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* GoLookAtTheDistraction: [[spoiler:Tara mind-controls Cat into checking in on Raz while they're in the hospital, so that she can talk to Shale by herself.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Tara using mind control on Cat (see Go Look At The Distraction) causes her to grow suspicious of her, and eventually leads to her believing that she's working with the gargoyles, whom she believes are responsible for Judge Cabot's death.]]
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* VampiresOwnNightclubs: Sort of. Alt Coulomb is home to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba Xibalba]], a nightclub named after the "[[FantasyCounterpartCulture Quechal]]" word for the underworld. It was started after the God Wars by those on the pro-Craft side of things, and while its founders aren't explicitly vampires, it is heavily patronized by vampires and others in that "subculture".
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* VampiresOwnNightclubs: Sort of. Alt Coulomb is home to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba Xibalba]], Xiltanda]], a nightclub named after the "[[FantasyCounterpartCulture Quechal]]" word for the underworld. It was started after the God Wars by those on the pro-Craft side of things, and while its founders aren't explicitly vampires, it is heavily patronized by vampires and others in that "subculture"."subculture".
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Gustave murdered Judge Cabot when he found out that he was trying to assist Kos in trying to bring Seril back to full power, since he believed that Seril abandoned Kos during the God Wars.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Gustave murdered Judge Cabot when he found out that he was trying to assist Kos in trying to bring Seril back to full power, since he believed that Seril abandoned Kos during the God Wars.]]
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* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Elayne Kevarian when Denovo robbed her of her will. She has a plan though.]]
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* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Elayne [[spoiler:Elayne Kevarian when Denovo robbed robs her of her will. will - again. She has a plan though.eventually manages to break free, though, and gets back at him at the end of the book.]]
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* KillItWithFire: The sorcerous priests of Kos ''Everburning'' rather naturally start throwing fire around when it comes time to do violence. Especially notable in being the only way Novice Abelard can fend off a horrifying shadow... Thing... Out shadow creature out to feed on his soul. [[spoiler:He uses his cigarette to harm it, which turns out to be a clue as to Kos's real fate.]]
* KissOfDeath: [[spoiler:A delayed variety - while Kevarian is under Denovo's control, he kisses her, and she uses the opportunity to breathe Craft into him, which he thought she couldn't do. Then, at the end of the book, it turns out that she passed him the creature from the church boiler room, and uses it to kill him as revenge.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Denovo to Cardinal Gustave.]]
* KissOfDeath: [[spoiler:A delayed variety - while Kevarian is under Denovo's control, he kisses her, and she uses the opportunity to breathe Craft into him, which he thought she couldn't do. Then, at the end of the book, it turns out that she passed him the creature from the church boiler room, and uses it to kill him as revenge.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Denovo to Cardinal Gustave.]]
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* EvilTeacher: Professor Denovo, Tara's former mentor, is a ''monster'' in ways that take most of the book for the reader to really appreciate. [[spoiler: He once [[MindRape stripped both Tara and Elayne of free will]]. He is a self-made HumanoidAbomination. And he has a ''completely plausible'' plan to make himself something rather greater than a god.]]
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* ChekovsGun: [[spoiler:The monster from the church boiler room.]]
* EvilTeacher: Professor Denovo, Tara's former mentor, is a ''monster'' in ways that take most of the book for the reader to really appreciate. [[spoiler: He once [[MindRape stripped both Tara and Elayne of freewill]].will, and pulls it again on the latter towards the end of the story]]. He is a self-made HumanoidAbomination. And he has a ''completely plausible'' plan to make himself something rather greater than a god.]]
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: Tara's town towards her when she was caught raising the dead.dead, ironically done to help protect them. Magical holy pitchforks, but pitchforks none the less. [[NotHelpingYourCase It didn't help]] that she felt [[ContractualGenreBlindness compelled]] to have a [[EvilLaugh hearty chuckle]] while doing it.
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* VampiresOwnNightclubs: Sort of. Alt Coulomb is home to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba Xibalba]], a nightclub named after the "[[FantasyCounterpartCulture Quechal]]" word for the underworld. It was started after the God Wars by those on the pro-Craft side of things, and while its founders aren't explicitly vampires, it is heavily patronized by vampires and others in that "subculture".
* VampiresOwnNightclubs: Sort of. Alt Coulomb is home to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba Xibalba]], a nightclub named after the "[[FantasyCounterpartCulture Quechal]]" word for the underworld. It was started after the God Wars by those on the pro-Craft side of things, and while its founders aren't explicitly vampires, it is heavily patronized by vampires and others in that "subculture".
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When Kos Everburning is found dead by His priesthood, the prestigious Concern of Kelethras, Albrecht and Ao is called in to salvage something of the situation with their Necromantic arts. Representing the firm are junior partner Elayne Kevarian, Kevarian and our protagonist, probational new hire Tara Abernathy, our protagonist.
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Within her first few hours on the job, Tara narrowly survives plummetting plummeting from the heavens ''again'', befriends a powerful vampire, is [[ItMakesSenseInContext forced by circumstances to steal a gargoyle's face]], and acquires accomplices in a chain-smoking priest and a junkie cop. Then things get complicated.
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* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler: Abelard didn't even notice.]]
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* EvilTeacher: Professor Denovo, Tara's former mentor, is a ''monster'' in ways that take most of the book for the reader to really appreciate. [[spoiler: He once [[MindRape stripped both Tara and Elain Elayne of free will]]. He is a self-made HumanoidAbomination. And he has a ''completely plausible'' plan to make himself something rather greater than a god.]]
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When Kos Everburning is found dead by His priesthood, the prestigious Concern of Kelethras, Albrecht and Ao is called in to salvage something of the situation with their Necromantic arts. Representing the firm are junior partner Elaine Elayne Kevarian, and probational new hire Tara Abernathy, our protagonist.
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* OurGargoylesRock: The Guardians [[VoluntaryShapeshifter can take human form]], but in their natural form they each have a completely unique appearance. They are ''immensely'' physically powerful and quick, too. They are servants of Seril, the city's moon goddess and guardian of order, created to be a supernatural police force; at her death, they went crazy and were banished from the city. [[spoiler: Except, they didn't ''all'' go crazy, and their goddess is NotQuiteDead.]]
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* OurGargoylesRock: The Guardians [[VoluntaryShapeshifter can take human form]], but in their natural form they each have a completely unique appearance. They are ''immensely'' physically powerful and quick, too. They are servants of Seril, the city's moon goddess and guardian of order, created to be a supernatural police force; at her death, they went crazy and were banished from the city. [[spoiler: Except, they didn't ''all'' go crazy, and their goddess is NotQuiteDead.]]]]
* TheObiWan: Elayne Krevarian to Tara. The way she throws Tara headlong into handling large parts of the case borders on SinkOrSwimMentor.
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* HiveMind: In Alt Coulomb, justice is administered by Justice-- an (all-volunteer!) corps of part-time [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid monstrosities]]. When their GameFace is on they have extreme strength and endurance, [[TheBlank no distinguishing features]], and a single incorruptible, implacable mind. Said mind [[spoiler:turns out to be that of a dead goddess, and her original followers aren't happy about it.]]
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Three Parts Dead is the first book of the Literature/CraftSequence by Literature/MaxGladstone. Its basic plot is: GodIsDead, and His estate is contested.
When Kos Everburning is found dead by His priesthood, the prestigious Concern of Kelethras, Albrecht and Ao is called in to salvage something of the situation with their Necromantic arts. Representing the firm are junior partner Elaine Kevarian, and probational new hire Tara Abernathy, our protagonist.
Tara was recently expelled from the Hidden Schools, a university of the Craft (the local name for magic) [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hidden]] above the clouds. Given she was expelled ''right off the balcony'' of said ''flying'' school, it's clear that she has made some powerful enemies, and her future employment as a practitioner of the Craft is by no means certain; she badly needs to impress her new employers.
Within her first few hours on the job, Tara narrowly survives plummetting from the heavens ''again'', befriends a powerful vampire, is [[ItMakesSenseInContext forced by circumstances to steal a gargoyle's face]], and acquires accomplices in a chain-smoking priest and a junkie cop. Then things get complicated.
Followed in the series by Literature/TwoSerepentsRise. See [[Literature/CraftSequence the series' page]] for tropes that are common to the whole Craft Sequence.
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!!''Three Parts Dead'' provides examples of:
* EvilTeacher: Professor Denovo, Tara's former mentor, is a ''monster'' in ways that take most of the book for the reader to really appreciate. [[spoiler: He once [[MindRape stripped both Tara and Elain of free will]]. He is a self-made HumanoidAbomination. And he has a ''completely plausible'' plan to make himself something rather greater than a god.]]
* MagicallyBindingContract: The Craft and Practical Theology are both powerfully rooted in these. In this book in particular, it's ''fundamental'' to the plot. Kelethras, Albrecht and Ao is portrayed at least as much like a law firm as it is like a cabal of necromancers, and an unfavourable contract coming due at just the wrong time seems to have been what killed Kos Everburning.
* OurGargoylesRock: The Guardians [[VoluntaryShapeshifter can take human form]], but in their natural form they each have a completely unique appearance. They are ''immensely'' physically powerful and quick, too. They are servants of Seril, the city's moon goddess and guardian of order, created to be a supernatural police force; at her death, they went crazy and were banished from the city. [[spoiler: Except, they didn't ''all'' go crazy, and their goddess is NotQuiteDead.]]
When Kos Everburning is found dead by His priesthood, the prestigious Concern of Kelethras, Albrecht and Ao is called in to salvage something of the situation with their Necromantic arts. Representing the firm are junior partner Elaine Kevarian, and probational new hire Tara Abernathy, our protagonist.
Tara was recently expelled from the Hidden Schools, a university of the Craft (the local name for magic) [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hidden]] above the clouds. Given she was expelled ''right off the balcony'' of said ''flying'' school, it's clear that she has made some powerful enemies, and her future employment as a practitioner of the Craft is by no means certain; she badly needs to impress her new employers.
Within her first few hours on the job, Tara narrowly survives plummetting from the heavens ''again'', befriends a powerful vampire, is [[ItMakesSenseInContext forced by circumstances to steal a gargoyle's face]], and acquires accomplices in a chain-smoking priest and a junkie cop. Then things get complicated.
Followed in the series by Literature/TwoSerepentsRise. See [[Literature/CraftSequence the series' page]] for tropes that are common to the whole Craft Sequence.
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!!''Three Parts Dead'' provides examples of:
* EvilTeacher: Professor Denovo, Tara's former mentor, is a ''monster'' in ways that take most of the book for the reader to really appreciate. [[spoiler: He once [[MindRape stripped both Tara and Elain of free will]]. He is a self-made HumanoidAbomination. And he has a ''completely plausible'' plan to make himself something rather greater than a god.]]
* MagicallyBindingContract: The Craft and Practical Theology are both powerfully rooted in these. In this book in particular, it's ''fundamental'' to the plot. Kelethras, Albrecht and Ao is portrayed at least as much like a law firm as it is like a cabal of necromancers, and an unfavourable contract coming due at just the wrong time seems to have been what killed Kos Everburning.
* OurGargoylesRock: The Guardians [[VoluntaryShapeshifter can take human form]], but in their natural form they each have a completely unique appearance. They are ''immensely'' physically powerful and quick, too. They are servants of Seril, the city's moon goddess and guardian of order, created to be a supernatural police force; at her death, they went crazy and were banished from the city. [[spoiler: Except, they didn't ''all'' go crazy, and their goddess is NotQuiteDead.]]
