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* Deconstructed in Creator/LyndonHardy's ''Literature/MasterOfTheFiveMagics'': Alodar starts out ''wanting'' to be TheChosenOne whom the queen will single out as royal hero and spouse, and his path from one mentor and clue to another ''seems'' to be leading him to some great destiny implied by the novel's very title. Except the woman he finds himself truly attracted to, and vice versa, is Lady Aeriel rather than the queen, and [[spoiler: the series of clues he follows wasn't laid out because anyone ''predicted'' a Chosen One would follow them someday, but because Handar and his fellow wizards knew that if anyone '''but''' someone skilled in all five branches of magic tried to confront a demon prince, they'd get squashed like a bug. Alodar wasn't so much a Chosen One as a Let's-Hope-Like-Hell-''Somebody''-Turns-Up-Who-Can-Handle-This One.]]
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* Deconstructed in Creator/LyndonHardy's ''Literature/MasterOfTheFiveMagics'': Alodar starts out ''wanting'' to be TheChosenOne whom the queen will single out as royal hero and spouse, and his path from one mentor and clue to another ''seems'' to be leading him to some great destiny implied by the novel's very title. Except the woman he finds himself truly attracted to, and vice versa, is Lady Aeriel rather than the queen, and [[spoiler: the series of clues he follows wasn't laid out because anyone ''predicted'' a Chosen One would follow them someday, but because Handar and his fellow wizards knew that if anyone '''but''' someone skilled in all five branches of magic tried to confront a demon prince, they'd get squashed like a bug. Alodar wasn't so much a Chosen One as a Let's-Hope-Like-Hell-''Somebody''-Turns-Up-Who-Can-Handle-This One.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': When Tempest was a kid, her mermaid mother Cecily used to read her a poem about a half-human, half-mermaid fighting in a great battle between good and evil. The last line is, "A Tempest rising, without fail." Kona tells her the poem is actually an ancient prophecy. Most merpeople and selkies think it's about Tempest because of her name, her ancestry, and her powerful magic. [[BigBad Tiamat]] thinks so too, and ever since Tempest was ten, she's been trying to kidnap her in order to use her magic against everyone else.
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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': ''Literature/Tempest2011'': When Tempest was a kid, her mermaid mother Cecily used to read her a poem about a half-human, half-mermaid fighting in a great battle between good and evil. The last line is, "A Tempest rising, without fail." Kona tells her the poem is actually an ancient prophecy. Most merpeople and selkies think it's about Tempest because of her name, her ancestry, and her powerful magic. [[BigBad Tiamat]] thinks so too, and ever since Tempest was ten, she's been trying to kidnap her in order to use her magic against everyone else.
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* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': When Tempest was a kid, her mermaid mother Cecily used to read her a poem about a half-human, half-mermaid fighting in a great battle between good and evil. The last line is, "A Tempest rising, without fail." Kona tells her the poem is actually an ancient prophecy. Most merpeople and selkies think it's about Tempest because of her name, her ancestry, and her powerful magic. [[BigBad Tiamat]] thinks so too, and ever since Tempest was ten, she's been trying to kidnap her in order to use her magic against everyone else.
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* Deconstructed in ''A Girl Of Fire and Thorns''. Godstone bearers are chosen to perform a great act of service for God. However, this could conceivably be any act, from digging a well to painting flowers, seemingly with no rhyme or reason. [[spoiler:By the end of the first book, several objects from previous bearers are used to forge an amulet to defeat the enemy mages.]] Scripture and prophecy regarding the bearers are so vague that they're basically useless, and Elisa eventually realizes that she has no way of knowing if she fulfilled prophecy or not. [[spoiler: In the end, despite Elisa having made peace with Invierne, defeated the deciregi, found the ''zafira'', and made countless invaluable discoveries concerning magic,God, and their peoples, it turns out the great destiny she was selected for was finding a random oasis. This prompts Elisa to realize that bearers are simply the [[ForWantOfANail nails]] that ensure {{Contrived Coincidence}}s for a much bigger plan, and she decides to compile everything she knows to be passed on to the next bearer.]]
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* Deconstructed in ''A Girl Of Fire and Thorns''.''Literature/AGirlOfFireAndThorns''. Godstone bearers are chosen to perform a great act of service for God. However, this could conceivably be any act, from digging a well to painting flowers, seemingly with no rhyme or reason. [[spoiler:By the end of the first book, several objects from previous bearers are used to forge an amulet to defeat the enemy mages.]] Scripture and prophecy regarding the bearers are so vague that they're basically useless, and Elisa eventually realizes that she has no way of knowing if she fulfilled prophecy or not. [[spoiler: In the end, despite Elisa having made peace with Invierne, defeated the deciregi, found the ''zafira'', and made countless invaluable discoveries concerning magic,God, and their peoples, it turns out the great destiny she was selected for was finding a random oasis. This prompts Elisa to realize that bearers are simply the [[ForWantOfANail nails]] people that ensure {{Contrived Coincidence}}s for a much bigger plan, and she decides to compile everything she knows to be passed on to the next bearer.]]
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* Constance Verity from the ''Constance Verity'' Trilogy is "The Snurkhab", a sort of MessiahArchetype who's destined for greatness, a grand, intergalactic conspiracy having been established to ensure that she fulfills her destiny and save the universe(s) from whatever threatens it. In her case, it makes her into a WeirdnessMagnet that has to slay every monster, unearth every AncientConspiracy and free every oppressed civilization she stumbles across. Root describes her as a sort of "corrective measure" for a universe that requires constant maintenance. [[spoiler:In the climax of ''Literature/TheLastAdventureOfConstanceVerity'', it's revealed that her status as the Chosen One is the result of an anomaly within The Engine's attempts at instill order onto a disorderly multiverse, making her "the embodiment of everything unpredictable.]]
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* Constance Verity from the ''Constance Verity'' ''Literature/ConstanceVerity'' Trilogy is "The Snurkhab", a sort of MessiahArchetype who's destined for greatness, a grand, intergalactic conspiracy having been established to ensure that she fulfills her destiny and save the universe(s) from whatever threatens it. In her case, it makes her into a WeirdnessMagnet that has to slay every monster, unearth every AncientConspiracy and free every oppressed civilization she stumbles across. Root describes her as a sort of "corrective measure" for a universe that requires constant maintenance. [[spoiler:In the climax of ''Literature/TheLastAdventureOfConstanceVerity'', it's revealed that her status as the Chosen One is the result of an anomaly within The Engine's attempts at instill order onto a disorderly multiverse, making her "the embodiment of everything unpredictable.]]
