Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling/grammar fix(es)
Changed line(s) 70 (click to see context) from:
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Demigods like Asra will live for centuries more mortals. They're incapable of having children, which pains her greatly, as she would love to be a mother. [[spoiler:She gets her wish by another means, adopting a son.]]
to:
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Demigods like Asra will live for centuries more than mortals. They're incapable of having children, which pains her greatly, as she would love to be a mother. [[spoiler:She gets her wish by another means, adopting a son.]]
Changed line(s) 75 (click to see context) from:
* LackOfEmpathy: The king is utterly unsympathetic to Asra's concerns when she raised them to her. She's shocked by this, realizing that she has been wrong to support him as a result.
to:
* LackOfEmpathy: The king is utterly unsympathetic to Asra's concerns when she raised raises them to her.him. She's shocked by this, realizing that she has been wrong to support him as a result.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
General clarification on works content
Changed line(s) 30 (click to see context) from:
* ChallengingTheChief: The monarch of Zumorda is won by the current monarch getting beaten by a challenger. Ina sets out to become queen this way.
to:
* ChallengingTheChief: The monarch throne of Zumorda is won by the current monarch getting beaten by a challenger. Ina sets out to become queen this way.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling/grammar fix(es)
Changed line(s) 27 (click to see context) from:
** The Tamers are a minority of forest dwellers who dissaprove of the above. They just bond with animals as {{familiar}}s instead.
to:
** The Tamers are a minority of forest dwellers who dissaprove disapprove of the above. They just bond with animals as {{familiar}}s instead.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling/grammar fix(es)
Changed line(s) 17 (click to see context) from:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Asra used her [[BloodMagic blood in a spell]] to [[RewritingReality dictate the future]], wishing just that her lover Ina succeeds with [[BondCreatures manifest]] the next day. This inadvertently results in Ina's whole family being murdered, along with the rest of the villagers, to Asra's horror.
to:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Asra used her [[BloodMagic blood in a spell]] to [[RewritingReality dictate the future]], wishing just that her lover Ina succeeds with her [[BondCreatures manifest]] the next day. This inadvertently results in Ina's whole family being murdered, along with the rest of the villagers, to Asra's horror.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 130 (click to see context) from:
* TokenMinority: Hal and Nismae, his older sister, are described as black people, which no other characters are.
to:
* TokenMinority: Hal and Nismae, his older sister, are described as black people, which no other characters are.people (the only two in the book).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 129 (click to see context) from:
* TitleDrop: Asra describes herself as the “inkmistress” of the king in the story's second half.
to:
* TitleDrop: Asra describes herself as the “inkmistress” "inkmistress" of the king in the story's second half.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 128 (click to see context) from:
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler:Ina is seventeen like Asra, and it turns out she's pregnant from her Garen.]]
to:
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler:Ina is seventeen like Asra, and it turns out she's pregnant from her fiance Garen.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 118 (click to see context) from:
* SolitarySorceress: Asra is a demigod with many magical abilities. She lives in a mountain cave alone when the story starts, though a village is nearby whose people she provides with her services, and Asra's mortal lover visits her frequently. Asra leaves home after a spell which she cast [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes awry]], resulting in the villagers being slaughtered, with her lover as the SoleSurvivor.
to:
* SolitarySorceress: Asra is a demigod with many magical abilities. She lives in a mountain cave alone when the story starts, though a village is nearby whose people she provides with her services, and Asra's mortal lover visits her frequently. Asra leaves home after a spell which she cast [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes awry]], resulting in the villagers being slaughtered, having gotten slaughtered by bandits, with her lover as the SoleSurvivor.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 118 (click to see context) from:
* SolitarySorceress: Asra is a demigod with many magical abilities. She lives in a mountain cave alone, though a village is nearby whose people she provides with her services, and Asra's mortal lover visits her frequently.
to:
* SolitarySorceress: Asra is a demigod with many magical abilities. She lives in a mountain cave alone, alone when the story starts, though a village is nearby whose people she provides with her services, and Asra's mortal lover visits her frequently.frequently. Asra leaves home after a spell which she cast [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes awry]], resulting in the villagers being slaughtered, with her lover as the SoleSurvivor.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 101 (click to see context) from:
* PregnantBadass: Ina is a formidable DarkActionGirl capable of [[PlayingWithFire hurling fire]] and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transforming into a dragon]] who it turns out to also be pregnant.
to:
* PregnantBadass: Ina is a formidable DarkActionGirl capable of [[PlayingWithFire hurling fire]] and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transforming into a dragon]] who it turns out to is also be pregnant.pregnant. This doesn't ever slow her down until right when she goes into labor.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling/grammar fix(es)
Changed line(s) 71 (click to see context) from:
* ImmortalRuler: The king wants to become this with the Fatestone, which can make whoever wears it eternal life.
to:
* ImmortalRuler: The king wants to become this with the Fatestone, which can make give whoever wears it eternal life.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 70 (click to see context) from:
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Demigods like Asra are incapable of having children, which pains her greatly, as she would love to be a mother.
to:
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Demigods like Asra are will live for centuries more mortals. They're incapable of having children, which pains her greatly, as she would love to be a mother.mother. [[spoiler:She gets her wish by another means, adopting a son.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 64 (click to see context) from:
* HandicappedBadass: Asra loses use of her left hand after she's stabbed in the wrist, severing tendons. It doesn't stop her from being growing into a good fighter with her magic.
to:
* HandicappedBadass: Asra loses use of her left hand after she's stabbed in the wrist, severing tendons. It doesn't stop her from being growing into a good fighter with her magic.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling/grammar fix(es)
Changed line(s) 61 (click to see context) from:
* GodOftheDead: The shadow god. [[spoiler:It turns out she's [[SemiDivine Asra's mother]] too.]]
to:
* GodOftheDead: GodOfTheDead: The shadow god. [[spoiler:It turns out she's [[SemiDivine Asra's mother]] too.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 53 (click to see context) from:
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The king is only called his title or 'the boar king' (from [[BondCreatures his manifest]]), never his name.
to:
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The king is only called his title or 'the "the boar king' king" (from [[BondCreatures his manifest]]), never his name.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Fixing indentation
Changed line(s) 51,52 (click to see context) from:
* Asra can drain energy from living or inanimate things to fuel her magic it turns out.
* Raisa can gain energy by [[EmotionEater absorbing emotions]] from people nearby.
* Raisa can gain energy by [[EmotionEater absorbing emotions]] from people nearby.
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 49 (click to see context) :
* EmotionBomb: Raisa attacks Ina while they fight by making her experience her greatest fears.
Added DiffLines:
* SupernaturalFearInducer: Raisa attacks Ina while they fight by making her experience her greatest fears.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling/grammar fix(es)
Changed line(s) 48 (click to see context) from:
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Asra goes through many dangers along with deep heartache but by the end she's with a kind boy whom she loves, raising their adoptive son together and has insure the future of Zumorda will be better.]]
to:
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Asra goes through many dangers along with deep heartache but by the end she's with found a kind boy whom she loves, raising their adoptive son together and has insure insured the future of Zumorda will be better.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling/grammar fix(es), Added example(s)
Changed line(s) 43,44 (click to see context) from:
* DivineRightOfKings: Zumordan monarchs must have a bond with the gods, or [[FisherKing the realm will fall into ruin]]. [[spoiler:This starts to occur once Ina wins the throne without such a bond, but Asra fixed it [[RewritingReality with her gift]].]]
* DontFearTheReaper: Although she looks pretty unsettling with white skin, red hair and black eyes, the [[GodOfTheDead shadow god]] is a kind and thoughtful woman, who's quite apologetic to her demigod daughter for abandoning her.
* DontFearTheReaper: Although she looks pretty unsettling with white skin, red hair and black eyes, the [[GodOfTheDead shadow god]] is a kind and thoughtful woman, who's quite apologetic to her demigod daughter for abandoning her.
to:
* DivineRightOfKings: Zumordan monarchs must have a bond with the gods, or [[FisherKing the realm will fall into ruin]]. [[spoiler:This starts to occur once Ina wins the throne without such a bond, but Asra fixed fixes it [[RewritingReality with her gift]].]]
* DontFearTheReaper: Although she looks pretty unsettling with white skin, red hair and black eyes, the [[GodOfTheDead shadow god]] is a kind and thoughtful woman, who's quite apologetic to her demigod daughter [[spoiler:Asra]] for abandoning her.
* DontFearTheReaper: Although she looks pretty unsettling with white skin, red hair and black eyes, the [[GodOfTheDead shadow god]] is a kind and thoughtful woman, who's quite apologetic to her demigod daughter [[spoiler:Asra]] for abandoning her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
* DivineDate: Asra's parents were a god and a mortal who were lovers, it turns out.
to:
* DivineDate: Asra's parents were a god and a mortal who were had been lovers, it turns out.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling/grammar fix(es), Added example(s)
Changed line(s) 30 (click to see context) from:
* ChallengingTheChief: The monarch of Zamordia is won by the current monarch getting beaten by a challenger. Ina sets out to become queen this way.
to:
* ChallengingTheChief: The monarch of Zamordia Zumorda is won by the current monarch getting beaten by a challenger. Ina sets out to become queen this way.
Changed line(s) 70 (click to see context) from:
* ImmoralityInducer: The Fatestone supposedy can give a person eternal life, and the boar king wants it for this purpose.
to:
* ImmoralityInducer: ImmortalityInducer: The Fatestone supposedy can give a person eternal life, and the boar king wants it for this purpose.
* ReluctantWarrior: Asra is a healer by trade who really doesn't want to hurt people. She's got no choice however increasingly to defend herself or other people during the story (though she tries mostly for just defensive actions, this doesn't always work). Asra is always troubled by it however.
Changed line(s) 112 (click to see context) from:
* RingOfPower: The Fatestone turns out to be a ring which can [[ImmprtalityInducer give its wearer eternal life]] along with RewritingReality by BloodMagic without the [[CastFromLifespan high cost]] which this usually results in. Naturally, it is the {{MacGuffin}} of the story.
to:
* RingOfPower: The Fatestone turns out to be a ring which can [[ImmprtalityInducer [[ImmortalityInducer give its wearer eternal life]] along with RewritingReality by BloodMagic without the [[CastFromLifespan high cost]] which this usually results in. Naturally, it is the {{MacGuffin}} of the story.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 23 (click to see context) from:
* BloodMagic: Asra's blood causes flowers to bloom wherever it's spilled on the ground. She can also dictate the future through writing it in her blood, though doing so costs [[CastFromLifespan years from her life. A person who has this ability is called a bloodscribe. Her blood is also capable of lending abilities that she possesses [[SympatheticMagic to other people]] if used for a tincture too. Invoking a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting manifest]] can be done using her blood too, rather than [[ReligionIsMagic asking the gods]], but this is dangerous.
to:
* BloodMagic: Asra's blood causes flowers to bloom wherever it's spilled on the ground. She can also dictate the future through writing it in her blood, though doing so costs [[CastFromLifespan years from her life.life]]. A person who has this ability is called a bloodscribe. Her blood is also capable of lending abilities that she possesses [[SympatheticMagic to other people]] if used for a tincture too. Invoking a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting manifest]] can be done using her blood too, rather than [[ReligionIsMagic asking the gods]], but this is dangerous. This is described as the rarest of magical gifts.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Added example(s)
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* BlindSeer: Raisa is blind but also has the Sight, which keeps her even more aware of her surroundings than with normal vision.
to:
* BlindSeer: Raisa is blind but also has [[TrueSight the Sight, Sight]], which keeps her even more aware of her surroundings than with normal vision.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Added example(s)
Added DiffLines:
* AmbiguouslyGay: Asra thinks Nismae is in love with Ina toward the end of the book by the way she's looking at her. It isn't shown whether she's right of they're together however (Ina's bisexual).
Added DiffLines:
* {{Prequel}}: The book serves as one to ''Literature/OfFireAndStars''. Set centuries before, it shows the backstory for Queen Invasya when she was just a girl (who's a supporting character in both) and how Zumorda had come to the way things are there.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 19 (click to see context) from:
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Asra and Ina, two teenage girls, are lovers as the story begins. Ina then tells her she's engaged to a boy around their age in her village, which Asra's devastated by. This inspires her to help Ina obtain her [[BondCreatures manifest]], which results in Garen's death along with all the other villagers accidentally, horrifying Asra. Even so, Asra hopes to get Ina back. [[spoiler:It turns out that Ina never loved her ''or'' Garen though, and was only [[GoldDigger using them for her ends.]] Asra is bisexual as well, unusually, mentioning she had previous crushes on men before Ina. She starts to develop feelings for Hal over time.
to:
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Asra and Ina, two teenage girls, are lovers as the story begins. Ina then tells her she's engaged to a boy around their age in her village, which Asra's devastated by. This inspires her to help Ina obtain her [[BondCreatures manifest]], which results in Garen's death along with all the other villagers accidentally, horrifying Asra. Even so, Asra hopes to get Ina back. [[spoiler:It turns out that Ina never loved her ''or'' Garen though, and was only [[GoldDigger using them for her ends.ends]].]] Asra is bisexual as well, unusually, mentioning she had previous crushes on men before Ina. She starts to develop feelings for Hal over time.time, and begins a relationship with him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 16 (click to see context) from:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Asra used her [[BloodMagic blood to dictate the future]], wishing just that her lover Ina succeeds with [[BondCreatures manifest]] the next day. This inadvertently results in Ina's whole family being murdered, along with the rest of the villages, to Asra's horror.
to:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Asra used her [[BloodMagic blood in a spell]] to [[RewritingReality dictate the future]], wishing just that her lover Ina succeeds with [[BondCreatures manifest]] the next day. This inadvertently results in Ina's whole family being murdered, along with the rest of the villages, villagers, to Asra's horror.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 2,3 (click to see context) from:
Asra is a seventeen year old girl living by herself on a mountain. She has powerful gifts as a result of being a [[SemiDivine demigod]], but no knowledge of her parentage except for that. Asra tends the people of Amalska, a village below her, and is lovers with Ina, a girl her age from there. However, when she tries to help Ina with one of her gifts, it inadvertently causes Ina's whole family and everyone else from Amalska to be slaughter by bandits.
to:
Asra is a seventeen year old girl living by herself on a mountain. She has powerful gifts as a result of being a [[SemiDivine demigod]], but no knowledge of her parentage except for that. Asra tends the people of Amalska, a village below her, and is lovers with Ina, a girl her age from there. However, when she tries to help Ina with one of her gifts, it inadvertently causes Ina's whole family and everyone else from Amalska to be slaughter slaughtered by bandits.
Changed line(s) 6,7 (click to see context) from:
Set in the same universe as ''Literature/OfFireAndStars'', it has the same author, Aubrey Colburst, but is set centuries before and only loosely connected to the others. The book was published in 2018.
to:
Set in the same universe as ''Literature/OfFireAndStars'', it has the same author, Aubrey Audrey Colburst, but is set centuries before and only loosely connected to the others. The book was published in 2018.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inkmistress.jpg]]
Asra is a seventeen year old girl living by herself on a mountain. She has powerful gifts as a result of being a [[SemiDivine demigod]], but no knowledge of her parentage except for that. Asra tends the people of Amalska, a village below her, and is lovers with Ina, a girl her age from there. However, when she tries to help Ina with one of her gifts, it inadvertently causes Ina's whole family and everyone else from Amalska to be slaughter by bandits.
Ina swears revenge and goes on the warpath not against just the bandits responsible but also the king, whom she blames for not protecting Amalska. Asra, horrified by the person her girlfriend is becoming, sets out to stop her, venturing away from her mountain. While doing so, she befriends a boy named Hal, becoming involved with many dangers while also seeking answers to her past.
Set in the same universe as ''Literature/OfFireAndStars'', it has the same author, Aubrey Colburst, but is set centuries before and only loosely connected to the others. The book was published in 2018.
!Tropes:
* ActionGirl: Asra begins as a nonviolent healer, but grows into a fighter by necessity over the course of the book, effectively using her magic on opponents multiple times.
* AffectionateNickname:
** Asra nicknames her lover Invasya as Ina.
** Hal mostly calls his sister Nismae Nis.
* AntiMagic:
** Nismae has iron cuffs that stop magic from affecting her.
** Asra later gets a cloak which stops [[SupernaturalSensitivity the Sight]] from being used on her.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Asra used her [[BloodMagic blood to dictate the future]], wishing just that her lover Ina succeeds with [[BondCreatures manifest]] the next day. This inadvertently results in Ina's whole family being murdered, along with the rest of the villages, to Asra's horror.
* BeneathTheMask: Ina reveals to Asra she never loved her, only [[GoldDigger using her as a means of bettering her social status]]. Asra naturally is devastated hearing this.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Asra and Hal kiss passionately when they finally show their love for each other.
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Asra and Ina, two teenage girls, are lovers as the story begins. Ina then tells her she's engaged to a boy around their age in her village, which Asra's devastated by. This inspires her to help Ina obtain her [[BondCreatures manifest]], which results in Garen's death along with all the other villagers accidentally, horrifying Asra. Even so, Asra hopes to get Ina back. [[spoiler:It turns out that Ina never loved her ''or'' Garen though, and was only [[GoldDigger using them for her ends.]] Asra is bisexual as well, unusually, mentioning she had previous crushes on men before Ina. She starts to develop feelings for Hal over time.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ina starts out appearing to be a warm, loving girlfriend for Asra. It turns out she's a GoldDigger though who never loved her, becoming increasingly bloodthirsty and ruthless.
* BlindSeer: Raisa is blind but also has the Sight, which keeps her even more aware of her surroundings than with normal vision.
* BloodMagic: Asra's blood causes flowers to bloom wherever it's spilled on the ground. She can also dictate the future through writing it in her blood, though doing so costs [[CastFromLifespan years from her life. A person who has this ability is called a bloodscribe. Her blood is also capable of lending abilities that she possesses [[SympatheticMagic to other people]] if used for a tincture too. Invoking a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting manifest]] can be done using her blood too, rather than [[ReligionIsMagic asking the gods]], but this is dangerous.
* BlowYouAway: Hal, as a [[SemiDivine son of the wind god]], can summon wind to do things like blow dirt into enemies' eyes.
* BondCreatures:
** Most Zumordans bond with a creature they choose. They become [[TwoBeingsOneBody one being]] if successful, and can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting change between their shapes at will afterward]].
** The Tamers are a minority of forest dwellers who dissaprove of the above. They just bond with animals as {{familiar}}s instead.
* BraidsOfAction: Asra grows into an ActionGirl and always wears her hair in a single braid.
* CastFromLifespan: Asra can use BloodMagic to dictate the future, but at the cost of losing years off her otherwise long lifespan.
* ChallengingTheChief: The monarch of Zamordia is won by the current monarch getting beaten by a challenger. Ina sets out to become queen this way.
* CharmPerson: Hal is gifted with magical persuasion so he's able to talk some guards into letting both him and Asra go after they get arrested using this.
* CombatByChampion: Before [[ChallengingTheChief facing down the king himself to win the throne]], Ina must first defeat two champions who fight on his behalf.
* CountryMouse: Asra had lived in a mountain cave with only a village nearby all her life until she at last enters a city. The sights, smells and masses of city dwellers are hard for her to take at first, as she feels like her senses are assaulted by it all.
* DamselInDistress: Asra is rescued by Hal when she's held captive by the Nightswifts for use of [[BloodMagic her blood]].
* DarkActionGirl:
** Ina is a powerful fighter, casting [[PlayingWithFire fire on enemies]]. She's even more formidable in [[VoluntaryShapeshifting her form as a dragon]]. In her quest to gain the throne, Ina grows very brutal.
** Nismae, Hal's sister, is a trained assassin. There are several other women too in her group of assassins, the Nightswifts, who are capable as the men. She's ruthless and allied to Ina.
* DePower:
** Hal is drugged with peaceroot, a plant which prevents someone using any magic while it's in their system.
** Asra is later too when she's overpowered and knocked out.
* DepravedBisexual: Ina has been with both a girl and boy. She's a ruthless girl who only used her lovers [[GoldDigger for her gain]] and grows increasingly bloodthirsty. It's {{downplayed}} however as her ex-girlfriend Asra is bisexual as well and isn't at all like this.
* DivineDate: Asra's parents were a god and a mortal who were lovers, it turns out.
* DivineRightOfKings: Zumordan monarchs must have a bond with the gods, or [[FisherKing the realm will fall into ruin]]. [[spoiler:This starts to occur once Ina wins the throne without such a bond, but Asra fixed it [[RewritingReality with her gift]].]]
* DontFearTheReaper: Although she looks pretty unsettling with white skin, red hair and black eyes, the [[GodOfTheDead shadow god]] is a kind and thoughtful woman, who's quite apologetic to her demigod daughter for abandoning her.
* DoomedHometown: Ina's village of Amalska is attacked by some bandits when everyone but her gathers for a meeting, with them all being burned alive.
* DuelToTheDeath: The fight that Ina has with the king to claim his throne is all or nothing, with the loser killed, which also goes for fighting [[CombatByChampion his champions]] beforehand.
* DueToTheDead: Asra and Ina say prayers for the slain villagers together after finding them.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Asra goes through many dangers along with deep heartache but by the end she's with a kind boy whom she loves, raising their adoptive son together and has insure the future of Zumorda will be better.]]
* EmotionBomb: Raisa attacks Ina while they fight by making her experience her greatest fears.
* EmotionEater: Raisa can feed on people's emotions nearby to [[EnergyAbsorption energize herself]].
* EnergyAbsorption:
* Asra can drain energy from living or inanimate things to fuel her magic it turns out.
* Raisa can gain energy by [[EmotionEater absorbing emotions]] from people nearby.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The king is only called his title or 'the boar king' (from [[BondCreatures his manifest]]), never his name.
* {{Familiar}}: The Tamers are forest people who take different animals as these.
* FamilyOfChoice: Asra has always wanted a family, after being left with her [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate mother Miriel]] without knowledge of her birth parents (aside from that one [[SemiDivine was a god]]). After she loses Miriel, it increases. [[spoiler:Meeting with her birth mother disappoints Asra greatly, though she finds a new chosen family with Hal and Iman, the baby boy they adopt.]]
* FictionalAgeOfMajority: Zumordans come of age at seventeen.
* FisherKing: The Zumordan monarchs must have a bond with the gods. Otherwise, the gods will leave, causing the realm to decay. [[spoiler:However, this is stopped by Asra using [[BloodMagic a blood spell]] to [[RewritingReality change the future]].]]
* FountainOfYouth: Raisa uses her [[EnergyAbsorption absorbed energy]] to make herself look much younger (she's a ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld very]]'' old woman).
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Asra can sense life as one of her abilities. Whenever she needs plants, whom she's able to speak with by another ability, Asra always asks their permission to cut them.
* GoldDigger: [[spoiler:Ina coldly reveals to Asra she never really loved her, nor Garen. She'd just seen them both as people she could use through their relationships to climb the social ladder.]]
* GodOftheDead: The shadow god. [[spoiler:It turns out she's [[SemiDivine Asra's mother]] too.]]
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Asra's attempt to [[RewritingReality dictate the future on Ina's behalf]] accidentally causes the people of Amalska to be slaughtered by bandits. This includes Ina's whole family. She is naturally horrified by this. It turns out to be a common liability of using that gift.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Asra is a kind-hearted healer who most of all wants to help people. Even so, in the story she grows into an ActionGirl out of necessity to defend herself or her loved ones from harm.
* HandicappedBadass: Asra loses use of her left hand after she's stabbed in the wrist, severing tendons. It doesn't stop her from being growing into a good fighter with her magic.
* HandOnWomb: [[spoiler:Ina puts her hand on her stomach in the moment before telling Asra that she's pregnant from Garen.]]
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: [[spoiler:When Ina wins the throne without bonding to the gods, they leave Zumorda, abandoning the realm.]]
* HealingHands: Asra is capable of healing people using magic. This involves placing both hands lightly on the affected area.
* HoldingHands: Asra holds Hal's, to his surprise, when they first start becoming close.
* ImmoralityInducer: The Fatestone supposedy can give a person eternal life, and the boar king wants it for this purpose.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Demigods like Asra are incapable of having children, which pains her greatly, as she would love to be a mother.
* ImmortalRuler: The king wants to become this with the Fatestone, which can make whoever wears it eternal life.
* IntimateHealing: Asra has Hal lie against her while she's fighting a fever to keep her warm. She tries to tell herself this doesn't arouse her, but realizes she's lying.
* ItsAllMyFault: Asra is distraught when her spell accidentally results in the villagers of Amalska, save Ina, being murdered. Ina says not to blame herself, as she didn't intend it, but Asra does so anyway.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Ina is changed by [[BondCreatures bonding with a dragon]], going from slaughtering the bandits who'd murdered her family to becoming utterly ruthless, letting Asra (her ex-girlfriend) get held prisoner for her ability and planning her seizure of the throne.
* LackOfEmpathy: The king is utterly unsympathetic to Asra's concerns when she raised them to her. She's shocked by this, realizing that she has been wrong to support him as a result.
* LongLostRelative: Asra finds out about her half-brother (they have the same [[SemiDivine divine parent]]), but unfortunately he died centuries before.
* LovingAShadow: [[spoiler:The girl Asra believed Ina to be doesn't really exist. Ina doesn't really love her, and never did. She had used Asra (and Garen) just for her social advancement.]]
* MacGuffin: About midway through the story, Asra's told about the Fatestone, which permits the [[BloodMagic bloodscribes like her]] to use this ability without [[CastFromLifespan taking years off their own life]]. She sets out to find it, hoping to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. The king had been having people look into the Fatestone before, since it supposedly also can give eternal life, ordering his researcher killed in fear it might be taken by her.
* MacGuffinSuperperson: Asra has rare and powerful BloodMagic that can change the past, present or future. She keeps it secret for fear of people forcibly misusing it. Once others discover it, this is exactly what they set out to do, with forcible blood draws from her as she's imprisoned.
* MagicPants: Ina's clothing changes with her when she turns into a dragon and back.
* MakingASplash: Asra conjures a huge horse made from water up in a river when she and Hal are cornered, which spirits them away from the Nightswifts, by [[BloodMagic a spell from her shed blood]] dripping into its waters.
* MarriageOfConvenience: Ina became engaged to Garen as a means of furthering her prospects in their village. She hoped to become elder. [[spoiler:It turns out the other reason is because she'd also become pregnant by him.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Raisa fights Ina in part by conjuring up different illusions to mislead her.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Asra kills Leozoar, a twisted old demigod who became a murderer and wants to die, at his explicit request, though she has very mixed feelings about it.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Asra is horrified when her spell goes wrong, inadvertently causing the people of Amalska to be slaughtered by bandits.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Both the king and Ina claim their rule over Zumorda would be for the good of all. [[spoiler:Asra [[RewritingReality dictates the future]] to make sure Ina really ''is'' a good queen who acts in all her subjects' interest.]]
* NiceGirl: Asra is a kind and compassionate girl who doesn't want to hurt anyone, though she will very reluctantly in defense or herself or others. She's trained as a healer, appropriately enough, and much prefers caring for people.
* NonhumanNonbinary: The gods of water and spirit are genderfluid.
* NotHimself: After she's [[TwoBeingsOneBody fused with a dragon]], Ina abruptly becomes ruthless and bloodthirsty, slaughtering the bandits who'd murdered her family with relish then sets off to kill the king too whom she blames for allowing this. Her lover Asra is horrifies and doesn't recognize her, trying to stop Ina's plan. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that Ina was always far more cold and self-interested than Asra ever [[LovingAShadow really knew]] earlier.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
** Ina is mostly called this rather than her full name Invasya.
** Hal is only called his full name Phaldon a couple times.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Asra was left by her father as a baby to be raised by the herbalist Miriel. She does not know anything about her mother at first. [[spoiler:It turns out that it's actually her mother, the shadow god, who left her, with her father being dead.]]
** Iman gets taken in by Asra and Hal as a newborn as his birth mother doesn't want him. Before he was even born his birth father had died already.
* ParentalSubstitute:
** Asra was raised by Miriel as a result of ParentalAbandonment.
** Asra and Hal become foster parents to Iman as his birth mother Ina doesn't want to raise him.
* PlayingWithFire: Ina [[TwoBeingsOneBody fuses with a dragon]], which allows her to conjure fire afterward in human form too.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Hal used to be a spy, using his [[SuperSenses Farhearing]] for listening in on people's conversations. This wasn't what he liked though, and Hal is glad not to be doing it now.
* PregnantBadass: Ina is a formidable DarkActionGirl capable of [[PlayingWithFire hurling fire]] and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transforming into a dragon]] who it turns out to also be pregnant.
* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Asra finds a couple silver hairs after using her [[BloodMagic bloodscribe power]] for the second time, as it's CastFromLifespan.
* ProfessionalKiller: The Nightswifts were elite assassins serving the Crown, but turned on the king after he ordered some of their number killed. Since then, they have [[ContractOnTheHitman prices on their own heads]] and fight his forces.
* ProtectiveCharm: Asra can cast a magical shield around herself to repel attacks. She gives others the power to as well through her BloodMagic.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Raisa looks like an old woman most of the time, but she's actually even older, having lived for centuries now.
* ReducedToDust: [[spoiler:Ina kills Raisa through aging her until her very bones crumble to nothing.]]
* ReligionIsMagic: Asra has multiple magical abilities as a result of being a demigod. She also invoked different gods to cast spells. Invoking a person's [[VoluntaryShapeshifting manifest]] also usually is done by calling on the gods.
* {{Revenge}}: Ina, after she [[TwoBeingsOneBody fuses with a dragon]], immediately uses it to hunt down and kill the bandits who'd murdered her family, horrifying her lover Asra. Then she sets out to kill the king too, blaming him for neglecting to protect her village against them.
* RewritingReality: Asra is a bloodscribe who can determine a future or alter the past through writing it [[BloodMagic in her blood]]. This has a [[CastFromLifespan high cost]] and also often some nasty [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor unintended consequences though]].
* RingOfPower: The Fatestone turns out to be a ring which can [[ImmprtalityInducer give its wearer eternal life]] along with RewritingReality by BloodMagic without the [[CastFromLifespan high cost]] which this usually results in. Naturally, it is the {{MacGuffin}} of the story.
* RiteOfPassage: Zumordans come of age [[FictionalAgeOfMajority at seventeen]] by finding their manifest, a creature whom they [[TwoBeingsOneBody fuse with]] and can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting then transform into]].
* SecondActBreakup: Asra briefly ends her new relationship with Hal after learning he'd lied to her. They get back together though before too long since Asra forgives him.
* SecondLove: Asra is devastated after her relationship with her girlfriend Ina collapses, who's her FirstLove. She grows to love Hal over time however, with him treating her much better by far.
* SemiDivine: Asra's father is a god. Being a demigod gives her multiple magical abilities, such as use of BloodMagic and her SupernaturalSensitivity. Also she'll live for centuries, unlike mortals, though at the cost of being [[ImmortalProcreationClause unable to ever have children]]. She soon meets several more demigods too, who also have abilities due to their divine parent. [[spoiler:However, it turns out she's mistaken about her specific parentage. It turns out that her mother is the shadow god, with her father having been a mortal.]]
* SoleSurvivor: Ina is the only villager left after the rest of Amalska's people are massacred by bandits.
* SolitarySorceress: Asra is a demigod with many magical abilities. She lives in a mountain cave alone, though a village is nearby whose people she provides with her services, and Asra's mortal lover visits her frequently.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:It turns out that Ina has become pregnant by Garen, who's dead when she tells Asra this.]]
* StreetUrchin: Hal spent much of his childhood living on the street and had to survive by theft.
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Asra can sense life and magic. She's also capable of hearing songs sung by the gods which mortals can't.
* SuperSenses:
** Hal and demigods like him whose father is the wind god have super hearing. Before he met Asra, he could already hear her prayers each day from miles off.
** Some magic users also can See hidden things like when magic is present.
* SurprisePregnancy: [[spoiler:Ina became pregnant by Garen unintentionally. As a result she became engaged to him, as was expected for a girl in her situation.]]
* SympatheticMagic: Asra's magical abilities can be lent to other people if they use a tincture that's [[BloodMagic made from her blood]].
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler:Ina is seventeen like Asra, and it turns out she's pregnant from her Garen.]]
* TitleDrop: Asra describes herself as the “inkmistress” of the king in the story's second half.
* TokenMinority: Hal and Nismae, his older sister, are described as black people, which no other characters are.
* TrueSight: The Sight lets the person who has it discern otherwise hidden things and also see right through illusions.
* TwoBeingsOneBody: A person taking a manifest entails fusing themselves with BondCreatures. They can then [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shift forms at will between them]].
* UnSorcerer: Nearly all Zumordens do magic. Those that can't are shunned and treated as second-class citizens.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Once a person takes [[TwoBeingsOneBody their manifest]], they can turn into the creature whenever they'd like.
----
Asra is a seventeen year old girl living by herself on a mountain. She has powerful gifts as a result of being a [[SemiDivine demigod]], but no knowledge of her parentage except for that. Asra tends the people of Amalska, a village below her, and is lovers with Ina, a girl her age from there. However, when she tries to help Ina with one of her gifts, it inadvertently causes Ina's whole family and everyone else from Amalska to be slaughter by bandits.
Ina swears revenge and goes on the warpath not against just the bandits responsible but also the king, whom she blames for not protecting Amalska. Asra, horrified by the person her girlfriend is becoming, sets out to stop her, venturing away from her mountain. While doing so, she befriends a boy named Hal, becoming involved with many dangers while also seeking answers to her past.
Set in the same universe as ''Literature/OfFireAndStars'', it has the same author, Aubrey Colburst, but is set centuries before and only loosely connected to the others. The book was published in 2018.
!Tropes:
* ActionGirl: Asra begins as a nonviolent healer, but grows into a fighter by necessity over the course of the book, effectively using her magic on opponents multiple times.
* AffectionateNickname:
** Asra nicknames her lover Invasya as Ina.
** Hal mostly calls his sister Nismae Nis.
* AntiMagic:
** Nismae has iron cuffs that stop magic from affecting her.
** Asra later gets a cloak which stops [[SupernaturalSensitivity the Sight]] from being used on her.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Asra used her [[BloodMagic blood to dictate the future]], wishing just that her lover Ina succeeds with [[BondCreatures manifest]] the next day. This inadvertently results in Ina's whole family being murdered, along with the rest of the villages, to Asra's horror.
* BeneathTheMask: Ina reveals to Asra she never loved her, only [[GoldDigger using her as a means of bettering her social status]]. Asra naturally is devastated hearing this.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Asra and Hal kiss passionately when they finally show their love for each other.
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Asra and Ina, two teenage girls, are lovers as the story begins. Ina then tells her she's engaged to a boy around their age in her village, which Asra's devastated by. This inspires her to help Ina obtain her [[BondCreatures manifest]], which results in Garen's death along with all the other villagers accidentally, horrifying Asra. Even so, Asra hopes to get Ina back. [[spoiler:It turns out that Ina never loved her ''or'' Garen though, and was only [[GoldDigger using them for her ends.]] Asra is bisexual as well, unusually, mentioning she had previous crushes on men before Ina. She starts to develop feelings for Hal over time.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ina starts out appearing to be a warm, loving girlfriend for Asra. It turns out she's a GoldDigger though who never loved her, becoming increasingly bloodthirsty and ruthless.
* BlindSeer: Raisa is blind but also has the Sight, which keeps her even more aware of her surroundings than with normal vision.
* BloodMagic: Asra's blood causes flowers to bloom wherever it's spilled on the ground. She can also dictate the future through writing it in her blood, though doing so costs [[CastFromLifespan years from her life. A person who has this ability is called a bloodscribe. Her blood is also capable of lending abilities that she possesses [[SympatheticMagic to other people]] if used for a tincture too. Invoking a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting manifest]] can be done using her blood too, rather than [[ReligionIsMagic asking the gods]], but this is dangerous.
* BlowYouAway: Hal, as a [[SemiDivine son of the wind god]], can summon wind to do things like blow dirt into enemies' eyes.
* BondCreatures:
** Most Zumordans bond with a creature they choose. They become [[TwoBeingsOneBody one being]] if successful, and can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting change between their shapes at will afterward]].
** The Tamers are a minority of forest dwellers who dissaprove of the above. They just bond with animals as {{familiar}}s instead.
* BraidsOfAction: Asra grows into an ActionGirl and always wears her hair in a single braid.
* CastFromLifespan: Asra can use BloodMagic to dictate the future, but at the cost of losing years off her otherwise long lifespan.
* ChallengingTheChief: The monarch of Zamordia is won by the current monarch getting beaten by a challenger. Ina sets out to become queen this way.
* CharmPerson: Hal is gifted with magical persuasion so he's able to talk some guards into letting both him and Asra go after they get arrested using this.
* CombatByChampion: Before [[ChallengingTheChief facing down the king himself to win the throne]], Ina must first defeat two champions who fight on his behalf.
* CountryMouse: Asra had lived in a mountain cave with only a village nearby all her life until she at last enters a city. The sights, smells and masses of city dwellers are hard for her to take at first, as she feels like her senses are assaulted by it all.
* DamselInDistress: Asra is rescued by Hal when she's held captive by the Nightswifts for use of [[BloodMagic her blood]].
* DarkActionGirl:
** Ina is a powerful fighter, casting [[PlayingWithFire fire on enemies]]. She's even more formidable in [[VoluntaryShapeshifting her form as a dragon]]. In her quest to gain the throne, Ina grows very brutal.
** Nismae, Hal's sister, is a trained assassin. There are several other women too in her group of assassins, the Nightswifts, who are capable as the men. She's ruthless and allied to Ina.
* DePower:
** Hal is drugged with peaceroot, a plant which prevents someone using any magic while it's in their system.
** Asra is later too when she's overpowered and knocked out.
* DepravedBisexual: Ina has been with both a girl and boy. She's a ruthless girl who only used her lovers [[GoldDigger for her gain]] and grows increasingly bloodthirsty. It's {{downplayed}} however as her ex-girlfriend Asra is bisexual as well and isn't at all like this.
* DivineDate: Asra's parents were a god and a mortal who were lovers, it turns out.
* DivineRightOfKings: Zumordan monarchs must have a bond with the gods, or [[FisherKing the realm will fall into ruin]]. [[spoiler:This starts to occur once Ina wins the throne without such a bond, but Asra fixed it [[RewritingReality with her gift]].]]
* DontFearTheReaper: Although she looks pretty unsettling with white skin, red hair and black eyes, the [[GodOfTheDead shadow god]] is a kind and thoughtful woman, who's quite apologetic to her demigod daughter for abandoning her.
* DoomedHometown: Ina's village of Amalska is attacked by some bandits when everyone but her gathers for a meeting, with them all being burned alive.
* DuelToTheDeath: The fight that Ina has with the king to claim his throne is all or nothing, with the loser killed, which also goes for fighting [[CombatByChampion his champions]] beforehand.
* DueToTheDead: Asra and Ina say prayers for the slain villagers together after finding them.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Asra goes through many dangers along with deep heartache but by the end she's with a kind boy whom she loves, raising their adoptive son together and has insure the future of Zumorda will be better.]]
* EmotionBomb: Raisa attacks Ina while they fight by making her experience her greatest fears.
* EmotionEater: Raisa can feed on people's emotions nearby to [[EnergyAbsorption energize herself]].
* EnergyAbsorption:
* Asra can drain energy from living or inanimate things to fuel her magic it turns out.
* Raisa can gain energy by [[EmotionEater absorbing emotions]] from people nearby.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The king is only called his title or 'the boar king' (from [[BondCreatures his manifest]]), never his name.
* {{Familiar}}: The Tamers are forest people who take different animals as these.
* FamilyOfChoice: Asra has always wanted a family, after being left with her [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate mother Miriel]] without knowledge of her birth parents (aside from that one [[SemiDivine was a god]]). After she loses Miriel, it increases. [[spoiler:Meeting with her birth mother disappoints Asra greatly, though she finds a new chosen family with Hal and Iman, the baby boy they adopt.]]
* FictionalAgeOfMajority: Zumordans come of age at seventeen.
* FisherKing: The Zumordan monarchs must have a bond with the gods. Otherwise, the gods will leave, causing the realm to decay. [[spoiler:However, this is stopped by Asra using [[BloodMagic a blood spell]] to [[RewritingReality change the future]].]]
* FountainOfYouth: Raisa uses her [[EnergyAbsorption absorbed energy]] to make herself look much younger (she's a ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld very]]'' old woman).
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Asra can sense life as one of her abilities. Whenever she needs plants, whom she's able to speak with by another ability, Asra always asks their permission to cut them.
* GoldDigger: [[spoiler:Ina coldly reveals to Asra she never really loved her, nor Garen. She'd just seen them both as people she could use through their relationships to climb the social ladder.]]
* GodOftheDead: The shadow god. [[spoiler:It turns out she's [[SemiDivine Asra's mother]] too.]]
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Asra's attempt to [[RewritingReality dictate the future on Ina's behalf]] accidentally causes the people of Amalska to be slaughtered by bandits. This includes Ina's whole family. She is naturally horrified by this. It turns out to be a common liability of using that gift.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Asra is a kind-hearted healer who most of all wants to help people. Even so, in the story she grows into an ActionGirl out of necessity to defend herself or her loved ones from harm.
* HandicappedBadass: Asra loses use of her left hand after she's stabbed in the wrist, severing tendons. It doesn't stop her from being growing into a good fighter with her magic.
* HandOnWomb: [[spoiler:Ina puts her hand on her stomach in the moment before telling Asra that she's pregnant from Garen.]]
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: [[spoiler:When Ina wins the throne without bonding to the gods, they leave Zumorda, abandoning the realm.]]
* HealingHands: Asra is capable of healing people using magic. This involves placing both hands lightly on the affected area.
* HoldingHands: Asra holds Hal's, to his surprise, when they first start becoming close.
* ImmoralityInducer: The Fatestone supposedy can give a person eternal life, and the boar king wants it for this purpose.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Demigods like Asra are incapable of having children, which pains her greatly, as she would love to be a mother.
* ImmortalRuler: The king wants to become this with the Fatestone, which can make whoever wears it eternal life.
* IntimateHealing: Asra has Hal lie against her while she's fighting a fever to keep her warm. She tries to tell herself this doesn't arouse her, but realizes she's lying.
* ItsAllMyFault: Asra is distraught when her spell accidentally results in the villagers of Amalska, save Ina, being murdered. Ina says not to blame herself, as she didn't intend it, but Asra does so anyway.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Ina is changed by [[BondCreatures bonding with a dragon]], going from slaughtering the bandits who'd murdered her family to becoming utterly ruthless, letting Asra (her ex-girlfriend) get held prisoner for her ability and planning her seizure of the throne.
* LackOfEmpathy: The king is utterly unsympathetic to Asra's concerns when she raised them to her. She's shocked by this, realizing that she has been wrong to support him as a result.
* LongLostRelative: Asra finds out about her half-brother (they have the same [[SemiDivine divine parent]]), but unfortunately he died centuries before.
* LovingAShadow: [[spoiler:The girl Asra believed Ina to be doesn't really exist. Ina doesn't really love her, and never did. She had used Asra (and Garen) just for her social advancement.]]
* MacGuffin: About midway through the story, Asra's told about the Fatestone, which permits the [[BloodMagic bloodscribes like her]] to use this ability without [[CastFromLifespan taking years off their own life]]. She sets out to find it, hoping to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. The king had been having people look into the Fatestone before, since it supposedly also can give eternal life, ordering his researcher killed in fear it might be taken by her.
* MacGuffinSuperperson: Asra has rare and powerful BloodMagic that can change the past, present or future. She keeps it secret for fear of people forcibly misusing it. Once others discover it, this is exactly what they set out to do, with forcible blood draws from her as she's imprisoned.
* MagicPants: Ina's clothing changes with her when she turns into a dragon and back.
* MakingASplash: Asra conjures a huge horse made from water up in a river when she and Hal are cornered, which spirits them away from the Nightswifts, by [[BloodMagic a spell from her shed blood]] dripping into its waters.
* MarriageOfConvenience: Ina became engaged to Garen as a means of furthering her prospects in their village. She hoped to become elder. [[spoiler:It turns out the other reason is because she'd also become pregnant by him.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Raisa fights Ina in part by conjuring up different illusions to mislead her.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Asra kills Leozoar, a twisted old demigod who became a murderer and wants to die, at his explicit request, though she has very mixed feelings about it.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Asra is horrified when her spell goes wrong, inadvertently causing the people of Amalska to be slaughtered by bandits.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Both the king and Ina claim their rule over Zumorda would be for the good of all. [[spoiler:Asra [[RewritingReality dictates the future]] to make sure Ina really ''is'' a good queen who acts in all her subjects' interest.]]
* NiceGirl: Asra is a kind and compassionate girl who doesn't want to hurt anyone, though she will very reluctantly in defense or herself or others. She's trained as a healer, appropriately enough, and much prefers caring for people.
* NonhumanNonbinary: The gods of water and spirit are genderfluid.
* NotHimself: After she's [[TwoBeingsOneBody fused with a dragon]], Ina abruptly becomes ruthless and bloodthirsty, slaughtering the bandits who'd murdered her family with relish then sets off to kill the king too whom she blames for allowing this. Her lover Asra is horrifies and doesn't recognize her, trying to stop Ina's plan. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that Ina was always far more cold and self-interested than Asra ever [[LovingAShadow really knew]] earlier.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
** Ina is mostly called this rather than her full name Invasya.
** Hal is only called his full name Phaldon a couple times.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Asra was left by her father as a baby to be raised by the herbalist Miriel. She does not know anything about her mother at first. [[spoiler:It turns out that it's actually her mother, the shadow god, who left her, with her father being dead.]]
** Iman gets taken in by Asra and Hal as a newborn as his birth mother doesn't want him. Before he was even born his birth father had died already.
* ParentalSubstitute:
** Asra was raised by Miriel as a result of ParentalAbandonment.
** Asra and Hal become foster parents to Iman as his birth mother Ina doesn't want to raise him.
* PlayingWithFire: Ina [[TwoBeingsOneBody fuses with a dragon]], which allows her to conjure fire afterward in human form too.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Hal used to be a spy, using his [[SuperSenses Farhearing]] for listening in on people's conversations. This wasn't what he liked though, and Hal is glad not to be doing it now.
* PregnantBadass: Ina is a formidable DarkActionGirl capable of [[PlayingWithFire hurling fire]] and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transforming into a dragon]] who it turns out to also be pregnant.
* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Asra finds a couple silver hairs after using her [[BloodMagic bloodscribe power]] for the second time, as it's CastFromLifespan.
* ProfessionalKiller: The Nightswifts were elite assassins serving the Crown, but turned on the king after he ordered some of their number killed. Since then, they have [[ContractOnTheHitman prices on their own heads]] and fight his forces.
* ProtectiveCharm: Asra can cast a magical shield around herself to repel attacks. She gives others the power to as well through her BloodMagic.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Raisa looks like an old woman most of the time, but she's actually even older, having lived for centuries now.
* ReducedToDust: [[spoiler:Ina kills Raisa through aging her until her very bones crumble to nothing.]]
* ReligionIsMagic: Asra has multiple magical abilities as a result of being a demigod. She also invoked different gods to cast spells. Invoking a person's [[VoluntaryShapeshifting manifest]] also usually is done by calling on the gods.
* {{Revenge}}: Ina, after she [[TwoBeingsOneBody fuses with a dragon]], immediately uses it to hunt down and kill the bandits who'd murdered her family, horrifying her lover Asra. Then she sets out to kill the king too, blaming him for neglecting to protect her village against them.
* RewritingReality: Asra is a bloodscribe who can determine a future or alter the past through writing it [[BloodMagic in her blood]]. This has a [[CastFromLifespan high cost]] and also often some nasty [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor unintended consequences though]].
* RingOfPower: The Fatestone turns out to be a ring which can [[ImmprtalityInducer give its wearer eternal life]] along with RewritingReality by BloodMagic without the [[CastFromLifespan high cost]] which this usually results in. Naturally, it is the {{MacGuffin}} of the story.
* RiteOfPassage: Zumordans come of age [[FictionalAgeOfMajority at seventeen]] by finding their manifest, a creature whom they [[TwoBeingsOneBody fuse with]] and can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting then transform into]].
* SecondActBreakup: Asra briefly ends her new relationship with Hal after learning he'd lied to her. They get back together though before too long since Asra forgives him.
* SecondLove: Asra is devastated after her relationship with her girlfriend Ina collapses, who's her FirstLove. She grows to love Hal over time however, with him treating her much better by far.
* SemiDivine: Asra's father is a god. Being a demigod gives her multiple magical abilities, such as use of BloodMagic and her SupernaturalSensitivity. Also she'll live for centuries, unlike mortals, though at the cost of being [[ImmortalProcreationClause unable to ever have children]]. She soon meets several more demigods too, who also have abilities due to their divine parent. [[spoiler:However, it turns out she's mistaken about her specific parentage. It turns out that her mother is the shadow god, with her father having been a mortal.]]
* SoleSurvivor: Ina is the only villager left after the rest of Amalska's people are massacred by bandits.
* SolitarySorceress: Asra is a demigod with many magical abilities. She lives in a mountain cave alone, though a village is nearby whose people she provides with her services, and Asra's mortal lover visits her frequently.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:It turns out that Ina has become pregnant by Garen, who's dead when she tells Asra this.]]
* StreetUrchin: Hal spent much of his childhood living on the street and had to survive by theft.
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Asra can sense life and magic. She's also capable of hearing songs sung by the gods which mortals can't.
* SuperSenses:
** Hal and demigods like him whose father is the wind god have super hearing. Before he met Asra, he could already hear her prayers each day from miles off.
** Some magic users also can See hidden things like when magic is present.
* SurprisePregnancy: [[spoiler:Ina became pregnant by Garen unintentionally. As a result she became engaged to him, as was expected for a girl in her situation.]]
* SympatheticMagic: Asra's magical abilities can be lent to other people if they use a tincture that's [[BloodMagic made from her blood]].
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler:Ina is seventeen like Asra, and it turns out she's pregnant from her Garen.]]
* TitleDrop: Asra describes herself as the “inkmistress” of the king in the story's second half.
* TokenMinority: Hal and Nismae, his older sister, are described as black people, which no other characters are.
* TrueSight: The Sight lets the person who has it discern otherwise hidden things and also see right through illusions.
* TwoBeingsOneBody: A person taking a manifest entails fusing themselves with BondCreatures. They can then [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shift forms at will between them]].
* UnSorcerer: Nearly all Zumordens do magic. Those that can't are shunned and treated as second-class citizens.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Once a person takes [[TwoBeingsOneBody their manifest]], they can turn into the creature whenever they'd like.
----
