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* InfinityPlusOneSword: Licanius in its dominating first use against the [[spoiler: Blind army]].
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* InfinityPlusOneSword: Licanius in its dominating first use against the [[spoiler: Blind army]]. It's also the only of the named swords that can permanently kill an immortal.
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* MoreThanMindControl: One of the ability some Augurs have is to control the minds of others in varying ways, with varying degrees of explicit control:
** [[spoiler: The Augur Erran]] controlled [[spoiler: Elocien, the Northwarden]], but notes that, while at first it was direct puppetry in order to prevent the latter from killing him, as time passed, it was more that his own personality melted into him, causing the latter to natrually be inclined to make the same descisions he would.
** [[spoiler: Rohin]] can puppet people, but mostly he is shown to utilize some kind of psychic charisma to cause those around him [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul to ''want'' to do his bidding.]]
** [[spoiler: The Augur Erran]] controlled [[spoiler: Elocien, the Northwarden]], but notes that, while at first it was direct puppetry in order to prevent the latter from killing him, as time passed, it was more that his own personality melted into him, causing the latter to natrually be inclined to make the same descisions he would.
** [[spoiler: Rohin]] can puppet people, but mostly he is shown to utilize some kind of psychic charisma to cause those around him [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul to ''want'' to do his bidding.]]
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* BecomingTheMask: At the end of the first novel, it is revealed that Erran has been [[spoiler: Controlling Elocien, the Northwarden for the past several years.]] In the third book, Erran works with Wirr (who is now aware of what he had done and has forgiven him) and the rest of the royal family (who do ''not'' know what he's done). After years of [[spoiler: being inside Elocien's head, Erran winds up with a deep affection for the royal family. He tends to think of the king as his brother which has led to "interesting slips of propriety," and he regularly forgets to address Wirr with the proper honorifics.]]
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* BigDamnReunion: Presumably happens offscreen between [[spoiler: Davian and Niha]], as Caeden gives her instructions on how to find him once [[spoiler: the ilshara falls]].
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* BigDamnReunion: BigDamnHeroes: In the third novel, when it looks like Wirr and the [[LastStand last of the Andarran defenses]] will die to the Desrielite forces and their [[FantasticNuke esense-stealing pillars]], [[spoiler: Aleric and Dezria show up out of nowhere with a Nesk army]].
* BigDamnReunion:
** At the end of the first novel, Wirr, Davian, and Asha have a big damned reunion right before the Blind attack the city.
** Malshash (AKA [[spoiler: Tal'Kammar/Caeden]]) and Davian have a happy reunion in Zvaelar, with the former thrilled to see Davian.
** Presumably happens offscreen between [[spoiler: Davian and Niha]], as Caeden gives her instructions on how to find him once [[spoiler: the ilshara falls]].
* BigDamnReunion:
** At the end of the first novel, Wirr, Davian, and Asha have a big damned reunion right before the Blind attack the city.
** Malshash (AKA [[spoiler: Tal'Kammar/Caeden]]) and Davian have a happy reunion in Zvaelar, with the former thrilled to see Davian.
** Presumably happens offscreen between [[spoiler: Davian and Niha]], as Caeden gives her instructions on how to find him once [[spoiler: the ilshara falls]].
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* BreakTheHaughty: Wirr attempts to change the supercilious perspective of Administration's leadership, including his mother, by proving that Gifted are not all monsters.
** [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, they all die before he can make much headway.]]
** [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, they all die before he can make much headway.]]
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* BreakTheHaughty: BreakTheHaughty:
** Aarkein Devaed's fall from the Venerate: [[spoiler: Devaed is actually the name Tal'Kamar took on to try and seperate himself from the atrocities he was doing in El's name "for the greater good." As Caeden admits later, taking on a new name didn't actually change anything; he always felt horrible for the things he was doing, but he thought it would all be worth it in the end if El could really enable the Venerate to go back in time and change the past-- undoing every evil act they'd done on the way to get there. After the destruction of the Darecians, while still standing in the burning remains of the city, a stranger from the future appears and gives him an armor piercing WhatTheHellHero ReasonYouSuckSpeech. Devaed kills the man in anger, but it sows the seed of doubt that has him sincerely questioning the Venerate and the nature of El. The result is that he spends the next thousand years a [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil hunted]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone haunted]], [[MilesToGoBeforeISleep suicidal]] wreck whose only goal is to seal the rift and save the world, knowing it will cost the lives of the several other immortals who had been his closest friends and family for millennia, as well as his own life.]] [[spoiler: The hits keep coming after he loses his memory and sees his past atrocities through the eyes of an innocent Caeden, and realizes that the mysterious time traveller who started him on this journey is his new friend, Davian-- who he now knows he is destined to murder.]]
** Wirr attempts to change the supercilious perspective of Administration's leadership, including his mother, by proving that Gifted are not allmonsters.
**monsters. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, them, they all die before he can make much headway.]]
** Aarkein Devaed's fall from the Venerate: [[spoiler: Devaed is actually the name Tal'Kamar took on to try and seperate himself from the atrocities he was doing in El's name "for the greater good." As Caeden admits later, taking on a new name didn't actually change anything; he always felt horrible for the things he was doing, but he thought it would all be worth it in the end if El could really enable the Venerate to go back in time and change the past-- undoing every evil act they'd done on the way to get there. After the destruction of the Darecians, while still standing in the burning remains of the city, a stranger from the future appears and gives him an armor piercing WhatTheHellHero ReasonYouSuckSpeech. Devaed kills the man in anger, but it sows the seed of doubt that has him sincerely questioning the Venerate and the nature of El. The result is that he spends the next thousand years a [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil hunted]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone haunted]], [[MilesToGoBeforeISleep suicidal]] wreck whose only goal is to seal the rift and save the world, knowing it will cost the lives of the several other immortals who had been his closest friends and family for millennia, as well as his own life.]] [[spoiler: The hits keep coming after he loses his memory and sees his past atrocities through the eyes of an innocent Caeden, and realizes that the mysterious time traveller who started him on this journey is his new friend, Davian-- who he now knows he is destined to murder.]]
** Wirr attempts to change the supercilious perspective of Administration's leadership, including his mother, by proving that Gifted are not all
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* DramaticIrony: {{Subverted}} heavily with Caeden's vision at the end of Book 2. It seems like Davian will have no clue that [[spoiler: Caeden killed him]], but it's actually common knowledge among the Venerate, and they tell him right away.
* DuelToTheDeath: A common form of entertainment in Ilshan Gathdel Teth. [[spoiler: Davian]] is forced to enter a contest, though it ends surprisingly when his opponent [[spoiler: impales himself with his own sword.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: A common form of entertainment in Ilshan Gathdel Teth. [[spoiler: Davian]] is forced to enter a contest, though it ends surprisingly when his opponent [[spoiler: impales himself with his own sword.]]
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** {{Subverted}} heavily with Caeden's vision at the end of Book 2. It seems like Davian will have no clue that [[spoiler: Caeden killed him]], but it's actually common knowledge among the Venerate, and they tell him right away.
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** {{Subverted}} heavily with Caeden's vision at the end of Book 2. It seems like Davian will have no clue that [[spoiler: Caeden killed him]], but it's actually common knowledge among the Venerate, and they tell him right away.
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* EvilTaintedThePlace: Zvaelar. [[spoiler: What parts aren't patrolled by terrifying al'goriat or insane dar'gai'thin might just be full of Dark, a poisonous, corrupting black liquid that progressively kills those it touches.]]
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* EvilTaintedThePlace: Zvaelar. [[spoiler: Zvaelar is a time bubble of a land in the middle of being destroyed. The destruction is slowed down to almost static levels, allowing the prisoners sent to Zvaelar to mine the place for resources. What parts aren't patrolled by terrifying al'goriat or insane dar'gai'thin might just be full of Dark, a poisonous, corrupting black liquid that progressively kills those it touches.]]
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** Desriel has undergone a continuous genocide of the Gifted population due to their extreme religious views.
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* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Tal'Kamar has realized that in order for the rift in Deilannis to be closed and the Darklands cut off forever, all of the immortal Venerate (as well as the Augars who draw power from the rift) must die. By his later [[TimeyWimeyBall personal chronology]], he's become a haunted weck whose only goal is to kill his former friends, and then himself. At one point Caeden is looking through a Dok'en-- a tiny, idyllic dream universe created by Tal'Kamar that Tal' had originally intended to spend his final days in, reliving happy memories from his youth with the memory of a person he loved. As Caeden notes:
--> Had he really thought that having Ell here, reliving this part of his life, was the best way for him to live out his final days? It all seemed so... sad. The design of a man who had given up.
--> Had he really thought that having Ell here, reliving this part of his life, was the best way for him to live out his final days? It all seemed so... sad. The design of a man who had given up.
** Tal'Kamar's entire personal revelation begins because a mysterious man claiming to be his friend from the future shows up to the scene of his greatest atrocity and gives him the most pointed WhatTheHellHero, ReasonYouSuckSpeech he's had in several hundred years. Tal' kills the stranger in rage, but it plants the seed of doubt that starts him on his several thousand year long journey to fighting [[spoiler: Shammaeloth.]]
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All that I needed, I lost.''"\\
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All that I needed, I lost.''"\\''"
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― Tal'Kammar Deshrel, The Shadow of What Was Lost
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* AndThisIsFor: Davian says this about Caladel when he [[spoiler: throws Raeleth into the rift.]]
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* AndThisIsFor: Davian says this about Caladel when he [[spoiler: throws Raeleth Rethgar into the rift.]]
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* LoveTriangle: Davian, Asha and Ishelle form a [[TriangRelations Type 4]], [[spoiler: with Ishelle as the odd woman out.]]
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* LoveTriangle: Davian, Asha and Ishelle form a [[TriangRelations Type 4]], three-way relationship, [[spoiler: with Ishelle as the odd woman out.]]
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** Gifted are born with the InherentGift of wielding Essence, an omnipresent expression of life force directly taken from their personal Reserves. Essence is CastFromStamina, and overdoing it will cause a PowerStrainBlackout.
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** Gifted are born with the InherentGift of wielding ability to wield Essence, an omnipresent expression of life force directly taken from their personal Reserves. Essence is CastFromStamina, and overdoing it will cause a PowerStrainBlackout.
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* DeadAllAlong: Davian. At some point early in his life [[spoiler: ''in utero'', as it turns out]] he died and his body ceased to generate Essence. However, before his soul could pass on his Augur powers kicked in, allowing him to instinctively keep his body functional by leaching Essence from his surroundings. This makes him the only person able to safely traverse the Deilanis rift since the pure kan of the rift would destroy any source of Essence that entered it. [[spoiler: Similarly, this lets him implant kan Vessels in his body, which no living person could do because the kan would disrupt their body's natural Essence flows and kill them.]]
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** Taken UpToEleven in Desriel, which has undergone a continuous genocide of the Gifted population due to their extreme religious views.
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** Taken UpToEleven in Desriel, which Desriel has undergone a continuous genocide of the Gifted population due to their extreme religious views.
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*** Tragically taken UpToEleven in the fight against [[spoiler: the Banes]] in Book 3, as the [[spoiler: Eletai kill everyone who doesn't make it into Tol Athian and Caden is forced to raze the city to the ground to stop them.]]
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*** Tragically taken UpToEleven up to eleven in the fight against [[spoiler: the Banes]] in Book 3, as the [[spoiler: Eletai kill everyone who doesn't make it into Tol Athian and Caden is forced to raze the city to the ground to stop them.]]
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* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie: Not even all the main characters survive the story, and even most of the important supporting characters are toast. Despite the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, you can count the named characters that survive on your fingers.]]
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* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie: Not even all the main characters survive the story, and even most of the important supporting characters are toast. Despite the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, large cast, you can count the named characters that survive on your fingers.]]
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Even includes a character glossary at the back of each book to keep track of them all.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: Uses this line of rhetoric with Davian in an attempt to invoke WeCanRuleTogether. It falls flat due to Davian's moral conviction, though.
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* DynamicEntry: Elocien's preferred method of entering a meeting is to kick the door down.
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* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie: Not even all the main characters survive the story, and even most of the important supporting characters are toast.]]
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* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie: Not even all the main characters survive the story, and even most of the important supporting characters are toast. Despite the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, you can count the named characters that survive on your fingers.]]
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* AerithAndBob: Many names like Fessiricia, Gassandrid, Isiliar, Breshada and Nethgalla only exist in-universe.
** {{Downplayed}} for normal names as Davian, Torin, Caeden, Ashalia, Aelric and Dezia are all real, but quite rare and fantastic-sounding.
** {{Downplayed}} for normal names as Davian, Torin, Caeden, Ashalia, Aelric and Dezia are all real, but quite rare and fantastic-sounding.
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* AerithAndBob: Many names Somewhat present. Names like Fessiricia, Gassandrid, Isiliar, Breshada and Nethgalla only exist in-universe.
** {{Downplayed}} for normalin-universe, while other names as like Davian, Torin, Caeden, Ashalia, Aelric and Dezia are all real, but quite relatively rare and fantastic-sounding.
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