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* WillfullyWeak: Agnes doesn't use her curse powers because being a decent person is much more important to her.
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* BazaarOfTheBizarre: The goblin market sells and buys everything from teeth to enchantments.
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* {{Bathos}}: Marra might be on a quest to assassinate an evil prince, but she has any number of incongruously ordinary experiences along the way. Exemplified when she reaches the famous dust-wife's home and sees chickens in the yard.
-->It was hard to be frightened of the unknown when the unknown kept chickens.
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Thegoblin market sells Goblin Market is reached by [[MagicPrerequisite invoking it at a liminal space]], is staffed by TheFairFolk, deals in all kinds of magical and buys everything mundane sundries, and trades for anything from teeth years of lifespan to enchantments.teeth. Marra makes several handy purchases with the dust-wife's guidance.
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* {{Glamour}}: A stall at the Goblin Market sells magical disguises for nearly anything, animal, vegetable, or mineral. Marra buys one to make her skeletal CanineCompanion look and feel like a living dog.
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* {{Geas}}: Agnes uses this for MundaneUtility, cursing a chicken to die unless it leads her to a place of safety in an unfriendly city. The chicken runs straight to a good boarding house.
* {{Glamour}}: A stall at the Goblin Market sells magical disguises for nearly anything, animal, vegetable, or mineral. Marra buys one to make her skeletal CanineCompanion look and feel like a living dog. (Sound would have been trickier and more expensive.)
* ImmortalApathy: The Northern Kingdom's godmother is said to have outlived all her feelings; when she's not performing her duties, she simply sits at home for decades. [[spoiler:She's equally unconcerned to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever finally die]].]]
* {{Glamour}}: A stall at the Goblin Market sells magical disguises for nearly anything, animal, vegetable, or mineral. Marra buys one to make her skeletal CanineCompanion look and feel like a living dog.
* ImmortalApathy: The Northern Kingdom's godmother is said to have outlived all her feelings; when she's not performing her duties, she simply sits at home for decades. [[spoiler:She's equally unconcerned to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever finally die]].]]
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* MapAllAlong: Marra identifies directions through the palace crypts in the weave of the tapestry the Godmother gave her. Justified because the Godmother's oaths to the Kingdom barred her from aiding Marra, so she couldn't explain the tapestry's significance herself.
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* MapAllAlong: Marra identifies directions through the palace crypts encoded in the weave of the tapestry the Godmother [[spoiler:the Northern Godmother]] gave her. Justified because the Godmother's oaths to the Kingdom barred a MagicallyBindingContract prevents her from aiding Marra, so she couldn't explain can only [[ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest give her the tapestry's tapestry]] ''because'' Marra doesn't understand its significance herself.at first.
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* NothingButSkinAndBones: The Northern Kingdom's FairyGodmother is so old that she's gone past wrinkles and on to translucent skin stretched taut over her skull. When [[spoiler:When she's finally able to die, the skin simply crumbles off the bone.]]
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Marra. Afterwards, the dust-wife admits that they were a deterrent, not a test, but Marra was too stubborn to quit.
* TouchTheIntangible: The dust-wife can somehow trap moonlight in a jar. She says the feat would have "broken" Marra, but doesn't elaborate.
* WithholdingTheirName: The dust-wife confirms that she ''has'' a name, but it is neverrevealed.revealed.
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* BadPowersGoodPeople: Agnes. As the dust-wife puts it, "Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of Agnes in the way."
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* BadPowersGoodPeople: Agnes. As the dust-wife puts it, "Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of Agnes in the way."" This is also the reason Agnes doesn't do a lot of big magic; she basically ''can't'' cast anything serious unless she's trying to hurt somebody, and she doesn't want to hurt people.
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* TheExile: Fenris is exiled from his homeland. If he returns, it will start a clan war.
* FairyGodmother: A{{Deconstruction}} of what fairy godmothers do for their godchildren, from gifts to curses.godmother is an actual job title in this world, complete with abilities and expectations.
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* LockedAwayInAMonastery: Marra is sent to live in a nunnery to keep her safe, out of the way, and not able to safely unmarried--both so that she doesn't bear any inconvenient legitimate royal children.children who might challenge Vorling's children for the succession of the Harbor Kingdom, and so that she's available as a backup bride if Vorling kills Kania too.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Fenris is exiled from his homeland. If he returns, it will start a clan war.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Fenris is exiled from his homeland. If he returns, it will start a clan war.
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* BazaarOfTheBizarre: The goblin market sells and buys everything from teeth to enchantments.
* DemonicPossession: The dust-wife says to beware of her chicken, who's got a devil in her. Literally.
* FantasticLightSource: The dust-wife keeps some moonlight in a vial for a pure clean light.
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* LockedAwayInAMonastery: Marra is sent to live in a nunnery to keep her safe and safe, out of the way.way, and not able to bear any inconvenient legitimate royal children.
* MagicPrerequisite: The goblin market is only accessible at the right time of the moon and from a liminal location.
* MagicPrerequisite: The goblin market is only accessible at the right time of the moon and from a liminal location.
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* WithholdingTheirName: The dust-wife certainly ''has'' a name, but it is never revealed.
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* DomesticAbuse: Prince Vorling is thoroughly bad--cruel, despotic, controlling, paranoid. He killed Damia, Marra's eldest sister, and now has middle sister Kania in his clutches.
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Marra is a princess, the youngest of three in a tiny kingdom squeezed between two much larger, more powerful kingdoms. When she is a child, her eldest sister is sent to the Northern Kingdom as a bride for the prince, but dies mysteriously some months later. Her elder sister is sent as the prince's new bride, and it's only when Marra attends the birth of her niece that she realizes how bad her sister's abusive marriage is, and how little anyone can do about it.
But Marra has been in a convent since she was a teen, living and working with the nuns and the wider community, and she's now a grounded, practical, sensible woman of thirty. If there's no political solution, she reasons, maybe there's a magical solution. If so, she'll need the help of a dust-wife: a graveyard guardian witch.
But Marra has been in a convent since she was a teen, living and working with the nuns and the wider community, and she's now a grounded, practical, sensible woman of thirty. If there's no political solution, she reasons, maybe there's a magical solution. If so, she'll need the help of a dust-wife: a graveyard guardian witch.
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* ImpossibleTask: Three of them. Marra must sew a cloak from owlcloth and nettle wool she's spun herself, build a dog from cursed bones, and capture moonlight in a jar.
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** ImpossibleTaskInstantlyAccomplished: The dust-wife reasons that Marra's first two tasks should have been more than enough to make her go away, and spots her the third task. (Actually performing it, says the dust-wife, would have cost Marra her heart.)
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''Nettle & Bone'' is [[Creator/UrsulaVernon T. Kingfisher's]] 2023 Hugo-winning novel.
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''Nettle & Bone'' is [[Creator/UrsulaVernon T. Kingfisher's]] 2023 Hugo-winning novel.novel.
!!Tropes appearing in ''Nettle & Bone''
* ADogNamedDog: Bonedog is, well, a dog made out of bones.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: According to the dust-wife, her ''parents'' were human, anyway.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Agnes. As the dust-wife puts it, "Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of Agnes in the way."
* BoringButPractical: Marra's fairy godmother Agnes gave her and her two older sisters the gift of health. Marra's at first outraged that Agnes didn't give them something with more immediate oomph, such as a blessing that would've protected her sisters from marrying the abusive BigBad prince. But being healthy, As as Agnes points out, is pretty much always useful and doesn't have nasty side effects or unintended consequences. By contrast, the far more grand and exciting-sounding blessing the godmother of the Northern Kingdom gives [[spoiler: is actually a curse and is the reason all its kings die young.]]
* CanineCompanion: Bonedog, the dog Marra constructed out of bones for one of her tasks, remains her loyal companion.
* FairyGodmother: A {{Deconstruction}} of what fairy godmothers do for their godchildren, from gifts to curses.
* {{Glamour}}: A stall at the Goblin Market sells magical disguises for nearly anything, animal, vegetable, or mineral. Marra buys one to make her skeletal CanineCompanion look and feel like a living dog.
* LockedAwayInAMonastery: Marra is sent to live in a nunnery to keep her safe and out of the way.
* MapAllAlong: Marra identifies directions through the palace crypts in the weave of the tapestry the Godmother gave her. Justified because the Godmother's oaths to the Kingdom barred her from aiding Marra, so she couldn't explain the tapestry's significance herself.
* NonhumanUndead: Bonedog, the dog made of bones.
* NothingButSkinAndBone: The Northern Kingdom's FairyGodmother is so old that she's gone past wrinkles and on to translucent skin stretched taut over her skull. When she's finally able to die, the skin simply crumbles off the bone.
* PrincessClassic: Played with. Marra is a princess raised in a nunnery, but--as is typical for Kingfisher's heroines--is grounded, practical, and sensible.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Northern Kingdom's FairyGodmother.
!!Tropes appearing in ''Nettle & Bone''
* ADogNamedDog: Bonedog is, well, a dog made out of bones.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: According to the dust-wife, her ''parents'' were human, anyway.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Agnes. As the dust-wife puts it, "Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of Agnes in the way."
* BoringButPractical: Marra's fairy godmother Agnes gave her and her two older sisters the gift of health. Marra's at first outraged that Agnes didn't give them something with more immediate oomph, such as a blessing that would've protected her sisters from marrying the abusive BigBad prince. But being healthy, As as Agnes points out, is pretty much always useful and doesn't have nasty side effects or unintended consequences. By contrast, the far more grand and exciting-sounding blessing the godmother of the Northern Kingdom gives [[spoiler: is actually a curse and is the reason all its kings die young.]]
* CanineCompanion: Bonedog, the dog Marra constructed out of bones for one of her tasks, remains her loyal companion.
* FairyGodmother: A {{Deconstruction}} of what fairy godmothers do for their godchildren, from gifts to curses.
* {{Glamour}}: A stall at the Goblin Market sells magical disguises for nearly anything, animal, vegetable, or mineral. Marra buys one to make her skeletal CanineCompanion look and feel like a living dog.
* LockedAwayInAMonastery: Marra is sent to live in a nunnery to keep her safe and out of the way.
* MapAllAlong: Marra identifies directions through the palace crypts in the weave of the tapestry the Godmother gave her. Justified because the Godmother's oaths to the Kingdom barred her from aiding Marra, so she couldn't explain the tapestry's significance herself.
* NonhumanUndead: Bonedog, the dog made of bones.
* NothingButSkinAndBone: The Northern Kingdom's FairyGodmother is so old that she's gone past wrinkles and on to translucent skin stretched taut over her skull. When she's finally able to die, the skin simply crumbles off the bone.
* PrincessClassic: Played with. Marra is a princess raised in a nunnery, but--as is typical for Kingfisher's heroines--is grounded, practical, and sensible.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Northern Kingdom's FairyGodmother.
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