History YMMV / ThePowderMageTrilogy

* ShipSinking: [[spoiler:Vlora and Taniel]] are potentially on track to rekindle their relationship, until [[spoiler:Vlora finds Olem and Taniel admits he loves Ka-Poel.]]

%%* Crazy Awesome: Mihali. [[spoiler:It only gets better when he admits he really is Adom.]]

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Tamas. He actively worries that his public popularity as the face of the coup will inevitably lead to more war and worries about how to avoid becoming a Napoleon figure.]]
** [[spoiler: Mihali...or is he?]]

* MagnificentBastard: Several.
** For starters, ''Tamas'', always in stylish Adran blues and more than willing to manipulate national events for years to realize the dream of a free Adro.
** Lord Vetas is a more evil counterpart to Tamas, though the two never meet.
** Lord Claremont, [[spoiler:or should we say Brude,]] is essentially the god of Magnificent Bastards.

* CrazyAwesome: Mihali. [[spoiler:It only gets better when he admits he really is Adom.]]

** [[AristocratsAreEvil Duke Nikslaus]] is an arrogant Privileged, a mage, who despises Powder Mages and serves the king of Kez. In the past, when the Powder Mage Tamas's wife, also a Powder Mage, was assisting their fellow Powder Mages escape Kez, Nikslaus murdered her and [[DecapitationPresentation presented her head]] to Tamas. Insulting Tamas later when he launches his coup against the corrupt nobility, Nikslaus manipulates him into striking out at Nikslaus so Kez can declare war on Tamas's own nation of Adro and brutally annex it. In the second book, Nikslaus proceeds to attack a neutral nation with his men disguised as Adro soldiers to win them to Kez's side. Nikslaus's army occupies a town with men, women and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] brutally executed and Nikslaus planning to immolate the entire city while having his army slaughter any survivors. While trying to paint himself as a soldier JustFollowingOrders, Nikslaus takes perverse delight in his work, viewing it as a fitting way to exercise his own supposed brilliance, even [[EvilIsPetty being petty enough]] to hire a young noble to seduce Tamas's son's fiancee to publicly humiliate the family.
** ''Sins of Empire'': [[BloodKnight Fidel Jes]], grandmaster of Landfall, makes it a point to kill several men a day before his morning coffee in duels he provokes. Dedicated to stamping out any hint of resistance from the Palo people, Jes regularly conducts [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and executions and has killed so many in his duels that the stones themselves are stained from all the blood Jes has spilled. A [[SociopathicSoldier war criminal]] as well, Jes had a war hero named "Mad" Ben Styke imprisoned for refusing Jes's orders to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a group of children]] in war. When Styke manages to confront Jes again, Jes defeats him and orders Ben healed just so Jes can enjoy torturing him again and again. When he is ordered to locate an artifact called the Godstone, Jes takes Landfall's army, but lies to them, claiming reinforcements are coming to defend Landfall from an incoming invasion when Jes knows the city will be helpless and brutally sacked.

* CaptainObviousReveal: Mihali uses magic to create his food and casts spells on people with it. We see this happen to more than one POV character before Mihali actually admits it. Furthermore, his "mad" claim to be the god Adom reborn isn't mad at all.

** According to Borbador, most of the Adran cabal and most royal cabals in general are made of [[CompleteMonster complete monsters]]. Bo eventually admits that [[spoiler:he was overjoyed when Tamas slaughtered them.]]

** ''Sins of Empire'': In this first book of the SequelSeries ''Gods of Blood and Powder'', [[BloodKnight Fidel Jes]], grandmaster of Landfall, makes it a point to kill several men a day before his morning coffee in duels he provokes. Dedicated to stamping out any hint of resistance from the Palo people, Jes regularly conducts [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and executions and has killed so many in his duels that the stones themselves are stained from all the blood Jes has spilled. A [[SociopathicSoldier war criminal]] as well, Jes had a war hero named "Mad" Ben Styke imprisoned for refusing Jes's orders to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a group of children]] in war. When Styke manages to confront Jes again, Jes defeats him and orders Ben healed just so Jes can enjoy torturing him again and again. When he is ordered to locate an artifact called the Godstone, Jes takes Landfall's army, but lies to them, claiming reinforcements are coming to defend Landfall from an incoming invasion when Jes knows the city will be helpless and brutally sacked.

* ShipSinking: [[spoiler:Vlora and Taniel]] are potentially on track to rekindle their relationship, until [[spoiler:Vlora finds Olem and Taniel admits he loves Ka-Poel.]]

** ''Sins of Empire'': In this first book of the SequelSeries ''Gods of Blood and Powder'', [[BloodKnight Fidel Jes]], grandmaster of Landfall, makes it a point to kill several men a day before his morning coffee in duels he provokes. Dedicated to stamping out any hint of resistance from the Palo people, Jes regularly conducts [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and executions and has killed so many in his duels that the stones themselves are stained from all the blood Jes has spilled. A [[SociopathicSoldier war criminal]] as well, Jes had a war hero named "Mad" Ben Styke imprisoned for refusing Jes's orders to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a group of children]] in war. When Styke manages to confront Jes again, Jes defeats him and orders Ben healed just so Jes can enjoy torturing him again and again. When he is ordered to locate an artifact called the Godstone, Jes takes Landfall's army, but lies to them, claiming reinforcements are coming to defend Landfall from an incoming invasion when Jes knows the city will be helpless and brutally sacked.

* ''Sins of Empire'': In this first book of the SequelSeries ''Gods of Blood and Powder'', [[BloodKnight Fidel Jes]], grandmaster of Landfall, makes it a point to kill several men a day before his morning coffee in duels he provokes. Dedicated to stamping out any hint of resistance from the Palo people, Jes regularly conducts [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and executions and has killed so many in his duels that the stones themselves are stained from all the blood Jes has spilled. A [[SociopathicSoldier war criminal]] as well, Jes had a war hero named "Mad" Ben Styke imprisoned for refusing Jes's orders to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a group of children]] in war. When Styke manages to confront Jes again, Jes defeats him and orders Ben healed just so Jes can enjoy torturing him again and again. When he is ordered to locate an artifact called the Godstone, Jes takes Landfall's army, but lies to them, claiming reinforcements are coming to defend Landfall from an incoming invasion when Jes knows the city will be helpless and brutally sacked.

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Duke Nikslaus]] is an arrogant Privileged, a mage, who despises Powder Mages and serves the king of Kez. In the past, when the Powder Mage Tamas's wife, also a Powder Mage, was assisting their fellow Powder Mages escape Kez, Nikslaus murdered her and [[DecapitationPresentation presented her head]] to Tamas. Insulting Tamas later when he launches his coup against the corrupt nobility, Nikslaus manipulates him into striking out at Nikslaus so Kez can declare war on Tamas's own nation of Adro and brutally annex it. In the second book, Nikslaus proceeds to attack a neutral nation with his men disguised as Adro soldiers to win them to Kez's side. Nikslaus's army occupies a town with men, women and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] brutally executed and Nikslaus planning to immolate the entire city while having his army slaughter any survivors. While trying to paint himself as a soldier JustFollowingOrders, Nikslaus takes perverse delight in his work, viewing it as a fitting way to exercise his own supposed brilliance, even [[EvilIsPetty being petty enough]] to hire a young noble to seduce Tamas's son's fiancee to publicly humiliate the family.