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* BattleCouple: Michael and Diana both exhibit impressive displays of combat due to their supernatural abilities.
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* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: Downplayed. Diana is not the last witch by any means, but she and her aunt Sarah are the last two carriers of a certain genetic code. Matthew's team of geneticist vampires have found that all witches claim descent from one of four original clans, but only Diana and Sarah claim descent from the outlying fifth.
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* BrokenBird: Miriam is frequently coupled with the adjective "hostile." She's abrasive and blunt at best. But it turns out that she has several reasons to be so cynical -- she's an adopted member of the de Clermont family, only hanging out with them out of a sense of loyalty. It's implied she has no clan of her own. She also blames Matthew for the death of her husband over five hundred years ago -- and vampires mate for life.
* HealingFactor: Vampires have a very strong one, which makes them NighInvulnerable.
* TheHecateSisters: The witch's unnamed goddess at one point appears to Diana in a moment of need as a sprightly young huntress, and an elderly ancestor of hers. Diana realizes in that instant that ''she'' is the mother aspect in that instant, with the power to nurture and give life.
* TheHecateSisters: The witch's unnamed goddess at one point appears to Diana in a moment of need as a sprightly young huntress, and an elderly ancestor of hers. Diana realizes in that instant that ''she'' is the mother aspect in that instant, with the power to nurture and give life.
* NighInvulnerable: Matthew and other vampires. Their HealingFactor is strong and works fast -- it means that if you want to kill a vampire, you need to strike powerfully and fast. [[spoiler: For example, with witchfire.]]
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* PlayingWithFire: Another of Diana's powers.powers, and one of the most terrifying.
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* ComboPlatterPowers: Late in book one, it's revealed that Diana has in her the potential for almost every single power known to witches. Most witches only have one or two supernatural abilities.
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* ComboPlatterPowers: Late in Midway through book one, it's revealed that Diana has in her the potential for almost every single power known to witches. Most witches only have one or two supernatural abilities.abilities.
* DoorStopper: the first book clocks in at around seven hundred and thirty pages. The second one is about as packed.
* DoorStopper: the first book clocks in at around seven hundred and thirty pages. The second one is about as packed.
* GreenThumb: Most witches have a magical affinity for earth, which means herbal magic and the ability to influence growing things.
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* MakingASplash: One of Diana's powers.powers, witchwater. Diana generates water from her body -- her hair, her mouth, her skin, and her tears. Her mind can get swept away in the current, which could potentially be disastrous.
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* TheEmpath: Amira, a witch who leads an inter-creature yoga class, has very strong (magical) empathy.
* FantasticRacism: Most creatures exhibit a degree of prejudice and distrust towards one another. Witches think of vampires as animals, vampires think of witches as untrustworthy and murderous, and both of them seem to see daemons as unstable loonies beneath notice.
* FantasticRacism: Most creatures exhibit a degree of prejudice and distrust towards one another. Witches think of vampires as animals, vampires think of witches as untrustworthy and murderous, and both of them seem to see daemons as unstable loonies beneath notice.
* GoodOldWays: Matthew adheres to these quite strongly: always opens the door for Diana, buys breakfast for her, always waits until she's safely in her building before driving away (which meets ProperlyParanoid). He fancies himself a chivalrous gentleman, but Diana finds it a patronizing sign of how stuck in his ways he is.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Matthew has a magnetic effect on the fairer sex (comes with being a vampire), and is quite surprised that Diana doesn't fall for a single one of his usual charms. However, this doesn't lead to lust, just surprise and him changing tactics.
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The first book was published in 2011, and the second book ''Shadow of Night'' was published in July 2012. The next, as yet unnamed final book is in progress. According to the author's website, it may trilogy, "The Book of Life" will be out sometime published in July, 2014.
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* JackOfAllTrades / TheRedMage: Diana. In ''Shadow of Night,'' she learns that [[spoiler: she is a spellweaver, and will be able to access almost all magical talents, when most witches can only use one or two. However, she'll never exactly ''master'' any of these abilities, and cannot rely on spells written by other witches to work for her.]]
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* OccultBlueEyes: Diana, a powerful witch, has striking blue eyes with gold around her irises. She is quite the sophisticated witch, being very well-educated and preferring to live as a Muggle. Her eyes also count as ElementalEyeColors, since she can use [[MakingASplash witchwater.]]
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* SuperSenses: Vampires have excellent hearing and smell. The latter has a drawback, in the fact that most vampires find the smile of cooked food to be slightly nauseating.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Diana's magic has the potential to make her the greatest witch alive -- if it doesn't get her killed, first, particularly [[MakingASplash witchwater]], which has threatened to erode away her conscious self.
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* MuggleBornOfMages: Sophie is a subversion of this: she comes from a long line of witches, but she herself is a daemon. And, although she and her husband are daemons, she know her child will be a witch.
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* BlackSheep: Both Diana, a witch who tries not to use magic, and Sophie, a daemon born to a family of witches.
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* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Vampires aren't supposed to be able to sire children, but due to Diana being a Weaver, a witch who creates new spells, Matthew and Diana are able to conceive. Subverted in that Diana miscarries their first child.]]
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* BadassFamily: Both the de Clermonts and the Bishops.
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* TheClan: The de Clermonts.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Satu does this to [[spoiler:Diana]]. She tries to use an opening spell on ''her back'' in order to extract the information she needs. Sarah says that this sort of spell was not meant to be used on living things.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Satu does this to [[spoiler:Diana]]. She tries to use an opening spell on ''her back'' in order to extract the information she needs. Sarah says that this sort of spell was not meant to be used on living things.
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Elizabeth Tudor doesn't like it when she doesn't get her way.
* GossipyHens: The women of the Malá Strana. It proves useful.
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* ImmortalitySeeker: Rudolph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, hopes that Edward Kelley will make him a philosopher's stone. Elizabeth I wants Kelley back in England so he will not do this for Rudolph. The immortality and gold that would come if he made ''her'' a philosopher's stone would be nice, too. She also considers being made a vampire, but Matthew tells her that would violate the law of the Congregation.
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* ThePatriarch: Philippe de Clermont.
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--> ''It begins with absence and desire,''\\
''It begins with blood and fear,''\\
''It begins with a discovery of witches.''
** And of the series, in chapter 14.
--> Matthew looked down with a shy smile. "Welcome to All Souls."
--> ''It begins with absence and desire,''\\
''It begins with blood and fear,''\\
''It begins with a discovery of witches.''
** And of the series, in chapter 14.
--> Matthew looked down with a shy smile. "Welcome to All Souls."
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* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: What could result if [[spoiler: Diana and Matthew have a child, which could be the solution to the problem of creatures dying out, if Ashmole 782 is correct.]]
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* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: What could result if [[spoiler: Diana and Matthew have a child, which child. If Ashmole 782 is correct, this could be the solution to the problem of creatures dying out, if Ashmole 782 is correct.out.]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires in this universe are not harmed by the sun, do not have fangs, can't fly, and can't change into bats. Interestingly, they are able to ingest food such as rare meat, nuts, and wine. However, blood still makes up the majority of their diet.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires in this universe are not harmed by the sun, do not have fangs, can't fly, and can't change into bats. Interestingly, they are able to ingest food such as rare meat, nuts, and wine. However, blood still makes up the majority of their diet. Vampire hearts also beat, just at a much slower rate than humans.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: This seems to be Juliette's intention when she challenges Matthew and Diana in the woods [[spoiler:instead, Diana uses witchfire to kill Juliette in self-defense]]
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: This seems to be Juliette's intention when she challenges Matthew and Diana in the woods [[spoiler:instead, woods. [[spoiler:Instead, Diana uses witchfire to kill Juliette in self-defense]]
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* AlchemyIsMagic: Though Diana has convinced herself that alchemy is simply the gateway to modern chemistry, it is apparent that the discipline is more magical than she wanted to believe
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* BetaCouple: Sarah and Emily, Diana's aunts
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* OurVampiresareDifferent: OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires in this universe are not harmed by the sun, do not have fangs, can't fly, and can't change into bats. Interestingly, they are able to ingest food such as rare meat, nuts, and wine. However, blood still makes up the majority of their diet.
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* SecretLegacy: Implied regarding Diana and her parents.has the appearance of a 37-year-old.
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* OurVampiresareDifferent: Vampires in this universe are not harmed by the sun, do not have fangs, can't fly, and can't change into bats. Interestingly, they are able to ingest food such as rare meat, nuts, and wine. However, blood still makes up the majority of their diet.
diet.
* ParentalAbandonment: Diana's parents were murdered in Africa when she was seven years old.
* ParentalSubstitute: After her parents' death, Diana was raised by her aunt, Sarah and her partner, Emily.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Twice: When Matthew decides to leave Diana (albeit temporarily) and when [[spoiler:Diana has to heal his near-fatal wounds from Juliette]]
* Really700YearsOld: Matthew is around 1,500 years old!
* SecretLegacy: Implied with Diana and her parents
* WitchSpecies: Witchcraft and power distribution are hereditary.
* ParentalAbandonment: Diana's parents were murdered in Africa when she was seven years old.
* ParentalSubstitute: After her parents' death, Diana was raised by her aunt, Sarah and her partner, Emily.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Twice: When Matthew decides to leave Diana (albeit temporarily) and when [[spoiler:Diana has to heal his near-fatal wounds from Juliette]]
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Several historical figures are revealed to be either witches, daemons, orvampiresvampires. Matthew would know, he knew most of them personally!
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* HowDoIShotWeb: Diana has very little control over her witch powers and often finds simple tasks, such as magically lighting a candle, to be beyond her abilities.
* ILoveYou,VampireSon: Vampires, or at least Matthew's family, exhibit strong amounts of affection for one another.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Strongly implied between Matthew and Diana, although with Diana it's more like "Love at My Decision to Not Beat You Down On Sight"
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Matthew is a nigh-immortal vampire, while it seems witches like Diana have normal human lifespans.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: This seems to be Juliette's intention when she challenges Matthew and Diana in the woods [[spoiler:instead, Diana uses witchfire to kill Juliette in self-defense]]
* OfficialCouple: Matthew and Diana
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A Discovery of Witches is the first novel in the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness.
Historian Diana Bishop, who happens to be descended from a long line of witches, has been fighting the influence of magic throughout the majority of her life. However, when she opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian library, Diana discovers that she can no longer keep magic out of her carefully ordinary life.
It becomes clear that creatures (classified as witches, daemons, and vampires) are after the manuscript. They believe that it contains important clues about the past and future and want to know how Diana was has been able to get her hands on the elusive volume.
The main focus of the novel is the forbidden romance between Diana and Matthew, a vampire who also happens to desire the secrets of the missing manuscript.
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*Alchemy: One of Diana's main focuses of academic study and the subject of the mysterious Ashmole 782 manuscript
*AllWitchesHaveCats: Diana's aunts have a cat named Tabitha, who seems to have some level of precognition.
*BattleCouple: Michael and Diana both exhibit impressive displays of combat due to their supernatural abilities
*BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Several historical figures are revealed to be either witches, daemons, or vampires
*BetaCouple: Sarah and Emily, Diana's aunts
*FantasticRacism: Creatures all exhibit a degree of prejudice towards one another, which puts pressure on Diana and Matthew's relationship
Historian Diana Bishop, who happens to be descended from a long line of witches, has been fighting the influence of magic throughout the majority of her life. However, when she opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian library, Diana discovers that she can no longer keep magic out of her carefully ordinary life.
It becomes clear that creatures (classified as witches, daemons, and vampires) are after the manuscript. They believe that it contains important clues about the past and future and want to know how Diana was has been able to get her hands on the elusive volume.
The main focus of the novel is the forbidden romance between Diana and Matthew, a vampire who also happens to desire the secrets of the missing manuscript.
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!![A Discovery of Witches] contains examples of:
*Alchemy: One of Diana's main focuses of academic study and the subject of the mysterious Ashmole 782 manuscript
*AllWitchesHaveCats: Diana's aunts have a cat named Tabitha, who seems to have some level of precognition.
*BattleCouple: Michael and Diana both exhibit impressive displays of combat due to their supernatural abilities
*BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Several historical figures are revealed to be either witches, daemons, or vampires
*BetaCouple: Sarah and Emily, Diana's aunts
*FantasticRacism: Creatures all exhibit a degree of prejudice towards one another, which puts pressure on Diana and Matthew's relationship
