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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Hest, who is a horrible husband and lover to Alise and Sedric respectively, [[spoiler:becomes a victim of the Chalcedeans, who are far worst villains]].
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* TheBeard: Alise for Hest.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Averted at first when nobody wants Alise except the guy looking for a beard, played straight later. She's considered ugly and does everything she can to try and hide or eliminate her freckles. When she finally meets a man who values her intelligence and independence and honestly finds her beautiful, she ''blossoms''.
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* CallBack: Fitz's joruney to Mercenia ''just happens'' to take him through the primary settings of first ''The Rain Wild Chronicles'' and later ''The Liveship Traders'', with almost all of the characters who survived the earlier series getting at the very least a cameo in this one.
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* BreakTheCutie: Bee is subjected to a horrific TraumaCongaLine at the hands of the Servants, leaving her physically and emotionally scarred.
* CallBack: Fitz'sjoruney journey to Mercenia ''just happens'' to take him through the primary settings of first ''The Rain Wild Chronicles'' and later ''The Liveship Traders'', with almost all of the characters who survived the earlier series getting at the very least a cameo in this one.
* CallBack: Fitz's
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: The Servants have no qualms about torturing Bee and leave her scarred. In the end, most of her scars are healed, but she elects to keep her cauliflower ear because her father called it beautiful.
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* PowerIncontinence: Fitz gradually learns that he's ''always'' reaching out with the skill and the wit, and that's why Bee is so uncomfortable around him. When he finally puts up his walls, she can relax, possibly for the first time in her life.
* SkywardScream: Fitz does a silent, skill-fueld one when Molly dies. Everyone who can hear it, trained or not, is shocked and horrified by the raw pain he's throwing into the void.
* SkywardScream: Fitz does a silent, skill-fueld one when Molly dies. Everyone who can hear it, trained or not, is shocked and horrified by the raw pain he's throwing into the void.
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* BrokenBird: Thymara.
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* BreakTheCutie: This is a theme for Hobbs, isn't it.
** Alise starts out having gone through a long TraumaCongaLine at Hest's hands. She is unknowingly his beard and he subjects her to verbal abuse for years, telling her how lucky she is any man might want her. Their wedding night is borderline rape as he shows up drunk and mumbles "Not so different after all" before giving her a short, painful experience, thoroughly destroying any romantic ideals she might have had.
** Sedric, too, and again thanks to Hest. He gets more romantic attention than Alise, being Hest's preferred gender, but Hest is still casually cruel and violent, eventually sending Sedric away to be Alise's chaperone and giving himself the chance to move on to a different, more pliable partner. Sedric then spends the journey upriver absolutely miserable, isolated and uncomfortable away from the comforts of civilization, plotting a way to win financial freedom for himself and Hest, only to be subject to abuses and humiliations.
** Thymara likewise starts out broken. Everyone in the wilds gets marked, but anyone born with deformities is to be abandoned and allowed to die, because they normally have short, painful lives anyway. Her father instead rescued her and raised her, only for her to be abused and hated by everyone else, including her mother.
* BrokenBird:Thymara.Thymara, subject to FantasticRacism for being born heavily marked by the Rain Wilds. The other Dragon Keepers, who are likewise marked (bar
** Alise starts out having gone through a long TraumaCongaLine at Hest's hands. She is unknowingly his beard and he subjects her to verbal abuse for years, telling her how lucky she is any man might want her. Their wedding night is borderline rape as he shows up drunk and mumbles "Not so different after all" before giving her a short, painful experience, thoroughly destroying any romantic ideals she might have had.
** Sedric, too, and again thanks to Hest. He gets more romantic attention than Alise, being Hest's preferred gender, but Hest is still casually cruel and violent, eventually sending Sedric away to be Alise's chaperone and giving himself the chance to move on to a different, more pliable partner. Sedric then spends the journey upriver absolutely miserable, isolated and uncomfortable away from the comforts of civilization, plotting a way to win financial freedom for himself and Hest, only to be subject to abuses and humiliations.
** Thymara likewise starts out broken. Everyone in the wilds gets marked, but anyone born with deformities is to be abandoned and allowed to die, because they normally have short, painful lives anyway. Her father instead rescued her and raised her, only for her to be abused and hated by everyone else, including her mother.
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* ComingOutStory: Sedric eventually [[spoiler: comes out to Alise, and also reveals her husband Hest's homosexuality]].
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* ComingOutStory: Sedric eventually [[spoiler: comes out to Alise, and also reveals her [[spoiler:her husband Hest's homosexuality]].homosexuality. She's at first very upset at how her best friend could abuse her trust in that way, but eventually realizes that they both suffered terrible abuse at Hest's hands]].
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* DaddysGirl: Thymara.
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* DaddysGirl: Thymara. She's far more marked than most Rain Wilders, but he saves her from being left to die by exposure and dotes on her as amazingly well suited to life among the trees.
-->'''Cedric:''' I just want things to be ''nice''.
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* DomesticAbuse: Hest, who never fails to enjoy a cruel joke at either Alise or Cedric's expense and occasionally engages in physical abuse.
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* DomesticAbuse: Hest, who never fails to enjoy a cruel joke at either Alise or Cedric's expense and occasionally engages in physical abuse.abuse and rape.
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* FantasticRacism: The Rain Wilders, who already grow dragonish physical traits as they get older, want anyone ''born'' with these defects [[OffingTheOffspring abandoned at birth.]] Those who survive are forbidden to breed and are generally treated like crap.
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* FantasticRacism: The Rain Wilders, who already grow dragonish physical traits as they get older, want anyone ''born'' with these defects [[OffingTheOffspring abandoned at birth.]] Those who survive are forbidden to breed and are generally treated like crap. Eventually, these birth defects blossom into full draconic traits as they morph into true Elderlings.
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* FreudianExcuse: Thymara's mom obviously doesn't like her.
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* FreudianExcuse: Thymara's mom obviously doesn't like her.her and is happy to see her go off on a hopeless quest as a Dragon Keeper.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Averted at first when nobody wants Alise except the guy looking for a beard, played straight later.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Averted at first when nobody wants Alise except the guy looking for a beard, played straight later. She's considered ugly and does everything she can to try and hide or eliminate her freckles. When she finally meets a man who values her intelligence and independence and honestly finds her beautiful, she ''blossoms''.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: According to Sintara, no dragon could lie to someone who demanded the truth with her true name or used it properly when asking a question. Nor could a dragon break an agreement if she entered into it under her true name.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: According to Sintara, no dragon could lie to someone who demanded the truth with her true name or used it properly when asking a question. Nor could a dragon break an agreement if she entered into it under her true name. This is why Tintaglia was so pissed off that hers became common knowledge in Bingtown.
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* LittleBitBeastly: Those who are "touched by the Rain Wilds" tend to have features like claws and scales.
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* LoveTriangle: Thymara has feelings for both Tats and Rapskal (and they for her), but doesn't want to commit to either of them or anyone else until she's ready.
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* LoveTriangle: Thymara has feelings for both Tats and Rapskal (and they for her), but doesn't want to commit to either of them or anyone else until she's ready.
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* LittleBitBeastly: Those who are "touched by the Rain Wilds" tend to have features like claws and scales.
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* LoveMartyr:Sedric.
Sedric. He has no real idea that Hest loves cruelty more than he loves anything else, and only eventually realizes that Hest discarded him for a younger, more pliant lover.
* LoveTriangle: Thymara has feelings for both Tats and Rapskal (and they for her), but doesn't want to commit to either of them or anyone else until she's ready. Rapskal's eventual level in Jerkass and Tats's patience and understanding eventually seal the deal.
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* LoveTriangle: Thymara has feelings for both Tats and Rapskal (and they for her), but doesn't want to commit to either of them or anyone else until she's ready. Rapskal's eventual level in Jerkass and Tats's patience and understanding eventually seal the deal.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Born deformed, they suffer the same prejudice as their keepers.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Born deformed, they suffer the same prejudice as their keepers. Eventually, the protection and care they receive, and being allowed to feed and develop, has them shed their childhood deformities and become dragons in full.
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* PrecociousCrush: a mild example. Davvie, who is a teenager, develops a crush on Sedric, who is in his mid-20s. Sedric is oblivious to this until he is told by Davvie's uncle, and is never interested in reciprocating, partly because of Davvie's young age.
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* PrecociousCrush: a mild example. Davvie, who is a teenager, develops a crush on Sedric, who is in his mid-20s. Sedric is oblivious to this until he is told by Davvie's uncle, and is never interested in reciprocating, partly because of Davvie's young age.
%%age. Of course, the fact that Davvie's uncle is ''also'' interested in Sedric and much more age appropriate plays a role in that.
* RapeAsDrama: Hest's marital rape ofAlise.Alise. It destroys her romantic idealism and leaves her with nothing but her scholarship on dragons. This is then contrasted with the beautiful love story she gets on the river.
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* RapeAsDrama: Hest's marital rape of
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Alise fully comes into her own. She never becomes a Dragon Keeper or becomes an Elderling, but her love of scholarship and ''finally'' being in a committed, respectful relationship allows her to blossom and tell Hest to Go. Fuck. Himself.
** The Dragon Keepers, too, as they all (the survivors, anyway) become Elderlings and the first generation of the new Elderling civilization.
** Alise fully comes into her own. She never becomes a Dragon Keeper or becomes an Elderling, but her love of scholarship and ''finally'' being in a committed, respectful relationship allows her to blossom and tell Hest to Go. Fuck. Himself.
** The Dragon Keepers, too, as they all (the survivors, anyway) become Elderlings and the first generation of the new Elderling civilization.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Fitz has always been an assassin and a berserker in battle, but his trauma from being tortured to death has left him with a dark streak where he nearly tortures someone to death himself by battering the man with his bare hands.
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** Thanks to his destruction of the Piebalds and his JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, he's now also added a dark layer to his legend among the Old Blood, who view him as a somewhat demonic outsider and don't show him nearly as much compassion after [[spoiler:Nighteyes dies]] as the do for Dutiful.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Fitz reveals that he did ''not'' come out of it okay after being '''tortured to death in Regal's dungeon'''. His cold and extreme approach to violence is explicitly noted to be the result of that.
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'''Fool:''' I'm glad one of us thinks so.
-->'''Fitz:''' I wasn't going to kill him.\\
'''Fool:''' I'm glad one of us thinks so.
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* HollywoodAutism: Rather well done with Thick. Most people consider Thick to be nothing more than a half-wit. Thanks to the Skill, Fitz recognizes that Thick isn't actually stupid; he just devotes his attention to things most people find inconsequential.
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* HollywoodAutism: Rather well done with Thick. Most people consider Thick to be nothing more than a half-wit. Thanks to the Skill, Fitz recognizes that Thick isn't actually stupid; he just devotes his attention to things most people find inconsequential. However, it's also implied to be trisomy 21 (Down's Syndrome), as people don't expect Thick to live very long and he's described as looking strange.
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* RetCanon: This trilogy reworks the Wit and the Skill a bit. It also explains a lot of Fitz's behavior as being a result of him having impulsively given a lot of his painful memories to Girl-On-A-Dragon, thus dulling his personality and sapping him of will. Thus his hermitage wasn't a peaceful retirement, but a sad pause for half a man.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: This trilogy dials it up between Fitz and Fool. Their story even ends with a kiss as Fool returns the memories Fitz put into Girl-On-A-Dragon.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Fitz's relationship with the Fool evolves to this. It's not quite HoYay since the Fool is [[spoiler:neither human nor exactly male]] and there's no sexual element to their relationship, but they're a lot closer than HeterosexualLife Partners. His views on the Fool start changing after their fight after Fitz's MistakenForGay episode, and as he helps the Fool recover [[spoiler:from being tortured to death in the Pale Lady's dungeons]], he holds him while he sleeps and even considers giving up on Molly to follow him.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Fitz's relationship with the Fool evolves to this. It's not quite HoYay since the Fool is [[spoiler:neither human nor exactly male]] and there's no sexual element to their relationship, but they're a lot closer than HeterosexualLife Partners.HeterosexualLifePartners. His views on the Fool start changing after their fight after Fitz's MistakenForGay episode, and as he helps the Fool recover [[spoiler:from being tortured to death in the Pale Lady's dungeons]], he holds him while he sleeps and even considers giving up on Molly to follow him.
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* CatsAreMean: Subverted: the cat in question is under the control of a [[spoiler:dead]] woman who [[{{GrandTheftMe}} used the Wit to take over its body]] and [[BodySurf intends to move on to Dutiful next]]]]. The cat has actually been FightingFromTheInside the whole time.
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* CatsAreMean: Subverted: the cat in question is under the control of a [[spoiler:dead]] woman who [[{{GrandTheftMe}} used the Wit to take over its body]] and [[BodySurf intends to move on to Dutiful next]]]]. next]]. The cat has actually been FightingFromTheInside the whole time.time and desperately loved Dutiful; the woman allowed that love to bleed through so Dutiful would think she loved him as well.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Kennit can't. In the end (not literally), the story shows why.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** Kennit can't. In the end (not literally), the story showswhy.why.
** Kyle also can't understand his son. He thinks strength has to involve brutality and doesn't understand that Wintrow's nonstop compassion, patient defiance, and determination not to fall to despair is amazingly strong.
** Kennit can't. In the end (not literally), the story shows
** Kyle also can't understand his son. He thinks strength has to involve brutality and doesn't understand that Wintrow's nonstop compassion, patient defiance, and determination not to fall to despair is amazingly strong.
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* TheUnfavorite: Several. Althea feels like this when her family pressures to be more conventional and her father leaves ''Vivacia'' to Kyle. (Funnily enough, Keffria at one point expresses jealousy that her younger sister grew up doing basically whatever she wanted, while Keffria was a good, obedient daughter but never rewarded for it.) Kyle actively favors Malta while he verbally and emotionally abuses Wintrow and Selden is basically a non-entity to him. Brashen was disinherited, although he did genuinely embarrass his family.
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* TheUnfavorite: Several.
** Althea feels like this when her family pressures to be more conventional and her father leaves ''Vivacia'' to Kyle. (Funnily enough, Keffria at one point expresses jealousy that her younger sister grew up doing basically whatever she wanted, while Keffria was a good, obedient daughter but never rewarded for it.) )
*** At one point, Ronica notes that she does prefer Althea to Keffria because the former is so much more capable than the latter. Keffria's shocked at the admission and slaps her mother down saying she honestly tried to be the woman she thought her mother wanted her to be.
** Kyle actively favors Malta while he verbally and emotionally abuses Wintrow and Selden is basically a non-entity to him. Brashen was disinherited, although he did genuinely embarrass his family.
** Althea feels like this when her family pressures to be more conventional and her father leaves ''Vivacia'' to Kyle. (Funnily enough, Keffria at one point expresses jealousy that her younger sister grew up doing basically whatever she wanted, while Keffria was a good, obedient daughter but never rewarded for it.
*** At one point, Ronica notes that she does prefer Althea to Keffria because the former is so much more capable than the latter. Keffria's shocked at the admission and slaps her mother down saying she honestly tried to be the woman she thought her mother wanted her to be.
** Kyle actively favors Malta while he verbally and emotionally abuses Wintrow and Selden is basically a non-entity to him. Brashen was disinherited, although he did genuinely embarrass his family.
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Whereas the first trilogy with the status quo ante bellum more or less restored, this one sees: Bingtown an independent city-state, with its social and political reshaped by bringing in freed slaves as full citizens alongside the Trader families, Bingtown protected by Tintaglia in exchange for protecting ''the next generation of dragons'', and the Pirate Isles a unified and separate political entity ruled by Queen Etta.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Kennit's dream is to be King of the Pirate Isles and over the course of the trilogy, he manages to pull of great feats by a combination of astonishing luck and pragmatism. He begins using Vivacia to attack slaveships - not because he gives a damn about slaves, but because if he does, he gets free labourers out of those who want to stay aboard and those who want to return to their islands will worship him as a hero, plus he gets to keep all the loot on the ships. [[spoiler: His publicity is so good that by the climax of the trilogy nearly everyone sans Althea, Malta and Brashen remember Kennit as a legendary pirate and Etta is made Queen of the Pirate islands because she was "Kennit's woman" and carries his child.]]
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Satrap Cosgo was once the apple of his father's eye and the darling of the court, a brilliant mind who soaked up knowledge like a sponge and was predicted to be a great and wise ruler. Unfortunately, he was allowed to study ''everything'', including drugs.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Kennit's dream is to be King of the Pirate Isles and over the course of the trilogy, he manages to pull of great feats by a combination of astonishing luck and pragmatism. He begins using Vivacia to attack slaveships - not because he gives a damn about slaves, but because if he does, he gets free labourers out of those who want to stay aboard and those who want to return to their islands will worship him as a hero, plus he gets to keep all the loot on the ships. He's not just charismatic, he's also incredibly lucky. Random comments get taken out of context as charming, generous, and heroic, and covering his face in disgust with a scented handkerchief to cover the stench of the inside of a slaveship is mistaken as ManlyTears over the suffering of the people he saved. [[spoiler: His publicity is so good that by the climax of the trilogy nearly everyone sans Althea, Malta and Brashen remember Kennit as a legendary pirate and Etta is made Queen of the Pirate islands because she was "Kennit's woman" and carries his child.]]]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Kennit's dream is to be King of the Pirate Isles and over the course of the trilogy, he manages to pull of great feats by a combination of astonishing luck and pragmatism. He begins using Vivacia to attack slaveships - not because he gives a damn about slaves, but because if he does, he gets free labourers out of those who want to stay aboard and those who want to return to their islands will worship him as a hero, plus he gets to keep all the loot on the ships. He's not just charismatic, he's also incredibly lucky. Random comments get taken out of context as charming, generous, and heroic, and covering his face in disgust with a scented handkerchief to cover the stench of the inside of a slaveship is mistaken as ManlyTears over the suffering of the people he saved. [[spoiler: His publicity is so good that by the climax of the trilogy nearly everyone sans Althea, Malta and Brashen remember Kennit as a legendary pirate and Etta is made Queen of the Pirate islands because she was "Kennit's woman" and carries his child.
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* {{Irony}}: The one person who immediately believes [[spoiler: Althea]] when she accuses Kennit of raping her is Etta.
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* {{Irony}}: The one person who immediately believes [[spoiler: Althea]] when she accuses Kennit of raping her is Etta. She loves Kennit, but she's a prostitute, and she's seen that pain.
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Malta, when she begins to learn how to charm men and wield her burgeoning sexuality, becomes very disappointed when Cerwyn Trell doesn't try to kiss her when he comes to profess his feelings to her and becomes more interested in Reyn, who is very forward about how enchanted he is by her.
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Malta, when she begins to learn how to charm men and wield her burgeoning sexuality, becomes very disappointed when Cerwyn Trell doesn't try to kiss her when he comes to profess his feelings to her and becomes more interested in Reyn, who is very forward about how enchanted he is by her. It runs in the family, because Althea notes that Brashen, unlike Grag, would never ask permission before kissing her.
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** Wintrow is a young introverted boy longing for a religious life, whose father ends up trying to convert him into a tough masculine sailor. Wintrow does lose his optimistic outlook on life, but he doesn't exactly end up broken.
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** Wintrow is a young introverted boy longing for a religious life, whose father ends up trying to convert him into a tough masculine sailor. Wintrow does lose his optimistic outlook on life, but he doesn't exactly end up broken. He ends up with a more mature, complex view of the world and rules the Pirate Isles alongside Etta as Prince Consort.
* BreakTheHaughty: Kyle is a bully and a thug who brings Chalcedean virtues into Bingtown. He ends up brutalized and broken, a shadow of his former physical strength, and then accidentally killed in the final battle.
* DissonantSerenity: Wintrow is perfectly calm and collected during the amputation of his finger, instructing others in how the job should be done and using his training as a priest of Sa to endure the pain without complaint. Kyle was ''trying'' to use it the moment to bully Wintrow into compliance, but Wintrow turns the tables, and completely dumbfounds and disturbs his father, even offering the man his severed finger as proof of his real goals (destruction and control). He then casually tosses the finger overboard and goes back to work.
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* HalfIdenticalTwins: An odd variation where Althea and Wintrow are described as almost identical, although they're ''aunt and nephew''
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* HalfIdenticalTwins: An odd variation where Althea and Wintrow are described as almost identical, although they're ''aunt and nephew''nephew''. When Amber meets her she openly wonders "Why you're not a nine-fingered slave boy." and Kennit rapes Althea because, history repeating itself, he wants to rape Wintrow [[spoiler:like Igrot raped him]].
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* JerkassHasAPoint: He's an asshole through and through, but Kyle isn't wrong when he points out that just because Althea's father let her go with him on sea voyages, that does ''not'' make her a genuine sailor and that to give her ''Vivacia'' when she has so little experience would be pure {{Nepotism}}. Even Althea, who hates Kyle, comes to agree with him and leaves Bingtown with the intent of returning when she has proof that she is worthy to sail the liveship.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: JerkassHasAPoint:
** He's an asshole through and through, but Kyle isn't wrong when he points out that just because Althea's father let her go with him on sea voyages, that does ''not'' make her a genuine sailor and that to give her ''Vivacia'' when she has so little experience would be pure {{Nepotism}}. Even Althea, who hates Kyle, comes to agree with him and leaves Bingtown with the intent of returning when she has proof that she is worthy to sail the liveship.
** He's an asshole through and through, but Kyle isn't wrong when he points out that just because Althea's father let her go with him on sea voyages, that does ''not'' make her a genuine sailor and that to give her ''Vivacia'' when she has so little experience would be pure {{Nepotism}}. Even Althea, who hates Kyle, comes to agree with him and leaves Bingtown with the intent of returning when she has proof that she is worthy to sail the liveship.
** Kennit's a sociopath and his dream of reshaping the Pirate Isles is really ItsAllAboutMe, trying to fulfill his father's vision in an effort to pretend his horrible personal history never happened, but he's a ''smart'' sociopath and his plans end up improving the Pirate Isles and transform them into a new kingdom with a real presence in the world.
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** Etta falls deeply in love with Kennit, a man who turned himself into a heartless sociopath by giving most of his pain to Paragon. He's horrifically abusive to her (including punishment through sex) and it's only when he rapes Althea that she finally realizes what kind of man he is.
* IGaveMyWord: As is common for Hobbs's characters, people tend to place strong value on their given word. This is particularly the case for the Bingtown and Rain Wild Traders, who came to the Cursed Shore with nothing and survived because of their trust in one another.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Fitz collects a plethora of father figures. He's raised by Burritch, acknowledged by Shrewd and given to Chade for training, then adopted by Verity, to whom Fitz becomes devoted due to the man's kindness and honor. He also, unknowingly, was watched over and protected by Chivalry from a distance until the latter's death.
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* BewareTheCuteOnes: Fitz begins his training as an assassin at a very young age, and in addition to all the shady abilities (sneaking, poisoning, disguises) that involves, he also trains as a warrior, going into battle with an ax. Multiple people describe him as beautiful, and feel that the scars he got in Regal's Arena only enhanced his beauty by contrast.
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* CrapsackWorld: Downplayed, but still fairly prevalent. There was a cataclysm in the distant past the destroyed the civilization of the Elderlings and nearly drove the dragons into extinction. The result is, 1000+ years later, an uneven patchwork of medieval civilizations that have varying magics and technologies, none of them without flaws. The Six Duchies are basically a backwater, Jamailla has descended to decadence with Bingtown on the verge of falling to the pirates, who are merciless and unorganized, [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil and then there's Chacled]].
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* IOweYouMyLife: Crops up relatively frequently. Burritch is entirely devoted to Chivalry because, in his opinion, the man saved him from being a dumb brute and gave him a good life as the right hand of the future king, teaching him how to be a good man. This then extends to Fitz and Patience. We also get Brashen Trell, devoted to Ephron Vestrit for much the same reason as Burritch had with Chivalry.
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* HappyEndingOverride: Each trilogy ends with our characters in a fairly good place (though Fitz is left as a lonely hermit at the end of the first), and later books tend to downplay how good things have turned out for the protagonists. For example, the Liveship Traders trilogy ends with Paragon seemingly healthy and stable, having reunited with Kennit. Later books reveal he's still mercurial and prone to fits, though he ''is'' far more reliable than he used to be.
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* LivingLegend: The Fool, as one of the White Prophets, gets a small following thanks to their revered status (but only by some). Fitz gains a great deal of renown as a warrior during the Red Ship Wars, and is well remembered even after Regal trashes his reputation and has him executed. His personal guard in his final trilogy are made up of people who know who he is and respect his history who have volunteered to support him directly. He's even remembered in song and becomes a symbol of resistance among the Old Blood.
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* PlatonicLifePartners:
** Fitz absolutely has this relationship with the Fool. They even enter immortality together in Fitz's dragon which, appropriately, is also a memorial to Nighteyes, who joins them there.
** Fitz also has this relationship with Kettricken, who adores him as her first and best friend in the Duchies. There are hints that she loves him and would be happy to let the relationship be more than just platonic if he weren't so devoted to Molly and the Fool.
** Fitz absolutely has this relationship with the Fool. They even enter immortality together in Fitz's dragon which, appropriately, is also a memorial to Nighteyes, who joins them there.
** Fitz also has this relationship with Kettricken, who adores him as her first and best friend in the Duchies. There are hints that she loves him and would be happy to let the relationship be more than just platonic if he weren't so devoted to Molly and the Fool.
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* TheMagicComesBack: Thanks to FantasticRacism and the cataclysm that wiped out the Elderlings and very nearly wiped out the dragons, magic is diminished when the series begins. However, when TheDragonsComeBack, magic returns with them.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Though magic is certainly present and well known, the ancient cataclysm that wiped out the dragons and the Elderlings has greatly reduced the presence of magic and left it ShroudedInMyth and subject to FantasticRacism. Thus much of the series, as TheMagicComesBack, involves exploring the limits and capabilities of the varieties of magic in the world.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Though magic is certainly present and well known, the ancient cataclysm that wiped out the dragons and the Elderlings has greatly reduced the presence of magic and left it ShroudedInMyth and subject to FantasticRacism. Thus much of the series, as TheMagicComesBack, involves exploring the limits and capabilities of the varieties of magic in the world.
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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Kettricken.
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* ChristmasCake: Alise at the start.
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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: The Chalcedeans as a race have a roughly Arabic skin tone, but sandy blonde hair and blue eyes.
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