Clothing Damage: The Shadow Empress's dress is in tatters when Aragami meets her.

With Yamiko as one of strongest Shadow adepts in the world. He can teleport to shadows, create shadows to teleport to, blind hostiles temporarily, and make shadows swallow corpses or even living enemies.

Casting a Shadow: Aragami can use the powers of shadows.

Boss Subtitles: All major characters, including the bosses, are introduced with these.

Blade Lock: Hyo and Hikaru during the climax of the Nightfall DLC.

Bittersweet Ending: Yamiko is defeated, the world is saved from destruction, and Ryo/Aragami is at peace, but the Light army has been torn to pieces by their former general's own hand, every named character except Tsuyoshi's bird is dead, and the damage wreaked by Aragami is severe.

Subverted in that she doesn't actually fight you there.

Battle in the Rain: Sora's boss fight happens during a thunderstorm, complete with occasional lightning flashes that count as bright light across the entire map.

According to his chronicles, he was the one that infused the Kaiho armyВ’s weapons with the Hikalcum ore that allows them to wield light essence without extensive training, and was also the first of the Kaiho leaders to get a knack for Life Essence.

Badass Bookworm: Captain Yuki, at least in the backstory.

Back Stab: Some of the stealth kills Aragami can do.

Sora asks him why he's still holding her, his defeated enemy, if he's not Ryo.

After Aragami stabs Sora, he tries to reject Ryo's memories, unable to accept that he's spent the night fighting his own army and working to undo everything he accomplished in life.

Armor-Piercing Question: As Yamiko is revived, Aragami asks what she'll do when she wins, pointing out that Nisshoku was completely destroyed and she has no one left.

Panthers for Hyo and Shinobu in the Nightfall DLC.

It's further supported by his use of a technique during the final battle that Yamiko explicitly calls Ryuta's, where he summons a shadow dragon to defend himself. It's implied that this comes from Ryuta, as their armour is identical.

Aragami himself has some light associations with dragons, having the mark on one of his left gauntlet, and one variation of his shadow kills has him drag his enemy into the darkness with a shadow dragon.

Kitsune for the Shadow Empress, as indicated by the many statues seen throughout the game.

Animal Motifs: A few, mostly for Yamiko's old Dakudaga team, lampshaded in Hyo's notes: Yamiko being the Fox, Ryuta being the Dragon, and Orochi being the Snake.

And Your Reward Is Clothes: Earning Kami, Yurei, and Oni seals gives you access to new skins for Aragami.

Amnesiac Dissonance: Aragami was Kaiho's leader before his death.

Ambition Is Evil: Whatever the AlchemistВ’s real deal is, anyone that proclaims that a dangerous forbidden technique is В‘only the beginningВ’ canВ’t be planning anything good.

We donВ’t find out exactly what he wanted to do with YamikoВ’s soul fragment, but considering the sinister vibe of his personal notes, and the fact that he felt the need to trick Hikaru and Sora into going to a secluded place with him to complete the transferral ritual, it was probably nothing good. Ambiguously Evil: The Alchemist from the Nightfall DLC.

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