exactly how he managed to do this has never been explained. Ditto the time he reportedly tried to cook a meal while on the fourth layer and was nearly killed by the reapers that guard the Great Big Library of Everything. Teresa Carste was apparently born in the labyrinth and spent a significant chunk of her childhood living in it: at one point she recalls to Oliver the Amusing Injuries she suffered from eating various creatures and plants. How she came to be down there to begin with, or who her parents were, has yet to be addressed. Implied with Alvin Godfrey: there's an flashback sequence in volume 3 where he used Behavioral Conditioning to immunize himself to Ophelia Salvadori's perfume, via the expedient of casting pain curses on his own genitals to simulate the pain of a good swift kick. Now factor in that Oliver explained in volume 1 that the pain curse can only inflict pain the caster has experienced... That time resident Master Poisoner Tim Linton gassed the dining hall. It's cited in volume 6 as the reason he'd lose if he ran for Student Council President. We do eventually get an explanation in volume 10 and it's a lot less funny than it sounded: it was an attempted mass Murder-Suicide due to him being in a really bad mental state, and Godfrey saved his life despite himself.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3c0a4666	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3c0a4666	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3c0a4666
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3cd3a0f1	type	Femme Fatalons
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3cd3a0f1	comment	Vanessa Aldiss's specialty is weaponized transformation of her body: most commonly of her arms, but her whole body can be modified on the fly to be weapon, defense, or both at the same time. She can even grow mouths on her hands and eat with them, which she does to a Gnostic cultist in the opening scene of volume 2.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3cd3a0f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3cd3a0f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3cd3a0f1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3eae625	type	Absurdly Powerful Student Council
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3eae625	comment	Absurdly Powerful Student Council: The faculty as a rule rarely intervene in student life, so the student council has to fill the gap. They're empowered to mete out discipline for attacking or endangering other students outside of the dueling rules, and are able to initiate curfews in the event of labyrinth incidents—and under Alvin Godfrey's presidency, they very much do: "Encore" shows them punishing Miligan for breaking the curfew in volume 3 by hanging her over a cauldron into which they toss ingredients to torment her with the fumes. They also exercise a lot of soft power over the general student culture: Kimberly used to be even crazier before the Campus Watch rose to power.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3eae625	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3eae625	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3eae625
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Katie's similarities to Hermione Granger are significant, but there are some differences. Hermione was (controversially) roundly mocked for her activism on behalf of the House-Elves, whereas Spellblades portrays Katie's views as completely correct and the people bullying her over her views as wrong; she's just a little naive and inexperienced at first. Katie is also a Nice Girl through and through, lacking the vicious streak that Hermione displays in the later books.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed17fe0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed17fe0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed17fe0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Oliver's no-spells duel with Tullio Rossi in volume 2 (episode 8 of the anime) demonstrates that it really is important to learn the fundamentals of a topic (swordplay in this case), before you try to innovate, and why trying to turn an armed duel into a fistfight against an opponent you know is well-trained is foolhardy. Because Rossi never learned the basics, he doesn't realize that punching with his offhand gives a prepared opponent the opportunity to grab that arm and immobilize him, as Oliver indeed does with a standing armbar: as Oliver explains to Rossi, grappling is more useful at extreme close range than strikes. Even discounting sport fencing where unarmed moves aren't allowed anyway, this is why real-life swordsmen usually either keep both hands on the weapon (if they don't have a shield), or the undefended arm held back out of the way.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed23024	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed23024	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_3ed23024
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_408ba21c	type	Womb Horror
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_408ba21c	comment	Womb Horror: Ophelia's Grand Aria at the climax of volume 3: a Pocket Dimension created out of her own womb that allows her to endlessly birth chimeras by trial and error in pursuit of the "perfect being" once sought by her succubus foremothers, with Ophelia herself becoming part of the level geometry.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_408ba21c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_408ba21c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_408ba21c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_40b1c664	type	The Patriarch
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_40b1c664	comment	Oliver and Shannon's great-grandfather, when he forced the two teenagers to have a child together. He claims that Shannon consented, but, quite apart from the fact that Oliver is under fifteen and The Patriarch has to drug him into compliance, Shannon clearly has no idea what's about to happen and it's entirely possible that even if she did give consent, it was under duress by the head of the family.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_40b1c664	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_40b1c664	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_40b1c664
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts: In volume 4, after the Sword Roses get The Talk from Oliver and Chela, Katie asks Nanao in their dorm room if she's in love with Oliver. Nanao admits she has feelings for him, but much to her chagrin she also hasn't been able to kick her desire for a Duel to the Death with him. The scene is made extra painful by the fact Nanao knows Katie has an unrequited crush on him as well.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_424d15ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_424d15ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_424d15ad
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_433e732f	comment	Only Smart People May Pass: The test to enter the third layer of the labyrinth consists of the Battle of Hell's Armies, where two skeletal legions eternally reenact the ancient Battle of Diama (a Fantasy Conflict Counterpart of the Battle of Zama). The objective is to subvert the historical events so that the losing side instead wins, which requires the mages taking the test to both recognize the battle (Oliver only knows it because Pete had mentioned it offscreen while nerding out) and have enough knowledge of battlefield tactics to figure out how to change history. Though Vanessa Aldiss proves it's also possible to simply brute-force the test: when the seniors reach the battlefield in volume 7, she's singlehandedly wiped out both armies.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_433e732f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_433e732f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_433e732f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_43fe061e	type	Agony Beam
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_43fe061e	comment	Agony Beam: The pain curse, Dolor. It has a Necessary Drawback in that it can only inflict pain the caster has experienced, and it's hardly ever used in combat, but it's still a favorite of mages who wish to Kick the Dog: Sadist Teacher Darius Grenville is notorious for using it on students who stand up to him despite the school having banned teachers from using it on students. Unfortunately for Darius, Oliver has the Ghost Memory of his mother's Rasputinian Death at the conspirators' hands to fall back on when casting it: he only stops when Darius begs for death.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_43fe061e	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_43fe061e	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_43fe061e
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4497346d	type	Love Confessor
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4497346d	comment	Love Confessor: Downplayed in volume 2 (episode 8 of the anime). Oliver confides in his cousins Shannon and Gwyn that he's attracted to Nanao, often finding himself looking at her when they're together, but he doesn't say the "L" word. Gwyn counsels him that the feeling of attraction means something to mages, and to just hold the feelings he can't name in his heart and allow events to happen. Shortly after Oliver and Chela give the other Sword Roses The Talk in volume 4, Katie asks Nanao if she's in love with Oliver. Nanao admits she's deeply attracted to him, but isn't sure if she can call it "love" when she simultaneously wishes for a Duel to the Death with him. Chela to Pete in volume 10: she wonders aloud why he doesn't seem to mind the idea of Oliver and Nanao getting together, taking it for granted that he's in love with Oliver. He replies that, just like her, he wants to keep the group together, and if seeing the man he loves with someone else is what it takes, then so be it. He hasn't given up, though: he tells her he's come to envision the Sword Roses as a potential polycule.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4497346d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4497346d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4497346d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: By the later books, you're gonna need a flowchart, and it's not all good. Oliver has a complicated slow-burn romance with Nanao, and additionally has Katie and Pete crushing on him, plus his romantically ambiguous friendship with Chela (they're ostensibly Like Brother and Sister, but after the Intimate Healing scene in volume 4 it's implied there might be more to it on her end). His cousin Shannon is also overtly affectionate with him (and their families once forced him to father a child with her, though the baby was stillborn). Finally, his follower Teresa Carste also has a one-sided crush on him; he sees her as more of a baby sister, which causes a confrontation between her and Nanao in volume 10. For Nanao's part, Tullio Rossi makes more than one pass at her. More disturbingly, Chela's father Theodore, who brought her to Yelgland, is somewhat prone to referring to her in overly affectionate terms despite a roughly twenty-year difference in age, and viewed finding her as a fulfillment of an oath he made to the late Chloe Halford, whom Nanao reminds many characters of and whom he dated when they were classmates. And then we incorporate the fact that Oliver is secretly Chloe's son. Chloe Halford herself had at least three suitors in her youth: Edgar Groves (whom she eventually settled down with), Theodore (who seems to still see her as The One That Got Away), and Esmeralda (who eventually spearheaded her murder).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4523420b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4523420b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4523420b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4548bae	comment	A lot of magic traits can be inherited, and the mage world customarily places pushing the limits of sorcery above all other concerns. This means that mage aristocrats frequently try to breed more powerful mage children and add new traits to their bloodlines: supporting character Diana Ashbury is explicitly a product of several generations of selective breeding to produce faster and faster broom-riders. Even Kimberly participates to an extent: the school tacitly encourages Teen Pregnancy by explicitly permitting third-years and up to conceive children and providing support to students who become parents. This also leads to Nanao and Pete being approached repeatedly for dates by other students starting in volume 4, since both are Mages Born of Muggles (and thus don't pose any risks of inbreeding) with rare abilities (Nanao's Innocent Color and proficiency with sword arts, Pete's reversiism). Oliver himself comments in his internal monologue when he's forced to admit his feelings for Nanao that he doesn't "want their relationship reduced to reproduction and inheritance", and so declines to specifically answer whether he wants to have children with her.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4548bae	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4548bae	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4548bae
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4565d81d	type	Single-Stroke Battle
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4565d81d	comment	Single-Stroke Battle: Oliver's duel with Darius Grenville. In all but one possible future, it ends with Oliver dead, but Oliver uses the Fourth Spellblade to reach the other future, where he avoids Darius's blade by the skin of his teeth and severs the man's sword hand.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4565d81d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4565d81d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4565d81d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_458c7e61	type	Constructed World
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_458c7e61	comment	Constructed World: The world is fairly transparently a Historical Fantasy version of the Eurasian supercontinent, taking place in an equivalent to the European Union. Azia is Asia and Yamatsukini is Japan circa the Sengoku Period, Yelgland seems to be Britain, and Farnland is probably Finland given Katie's surname Aalto. Other locations mentioned include Ytallia (Italy) and Indus (India).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_458c7e61	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_458c7e61	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_458c7e61
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_48081842	comment	The novels and manga introduce Tullio Rossi, Stacy Cornwallis, and Fay Willock all in the same scene where Rossi proposes a dueling tournament between the first-years. The anime introduces all three of them an episode early: Stacy and Fay appear in an early scene where they walk by the Sword Roses on their way to morning class, while Rossi appears in The Stinger and monologues about how much the Sword Roses annoy him.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_48081842	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_48081842	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_48081842
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_498a6a21	type	Badass Teacher
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_498a6a21	comment	Badass Teacher: One of Kimberly's major purposes is to train the order of Military Mages known as the Gnostic Hunters, who battle Alien Invasions sent by the gods of other worlds and root out their cults. Consequently, every member of the faculty is a badass even by mage standards: several instructors are current or former Gnostic Hunters themselves, and they include among their number the wielders of at least two of the seven spellblades. At the top is Headmistress Esmeralda, the Witch of Kimberly, who is credibly believed to be one of the most powerful mages in recorded history.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_498a6a21	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_498a6a21	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_498a6a21
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4a852458	comment	The incumbents on the student council are a group called the Campus Watch, led by Alvin Godfrey, a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits who gained popularity by actively policing the student body and protecting freshmen from the depredations of rogue upperclassmen such as Cyrus Rivermoore and Ophelia Salvadori. They are opposed by supporters of the former student council, led by Leoncio Echevalria, an aristocrat with traditional-for-mages Social Darwinist views. A significant plot in volumes 6-10 deals with the fact that several senior Watch members including Godfrey are about to Graduate from the Story, turning the election for Student Council President (who gets to freely appoint the rest of the council) into a Proxy War between Godfrey and Echevalria. The Sword Roses take Godfrey's side and some of their class rivals join Echevalria, albeit reluctantly: Joseph Albright only backs the old council because his family would raise hell with him if he didn't, Richard Andrews withdraws his support over their attempts to cheat during the Tournament Arc, and Tullio Rossi openly hates Echevalria and only works with the old council because his teammates Andrews and Albright are. Meanwhile, Echevalria's younger sister Felicia is a friend of Teresa Carste and Dean Travers, who are admirers of the Sword Roses.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4a852458	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4a852458	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4a852458
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4af64043	type	Shapeshifter Struggles
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4af64043	comment	Shapeshifter Struggles: In volume 2, Pete Reston has a strange dream and wakes up to discover his body has become female below the neck. He spends most of the following day irritably snapping at his friends because he has no idea how to deal with this (and because the transformation is causing painful side effects because his body isn't used to it), before Oliver and upperclassman Carlos Whitrow figure out what happened. Oliver explains to Pete that he's a "reversi", i.e. a Sex Shifter, and Carlos invites Pete to join a (heavily queer-coded) campus club for students with gender- and sex-linked magical traits, with Oliver tagging along to keep Pete company.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4af64043	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4af64043	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4af64043
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4b9f810d	type	Great Big Library of Everything
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4b9f810d	comment	The fourth layer, Library Plaza, suddenly takes you back to a sort of civilization: it's a Great Big Library of Everything watched over by the untiring seraphs of the dead god, including the reapers that are also tasked with slaying humans who live to the age of 200. You have to earn access to the stacks on each visit by surviving simulations of historical events recorded in the library.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4b9f810d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4b9f810d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4b9f810d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4bad4a5b	type	Students' Secret Society
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4bad4a5b	comment	Students' Secret Society: The Myth Arc of the series revolves around a conspiracy by a secret society of students at Kimberly Magic Academy to assassinate seven professors to avenge the torturous murder of their former student Chloe Halford in the prologue to volume 1. They are led by main character Oliver Horn himself, who is Halford's secret son, and many of his coconspirators are members of his extended family.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4bad4a5b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4bad4a5b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4bad4a5b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4ccd1c09	type	Gender-Restricted Ability
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4ccd1c09	comment	Gender-Restricted Ability: Downplayed. Female mages are able to use their wombs as an emergency battery of mana, which can give them an edge in Wizard Duels. It's not a decisive edge, though, since magical strength is very much dependent on the individual and grows with age and training: on average, male and female mages' capabilities are about equal.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4ccd1c09	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4ccd1c09	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4ccd1c09
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4de155b8	type	Simplified Spellcasting
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4de155b8	comment	Simplified Spellcasting: "Spatial magic" is a class of quickly castable spells like Oliver's favored "Grave Soil" spell that don't require an incantation and therefore are much easier to use within the "one step, one spell" distance. The Necessary Drawback is that they're much less powerful than conventional spells (the general rule in the series being, the more Latin words in the incantation, the more powerful the spell), but they have significant utility in sword arts and hand-to-hand combat, often being enough to create an opening for an attack.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4de155b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4de155b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4de155b8
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: Discussed when Oliver and Chela give the Sword Roses The Talk: Chela mentions that statistically, about eighty percent of Kimberly students will have had their first sexual experience by the time they graduate. Downplayed in volume 10 when Oliver finally takes Nanao to bed for the first time, after the two had done a lot of soul-searching since she nearly forced herself on him at the end of volume 9. They don't actually have intercourse because Oliver has a PTSD flare-up related to his actual first sexual experience, but they get to third base and Nanao promises him the next morning that, one day hopefully soon, they'll "get the pole in the hole."
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e3dee88	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e3dee88	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e3dee88
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e4f42be	type	Love Confession
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e4f42be	comment	Love Confession: Nanao and Oliver trade confessions in volumes 9 and 10. First, Nanao gets jealous of Oliver's rapprochement with Richard Andrews in the combat league finals, and essentially sexually assaults him the night after: she throws him against a tree for a Forceful Kiss, and after regaining control of her faculties and pulling away, tells him, "My heart lies with you, Oliver. For every moment, sleeping or awake, from now until evermore." Second, Oliver corners her in their base, she thinks he's about to excoriate her for her behavior earlier, but he instead returns her Forceful Kiss and tells her, "You're not the only one who's been restraining yourself!" They spend the night in bed together, and he finally admits the next morning that he's in love with her.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e4f42be	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e4f42be	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e4f42be
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Oliver to Darius Grenville in the epilogue of volume 1 (manga chapter 14, anime episode 6): "On the eighth night of the fourth month of the year 1525, where were you, and what were you doing?" Finally we're introduced to Oliver's true purpose in attending Kimberly, and it's a doozy.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4e7c4536
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4fa68c72	type	Like Parent, Like Spouse
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4fa68c72	comment	Like Parent, Like Spouse: Nanao starts to draw comparisons from various characters who knew the deceased Chloe Halford: they're similarly talented at sword arts and Flying Broomsticks, even bonding to the same Moody Mount due to their similar mana signatures. Oliver and his close relatives are the only ones present who know that Chloe was his mother.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4fa68c72	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4fa68c72	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_4fa68c72
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_500c55cf	type	Series Goal
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_500c55cf	comment	Similarly, seven mages conspired to kill Chloe Halford in the prologue, which took place seven years before the series begins. Oliver's Series Goal is to avenge her by killing them.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_500c55cf	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_500c55cf	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_500c55cf
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_50b05d30	comment	Joseph Albright's family servant in his backstory whom his parents murdered for beating him at chess is not named in the novels. Episode 11 of the anime gives her the name "Emma" in his Troubled Backstory Flashback.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_50b05d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_50b05d30
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_51ac2a10	type	Double Knockout
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_51ac2a10	comment	Volume 9. Nanao is knocked out of the final round of the combat leagues in a Double Knockout, and Oliver defeats Richard Andrews in single combat and they share a Defeat Means Friendship moment. This makes Nanao irrationally jealous, and on their way back to the dorms the next night, she shoves Oliver against a tree and fiercely and possessively kisses him.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_51ac2a10	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_51ac2a10	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_51ac2a10
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_523367da	type	Team-Based Tournament
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_523367da	comment	Team-Based Tournament: The "combat leagues" take up the bulk of the year three books, consisting of teams of three students each (in tiers of second- and third-years, fourth- and fifth-years, and sixth- and seventh-years) competing to qualify for the team battle rounds, wherein the team that wins the most victories in the round-robin format final round is crowned champion. In volume 9, however, Team Valois and Team Cornwallis are forced to withdraw, which leads to the faculty switching to a winner-take-all format for the match between the protagonist Team Horn and Team Andrews. Justified because one of the major purposes of Kimberly Magic Academy is to train an order of Military Mages called the Gnostic Hunters, whose job is to protect the world from Alien Invasions and cults.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_523367da	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_523367da	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_523367da
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_53c9fc92	comment	The flashback sequence in chapter 4 depicts the last time Oliver and his father saw his mother alive. Chloe had discovered that her comrades planned to kill her and went out to fight them to buy her family time to escape to her birth family's estate. The next time they saw her, she had been reduced to the ghostly, disembodied remnants of her soul, which reside within Oliver to this day.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_53c9fc92	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_53c9fc92	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_53c9fc92
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_544d3a44	type	Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_544d3a44	comment	Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction: In volume 1 (episode 5 of the anime adaptation), the class has their first practical class in alchemy, and Oliver notes that the recipe of the day has a lot of hidden pitfalls. He spends a good chunk of time rushing around the classroom doing damage control on his classmates' mistakes: adding an ingredient to slow a reaction after one guy puts in too much bubblegrass, then telling a girl to wash her eyes out with olive oil after she fails to cover her cauldron in time after adding an ingredient. Then Pete's potion starts sparking and smoking, and he has to flip the cauldron upside-down and dive on top of it. His quick thinking impresses Professor Darius Grenville, which gives Oliver an opportunity to get him alone and kill him to avenge his mother.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_544d3a44	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_544d3a44	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_544d3a44
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_54fbf23f	type	Seeking Sanctuary
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_54fbf23f	comment	Seeking Sanctuary: Volume 10 shows how, when Chloe Halford's Gnostic Hunter comrades turned on her, she went out to delay them while her husband Edgar Groves and their son Oliver fled through the night to take refuge with her politically powerful birth family. It also shows how the Sherwood clan patriarch turned this into a case of "out of the frying, into the fire": he dominated Edgar, forcing him to stand by and watch as he subjected Oliver to a horrible Trauma Conga Line, the crowning moment of which was when he drugged him into raping his cousin Shannon in hopes of breeding Chloe's Superpowerful Genetics back into the main family.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_54fbf23f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_54fbf23f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_54fbf23f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5501256b	comment	Kevin "The Survivor" Walker managed to get lost in the labyrinth, survive for six months (long enough he was declared dead and his funeral held), and finally climb back out little worse for wear. Exactly how he managed to do this has never been explained. Ditto the time he reportedly tried to cook a meal while on the fourth layer and was nearly killed by the reapers that guard the Great Big Library of Everything.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5501256b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5501256b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5501256b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_552c2978	type	School Rivalry
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_552c2978	comment	School Rivalry: Kimberly Magic Academy has a rivalry with the nearby Featherston Sorcery School. The dispute is primarily political: Kimberly is essentially the Thug Dojo with its Training from Hell curriculum and disregard for the rights of demihumans (though pro-rights students are making progress in recent years), and Featherston students often try to stop Kimberly from culling demihuman settlements and using them in experiments—and usually get beaten up for their trouble, since their school focuses much less heavily on combat training. Case in point: in volume 4, a group of Featherston second- and third-years pick a fight with the Sword Roses in a restaurant in the town of Galatea located between them, which the Sword Roses easily win, to the approval of upperclassmen looking on.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_552c2978	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_552c2978	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_552c2978
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_55d919f7	type	Lovecraft Lite
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_55d919f7	comment	Lovecraft Lite: The backdrop of the series has "our" world suffering repeated Alien Invasions from other worlds of The Multiverse, called "tÃrs", that follow their own natural laws and have their own gods. Not only do they make attacks that can transform whole regions to follow their own Alien Geometries, they also send agents to infiltrate humanity and convert disaffected individuals into their worshipers, called Gnostics by mages. That said, Gnostic cults are as much a function of the oppressiveness of the mage world as anything else: Muggles and demihumans in particular often become Gnostics as a reaction to the tyranny of The Magocracy, because the Gnostics are the only ones offering them hope for an alternative to being second-class citizens or slaves ground under mages' boot heels.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_55d919f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_55d919f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_55d919f7
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: The translator renders an insult leveled at Miligan by her defeated opponent Deschamps in volume 10 as "What a cunt." (The original Japanese wording was ã�‚ã�°ã�šã‚Œã�Šã‚“ã�ª abazure onna, literally "tiger-woman"—roughly meaning "minx" or "tease" in context.)
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56240281	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56240281	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56240281
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c79e38	type	Power Dyes Your Hair
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c79e38	comment	Power Dyes Your Hair: Nanao has a trait called "innocent color" which causes her normally black hair to turn white when she draws magical power. Oliver's narration explains that it only happens in mages with exceptional magical circulation and a crystalline hair structure that allows uninterrupted flow of magical particles.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c79e38	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c79e38	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c79e38
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c7bece	type	Walking Ossuary
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c7bece	comment	Walking Ossuary: In volume 1, Oliver, Pete, Chela, and Nanao get caught in a battle between two upperclassmen, the chimera breeder Ophelia Salvadori and the skeletal golem-maker Cyrus Rivermoore. As their creations duke it out, Ophelia remarks to Cyrus that the spinal column on his bone creature is new and mentions him pillaging monster corpses deeper in the labyrinth, implying that it's a composite skeleton. Later on, Cyrus' new project involves stealing one bone at a time from other students' living bodies, apparently planning to create a composite human skeleton. He's creating an artificial body for an undead woman his family has kept as a familiar for centuries.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c7bece	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c7bece	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_56c7bece
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Union seems to be a European Union equivalent, and Azia is obviously Asia.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_57d43e40	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_57d43e40	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_57d43e40
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Justified: as is explained during the first session of the "sword arts" class, within a certain range called the "one step, one spell" distance, a physical weapon can strike a mage faster than any mage can cast a spell. Mages adopted sword training (referring to swords as "athame") four hundred years ago after a prominent archmage was killed in a duel by a Muggle swordsman this way, using their swords as both sidearms and magic foci.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58204b95	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58204b95	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58204b95
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_582564f5	type	The Gadfly
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_582564f5	comment	The Gadfly: Pete and Guy never seem to get enough of razzing Oliver over his ability to attract the ladies without even trying and his obvious discomfiture about it. They even frequently egg Nanao, Katie, and Chela on. Theodore McFarlane gets a kick out of poking his nose into things, while floating up in the air upside-down so that nobody notices him until it's funniest. He even trolls Esmeralda with that in volume 2.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_582564f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_582564f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_582564f5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58c32292	type	Catchphrase Interruptus
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58c32292	comment	Catchphrase Interruptus: When the conspiracy goes to assassinate Demitrio Aristides, Oliver starts his customary Pre-Mortem One-Liner, "The night of April 8th, 1525, of the Great Calendar. Where were you, and what were you doing?" only for Demitrio to cut him off before he gets any further than mentioning the year, because he's already deduced from the two previous murdered teachers that this is about Chloe Halford's murder.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58c32292	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58c32292	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_58c32292
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5924454b	type	Cerebus Call-Back
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5924454b	comment	That gag in volume 6 about Tim Linton once gassing the Fellowship? Not so funny when we're told the context: it was basically an attempted school shooting brought on by Tim being in a really bad headspace due to his Dark and Troubled Past, and Alvin Godfrey saved his life from the attempted Murder-Suicide.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5924454b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5924454b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5924454b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Demitrio Aristides characterizes the ancient alliance of humans and demihumans that slew the god of this world as little more than a team-up against a common enemy, though he allows that the now-extinct progenitor demihumans likely played an outsize role in getting the different factions to work together. Vanessa Aldiss is stationed at the entrance to the third layer as the final obstacle for the upperclassmen. This prompts the entire cadre of sixth- and seventh-year entrants to team up just to survive, including political archrivals Alvin Godfrey and Leoncio Echevalria—who end up scoring actual, if minor, wounds against her and winning.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5989e3b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5989e3b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5989e3b6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The manga adaptation of the first volume's story skips a few scenes in the Sword Roses' investigation of the incident at the entrance ceremony to speed things along, among them the group interrogating the student who made Katie run towards the parade of magical creatures, and trying to trade for information with the talking plants by the entrance by making them laugh. It also cuts most of the first alchemy class with Darius Grenville.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a40d6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a40d6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a40d6a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a62c428	type	Exaggerated
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a62c428	comment	Exaggerated with Ophelia Salvadori, who was essentially turned into a Breeding Slave for her mother's eugenics experiments the moment she hit puberty and was forced to bear multiple children before the age of fifteen, when she was able to escape to Kimberly Magic Academy.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a62c428	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a62c428	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5a62c428
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5cbb67eb	type	Pocket Dimension
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5cbb67eb	comment	Pocket Dimension: The natural laws of the world were set by its now-deceased god. The purpose of a "Grand Aria", an extremely difficult ritual magic developed in various forms by experienced mages, is to craft a pocket universe where those laws are altered.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5cbb67eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5cbb67eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5cbb67eb
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: "What are we as a society doing to ourselves and our children?" The core conceit of being "consumed by the spell", more than just being an interesting way to die, is a metaphorical critique of self-destructive obsession. The mage world as a whole is obsessed with getting ahead and pushing the envelope of what magic is capable of, regardless of the harm done to humanity and the world, and lionize those among them who work themselves into an early grave. And rather than leaving a better world for their children, mages abuse their desire to please their parents to turn them into living tools for their own ambitions, while the world as a whole gets harder and harder to live in. It comes off very much as an allegorical critique of the modern world and especially Japan's particular flavor of capitalism, where karoshi, literally "death from overwork", has become a serious public health problem.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ce7dbb9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ce7dbb9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ce7dbb9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The series frequently jumps several months between volumes since it's meant to follow the Sword Roses through the entire seven-year curriculum of Kimberly. About four months pass between volumes 1 and 2, and volume 3 skips to the beginning of the next school year.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcb9ad1	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcb9ad1	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcb9ad1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcedca	comment	Nanao's disregard for portion sizes.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcedca	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcedca	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5fcedca
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ff9310b	type	Painful Transformation
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ff9310b	comment	Painful Transformation: Pete Reston begins suffering painful mana disruptions upon becoming a Sex Shifter. According to main character Oliver, this is a fairly common side effect of changes in the body among mages: in addition to normal puberty and illness sometimes causing it, he recalls helping a woman through mana disruptions caused by a pregnancy. It was his cousin Shannon. Fay Willock is a half-werewolf, and taking his wolf form puts him in constant severe pain. He's eventually able to fight through it and master Voluntary Shapeshifting out of sheer determination to stay with his now-lover Stacy Cornwallis.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ff9310b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ff9310b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_5ff9310b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Discussed and justified in volume 8. Past mage civilizations made heavy use of necromancy for manual labor. The problem is, The Undead need to be "consoled" periodically, or else bad things happen: the resulting "maelstroms" are compared to entire towns becoming consumed by the spell all at once. A series of such disasters in the past led to the practice mostly falling out of favor and getting replaced with demihuman slavery.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60414102	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60414102	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60414102
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60b21fa3	comment	Nanao Hibiya's birthday is the first day of the seventh month. This is another example of the significance of 7 to Nanao (and the series): her name is a version of the number seven, and she created the Seventh Spellblade.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60b21fa3	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60b21fa3	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_60b21fa3
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6197e412	type	Succubus
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6197e412	comment	Ophelia Salvadori in volume 2 (episode 8 of the anime). For all that she's a succubus-blooded Serial Rapist, she's still ultimately human and gets lonely living a solitary life in the labyrinth. In volume 2 (anime episode 8), Oliver runs into her when she's in a good mood and they're able to have a civil conversation: it comes out that among other things she has a sweet tooth and sometimes still comes up to the cafeteria for the pumpkin pie. She's acquainted with Shannon Sherwood for much the same reason, probably helped by their Commonality Connection of both having been forced to bear a child for familial obligations. She also subtly tries to warn Oliver away from the labyrinth for the next while, foreshadowing her planned Grand Aria that causes her to be consumed by the spell.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6197e412	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6197e412	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6197e412
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6205f4e5	type	Courtly Love
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6205f4e5	comment	In volume 9, Stacy Cornwallis and Fay Willock, formerly "master and knight", have actively fallen into a sort of Courtly Love, motivating them to join the combat leagues in hopes of forcing her family to allow them to be a couple. Despite losing in the finals, Theodore is impressed enough he promises to make her family accept the relationship.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6205f4e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6205f4e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6205f4e5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6369571f	type	Never the Selves Shall Meet
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6369571f	comment	Never the Selves Shall Meet: Exploited. A mage once tried to create a duplicate of himself, which caused a Reality-Breaking Paradox that disintegrated him along with everything for several miles around. Experiments on this effect led to the invention of the Second Spellblade, "Creumbra, the self-racing shadow".
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6369571f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6369571f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6369571f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_639aa0cd	type	Did You Just Have Sex?
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_639aa0cd	comment	Did You Just Have Sex?: Katie, much to her chagrin, figures out almost immediately in volume 10 that Oliver and Nanao have finally slept together (unbeknownst to her, more literally than figuratively: they only actually got to third base this time). Guy has to persuade her that It's Okay to Cry while giving her a Cooldown Hug.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_639aa0cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_639aa0cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_639aa0cd
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_65efc6dc	comment	Appeal to Force: In volume 2 (episode 11 of the anime), Joseph Albright refuses to accept his defeat by Oliver in a fair Wizard Duel,note He has a Freudian Excuse: the last time he lost to someone, at chess, his father tortured him for most of a day and murdered his opponent's entire family. and conjures up a swarm of giant bees to force everyone present to let him wipe the defeat from their memories so he can tell people he won. The protagonists are having none of that, and come up with a plan to destroy the bees so that Nanao can take Albright down in single combat.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_65efc6dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_65efc6dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_65efc6dc
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_66fd8a51	type	Accidental Discovery
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_66fd8a51	comment	Accidental Discovery: The underlying principle of the Second Spellblade, "Creumbra, the self-racing shadow", was discovered by accident when a mage tried to create a DoppelgÃ¤nger of himself and caused a Reality-Breaking Paradox that blew up both him and everything for several miles around. Other mages copied his research and managed to reproduce the effect at a controllable level, resulting in an Unblockable Attack that disintegrates the opponent.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_66fd8a51	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_66fd8a51	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_66fd8a51
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: Oliver catches Nanao bathing outside, stripped to the waist (in full view of the boys' dorm, no less). The novel art uses a Boobs-and-Butt Pose camera angle to hide everything but some sideboob; Oliver is more focused on her collection of battle scars than her assets. In the manga, we get a frontal view but her nipples are whited out in one panel and given Barbie Doll Anatomy in the second. In the anime, our view is first conveniently blocked by Oliver's hand while he tries to explain how what she's doing is inappropriate, then when we get a closer look she puts her forearm across her chest.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68069489	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68069489	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68069489
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68d326ff	type	Express Delivery
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68d326ff	comment	Express Delivery: It's suggested in the early volumes and then confirmed in volume 10 that mage gestation is much shorter than that of Muggles. This is highlighted by the fact that Oliver's cousins Gwyn and Shannon Sherwood are in the same year at Kimberly but aren't twins (a tweet by the author states Gwyn is only four months older than his sister).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68d326ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68d326ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_68d326ff
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Played for Laughs. There's actually a significant degree of In-Universe Fandom Rivalry over the three main schools of Sword Arts, and Oliver and Chela get into a spirited argument in volume 2 over whether Pete should switch to the Rizett Style (Chela) or stick with Lanoff (Oliver). Nanao offers to teach him instead but is shouted down, and Guy suggests they instead try collaborating on teaching him fundamental elements of tactics that are common to all styles. Self-parodied in one of the anime omakes, where Katie walks in on Oliver and Chela arguing again and thinks they've restarted the sword arts argument from earlier. Nope, this time they're debating the relative merits of various breakfast breads.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6b35bdff	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6b35bdff	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6b35bdff
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c22a57b	type	Jumping on a Grenade
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c22a57b	comment	Jumping on a Grenade: Pete makes a mistake in the first practical alchemy class and his potion starts a chain reaction. Oliver flips the cauldron upside-down and dives on top of it right before it explodes to keep anyone in the class from getting injured, coming away with some minor burns.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c22a57b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c22a57b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c22a57b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: While the magic system of the series is not explained in great detail, there are some things we know and that are consistent throughout: Most spells require incantations consisting of Latin words, and the longer the incantation, the more powerful the spell but the harder it is to cast (and therefore the more vulnerable a mage is to attack while casting). It's normally impossible for a first-year student to "double-cast" (cast a spell with a two-word incantation), though Chela can pull it off in elf form. These escalate up to reality-warping "Grand Arias", which require incantations minutes long. Conversely, certain very weak spells, called "spatial magic", can be cast nonverbally, but you have to be creative to use them effectively. Mages' powers are also reliant on elemental affinities and on their "etheric body", which appears to be an extension of their souls. An injury to the etheric body can dramatically weaken a mage even if there's no sign of physical injury. Mages require some external focus to cast, which can be either a wooden wand or an athame (sword). Athames also double as a sidearm for most mages because, within a radius known as the "one-step, one-spell distance", no mage can cast faster than an opponent can strike them with a weapon. Spells can be counterspelled if you synchronize to their elemental cores or intercept them with an oppositional element. Nanao can do this instinctively with just her sword, which becomes known as the "Two-Handed Flow Cut" after a similar technique from the Koutz Style.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c3d1777	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c3d1777	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c3d1777
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c87dbef	type	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c87dbef	comment	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: Discussed in volume 4. Main character Oliver Horn had several run-ins with the Perfume of part-succubus Ophelia Salvadori in the preceding volumes, and getting glomped by his drunken Love Interest Nanao Hibiya in a bar forces him to run to the bathroom with a Raging Stiffie. Their friend Chela McFarlane follows him, having realized the problem, and reminds him that if he's still feeling the effects of Salvadori's Perfume after this long, he's going to have to release the pressure with somebody other than himself. She accomplishes this with what amounts to a magic-assisted handjob through their clothes, and Oliver does feel better after.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c87dbef	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c87dbef	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6c87dbef
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d4dcb35	type	Last Moment Together
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d4dcb35	comment	Last Moment Together: Volume 3 (episode 15 of the anime) closes with Ophelia Salvadori and Carlos Whitrow mutually consumed by the spell. They fade away into light, Together in Death, while Carlos's best friend and Ophelia's estranged Love Interest Alvin Godfrey looks on and bids them goodbye. Volume 10: The flashback sequence in chapter 4 depicts the last time Oliver and his father saw his mother alive. Chloe had discovered that her comrades planned to kill her and went out to fight them to buy her family time to escape to her birth family's estate. The next time they saw her, she had been reduced to the ghostly, disembodied remnants of her soul, which reside within Oliver to this day. Second, between Oliver and Yuri Leik, Oliver's teammate during the Tournament Arc and a Soul Fragment of Professor Demitrio Aristides whom Oliver has just mortally wounded with Yuri's assistance. As a gesture of recompense for his role in the murder of Oliver's mother, Demitrio permits Yuri to take control of their body so that he and Oliver can say their farewells.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d4dcb35	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d4dcb35	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d4dcb35
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d740dff	type	Enforced Trope
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d740dff	comment	The anime cuts several scenes short and moves others around compared to the book: Garland's explanation of spellblades is moved to episode 3, and the scene where he practice-duels Nanao and the conversation between her and Oliver over the nature of her feelings for him are dropped. This gives it somewhat choppy pacing for the first few episodes. This is partly because the novels are not paced in a way that easily lends them to the usual length of an anime season: the Year One books are essentially a Two-Part Trilogy, with volume 1 being a standalone story and volume 2 ending on a cliffhanger that leads directly into volume 3. Even with the season running for an unusual fifteen episodes, a fair amount of material is left out.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d740dff	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d740dff	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6d740dff
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: In the anime: Oliver's voice actor Atsushi Tamaru previously voiced another Master Swordsman protagonist of a Wizarding School Light Novel series who walks in on a partially clothed Love Interest in the first episode, namely Ayato Amagiri from The Asterisk War. And just like in his previous series, he and his Love Interest duel shortly after meeting only to have it stopped by a third party (albeit for very different reasons this time). As an extra layer to this, Ai Kakuma, who voiced Ayato's Love Interest Julis von Riessfeld, instead plays Vera Miligan, who is not only the Starter Villain but also makes a pass at him in the novel (though the Tamer and Chaster anime left this line out). Satoshi Hino provides the voice of Alvin "Purgatory" Godfrey, who is famed for his abilities with fire powers. "Purgatory" is a translation of "Rengoku" in Japanese. Only a couple years earlier, Hino voiced KyÅ�jurÅ� Rengoku in the anime of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, who likewise has fire-related elemental powers. Enrico Forghieri's voice actor Hōchū Ōtsuka looks almost exactly like Enrico, except for having a bit more hair.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6ec4232f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6ec4232f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_6ec4232f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7041e520	type	Super Breeding Program
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7041e520	comment	Super Breeding Program: A lot of magic traits can be inherited, and the mage world customarily places pushing the limits of sorcery above all other concerns. This means that mage aristocrats frequently try to breed more powerful mage children and add new traits to their bloodlines: supporting character Diana Ashbury is explicitly a product of several generations of selective breeding to produce faster and faster broom-riders. Even Kimberly participates to an extent: the school tacitly encourages Teen Pregnancy by explicitly permitting third-years and up to conceive children and providing support to students who become parents. This also leads to Nanao and Pete being approached repeatedly for dates by other students starting in volume 4, since both are Mages Born of Muggles (and thus don't pose any risks of inbreeding) with rare abilities (Nanao's Innocent Color and proficiency with sword arts, Pete's reversiism). Oliver himself comments in his internal monologue when he's forced to admit his feelings for Nanao that he doesn't "want their relationship reduced to reproduction and inheritance", and so declines to specifically answer whether he wants to have children with her. In volume 3, Miligan describes how the succubi, Ophelia Salvadori's maternal ancestors, had the ability to mix donor essences in their wombs, and used it with the goal of creating a "perfect being". Pure succubi are extinct nowadays, but Ophelia's chimera research is an extension of this project, and the male students she's kidnapped are the fuel for it.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7041e520	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7041e520	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7041e520
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_70489c17	type	Superman Stays Out of Gotham
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_70489c17	comment	Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Downplayed in volume 3 (episode 12 of the anime). Oliver goes to his cousins for help when his friend Pete Reston is kidnapped by Ophelia Salvadori. The Sherwoods tell him they're joining the student council's posse hunting Ophelia, but flatly refuse to mobilize their comrades for him since it would risk their exposure: the group is reserved for Oliver's secret Series Goal alone. However, Teresa Carste ignores the Sherwoods' orders and goes to help Oliver on her own.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_70489c17	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_70489c17	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_70489c17
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: Floating beings garbed in the classic black cloak and Sinister Scythe are introduced in volume 8 as the enforcers of the dead god's laws against resurrection and living longer than 200 years. If you reach your 200th birthday, a reaper comes to kill you every night, and if by some miracle you actually defeat it,note Oliver, Nanao, Yuri, Tim Linton, and the Sherwood siblings used every trick in the book and were barely able to Hold the Line an additional reaper comes for every extra fifty years you've lived. It turns out though, they don't feel any need to deliver the killing blow themselves: when Cyrus fatally stabs the resurrected Fau, the reaper that came for her immediately vanishes into thin air without even waiting for her to finish dying.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7142b38a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7142b38a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7142b38a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_71748a39	comment	Joseph Albright had a non-magical childhood friend, a serving girl (named Emma in the anime) who liked to play chess with him. After she managed to defeat him, his parents tortured him for most of a day for losing, and murdered Emma and her entire family.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_71748a39	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_71748a39	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_71748a39
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_722b3319	comment	Tim Linton's birthday is 2/14, i.e. Valentine's Day, which is deeply funny given he's a Camp Gay Wholesome Crossdresser with an unrequited crush on his senior Alvin Godfrey.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_722b3319	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_722b3319	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_722b3319
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_723606c4	type	Adaptational Early Appearance
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_723606c4	comment	Adaptational Early Appearance: In the novel (and manga), Luther Garland and Richard Andrews didn't appear until the first day of class after orientation. The anime adaptation gives them both Early Bird Cameos in the pilot episode (Garland briefly introduces Headmistress Esmeralda during orientation, while Andrews appears in a couple of scenes but has no lines), which rolls credits early in the morning before class (the first scene of the novel's second chapter). In the novel, Teresa Carste wasn't introduced until the epilogue of the first volume (chapter 15 of the manga). The anime adds several scenes in the first five episodes where she covertly meets with Oliver on the dormitory quad, as well as having her send an anonymous tip to the Campus Watch to get Godfrey and Whitrow to respond to Oliver and Nanao's raid on Miligan's laboratory. The novels and manga introduce Tullio Rossi, Stacy Cornwallis, and Fay Willock all in the same scene where Rossi proposes a dueling tournament between the first-years. The anime introduces all three of them an episode early: Stacy and Fay appear in an early scene where they walk by the Sword Roses on their way to morning class, while Rossi appears in The Stinger and monologues about how much the Sword Roses annoy him.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_723606c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_723606c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_723606c4
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: The election for Student Council President that begins in volume 6 leads to Leoncio Echevalria's faction, which lost to the Campus Watch the year before the series begins, making several attempts to cheat in order to make the opposing Campus Watch candidate Vera Miligan look weaker, since mages tend to believe in Might Makes Right. These backfire. By volume 6, the Sword Roses have become minor celebrities in the student body and are known to be supporting Miligan. During Nanao's broomsports match against Diana Ashbury's team, a supporter of the old council shines a light in her eyes to throw off her aim during her attack run against Diana, but is caught, embarrassing Echevalria. In volume 8, the old council tries to interfere with the Campus Watch's mission to recover President Godfrey's sternum after it was stolen by Cyrus Rivermoore in the middle of a Tournament Arc, depowering him when he has matches scheduled. Richard Andrews and his teammates initially work with the old council, bringing them into conflict with the Sword Roses, but after old council member Khiirgi Albschuch is defeated by Campus Watch Number Two Lesedi Ingwe, Andrews calls the old council out for trying to cheat and quits the field, saying that if they want the students' support, they need to earn it fairly.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_72d30083	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_72d30083	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_72d30083
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The final chapter of volume 10 revisits several previous Backstory scenes, mainly from the prologue and Oliver's childhood memories, through the Framing Device of Demitrio Aristides reading his mind during their battle. We see the entirety of Chloe's torture at the hands of her killers (including the revelation that Esmeralda is part-vampire), and we learn that the Sherwood clan leadership was just as rotten as most of the other mage families we've seen: the woman Oliver had healed through pregnancy was Shannon Sherwood and he was involuntarily the father, and we learn that the clan head didn't care whether Oliver lived or died, only if he could make a breakthrough with the family's research into Merger of Souls.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7374ab13	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7374ab13	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7374ab13
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The neckties and inside lining of Kimberly student uniforms are color-coded to identify the student's grade year: first-year students wear red, second-years wear green, third-years wear orange, fourth-years wear magenta, fifth-years wear purple, sixth-years wear black, and seventh-years wear teal. Oliver and his co-conspirators also wear all black when making their moves.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_740f59b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_740f59b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_740f59b4
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Enjoy not the sword of vengeance, but the sword of mutual love." A key philosophical tenet of Nanao's family sword style, it instructs its adherents to seek fulfillment and joy in a Duel to the Death with an opponent one accepts and admires, rather than wielding the sword in anger. It's quite important enough to Nanao's Character Development, but it takes on an additional meaning given that Oliver, the very person she finds most fits this statement for her, came to Kimberly to avenge the murder of his mother against seven faculty members—which is likely to end in his own death either at his enemies' hands or because his Unique Protagonist Asset is Cast from Lifespan. His last remarks in volume 1 are to recall Nanao speaking this line, and comment that "I will test the limits of this philosophy."
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7464705c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7464705c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7464705c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs. There's actually a significant degree of In-Universe Fandom Rivalry over the three main schools of Sword Arts, and Oliver and Chela get into a spirited argument in volume 2 over whether Pete should switch to the Rizett Style (Chela) or stick with Lanoff (Oliver). Nanao offers to teach him instead but is shouted down, and Guy suggests they instead try collaborating on teaching him fundamental elements of tactics that are common to all styles.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_762b9223	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_762b9223	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_762b9223
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77468805	comment	The progenitor demihumans from the age of the world's long-dead god are the forerunners of all modern demihuman races. Now extinct, they're said to have been very similar to the god, with a limited sense of self that allowed them to access a portion of its power through the Akashic Records, an art that Demitrio Aristides rediscovered. It's also believed that they were the ones who unified the races of the world to rise up and Kill the God.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77468805	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77468805	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77468805
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_778b1d91	type	Unblockable Attack
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_778b1d91	comment	Unblockable Attack: The eponymous "Spellblades" are a set of (initially) six offensive techniques merging magic and sword arts, described in an epigraph to volume 1 as "A strike that can be neither dodged nor blocked, thereby guaranteeing death. Fulfill these conditions within the one-step, one-spell distance, and you have what is called a 'spellblade.'" The identities of their wielders are traditionally kept as closely guarded secrets, but four have been identified so far in the series. The Second Spellblade, "Creumbra, the self-racing shadow", which exploits the explosive consequences of a mage's failed experiment in magically duplicating himself to disintegrate the opponent. Used by Theodore McFarlane in volume 4 to slay an unidentified man attacking mages with a knife. The Fourth Spellblade, "Angustavia, the thread that crosses the abyss", which explores possible futures to find one where the wielder succeeds in striking down their opponent. Previously learned by Chloe Halford, her son Oliver is able to use it in extremis by drawing on his mother's Ghost Memory from her soul contained within him. He uses it in a one-cut duel with Darius Grenville, and as a Finishing Move against Enrico Forghieri. Though in volume 10, we learn that Oliver in fact uses a slight variation on this Spellblade: unlike his mother's original version, he doesn't pick the most desirable outcome, but rather the one that causes him to live to suffer the most—a consequence of his past Trauma Conga Line causing a subconscious conviction that he's destined to never be happy again. The Fifth Spellblade, " "Papiliosomnia, the dream of a butterfly that never wakes up again", is a Mind Control technique that attacks the target's sense of self, causing them to become unable to tell the difference between themselves and the wielder, and either not resist a follow-up strike or even kill themselves. Demitrio Aristides wields this one, and uses it to Counter Spell Oliver's Fourth: Oliver is unable to pick a desirable future and only narrowly escapes the follow-through. The second time, his friend Yuri Leik, a Soul Fragment of Demitrio, reasserts himself over his creator to tell Oliver which one to pick, knowing it will mean he dies along with Demitrio. The currently unnamed Seventh Spellblade, with which the wielder uses sheer force of will to simply cut everything between themselves and their target, even the space and time between them. Invented by Nanao in her and Oliver's fight with Vera Miligan, in order to defeat the basilisk eye on Miligan's left hand when she's out of range of a conventional strike. Nanao herself doesn't know how she did it and is unable to duplicate it.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_778b1d91	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_778b1d91	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_778b1d91
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Stacy Cornwallis and Fay Willock were apparently present for the garuda incident in volume 1 but weren't seen. We are humorously informed at their introduction in volume 2 that they spent the whole time hiding while Oliver, Nanao, and Richard were fighting it.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77b03c0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77b03c0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77b03c0a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77d826c7	comment	Frances Gilchrist is similar to Minerva McGonagall, as a stern no-nonsense elder teacher who teaches advanced magic and is personally loyal to the headmaster. However, while McGonagall's stern attitude belies a warmer side that cares for her students and she's definitely a fighter for good, Gilchrist is part of the conspiracy that murdered Oliver's mother.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77d826c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77d826c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77d826c7
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: Exaggerated in volume 4. Nanao is unhorsed during her first senior-level broomsports match and is caught before she hits the ground by Oliver, who starts frantically checking to make sure she wasn't hurt. Much to his chagrin, their amused teammates start jokingly calling her his wife.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78410584	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78410584	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78410584
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78540917	comment	Oliver has a complicated slow-burn romance with Nanao, and additionally has Katie and Pete crushing on him, plus his romantically ambiguous friendship with Chela (they're ostensibly Like Brother and Sister, but after the Intimate Healing scene in volume 4 it's implied there might be more to it on her end). His cousin Shannon is also overtly affectionate with him (and their families once forced him to father a child with her, though the baby was stillborn). Finally, his follower Teresa Carste also has a one-sided crush on him; he sees her as more of a baby sister, which causes a confrontation between her and Nanao in volume 10.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78540917	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78540917	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78540917
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78c895c8	comment	Teresa Carste was apparently born in the labyrinth and spent a significant chunk of her childhood living in it: at one point she recalls to Oliver the Amusing Injuries she suffered from eating various creatures and plants. How she came to be down there to begin with, or who her parents were, has yet to be addressed.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78c895c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78c895c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_78c895c8
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7919a45b	comment	In the epilogue of volume 1, Oliver faces Professor Darius Grenville, one of his mother's murderers, in a Duel to the Death, which Oliver wins in a Single-Stroke Battle by using the Fourth Spellblade to cut Darius's hand off.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7919a45b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7919a45b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7919a45b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: Defied by Pete at the start of volume 7. He intervenes in a fight between four newly admitted first-year students, initially to instruct them on Kimberly Magic Academy rules on dueling—mainly, have an upperclassman present to referee and heal everyone up after. When the winner tells him "I don't remember giving you permission to heal anyone" and that he plans to use the losers to practice his pain spells, Pete administers a Curb-Stomp Battle to teach him that the dueling rules are not optional.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7ab81664	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7ab81664	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7ab81664
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b60cf	type	Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b60cf	comment	Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: In volume 2, Pete Reston turns out to have a magical trait called Reversi that causes him to switch his biological sex overnight. He still identifies as male for the moment, but alludes to having experienced possible dysphoric episodes. The Kimberly Wizarding School turns out to have a student club for mages with gender- and sex-linked magic, which non-binary upperclassman Carlos Whitrow invites Pete to join.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b60cf	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b60cf	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b60cf
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b9a87c	type	Fire Stolen from the Gods
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b9a87c	comment	Fire Stolen from the Gods: According to Demetrio Aristedes in volume 5, fifty thousand years ago, an alliance of humans and demihumans slew this world's god and took its authority for their own, which is what we now call "magic".
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b9a87c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b9a87c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7b9a87c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7eaf99d	type	Malevolent Architecture
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7eaf99d	comment	Malevolent Architecture: Kimberly is built atop of an ancient labyrinth that has a tendency to encroach upon the school buildings after nightfall: Oliver, Pete, and Michela return to a classroom to retrieve a forgotten textbook only to discover when they try to leave that the door now opens into the upper levels of the labyrinth. The last chapter of volume 9 depicts a "migration" from the tÃr Uranischegar, "the Regimented Heaven", which consists of a trio of stone columns that emerge from a portal and begin leveling the ground around them to be featurelessly smooth and white (before they're destroyed by two teachers).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7eaf99d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7eaf99d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_7eaf99d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Volume 4 has no significantly high stakes; the most that happens in it is exploration of the relationships between the Sword Roses and Nanao's broomsports matches. It's positioned between the very heavy volumes 3 and 5, involving respectively the Sword Roses going into the labyrinth to rescue Pete from Ophelia Salvadori after she's consumed by the spell and Oliver and his co-conspirators plotting to murder Professor Forghieri and suffering grievous losses in the attack. Volume 6 is also somewhat lighter fare than either volume 5 or 7. While it sets up the brewing clash over the elections for Student Council President and ends with the deaths of Diana Ashbury and Clifton Morgan, compared to the aforementioned end of volume 5 it's almost relaxing, focusing again on the relationships between the Sword Roses and particularly Nanao and Oliver having fun at her broomsports tournament. Volume 7 is much more action-heavy with the school combat leagues, ending in a climactic battle between the seniors and Vanessa Aldiss. Then Cyrus Rivermoore steals Godfrey's breastbone out of him, roll credits. Volume 11 is largely a Vacation Episode that has the Sword Roses going on an international road trip over winter break. It comes after a four-volume Tournament Arc and intervening mayhem caused by Cyrus Rivermoore, the election for Student Council President, Oliver and Nanao finally becoming a couple and trying to have sex for the first time, and the assassination of Demitrio Aristides, which features our first look at a fight between two Spellblade wielders. Episode 7 of the anime, "Reversi", comes on the heels of the Wham Episode that is "Arise", which concluded the adaptation of volume 1. We go from seeing Nanao invent the Seventh Spellblade and The Reveal of Oliver's Series Goal with the brutal murder of Darius Grenville, to Nanao riding a Flying Broomstick and Pete turning into a girl.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_80a247a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_80a247a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_80a247a9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_822ff0d7	type	Relative Error
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_822ff0d7	comment	Relative Error: Katie, who has a crush on Oliver, is somewhat put-out when he's affectionately kissed on the cheek by a female upperclassman. Oliver identifies her as his cousin Shannon, and reminds her that he'd previously told The Team how she and her brother took him in after his mother died.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_822ff0d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_822ff0d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_822ff0d7
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_834420aa	comment	BFS: Nanao's katana, at least by Union standards: at first glance Oliver considers it way too large to make a good athame, which are typically one-handed swords between one and two feet in length (Oliver's resembles a messer). Nanao quickly proves him wrong: while she's inexperienced with magic, she's a former samurai Child Soldier who was plucked from a Yamatsukuni battlefield where she had been fighting a Last Stand as the rearguard of a defeated army, even killing the son-in-law of the enemy general in a suicide charge.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_834420aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_834420aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_834420aa
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: At the end of the first volume, we learn that Oliver enrolled in Kimberly to kill the teachers who killed his mother, which was shown in the prologue.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_83fb6177	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_83fb6177	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_83fb6177
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_844b6779	type	Super Mode
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_844b6779	comment	Particular attention is called to half-elves. Normally they take strongly after one parent or the other (called "actualized" if they resemble an elf and "dormant" if human), but a minority, including Chela, are "morphlings", who normally appear human but are able to shift to an elven form as a sort of Super Mode, dramatically improving their spellcasting power for a limited amount of time.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_844b6779	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_844b6779	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_844b6779
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85c4ebe0	type	Bisexual Love Triangle
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85c4ebe0	comment	Bisexual Love Triangle: Oliver has a slow-burn romance going with Nanao beginning in book 1 (complicated by the fact that she simultaneously wants a Duel to the Death with him), but Katie and Teresa Carste also have unrequited crushes on him. Additionally, AMAB Sex Shifter Pete starts to act like a Tsundere towards him starting in about volume 2. Alvin Godfrey was pursued in the past by both Tim Linton (who fell for him after Godfrey saved his life) and Ophelia Salvadori (who became attracted to him after he went the extra mile to make her feel welcome in the Watch), plus Leoncio Echevalria having a Villainous Crush on him. This one ends on No Romantic Resolution: Ophelia had a major falling-out with the Watch after her turn to villainy, but there's no indication that Godfrey has any romantic interest in Tim either, and while he respects Leoncio's abilities, he personally despises him. Additionally, their nonbinary friend Carlos Whitrow was also in love with Ophelia, and chose to express it by trying to ensure she was happy and surrounded by friends, even if that meant she ended up with Godfrey. Chloe Halford had multiple pursuers while she attended Kimberly. Theodore McFarlane recalls having fought a duel with Edgar Groves over their relationships with her. Current Kimberly Headmistress Esmeralda, Chloe's underclassman, was also in love with her, and Chloe didn't tell her when she and Edgar became a couple, not wanting Emmy to think she didn't have a chance just because they were both women. Oliver Horn is her son with Edgar.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85c4ebe0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85c4ebe0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85c4ebe0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85e9c342	type	Kung-Fu Wizard
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85e9c342	comment	Kung-Fu Wizard: "Magicombat", introduced in volume 8, is regarded as a sort of counterargument to sword arts that mixes unarmed combat with spatial magic instead. Alvin Godfrey demonstrates this in the senior-level combat leagues with magic-enhanced wrestling, defeating his opponent Efler by choking him out. His friend Lesedi Ingwe as a rule prefers magic-enhanced kickboxing to swordplay.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85e9c342	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85e9c342	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85e9c342
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85f102ac	type	Symbolic Distance
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85f102ac	comment	Symbolic Distance: Episode 9 of the anime adaptation contains an overhead shot while the protagonists are discussing the relative merits of Miligan's offer to give them one of her old laboratories, where Oliver is separated from the rest of the group by a couple of paces while he mulls over the offer. It's symbolism for how his secrets and wildly divergent Series Goal subtly separate him from them.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85f102ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85f102ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_85f102ac
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The club Carlos Whitrow founded for students with sex- and gender-linked magic disappeared from the story after Carlos's death in volume 3. The bonus story included with the Blu-ray box, "Encore" confirms that it did continue on.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_863fa679	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_863fa679
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_87cc946b	type	Stumbled Into the Plot
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_87cc946b	comment	Stumbled Into the Plot: The attack on Katie at the entrance ceremony. Annie Mackley, another first-year, cast a spell on Katie to make her run towards the parade of magical creatures. At that same moment, the troll made a break for the exit to try and escape from Miligan experimenting on him. He didn't mean to harm anyone, he just became disoriented when everybody nearby panicked, while Mackley was just trying to embarrass Katie, not get her killed.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_87cc946b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_87cc946b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_87cc946b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_88d16ae9	type	Fantastic Fighting Style
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_88d16ae9	comment	Fantastic Fighting Style: There are three main schools of sword arts practiced in the Union, though in practice they're usually mixed and matched by most practitioners. The Lanoff Style, favored by Oliver, is the most widely used and considered the easiest to learn. It emphasizes staying on defense while quickly analyzing your opponent's fighting style for weaknesses that can be counterattacked, as well as spatial magic targeting the footing of either the wielder or opponent, and techniques such as gravity manipulation. The Rizett Style, favored by Chela, is a more offensively oriented fencing style, focused on thrusting attacks and using spatial magic in ways that disrupt the defender's ability to track the attacker's sword point. One known technique is the Hero's Charge, a sudden headlong rush ending in a thrust at full extension. The Koutz Style emphasizes mobility, flexibility, and footwork. Pure Koutz practitioners such as Ursule Valois are exceedingly rare: most, such as Tullio Rossi, combine it with elements of other styles. For her part, Nanao learned Hibiya Style from the moment she was big enough to pick up a sword. It's a pretty typical Japanese-style sword school, which Nanao modifies to her liking once she begins learning magic. "Magicombat", unarmed techniques combined with spatial magic, is regarded as a sort of counterargument to Sword Arts. Several members of the Campus Watch practice it: Lesedi "Hard Knocker" Ingwe can kickbox in midair, while Alvin Godfrey wins his opening bout in the combat leagues with wrestling moves mixed with Lanoff Style spatial magic.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_88d16ae9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_88d16ae9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_88d16ae9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8970d739	type	The One That Got Away
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8970d739	comment	Chloe Halford herself had at least three suitors in her youth: Edgar Groves (whom she eventually settled down with), Theodore (who seems to still see her as The One That Got Away), and Esmeralda (who eventually spearheaded her murder).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8970d739	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8970d739	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8970d739
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8add1a93	type	AlternateCalendar
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8add1a93	comment	Alternate Calendar: The series begins in the year 1532 of the "Great Calendar", while the Battle of Diama is said to have taken place in the year 300 of the "Old Calendar".
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8add1a93	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8add1a93	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8add1a93
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8ce49f80	type	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8ce49f80	comment	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't: Pete and Chela both have much better relationships with the other Sword Roses than they do with their birth families. This starts to get deconstructed towards the midpoint of the series, as the two of them begin to contemplate increasingly unscrupulous tactics to keep the group together. Chela's father Theodore McFarlane is an Upper-Class Twit and Embarrassing Relative Teacher whose silly behavior constantly embarrasses her, and she resents him forcing her not to acknowledge her paternal half-sister Stacy Cornwallis as a sibling: they're officially cousins, courtesy of Stacy's status as the Hidden Backup Princess. She's also started to become suspicious of Theodore's motives for rescuing Nanao from a Last Stand in Yamatsu and bringing her to Yelgland to become a mage. Pete says in volume 10 that he has a terrible relationship with his birth family. He doesn't go into details, but he's a Mage Born of Muggles and there's a lot of societal tension between the two so you can hazard a guess. Chela also mentions in volume 2 that nonmagical society trends heteronormative, and Pete is anything but straight (being both a Sex Shifter and pansexual).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8ce49f80	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8ce49f80	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8ce49f80
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8d1f1cd6	type	Zombie Advocate
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8d1f1cd6	comment	Clashes between pro- and anti-demihuman rights students form a significant part of the A-plot of volume 1. It's only been a few years since The Magocracy gave citizenship to four demihuman races, and Katie Aalto among others advocates to expand this to other demonstrably intelligent demihumans, trolls in particular, and are opposed by a faction of students hoping to reverse this trend. Guy notably disagrees with Katie about the relative merits of trolls, but still backs Katie up along with Oliver and Nanao when she's targeted by bullies, landing the three of them in detention for brawling with the bullies in a classroom. Additionally, the Starter Villain turns out to be from the pro-rights faction.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8d1f1cd6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8d1f1cd6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8d1f1cd6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Episode 6 of the anime. It starts out pretty normal, segueing from the last episode with Nanao and Oliver fighting Miligan. It's already exciting enough when Nanao shows she can wield the titular seventh Spellblade to defeat her. Then (corresponding to the epilogue of volume 1) Oliver gets invited to come alone with Darius Grenville who wants his assistance after his good performance in class, and it becomes very dark very fast. Oliver's real reason for enrolling in the school, the explanation for Oliver's secret collaborators, and ultimately the underlying plot of the entire show and the full truth of his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, are all finally revealed. Following the Cruel and Unusual Death of his mother, Oliver's true goal has actually been to slaughter all her murderers... with Grenville as the first on his hit list. The teacher ends up getting violently and bloodily mutilated, tortured and finally killed by Oliver, and the episode reaches its end with our somewhat morally ambiguous protagonist reiterating his vow to enact bloody revenge on an Enemies List that includes basically half the faculty staff. Volume 5, Chapter 4. Oliver's easy victory over Darius Grenville with the Fourth Spellblade belied just how dangerous the teachers actually are compared even to Kimberly upperclassmen: Oliver and thirty-two of his comrades prepare an ambush for Enrico Forghieri in the labyrinth, only for him to assault through it and kill eleven of his attackers and get in a nasty Breaking Speech against Oliver before he's finally brought down. Furthermore, we begin to see the true costs of Oliver's revenge to himself: his Unique Protagonist Asset is Cast From Hitpoints and Lifespan, and just acquiring it permanently changed his soul and cost him his ability to be funny, dooming his childhood dream of being a comedian. Volume 10, Chapter 4. What starts as the comrades' Assassination Attempt against Demitrio Aristides turns into an incredibly dark look into Oliver's backstory to an extent we've never previously known, depicting how his happy life with his parents was derailed by mage politics. This ends in his mother's murder (depicted in much greater and gorier detail than before) and Oliver and his father Seeking Sanctuary with her birth family, only to be dragged kicking and screaming into the rot at the heart of the mage world: Oliver is forced to relive his mother's murder through her Ghost Memory, subjected to Training from Hell to accept a Merger of Souls to seek revenge, and then is drugged by his great-grandfather into raping and impregnating his cousin Shannon, which despite her forgiving him and them hoping something good will come from it, results in a stillbirth that convinces Oliver he's destined to suffer forever. All this is capped off by Oliver casually killing his great-grandparents and his father committing suicide to help cover it up. Even Demitrio himself feels sorry for him after seeing the Disaster Dominoes that emanated from the murder he helped commit.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e20979	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e20979	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e20979
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e971de4	type	Tournament Arc
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e971de4	comment	Tournament Arc: The main plot of Volume 2 revolves around a sword arts tournament among the first-years, organized by Tullio Rossi, an Ytallian student with a (mostly imagined) rivalry with Oliver. Each participant is given a medallion and duels others to take theirs, with the students with the most medallions at the end of the week advancing to the playoff round. The tournament is aborted before the playoffs when Ophelia Salvadori is consumed by the spell in an unrelated incident and kidnaps several of the participants. A second one runs for volumes 7-10, with three tiers of students (grades 2-3, grades 4-5, and grades 6-7) competing for prizes from the faculty. The "combat leagues" happen every couple of years, but this time around it's complicated by the deaths of two teachers in preceding years: Headmistress Esmeralda jacks up the prize money to attract more students, and then installs Blood Knight Sadist Teacher Vanessa Aldiss as the final obstacle for the upper tier—thinking that a student who does well against her might be a good suspect for the murders of Darius Grenville and Enrico Forghieri.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e971de4	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e971de4	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_8e971de4
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_90c018ac	comment	Volume 10 explains this is a Justified Trope when it comes to mages, who naturally require more nutrition than Muggles, especially during adolescence when their magical abilities are growing even faster than their bodies. Kimberly's cafeteria workers have permanent job security as a consequence.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_90c018ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_90c018ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_90c018ac
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_910e1023	type	Lacerating Love Language
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_910e1023	comment	Oliver has a slow-burn romance going with Nanao beginning in book 1 (complicated by the fact that she simultaneously wants a Duel to the Death with him), but Katie and Teresa Carste also have unrequited crushes on him. Additionally, AMAB Sex Shifter Pete starts to act like a Tsundere towards him starting in about volume 2.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_910e1023	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_910e1023	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_910e1023
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_913f683a	type	Discussed
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_913f683a	comment	Discussed when Oliver and Chela give the Sword Roses The Talk: Chela mentions that statistically, about eighty percent of Kimberly students will have had their first sexual experience by the time they graduate.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_913f683a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_913f683a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_913f683a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: A recurring theme of the series is that children are born wanting to be happy, make friends, and play, but adults abuse their desire to please authority figures to make them tools for their own advancement. Many of the Sword Roses' dealings with other students, including each other at times, revolve at least in part around Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: getting the "bad kids" to recognize that their family legacies and generational trauma don't have to define who they are and they can live for themselves instead.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91672d3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91672d3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91672d3e
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91e3f284	type	Military Mage
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91e3f284	comment	Military Mage: Kimberly Magic Academy is accurately, if occasionally derisively, referred to as "vocational school for Gnostic Hunters", these being an order of wizards who essentially act as counterinsurgency operators. Their job is rooting out and destroying cults of the gods of the solar system's other planets, which have the potential to cause The End of the World as We Know It.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91e3f284	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91e3f284	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_91e3f284
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: Seven (which is a trope in its own right), but also one-fifth or variations thereof: if someone cites a statistic or a probability, it's almost invariably a one-in-five chance. According to Esmeralda's opening remarks to the Sword Roses' freshman class in volume 1 (the anime's pilot episode), one of every five students who matriculate to Kimberly will not survive to graduate. There being six main characters, the odds are against them all making it out of the series alive (Oliver is already known to be Secretly Dying because his Unique Protagonist Asset is Cast from Lifespan). Nanao cites a similar statistic in volume 3 (episode 12) to dissuade Guy from a half-baked plan to go into the labyrinth in search of Pete after Ophelia kidnaps him: in her days as a samurai, when comrades of hers went missing on the battlefield, only one in five ever turned up alive. This is also the odds that Miligan gives for Pete surviving if no one goes to get him, but a rescue attempt with the help of an upperclassman like herself might raise that to a 21% chance. On a somewhat lighter note, Chela also says in volume 4 that statistically four out of five Kimberly students will have their first sexual experience at the school—meaning one in five won't.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9203bf6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9203bf6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9203bf6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The progenitor demihumans from the age of the world's long-dead god are the forerunners of all modern demihuman races. Now extinct, they're said to have been very similar to the god, with a limited sense of self that allowed them to access a portion of its power through the Akashic Records, an art that Demitrio Aristides rediscovered. It's also believed that they were the ones who unified the races of the world to rise up and Kill the God. Volume 8 explains that the labyrinth underneath Kimberly was built by an ancient civilization called the Parsu, which was destroyed by a Zombie Apocalypse when its army of Undead Laborers went out of control. Cyrus Rivermoore has Parsu ancestry and is trying to rediscover their necromantic arts, accompanied by the ghost of a Parsu mage, Fau.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_92286f7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_92286f7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_92286f7f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_922ec657	type	Corrupted Character Copy
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_922ec657	comment	Corrupted Character Copy: The series was heavily inspired by Harry Potter, and many characters especially in the first volume are recognizable as altered versions of Potterverse characters, but Bokuto Uno always puts his own twists on things: Headmistress Esmeralda, for Albus Dumbledore and to a lesser extent Severus Snape, being both the respected head of a prestigious magic academy and in love with the mother of the main protagonist (though Darius Grenville takes most of Severus' nastier personality traits). However, while Dumbledore (ostensibly) is quite a caring headmaster and deeply concerned with student welfare at Hogwarts, Esmeralda is completely unapologetic about the fact that about twenty percent of the students who matriculate to Kimberly Magic Academy will be "consumed by the spell" before they graduate. Furthermore, while Albus and Severus did everything in their power to protect Lily and her family, Esmeralda is the one who killed Chloe and left Oliver without a mom growing up. Additionally, Severus' love for Lily is portrayed as true and selfless, and he's penant over accidentally causing her death, while Esmeralda intentionally kills the woman she loves and eats her soul, proving herself just as rotten as her co-conspirators. Darius Grenville draws clear inspiration from Severus Snape: tall, slim, shoulder-length black hair, Sadist Teacher of alchemy at a Wizarding School who covets another professor's position (swordmaster rather than Defense Against the Dark Arts), and has a backstory connection to the main character's mother. Except rather than trying to save her from the Big Bad and failing, he helped murder her. He also has a habit of helping promising students along in their academic research so he can plagiarize it, and is torturously killed at the end of the first volume, having succeeded only in solidifying Oliver Horn's resolve to kill his mother's other six murderers. Frances Gilchrist is similar to Minerva McGonagall, as a stern no-nonsense elder teacher who teaches advanced magic and is personally loyal to the headmaster. However, while McGonagall's stern attitude belies a warmer side that cares for her students and she's definitely a fighter for good, Gilchrist is part of the conspiracy that murdered Oliver's mother.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_922ec657	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_922ec657	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_922ec657
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: Upper-class mages seem to have a rather hazy grasp of the concept. In volume 4, Oliver is suffering aftereffects of the previous volume antagonist's Sex Magic. His friend Chela corners him in a restaurant bathroom after he has an episode, and informs him that, As You Know, if he's still feeling the effects of succubus Perfume this long after the incident, then the only way to clear it out of his system will be to satisfy the urge, and not by himself. After suggesting he try approaching his Love Interest Nanao for sex without getting a response,note The two have admitted to their attraction at this point but aren't quite ready for a Relationship Upgrade. she manipulates him into some Intimate Healing that amounts to a magic-assisted handjob through their clothes, to which he never clearly consents. To Chela's credit, she feels extremely guilty about it afterwards: they're not attracted to each other that way and she worries she might have irreparably damaged their friendship by trying to help him. (He does briefly criticize her for it in volume 5, but doesn't seem to be holding any hard feelings.) Oliver and Shannon's great-grandfather, when he forced the two teenagers to have a child together. He claims that Shannon consented, but, quite apart from the fact that Oliver is under fifteen and The Patriarch has to drug him into compliance, Shannon clearly has no idea what's about to happen and it's entirely possible that even if she did give consent, it was under duress by the head of the family.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9400b3b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9400b3b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9400b3b5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_944eb8fb	type	All Deaths Final
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_944eb8fb	comment	All Deaths Final: Discussed in volume 8. Resurrecting the dead is explicitly impossible, a natural law set down by the world's long-deceased god. The most magic can do is stave death off for a while: should a mage manage to reach the age of 200, The Grim Reaper will come for them without fail. Cyrus Rivermoore's family kept the ghosts of several past master necromancers in sealed coffins, hoping to craft a Grand Aria that would hold the Reapers at bay long enough for them to pass on their lost knowledge. By the time of this book, several attempts have failed and only one remains; resurrecting her in an artificial body drives his actions in volumes 7 and 8.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_944eb8fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_944eb8fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_944eb8fb
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_96499968	type	Reestablishing Character Moment
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_96499968	comment	Reestablishing Character Moment: Volume 7 does this with several returning characters who didn't appear in the year 2 books: Necromancer Cyrus Rivermoore is reintroduced in the prologue, and is up to his old tricks of preying on other students in the labyrinth. This foreshadows him backstabbing Alvin Godfrey at the climax of the book and stealing his sternum out of his body, setting up his promotion to Arc Villain for volume 8. Richard Andrews and Joseph Albright, rivals to the Sword Roses from the year 1 books, return for a rematch in the Tournament Arc (teaming up with Tullio Rossi, who unlike them had stuck around for year 2) after taking several levels in badass. To show off their growth, they easily defeat the team of Katie, Guy, and Pete and a team of second-years led by the secretly hypercompetent Teresa Carste without taking a single casualty of their own.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_96499968	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_96499968	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_96499968
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: Nanao reminds Oliver, Theodore, and Esmeralda of Chloe Halford. This might even extend to her broom, which once belonged to Chloe.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9718a22a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9718a22a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9718a22a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_978b5f6d	type	Screw You, Elves!
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_978b5f6d	comment	Screw You, Elves!: Zig-Zagged in volume 8. Elves as a people are on the receiving end of this in absentia... by Khiirgi Albschuch, an elf who was kicked out of elven society for her disrespect for propriety, such as conjuring undead plants. For her part, she thinks her birth people are stuck in a rut and refuse to innovate or break the rules of the world's long-dead god (who favored them over the other races), which allowed more iconoclastic humans to long ago pass them by. Her Motive Rant to this effect is largely blown off by her rival Lesedi Ingwe, who says that Khirrgi may be more innovative than other elves and an objectively stronger mage than Lesedi herself, but her aforementioned disrespect for propriety is a Fatal Flaw in one very important way: "Nobody fucking likes you."
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_978b5f6d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_978b5f6d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_978b5f6d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9858c391	comment	The various female cast members fussing over Oliver, to the amusement of Pete and Guy.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9858c391	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9858c391	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9858c391
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_99599179	type	Ring Out
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_99599179	comment	Leaving the ring during a combat league match is an automatic loss. However, it's worded as "touching the ground outside the ring", meaning that technically there's no rule against running on the wall at the edge of the ring, which Ursule Valois uses to escape a trap set by Team Horn.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_99599179	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_99599179	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_99599179
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The driving ethos behind Katie's civil rights activism for non-humans. Since the story takes place in a setting where non-humans like centaurs, elves, etc. exist with humans, there are issues surrounding just which species get to be considered "human" and given civil rights while others are treated as mere beasts. Katie comes from a family noted for its activism on behalf of intelligent nonhumans, which puts her in conflict with students tied to the conservative factions early on.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9c45b5a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9c45b5a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9c45b5a2
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9cc1a329	comment	Chela's father Theodore McFarlane has a lot of similarities to Gilderoy Lockhart, as a foppish and rather silly world-traveler and book author who fills in after another teacher is indisposed. However, unlike Lockhart, he actually did have all the adventures he claims to have done and is quite competent when he puts his mind to being so: he's even a Spellblade wielder.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9cc1a329	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9cc1a329	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9cc1a329
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9d12bbc1	comment	It's not called Reign of the Seven Spellblades for nothing: the fact Luther Garland initially says there are six is foreshadowing. Nanao spontaneously invents the seventh at the climax of volume 1.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9d12bbc1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9eb71c7c	type	Super-Toughness
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9eb71c7c	comment	Super-Toughness: Mages as a rule are hard to kill: they can usually at least survive anything that doesn't kill them right away, though a full recovery requires medical intervention. This is used by the author as an excuse to repeatedly inflict grievous wounds on them without issue: to name but one example, Oliver is disemboweled by the garuda in volume 1, but instead of bleeding out in seconds, is able to retreat and sort himself out with a healing spell while Nanao holds it off.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9eb71c7c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9eb71c7c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_9eb71c7c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a0f3c6a0	type	Succubi and Incubi
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a0f3c6a0	comment	Succubi and Incubi: Rather than a kind of demon, succubi are said to be an extinct species of demihuman known mainly for two things: they gave off a Perfume that made them sexually irresistible to humanoid males, and had the ability to birth chimeras by mixing donor mana (harvested through sex) in their wombs. They used this in a Super Breeding Program to create a "perfect being", which has been carried forward by the Salvadori clan, a mage lineage with partial succubus ancestry.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a0f3c6a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a0f3c6a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a0f3c6a0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a188b278	type	Overly Long Hug
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a188b278	comment	Overly Long Hug: Oliver and Nanao have their first real public display of affection in volume 4, after Nanao's first senior-level broomsports match. Intending it as a reward for getting through the match without injury, Oliver gives her a big hug—and then neither one of them can bring themselves to end the hug for a full ten minutes.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a188b278	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a188b278	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a188b278
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a19135a6	type	Mind Control
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a19135a6	comment	The Fifth Spellblade, " "Papiliosomnia, the dream of a butterfly that never wakes up again", is a Mind Control technique that attacks the target's sense of self, causing them to become unable to tell the difference between themselves and the wielder, and either not resist a follow-up strike or even kill themselves. Demitrio Aristides wields this one, and uses it to Counter Spell Oliver's Fourth: Oliver is unable to pick a desirable future and only narrowly escapes the follow-through. The second time, his friend Yuri Leik, a Soul Fragment of Demitrio, reasserts himself over his creator to tell Oliver which one to pick, knowing it will mean he dies along with Demitrio.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a19135a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a19135a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a19135a6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a21d8982	comment	Volume 10, Chapter 4. What starts as the comrades' Assassination Attempt against Demitrio Aristides turns into an incredibly dark look into Oliver's backstory to an extent we've never previously known, depicting how his happy life with his parents was derailed by mage politics. This ends in his mother's murder (depicted in much greater and gorier detail than before) and Oliver and his father Seeking Sanctuary with her birth family, only to be dragged kicking and screaming into the rot at the heart of the mage world: Oliver is forced to relive his mother's murder through her Ghost Memory, subjected to Training from Hell to accept a Merger of Souls to seek revenge, and then is drugged by his great-grandfather into raping and impregnating his cousin Shannon, which despite her forgiving him and them hoping something good will come from it, results in a stillbirth that convinces Oliver he's destined to suffer forever. All this is capped off by Oliver casually killing his great-grandparents and his father committing suicide to help cover it up. Even Demitrio himself feels sorry for him after seeing the Disaster Dominoes that emanated from the murder he helped commit.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a21d8982	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a21d8982	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a21d8982
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Mages sometimes interbreed with certain species of demihumans hoping to breed more powerful mages. Particular attention is called to half-elves. Normally they take strongly after one parent or the other (called "actualized" if they resemble an elf and "dormant" if human), but a minority, including Chela, are "morphlings", who normally appear human but are able to shift to an elven form as a sort of Super Mode, dramatically improving their spellcasting power for a limited amount of time. Half-werewolves like Fay Willock are able to partake of both their human and lupine abilities, though Fay is the first to ever to master spellcasting while wolfed out. The Necessary Drawback is that he's in constant, severe pain while transformed.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a2cbad1	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a2cbad1	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a2cbad1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a4f2570d	type	Muggles
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a4f2570d	comment	Muggles: Called "nonmagicals" or "ordinaries" by mages, they represent the majority of humanity and form a permanent underclass in the Fantastic Caste System: they rate better than demihumans but are still firmly second-class citizens. Turning a nonmagical into a mage is believed to be impossible, although mages born of nonmagical families do exist and can bring their families a significant bump in socioeconomic status.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a4f2570d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a4f2570d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a4f2570d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Stacy Cornwallis was conceived as a "spare" to Chela with a woman from a McFarlane cadet branch, just in case Chela didn't work out or died. They were both forbidden to acknowledge their relationship, and Stacy was neglected by her stepfather, who saw her burgeoning talents as a constant reminder that she wasn't his.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a54534a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a54534a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a54534a0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a627a930	type	Gender Is No Object
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: On average, female mages are just as good at both magic and swordplay as male mages, though it depends heavily on the individual: Oliver, Nanao, and Chela are three of the strongest in their year, but not by enough to be decisive (Andrews, Rossi, and Albright are very evenly matched with them), while Guy, Pete, and Katie are generally considered also-rans whose talents lie in areas other than combat. In particular, volume 2 explains that while women have a large natural reservoir of mana in their uteri, men have enough smaller reservoirs elsewhere that it tends to even out.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a627a930	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a627a930	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a627a930
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a6be3ad5	type	Rule of Seven
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a6be3ad5	comment	Rule of Seven: It's not called Reign of the Seven Spellblades for nothing: the fact Luther Garland initially says there are six is foreshadowing. Nanao spontaneously invents the seventh at the climax of volume 1. Similarly, seven mages conspired to kill Chloe Halford in the prologue, which took place seven years before the series begins. Oliver's Series Goal is to avenge her by killing them.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a6be3ad5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a6be3ad5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a6be3ad5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8b7f968	type	Love at First Punch
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8b7f968	comment	Love at First Punch: Nanao speaks of the samurai ideal "shiawase", of a Duel to the Death with someone they love and respect—which she felt towards Oliver when their swords crossed in a classroom sparring session, and was torn up when he turned her down for a rematch. All of which is much to Oliver's chagrin when she explains it:
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8b7f968	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8b7f968	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8b7f968
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8cff6a	type	Familiar
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8cff6a	comment	Combat league rules tightly restrict what equipment you're allowed to bring into the ring, including banning the use of familiars. So in volume 10, Miligan (again) cuts her own hand off before the match and reattaches her familiar Milihand—which is literally her own original left hand that got cut off in volume 1 and she reanimated—then deliberately gets it cut off again during the match to free it for use, arguing that it's a part of her own body rather than a familiar. Garland and Theodore somewhat reluctantly allow it over her opponent's objections. Which, as usual for her, is misdirection: she also moved her other basilisk eye to her back and replaced it in its socket with a completely nonmagical glass replica—another loophole in the gearing rules.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8cff6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8cff6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a8cff6a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: By design. As a general rule, the instructors at Kimberly seldom intervene in problems internal to the student body: they're not even allowed to go into the labyrinth after a missing student until the eighth day—at which point it's usually assumed they'll be trying to recover bodies rather than rescue survivors. The students are expected to solve their problems themselves as part of a curriculum meant to foster self-reliance, teamwork, problem-solving, and fighting skill, which is all Training from Hell for Gnostic Hunters.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a939d96a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a939d96a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a939d96a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a9c1bc0c	type	Bee Afraid
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a9c1bc0c	comment	Bee Afraid: Joseph Albright tricks the Sword Roses, Fay Willock, and Stacy Cornwallis into having a three-on-three duel inside a hive of giant "stinger bees" in the labyrinth, and summons the bees to attack the others after losing fairly to Oliver.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a9c1bc0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a9c1bc0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_a9c1bc0c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aa819622	type	Let's Wait a While
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aa819622	comment	Let's Wait a While: Oliver and Nanao's attempt at a first time in volume 10 gets scuttled by Oliver's PTSD from his Rape as Backstory, so while they spend the night naked together in bed, they don't get as far as intercourse. They agree to try to take it slow and work their way up to "getting the pole in the hole", as Nanao bawdily puts it.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aa819622	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aa819622	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aa819622
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aae246fd	type	Technician/Performer Team-Up
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aae246fd	comment	Technician/Performer Team-Up: Oliver Horn has no particular talents as a mage (though no significant deficiencies either), and keeps up with others in his age group by being smart and working his butt off with textbook practice, to the point where early in the series his fighting style is sometimes derided as boring. By the end of volume 1 he's practically attached at the hip to his primary Love Interest, Nanao Hibiya, a mage of phenomenal natural talent who does her best work when she isn't even thinking about what she's doing and invents new magic tricks like the Seventh Spellblade simply out of necessity. The two of them make a terrifyingly effective Battle Couple to the point of becoming minor celebrities in the student body by the time of volume 6.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aae246fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aae246fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_aae246fd
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ab5eea65	comment	Played straight later in volume 6 when Esmeralda interrogates Oliver and Pete. She says up front that there's no possible way that two second-years were even physically capable of killing Enrico Forghieri; she instead thinks that, having visited Forghieri's laboratory,note Technically, Pete was kidnapped by Forghieri, and Oliver and Nanao pursued them to his laboratory. they might have unintentionally leaked information to the assassins and could help her identify them. Ironically, Oliver really IS the killer, and spends the entire scene sweating bullets before Nanao rescues them both.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ab5eea65	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ab5eea65	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ab5eea65
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac4c677f	type	De-power
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac4c677f	comment	De-power: Injure a mage, you hurt them. Injure their etheric body, however, and you seriously weaken their powers. This happens to Alvin Godfrey at the end of volume 7, courtesy of Cyrus Rivermoore stealing his sternum and a chunk of his etheric body attached to it, leading to the main plot of volume 8 where the Campus Watch sends a posse after Rivermoore to recover the bone so Godfrey's etheric body can heal in time for his matches in the combat leagues.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac4c677f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac4c677f	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac4c677f
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac69035c	comment	That time resident Master Poisoner Tim Linton gassed the dining hall. It's cited in volume 6 as the reason he'd lose if he ran for Student Council President. We do eventually get an explanation in volume 10 and it's a lot less funny than it sounded: it was an attempted mass Murder-Suicide due to him being in a really bad mental state, and Godfrey saved his life despite himself.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac69035c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac69035c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac69035c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac7cbf8d	type	Myth Arc
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac7cbf8d	comment	Myth Arc: The long-term throughline of the series is Oliver's quest for revenge against his mother's murderers. However, the meat of most books is focused much more on the relationships between the characters and intramural conflicts between various students.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac7cbf8d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac7cbf8d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ac7cbf8d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ad9559e6	comment	Necromancer Cyrus Rivermoore is reintroduced in the prologue, and is up to his old tricks of preying on other students in the labyrinth. This foreshadows him backstabbing Alvin Godfrey at the climax of the book and stealing his sternum out of his body, setting up his promotion to Arc Villain for volume 8.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ad9559e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ad9559e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ad9559e6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: Kimberly Magic Academy is an elite boarding school for mages that practices Social Darwinism towards its students, with the student body expected to solve problems without the intervention of the faculty. There actually is a reason for this: Kimberly is effectively a vocational school for Gnostic Hunters—elite battlemages who travel to other planets of the solar system to battle Alien Invasions commanded by those planets' gods.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af11866	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af11866	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af11866
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af19229b	type	Plant Person
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af19229b	comment	Plant Person: The Kimberly grounds are lined with talking flowers that like to harangue and tease new students as they head in for orientation. According to Guy, the personalities of such magiflora are affected by the quality of magical particles they absorb from the ground, so their questionable behavior serves as an early clue to what life at Kimberly is like. They'll also act as Knowledge Brokers of things they've seen, but only if you can make them laugh first.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af19229b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af19229b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_af19229b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Many secondary characters had very poor family lives, courtesy of mages tending to view everything in terms of pushing the envelope of magical research, including their own children. Vera Miligan was the only one of six children to survive childhood on account of her parents implanting basilisk eyes in her left socket and left hand. She has convinced herself it was an act of love. Joseph Albright had a non-magical childhood friend, a serving girl (named Emma in the anime) who liked to play chess with him. After she managed to defeat him, his parents tortured him for most of a day for losing, and murdered Emma and her entire family. Ophelia Salvadori was made a de facto Breeding Slave for her mother's eugenics experiments the moment she hit puberty and carried multiple pregnancies, and was once Forced to Watch her mother rape a man. That plus the Slut-Shaming she endured from other Kimberly students led to her descent into villainy.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b11ac9f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b11ac9f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b11ac9f5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1b48ad1	type	Foreign Language Title
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1b48ad1	comment	Foreign Language Title: The episode titles of the anime are all in English by way of katakana.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1b48ad1	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1b48ad1	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1b48ad1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: In volume 5, Vanessa Aldiss expects the class to break griffins like a horse, and is ready to flunk Katie and mock her mercilessly as per usual when she tries to befriend the griffin instead. Katie unexpectedly succeeds after Gwyn Sherwood covertly uses his Magic Music to give her efforts a slight boost, and Gwyn points to one of the unwritten rules of Kimberly: if you succeed at an assignment despite disobeying the professor and they can't figure out what you did, it's a passing grade. Volume 9: Leaving the ring during a combat league match is an automatic loss. However, it's worded as "touching the ground outside the ring", meaning that technically there's no rule against running on the wall at the edge of the ring, which Ursule Valois uses to escape a trap set by Team Horn. The teachers organize a bonus round for the Tournament Arc where the runners-up compete to clean up invasive species in the second layer of the labyrinth after they moved a bunch of stuff from the deeper levels, as a way of making up for Theodore McFarlane giving Team Andrews a Disqualification-Induced Victory over Team Cornwallis. Miligan, competing with her Student Council President election opponent Percival Whalley as team supervisors, decides to sweeten the pot by offering extra prize money from her personal funds. Whalley calls foul, but Theodore McFarlane lets it slide because he did say the two candidates were to "demonstrate leadership skills" and Miligan isn't specifically trying to buy votes. Combat league rules tightly restrict what equipment you're allowed to bring into the ring, including banning the use of familiars. So in volume 10, Miligan (again) cuts her own hand off before the match and reattaches her familiar Milihand—which is literally her own original left hand that got cut off in volume 1 and she reanimated—then deliberately gets it cut off again during the match to free it for use, arguing that it's a part of her own body rather than a familiar. Garland and Theodore somewhat reluctantly allow it over her opponent's objections. Which, as usual for her, is misdirection: she also moved her other basilisk eye to her back and replaced it in its socket with a completely nonmagical glass replica—another loophole in the gearing rules.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1dde8fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1dde8fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b1dde8fd
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b21ddb6b	type	Content Warnings
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b21ddb6b	comment	Content Warnings: Yen Press's manga translation is justifiably marked "L N V", meaning content warnings for language, nudity, and violence.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b21ddb6b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b21ddb6b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b21ddb6b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: In volume 3, Oliver can't help "pitching a tent" despite his normally incredible endurance after being immersed in Ophelia's Perfume for several hours during the rescue attempt for Pete. He has to awkwardly tell Nanao to back off a bit and not glomp him like she usually does, much to her disappointment—not helped by the fact that Nanao, having learned Yelglish as a second language, doesn't actually understand what the idiom "pitching a tent" means.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b3f4b615	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b3f4b615	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b3f4b615
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b4d6aa7d	type	Dungeon Bypass
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b4d6aa7d	comment	Dungeon Bypass: When it's the upperclassmens' turn at the combat league prelims in volume 7, Alvin Godfrey starts the race to the third level of the labyrinth by simply burning a hole clean through three floors of the first level, skipping it altogether. He only does this because his significance sense was giving him a bad feeling about the setup, and doesn't mind that it gives his competitor Leoncio Echevalria a leg up since it means two of the top seventh-year fighters will be available for whatever is ahead.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b4d6aa7d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b4d6aa7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b4d6aa7d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5959fa1	type	Hereditary Hairstyle
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5959fa1	comment	Curly blond hair is a Hereditary Hairstyle of the McFarlane family: Theodore McFarlane and his daughters Michela McFarlane and Stacy Cornwallis all have it. Chela jokes at the entrance ceremony dinner that it's considered polite to faint at the beauty of it.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5959fa1	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5959fa1	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5959fa1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5ab695c	type	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5ab695c	comment	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: The test to enter the the third level of the labyrinth from the second consists of "the Battle of Hell's Armies", two skeletal armies reenacting a historical battle between "Rumoa" and "Kurtago" involving "swordrhinos", the "Battle of Diama". It's the Battle of Zama (the "swordrhinos" are war elephants), and the point of the test is to help the side representing Carthage to win instead of Rome. The Sword Roses use "toolplants" created by Guy to conjure fences of trees that foil the "Rumoan" cavalry charge against the infantry's flanks, allowing Nanao to make a literal Decapitation Strike against the enemy general.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5ab695c	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5ab695c	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5ab695c
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Oliver and Nanao are very much alike, but also different in very important ways. Both are Master Swordsmen, but Oliver's skills are rooted in endless hours of rigorous practice and book learning, whereas Nanao is a natural talent who does her best work when she isn't even thinking about what she's doing. Their other differences are highlighted by the conclusion of volume 1: Nanao invents the Seventh Spellblade and severs Miligan's hand with it out of a need to rescue Katie, but spares Miligan's life, as her sword style repudiates the idea of vengeance in favor of finding joy in a fair fight against a Worthy Opponent. Oliver, meanwhile, uses the Fourth Spellblade which he reconstructed from the Ghost Memory of his mother Chloe Halford, severs Darius Grenville's hand with it, and then slowly tortures him to death with pain spells to avenge Grenville's part in Chloe's murder. Oliver himself is reminded of Nanao's words, "Enjoy not the sword of vengeance, but the sword of mutual love," and ruefully muses that "I will test the limits of this philosophy."
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5e63cc4	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5e63cc4	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b5e63cc4
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7978bb4	type	Deadly Sparring
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7978bb4	comment	Deadly Sparring: This trope is defied when Oliver Horn and Nanao Hibiya square off for a demonstration duel in their first period sword arts class. Both fighters prove themselves both Master Swordsmen, with Oliver's sword arts training matching well against Nanao's battlefield experience as a samurai. When the duel starts getting very serious, the instructor calls a halt to the match because their intensity has broken the dulling spell he'd placed on their swords beforehand.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7978bb4	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7978bb4	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7978bb4
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7c53a22	comment	By volume 10, most of the school has learned this lesson, especially after watching her in the combat leagues, which she actually finds frustrating since nobody ever tries to fight her anymore. Fortunately for her, Teresa Carste is too jealous of her relationship to Oliver to think straight, and ambushes her in the labyrinth thinking her lord needs protecting—only to discover that Nanao is far stronger than she anticipated: never mind winning, it's all Teresa can do just to escape.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7c53a22	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7c53a22	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b7c53a22
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b96fdd94	type	Extra-Long Episode
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b96fdd94	comment	Extra-Long Episode: As noted by the translator on Twitter, Volume 10 is at least half-again as long most other books in the series, due to the amount of material that it had to wrap up to conclude Year 3 (which itself is four volumes in length instead of the usual three): the seniors' Tournament Arc concludes in a rematch between Godfrey and Echevalria, the election for Student Council President takes place, the surviving seventh-year cast members graduate from Kimberly, Oliver and Nanao reconcile after the end of volume 9 and finally become a couple, and Oliver assassinates Demitrio Aristides in our first-ever look at a Duel to the Death between two Spellblade wielders (the chapter that contains this is half the book's length all by itself).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b96fdd94	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b96fdd94	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b96fdd94
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b9e8ad28	type	The Multiverse
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b9e8ad28	comment	The Multiverse: In volume 5, Professor Demitrio Aristedes explains the Constructed World's cosmology by introducing the concept of a "tÃr": a world distinct from our own that obeys different physical laws, with different environments and ecosystems, many of them controlled by a God-Emperor of sorts. The earth the protagonists live on is an "atheosphere" because God Is Dead, and what mages call magic was originally the authority invested in a god until an alliance of humans and demihumans killed it. Every star in the sky is said to be "a glimpse of a tÃr", and the brighter the star, the easier it is to reach. Eight tÃr in particular come into conflict with our world on a cyclical basis, allowing alien creatures to migrate to it and "apostles" of the tÃr gods to come and try to establish cults among humans and demihumans, called Gnostics. The Magocracy, in turn, created the Gnostic Hunters to defend against such incursions.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b9e8ad28	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b9e8ad28	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_b9e8ad28
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Michela McFarlane and Guy Greenwood split up Ron Weasley. Guy got Ron's Fiery Redhead looks and personality and rural background, while Chela got Ron's role as the insider to mage culture who guides the rest of the group through its intricacies.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb0c0a4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb0c0a4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb0c0a4d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Exaggerated with Ophelia Salvadori, who was essentially turned into a Breeding Slave for her mother's eugenics experiments the moment she hit puberty and was forced to bear multiple children before the age of fifteen, when she was able to escape to Kimberly Magic Academy. Shannon's pregnancy, first alluded to in Oliver's memory in volume 2, which mentions him being desperate to help her: "Every night, heâ€™d faced her back and suppressed the tears that threatened to overflow." It's ultimately revealed they were both drugged by the Sherwood clan elders and he was made to impregnate her, in the interest of a pure-blooded heir. The pregnancy ended in a stillbirth.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb7ae292	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb7ae292	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bb7ae292
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bc97f0c6	type	Jealous Romantic Witness
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bc97f0c6	comment	Jealous Romantic Witness: The main pairing of Oliver Horn and Nanao Hibiya attracts this from several characters. Their friend Katie Aalto has a crush on Oliver and tends to get a little irritable when Nanao acts too clingy (despite their otherwise close friendship). It's nonetheless clear pretty early that she's firmly the Third Wheel, which becomes a significant source of angst as Oliver and Nanao's relationship gets more serious over the years. She's also a little jealous of Oliver's (affectionate but completely platonic) relationship with his cousin Shannon, getting worked up when Shannon greets him with a kiss on the cheek when they run into each other at lunch in volume 1. In volume 9, Nanao gets jealous of Oliver's rapproachment with his Stock Shōnen Rival Richard Andrews, and physically attacks him with a Forceful Kiss. This in turn triggers an incident with Oliver's follower Teresa Carste, who crushes hard on him: in volume 10 she tries to get him to kiss her, then when he doesn't realize she wants it on the mouth, she loses her temper and goes out and attacks Nanao—and then has to run away with her tail between her legs because Nanao is so much stronger than she ever thought possible.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bc97f0c6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bc97f0c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bc97f0c6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc16524	type	Weird Sun
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc16524	comment	Weird Sun: The "sun" in the second layer of the labyrinth is a magical artifact created by the precursor civilization that created the labyrinth. It never sets, producing a constant level of light and warmth.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc16524	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc16524	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc16524
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: The manga leaves out several scenes during the Sword Roses' investigation of the entrance ceremony incident and reduces the scene in alchemy class where Oliver impresses Darius Grenville to a couple of panels and cuts Chloe Halford's death scene to a two-page spread. The adaption of volume 2 cuts Nanao's duel with the female student and most of Pete's training subplot. The anime cuts several scenes short and moves others around compared to the book: Garland's explanation of spellblades is moved to episode 3, and the scene where he practice-duels Nanao and the conversation between her and Oliver over the nature of her feelings for him are dropped. This gives it somewhat choppy pacing for the first few episodes. This is partly because the novels are not paced in a way that easily lends them to the usual length of an anime season: the Year One books are essentially a Two-Part Trilogy, with volume 1 being a standalone story and volume 2 ending on a cliffhanger that leads directly into volume 3. Even with the season running for an unusual fifteen episodes, a fair amount of material is left out.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc94cd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc94cd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bdc94cd9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bea84606	type	Pain to the Ass
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bea84606	comment	Pain to the Ass: While on their way to their Mad Scientist Laboratory for the first time, the Sword Roses are forced to flee a Deadly Gas trap through a passage they already know is full of bowshells—barnacle-like creatures that fire a spike at anything that comes near them. Guy ends up with a bunch of broken-off spikes in his rear.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bea84606	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bea84606	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bea84606
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_beca6919	type	Empty Chair Memorial
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_beca6919	comment	Empty Chair Memorial: The anime's opening credits sequence shows the four current members of the Campus Watch grimly looking out into the camera, with Carlos standing sadly behind an empty chair. The last three episodes show a similar image, sepia-toned, with younger versions of the Watch looking happier and their estranged ex-member Ophelia Salvadori sitting in the chair.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_beca6919	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_beca6919	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_beca6919
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bedae243	type	Relative Button
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bedae243	comment	Nonlethal duels with both magic and sword are a common way of settling student conflicts, and Tullio Rossi organizes a dueling tournament in volume 2 to decide on the strongest first-year. In volume 6, Teresa Carste also gets into an argument with a classmate, Dean Travers, which devolves into a playground brawl when he hits her Relative Button.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bedae243	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bedae243	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_bedae243
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c13a7eeb	type	Sudden Contest Format Change
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c13a7eeb	comment	Sudden Contest Format Change: School-organized tournaments usually use a round-robin format with the participants being scored on points. In volume 9, however, of the four finalist teams in the underclassmens' tier of the combat leagues, two are forced to withdraw after their matches.note Ursule Valois had a mental health crisis after losing to Team Horn, and Team Cornwallis were too injured to continue as scheduled and Chela had a very public confrontation with her father Theodore, one of the judges, besides. As a consequence, the school switches the final match between Team Horn and Team Andrews to winner-take-all and organizes a bonus round in the labyrinth (consisting of cleaning up invasive species left over from the upperclassmens' prelim) for the runners-up to make up for the reduction in the number of matches.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c13a7eeb	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c13a7eeb	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c13a7eeb
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c185022a	type	"Instant Death" Radius
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c185022a	comment	"Instant Death" Radius: for wielders of the titular spellblades. The radius is even named - "one step, one spell" distance.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c185022a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c185022a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c185022a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c241adec	type	Supernatural Sensitivity
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c241adec	comment	Supernatural Sensitivity: In addition to normal sensitivity to magic use, volume 2 implies, then volume 10 confirms, that users of the eponymous spellblades can subconsciously recognize one another when in close enough proximity to use them, a sensation formally known as "Grand Arts Synchronicity". This sensation saves Oliver's life when he mounts an Assassination Attempt against Demitrio Aristides: Demitrio defeats Oliver's Fourth Spellblade with the Fifth, but Oliver instinctively realizes a split-second before contact that he was facing another spellblade and pulls back just in time to avoid a deathblow. With the benefit of hindsight, Oliver realizes he's felt the same thing from Nanao, wielder of the Seventh, since they first met.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c241adec	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c241adec	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c241adec
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c313d43a	comment	Richard Andrews and Joseph Albright, rivals to the Sword Roses from the year 1 books, return for a rematch in the Tournament Arc (teaming up with Tullio Rossi, who unlike them had stuck around for year 2) after taking several levels in badass. To show off their growth, they easily defeat the team of Katie, Guy, and Pete and a team of second-years led by the secretly hypercompetent Teresa Carste without taking a single casualty of their own.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c313d43a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c313d43a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c313d43a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c3191ad7	type	Smooch of Victory
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c3191ad7	comment	Smooch of Victory: Played for laughs in volume 1 when Chela decides Oliver hasn't been congratulated enough for his part in saving the day earlier, and tries to kiss him on the cheek. He's actually put off by this because they're Like Brother and Sister; meanwhile, Katie, who has a crush on Oliver, nearly blows a fuse. Then Nanao comes over and, taking it as a local custom, gives him a kiss and then demands one for herself. He's saved by the arrival of his cousin Shannon, who gives him another kiss by way of greeting; meanwhile Katie is fit to burst, and Nanao is left plaintively whining about her kiss getting forgotten. Given a Call-Back when Nanao again asks Oliver for a kiss after they beat Miligan. Oliver nearly does a Face Fault. Then Katie finally kisses both of them after she regains consciousness.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c3191ad7	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c3191ad7	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c3191ad7
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c433b323	type	Implied
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c433b323	comment	Implied with Alvin Godfrey: there's an flashback sequence in volume 3 where he used Behavioral Conditioning to immunize himself to Ophelia Salvadori's perfume, via the expedient of casting pain curses on his own genitals to simulate the pain of a good swift kick. Now factor in that Oliver explained in volume 1 that the pain curse can only inflict pain the caster has experienced...
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c433b323	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c433b323	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c433b323
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c45beb12	type	Academy of Adventure
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c45beb12	comment	Academy of Adventure: A dark example. The academy is built on top of a labyrinth that is full of monsters, dangerous environments and unhinged upperclassmen who have no qualms about harming fellow students. The school provides very little protection from any of these things and it's up to the students themselves to look out for each other.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c45beb12	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c45beb12	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c45beb12
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5332471	type	Intra-Scholastic Rivalry
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5332471	comment	Intra-Scholastic Rivalry: There are two major overlapping intramural rivalries at Kimberly Magic Academy, though people aren't likely to fit cleanly into one faction or the other and often move freely between them. Clashes between pro- and anti-demihuman rights students form a significant part of the A-plot of volume 1. It's only been a few years since The Magocracy gave citizenship to four demihuman races, and Katie Aalto among others advocates to expand this to other demonstrably intelligent demihumans, trolls in particular, and are opposed by a faction of students hoping to reverse this trend. Guy notably disagrees with Katie about the relative merits of trolls, but still backs Katie up along with Oliver and Nanao when she's targeted by bullies, landing the three of them in detention for brawling with the bullies in a classroom. Additionally, the Starter Villain turns out to be from the pro-rights faction. The incumbents on the student council are a group called the Campus Watch, led by Alvin Godfrey, a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits who gained popularity by actively policing the student body and protecting freshmen from the depredations of rogue upperclassmen such as Cyrus Rivermoore and Ophelia Salvadori. They are opposed by supporters of the former student council, led by Leoncio Echevalria, an aristocrat with traditional-for-mages Social Darwinist views. A significant plot in volumes 6-10 deals with the fact that several senior Watch members including Godfrey are about to Graduate from the Story, turning the election for Student Council President (who gets to freely appoint the rest of the council) into a Proxy War between Godfrey and Echevalria. The Sword Roses take Godfrey's side and some of their class rivals join Echevalria, albeit reluctantly: Joseph Albright only backs the old council because his family would raise hell with him if he didn't, Richard Andrews withdraws his support over their attempts to cheat during the Tournament Arc, and Tullio Rossi openly hates Echevalria and only works with the old council because his teammates Andrews and Albright are. Meanwhile, Echevalria's younger sister Felicia is a friend of Teresa Carste and Dean Travers, who are admirers of the Sword Roses.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5332471	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5332471	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5332471
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5f2eeff	type	Relationship Labeling Problems
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5f2eeff	comment	Relationship Labeling Problems: Oliver and Nanao have basically been attached at the hip since they fought a Deadly Sparring match in volume 1. In volume 4, after he and Chela hold a seminar for their friends on mage sexual and romantic relations, Nanao asks him out of the blue if he wants to have children with her, then backtracks slightly and chalks it up to Culture Clash. Oliver admits he feels attracted to her but refuses to elaborate; his Internal Monologue mentions not wanting their relationship "reduced to reproduction and inheritance" the way it so often is among mages. For her part, Katie asks Nanao later if she's in love with Oliver, and Nanao replies that she feels very strong affection for him, but isn't sure she can actually call it love since she simultaneously hasn't been able to kick the desire for a Duel to the Death with him.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5f2eeff	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5f2eeff	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5f2eeff
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Curly blond hair is a Hereditary Hairstyle of the McFarlane family: Theodore McFarlane and his daughters Michela McFarlane and Stacy Cornwallis all have it. Chela jokes at the entrance ceremony dinner that it's considered polite to faint at the beauty of it. Oliver, much like Harry Potter whom he's partly based on, largely takes after his father with a shock of messy brown hair, but has golden eyes like his mother. The eye color isn't natural: his eyes were brown when he was a child but seem to have changed after he took part of his mother's soul into himself. He exploits the fact he doesn't look like Chloe Halford to help conceal his parentage from her killers.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5fe6c81	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5fe6c81	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c5fe6c81
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c7541480	type	Artistic License – Botany
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c7541480	comment	Artistic License â€“ Botany: The second layer of the labyrinth is a forested region lit by a Weird Sun that never sets, which is said by Miligan to be the reason it's a paradise for plants. Actually, most plants do require a period of darkness for various reasons. However, since the labyrinth is an artificially created magical environment to begin with, one can probably safely say A Wizard Did It.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c7541480	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c7541480	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c7541480
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c87737d9	type	Vacation Episode
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c87737d9	comment	Volume 11 is largely a Vacation Episode that has the Sword Roses going on an international road trip over winter break. It comes after a four-volume Tournament Arc and intervening mayhem caused by Cyrus Rivermoore, the election for Student Council President, Oliver and Nanao finally becoming a couple and trying to have sex for the first time, and the assassination of Demitrio Aristides, which features our first look at a fight between two Spellblade wielders.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c87737d9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c87737d9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c87737d9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8b4278b	type	Straight Man and Wise Guy
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8b4278b	comment	Straight Man and Wise Guy: Vera Miligan's tournament match in volume 10 pits a very conventional dueling team led by GwenaÃ«l Deschamps against 1) our friendly neighborhood Mad Scientist Miligan who deliberately gets her own hand cut off again to smuggle Milihand into the arena, 2) Lynette Cornwallis, who prefers spells to swordplay and conjures what amounts to a magical Attack Drone to split the other team's attention, and 3) Zoe Colonna, a girl on the verge of being consumed by the spell who fights by submerging herself in the ground like a Land Shark. Between Miligan and Lynette playing a Shell Game with Milihand and its basilisk eye so the other team can't keep track of it and doesn't realize that Miligan had Katie move her OTHER basilisk eye to her back, Death from Above from Lynette's drone, and Zoe literally breaking chunks off the arena floor, the whole match ends up resembling a screwball physical comedy routine with Deschamps's team as the Straight Man.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8b4278b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8b4278b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8b4278b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: Nanao is essentially unable to separate her desire for a romance with Oliver from her wish for a Duel to the Death with him.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8ba12ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8ba12ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_c8ba12ee
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca0616e3	type	Mega Dungeon
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca0616e3	comment	Mega Dungeon: Kimberly Magic Academy is built overtop of an ancient labyrinth containing at least five maze-like "layers", each of which is its own vast environment with its own flora and fauna and natural resources. Students at the school often build laboratories in it for degree research, a girl named Pamela Gorton has built a business supplying them with food from the surface, and some people even live down there full-time (Teresa Carste was born there).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca0616e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca0616e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca0616e3
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: Discussed in volume 9 by the Tournament Arc match commentators, who note how similar the finalist teams are in structure: they each have a leader/planner figure (respectively Oliver Horn and Richard Andrews), a strong physical fighter (Nanao Hibiya, Joseph Albright), and an unorthodox disruptor (Yuri Leik, Tullio Rossi).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca85e684	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca85e684	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ca85e684
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cab89481	type	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cab89481	comment	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!: Despite being an openly and proudly dangerous Academy of Adventure where it's expected that about twenty percent of matriculating students will not survive to graduate in seven years, Kimberly Magic Academy does have some school rules, but enforcement is haphazard and usually left up to the whims of upperclassmen (fortunately the current student council is of a mind to run a Campus Watch). Volume 2 makes particular note of the school rules on Wizard Duels, which are a routine way to settle disputes: on the school grounds proper, only upperclassmen are allowed to set their swords' dulling spells at half-strength, but protagonist Oliver Horn is challenged by Tullio Rossi in the labyrinth beneath the school, where there's nobody to enforce the rule, and Oliver is willing to go along.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cab89481	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cab89481	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cab89481
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cbfd6e47	type	Flying Broomstick
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cbfd6e47	comment	Diana Ashbury recalls how the incumbent holder of the Flying Broomstick time trial record simply disintegrated in midair after crossing the finish line.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cbfd6e47	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cbfd6e47	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cbfd6e47
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Inverted in volume 4 when Katie, who is Farnish by birth, makes the mistake of ordering jellied eels at the restaurant in Galatea. Even resident Big Eater Nanao has trouble getting them down. According to Chela, her father is the only person she knows who actually enjoys this dish.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ce1d78bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ce1d78bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ce1d78bc
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cec7dac0	type	The Magocracy
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cec7dac0	comment	The Magocracy: The government of the Union is not discussed in detail but is strongly implied to be this. Mages sit firmly at the top of the class system, to the point where non-magic expectant mothers sometimes approach random mages hoping they can cast a spell that would make the unborn child a mage (the existence of such a spell is explicitly stated to be an urban legend by the protagonists). Meanwhile, demihumans are firmly second-class citizens at best: only a select few species even have civil rights, though there's a strong mage movement to change this.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cec7dac0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cec7dac0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_cec7dac0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ceec4df5	comment	Episode 6 of the anime. It starts out pretty normal, segueing from the last episode with Nanao and Oliver fighting Miligan. It's already exciting enough when Nanao shows she can wield the titular seventh Spellblade to defeat her. Then (corresponding to the epilogue of volume 1) Oliver gets invited to come alone with Darius Grenville who wants his assistance after his good performance in class, and it becomes very dark very fast. Oliver's real reason for enrolling in the school, the explanation for Oliver's secret collaborators, and ultimately the underlying plot of the entire show and the full truth of his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, are all finally revealed. Following the Cruel and Unusual Death of his mother, Oliver's true goal has actually been to slaughter all her murderers... with Grenville as the first on his hit list. The teacher ends up getting violently and bloodily mutilated, tortured and finally killed by Oliver, and the episode reaches its end with our somewhat morally ambiguous protagonist reiterating his vow to enact bloody revenge on an Enemies List that includes basically half the faculty staff.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ceec4df5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ceec4df5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ceec4df5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d1439d39	type	Disposable Decoy DoppelgÃ¤nger
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d1439d39	comment	Disposable Decoy DoppelgÃ¤nger: RosÃ© Mistral and Teresa Carste both have the ability to create "splinters" of themselves, illusory copies without substance used to divert attention from the real attacker. Mistral can additionally place them over top of his allies to make them look like himself, letting him mix additional real attackers into the copies. Teresa, meanwhile, suppresses her mana signature to cover up any imperfections in her splinters.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d1439d39	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d1439d39	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d1439d39
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d38f49f0	type	Ruins for Ruins' Sake
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d38f49f0	comment	The upper layer is a maze of ruined, crumbling stone full of traps and fauna both benign and dangerous.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d38f49f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d38f49f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d38f49f0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d39eb836	type	Seduction as One-Upmanship
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d39eb836	comment	Seduction as One-Upmanship: Tullio Rossi, who sees himself as a class rival to main character Oliver Horn, makes several passes at Oliver's Love Interest Nanao Hibiki. He has absolutely no success at this because Nanao only has eyes for Oliver. In volume 6, during a confrontation between the two parties in the election for Student Council President, Khiirgi Albschuch from Echevalria's group brags about repeatedly cucking Godfrey's supporter Lesedi Ingwe to piss her off.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d39eb836	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d39eb836	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d39eb836
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d45c0b86	comment	When the faculty of Kimberly Magic Academy discuss the disappearance of Professor Darius Grenville in volume 2, the possibility that a student may have killed him is suggested, and then immediately discarded as impossible: as Headmistress Esmeralda puts it, "If, by some chance, a student did kill him, that would mean Darius was never fit to be a Kimberly instructor." This means that the prime suspects are the other instructors. This was exactly what the killer, first-year student Oliver Horn, wants them to think—and in their defense it indeed wouldn't have been possible if he didn't have access to his mother's Ghost Memory. However, after a second professor is confirmed to have been murdered in volume 6, the idea that one or more students might have been responsible starts to gain more traction: in volume 7, the senior-year combat leagues are intentionally arranged so that Esmeralda can determine if any of their students might have been strong enough to do it after all.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d45c0b86	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d45c0b86	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d45c0b86
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d59d06c4	type	Breeding Slave
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d59d06c4	comment	Ophelia Salvadori was made a de facto Breeding Slave for her mother's eugenics experiments the moment she hit puberty and carried multiple pregnancies, and was once Forced to Watch her mother rape a man. That plus the Slut-Shaming she endured from other Kimberly students led to her descent into villainy.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d59d06c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d59d06c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d59d06c4
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Oliver Horn was put through the wringer by his and the Sherwood siblings' great-grandfather, who pushed his father into repeatedly training him to the point of death so that he could perform a Merger of Souls with the remnants of his mother Chloe, then drugged a newly pubescent Oliver into raping Shannon in the interest of producing a pure-blooded heir. And it was All for Nothing: the baby was stillborn, leading Oliver to subconsciously conclude he was destined to suffer forever (which proved the Traumatic Superpower Awakening he needed to crack the Fourth Spellblade). In hindsight, it makes perfect sense that Chloe went no-contact and attended Kimberly under the pseudonym "Halford".
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d66cd0e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d66cd0e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d66cd0e6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d7d6ed9a	type	Fictional Sport
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d7d6ed9a	comment	Fictional Sport: "Broomsports" in the series consist variously of obstacle course races on Flying Broomsticks, one-on-one jousting, and team battles—the latter of which Nanao quickly excels at after a notoriously Moody Mount takes a liking to her. Oliver, who is merely okay at riding brooms, is drafted to be her "catcher"—i.e. running around with a wand below the match to magically catch anybody she knocks off their brooms before they hit the ground, or potentially Nanao herself should she be unhorsed.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d7d6ed9a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d7d6ed9a	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_d7d6ed9a
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: In volume 4, Oliver is still fighting the aftereffects of Ophelia Salvadori's Perfume, causing him to become uncomfortably aroused when a drunken Nanao glomps him. When Chela realizes it, she corners him in the restaurant men's room and advises him that, As You Know, if he's still feeling the effects after this long, the only surefire way to clear the Perfume out of his system will be to satisfy the urge, and not by himself. Though she questions whether he'd rather sleep with Nanao (both of them having admitted to their attraction at this point, though neither is willing to call it "love" yet), she solves the issue with a magic-assisted handjob through their clothes. Justified because Sex Magic was involved in causing the problem to begin with, so it makes sense that a similar effect would be useful in resolving it.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_da2f3716	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_da2f3716	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_da2f3716
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db126a0b	type	World Tree
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db126a0b	comment	Below that is the Bustling Forest, a vast expanse of habitable but dangerous woodlands with a gigantic World Tree in the center, and giant bees often nesting in the ceiling. At the end is the Battle of Hell's Armies, two armies of undead warriors that eternally reenact the ancient Battle of Diama and only allow mages to pass who can defeat the historical winner.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db126a0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db126a0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db126a0b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db30c9d0	type	Deconstructed
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db30c9d0	comment	Deconstructed in volume 2. Main character Oliver Horn fights a no-spells duel against Tullio Rossi, a self-taught Combat Pragmatist who incorporates punches with his off-hand, kicks, foot-stamping, and shoulder-charges into his repertoire. After getting a Heroic Second Wind out of sheer irritation at Rossi's Trash Talk, Oliver demonstrates precisely why trying to turn a swordfight into a fistfight against a trained opponent is a bad idea: the next time Rossi tries to punch him, Oliver catches that arm and throws him into an armbar lock.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db30c9d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db30c9d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db30c9d0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Oliver and Nanao are basically attached at the hip by the end of the first volume and admit that they're attracted to one another in volume 4, and finally have a Relationship Upgrade to Official Couple in volume 10. Between her brawn and his brains, they make a terrifyingly effective combo. Stacy Cornwallis and Fay Willock are introduced as "master and knight" (which lends its name to episode 10 of the anime), but by volume 9 they've made a mutual Love Confession and are presently in a sort of Courtly Love limbo.note She's a Blue Blood, he's an orphan and only half-human, so they won't be allowed to be together long-term by her family unless their magical research together bears fruit—which by the combat league semifinals, it does. She has a habit of riding on his shoulders when he's in werewolf form and firing spells at their opponents while he attacks with his sword and claws. In the Backstory, Chloe Halford and Edgar Groves met while attending Kimberly and served together on a Gnostic Hunter squad battling Alien Invasions before she became pregnant with Oliver.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db39ccfd	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db39ccfd	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db39ccfd
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db9dd05	type	Magic Misfire
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db9dd05	comment	Magic Misfire: "Being consumed by the spell" is a catchall term for death due to magic gone awry, whether due to an Imperfect Ritual, Phlebotinum Overdose, Going Mad from the Revelation, a summoned creature managing to Eat the Summoner, etc. Several instances are detailed in the series: Ophelia Salvadori has a Grand Aria go wrong near the end of volume 2, causing her chimeras and Perfume to go out of control and driving her Ax-Crazy. In volume 4, Nanao admits to Katie that she fears her simultaneous love for Oliver and suppressed desire for a Duel to the Death with him might drive her mad, and asks Katie to kill her if that ever happens. Katie has a mental image of Nanao surrounded by blood and corpses and realize she's imagining her consumed by the spell. Volume 6: Diana Ashbury recalls how the incumbent holder of the Flying Broomstick time trial record simply disintegrated in midair after crossing the finish line. Clifton Morgan is revealed to have summoned fire from the tÃr Luftmarz and become infected by it, causing him to slowly burn alive ever since. He explodes into flames after watching his lover Diana break the broomstick time trial record, and she chooses to die with him.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db9dd05	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db9dd05	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_db9dd05
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dc2c2968	type	Superpowerful Genetics
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dc2c2968	comment	Superpowerful Genetics: While we don't know exactly what mechanism leads to the ability to use magic, it is known that magic can either be inherited or appear spontaneously in non-magic families, but either way it's something you have to be born with. Mages are even known to use selective breeding to try to produce more powerful mage children.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dc2c2968	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dc2c2968	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dc2c2968
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: The combat leagues in the year 3 books. On the face of it you have three tiers of students (grades 2-3, 4-5, and 6-7) competing for glory, prize money, and to settle old scores with class rivals, but there's also a political angle: since mages tend to believe Asskicking Leads to Leadership and the election cycle for Student Council President runs concurrently, the student body tends to vote for whichever side won a majority of the tiers. This leads to various attempts at Crippling the Competition. This is compounded by the murders of two professors in preceding years: Headmistress Esmeralda jacks up the prize money to attract more students, hoping to see if any of them might be strong enough to have killed Darius Grenville and Enrico Forghieri, while Demitrio Aristides inserts a Manchurian Agent into the student body, thinking to ferret out the killer. And then Cyrus Rivermoore tosses a hand grenade into the mix by joining the 7th-year prelims just to get close enough to Alvin Godfrey to steal his sternum for an experiment, depowering him, which provokes the Watch to send a posse after him to recover it before the finals so he can regain his lost powers, which in turn leads the old council to try to interfere with their hunt.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_de9047ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_de9047ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_de9047ac
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: In episode 8 of the anime, while Oliver is making small talk with Ophelia Salvadori, the camera lingers on her ample bosom in a several shots.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dfb71617	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dfb71617	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_dfb71617
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0040f41	comment	Professor Demitrio Aristides's his birthday is 9/9. The number 9 is associated with suffering in (predominantly Christian) folklore, fitting into the suffering he first endured in his Start of Darkness, then inflicted on Chloe Halford in her Plot-Triggering Death which indirectly caused her son Oliver to go through a horrific Trauma Conga Line.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0040f41	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0040f41	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0040f41
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e062bcc4	type	Sink or Swim Mentor
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e062bcc4	comment	Sink or Swim Mentor: The general ethos of Kimberly teachers. Students are given instruction but are largely expected to resolve the consequences of their mistakes themselves or by helping each other, and as long as nobody actually dies in an incident in the labyrinth, the teachers will turn a blind eye to it. Even when students go missing in the labyrinth, the teachers are forbidden to get involved until eight days have gone by. That said, even by that standard, some teachers take it to extremes: Vanessa Aldiss finds it amusing when students are injured in her classes, and Enrico Forghieri is Ax-Crazy and doesn't care. The two notable exceptions to the rule are the younger teachers, Luther Garland and his old friend Ted Williams, who pointedly try to provide better instruction and intervene in classroom incidents before they get out of hand.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e062bcc4	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e062bcc4	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e062bcc4
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0c00a95	comment	The currently unnamed Seventh Spellblade, with which the wielder uses sheer force of will to simply cut everything between themselves and their target, even the space and time between them. Invented by Nanao in her and Oliver's fight with Vera Miligan, in order to defeat the basilisk eye on Miligan's left hand when she's out of range of a conventional strike. Nanao herself doesn't know how she did it and is unable to duplicate it.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0c00a95	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0c00a95	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e0c00a95
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Notwithstanding the rare flashback to Nanao's time in Yamatsu, all the dialogue in the series is in Yelglish (Fantasy English) but is rendered in the localization language. This leads to oddities such as characters in the original Japanese referring to each other with the English-language honorifics "Mister" and "Miss" transliterated into katakana, rather than using Japanese Honorifics (with the exception of Oliver calling his cousins/foster siblings "onee-san" and "nee-san").
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e11b003d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e11b003d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e11b003d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1ad8128	type	Lingering Social Tensions
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1ad8128	comment	At the start of the series, the incumbent is Alvin Godfrey, a fifth-year who was elected at the end of the year before the Sword Roses enroll, and has led a big, though still ongoing, shift in Kimberly's student culture: he got his start as a campus organizer trying to protect weaker and underprivileged students from bullies and predatory upperclassmen, whereas the old council let them run riot.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1ad8128	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1ad8128	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1ad8128
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1c22ca8	type	Talent vs. Training
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1c22ca8	comment	Talent vs. Training: Oliver is contrasted with several characters in this way, particularly Nanao and to a lesser extent Tullio Rossi. Oliver is extremely good at learning and adapting magic and sword techniques from others: in volume 2 he shocks Rossi in a sword duel by defeating the Ytallian's self-taught fighting style with pure, orthodox Lanoff Style swordsmanship, and is even capable of the Fourth Spellblade by making use of his mother's Ghost Memory. However, he has no techniques or skills that are truly his own nor any unique magical traits or affinities like several of his friends have: Nanao in particular is a mage of phenomenal natural talent whose foreign life experiences and worldview as a samurai of far-off Yamatsukini allow her to use magic in ways nobody has ever even heard of before.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1c22ca8	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1c22ca8	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e1c22ca8
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e2432e68	type	Name Order Confusion
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e2432e68	comment	Name Order Confusion: Discussed. Nanao initially introduces herself in the Eastern style as "Hibiya Nanao", but then notes that by Union custom she would be called Nanao Hibiya. Her name is left in Western order from then on. The anime skips over this, with Nanao first introducing herself in Eastern name order but then being referred to in Western order from then on.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e2432e68	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e2432e68	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e2432e68
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e394c5d	type	Color Wash
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e394c5d	comment	Color Wash: All the color pages in the manga are drawn in predominantly red and purple hues.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e394c5d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e394c5d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e394c5d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e42d93e0	type	Variant Chess
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e42d93e0	comment	Variant Chess: "Magic Chess", which is apparently the bastard offspring of normal chess and tabletop wargaming: according to Oliver it's up to 28 editions and there are rules updates every month that completely upend the metagame. The current edition, Dynamic, features among other things trap effects and one of Nanao's pieces defending itself against Oliver's move by turning into a werewolf. Oliver's father was terrible at it, while his mother routinely kicked both their butts.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e42d93e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e42d93e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e42d93e0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e4965307	comment	Severus Snape is roughly split between Headmistress Esmeralada—with some of Albus Dumbledore added for flavor—and Professor Darius Grenville. Grenville looks a lot like Snape, has a similar personality and well-earned reputation as a Sadist Teacher, and covets another position at the school (Sword Arts rather than Defense Against the Dark Arts, this world not really having a concept of the latter). Also, he and Esmeralda are connected in the series' backstory to Oliver's mother Chloe Halford—except they were among the people who conspired to murder her, rather than trying to save her. Like Snape, Esmeralda was in love with Chloe at the time of her death, but delivered the killing blow by her own hand.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e4965307	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e4965307	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e4965307
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e54f93d5	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e54f93d5	comment	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: Deconstructed in volume 2. Main character Oliver Horn fights a no-spells duel against Tullio Rossi, a self-taught Combat Pragmatist who incorporates punches with his off-hand, kicks, foot-stamping, and shoulder-charges into his repertoire. After getting a Heroic Second Wind out of sheer irritation at Rossi's Trash Talk, Oliver demonstrates precisely why trying to turn a swordfight into a fistfight against a trained opponent is a bad idea: the next time Rossi tries to punch him, Oliver catches that arm and throws him into an armbar lock. Played straight with Lesedi Ingwe, a mage specializing in magic-enhanced kickboxing who regularly fights on equal terms with armed opponents because she's just that good.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e54f93d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e54f93d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e54f93d5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: In volume 1, despite multiple students getting disemboweled by the garuda, the cast members specifically note that nobody actually died because mages are just made of tougher stuff than normal humans. The corresponding anime episode "Glare" included the assurance that nobody died but omitted the reason, causing some commentators to infer dozens of student deathsinvoked—which in all fairness wouldn't exactly be out of character for Kimberly (the canonical death toll for that school year was 17 across all seven grade years, which is actually less than usual).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e62dfb96	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e62dfb96	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e62dfb96
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8d46c29	type	Backstory
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8d46c29	comment	In the Backstory, Chloe Halford and Edgar Groves met while attending Kimberly and served together on a Gnostic Hunter squad battling Alien Invasions before she became pregnant with Oliver.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8d46c29	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8d46c29	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8d46c29
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8dcd1c0	type	Four Lines, All Waiting
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8dcd1c0	comment	Four Lines, All Waiting: The overall story structure of the novels can be characterized as a fantasy Teen Drama composed of a tapestry of various characters' story arcs, all woven together by the Sword Roses' progression through Kimberly's seven-year curriculum with Oliver's revenge plot serving as the Myth Arc. Characters sometimes disappear for multiple books at a time but are rarely gone for good (unless explicitly killed off), the current record-holder being Annie Mackley, who disappears from the story after the midpoint of volume 1 only to be brought back over three In-Universe years later in volume 12.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8dcd1c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8dcd1c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8dcd1c0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Kimberly's new students have to come to terms with the fact that magicians don't operate on conventional morality. They will do whatever it takes to advance their own goals and research.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8e56799	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8e56799	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e8e56799
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: Reconstructed in volume 4. After Nanao and Pete are approached a little aggressively in the dining hall by other students, Oliver and Chela host an informal sex ed seminar for the group, focusing particularly on consent and the peculiarities of mage sexual relations. One of the things that comes up is that the Union's mage aristocracy has what amounts to an informal Super Breeding Program, and Nanao and Pete's unique traits are highly sought-after additions to mage bloodlines as a consequence.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e9fb38	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e9fb38	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_e9fb38
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eabb8130	type	Swamps Are Evil
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eabb8130	comment	Swamps Are Evil: The third layer of the labyrinth is called the Miasma Swamp. It's a bayou full of monsters and natural hazards like man-eating mud pits, and if you fly too high, the air itself becomes toxic. Add to this the non-native dangers, like the fact Ophelia Salvadori makes her lair there and thus it's sometimes full of her chimeras.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eabb8130	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eabb8130	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eabb8130
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: Surprisingly for a Dark Fantasy series, the theme that people aren't naturally evil but are made that way by their circumstances comes up a lot. Most of the antagonists turn out to have significant redeeming qualities and/or Freudian Excuses, and Katie's efforts to kill 'em with kindness make a surprising amount of headway. While the mage world and especially Kimberly are amoral and often horrific, a lot of it is driven by generational cycles of abuse, social inertia, and the cynicism of a minority of mage aristocrats, and a growing number of people are now questioning it, which has a lot of allegorical applicability to the time of writing.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb2195d9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb2195d9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb2195d9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	There's been a couple of hints that Katie's family was disgraced in some manner. You could initially discount Darius Grenville's disparaging remarks as him being his usual jerkass self, but then in volume 9 Demitrio Aristides alludes to some incident involving the Aalto mages and a tÃr that caused their "downfall".
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb8ec7c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb8ec7c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_eb8ec7c8
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ec40626	comment	Ursule Valois was told she was underdeveloped in the family's arts and sent to live with her grandmother, who denied her food for days on end unless she could cross a frictionless floor to get it, and intentionally inducing Stockholm syndrome about the treatment. She also gave her a kitten to raise only to then force her to kill it with her bare hands, to get her to accept the idea of using any creature as a familiar including humans.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ec40626	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ec40626	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ec40626
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ecc99ac2	type	Fire Keeps It Dead
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ecc99ac2	comment	Fire Keeps It Dead: Gnostic Hunters traditionally burn the bodies of fallen comrades and civilians alike to keep any extraterrestrial contagions they might have been infected with from spreading.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ecc99ac2	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ecc99ac2	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ecc99ac2
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ed61eddb	type	Mage Born of Muggles
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ed61eddb	comment	Early on it's because she's a Mage Born of Muggles, and her inexperience with magic leads to multiple characters mistakenly thinking she's easy prey: Richard tries to duel her in class, only for Oliver to step in thinking she needs protecting from their aristocratic classmate. They're both wrong, as Nanao's combat experience and natural mana flow make her a terrifyingly strong swordswoman for her age. Evelynn Odets repeats their mistake at the start of the Tournament Arc in volume 2.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ed61eddb	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ed61eddb	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ed61eddb
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Surprisingly not: Pete Reston is a main cast member, but there's also a recurring underclassman named Peter Cornish who debuts in volume 4, who is part another circle of friends with Teresa Carste, Dean Travers, and Rita Appleton.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ee7a60e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ee7a60e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ee7a60e9
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0089082	comment	In the novel (and manga), Luther Garland and Richard Andrews didn't appear until the first day of class after orientation. The anime adaptation gives them both Early Bird Cameos in the pilot episode (Garland briefly introduces Headmistress Esmeralda during orientation, while Andrews appears in a couple of scenes but has no lines), which rolls credits early in the morning before class (the first scene of the novel's second chapter).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0089082	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0089082	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0089082
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Much of the world is clearly inspired by the Harry Potter franchise, but with distinctive twists put on it. The major characters are particular examples: The Sword Roses each split one of the primary Power Trio of Harry Potter protagonists between them. Oliver Horn and Nanao Hibiya split Harry himself. Oliver looks a lot like Harry (he takes after his father physically but has his mother's eye color, yellow instead of green), and is a Jack of All Trades with no significant weaknesses as a mage, and has a Missing Mom who is a major part of his Backstory and motivation. Nanao got Harry being a Fish out of Water who found a home at Wizarding School (though she's a Mage Born of Muggles, whereas Harry was born magical but raised by his Muggle relatives), as well as Harry's natural proficiency at riding Flying Broomsticks (she's known to have trained as a cavalrywoman when she was a samurai). Katie Aalto and Pete Reston split up Hermione Granger. Katie is a curly-haired brunette and staunch activist on behalf of intelligent nonhumans, while Pete got Hermione's bookworm tendencies and Mage Born of Muggles background (though he takes much longer to catch up on magical studies than she does). Michela McFarlane and Guy Greenwood split up Ron Weasley. Guy got Ron's Fiery Redhead looks and personality and rural background, while Chela got Ron's role as the insider to mage culture who guides the rest of the group through its intricacies. Severus Snape is roughly split between Headmistress Esmeralada—with some of Albus Dumbledore added for flavor—and Professor Darius Grenville. Grenville looks a lot like Snape, has a similar personality and well-earned reputation as a Sadist Teacher, and covets another position at the school (Sword Arts rather than Defense Against the Dark Arts, this world not really having a concept of the latter). Also, he and Esmeralda are connected in the series' backstory to Oliver's mother Chloe Halford—except they were among the people who conspired to murder her, rather than trying to save her. Like Snape, Esmeralda was in love with Chloe at the time of her death, but delivered the killing blow by her own hand.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0508c08	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0508c08	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f0508c08
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f18c7347	type	Twisting the Prophecy
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f18c7347	comment	Twisting the Prophecy: 300 years ago, a mage theorized that one cannot observe the future with precision because the act of prophecy itself changes the future: "'prophecy' is merely the act of guiding events towards one potential outcome." This became the underlying principle of the Fourth Spellblade, "Angustavia — the thread that crosses the abyss", which selects a desired possible near-term future and forces it to come to pass. Main character Oliver Horn uses this to defeat Darius Grenville in a Single-Stroke Battle at the end of volume 1, bringing the one-in-ten-thousand possible future where he isn't cut to pieces in seconds to him.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f18c7347	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f18c7347	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f18c7347
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f271be91	type	CurtainsMatchTheWindows
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f271be91	comment	Curtains Match the Windows: It's pretty common in Miyuki Ruria's illustrations for characters' hair and eye color to match, to the point where it's easier to list the exceptions: Oliver Horn (brown hair and golden eyes), Chela McFarlane and Stacy Cornwallis (blonde hair and blue eyes), Richard Andrews (Significant Green-Eyed Redhead), and Vera Miligan and Fay Willock (gray hair and Supernatural Gold Eyes).
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f271be91	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f271be91	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f271be91
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f40c8e72	type	Ill-Fated Flowerbed
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f40c8e72	comment	Ill-Fated Flowerbed: The prologue of volume 3 (episode 13 of the anime) shows a young Ophelia Salvadori deliberately stomping the flowers in her yard. The narration explains that she hates flowers: "Their eye-catching beauty and heavenly scents that attracted all manner of insects reminded her too much of herself," referring to the fact that she Smells Sexy to males because of her succubus ancestry.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f40c8e72	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f40c8e72	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f40c8e72
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f55f6e1d	type	Varying Competency Alibi
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f55f6e1d	comment	Varying Competency Alibi: When the faculty of Kimberly Magic Academy discuss the disappearance of Professor Darius Grenville in volume 2, the possibility that a student may have killed him is suggested, and then immediately discarded as impossible: as Headmistress Esmeralda puts it, "If, by some chance, a student did kill him, that would mean Darius was never fit to be a Kimberly instructor." This means that the prime suspects are the other instructors. This was exactly what the killer, first-year student Oliver Horn, wants them to think—and in their defense it indeed wouldn't have been possible if he didn't have access to his mother's Ghost Memory. However, after a second professor is confirmed to have been murdered in volume 6, the idea that one or more students might have been responsible starts to gain more traction: in volume 7, the senior-year combat leagues are intentionally arranged so that Esmeralda can determine if any of their students might have been strong enough to do it after all. Inverted with Alvin Godfrey, who in volume 6 is considered a possible suspect in the faculty murders based on his own fighting strength and the soft power he wields as head of the Campus Watch (i.e. From a Certain Point of View he basically has his own private army). However, Esmeralda admits he's a poor suspect at best because he has no discernible motive; she's pretty much grasping at straws and tells him to consider his name coming up a compliment. Played straight later in volume 6 when Esmeralda interrogates Oliver and Pete. She says up front that there's no possible way that two second-years were even physically capable of killing Enrico Forghieri; she instead thinks that, having visited Forghieri's laboratory,note Technically, Pete was kidnapped by Forghieri, and Oliver and Nanao pursued them to his laboratory. they might have unintentionally leaked information to the assassins and could help her identify them. Ironically, Oliver really IS the killer, and spends the entire scene sweating bullets before Nanao rescues them both.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f55f6e1d	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f55f6e1d	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f55f6e1d
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f6624c30	comment	Clifton Morgan is revealed to have summoned fire from the tÃr Luftmarz and become infected by it, causing him to slowly burn alive ever since. He explodes into flames after watching his lover Diana break the broomstick time trial record, and she chooses to die with him.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f6624c30	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f6624c30	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f6624c30
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9ab17dc	type	Stock Shōnen Rival
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9ab17dc	comment	In volume 9, Nanao gets jealous of Oliver's rapproachment with his Stock Shōnen Rival Richard Andrews, and physically attacks him with a Forceful Kiss. This in turn triggers an incident with Oliver's follower Teresa Carste, who crushes hard on him: in volume 10 she tries to get him to kiss her, then when he doesn't realize she wants it on the mouth, she loses her temper and goes out and attacks Nanao—and then has to run away with her tail between her legs because Nanao is so much stronger than she ever thought possible.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9ab17dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9ab17dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9ab17dc
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Nanao's disregard for portion sizes. The various female cast members fussing over Oliver, to the amusement of Pete and Guy.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9f2c33	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_f9f2c33
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb6edc14	type	Unable to Retreat
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb6edc14	comment	Unable to Retreat: On their second night at Kimberly Magic Academy in volume 1 (anime episode 2), Oliver, Pete, and Chela accidentally end up in the labyrinth under the school and are accosted by predatory upperclasswoman Ophelia Salvadori. They flee, only to be intercepted by another upperclassman, Cyrus Rivermoore, who conjures a fence of bones in their path, blocking their escape so that they may be victimized by whomever wins the ensuing Wizard Duel between himself and Salvadori.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb6edc14	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb6edc14	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb6edc14
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb7bc4a8	type	Never Trust a Title
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: The Seven Spellblades are actually a rather minor feature of the setting rather than a major driving force; also, there's initially only six. Newcomers to the series also sometimes have to have it explained to them that the title does not refer to the six main characters: their proper collective name is "the Sword Roses".
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb7bc4a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb7bc4a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fb7bc4a8
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fbd5fda1	type	Friendly Rivalry
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fbd5fda1	comment	Friendly Rivalry: Downplayed between Cyrus Rivermoore and Ophelia Salvadori. They've fought many bloody battles in the labyrinth and he's prone to Slut-Shaming her, but it's implied that he just does it to provoke her to fight him. If you look more closely, the series actually implies they're more competitors than enemies: they're shown critiquing each other's newest creations during the fight that that the Sword Roses witness in volume 1, and Cyrus mentions he plans to give condolences to her family after she's consumed by the spell in volume 3. Doesn't make their fights any less dangerous to be around. Oliver to Richard Andrews and Tullio Rossi. Andrews kind of becomes a Stock Shōnen Rival for Oliver. They get off on the wrong foot due to a poorly worded remark from Oliver during Sword Arts, then their dispute gets tangled up in the conservative faction's beef with Katie over the troll. After they fight the garuda together they're able to bury the hatchet, and though Andrews never really becomes a friend, he seems to view Oliver as a motivation to improve himself from then on rather than as an enemy, and seeks a rematch in the third-year combat leagues beginning volume 7. Rossi takes a dislike to Oliver for hogging all the gossip after the events of volume 1, and starts the Tournament Arc in volume 2 basically as an excuse to duel him. Oliver soundly thrashes him and then starts tutoring him in the sword, and Rossi teams up with Andrews in volume 7, likewise hoping for a rematch. Upperclasswoman Diana Ashbury, the star of one of the senior league broomsports teams, takes an instant dislike to Nanao once she qualifies to join the senior league teams in volume 4, calling her an eyesore. Nanao earns her respect by forcing her to work extra hard to win in their first face-off, and Diana is shown helping train her afterwards.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fbd5fda1	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fbd5fda1	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fbd5fda1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fc9b6be5	type	Foe Romance Subtext
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fc9b6be5	comment	Foe Romance Subtext: The Campus Watch's tournament match in volume 10 features enough homoeroticism to make Top Gun blush, between Leoncio Echevalria's previously known Villainous Crush on Alvin Godfrey, Khiirgi's Combat Sadomasochism against Lesedi Ingwe who hates her for seducing her girlfriends and making them cry, and Gino Beltrami's duel with Tim Linton literally ending with Beltrami kissing Tim with Drugged Lipstick to cause a Double Knockout.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fc9b6be5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fc9b6be5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fc9b6be5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Oliver is normally a pretty cool-headed Nice Guy. He's also a Master Swordsman (by first-year standards) and a fairly accomplished mage. While it's hard to arouse him to real anger, if you pick on his friends to their faces, watch out. And he goes full Pay Evil unto Evil when it comes to the seven mages who murdered his mother.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fccd06b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fccd06b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fccd06b6
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd752bc3	type	All Trolls Are Different
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd752bc3	comment	All Trolls Are Different: Trolls in this series are a species of demihumans that stand several times the height of a man. Wild trolls can be agricultural pests (as Guy attests), but domesticated trolls, like Marco, a purebred Gasney, can be quite gentle and protective creatures. They also normally can't speak human languages, but Katie recalls being serenaded to sleep by her family's troll as a child.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd752bc3	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd752bc3	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd752bc3
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd99256b	type	Dying Reconciliation
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd99256b	comment	Dying Reconciliation: Downplayed at the end of volume 10. Oliver Horn can't bring himself to torture his dying enemy Demitrio Aristides the way he normally does, because the only reason he won is that the personality of his friend Yuri Leik, a Soul Fragment of Demitrio, was Fighting from the Inside. In return, Demitrio tells Oliver what he knows about the motives behind the conspiracy to murder his mother and warns him about how dangerous Headmistress Esmeralda will be to fight, then allows Yuri to take control so that he and Oliver can say goodbye to each other.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd99256b	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd99256b	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fd99256b
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In volume 1, after Headmistress Esmeralda gives her welcoming Dare to Be Badass speech to the new students, she asks if there are any questions, and Nanao pipes up with a suggestion of a headache remedy. It seems like a throwaway joke to illustrate Nanao's fearlessness and Fish out of Water status. Then in volume 5, Nanao encounters Esmeralda again at Flying Broomstick practice and promptly asks her if the remedy helped any.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fe0330fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fe0330fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fe0330fb
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Ophelia Salvadori in volume 2 (episode 8 of the anime). For all that she's a succubus-blooded Serial Rapist, she's still ultimately human and gets lonely living a solitary life in the labyrinth. In volume 2 (anime episode 8), Oliver runs into her when she's in a good mood and they're able to have a civil conversation: it comes out that among other things she has a sweet tooth and sometimes still comes up to the cafeteria for the pumpkin pie. She's acquainted with Shannon Sherwood for much the same reason, probably helped by their Commonality Connection of both having been forced to bear a child for familial obligations. She also subtly tries to warn Oliver away from the labyrinth for the next while, foreshadowing her planned Grand Aria that causes her to be consumed by the spell. Theodore McFarlane refuses to treat Stacy Cornwallis as anything more than another student despite being her biological father, which caused her to also be shunned by her stepfather. In volume 9, though, after she and Fay perform well as a Battle Couple in the Tournament Arc, he promises to make her family allow their romance rather than force them onto the Courtly Love path.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ff7f34c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ff7f34c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_ff7f34c5
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Nanao, early on. She fearlessly charges an enraged troll, there's the Deadly Sparring incident with Oliver where it nearly became a Duel to the Death, and then she attempts a rearguard action in the labyrinth against two upperclassmen before the Student Council President intervened. Oliver et al. finally corner her about it and force her to reveal that she's been unsure up till then whether she actually died on the battlefield back in Yamatsukuni and has been having a Dying Dream that will end if she falls. Oliver persuades her that yes, this is real, and that she should from now on only draw her sword with the intent of surviving.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fff371b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fff371b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_fff371b4
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_name	type	ItemName
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_name	comment
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_name
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_name	itemName	Reign of the Seven Spellblades

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Absurdly Powerful Student Council / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Absurdly Sharp Blade / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Academy of Adventure / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Accent Adaptation / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Accidental Discovery / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Adaptation Distillation / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Adaptational Late Appearance / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Agony Beam / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	All Amazons Want Hercules / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	All Deaths Final / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	All Trolls Are Different / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Ambiguous Gender Identity / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Amputative Sentencing / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Anime and Manga of the 2010s / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Anime and Manga of the 2020s / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Appeal to Force / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Approval of God / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Arc Number / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Artistic License – Botany / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Attractive Bent-Gender / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Attractiveness Discrimination / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Autopilot Artistry / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Babies Make Everything Better / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Badass Teacher / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Battle-Interrupting Shout / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Beam-O-War / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Beat Them at Their Own Game / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Beautiful Singing Voice / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Bee Afraid / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Bisexual Love Triangle / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Bonus Material / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Boobs-and-Butt Pose / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Breather Episode / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Burn Scars, Burning Powers / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	But Not Too Bi / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Butch Lesbian / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Calvinball / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Camera Abuse / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Cannot Tell a Joke / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Career Not Taken / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Catchphrase Insult / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Catchphrase Interruptus / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Cheaters Never Prosper / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Child by Rape / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Children Are Innocent / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Choke Holds / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Clothing Combat / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Coming-Out Story / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Constructed World / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Corrupted Character Copy / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Country Matters / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Courtly Love / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Covered with Scars / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Creepy Cute / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Custom Uniform / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Dare to Be Badass / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Dark Fantasy / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Dark Magical Girl / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Dark-Skinned Blond / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	De-power / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Deadly Gaze / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Deadly Sparring / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Decapitation Strike / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Decomposite Character / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Defeat Means Friendship / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Depraved Homosexual / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Dhampyr / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Disowned Parent / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Disowned Sibling / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Disposable Decoy DoppelgÃ¤nger / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Do Wrong, Right / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Doesn't Like Guns / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Double Knockout / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Driving Question / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Dude, Not Funny! / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Dying Reconciliation / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Dying Truce / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Empty Eyes / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Enthusiastic Newbie Teacher / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Evolutionary Pressure Cooker / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Excellent Judge of Character / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Famed In-Story / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Fantastic Fighting Style / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Feather Fall / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Fictional Sport / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Fire Keeps It Dead / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Fire Stolen from the Gods / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	First-Episode Twist / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Fluffy Tamer / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Flying Broomstick / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Foe Romance Subtext / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Forceful Kiss / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Foreign Language Title / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Four Lines, All Waiting / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Friendly Rivalry / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Gag Penis / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Gay Guy Dies First / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Gender-Equal Ensemble / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Gender Nonconforming Equals Gay / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Gender-Restricted Ability / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Ghost Memory / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Glass Eye / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Good Thing You Can Heal / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Gruesome Grandparent / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Half-Sibling Angst / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Hand Blast / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Hidden Backup Prince / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Hiding Behind Your Bangs / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Holding Back the Phlebotinum / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Honorable Warrior's Death / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Hormone-Addled Teenager / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Horse of a Different Color / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Ill-Fated Flowerbed / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Inferred Holocaust / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Innocent Fanservice Girl / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Insecure Love Interest / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	"Instant Death" Radius / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Interplay of Sex and Violence / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Interrupted Suicide / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Intra-Scholastic Rivalry / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Jealous Romantic Witness / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Kick Them While They Are Down / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Kimono Is Traditional / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Kung-Fu Wizard / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	LGBT Awakening / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Last Moment Together / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Latin Is Magic / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Latin Lover / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Lazy Alias / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Leonine Contract / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Let's Split Up, Gang! / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Let's Wait a While / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Like Parent, Like Spouse / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Lingering Social Tensions / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Literal Disarming / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Literature of the 2020s / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Living a Double Life / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Lovable Jock / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Love Confessor / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Love Freak / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Love Martyr / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Magic A Is Magic A / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Magic Misfire / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Malevolent Architecture / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Manchurian Agent / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Manic Pixie Dream Girl / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Mark of the Supernatural / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Mega Dungeon / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Mercy Kill Arrangement / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Military Mage / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Moody Mount / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	More Senior Subordinate / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	My Secret Pregnancy / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	My Species Doth Protest Too Much / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Myth Arc / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	NaÃ¯ve Animal Lover / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Name Order Confusion / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Named by the Adaptation / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Navel-Deep Neckline / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Never Trust a Title / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Nipple and Dimed / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	No Endor Holocaust / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Non-Heteronormative Society / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Non-Singing Voice / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Not Blood Siblings / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Official Fan-Submitted Content / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Ojou Ringlets / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Once More, with Clarity / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Only Smart People May Pass / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Open Mouth, Insert Foot / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Our Elves Are Different / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Overly Long Hug / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Parental Neglect / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Parrying Bullets / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Pest Controller / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Pimping the Offspring / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Plant Person / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Plot-Triggering Death / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Pocket Dimension / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Portmanteau Series Nickname / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Power Dyes Your Hair / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Power Palms / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Pragmatic Pansexuality / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Profanity Police / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Queer Character, Queer Actor / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Questionable Consent / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Raging Stiffie / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Rape as Backstory / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Rape by Proxy / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Rasputinian Death / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Reestablishing Character Moment / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Relationship Labeling Problems / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Relative Button / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Remember the New Guy? / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Resolved Noodle Incident / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Restrained Revenge / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Romantic Wingman / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Roundhouse Kick / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Rousseau Was Right / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Samurai / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Samurai Stories / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	School Rivalry / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	School Stories / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real! / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Scrubbing Off the Trauma / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Second Place Is for Losers / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Secretly Dying / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Seduction as One-Upmanship / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Sex Shifter / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Struggles / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Shapeshifters Do It for a Change / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	She's a Man in Japan / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Shōnen Demographic / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Significant Birth Date / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Simple Solution Won't Work / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Simplified Spellcasting / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Single-Stroke Battle / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Sink or Swim Mentor / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Sixth Ranger / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Slaying Mantis / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Smells Sexy / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Smooch of Victory / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Sore Loser / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Starter Villain / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Straight Man and Wise Guy / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Student Council President / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Students' Secret Society / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Stupid Question Bait / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Succubi and Incubi / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Sudden Contest Format Change / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Suddenly Speaking / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Super Breeding Program / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Superman Stays Out of Gotham / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Symbolic Distance / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Talent vs. Training / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Talking Down the Suicidal / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Tamer and Chaster / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Taught to Hate / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Team-Based Tournament / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Technician/Performer Team-Up / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Technician Versus Performer / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	The Glomp / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	The Grappler / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	The Grim Reaper / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Token Minority / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Tongue Trauma / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Tournament Arc / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Trauma Button / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Traumatic Superpower Awakening / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Twisting the Prophecy / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Unable to Retreat / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Unblockable Attack / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Uncredited Role / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Undead Laborers / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Unexpected Successor / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Unscrupulous Hero / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Unspecified Role Credit / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Variant Chess / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Varying Competency Alibi / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Villains Want Mercy / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Virtuous Character Copy / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Walking Ossuary / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Wizard Duel / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Wizarding School / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	Womb Horror / int_ae54c340
Reign of the Seven Spellblades	hasFeature	You Look Familiar / int_ae54c340

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.