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* {{Expy}}: Unsurprising, as the novel is heavily inspired by ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. Agnez bears more than a little similarity to D'Artagnan, being a Musketeer with a hot temper and three friends. Cardinal Duplessis is a GenderFlip of Cardinal Richelieu using the real-life cardinal's birth name; the captain of her Pursuivants is just a female Captain Rochefort.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dorotea crosses this over with DitzyGenius. She's always lost in her head, spacing out and thinks about nothing but icon-making and art. The other characters usually have to prod her to keep her on track.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the end, Liliah is [[spoiler: united with Paleniel when she is turned into an angel and fused with them, becoming Palenieth. It's heavily implied that this means losing her free will and emotions.]]
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* FantasticRacism: The descendants of those who escaped Ystara and survived are now called Refusers because of how angelic magic doesn't work on them. Many are convinced that this is due to an act of unforgivable blasphemy by the people of Ystara [[spoiler: when really they were just victims of Liliath's obsession with Paleniel.]] The Queen is seen as a moderate for allowing abe-bodied Refusers without a criminal record to work in the palace as pages and servants. The Cardinal wants them all wiped out. While the main characters are also descended from the Ystaran survivors, since they have the pure essence of Paleniel inside of themselves, they are able to use angelic magic without issue and their families integrated into Serancian society.
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* FantasticRacism: The descendants of those who escaped Ystara and survived are now called Refusers because of how angelic magic doesn't work on them. Many are convinced that this is due to an act of unforgivable blasphemy by the people of Ystara [[spoiler: when really they were just victims of Liliath's obsession with Paleniel.Palleniel.]] The Queen is seen as a moderate for allowing abe-bodied Refusers without a criminal record to work in the palace as pages and servants. The Cardinal wants them all wiped out. While the main characters are also descended from the Ystaran survivors, since they have the pure essence of Paleniel Palleniel inside of themselves, they are able to use angelic magic without issue and their families integrated into Serancian society.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the end, Liliah is [[spoiler: united with Paleniel when she is turned into an angel and fused with them, becoming Palenieth. It's heavily implied that this means losing her free will and emotions.]]
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* FantasticRacism: The descendants of those who escaped Ystara and survived are now called Refusers because of how angelic magic doesn't work on them. Many are convinced that this is due to an act of unforgivable blasphemy by the people of Ystara [[spoiler: when really they were just victims of Liliath's obsession with Paleniel.]] The Queen is seen as a moderate for allowing abe-bodied Refusers without a criminal record to work in the palace as pages and servants. ˇhe The Cardinal wants them all wiped out. While the main characters are also descended from the Ystaran survivors, since they have the pure essence of Paleniel inside of themselves, they are able to use angelic magic without issue and their families integrated into Serancian society.
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* TearsOfJoy: We see this reaction at the end of the book in [[spoiler: an Ystaran who's been a Beastling presumably for the past 137 years, after she's been returned to normal.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Bisc turns out to be this. He only joined the Night Crew because he had no other options aside from living on the streets and begging. We only see him kill innocent people when he's under the impression that this will ultimately help restore the Refusers' ability to use Angelic magic and the kingdom of Ystara.
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* SkewedPriorities: Even when it becomes clear that there is a conspiracy and their lives are in danger, almost all the main characters end up distracted by other concerns. In one scene Dorotea is looking for her friends in order to discuss an important discovery but Simeon is performing surgery, Agnez is playing dice and Henri is looking over a clerk.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Lilliath is the POV character for the first few chapters but it's made clear that she's the villain. The actual protagonist is [[spoiler: Dorotea who is the last of the main characters to be introduced.]]
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Angels do not kill of their own free will. There are no Angels who scope is directly fighting or killing and Angels have to be compelled to take a life.
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* ChildProdigy[=/=]TeenGenius: Deconstructed. Liliath could summon angels from a young age and has prodigious skill as a mage, able to understand and learn new ideas of summoning. However, she's still only a teenager and lacks the wisdom to user knowledge carefully [[spoiler: leading her her accidentally ripping apart Palleniel when she tried to summon him into a mortal.]]
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* ChildProdigy[=/=]TeenGenius: Deconstructed. Liliath could summon angels from a young age and has prodigious skill as a mage, able to understand and learn new ideas of summoning. might be the most powerful mage ever. However, she's still only a teenager and lacks the wisdom to user use her knowledge carefully judiciously. [[spoiler: leading her her For example, accidentally ripping apart Palleniel when she tried trying to summon him into a mortal.]]
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* CassandraTruth: Dorotea figures out early on that there is a conspiracy involving angels. However, non of the other characters believe her and force her to keep quiet.
* ChildProdigy[=/=]TeenGenius: Deconstructed. Liliath could summon angels from a young age and has prodigious skill as a mage, able to understand and learn new ideas of summoning. However, she's still only a teenager and lacks the wisdom to user knowledge carefully [[spoiler: leading her her accidentally ripping apart Palleniel when she tried to summon him into a mortal.]]
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* InterserviceRivalry: The Cardinal's Pursuivant, Queen's Musketeers, King's Guards and the City Watch do not get along. [[DividedWeFall The constant fighting prevents the groups from effectively working together to figure out what is going on.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Liliath doesn't care about anything other than her goal to be somehow reunited with Palleniel, who she considers her lover. Dorotea realizes that the problem is that she's too young and too powerful; she never had anyone who could tell her "no."
* ItsAllAboutMe: Liliath doesn't care about anything other than her goal to be somehow reunited with Palleniel, who she considers her lover. Dorotea realizes that the problem is that she's too young and too powerful; she never had anyone who could tell her "no."
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Liliath doesn't care about anything other than her goal [[spoiler: to be somehow reunited with Palleniel, who she considers herlover. lover.]] Dorotea realizes that the problem is that she's too young and too powerful; she never had anyone who could tell her "no."
* ItsAllAboutMe: Liliath doesn't care about anything other than her goal [[spoiler: to be somehow reunited with Palleniel, who she considers her
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* PsychopathicManchild: Liliath might be a frighteningly powerful mage but she's ultimately a spoiled teenager. She throws tantrums when she doesn't get her way, complains when her surroundings aren't luxurious and only thinks about herself and her goals.
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* RedBaron: Liliath as the Maid of Ellanda. Notably her name has been [[ShroudedInMyth lost to time]] and people do not connect the two.
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* BeneathNotice: Refusers end up in menial positions as the underclass in Sarance. Which makes them perfect for spies as they are everywhere and everyone ignores them. Multiple times, a group of Refusers are blatantly spying and even the main characters notice something odd but dismiss it.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dorotea crosses this over with DitzyGenius. She's always lost in her head, spacing out and thinks about nothing but icon-making and art. The other characters usually have to prod her to keep her on track.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Agnez is {{Hotblooded}} and overly confident of her abilities which makes her act impulsively. She, a cadet, challenged the Captain of the Pursuivants to a deathmatch. The narration lampshades her "limited store of good sense"
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Agnez is {{Hotblooded}} and overly confident of her abilities which makes her act impulsively. She, a cadet, challenged the Captain of the Pursuivants to a deathmatch. The narration lampshades her "limited store of good sense"
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Liliath consuming angels is shown to be utterly horrifying. Angels are sentient beings with no desire to hurt people and her consuming them akin to destroying an innocent sentient. Many are afraid of her but can't resist her will and beg, pled and fight.
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* GodsHandsAreTied: Angels cannot act outside their scope (though that is malleable), are bound to answer their icons and have limited ability to resist a human's orders.
* LightIsNotGood: Lilliath wields the power of angels to commit mass genocide.
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* RedBaron: Liliath as the Maid of Ellanda. Notably her name has been [[ShroudedInMyth lost to time]] and people do not connect the two.
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* CastFromLifespan: The more powerful the angel being called upon, the more lifespan the mage has to give up.
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* EasilyForgiven: Dorotea quickly forgives [[spoiler:Bisc and the rest of the Night Crew for working with Liliath, killing hundreds of people, kidnapping her and her friends, and almost causing another apocalypse]]. Of course, it's quickly pointed out that she doesn't have the ''legal'' authority to forgive them for anything, but she promises to put in a good word for them.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Liliath doesn't care about anything other than her goal to be somehow reunited with Palleniel, who she considers her lover.
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* WasOnceAMan: The beastlings transformed by the Ash Blood plague.
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* DistantPrologue: The prologue details the deaths of the last Cardinal of Ystara and her last living guard during the Doom of Ystara, 137 years before the rest of the book.
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* DistantPrologue: The prologue details the deaths of the last Cardinal of Ystara and her last living guard during the Doom of Ystara, 137 a hundred and thirty seven years before the rest of the book.
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It's been a hundred and thirty seven years since the fall of the kingdom of Ystara, when most of the population died of a plague that turned their blood to ash and mutated a third into monsters. In the neighbouring country of Sarance, things are normal.
But then Liliath, the Maid of Ellanda, the most powerful angelic mage living and the one responsible, awakens from her magical sleep. She doesn't care much about the descendants of the Ystarans, known as Refusers because they can't use angelic magic or have it used on them without the same fate as the residents of their lost nation. She cares about a quartet of young Sarancians: Simeon, a studious doctor in training; Henri, an ambitious fortune hunter; Agnez, an adventurous musketeer cadet; and Dorotea, a student of icon-making and angelic magic. These four are the linchpin of her plans to be reunited with the archangel she considers her lover. And she doesn't care about the cost to anyone else...
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It's been 137 years since the fall of the kingdom of Ystara, when most of the population died of a plague that turned their blood to ash and mutated a third into monsters. In the neighbouring country of Sarance, things are normal.
But then Liliath, the Maid of Ellanda, the most powerful angelic mage living and the one responsible, awakens from her magical sleep. She doesn't care much about the descendants of the Ystarans, known as Refusers because they can't use angelic magic or have it used on them without the same fate as the residents of their lost nation. She cares about a quartet of young Sarancians: Simeon, a studious doctor in training; Henri, an ambitious fortune hunter; Agnez, an adventurous musketeer cadet; and Dorotea, a student of icon-making and angelic magic. These four are the linchpin of her plans to be reunited with the archangel she considers her lover. And she doesn't care about the cost to anyone else...
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* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: Technology lags behind in many areas, especially regarding health, because angelic magic is so useful. One of the reasons Refusers have such terrible lives is because all medicine is based around angelic magic, which can't be used on them. Notably, the highest technology is weapons technology, likely because it is very difficult to force an angel to kill someone.
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* KillAndReplace: Liliath arranges the murder of an exiled Alban noblewoman named Lady Dehiems in order to take her place at the Sarancian court.
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They are limited in power geographically, with each nation having a host, and can only effect the mortal world by the will of a mage.
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* DramaticIrony: On his way home after being promoted, Henri gets targeted by a Refuser cutpurse, only for a Refuser woman to stop the thief and return his belongings. The reader has already been informed of Liliath's orders for the four vessels of Palleniel's essence, of whom Henri is one, to be looked out for, but Henri assumes the fact that he's in the uniform of the servants of the Cardinal to be the reason why his purse was returned.
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* KilledMidSentence: Cardinal Alsysheron in the prologue, killed by a beastling that climbs up behind her while she's talking to Ilgran about Liliath's potential motives.
* MysticalPlague: The Ash Blood plague that destroyed Ystara, which killed two-thirds and turned the rest into monsters.
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* PiecesOfGod: The Refusers are affected by angelic magic the way they are because each of them has a tiny fragment of Palleniel inside of them, making Liliath the only one capable of using magic on them safely in their current state. The four young Sarancians Liliath is targeting contain the archangel's pure essence, which is why they're crucial to her plans.
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''Angel Mage'' is a fantasy novel by Creator/GarthNix, published 2019.
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It's been 137 years since the fall of the kingdom of Ystara, when most of the population died of a plague that turned their blood to ash and mutated a third into monsters. In the neighbouring country of Sarance, things are normal.
But then Liliath, the Maid of Ellanda, the most powerful angelic mage living and the one responsible, awakens from her magical sleep. She doesn't care much about the descendants of the Ystarans, known as Refusers because they can't use angelic magic or have it used on them without the same fate as the residents of their lost nation. She cares about a quartet of young Sarancians: Simeon, a studious doctor in training; Henri, an ambitious fortune hunter; Agnez, an adventurous musketeer cadet; and Dorotea, a student of icon-making and angelic magic. These four are the linchpin of her plans to be reunited with the archangel she considers her lover. And she doesn't care about the cost to anyone else...
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* CastFromLifespan: The more powerful the angel being called upon, the more lifespan the mage has to give up.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Sarance is France, Ystara is Spain, Alba is Britain and Menorco seems to be Morocco.
* GenderIsNoObject: Gender discrimination doesn't seem to exist in this world. In fact, all the Cardinals seen are women, and in Sarance, the ruling monarch is always a Queen, with the King expected by tradition to ineffectually scheme for power.
* GodEating: Liliath consumed several lesser angels in order to make herself more than human and able to ignore the usual cost of using angelic magic.
* {{Homage}}: To ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. The book is in fact dedicated to Creator/AlexandreDumas.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Liliath doesn't care about anything other than her goal to be somehow reunited with Palleniel, who she considers her lover.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They are limited in power geographically, with each nation having a host, and can only effect the mortal world by the will of a mage.
* StarsAreSouls: The stars in the sky symbolize the angels and what they're doing, and shift depending on what country the sky is being viewed from.
* WasOnceAMan: The beastlings transformed by the Ash Blood plague.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Thanks to drawing on their lifespans to summon angels, powerful angelic mages normally look a couple decades older than they actually are.
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It's been 137 years since the fall of the kingdom of Ystara, when most of the population died of a plague that turned their blood to ash and mutated a third into monsters. In the neighbouring country of Sarance, things are normal.
But then Liliath, the Maid of Ellanda, the most powerful angelic mage living and the one responsible, awakens from her magical sleep. She doesn't care much about the descendants of the Ystarans, known as Refusers because they can't use angelic magic or have it used on them without the same fate as the residents of their lost nation. She cares about a quartet of young Sarancians: Simeon, a studious doctor in training; Henri, an ambitious fortune hunter; Agnez, an adventurous musketeer cadet; and Dorotea, a student of icon-making and angelic magic. These four are the linchpin of her plans to be reunited with the archangel she considers her lover. And she doesn't care about the cost to anyone else...
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* CastFromLifespan: The more powerful the angel being called upon, the more lifespan the mage has to give up.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Sarance is France, Ystara is Spain, Alba is Britain and Menorco seems to be Morocco.
* GenderIsNoObject: Gender discrimination doesn't seem to exist in this world. In fact, all the Cardinals seen are women, and in Sarance, the ruling monarch is always a Queen, with the King expected by tradition to ineffectually scheme for power.
* GodEating: Liliath consumed several lesser angels in order to make herself more than human and able to ignore the usual cost of using angelic magic.
* {{Homage}}: To ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. The book is in fact dedicated to Creator/AlexandreDumas.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Liliath doesn't care about anything other than her goal to be somehow reunited with Palleniel, who she considers her lover.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They are limited in power geographically, with each nation having a host, and can only effect the mortal world by the will of a mage.
* StarsAreSouls: The stars in the sky symbolize the angels and what they're doing, and shift depending on what country the sky is being viewed from.
* WasOnceAMan: The beastlings transformed by the Ash Blood plague.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Thanks to drawing on their lifespans to summon angels, powerful angelic mages normally look a couple decades older than they actually are.
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