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** All Werlings have the ability to shapeshift, but most tend to use smaller forms like mice and squirrels, the better to avoid predators. As such, [[SadistTeacher Terser Gibble]]'s capacity ''and'' willingness to use the form of a crow to terrorize his students immediately outs him as a horrible person long before he starts threatening to throw Gamiel to his death.
** One of the most important rules of Wergling is to never assume insect forms. One Werling made the mistake of breaking this rule and lost control of her powers as a result, becoming a monstrous spider-wasp hybrid known as Frighty Aggie, from then on being widely feared as a bogeyman for all Werlings.
** All Werlings have the ability to shapeshift, but most tend to use smaller forms like mice and squirrels, the better to avoid predators. As such, [[SadistTeacher Terser Gibble]]'s capacity ''and'' willingness to use the form of a crow to terrorize his students immediately outs him as a horrible person long before he starts threatening to throw Gamiel to his death.
** One of the most important rules of Wergling is to never assume insect forms. One Werling made the mistake of breaking this rule and lost control of her powers as a result, becoming a monstrous spider-wasp hybrid known as Frighty Aggie, from then on being widely feared as a bogeyman for all Werlings.
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* {{Animorphism}}: Werlings are small, elfin creatures with the ability to shapeshift into animals.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Rhiannon does this in a particularly despicable way to a loyal goblin servant who told her of a treasonous conversation he overheard. According to her, simply being there ''at all'' is a crime punishable by death, although she is indebted to him for the information he brought. She subsequently bashes his head in with a hammer.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Rhiannon does this in a particularly despicable way to a loyal goblin servant who told her of a treasonous conversation he overheard. According to her, simply being there ''at all'' is a crime punishable by death, although she is indebted to him for the information he brought. She subsequently bashes his head in with a hammer.hammer.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In ''War in Hagwood'', Rhiannon is finally killed, but at the cost of Gamaliel wergling into a replacement key. Transforming into an inanimate object was something no werling had ever attempted before, and it resulted in his turning entirely and permanently into a gold statue.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In ''War in Hagwood'', Rhiannon is finally killed, but at the cost of Gamaliel wergling into a replacement key. Transforming into an inanimate object {{Objectshifting}} was something no werling had ever attempted before, and it resulted in his turning entirely and permanently into a gold statue.]]
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* {{Objectshifting}}: Revealed as a possibility in the final book.
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* TheExile: [[spoiler:Finnen Lufkin is exiled when it is believed his negligence resulted in the death of Mufus Doolan. Also playing a part in his exile is the bringing to light of his chewing on the bark from the Silent Grove to falsely obtain his wergling abilities. Later he is forgiven and able to return.]]
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* TheExile: [[spoiler:Finnen Lufkin is exiled when because it is believed his negligence resulted in the death of Mufus Doolan. Also playing a part in his exile is the bringing to light of his chewing Doolan, and because he chewed on the bark from the Silent Grove to falsely obtain his wergling abilities. Later he is forgiven and able to return.]]
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* PrimalPolymorphs: The [[{{Lilliputians}} Werlings]] live in {{Treetop Town}}s deep in the eponymous forest, living a much more primitive life compared to the humans and dwarves of the setting, who appear to be on a [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy Mediaeval/Renaissance level]]. For good measure, their shapeshifting powers are primarily put to use in avoiding predators.
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* SadistTeacher: Terser GibbleGibble, who introduces himself by terrorizing the class in the form of a crow and threatens to throw Gamaliel out of the tree if he doesn't sit down on time.
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* CollectorOfForms: The Werelings have the power to transform into animals, but in order to actually get the power to work, they need to have some understanding of how the animal in question actually works - meaning that they need to observe the creature in action. They ''also'' need a sample of fur or feathers from the target animal, which is to be kept in a pouch that must remain on their person at all times... and it's best not to get the samples mixed up. [[spoiler: Gamaliel Tumpin gets his collection of samples muddled while trying to escape the villains at the end of ''Thorn Ogres Of Hagwood'', turning himself into a ShapeshifterMashup - and accidentally saving his life in the process.]]
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* CollectorOfForms: The Werelings Werlings have the power to transform into animals, but in order to actually get the power to work, they need to have some understanding of how the animal in question actually works - meaning that they need to observe the creature in action. They ''also'' need a sample of fur or feathers from the target animal, which is to be kept in a pouch that must remain on their person at all times... and it's best not to get the samples mixed up. [[spoiler: Gamaliel Tumpin gets his collection of samples muddled while trying to escape the villains at the end of ''Thorn Ogres Of Hagwood'', turning himself into a ShapeshifterMashup - and accidentally saving his life in the process.]]
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* ARottenTimeToRevert: In the climax of ''Thorn Ogres Of Hagwood'', the eponymous monsters attack the Werling village in pursuit of the stolen SoulJar. Naturally, the Werlings use their shapeshifting powers to escape as per usual... but unfortunately, thanks to Terser Gibble's cowardice, the Thorn Ogres now know the MagicalIncantation normally used to undo ShapeshifterModeLock, and [[CorruptedContingency begin reciting it throughout the attack]], leaving the villagers reverting back to normal and at the mercy of the attackers. The only character who escapes this is Gamaliel, and that's only because [[spoiler: he's accidentally turned himself into a ShapeshifterMashup that's immune to the spell.]]
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* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: Early in ''Thorn Ogres Of Hagwood'', Terser Gibble the Wergle master reveals himself to his students by suddenly bursting into the classroom as a magpie - an intimidating sight, given that most Werlings are small enough to be ''eaten'' by magpies. It's not until the terrified students notice that [[TheAce Finnen Lufkin]] isn't panicking that they finally realize that the huge predator is just their teacher in disguise, whereupon Gibble changes back to his true form and [[SadistTeacher admonishes any students too slow to sit back down]].
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* EvilDetectingDog: Fly the fox is able to alert the werlings of the disguised Rhiannon.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Rhiannon plans to actually ''eat'' [[spoiler:the human baby she kidnapped]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: Rhiannon kidnapped an infant human solely to leech the youth from it. When she is through with it, she [[spoiler:decides to eat it. However, it is rescued before she can do so.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Rhiannon kidnapped an infant human solely to leech the youth from it. When she is through with it, she [[spoiler:decides to eat it. However, it is rescued before she can do so.]]]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Rhiannon does this in a particularly despicable way to a loyal goblin servant who told her of a treasonous conversation he overheard. According to her, simply being there ''at all'' is a crime punishable by death, although she is indebted to him for the information he brought. She subsequently bashes his head in with a hammer.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Rhiannon does this in a particularly despicable way to a loyal goblin servant who told her of a treasonous conversation he overheard. According to her, simply being there ''at all'' is a crime punishable by death, although she is indebted to him for the information he brought. She subsequently bashes his head in with a hammer.
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Terser Gibble]]
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* LifeDrinker: Rhiannon retains her youth by using the life force of an infant child she kidnapped.
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* DescriptivelyNamedSpecies: The name of the werling race essentially means 'little shapeshifters'. 'Wer' refers to their transformative abilities (Rhiannon even refers to them contemptuously as wererats), and the suffix '-ling' denotes something diminutive, which they are.
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* AnyoneCanDie: And they do. Even [[spoiler:the main character Gamaliel, whom Robin Jarvis based on ''himself'', is killed off by the end of the trilogy.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: And they do. You'd better believe it! Even [[spoiler:the main character Gamaliel, whom Robin Jarvis based on ''himself'', is killed off by the end of the trilogy.]]
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* AttractiveBentSpecies: In ''War in Hagwood'', Rhiannon transforms herself into an owl. When her provost, a real owl, sees her in her new form, he is besotted with her... [[spoiler:so much so that he eats the talisman she used to transform herself so she has no way of returning to her original shape. Rhiannon does not return his feelings and becomes so furious that she rips open his chest to retrieve the talisman, killing him.]]
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* TheKlutz: This applies to Gamaliel, though when all is said and done [[spoiler:he proves to be the most heroic werling of them all.]]
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** In the beginning of ''Dark Waters of Hagwood'', Rhiannon has one of her scholars searching for information about the werlings. When he finds nothing and tries to excuse his failure by stating that his eyes cannot see something that isn't there, she tears them out with her fingernails.
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** In the beginning of ''Dark Waters of Hagwood'', Rhiannon has one of her scholars searching for information about the werlings. When he finds nothing and tries to excuse his failure by stating that his eyes cannot see something that isn't there, she tears punishes him by tearing them out with her fingernails.
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