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* BloodBrothers: Gerrard and Vuel are revealed to have matching scars on the back of their hands during a flashback in Starke's Tale. Vuel forcibly mutilates his scar until it is unrecognizable after coming to believe that Gerrard has stolen his birthright.
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* ClassicVillain: Volrath is one of ''Magic's'' first BigBad characters, and has such he's a lot more stereotypical, especially early on, than the villains that would come after him. Specifically, he is almost a completely stock EvilOverlord archetype, checking off the criteria such as "is a BadBoss to his {{Dragon}}" and "dabbles in [[EvilutionaryBiologist Evilutionary Biology]] on the side" as if scrolling down a list. [[spoiler:Ultimately he does gain more depth, particularly in ''Nemesis'', but this is not enough to save him and he ultimately ends up becoming a DiscOneFinalBoss]].
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* ClassicVillain: Volrath is one of ''Magic's'' first BigBad characters, and has such he's a lot more stereotypical, especially early on, than the villains that would come after him. Specifically, he is almost a completely stock EvilOverlord archetype, checking off the criteria such as "is a BadBoss to his {{Dragon}}" [[TheDragon Dragon]]" and "dabbles in [[EvilutionaryBiologist Evilutionary Biology]] {{Evilutionary Biolog|ist}}y on the side" as if scrolling down a list. [[spoiler:Ultimately he does gain more depth, particularly in ''Nemesis'', but this is not enough to save him and he ultimately ends up becoming a DiscOneFinalBoss]].
* DamselInDistress: Captain Sisay, who is abducted to Rath by Volrath, providing the impetus for the Weatherlight to travel there.
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* DistressedDamsel: Captain Sisay, who is abducted to Rath by Volrath, providing the impetus for the Weatherlight to travel there.
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* [[InsufferableGenius Insufferable]] TeenGenius: Ertai is the brightest wizard of his generation and is not particularly shy about letting people know.
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* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Father Unlike Daughter]]: Barrin of Tolaria is a master wizard, while his daughter Hanna is an artificer.
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* [[NatureHero Nature Heroine]]: Mirri is one of these, being a cat warrior who has spent the past several years training in the forests of Llanowar.
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* RedShirts: Indirectly referenced in Greven's Tale, where Greven thinks of Weatherlight's unnamed crew as "silly, screaming humans in shirts the color of their own spilling blood".
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* RedShirts: {{Red Shirt}}s: Indirectly referenced in Greven's Tale, where Greven thinks of Weatherlight's unnamed crew as "silly, screaming humans in shirts the color of their own spilling blood".
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* SeriesContinuityError: Hanna's mother is briefly mentioned as being dead, however we find out in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Prophecy]]'' that she's quite alive. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she dies in the same book]].
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* SeriesContinuityError: Hanna's mother is briefly mentioned as being dead, however we find out in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Prophecy]]'' that she's quite alive. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she dies in the same book]].book.]]
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* ShapeShifterShowdown: Played with late in the book with the final battle of ''Exodus'', which is seemingly Gerrard vs Volrath and Starke vs a mind-controlled Takara. [[spoiler:"Volrath" is actually a shapeshifting stunt double, while "Takara" is actually the real Volrath in disguise]].
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* ShapeShifterShowdown: ShapeshifterShowdown: Played with late in the book with the final battle of ''Exodus'', which is seemingly Gerrard vs Volrath and Starke vs a mind-controlled Takara. [[spoiler:"Volrath" is actually a shapeshifting stunt double, while "Takara" is actually the real Volrath in disguise]].
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* [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Trapped In]] AnotherDimension: Three ''entire'' races (the Dauthi, Soltari, and Thalakos) are this, though their impact on the story is minimal since we only meet a single named character from any of the three races: Lyna, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4900 Soltari Emissary]].
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* [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Trapped In]] {{Trapped in|AnotherWorld}} AnotherDimension: Three ''entire'' races (the Dauthi, Soltari, and Thalakos) are this, though their impact on the story is minimal since we only meet a single named character from any of the three races: Lyna, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4900 Soltari Emissary]].
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* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler: Mirri again]]. This girl is not having a good day.
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* BigBad: Volrath is the "Evincar" of Rath, which roughly translates to EvilOverlord and makes him the Big Bad by default...
** BiggerBad: ... but ultimately he has received all his mileage from his Phyrexian masters, and he rules Rath entirely at their whim.
** BiggerBad: ... but ultimately he has received all his mileage from his Phyrexian masters, and he rules Rath entirely at their whim.
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* BigBad: Volrath is the "Evincar" of Rath, which roughly translates to EvilOverlord and makes him the Big Bad by default...
** BiggerBad: ... but ultimately he has received all his mileage from his Phyrexian masters, and he rules Rath entirely at their whim.default.
** BiggerBad: ... but ultimately he has received all his mileage from his Phyrexian masters, and he rules Rath entirely at their whim.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The between chapters scene right before Mirri's Tale all but says outright that [[spoiler:Mirri had to die in order for Gerrard to "shed" her and become a hero]], so not only playing this trope as straight as possible but even ''referencing it in-universe''.
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[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rath_and_storm_9752.jpg]] The '''Weatherlight Saga''' is the most ambitious storyline ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' has ever told. The game was still young and most storylines, while mostly taking place on the same world – Dominaria (with the notable exceptions of ''Arabian Nights'', which took place on Rabiah the Infinite, and ''Homelands'', which took place on Ulgrotha) – ran through one or two sets at most. The Weatherlight Saga ran for four years and eventually encompassed thirteen sets, while also having links to past storylines. Furthermore, cards in the set depicted many events from the storyline, to the point that it was possible to arrange them into a [[http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/113 storyboard]]. '''Rath and Storm''' chronicles the first act of the saga, corresponding to the expansions ''Weatherlight'' and those of the Tempest block (''Tempest'', ''Stronghold'' and ''Exodus'').
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[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rath_and_storm_9752.jpg]] The '''Weatherlight Saga''' is the most ambitious storyline ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has ever told. The game was still young and most storylines, while mostly taking place on the same world – Dominaria (with the notable exceptions of ''Arabian Nights'', which took place on Rabiah the Infinite, and ''Homelands'', which took place on Ulgrotha) – ran through one or two sets at most. The Weatherlight Saga ran for four years and eventually encompassed thirteen sets, while also having links to past storylines. Furthermore, cards in the set depicted many events from the storyline, to the point that it was possible to arrange them into a [[http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/113 storyboard]]. '''Rath and Storm''' chronicles the first act of the saga, corresponding to the expansions ''Weatherlight'' and those of the Tempest block (''Tempest'', ''Stronghold'' and ''Exodus'').
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** During one of the interludes Tolaria is mentioned to still exist, however in the InvasionCycle Barrin destroyed the island with the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=23098 Oblierate]] spell.
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** During one of the interludes Tolaria is mentioned to still exist, however in the InvasionCycle Literature/InvasionCycle Barrin destroyed the island with the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=23098 Oblierate]] spell.
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[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rath_and_storm_9752.jpg]] The '''Weatherlight Saga''' is the most ambitious storyline ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' has ever told. The game was still young and most storylines, while mostly taking place on the same world – Dominaria (with the notable exception of ''Homelands'', which took place on Ulgrotha) – ran through one or two sets at most. The Weatherlight Saga ran for four years and eventually encompassed thirteen sets, while also having links to past storylines. Furthermore, cards in the set depicted many events from the storyline, to the point that it was possible to arrange them into a [[http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/113 storyboard]]. '''Rath and Storm''' chronicles the first act of the saga, corresponding to the expansions ''Weatherlight'' and those of the Tempest block (''Tempest'', ''Stronghold'' and ''Exodus'').
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[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rath_and_storm_9752.jpg]] The '''Weatherlight Saga''' is the most ambitious storyline ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' has ever told. The game was still young and most storylines, while mostly taking place on the same world – Dominaria (with the notable exception exceptions of ''Arabian Nights'', which took place on Rabiah the Infinite, and ''Homelands'', which took place on Ulgrotha) – ran through one or two sets at most. The Weatherlight Saga ran for four years and eventually encompassed thirteen sets, while also having links to past storylines. Furthermore, cards in the set depicted many events from the storyline, to the point that it was possible to arrange them into a [[http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/113 storyboard]]. '''Rath and Storm''' chronicles the first act of the saga, corresponding to the expansions ''Weatherlight'' and those of the Tempest block (''Tempest'', ''Stronghold'' and ''Exodus'').
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* OurElvesAreBetter: Rath's Skyshroud Elves aren't ''better'' than Dominarian elves, but they can be said to be more martial owing to their more hostile environment.
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* OurElvesAreBetter: OurElvesAreDifferent: Rath's Skyshroud Elves aren't ''better'' are more war-like than Dominarian elves, but they can be said to be more martial owing the Dominion Elves due to their more hostile harsher environment.
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* EvilAlbino: Lord Kastan, a Benalish assassin from Gerrard's Tale. He's noteworthy for being one of the few characters in the book who has no presence at all in the card game.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Nearly quoted outright by Greven il-Vec after his first mate Vhati's UnfriendlyFire gambit fails:
--> '''Greven:''' Ambition, Vhati il-Dal, is a meal that oft times bites back.
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* BadBoss: Volrath, to Greven: "There's very little that escapes me, Greven. And you will escape very little if you fail."
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--> '''Volrath:''' There's very little that escapes me, Greven. And you will escape very little if you fail."
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* BloodBrothers: Gerrard and Vuel are revealed to have matching scars on the back of their hands during a flashback in Starke's Tale.
* BloodKnight: Like all Keldon warriors, Maraxus of Keld is this.
** Greven il-Vec is also one of these, as it is said at one point that he only smiles when he is about to kill someone.
* BloodKnight: Like all Keldon warriors, Maraxus of Keld is this.
** Greven il-Vec is also one of these, as it is said at one point that he only smiles when he is about to kill someone.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Spikes, sluglike creatures that were introduced in the Rath cycle and never appeared again after. They get a token mention between chapters, attacking Gerrard and Starke in Volrath's Gardens.
* BloodBrothers: Gerrard and Vuel are revealed to have matching scars on the back of their hands during a flashback in Starke'sTale.
Tale. Vuel forcibly mutilates his scar until it is unrecognizable after coming to believe that Gerrard has stolen his birthright.
* BloodKnight:Like all Keldon warriors, Maraxus The book contains three of Keld is this.
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** Grevenil-Vec is also one of these, il-Vec, as it is said at one point that he only smiles when he is about to kill someone.someone.
** Like all Keldon warriors, Maraxus of Keld is one of these.
** [[spoiler:Crovax]] becomes one of these in the final chapter.
* BornUnlucky: Poor [[spoiler:Mirri]] was doomed practically from the word go, as she was born with different-colored eyes that caused her people to see her as an ill omen and cast her out.
* BloodBrothers: Gerrard and Vuel are revealed to have matching scars on the back of their hands during a flashback in Starke's
* BloodKnight:
** Greven
** Like all Keldon warriors, Maraxus of Keld is one of these.
** [[spoiler:Crovax]] becomes one of these in the final chapter.
* BornUnlucky: Poor [[spoiler:Mirri]] was doomed practically from the word go, as she was born with different-colored eyes that caused her people to see her as an ill omen and cast her out.
* BrokenAce: Outwardly Mirri is one of the most talented and capable members of the Weatherlight crew. Inwardly she sees herself as a freak and an outcast.
* CatGirl: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=106405 Mirri, Cat Warrior]] is an archetypal example.
* {{Curse}}: Selenia apparently carries one, and passes it to [[spoiler:Crovax]] when he kills her.
* DreamSequence: There's two, a brief one between chapters where Gerrard sees visions of his past in Volrath's Dream Halls, and a longer one in Mirri's Tale where she goes on a VisionQuest.
* GardenOfEvil: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=5260 Volrath's Gardens]] fit the bill admirably.
* GoodNeedsEvil: Referenced between chapters late in the book, where the boy Ilcaster wonders if Volrath was actually doing Gerrard a favor by giving him a challenge to overcome so he could become a hero. The librarian narrator agrees with him.
* GreenEyedMonster: Vuel, the young Volrath, is described as "obsessively jealous" of his hated stepbrother Gerrard.
* GreenEyedMonster: Vuel, the young Volrath, is described as "obsessively jealous" of his hated stepbrother Gerrard.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: At one point Gerrard has to fight a mind-controlled Sisay. It's another of those irritating recounted-between-chapters scenes.
** There's also Keilic the brash cat warrior from Mirri's Tale, who chides Gerrard for not treating Mirri with the respect she deserves.
* JustFriends: Mirri's Tale reveals that [[spoiler:Gerrard feels this way about Mirri, feeling that they are LikeBrotherAndSister and that he cannot reciprocate their love because they are too different]].
* JustFriends: Mirri's Tale reveals that [[spoiler:Gerrard feels this way about Mirri, feeling that they are LikeBrotherAndSister and that he cannot reciprocate their love because they are too different]].
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* LethalLavaLand: The Furnace of Rath, which is so hot that the Weatherlight catches fire ''in midair'' just from flying through it.
* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Father Unlike Daughter]]: Barrin of Tolaria is a master wizard, while his daughter Hanna is an artificer.
* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Father Unlike Daughter]]: Barrin of Tolaria is a master wizard, while his daughter Hanna is an artificer.
* LeftHanging: The book is so much this that it almost is a case of NoEnding, concluding with the Weatherlight's escape from Rath, and that's it. No word of where it is going, no word of what happens to Ertai and Crovax (who are both left behind on Rath), no word on where the real Volrath is or how the impending invasion can possibly be thwarted. It's even considered a weak ending ''in-universe''.
* LethalLavaLand: The [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=4819 Furnace of Rath]], which is so hot that the Weatherlight catches fire ''in midair'' just from flying through it.
* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Father Unlike Daughter]]: Barrin of Tolaria is a master wizard, while his daughter Hanna is an artificer.
* LethalLavaLand: The [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=4819 Furnace of Rath]], which is so hot that the Weatherlight catches fire ''in midair'' just from flying through it.
* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Father Unlike Daughter]]: Barrin of Tolaria is a master wizard, while his daughter Hanna is an artificer.
* LotusEaterMachine: The [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=5105 Dream Halls]] can be this for weak minds.
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* LoveTriangle: Type 4. [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES Gerrard but he likes her as a friend. [[spoiler: Hanna]] likes Gerrard, a feeling which is [[spoiler: reciprocated.]] What makes it all worse is that Gerrard doesn't know [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES him.
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* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:Mirri learns during her VisionQuest that Gerrard can only love her "after his fashion" and that it will never be what she needs, but she decides to stay by him anyway]].
* LoveTriangle: Type 4. [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES Gerrard but he likes her as a friend. [[spoiler: Hanna]] likes Gerrard, a feeling which is [[spoiler: reciprocated.]] What makes it all worse is that Gerrard doesn't know [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVEShim.him (he learns it in a dream state, but forgets it immediately after).
* LoveTriangle: Type 4. [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES Gerrard but he likes her as a friend. [[spoiler: Hanna]] likes Gerrard, a feeling which is [[spoiler: reciprocated.]] What makes it all worse is that Gerrard doesn't know [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES
* ShapeShifterShowdown: Played with late in the book with the final battle of ''Exodus'', which is seemingly Gerrard vs Volrath and Starke vs a mind-controlled Takara. [[spoiler:"Volrath" is actually a shapeshifting stunt double, while "Takara" is actually the real Volrath in disguise]].
* SignificantWardrobeShift: In Mirri's Tale, Crovax swaps his "usual foppish clothes" for a midnight blue robe [[spoiler:as a sign of his impending FaceHeelTurn]].
* TheStinger: The very last pages recount the literary example of one, with the only librarian reading the scene depicted on the card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=6076 Mind Over Matter]] (which was TheStinger for the card set too) where Lyna is shown observing the Weatherlight's escape with [[spoiler:Urza]]. This was a ''huge'' deal at the time, as [[spoiler:Urza]] had hitherto been a prerevisionist character that was almost a complete cipher. He would go on to become arguably '''the''' main character of the Weatherlight Saga.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The between chapters scene right before Mirri's Tale all but says outright that [[spoiler:Mirri had to die in order for Gerrard to "shed" her and become a hero]], so not only playing this trope as straight as possible but even ''referencing it in-universe''.
* SuperSenses: Being a CatGirl, Mirri has these.
* SuperSenses: Being a CatGirl, Mirri has these.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Crovax gets these in Mirri's Tale.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: At one point Crovax has to fight a shapeshifter, and he goes rather a bit overhead with it, a scene which is depicted on the Stronghold card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5109 Amok]].
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: At one point Crovax has to fight a shapeshifter, and he goes rather a bit overhead with it, a scene which is depicted on the Stronghold card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5109 Amok]].
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: At one point Crovax has UndyingLoyalty: Tragically subverted, as [[spoiler:Mirri does in fact die for her loyalty to fight a shapeshifter, and he goes rather a bit overhead with it, a scene which is depicted on the Stronghold card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5109 Amok]].Gerrard]].
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* [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Trapped In]] AnotherDimension: Three ''entire'' races (the Dauthi, Soltari, and Thalakos) are this, though their impact on the story is minimal since we only meet a single named character from any of the three races: Lyna, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4900 Soltari Emissary].
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* CharacterNarrator: This is the narration style used, though it is used inconsistently: some character's tales are narrated in the first person, some in the third, and tale of Crovax isn't even narrated ''by'' Crovax (Orim recounts it, for reasons that don't become fully clear until ''Nemesis'').
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* CombatMedic: Orim can fight, though she is not an adept at it and doesn't particularly enjoy it.
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* CorpseLand: The aptly-named Death Pits of Rath, which predictably assails the Weatherlight with DemBones.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In Karn's Tale, Vuel cuts a Jamuraan blacksmith open, disembowels him and keeps him alive with magic.
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* DeathFromAbove: At one point Mirri leaps from the Weatherlight to kill a Rathi sentry, a scene which is depicted on the Stronghold card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5180 Leap]].
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* EmotionsVsStoicism: Used in Karn's Tale, with Gerrard as the Emotional and Karn as the Stoic.
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* EntitledBastard: Volrath is not a bastard in the classical sense, but he is most certainly one for the purposes of this trope. His entire turn to villainy occurs because he believes that Gerrard's Legacy is rightfully is and that Gerrard usurped his rightful role as heir to Sidar Kondo.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Selenia and eventually [[spoiler:Crovax]].
** FaceMonsterTurn: Selenia is this, though exactly ''how'' it happens is unknown. She callously lets Vhati il-Dal fall to his death, leads the Phyrexians to the Weatherlight and attacks the heroes in the Stronghold, but at the last she shows notable reluctance, crying as she fights Crovax.
** FaceMonsterTurn: Selenia is this, though exactly ''how'' it happens is unknown. She callously lets Vhati il-Dal fall to his death, leads the Phyrexians to the Weatherlight and attacks the heroes in the Stronghold, but at the last she shows notable reluctance, crying as she fights Crovax.
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* HiveQueen: The Sliver Queen, which like Maraxus is disappointingly only encountered off-page.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: In Karn's Tale, Vuel tells Karn that "greatness cannot be handed to a man" and that one who is handed greatness will "denigrate and despise it." Vuel is a thief who has stolen the greatness he refers to, but he also has a point here: Gerrard ''does'' view his Legacy as more burden than responsibility, at least at the time.
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* LiteralMinded: True to his nature as an artificial being, Karn can sometimes fall prey to this.
* LivingStatue: Karn spends years as one of these, as revealed in Karn's Tale.
* LivingStatue: Karn spends years as one of these, as revealed in Karn's Tale.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Karn feels this way about the time he accidentally slew an innocent Jamuraan villager.
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* TheStoic: Karn is one of these, not because he believes his lack of emotion makes him superior, but because he is afraid of what emotion may compel him to do. This book doesn't explain why, but the Artifact Cycle books do.
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* TortureTechnician: Volrath is one of these as a side hobby, and he is so good at it that he even figures out a way to torture a golem with the ability to FeelNoPain (no ''physical'' pain is the catch, of course).
* [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Trapped In]] AnotherDimension: Three ''entire'' races (the Dauthi, Soltari, and Thalakos) are this, though their impact on the story is minimal since we only meet a single named character from any of the three races: Lyna, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4900 Soltari Emissary].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: At one point Crovax has to fight a shapeshifter, and he goes rather a bit overhead with it, a scene which is depicted on the Stronghold card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5109 Amok]].
* [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Trapped In]] AnotherDimension: Three ''entire'' races (the Dauthi, Soltari, and Thalakos) are this, though their impact on the story is minimal since we only meet a single named character from any of the three races: Lyna, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4900 Soltari Emissary].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: At one point Crovax has to fight a shapeshifter, and he goes rather a bit overhead with it, a scene which is depicted on the Stronghold card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5109 Amok]].
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* JerkJock: Pre-Volrath Vuel gives off this vibe,being described as athletic and having a haughty bearing.
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* TheParanoiac: Due to being a self-aware ReliableTraitor, Starke is this.
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* BloodBrothers: Gerrard and Vuel are revealed to have matching scars on the back of their hands during a flashback in Starke's Tale.
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* BreakThemByTalking: The Oracle en-Vec reduces Starke to impotent stuttering with just a few pointed words when he comes to kill her.
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* TheCorrupter: Starke is this to the young Vuel, taking an angry but principled youth and turning him into an amoral murderer. And that's ''before'' he travels to Phyrexia and is transformed into [[HumanoidAbomination Volrath]].
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* HonorBeforeReason: The young Vuel had this attitude, being furious at having his life saved by Gerrard because he considered dying preferable to living with disgrace. As Volrath, he trades it out for RevengeBeforeReason.
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* KlingonPromotion: Volrath tells readers in Starke's Tale that he had to challenge Rath's previous evincar and "prevailed, though at great cost" to become the new evincar.
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* MasterPoisoner: Starke "has some familiarity" with drugs and poisons, and sabotages Vuel's rite of passage by lacing his war paint with bitterleaf and thoughtsease.
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* TheParanoiac: Due to being a self-aware ReliableTraitor, Starke is this.
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* TheSwarm: Slivers, which we see in Starke's Tale. They check off all the criteria, having a HiveMind and attacking the Weatherlight via ZergRush.
* TheSymbiote: All Slivers are mutual symbiotes, as they get stronger in each other's presence and there are several different varieties.
* ThatManIsDead: "There is no Vuel. That man died with a stolen destiny."
* TheSymbiote: All Slivers are mutual symbiotes, as they get stronger in each other's presence and there are several different varieties.
* ThatManIsDead: "There is no Vuel. That man died with a stolen destiny."
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Subverted with Crovax, at least initially...
* BadassBookworm: Hanna might be an artificer first and foremost, but when pressed she is capable of going up against an [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=4740 Unstable Shapeshifter]] and coming out the winner.
* CannonFodder: Mogg goblins are manufactured for this purpose and have the mentality to go with it.
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* TheDragon: Greven il-Vec, to Volrath.
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* TheDragon: DavidVersusGoliath: Gerrard is the David and Greven il-Vec, is the Goliath, though almost anyone fighting Greven would be a David thanks to Volrath.EvilIsBigger.
* DirtyCoward: Vhati il-Dal is said to be one of these. Despite this, he manages to FaceDeathWithDignity.
* DisneyDeath: Gerrard falls off Weatherlight, and seemingly to his death, in Greven's Tale. Being the main hero of the story, he of course survives the fall, unlike the luckless Vhati.
* DisneyDeath: Gerrard falls off Weatherlight, and seemingly to his death, in Greven's Tale. Being the main hero of the story, he of course survives the fall, unlike the luckless Vhati.
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* TheDragon: Greven il-Vec, to Volrath.
* EnigmaticMinion: Maraxus of Keld is this thanks to the bookpayimg paying him only the most obligatory of attentions.
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* EvilIsBigger: The Predator is almost twice as large a ship as the Weatherlight. [[spoiler:Unfortunately it soon succumbs to VillainForgotToLevelGrind]].
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* EvilIsBigger: Seems to be a recurring theme on Rath.
** The Predator is almost twice as large a ship as the Weatherlight. [[spoiler:Unfortunately it soon succumbs toVillainForgotToLevelGrind]].VillainForgotToLevelGrind]].
** Commander Greven il-Vec, the captain of Predator, is nearly seven feet tall, outfitted from head to toe in Phyrexian exoskeletal armor, and if his card is an accurate depiction of his strength, has a strength surpassing his master Volrath, any of the Weatherlight's heroes, and even the ''legendary dragons'' that show up in the Literature/InvasionCycle.
** The Predator is almost twice as large a ship as the Weatherlight. [[spoiler:Unfortunately it soon succumbs to
** Commander Greven il-Vec, the captain of Predator, is nearly seven feet tall, outfitted from head to toe in Phyrexian exoskeletal armor, and if his card is an accurate depiction of his strength, has a strength surpassing his master Volrath, any of the Weatherlight's heroes, and even the ''legendary dragons'' that show up in the Literature/InvasionCycle.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Greven has a brief encounter with the wizard Ertai in Greven's Tale. The two characters will get to know each other much better come ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Nemesis]]''.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Greven's Tale and character card were both written very specifically to avert this, as revealed by Mark Rosewater [[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/making-legend-2003-08-25 in a 2003 article]].
* TheHeart: This is Hanna's ''real'' value to the Weatherlight according to Mirri.
* ItWontTurnOff: Inverted with the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4444 Touchstone]], a Legacy artifact that can activate or deactivate any other artifact -- including the sentient golem Karn.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ertai can really put the ''insufferable'' in InsufferableGenius, but his intentions are good, and while you have to go to AllThereInTheManual for it, he is ultimately the reason the Weatherlight is able to escape Rath.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ertai can really put the ''insufferable'' in InsufferableGenius, but his intentions are good, and while you have to go to AllThereInTheManual for it, he is ultimately the reason the Weatherlight is able to escape Rath.
* LackOfEmpathy: Selenia's corruption seems to have had this effect on her.
* LovableCoward: Squee is supposed to be this, though how "lovable" he is can vary from reader to reader.
* MagicVersusScience: The source of tension between Ertai and Hanna. Ertai believes in the supremacy of magic, and Hanna of science. Her relationship with her father Barrin is strained for the same reason.
* MechanicalEvolution: Hinted at in Hanna's Tale, when Hanna remarks that the Weatherlight "seems as if it's changing beneath our feet sometimes". Later installments would reveal that she was more right than she knew.
* MechanicalEvolution: Hinted at in Hanna's Tale, when Hanna remarks that the Weatherlight "seems as if it's changing beneath our feet sometimes". Later installments would reveal that she was more right than she knew.
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* {{Nanomachines}}: Flowstone, an artificial substance which is manufactured on the plane of Rath, is made up of these. We learn more about the particulars of it in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Nemesis]]''
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* MessianicArchetype: Oracle en-Vec believes that Gerrard is one of these, the prophesied "Korvecdal" who is so named because he is supposed to unite the Kor, Vec and Dal tribes of Rath.
* {{Nanomachines}}: Flowstone, an artificial substance which is manufactured on the plane of Rath, is made up of these. We learn more about the particulars of it in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycleNemesis]]''Nemesis]]''.
* [[NatureHero Nature Heroine]]: Mirri is one of these, being a cat warrior who has spent the past several years training in the forests of Llanowar.
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* [[NatureHero Nature Heroine]]: Mirri is one of these, being a cat warrior who has spent the past several years training in the forests of Llanowar.
* OurElvesAreBetter: Rath's Skyshroud Elves aren't ''better'' than Dominarian elves, but they can be said to be more martial owing to their more hostile environment.
* PervertDad: Despite Starke's love for his daughter Takara supposedly being his one redeeming feature, there's a skin-crawling line in Starke's Tale where he thinks of her as "so beautiful, like her mother."
* PervertDad: Despite Starke's love for his daughter Takara supposedly being his one redeeming feature, there's a skin-crawling line in Starke's Tale where he thinks of her as "so beautiful, like her mother."
* PlotCoupon: The Legacy artifacts serve this purpose, and in proud Plot Coupon tradition both the heroes and the villains GottaCatchThemAll.
* PrincelyYoungMan: Crovax is a dark take on this trope, being a young nobleman from [[{{Mordor}} Urborg]].
* RedSkyTakeWarning: Rath's skies are pretty much red 24/7.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Despite being a very minor character in the Weatherlight Saga, all of Dominaria owes a debt to Vhati il-Dal. If he hadn't betrayed Greven, the Predator could have finished off the Weatherlight and its crew, ending the strongest resistance against the coming Phyrexian invasion before it even launched. But because Vhati ''did'' betray Greven, the Weatherlight was able to escape into the Skyshroud Forest, allowing the rest of the story's events to unfold the way they do.
* SuperStrength: Crovax has this, as seen in Hanna's Tale where he effortlessly flings aside a heavy branch several of the crew's RedShirts are unable to lift.
* ThouShaltNotKill: After accidentally killing a villager in the past, Karn the Golem has sworn to this. Unfortunately for him he is in a setting that is not very kind to pacifists...
* ThouShaltNotKill: After accidentally killing a villager in the past, Karn the Golem has sworn to this. Unfortunately for him he is in a setting that is not very kind to pacifists...
* UnwillingRoboticisation: One of the Legacy artifacts, the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4442 Thran Forge]], is capable of this, though the effect is only temporary.
* UseYourHead: Mogg goblins are said to be able to kill mountain goats when the two bump head to head.
* UseYourHead: Mogg goblins are said to be able to kill mountain goats when the two bump head to head.
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* VolcanoLair: Volrath’s Stronghold, further solidifying the former's EvilOverlord cred.
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* VolcanoLair: Volrath’s Stronghold, further solidifying the former's EvilOverlord cred.cred.
* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Mana is much less plentiful on Rath than it is on Dominaria, and consequently magic is weaker. The importance of this is later revealed in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Nemesis]]''.
* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Mana is much less plentiful on Rath than it is on Dominaria, and consequently magic is weaker. The importance of this is later revealed in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Nemesis]]''.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Mogg goblins of Rath, in contrast to the varying types of Dominarian goblins.
** Greven il-Vec is also one of these, as it is said at one point that he only smiles when he is about to kill someone.
* EvilMinions: Moggs are literally manufactured "like maggots" for this purpose.
* HopeSpot: Vhati il-Dal has one of these when the angel Selenia appears before him during his fall -- only for her to laugh at him and fly away because she's a FallenAngel now.
* {{Nanomachines}}: Flowstone, an artificial substance which is manufactured on the plane of Rath, is made up of these. We learn more about the particulars of it in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Nemesis]]''
* RedShirts: Indirectly referenced in Greven's Tale, where Greven thinks of Weatherlight's unnamed crew as "silly, screaming humans in shirts the color of their own spilling blood".
* ShockCollar: Greven has a shock ''spine'', courtesy of Volrath.
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* TheStarscream: Vhati il-Dal, an ambitious Rathi warrior who attempts to off his captain Greven via UnfriendlyFire. It doesn't work out for him.
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* TheStarscream: Vhati il-Dal, an ambitious Rathi warrior from Greven's Tale who attempts to off his captain said Greven via UnfriendlyFire. It doesn't work out for him.
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* TheMedic: Orim fills this role on the Weatherlight's crew. Being a member of the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=268 Samite Healers]], this role comes naturally to her.
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* TheQuisling: Volrath was once Vuel of Jamuura before betraying his people and his world to the Phyrexians in pursuit of power.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4505 Aboroth]], a monster from Tahngarth's Tale.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Tahngarth is subjected to this, being captured by Greven and mutated in order to serve as the Predator's new first mate. Being a vain [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=hurloon%20minotaur Hurloon minotaur]], Tahngath does ''not'' take this well.
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* BloodKnight: Like all Keldon warriors, Maraxus of Keld is this.
* BreakTheHaughty: Tahngarth is subjected to this, being captured by Greven and mutated in order to serve as the Predator's new first mate. Being a vain [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=hurloon%20minotaur Hurloon aspx?multiverseid=26646 Talruum minotaur]], Tahngath does ''not'' take this well.
* BreakTheHaughty: Tahngarth is subjected to this, being captured by Greven and mutated in order to serve as the Predator's new first mate. Being a vain [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.
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* CoolShip: CoolAirship: The Weatherlight and its EvilCounterpart, The Predator.Predator.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Ertai is interested in magic, and ''only'' magic. Neither artifacts nor history nor just about anything else interests him.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Ertai is interested in magic, and ''only'' magic. Neither artifacts nor history nor just about anything else interests him.
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* EnigmaticMinion: Maraxus is this thanks to the book payimg him only the most obligatory of attentions.
* EvilAlbino: Lord Kastan, a Benalish assassin from Gerrard's Tale. He's noteworthy for being one of the few characters in the book who has no presence at all in the card game.
* EvilAlbino: Lord Kastan, a Benalish assassin from Gerrard's Tale. He's noteworthy for being one of the few characters in the book who has no presence at all in the card game.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Inverted with Barrin, who is estranged from his daughter Hanna because she is more interested in the hard science of artifice than the wizardly magic that is his forte.
* FlawExploitation: In Tahngarth's Tale, Gerrard ''creates'' a flaw to exploit in the aboroth by turning it into an artifact with the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4442 Than Forge]].
** Maraxus of Keld is also defeated this way, as Gerrard manages to isolate him from his army and defeat him in personal combat -- [[KilledOffscreen not that the book does a good job of telling you that]].
* FogOfDoom: The [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=4486 Fog Elemental]], a monster from Ertai's Tale.
* FlawExploitation: In Tahngarth's Tale, Gerrard ''creates'' a flaw to exploit in the aboroth by turning it into an artifact with the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4442 Than Forge]].
** Maraxus of Keld is also defeated this way, as Gerrard manages to isolate him from his army and defeat him in personal combat -- [[KilledOffscreen not that the book does a good job of telling you that]].
* FogOfDoom: The [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=4486 Fog Elemental]], a monster from Ertai's Tale.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: And [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4557 Maraxus of Keld]] needs his followers just like a god needs their prayer, as like all Keldon warlords he draws strength from the number of soldiers that believe in him.
* HiddenElfVillage: Tolaria is populated by wizards, not elves, but it still counts as this as it is warded with [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=10462 mystic enchantments]] that make it nearly impossible for any non-natives to find (and even the native-born Hanna has trouble finding her way back).
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Ertai manages the somewhat impressive feat of offending nearly ''every'' member of the Weatherlight crew without meaning to.
* KilledOffScreen: Maraxus gets the literary version of this, as his entire story, including his death, is recounted ''between chapters'', which is very disappointing to those who wanted to learn more about him.
* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Father Unlike Daughter]]: Barrin of Tolaria is a master wizard, while his daughter Hanna is an artificer.
* TheLancer: Tahngarth to Gerrard.
* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Father Unlike Daughter]]: Barrin of Tolaria is a master wizard, while his daughter Hanna is an artificer.
* TheLancer: Tahngarth to Gerrard.
* NoSocialSkills: Ertai of Tolaria is this in spades.
* TheMedic: Orim fills this role on the Weatherlight's crew. Being a member of the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=268 Samite Healers]], this role comes naturally to her.
* PlayingBothSides: This is Starke's specialty.
* TheMedic: Orim fills this role on the Weatherlight's crew. Being a member of the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=268 Samite Healers]], this role comes naturally to her.
* PlayingBothSides: This is Starke's specialty.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Hanna's mother is briefly mentioned as being dead, however we find out in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Prophecy]]'' that she's quite alive.
* TheLancer: Tahngarth to Gerrard.
* TheMedic: Orim fills this role on the Weatherlight's crew. Being a member of the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=268 Samite Healers]], this role comes naturally to her.
* TheLancer: Tahngarth to Gerrard.
* TheMedic: Orim fills this role on the Weatherlight's crew. Being a member of the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=268 Samite Healers]], this role comes naturally to her.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Hanna's mother is briefly mentioned as being dead, however we find out in ''[[Literature/MasqueradeCycle Prophecy]]'' that she's quite alive.
* TheLancer: Tahngarth to Gerrard.
* TheMedic: Orim fills this role onalive. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she dies in the Weatherlight's crew. Being a member same book]].
** During one of the interludes Tolaria is mentioned to still exist, however in the InvasionCycle Barrin destroyed the island with the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=268 Samite Healers]], this role comes naturally to her.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=23098 Oblierate]] spell.
* SquishyWizard: Ertai can cast all manner of powerful spells, but at the end of the day he's [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5146 not very physically impressive]].
* TheLancer: Tahngarth to Gerrard.
* TheMedic: Orim fills this role on
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* SquishyWizard: Ertai can cast all manner of powerful spells, but at the end of the day he's [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5146 not very physically impressive]].
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* InsufferableGenius: InformedAbility: Sisay is hyped in Gerrard's Tale as being a very capable warrior, to the point of one-upping him in a knife-throwing contest. Unfortunately for her she spends most of this book playing the DistressedDamsel, and when she is rescued, is too weak from months of captivity to really be much of a factor. Later installments would see Sisay firmly kick this trope to the curb, but here it fits.
* [[InsufferableGenius Insufferable]] TeenGenius: Ertai is the brightest wizard of his generation and is not particularly shy about letting people know.
* [[InsufferableGenius Insufferable]] TeenGenius: Ertai is the brightest wizard of his generation and is not particularly shy about letting people know.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: A point of tension between Gerrard and Sisay in the backstory, as well as the reason why he abandoned the Weatherlight to serve in the Benalish military. Unfortunately for him TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive and he is convinced to return in order to save Sisay.
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* TheLancer: Tahngarth to Gerrard.
* TheMedic: Orim fills this role on the Weatherlight's crew. Being a member of the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=268 Samite Healers]], this role comes naturally to her.
* TheMedic: Orim fills this role on the Weatherlight's crew. Being a member of the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=268 Samite Healers]], this role comes naturally to her.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Tahngarth is subjected to this, being captured by Greven and mutated in order to serve as the Predator's new first mate. Being a vain Hurloom minotaur, Tahngath does ''not'' take this well.
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* DestructiveRomance: Crovax's obsession with Selenia winds up [[spoiler:getting her killed and turning him into a vampire]].
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* FramingDevice: A very awkward one, taking place in a library at an undefined point in the future. An aging librarian tells the story to a young boy who has never heard of Gerrard. However, the finale of the saga is so devastating that it leaves Dominaria a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic wasteland]], making it very unlikely that he wouldn’t know about it. The librarian is also hinted to be more than he seems, but after this book these characters never appear again.
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* FramingDevice: A very awkward one, taking place in a library at an undefined point in the future. An aging librarian tells the story to a young boy who has never heard of Gerrard. However, the finale of the saga is so devastating that it leaves Dominaria a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic wasteland]], making it very unlikely that he wouldn’t know about it. The librarian is also hinted to be more than he seems, but after this book neither of these characters never appear again.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Either Starke or Crovax qualify for this role. The former is a treacherous Rathi who volunteers to guide the Weatherlight crew through Rath (for motives of his own, surprise surprise); while the former is an unstable DoomMagnet obsessed with the angel Selenia.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Either Starke or Crovax qualify for this role. The former is a treacherous Rathi who volunteers to guide the Weatherlight crew through Rath (for motives of his own, surprise surprise); while the former latter is an unstable DoomMagnet obsessed with the angel Selenia.
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* AbortedArc: Lyna and the Soltari were originally meant to have a more important role, but due to creative control changing hands neither ever appeared again after this book.
* BreakTheHaughty: Tahngarth is subjected to this, being captured by Greven and mutated in order to serve as the Predator's new first mate. Being a vain Hurloom minotaur, Tahngath does ''not'' take this well.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Starke suffers from this.
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* DeadSidekick: Rofellos.Rofellos, who was Gerrard's sidekick before dying several years before the events of the main story. Tragic but perhaps for the best, seeing as [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=15237 his card]] was a notorious GameBreaker in its day.
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* FallenAngel: Selenia, the angel who is bound to Crovax. Flavor text from the cards reveals she was actually a warrior from [[ Literature/TimeStreams Serra's Realm]] before falling to the Phyrexians and finding her way from there into the service of Crovax's family.
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* FallenAngel: Selenia, the angel who is bound to Crovax. Flavor text from the cards reveals she was actually a warrior from [[ Literature/TimeStreams [[Literature/TimeStreams Serra's Realm]] before falling to the Phyrexians and finding her way from there into the service of Crovax's family.
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* ReliableTraitor: This is pretty much the sole characterization of Starke. He betrays everyone and everything that crosses his path.
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* ReliableTraitor: This is pretty much PluckyComicRelief: Squee, the sole characterization of Starke. He betrays everyone goblin cabin boy and everything that crosses his path.ship's "[[LethalChef cook]]".
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Tahngath the Minotaur is one of these.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Tahngath the Minotaur is one of these.
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* ActualPacifist: Karn the golem.
* BigBad: Volrath.
** BiggerBad: Phyrexia.
* BigBad: Volrath.
** BiggerBad: Phyrexia.
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* ActualPacifist: Karn the golem.
Silver Golem is one of these, and has it horribly exploited against him by Volrath.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The only image of pre-Volrath Vuel is an [[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kh1yyYY2z7Y/VrS36GtS8eI/AAAAAAAAE-Q/CzQcX0Z4vv4/s1600/11.jpg uncolored sketch]], but he was Jamuuran by birth and [[http://articles.edhrec.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Sidar-big.jpg this man was his father]]. It's safe to say he qualifies.
* BadBoss: Volrath, to Greven: "There's very little that escapes me, Greven. And you will escape very little if you fail."
* BigBad:Volrath.
Volrath is the "Evincar" of Rath, which roughly translates to EvilOverlord and makes him the Big Bad by default...
**BiggerBad: Phyrexia.BiggerBad: ... but ultimately he has received all his mileage from his Phyrexian masters, and he rules Rath entirely at their whim.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The only image of pre-Volrath Vuel is an [[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kh1yyYY2z7Y/VrS36GtS8eI/AAAAAAAAE-Q/CzQcX0Z4vv4/s1600/11.jpg uncolored sketch]], but he was Jamuuran by birth and [[http://articles.edhrec.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Sidar-big.jpg this man was his father]]. It's safe to say he qualifies.
* BadBoss: Volrath, to Greven: "There's very little that escapes me, Greven. And you will escape very little if you fail."
* BigBad:
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** Ertai is also often made one of these, though it doesn't really kick into high gear for him until ''Nemesis''.
* CainAndAbel: Volrath is the Cain, Gerrard is the Abel.
* CainAndAbel: Volrath is the Cain, Gerrard is the Abel.
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* ClassicVillain: Volrath is one of ''Magic's'' first BigBad characters, and has such he's a lot more stereotypical, especially early on, than the villains that would come after him. Specifically, he is almost a completely stock EvilOverlord archetype, checking off the criteria such as "is a BadBoss to his {{Dragon}}" and "dabbles in [[EvilutionaryBiologist Evilutionary Biology]] on the side" as if scrolling down a list. [[spoiler:Ultimately he does gain more depth, particularly in ''Nemesis'', but this is not enough to save him and he ultimately ends up becoming a DiscOneFinalBoss]].
* CoolShip: TheWeatherlight.Weatherlight and its EvilCounterpart, The Predator.
* TheDragon: Greven il-Vec, to Volrath.
* CoolShip: The
* TheDragon: Greven il-Vec, to Volrath.
* DistressedDamsel: Captain Sisay, who is abducted to Rath by Volrath, providing the impetus for the Weatherlight to travel there.
* EvilIsBigger: The Predator is almost twice as large a ship as the Weatherlight. [[spoiler:Unfortunately it soon succumbs to VillainForgotToLevelGrind]].
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* EyeScream: Starke is blinded with a sword by his daughter Takara.
* FallenAngel: Selenia.
* FallenAngel: Selenia.
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* EyeScream: Starke is blinded with a sword by his daughter Takara.
Takara. [[spoiler:Or rather, Volrath disguised as Takara]].
* FallenAngel:Selenia.Selenia, the angel who is bound to Crovax. Flavor text from the cards reveals she was actually a warrior from [[ Literature/TimeStreams Serra's Realm]] before falling to the Phyrexians and finding her way from there into the service of Crovax's family.
* FallenAngel:
* FreudianExcuse: Volrath's is that he was cast out of his clan after failing a rite of passage (which was actually sabotaged by his future mentor Starke).
* GadgeteerGenius: Hanna of Tolaria, who is the Weatherlight's navigator.
* GadgeteerGenius: Hanna of Tolaria, who is the Weatherlight's navigator.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Mirri.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHAppy: [[spoiler: Mirri]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Mirri.]]
Mirri]] dies in battle with [[spoiler:Crovax]] to protect [[spoiler:Gerrard]].
*IWantMyBelovedToBeHAppy: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Mirri]]Mirri]].
* InsufferableGenius: Ertai is the brightest wizard of his generation and is not particularly shy about letting people know.
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* InsufferableGenius: Ertai is the brightest wizard of his generation and is not particularly shy about letting people know.
* ReliableTraitor: This is pretty much the sole characterization of Starke. He betrays everyone and everything that crosses his path.
* TheQuisling: Volrath was once Vuel of Jamuura before betraying his people and his world to the Phyrexians in pursuit of power.
* TheQuisling: Volrath was once Vuel of Jamuura before betraying his people and his world to the Phyrexians in pursuit of power.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Vuel kills his own father.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Before he became Volrath, Vuel kills killed his own father.father Sidar Kondo.
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* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler: Mirri again]] This girl is not having a good day.
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* TheStarscream: Vhati il-Dal, an ambitious Rathi warrior who attempts to off his captain Greven via UnfriendlyFire. It doesn't work out for him.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler: Mirriagain]] again]]. This girl is not having a good day.day.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Volrath is both capable of this himself ''and'' has shapeshifting monsters in his employ.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler: Mirri
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Volrath is both capable of this himself ''and'' has shapeshifting monsters in his employ.
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* VolcanoLair: Volrath’s stronghold.
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* VolcanoLair: Volrath’s stronghold.Stronghold, further solidifying the former's EvilOverlord cred.
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* LoveTriangle: Type 4. [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES Gerrard but likes her as a friend. [[spoiler: Hanna]] likes Gerrard, a feeling which is [[spoiler: reciprocated.]] What makes it all worse is that Gerrard doesn't know [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES him.
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* LoveTriangle: Type 4. [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES Gerrard but he likes her as a friend. [[spoiler: Hanna]] likes Gerrard, a feeling which is [[spoiler: reciprocated.]] What makes it all worse is that Gerrard doesn't know [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES him.
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* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler: Mirri]] does not get a happy ending in this book or [[spoiler: any other for that matter.]]
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHAppy: [[spoiler: Mirri]]
* LoveTriangle: Type 4. [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES Gerrard but likes her as a friend. [[spoiler: Hanna]] likes Gerrard, a feeling which is [[spoiler: reciprocated.]] What makes it all worse is that Gerrard doesn't know [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES him.
* LoveTriangle: Type 4. [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES Gerrard but likes her as a friend. [[spoiler: Hanna]] likes Gerrard, a feeling which is [[spoiler: reciprocated.]] What makes it all worse is that Gerrard doesn't know [[spoiler: Mirri]] LOVES him.
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* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler: Mirri again]] This girl is not having a good day.
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* EyeScream: Starke is blinded with a sword by his daughter Takara.
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* SaveTheWorldClimax: Saving the world doesn't happen until a [[Literature/InvasionCycle couple of cycles later]], but partway through this book, Geraard already finds out that his homeworld is in danger.
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* SaveTheWorldClimax: Saving the world doesn't happen until a [[Literature/InvasionCycle couple of cycles later]], but partway through this book, Geraard Gerrard already finds out that his homeworld is in danger.
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Gerrard Capshen is the heir to the Legacy, a collection of artifacts he must use to defeat a mysterious evil known as the Lord of the Wastes. After the death of his friend Rofellos, Gerrard turned his back on his destiny, leaving the skyship ''Weatherlight'' and its crew behind. However, his former crewmates have come to his home Benalia to get him back. Their captain Sisay has been abducted by Volrath, ruler of the shadowy plane of Rath, and Gerrard is asked to lead her rescue. However, behind Volrath an even greater evil lurks…
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Gerrard Capshen is the heir to the Legacy, a collection of artifacts he must use to defeat a mysterious evil known as the Lord of the Wastes. After the death of his friend Rofellos, Gerrard turned his back on his destiny, leaving the skyship ''Weatherlight'' and its crew behind. However, his former crewmates have come to his home Benalia to get him back. Their captain Sisay has been abducted by Volrath, ruler of the shadowy plane of Rath, and Gerrard is asked to lead her rescue. However, behind Volrath lurks an even greater evil lurks…
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After ''Rath and Storm'' comes the ''Artifacts Cycle'' (consisting of ''Literature/TheBrothersWar'', ''Literature/{{Planeswalker}}'', ''Literature/TimeStreams'' and ''[[Literature/BloodlinesMagicTheGathering Bloodlines]]''), a prequel revealing the origin of the ''Weatherlight'', the Legacy and even of Gerrard himself. The storyline then goes back to the present, picking up where ''Rath and Storm'' left off in the ''Literature/MasqueradeCycle''. Then comes [[Literature/TheThran another prequel]] before the story concludes with the ''Literature/InvasionCycle''.
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* [[LukeIAmYourFather Gerrard, I Am Your Brother]]: Somewhat unusually, the reader is told up front that Volrath and Gerrard’s stepbrother, although Gerrard doesn’t find out until very late in the book.
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* [[LukeIAmYourFather Gerrard, I Am Your Brother]]: Somewhat unusually, the reader is told up front that Volrath and is Gerrard’s stepbrother, although Gerrard doesn’t find out until very late in the book.
* SaveTheWorldClimax: Saving the world doesn't happen until a [[Literature/InvasionCycle couple of cycles later]], but partway through this book, Geraard already finds out that his homeworld is in danger.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original outline of the Weatherlight Saga is very different from what we got and has never been released, but it is known that Crovax would not have become a villain, Mirri wouldn’t have died (at least not at the end of the first act), Urza was originally not involved and Gerrard’s hourglass pendant would have been important later on.
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After ''Rath and Storm'' comes the ''Artifacts Cycle'' (consisting of ''Literature/TheBrothersWar'', ''Literature/{{Planeswalker}}'', ''Literature/TimeStreams'' and ''[[Literature/BloodlinesMagicTheGathering Bloodlines]]''), a prequel revealing he the origin of the ''Weatherlight'', the Legacy and even of Gerrard himself. The storyline then goes back to the present, picking up where ''Rath and Storm'' left off in the ''Literature/MasqueradeCycle''. Then comes [[Literature/TheThran another prequel]] before the story concludes with the ''Literature/InvasionCycle''.
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** ChekhovsGun: Gerrard’s hourglass pendant was supposed to be this, but due to the saga changing creative control, it came to nothing in the end.
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The '''Weatherlight Saga''' is the most ambitious storyline ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' has ever told. The game was still young and most storylines, while mostly taking place on the same world – Dominaria (with the notable exception of ''Homelands'', which took place on Ulgrotha) – ran through one or two sets at most. The Weatherlight Saga ran for four years and eventually encompassed thirteen sets, while also having links to past storylines. Furthermore, cards in the set depicted many events from the storyline, to the point that it was possible to arrange them into a [[http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/113 storyboard]]. '''Rath and Storm''' chronicles the first act of the saga, corresponding to the expansions ''Weatherlight'' and those of the Tempest block (''Tempest'', ''Stronghold'' and ''Exodus'').
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[[quoteright:175:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rath_and_storm_9752.jpg]] The '''Weatherlight Saga''' is the most ambitious storyline ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' has ever told. The game was still young and most storylines, while mostly taking place on the same world – Dominaria (with the notable exception of ''Homelands'', which took place on Ulgrotha) – ran through one or two sets at most. The Weatherlight Saga ran for four years and eventually encompassed thirteen sets, while also having links to past storylines. Furthermore, cards in the set depicted many events from the storyline, to the point that it was possible to arrange them into a [[http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/113 storyboard]]. '''Rath and Storm''' chronicles the first act of the saga, corresponding to the expansions ''Weatherlight'' and those of the Tempest block (''Tempest'', ''Stronghold'' and ''Exodus'').
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The '''Weatherlight Saga''' is the most ambitious storyline ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' has ever told. The game was still young and most storylines, while mostly taking place on the same world – Dominaria (with the notable exception of ''Homelands'', which took place on Ulgrotha) – ran through one or two sets at most. The Weatherlight Saga ran for four years and eventually encompassed thirteen sets, while also having links to past storylines. Furthermore, cards in the set depicted many events from the storyline, to the point that it was possible to arrange them into a [[http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/113 storyboard]]. '''Rath and Storm''' chronicles the first act of the saga, corresponding to the expansions ''Weatherlight'' and those of the Tempest block (''Tempest'', ''Stronghold'' and ''Exodus'').
Gerrard Capshen is the heir to the Legacy, a collection of artifacts he must use to defeat a mysterious evil known as the Lord of the Wastes. After the death of his friend Rofellos, Gerrard turned his back on his destiny, leaving the skyship ''Weatherlight'' and its crew behind. However, his former crewmates have come to his home Benalia to get him back. Their captain Sisay has been abducted by Volrath, ruler of the shadowy plane of Rath, and Gerrard is asked to lead her rescue. However, behind Volrath an even greater evil lurks…
This book is somewhat infamous among storyline fans for its constrained structure. It is set up as an anthology, with each chapter written by a different author and told from a different character’s point of view. It also has an insane amount of story to tell, corresponding to four expansions. As such, there are times where it reads more like a summary than an actual novel. Readers are advised to also pick up a copy of the comic ''Gerrard’s Quest'', which covers many of the same events, but goes into more detail about things that ''Rath and Storm'' skims over, such as Crovax’s tragic backstory.
After ''Rath and Storm'' comes the ''Artifacts Cycle'' (consisting of ''Literature/TheBrothersWar'', ''Literature/{{Planeswalker}}'', ''Literature/TimeStreams'' and ''[[Literature/BloodlinesMagicTheGathering Bloodlines]]''), a prequel revealing he origin of the ''Weatherlight'', the Legacy and even of Gerrard himself. The storyline then goes back to the present, picking up where ''Rath and Storm'' left off in the ''Literature/MasqueradeCycle''. Then comes [[Literature/TheThran another prequel]] before the story concludes with the ''Literature/InvasionCycle''.
!! Tropes in '''Rath and Storm''':
* ActualPacifist: Karn the golem.
* BigBad: Volrath.
** BiggerBad: Phyrexia.
** ChekhovsGun: Gerrard’s hourglass pendant was supposed to be this, but due to the saga changing creative control, it came to nothing in the end.
* CoolShip: The Weatherlight.
* DeadSidekick: Rofellos.
* EvilAlbino: Lord Kastan.
* ExploringTheEvilLair: A very major part of the story. The fact that the second set of the Tempest block is called ''Stronghold'' might clue you in.
* FallenAngel: Selenia.
* FramingDevice: A very awkward one, taking place in a library at an undefined point in the future. An aging librarian tells the story to a young boy who has never heard of Gerrard. However, the finale of the saga is so devastating that it leaves Dominaria a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic wasteland]], making it very unlikely that he wouldn’t know about it. The librarian is also hinted to be more than he seems, but after this book these characters never appear again.
* [[LukeIAmYourFather Gerrard, I Am Your Brother]]: Somewhat unusually, the reader is told up front that Volrath and Gerrard’s stepbrother, although Gerrard doesn’t find out until very late in the book.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Mirri.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: Vuel kills his own father.
* VisionQuest: Mirri takes one of these in a flashback.
* VolcanoLair: Volrath’s stronghold.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original outline of the Weatherlight Saga is very different from what we got and has never been released, but it is known that Crovax would not have become a villain, Mirri wouldn’t have died (at least not at the end of the first act), Urza was originally not involved and Gerrard’s hourglass pendant would have been important later on.
Gerrard Capshen is the heir to the Legacy, a collection of artifacts he must use to defeat a mysterious evil known as the Lord of the Wastes. After the death of his friend Rofellos, Gerrard turned his back on his destiny, leaving the skyship ''Weatherlight'' and its crew behind. However, his former crewmates have come to his home Benalia to get him back. Their captain Sisay has been abducted by Volrath, ruler of the shadowy plane of Rath, and Gerrard is asked to lead her rescue. However, behind Volrath an even greater evil lurks…
This book is somewhat infamous among storyline fans for its constrained structure. It is set up as an anthology, with each chapter written by a different author and told from a different character’s point of view. It also has an insane amount of story to tell, corresponding to four expansions. As such, there are times where it reads more like a summary than an actual novel. Readers are advised to also pick up a copy of the comic ''Gerrard’s Quest'', which covers many of the same events, but goes into more detail about things that ''Rath and Storm'' skims over, such as Crovax’s tragic backstory.
After ''Rath and Storm'' comes the ''Artifacts Cycle'' (consisting of ''Literature/TheBrothersWar'', ''Literature/{{Planeswalker}}'', ''Literature/TimeStreams'' and ''[[Literature/BloodlinesMagicTheGathering Bloodlines]]''), a prequel revealing he origin of the ''Weatherlight'', the Legacy and even of Gerrard himself. The storyline then goes back to the present, picking up where ''Rath and Storm'' left off in the ''Literature/MasqueradeCycle''. Then comes [[Literature/TheThran another prequel]] before the story concludes with the ''Literature/InvasionCycle''.
!! Tropes in '''Rath and Storm''':
* ActualPacifist: Karn the golem.
* BigBad: Volrath.
** BiggerBad: Phyrexia.
** ChekhovsGun: Gerrard’s hourglass pendant was supposed to be this, but due to the saga changing creative control, it came to nothing in the end.
* CoolShip: The Weatherlight.
* DeadSidekick: Rofellos.
* EvilAlbino: Lord Kastan.
* ExploringTheEvilLair: A very major part of the story. The fact that the second set of the Tempest block is called ''Stronghold'' might clue you in.
* FallenAngel: Selenia.
* FramingDevice: A very awkward one, taking place in a library at an undefined point in the future. An aging librarian tells the story to a young boy who has never heard of Gerrard. However, the finale of the saga is so devastating that it leaves Dominaria a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic wasteland]], making it very unlikely that he wouldn’t know about it. The librarian is also hinted to be more than he seems, but after this book these characters never appear again.
* [[LukeIAmYourFather Gerrard, I Am Your Brother]]: Somewhat unusually, the reader is told up front that Volrath and Gerrard’s stepbrother, although Gerrard doesn’t find out until very late in the book.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Mirri.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: Vuel kills his own father.
* VisionQuest: Mirri takes one of these in a flashback.
* VolcanoLair: Volrath’s stronghold.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original outline of the Weatherlight Saga is very different from what we got and has never been released, but it is known that Crovax would not have become a villain, Mirri wouldn’t have died (at least not at the end of the first act), Urza was originally not involved and Gerrard’s hourglass pendant would have been important later on.
