History Literature / TheClericQuintet

* AntiVillain: Dorigen. Aballister has shades of this, as well. Also [[spoiler:Rufo]]

* ''Books in the series:''
** ''Canticle'' (1991)
** ''In Sylvan Shadows'' (1992)
** ''Night Masks'' (1992)
** ''The Fallen Fortress'' (1993)
** ''The Chaos Curse'' (1994)

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Ghastly wounds pop up a lot more often after Cadderly learns to heal people. It goes UpToEleven when the group gets the Ring of Regeneration.

** Heroes:
*** TheHero: Cadderly
*** TheLancer: Danica
*** TheBigGuy: Ivan, who eventually shares the role with literal Big Guy [[spoiler:Vander]]
*** TheSmartGuy: Newander, then Shayleigh
*** TheChick: Pikel
** The FiveManBand changes significantly in the fifth book, becoming:
*** TheHero: Cadderly
*** TheLancer: Ivan
*** TheBigGuy: Pikel, after becoming a full fledged [[spoiler:druid]].
*** TheSmartGuy: Vicero Belago
*** TheChick: [[spoiler:Danica, but mostly because she's so badly injured.]]
** Villains:
*** TheBigBad: Aballister, the power-hungry wizard.
*** TheDragon: Barjin, the evil priest and opposite of Cadderly.
*** TheEvilGenius: Druzil, who is behind every evil plot.
*** TheBrute: Ragnor, half-breed orc
*** TheDarkChick: Dorigen, wizard and sometime paramour of Aballister. The complete opposite of Danica.

* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather]]: [[spoiler:Aballister Bonaduce]].

* FiveBadBand
** TheBigBad: Aballister, the power-hungry wizard.
** TheDragon: Barjin, the evil priest and opposite of Cadderly.
** TheEvilGenius: Druzil, who is behind every evil plot.
** TheBrute: Ragnor, half-breed orc
** TheDarkChick: Dorigen, wizard and sometime paramour of Aballister. The complete opposite of Danica.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Cadderly
** TheLancer: Danica
** TheBigGuy: Ivan, who eventually shares the role with literal Big Guy [[spoiler:Vander]]
** TheSmartGuy: Newander, then Shayleigh
** TheChick: Pikel
** The FiveManBand changes significantly in the fifth book, becoming:

''The Cleric Quintet'' is a series of novels by R.A. Salvatore as a spin-off to ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'' in the ''ForgottenRealms'', following the growth of Cadderly Bonaduce from childish young scribe to [[TheChosenOne Chosen of Deneir]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Cadderly's decision at the end [[spoiler: to work himself into an early grave invoking Deneir's power to magically build a cathedral]] is hinted at all along, though subtly. [[spoiler: He shows his idea for a flying buttress to the dwarf brothers in book one, is told he'll die young by Elbereth in book two, and is warned that exceeding one's magical limits can exhaust a spell-caster's life force in book three. Granted, Elbereth was talking about how ''humans'' die young by elf standards, and Belisarius was talking about ''wizard'' magic.]]

* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Headmaster Avery and Headmistress Penelope]]

* CulturalRebel: Pikal, a dwarf obsessed with becoming a druid. This was culturally unthinkable for a dwarf in-Verse, and ''impossible'' under the D&D game rules at the time of publication.

* DeanBitterman: Dean Thobicus is an extremely non-comedic example.

* DeusExitMachina: By the end of the fourth book, Cadderly and his companions have defeated the BigBad, an extremely powerful wizard, his subordinates and his army. At full strength, ee and his friends would have crush [[spoiler: Rufo]] and his half turned subordinates. So naturally [[spoiler: Vander leaves to go home, Druzil corrupts the Library (limiting Cadderly's cleric powers) and Cadderly splits the party to arrive a few days after each other.]]

* TheObiWan: Avery has shades of this, but the true example is [[spoiler:Pertelope]] who comes right out of left field to explain that she is the only one who's experienced what Cadderly is going through.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Ivan and Pikel are the AbbottAndCostello of the series. They are also the most dangerous fighters besides Danica. On the villains' side, Druzil is rather hard to take seriously, though he is behind everything bad that happens in the series.

* VampireInvitation: Thobicus allows [[spoiler: Rufo]] into the Library to override Cadderly's mark right at the time he starts dying (and thus when he is starting to transform into a vampire). This gives him free reign over the library.

* VampiricInvitation: Thobicus allows [[spoiler: Rufo]] into the Library to override Cadderly's mark right at the time he starts dying (and thus when he is starting to transform into a vampire). This gives him free reign over the library.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Cadderly does a lot of things over the course of the novels that would normally be considered evil acts (threatening to torture people, actually torturing people, permanently crippling people who'd surrendered to him) and suffers precisely zero repercussions for any of them.

* UnfortunateImplications: After Dorigen surrenders to Cadderly, he breaks all her fingers and deliberately heals them improperly in order to prevent her from casting spells. She then goes on to perform a HeroicSacrifice, with her last thoughts being about how she loves him and wants him to be happy.

* OurElvesAreBetter: Played straight and subverted in the second book. The elves, especially Elbereth, certainly think they're this. Elves throughout the series are always incredible warriors or wizards, but it takes a party of humans and dwarves to prevent the destruction of [[spoiler: Shilmista, the elven homeland]]. Even more so, it takes the open-mindedness of a human to convince the elves that the trees can be animated for defense.