Fridge / The Elenium

• Fridge Brilliance: Talen being so good at thief skills matches with the rest of his family being so good at their respective skills. They all are observant, but Talen uses his natural talents and knack for different things than the rest of his family.
• Fridge Horror: When a God or Goddess dies, the magic they did ends, i.e., the gold that Azash created vanished after his defeat. So, what happens when the Trolls all die and Zalasta comes out of No-Time with all of his magic power and a burning hatred of those that defeated him?
  • It is hard to say, since from Zalasta's perspective the Trolls will never die — the point of No-Time is that time doesn't pass, and in Zalasta's case this was at a time when the Troll Gods are still as strong as ever.
    • Zalasta was not put into no-time the way Baron Parok was, so he will be there when the Troll-Gods die. However, since their magic is also sustaining his life, he'll probably crumble into dust instantaneously as his age catches up to him.
  • A God doesn't die when all his followers die - just become utterly powerless, which is "as good as dead", but not the same thing. That's even worse news for Zalasta, as not only the Troll-Gods spell won't go away, but they'll eventually become unable to cancel it even if they wanted. Sucks to be him.
• Fridge Logic:
  • It's said several times that what people call 'magic' is in essence asking a god to perform an action for you. After Azash and Cyrgon die, how the hell could Zalasta perform magic?
    • Specifically, sanctioned Styric magic is asking a god to perform an action for you. There are other ways of doing magic, like the way renegade Styrics call upon powers of the imprisoned Elder Gods...or rather, the same powers the Elder Gods use (like the one who could call upon demons and otherworldly monsters). In fact, Zalasta never received power from Azash at all, and likely not much if anything from Cyrgon. He's basically the greatest Styric magician in history and didn't need them.
  • Has anyone else noticed that with Ehlana's being barren, there will be no more Sparhawks as he has no son- and thus, no more champions? Nobody in the books did, and Sparhawk at least should find this to be a fairly major issue.
    • It's implied that Talen will be taking up the position.
    • Though there are also a few hints at Khalad; what with Sparhawk's insistence that Khalad will be a knight and the 'Danae is interested in Talen' thing — Sparhawk might not be satisfied if the exact same issue is just delayed a generation. That and Khalad seems set on continuing in his family's footsteps and serving the Sparhawks, and since the Sparhawk line is from Danae on joined with the royal line...
    • How about the fridge logic of the known symptom of a poison that is (barring Bheliom) universally fatal being known to cause sterility? If the patient is dead, who is really going to know or care that it also prevents the patient from being pregnant?
    • Other known cures for the poison are mentioned. It's just that they're all gone or even more unavailable than Bhelliom (for example, one was powdered, which worked but obviously destroyed the cure in the process).
  • Ulath tells the story of a knight that left the Order and sought refuge in a monastery after an Ogress fell in love with him. Who in the story is a former knight, current religious figure, who obviously misses his days of adventure and violence? Bergsten!
• The Elene God is the God of free-thinking and logic. Boring like all hell, sure, but his main purpose seems to be to shield his followers from religion, refusing to answer prayer and generally letting his followers make their own minds and decide their own paths. Sure, the approach doesn't quite work when an Eldritch Abomination tries to invade, but otherwise he's practically the god of Atheism.