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* TheLostWoods: The Gwydden's Wood is an ever-reaching kingdom of ash, birch and oak. The Gwydden and her daughters harvest the souls of their victims to expand the wood across the land.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: Calon yells at Owen and locks him in his room when he finds out he's been venturing out into the woods, but it's clear this is do to fear that he may lose him to the Gwydden as he lost his wife.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: Calon yells at Owen and locks him in his room when he finds out he's been venturing out into the woods, but it's clear this is do due to fear that he may lose him to the Gwydden as he lost his wife.
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* EnthrallingSiren: The tree sirens. They lure men, women and children into the forest with their singing before killing them and taking their souls.
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* OurSirensAreDifferent: The tree sirens. They lure men, women and children into the forest with their singing before killing them and taking their souls.
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* RedemptionEarnsLife: [[spoiler: Seren, the only tree siren to turn good, is resurrected as a human while her monstrous siblings all fade away.]]
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* YoungestChildWins: Seren is the youngest of the Gwydden's tree siren daughters, and is the only one to reject her mother's genocidal ambitions. [[spoiler: Thus, while the other tree sirens end up fading away, Seren is reborn as a human.]]
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When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters, Seren, saves his life instead of ending it. Every night, he climbs over the garden wall to see her, and every night her longing to become human deepens. But a shift in the stars foretells a dangerous curse, and Seren’s quest to become human will lead them into an ancient war raging between the witch and the king who is trying to stop her.
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When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s witch's wood, one of her tree-siren daughters, Seren, saves his life instead of ending it. Every night, he climbs over the garden wall to see her, and every night her longing to become human deepens. But a shift in the stars foretells a dangerous curse, and Seren’s Seren's quest to become human will lead them into an ancient war raging between the witch and the king who is trying to stop her.
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** [[spoiler: This is what Elynion intended to do to Awela, and later, Owen. Fortunately, Seren takes the former to safety, and Owen's mother magically shielded the latter's soul from being taken.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Gwydden channels the heartless tree's power by habitually ensnaring those with powerful souls and binding them to the tree, [[spoiler: as was the fate of Owen's mother.]]
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* ScienceWizard: [[spoiler:Elynion]] possesses great magical powers, but he also utilizes tech devices, such as with his soul-extracting machine.
* SorcerousOverlord: [[spoiler: King Elynion possesses immortality and great magical power as a result of devouring the Gwydden's soul.]]
* SorcerousOverlord: [[spoiler: King Elynion possesses immortality and great magical power as a result of devouring the Gwydden's soul.]]
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Baines and Rheinallt, the two Tarian soldiers Owen befriends upon joining the army. [[spoiler: Rheinallt is later revealed to be a royal from a neighboring kingdom disguised as a soldier.]]
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: The Gwydden was once a forest nymph named Enaid who fell in love with a prince, only for him to carve out her heart, transforming her into a vengeful witch out to destroy all of humanity in retribution.]]
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: The Gwydden was once a forest nymph named Enaid who fell in love with a prince, only for him to carve out her heart, soul, transforming her into a vengeful witch out to destroy all of humanity in retribution.]]
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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Owen does this with Seren when the Gwydden controls her body and forces her to fight him. [[spoiler: It ends with Seren tearing her heart out to keep from killing him.]]
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* PeoplePuppets: Seren becomes one courtesy of the Gwydden, being forced against her will to battle Owen.
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* DontGoInTheWoods: It's home to the Gwydden and her monstrous daughters, and they kill anyone who strays too close.
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* NeverGivenAName: The tree sirens weren't given names by their mother, Seren only receiving her name from Owen.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Seren finally gets her wish to become human and reunites with Owen in the epilogue.]]
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* AttackOnTheHeart: [[spoiler: The Gwydden kills Elynion by thrusting a sharpened tree branch through his heart.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Owen's parents are dead, Breindal City is destroyed, and Seren sacrifices herself to save Owen. However, Elynion has been vanquished and the Gwydden's curse is lifted, allowing her to pass on peacefully. And ultimately, Seren is resurrected as a human and reunited with Owen.]]
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* EmpireWithADarkSecret: The kingdom of Tarian [[spoiler: is run by an immortal sorcerer who is responsible for the creation of the Gwydden due to him devouring her soul.]]
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* TheLostWoods: The Gwydden's Wood is an ever-reaching kingdom of ash, birch and oak. The Gwydden and her daughters harvest the souls of their victims to expand the wood across the land.
* LoveRedeems: Seren's newfound love for Owen is what convinces her to break away from her mother's control and strive to become more than a monster.
* LoveRedeems: Seren's newfound love for Owen is what convinces her to break away from her mother's control and strive to become more than a monster.
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* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: [[spoiler:Rheinallt, seemingly a random recruit in Tarian's army, is actually a prince from Gwaine sent to spy on Tarian to verify if the threat of the wood was true.]]
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* RescueRomance: Owen first encounters Seren when she spares him during her train massacre, but their romance truly begins when she saves him and his sister from one of her sisters.
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* InterspeciesRomance:
** Owen, a human, with Seren, a tree siren.
** [[spoiler: Elynion, a human, with Enaid, aka the Gwydden, a forest nymph.]]
** Owen, a human, with Seren, a tree siren.
** [[spoiler: Elynion, a human, with Enaid, aka the Gwydden, a forest nymph.]]
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* CompellingVoice: The tree sirens lure their victims into the wood through their song.
* EnthrallingSiren: The tree sirens. They lure men, women and children into the forest with their singing before killing them and taking their souls.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The tree siren with roses in her hair is the only one who shows a degree of care towards Seren. She tells her to run away rather than kill her and even tells the Gwydden she perished so that their mother won't kill her. When the Gwydden recaptures Seren and the other tree sirens torment her, the one with roses shows pity and even considers siding with her for a moment, though her loyalty to her mother ultimately prevents it.
* EnthrallingSiren: The tree sirens. They lure men, women and children into the forest with their singing before killing them and taking their souls.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The tree siren with roses in her hair is the only one who shows a degree of care towards Seren. She tells her to run away rather than kill her and even tells the Gwydden she perished so that their mother won't kill her. When the Gwydden recaptures Seren and the other tree sirens torment her, the one with roses shows pity and even considers siding with her for a moment, though her loyalty to her mother ultimately prevents it.
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* NotWorthKilling: The tree siren with roses in her hair claims this to be her reason for sparing Seren for her disobedience.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: Calon yells at Owen and locks him in his room when he finds out he's been venturing out into the woods, but it's clear this is do to fear that he may lose him to the Gwydden as he lost his wife.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[The Gwydden was once a forest nymph named Enaid who fell in love with a prince, only for him to carve out her heart, transforming her into a vengeful witch out to destroy all of humanity in retribution.]]
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Gwydden was once a forest nymph named Enaid who fell in love with a human prince until he carved out her soul, the betrayal twisting her into a monstrous witch out for vengeance against both the one who stole her soul, and all of humanity.
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* BigSisterBully: Seren's older sisters regularly torment her, especially when she starts showing "weakness" by becoming empathetic towards humans.
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* TheSoulless: The tree sirens were born with a heart, but not a soul, a source of angst for Seren. [[spoiler: The Gwydden herself used to have a soul before it was taken by Elynion.]]
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* WhiteSheep: Seren strives to be more than the monster her mother created her to be and rejects her mother and sisters' efforts to turn her back to their way.
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* WouldHurtAChild:
** The Gwydden and her daughters have no qualms killing children and harvesting their souls.
** [[spoiler: King Elynion planned on devouring two-year-old Awela's soul, and the device he intended to use to extract said soul was anything but painless.]]
** The Gwydden and her daughters have no qualms killing children and harvesting their souls.
** [[spoiler: King Elynion planned on devouring two-year-old Awela's soul, and the device he intended to use to extract said soul was anything but painless.]]
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* EvilAllAlong: King Elynion is seemingly only trying to stop the Gwydden's rampage. [[spoiler: In reality, he's the ''cause'' of her evil by devouring her soul centuries in the past, and is only trying to vanquish her to secure his own power and remove any obstacles in his path for world domination.]]
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: King Elynion is viewed as a hero to all of Tarian due to his efforts to stop the Gwydden, [[spoiler: when in reality he's the one responsible for the Gwydden turning evil in the first place.]]
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* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler: King Elynion devoured the Enaid's soul to gain immortality, resulting in her transformation into the monstrous Gwydden. Even despite this, Elynion is more concerned with maintaining his own power over the welfare of his kingdom and the rest of the world.]]
* KillAllHumans: The Gwydden's ultimate goal.
* MissingMom: Owen and Awela's mother was taken by the tree sirens. [[spoiler: He later discovers she had her soul removed and was bound to the heartless tree to channel its power, with her dying just as he reunites with her. Worse still, it was ''Seren'' who personally took her.]]
* KillAllHumans: The Gwydden's ultimate goal.
* MissingMom: Owen and Awela's mother was taken by the tree sirens. [[spoiler: He later discovers she had her soul removed and was bound to the heartless tree to channel its power, with her dying just as he reunites with her. Worse still, it was ''Seren'' who personally took her.]]
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* TakeOverTheWorld: Both the Gwydden and [[spoiler: King Elynion]] have this in mind.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[The Gwydden was once a forest nymph named Enaid who fell in love with a prince, only for him to carve out her heart, transforming her into a vengeful witch out to destroy all of humanity in retribution.]]
* WickedWitch: The Gwydden is a witch queen who seeks to wipe out all of humanity. [[spoiler: She used to be a forest nymph before having her soul stolen by Elynion.]]
* YouKilledMyFather:
** [[spoiler: Owen learns that Seren was the tree siren who gave his mother to the Gwydden to be enslaved to the heartless tree, which ultimately killed her. When he realizes this, he turns on Seren, threatening to kill her if he sees her again.]]
** [[spoiler: Owen later swears vengeance against Elynion after his experiments on his father end up killing him. However, Elynion proves far too powerful for him.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[The Gwydden was once a forest nymph named Enaid who fell in love with a prince, only for him to carve out her heart, transforming her into a vengeful witch out to destroy all of humanity in retribution.]]
* WickedWitch: The Gwydden is a witch queen who seeks to wipe out all of humanity. [[spoiler: She used to be a forest nymph before having her soul stolen by Elynion.]]
* YouKilledMyFather:
** [[spoiler: Owen learns that Seren was the tree siren who gave his mother to the Gwydden to be enslaved to the heartless tree, which ultimately killed her. When he realizes this, he turns on Seren, threatening to kill her if he sees her again.]]
** [[spoiler: Owen later swears vengeance against Elynion after his experiments on his father end up killing him. However, Elynion proves far too powerful for him.]]
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* BecomeARealBoy: Seren seeks to become human after abandoning her mother and sisters. [[spoiler: She gets her wish at the end.]]
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* TheFairFolk: The Gwydden and her daughters are forest witches who murder humans and harvest their souls. [[spoiler:The Gwydden herself used to be a forest nymph before having her soul taken by Elynion.]]
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When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters, Seren, saves his life instead of ending it. Every night, he climbs over the garden wall to see her, and every night her longing to become human deepens. But a shift in the stars foretells a dangerous curse, and Seren’s quest to become human will lead them into an ancient war raging between the witch and the king who is trying to stop her.
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* AbusiveParents: The Gwydden towards her sons and daughters. She created them solely to serve as tools for killing, and if they don't conform to that, she's only too willing to torture them or force them to do so.
* BigBadEnsemble: The Gwydden and [[spoiler: King Elynion, aka the Soul Eater.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: The Gwydden vs [[spoiler: King Elynion.]] The Gwydden is a soul-stealing witch out to engulf the world in her kingdom of birch and exterminate humanity, while [[spoiler: Elynion is the man who cursed her to be that way, and himself plans to conquer the world once he's vanquished her.]]
* EvilMatriarch: The Gwydden towards her children, the Pine Princes and the tree sirens. Heaven help them if they try to become more than the monsters she created them to be, as she'll brutalize them and psychologically torture them for straying out of line.
* SoulEating: [[spoiler: King Elynion devoured the Gwydden's soul centuries prior, earning him the moniker of the Soul Eater among the creatures of the wood.]]
* YourSoulIsMine:
** The Gwydden and her daughters harvest the souls of their victims to feed the heartless tree and expand their domain.
** [[spoiler: This is what Elynion intended to do to Awela, and later, Owen. Fortunately, Seren takes the former to safety, and Owen's mother magically shielded the latter's soul from being taken.]]
!!This book includes examples of:
* AbusiveParents: The Gwydden towards her sons and daughters. She created them solely to serve as tools for killing, and if they don't conform to that, she's only too willing to torture them or force them to do so.
* BigBadEnsemble: The Gwydden and [[spoiler: King Elynion, aka the Soul Eater.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: The Gwydden vs [[spoiler: King Elynion.]] The Gwydden is a soul-stealing witch out to engulf the world in her kingdom of birch and exterminate humanity, while [[spoiler: Elynion is the man who cursed her to be that way, and himself plans to conquer the world once he's vanquished her.]]
* EvilMatriarch: The Gwydden towards her children, the Pine Princes and the tree sirens. Heaven help them if they try to become more than the monsters she created them to be, as she'll brutalize them and psychologically torture them for straying out of line.
* SoulEating: [[spoiler: King Elynion devoured the Gwydden's soul centuries prior, earning him the moniker of the Soul Eater among the creatures of the wood.]]
* YourSoulIsMine:
** The Gwydden and her daughters harvest the souls of their victims to feed the heartless tree and expand their domain.
** [[spoiler: This is what Elynion intended to do to Awela, and later, Owen. Fortunately, Seren takes the former to safety, and Owen's mother magically shielded the latter's soul from being taken.]]
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''Into the Heartless Wood'' is a 2021 fantasy novel by Joanna Ruth Meyer.
The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centuries, a witch has harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow her domain.
When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters, Seren, saves his life instead of ending it. Every night, he climbs over the garden wall to see her, and every night her longing to become human deepens. But a shift in the stars foretells a dangerous curse, and Seren’s quest to become human will lead them into an ancient war raging between the witch and the king who is trying to stop her.
The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centuries, a witch has harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow her domain.
When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters, Seren, saves his life instead of ending it. Every night, he climbs over the garden wall to see her, and every night her longing to become human deepens. But a shift in the stars foretells a dangerous curse, and Seren’s quest to become human will lead them into an ancient war raging between the witch and the king who is trying to stop her.
