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* PowerAtAPrice: Karou is horrified to discover just what the real price of a wish is and why Brimstone always sent her for teeth. Mainly, ''pain''.
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* PowerAtAPrice: Karou is horrified to discover just what the real price of a wish is and why Brimstone always sent her for teeth. Mainly, ''pain''. The Hamsas are directly powered by the pain of the Revenant's first (or later) deaths.
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* SelfHarm: "Tithing" is the way magic users get the power for their spells through inflicting pain on themselves. Less commonly another person-- willing or unwilling --'s pain can be used instead.
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* {{Parental Substitute}}: The Chimaera to Karou, expecially Brimstone and Issa.
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* {{Parental Substitute}}: The Chimaera to Karou, expecially especially Brimstone and Issa.Issa.
* PowerAtAPrice: Karou is horrified to discover just what the real price of a wish is and why Brimstone always sent her for teeth. Mainly, ''pain''.
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* LecherousLicking: Karou is disgusted to realize that Razgut (who at this point is still invisible) is doing this to her in the first book. Later on it's revealed that Chimaera actually encourage this behavior by "sugaring" their bodies when they expect a romantic encounter.
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* TheDragon: Ten to Thiago, and Jael to Joram, [[spoiler:later DragonAscendant]]
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* ElCidPloy: By the end of ''Days of Blood and Starlight'' [[spoiler:Thiago and Ten's bodies are inhabited by the souls of Ziri and Haxaya respectively, since Karou realizes that she needs to keep the appearance that Thiago is still leading them]].
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* ElCidPloy: By the end of ''Days of Blood and Starlight'' [[spoiler:Thiago and Ten's bodies are inhabited by the souls of Ziri and Haxaya respectively, since Karou realizes that she needs to keep the appearance that Thiago is still leading them]].them but can't bear to resurrect the actual Thiago, especially given what he was [[AttemptedRape trying to do to her]] right before she killed him]].
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* HotGuysAreBastards: Thiago, also an example of WhiteHairBlackHeart.
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* HotGuysAreBastards: Thiago, also an example of WhiteHairBlackHeart. Also interesting in that he originally looked like his father and brothers and had a deer's head, but after he died at least once had his body remade into its current form.
* IcyBlueEyes: Thiago has blue eyes, and Karou at one points notes that actual wolves don't tend to have this eye color, so it makes him more like a Siberian Husky than anything.
* IcyBlueEyes: Thiago has blue eyes, and Karou at one points notes that actual wolves don't tend to have this eye color, so it makes him more like a Siberian Husky than anything.
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* RoyalHarem: Joram's numbers at least in the hundreds.
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* AngstNuke: Akiva unleashes a magical one right after [[spoiler:realizing how Jael intends to use him as TheScapegoat]] and breaks every window in the entire city (which, given how the city is made of mostly glass, is ''a lot'')
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* PaperTiger: The Silverswords, or "Breakblades" as they are derisively called by the Misbegotten, officially guard Emperor Joram but prove to be laughably ineffective in an actual fight.
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* KilledOffForReal: Any character who is killed and has their soul evanesce before it can be put in a thurible, ruining the ability to resurrect them. [[spoiler:Akiva and Liraz]] learn this the hard way when they manage to bring [[spoiler:Hazael's]] body along for resurrection but didn't know that they needed his soul too.
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* HalfIdenticalTwins: Hazael and Liraz are mistaken for this at one point, but they actually only share their father and take strongly after him.
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* SealedGoodInACan: Potentially any Chimaera whose soul is in a thurible, since they can seemingly stay in there as long as necessary until they can be resurrected. Specific examples include [[spoiler:Issa, the Yasri and much of the populace of Loramendi in the underground cathedral]].
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* SealedGoodInACan: Potentially any Chimaera whose soul is in a thurible, since they can seemingly stay in there as long as necessary until they can be resurrected. Specific examples include [[spoiler:Issa, the Yasri and much of the populace of Loramendi in the underground cathedral]].
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* WeHaveReserves: Joram's feelings towards the Misbegotten, since if they fall he can always just father more. The Chimaera [[spoiler:subvert this, since much of their army has already died at least once and been resurrected]].
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* WeHaveReserves: Joram's feelings towards the Misbegotten, since if they fall he can always just father more. The Chimaera [[spoiler:subvert subvert this, since much of their army has already died at least once and been resurrected]].resurrected, with them only managing to somewhat keep up their numbers thanks to Brimstone and later Karou.
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* WeHaveReserves: Joram's feelings towards the Misbegotten, since if they fall he can always just father more. The Chimaera [[spoiler:subvert this, since much of their army has already died at least once and been resurrected]].
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* BringBackNews: A variation: when the Chimaera plan an attack they always have at least one member hang back and out of harm's way so they can glean their souls and resurrect them should they fall in battle.
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* RedRightHand: Jael's entire face is practically bisected by a huge scar running vertically down it, and it's mentioned that the sound of him eating is stomach-turning as a result of what it did to his lips. It's eventually revealed that he got the scar from [[spoiler:Akiva's mother Festival, presumably when he attempted to rape her and eventually killed her]].
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* BreakTheCutie: Ziri definitely counts. Even though before his appearance he's already experienced the genocide of his clan and watched his childhood crush get executed, he just gets worse and worse throught ''Days of Blood and Starlight'', leading up to his ultimate [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]
* BreakTheCutie: Ziri definitely counts. Even though before his appearance he's already experienced the genocide of his clan and watched his childhood crush get executed, he just gets worse and worse throughout ''Days of Blood and Starlight'', leading up to his ultimate [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]
* BringBackNews: A variation: when the Chimaera plan an attack they always have at least one member hang back and out of harm's way so they can glean their souls and resurrect them should they fall in battle.
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* {{Freakiness Shame}}: Among the Chimaera, it is definitely more popular to be High-Human than it is to have an animal head.
** Possibly the fantasy equivalent of ButNotTooBlack, since the Chimera were once enslaved by the Seraphim. Maybe high-human Chimera, who looked more like angels, were more likely to be promoted to easier tasks and thus considered luckier.
** Possibly the fantasy equivalent of ButNotTooBlack, since the Chimera were once enslaved by the Seraphim. Maybe high-human Chimera, who looked more like angels, were more likely to be promoted to easier tasks and thus considered luckier.
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* {{Freakiness Shame}}: Among the Chimaera, it is definitely more popular to be High-Human than it is to have an animal head.
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** To a lesser extent with Revenants, since those who are "pure" and still have their original bodies are held in higher regard and in some cases deliberately kept away from combat.
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** To a lesser extent with Revenants, since those who are "pure" and still have their original bodies are held in higher regard and in some cases deliberately kept away from combat.
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** Kazimir is a Czech name, though it's very rare. (Svetlana is a common female name, though not particularly popular.)
** Karou's martial arts teacher from Hongkong is called a "sensei".
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** Kazimir is a Czech name, though it's very rare. (Svetlana (Meanwhile Svetlana, presumably the full name of Svetla, is a common female name, though not particularly popular.)
** Karou's martial arts teacher from Hongkong is called a"sensei"."sensei" a Japanese term.
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** In the second book, Zuzana jokes how she would marry her boyfriend and signing as "Mrs. Mikolas Vavra", something Anglo-Saxon would say, but Czech would not. Women do take their husband's surname, but they are never used with the given name. She woudl just say Mrs Vavra or Mrs Vavrova (-ova is a suffix signifying a female variant of the surname).
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** In the second book, Zuzana jokes how she would marry her boyfriend and signing as "Mrs. Mikolas Vavra", something Anglo-Saxon would say, but Czech would not. Women do take their husband's surname, but they are never used with the given name. She woudl would just say Mrs Vavra or Mrs Vavrova (-ova is a suffix signifying a female variant of the surname).
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* DeathIsCheap: Thanks to Resurrectionists, death is only a minor inconvenience provided that a.) the deceased's soul can be gleaned before it evanesces (disperses) in a thurible b.) a new body can be made for the soul. It's mentioned that Thiago has already died and been resurrected some half-dozen times, and as a result is interested in Madrigal partly because she is "pure" and still has her original body.
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* AttemptedRape: Figures into the myths of the Chimaera, who say that the Sun god attempted to rape one of the two sister moons but was fought off. And then [[spoiler:Thiago tries this on Karou in the second book, but Karou stabs him before he can do anything]].
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* AttemptedRape: Figures into the myths of the Chimaera, who say that the Sun god attempted to rape one of the two sister moons but was fought off.off, with the blood from where she stabbed him becoming the seraphim. And then [[spoiler:Thiago tries this on Karou in the second book, but Karou stabs him before he can do anything]].
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The Misbegotten are said to number over 3,000 in total, but only around 300 are alive by the time the story takes place. There have been enough of them that Akiva is the 7th to bear that name, since names are recycled with a new child getting the name of the last one who died.
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** Most chimaera are like this. For example, Madrigal Kirin has the upper body and face of a human, the legs of a gazelle, and bat wings.
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** Possibly the fantasy equivalent of ButNotTooBlack, since the Chimera were once enslaved by the Seraphim. Maybe high-human Chimera, who looked more like angels, were more likely to be promoted to easier tasks and thus considered luckier.
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* "Night of Cake and Puppets" (a prequel novella about supporting characters Zuzana and Mik)
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* {{Our Angels Are Different}}: The Seraphim are very beatiful and strong, heat-radiating [[WingedHumanoid winged humanoids]] with tattoos in their fingers showing how many they have killed. They have extremely {{Hot Wings}} that can be concealed before human eyes.
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* {{Our Angels Are Different}}: The Seraphim are very beatiful beautiful and strong, heat-radiating [[WingedHumanoid winged humanoids]] with tattoos in their fingers showing how many they have killed. They have extremely {{Hot Wings}} that can be concealed before human eyes.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kaoru's blue hair grows out of her head that colour. Not that anybody really believes it, though. She actually wished it to be that way.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kaoru's Karou's blue hair grows out of her head that colour. Not that anybody really believes it, though. She actually wished it to be that way.
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Then, mysterious black handprints start to appear on the doors to Brimstone's shop. Karou doesn't think much of it, until she not anymore able to get in. The drama thickens when Brimstone's messenger approaches her, dying, and leaves her the wishbone Brimstone always wore around his neck and forbade her to even touch.
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Akiva is a Seraph, who are at war with the Chimaera. Even though she works for them, Karou fascinates him deeply and she eventually returns this fascination. Their feeling for each other, as it is revealed, root in an even bigger conflict in the past.
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Akiva is a Seraph, a warrior for an angel empire who are at war with the Chimaera. Even though she works for them, Karou fascinates him deeply and she eventually returns this fascination. Their feeling for each other, as it is revealed, root in an even bigger conflict in the past.
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