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* IJustWantToBeNormal: The Ash Queen. Played with in that normal for her is [[spoiler: possessing a spark of flame like other djinn.]]
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TheNameless: More than a few characters, as is standard practice in a fairy tale. Most interesting, though, the boy's name is never revealed. [[spoiler: The girl appears to be going the same way until the very end.]]
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* HolyCity: Al-a-Nur.
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A mysterious orphaned girl lives by herself on the garden of a Middle Eastern-esque palace, shunned by the nobility and considered a witch due to the black birthmarks around her eyes. A boy, son of the Sultan, manages to find out her secret: in the marks are written stories, which the girl agrees to narrate. Thus begins the FramingDevice to ''The Orphan's Tales'', a fantasy book in two volumes (''In the Night Garden'' and ''The Cities of Coin and Spice'') by Catherynne M. Valente. What follows is a complex plot that, heavily inspired by several [[FairyTale fairy tales]] and the ArabianNights, Literature/ArabianNights, includes most of the tropes related to those stories and subverts, deconstructs or lampshades most of them along the way.
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* FantasticGhetto: Magical being in Shadukiam live in [[UrbanSegregation separated areas]], outide of the rose dome. Genies had their own crowded quarter, before they moved to Kash. Yi are forced to wear special clothes to distinguish them from normal people. Giota, oracle knowing answer to every question, chose to reside in the shadow of Basilica, where only despised appear, to guide them.
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