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* TestOfPain: One of the trials that Blackguard aspirants must complete is one of these. The aspirant is told that surrendering means they'll be ejected from the program and never become a Blackguard. Through the use of several combinations of drafting, the aspirant is made to feel increasing amounts of pain and fear until they either surrender or pass out. The trick is that [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the test was never designed to be passable]]; the real test is how long the aspirant can endure when they think their entire future depends on it. [[spoiler: Despite this, Dazen Guile endured everything prepared for the trial, meaning he passed anyway.]] He's the only one in living memory to have done so.
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** Ferrilux is certain from almost the moment of her ascension that the servant she was provided with is malevolent. It's implied that this servant is the actual Old God, and is vying for control of her, its vessel.
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** Ferrilux is certain from almost the moment of her ascension that the servant she was provided with is malevolent. It's implied that this servant is the actual Old God, and is vying for control of her, its vessel. [[spoiler: The last book implies that this is how the Djinn get around the limitation of only being able to exist in one place in all of creation at any given moment, using a proxy while the Djinn itself remains outside of time.]]
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* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: Ironfist says he can't go with Kip at the end of ''The Broken Eye'', since Andoss would read some political motive into it and consider it a threat. The idea of anyone doing something out of personal loyalty would simply never occur to him.
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* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: Ironfist says he can't go with Kip at the end of ''The Broken Eye'', since Andoss Andross would read some political motive into it and consider it a threat. The idea of anyone doing something out of personal loyalty would simply never occur to him.
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** Liv to Theia. Kip notes at one point that Theia has ten times the FreudianExcuse that Liv has, and she still manages to hold on to her integrity while Liv uses her relatively light woes to justify siding with literal monsters.
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** Liv to Theia. Teia. Kip notes at one point that Theia Teia has ten times the FreudianExcuse that Liv has, and she still manages to hold on to her integrity while Liv uses her relatively light woes to justify siding with literal monsters.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: At one point, Theia goes to visit Kip in his room and spots Tisis trying to hastily hide, while Kip has a noticeable erection. Kip starts on this trope, then stops and admits that no, it ''is'' pretty much exactly what it looks like.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: At one point, Theia Teia goes to visit Kip in his room and spots Tisis trying to hastily hide, while Kip has a noticeable erection. Kip starts on this trope, then stops and admits that no, it ''is'' pretty much exactly what it looks like.
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* EvilCounterpart: The Color Prince to Gavin. [[spoiler: Zymun]] to Kip.
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** [[spoiler: Zymun]] to Kip.
** Liv to Theia. Kip notes at one point that Theia has ten times the FreudianExcuse that Liv has, and she still manages to hold on to her integrity while Liv uses her relatively light woes to justify siding with literal monsters.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Andross Guile manipulates, bribes, guilt trips, compels, and assassinates everyone who crosses his path for more than forty years. He murders one of his sons and pushes another into a position that Andross knows will get him killed. He narrowly avoids the destruction of the Guile name and the Chromeria itself.]] And is rewarded by being named as Lightbringer and given the office of Prism.
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* KarmaHoudini: KarmaHoudini:
** [[spoiler: Andross Guile manipulates, bribes, guilt trips, compels, and assassinates everyone who crosses his path for more than forty years. He murders one of his sons and pushes another into a position that Andross knows will get him killed. He narrowly avoids the destruction of the Guile name and the Chromeria itself.]] And is rewarded by being named as Lightbringer and given the office of Prism.
** Liv is rewarded for her multiple betrayals and persistent selfishness by [[spoiler: getting to walk away with godhood and immortality after the fall of the Colour Prince.]]
** The Old Man of the Desert [[spoiler: aka Grinwoody]] survives the destruction of most of the Order of the Broken Eye and gets packed off to comfortable retirement by Andross, who sees him as a WorthyOpponent.
** [[spoiler: Andross Guile manipulates, bribes, guilt trips, compels, and assassinates everyone who crosses his path for more than forty years. He murders one of his sons and pushes another into a position that Andross knows will get him killed. He narrowly avoids the destruction of the Guile name and the Chromeria itself.]] And is rewarded by being named as Lightbringer and given the office of Prism.
** Liv is rewarded for her multiple betrayals and persistent selfishness by [[spoiler: getting to walk away with godhood and immortality after the fall of the Colour Prince.]]
** The Old Man of the Desert [[spoiler: aka Grinwoody]] survives the destruction of most of the Order of the Broken Eye and gets packed off to comfortable retirement by Andross, who sees him as a WorthyOpponent.
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* MotiveDecay: Liv's reason for turning on the Chromeria was supposedly that she thought Gavin was using her as a hostage to force her father to serve him. Later, when she is far beyond Gavin's reach and her father writes him a letter begging her to come back, she still refuses, angrily dismissing it as him trying to control her. It's implied that her real motivation just boils down to injured pride at how she was treated at the Chromeria.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: At one point, Theia goes to visit Kip in his room and spots Tisis trying to hastily hide, while Kip has a noticeable erection. Kip starts on this trope, then stops and admits that no, it ''is'' pretty much exactly what it looks like.
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** Andross can be considered a deconstruction. His plans are genuinely brilliant, but they always assume that people show no initiative or independent thinking, and quickly fall apart when his would-be pawns start having ideas of their own.
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* GrayAndBlackMorality: A common theme is that it's absolutely impossible to get anything done while keeping your hands clean, and [[WellIntentionedExtremist a lot of the villains]] justify their brutal actions with rhetoric that is disturbingly similar to the heroes'. However, other villains really have no reason for their cruelty other than their own petty malice.
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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Zigzaged. Slavery is certainly portrayed as being a fundamentally evil institution that gives power to humans that they are not capable of morally wielding, even with the best of intention (and there are many people whose intentions are far from good). At the same time, slavery is so [[InherentInTheSystem firmly embedded in the culture and economy of the Seven Satrapies]] that no one is sure what abolishing it would even look like, and even the most morally high-standing of characters find themselves owning and trading in slaves.
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* VictoryIsBoring: [[spoiler: Andross]] ends up getting everything he spent his life scheming for... and finds it nothing but frustrating, because it was ''too easy,'' with all the heavy lifting ending up done by other people.
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* AscendedExtra: Gunner the pirate's only appearance in ''The Black Prism'' is to be briefly recognized, then defeated nonlethally by Gavin. His only personality traits are that isn't that bright but might be the best gunner in the world. His role expands considerably in ''The Blinding Knife,'' and then further in ''The Broken Eye.''
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** Gunner the pirate's only appearance in ''The Black Prism'' is to be briefly recognized, then defeated nonlethally by Gavin. His only personality traits are that isn't that bright but might be the best gunner in the world. His role expands considerably in ''The Blinding Knife,'' and then further in ''The Broken Eye.''
** Gunner the pirate's only appearance in ''The Black Prism'' is to be briefly recognized, then defeated nonlethally by Gavin. His only personality traits are that isn't that bright but might be the best gunner in the world. His role expands considerably in ''The Blinding Knife,'' and then further in ''The Broken Eye.''
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: It's extremely difficult for a non-drafter to fight a drafter of any kind. There are also almost no non-drafters wielding any amount of authority in the Seven Satrapies. This is not a coincidence.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: It's extremely difficult for a non-drafter to fight a drafter of any kind. There are also almost no non-drafters wielding any amount of authority in the Seven Satrapies. This is not a coincidence.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The afterword from ''The Blood Mirror'' explains that the issue experienced by Tisis is a real disorder called vaginismus.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[invoked]] The afterword from ''The Blood Mirror'' explains that the issue experienced by Tisis is a real disorder called vaginismus.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Karris does this to Gavin [[spoiler: the fake]] when she learns that he cheated on her while they where engaged and, as a result, has a bastard. [[spoiler: Who isn't actually his but the real Gavin's. When she later finds out Dazen's (the real one's) deception, she does it again.]][[spoiler:Who it turns out, isn't actually even Gavin's son, but his half-brother. Andross is the father. Maybe. In ''The Burning White'' he claims to have been lying about that; whether he actually was or not is left unclear.]]
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* TerminalTransformation: While using luxin in general [[CastFromLifespan depletes the drafter's lifespan]], going "Green Golem", a luxin user covering themselves in green luxin, results in the drafter's immediate death after a short period due to the amount of drafting required using up the rest of their life. [[spoiler:Kip's [[SubvertedTrope survival]] from transforming as such is a miracle]].
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* FantasyGunControl: Averted. Armies use cannons, pistols, rifles, and blunderbusses. Rifled barrels are a recent invention, illustrated by the BigBad's WeaponOfChoice, which is essentially a primitive sniper rifle. The pirate Gunner makes some offhand comments regarding rifled barrels, indicating that the technology is still in its infancy.
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* FantasyGunControl: Averted. Armies use cannons, pistols, rifles, and blunderbusses. Rifled barrels are a recent invention, illustrated by the BigBad's WeaponOfChoice, weapon, which is essentially a primitive sniper rifle. The pirate Gunner makes some offhand comments regarding rifled barrels, indicating that the technology is still in its infancy.
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* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Gavin. Both of them.
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* AllForNothing: Andross and Gavin Guile [[spoiler: murdered Sevastian Guile when he was a child in order to make a Prism out of Gavin]], only for Dazen to develop the same powers naturally a few years later. It's one of the few things that Andross genuinely seems to regret.
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* TheSociopath: Zymun is a textbook case -- outwardly charming, lacking in anything that might be called empathy or conscience, craving constant stimulation, inflated sense of self-worth, etc. As the books go on, he loses most of the "outwardly charming" aspects.
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** Zymun is a textbook case -- outwardly charming, lacking in anything that might be called empathy or conscience, craving constant stimulation, inflated sense of self-worth, etc. As the books go on, he loses most of the "outwardly charming"aspects.aspects.
** Andross Guile is ambitious, canny, and extremely intelligent, but doesn't have an ounce of empathy in his body. His complete lack of concern for others is how he's gone from being rich and powerful to being arguably the most powerful man in the world. His crimes include [[spoiler: concealing that he's become a red wight, filicide of his youngest son,]] assassination, and infidelity. The only time we see his machinations fail are when he miscalculates because everyone else doesn't prioritize themselves the way he does.
** Zymun is a textbook case -- outwardly charming, lacking in anything that might be called empathy or conscience, craving constant stimulation, inflated sense of self-worth, etc. As the books go on, he loses most of the "outwardly charming"
** Andross Guile is ambitious, canny, and extremely intelligent, but doesn't have an ounce of empathy in his body. His complete lack of concern for others is how he's gone from being rich and powerful to being arguably the most powerful man in the world. His crimes include [[spoiler: concealing that he's become a red wight, filicide of his youngest son,]] assassination, and infidelity. The only time we see his machinations fail are when he miscalculates because everyone else doesn't prioritize themselves the way he does.
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* TheMultiverse: Described as "The Thousand Worlds" that immortals battle over, but the books all take place on a single world. One of the few checks on the powers of the Djinn is that manifesting anywhere in the mortal world means that they cannot be anywhere else, including any others worlds, during that period of time. A few minor mentions are made of things happening on other worlds, and at the end of the last book when [[spoiler: Kip and Teia kill Abbadon, it is explicitly said that it permanently banishes him from their world]].
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* TheMultiverse: Described as "The Thousand Worlds" that immortals battle over, but the books all take place on a single world. One of the few checks on the powers of the Djinn is that manifesting anywhere in the mortal world means that they cannot be anywhere else, including any others other worlds, during that period of time. A few minor mentions are made of things happening on other worlds, and at the end of the last book when [[spoiler: Kip and Teia kill Abbadon, it is explicitly said that it permanently banishes him from their world]].world]].
** Though no explicit confirmation is given, Orholam's similar to the One God of Weeks' ''Literature/TheNightAngelTrilogy'' gels perfectly with his explanation [[SharedUniverse that He is the God of many worlds.]]
** Though no explicit confirmation is given, Orholam's similar to the One God of Weeks' ''Literature/TheNightAngelTrilogy'' gels perfectly with his explanation [[SharedUniverse that He is the God of many worlds.]]
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Commander Ironfist, after he shaves his head in mourning for the Blackguards lost at Garrison.
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* SatanicArchetype: Abaddon, down to being originally called the lightbringer.
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* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: The original Gavin Guile died at Sundered Rock.]] All his viewpoint chapters are an elaborate hallucination caused by the excessive use of [[spoiler: black luxin]].
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Gunner. Or at least some of it, according to Gavin. The cheerful, bombastic, CrazyAwesome part. The part where he points a gun right at your face with murder in his eyes because you told him you destroyed something he wanted? Quite real.
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