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[[folder:FiveManBand]]
* TheHero -- Elaos
* TheLancer -- Ciartan
* TheSmartGuy -- Cordomine
* TheChick -- Xipho
* TheBigGuy -- Gain (has to go somewhere)
* [[{{Sidekick}} The Sidekick]] -- Monach
[[/folder]]
[[folder:FiveBadBand]]
* TheBigBad -- Tazenticus
* TheDragon -- Ciartan
* [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]] -- Cordomine
* TheBrute -- Monach
* TheDarkChick -- Xipho
[[/folder]]
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[[folder:FiveManBand]]
* TheHero -- Elaos
* TheLancer -- Ciartan
* TheSmartGuy -- Cordomine
* TheChick -- Xipho
* TheBigGuy -- Gain (has to go somewhere)
* [[{{Sidekick}} The Sidekick]] -- Monach
[[/folder]]
[[folder:FiveBadBand]]
* TheBigBad -- Tazenticus
* TheDragon -- Ciartan
* [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]] -- Cordomine
* TheBrute -- Monach
* TheDarkChick -- Xipho
[[/folder]]
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* WarIsHell
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'''Just for fun:''' (Spoilers)
[[folder:FiveManBand]]
* TheHero -- Elaos
* TheLancer -- Ciartan
* TheSmartGuy -- Cordomine
* TheChick -- Xipho
* TheBigGuy -- Gain (has to go somewhere)
* [[{{Sidekick}} The Sidekick]] -- Monach
[[/folder]]
[[folder:FiveBadBand]]
* TheBigBad -- Tazenticus
* TheDragon -- Ciartan
* [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]] -- Cordomine
* TheBrute -- Monach
* TheDarkChick -- Xipho
[[/folder]]
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'''Just for fun:''' (Spoilers)
[[folder:FiveManBand]]
* TheHero -- Elaos
* TheLancer -- Ciartan
* TheSmartGuy -- Cordomine
* TheChick -- Xipho
* TheBigGuy -- Gain (has to go somewhere)
* [[{{Sidekick}} The Sidekick]] -- Monach
[[/folder]]
[[folder:FiveBadBand]]
* TheBigBad -- Tazenticus
* TheDragon -- Ciartan
* [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]] -- Cordomine
* TheBrute -- Monach
* TheDarkChick -- Xipho
[[/folder]]
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''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by Creator/KJParker is a LowFantasy set in an empire threatened from outside by raiders and torn from within by conspiracy. We meet Poldarn, the protagonist, as he wakes alone on a body-strewn battlefield with no idea who he is. He is an innocent blank. Encounters with people who knew him lead to distaster: Poldarn aches to recover his past, but this past is [[DarkAndTroubledPast ticking]].
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''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by Creator/KJParker is a LowFantasy set in an empire threatened from outside by raiders and torn from within by conspiracy. We meet Poldarn, the protagonist, as he wakes alone on a body-strewn battlefield with no idea who he is. He is an innocent blank. Encounters with people who knew him lead to distaster: disaster: Poldarn aches to recover his past, but this past is [[DarkAndTroubledPast ticking]].
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''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by {{KJ Parker}} Creator/KJParker is a LowFantasy set in an empire threatened from outside by raiders and torn from within by conspiracy. We meet Poldarn, the protagonist, as he wakes alone on a body-strewn battlefield with no idea who he is. He is an innocent blank. Encounters with people who knew him lead to distaster: Poldarn aches to recover his past, but this past is [[DarkAndTroubledPast ticking]].
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''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by {{K.J.{{KJ Parker}} is a LowFantasy set in an empire threatened from outside by raiders and torn from within by conspiracy. We meet Poldarn, the protagonist, as he wakes alone on a body-strewn battlefield with no idea who he is. He is an innocent blank. Encounters with people who knew him lead to distaster: Poldarn aches to recover his past, but this past is [[DarkAndTroubledPast ticking]].
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''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by {{K. J. J.Parker}} is a LowFantasy set in an empire threatened from outside by raiders and torn from within by conspiracy. We meet Poldarn, the protagonist, as he wakes alone on a body-strewn battlefield with no idea who he is. He is an innocent blank. Encounters with people who knew him lead to distaster: Poldarn aches to recover his past, but this past is [[DarkAndTroubledPast ticking]].
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''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by {{K.J J. Parker}} is a LowFantasy set in an empire threatened from outside by raiders and torn from within by conspiracy. We meet Poldarn, the protagonist, as he wakes alone on a body-strewn battlefield with no idea who he is. He is an innocent blank. Encounters with people who knew him lead to distaster: Poldarn aches to recover his past, but this past is [[DarkAndTroubledPast ticking]].
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''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by K.{{K.J Parker Parker}} is a LowFantasy set in an empire threatened from outside by raiders and torn from within by conspiracy. We meet Poldarn, the protagonist, as he wakes alone on a body-strewn battlefield with no idea who he is. He is an innocent blank. Encounters with people who knew him lead to distaster: Poldarn aches to recover his past, but this past is [[DarkAndTroubledPast ticking]].
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* CombatAestheticist: The sword monks of ''TheScavengerTrilogy'' devote their lives to combat asthetics. They raise fighting to a form of sculpture -- an artwork carved in time, position and flesh.
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* CombatAestheticist: The sword monks of ''TheScavengerTrilogy'' devote their lives to combat asthetics. They raise fighting to a form of sculpture -- an artwork carved in time, position and flesh.
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''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by K.J Parker is a LowFantasy set in an empire threatened from outside by raiders and torn from within by conspiracy. We meet Poldarn, the protagonist, as he wakes alone on a body-strewn battlefield with no idea who he is. He is an innocent blank. Encounters with people who knew him lead to distaster: Poldarn aches to recover his past, but this past is [[DarkAndTroubledPast ticking]].
The supernatural is present but low key. Even the god that may be stalking the characters is only ambiguously real. The writing is excellent and but dense in places. Rather than ViewersAreMorons, Viewers Are Expected To Be Taking Notes. Part of the complexity comes from the extensive uses of dream sequences. In his dreams Poldarn sees the past and the future, from his own eyes and those of other characters. When this verges on AnachronicOrder it is challenging first time through.
Technology, the material culture of this world gets an extended look-in. Parker is interested in work as well as fighting, and makes things in RealLife and this comes [[ShownTheirWork through]].
A very meaty series with much food for thought, but be warned: the trilogy is bloody and ''dark''. The prose is assured, the tone is calm and the humour bitingly funny. The subject matter, however, is bleak and the treatment of it cruel. [[http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/pattern.htm A review]] made the comparison to watching a "massive road accident happening in slow motion". The bitter satire is however welded to an engaging story; the quest for Poldarn's mysterious past and the calamitous adventures he has along the way.
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!!Tropes
* AnachronicOrder: Not quite, but we can see it without squinting. A character dreams of remembering a dream containing visions of the then-future, his now-past...
* BatmanGambit: Ciartan and the crows, several deep long-range conspiracies [[spoiler:as plotted by Deymeson, Tazenticus, Ciartan, Cordomine, Anathamy House and possibly the ''other'' Poldarn]].
* ButtMonkey: Poldarn, endlessly. Monkey with a ''knife'', rabies. Sharp teeth.
* CombatAestheticist: The sword monks of ''TheScavengerTrilogy'' devote their lives to combat asthetics. They raise fighting to a form of sculpture -- an artwork carved in time, position and flesh.
* CombatPragmatist: Poldarn, as a life's work. The islanders are Combat Pragmatists, drawing on the hard bitten practicality they have soaked into their bones. Their confrontation with the sword monks is played as clash of antithetical philosophies.
* CosmicPlaything: [[spoiler: Poldarn: events are possibly being manipulated by the god of the same name to teach him a lesson. Out of jealous love or for revenge ... it's not clear.]]
* CrapsackWorld: And how! So little secure government, and you don't want to know what is driving what order there is.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Yeesh. Poldarn. [[spoiler:You can't blame him for running from it.]]
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The series shows war as the graceless waste it is, but the extended passages on on the ''poetry'' of violence give an ambiguous counterpoint.
* DoomMagnet: That's probably the literal translation of "Poldarn".
* EmotionsVsStoicism: One of the roots of evil explored is unbridled emotion. Stoicism is more respected. [[spoiler:By the end however, the sinister extreme of lacking all drives befalls several stoic characters.]]
* FlashBack: In places there's more flashback than straight narrative.
* GambitPileup: Half the fun is the giddy sense of grand plans coliding in the dark.
* GodIsEvil: if you have to pray, pray the god called Poldarn isn't real. You don't want his special salvation.
* HowWeGotHere: The whole series is an extended journey to appreciate how we got to the start of the story.
* HumbleGoal: Poldarn wants to stay dry and not have people try to kill him. He doesn't generally achieve even this goal.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: With the saving grace of a clear focus on a moderate number of central characters.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Several characters cause great harm under the influence. [[spoiler: Ciartan's obsession with Xipho leads him to kill her unborn child. His love of Xipho and his schoolmates leads to his pivotal betrayal of Tazenticus. Lysalis seems hollowed out by it, and is capable of doing anything in its name, as would her father.]]
* LowFantasy: [[spoiler:Very low-key mind-reading, glimpses of the future, and possibly a god.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: For a series that suceeds with its realism so often, the ability of characters to maintain sophisticated conversations in extremity is a bit jarring.
* NinjaSchool: Deymeson, roughly speaking.
* ShownTheirWork: Excellent detail of material culture in use and manufacture, which might get a bit lengthy for those readers not into that sort of thing. Parker makes things in RealLife and the first-hand experience shines through, particularly in the smithy.
* TheUnfettered: Poldarn is simutaneously a celebration and a warning about The Unfetted character archetype. He is at his most compelling when he is acting with a pure vision of getting from A to B regardless. But he is undone by it, over and over.
* TheVamp: Herda.
* WarIsHell
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'''Just for fun:''' (Spoilers)
[[folder:FiveManBand]]
* TheHero -- Elaos
* TheLancer -- Ciartan
* TheSmartGuy -- Cordomine
* TheChick -- Xipho
* TheBigGuy -- Gain (has to go somewhere)
* [[{{Sidekick}} The Sidekick]] -- Monach
[[/folder]]
[[folder:FiveBadBand]]
* TheBigBad -- Tazenticus
* TheDragon -- Ciartan
* [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]] -- Cordomine
* TheBrute -- Monach
* TheDarkChick -- Xipho
[[/folder]]
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''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by K.J Parker is a LowFantasy set in an empire threatened from outside by raiders and torn from within by conspiracy. We meet Poldarn, the protagonist, as he wakes alone on a body-strewn battlefield with no idea who he is. He is an innocent blank. Encounters with people who knew him lead to distaster: Poldarn aches to recover his past, but this past is [[DarkAndTroubledPast ticking]].
The supernatural is present but low key. Even the god that may be stalking the characters is only ambiguously real. The writing is excellent and but dense in places. Rather than ViewersAreMorons, Viewers Are Expected To Be Taking Notes. Part of the complexity comes from the extensive uses of dream sequences. In his dreams Poldarn sees the past and the future, from his own eyes and those of other characters. When this verges on AnachronicOrder it is challenging first time through.
Technology, the material culture of this world gets an extended look-in. Parker is interested in work as well as fighting, and makes things in RealLife and this comes [[ShownTheirWork through]].
A very meaty series with much food for thought, but be warned: the trilogy is bloody and ''dark''. The prose is assured, the tone is calm and the humour bitingly funny. The subject matter, however, is bleak and the treatment of it cruel. [[http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/pattern.htm A review]] made the comparison to watching a "massive road accident happening in slow motion". The bitter satire is however welded to an engaging story; the quest for Poldarn's mysterious past and the calamitous adventures he has along the way.
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!!Tropes
* AnachronicOrder: Not quite, but we can see it without squinting. A character dreams of remembering a dream containing visions of the then-future, his now-past...
* BatmanGambit: Ciartan and the crows, several deep long-range conspiracies [[spoiler:as plotted by Deymeson, Tazenticus, Ciartan, Cordomine, Anathamy House and possibly the ''other'' Poldarn]].
* ButtMonkey: Poldarn, endlessly. Monkey with a ''knife'', rabies. Sharp teeth.
* CombatAestheticist: The sword monks of ''TheScavengerTrilogy'' devote their lives to combat asthetics. They raise fighting to a form of sculpture -- an artwork carved in time, position and flesh.
* CombatPragmatist: Poldarn, as a life's work. The islanders are Combat Pragmatists, drawing on the hard bitten practicality they have soaked into their bones. Their confrontation with the sword monks is played as clash of antithetical philosophies.
* CosmicPlaything: [[spoiler: Poldarn: events are possibly being manipulated by the god of the same name to teach him a lesson. Out of jealous love or for revenge ... it's not clear.]]
* CrapsackWorld: And how! So little secure government, and you don't want to know what is driving what order there is.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Yeesh. Poldarn. [[spoiler:You can't blame him for running from it.]]
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The series shows war as the graceless waste it is, but the extended passages on on the ''poetry'' of violence give an ambiguous counterpoint.
* DoomMagnet: That's probably the literal translation of "Poldarn".
* EmotionsVsStoicism: One of the roots of evil explored is unbridled emotion. Stoicism is more respected. [[spoiler:By the end however, the sinister extreme of lacking all drives befalls several stoic characters.]]
* FlashBack: In places there's more flashback than straight narrative.
* GambitPileup: Half the fun is the giddy sense of grand plans coliding in the dark.
* GodIsEvil: if you have to pray, pray the god called Poldarn isn't real. You don't want his special salvation.
* HowWeGotHere: The whole series is an extended journey to appreciate how we got to the start of the story.
* HumbleGoal: Poldarn wants to stay dry and not have people try to kill him. He doesn't generally achieve even this goal.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: With the saving grace of a clear focus on a moderate number of central characters.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Several characters cause great harm under the influence. [[spoiler: Ciartan's obsession with Xipho leads him to kill her unborn child. His love of Xipho and his schoolmates leads to his pivotal betrayal of Tazenticus. Lysalis seems hollowed out by it, and is capable of doing anything in its name, as would her father.]]
* LowFantasy: [[spoiler:Very low-key mind-reading, glimpses of the future, and possibly a god.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: For a series that suceeds with its realism so often, the ability of characters to maintain sophisticated conversations in extremity is a bit jarring.
* NinjaSchool: Deymeson, roughly speaking.
* ShownTheirWork: Excellent detail of material culture in use and manufacture, which might get a bit lengthy for those readers not into that sort of thing. Parker makes things in RealLife and the first-hand experience shines through, particularly in the smithy.
* TheUnfettered: Poldarn is simutaneously a celebration and a warning about The Unfetted character archetype. He is at his most compelling when he is acting with a pure vision of getting from A to B regardless. But he is undone by it, over and over.
* TheVamp: Herda.
* WarIsHell
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'''Just for fun:''' (Spoilers)
[[folder:FiveManBand]]
* TheHero -- Elaos
* TheLancer -- Ciartan
* TheSmartGuy -- Cordomine
* TheChick -- Xipho
* TheBigGuy -- Gain (has to go somewhere)
* [[{{Sidekick}} The Sidekick]] -- Monach
[[/folder]]
[[folder:FiveBadBand]]
* TheBigBad -- Tazenticus
* TheDragon -- Ciartan
* [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]] -- Cordomine
* TheBrute -- Monach
* TheDarkChick -- Xipho
[[/folder]]
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