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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Sophos shooting the Mede Ambassador.
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* AmputativeSentencing:This is the penalty applied to [[spoiler:Eugenides by the Queen of Attolia.]] In a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], it's noted by other characters that while amputation of the hand is technically still on the books as a legal punishment for thieves, it's considered incredibly barbaric and backwards, and the nation of Attolia hasn't practiced it in decades, at least. The queen simply hated living in fear of [[spoiler:Eugenides deciding to break his rule against assassination]] so much that she decided it was worth it anyway.
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* TheXOfY: All the titles after the first book. Well, and A X of Y.
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* TheXOfY: All the titles after the first book. Well, and A An X of Y.
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* FantasticDrug: Quinalums, used by priests and priestesses to induce trances and visions. Although lethium is explicitly some kind of opium extraction, the chemical origin of quinalums isn't specified.[[spoiler]]Not that there aren't plenty of real-world candidates.[[/note]]
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* FantasticDrug: Quinalums, used by priests and priestesses to induce trances and visions. Although lethium is explicitly some kind of opium extraction, the chemical origin of quinalums isn't specified.[[spoiler]]Not [[note]]Not that there aren't plenty of real-world candidates.[[/note]]
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* AnAesop: Phresine tells Eugenides a story about a king who is prevented from breaking his vow to a goddess by his friend, but, still ashamed, tells the goddess she should punish him anyway, because he ''would'' have broken his promise without help. The goddess tells him that being able to keep the loyalty of someone who will help him still counts as keeping his vow--in other words, there's nothing wrong with accepting someone else's assistance.
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* CuffsOffRubWrists: Averted with Gen at the very beginning of the series. Several months of jail time does ''not'' do your wrists any favors. Particularly because at the beginning of his sentence, he would regularly slip the cuffs off and have to jam them back on every time a guard came by. By the time he's freed and Pol has a look at them, one wrist has sores infected deep enough that they need to be lanced with a knife.
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* ThemeNaming: Amusingly subverted for irony: the [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask beautiful, ruthless]] queen of Attolia is named Irene (meaning ''peace''), while the kind, mannish, and ugly (or at least unattractive) queen of Eddis is named Helen (after "the woman who launched a thousand ships”). Both queens [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this in the second book.
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* ThemeNaming: Amusingly subverted for irony: the [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask beautiful, ruthless]] beautiful and ruthless queen of Attolia is named Irene (meaning ''peace''), while the kind, mannish, and ugly (or at least unattractive) queen of Eddis is named Helen (after "the woman who launched a thousand ships”). Both queens [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this in the second book.
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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Attolia.
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** Attolia and Sophos. Both begin as naive, sheltered children who become unlikely rulers that inherit thrones in countries with disloyal, scheming, and backstabbing, if not outright rebellious, nobility, and both learn that they have to sacrifice some of their idealism to take control. But while Attolia has always been reserved and crows colder the more she holds power alone, Sophos has a handful of loyal friends and supporters. And while she's TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask, he wears his heart on his sleeve and is a ''terrible'' liar.
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** Attolia and Sophos. Both begin as naive, sheltered children who become unlikely rulers that inherit thrones in countries with disloyal, scheming, and backstabbing, if not outright rebellious, nobility, and both learn that they have to sacrifice some of their idealism to take control. But while Attolia has always been reserved and crows colder the more she holds power alone, Sophos has a handful of loyal friends and supporters. And while she's TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask, wears a ToughLeaderFacade, he wears his heart on his sleeve and is a ''terrible'' liar.
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* MarriageOfConvenience:
** Eugenides may have had a crush on Attolia from a young age, but her initial feelings on him were much cooler, and she primarily agreed to marry him to foil a Medean attempt to annex her country. Due to a combination of Irene's carefully cultivated emotionally distant demeanor and their complicated shared history, it takes most of the third book for them to work through their relationship and truly love each other.
** Sophos and Helen form a relationship with much more affection for each other, but their marriage was contingent on Sophos actually being confirmed as the king of Sounis before they could proceed.
** Eugenides may have had a crush on Attolia from a young age, but her initial feelings on him were much cooler, and she primarily agreed to marry him to foil a Medean attempt to annex her country. Due to a combination of Irene's carefully cultivated emotionally distant demeanor and their complicated shared history, it takes most of the third book for them to work through their relationship and truly love each other.
** Sophos and Helen form a relationship with much more affection for each other, but their marriage was contingent on Sophos actually being confirmed as the king of Sounis before they could proceed.
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* TheUnreveal:
** "Melheret's Earrings" in ''Moira's Pen'' ends with [[spoiler:Melheret being recalled to the capital after the failure of the invasion and his choice to go, in case the emperor truly wants his counsel, even though it's more likely that the emperor will scapegoat and kill him. We don't find out what happens to him.]]
** "Gitta" in ''Moira's Pen'' reveals that Eugenides and Irene [[spoiler:lost their son Hector to a mysterious disappearance, but the circumstances are not elucidated. Also, Pheris helped Eugenia flee the country because she didn't want to rule it, and she hated the country of Attolia as a result. We're left to imagine the details of this saga.]]
** "Melheret's Earrings" in ''Moira's Pen'' ends with [[spoiler:Melheret being recalled to the capital after the failure of the invasion and his choice to go, in case the emperor truly wants his counsel, even though it's more likely that the emperor will scapegoat and kill him. We don't find out what happens to him.]]
** "Gitta" in ''Moira's Pen'' reveals that Eugenides and Irene [[spoiler:lost their son Hector to a mysterious disappearance, but the circumstances are not elucidated. Also, Pheris helped Eugenia flee the country because she didn't want to rule it, and she hated the country of Attolia as a result. We're left to imagine the details of this saga.]]
