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* AffectionateNickname: Bree has two: her best friend Alice calls her "Matty" while her LoveInterest Nick refers to her as "B."
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* {{Excalibur}}: This being a fantasy series based on Arthurian legend, of course Excalibur was bound to show up. In this case, Excalibur is [[spoiler: an aether weapon that is so strong it is permanently corporeal, and every time a scion of Arthur wields the sword its power magnifies exponentially]]. The sword is locked in stone [[spoiler: in the tunnels beneath the university campus, in the cave known as ''ogof y ddraig'' (Welsh for "cave of the dragon")]]. Naturally, only Arthur and his descendants are able to wield the sword, and its taking up is [[spoiler: a sign that Camlann has begun, which happens when Bree is the one to release the sword]].
* HalfHumanHybrid: Like the original, all Merlins are half-human and half-demon. Being part Shadowborn, all Merlins are susceptible to being driven insane by their demonic ancestry. Thus the Order keeps Merlins in check by magically binding them with Oaths of Service toward the Order of the Round Table.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Like the original, all Merlins are half-human and half-demon. Being part Shadowborn, all Merlins are susceptible to being driven insane by their demonic ancestry. Thus the Order keeps Merlins in check by magically binding them with Oaths of Service toward the Order of the Round Table.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Fitz, Whitty and Russ all end up getting killed at the hands of Rhaz, the ''goruchel'' posing as Evan in the climactic battle of the first book]].
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Like the original, all Merlins are half-human and half-demon.
* HistoryRepeats: How Nick ended up as [[spoiler: a scion of Lancelot instead of a scion of Arthur]] as he's always been led to believe: his ancestor Samuel Davis - a descendant of Arthur - had a wife Lorraine [[spoiler: who engaged in an affair with a man named John Reynolds, a descendant of Lancelot. Reynolds impregnated Lorraine and as a result the entire Davis clan now follows the line of Lancelot]]. The parallels between this [[spoiler: affair and the one between Lancelot and Guinevere]] are not lost on the rest of the Legendborns.
* HistoryRepeats: How Nick ended up as [[spoiler: a scion of Lancelot instead of a scion of Arthur]] as he's always been led to believe: his ancestor Samuel Davis - a descendant of Arthur - had a wife Lorraine [[spoiler: who engaged in an affair with a man named John Reynolds, a descendant of Lancelot. Reynolds impregnated Lorraine and as a result the entire Davis clan now follows the line of Lancelot]]. The parallels between this [[spoiler: affair and the one between Lancelot and Guinevere]] are not lost on the rest of the Legendborns.
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* WillingChanneler: This is the essence of Medium magic in Rootcraft. A Medium makes offerings to their deceased ancestors to borrow their knowledge and power by becoming possessed by said ancestor. [[spoiler: Bree herself ends up becoming a Medium; first by channelling and using her body to house the spirit of her grandmother, and then being taken over by King Arthur once she is Called as his true Scion]].
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* MissingMom: All three main characters have backstories that involve the loss of their mothers.
** Bree's mother dies in a car collision in the prologue, and the main thrust of the story has Bree discover why her memory of the event was altered by a Merlin posing as a police officer.
** Nick's mother was punished after she tried to [[spoiler:take a young Nick away so he wouldn't be forced into the dangerous life of a Legendborn knight]]. The Regents ended up [[spoiler: altering her memory, making her forget Nick and her family and Legendborn society entirely]]. This is the main reason why Nick initially left the Order of the Round Table in the first place.
** Sel's mother [[spoiler: was wrongfully framed as a traitor to the Order by Martin Davis, and imprisoned in the belief that her half-demon heritage was corrupting her]].
** Bree's mother dies in a car collision in the prologue, and the main thrust of the story has Bree discover why her memory of the event was altered by a Merlin posing as a police officer.
** Nick's mother was punished after she tried to [[spoiler:take a young Nick away so he wouldn't be forced into the dangerous life of a Legendborn knight]]. The Regents ended up [[spoiler: altering her memory, making her forget Nick and her family and Legendborn society entirely]]. This is the main reason why Nick initially left the Order of the Round Table in the first place.
** Sel's mother [[spoiler: was wrongfully framed as a traitor to the Order by Martin Davis, and imprisoned in the belief that her half-demon heritage was corrupting her]].
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* PowerAtAPrice: Awakened Scions and their Squires have to endure Abatement. It occurs when knights transfer their power to their Scion. The Spell of Casting drains the human's body the longer they are Awake. The life expectancy of an Awakened Scion is 35 at most.
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* SheIsTheKing: [[spoiler:Bree is referred to as the king of the Round Table, not queen, because she is the Scion for Arthur Pendragon and she carries his spirit and title.]]
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* SheIsTheKing: [[spoiler:Bree is referred to as the king of the Round Table, not queen, because she is the Scion for Arthur Pendragon and she carries his spirit and title.]]]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Merlin (the wizard from King Arthur's times) was part human and part demon. Any descendant of Merlin possesses his magical abilities, enhanced senses and endurance but also possesses the demon part of him. According to Sel, "the darkness of the underworld and the light of the living shouldn't exist in one body", and so the older a Merlin gets, the more likely they are to succumb to their evil demonic nature.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Merlin (the wizard from King Arthur's times) was part human and part demon. Any descendant of Merlin possesses his magical abilities, enhanced senses and endurance but also possesses the demon part of him. According to Sel, "the darkness of the underworld and the light of the living shouldn't exist in one body", and so the older a Merlin gets, the more likely they are to succumb to their evil demonic nature.
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* AuraVision: Mariah possesses this ability due to the branch of Rootcraft she practices.
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* BequeathedPower: After connecting with her ancestors, Bree discovers [[spoiler: this is how her family's Root abilities (alongside King Arthur's powers) are passed down.]]
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* DramaticIrony: Sel spends the first half of the book [[spoiler: suspecting that Bree is a Shadowborn demon trying to infiltrate the Order by mimicking a human. Sel eventually learns he's wrong and says he was paranoid, but it later turns out that there ''was'' a demon infiltrating the Order--the demon who killed and replaced Evan.]]
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* KillAndReplace: In the book's climax, [[spoiler: it's revealed that Evan Cooper, the Squire to Fitz in the Line of Bors, had been killed months prior and impersonated by a Shadowborn demon--a goruchel. The demon's motive was to become close to Nick in order to kill him.]]
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* KillAndReplace: In the book's climax, [[spoiler: it's revealed that Evan Cooper, the Squire to Fitz in the Line of Bors, had been killed months prior and impersonated by a Shadowborn demon--a goruchel. The demon's motive was is to become close to Nick in order to kill him.]]
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* KillAndReplace: In the book's climax, [[spoiler: it's revealed that Evan Cooper, the Squire to Fitz in the Line of Bors, had been killed months prior and impersonated by a Shadowborn demon--a goruchel. The demon's motive was to become close to Nick in order to kill him.]]
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** Additionally, [[spoiler: Sel and Nick are magically bonded, and Sel admits he has previously had romantic feelings for Nick.]]
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Legendborn is a fantasy novel by Tracy Deonn. Called "a modern day twist on Arthurian legend" legend," it follows a Black teenage girl who discovers a secret historically white magic society while attending a UNC-Chapel Hill residential pre-college program. The book is the first in the ''Legendborn'' series.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Nick's father, Lord Davis. He's the previous Scion of Arthur who dotes upon his son and steps in when Sel tries to attack Bree during the first trial. [[spoiler: Turns out he's a Manipulative Bastard who's opening more demon portals to threaten the Scions and start Camlann so he can control the Order through Nick.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Nick's father, Lord Davis. He's the previous Scion of Arthur who dotes upon his son and steps in when Sel tries to attack Bree during the first trial. [[spoiler: Turns Subverted when it turns out he's a Manipulative Bastard ManipulativeBastard who's opening more demon portals to threaten the Scions and start Camlann so he can control the Order through Nick.]]
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* BettyAndVeronica: Bree is in a LoveTriangle with the traditionally heroic Nick, [[spoiler:a Scion of Lancelot]], and [[spoiler: Sel, a more morally-ambiguous Scion of Merlin]].
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* BlackAndNerdy: Bree is a gifted student, demonstrated by her acceptance into and early college program, and makes several nerdy pop culture references (I.e. Lord of the Rings) throughout the book.
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* BlackAndNerdy: Bree is a Black gifted student, demonstrated by her acceptance into and early college program, and makes several nerdy pop culture references (I.e. Lord (e.g. ''Lord of the Rings) Rings'' and Jane Austen) throughout the book.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Nick's father, Lord Davis. He's the previous Scion of Arthur who does dotes upon his son and steps in when Sel tries to attack Bree during the first trial. [[spoiler: Turns out he's a Manipulative Bastard who's opening more demon portals to threaten the Scions and start Camlann so he can control the Order through Nick.]]
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* DoubleStandard: Bree is sanctioned more harshly for being at a illicit college party than the other students because she's Black.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Sel wipes people's memories whenever they see something supernatural. The fact he does this to Bree multiple times and every time she breaks through it the second she experiences pain is one of the first signs she has special powers.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Sel wipes people's memories whenever they see something supernatural. The fact he does this to Bree multiple times and every time she breaks through it the second she experiences pain is one of the first signs she has special powers.
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Legendborn is a fantasy novel by Tracy Deonn. Called "a modern day twist on Arthurian legend" it follows a Black teenage girl who discovers a secret historically white magic society while attending a UNC-Chapel Hill residential pre-college program. The book is the first in the Legendborn ''Legendborn'' series.
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* [=Black and Nerdy=]: Bree is a gifted student, demonstrated by her acceptance into and early college program, and makes several nerdy pop culture references (I.e. Lord of the Rings) throughout the book.
* [=Love Triangle=]: Bree and Nick have clear and mutual romantic interest in each other, [[spoiler:but as they grow to know and understand each other, Bree finds herself attracted to Sel, and he calls her "cariad" meaning "love".]]
* [=Reasonable Authority Figure=] : Nick's father, Lord Davis. He's the previous Scion of Arthur who does upon his son and steps in when Sel tries to attack Bree during the first trial. [[spoiler: Turns out he's a Manipulative Bastard who's opening more demon portals to threaten the Scions and start Camlann so he can control the Order through Nick.]]
* [[spoiler: [=She Is the King=]: Bree is referred to as the king of the Round Table, not queen, because she is the Scion for Arthur Pendragon and she carries his spirit and title.]]
* [=Love Triangle=]: Bree and Nick have clear and mutual romantic interest in each other, [[spoiler:but as they grow to know and understand each other, Bree finds herself attracted to Sel, and he calls her "cariad" meaning "love".]]
* [=Reasonable Authority Figure=] : Nick's father, Lord Davis. He's the previous Scion of Arthur who does upon his son and steps in when Sel tries to attack Bree during the first trial. [[spoiler: Turns out he's a Manipulative Bastard who's opening more demon portals to threaten the Scions and start Camlann so he can control the Order through Nick.]]
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* [=Black and Nerdy=]: BlackAndNerdy: Bree is a gifted student, demonstrated by her acceptance into and early college program, and makes several nerdy pop culture references (I.e. Lord of the Rings) throughout the book.
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*[=Reasonable Authority Figure=] : ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Nick's father, Lord Davis. He's the previous Scion of Arthur who does upon his son and steps in when Sel tries to attack Bree during the first trial. [[spoiler: Turns out he's a Manipulative Bastard who's opening more demon portals to threaten the Scions and start Camlann so he can control the Order through Nick.]]
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* [=Reasonable Authority Figure=] : Nick's father, Lord Davis. He's the previous Scion of Arthur who does upon his son and steps in when Sel tries to attack Bree during the first trial. [[spoiler: Turns out he's a Manipulative Bastard who's opening more demon portals to threaten the Scions and start Camlann so he can control the Order through Nick.]]
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* [=Reasonable Authority Figure=] : Nick's father, Lord Davis. He's the previous Scion of Arthur who does upon his son and steps in when Sel tries to attack Bree during the first trial. [[spoiler: Turns out he's a Manipulative Bastard who's opening more demon portals to threaten the Scions and start Camlann so he can control the Order through Nick.]]
* [=Reasonable Authority Figure=] : Nick's father, Lord Davis. He's the previous Scion of Arthur who does upon his son and steps in when Sel tries to attack Bree during the first trial. [[spoiler: Turns out he's a Manipulative Bastard who's opening more demon portals to threaten the Scions and start Camlann so he can control the Order through Nick.]]
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* [=Love Triangle=]: Bree and Nick have clear and mutual romantic interest in each other, but [[spoiler:but as they grow to know and understand each other, Bree finds herself attracted to Sell, Sel, and he calls her "cariad" meaning "love".]]
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