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* AccidentalIncantation: If someone speaks a Name, it takes effect, no matter their intent. This is invoked to trick [[spoiler:Bush]] into self-immolation by reading out some text with a segment that's phonetically identical to the Mortal Name.



* AllAccessibleMagic: Under the new rules of reality, each Name of God creates a discrete supernatural effect when spoken by a sentient being, whether or not they know what they're doing. Aaron spends some time working for a sweatshop that tries to discover new Names by brute-force recitation of syllable lists.



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* CrackInTheSky: This is the first and most visually impressive sign of the breakdown of physics, after the Apollo 8 capsule crashes into the crystal sphere.



* CrackInTheSky: This is the first and most visually impressive sign of the breakdown of physics, after the Apollo 8 capsule crashes into the crystal sphere.
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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Turns out to have been the Other King's StartOfDarkness. [[spoiler: The Comet King found out that the only way he could reform Hell without destroying the universe was to first become evil enough to deserve to go there, but he thinks that doing bad things for good reasons probably isn't enough. When his wife "sells" her soul to Thamiel, he gets a new motivation that actually works: he just wants to be with his wife again, and if that the rest of humanity has to suffer to make it happen, well, too bad for them.]]

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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Turns out to have been the Other King's StartOfDarkness. [[spoiler: The When the Comet King found out that the only way he could reform Hell without destroying the universe was to first become evil enough to deserve to go there, but he thinks that doing bad things for good reasons probably isn't enough. When his King's wife "sells" her soul to Thamiel, he gets a new motivation that actually works: he just wants to be with it solves his wife again, and if that dilemma about how to get damned to Hell on purpose: he stops caring about the rest of humanity the damned, and if becoming the worst EvilOverlord the world has ever seen is what it takes to suffer to make it happen, see her again, well, that's just too bad for them.the world.]]
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** See also ThanatosGambit, below.


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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Turns out to have been the Other King's StartOfDarkness. [[spoiler: The Comet King found out that the only way he could reform Hell without destroying the universe was to first become evil enough to deserve to go there, but he thinks that doing bad things for good reasons probably isn't enough. When his wife "sells" her soul to Thamiel, he gets a new motivation that actually works: he just wants to be with his wife again, and if that the rest of humanity has to suffer to make it happen, well, too bad for them.]]

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