History Literature / TheElenium

* DyingReconcilliation: Toward the end of ''The Sapphire Rose,'' the third part of the trilogy, protagonist Sparhawk and his childhood friend-turned-nemesis Martel have a fatal swordfight. As Martel lies dying, he makes peace with Sparhawk and also their teacher, Sephrenia. Knowing that they've both forgiven him for his evils, he tells them that he's glad to be receiving something almost like a formal deathbed, because "I get to die in the presence of the only two people I've ever really loved."

* KarmaHoudini: Arguably, Martel. Sure he dies, but it's a quick death after a fair fight, with the two people he cares about most by his side. In his own words, it's almost as good as a formal deathbed. And this after bringing untold suffering out of pure spite and greed. None of his victims died so well.
** Subverted with Krager. He gets away scot-free after helping the bad guys in the ''Elenium'' and he gets away scot-free after helping the bad guys in the ''Tamuli''. Once characters start complaining about that at the end of the ''Tamuli'', it is revealed that what he did ''not'' get away scot-free from was [[spoiler: drinking a lot of alcohol over the years. He's probably less than a year from death at the end of ''The Hidden City'', and the only reason he's not really suffering is that he's so delirious he wouldn't even notice someone stabbing him to death]].
*** Khalad resolves to do it anyway, not out of revenge, but because ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure.
** [[spoiler:Sabre]] appears to make it through the end of the series alive (we last see him cowering under the furniture while [[spoiler:the Delphae kill Scarpa]]). Appropriate, since he is more of a ButtMonkey than actually evil.
*** Of course, given the number of powerful, violent people who are very, ''very'' angry with him, he may not have escaped for long.

* ''The Diamond Throne''
* ''The Ruby Knight''
* ''The Sapphire Rose''

* ''Domes of Fire''
* ''The Shining Ones''
* ''The Hidden City''

* ArtifactAlias: The Styric foundling Flute is known by the end of the second novel to be [[spoiler:the Child-Goddess Aphrael]], but she's still commonly called Flute.

%%* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: How Zalasta treats his bastard son Scarpa.]]

* LamarckWasRight: Despite being a generation younger than his father, Khalad can do everything Kurik can do and immediately fills the squire role upon arrival. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because Khalad's family have [[LegacyOfService always been squires for the various generations of Sparhawks]] and he's just following the tradition. In fairness, Eddings does give Khalad his own personality, but there really is a lot of Kurik there.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: How Zalasta treats his bastard son Scarpa.]]

* WithOurSwordsScene: In ''The Sapphire Rose'', an injured Bevier passes his [[BladeOnAStick Lochaber Axe]] to Berit when he's about to go with the main group into Azash's lair. [[spoiler:Berit uses said axe in the climax to break Azash's concentration during his battle against Sparhawk and the Bhelliom.]]