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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Chandra is a religious fundamentalist who thinks his ethnic group is naturally superior, wasting no time in having his non-Parijani advisors fired or executed. He also has a distaste for the "impurity of women", having several "promiscuous" women burned to death upon his ascension. His treatment of "pure" women is not much better, as he orders his sister and her companions ritually sacrificed, and exiles and imprisons her when she refuses.
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* CainAndAbel: Chandra has a fixation on "purifying" his sister Malini and his method of doing so is by trying to force her to burn herself alive and when she refuses he has her exiled and drugged into a stupor until she either the drugs kill her or she volunteers for the fire.
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* CainAndAbel: Chandra has a fixation on "purifying" his sister Malini and his method of doing so is by trying to force her to burn herself alive and when she refuses he has her exiled and drugged into a stupor until she either the drugs kill her or she volunteers for the fire.
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* CainAndAbel: Technically the situation between Malini and Chandra from the beginning of the novel, but she's left in a state where it's difficult for her to face him. Then it becomes a bit...messier.
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* CainAndAbel: Technically the situation between Chandra has a fixation on "purifying" his sister Malini and Chandra from the beginning his method of the novel, but she's left in a state where it's difficult for doing so is by trying to force her to face him. Then it becomes burn herself alive and when she refuses he has her exiled and drugged into a bit...messier.stupor until she either the drugs kill her or she volunteers for the fire.
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* TempleOfDoom: The first book centers around a temple that's known to be cursed by the populace, and in which many people were massacred. It's left abandoned til the beginning of the first book, when Malini is imprisoned there. It's very difficult to climb and still retains its mysterious power. However, once Priya regains her connection to the temple, it becomes a lot more friendly (to her, that is).
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* TempleOfDoom: The first book centers around a temple that's known to be cursed by the populace, and in which many people were massacred. It's left abandoned til till the beginning of the first book, when Malini is imprisoned there. It's very difficult to climb and still retains its mysterious power. However, once Priya regains her connection to the temple, it becomes a lot more friendly (to her, that is).
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Priya is barefoot throughout the story, partly due to social rank, but also because physical contact with the earth helps channel her powers.
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* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: Many of the Ahiranyi want freedom from their Parijati rulers, and an independent Ahiranya again. Some have become rebels, with sympathizers advocating it too.
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* TheFundamentalist: Chandra. ''The Oleander Sword'' delves more into how he became this.
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* TheExile: Malini was exiled to Ahiranya after refusing her brother's [[OrderedToDie order that she kill herself]] in a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]].
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* PublicExecution: General Vikram has Ahirani rebels and their supporters crushed by elephants or burned alive publicly while he watches.
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* QueerEstablishingMoment: [[spoiler:Priya casually says her preference would be to marry or at least make a home with another woman. This is even before she and Malini get together.]]
* QueerRomance: [[spoiler:The main drive of the story involves the maidservant, Priya, becoming closer to the captive princess, Malini. It later becomes a full-blown romance.]]
* QueerRomance: [[spoiler:The main drive of the story involves the maidservant, Priya, becoming closer to the captive princess, Malini. It later becomes a full-blown romance.]]
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* ManipulativeBastard: Malini is skilled at convincing people to do what she wants, whether through appealing to what she knows they desire or deceiving people by acting significantly more demure and weak than she is. This is one of the reasons Priya finds it hard to trust her once she realizes Malini was manipulating her, as well, and Pramila, Malini's appointed guardian/prison warden, accuses her of being manipulative and dangerous, warning Priya to take caution.
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* TheFundamentalist: Chandra. ''The Oleander Sword'' delves more into how he became this.
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* AssholeVictim: No one is shedding any tears over the death of the condescending, bigoted, imperial lackey [[spoiler: Lord Santosh]].
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* TheGift: Some time before the beginning of the first book, temple children began gaining supernatural gifts beyond what previous generations had if they managed to become twice or even thrice born. This turned out badly for them...[[spoiler:for all except Priya, Bhumika and Ashoka, that is]].
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* TheGift: Some time before the beginning of the first book, temple children began gaining supernatural gifts beyond what previous generations had if they managed to become twice or even thrice born. This turned out badly for them...[[spoiler:for all except Priya, Bhumika and Ashoka, Ashok, that is]].
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Priya is barefoot throughout the story, partly due to social rank, but also because physical contact with the earth helps channel her powers.
* FertileFeet: Due to Priya's powers, plants and flowers grow from the ground that she walks on with every step she takes.
* FertileFeet: Due to Priya's powers, plants and flowers grow from the ground that she walks on with every step she takes.
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Exiled by her despotic brother, princess Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance while imprisoned in the Hirana: an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters but is now little more than a decaying ruin.
The secrets of the Hirana call to Priya. But in order to keep the truth of her past safely hidden, she works as a servant in the loathed regent’s household, biting her tongue and cleaning Malini’s chambers.
But when Malini witnesses Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. One is a ruthless princess seeking to steal a throne. The other a powerful priestess desperate to save her family. Together, they will set an empire ablaze.
The secrets of the Hirana call to Priya. But in order to keep the truth of her past safely hidden, she works as a servant in the loathed regent’s household, biting her tongue and cleaning Malini’s chambers.
But when Malini witnesses Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. One is a ruthless princess seeking to steal a throne. The other a powerful priestess desperate to save her family. Together, they will set an empire ablaze.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Bhumika is a sweet, motherly woman who's just trying to protect all the people under her care. By slaughtering attackers with animated thorns.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Chandra is in a precarious position and badly needs allies to keep his throne, but he's so tone-deaf, bigoted, and sadistic that he's merrily alienating basically everybody left and right--if pushing important and well-connected ministers out to build a "pure" government wasn't enough to make everyone hate him, ''burning beloved noblewomen alive'' sure did the trick. If he was a smidge more careful, building the rebellion against him would be more difficult, but basically all the provinces are just looking for an excuse by the time the book starts.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Aloran royals never use their real names in daily life, because those are intensely personal prophecies. Rao is a nickname, whereas Malini's longtime friend and lady-in-waiting was just called Alori (the equivalent of calling a British girl "English").
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Chandra is a religious fundamentalist who thinks his ethnic group isthe naturally superior, wasting no time in having his non-Parijani advisors fired or executed. He also has a distaste for the "impurity of women", having several promiscuous "promiscuous" women burned to death upon his ascension. His treatment of "pure" women is not much better, as he orders his sister and her companions ritually sacrifices sacrificed, and exiles and imprisons her when she refuses.refuses.
* PregnantBadass: Bhumika may be nearly nine months pregnant, but that doesn't stop her from using all the powers of the twice-born to full effect. She weaponizes the forest itself against her attackers and barely breaks a sweat.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Aloran royals never use their real names in daily life, because those are intensely personal prophecies. Rao is a nickname, whereas Malini's longtime friend and lady-in-waiting was just called Alori (the equivalent of calling a British girl "English").
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Chandra is a religious fundamentalist who thinks his ethnic group is
* PregnantBadass: Bhumika may be nearly nine months pregnant, but that doesn't stop her from using all the powers of the twice-born to full effect. She weaponizes the forest itself against her attackers and barely breaks a sweat.
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* TakeAThirdOption: The options for emperor seem to be either a power-hungry racist who gets off on burning women alive, or a kind but spineless ditherer. Even Malini thinks she has no choice but to back Aditya and hope she can push him around enough that he does a good job. [[spoiler: But she has exactly the same imperial blood in her veins as Aditya and Chandra, and since they're in the business of violent revolution anyway, why not pick an ''empress''?]]
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The first novel revolves around what happens to society after a new king, Chandra, is installed. Suffice to say, widespread chaos and bloodshed seems to be following the reign. Especially since he's TheFundamentalist.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The first novel revolves around what happens to society after a new king, Chandra, is installed. Suffice to say, widespread chaos and bloodshed seems to be following the reign. Especially since he's TheFundamentalist.TheFundamentalist.
* YouCantFightFate: The Aloran attitude towards their true names. If your name says it, it ''is'' going to happen, and there's no way around it. [[spoiler: Like Malini's lady in waiting Alori dying by burning alive, or Rao choosing Malini to be empress.]]
* YouCantFightFate: The Aloran attitude towards their true names. If your name says it, it ''is'' going to happen, and there's no way around it. [[spoiler: Like Malini's lady in waiting Alori dying by burning alive, or Rao choosing Malini to be empress.]]
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* {{Transflormation}}: Many people are dying due to a mysterious disease that involves this painful process in the first novel. The protagonist Priya begins the novel trying to help a boy who is dying because of this.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The first novel revolves around what happens to society after a new king, Chandra, is installed. Suffice to say, widespread chaos and bloodshed seems to be following the reign. Especially since he's TheFundamentalist.
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* BigBrotherBully: Chandra's psychological abuse toward Malini turns out to ''not'' be new.
* CainAndAbel: Technically the situation between Malini and Chandra from the beginning of the novel, but she's left in a state where it's difficult for her to face him. Then it becomes a bit...messier.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Priya is shown to have a knack around them.
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* KillItWithFire: Chandra sees this as honorable. Malini loses her closest companions due to it, but she survives. [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink At some cost to her health in all forms]].
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* TheChooserOfTheOne: The royal family of the client kingdom Alor all have prophetic true names that they are only to reveal when the time is right. These range from MundaneUtility (a princess several generations back had a name that was three pages of advice on how to handle a drought), to predicting the person in question's death, to this. A certain character's name prophesies that [[spoiler: Malini, the imperial princess, is fated to rule. All the lords she recruited to fight for her compassionate-but-useless brother Aditya against their sadistic, fanatical emperor Chandra already know Malini is the real brains of the operation, but the prophecy helps her overcome the ingrained prejudice against a woman ruling in her own right.]]
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: [[spoiler: It's implied Rao and Aditya see the new Queen at the end of the novel like this.]]
* {{Seers}}: There is a religion that explicitly centers around seeing into one's future.
* QueerRomance: [[spoiler:The main drive of the story involves the maidservant, Priya, becoming closer to the captive princess, Malini. It later becomes a full-blown romance.]]
* TempleOfDoom: The first book centers around a temple that's known to be cursed by the populace, and in which many people were massacred. It's left abandoned till the beginning of the first book.
* Transflormation: Many people are dying due to a mysterious disease that involves this painful process in the first novel. The protagonist Priya begins the novel trying to help a boy who is dying because of this.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The first novel revolves around what happens to society after a new king, Chandra, is installed. Suffice to say, widespread chaos and bloodshed seems to be following the reign.
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: [[spoiler: It's implied Rao and Aditya see the new Queen at the end of the novel like this.]]
* {{Seers}}: There is a religion that explicitly centers around seeing into one's future.
* QueerRomance: [[spoiler:The main drive of the story involves the maidservant, Priya, becoming closer to the captive princess, Malini. It later becomes a full-blown romance.]]
* TempleOfDoom: The first book centers around a temple that's known to be cursed by the populace, and in which many people were massacred. It's left abandoned till the beginning of the first book.
* Transflormation: Many people are dying due to a mysterious disease that involves this painful process in the first novel. The protagonist Priya begins the novel trying to help a boy who is dying because of this.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The first novel revolves around what happens to society after a new king, Chandra, is installed. Suffice to say, widespread chaos and bloodshed seems to be following the reign.
