Notes

TakingItWell: meg after being trapped in another world, especially when compared to belle's initial reaction
magocracy
impoverished patrician: kath, who comes from a ROYAL bloodline
blue blood: duh
abusive precursors: lucius in lost bretonia
not what it looks like: andreas wayland is the team beneficator, but when introduced, he looks like a meddling villain
earth-shattering kaboom: the void magic lead to apocalyptic events, literally tearing continents apart
shrouded in myth: glorion (a bandit) and mordred (a magician asking to create the first barrier) got turned into glorion the hero and mordred the evil wizard... at least on folk level, since it's historical account on who was who
monster is a mommy?
large ham: in-universe; apparently, old mages had penchant for this, and as result, their constructs, when communicating with modern people, speak in purple prose and are showy to a fault
nice job breaking it, hero: the soul-dragon could be actually INCREDIBLY useful... if only anyone was controlling t. instead, operating on auto-pilot, all it is achieving is making the gap in the barrier to the void bigger and also encouraging all sorts of monsters to simply run for their lives from the dragon itself
witch: male ones, since that's just a job title, but given how polish works, makes it funny by default
overly long name: everyone, since majority of mages are blue blood
collector of strange: meg and chamomile, both taking the weirdest cases possible as their apprentices
famed in story: crazy meg, for better or worse, has an omnious reputation to her name; she doesn't mind and it's mostly played for laughs, but few snippers suggests she's also having extra bureaucratic hurdles due to her reputation
twang hello: "tutasi"
quasi-silesian as dialect
flat-earth atheist: people on the other side of the void don't exactly believe in magic, given all they are left with are half-deteriorated artifacts and the last mage died almost 60 years earlier
tyke bomb: liliana; almost verbatim
mundane solution: vincent spend almost 20 years as an apprentice to figure it out, but he finally realises that thanks to his fuck-huge magic channels, he can simply syphon ANY magic attack send in his direction and dissapate it as harmless light; except, of course, so far everyone thought this is impossible, as nobody had vincent's capacity for processing magic energy
training vs talent: a recurring theme for various characters, that often display natural talent in one field, but require extensive training in other
doing in science/wizardy: magic used to be treated more mystically, so meg has hard time using the "old terminology", being used to precise laws of math and physics
samus is a girl: general von faulkenstein is a hadened battle veteran... and a middle-aged woman
joan d'arc archetype
reasonable authority figure
comically serious: general von faulkenstein, being a foil to meg that has hard time NOT rolling her eyes
got volunteered: belle and meg get tangled into Flame's war over the lost bretonnia
mundane utility:
** the "new humans" subculture use transformation magic for things like technicolor skin, feathers instead of hair or simply instead of neon hair dye
** first thing kat and vince think when wayland tells them about vince's ability to being a geographic Source is to talks about charging magic batteries and getting filthy rich in the process
** want to make sure you remember the spell correctly and use it instinctively, rather than from training? learn it under hypnosis
drunk with power: the void mages, which are mostly remembered as autocrats that got just head over their own powers
last of his kind: lucius the mad was the last void mage; vincent is the last one after his Source finally awakes
open secret: amandine figured on her own that vincent is a void mage
berserk button: calling lady d'opal lily's grandma. and the girls is a short-tempered child capable of fire breathing
gaslight fantasy: arboria. meanwhile, bretonia is squarely in a low-tier standard generic medieval fantasy
blue and orange morality: skuld was programmed thousands of years ago, for goals that are only broadly understood, but is absolutely ruthless with doing everything in her might to do what she was programmed to
no social skills: recurring problem for various magic users
** kath is horrible at this
** meg is a terse talker that is simply too BORED to bother explaining people what has to be explained and only gives them the stuff she has to
** skuld isn't even human and as a magic construct has the sort of empathy you would expect from a pulp novel supercomputer
puppet king: philippe II verlaine
grey emminence: his pupper masters
corrupt church: order of the patient wardener in lost bretonia
church of saint genericus: saint aimee
insult backfire:
- since when fair ladies know anything about the art of war?
- i have no idea, go ask the Flame (general is a woman)
subspace is a scary place: the void is a dangerous place full of eldritch abominations
gender is no object: at least at the arborian side of the void; much less so in the lost bretonia