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* ObviouslyEvil: From the beginning, it's obvious that Ymur's nightmarish experiences as a slave have boiled him in hate until he's cooked through, and that HeWhoFightsMonsters is in effect. [[IndispensableScoundrel But without his charismatic presence, the revolution to topple Terahnee cannot succeed.]]

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* ObviouslyEvil: From the beginning, it's obvious that Ymur's nightmarish experiences [[spoiler: as a slave slave]] have boiled him in hate until he's cooked through, and that HeWhoFightsMonsters is in effect. [[IndispensableScoundrel But without his charismatic presence, the revolution to topple Terahnee cannot succeed.]]

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%%* ComesGreatResponsibility: The D'ni ways.
%%* CrapsaccharineWorld

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%%* ComesGreatResponsibility: The D'ni ways.
%%* CrapsaccharineWorld
* CrapsaccharineWorld: On the surface, Terahnee is an ideal, idyllic society that uses the potential of the Art to live in post-scarcity abundance. [[spoiler: But someone has to scrub the toilets. Without automation, every facet of their way of life is propped up by slave labor on a truly unimaginably industrialized scale, and they never bothered to invent alternative power sources when they already had an inexhaustible and renewable supply of perfectly adequate power sources on two legs.]]



* ExtremeSpeculativeStratification: With their Book-writing ability, they have unlimited access to land and resources, and indeed among their own kind even the very poor live in huge mansions, control land the size of a small country, barely work and spend most of their time in pursuit of the arts or playing extravagant games. However, the Terahnee decided that, with unlimited access to natural resources, the power source of their civilization should be [[spoiler: slave labor. Because they see themselves as superior to other races, they enslave them and force them to work in backbreaking labor until death, while being carefully trained to never make a sound or be seen by their masters.]]

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* ExtremeSpeculativeStratification: With their Book-writing ability, they have unlimited access to land and resources, and indeed among their own kind even the very poor live in huge mansions, control land the size of a small country, barely work and spend most of their time in pursuit of the arts or playing extravagant games. However, the Terahnee decided that, with unlimited access to natural resources, the Terahnee's power source of their civilization should be is [[spoiler: slave labor. Because they see themselves as superior to other races, and don't see those races as people, they enslave them and force them to work in backbreaking labor until death, while being carefully trained to never make a sound or be seen by their masters.masters. They seemingly never bothered to invent other forms of automation or other power sources to replace their slaves, possibly becuase most of them prefer to ignore their slaves completely.]]
* FalseUtopia: The people of Terahnee want for nothing, living in ease and pleasure. But, to quote Shakespeare, who does all the work? [[spoiler: The slaves. Terahnee only gets to be a utopia because other Ages suffer to feed their desires.
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%%* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler: To the D'ni]]

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%%* * ShadowArchetype: To their D'ni cousins. The D'ni live underground in a HiddenElfVillage and largely avoid revealing themselves to outside peoples, while the Terahnee live on the surface in sunny abundance and freely welcome guests. [[spoiler: To And while both societies have huge issues with FantasticRacism, the D'ni]]D'ni didn't build their entire society on racial supremacy and slavery either.]]



%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: The Terahnee ways.

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%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: The Terahnee ways.



* BabiesEverAfter: Her last appearance in the last chapter has her heavily pregnant, [[spoiler: presumably with Eedrah's child]].



%%* AffablyEvil

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%%* AffablyEvil* AffablyEvil: In the end, ro'Dan was born into a deeply toxic environment and never had much of a chance to be better than he was. Not ''no'' chance; Eedrah proves that. But he wasn't a monster even if his people's way of life was monstrous.



%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Cannot bring himself not to see Atrus.

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%%* * RedemptionEqualsDeath: Cannot bring himself not to see Atrus.Atrus at the end. But [[spoiler: the revolution can't bear to let him live.]]



* BrokenPedestal: He admires Ymur's passion, [[spoiler: but upon seeing that Ymur ultimately plans to become [[FullCircleRevolution as much of a tyrant as those he replaces and more]], he gives his life to cut the head off the snake and snuff out Ymur's reign before it begins.]]



A Terahnee slave.

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A powerful and charismatic Terahnee slave.



* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Though he crosses the MoralEventHorizon pretty fast.
%%* WalkingSpoiler

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* ObviouslyEvil: From the beginning, it's obvious that Ymur's nightmarish experiences as a slave have boiled him in hate until he's cooked through, and that HeWhoFightsMonsters is in effect. [[IndispensableScoundrel But without his charismatic presence, the revolution to topple Terahnee cannot succeed.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about Ymur and his important role in the latter half of the story without revealing the big halfway plot twist about the true nature of Terahnee's FalseUtopia.
* WeHaveReserves: The [[spoiler: slave army]] is untrained and inexperienced and Ymur is no great general. But they outnumber the Terahnee by a gigantic margin, so the huge losses they eat in every battle still end with them on top.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Though It's not hard to see what made Ymur what he crosses the MoralEventHorizon pretty fast.
%%* WalkingSpoiler
has become: [[spoiler: decades of backbreaking slavery and psychological torture]]. It's equally easy to see that what he has become is a power-hungry monster.

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