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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Low ranking cacodemons thrive on chaos, and like to take on human form to father children. Half-demons inherit the main power of their fathers. Elemental control, teleportation, telekinesis and telepathy are common, as are enhancements of regular human abilities, such as strength, sight and hearing. This power manifests itself sometime between the ages of twelve and twenty. In Hope Adams' case she inherits the taste for chaos.

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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Low ranking cacodemons thrive on chaos, and like to take on human form to father children. Half-demons inherit the main power of their fathers. Elemental control, teleportation, telekinesis and telepathy are common, as are enhancements of regular human abilities, such as strength, sight and hearing. This power manifests itself sometime between the ages of twelve and twenty. In Hope Adams' case she inherits the ability to sense chaos, as well as a taste for chaos.it. [[spoiler:After her daughter is born, she loses the taste for it, or at least has it reduced to the point of being able to ignore it, though is still able to sense it.]]



* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires can go out in the sun, have super fast healing, and must kill once a year to preserve their long lives. Vampires are not immortal per se, merely long lived. As they age the tend to get more and more disconnected from other people.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves can turn into pure wolves at will, but the process is painful. They must Change about once a week, becoming more irritable and restless the longer they put it off, until finally their bodies take over and they Change involuntarily. Control over their Change is a matter of teaching, practice, and willpower. Most of the werewolves are male, and they pass the gene down to their sons (daughters need not apply). A hereditary werewolf will not have his first Change until late adolescence. Werewolves can be made by an infected bite or by injection with werewolf saliva, but most are hereditary because very few bitten werewolves survive the transition. ''Frostbitten'' also introduces a second completely separate type of werewolf in a LostWorld type scenario, in Alaska.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires can go out in the sun, have super fast healing, and must kill once a year to preserve their long lives. They are born seemingly regular humans, but after dying of something are reborn as a vampire, their body seemingly stuck at the age they died at. Vampires are not immortal per se, merely long lived. As they age the they tend to get more and more disconnected from other people.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves can turn into pure wolves at will, but the process is painful. They must Change about once a week, becoming more irritable and restless the longer they put it off, until finally their bodies take over and they Change involuntarily. Control over their Change is a matter of teaching, practice, and willpower. Most of the werewolves are male, and they pass the gene down to their sons (daughters need not apply). A hereditary werewolf will not have his first Change until late adolescence. Once this occurs, their bodies age slower than those of average humans, and also have heightened senses of hearing and smell, as well as strength, while in human form, in addition to a ravenous appetite. Werewolves can be made by an infected bite or by injection with werewolf saliva, but most are hereditary because very few bitten werewolves survive the transition. ''Frostbitten'' also introduces a second completely separate type of werewolf in a LostWorld type scenario, in Alaska.



* ResurrectedMurderer: In life, Andrei Duchev was a RepulsiveRingmaster who mutiliated innocent people into horrible abominations who were in horrfic pain. His crimes were so severe that his victims were granted a MercyKill and he was branded one of the worst serial killers ever before his execution. Andrei was sent to a prison in purgatory where he feigned that he had reformed of evil. They released him so he could hunt the demonic serial killer known as the Nix. Instead it backfired and Andrei now as malevolent spirit became her serial killer buddy in raking up new atrocities in undeath.

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* ResurrectedMurderer: In life, Andrei Duchev Dachev was a RepulsiveRingmaster who mutiliated innocent people into horrible abominations who were in horrfic pain. His crimes were so severe that his victims were granted a MercyKill and he was branded one of the worst serial killers ever before his execution. Andrei was sent to a prison in purgatory where he feigned that he had reformed of evil. They released him so he could hunt the demonic serial killer known as the Nix. Instead it backfired and Andrei now as malevolent spirit became her serial killer buddy in raking up new atrocities in undeath.
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** Elena claims most of the Pack supported Jeremy over Malcolm for Alpha. When it's shown in ''Ascension'' how he became Alpha, some of the Pack left, and of the remainder, only half supported him, while the other half supported Malcolm, leading to the Pack ending up split. It is possible, though unlikely, that the Pack lied to Elena, and told her the truth off-page later.

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** Elena claims most of the Pack supported Jeremy over Malcolm for Alpha. When it's shown in ''Ascension'' how he became Alpha, some of the Pack left, and of the remainder, only half supported him, while the other half supported Malcolm, leading to the Pack ending up split. It is possible, though unlikely, that the Pack lied to Elena, Elena about this, and told her the truth off-page later.
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** Elena claims most of the Pack supported Jeremy over Malcolm for Alpha. When it's shown in ''Ascension'' how he became Alpha, some of the Pack left, and of the remainder, only half supported him, while the other half supported Malcolm, leading to the Pack ending up split.
** Jeremy claims that one reason he has tolerated Daniel Santos for so long is because his father was a good man. The prequels, ''Savage'' and ''Ascension'' show that Daniel's father Raymond was a cruel man who followed Malcolm and despised Jeremy. It is possible that Jeremy simply meant he followed the law despite this, or that Jeremy was trying to find an excuse for having become complicit in tracking mutts, though the latter doesn't fit with his characterization.

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** Elena claims most of the Pack supported Jeremy over Malcolm for Alpha. When it's shown in ''Ascension'' how he became Alpha, some of the Pack left, and of the remainder, only half supported him, while the other half supported Malcolm, leading to the Pack ending up split.
split. It is possible, though unlikely, that the Pack lied to Elena, and told her the truth off-page later.
** Jeremy claims that one reason he has tolerated Daniel Santos for so long is because his father was a good man. The prequels, ''Savage'' and ''Ascension'' show that Daniel's father Raymond was a cruel man who followed Malcolm and despised Jeremy. It is Though it's possible that Jeremy simply meant he followed the law despite this, or that Jeremy was trying to find an excuse for having become complicit in tracking mutts, though the latter doesn't fit with his characterization.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Two examples in the first book, ''Bitten'':
** Elena claims most of the Pack supported Jeremy over Malcolm for Alpha. When it's shown in ''Ascension'' how he became Alpha, some of the Pack left, and of the remainder, only half supported him, while the other half supported Malcolm, leading to the Pack ending up split.
** Jeremy claims that one reason he has tolerated Daniel Santos for so long is because his father was a good man. The prequels, ''Savage'' and ''Ascension'' show that Daniel's father Raymond was a cruel man who followed Malcolm and despised Jeremy. It is possible that Jeremy simply meant he followed the law despite this, or that Jeremy was trying to find an excuse for having become complicit in tracking mutts, though the latter doesn't fit with his characterization.
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** Werewolves are always male, and the gene passes from father to son. Elena is the only known female werewolf to survive a bitten Change. Sondra Bauer manages to transform after injecting herself with Elena's saliva, but doesn't last long after that, leaving it unknown whether there would have been any long-term effects. [[spoiler:Averted by Katie Danvers, a female werewolf born to Clayton and Elena, who experiences her first change in ''Forsaken'' eight years old.]]

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** Werewolves are always male, and the gene passes from father to son. Elena is the only known female werewolf to survive a bitten Change. Sondra Bauer manages to transform after injecting herself with Elena's saliva, but doesn't last long after that, leaving it unknown whether there would have been any long-term effects. [[spoiler:Averted by Katie Danvers, a female werewolf born to Clayton and Elena, who experiences her first change in ''Forsaken'' at eight years old.]]
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** In the first novel, Daniel Santos, the leader of the mutt uprising, is clearly insane and mentioned to have killed many people, but has his own plans and is willing to stop the killing when he believes he is close to achieving them. Karl Marsten, the other mutt considered as dangerous as him, simply wants territory. Thomas LeBlanc, who they recruit to help overthrow the Pack and see as subservient to them, is a serial killer who targets women who only joined because he enjoys killing, and is willing to turn on them after they've won because he doesn't want to stop the murders. Victor Olson, another criminal they turn into a werewolf in exchange for his help, is a pedophile who raped five small girls and killed the last one. Justified in this case, as only truly despicable people would help with a scheme like that.

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** In the first novel, Daniel Santos, the leader of the mutt uprising, is clearly insane and mentioned to have killed many people, but has his own plans and is willing to stop the killing when he believes he is close to achieving them. Karl Marsten, the other mutt considered as dangerous as him, simply wants territory. Thomas LeBlanc, [=LeBlanc=], who they recruit to help overthrow the Pack and see as subservient to them, is a serial killer who targets women who only joined because he enjoys killing, and is willing to turn on them after they've won because he doesn't want to stop the murders. Victor Olson, another criminal they turn into a werewolf in exchange for his help, is a pedophile who raped five small girls and killed the last one. Justified in this case, as only truly despicable people would help with a scheme like that.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Savannah in ''Waking The Witch''.]]

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* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Savannah in ''Waking The Witch''.]] [[spoiler: Aaron and Cassandra at the end of ''Thirteen''.]]



* IJustWantToBeNormal: Elena keeps telling herself this throughout ''Bitten'', because she hasn't really accepted that she prefers being a werewolf and living with the pack.

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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Elena keeps telling herself this throughout ''Bitten'', because she hasn't really accepted that she prefers being a werewolf and living with the pack. [[spoiler:''Frostbitten'' introduces us to Joey Stillwell, a former Pack member who despite being a werewolf, does everything he can to deny it and prevent people from finding out due to living in one place. Clay even states he wasn't that into being a werewolf when he was part of the Pack.]]



** In the first novel, Daniel Santos, the leader of the mutt uprising, is clearly insane and mentioned to have killed many people, but has his own plans and is willing to stop the killing when he believes he is close to achieving them. Karl Marsten, the other mutt considered as dangerous as him, simply wants territory. Thomas Leblanc, who they recruit to help overthrow the Pack and see as subservient to them, is a serial killer who targets women who only joined because he enjoys killing, and is willing to turn on them after they've won because he doesn't want to stop the murders. Victor Olson, another criminal they turn into a werewolf in exchange for his help, is a pedophile who raped five small girls and killed the last one. Justified in this case, as only truly despicable people would help with a scheme like that.

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** In the first novel, Daniel Santos, the leader of the mutt uprising, is clearly insane and mentioned to have killed many people, but has his own plans and is willing to stop the killing when he believes he is close to achieving them. Karl Marsten, the other mutt considered as dangerous as him, simply wants territory. Thomas Leblanc, LeBlanc, who they recruit to help overthrow the Pack and see as subservient to them, is a serial killer who targets women who only joined because he enjoys killing, and is willing to turn on them after they've won because he doesn't want to stop the murders. Victor Olson, another criminal they turn into a werewolf in exchange for his help, is a pedophile who raped five small girls and killed the last one. Justified in this case, as only truly despicable people would help with a scheme like that.



** Werewolves are always male, and the gene passes from father to son. Elena is the only known female werewolf to survive a bitten Change. Potentially averted by [[spoiler:Katie Danvers, a female werewolf born to Clayton and Elena.]] Only time will tell if she develops the abilities.

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** Werewolves are always male, and the gene passes from father to son. Elena is the only known female werewolf to survive a bitten Change. Potentially averted Sondra Bauer manages to transform after injecting herself with Elena's saliva, but doesn't last long after that, leaving it unknown whether there would have been any long-term effects. [[spoiler:Averted by [[spoiler:Katie Katie Danvers, a female werewolf born to Clayton and Elena.Elena, who experiences her first change in ''Forsaken'' eight years old.]] Only time will tell if she develops the abilities.



* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves can turn into pure wolves at will, but the process is painful. They must Change about once a week, becoming more irritable and restless the longer they put it off, until finally their bodies take over and they Change involuntarily. Control over their Change is a matter of teaching, practice, and willpower. All but one of the werewolves are male, and they pass the gene down to their sons (daughters need not apply). A hereditary werewolf will not have his first Change until late adolescence. Werewolves can be made by an infected bite or by injection with werewolf saliva, but most are hereditary because very few bitten werewolves survive the transition. ''Frostbitten'' also introduces a second completely separate type of werewolf in a LostWorld type scenario, in Alaska.

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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves can turn into pure wolves at will, but the process is painful. They must Change about once a week, becoming more irritable and restless the longer they put it off, until finally their bodies take over and they Change involuntarily. Control over their Change is a matter of teaching, practice, and willpower. All but one Most of the werewolves are male, and they pass the gene down to their sons (daughters need not apply). A hereditary werewolf will not have his first Change until late adolescence. Werewolves can be made by an infected bite or by injection with werewolf saliva, but most are hereditary because very few bitten werewolves survive the transition. ''Frostbitten'' also introduces a second completely separate type of werewolf in a LostWorld type scenario, in Alaska.



** It's how Savannah realized [[spoiler: Jessie was possessed by Leah O'Donnell]]: She remembered [[spoiler: Leah's]] demonic tell and habit of calling her "kiddo".

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** It's how Savannah realized [[spoiler: Jessie Jesse was possessed by Leah O'Donnell]]: She remembered [[spoiler: Leah's]] demonic tell and habit of calling her "kiddo".
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** In the first novel, Daniel Santos, the leader of the mutt uprising, is clearly insane and mentioned to have killed many people, but has his own plans and is willing to stop the killing when he believes he is close to achieving them. Karl Marsten, the other mutt considered as dangerous as him, simply wants territory. Thomas Leblanc, who they recruit to help overthrow the Pack and see as subservient to them, is a serial killer who targets women who only joined because he enjoys killing, and is willing to turn on them after they've won because he doesn't want to stop the murders.

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** In the first novel, Daniel Santos, the leader of the mutt uprising, is clearly insane and mentioned to have killed many people, but has his own plans and is willing to stop the killing when he believes he is close to achieving them. Karl Marsten, the other mutt considered as dangerous as him, simply wants territory. Thomas Leblanc, who they recruit to help overthrow the Pack and see as subservient to them, is a serial killer who targets women who only joined because he enjoys killing, and is willing to turn on them after they've won because he doesn't want to stop the murders. Victor Olson, another criminal they turn into a werewolf in exchange for his help, is a pedophile who raped five small girls and killed the last one. Justified in this case, as only truly despicable people would help with a scheme like that.
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** In the first novel, Daniel Santos, the leader of the mutt uprising, is clearly insane and mentioned to have killed many people, but has his own plans and is willing to stop the killing when he believes he is close to achieving them. Karl Marsten, the other mutt considered as dangerous as him, simply wants territory. Thomas Leblanc, who they recruit to help overthrow the Pack and see as subservient to them, is a serial killer who targets women who only joined because he enjoys killing, and is willing to turn on them after they've won because he doesn't want to stop the murders.
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* WomanWereWoes: Elena is the only female werewolf, due to having been bitten by Clay. Not only did this cause massive problems in her and Clay's romantic relationship, but makes her a target for "mutts," non-Pack werewolves who want to possess the only female werewolf in existence.
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* BodyHorror: A werewolf in the middle of a Change is not a pretty sight.
* BrokenBird: Elena.

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* %%* BrokenBird: Elena.



* ElderlyBlueHairedLady: A cliche of Paige's coven in ''Dime Store Magic''. Paige laments that there are far too many members of the coven that conform to said stereotype.
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: This seems to be the case for all of the narrators and their significant others.
* EvilInc: The Cabals.

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* %%* ElderlyBlueHairedLady: A cliche of Paige's coven in ''Dime Store Magic''. Paige laments that there are far too many members of the coven that conform to said stereotype.
* %%* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: This seems to be the case for all of the narrators and their significant others.
* %%* EvilInc: The Cabals.



* FemaleGaze: Nearly all the narrators are female. The series is called ''Women of the Otherworld'' after all.
** The sex scenes certainly qualify.
** Less pleasant, but also important are most of the narrators' experiences with predatory men, especially Elena's encounters with the Tesler brothers and Hope's later dealings with Jaz.
* FeministFantasy

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* %%* FemaleGaze: Nearly all the narrators are female. The series is called ''Women of the Otherworld'' after all.
** %%** The sex scenes certainly qualify.
** %%** Less pleasant, but also important are most of the narrators' experiences with predatory men, especially Elena's encounters with the Tesler brothers and Hope's later dealings with Jaz.
* %%* FeministFantasy



* GentlemanThief: Karl Marsten.

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* HybridMonster: multiple examples.

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* %%* HybridMonster: multiple examples.



* MonsterMash

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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Lucas.
* SequelHook: ''Waking The Witch'' - the most blatant one in the series so far.

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* %%* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Lucas.
* %%* SequelHook: ''Waking The Witch'' - the most blatant one in the series so far.



* StepfordSmiler: Jaime. Well, what's to be expected of a celebrity spiritualist who [[BlessedWithSuck actually]] ''[[BlessedWithSuck can]]'' [[ISeeDeadPeople see ghosts?]]

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* %%* StepfordSmiler: Jaime. Well, what's to be expected of a celebrity spiritualist who [[BlessedWithSuck actually]] ''[[BlessedWithSuck can]]'' [[ISeeDeadPeople see ghosts?]]
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-->--'''Jeremy Danvers''', ''Stolen''

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-->--'''Jeremy -->-- '''Jeremy Danvers''', ''Stolen''



* WhiteSheep: Lucas.

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* %%* WhiteSheep: Lucas. Lucas.



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* RelationshipUpgrade: Often when TheyDo (sleep together, that is) for the first time, with the exception of Hope and Karl. Theirs occurs after they work things out, sleep together for the second (and third and...) time, and start officially dating.

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* RelationshipUpgrade: Often when TheyDo (sleep together, that is) a couple [[TheirFirstTime sleeps together for the first time, time]], with the exception of Hope and Karl. Theirs occurs after they work things out, sleep together for the second (and third and...) time, and start officially dating.
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* ResurrectedMurderer: In life, Andrei Duchev was a RepulsiveRingmaster who mutiliated innocent people into horrible abominations who were in horrfic pain. His crimes were so severe that his victims were granted a MercyKill and he was branded one of the worst serial killers ever before his execution. Andrei was sent to a prison in purgatory where he feigned that he had reformed of evil. They released him so he could hunt the demonic serial killer known as the Nix. Instead it backfired and Andrei now as malevolent spirit became her serial killer buddy in raking up new atrocities in undeath.
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For tropes associated with other worlds, see OtherworldTropes. For the anime fan fiction series, see ''FanFic/TheOtherworldSeries''. For the 1985 live action series, see ''Series/{{Otherworld}}''.

''The Otherworld'' is an UrbanFantasy series by Kelley Armstrong, also marketed under the title ''Women of the Otherworld''. It's based on the idea that supernatural creatures exist, but hide behind the {{Masquerade}} from humans. Each novel is narrated by one of a rotating cast of supernatural women. The plots of each novel typically include action, mystery, and romance in equal proportions. While the novels can be read alone, or in order of each narrator, minor jokes and plot details only make sense to those who have read the earlier novels.

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For tropes associated with other worlds, see OtherworldTropes. For the anime fan fiction series, see ''FanFic/TheOtherworldSeries''.''Fanfic/TheOtherworldSeries''. For the 1985 live action series, see ''Series/{{Otherworld}}''.

''The Otherworld'' is an UrbanFantasy series by Kelley Armstrong, Creator/KelleyArmstrong, also marketed under the title ''Women of the Otherworld''. It's based on the idea that supernatural creatures exist, but hide behind the {{Masquerade}} from humans. Each novel is narrated by one of a rotating cast of supernatural women. The plots of each novel typically include action, mystery, and romance in equal proportions. While the novels can be read alone, or in order of each narrator, minor jokes and plot details only make sense to those who have read the earlier novels.



A television adaption, ''{{Series/Bitten}}'', was commissioned by the Canadian channel Space. Internationally, it airs on Creator/{{Syfy}} in the United States.

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A television adaption, ''{{Series/Bitten}}'', was commissioned by the Canadian channel Space.Creator/{{Space}}. Internationally, it airs on Creator/{{Syfy}} in the United States.

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