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* RealityBleed: With King Malcom dead and nobody else able to actively control Castle Midnight's own magic, the energies of the Unreal are threatening to overthrow all natural laws within the building. The only way to reverse the damage is for a new king to be crowned and take charge of the castle's magic.
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* SwallowedWhole: A giant spider encountered in the sewers lands on Hawk when it's killed. While it doesn't actually swallow him, he punches a hole in its descending abdomen with his ax, ends up inside its (mostly hollow) belly, then spends the next couple of minutes hacking his way out.
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The six-book ''Hawk and Fisher'' series (released from 1990-1992) is set in the same universe, but focuses on the port city of Haven. Its title characters are Captains in the City Guard; ''Beyond the Blue Moon'' reveals that they're actually Prince Rupert and Princess Julia from ''Blue Moon Rising'', who moved to haven after the events of that book, only returning to the Forest Kingdom during the events of ''Beyond the Blue Moon''. It consists of:
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* SelfInsertFic: InUniverse, one minor character in ''Winner Takes All'' is a self-promoting mercenary who wrote loads of over-the-top adventure stories about his own "incredibly heroic deeds", then published them as mass-market chapbooks under a pseudonym.
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The six-book ''Hawk and Fisher'' series (released from 1990-1992) is a spinoff, following two of the central characters of ''Blue Moon Rising'' (specifically, [[spoiler:Prince Rupert and Princess Julia, who took on new names and became the title characters of the series]]) and what they were up to in the years between that book and the events of ''Beyond the Blue Moon''. It consists of:
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The six-book ''Hawk and Fisher'' series (released from 1990-1992) is a spinoff, following two of set in the central same universe, but focuses on the port city of Haven. Its title characters of are Captains in the City Guard; ''Beyond the Blue Moon'' reveals that they're actually Prince Rupert and Princess Julia from ''Blue Moon Rising'' (specifically, [[spoiler:Prince Rupert and Princess Julia, Rising'', who took on new names and became moved to haven after the title characters events of the series]]) and what they were up to in the years between that book and book, only returning to the Forest Kingdom during the events of ''Beyond the Blue Moon''. It consists of:
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The "Transient Beings". These entities seem to be Not-''Necessarily''-Anthropomorphic Personifications, in that some appear human-like while others are downright bizarre, yet they all embody some greater concept or ideal.
* DecadentCourt: Both series feature a wide variety of these.
** In ''Blue Moon Rising'', the King's Barons and their allies are openly plotting against him, and even host a gathering of rebels in his own castle, plotting to kill him and install the eldest prince as their puppet ruler. [[spoiler:It backfires, because Prince Harald is loyal to his father.]]
** In ''Blood and Honor'', the court recklessly dallies with {{eldritch abomination}}s.
* EldritchAbomination: The series contains several types of Eldritch Abominations in addition to the regular [[OurDemonsAreDifferent evil demons]].
** ''Blood and Honor'' has a castle slowly turning into one (a room digests its occupants at one stage, and [[BodyHorror a person is turned into a living doorway]] to a dimension full of eldritch abominations). Amongst several others.
** In ''Down Among The Dead Men'', the BigBad is explicitly named as an evil from beyond the dawn of time.
* OurLichesAreDifferent:
** Despite being called lichs, the lichs of the main ''Forest Kingdom'' series are simply zombie-like risen dead, rather than undead sorcerers.
** ''Hawk & Fisher: Winner Takes All'' features a normal lich, a wizard who's revived as an undead sorcerer. Unlike most examples, Mortise's lichdom is a temporary state, and he's forced to hide out in an ice-filled cellar to avert his body's slow and painful decomposition.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The "Transient Beings". These entities seem to be Not-''Necessarily''-Anthropomorphic Personifications, in that some appear human-like while others are downright bizarre, yet they all embody some greater concept or ideal.
* DecadentCourt: Both series feature a wide variety of these.
** In ''Blue Moon Rising'', the King's Barons and their allies are openly plotting against him, and even host a gathering of rebels in his own castle, plotting to kill him and install the eldest prince as their puppet ruler. [[spoiler:It backfires, because Prince Harald is loyal to his father.]]
** In ''Blood and Honor'', the court recklessly dallies with {{eldritch abomination}}s.
* EldritchAbomination: The series contains several types of Eldritch Abominations in addition to the regular [[OurDemonsAreDifferent evil demons]].
** ''Blood and Honor'' has a castle slowly turning into one (a room digests its occupants at one stage, and [[BodyHorror a person is turned into a living doorway]] to a dimension full of eldritch abominations). Amongst several others.
** In ''Down Among The Dead Men'', the BigBad is explicitly named as an evil from beyond the dawn of time.
* OurLichesAreDifferent:
** Despite being called lichs, the lichs of the main ''Forest Kingdom'' series are simply zombie-like risen dead, rather than undead sorcerers.
** ''Hawk & Fisher: Winner Takes All'' features a normal lich, a wizard who's revived as an undead sorcerer. Unlike most examples, Mortise's lichdom is a temporary state, and he's forced to hide out in an ice-filled cellar to avert his body's slow and painful decomposition.
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* DecadentCourt: The King's Barons and their allies are openly plotting against him, and even host a gathering of rebels in his own castle, plotting to kill him and install the eldest prince as their puppet ruler. [[spoiler:It backfires, because Prince Harald is loyal to his father.]]
* DragonHoard: The dragon that Rupert's been sent to kill turns out to have collected a vast hoard of ''butterflies'', carefully preserved and pinned in display-cases. When asked why not gold, he merely says that butterflies are just as pretty.
* ImpossibleTask: King John sends his second son Rupert to bring back the head of a dragon. Secretly, he hopes Rupert will take this as an excuse to discreetly leave the kingdom, ensuring his older brother's claim to the throne will never be contested. Rupert is wise to his father's real agenda, but stubborn enough to confront the dragon anyway. When the dragon proves both intelligent and friendly, Rupert brings the dragon back ''alive'', which earns him a bit more respect since A) he'd stuck to his mission, and B) he's now got a freaking ''dragon'' on his side.
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* SuccessionCrisis: Book 1, ''Blue Moon Rising'', starts with second-born Prince Rupert being sent off to slay a dragon. He knows, however, that it's really his father's way of having him get killed, so as to avoid one of these when it comes time for first-born Prince Harald to take the throne. [[spoiler:The climax sees him willingly leaving the kingdom and becoming Hawk and Fisher, captains of the City Guard of Haven.]]
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* SuccessionCrisis: Book 1, ''Blue Moon Rising'', 1 starts with second-born Prince Rupert being sent off to slay a dragon. He knows, however, that it's really his father's way of having him get killed, so as to avoid one of these when it comes time for first-born Prince Harald to take the throne. [[spoiler:The climax sees him willingly leaving the kingdom and becoming Hawk and Fisher, captains of the City Guard of Haven.]]
* AnimalsHateHim: Dogs, at least, hate Prince Viktor. When Jordan learns this, it makes him suspicious of the friendly bloodhound he'd found in his quarters earlier, until it turns out the dog was actually a ghost.
* EmergencyImpersonation: Jordan, an actor and stage magician, is secretly hired to impersonate Prince Victor of Redhart, who's been poisoned by one of his brothers and rivals for the throne. A transformation spell lets Jordan look just like Victor, and another grants him insight into the Prince's background, habits and motives. [[spoiler: Which, together with Victor's private ranting about how he's going to unleash a vindictive bloodbath once he's King, spurs Jordan to murder Victor and assume his identity permanently.]]
* ExplosiveLeash: In ''Blood And Honor'', Prince Dominic has a secret traitor among Prince Victor's supporters, to feed him information and take covert action in the brothers' rivalry for the throne of Redhart. Dominic "recruited" this traitor by inflicting a mortal wound to the man's chest, then using a spell to prevent the traitor from bleeding out: a spell that only Dominic knows, and that requires daily renewal.
* FakeWizardry: In ''Blood and Honor'' the protagonist is a down on his luck stage actor who uses stage fire magic to good effect against his opponents while posing as a mage prince with elemental fire powers.
* FisherKing: In ''Blood and Honour'', Castle Midnight starts sliding into a hellish state without a King. As soon as a King is on the throne again the darkness subsides.
* FakeWizardry: In ''Blood and Honor'' the protagonist is a down on his luck stage actor who uses stage fire magic to good effect against his opponents while posing as a mage prince with elemental fire powers.
* FisherKing: In ''Blood and Honour'', Castle Midnight starts sliding into a hellish state without a King. As soon as a King is on the throne again the darkness subsides.
* {{Geas}}: Brion [=DeGrange=] was a bandit leader until he was captured and [[BoxedCrook condemned to servitude]] at Castle Midnight. He was placed under a geas that compels him to work as the castle's head of security, and bars him from any act - drinking to excess, venturing outside, seeking female companionship - that might distract from or diminish his performance at that task. But it doesn't bar him from ''absolutely hating'' every minute of it.
* MalevolentArchitecture: Castle Midnight, which is slowly turning into an EldritchAbomination. Amongst the many joys contained therein is a suite that one day spontaneously turned into a stomach and digested the family (including small children) that was living in it.
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* VideoWills: In ''Blood and Honor'', King Malcom's will takes the form of a hologram of himself sealed within a ruby.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Giles Dancer is a Blademaster, a warrior so incredibly skilled with a broadsword as to be nigh-unbeatable in melee combat. He's also incapable of laying out his own bedroll, saddling his own horse, or cooking anything more complex than cheese on crackers.
* AscendedToCarnivorism: In one novel, the ghosts of animals that were killed at a slaughterhouse are summoned up en masse and rampage through the city. Crazed and furious, they retaliate against humanity by killing and eating people: a gruesome act of vengeance even the ''sheep'' take part in.
* AnAxeToGrind: In his original identity, Hawk was a master swordsman. After he lost an eye, his sword skills declined so Hawk's wizard friend gave him an enchanted axe that has the power to disrupt sorcery.
* BadassCape: Deconstructed; the BattleCouple are obliged to wear capes as part of their Watch uniforms; however, Hawk hates his because it gets in the way during fights. He puts up with wearing one for Fisher's sake but seizes any plausible opportunity to "accidentally" abandon or destroy his (smothering fires, ditching it when it's pinned to the wall by a crossbow bolt, etc). A subversion, as going capeless doesn't diminish Hawk's Badass Quotient one bit.
* BraidsOfAction: Isobel Fisher is described as wearing her hair in a French braid with a heavyweight at the end, for use as a weapon.
* CondensationClue: In ''Winner Takes All'', a political candidate's hired sorcerers deliver a death threat to his opponent via this trope, magically causing a window to fog up and then "drawing" a leering, speaking face in the fog with the tracks of dripping water.
* CrapsackWorld: The city of Haven is the WretchedHive version, where even the "gods" aren't above greed, mayhem, sociopathy and a host of other antisocial tendencies, but still attract worshippers.
* CutHimselfShaving: In book 1, when a noblewoman one-eyed Hawk what became of his eye, he gives the ridiculous excuse that he lost it in a card game.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: In ''The Bones Of Haven'', the leader of an urban-fantasy Special Wizardry And Tactics team throws herself on the sword of a terrorist fanatic to give her squad the chance to take the man down. Doubles as a Moment Of Awesome, as she sneers in his shocked face and asks him: "You didn't think you were the ''only'' one willing to die for your beliefs, did you?"
* DestroyTheAbusiveHome: In book 1, the [=DeFerrier=] house had a very unpleasant set of previous owners. One of the suspects in the case has been trying to buy the house off its newest owner, and it's later discovered that he is in fact the last [=DeFerrier=], trying to buy the house so he can burn it down.
* ((Determinator)): Hawk and Fisher are definitely up there as determinators. Despite being completely human, they're willing to go up against anything Haven can throw at them and stick to their principles. Usually while insisting they've seen worse.
* TheDogBitesBack: In one story, a corrupt politician who'd engineered a campaign of mayhem against his opponent and everyone who'd dared support his rival is killed, not by the heroes or any of the other Badass killers and traitors on either side of the election, but by the mousy, terrified wife he'd been beating for years, who seized the moment of his downfall to stab him thirty or forty times.
* CrapsackWorld: The city of Haven is the WretchedHive version, where even the "gods" aren't above greed, mayhem, sociopathy and a host of other antisocial tendencies, but still attract worshippers.
* CutHimselfShaving: In book 1, when a noblewoman one-eyed Hawk what became of his eye, he gives the ridiculous excuse that he lost it in a card game.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: In ''The Bones Of Haven'', the leader of an urban-fantasy Special Wizardry And Tactics team throws herself on the sword of a terrorist fanatic to give her squad the chance to take the man down. Doubles as a Moment Of Awesome, as she sneers in his shocked face and asks him: "You didn't think you were the ''only'' one willing to die for your beliefs, did you?"
* DestroyTheAbusiveHome: In book 1, the [=DeFerrier=] house had a very unpleasant set of previous owners. One of the suspects in the case has been trying to buy the house off its newest owner, and it's later discovered that he is in fact the last [=DeFerrier=], trying to buy the house so he can burn it down.
* ((Determinator)): Hawk and Fisher are definitely up there as determinators. Despite being completely human, they're willing to go up against anything Haven can throw at them and stick to their principles. Usually while insisting they've seen worse.
* TheDogBitesBack: In one story, a corrupt politician who'd engineered a campaign of mayhem against his opponent and everyone who'd dared support his rival is killed, not by the heroes or any of the other Badass killers and traitors on either side of the election, but by the mousy, terrified wife he'd been beating for years, who seized the moment of his downfall to stab him thirty or forty times.
* DyingAlone: In ''The God Killer'', a sorcerer sneaks away from his work to provide company to a dying deity, whose church became extinct many generations ago. He claims that even a god shouldn't be left to die alone. When the sorcerer is mortally wounded, the ephemeral god expends the last of its dwindling energy to join him, allowing both of them to avert this trope.
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* EyepatchOfPower: Hawk has an eyepatch over one eye, as well as several scars along his face. Unusually enough, he does have depth perception problems, at least to the point where he prefers to fight with a short-handled axe rather than a sword. He's almost over-the-top in levels of 'experienced badass combatant', though, even with this handicap. How Hawk lost his eye is [[spoiler: revealed in ''Beyond the Blue Moon'', which confirms that Hawk is Prince Rupert from ''Blue Moon Rising'' where he lost the eye in the battle against a BigBad.]]
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* EyepatchOfPower: Hawk has an eyepatch over one eye, as well as several scars along his face. Unusually enough, he does have depth perception problems, at least to the point where he prefers to fight with a short-handled axe rather than a sword. He's almost over-the-top in levels of 'experienced badass combatant', though, even with this handicap. How Hawk lost his eye is [[spoiler: The truth isn't revealed in (both in-universe and to readers) until ''Beyond the Blue Moon'', which confirms when it comes out that Hawk is actually Prince Rupert from ''Blue Moon Rising'' where he Rising'', who lost the eye in the battle against a BigBad.]]
* EyeScream: In ''The God Killer'', one of the priesthoods interrogated by Hawk and Fisher sews its members' eyelids together because the sight of their patron Being would burn out their eyesight. Another, creepier cult's priests ''have'' no eyes, only empty sockets, but still open their eyelids and "look" at the Guards as they walk past. In the previous Haven novel, ''Winner Takes All'', a sorcerer possessed by the Lord of the Gulfs takes off his hood, revealing that the Transient Being has consumed nearly all of its host's tissues, eyeballs included.
* FalseReassurance: In book 1, all the murder suspects attest under a truth spell that, no, they didn't kill the two victims. This is correct, because the victims were killed by different suspects.
* FalseReassurance: In book 1, all the murder suspects attest under a truth spell that, no, they didn't kill the two victims. This is correct, because the victims were killed by different suspects.
* GivingThemTheStrip: In ''Wolf in the Fold'', a spy Hawk is pursuing throws a dagger at the Guard and pins his cloak to the wall. Hawk isn't hurt, but the few seconds it takes him to unfasten the cloak's clasp gives the fleeing spy a head start. Later, the Guard Commander berates him for losing the spy ''and'' his cloak, which he'd left behind still pinned to the wall.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: In one novel, a psychotic magical construct calling itself the Dark Man goes on a rampage, part of which involves it smacking Watch officers around with the human head it's carrying.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: In one novel, a psychotic magical construct calling itself the Dark Man goes on a rampage, part of which involves it smacking Watch officers around with the human head it's carrying.
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* HornyDevils: In book 1, the sorcerer Gaunt keeps a succubus as a companion. He admits that she's the source of much of his power, and she's the one who carried out the Devil's Hook massacre, single-handedly destroying the gangs that controlled the area. She's also capable of generating fire.
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* HornyDevils: In book 1, the sorcerer Gaunt keeps a succubus bound in a magic circle as a companion. He admits that she's the a source of pleasure and also for much of his power, and she's the one who carried out the Devil's Hook massacre, single-handedly destroying the gangs that controlled the area. She's also capable of generating fire.
* InverseLawOfComplexityToPower: Lampshaded in one of the novels, in which the sorceress Mistique criticizes an opposing wizard who's specialized in controlling wood, claiming he was limited by that choice. When someone points out that she, herself, only works with mists, she remarks that you can do a lot with mist.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Much of ''Guard Against Dishonor'' is set up so as to get that series' married-cop protagonists, [[BattleCouple Hawk and Fisher]], to fight one another, as the bad guys implicate Fisher in police corruption while alleging Hawk has gone rogue and is killing innocent people. When they finally meet, [[spoiler: it's subverted, because they both care about each other more than about their duty as cops, so wouldn't have attacked each other even if the allegations had been true]].
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Much of ''Guard Against Dishonor'' is set up so as to get that series' married-cop protagonists, [[BattleCouple Hawk and Fisher]], to fight one another, as the bad guys implicate Fisher in police corruption while alleging Hawk has gone rogue and is killing innocent people. When they finally meet, [[spoiler: it's subverted, because they both care about each other more than about their duty as cops, so wouldn't have attacked each other even if the allegations had been true]].
* MathematiciansAnswer: In book 1, when Hawk and Fisher question suspects about the two murders under a truthspell, all the suspects can correctly answer "No" when asked if they murdered Victim #1 and Victim #2. They can honestly say this because the two deaths were the handiwork of different killers.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: In ''Wolf in the Fold'', the noble [=MacNeil=] family's dark Family Secret is the existence of "the freak." The physical deformities, it's noted, could have been overlooked -- "occasional unfortunates were inevitable when the Quality became as inbred as it had in Haven" -- but when the freak proved to be an immortal energy vampire who drained the life force of any living thing near it, ''that'' was horrific enough that his father walled him up in a secret room in Tower [=MacNeil=] where he remained undying but quiescent until the Family stopped feeding him.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: In ''Wolf in the Fold'', the noble [=MacNeil=] family's dark Family Secret is the existence of "the freak." The physical deformities, it's noted, could have been overlooked -- "occasional unfortunates were inevitable when the Quality became as inbred as it had in Haven" -- but when the freak proved to be an immortal energy vampire who drained the life force of any living thing near it, ''that'' was horrific enough that his father walled him up in a secret room in Tower [=MacNeil=] where he remained undying but quiescent until the Family stopped feeding him.
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* MultipleChoicePast: Hawk tells people all kinds of improbable stories for how he lost his eye, such as he pawned it or lost it in a card game. In fact, [[spoiler: he got clawed in the face by a demon in ''Blue Moon Rising'', back when he still went by his given name as Prince Rupert of the Forest Kingdom.]]
* OurLichesAreDifferent: In ''Winner Take All'', a political candidate is protected by Mortise, a wizard who'd died defending him from magical assassination. Unlike most examples, Mortise's lichdom is a temporary state, and he's forced to hide out in an ice-filled cellar to avert his body's slow and painful decomposition.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The ones in book 1 drink blood, must stay in their coffins during daylight (attacking the vampire's coffin is what gets it to go crazy, putting it into position for Hawk and Fisher to kill it), are weak to garlic and hawthorn, and can only be killed by first staking them, then decapitating them, burning the head and body separately, and scattering the ashes in different places.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: In ''Winner Take All'', a political candidate is protected by Mortise, a wizard who'd died defending him from magical assassination. Unlike most examples, Mortise's lichdom is a temporary state, and he's forced to hide out in an ice-filled cellar to avert his body's slow and painful decomposition.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The ones in book 1 drink blood, must stay in their coffins during daylight (attacking the vampire's coffin is what gets it to go crazy, putting it into position for Hawk and Fisher to kill it), are weak to garlic and hawthorn, and can only be killed by first staking them, then decapitating them, burning the head and body separately, and scattering the ashes in different places.
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* MouthStitchedShut: In ''Wolf In The Fold'', the Freak's mouth was kept sewn shut by his father over many decades' captivity. This wasn't fatal, because the Freak lived on absorbed life force rather than food.
* MultipleChoicePast: Hawk tells people all kinds of improbable stories for how he lost his eye, such as he pawned it or lost it in a card game.In fact, [[spoiler: The truth (that he got clawed in the face by a demon in ''Blue Moon Rising'', back when he still went by demon) isn't revealed until his given name real identity as Prince Rupert of the Forest Kingdom.]]
Kingdom comes out in ''Beyond the Blue Moon''.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: One story shows the titular police captains having to talk down a sorcerer who killed his girlfriend, then turned the body into a magical puppet which moved around at his command, thus feeding his delusion that the girl wasn't really dead. Hawk ends the confrontation by burying his axe in the dead girl's head so that the sorcerer can no longer maintain the belief that she's alive.
* NoManOfWomanBorn: In ''Winner Takes All'', an entity is foretold to be unstoppable by any foe, living or dead. [[spoiler:It get its ass handed to it by an undead hero]].
* OccultDetective: The fantasy beat-cops Hawk and Fisher, who typically investigate cases involving magic and/or monsters.
* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: One story features an androgynous demon called up by decadent young nobles.
* OurLichesAreDifferent:In The "undead wizard" version appears in ''Winner Take Takes All'', serving as a bodyguard for a political candidate is protected by Mortise, a wizard who'd candidate. Mortise was also his protector in life, but died defending him from magical assassination. Unlike most examples, Mortise's his lichdom is a temporary state, and he's forced to hide out in an ice-filled cellar to avert his body's slow and painful decomposition.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Theones vampires (only seen in '''brief''' detail in book 1 1) fall under the "rotting corpse that clawed out of its grave" category, right down to mold growing on the skin. They sometimes have a servant known as a Judas Goat, who (by virtue of appearing outwardly sane, unlike Dracula's Renfield) acts as the vampire's protector. Others use psychic tricks to appear like ordinary and trustworthy humans, even as they're reeking of mildew and drenched in the blood of the ''last'' poor sucker they'd fooled. They also drink blood, must stay in their coffins during daylight (attacking (which proves a fatal weakness; Hawk attacking the vampire's coffin is what gets with his ax drives it to go crazy, distraction as it desperately tries to protect said coffin, putting it into position for Hawk and Fisher to kill it), are weak to garlic and hawthorn, and can only be killed by first staking them, then decapitating them, burning the head and body separately, and scattering the ashes in different places.
* MultipleChoicePast: Hawk tells people all kinds of improbable stories for how he lost his eye, such as he pawned it or lost it in a card game.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: One story shows the titular police captains having to talk down a sorcerer who killed his girlfriend, then turned the body into a magical puppet which moved around at his command, thus feeding his delusion that the girl wasn't really dead. Hawk ends the confrontation by burying his axe in the dead girl's head so that the sorcerer can no longer maintain the belief that she's alive.
* NoManOfWomanBorn: In ''Winner Takes All'', an entity is foretold to be unstoppable by any foe, living or dead. [[spoiler:It get its ass handed to it by an undead hero]].
* OccultDetective: The fantasy beat-cops Hawk and Fisher, who typically investigate cases involving magic and/or monsters.
* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: One story features an androgynous demon called up by decadent young nobles.
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* PhantomZonePicture: ''The Bones of Haven'' has Messerschmann's Portrait, a painting that works as a magical booby-trap: if a person looks into it for too long, they end up trapped in the [[DeathWorld highly unpleasant]] landscape of the painting, from which they can only be released if someone else falls for the trap and takes their place. Someone who spends too long trapped in the portrait comes out no longer entirely human, and completely insane.
* RaisingTheSteaks: In ''The Gods of Haven'', [[spoiler:thousands of enraged animal ghosts are called up from a slaughterhouse, materialize as zombies, and embark on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against humanity]].
* ShamelessSelfPromoter: In ''Winner Takes All'', one of a [[ThoseTwoGuys pair of mercenaries]] who help to protect James Adamant has a sideline, writing chapbook adventure-stories and songs with himself as the hero under a nom de plume.
* SpookyPainting: ''The Bones of Haven'' introduces Messerschmann's Portrait, a painting which, if you look at it too long, will trap you in the hellish landscape it depicts.
* SpookyPainting: ''The Bones of Haven'' introduces Messerschmann's Portrait, a painting which, if you look at it too long, will trap you in the hellish landscape it depicts.
* TableclothYank: Gleefully averted in ''Wolf in the Fold'', in which Fisher snatches up a tablecloth to cover the naked body of a dead man. The toppling crash of place settings is described in all its destructive glory.
* TenLittleMurderVictims: Several of the ''Hawk And Fisher'' stories use this trope, starting with the very first book, in which Councillor William Blackstone is found dead and the title characters order the house sealed, with everyone stuck inside. The other guests start dropping dead soon after.
* TenLittleMurderVictims: Several of the ''Hawk And Fisher'' stories use this trope, starting with the very first book, in which Councillor William Blackstone is found dead and the title characters order the house sealed, with everyone stuck inside. The other guests start dropping dead soon after.
* VideoWills: In ''Wolf in the Fold'', Duncan [=MacNeil=] leaves a prepared illusion as his will, complete with instructions on precisely how his relatives are to be seated in the room where it will be activated. That way, when his 3D image appears, it can address his son, daughter, sister and others "face to face".
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* WhoYaGonnaCall: ''The God Killer'' features the God Squad, a special unit of Haven's police force who deal with supernatural phenomena and entities.
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* ClarkKenting: Here, Rupert and Julia return to the Forest Kingdom as Hawk and Fisher, and count on their both having aged to conceal their real identities. With the masses, it seems to work, mostly because their official portraits are so idealized as to look nothing like they'd looked even when they were younger; at the end it's subverted, as everyone who'd actually ''known'' them admits that they'd recognized them both immediately, but kept quiet about it for reasons of politics and/or to respect their wish for anonymity.
* DesperateObjectCatch: An assassin/sorcerer under powerful magical protection takes the infant king hostage, and demands that the Queen Regent trade her life for the boy's. At the last moment, the Queen's father tosses a protective amulet for his royal daughter to catch, and its power lets her bypass the assassin's shielding spells and cut his throat with her own concealed dagger.
* DungFu: A hermit who's sick of peasants assuming he's some sort of holy prophet throws mud and deer scat at would-be supplicants so they'll leave him alone.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: This is the book where it's revealed that Hawk and Fisher are Prince Rupert and Princess Julia from ''Blue Moon Rising''. They attempt to hide this fact from the other characters, but at the big denouement at the end, everybody is relieved that they can finally drop the pretense.
* HandOfGlory: The Seneschal uses one, which was made from the hand of the first Forest King and hence, has the authority to open any door in Forest Castle [[spoiler: including those in the Inverted Cathedral]].
* OrganDodge: At one point, a sorceress who's fighting a zombie horde is attacked from behind by one of their number. It grabs her lush mane of curly black hair... only to find itself holding a wig, which confuses the slow-witted undead long enough for the sorceress, now outraged because it had exposed her baldness, to blast it.
* TheScourgeOfGod: Subverted by the Walking Man -- contrary to popular belief, he couldn't care less about minor vices. He reserves punishment for real monsters -- like a pedophile/child-murderer/necromancer, who gets beaten into a barely recognizable corpse... bare-handed.
* DesperateObjectCatch: An assassin/sorcerer under powerful magical protection takes the infant king hostage, and demands that the Queen Regent trade her life for the boy's. At the last moment, the Queen's father tosses a protective amulet for his royal daughter to catch, and its power lets her bypass the assassin's shielding spells and cut his throat with her own concealed dagger.
* DungFu: A hermit who's sick of peasants assuming he's some sort of holy prophet throws mud and deer scat at would-be supplicants so they'll leave him alone.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: This is the book where it's revealed that Hawk and Fisher are Prince Rupert and Princess Julia from ''Blue Moon Rising''. They attempt to hide this fact from the other characters, but at the big denouement at the end, everybody is relieved that they can finally drop the pretense.
* HandOfGlory: The Seneschal uses one, which was made from the hand of the first Forest King and hence, has the authority to open any door in Forest Castle [[spoiler: including those in the Inverted Cathedral]].
* OrganDodge: At one point, a sorceress who's fighting a zombie horde is attacked from behind by one of their number. It grabs her lush mane of curly black hair... only to find itself holding a wig, which confuses the slow-witted undead long enough for the sorceress, now outraged because it had exposed her baldness, to blast it.
* TheScourgeOfGod: Subverted by the Walking Man -- contrary to popular belief, he couldn't care less about minor vices. He reserves punishment for real monsters -- like a pedophile/child-murderer/necromancer, who gets beaten into a barely recognizable corpse... bare-handed.
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* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: Subverted. When confronted by a gigantic web that blocks their way, some bandits try to set it alight, but the flame only blackens the material without igniting it. [[spoiler: That's because the "web" actually ''is'' a monster, not something a monster built.]]
* ActionPrologue: All of the books start with an action totally unrelated to the story most of the book is dealing with.
* AnthropomorphicVice: In ''The God Killer'', the medieval-fantasy beat cops stop off at the Temple of John Barleycorn for a refreshing libation after a hard day of investigating a crime spree in the religious district.
* {{Autocannibalism}}:
** In ''Guard Against Dishonor'', a teenager doped out of her mind on [[PsychoSerum super-chacal]] has her belly ripped open by her equally-berserk boyfriend. When Hawk and Fisher find her, she's nibbling on her own exposed guts.
** In another incident, Hawk cuts the umbilicus that connects a small parasitic demon to its host. Denied its source of nourishment, the demon attacks Hawk, jabbing at his throat with the severed cord's end in an attempt to make him its new host. Hawk grabs the cord and jams its end into the demon's own belly, and it sucks itself bodily into its own umbilicus and disappears.
* BackToBackBadasses: The titular BattleCouple frequently fight like this. This is especially helpful for Hawk as he lost an eye and needs Fisher to watch his blind side.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Not only are the title characters the only City Guards of Haven to have never taken bribes, they are also so freaking darn competent that the rest of the Guard looks exactly like this trope in comparison.
** In ''Guard Against Dishonor'', a teenager doped out of her mind on [[PsychoSerum super-chacal]] has her belly ripped open by her equally-berserk boyfriend. When Hawk and Fisher find her, she's nibbling on her own exposed guts.
** In another incident, Hawk cuts the umbilicus that connects a small parasitic demon to its host. Denied its source of nourishment, the demon attacks Hawk, jabbing at his throat with the severed cord's end in an attempt to make him its new host. Hawk grabs the cord and jams its end into the demon's own belly, and it sucks itself bodily into its own umbilicus and disappears.
* BackToBackBadasses: The titular BattleCouple frequently fight like this. This is especially helpful for Hawk as he lost an eye and needs Fisher to watch his blind side.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Not only are the title characters the only City Guards of Haven to have never taken bribes, they are also so freaking darn competent that the rest of the Guard looks exactly like this trope in comparison.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: The Little Lord is essentially a female GentlemanThief; a tall, handsome woman who dresses in slightly old-fashioned upper-class male clothes, complete with short hair and [[HighClassGlass monocle]].
* CobwebJungle: Take to extremes in ''The Gods of Haven'', where the titular characters must hunt monsters in tunnels overgrown by "Crawling Jenny": an amorphous carnivorous life form made up of cobwebs, fungus, and moss.
* CollapsingLair: This trope turns nasty in ''Guard Against Dishonor''. As per tradition, the pocket dimension in which a deadly new drug is being prepared fails when the sorcerer that created it is killed by the Watch; untraditionally, this has worse consequences than just a dramatic race for the exit, as the pocket's collapse takes a crowded city tenement down with it, causing hundreds of civilian casualties. [[spoiler: This was deliberately planned by the drug lord who'd had the pocket dimension created, to discredit the Watch and make it easier to escape with the drugs in the midst of a disaster.]]
* CobwebJungle: Take to extremes in ''The Gods of Haven'', where the titular characters must hunt monsters in tunnels overgrown by "Crawling Jenny": an amorphous carnivorous life form made up of cobwebs, fungus, and moss.
* CollapsingLair: This trope turns nasty in ''Guard Against Dishonor''. As per tradition, the pocket dimension in which a deadly new drug is being prepared fails when the sorcerer that created it is killed by the Watch; untraditionally, this has worse consequences than just a dramatic race for the exit, as the pocket's collapse takes a crowded city tenement down with it, causing hundreds of civilian casualties. [[spoiler: This was deliberately planned by the drug lord who'd had the pocket dimension created, to discredit the Watch and make it easier to escape with the drugs in the midst of a disaster.]]
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* EyepatchOfPower: Hawk wears one. When asked about it in book 1, he claims it's because he lost the eye in a card game, but he's rather clearly just making it up.
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* EekAMouse: Played with and justified in the last story, where a crime lord keeps a bunch of naked Amazons as bodyguards. Rather than fight them, Hawk and Fisher turn a sackful of ravenous sewer rats loose in the crime lord's lair, and the bodyguards start climbing the furniture in a panic when the starving rodents swarm them to bite their bare toes.
* EyepatchOfPower: Hawkwears one. When asked about it has an eyepatch over one eye, as well as several scars along his face. Unusually enough, he does have depth perception problems, at least to the point where he prefers to fight with a short-handled axe rather than a sword. He's almost over-the-top in book 1, he claims it's because levels of 'experienced badass combatant', though, even with this handicap. How Hawk lost his eye is [[spoiler: revealed in ''Beyond the Blue Moon'', which confirms that Hawk is Prince Rupert from ''Blue Moon Rising'' where he lost the eye in the battle against a card game, but he's rather clearly just making it up.BigBad.]]
* EyeRemember: Referenced in ''The God Killer'', although averted in this particular investigation because the victim's head was missing.
* FictionalPoliticalParty: The city of Haven is feuded over by Conservative and Reform blocs, with minority factions representing merchants' Free Trade, the militant/religious Brotherhood of Steel, and Lord Sinclair's personal No Tax On Liquor agenda (a.k.a. the Who's For A Party? party).
* EyepatchOfPower: Hawk
* EyeRemember: Referenced in ''The God Killer'', although averted in this particular investigation because the victim's head was missing.
* FictionalPoliticalParty: The city of Haven is feuded over by Conservative and Reform blocs, with minority factions representing merchants' Free Trade, the militant/religious Brotherhood of Steel, and Lord Sinclair's personal No Tax On Liquor agenda (a.k.a. the Who's For A Party? party).
* GiantSpider: In ''The Bones of Haven'', Hawk, Fisher, and the Special Wizardry and Tactics team fight a giant spider while traversing the sewers.
* HoistHeroOverHead: In the first novel, legendary warrior Adam Stalker holds a ''werewolf'' over his head in this fashion, as this is the only way he can safely restrain the snarling, clawing monster long enough for others to fetch a silver weapon.
* HoistHeroOverHead: In the first novel, legendary warrior Adam Stalker holds a ''werewolf'' over his head in this fashion, as this is the only way he can safely restrain the snarling, clawing monster long enough for others to fetch a silver weapon.
* LieDetector: A [[TruthSerum truth spell]] is used in book 1, which forces people to speak only truthful statements. This attempt to find out who committed two murders fails, due to [[spoiler: the murders having been committed by two different people, each of whom could truthfully deny having killed ''both'' victims.]]
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* MercyKill: In book 1, [[spoiler:the sorcerer Gaunt has to do this to his succubus companion after she's badly injured by a werewolf]].
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* LostHimInACardGame: In the first book, Hawk claims to have lost his missing eye in a card game. He was just kidding though.
* MercyKill: Used multiple times.
** In book 1, [[spoiler:the sorcerer Gaunt has to do this to his succubus companion after she's badly injured by awerewolf]].werewolf]].
** In one book, the titular cops use a magic-nullifying stone to end the anguish of several still-conscious dissection specimens, human and animal, in an evil sorcerer's house.
* MonstrousCannibalism: In one of the tales, the Lord of the Gulfs (a [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Transient Being]] embodying famine) demonstrates its power by calling up a huge crowd of ghostly figures in the last stages of starvation. At its bidding, the ghosts turn upon each other, screaming in horror at their own deeds even as they devour each others' ectoplasmic flesh and bones.
* MultipleChoicePast: Hawk tells people all kinds of improbable stories for how he lost his eye, such as he pawned it or lost it in a card game. In fact, [[spoiler: he got clawed in the face by a demon in ''Blue Moon Rising'', back when he still went by his given name as Prince Rupert of the Forest Kingdom.]]
* OurLichesAreDifferent: In ''Winner Take All'', a political candidate is protected by Mortise, a wizard who'd died defending him from magical assassination. Unlike most examples, Mortise's lichdom is a temporary state, and he's forced to hide out in an ice-filled cellar to avert his body's slow and painful decomposition.
* MercyKill: Used multiple times.
** In book 1, [[spoiler:the sorcerer Gaunt has to do this to his succubus companion after she's badly injured by a
** In one book, the titular cops use a magic-nullifying stone to end the anguish of several still-conscious dissection specimens, human and animal, in an evil sorcerer's house.
* MonstrousCannibalism: In one of the tales, the Lord of the Gulfs (a [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Transient Being]] embodying famine) demonstrates its power by calling up a huge crowd of ghostly figures in the last stages of starvation. At its bidding, the ghosts turn upon each other, screaming in horror at their own deeds even as they devour each others' ectoplasmic flesh and bones.
* MultipleChoicePast: Hawk tells people all kinds of improbable stories for how he lost his eye, such as he pawned it or lost it in a card game. In fact, [[spoiler: he got clawed in the face by a demon in ''Blue Moon Rising'', back when he still went by his given name as Prince Rupert of the Forest Kingdom.]]
* OurLichesAreDifferent: In ''Winner Take All'', a political candidate is protected by Mortise, a wizard who'd died defending him from magical assassination. Unlike most examples, Mortise's lichdom is a temporary state, and he's forced to hide out in an ice-filled cellar to avert his body's slow and painful decomposition.
* ThePowerOfLegacy: Happens twice in book 1, once when the BattleCouple Guards claim that TheRenfield of a vampire they'd battled was just another victim, and again when they blame ''all'' the deaths at Gaunt's mansion on [[spoiler: the guest who was secretly a werewolf]]. In the former case, it's to spare the feelings of the man's widow; in the latter, it's to preserve [[spoiler: Adam Stalker's reputation as a hero Haven's people can look up to]].
* PrincessForADay: The short story ''Vengeance for a Lonely Man'' sees the main characters (who would later canonically be revealed as ''actual'' royalty) going undercover as minor nobility to catch a spy who's stolen extremely sensitive information.
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* RipVanWinkle: In a supporting-character example, Wulf Saxon from ''The Bones Of Haven'' got trapped inside a booby-trapped magical portrait for 23 years while attempting to rob a sorcerer. No time passes for him, but by the time he's set free, his family are all dead or penniless, his friends have become callous and hostile, and the city he'd once hoped to reform has become a WretchedHive far worse than he remembers.
* PrincessForADay: The short story ''Vengeance for a Lonely Man'' sees the main characters (who would later canonically be revealed as ''actual'' royalty) going undercover as minor nobility to catch a spy who's stolen extremely sensitive information.
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* RipVanWinkle: In a supporting-character example, Wulf Saxon from ''The Bones Of Haven'' got trapped inside a booby-trapped magical portrait for 23 years while attempting to rob a sorcerer. No time passes for him, but by the time he's set free, his family are all dead or penniless, his friends have become callous and hostile, and the city he'd once hoped to reform has become a WretchedHive far worse than he remembers.
* SelfInsertFic: InUniverse, one minor character is a self-promoting mercenary who wrote loads of over-the-top adventure stories about his own "incredibly heroic deeds", then published them as mass-market chapbooks under a pseudonym.
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* TruthSerums: Truthspells, as they're called, are a magical version. In book 1, the sorcerer Gaunt casts one so Hawk and Fisher can question the suspects in his house.
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* TruthSerums: Truthspells, as they're called, are a magical version. In book 1, the sorcerer Gaunt casts one so Hawk and Fisher can question the murder suspects in his house.house. The spell doesn't prevent them from withholding information or answering in a deceptive way, though, so all of them get away with saying "no" when asked if they committed the murders. [[spoiler:Turns out there are two murderers, each of whom committed a different murder; when Hawk asks each of them if they killed Blackstone ''and'' Bowman, both murderers were able to truthfully answer no.]]
* WeaponsKitchenSink: Hawk uses an ax instead of the standard-issue police sword. Justified because he'd lost an eye and lacks the depth perception for refined swordplay.
* WhoYaGonnaCall: ''The God Killer'' features the God Squad, a special unit of Haven's police force who deal with supernatural phenomena and entities.
* WhoYaGonnaCall: ''The God Killer'' features the God Squad, a special unit of Haven's police force who deal with supernatural phenomena and entities.
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* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: Used in the prison ColdOpen of ''The Bones of Haven''. Complicated by the fact that this particular CobwebJungle is ''alive'', and mobile enough to freak out when it starts to burn.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: Played straight with the Infernal Devices.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: The Transient Beings. They're all abstract concepts, thoughts, ideals, dreams and beliefs given form and substance in the world of men, and cannot be permanently destroyed. The Demon Prince, who serves as the main antagonist in the first and last stories, is the personification of corruption and darkness.
* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: In book 1, the last army of the Forest Kingdom slay so many of their demonic attackers that they're shielded, for a time, by the mounded corpses of their enemies. At one point, Rupert climbs over the pile to rush to Julia's assistance.
* BadMoonRising: The titularBlue Moon, bringer blue moon unleashes WildMagic, strong enough to reshape reality.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Prince Rupert (JerkWithAHeartOfGold) and Princess Julia (Tsundere for most ofunstoppable WildMagic.the book). [[spoiler:They eventually get their act together at the end and by the time of the sequels are a real BattleCouple]].
* BlobMonster: At one point, a Blob Monster that also probably qualifies as an EldritchAbomination shows up and needs to be [[KillItWithFire Killed With Fire]].
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: The Transient Beings. They're all abstract concepts, thoughts, ideals, dreams and beliefs given form and substance in the world of men, and cannot be permanently destroyed. The Demon Prince, who serves as the main antagonist in the first and last stories, is the personification of corruption and darkness.
* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: In book 1, the last army of the Forest Kingdom slay so many of their demonic attackers that they're shielded, for a time, by the mounded corpses of their enemies. At one point, Rupert climbs over the pile to rush to Julia's assistance.
* BadMoonRising: The titular
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Prince Rupert (JerkWithAHeartOfGold) and Princess Julia (Tsundere for most of
* BlobMonster: At one point, a Blob Monster that also probably qualifies as an EldritchAbomination shows up and needs to be [[KillItWithFire Killed With Fire]].
* CelibateHero: Prince Rupert is very much one, so much so that he even rides a {{Unicorn}} and is rather defensive about it. The reason for this is that as a second son he isn't allowed to be sexually active in case of Dynastic complications. This is a minor [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Literature]], as many younger sons of nobility were packed off to the priesthood for much the same reason in the middle ages, and it had about the same level of effectiveness then as it does in the book.
* CerebusSyndrome: This book is practically the poster child. The story starts out as a lighthearted FracturedFairyTale, but about halfway through [[spoiler: the entire world becomes literally HellOnEarth]].
* CerebusSyndrome: This book is practically the poster child. The story starts out as a lighthearted FracturedFairyTale, but about halfway through [[spoiler: the entire world becomes literally HellOnEarth]].
* CoolSword: There are any number of cool swords in the series, notably the Infernal Devices -- Rockbreaker, Flarebright and Wolfsbane (gigantic, malevolent and sentient magical swords) -- and the Curtana, known as the Sword of Compulsion. They're all evil, but undeniably cool. The Rainbow Sword from the same novels is something of an inversion, as it appears to be an entirely normal blade, and doesn't even have a cool name, although it does have its own powers and proves pivotal in the story.
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* CerebusSyndrome: This book is practically the poster child. The story starts out as a lighthearted FracturedFairyTale, but about halfway through [[spoiler: the entire world becomes literally HellOnEarth]].
* DugTooDeep: The inhabitants of a mining town Dug Too Deep just as the BigBad awakened. By the time the heroes get there it is far, far too late for anything except revenge.
* EarthquakeMachine: Rockbreaker, one of the three {{InfinityPlusOneSword}}s, was one of these.
* EarthquakeMachine: Rockbreaker, one of the three {{InfinityPlusOneSword}}s, was one of these.
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* EvilWeapon: The Curtana, known as the [[CharmPerson Sword of Compulsion]]. Also the three [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Infernal Devices]]: [[EarthquakeMachine Rockbreaker]], [[FlamingSword Flarebright]] and [[UniversalPoison Wolfsbane]]Wolfsbane]]. Subverted a bit, in that these ultra-powerful, ultra-Eeeevil weapons [[spoiler: nevertheless fail to get the job done]].
* TheHeartless: The demons [[spoiler: are just humans who've been taken over by the Darkness, completely against their will]].
** The series also does something of an extension on the the trope by having the Infernal Devices (swords) chosen to ''fight'' the demon armies capable of burning the humanity right out of the user, in essence making them the same or worse than the things they're fighting.
** The series also does something of an extension on the the trope by having the Infernal Devices (swords) chosen to ''fight'' the demon armies capable of burning the humanity right out of the user, in essence making them the same or worse than the things they're fighting.
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* TheLegionsOfHell: The demons[[spoiler:, demons that swarm out of the Darkwood[[spoiler:, although without the Demon Prince's influence they're just random monsters. ''Beyond the Blue Moon'' later subverts it when it's revealed the demons are actually humans transformed into murderous monsters.]]]]
* {{Lunacy}}: The world is plunged into chaos and darkness when the titular blue moon rises and a demon horde is unleashed.
* TheMagicGoesAway: The High Warlock claimed this was happening, as the rise of science and logic gradually displaced the fantastic from reality, and events in ''Beyond The Blue Moon'' make this trope inevitable by [[spoiler:annihilating Reverie, the dimension from which magical energies originate]].
* {{Lunacy}}: The world is plunged into chaos and darkness when the titular blue moon rises and a demon horde is unleashed.
* TheMagicGoesAway: The High Warlock claimed this was happening, as the rise of science and logic gradually displaced the fantastic from reality, and events in ''Beyond The Blue Moon'' make this trope inevitable by [[spoiler:annihilating Reverie, the dimension from which magical energies originate]].
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* TheNightThatNeverEnds: The title [[BadMoonRising evil moon]] also brings with it a side order of eternal night.
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* PityTheKidnapper: Prince Rupert arrives at a dragon's lair only to find a dragon who desperately wants to be rid of an aggressive, tomboyish, ''loud'' princess who was sent to it to die. When asked later [[spoiler:why the dragon is helping them]], Rupert answers that he rescued it from a princess.
* SituationalSword: Early on, Prince Rupert finds a sword which, if its wielder is in a desperate situation ''and his concern is less for himself than for others'', will call down a magical rainbow that disintegrates the supernatural evils caused by the Blue Moon. He nearly gets killed trying to invoke the rainbow in a tight spot where ''he's'' the only one he's really worried about.
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: Prince Rupert's talking {{unicorn}}.
* SituationalSword: Early on, Prince Rupert finds a sword which, if its wielder is in a desperate situation ''and his concern is less for himself than for others'', will call down a magical rainbow that disintegrates the supernatural evils caused by the Blue Moon. He nearly gets killed trying to invoke the rainbow in a tight spot where ''he's'' the only one he's really worried about.
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: Prince Rupert's talking {{unicorn}}.
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* UnexpectedVirgin: Prince Rupert, who rides forth to battle a dragon, is able to do so on a unicorn, having been ''forced'' to live chastely so he won't father a child who might one day contest his older brother's throne. The princess he brings back with him, conversely, can't ride the unicorn.
* {{Unicorn}}: Prince Rupert's unicorn steed, Breeze, was captured when young and [[MadeASlave sold as a slave]]. He's freed by Rupert about halfway through, but opts to stay with his human friend to fight the demonic invaders.
* {{Unicorn}}: Prince Rupert's unicorn steed, Breeze, was captured when young and [[MadeASlave sold as a slave]]. He's freed by Rupert about halfway through, but opts to stay with his human friend to fight the demonic invaders.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: In book 6, a thief is set free from Messerschmann's Portrait, a magical booby trap in which he'd been imprisoned for 23 years after an unwise attempt to rob a sorcerer. Although insane at first, he regains his senses by a fluke of events and subsequently discovers he's acquired superhuman strength, speed and stamina, as if all the concentrated energy of those twenty-three years is at his disposal.
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* AntiMagic: In book 1, Councillor William Blackstone wears an amulet that disables magic within a limited area around him. [[spoiler:The killer makes use of this to slip him a glass of poison, transmuted into wine, that reverts to its true form when in range of the amulet, but turns back into normal wine outside of its range.]]
* BatmanColdOpen: Used in book 1, with Hawk and Fisher dealing with a vampire in the first chapter, before moving on to the case that will last the rest of the book.
* BattleCouple: Captain Hawk and his wife, Captain Isobel Fisher, work in the City Guard and fight side by side on a regular basis.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** In book 1, Katherine Blackstone thinks she did this to her husband by telling him about her affair with Edward Bowman, and subsequently stabbed him with his own dagger to make it look like a murder and preserve his reputation. She's wrong -- he was poisoned by another person.
** In the same book, [[spoiler:Adam Stalker commits suicide in the end to avoid arrest for the murders and other crimes he committed]].
* EyepatchOfPower: Hawk wears one. When asked about it in book 1, he claims it's because he lost the eye in a card game, but he's rather clearly just making it up.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: At the end of book 1, Hawk and Fisher decide to report that [[spoiler:Lord Roderik Hightower]], who was responsible for most of the deaths in the book, was responsible for ''all'' of them in order to protect the reputation of the other killer.
* HornyDevils: In book 1, the sorcerer Gaunt keeps a succubus as a companion. He admits that she's the source of much of his power, and she's the one who carried out the Devil's Hook massacre, single-handedly destroying the gangs that controlled the area. She's also capable of generating fire.
* InternalReformist: In book 1, Councillor William Blackstone is presented as one, working to clean up the corruption in Haven. When he's murdered, it's figured that one of his corrupt rivals did it or had it done to protect their own interests.
* LockedRoomMystery: In book 1, Councillor William Blackstone is found dead in his locked room, with a knife in his chest, and anti-teleportation wards preventing anyone from getting in and out that way. Later subverted when two of the suspects admit that one of them found him dead first, and locked the door afterward to make it ''look'' like one of these.
* MercyKill: In book 1, [[spoiler:the sorcerer Gaunt has to do this to his succubus companion after she's badly injured by a werewolf]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The ones in book 1 drink blood, must stay in their coffins during daylight (attacking the vampire's coffin is what gets it to go crazy, putting it into position for Hawk and Fisher to kill it), are weak to garlic and hawthorn, and can only be killed by first staking them, then decapitating them, burning the head and body separately, and scattering the ashes in different places.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The ones in book 1 are humanoid when transformed, and can change at any time while the full moon is out. They're also filled with an uncontrollable killing rage during the full moon, and heal from any wound not inflicted by silver.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Lord Roderik Hightower lost his son Paul to a werewolf attack a year before the series started, and has never forgiven Hawk for failing to kill the beast first.
* PlayingWithFire: As seen in book 1, succubi are capable of doing this.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Many, many criminals in Haven use or try to use this to get away with their crimes, including the villain of book 1, an influential person who got Hawk and Fisher pulled off a case involving a child prostitution ring he was a patron for. [[spoiler:It's also why he killed William Blackstone, who'd also figured out his involvement and was building a case against him.]]
* StayInTheKitchen: In book 1, Adam Stalker has this opinion towards women and doesn't bother to hide it.
* ThisBearWasFramed: Book 1 mentions a case where someone carried out murders with a stuffed bear paw attached to a club, making people think the deaths were just normal animal attacks.
* TruthSerums: Truthspells, as they're called, are a magical version. In book 1, the sorcerer Gaunt casts one so Hawk and Fisher can question the suspects in his house.
* TwoDunIt: Turns out to be the case in book 1. A werewolf proves responsible for most of the murders due to being trapped in a house full of potential victims during the full moon, but [[spoiler: Adam Stalker, a member of the influential [=DeFerrier=] family who was operating under an alias]] was responsible for the deaths of Councillor William Blackstone and later his wife Katherine.
* BatmanColdOpen: Used in book 1, with Hawk and Fisher dealing with a vampire in the first chapter, before moving on to the case that will last the rest of the book.
* BattleCouple: Captain Hawk and his wife, Captain Isobel Fisher, work in the City Guard and fight side by side on a regular basis.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** In book 1, Katherine Blackstone thinks she did this to her husband by telling him about her affair with Edward Bowman, and subsequently stabbed him with his own dagger to make it look like a murder and preserve his reputation. She's wrong -- he was poisoned by another person.
** In the same book, [[spoiler:Adam Stalker commits suicide in the end to avoid arrest for the murders and other crimes he committed]].
* EyepatchOfPower: Hawk wears one. When asked about it in book 1, he claims it's because he lost the eye in a card game, but he's rather clearly just making it up.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: At the end of book 1, Hawk and Fisher decide to report that [[spoiler:Lord Roderik Hightower]], who was responsible for most of the deaths in the book, was responsible for ''all'' of them in order to protect the reputation of the other killer.
* HornyDevils: In book 1, the sorcerer Gaunt keeps a succubus as a companion. He admits that she's the source of much of his power, and she's the one who carried out the Devil's Hook massacre, single-handedly destroying the gangs that controlled the area. She's also capable of generating fire.
* InternalReformist: In book 1, Councillor William Blackstone is presented as one, working to clean up the corruption in Haven. When he's murdered, it's figured that one of his corrupt rivals did it or had it done to protect their own interests.
* LockedRoomMystery: In book 1, Councillor William Blackstone is found dead in his locked room, with a knife in his chest, and anti-teleportation wards preventing anyone from getting in and out that way. Later subverted when two of the suspects admit that one of them found him dead first, and locked the door afterward to make it ''look'' like one of these.
* MercyKill: In book 1, [[spoiler:the sorcerer Gaunt has to do this to his succubus companion after she's badly injured by a werewolf]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The ones in book 1 drink blood, must stay in their coffins during daylight (attacking the vampire's coffin is what gets it to go crazy, putting it into position for Hawk and Fisher to kill it), are weak to garlic and hawthorn, and can only be killed by first staking them, then decapitating them, burning the head and body separately, and scattering the ashes in different places.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The ones in book 1 are humanoid when transformed, and can change at any time while the full moon is out. They're also filled with an uncontrollable killing rage during the full moon, and heal from any wound not inflicted by silver.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Lord Roderik Hightower lost his son Paul to a werewolf attack a year before the series started, and has never forgiven Hawk for failing to kill the beast first.
* PlayingWithFire: As seen in book 1, succubi are capable of doing this.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Many, many criminals in Haven use or try to use this to get away with their crimes, including the villain of book 1, an influential person who got Hawk and Fisher pulled off a case involving a child prostitution ring he was a patron for. [[spoiler:It's also why he killed William Blackstone, who'd also figured out his involvement and was building a case against him.]]
* StayInTheKitchen: In book 1, Adam Stalker has this opinion towards women and doesn't bother to hide it.
* ThisBearWasFramed: Book 1 mentions a case where someone carried out murders with a stuffed bear paw attached to a club, making people think the deaths were just normal animal attacks.
* TruthSerums: Truthspells, as they're called, are a magical version. In book 1, the sorcerer Gaunt casts one so Hawk and Fisher can question the suspects in his house.
* TwoDunIt: Turns out to be the case in book 1. A werewolf proves responsible for most of the murders due to being trapped in a house full of potential victims during the full moon, but [[spoiler: Adam Stalker, a member of the influential [=DeFerrier=] family who was operating under an alias]] was responsible for the deaths of Councillor William Blackstone and later his wife Katherine.
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: In book 1, [[spoiler:Lord Roderik Hightower spent years obsessively going out hunting werewolves. He only ever found one, but it was enough - the werewolf bit him and turned him into the very thing he despised]].
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* WretchedHive: The series' setting is the port city of Haven, a city-state overrun with spell-casters, demons, and thieves, and so corrupt that the title characters can justly make the claim of being the only guards who have never taken a bribe or looked the other direction.
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* DeathOfAChild: The border fort where the action takes place was inhabited by men, women and children. Thanks to the Beast, none survived, and the main characters end up having to fight their reanimated corpses, including of children.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The climax of the story involves destroying a giant EldritchAbomination that's been dormant under a fortress since before humans were there.
* EldritchAbomination: The Beast, an ancient evil that went to sleep one day, and is now awakening unless it's stopped.
* EyeScream: How the Beast dies. Duncan [=MacNeil=] dives into the only part of the creature he can see -- a single massive eye -- with Wolfsbane, which proceeds to rot its way through the creature.
* HealingHands: Thanks to his talent with WildMagic, Scarecrow Jack can heal even those who are on the verge of death.
* JustLikeRobinHood: Scarecrow Jack, who lives in the woods, steals from the rich and gives to those in need. His frequent targets are tax collectors.
* LivingMemory: The Beast, due to being asleep under the fortress for ages, is dreaming of what things used to be like. Its dreams allow it to conjure living duplicates of other monsters that lived in its time, which are sent to attack the main characters.
* MakeThemRot: This is the sword Wolfsbane's power. It literally rots its way through whatever it hits, and consequently is the only thing that can really kill the Beast.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Despite being called lichs, the lichs of this series are simply the risen dead, rather than undead sorcerers.
* {{Ranger}}: The main cast consists of four Rangers, who are basically a commando unit sent to investigate a situation and deal with it, even if it costs them their lives. In this case, it doesn't.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The climax of the story involves destroying a giant EldritchAbomination that's been dormant under a fortress since before humans were there.
* EldritchAbomination: The Beast, an ancient evil that went to sleep one day, and is now awakening unless it's stopped.
* EyeScream: How the Beast dies. Duncan [=MacNeil=] dives into the only part of the creature he can see -- a single massive eye -- with Wolfsbane, which proceeds to rot its way through the creature.
* HealingHands: Thanks to his talent with WildMagic, Scarecrow Jack can heal even those who are on the verge of death.
* JustLikeRobinHood: Scarecrow Jack, who lives in the woods, steals from the rich and gives to those in need. His frequent targets are tax collectors.
* LivingMemory: The Beast, due to being asleep under the fortress for ages, is dreaming of what things used to be like. Its dreams allow it to conjure living duplicates of other monsters that lived in its time, which are sent to attack the main characters.
* MakeThemRot: This is the sword Wolfsbane's power. It literally rots its way through whatever it hits, and consequently is the only thing that can really kill the Beast.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Despite being called lichs, the lichs of this series are simply the risen dead, rather than undead sorcerers.
* {{Ranger}}: The main cast consists of four Rangers, who are basically a commando unit sent to investigate a situation and deal with it, even if it costs them their lives. In this case, it doesn't.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Normal gold ducats are worthless to Scarecrow Jack, who lives off the bounty of the Forest. Strangely, after having helped recover a large load of gold from the fortress where it was being kept, he doesn't even try to take any to give to people who need it, despite his reputation.
* YourWorstNightmare: This is one of the Beast's powers, causing nightmares in the people around it.
* YourWorstNightmare: This is one of the Beast's powers, causing nightmares in the people around it.
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The six-book ''Hawk and Fisher'' series (released from 1991-1992) 1990-1992) is a spinoff, following two of the central characters of ''Blue Moon Rising'' (specifically, [[spoiler:Prince Rupert and Princess Julia, who took on new names and became the title characters of the series]]) and what they were up to in the years between that book and the events of ''Beyond the Blue Moon''. It consists of:
* ArrangedMarriage: Julia has one with Prince Harald. She has no intention of actually fulfilling it though, and leaves the kingdom with Prince Rupert in the end.
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* '''CerebusSyndrome''': This book is practically the poster child. The story starts out as a lighthearted FracturedFairyTale, but about halfway through [[spoiler: the entire world becomes literally HellOnEarth]].
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* '''CerebusSyndrome''': CerebusSyndrome: This book is practically the poster child. The story starts out as a lighthearted FracturedFairyTale, but about halfway through [[spoiler: the entire world becomes literally HellOnEarth]].
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* BodyDouble: Jordan, an actor, is hired to serve as one for Prince Viktor of Redheart, so nobody will know the real Viktor is unavailable.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: After Jordan is kind to him, the ghost boy "Wee Geordie" helps put Jordan into position to save the castle.
* BodyDouble: Jordan, an actor, is hired to serve as one for Prince Viktor of Redheart, so nobody will know the real Viktor is unavailable. [[spoiler:The transformation into an exact physical duplicate proves to be ''so'' effective that it gives him the same royal Blood as the original Viktor, granting him Viktor's fire magic and letting him pass the blood test issued by the Stone of Redheart, thus letting him become king.]]
* BodyDouble: Jordan, an actor, is hired to serve as one for Prince Viktor of Redheart, so nobody will know the real Viktor is unavailable. [[spoiler:The transformation into an exact physical duplicate proves to be ''so'' effective that it gives him the same royal Blood as the original Viktor, granting him Viktor's fire magic and letting him pass the blood test issued by the Stone of Redheart, thus letting him become king.]]
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* ElementalPowers: All members of Redheart's royal family have command over one of the four classical elements - Lewis has earth, Viktor has fire, and Dominic has water, while their sister Gabrielle has air. Gawaine, being a cousin of the late King Malcom, is revealed early on to also have air.
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* ElementalPowers: All members of Redheart's royal family have command over one of the four classical elements - Lewis has earth, Viktor has fire, and Dominic has water, while their sister Gabrielle has air. Gawaine, Roderik Crichton, being a cousin of the late King Malcom, is revealed early on to also have air.air.
* EvilDetectingDog: At one point, Jordan finds a bloodhound in his quarters, who starts growling when a messenger from Prince Lewis shows up. Jordan remembers the old stories about dogs being able to detect evil, and is willing to trust the animal's instincts.
* EvilDetectingDog: At one point, Jordan finds a bloodhound in his quarters, who starts growling when a messenger from Prince Lewis shows up. Jordan remembers the old stories about dogs being able to detect evil, and is willing to trust the animal's instincts.
* FriendlyGhost: Ghost boy "Wee Geordie", who calls Jordan for help in order to save the castle steward, and the ghost of a bloodhound that also helps out.
* InadequateInheritor: Late in the book, King Malcom's will reveals he had personally ordered the items necessary for the coronation, and his will, to be hidden because he realized all three of his sons were monsters and that it was time for someone else to take the throne.
* InTheBack: How [[spoiler:Prince Viktor]] dies at the hands of Jordan himself, after Jordan realizes what a monster he is.
* InTheBack: How [[spoiler:Prince Viktor]] dies at the hands of Jordan himself, after Jordan realizes what a monster he is.
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* LostWillAndTestament: King Malcom's will went missing, leaving his three sons to compete for the throne.
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* LostWillAndTestament: King Malcom's will went missing, leaving his three sons to compete for the throne. It's later revealed he specifically ordered the castle steward to take it and keep it hidden until such time as they felt appropriate.
* {{Necromancer}}: Prince Dominic has been animating dead people as his servants, including [[spoiler:Robert Argent]], who's supposedly in league with Prince Viktor, turns out to be an undead servant of Prince Dominic due to being held on the very point of death via a fatal wound that Dominic delivered, yet holds at bay, with his own sorcery.
* {{Necromancer}}: Prince Dominic has been animating dead people as his servants, including [[spoiler:Robert Argent]], who's supposedly in league with Prince Viktor, turns out to be an undead servant of Prince Dominic due to being held on the very point of death via a fatal wound that Dominic delivered, yet holds at bay, with his own sorcery.
* {{Patricide}}: It's widely believed that one of King Malcom's sons committed this, or at least had it ordered. The final chapter reveals he was indeed murdered by one of his children. [[spoiler:The catch is, it was his ''daughter'', who suffocated him via her air magic.]]
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* SuccessionCrisis: There's one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons -- Lewis, Viktor and Dominic -- must complete a set of rituals that involve presenting the former King's crown and seal of office to the Stone in the proper ceremony. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him, and that the Regent decides to declare the throne open to ''anyone'' of the right Blood who completes the ritual of presenting the crown and seal to the Stone.
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* SuccessionCrisis: There's one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons -- Lewis, Viktor and Dominic -- must complete a set of rituals that involve presenting the former King's crown and seal of office to the Stone in the proper ceremony. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him, and that the Regent decides to declare the throne open to ''anyone'' of the right Blood who completes the ritual of presenting the crown and seal to the Stone. It later turns out King Malcom had intended him to do this all along. [[spoiler:Ultimately, it turns out Jordan qualifies as a candidate, since the spell that transformed him into an exact physical duplicate of Prince Viktor gave him the same Blood and giving him a valid claim to the throne.]]
* SupernaturalSuffocation: How King Malcom was murdered -- [[spoiler: his daughter Gabrielle]] used air magic to draw the breath from his lungs.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: How King Malcom was murdered -- [[spoiler: his daughter Gabrielle]] used air magic to draw the breath from his lungs.
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* UndeadChild: At one point, Jordan meets a young boy named "Wee Geordie", who claims to have wandered into his chambers on accident because he got lost while trying to find his mother. Jordan sends him off to the castle steward for help, but soon after, he learns from Damon Cord that the boy was a ghost, dead for over two hundred years, and also one of the friendlier spirits in the castle.
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* ElementalPowers: All members of Redheart's royal family have command over one of the four classical elements - Lewis has earth, Viktor has fire, and Dominic has water. Gawaine, being a cousin of the late King Malcom, is revealed early on to have air.
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* ElementalPowers: All members of Redheart's royal family have command over one of the four classical elements - Lewis has earth, Viktor has fire, and Dominic has water. water, while their sister Gabrielle has air. Gawaine, being a cousin of the late King Malcom, is revealed early on to also have air.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Of the three princes fighting for Redheart's throne, Prince Lewis has a violent temper and makes a habit of forcing himself on young ladies from the lesser nobility; Prince Dominic is regarded as "barking mad" and having an unhealthy interest in sorcery; and middle Prince Viktor, who is also a headstrong and hotblooded lady's man who attempted to murder his own younger brother (which got him exiled from the castle) when the woman they were competing over chose Dominic, but is still regarded as the best option to take the throne.
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* GameBetweenHeirs: Since King Malcom's will is missing, along with the two items used in the ritual coronation, it's initially declared that whichever of his three sons finds those items will become King. The Regent later opens the game of finding these items to ''anyone'' of the right Blood, but the three sons all have their own allies standing by to intercept anyone who tries to take the throne that way.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Of the three princes fighting for Redheart's throne, they're all evil and murderous in their own way. Yet Prince Viktor, the middle of the trio, is regarded as the best option to take the throne despite being just as bad as his brothers.
** Prince Lewis has a violent temper and makes a habit of forcing himself on young ladies from the lessernobility; Prince Dominic is regarded as "barking mad" and having an unhealthy nobility, or any others who catch his interest in sorcery; and middle (and he also has the habit of murdering them afterward if he feels like it).
** Prince Viktor, who is also a headstrong and hotblooded lady's man who attempted to murder his own younger brother (which got him exiled from the castle) when the woman they were competing over chose Dominic,but and doesn't care if everyone else in the kingdom dies if that's what it takes to achieve his own goals.
** Prince Dominic isstill regarded as the best option "barking mad" and having an unhealthy interest in sorcery.
* LostWillAndTestament: King Malcom's will went missing, leaving his three sons totake compete for the throne.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Of the three princes fighting for Redheart's throne, they're all evil and murderous in their own way. Yet Prince Viktor, the middle of the trio, is regarded as the best option to take the throne despite being just as bad as his brothers.
** Prince Lewis has a violent temper and makes a habit of forcing himself on young ladies from the lesser
** Prince Viktor, who is also a headstrong and hotblooded lady's man who attempted to murder his own younger brother (which got him exiled from the castle) when the woman they were competing over chose Dominic,
** Prince Dominic is
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* RevenantZombie: Ironheart, one of Prince Lewis's servants, is essentially a zombie in knight's armor, but remembers who he was in life and why he agreed to become one of the undead. He's also rather tired of being one, but Prince Lewis won't let him die until the Prince has taken the throne.
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* SuccessionCrisis: There's one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons - Lewis, Viktor and Dominic - must complete a set of rituals that involve presenting the former King's crown and seal of office to the Stone in the proper ceremony. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him.
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* SuccessionCrisis: There's one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons - -- Lewis, Viktor and Dominic - -- must complete a set of rituals that involve presenting the former King's crown and seal of office to the Stone in the proper ceremony. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him.him, and that the Regent decides to declare the throne open to ''anyone'' of the right Blood who completes the ritual of presenting the crown and seal to the Stone.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Of the three princes fighting for Redheart's throne, Prince Lewis has a violent temper and makes a habit of forcing himself on young ladies from the lesser nobility; Prince Dominic is regarded as "barking mad" and having an unhealthy interest in sorcery; and middle Prince Viktor, who is also a headstrong and hotblooded lady's man who attempted to murder his own younger brother (which got him exiled from the castle) when the woman they were competing over chose Dominic, but is still regarded as the best option to take the throne.
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He is in fact, the second, unwanted, less skilled, less charming, politically inept, son of and possible danger to the kingdom and throne of King John. John deems it necessary for Rupert to die, and sends him off a perfectly reasonable [[IncrediblyLamePun reQuest]] to slay a dragon and bring back its hoard - for the Forest Kingdom's Royal Treasury is a little... [[NoBudget thin]].
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He is in fact, the second, unwanted, less skilled, less charming, politically inept, son of and possible danger to the kingdom and throne of King John. John deems it necessary for Rupert to die, and sends him off on a perfectly reasonable [[IncrediblyLamePun reQuest]] quest to slay a dragon and bring back its hoard - for the Forest Kingdom's Royal Treasury is a little... [[NoBudget thin]].
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The ''Hawk and Fisher'' series is a spinoff, revealing what two of the central characters (specifically, [[spoiler:Prince Rupert and Princess Julia, who took on new names and became the title characters of the series]]) are up to in the period between ''Blue Moon Rising'' and ''Beyond the Blue Moon''.
!!Tropes found in Blue Moon Rising:
!!Tropes found in Blue Moon Rising:
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The six-book ''Hawk and Fisher'' series (released from 1991-1992) is a spinoff, revealing what following two of the central characters of ''Blue Moon Rising'' (specifically, [[spoiler:Prince Rupert and Princess Julia, who took on new names and became the title characters of the series]]) are and what they were up to in the period years between ''Blue Moon Rising'' that book and the events of ''Beyond the Blue Moon''.
Moon''. It consists of:
# ''Hawk & Fisher'' (1990)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: Winner Takes All'' (1991)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: The God Killer'' (1991)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: Wolf in the Fold'' (1992)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: Guard Against Dishonor'' (1991)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: The Bones of Haven'' (1992)
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!!Tropes found inBlue ''Blue Moon Rising:Rising'':
# ''Hawk & Fisher'' (1990)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: Winner Takes All'' (1991)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: The God Killer'' (1991)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: Wolf in the Fold'' (1992)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: Guard Against Dishonor'' (1991)
# ''Hawk & Fisher: The Bones of Haven'' (1992)
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* SuccessionCrisis:
** Book 1, ''Blue Moon Rising'', starts with second-born Prince Rupert being sent off to slay a dragon. He knows, however, that it's really his father's way of having him get killed, so as to avoid one of these when it comes time for first-born Prince Harald to take the throne. [[spoiler:The climax sees him willingly leaving the kingdom and becoming Hawk and Fisher, captains of the City Guard of Haven.]]
** Book 2, ''Blood and Honor'', has an actual one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons - Lewis, Viktor and Dominic - must complete a set of rituals. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him.
** Book 1, ''Blue Moon Rising'', starts with second-born Prince Rupert being sent off to slay a dragon. He knows, however, that it's really his father's way of having him get killed, so as to avoid one of these when it comes time for first-born Prince Harald to take the throne. [[spoiler:The climax sees him willingly leaving the kingdom and becoming Hawk and Fisher, captains of the City Guard of Haven.]]
** Book 2, ''Blood and Honor'', has an actual one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons - Lewis, Viktor and Dominic - must complete a set of rituals. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him.
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* SuccessionCrisis:
**SuccessionCrisis: Book 1, ''Blue Moon Rising'', starts with second-born Prince Rupert being sent off to slay a dragon. He knows, however, that it's really his father's way of having him get killed, so as to avoid one of these when it comes time for first-born Prince Harald to take the throne. [[spoiler:The climax sees him willingly leaving the kingdom and becoming Hawk and Fisher, captains of the City Guard of Haven.]]
** Book 2, ''Blood and Honor'', has an actual one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons - Lewis, Viktor and Dominic - must complete a set of rituals. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him.]]
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** Book 2, ''Blood and Honor'', has an actual one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons - Lewis, Viktor and Dominic - must complete a set of rituals. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him.
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* WasOnceAMan:
** The castle's moat monster was [[BalefulPolymorph originally]] a messenger who made the mistake of disturbing the High Warlock in the middle of an experiment. [[spoiler:It turns out that he could have changed back, but liked life in the new form so much he refused to.]]
** The fourth book, ''Beyond The Blue Moon'', reveals that [[spoiler: the demonic hordes]] were originally human also, but were warped by the Darkwood.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: The barons are just unbelievable. They actually [[spoiler:tried to stage a revolution ''in the middle of a continent-wide demonic incursion!'']]
** The castle's moat monster was [[BalefulPolymorph originally]] a messenger who made the mistake of disturbing the High Warlock in the middle of an experiment. [[spoiler:It turns out that he could have changed back, but liked life in the new form so much he refused to.]]
** The fourth book, ''Beyond The Blue Moon'', reveals that [[spoiler: the demonic hordes]] were originally human also, but were warped by the Darkwood.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: The barons are just unbelievable. They actually [[spoiler:tried to stage a revolution ''in the middle of a continent-wide demonic incursion!'']]
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**WasOnceAMan: The castle's moat monster was [[BalefulPolymorph originally]] a messenger who made the mistake of disturbing the High Warlock in the middle of an experiment. [[spoiler:It turns out that he could have changed back, but liked life in the new form so much he refused to.]]
** The fourth book, ''Beyond The Blue Moon'', reveals that [[spoiler: the demonic hordes]] were originally human also, but were warped by the Darkwood.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: WeAreStrugglingTogether: The barons are just unbelievable. They actually [[spoiler:tried to stage a revolution ''in the middle of a continent-wide demonic incursion!'']]
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* AntiMagic: The knight Gawaine owns a magical ax made by the High Warlock. One of its powers is that its blade cancels out any offensive magic in his vicinity.
* BodyDouble: Jordan, an actor, is hired to serve as one for Prince Viktor of Redheart, so nobody will know the real Viktor is unavailable.
* CircleOfStandingStones: There used to be a magical one around Barrowmeer, the mound where Bloody Bones was buried, in order to keep him dormant. Unfortunately, it's since been dismantled for use as building material elsewhere, which allows Bloody Bones to be reawakened.
* DemBones: Early on, Jordan and his escorts are confronted by Bloody Bones, a Transient Being in the form of a nine-foot, bloody (and blood-drinking) skeleton. Luckily, the knight Gawaine has an AntiMagic ax that allows him to dispatch the monster, and they plan to dump the skull in a body of water some distance away to ensure he can't come back.
* ElementalPowers: All members of Redheart's royal family have command over one of the four classical elements - Lewis has earth, Viktor has fire, and Dominic has water. Gawaine, being a cousin of the late King Malcom, is revealed early on to have air.
* TheExile: Prince Viktor was ordered away from his father's castle for attempting to murder his younger brother; both had been courting the same woman, and when she chose Dominic, Viktor was enraged. His exile ends with his father's death though, giving him the chance to attempt to win the crown for himself.
* OffWithHisHead: The skeleton monster Bloody Bones is dispatched via decapitation with an anti-magic ax.
* SmokeOut: Smoke bombs are among Jordan's stage tricks. They prove useful in confusing a band of mercenaries that try to attack and kill he and his allies early on.
* SuccessionCrisis: There's one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons - Lewis, Viktor and Dominic - must complete a set of rituals that involve presenting the former King's crown and seal of office to the Stone in the proper ceremony. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him.
* TimeSkip: Set seven years after the events of ''Blue Moon Rising''.
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[[folder:''Down Among the Dead Men'']]
!!Tropes found in ''Down Among the Dead Men'':
* TimeSkip: Set ten years after the events of ''Blue Moon Rising'', and three years after the events of ''Blood and Honor''.
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!!Tropes found in the ''Hawk and Fisher'' series:
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[[folder:''Beyond the Blue Moon'']]
!!Tropes found in ''Beyond the Blue Moon'':
* TimeSkip: Set twelve years after the events of ''Blue Moon Rising'', and two years after the events of ''Down Among the Dead Men''.
* WasOnceAMan: It's not revealed until this book that [[spoiler: the demonic hordes]] were originally human also, but were warped by the Darkwood.
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!!Tropes found in ''Once in a Blue Moon'':
* TimeSkip: Set one hundred years after the events of ''Blue Moon Rising'', and ninety-eight years after the events of ''Beyond the Blue Moon''.
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* UnicornsPreferVirgins: The lead character is a male virgin with a loyal, if sarcastic, unicorn. When he rescues a princess who ''can't'' ride a unicorn, the trio hastily agree that when they get back to civilization, the unicorn will have to "go lame": otherwise, it'd be far too embarrassing for both humans if he rides in and she walks.
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* WasOnceAMan: The castle's moat monster was [[BalefulPolymorph originally]] a messenger who made the mistake of disturbing the High Warlock in the middle of an experiment. [[spoiler:It turns out that he could have changed back, but liked life in the new form so much he refused to.]]
** [[spoiler: The fourth book, ''Beyond The Blue Moon'', reveals that the demonic hordes were originally human also, but were warped by the Darkwood.]]
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**[[spoiler: The fourth book, ''Beyond The Blue Moon'', reveals that [[spoiler: the demonic hordes hordes]] were originally human also, but were warped by the Darkwood.]]
** The castle's moat monster was [[BalefulPolymorph originally]] a messenger who made the mistake of disturbing the High Warlock in the middle of an experiment. [[spoiler:It turns out that he could have changed back, but liked life in the new form so much he refused to.]]
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** Book 1, ''Blue Moon Rising'', starts with second-born Prince Rupert being sent off to slay a dragon. He knows, however, that it's really his father's way of having him get killed, so as to avoid one of these when it comes time for first-born Prince Harald to take the throne. [[spoiler:The climax sees him willingly leaving the kingdom and becoming Hawk and Fisher, captains of the City Guard of Haven.]]
** Book 2, ''Blood and Honor'', has an actual one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons - Lewis, Viktor and Dominic - must complete a set of rituals. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him.
** Book 1, ''Blue Moon Rising'', starts with second-born Prince Rupert being sent off to slay a dragon. He knows, however, that it's really his father's way of having him get killed, so as to avoid one of these when it comes time for first-born Prince Harald to take the throne. [[spoiler:The climax sees him willingly leaving the kingdom and becoming Hawk and Fisher, captains of the City Guard of Haven.]]
** Book 2, ''Blood and Honor'', has an actual one after King Malcom of Redheart dies and his three sons start fighting for the crown; to win it, one of the sons - Lewis, Viktor and Dominic - must complete a set of rituals. Complicating things is the fact that Viktor is too ill to actually take part, and an actor named Jordan has been hired to pretend to be him.
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# ''Blue Moon Rising'' (1991)
# ''Blood and Honor'' (1992)
# ''Down Among the Dead Men'' (1993)
# ''Beyond the Blue Moon'' (2000)
# ''Once in a Blue Moon'' (2014)
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* ILied: About the The Demon Prince making promised to make TheDragon the king of Forest Land. see YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness below.Instead, he just makes him a low-grade demon.
* SpareToTheThrone: Prince Rupert, the second-born. His father eventually sends him on a quest for the express purpose of having him get killed off so he won't cause a SuccessionCrisis (since it doesn't look like Prince Harald, whom their father sees as a worthier heir, is going anywhere anytime soon).
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* OnceInABlueMoon: When the Blue Moon rises, demons rampage across the land, and this time the Blue Moon isn't setting...
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A novel by SimonRGreen that follows the exploits of Prince Rupert of The Forest Kingdom, Princess Julia of Hillsdown, his unicorn, and her dragon. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And The High Warlock]].
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A novel by SimonRGreen that follows the exploits of Prince Rupert of The Forest Kingdom, Princess Julia of Hillsdown, his unicorn, and her dragon. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And The High Warlock]].
The Forest Kingdom has always had Heroes. Kings with mighty swords of legend, princes who slew dragons by the thousands, champions and knights galore. As well as the occasional mage.
Prince Rupert is not one of them.
He is in fact, the second, unwanted, less skilled, less charming, politically inept, son of and possible danger to the kingdom and throne of King John. John deems it necessary for Rupert to die, and sends him off a perfectly reasonable [[IncrediblyLamePun reQuest]] to slay a dragon and bring back its hoard - for the Forest Kingdom's Royal Treasury is a little... [[NoBudget thin]].
!!Tropes found in BlueMoonRising:
* BadassPrincess: Julia.
* BadMoonRising: The titular Blue Moon, bringer of unstoppable WildMagic.
* [[spoiler: BrokenPedestal: The King's oldest friend, Thomas Gray the [[CourtMage Astrologer]], turned out to have been TheDragon all along.]]
* [[spoiler:ButNowIMustGo: Rupert is ''not'' gonna be king, and no way is Julia gonna stay around for an ArrangedMarriage with [[EntitledToHaveYou Harald]]]].
* ChaosArchitecture: The Forest Castle, which is believed to average about five thousand rooms. The entire south wing has been inaccessible for years, and when they finally found a way back they had to go through a GravityScrew to get there. Inconvenient, since that's the wing that contains the treasury and armory.
* CourtMage: The Astrologer, and before him the High Warlock.
* '''CerebusSyndrome''': This book is practically the poster child. The story starts out as a lighthearted FracturedFairyTale, but about halfway through [[spoiler: the entire world becomes literally hell on earth]].
* DarkIsEvil: The Darkwood, a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]]-infested blot of absolute darkness. [[spoiler: Later in the book it expands to cover everything.]] [[DarkIsNotEvil Averted]] with the castle's moat monster, which despite being a borderline EldritchAbomination is still loyal to the kingdom.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* {{Determinator}}: Prince Rupert, oh so much.
* EvilSorcerer: The High Warlock was set up to be one of these, but turned out to be more of a crabby-but-mostly-harmless old drunk instead.
* EvilWeapon: The Curtana, known as the [[CharmPerson Sword of Compulsion]]. Also the three [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Infernal Devices]]: [[EarthquakeMachine Rockbreaker]], [[FlamingSword Flarebright]] and [[UniversalPoison Wolfsbane]]
* FashionableEvil: The reason why the dragon used to raze villages, why the High Warlock [[BalefulPolymorph polymorphs]] people who annoy him, and why goblins rob travelers; because it's expected.
* GutPunch: [[spoiler:Finding out that the expanding Darkwood has engulfed the Forest Castle.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Champion.]]
* ILied: About the Demon Prince making TheDragon the king of Forest Land. see YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness below.
* KillItWithFire: Pretty much the only way to kill a really big demon, since they are WeakenedByTheLight.
* TheLegionsOfHell: The demons[[spoiler:, although without the Demon Prince's influence they're just random monsters.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse: A political variant. Sending Prince Rupert out to battle the dragon was essentially an UriahGambit to keep him from being a rival for the throne.
* OnceInABlueMoon: When the Blue Moon rises, demons rampage across the land, and this time the Blue Moon isn't setting...
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: These demons are mindless {{Mix And Match Creature}}s with no drives except to cause pain. [[spoiler:Except for the [[MonsterLord Demon Prince]], who [[ItCanThink isn't mindless]].]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: This one is a RetiredBadass who collects [[CollectorOfTheStrange butterflies]] instead of gold and [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou gets rescued from the princess]].
* UpperClassTwit: This and all the other BlueBlood tropes appear, but are [[ZigZaggedTrope zig-zagged]] all over the place.
* WasOnceAMan: The castle's moat monster was [[BalefulPolymorph originally]] a messenger who made the mistake of disturbing the High Warlock in the middle of an experiment. [[spoiler:It turns out that he could have changed back, but liked life in the new form so much he refused to.]]
** [[spoiler: The sequel, ''Beyond The Blue Moon'', reveals that the demonic hordes were originally human also, but were warped by the Darkwood.]]
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: The barons are just unbelievable. They actually [[spoiler:tried to stage a revolution ''in the middle of a continent-wide demonic incursion!'']]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Demon Prince is done with [[spoiler:the Astrologer]], he [[BalefulPolymorph turns him into a low-grade demon]].
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The Forest Kingdom has always had Heroes. Kings with mighty swords of legend, princes who slew dragons by the thousands, champions and knights galore. As well as the occasional mage.
Prince Rupert is not one of them.
He is in fact, the second, unwanted, less skilled, less charming, politically inept, son of and possible danger to the kingdom and throne of King John. John deems it necessary for Rupert to die, and sends him off a perfectly reasonable [[IncrediblyLamePun reQuest]] to slay a dragon and bring back its hoard - for the Forest Kingdom's Royal Treasury is a little... [[NoBudget thin]].
!!Tropes found in BlueMoonRising:
* BadassPrincess: Julia.
* BadMoonRising: The titular Blue Moon, bringer of unstoppable WildMagic.
* [[spoiler: BrokenPedestal: The King's oldest friend, Thomas Gray the [[CourtMage Astrologer]], turned out to have been TheDragon all along.]]
* [[spoiler:ButNowIMustGo: Rupert is ''not'' gonna be king, and no way is Julia gonna stay around for an ArrangedMarriage with [[EntitledToHaveYou Harald]]]].
* ChaosArchitecture: The Forest Castle, which is believed to average about five thousand rooms. The entire south wing has been inaccessible for years, and when they finally found a way back they had to go through a GravityScrew to get there. Inconvenient, since that's the wing that contains the treasury and armory.
* CourtMage: The Astrologer, and before him the High Warlock.
* '''CerebusSyndrome''': This book is practically the poster child. The story starts out as a lighthearted FracturedFairyTale, but about halfway through [[spoiler: the entire world becomes literally hell on earth]].
* DarkIsEvil: The Darkwood, a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]]-infested blot of absolute darkness. [[spoiler: Later in the book it expands to cover everything.]] [[DarkIsNotEvil Averted]] with the castle's moat monster, which despite being a borderline EldritchAbomination is still loyal to the kingdom.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* {{Determinator}}: Prince Rupert, oh so much.
* EvilSorcerer: The High Warlock was set up to be one of these, but turned out to be more of a crabby-but-mostly-harmless old drunk instead.
* EvilWeapon: The Curtana, known as the [[CharmPerson Sword of Compulsion]]. Also the three [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Infernal Devices]]: [[EarthquakeMachine Rockbreaker]], [[FlamingSword Flarebright]] and [[UniversalPoison Wolfsbane]]
* FashionableEvil: The reason why the dragon used to raze villages, why the High Warlock [[BalefulPolymorph polymorphs]] people who annoy him, and why goblins rob travelers; because it's expected.
* GutPunch: [[spoiler:Finding out that the expanding Darkwood has engulfed the Forest Castle.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Champion.]]
* ILied: About the Demon Prince making TheDragon the king of Forest Land. see YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness below.
* KillItWithFire: Pretty much the only way to kill a really big demon, since they are WeakenedByTheLight.
* TheLegionsOfHell: The demons[[spoiler:, although without the Demon Prince's influence they're just random monsters.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse: A political variant. Sending Prince Rupert out to battle the dragon was essentially an UriahGambit to keep him from being a rival for the throne.
* OnceInABlueMoon: When the Blue Moon rises, demons rampage across the land, and this time the Blue Moon isn't setting...
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: These demons are mindless {{Mix And Match Creature}}s with no drives except to cause pain. [[spoiler:Except for the [[MonsterLord Demon Prince]], who [[ItCanThink isn't mindless]].]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: This one is a RetiredBadass who collects [[CollectorOfTheStrange butterflies]] instead of gold and [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou gets rescued from the princess]].
* UpperClassTwit: This and all the other BlueBlood tropes appear, but are [[ZigZaggedTrope zig-zagged]] all over the place.
* WasOnceAMan: The castle's moat monster was [[BalefulPolymorph originally]] a messenger who made the mistake of disturbing the High Warlock in the middle of an experiment. [[spoiler:It turns out that he could have changed back, but liked life in the new form so much he refused to.]]
** [[spoiler: The sequel, ''Beyond The Blue Moon'', reveals that the demonic hordes were originally human also, but were warped by the Darkwood.]]
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: The barons are just unbelievable. They actually [[spoiler:tried to stage a revolution ''in the middle of a continent-wide demonic incursion!'']]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Demon Prince is done with [[spoiler:the Astrologer]], he [[BalefulPolymorph turns him into a low-grade demon]].
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