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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Rava the Raven, in her human form, at least is clearly a woman of non-white non-European ancestry. It helps add to her FetishFuel appeal to the Emperor.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Rava the Raven, in her human form, at least is clearly a woman of non-white non-European ancestry. It helps add to her FetishFuel {{fetish}} appeal to the Emperor.
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* CardCarryingVillain: The Necro-Lords live in castles full of the undead, wear black, and worship a god of darkness. They're not going for ambiguity. Why? ''Because they don't need to.''
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* EvilSorcerer: Every Necro-Lord is this by nature.
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* GodIsGood: Orauna, Goddess of Peace is this. Dirge has a complicated relationship with her.
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* GodIsGood: Orauna, Oraua, Goddess of Peace is this. Dirge has a complicated relationship with her.
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* OmnicidalManiac: The Necro-Lords seem to be composed of these. [[spoiler: Subverted. They're actually after a mystical artifact the Emperor stole and destroying the land is a secondary goal.]
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* OmnicidalManiac: The Necro-Lords seem to be composed of these. [[spoiler: Subverted. They're actually after a mystical artifact the Emperor stole and destroying the land is a secondary goal.]]]
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* DarkActionGirl: Kallie is a rare (anti)heroic example. She's an assassin, murderous, and cruel to her enemies but also deeply loyal to her friends as well as the church who protected her.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Subverted as Kallie puts the needs and protection of the monks and the refugees above her need for revenge against the Emperor.
** [[spoiler: But the moment the monks and refugees ''aren't'' in danger? She goes right back to revenge.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Subverted with [[spoiler: Behr]] who gets killed by Kallie. Apparently, it never occurred to him his new patrons ''couldn't'' protect him, not that they wouldn't.
** [[spoiler: But the moment the monks and refugees ''aren't'' in danger? She goes right back to revenge.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Subverted with [[spoiler: Behr]] who gets killed by Kallie. Apparently, it never occurred to him his new patrons ''couldn't'' protect him, not that they wouldn't.
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* TroubledButCute: Poor Kallie is this in a nutshell, being ten pounds of trauma in one bag due to her family's death, being made a slave, and living in a ZombieApocalypse.
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* GodIsGood: Orauna, Goddess of Peace is this. Dirge has a complicated relationship with her.
* IHaveYourWife: More like, "I have your monks/surrogate family." Happens TWICE.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Dirge seems like she'd be a perfectly nice and stable girl, albeit troubled, if she didn't need to kill many people very painfully.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The Emperor is hated by the people of Delham even though he's the only thing keeping them from getting eaten by ghouls.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The Emperor is hated by the people of Delham even though he's the only thing keeping them from getting eaten by ghouls. This is because they all suspect [[spoiler: rightly]] he can't do a thing to protect them ''and'' he's a vicious tyrant.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Both the Emperor and High Necro-Lord need to be taken out if humanity is to stand a chance of living anything resembling a normal life.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Both the Emperor and High Necro-Lord need to be taken out if humanity is to stand a chance of living anything resembling a normal life. [[spoiler: Later, we can add Duke Freye to the list.]]
* BestServedCold: Dirge gets a chance to savor her revenge, decades in the making, [[spoiler: against Hale]]. Everyone else, she has to kill in combat.
* BestServedCold: Dirge gets a chance to savor her revenge, decades in the making, [[spoiler: against Hale]]. Everyone else, she has to kill in combat.
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* EvilVersusEvil: The Emperor and the Necrolords are both pretty much monsters. The Emperor has an edge, though, because he's not trying to kill everyone.
* EvilVersusOblivion: The Empire is the Evil while the Necro-Lords are Oblivion.
* EvilVersusOblivion: The Empire is the Evil while the Necro-Lords are Oblivion.
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* EvilVersusEvil: The Emperor and the Necrolords are both pretty much monsters. The Emperor has an edge, though, because he's not trying to kill everyone.
everyone. [[spoiler: Add Duke Freye to the list about halfway through the books, being every bit as bad as the other two.]]
* EvilVersusOblivion: The Empire is the Evil while the Necro-Lords are Oblivion. [[spoiler: Subverted when Duke Freye shows up and is willing to side with Oblivion if it means becoming Emperor.]]
* EvilVersusOblivion: The Empire is the Evil while the Necro-Lords are Oblivion. [[spoiler: Subverted when Duke Freye shows up and is willing to side with Oblivion if it means becoming Emperor.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Raven, in her human form, at least is clearly a woman of non-white non-European ancestry. It helps add to her FetishFuel appeal to the Emperor.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Rava the Raven, in her human form, at least is clearly a woman of non-white non-European ancestry. It helps add to her FetishFuel appeal to the Emperor.
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: The Heart of Ultir is the heart of the Necrolord's god.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The Necrolords [[spoiler: want the ArtifactOfDoom the Emperor stole from them.]]
* DoesNotLikeMen: DownplayedTrope with Kallie. She likes the monks and her father. Every other man can go screw himself. It doesn't help almost every one she meets who isn't a monk is an asshat.
* TheDragon:Tyrill Tyril is the Execution of the Necro-Lords.
* DoesNotLikeMen: DownplayedTrope with Kallie. She likes the monks and her father. Every other man can go screw himself. It doesn't help almost every one she meets who isn't a monk is an asshat.
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* EnigmaticMinion: Rava the Raven is mysterious to both her employers as well as her enemies.
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* SaintlyChurch: The monks are committed to helping the homeless, impoverished, and endangered in the ZombieApocalypse out of genuine altruism.
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''Literature/Dirge'' is a DarkFantasy novel by Creator/TimMarquitz published by Creator/PermutedPress.
Wreathed in the ashes of betrayal, forced to come of age in the dungeons of her stolen inheritance, Kallie Brynn Soren died so that Dirge might be born. In the midst of an undead invasion, Kallie is gifted powers by a dying priest. His last wish is for her to use them against the Necrolords in a way his faith would not allow. Reborn as Dirge and free of the priest’s conscience, she is more than happy to do so.
But when fate brings Dirge into the employ of the emperor–the same man whose machinations brought about the murder of her father–the opportunity for revenge becomes too much to ignore. Torn between vengeance and the need to protect the only people she dare call family, Dirge learns there is a much deeper purpose to the Necrolord’s advance. Should it come to light, it might destroy everyone.
The book was released in January of 2015.
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* ApocalypseHow: The survivors of humanity are all reduced to living in walled compounds ruled by TheEmpire.
* {{Antihero}}: Kallie a.k.a Dirge is a HitmanWithAHeart who spends her gold from killing people on helping refugees.
* BigBadEnsemble: Both the Emperor and High Necro-Lord need to be taken out if humanity is to stand a chance of living anything resembling a normal life.
* DarkFantasy: Takes place in the world of Delham, which is a LowFantasy world undergoing a ZombieApocalypse.
* TheDragon: Tyril is the Execution of the Necro-Lords.
* TheEmpire: Emperor Valtore's Empire is a pretty classical example thereof.
* EvilOverlord: Emperor Valtore is one of these, though he's far-far more amendable than the Necro-Lords.
* EvilVersusEvil: The Emperor and the Necrolords are both pretty much monsters. The Emperor has an edge, though, because he's not trying to kill everyone.
* EvilVersusOblivion: The Empire is the Evil while the Necro-Lords are Oblivion.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Dirge is an assassin who works for the Emperor but only so she can have enough money to keep her monk friends and their refugees from starving.
* OmnicidalManiac: The Necro-Lords seem to be composed of these.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The Emperor is hated by the people of Delham even though he's the only thing keeping them from getting eaten by ghouls.
* ZombieApocalypse: The Necro-Lords have destroyed most of humanity with their undead armies, forcing the survivors to live in walled compounds.
Wreathed in the ashes of betrayal, forced to come of age in the dungeons of her stolen inheritance, Kallie Brynn Soren died so that Dirge might be born. In the midst of an undead invasion, Kallie is gifted powers by a dying priest. His last wish is for her to use them against the Necrolords in a way his faith would not allow. Reborn as Dirge and free of the priest’s conscience, she is more than happy to do so.
But when fate brings Dirge into the employ of the emperor–the same man whose machinations brought about the murder of her father–the opportunity for revenge becomes too much to ignore. Torn between vengeance and the need to protect the only people she dare call family, Dirge learns there is a much deeper purpose to the Necrolord’s advance. Should it come to light, it might destroy everyone.
The book was released in January of 2015.
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This book contains the following tropes:
* ApocalypseHow: The survivors of humanity are all reduced to living in walled compounds ruled by TheEmpire.
* {{Antihero}}: Kallie a.k.a Dirge is a HitmanWithAHeart who spends her gold from killing people on helping refugees.
* BigBadEnsemble: Both the Emperor and High Necro-Lord need to be taken out if humanity is to stand a chance of living anything resembling a normal life.
* DarkFantasy: Takes place in the world of Delham, which is a LowFantasy world undergoing a ZombieApocalypse.
* TheDragon: Tyril is the Execution of the Necro-Lords.
* TheEmpire: Emperor Valtore's Empire is a pretty classical example thereof.
* EvilOverlord: Emperor Valtore is one of these, though he's far-far more amendable than the Necro-Lords.
* EvilVersusEvil: The Emperor and the Necrolords are both pretty much monsters. The Emperor has an edge, though, because he's not trying to kill everyone.
* EvilVersusOblivion: The Empire is the Evil while the Necro-Lords are Oblivion.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Dirge is an assassin who works for the Emperor but only so she can have enough money to keep her monk friends and their refugees from starving.
* OmnicidalManiac: The Necro-Lords seem to be composed of these.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The Emperor is hated by the people of Delham even though he's the only thing keeping them from getting eaten by ghouls.
* ZombieApocalypse: The Necro-Lords have destroyed most of humanity with their undead armies, forcing the survivors to live in walled compounds.
