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* {{Asexual}}: Chandra is not interested in a relationship and has never been attracted to anyone. She is wholly devoted to the country her father will leave her and her studies in magic as a powerful Wizard of the Nine.
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* CunningLinguist: Aaron. For all that he has less formal education than his companions, he is far more well-traveled than they are and speaks far more languages--and while Chandra is quite intelligent, her knowledge is heavily focused on magic only, while Aaron is the one who conceives most of their plans.
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* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: The feature characters of the series are two bisexual men, Aaron and Darvish, who begin a romantic relationship, and an aromantic asexual girl, Chandra.
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* WanderingCulture: Chandra, Darvish, and Aaron run into the Shoi people who assist them on their quest, who are a culture of wanderers that Aaron has met before in his own homeland. They are noted for perhaps having magic and being a race of wizards, but Aaron knows better.
--> '''Chandra:''' Does Shoi mean anything?
--> '''Aaron:''' It means People. Others, non-Shoi, call them Wanderers.
--> '''Chandra:''' What do they do?
--> '''Aaron:''' They wander.
--> '''Chandra:''' Does Shoi mean anything?
--> '''Aaron:''' It means People. Others, non-Shoi, call them Wanderers.
--> '''Chandra:''' What do they do?
--> '''Aaron:''' They wander.
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* CantLiveWithoutYou: To ensure Aaron doesn't run off or otherwise kill Darvish, his soul is linked to the prince's so not only will they die together, but they can't even get very far from each other.
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* SharedLifeEnergy: Thanks to his {{Synchronization}} with Aaron, Darvish survives a brutal detox from alcohol by leaning on Aaron's life force and draining him near to the point of coma himself.
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* EagerRookie: Chandra starts out like this. She is several years younger than both Aaron and Darvish, and comparably sheltered. While she wants to join their assigned adventure to retrieve the stone and test out her magic, they are less convinced and would rather leave her behind--and they do try.
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* FireForgedFriends: Chandra, Darvish, and Aaron bond and grow closer to each other after having to overcome obstacles and enemies together.
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* ChildSoldier: Aaron killed his first man, someone from a warring tribe of his own, at age ''eleven''.
* CryIntoChest: Both times Aaron cries in the book, he buries his face into Darvish's shoulder.
* EmotionallyTongueTied: Aaron is perpetually incapable of putting how he feels into words.
* ExcessiveMourning: Aaron, for his lost Ruth. He's so traumatized he becomes an empty shell of a person hoping to die as well.
* {{Golem}}: Chandra creates a golem to take her place at home when she sneaks off to Ischia and beyond to convince Darvish not to marry her.
* KissingCousins: Aaron's first love, Ruth, was his cousin.
* {{Mangst}}: Aaron is full of silent angst that he only talks about after Chandra and Darvish managed to tear down his emotional walls.
* ManlyTears: Despite being TheStoic, Aaron bursts into tears ''twice'' in the book, when recalling his traumatic memories of Ruth, and when he managed to convince himself Darvish loved him back only to discover he'd decided to marry Chandra after all.
* ManlyTears: Despite being TheStoic, Aaron bursts into tears ''twice'' in the book, when recalling his traumatic memories of Ruth, and when he managed to convince himself Darvish loved him back only to discover he'd decided to marry Chandra after all.
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* TwinsAreSpecial: TwinsAreSpecial:
** Ischia and the surrounding countries believe twinsonly have half share a soul each.between them.
** The Shoi believe twins are a blessing.
** Ischia and the surrounding countries believe twins
** The Shoi believe twins are a blessing.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Gender-inverted for Aaron, who rejects Darvish harshly when Darvish first eyes him as a potential lover and remains cold and stoic until he slowly manages to connect with him.
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Aaron has copper-colored hair, a rarity in Ischia since he's a foreigner from the North, which is noted on several occasions, and Darvish certainly wants him.
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* SecondLove: Aaron's first love was his cousin, Ruth, and after the tragic ending, he kept himself closed off until he could not help himself falling for Darvish.
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* TheHedonist: Darvish. As the third prince of the family, he is neither the heir, nor the spare, but he is smart, talented, and very, ''very'' popular with the citizenry, so he was encouraged to waste himself on alcohol and sex so he would seem like a RichIdiotWithNoDayjob and merely a fun MillionarePlayboy to avoid a SuccessionCrisis.
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* TheHedonist: Darvish. As the third prince of the family, he is neither the heir, nor the spare, but he is smart, talented, and very, ''very'' popular with the citizenry, so he was encouraged to waste himself on alcohol and sex so he would seem like a RichIdiotWithNoDayjob and merely a fun MillionarePlayboy MillionairePlayboy to avoid a SuccessionCrisis.
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* MillionarePlayboy: Darvish, thanks to his family's royal wealth and his hedonistic ways. He [[TheCasanova sleeps around without care or concern]], at least before his CharacterDevelopment.
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* MillionarePlayboy: MillionairePlayboy: Darvish, thanks to his family's royal wealth and his hedonistic ways. He [[TheCasanova sleeps around without care or concern]], at least before his CharacterDevelopment.
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* TheHedonist: Darvish. As the third prince of the family, he is neither the heir, nor the spare, but he is smart, talented, and very, ''very'' popular with the citizenry, so he was encouraged to waste himself on alcohol and sex so he would seem like a RichIdiotWithNoDayjob and merely a fun MillionarePlayboy to avoid a SuccessionCrisis.
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* IneffectualLoner: Aaron has no real emotional connections at the beginning of the book, but he succeeds and gains a new lease on life by letting Chandra and Darvish in.
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* MillionarePlayboy: Darvish, thanks to his family's royal wealth and his hedonistic ways. He [[TheCasanova sleeps around without care or concern]], at least before his CharacterDevelopment.
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* TheStoic: Aaron is very difficult to get a reaction out of, as he's kept his emotions locked up tight behind several walls. However, the walls get broken down progressively throughout the book as part of his CharacterDevelopment, leading him to NotSoStoic land.
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* ClimacticVolcanoBackdrop: Justified, since the bulk of the plot is about preventing a volcano from erupting and destroying an entire country. The climax of the book takes place at the volcano and trying to return the Stone just in time.
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* GoingColdTurkey: Darvish is forcibly cut off from his alcohol after a shipwreck and spends the next few days in terrible withdrawal and nearly dies from it.
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* GoingColdTurkey: Darvish is forcibly cut off from his alcohol after a shipwreck and spends the next few days in terrible withdrawal and nearly dies from it.
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* AThreesomeIsHot: Darvish as ''more than one threesome'' in the series, in any gender configuration
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* AThreesomeIsHot: Darvish as has ''more than one threesome'' in the series, in any gender configurationalthough they're always off-page.
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* MagicIsMental: Chandra talks constantly about not having time for relationships because she needs to devote all of her concentration to the art of magic.
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* GoingColdTurkey: Darvish is forcibly cut off from his alcohol after a shipwreck and spends the next few days in terrible withdrawal and nearly dies from it.
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* OffTheWagon: After Darvish begins his recovery process, he ''does'' slip up and drink alcohol, followed by a long self-loathing speech where he begs Chandra and Aaron to insult him for it.
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Herrek, a man in Ischia who "helps" Aaron break into the palace, has collected so many treasures as trades for information and equipment that he has trapped himself within his own hoard. He also collects information.
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* EvilChancellor: At the end, it's revealed that the lord chancellor [[spoiler:was responsible not only for encouraging Darvish to alcoholism and hedonism to dent his popularity among the populace, but for the theft of the Stone as well.]]
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* AfterActionPatchup: Aaron nearly dies and seriously wounds himself getting the Fire's Stone back into position in the climax of the book and wakes up in Darvish's bed covered in bandages and unable to move.
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* AfterActionPatchup: Aaron nearly dies and seriously wounds himself getting the Fire's Stone back into position in the climax of the book and wakes up in Darvish's bed covered in bandages and unable to move. Darvish has a fair number of bandages of his own, but he's at least mobile.
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* ConsummationCounterfeit: Invoked. Chandra suggests they'll just kill a chicken to stain the sheets to prove that she and Darvish consummated their marriage.
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* InSeriesNickname: Chandra and Aaron both call Darvish "Dar."
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* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Chandra has done most of her studying on her own, and the BigBad tempts her with the knowledge he can share with her to increase her natural abilities.
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* Fingore: Darvish loses part of a finger thanks to a teleportation spell during the final battle.
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* ArtifactOfDeath: Touching the Fire's Stone, with the intense magic concentrated within, brings swift and painful death to anyone foolish enough.
* CreepyTwins: Darvish's younger twin siblings are considered "cursed" with only half a soul as they were born twins, and they are both servants of the Fourth, and are inclined to favor torture.
* DeathSeeker: Aaron spends a significant portion of the book insisting he's already dead inside and simply waiting for the failure that will finally get him killed for real. It's why he tries to commit an ImpossibleTheft at the opening.
* DeathSeeker: Aaron spends a significant portion of the book insisting he's already dead inside and simply waiting for the failure that will finally get him killed for real. It's why he tries to commit an ImpossibleTheft at the opening.
* ShipperOnDeck: Chandra is very well aware of Darvish and Aaron's romantic feelings for each other long before either of them are aware of even their own, and rather wishes they'd simply confess already. She even says at the end of the book she'd never have considered taking Darvish without Aaron.
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* TriangRelations: The book ends with Chandra and Darvish agreeing to a platonic married while Aaron and Darvish engage in a romantic relationship, and all three of them living together.
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* TriangRelations: The book ends with Chandra and Darvish agreeing to a platonic married marriage while Aaron and Darvish engage in a romantic relationship, and all three of them living together.together.
* TwinsAreSpecial: Ischia and the surrounding countries believe twins only have half a soul each.
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* BenevolentMageRuler: Chandra is the heir to her father's throne, but just as devoted to her studies of magic as she is to ensuring her country is safe. She refuses to lose either of these things.
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* DefiniteArticleTitle: ''The'' Fire's Stone. Presumably, there's only one, as no other volcano on a heavily populated island is mentioned, and if they could simply find another, the plot of the book wouldn't happen at all.
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* DefiniteArticleTitle: ''The'' Fire's Stone. Presumably, there's only one, as no other volcano on a heavily populated island is mentioned, and if they could simply find another, the plot of the book wouldn't happen at all.
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* WeddingFinale: While the wedding isn't shown on page, Aaron winds up talking to his fallen friend in the mausoleum with a ribbon from Chandra's wedding dress with threads representing her, Darvish, and Aaron, to place on the urn.
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* ConsummationCounterfeit: Invoked. Chandra suggests they'll just kill a chicken to stain the sheets to prove that she and Darvish consummated their marriage.
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Foreign thief Aaron attempts to steal the crown jewel in order to honor a dead friend and fails in the attempt. Out of curiosity and on a whim, Darvish saves him from torture at the hands of his younger twin brothers, and declares Aaron his "pet." Then, Chandra, Darvish's betrothed, shows up, hoping to get ''out'' of this marriage arrangement.
While these three are all meeting each other, the stone keeping the volcano on Darvish's island country in check. Without it, it could erupt in mere days, destroying the entire country.
And so Darvish, the charismatic prince who is drowned in alcoholism and hedonism to keep him from being a threat to his older brothers, is assigned to retrieve it. Aaron is bound to his soul to keep him from escaping and set to join him on the trip.
And then Chandra sneaks along, hoping to learn more about magic.
While these three are all meeting each other, the stone keeping the volcano on Darvish's island country in check. Without it, it could erupt in mere days, destroying the entire country.
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''The Fire's Stone'' is a standalone fantasy novel by Creator/TanyaHuff published in 1990.
Foreign thief Aaron attempts to steal the crown jewel in order to honor a dead friend and fails in the attempt. Out of curiosity and on a whim, Darvish saves him from torture at the hands of his younger twin brothers, and declares Aaron his "pet." Then, Chandra, Darvish's betrothed, shows up, hoping to get ''out'' of this marriage arrangement.
While these three are all meeting each other, the stone keeping the volcano on Darvish's island country in check. Without it, it could erupt in mere days, destroying the entire country.
And so Darvish, the charismatic prince who is drowned in alcoholism and hedonism to keep him from being a threat to his older brothers, is assigned to retrieve it. Aaron is bound to his soul to keep him from escaping and set to join him on the trip.
And then Chandra sneaks along, hoping to learn more about magic.
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!! ''The Fire's Stone'' contains examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Darvish. He undergoes an ''incredibly'' rough detox midway through the book that nearly kills both him and Aaron.
* AltarDiplomacy: Chandra and Darvish's marriage is arranged to ally their two countries and conveniently spirit Darvish away from his loving populace at home.
* ArmouredClosetGay: Or bisexual, in Aaron's case. He is very much attracted to both men and women, but getting him to admit to his attraction to men, particularly Darvish, after the trauma his father's religion inflicted on him, takes just about the entire book.
* ArrangedMarriage: How Darvish and Chandra's engagement came out. Neither are particularly interested in going through with it.
*{{Asexual}}: Chandra is not interested in a relationship and has never been attracted to anyone. She is wholly devoted to the country her father will leave her and her studies in magic as a powerful Wizard of the Nine.
* FantasyPantheon: Darvish and Chandra follow a religion with ten gods, each referred to by numbers and each with their own domain.
* ImpossibleTheft:
** Aaron tried to steal the crown scepter, which was notoriously impossible, but failed.
** However, the stealing of the Stone in the volcano? Should've easily been impossible.
* TheLostLenore: Aaron's cousin, Ruth, who was engaged to another man and killed for her affair with Aaron by Aaron's own father, the chief of their clan. He's still ''deeply'' traumatized by this.
* MacGuffinTitle: The "fire's stone" is the stone the heroes are tasked with retrieving to save Darvish's country.
* MasterSwordsman: Darvish is wickedly talented with a blade, but his alcoholism interferes with it. Keeping himself occupied with it actually helps him stay sober.
* MineralMacGuffin: The Fire's ''Stone''.
* OhMyGods: While Aaron is from an area with a monotheistic religion, Darvish and Chandra both follow ten numbered gods and swear by them. They also have skills and magic associated with each god--Chandra is a Wizard of the Ninth.
* TheQuest: Darvish, Chandra, and Aaron seeking the Fire's Stone to return it to its rightful place and save the country (and improve their reputations to boot).
* RecruitingTheCriminal: Aaron the thief is recruited to help Darvish on his mission as he's conveniently being kept by Darvish as a pet anyway after Darvish rescued him from prison torture.
* {{Synchronization}}: Aaron and Darvish are linked together by their souls and any injury to one affects the other. They also can't get very far from each other, and this spell is undone later.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Chandra has done most of her studying on her own, and the BigBad tempts her with the knowledge he can share with her to increase her natural abilities.
* TriangRelations: The book ends with Chandra and Darvish agreeing to a platonic married while Aaron and Darvish engage in a romantic relationship, and all three of them living together.
''The Fire's Stone'' is a standalone fantasy novel by Creator/TanyaHuff published in 1990.
Foreign thief Aaron attempts to steal the crown jewel in order to honor a dead friend and fails in the attempt. Out of curiosity and on a whim, Darvish saves him from torture at the hands of his younger twin brothers, and declares Aaron his "pet." Then, Chandra, Darvish's betrothed, shows up, hoping to get ''out'' of this marriage arrangement.
While these three are all meeting each other, the stone keeping the volcano on Darvish's island country in check. Without it, it could erupt in mere days, destroying the entire country.
And so Darvish, the charismatic prince who is drowned in alcoholism and hedonism to keep him from being a threat to his older brothers, is assigned to retrieve it. Aaron is bound to his soul to keep him from escaping and set to join him on the trip.
And then Chandra sneaks along, hoping to learn more about magic.
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!! ''The Fire's Stone'' contains examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Darvish. He undergoes an ''incredibly'' rough detox midway through the book that nearly kills both him and Aaron.
* AltarDiplomacy: Chandra and Darvish's marriage is arranged to ally their two countries and conveniently spirit Darvish away from his loving populace at home.
* ArmouredClosetGay: Or bisexual, in Aaron's case. He is very much attracted to both men and women, but getting him to admit to his attraction to men, particularly Darvish, after the trauma his father's religion inflicted on him, takes just about the entire book.
* ArrangedMarriage: How Darvish and Chandra's engagement came out. Neither are particularly interested in going through with it.
*{{Asexual}}: Chandra is not interested in a relationship and has never been attracted to anyone. She is wholly devoted to the country her father will leave her and her studies in magic as a powerful Wizard of the Nine.
* FantasyPantheon: Darvish and Chandra follow a religion with ten gods, each referred to by numbers and each with their own domain.
* ImpossibleTheft:
** Aaron tried to steal the crown scepter, which was notoriously impossible, but failed.
** However, the stealing of the Stone in the volcano? Should've easily been impossible.
* TheLostLenore: Aaron's cousin, Ruth, who was engaged to another man and killed for her affair with Aaron by Aaron's own father, the chief of their clan. He's still ''deeply'' traumatized by this.
* MacGuffinTitle: The "fire's stone" is the stone the heroes are tasked with retrieving to save Darvish's country.
* MasterSwordsman: Darvish is wickedly talented with a blade, but his alcoholism interferes with it. Keeping himself occupied with it actually helps him stay sober.
* MineralMacGuffin: The Fire's ''Stone''.
* OhMyGods: While Aaron is from an area with a monotheistic religion, Darvish and Chandra both follow ten numbered gods and swear by them. They also have skills and magic associated with each god--Chandra is a Wizard of the Ninth.
* TheQuest: Darvish, Chandra, and Aaron seeking the Fire's Stone to return it to its rightful place and save the country (and improve their reputations to boot).
* RecruitingTheCriminal: Aaron the thief is recruited to help Darvish on his mission as he's conveniently being kept by Darvish as a pet anyway after Darvish rescued him from prison torture.
* {{Synchronization}}: Aaron and Darvish are linked together by their souls and any injury to one affects the other. They also can't get very far from each other, and this spell is undone later.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Chandra has done most of her studying on her own, and the BigBad tempts her with the knowledge he can share with her to increase her natural abilities.
* TriangRelations: The book ends with Chandra and Darvish agreeing to a platonic married while Aaron and Darvish engage in a romantic relationship, and all three of them living together.
