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* OneForSorrowTwoForJoy: Invoked
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They take place in a far-future galaxy, caught between the League on one side, and the Confederacy on the other, of a starless rift, in a great game of intrigue and adventure.


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* SevenDeadlySins: One library caters to at least five of them.


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* XanatosGambit: Retrieving Donovan
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* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Sometimes you really have to deal with something dangerous.


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* DisappearedDad: the harper was raised by her mother alone.


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* LukeIAmYourFather[=/=]LukeYouAreMyFather: Both in a fraught scene

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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: The planet Alabaster's PhenotypeStereotype



* Ouroboros: The Ouroboros Circuit

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* Ouroboros: OppositesAttract
* {{Ouroboros}}:
The Ouroboros Circuit
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* DoomedMoralVictor: Discussed in a subverted form.


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* DysfunctionalFamily: The Hounds are somewhat likely this, according to noe.


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* FullCircleRevolution: Discussed in a subverted form.


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* Ouroboros: The Ouroboros Circuit
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* SpaceIsAnOcean: Played with.
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* HonoraryUncle: Does not make a man less dangerous.


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* LivingLegend: Zorba
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* FearlessFool: The Brute
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* TheManBehindTheMan


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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad


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* TapOnTheHead: the dangers are hinted at but not used.
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* [[SoftWater Soft Gas]]: When you hit a star at speed -- it's not true.
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* TheNondescript: Greystroke


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* ShoutOut: Dozens
* SternChase: And a stern chase is a long chase.


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* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: One of the Seven of Jehovah.
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* MacGuffin: Discussed


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* TheQuest: Discussed
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* TheStoryteller: The scarred man in ''January Dancer'' -- the ministrel sought him out for it.
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* TheExile: Fa Li, according to those at court


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* ReassignedToAntarctica: Fa Li

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* FamedInStory: The civil war was immortalized in song before it was four weeks old.



* HarmlessLadyDisguise: Hugh uses it.
* HonorBeforeReason: Burning down your own ammunition factory to keep guns out of the war.



* LaResistance: The Loyalists



* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: An attempt to avert it by burning down the ammunition factory means



* OntologicalMystery

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* OntologicalMysteryOntologicalMystery: Given the Dancer's powers, how can you know what really is happening?


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* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Jumdar's characterization of the Loyalists.
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* BadDreams: Discussed in ''January Dancer''


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* ShellShockedVeteran: Discussed in ''January Dancer''


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* YouShallNotPass: Many rear guards near the end of the war on New Eireann
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* ItWasAGift: The harper's necklace


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* ThereAreNoCoincidences: thought of a murder
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* ArtifactOfDoom: The Dancer, they think.


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* CompellingVoice: What the Dancer gives


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* OntologicalMystery
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* FireForgedFriends: In the civil war.


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* OldFlameFizzle: Despite FireForgedFriends


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* ProudWarriorRace
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* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: the scarred man covers up a dead man's treachery.

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* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: the scarred man Fudir covers up a dead man's treachery.
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* IGaveMyWord: Hugh's motive


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* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: the scarred man covers up a dead man's treachery.


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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The man who betrays Hugh to an assasin


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* YouAreInCommandNow: Hugh

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* BuyThemOff: Werguild is offered, after a civil war.



* CorruptBureaucrat: One planet revolts from a honest administration.

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* CorruptBureaucrat: One planet On one planet, a country revolts from a honest administration.



* FriendlyEnemy: After a civil war, the two sides often join to sing of the various exploits.



* KingInTheMountain: Hugh escapes and promises to return



* {{Oireland}}: A planet puts it on for the tourist trade.

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* {{Oireland}}: A planet country puts it on for the tourist trade.


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* WouldNotShootACivilian: One failure draws down opprobrium
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* CorruptBureaucrat: One planet revolts from a honest administration.


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* {{Oireland}}: A planet puts it on for the tourist trade.

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* ''On the Razor's Edge''

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* ''On the Razor's Edge''
Edge'' (forthcoming)



* DramaticThunder: When the storm first strikes.



* Precursors: "the folk of sand and iron."

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* Precursors: {{Precursors}}: "the folk of sand and iron." "
* AStormIsComing: Drives them off the planet
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* BlessedWithSuck: You find a marvelous array of treasures -- that you can't remove.
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* Precursors: "the folk of sand and iron."
* UsedFuture
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* DrowningMySorrows: In the bar on Jehovah.

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* TheBard: In the opening of ''January Dancer'', a woman shows up at the bar, and plays for her food, without asking.


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* WanderingMinstrel: In the opening of ''January Dancer'', a woman shows up at the bar, and plays for her food, without asking.
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* TheBard: In the opening of ''January Dancer'', a woman shows up at the bar, and plays for her food, without asking.


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* FisherKing: The emperor of the morning dew really hates that his subjects believe this.
* GreenEyes: One of the first things noted about the woman in the opening of ''January Dancer''. Before her name, even.
* GreeneyedRedhead: Supplmented by the observation about her hair.
* InHarmsWay: Brute's opinion
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The ''Spiral Arm'' is a SpaceOpera series by MichaelFlynn, consisting thus far of

* ''The January Dancer''
* ''Up Jim River''
* ''In the Lion's Mouth''
* ''On the Razor's Edge''

!!Tropes included in these works:
* TheCityNarrows: Terran Corner on Jehovah
* IHaveManyNames: The narrator introduces the scarred man with observations about how many names he has
* MissingMom: The motivation in ''Up Jim River''
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