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* SuperToughness[=/=]SuperStrength: [[spoiler:Varien. Because he used to be a dragon, he retains a dragon's strength in his muscles and bones.]] In ''The Lesser Kindred'', he is cut with a sword, but rather than getting his arm cut off as everyone else expected, he actually ''stops'' the sword with his arm and manages to still fight the guy.
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Regularly averted. Kantri only mate for reproductive reasons and only feel the ''desire'' to mate about a dozen times in their two thousand year lifetimes. The act itself is painful, and since they mate for life they like to have it happen with a single beloved. Akhor, therefore, is virginal. [[spoiler: as a human he is quickly not, which Lanen is pleased about.]] It applies to humans too; Will was never interested in women [[SingleTargetSexuality until he met Aral]], and Vilkas is plain [[{{Asexuality}} uninterested in everyone]], though both of them are sought after.
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Regularly averted. Kantri only mate for reproductive reasons and only feel the ''desire'' to mate about a dozen times in their two thousand year lifetimes. The act itself is painful, and since they mate for life they like to have it happen with a single beloved. Akhor, therefore, is virginal. [[spoiler: as [[spoiler:As a human he is quickly not, which Lanen is pleased about.]] It applies to humans too; Will was never interested in women [[SingleTargetSexuality until he met Aral]], and Vilkas is plain [[{{Asexuality}} uninterested in everyone]], though both of them are sought after.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: The ground turns to gold to at least three inches deep wherever the Kantri sleep. They find it pretty but not valuable, and when Lanen cries out in astonishment about how much gold there is in Akhor's chamber, he's stunned that this yellow metal is the "gold" that humans would kill each other over in the old days.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: The ground turns to gold to at least three inches deep wherever the Kantri sleep. They find it pretty but not valuable, and when Lanen cries out in astonishment about how much gold there is in Akhor's chamber, he's stunned that this yellow metal is the "gold" that humans would kill each other over in the old days.days.
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* LighterAndSofter: The "young adult" version. For example, in the original, Berys and Marik sacrifice an unknown baby during the Farseer-creating ritual, and this is omitted in the young adult version. In both versions Walther proposes to Lanen in order to try and get her land through marriage, even though he's all but engaged to Alisonde; however, it plays out a little differently. In the original, Lanen snaps that she knows he'll have Alisonde as a mistress, and punches him after he comments that she doesn't seem to need men like a normal woman, while in the young adult version she complains about a law that will allow him to keep the lands if he divorces her after three years of marriage, and she punches him after he confirms this and says he wants both the farm and Alisonde.
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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Marik has tried this both with Maran and Lanen, and both times fails to realize he has grabbed the wrong arm, leaving her free to punch him with her good hand.
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In 2003 an abridged version of ''Song In The Silence'' was released for the YA audience. It has a different cover. A fourth book is planned to be released sometime in 2012.
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In 2003 an abridged version of ''Song In The Silence'' was released for the YA audience. It has a different cover. A fourth cover and toned-down language, and has removed some scenes that were deemed to not be appropriate. The author, [[http://www.elizabethkerner.org/ according to her website]], is also working on a second trilogy, with the first book [[WorkingTitle tentatively titled]] ''The End of Old Songs''; however, there is planned no news as to be released sometime in 2012.
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** Lanen was mostly shocked that a healer summoned to diagnose and treat problems with a ''wanted'' pregnancy took it upon herself to induce an abortion ''without asking''.
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* {{Uncoffee}}: Chelan. Referred to once as "poor man's lansip".
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* NoManWantsAnAmazon: The idea comes up in passing. Lanen is consistently described by herself and others as plain, broad-shouldered, and tall, if less muscular than her mother the blacksmith, who she otherwise closely resembles. She doesn't think she's attractive to men except when meeting Marik, who seems very interested in her, but shrugs it off. Of course, her mother had three known serious callers, two of whom seem to have taken instant likings to her, and Lanen herself [[spoiler: ends up with the shapeshifted Akhor]].
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* NoManWantsAnAmazon: NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: The idea comes up in passing. Lanen is consistently described by herself and others as plain, broad-shouldered, and tall, if less muscular than her mother the blacksmith, who she otherwise closely resembles. She doesn't think she's attractive to men except when meeting Marik, who seems very interested in her, but shrugs it off. Of course, her mother had three known serious callers, two of whom seem to have taken instant likings to her, and Lanen herself [[spoiler: ends up with the shapeshifted Akhor]].
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* SeriesContinuityError: Did Ahkor learn to fly when he was twenty five or thirty? Was the last Kantri born before ''Song in the Silence'' born three hundred years ago or five hundred?
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* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: A couple times in ''Song in the Silence'', just as any facade of friendliness crumples and the villain starts acting like it.
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* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Lanen, sometimes Varien
** TheLancer: Jamie
** TheSmartGuy: Rella
** TheBigGuy: Varien
** TheChick / TheHeart: Shared by Lanen and Varien
** {{Sixth Ranger}}s: Well, sixth, seventh, and eighth rangers. PowerTrio Will, Vilkas, and Aral join up.
** TheHero: Lanen, sometimes Varien
** TheLancer: Jamie
** TheSmartGuy: Rella
** TheBigGuy: Varien
** TheChick / TheHeart: Shared by Lanen and Varien
** {{Sixth Ranger}}s: Well, sixth, seventh, and eighth rangers. PowerTrio Will, Vilkas, and Aral join up.
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* EvilSorcerer: Berys/Malior is one of these, a powerful demon master.
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* DoubleStandard: Aral's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to Vilkas is treated as a betrayal most foul, though he already knew. Will's to Aral is clearly meant to be seen as heartwarmingly sweet.
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* DoubleStandard: Aral's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to Vilkas is treated as a betrayal most foul, though he already knew. Will's to Aral is clearly meant to be seen as heartwarmingly sweet. Before the confession, Aral's seen as being foolish for pining after someone she can't have, and no one ever calls Will that.
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* DyingRace: The Kantri, fewer than two hundred of them on an island, are on the brink of becoming this. There are just enough that if they bred normally they could conceivably rebuild their numbers, but few of them are pairing off and even fewer are giving birth; a birth in ''Song In The Silence'' is the first in hundreds of years. [[spoiler: It's the Demonlord's fault. At the end of the series they're on better footing.]]
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* DyingRace: The Kantri, fewer than two hundred of them on an island, are on the brink of becoming this. There are just enough that if they bred normally they could conceivably rebuild their numbers, but few of them are pairing off and even fewer are giving birth; a birth in ''Song In The Silence'' is the first in hundreds of five hundred years. [[spoiler: It's the Demonlord's fault. At the end of the series they're on better footing.]]]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Berys at times. Most notably, late in ''Redeeming The Lost''. Various characters also notice that when he laughs, it's an unsettlingly ''normal'' laugh, not an [[EvilLaugh evil one]].
--> "Here is your soul mate. I hope you like him."
* FirstPersonPOV: Throughout the books. The first one starts with Lanen as an old woman reminiscing about her past, and when the POV changes it's made to seem like others are also telling tales of what happened. Even characters who die by the end of the book are used thus - but spells are cast on some of the human characters to have their thoughts recorded as they think them into books, either to keep track of them or to have records of their accomplishments. Kantri characters, well, after they die it's possible for their soulgems to be used to communicate with the dead and get their stories then.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Berys at times. Most notably, late in ''Redeeming The Lost''. Various characters also notice that when he laughs, it's an unsettlingly ''normal'' laugh, not an [[EvilLaugh evil one]].
--> "Here is your soul mate. I hope you like him."
* FirstPersonPOV: Throughout the books. The first one starts with Lanen as an old woman reminiscing about her past, and when the POV changes it's made to seem like others are also telling tales of what happened. Even characters who die by the end of the book are used thus - but spells are cast on some of the human characters to have their thoughts recorded as they think them into books, either to keep track of them or to have records of their accomplishments. Kantri characters, well, after they die it's possible for their soulgems to be used to communicate with the dead and get their stories then.
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* AndIMustScream: Speculated to have happened to the Lost, five thousand years before the trilogy. Normally the soulgems of Kantri are dim; when they're called on in Kin-Summoning rituals they glow with steady inner light and the deceased can speak through a summoner. The soulgems of the Lost flicker with an unsettled gleam, and the Kantri they belonged to cannot be contacted. In ''Redeeming The Lost'', we find[[spoiler: as they are restored that most of them were largely unaware of the passage of time, others had passed in and out of trapped consciousness and had managed to keep hope, while about twenty immediately cried out and [[SelfImmolation killed themselves]].]]
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* NoManWantsAnAmazon: The idea comes up in passing. Lanen is consistently described by herself and others as plain, broad-shouldered, and tall, if less muscular than her mother the blacksmith, who she otherwise closely resembles. She doesn't think she's attractive to men except when meeting Marik, who seems very interested in her, but shrugs it off. Of course, her mother had three known serious callers, two of whom seem to have taken instant likings to her, and Lanen herself [[spoiler: ends up with the shapeshifted Akhor]].
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* SelfImmolation: As fire-breathers Kantri have fire-staring apparatuses in their throats. They are able, if so inclined, to kill themselves with these. It's likened to dropping a match into a roomful of oil-soaked hay and closing the door.
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* SuicideAttack: One in ''Song In The Silence''. [[spoiler: Rishkaan kills Calderan thusly]]. In ''Redeeming The Lost'', the Demonlord [[spoiler: is only vanquished thanks to many Kantri sacrificing themselves in such attacks]].
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Regularly averted. Kantri only mate for reproductive reasons and only feel the ''desire'' to mate about a dozen times in their two thousand year lifetimes. The act itself is painful, and since they mate for life they like to have it happen with a single beloved. Akhor, therefore, is virginal. [[spoiler: as a human he is quickly not, which Lanen is pleased about.]] It applies to humans too; Will was never interested in women [[SingleTargetSexuality until he met Aral]], and Vilkas is plain [[{{Asexuality}} uninterested in everyone]], though both of them are sought after.
* DyingRace: The Kantri, fewer than two hundred of them on an island, are on the brink of becoming this. There are just enough that if they bred normally they could conceivably rebuild their numbers, but few of them are pairing off and even fewer are giving birth; a birth in ''Song In The Silence'' is the first in hundreds of years. [[spoiler: It's the Demonlord's fault. At the end of the series they're on better footing.]]
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* IKnowYourTrueName: Each Kantri has a true name that only their mate, possibly best friend, and closest family members may know. They use a diminutive of their true name most of the time; for example, Hadretikantishikrar is widely known as Shikrar.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: Each Kantri has a true name that only their mate, possibly best friend, and closest family members may know. They use a diminutive of their true name most of the time; for example, Hadretikantishikrar is widely known as Shikrar. Friends call him Hadreshikrar, Teacher-Shikrar, because he does teach.
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* MeaningfulName: Meaningful in the Kantri's language, admittedly. But their names reflect them in ways that would be suspiciously apropos if it wasn't shown by he who became Varien that they change their truenames and usenames to be more appropriate when they feel significantly changed. Idai, whose usename means "she who knows without knowing", is wise. Shikrar's lengthened usename and truename both contain the word for "Teacher", and he taught young Kantri when there were enough about for him to do so. Akhor or Akor is proven to mean "Lord" or "King", and his truename contains "desh", which means "strange".
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* NoPreggerSex: Thoroughly averted, and only seen as unwise when the woman is actively feeling unwell.
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* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The Trelli, one of the four original races. When the four races were asked to choose between order and chaos, the Trelli chose not to choose and all died. Only their name lives on, in places like the Trollingwood.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Used repeatedly in-universe. The Song In The Silence which the title of the first book is taken from refers to "The Song of the Winged Ones", a song about watching dragons which includes a significant pause in which Lanen thinks she hears strange, wild music. The [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Kantri]] do a lot of singing themselves. Along with connecting through Truespeech it's a big part of being mated.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Brought up. Long before the books the Demonlord killed many humans and one Kantri; that Kantri's beloved immediately killed some humans nearby who only wanted to help her. The Demonlord then [[spoiler: turned many of the Kantri into Lesser Kindred]] before being taken down, and because there was one human who did terrible things to them, most of the Kantri then and five thousand years later are anywhere from leery of humans to actively wanting to kill them all.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Brought up. Long before the books the Demonlord killed many humans and one Kantri; that Kantri's beloved immediately killed some humans nearby who only wanted to help her. The Demonlord then [[spoiler: turned many of the Kantri into Lesser Kindred]] before being taken down, and because there was one human who did terrible things to them, most of the Kantri then and five thousand years later are anywhere from leery of humans to actively wanting to kill them all.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragons; the first kind is about the size of a horse and is no more intelligent than any other beast. The second finds the word "dragon" an insult (because it compares them to the first type; they prefer to be called the Kindred or the Kantri), and are huge, able to breathe fire, and are capable of telepathy. Also, the ground turns to gold wherever they sleep. In ''The Lesser Kindred'' we see that there are actually ''three'' kinds; among the first there are "Heart-Speakers" which are intelligent and fire breathing, but small and not entirely able to understand or use speech.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: One of the four original races, the others being humans and the now-extinct trolls. They chose Chaos, and since they and dragons could not live in one world without destroying it, they were given another, with which they were never satisfied.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The oldest of the four original races. They chose Order. There are two kinds of dragons; the first kind is about the size of a horse and is no more intelligent than any other beast. The second finds the word "dragon" an insult (because it compares them to the first type; they prefer to be called the Kindred or the Kantri), and are huge, able to breathe fire, and are capable of telepathy. Also, the ground turns to gold wherever they sleep. In ''The Lesser Kindred'' we see that there are actually ''three'' kinds; among the first there are "Heart-Speakers" which are intelligent and fire breathing, but small and not entirely able to understand or usespeech.speech.
* OurHomunculiAreDifferent: The Demonlord [[spoiler: never really died. He's summoned into a body of molten rock created over several months around his removed heart, a body shaped like a dragon]].
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The oldest of the four original races. They chose Order. There are two kinds of dragons; the first kind is about the size of a horse and is no more intelligent than any other beast. The second finds the word "dragon" an insult (because it compares them to the first type; they prefer to be called the Kindred or the Kantri), and are huge, able to breathe fire, and are capable of telepathy. Also, the ground turns to gold wherever they sleep. In ''The Lesser Kindred'' we see that there are actually ''three'' kinds; among the first there are "Heart-Speakers" which are intelligent and fire breathing, but small and not entirely able to understand or use
* OurHomunculiAreDifferent: The Demonlord [[spoiler: never really died. He's summoned into a body of molten rock created over several months around his removed heart, a body shaped like a dragon]].
* RuleOfThree: Inherent to the 'verse. The human's goddess Shia has three aspects, and at the end of ''Song In The Silence'' Lanen believes she has to [[spoiler: deny her love for Akhor]] three times to save him.
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* {{Wangst}}: A couple cases in ''Redeeming The Lost'', after the climax. [[spoiler: Varien becomes a dragon again and Lanen wails and carries on as if he was dead and her children are fatherless. Vilkas feels betrayed and renounces his friendship with Aral because of her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, though he knew about her crush before. What's more, she agreed it was a terrible thing to do.]]
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* {{Wangst}}: A couple cases in ''Redeeming The Lost'', after the climax. [[spoiler: Varien becomes a dragon again and Lanen wails and carries on as if he was dead and dead, saying her children are fatherless. Vilkas feels betrayed and renounces his friendship with Aral because of her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, though he knew about her crush before. What's more, she agreed with him that it was a terrible thing to do.]]
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* DoubleStandard: Aral's AnguishedConfessionOfLove AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to Vilkas is treated as a betrayal most foul, though he already knew. Will's to Aral is clearly meant to be seen as heartwarmingly sweet.
* HalfHumanHybrids: [[spoiler: Lanen and Varien's children]], though they appear human.
* [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Maran Vena believed that the Farseer [[spoiler: attracted demons, and so she abandoned Lanen with her husband and ex-lover after her baby was hurt by one in an attack]]. Of course, she never ''told'' anyone involved why she did it.
* NiceGuy: Will in both senses of the word. He's nice... and he's hanging around being a friend to Aral, never saying anything about his crush on her, waiting hungrily for her to get rejected by Vilkas so he can then pounce and "be there for her" and she'll love him. This is treated as hopelessly sweet.
* PoorCommunicationKills
* SharingABody: ''Redeeming The Lost'' [[spoiler: Marik and the Demonlord.]] Portrayed very interestingly in the first-person narration.
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* {{Wangst}}: A couple cases in ''Redeeming The Lost'', after the climax. [[spoiler: Varien becomes a dragon again and Lanen wails and carries on as if he was dead and her children are fatherless. Vilkas feels betrayed and renounces his friendship with Aral because of her AnguishedConfessionOfLove, AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, though he knew about her crush before. What's more, she agreed it was a terrible thing to do.]]
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Lanen Kaelar has always dreamed of dragons. She is told that they no longer exist, that they are just a myth. Then one day she gets the chance to set out on a voyage west. There she finds that the True Dragons (also called the Kantri) are real - and that they're more suprising surprising than she would ever have expected.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Idai to Akhor. Aral to Vilkas. Will to Aral.
* [[AlternateAnimalAffection Alternate Kantri Affection]]: Neck-twining, touching their faceplates together, wrapping their wings around each other. The soulgems set into their foreheads are particularly intimate, with touching them or the faceplating around them being a very rare gesture. Touching one living soulgem to another is seen as a gesture reserved for parent and child, but nonetheless it happens in other instances too.
* AnguishedConfessionOfLove: All over the place.
* BetaCouple: Jamie and Rella
* [[AlternateAnimalAffection Alternate Kantri Affection]]: Neck-twining, touching their faceplates together, wrapping their wings around each other. The soulgems set into their foreheads are particularly intimate, with touching them or the faceplating around them being a very rare gesture. Touching one living soulgem to another is seen as a gesture reserved for parent and child, but nonetheless it happens in other instances too.
* AnguishedConfessionOfLove: All over the place.
* BetaCouple: Jamie and Rella
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* BrownNote: Apparently hearing the name of a demon causes you people who are not practiced in working with demons to get sick.vomit. In ''Redeeming The Lost'', [[spoiler: the Demonlord's]] laughter causes vomiting.
* DoubleStandard: Aral's AnguishedConfessionOfLove to Vilkas is treated as a betrayal most foul, though he already knew. Will's to Aral is clearly meant to be seen as heartwarmingly sweet.
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* HitMeDammit: Rella says this word-for-word - she asks Lanen to give her a black eye so that it looks like she was trying to stop Lanen from escaping, and therefore she wouldn't get in trouble.
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* HitMeDammit: Rella says this word-for-word - she asks Lanen to give her a black eye so that it looks like she was trying to stop Lanen from escaping, and therefore she wouldn't get in trouble. It mostly works, but Marik decides to black her other eye.
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* SickeninglySweethearts: [[spoiler: Varien and Lanen]] at the start of ''The Lesser Kindred''. Groaned over by Jamie.
* SlapSlapKiss: Jamie and Rella [[spoiler: at least until TheyDo.]]
* SlapSlapKiss: Jamie and Rella [[spoiler: at least until TheyDo.]]
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--> As I stood on the shore my heart beat fast and high, and I felt as though there were iron bands around my chest like the faithful servant in the old tale, though mine were to keep my heart from breaking for joy, not sorrow. I worked hard to draw breath, there on the edge of my dream.
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* PregnantHostage: She is the main female lead and not obviously pregnant, but nonetheless this happens in ''The Lesser Kindred''.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Built into the rules of healing, just about. If the unborn is particularly deformed a Healer can help a woman's body to abort, but this won't work if the embryo is healthy. Lanen is shocked at the suggestion.
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* TheMedic: Some humans are born with the ability to magically heal others.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragons; the first kind is about the size of a horse and is no more intelligent than any other beast. The second finds the word "dragon" an insult (because it compares them to the first type; they prefer to be called the Kindred or the Kantri), and are huge, able to breathe fire, and are capable of telepathy. Also, the ground turns to gold wherever they sleep.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragons; the first kind is about the size of a horse and is no more intelligent than any other beast. The second finds the word "dragon" an insult (because it compares them to the first type; they prefer to be called the Kindred or the Kantri), and are huge, able to breathe fire, and are capable of telepathy. Also, the ground turns to gold wherever they sleep.
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* TheMedic: Some humans are born with the ability to magically heal others.
others. When this power is particularly strong, these humans are counted as Mages who can also do other things, though this is strongly frowned upon.
* MorningSickness: Worse than usual.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted in a matter-of-fact way.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragons; the first kind is about the size of a horse and is no more intelligent than any other beast. The second finds the word "dragon" an insult (because it compares them to the first type; they prefer to be called the Kindred or the Kantri), and are huge, able to breathe fire, and are capable of telepathy. Also, the ground turns to gold wherever they sleep. In ''The Lesser Kindred'' we see that there are actually ''three'' kinds; among the first there are "Heart-Speakers" which are intelligent and fire breathing, but small and not entirely able to understand or use speech.
* MorningSickness: Worse than usual.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted in a matter-of-fact way.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragons; the first kind is about the size of a horse and is no more intelligent than any other beast. The second finds the word "dragon" an insult (because it compares them to the first type; they prefer to be called the Kindred or the Kantri), and are huge, able to breathe fire, and are capable of telepathy. Also, the ground turns to gold wherever they sleep. In ''The Lesser Kindred'' we see that there are actually ''three'' kinds; among the first there are "Heart-Speakers" which are intelligent and fire breathing, but small and not entirely able to understand or use speech.
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* SickeninglySweethearts: [[spoiler: Varien and Lanen]] at the start of ''The Lesser Kindred''.
* SickeninglySweethearts: [[spoiler: Varien and Lanen]] at the start of ''The Lesser Kindred''.
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* HumanityEnsues: [[spoiler: Akhor becomes human at the end of Song in the Silence.]]
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* HumanityEnsues: [[spoiler: Akhor becomes human at the end of Song in the Silence. He remains human through the next book and most of the third, at which point he becomes capable of shape shifting.]]
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Lanen and Akhor]].
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Lanen and Akhor]]. Oddly, despite the fact that they're on an island covered in lansip trees, which produce leaves and fruit that are clearly established to reverse aging in humans, that is never brought up.
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* {{Panacea}}: Lansip fruits can heal just about anything and even reverse aging.
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* OverlyLongName: The Kantri's truenames tend towards this. When Akhor [[spoiler: turns human and needs a new name]] he picks one that even he notes is lengthy.
* {{Panacea}}: Lansip leaves are a cure for all ills, and the fruits - just called lan fruits - can heal just aboutanything and even anything. Either can reverse aging.aging, the leaves by being concentrated into a liquor, the fruits just by sheer quantity.
* {{Panacea}}: Lansip leaves are a cure for all ills, and the fruits - just called lan fruits - can heal just about
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* IKnowYourTrueName: Each Kantri has a true name that only their mate, possibly best friend, and closest family members may know. They use a diminutive of their true name most of the time; for example, Hadretikantishikrar is widely known as Shikrar.
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* TheHecateSisters: Humans worship the Lady Shia, who is the Mother in the ground below, the Old One in the moon, and the Laughing Girl of the Waters. They're all distinct, but they're also all the same entity.
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* BreathWeapon: Dragons can breathe fire, naturally.
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* BodyLanguage: Dragon faces are immobile, so they express things with whole-body poses called "Attitudes" - posing in the Attitude of Protecting A Youngling, for instance. Akhor observes that humans take Attitudes sometimes, of anger for example.
* BreathWeapon: Dragons can breathe fire, naturally. They also do this while expressing strong emotion, and this is immediately likened to human tears.
* BreathWeapon: Dragons can breathe fire, naturally. They also do this while expressing strong emotion, and this is immediately likened to human tears.
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* DaddyDNATest: Demons are able to confirm whether Marik is Lanen's father or nt.
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* DaddyDNATest: Demons are able to confirm whether Marik is Lanen's father or nt.not.
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* HumanityEnsues: [[spoiler: Akhor becomes human at the end of Song in the Silence.]]
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* ParentalIncest: When Lanen meets the man who is possibly her father [[spoiler: he really is]] for the first time, Marik is wearing a charm that causes her to crush very obviously on him. He knows who she is and encourages the crush by flirting. She manages to resist the charm later but is still very charmed by him and wishes she could take him to bed. Later she hears his real name, realizes who he is, and... is not disgusted at all, though any attraction then fades.
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* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Lanen spent her early life longing to travel, and when she finally does get to leave home she alternates between being delighted with unfamiliar parts of the world and being dismayed with aspects of travel she never thought about, like lack of bathing facilities. Her account of landing on the Dragon's Isle is an especially vivid case of this.
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* TheSouthpaw: Lanen is left-handed, just like her mother. This comes in useful when people try to grab her right arm to restrain her.
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* BreathWeapons: Dragons can breathe fire, naturally.
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* BreathWeapons: BreathWeapon: Dragons can breathe fire, naturally.
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* DaddyDNATest: Demons are able to confirm whether Marik is Lanen's father or nt.
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* ManlyTears: At the end of the first book, Lanen comments on how Jamie is the toughest man she's ever known, and yet he's crying because [[spoiler:Varien's song to Lanen was just that beautiful.]]
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* {{Panacea}}: Lansip fruits can heal just about anything and even reverse aging.
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Lanen Kaelar has always dreamed of dragons. She is told that they no longer exist, that they are just a myth. Then one day she gets the chance to set out on a voyage west. There she finds that the True Dragons are real - and that they're more suprising than she would ever have expected.
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Lanen Kaelar has always dreamed of dragons. She is told that they no longer exist, that they are just a myth. Then one day she gets the chance to set out on a voyage west. There she finds that the True Dragons (also called the Kantri) are real - and that they're more suprising than she would ever have expected.
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* HitMeDammit: Rella says this word-for-word. Lanen hadn't wanted her to get in trouble, so they decided to pretend that Rella was trying to catch Lanen - and to make it realistic, Rella asked Lanen to give her a black eye.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:Jaime reveals to Lanen that he could be her real father]].
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:Jaime reveals to Lanen that he could be her real father]].
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* HitMeDammit: Rella says this word-for-word. Lanen hadn't wanted her to get in trouble, so they decided to pretend that Rella was trying to catch Lanen word-for-word - and to make it realistic, Rella asked she asks Lanen to give her a black eye.
eye so that it looks like she was trying to stop Lanen from escaping, and therefore she wouldn't get in trouble.
* [[spoiler:InterspeciesRomance]]: [[spoiler:Lanen and Akhor]].
* KillAllHumans: Some Kantri have this attitude, especially those descended from Kantri that were turned into Lesser Dragons.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather:[[spoiler:Jaime [[spoiler:Jamie reveals to Lanen that he could be her real father]].father. Turns out he's not.]]
* [[spoiler:InterspeciesRomance]]: [[spoiler:Lanen and Akhor]].
* KillAllHumans: Some Kantri have this attitude, especially those descended from Kantri that were turned into Lesser Dragons.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather:
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* ParentalSubstitute: Jaime was one for Lanen
* TheUnpronounceable: Most of the dragons, with names like Khordeshkistriakhor.
* WeAreAsMayflies: When compared to the dragons.
* TheUnpronounceable: Most of the dragons, with names like Khordeshkistriakhor.
* WeAreAsMayflies: When compared to the dragons.
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* TheMedic: Some humans are born with the ability to magically heal others.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragons; the first kind is about the size of a horse and is no more intelligent than any other beast. The second finds the word "dragon" an insult (because it compares them to the first type; they prefer to be called the Kindred or the Kantri), and are huge, able to breathe fire, and are capable of telepathy. Also, the ground turns to gold wherever they sleep.
* ParentalSubstitute:Jaime Jamie was one for Lanen
Lanen.
* SoulJar: Dragons' souls remain in a gem in their foreheads. The Lesser Dragons' souls still reside trapped in their soulgems.
* TheUnpronounceable: Most of thedragons, Kantri, with names like Khordeshkistriakhor.
Khordeshkhistriakhor - it's established that the written names are only a rough transcription.
* WeAreAsMayflies: When compared to thedragons.True Dragons, who live roughly two thousand years.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: The ground turns to gold to at least three inches deep wherever the Kantri sleep. They find it pretty but not valuable, and when Lanen cries out in astonishment about how much gold there is in Akhor's chamber, he's stunned that this yellow metal is the "gold" that humans would kill each other over in the old days.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragons; the first kind is about the size of a horse and is no more intelligent than any other beast. The second finds the word "dragon" an insult (because it compares them to the first type; they prefer to be called the Kindred or the Kantri), and are huge, able to breathe fire, and are capable of telepathy. Also, the ground turns to gold wherever they sleep.
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* SoulJar: Dragons' souls remain in a gem in their foreheads. The Lesser Dragons' souls still reside trapped in their soulgems.
* TheUnpronounceable: Most of the
* WeAreAsMayflies: When compared to the
* WorthlessYellowRocks: The ground turns to gold to at least three inches deep wherever the Kantri sleep. They find it pretty but not valuable, and when Lanen cries out in astonishment about how much gold there is in Akhor's chamber, he's stunned that this yellow metal is the "gold" that humans would kill each other over in the old days.
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* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:Jaime reveals to Lanen that he could be her real father.
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* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:Jaime reveals to Lanen that he could be her real father.father]].
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''Tales of Kolmar'' is a fantasy trilogy by Elizabeth Kerner.
Lanen Kaelar has always dreamed of dragons. She is told that they no longer exist, that they are just a myth. Then one day she gets the chance to set out on a voyage west. There she finds that the True Dragons are real - and that they're more suprising than she would ever have expected.
So far, the books in the series are:
#''Song in the Silence''
#''The Lesser Kindred''
#''Redeeming the Lost''
A fourth book is planned to be released sometime in 2012.
!!!This series provides examples of:
* BrownNote: Apparently hearing the name of a demon causes you to get sick.
* HitMeDammit: Rella says this word-for-word. Lanen hadn't wanted her to get in trouble, so they decided to pretend that Rella was trying to catch Lanen - and to make it realistic, Rella asked Lanen to give her a black eye.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:Jaime reveals to Lanen that he could be her real father.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Lanen and Akhor]].
* ParentalSubstitute: Jaime was one for Lanen
* TheUnpronounceable: Most of the dragons, with names like Khordeshkistriakhor.
* WeAreAsMayflies: When compared to the dragons.
Lanen Kaelar has always dreamed of dragons. She is told that they no longer exist, that they are just a myth. Then one day she gets the chance to set out on a voyage west. There she finds that the True Dragons are real - and that they're more suprising than she would ever have expected.
So far, the books in the series are:
#''Song in the Silence''
#''The Lesser Kindred''
#''Redeeming the Lost''
A fourth book is planned to be released sometime in 2012.
!!!This series provides examples of:
* BrownNote: Apparently hearing the name of a demon causes you to get sick.
* HitMeDammit: Rella says this word-for-word. Lanen hadn't wanted her to get in trouble, so they decided to pretend that Rella was trying to catch Lanen - and to make it realistic, Rella asked Lanen to give her a black eye.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:Jaime reveals to Lanen that he could be her real father.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Lanen and Akhor]].
* ParentalSubstitute: Jaime was one for Lanen
* TheUnpronounceable: Most of the dragons, with names like Khordeshkistriakhor.
* WeAreAsMayflies: When compared to the dragons.
