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* JumpedAtTheCall: Cedric the [[TheChosenOne Chosen]], [[BloodKnight Hart]] the [[TheBigGuy Champion]] and [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Merzhin]] the [[BadassPreacher Saint]] of the current generation's heroes all enthusiastically joined the war against the Ravener. [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Drestra]] the [[TheArchmage Sage]], not so much.
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*FluffyTheTerrible: Harmless the crocodile who's being fed enhancement potions so he'll grow even larger and stronger than normal. Purely as a joke.
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* FiveManBand: Despite always being a group of five with set roles, the heroes don't automatically fit into this trope, though two are fairly close:
** TheLeader: The Chosen is explicitly this and given all-round combat and leadership abilities rather than specialising in any one role.
** TheChick: The Fool is basically the heart of the group, designed to support the others with their non-combat skills, but is granted to either gender.
** TheLeader: The Chosen is explicitly this and given all-round combat and leadership abilities rather than specialising in any one role.
** TheChick: The Fool is basically the heart of the group, designed to support the others with their non-combat skills, but is granted to either gender.
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* WeaponsGradeVocabulary: Alex goes with class, into hell. They discuss list of demons they may meet, and goal is triplets that have ability to [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/41618/mark-of-the-fool/chapter/1084421/chapter-477-the-ruined-demon-city laugh]] that directly harms people.
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* TheChosenOne: A divine mark appears on those who are chosen, selected by the god Uldar from those who have just turned eighteen.
* DistinguishingMark: A magically glowing symbol appears on the shoulder of those chosen, in the shape of the role granted them. Alex's, as the Fool, is a grinning jester's face.
* DistinguishingMark: A magically glowing symbol appears on the shoulder of those chosen, in the shape of the role granted them. Alex's, as the Fool, is a grinning jester's face.
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: While the mark interfering with casting magic does somewhat suck for a student at wizard school, with practice Alex just casts spells slower than others. When combined with the the ability to learn ''anything else'' much faster (including magical theory and alchemy) Alex slowly comes around to the idea that the mark might actually be pretty cool.
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* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: When Alex tries to confess his love to Theresa, he is interrupted first by the host of the party they are at, then by a monster attack. [[spoiler:Subverted, Alex is well aware of this trope and quickly confesses to Theresa before they get ready for the fight.]]
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Alex's initial reaction to becoming the latest Fool.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Alex's initial reaction to becoming the latest Fool.
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* WeakButSkilled: Alex will never learn a lot of spells, nor cast them particularly fast, but he can learn to cast them really well and learn to use them in unexpected ways.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted. Theresa's parents support and help Alex and Theresa escape, and the faculty at Generasi are both competent and understanding when Alex comes to them with problems or requests.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: Since the Fool's Mark interferes with spellcasting, one of Alex's tutors points out that it doesn't matter how well Alex can cast them if he can't cast them quickly enough to react to sudden danger.
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* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The general attitude to the Fool's Mark. At best they're support or TheHeart, in worse cases they become an HeroicSacrifice or even undergo a FaceHeelTurn.
* WizardingSchool: Generasi is city built around the best university in the world for magical learning. Princes and future court mages come from across the world to study, but it will accept anyone who can prove they have sufficient talent.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The general attitude to the Fool's Mark. At best they're support or TheHeart, in worse cases they become an HeroicSacrifice or even undergo a FaceHeelTurn.
* WizardingSchool: Generasi is city built around the best university in the world for magical learning. Princes and future court mages come from across the world to study, but it will accept anyone who can prove they have sufficient talent.
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[[caption-width-right:200: Brutus, Selina, Alex and Theresa.]]
Every one hundred years, the small country of Thameland is best by [[BigBad the Ravener]], an ancient evil that causes dungeons to appear and flood the kingdom with monsters. In response, [[FiveManBand five youths]] are granted a divine mark to empower them to fight back: the Champion, the Mage, the Fighter, the Cleric...and the Fool. For millenia this cycle has repeated with the Ravener defeated by the chosen heroes but never destroyed.
''[[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/41618/mark-of-the-fool-a-progression-fantasy Mark of the Fool]]'' is a webserial following Alex, a young man on the eve of leaving for the most prestigious wizard university in the world when he is marked as the latest Fool. Deciding that being the token joke character doesn't sound appealing Alex instead escapes to follow his original plan. Joining him are his young sister, Selina, his childhood best friend Theresa, and her pet cerberus Brutus.
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!! ''Mark of the Fool'' contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Theresa is the grand-daughter of a famous swordsman, and has grown up hunting in the forests around their town. She is by far the most physically capable of the original three humans.
* BigBad: The Ravener, buried deep beneath the earth, attempts to kill everything in Thameland every century.
* DungeonCrawling: This is the traditional mission of the five heroes, as destroying the dungeon cores the Ravener creates is the only way to stop it from wiping out all life in Thameland.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Once Theresa starts learning Lifeforce enhancement she becomes capable of duelling trained mage warriors and winning.
* FiveManBand: Despite always being a group of five with set roles, the heroes don't automatically fit into this trope, though two are fairly close:
** TheLeader: The Chosen is explicitly this and given all-round combat and leadership abilities rather than specialising in any one role.
** TheChick: The Fool is basically the heart of the group, designed to support the others with their non-combat skills, but is granted to either gender.
* FunctionalMagic: Spells are created from "mana circuits", which behave like their electrical equivalents. It's possible with enough knowledge to replace, remove or alter the functionality of a spell by changing how it's "wired".
* GenreSavvy: Alex knows the fates of the previous Fools - either ineffectual mascot, heroic sacrifice or traitor, and decides that none of those sound like fun. He also decides to tell [[spoiler:Baelin and the cabal]] everything as he knows keeping it secret won't work long term and only make it worse when the truth does finally come out.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Theresa's ancestral sword almost never leaves her sight.
* InstantExpert: The Fool's Mark interferes with anything in the domain of the other heroes (fighting and spellcasting), but makes learning anything else much easier. Including learning, which is useful when studying at a university.
* InterspeciesRomance: Considered perfectly normal by most, such as Thundar (a minotaur) and his fox-kin crush.
* LongevityTreatment: Baelin, the dean of the university, is exceptionally old, and any powerful enough mage can learn to extend their lifespan.
* MagicEnhancement: Body strengthening magic is commonplace and one of the first things several of the students learn.
* MundaneUtility: Create a glowing ball of magic force you can control with your mind? Use it to carry your books for class!
* NotCompletelyUseless: Forceball is considered a very basic spell, but since it's one of the few spells Alex can actually cast he learns to put it to a lot of surprising uses.
* OurMagesAreDifferent: Mages are effectively the equivalent of our engineers, designing and building spells using magical circuitry.
* PunnyName: It's a running joke that Alex is terrible at naming things, often because he tries to force one of these.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Alex literally ran as far as possible away from the call, and isn't planning on coming back for a while.
* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Magic is very well understood, and that understanding is only getting better as new technology comes along. Alex gets to analyse the remains of a dungeon core with devices that didn't even exist last time the Ravener appeared, making understanding what it is and how to defeat it a much more likely prospect this time around.
* SuperReflexes: Several magic creatures have these, notably the mana vampires, but there are simple spells that can even the playing field for other creatures too.
* SuperStrength: Body enhancing magic, again. Thundar as a minotaur is naturally very strong, but Grimloch, as a ten-foot tall humanoid shark, is by far the strongest. And then he starts learning lifeforce enhancement from Theresa...
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Alex is worried about what [[spoiler:Baelin]] will say when he learns Alex is the Fool, [[spoiler:but Baelin points out he is far from the first student running from something, and in the wider picture it's really not that big a deal]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Alex and Selina's parents died in a fire when the children were young, and while they've learnt to cope the trauma is still there, especially for Selina.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Since the Fool's Mark interferes with spellcasting, one of Alex's tutors points out that it doesn't matter how well Alex can cast them if he can't cast them quickly enough to react to sudden danger.
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[[caption-width-right:200: Brutus, Selina, Alex and Theresa.]]
Every one hundred years, the small country of Thameland is best by [[BigBad the Ravener]], an ancient evil that causes dungeons to appear and flood the kingdom with monsters. In response, [[FiveManBand five youths]] are granted a divine mark to empower them to fight back: the Champion, the Mage, the Fighter, the Cleric...and the Fool. For millenia this cycle has repeated with the Ravener defeated by the chosen heroes but never destroyed.
''[[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/41618/mark-of-the-fool-a-progression-fantasy Mark of the Fool]]'' is a webserial following Alex, a young man on the eve of leaving for the most prestigious wizard university in the world when he is marked as the latest Fool. Deciding that being the token joke character doesn't sound appealing Alex instead escapes to follow his original plan. Joining him are his young sister, Selina, his childhood best friend Theresa, and her pet cerberus Brutus.
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!! ''Mark of the Fool'' contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Theresa is the grand-daughter of a famous swordsman, and has grown up hunting in the forests around their town. She is by far the most physically capable of the original three humans.
* BigBad: The Ravener, buried deep beneath the earth, attempts to kill everything in Thameland every century.
* DungeonCrawling: This is the traditional mission of the five heroes, as destroying the dungeon cores the Ravener creates is the only way to stop it from wiping out all life in Thameland.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Once Theresa starts learning Lifeforce enhancement she becomes capable of duelling trained mage warriors and winning.
* FiveManBand: Despite always being a group of five with set roles, the heroes don't automatically fit into this trope, though two are fairly close:
** TheLeader: The Chosen is explicitly this and given all-round combat and leadership abilities rather than specialising in any one role.
** TheChick: The Fool is basically the heart of the group, designed to support the others with their non-combat skills, but is granted to either gender.
* FunctionalMagic: Spells are created from "mana circuits", which behave like their electrical equivalents. It's possible with enough knowledge to replace, remove or alter the functionality of a spell by changing how it's "wired".
* GenreSavvy: Alex knows the fates of the previous Fools - either ineffectual mascot, heroic sacrifice or traitor, and decides that none of those sound like fun. He also decides to tell [[spoiler:Baelin and the cabal]] everything as he knows keeping it secret won't work long term and only make it worse when the truth does finally come out.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Theresa's ancestral sword almost never leaves her sight.
* InstantExpert: The Fool's Mark interferes with anything in the domain of the other heroes (fighting and spellcasting), but makes learning anything else much easier. Including learning, which is useful when studying at a university.
* InterspeciesRomance: Considered perfectly normal by most, such as Thundar (a minotaur) and his fox-kin crush.
* LongevityTreatment: Baelin, the dean of the university, is exceptionally old, and any powerful enough mage can learn to extend their lifespan.
* MagicEnhancement: Body strengthening magic is commonplace and one of the first things several of the students learn.
* MundaneUtility: Create a glowing ball of magic force you can control with your mind? Use it to carry your books for class!
* NotCompletelyUseless: Forceball is considered a very basic spell, but since it's one of the few spells Alex can actually cast he learns to put it to a lot of surprising uses.
* OurMagesAreDifferent: Mages are effectively the equivalent of our engineers, designing and building spells using magical circuitry.
* PunnyName: It's a running joke that Alex is terrible at naming things, often because he tries to force one of these.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Alex literally ran as far as possible away from the call, and isn't planning on coming back for a while.
* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Magic is very well understood, and that understanding is only getting better as new technology comes along. Alex gets to analyse the remains of a dungeon core with devices that didn't even exist last time the Ravener appeared, making understanding what it is and how to defeat it a much more likely prospect this time around.
* SuperReflexes: Several magic creatures have these, notably the mana vampires, but there are simple spells that can even the playing field for other creatures too.
* SuperStrength: Body enhancing magic, again. Thundar as a minotaur is naturally very strong, but Grimloch, as a ten-foot tall humanoid shark, is by far the strongest. And then he starts learning lifeforce enhancement from Theresa...
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Alex is worried about what [[spoiler:Baelin]] will say when he learns Alex is the Fool, [[spoiler:but Baelin points out he is far from the first student running from something, and in the wider picture it's really not that big a deal]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Alex and Selina's parents died in a fire when the children were young, and while they've learnt to cope the trauma is still there, especially for Selina.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Since the Fool's Mark interferes with spellcasting, one of Alex's tutors points out that it doesn't matter how well Alex can cast them if he can't cast them quickly enough to react to sudden danger.
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