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* CorporateDragon: Despite the fact that Dragons in ''The Invisible Library'' are based mainly on Eastern dragon tropes, in ''The Masked City'', Irene meets the King of the Northern Ocean in a cyberpunkish dimension where he and his court take the form of the CEO and executives of a {{Megacorp}}.
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* CorporateDragon: Despite the fact that Dragons in ''The Invisible Library'' are based mainly on Eastern dragon tropes, in ''The Masked City'', Irene meets the King of the Northern Ocean in a cyberpunkish dimension where he and his court take the form of the CEO and executives of a {{Megacorp}}.
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* CantArgueWithElves: Dragons have many advantages over humans (most notably their [[TheAgeless longevity]] and their ability to [[{{Weredragon}} shift between human and draconic form]]), but they act as if every aspect of dragon society is superior to all others and sincerely believe that humans should worship the ground they walk upon.
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* GenreSavvy: Irene knows how chaos-infested worlds change themselves to fit stories and actively tries to keep herself in a heroic role.
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* GenreSavvy: Irene knows how chaos-infested worlds [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality change themselves to fit stories stories]] and actively tries to keep herself in a heroic role.
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* MagicallyBindingContract: Speaking a vow in the Language binds its speaker to the letter of their spoken word. Similarly, a Fae's given word is also binding.
* {{Magitek}}: The alternate world Irene spends most of her time in has zeppelins powered by magic and aether lamps.
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* {{Magitek}}: The alternate world Irene spends most of her time in has zeppelins powered by magic and aether lamps.
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* MagicallyBindingContract: Speaking a vow HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Whenever Kai and Irene are in the Language binds its speaker to the letter of an area where they might be overheard by their spoken word. Similarly, opponents, they pick a Fae's given word is also binding.
* {{Magitek}}: The alternate world Irene spends most of her time in has zeppelins powered by magic and aether lamps.
language to hide their conversation behind.
* IGaveMyWord: Justified. The Fae have their typical compulsion to fulfill their given word, and Librarians can bind their spoken words to reality with the Language. Characters who make this sort of vow to non-Librarians and/or non-Fae occasionally need to remind these people of that fact.
* {{Magitek}}: The alternate world Irene spends most of her time in has zeppelins powered by magic and aether lamps.
* IGaveMyWord: Justified. The Fae have their typical compulsion to fulfill their given word, and Librarians can bind their spoken words to reality with the Language. Characters who make this sort of vow to non-Librarians and/or non-Fae occasionally need to remind these people of that fact.
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* MagicallyBindingContract: Speaking a vow in the Language binds its speaker to the letter of their spoken word. Similarly, a Fae's given word [[IGaveMyWord is also binding]].
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* {{Magitek}}: The alternate world Irene spends most of her time in has zeppelins powered by magic and aether lamps.
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* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: Conversed. Irene muses at one point that while she may not have any fellow Librarians who want her dead, there might be a couple who wouldn't rush to save her when her life is in danger.
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* PunyEarthlings: Fae view humans as little more than set dressing, while dragons simply see humans as inferior beings. Even Librarians tend to look down on normal humans, though in fairness their connection to the Library does give them special powers.
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* SupernaturalSensitivity: Beings of order and chaos can sense their opposite force. Dragons with [[ElementalPowers elemental powers]] can also sense the presence of their element.
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* BackgroundMagicField: The forces of order and chaos, while embodied by dragons and Fae respectively, are also raw forces of power that calcify and corrupt every world and every object they touch. The most orderly and chaotic worlds are dangerous even for their native residents.
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* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: [[spoiler:The Three Founders of the Library.]]
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* MagicalLibrary / GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The Library itself is this. The Librarians collect books from alternate universes to increase its knowledge.
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* MagicalLibrary / GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: MagicalLibrary: The nature of the Library itself is this. The Librarians collect books from such that every book added to its collection strengthens its connections to TheMultiverse and [[MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality stabilizes the alternate universes to increase its knowledge.worlds within]].
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* ThePowerOfLanguage: As might be expected of a series where Librarians alter reality with [[LanguageOfMagic the spoken word]], but the series also frequently touches upon the power of saying certain things, thoughts, and feelings out loud. Sometimes no words are needed, but other times, expressing a thought in words gives it far more power than letting it go unspoken.
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* ''The Untold Story'' (2021)
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* ''The Untold Story'' ''Literature/TheUntoldStory'' (2021)
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* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: Zig-zagged. While the Library does ''not'' have the sum total of all human knowledge, it ''does'' include unique stories from all across TheMultiverse (and language books to teach the languages needed to read them).
