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* FeudalFuture: The Tearling is a monarchy founded by William Tear, who escaped with a handful of followers from a dystopian America. He never meant for it to be a monarchy, and finding out how it fell apart is one of key mysteries of the series.
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* HappilyAdopted: Kelsea had a very happy childhood with Barty and Carlin.Carlin, and eventually takes on their last name as her regnal title.
* InsaneTrollLogic: The head of the Church is determined to find ''some'' reason to find Kelsea guilty and evil, and his logic tends towards the circular. In one example, he tries to claim she's a slut for sleeping with her men. Then, when given proof that isn't the case, he calls her celibacy "[[MortonsFork suspicious]]" and a potential sign of homosexuality.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Marguerite is a stunningly beautiful woman whose looks got her sold into [[SexSlave slave trade]] and abused by several men who didn't like her resisting them, and tells [[IAmNotPretty Kelsea]] that beauty carries its own burdens.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Marguerite is a stunningly beautiful woman whose looks got her sold into the [[SexSlave slave trade]] and abused by several men who didn't like her resisting them, and tells [[IAmNotPretty [[PlainJane Kelsea]] that beauty carries its own burdens.
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* TrackingChip: A mandatory implant for those living in the OppressiveStatesOfAmerica mentioned above. It's said to be impossible to remove without killing the person it's implanted in via poison, but as several characters have theirs removed, that may be a lie.
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* TrackingChip: A mandatory implant for those living in the OppressiveStatesOfAmerica mentioned above. It's said to be impossible to remove without killing the person it's implanted in via poison, but as several characters have managed to remove theirs removed, that may be a lie.anyway.
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* EvilAlbino: Brenna, Thorne's servant, has albinism and is quite depraved, with many of the less educated characters treating her albinism itself as demonic.
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* TheEmpire: Mortmesne, led by the Red Queen, has all the trappings of this, though its citizens seem to be treated fairly well.
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* TheEmpire: Mortmesne, led by the Red Queen, has all the trappings of this, though its citizens seem to be treated fairly well. At least, the free ones are.
* EvilAlbino: Brenna, Thorne's servant, has albinism and is quite depraved, with many of the less educated characters treating her albinism itself as demonic.
* EvilAlbino: Brenna, Thorne's servant, has albinism and is quite depraved, with many of the less educated characters treating her albinism itself as demonic.
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* FeatheredFiend: A specific breed of hawks is used as weapon.
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* FeatheredFiend: A specific breed of giant hawks is used as weapon.
* FeudalFuture: The Tearling is a monarchy founded by William Tear, who escaped with a handful of followers from a dystopian America. He never meant for it to be a monarchy,
* FeudalFuture: The Tearling is a monarchy founded by William Tear, who escaped with a handful of followers from a dystopian America. He never meant for it to be a monarchy,
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* IAmNotPretty: Kelsea has quite the complex about her plain face, sometimes verging into SkewedPriorities.
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* PlainJane: Kelsea has quite the complex about her plain face, in part because her incompetent mother was known to be vain and thus Carlin tried to drill vanity out of her in a way that just made her hyper aware of it. She's actually hurt when the Fetch says she's too ugly to rape, dismisses [[SexSlave Marguerite's]] stories of the pain her beauty has caused her by thinking that her beauty had more benefits overall than detriments, and when her face starts magically changing she immediately starts self-flagellating over her perceived vanity, [[spoiler:not realizing until much later that it's changing to match Lily's]].
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* IAmNotPretty: Kelsea has quite the complex about her plain face, sometimes verging into SkewedPriorities.
* ScienceFantasy: It's set in the future on another planet but there's magic. It's also partially set in Earth's future.
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* ScienceFantasy: It's set in the future on another planet but there's magic. It's also partially set in Earth's future.SoBeautifulItsACurse: Marguerite is a stunningly beautiful woman whose looks got her sold into [[SexSlave slave trade]] and abused by several men who didn't like her resisting them, and tells [[IAmNotPretty Kelsea]] that beauty carries its own burdens.
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* BittersweetEnding: More heavy on the bitter than the sweet. [[spoiler: By going back in time and killing Rowland Finn before he and the Fetch got cursed by Katie for killing Jonathan, Kelsea changed the future. She returned to a time where there is no Queen, as Katie had turned over the crown to create a democracy. No one she knew from the other timeline recognizes her and Pen is outside her reach once more, but as the events of the books never actually took place, everyone lives and she is free to live a normal life.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: More heavy on the bitter than the sweet. [[spoiler: By going back in time and killing Rowland Finn before he and the Fetch got cursed by Katie for killing Jonathan, Kelsea changed the future. She returned to a time where there is no Queen, as Katie had turned over the crown to create a democracy. No one she knew from the other timeline recognizes her and Pen is outside her reach once more, but as the events of the books never actually took place, everyone lives and she is free to live a normal life.life, but the magical artifacts she used to do it are well within reach and she has some angst about being a nineteen year old girl who's already done the most important thing she will ever do and having a head full of memories and trauma no one can know about or relate to.]]
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A prequel book, ''Beneath the Keep'', was published in 2021
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* UpbringingMakesTheHero: Carlin and Barty raised Kelsea so that she would be a wise and just queen.
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* UpbringingMakesTheHero: Carlin and Barty raised Kelsea so that she would be a wise and just queen.queen.
* UndressingTheUnconscious: After being captured by "the Fetch", Kelsea wakes up from unconsciousness and discovers someone stripped her of her clothes, [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe bathed her]] and dressed her in something else. She is understandably upset and is [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe indignant]] when The Fetch then essentially tells her, "That was me, but don't worry, you are too plain for my tastes."
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* UndressingTheUnconscious: After being captured by "the Fetch", Kelsea wakes up from unconsciousness and discovers someone stripped her of her clothes, [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe bathed her]] and dressed her in something else. She is understandably upset and is [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe indignant]] when The Fetch then essentially tells her, "That was me, but don't worry, you are too plain for my tastes."
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* ShaggyDogStory: Near the end of the final book, a lot of plot threads are still open. Then it ends with [[spoiler: almost everybody dying, before the last few hundred years of history are rewritten by Kelsea so none of the events of the books ever took place.]]
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: Using the Tear Sapphire and with an assist from William Tear himself, Kelsea goes back in time to just before Rowland Finn killed Katie, killing him herself and effectively nullifying the events of the entire series.]]
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: Using the Tear Sapphire and with an assist from William Tear himself, Kelsea goes back in time to just before Rowland Finn killed Jonathan and got cursed by Katie, killing him both Jonathan and Row herself and effectively nullifying the events of the entire series.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Several times.
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** A lot could have been avoided if William Tear would have found a way of acknowledging [[spoiler: his son Row]].
** The people that actually witnessed the Crossing and the old world try their hardest not to tell their children anything about it. Which contributes to HistoryRepeats
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* BittersweetEnding: More heavy on the bitter than the sweet. [[spoiler: By going back in time and killing Rowland Finn before he and the Fetch killed Katie, Kelsea changed the future. She returned to a time where there is no Queen, as Katie had turned over the crown to create a democracy. No one she knew from the other timeline recognizes her and Pen is outside her reach once more, but as the events of the books never actually took place, everyone lives and she is free to live a normal life.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: More heavy on the bitter than the sweet. [[spoiler: By going back in time and killing Rowland Finn before he and the Fetch killed Katie, got cursed by Katie for killing Jonathan, Kelsea changed the future. She returned to a time where there is no Queen, as Katie had turned over the crown to create a democracy. No one she knew from the other timeline recognizes her and Pen is outside her reach once more, but as the events of the books never actually took place, everyone lives and she is free to live a normal life.]]
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* TheAgeless: A few characters. The Queen of Mortmesne achieved this through magic. It's also implied that The Fetch and Rowland Finn are this.
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* BloodSport: Mace was raised in an underground place called the Creche where children were forced to fight and kill each other for entertainment.
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* TheEmpath: Brenna, Thorne's servant, is specifically stated as being able to take away the pain of others. [[spoiler: Holding onto Thorne's pain is what made her into an EvilAlbino.]]
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* EvilAlbino: Brenna, in the second book. [[spoiler: She regained her coloring in the third, as she no longer had Thorne's pain to hold for him.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Elyssa Raleigh, said to have died, faked her death with the Mace's help and went into hiding. Kelsea finally meets her in the third book.]]
* FantasyWorldMap: Provided in the books as a roughly shield-shaped island with four nations: The Tearling, Mortmesne, Cadare, and Callae. [[http://queenofthetearlingtrilogy.tumblr.com/image/122942659737 (partial image)]]
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Elyssa Raleigh, said to have died, faked her death with the Mace's help and went into hiding. Kelsea finally meets her in the third book.]]
* FantasyWorldMap: Provided in the books as a roughly shield-shaped island with four nations: The Tearling, Mortmesne, Cadare, and Callae. [[http://queenofthetearlingtrilogy.tumblr.com/image/122942659737 (partial image)]]
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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: An interesting version in ''Invasion of the Tearling'', as Lily's story takes place in a futuristic America but is actually happening ''before'' Kelsea was born.
* MineralMacguffin: There are two, in the form of sapphires which belong to the heir to the Tearling throne. The jewels have magical powers which are not quite understood, although the Queen of Mortmesne desperately wants them for herself.
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: An interesting version in ''Invasion of the Tearling'', as Lily's story takes place in a futuristic America but is actually happening ''before'' Kelsea was born.
* MineralMacguffin: There are two, in the form of sapphires which belong to the heir to the Tearling throne. The jewels have magical powers which are not quite understood, although the Queen of Mortmesne desperately wants them for herself.
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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: An interesting version in ''Invasion of the Tearling'', as Lily's story takes place in a futuristic America but is actually happening ''before'' Kelsea wasborn.
born. This continues into ''Fate of the Tearling'', with Katie's story taking place not long after the Crossing.
* MentalTimeTravel: Kelsea experiences this in the second and third books, mentally traveling back via the Tear Sapphire and experiencing both Lily and Katie's lives. [[spoiler: The Tear Sapphire caused her to become Lily's twin in looks as a result of the first, while the second allowed Katie to serve as a portal to allow Kelsea to physically travel back.]]
* MineralMacguffin: There are two, in the form of sapphires which belong to the Queen of the Tearling and the heir to the Tearling throne. The jewels have magical powers which are not quite understood, although the Queen of Mortmesne desperately wants them for herself. [[spoiler: She gets them at the end of the second book, but they do not work for her.]]
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: An interesting version in ''Invasion of the Tearling'', as Lily's story takes place in a futuristic America but is actually happening ''before'' Kelsea was
* MentalTimeTravel: Kelsea experiences this in the second and third books, mentally traveling back via the Tear Sapphire and experiencing both Lily and Katie's lives. [[spoiler: The Tear Sapphire caused her to become Lily's twin in looks as a result of the first, while the second allowed Katie to serve as a portal to allow Kelsea to physically travel back.]]
* MineralMacguffin: There are two, in the form of sapphires which belong to the Queen of the Tearling and the heir to the Tearling throne. The jewels have magical powers which are not quite understood, although the Queen of Mortmesne desperately wants them for herself. [[spoiler: She gets them at the end of the second book, but they do not work for her.]]
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* RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler: Kelsea retained all memory of the original timeline when she returned to the new timeline, having a hard time adjusting as a result.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: Using the Tear Sapphire and with an assist from William Tear himself, Kelsea goes back in time to just before Rowland Finn killed Katie, killing him herself and effectively nullifying the events of the entire series.]]
* ShipSinking: Kelsea and Pen. They manage to get together somewhat midway through the second book, but are sunk once via [[spoiler: Kelsea's sacrifice at the end of the second book]], sunk again by Pen after [[spoiler: Kelsea's rescue midway through the third book]], and finally sunk for good in the BittersweetEnding [[spoiler: with Pen, now named Andrew, having a wife and child in the new timeline]].
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* TrackingChip:Lily has one.A mandatory implant for those living in the OppressiveStatesOfAmerica mentioned above. It's said to be impossible to remove without killing the person it's implanted in via poison, but as several characters have theirs removed, that may be a lie.
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