...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Across the Great Barrier

88 statements
16 feature instances
1 referencing feature instances

Across the Great Barrier	type	TVTItem
Across the Great Barrier	label	Across the Great Barrier
Across the Great Barrier	page	AcrossTheGreatBarrier
Across the Great Barrier	comment	Second book of the Frontier Magic series by Patricia C. Wrede.Eff could be a powerful magician if she wanted to. Except she's not sure she wants that kind of responsibility. Everyone keeps waiting for her to do something amazing — or to fail in a spectacular way. Worse, her twin brother, Lan, a powerful double seventh son, is jealous of all the attention she's been getting. Even as Eff protests that she's just an ordinary girl, she's asked to travel past the Barrier Spell with one of the new professors at her father's school. The land west of the Barrier is full of dangers, both magical and wild. Eff will need to use all her strength—magical and otherwise—to come safely back home.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })
Across the Great Barrier	fetched	2023-03-12T19:12:36Z
Across the Great Barrier	parsed	2023-03-12T19:12:36Z
Across the Great Barrier	isPartOf	DBTropes
Across the Great Barrier / int_11afb6e7	type	Single Specimen Species
Across the Great Barrier / int_11afb6e7	comment	Single Specimen Species: A few things in the menagerie. They hope to change this.
Across the Great Barrier / int_11afb6e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_11afb6e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_11afb6e7
Across the Great Barrier / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Across the Great Barrier / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Eff doesn't know if Brant is an Extreme Doormat and letting the neighbors bully their children, or if he's trying his best but the other Rationalist kids are too cruel. The same goes for him stopping Rennie from doing magic on the side. He's genuinely dedicated to his belief that a life without magic is healthier, but Rennie accuses him that there's some spite behind him busting her.
Across the Great Barrier / int_1f6983f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_1f6983f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_1f6983f7
Across the Great Barrier / int_2b5c636d	type	How Unscientific!
Across the Great Barrier / int_2b5c636d	comment	How Unscientific!: Torgeson has a problem with publishing untested hypotheses.
Across the Great Barrier / int_2b5c636d	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_2b5c636d	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_2b5c636d
Across the Great Barrier / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Across the Great Barrier / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Lan finds out that there's a downside to having so much power. He accidentally causes an explosion in class when experimenting.
Across the Great Barrier / int_3c3f28a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_3c3f28a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_3c3f28a5
Across the Great Barrier / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Across the Great Barrier / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Eff's teachers and classmates bully her after she ends the mirror bug plague.
Across the Great Barrier / int_4c8e8078	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_4c8e8078	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_4c8e8078
Across the Great Barrier / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Across the Great Barrier / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: When Eff visited Rennie and Brant the first time in the previous book, the two seem to be Happily Married and Rennie is still doing some magic on the side. Here, he apparently got wise to it and so there's no more bug repellant charms or such. In addition, their children are bullied by others for the crime of Rennie having done magic and are blamed for a potential plague. This leads to Rennie accusing Brant of being an Extreme Doormat, and the two have more tension when Eff visits them again.
Across the Great Barrier / int_53c5f30e	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_53c5f30e	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_53c5f30e
Across the Great Barrier / int_6d8b4e42	type	Fantastic Flora
Across the Great Barrier / int_6d8b4e42	comment	Fantastic Flora: Magical plants are a staple of the setting. Sometimes as staple foodstuffs, even.
Across the Great Barrier / int_6d8b4e42	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_6d8b4e42	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_6d8b4e42
Across the Great Barrier / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Across the Great Barrier / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Wash about Promised Land settlement
Across the Great Barrier / int_8cb844c6	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_8cb844c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_8cb844c6
Across the Great Barrier / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Across the Great Barrier / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Rennie's decision to elope with Brant and move with him to the Rationalist outpost shows more consequences of her thoughtlessness. In addition to raising a family when they're too young and he has the pressure as a prominent Rationalist spokesman, he gets wise to her doing little magic on the side. On principle, he makes her stop, which means the mosquitoes and annoying bugs invade their home. Rennie also didn't consider that her kids would face Fantastic Racism merely for the fact that she practices magic.
Across the Great Barrier / int_8d0785d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_8d0785d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_8d0785d5
Across the Great Barrier / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Across the Great Barrier / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: Against animals because they are immune to magic.
Across the Great Barrier / int_96ecc67e	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_96ecc67e	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_96ecc67e
Across the Great Barrier / int_b78b8584	type	Hope Sprouts Eternal
Across the Great Barrier / int_b78b8584	comment	Hope Sprouts Eternal: The grub-eaten land is slowly recovering from the mirror-bug plague.
Across the Great Barrier / int_b78b8584	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_b78b8584	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_b78b8584
Across the Great Barrier / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Across the Great Barrier / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Wash has a thing about settlers doing their protection spells properly.
Across the Great Barrier / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_bc74ef27
Across the Great Barrier / int_bf17a64e	type	Germanic Efficiency
Across the Great Barrier / int_bf17a64e	comment	Germanic Efficiency: The leader of the saber-cat hunting group is vaguely Aryan-looking and comes from a settlement with a German name. He's very efficient about the whole business.
Across the Great Barrier / int_bf17a64e	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_bf17a64e	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_bf17a64e
Across the Great Barrier / int_f56d2c81	type	Everyone Is Armed
Across the Great Barrier / int_f56d2c81	comment	Everyone Is Armed: Beyond the border enchantment that keeps magical and pleistocene animals out of the settled areas, being armed is a basic necessity of survival. This is apparent as soon as one enters the very first frontier settlement just outside the barrier.
Across the Great Barrier / int_f56d2c81	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_f56d2c81	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_f56d2c81
Across the Great Barrier / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
Across the Great Barrier / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: Allie starts worrying about not getting any younger when Mr. Boden starts walking Eff home.
Across the Great Barrier / int_ff2ceef1	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_ff2ceef1	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_ff2ceef1
Across the Great Barrier / int_name	type	ItemName
Across the Great Barrier / int_name	comment
Across the Great Barrier / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Across the Great Barrier / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Across the Great Barrier	hasFeature	Across the Great Barrier / int_name
Across the Great Barrier / int_name	itemName	Across the Great Barrier

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

hasFeature

Everyone Is Armed / int_680d590f

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.