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* AdultFear: There are children being frequently put in danger, and sometimes killed. There's the woman in ''Oath Breaker'' who miscarries. There's children being radicalized into cults, the inability to provide for one's loved ones, and ostracism from the community. The Soul Eaters are essentially a Stone Age terrorist group, with the random civilian attacks that would imply. They abuse children and animals ''alike'', and because of their ''dark magic'', they double as a prehistoric ''devil-worshipping cult''!
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* DeathOfAChild: There are children being frequently put in danger, and sometimes killed. There's the woman in ''Oath Breaker'' who miscarries.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The Soul Eaters are essentially a Stone Age terrorist group, with the random civilian attacks that would imply. They abuse children and animals ''alike'', and because of their ''dark magic'', they double as a prehistoric ''devil-worshipping cult''!
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* ClimbingClimax:
** The final fight against the demon bear [[spoiler:and Hord]] takes place as Torak and Wolf are climbing to the Mountain of the World Spirit in ''Wolf Brother''.
** The final fight of ''Oath Breaker'' has [[spoiler:Torak climbing up the Great Oak as Thiazzi chases him to the top]].
** The climax of ''Skin Taker'' has [[spoiler:Renn and Dark climbing up a rockfall so that they can perform the Rite to bring the First Tree back. Naiginn chases them to stop them while Torak (who's spirit walked in a bear) and Wolf attempt to thwart him]].
** The final fight against the demon bear [[spoiler:and Hord]] takes place as Torak and Wolf are climbing to the Mountain of the World Spirit in ''Wolf Brother''.
** The final fight of ''Oath Breaker'' has [[spoiler:Torak climbing up the Great Oak as Thiazzi chases him to the top]].
** The climax of ''Skin Taker'' has [[spoiler:Renn and Dark climbing up a rockfall so that they can perform the Rite to bring the First Tree back. Naiginn chases them to stop them while Torak (who's spirit walked in a bear) and Wolf attempt to thwart him]].
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* HufflepuffHouse: There are dozens of clans, but only the Raven Clan has significant screen time across multiple books (since it's the one the main characters live with). The Seal, White Fox, Otter, Wolf, Red Deer, Forest Horse, Auroch, Mountain Hare, and Narwal Clans get some focus, but each only for one book. And some clans, like the Kelp, Cormorant, Whale, Ptarmigan, Rowan, etc. either don't appear at all or might as well not be there.
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* NoPeripheralVision: Torak and Renn are able to avoid being found in the Deep Forest by climbing trees because the local clans seldom look up. Fin-Kedinn even says they're similar to deer in that regard.
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* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The seventh book states that killing one's bone kin would be breaking one of the oldest laws and results in being permanently cast out. That's why Renn tells Torak that [[spoiler:he can't kill Naiginn who's Renn's half-brother as well as the son of Torak's EvilUncle Tenris]].
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* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The seventh book states that killing one's bone kin would be breaking one of the oldest laws and that results in being permanently cast out. That's why Renn tells [[spoiler:Renn and Torak that [[spoiler:he can't cannot directly kill Naiginn who's Renn's half-brother as well as the son of Torak's EvilUncle Tenris]].cousin]].
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* DyingCandle: While searching for the third piece of the Nanuak in ''Wolf Brother'', Torak ends up taking refuge in a shelter where a man has frozen to death. When he sees a sandstone lamp in the man's hand, he imagines how it must have felt for the man to watch the lamp's flame as his life flickered and sank. This leads to Torak having an EurekaMoment and realize that the lamp is the Nanuak's third piece because it was described in a riddle as "coldest of all, the darkest light", and "the darkest light" refers to the last light one sees before dying.
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* FanaticalFire: This pops up in ''Oath Breaker''. Not only do the warring Deep Forest clans believe the others to be wicked, but they each also think their own way of handling fire is the only correct one. Thiazzi, the Soul Eater who has deceived them to think like this, burns animals to death while using the last Fire Opal piece to protect himself from fire and preaching that he will make all the clans strong by uniting them. The strongest example of this, however, is Thiazzi's minion called the Chosen One, a {{pyromaniac}} who worships fire and believes only Thiazzi knows how to properly respect.
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* TheGreatFire:
** One that's even called by the trope name occurred when the Soul Eaters were diminished in the backstory. They attempted to release demons from a hill at the edge of the Deep Forest, but Torak's father used fire to banish the demons back. Unfortunately, the fire got out of hand, and the entire valley around the hill was burned. Some of the Soul Eaters, especially [[spoiler:Tenris]] were injured, and [[spoiler:Narrander lost his sanity when his captured son Narik died before he could rescue him]].
--->'''Fin-Kedinn''': Many summers ago, this hill was thick with trees. Birch, rowan, in cracks between the rocks. Holding the demons inside. Soul's Night. Long past. People came to let them out. ''[…]'' One man stopped them. He set a fire on the hill. Banished the demons back into the rocks. But the fire escaped. Terrible… It can leap into a tree faster than a lynx, and when it does – when it gets into the branches – it goes where it likes. You wouldn't believe how fast. It ate the whole valley.
** One that's even called by the trope name occurred when the Soul Eaters were diminished in the backstory. They attempted to release demons from a hill at the edge of the Deep Forest, but Torak's father used fire to banish the demons back. Unfortunately, the fire got out of hand, and the entire valley around the hill was burned. Some of the Soul Eaters, especially [[spoiler:Tenris]] were injured, and [[spoiler:Narrander lost his sanity when his captured son Narik died before he could rescue him]].
--->'''Fin-Kedinn''': Many summers ago, this hill was thick with trees. Birch, rowan, in cracks between the rocks. Holding the demons inside. Soul's Night. Long past. People came to let them out. ''[…]'' One man stopped them. He set a fire on the hill. Banished the demons back into the rocks. But the fire escaped. Terrible… It can leap into a tree faster than a lynx, and when it does – when it gets into the branches – it goes where it likes. You wouldn't believe how fast. It ate the whole valley.
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* AnatomyOfTheSoul: All humans (and presumably animals, trees, and geologic features) have a name-soul, a clan-soul, and a world-soul. Part of their death rites involves drawing circles made of red ochre on the dying person's feet, chest, and forehead, to ensure their souls don't become separated. These souls can also be corrupted by soul-sickness, as happens to Torak in the fourth book. If the name-soul is missing or sick, the person becomes a ghost, forgetting their identity. If the clan-soul is missing (or if the three souls are scattered), a demon is formed (though the clan-soul becoming sick just makes someone lose their connection to nature). The most powerful demons, Elementals, are formed when a geologic feature like a waterfall "dies" and its souls are scattered.[[note]][[FridgeLogic though how you can draw ochre circles on something made of water, that doesn't even have a body, is a mystery.]][[/note]] If the world-soul is lost, the owner becomes a [[FateWorseThanDeath Lost One]], [[AndIMustScream trapped forever in a dark void]].
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* AnatomyOfTheSoul: All humans (and presumably animals, trees, and geologic features) have a name-soul, a clan-soul, and a world-soul. Part of their death rites involves drawing circles made of red ochre on the dying person's feet, chest, and forehead, to ensure their souls don't become separated. These souls can also be corrupted by soul-sickness, as happens to Torak in the fourth book. If the name-soul is missing or sick, the person becomes a ghost, forgetting their identity. If the clan-soul is missing (or if the three souls are scattered), a demon is formed (though the clan-soul becoming sick just makes someone lose their connection to nature). The most powerful demons, Elementals, are formed when a geologic feature like a waterfall "dies" and its souls are scattered.[[note]][[FridgeLogic though how you can draw ochre circles on something made of water, that can't ''communicate'', that doesn't even have a body, let alone a ''name'' or ''family'', is a mystery.]][[/note]] mystery. How does a landmass die ''to begin with''?]][[/note]] If the world-soul is lost, the owner becomes a [[FateWorseThanDeath Lost One]], [[AndIMustScream trapped forever in a dark void]].
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* AdultFear: There are children being frequently put in danger, and sometimes killed. There's the woman in ''Oath Breaker'' who miscarries. There's children being radicalized into cults, the inability to provide for one's loved ones, and ostracism from the community. The Soul Eaters are essentially a Stone Age terrorist group, with the random civilian attacks that would imply. Because of their ''dark magic''as they double as a prehistoric ''devil-worshipping cult''.
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* AdultFear: There are children being frequently put in danger, and sometimes killed. There's the woman in ''Oath Breaker'' who miscarries. There's children being radicalized into cults, the inability to provide for one's loved ones, and ostracism from the community. The Soul Eaters are essentially a Stone Age terrorist group, with the random civilian attacks that would imply. Because They abuse children and animals ''alike'', and because of their ''dark magic''as magic'', they double as a prehistoric ''devil-worshipping cult''.cult''!
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* AdultFear: There are children being frequently put in danger, and sometimes killed. There's the woman in ''Oath Breaker'' who miscarries. There's children being radicalized into cults, the inability to provide for one's loved ones, and ostracism from the community. The Soul Eaters are essentially a Stone Age terrorist group, with the random civilian attacks that would imply. Because of their ''dark magic''as they double as a prehistoric ''devil-worshipping cult''.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In this setting, a demon is a deceased creature that has lost its clan-soul out of its three souls. As the result, it has no sense of right and wrong, and it hates all living things, wanting to destroy them. An elemental is the most powerful type of demon that can be born out of something as hugely powerful as an ice river or a waterfall. Demons can also be invoked from the Otherworld and bound in living things.
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* CaveMouth: The characters frequently compare entering a cave as if they're inside a huge creature. When Torak and Renn ask the Walker where he found his claw-like stone in ''Wolf Brother'', he talks about "stone mouth" and "the killing earth that gulps and swallows". At first the two kids think he's referring to some stone creature until Renn realizes that he's actually talking about the mouth of the cave that contains a doorway to the Otherworld. In ''Ghost Hunter'', Torak has a sense of foreboding of likely having to confront Eostra in a cave:
-->''Twice in his life he'd ventured into caves: once in the time of the bear, to find the stone tooth, and once in the Far North, to rescue Wolf. Both times, the Walker had warned him. ‘Once you've gone in,’ the old man had said, ‘you'll never be whole.’ The Walker was mad, but now and then, he showed flashes of sanity. His warnings had force. Torak had a sudden presentiment that if he ignored them – if he ventured again into a cave – the jaws of the earth would snap shut on him for ever.''
-->''Twice in his life he'd ventured into caves: once in the time of the bear, to find the stone tooth, and once in the Far North, to rescue Wolf. Both times, the Walker had warned him. ‘Once you've gone in,’ the old man had said, ‘you'll never be whole.’ The Walker was mad, but now and then, he showed flashes of sanity. His warnings had force. Torak had a sudden presentiment that if he ignored them – if he ventured again into a cave – the jaws of the earth would snap shut on him for ever.''
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''Ghost Hunter'', refers both to Torak searching for the ghostlike [[EvilSorcerer Eostra]] (as the first six titles all refer to roles he takes) and to Eostra herself, who [[{{Necromancer}} can raise the dead]]. A ''third'' meaning is name-dropped in the text by Krukoslik, who refers to Wolf (and wolves in general) as ghost hunters due to how silently they track their prey.
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** Renn, as a potential mage, gets this too. [[spoiler:She has a dream of Torak raising his axe to kill Wolf -- but it doesn't come to pass because while he really intended to cut off the part of Wolf's tail that was infected, he couldn't bring himself to do it.]]
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** Renn, as a potential mage, gets this too. [[spoiler:She has a dream of Torak raising his axe to kill Wolf -- but it doesn't come to pass because while he really intended to cut off the part of Wolf's tail that was infected, he couldn't bring himself to do it.]] In ''Viper's Daughter'', she gets dreams and visions of her harming Torak, which makes her leave him and head north. [[spoiler:It turns out they were planted in her mind by Naiginn.]]
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* SiblingMurder: Turns out [[spoiler:Tenris specifically created the demon bear to kill his brother, Torak's father]].
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* SiblingMurder: Turns out [[spoiler:Tenris specifically created the demon bear to kill his brother, Torak's father]]. This is specifically noted as one of the most heinous sins in Clan culture, and the reason [[spoiler:Renn can't kill Naiginn herself.]]
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* SpoilerTitle: Doubling as a LateArrivalSpoiler, if you see the title ''Viper's Daughter'' before reading ''Outcast'', you can probably guess it refers to [[spoiler:Renn.]]
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* HorrifyingTheHorror: Thiazzi the Oak Mage is the strongest man of the Forest and an extremely sadistic and violent {{sociopath}}… yet even he is afraid of [[TheSoulless Eostra the Eagle Owl Mage]].
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* HorrifyingTheHorror: Thiazzi the Oak Mage is the strongest man of the Forest and an extremely sadistic and violent {{sociopath}}… sociopath… yet even he is afraid of [[TheSoulless [[EvilerThanThou Eostra the Eagle Owl Mage]].
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* EskimoLand: The Ice Clans of the Far North have been influenced by real-life Inuits. It was also the Chukchi people's traditional ways that gave Paver ideas for the Narwal Clan's lifestyle.
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* EskimoLand: The Ice Clans of the Far North have been influenced by are based on real-life Inuits. It was also the Inuit. The Chukchi people's traditional ways that also gave Paver the author ideas for the Narwal Clan's lifestyle.
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** Seshru is '''Famine''': in ''Outcast'', she causes Lake Axehead to gradually dry and grow sick with deformed and inedible fish [[spoiler:(with only the latter being true)]], which are the main food source of the Otter Clan.
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** Seshru is '''Famine''': in ''Outcast'', she causes Lake Axehead to gradually dry and grow sick with deformed and inedible fish [[spoiler:(with [[spoiler:(she's responsible only about the latter being true)]], latter)]], which are the main food source of the Otter Clan.Clan. She also stirs a metaphorical famine in Torak by making him [[spoiler:lose his skills and knowledge through soul-sickness]].
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In this setting, a demon is a deceased creature that has lost its clan-soul out of its three souls. As the result, it has no sense of right and wrong, and it hates all living things, wanting to destroy them. An elemetal is the most powerful type of demon that can be born out of something as hugely powerful as an ice river or a waterfall. Demons can also be invoked from the Otherworld and bound in living things.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In this setting, a demon is a deceased creature that has lost its clan-soul out of its three souls. As the result, it has no sense of right and wrong, and it hates all living things, wanting to destroy them. An elemetal elemental is the most powerful type of demon that can be born out of something as hugely powerful as an ice river or a waterfall. Demons can also be invoked from the Otherworld and bound in living things.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: This is the entire reason for Torak's existence. His father [[spoiler:was a Soul-Eater]], and though he tried to atone by [[spoiler:starting the Great Fire and scattering the Soul-Eaters]], the task of actually defeating them fell to Torak, who wasn't even born at the time. The [[PhysicalGod World Spirit]] [[spoiler:gave Torak the power to [[BodySurf spirit walk]], but made him be [[TheStateless clanless]] so that no one clan would be more powerful]]. And it was also behind Torak's mother dying soon after she gave birth to him.
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* BattleBolas: In ''Viper's Daughter'', the Narwals give Torak "slingstones", which function like a bolas. He uses them to [[spoiler:take down Naiginn at the end of the book]].
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: In ''Soul Eater'', Torak takes the place of an apprentice Soul Eater, in order to infiltrate them and save Wolf. He has to help them with a ceremony that involves killing one of each of hunting animals: A bear, a lynx, an eagle, a wolverine, a wolf, an otter, an owl, a fox and [[spoiler:a human. The Soul Eaters are planning on Torak being the human.]] In the book's society, killing a hunter is seen as extremely dishonorable and evil. He's asked to kill the owl, and for Wolf's sake, he does.
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* OminousOwl: Only applies to eagle owls. This is presumably because the entire Eagle Owl Clan was wiped out because their last mage Eostra performed a forbidden rite by resurrecting one of their members.
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** Only applies to eagle owls. This is presumably because the entire Eagle Owl Clan was wiped out because their last mage Eostra performed a forbidden rite by resurrecting one of theirmembers.members.
** In ''Viper's Daughter'', Torak keeps seeing a snowy owl, which he believes is the Guardian of the North judging him for killing one of its kind years before. He makes peace with it by saving an eagle from drowning, after which his hunting luck returns.
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** In ''Viper's Daughter'', Torak keeps seeing a snowy owl, which he believes is the Guardian of the North judging him for killing one of its kind years before. He makes peace with it by saving an eagle from drowning, after which his hunting luck returns.
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* CallForward: While saying farewells to Torak in ''Spirit Walker'', Bale says that he might visit the Forest after all one day; since Wolf has traveled in a boat, why couldn't a Seal visit the Forest? This eventually happens in ''Outcast''.
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* CostumePorn: At least once per book there's an incredibly detailed description of a character's clothing, so the author can [[ShownTheirWork show her research]].
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* PunishedForSympathy: [[{{Outlaw}} Outcasts]] are to be killed on sight, and the same applies to anyone who helps them. Of course, this doesn't prevent [[spoiler:Renn from helping Torak when he's cast out]].
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* YourSoulIsMine: Aside from all the SoulEating Eostra does, she also binds the souls of all the other Soul Eaters to do her bidding.
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* HornedHumanoid: The World Spirit takes the form of a tall man with deer antlers in the summer (possibly based on the Celtic god [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernunnos Cernunnos]]).
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* OrphansPlotTrinket: Torak's dad gives him his knife before he dies. Which is kind of two trinkets in one, because it also [[spoiler:contains a chunk of fire opal]].
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** His mother's medicine horn, which holds sacred red ochre used in magecraft and death rites, and is all he has to remember her by. [[spoiler:In ''Oath Breaker'', we find out that she carved it out of an antler tine from the [[PhysicalGod World Spirit]].]]
** Torak's dad gives him his knife before he dies. Which is kind of two trinkets in one, because it also [[spoiler:contains a chunk of fire opal]].
** His mother's medicine horn, which holds sacred red ochre used in magecraft and death rites, and is all he has to remember her by. [[spoiler:In ''Oath Breaker'', we find out that she carved it out of an antler tine from the [[PhysicalGod World Spirit]].]]
** Torak's dad gives him his knife before he dies. Which is kind of two trinkets in one, because it also [[spoiler:contains a chunk of fire opal]].
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* PhysicalGod: The World Spirit, though the Clans' religion doesn't exactly involve worship, being more animist in nature.
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* FacialMarkings: All people of the Clans have a clan-tattoo, usually on their face, to signify their clan. Torak has two lines of dots on each cheek (the Wolf Clan symbol), with a scar running through one dot. [[spoiler:The scar becomes important when it's revealed in the fourth book that he's [[TheStateless Clanless]], not a member of the Wolf Clan as he'd previously believed. He's also given a MarkOfShame on his forehead in that book, when he's formally made an Outcast.]] Renn has three parallel bars on each cheek (the Raven Clan symbol), and gets a special marking when she starts menstruating. Dark is one of the only characters to not have a tattoo, since he was abandoned as a child before he was old enough to get his.
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* FacialMarkings: All people of the Clans have a clan-tattoo, usually on their face, to signify their clan. Torak has two lines of dots on each cheek (the Wolf Clan symbol), with a scar running through one dot. [[spoiler:The scar becomes important when it's revealed in the fourth book that he's [[TheStateless Clanless]], not a member of the Wolf Clan as he'd previously believed. He's also given a MarkOfShame on his forehead in that book, when he's formally made an Outcast.outcast.]] Renn has three parallel bars on each cheek (the Raven Clan symbol), and gets a special marking when she starts menstruating. Dark is one of the only characters to not have a tattoo, tattoo (at least until ''Skin Taker''), since he was abandoned as a child before he was old enough to get his.
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* BrutishBulls: The most powerful demon of the Otherworld is called the Great Auroch. When the World Spirit threw him from the sky after a terrible battle, a small part of his evil settled on every living creature. He escapes into the night sky every autumn and grows in power during the winter. When he's at his most powerful, the red star that's his eye is at its highest, and the demons are at the top of their power by that time. The fire opal itself is stated to be light from the Great Auroch's eye.
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Even if Stone Age-set adventures aren't your cup of tea, these are worth reading for the worldbuilding. Ms Paver has done a ''lot'' of research into the world she writes about. She has also written a series set in the same time period but in archaic Greece, called ''Literature/GodsAndWarriors''.
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Even if Stone Age-set adventures aren't your cup of tea, these are worth reading for the worldbuilding. Ms Paver has done a ''lot'' of research into the world she writes about. She has also written a similar series set in the same time period but in archaic Bronze Age Greece, called ''Literature/GodsAndWarriors''.
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* SoulEating:
** The Soul Eaters have this reputation, but it's mostly to scare the masses. Only Eostra is capable of snaring souls and eating them. In ''Ghost Hunter'', her EvilPlan is to take Torak's spirit walker power by eating his world-soul (for that's where his power lies) and spit out his name-soul and clan-soul, making him a Lost One.
--->'''Krukoslik''': They say she walks with a three-pronged spear for snaring souls. They say that if you hear her cry, you're lost. That cry rips the souls from your marrow. With her spear she snares them. She ''devours'' them. Eostra truly is an eater of souls.
** [[spoiler:The BigBad of the last three books, Naiginn, desires to feast on the souls of the living like all demons do. However, since he's bound by Seshru's charm, he has to settle for the shreds of souls clinging to the eyes, tongues and brains of dead creatures. By the time of ''Skin Taker'', he has found out that by [[BrainFood eating the brains]] of still living creatures, he can feast on souls and weaken the charm.]]
** The Soul Eaters have this reputation, but it's mostly to scare the masses. Only Eostra is capable of snaring souls and eating them. In ''Ghost Hunter'', her EvilPlan is to take Torak's spirit walker power by eating his world-soul (for that's where his power lies) and spit out his name-soul and clan-soul, making him a Lost One.
--->'''Krukoslik''': They say she walks with a three-pronged spear for snaring souls. They say that if you hear her cry, you're lost. That cry rips the souls from your marrow. With her spear she snares them. She ''devours'' them. Eostra truly is an eater of souls.
** [[spoiler:The BigBad of the last three books, Naiginn, desires to feast on the souls of the living like all demons do. However, since he's bound by Seshru's charm, he has to settle for the shreds of souls clinging to the eyes, tongues and brains of dead creatures. By the time of ''Skin Taker'', he has found out that by [[BrainFood eating the brains]] of still living creatures, he can feast on souls and weaken the charm.]]
