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* RightForTheWrongReasons: When she first sees Yongdu Iwashi's personal Sparrowbones table, painted and patterned using rare lacquers to convincingly mimic extensive bloodstains, Yangchen is brought up short in visible shock and Iwashi gives a not-particularly-sincere apology to the Avatar for forgetting her airbender sensibilities. Yangchen might have done more than blink at what amounted to a try-hard paint job for effect, but she regarded someone using the stump of a spirit infused old growth tree from the Foggy Swamp as a gaming table with sincere horror.
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* SpyFiction: Like the previous Yangchen novel, ''Legacy'' fits this genre, a mix between "Layered Drink" (most of Yangchen's gambits rely on deception) and "Absinthe" (heavy speculative fiction, particularly fantasy, elements}.
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* SpyFiction: Like the previous Yangchen novel, ''Legacy'' fits this genre, a mix between "Layered Drink" (most of Yangchen's gambits rely on deception) and "Absinthe" (heavy speculative fiction, particularly fantasy, elements}.elements).
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* CallForward: [[spoiler:Chaisee's Unamity project didn't involve ''just'' creating combustionbenders. She also attempted to create lavabenders and chi-blockers as well; the former was entirely unsuccessful, the latter only having one known practitioner due to the rest getting themselves killed in an unsuccessful attempt to escape the island where they were being trained]].
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** While playing Sparrowbones with Yangchen and Kavik, Chaisee and Iwashi reveal to them that the Fire Nation's Saowon clan are preparing to go to war [[Literature/TheShadowOfKyoshi at some point in the far future]].
** [[spoiler:Chaisee's Unamity project didn't involve ''just'' creating combustionbenders. She also attempted to create lavabenders and chi-blockers as well; the former was entirely unsuccessful, the latter only having one known practitioner due to the rest getting themselves killed in an unsuccessful attempt to escape the island where they were being trained]].
** While playing Sparrowbones with Yangchen and Kavik, Chaisee and Iwashi reveal to them that the Fire Nation's Saowon clan are preparing to go to war [[Literature/TheShadowOfKyoshi at some point in the far future]].
** [[spoiler:Chaisee's Unamity project didn't involve ''just'' creating combustionbenders. She also attempted to create lavabenders and chi-blockers as well; the former was entirely unsuccessful, the latter only having one known practitioner due to the rest getting themselves killed in an unsuccessful attempt to escape the island where they were being trained]].
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* SnipeHunt: Yangchen's banishment from the Northern Air Temple takes this form, with Sonam formally informing her of things [[BlatantLies urgently needed for the temple's long term survival]] [[note]](a blue panda-lily, the shadow of a breeze, the sinews of a spirit, and the material possession that will fill the emptiness that lies in the heart of every human being)[[/note]], then "requesting" she bring them with her when next she visits.
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* ParanormalGamblingAdvantage: While bending can't really be considered 'paranormal' in this setting, [[spoiler:Yangchen and Kavik cheat at Sparrowbones against Iwashi using waterbending, first so that Iwashi incurs a massive point penalty by upsetting the trove, and then by passing valuable tiles between each other and using signal]].
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* ParanormalGamblingAdvantage: While bending can't really be considered 'paranormal' in this setting, [[spoiler:Yangchen and Kavik cheat at Sparrowbones against Iwashi using waterbending, first so that Iwashi incurs a massive point penalty by upsetting the trove, and then by passing valuable tiles between each other and using signal]].signals]].
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* DoomedHometown: Chaisee is revealed to come from one of these in the prologue; her island [[spoiler:implied to be the same one where Unanimity was trained]] was famous for its pearls and sponges that were retrieved by skilled divers without bending, until exclusive rights to the waters were bought by a foreign merchant; envoys from that merchant came and burned Chaisee's village to the ground out of spite.
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* FictionalBoardGame: In addition to franchise mainstay Pai Sho, this novel has Yangchen and Kavik play Sparrowbones against a pair of Zongdus; it's similar to Mahjong, and [[PunnyName Sparrowbones is actually a pun]] off of the fact that "Mahjong" means "little sparrows".
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* ParanormalGamblingAdvantage: While bending can't really be considered 'paranormal' in this setting, [[spoiler:Yangchen and Kavik cheat at Sparrowbones against Iwashi using waterbending, first so that Iwashi incurs a massive point penalty by upsetting the trove, and then by passing valuable tiles between each other and using signal]].
