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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A Little Hatred is the first novel in the "Age of Madness" trilogy by British writer Joe Abercrombie, in which he returns to the world he created in The First Law trilogy.15 years after the end of Red Country, the Union has entered an Industrial Age, with chimneys rising all over Adua, but that doesn't mean that the old powers have gone away, or that things have gotten any better.Up in the North, a new generation of warriors led by Stour Nightfall seeks once again to expel the Union, not only from the North, but from Angland as well. In their way stands Leo dan Brock and his formidable mother, but their efforts are hampered by the lack of support from the crown. And among this carnage, the Dogman's daughter, Rikke, struggles to understand and control the Long Eye, which gives her glimpses of the future, with her only help coming from the mad hillwoman Isern-i-Phail.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Meanwhile, in Adua, Savine dan Glokta ruthlessly carves her way through the ranks of the Union's new barons of industry, with all the cunning and wit she learned at her father's side. All this even as the slums seethe with discontent that could blow the new world wide open.As the age of science tries to supplant the age of magic, from the shadows, the First of the Magi continues his ancient war and will not relinquish his control of the world.The book was released on September 17, 2019.Sample chapters: Blessings and Curses, Where the Fight's Hottest, Keeping Score, A Little Public Hanging
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The revolution in Valbeck, with its bloody uprising against the ruling class, kangaroo courts and mass executions, clearly draws significant inspiration from the French Revolution.
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Ripped from the Headlines
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Ripped from the Headlines: Written at a time of immigration being a hot-button topic, the book includes the Union dealing with an influx of refugees from the Gurkish Empire, leading to several characters touching on real-world talking points.
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The Worf Effect
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The Worf Effect: Leo proves that he's a great fighter by wrestling with his ridiculously muscular friend Glaward and beating him. He states that he's outfought all of his friends in their respective best talent. The fact that Stour has already killed Stranger-Come-Knocking in the circle before the book begins says a lot about his fighting skills, though it's noted that Stranger was a little past his prime.
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Defeat Means Friendship
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Defeat Means Friendship: Discussed Trope. After Leo defeats Stour, he makes a conscious effort to befriend the defeated warlord, invoking the advise of an ancient general. The most impressive thing is that he seems to succeed.
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The Glasses Come Off
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The Glasses Come Off: Unusually for the setting, Broad wears a pair of tiny eyeglasses to help with his nearsightedness. They're terribly expensive and a gift of an officer whose life he saved. Every time he takes them off, it's a sign that someone is about to get their asses kicked in a painfully spectacular fashion.
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The Brute: Gunnar Broad's story arc largely revolves around accepting himself to be this.
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Green-Eyed Monster
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Green-Eyed Monster: Savine notes that, even though her father loves her, he enjoys when she occasionally fails to surpass him in some way. Defied by Jurand when Rikke accuses him of being jealous of Leo's affections for her. In spite of being heavily implied to be in love with Leo, Jurand states that, in fact, he holds no animosity toward Rikke and believes that she's good for him.
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Reality Ensues
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Reality Ensues: Savine regularly practices fencing with the Lightning Bruiser Master Swordsman Bremer dan Gorst and fancies herself quite the swordswoman, but when she asks Gorst to not hold anything back during one sparring session, she realizes just how much she's been fooling herself.
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Last-Second Showoff
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Last-Second Showoff: The reason why Stour Nightfall loses his duel with Leo dan Brock. The former is a far better swordsman and could've killed the latter at five different times during the Curb-Stomp Battle, but decided to toy with him and show off. This provides the necessary time for Rikke to force her Long Eye open and give Leo the advice he needs to defeat Stour.
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Generation Xerox
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Generation Xerox: The younger generation shares many similarities with their parents at the start of the story: Prince Orso is as much of a useless manchild as Jezal was, although at least Orso is fully aware of his shortcomings. Father and son are also talented fencers, for all their other shortcomings. Savine dan Glokta has grown up to be more like her ruthless step-father than her biological father.
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Uncertain Doom
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Uncertain Doom: The Prophet of Gurkha, Khalul, Second of the Magi, has vanished after the empire collapsed into infighting and chaos. Nobody knows if he's alive or dead.
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The Dreaded
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The Dreaded: Played with, as this is how Bayaz is seen by people on his own side, while those not in the know generally see him as harmless.
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Worf Had the Flu
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The fact that Stour has already killed Stranger-Come-Knocking in the circle before the book begins says a lot about his fighting skills, though it's noted that Stranger was a little past his prime.
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Fantastic Drug
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Fantastic Drug: In addition to the husk (opium) and chagga (chewing tobacco) introduced in the previous trilogy, this novel introduces "pearl dust," a powdered, snorted amphetamine that is essentially cocaine.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: All the mains. Leo is a boisterous Blood Knight but has a far more contemplative and humanist side than he lets on. Orso is a silly, foppish lech of a prince, but even he isn't above bravery and heroism. He's also an incredible negotiator and desperately hates seeing anyone harmed needlessly, even confessing to Savine that he knows full well he's useless without her when he begs for her hand in marriage. Savine dan Glokta is ruthless and dangerous in her investments, but she can be more caring than her adopted father ever was. She's also head over heels in love with Orso, much to her shock to realize.
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Defector from Decadence: Isern was the favorite of her father, Crummock-i-Phail, and might have possibly taken over as leader of the Treeman clan, but instead she left and took up life as a healer under Dogman's leadership. While she won't hesitate to kill to defend herself, she speaks dismissively of her father's bloodthirsty ways and blames him for all the violence she was exposed to as a young girl.
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Noodle Incident: Clover lost everything but his life in the Circle, including his old name. We know nothing else about the circumstances of that disastrous duel.
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Blessed with Suck
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Blessed With Suck: Rikke's opinion of having the Long Eye. The visions of the future vary between literal and highly symbolic flashes of the future. However, they usually don't come on command and are extremely unpleasant, accompanied with a burning eyeball at best and grand mal seizures at worst.
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Opposed Mentors
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Opposed Mentors: Rikke has two: her teacher Isern-i-Phail, who tells her to "make of her heart a stone" in order to be able to get anything done in the world, and her father the Dogman, who wants her to stay a good person so she can get the right things done.
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The Big Guy
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The Big Guy: Glaward is the brawniest of Leo's brothers in arms. Even his teeth look muscular.
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Magic Versus Science
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Magic Versus Science: As magic continues to lose strength, the Union has entered a full-blown industrial revolution.
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Politically Incorrect Hero
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Politically Incorrect Hero: Leo is openly homophobic and pretty racist towards anyone who isn't a Midderlander or a Northman, going so far as to mentally refer to Orso as a "half-Styrian mongrel".
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The Un-Reveal
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The Unreveal: The Inquisition is in pursuit of an insurgent organizer known as the Weaver. They figure out someone who's taken their place, but haven't figured out who the original Weaver was before the end of the novel.
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Surprise Incest: Just count the words until Savine and Orso, who've been a secret hot item to one another for a while, learn they're half-siblings biologically. It's rather heartbreaking, as they're genuinely in love until Savine breaks up with him without telling him why.
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Fainting Seer: Rikke has "the Long Eye" which gives her visions of the future... which are accompanied by paralyzing fits and loss of control over one's bowels.
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Kangaroo Court
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Kangaroo Court: The leader of the Burners, who calls herself "The Judge," sets up a revolutionary court with whores as jurors, herself as judge and a naked, beaten and traumatized lawyer as the defense. By the time Vick and Broad arrive to take her prisoners away from her, she's already hanged almost all of them.
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Late-Arrival Spoiler
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: The synopsis on the back cover contains spoilers for the previous trilogy, such as Jezal being king of The Union, or that Glokta will have children despite his implied mutilations during his imprisonment.
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Time Skip
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Time Skip: The novels starts 28 years after the events of The First Law trilogy and 15 after Red Country, the previous novel in the setting.
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: When Rikke accuses the Ambiguously Gay Jurand of holding a grudge against her for hogging Leo's affections, Jurand counters that, in fact, he thinks she's good for him.
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Eccentric Mentor: To call Isern-i-Phail "colorful" would be a spectacular understatement, which makes her attempts to mentor Rikke in the use of the Long Eye a trial for the young woman at the best of times.
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Old Soldier: Bremer dan Gorst is old enough to be a grandfather yet still serves as a royal bodyguard and is still incredibly lethal.
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Gilligan Cut: Orso promises his mother he'll have nothing to do with Savine dan Glokta. The scene immediately cuts to him and Savine having sex.
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I Gave My Word
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I Gave My Word: Orso promises to spare the Breaker rebels who resist in return for laying down their arms. He's horrified to discover them executed with nobody bothering to check with him while he was having sex with Savine the previous evening.
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Trauma Conga Line: Orso's lover is captured by the Breakers, so he rides out to save her, negotiates a peace like a true ruler. then they get hanged without his knowledge or consent while he's having happy rescue sex with Savine. Then Savine learns she's his half-sister and breaks up with him, giving him no explanation and leaving him miserable. Then his father dies, leaving him stuck with the crown he doesn't want.
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Unpleasant Parent Reveal: Savine finds out King Jezal is her real father instead of Sand dan Glokta at the worst time, which also means her lover Orso is her brother. As she puts it?
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Brother–Sister Incest: Unknowingly, but Orso and Savine are lovers, with Savine being the bastard daughter of King Jezal and Ardee West. Savine is horrified when she finds out.
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Remember the New Guy?: Jonas Clover was supposedly present during the events of The First Law trilogy, holding a shield during the Bloody-Nine's duel with Fenris the Feared when he was 18 years old and having a distinguished life ever since. He knows and is known by all the Northern bigwigs and has presumably been around for all the major events that occurred in the North over the series, just never getting specifically mentioned.
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Shell-Shocked Veteran
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Gunnar Broad returns from the wars in Styria with a serious case of PTSD and barely holds it together when reunited with his family.
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The Infiltration
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The Infiltration: Vick dan Teufel is a member of the Inquisition, and she specializes in infiltrating dissident groups. She is so good at it that she often ends up in positions of leadership.
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Open Secret: The fact that Queen Terez is a lesbian is common knowledge, to the point that even Leo in Angland has heard the gossip.
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Despite being Crown Prince and heir to the throne of the Union, Prince Orso's internal monologue shows that he desperately craves to do something, anything, useful. When the war with the North erupts, he is so eager to get involved.
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Spin-Offspring
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Spin-Offspring: Many of the POV characters are children of characters from the previous novels in the setting: Rikke is the daughter of the Dogman. Leo dan Brock is the son of Harod and Finree dan Brock. Savine dan Glokta is officially the daughter of Ardee and Sand dan Glokta, but her biological father is King Jezal. Prince Orso is the son of King Jezal. Victarine 'Vick' dan Teufel is the daughter of Sepp dan Teufel, the Master of the Mints, whom Sand dan Glokta arrested on trumped-up charges in the second chapter of The Blade Itself.
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Bus Crash: Harod dan Brock died some years before the novel begins. Stour Nightfall killed Stranger-Come-Knocking in the circle before the series begins.
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Heel–Face Revolving Door: Last we saw Caul Shivers, he made peace with Logen Ninefingers and had resumed his quest to be a better man. Fifteen years later and he's back in the North and arguably the most feared man therein.
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Upper-Class Twit
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Upper-Class Twit: Prince Orso, a feckless man who does nothing but disappoint his mother, get high and avoid his responsibilities.
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Continuity Nod: Savine mentions the firm of Temple and Kahdia, whose origins were seen in Red Country. Last we saw, Kurnsbik was building a manufactory in the Far Country. Now Adua is awash in them, and Kurnsbik is quite wealthy. The Union has just finished a Great Offscreen War against Styria, led by Monza and the son she was pregnant with at the end of Best Served Cold.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Despite starting with very laudable and noble intentions, the uprising in Valbeck quickly dissolves into anarchy, slaughter and wanton destruction, particularly in the areas of the city controlled by the Burners.
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Evil Luddite
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Leo dan Brock has this reaction early in the novel when his mother makes him realize that his Leeroy Jenkins tendencies just got one of his friends and subordinates killed in useless battle.
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Clover's attitude toward Stour calling him "my kind of bastard." Probably also has something to do with having killed his old friend Wonderful only moments before.
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Dramatic Irony: It's already been revealed in the previous books that Prince Orso and Savine dan Glokta share a biological father, but they don't know about it. This makes the revelation that they are engaged in a sexual relationship very cringe-worthy for the readers.
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Hookers and Blow
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Hookers and Blow: Prince Orso spends most of his time ingesting every intoxicant substance known in the setting and cavorting with prostitutes.
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Bald Women
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Bald Women: Savine's head is shaved to allow her to wear a variety of elaborate wigs.
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Blood Knight
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Leo is a boisterous Blood Knight but has a far more contemplative and humanist side than he lets on.
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Ambiguously Bi
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Ambiguously Bi: Leo always takes care to note how handsome other men are, is extremely close to his good-looking circle of male friends, and sometimes worries that he's just not as into women as he's expected to be. That said, he doesn't seem to be entirely uninterested in women either, though it takes a special one to get his attention.
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Undignified Death
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Undignified Death: Jezal is found dead of unknown causes, mostly naked and vacantly staring with no glory of dignity to him whatsoever.
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Really Gets Around
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Really Gets Around: Orso sleeps around. A lot. It's a common saying he must have bedded 5,000 prostitutes. Rikke points out how ridiculous this number really is when calculating how much screwing he'd need to do to accomplish it. When propositioning one another, Orso wonders if 4,000 isn't the correct number, just as Rikke joked about previously.
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Nice Guy
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Nice Guy: Orso may be a waste of space, indolent, lazy, hedonistic and useless as a ruler, but he's a genuinely kind person and caring to those around him. And when he finds out his lover is in danger, he rides right to save her without pause.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: A Breaker claims that after the revolution, "every man'll be a king!"
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Legacy Character
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Legacy Character: The Inquisition is certain that "The Weaver" who was running things in Valbeck inherited the organization and title from someone far more competent.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Savine takes ruthlessness in business to a whole new level, routinely engaging in blackmail, extortion, corporate espionage and influence peddling to get ahead. It's made her one of the richest women in the Union.
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The Magic Goes Away
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The Magic Goes Away: As established in previous books, magic is steadily getting weaker. Bayaz and Yoru Sulfur both ruminate on it. Unusually for this trope, the mages don't seen all that concerned by this fact and are embracing science to pick up the slack.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Subverted by Savine, who practices fencing regularly and often wears a sword as part of her formal dress, but when she asks the Lightning Bruiser Bremer dan Gorst to really cut loose during a sparring session, she realizes that she's just been playing around. As with previous books, the North includes a number of women who fight alongside the men, including Wonderful and Isern-i-Phail.
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Lightning Bruiser: Savine is horrified by the speed of her hulking sparring partner, Bremer dan Gorst, when he really cuts loose. It appears that time has yet to slow him down.
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The Scapegoat
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The Scapegoat: Prince Orso ends up being blamed by the public for the execution of 200 Breakers after they had surrendered without a fight after he promised them amnesty. That decision was made by the Closed Council and carried out without his knowledge.
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Social Climber
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Social Climber: Savine dan Glokta is determined to get to the top of the Union's society, and will not let anything stand in her way. It's not even about the money for her, as she sees it merely as a way of keeping score.
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Manchild
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Manchild: Prince Orso has the emotional maturity of a child, and a complete aversion to responsibility, something that might have been endearing when he was younger, but not any more.
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Manchild
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Prince Orso is as much of a useless manchild as Jezal was, although at least Orso is fully aware of his shortcomings. Father and son are also talented fencers, for all their other shortcomings.
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Ambiguously Gay
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Defied by Jurand when Rikke accuses him of being jealous of Leo's affections for her. In spite of being heavily implied to be in love with Leo, Jurand states that, in fact, he holds no animosity toward Rikke and believes that she's good for him.
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Running Both Sides
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Running Both Sides: Unlike the two previous wars between the North and the Union, where the ruler of the North was either rebelling against Bayaz' influence or unaware of its existence, this time around Black Calder is still very much under Bayaz' thumb. But Bayaz is allowing Calder's invasion to proceed for reasons of his own.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: If there is one thing every character who meets him can agrees on, its the fact that Stour Nightfall is an absolute prick.
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0% Approval Rating
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0% Approval Rating: As the novel opens, absolutely everyone considers Prince Orso an absolute waste of space. By the end of it, the common people consider him a mass murderer and a coward.
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One Steve Limit: Prince Orso is named after a different, Styrian Prince Orso from Best Served Cold.
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The Starscream
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The Starscream: Stour Nightfall ends the book assassinating his uncle Scale to become the new king of the North, ending Calder's time as The Man Behind the Man in one fell swoop.
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Devil in Plain Sight
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Devil in Plain Sight: Clover warns everyone he meets that he looks out for himself, first and foremost, always. Yet they're somehow still shocked when he turns on them. Just ask Wonderful. Those who were involved in the original trilogy have a very different reaction to Bayaz's presence than those who weren't.
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Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
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Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The Breakers are a group that opposes the use of the new machines to replace workers, and also seek representation for the people in the Union's government. As the story starts, their prosecution by the government has led them to plan to blow up factories with explosives. Some of them are even aware of this trope being in play.
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Dumbass Has a Point
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Dumbass Has a Point: As much as Finree doesn't approve of Leo's Attack! Attack! Attack! tendencies, she admits that he's got a point about how men will be more eager to follow a brave leader than a prudent one.
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Great Offscreen War
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Great Offscreen War: The Union's latest disastrous campaign in Styria against King Jappo and his mother Monza. It is already over by the time the novel begins, but it profoundly affected several characters and the strain on the Treasury and the economy of financing it has a domino effect that triggers one of the mayor plot-lines. At some point before the start of the novel, emperor Uthman-ul-Dosht was assassinated and the Gurkish Empire collapsed into a massive civil war that has Kantic refugees fleeing to the Union.
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Nurture over Nature
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Nurture over Nature: Orso and Savine share the same biological father. Orso is frivolous and a bit of an intellectual lightweight, much like his father. Savine is brilliant and ruthless, much like her adopted father.
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Nobility Marries Money
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Nobility Marries Money: Prince Orso is having a secret relationship with Savine, a fantastically wealthy business magnate who, while a member of the upper class, is still far below Orso's station.
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