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Annals of the Western Shore

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Annals of the Western Shore	comment	The Annals of the Western Shore is a trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin. It takes place in a fantasy setting that is otherwise unnamed and is unrelated to her Earthsea books. The western shore is mostly a collection of city-states, apart from the mountainous Uplands and Carrantages, governed by republic or quasi-republic or plain oligarchy. Each book takes place in a different area.Each book is a Coming of Age story, told in first-person by a protagonist writing down the events from years later. Although there are three books in the series, it doesn't follow the typical Trilogy format. Instead, each book is a standalone story with different places and characters of the common setting, narrated in first-person by its protagonist. As usual with Le Guin's work there isn't a great deal of action to speak of, focusing mainly on Character Development as each character struggles to make sense of the world they live in.A Central Theme of the series is the power of stories and knowledge to inspire individuals and make connections between people, as well as the wish to be nonviolent in a violent world, and the destructiveness of violence. It is also a work of Feminist Fantasy and explores the differences between men and women and how they behave and are treated in society. Gifts: Orrec and Gry, two children of Upland families, struggle with the magical gifts of their lineage and the gifts of others in the continual power struggle between families, while they themselves don't wish to use their powers the way their own families wish. Voices: Memer is a young woman in the occupied city of Ansul, desperate to have the oppressive Alds gone and studying the forbidden art of reading under the old Waylord. After seventeen years of subjugation, the people of Ansul are both weary and restive, and the arrival of a famous storyteller is a spark to both sides. Powers: Gavir is a young slave content with his lot in life until war and personal tragedy destroy his illusions of comfort and security, sending him on a long and painful trek through the lands of the western Shore.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_125eb76c	comment	This Is My Boomstick: The Waylord stops Iddor and his mob of soldiers by waving a book under their noses and announcing the Oracle's prophecy—Set Free—just as the Oracle Fountain miraculously returns to life, evoking both the demonry of books and their feared "Night Mouth". On the last page, he tells Memer that the book was a children's storybook and that he simply turned the pipes for the fountain back on to give the actual miracle of the prophecy a suitable dramatic effect.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Annals of the Western Shore / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Gav shuts down completely after Sallo is killed by Torm and his friends. He says that the only reason he didn't walk into the river, as he thinks the people of Arcamand assume, is because he was too numb to think of it.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Annals of the Western Shore / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Alds come from the desert, are religious fundamentalists, deeply misogynistic, and pray by touching their foreheads to the ground. Apart from the detail that they're light-skinned, it's hard not to see them as an unfortunate (but very mid-2000s) stereotype of Muslims, even if they are given more depth later in the story.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_16a21271	type	Walking Wasteland
Annals of the Western Shore / int_16a21271	comment	Walking Wasteland: What Orrec fears he will be if he ever removes his blindfold. He won't, because he has no gift.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Annals of the Western Shore / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Orrec. As a young boy, he enjoyed obeying his father, but as his gift continued not to show up they both became very worried. Made worse by the fact that a brantor has to have the gift to inherit the position.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Annals of the Western Shore / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Hoby, the Father's bastard son, takes a special dislike to Gav that turns into full-blown hatred when Gav accidentally hits him with a rock while playing soldiers. He gets Gav shunned by other slaves and abuses him at every opportunity. It's finally stopped when he and his gang nearly drown Gav in a well, and the Family sends Hoby to be a civic slave. (Until Torm buys him back as a bodyguard.)
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Annals of the Western Shore / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Between Orrec and Gry, even though their parents initially toss around prospective betrothals with others.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_1d91d9bb	type	Deadly Gaze
Annals of the Western Shore / int_1d91d9bb	comment	Deadly Gaze: How many of the lethal gifts work, including the Caspros'. They have a family legend of one who had to blindfold himself before he could control his power and then permanently blinded himself after he started killing his family.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Annals of the Western Shore / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Gry, who is comfortable in silence.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Annals of the Western Shore / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Gand Ioratth. He's impeccably courteous to his guest Orrec and welcomes it when he gets new orders from Asudar, and doesn't have any particular ill-will towards Ansul.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_21ac3809	type	Ancient Grome
Annals of the Western Shore / int_21ac3809	comment	Ancient Grome: Etra and its neighbors have this flavor. There are city-states, Senators, the ability to appoint a Dictator in emergencies, and a Pater Familias ethic, along with the slaves and restrictive roles for women common to both cultures.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
Annals of the Western Shore / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: Sallo says that Altan Arca is sending Yaven, his heir, to the front lines in hopes that he'll die in battle, so that he can groom Torm—who is more like Altan—to be his successor.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Annals of the Western Shore / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: After leaving the Marsh People, Gav returns to the Heart of the Forest to find Barna's city burned to the ground, having been invaded by the neighboring city-states to replenish their slave population. All but a few are dead or taken.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The book begins after Orrec's voluntary blinding and the death of his mother Melle Aulitta, then goes back to Orrec's early childhood, returns to the point he began the story, and goes on to the end.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_26b0a73	type	Legendary in the Sequel
Annals of the Western Shore / int_26b0a73	comment	Legendary in the Sequel: Orrec and his poem "Liberty" figure into things again, unsurprisingly for a book with many runaway slaves in it.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Barna. He appears to be a jovial, charitable man of vision, but he's quick to fly into a killing rage and mistreats women horribly.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Annals of the Western Shore / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: It's common for young women to dress themselves as boys so they can go out in public. Memer and Gry both do this to accompany Orrec.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
Annals of the Western Shore / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: Orrec and Gry decide to do this in the end, feeling they have no place in Upland society anymore.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_292d57cd	type	Crusading Widow
Annals of the Western Shore / int_292d57cd	comment	Crusading Widow: It's only his responsibilities as brantor that keeps Canoc from this. Alloc confides that the household's greatest fear was that he would ride up to Drummant alone to take revenge.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_29476563	type	Crusty Caretaker
Annals of the Western Shore / int_29476563	comment	Crusty Caretaker: Gudit, who embarks on a crusade to clean up the stables and responds to most things with "it stands to reason."
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Orrec himself becomes this thanks to the story of Blind Caddard, who also went blindfolded as a young man due to a wild gift.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2b9e3fb0	type	Give Me a Sign
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2b9e3fb0	comment	Give Me a Sign: The Waylord and Memer consult the Oracle at Desac's request, since he wants to know if he should openly strike the Alds. People who have asked the Oracle for signs historically tended to interpret the answer as a justification for how they wanted to act in the first place, though.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Eda, taken by the seers of the marshes. It's incredibly toxic and most only use it in desperation.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2cd8db8c	type	FantasticSlur
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2cd8db8c	comment	Fantastic Slur: "Sheep-hair" for Alds, and sometimes half-Alds like Memer.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: Tales of Orrec's wild Gift spread around the Uplands after he destroys a hillside.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Erroy Gere, whose power is called "twisting." It's as nasty as it sounds and he exercises it on cruel whim, but Canoc succesfully warned him off with a display of his own power.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2dc726c8	type	Gold–Silver–Copper Standard
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2dc726c8	comment	Gold–Silver–Copper Standard: A variant with bronze as the lowest denomination of coin.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Annals of the Western Shore / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Orrec and Gry had a daughter named Melle, but she died at six months.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
Annals of the Western Shore / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: Most of the slave girls that Gav knows, including his sister, are destined to be "gift-girls" for the silk rooms. Curiously, this still overlaps with Happiness in Slavery for Sallo, since she and Yaven are genuinely in love and he treats her kindly. But it's certainly not true for all gift-girls, and Sallo's status still makes her vulnerable to Torm. Barna's girls aren't in much better position than the girls in the silk rooms. They're friendly and flirty, but Barna's men steal them the same way they do sheep and cattle and treat them with as much respect.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_366f3185	type	Book Burning
Annals of the Western Shore / int_366f3185	comment	Book Burning: Strictly speaking, since Alds consider fire holy, they "drown" books by throwing them in the ocean—and the books' owners, too.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Annals of the Western Shore / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Sotur certainly comes to believe this during the siege and tells Sallo to become ugly like she did. Irad is also subject to this.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Annals of the Western Shore / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Orrec's power is very strong and he can't control it, forcing him to go blindfolded. However, the rumor of his wayward powers means that nobody wants to offend Caspromant.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
Annals of the Western Shore / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: Orrec Caspro, invited by the Gand. Although the Alds hate the written word, they still love stories and revere "makers" who can tell them well. It's implied that his skill is the same kind of magic power as the gifts seen in the previous books.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_495bc028	type	Magical Library
Annals of the Western Shore / int_495bc028	comment	Magical Library: The hidden library in Galvamand. It's protected by magic and/or Ansul's gods—they prevent the Waylord from revealing it during his year of Cold-Blooded Torture.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Annals of the Western Shore / int_4a02a75e	comment	The Theocracy: The Ald homeland and what they've turned Ansul into.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Annals of the Western Shore / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: In a conversation at the end, the Waylord and Memer decide that there aren't any "demons" like the Ald believe in.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_4ccd1c09	type	Gender-Restricted Ability
Annals of the Western Shore / int_4ccd1c09	comment	Gender-Restricted Ability: The gifts, although both sexes can pass on the lineage's gift to their children. For example, Animal Talk is had only by Barre women, and the unmaking only with Caspro men.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Annals of the Western Shore / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Unmade people and animals are described as boneless sacks of flesh. Erroy's victims also count.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Annals of the Western Shore / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Gav never fights and spends a lot of the book fleeing from one place to another, surviving in spite of the odds against him. He attributes this to the God of Luck.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_542b8e66	type	Bad Powers, Bad People
Annals of the Western Shore / int_542b8e66	comment	Bad Powers, Bad People: Generally averted, but certain gifts like the Geres' twisting or Drums' wasting are really hard to use benevolently. Gry suspects that these malevolent abilites are actually healing gifts that have been inverted.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5526b660	type	Humans Are White
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5526b660	comment	Humans Are White: Averted as usual with le Guin. The only people who are explicitly white-skinned are the Alds of Asudar.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
Annals of the Western Shore / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: Orrec is really reluctant to help Desac incite a revolt against the Alds, particularly as the Alds invited him in the first place. He does agree to tell their heroic stories and his poem "Liberty", but he doesn't want to be their Icon of Rebellion.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Annals of the Western Shore / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: The Oracle answers questions in Koan-like sentence fragments. The one Memer gets is "broken mend broken."
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Annals of the Western Shore / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Gav speculates on this when war takes hold of Etra as it's usually men who declare war, but he also notes that women get swept up in the War Is Glorious attitude themselves. His aunt, Ambamer, disgustedly says that both sexes are fools.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Annals of the Western Shore / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Orrec's wild gift. After a scare where he thought he killed his father, he blindfolds himself. Much later, he realizes that it was a sham pulled by his father to give him a fearsome reputation.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: The Oracle in the cave at the back of the library.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5a1912af	type	The Hermit
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5a1912af	comment	The Hermit: Cuga, who mistakes a wandering Gav for a thief and hits him with a stick, then nurses him back to health over a summer before sending him onto the forest.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Gav's aunt, Ambamer, blames herself for never being able to find out what happened to Gav's mother and children.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Hoby apparently drowns when chasing Gav and Melle across a river.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5c8ad7af	type	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5c8ad7af	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Most brantors adhere to this with the principle of "the gift's gift". When Canoc raids a lowland town to find a wife, he leaves them some mules in exchange (which to an uplander like him is a significant gift).
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Fighting injustice through nonviolent means.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5d3d67d9	type	Gender Scoff
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5d3d67d9	comment	Gender Scoff: Quite a bit, usually men against women; for instance the Marsh men disdain women's storytelling and women seers. Gav's aunt scoffs against both genders.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5ec9f980	type	Drunk on the Dark Side
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5ec9f980	comment	Drunk on the Dark Side: The story of Blind Caddard ends with him turning his gift on anyone and anything that offended him even slightly until he went My God, What Have I Done? and unmade his eyes.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: To some extent. Guests are supposed to be offered work to do because Uplands culture abhors feeling useless, and it can be very unwise to refuse an invitation, along with the usual rules about not harming your guests.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
Annals of the Western Shore / int_5fdf73bc	comment	Photographic Memory: Gav has an uncanny ability to remember, which comes in handy for winning people over by stories.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Annals of the Western Shore / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Desac's plan to start a revolt by burning Ioratth, Iddor, and the priests to death in their tent fails utterly because Iddor decides to hold the sacrifice earlier solely to spite his dad for listening to the "heathen" storyteller Orrec.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Annals of the Western Shore / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Four-year-old Miv is killed by a head injury when Torm strikes him to the ground, illustrating how dangerous Torm is.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_61c3ca7b	type	Panthera Awesome
Annals of the Western Shore / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Panthera Awesome: Gry and Orrec's guard animal is a tame halflion called Shetar.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Annals of the Western Shore / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Iorrath is a practical, middle-aged general who only invaded Ansul because he was ordered to and isn't very interested in carrying out a holy war. He's also very rough-mannered in private.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Annals of the Western Shore / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Torm Arca, the family's younger son. From the way it's described as coming on in "fits", it seems to be some kind of psychological disorder.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Annals of the Western Shore / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Orrec tells us early in the book that his mother is recently dead, but we don't find out how or why until much later.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Annals of the Western Shore / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Gav soon starts to feel protective of Melle, Irad's little sister.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_6a2d1b1a	type	Rebel Leader
Annals of the Western Shore / int_6a2d1b1a	comment	Rebel Leader: Barna often fantasizes about leading a massive slave revolt, but it seems to be more a distant fantasy since his "plans" aren't known by most of the Barnavites. And it all ends when the city is leveled.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Annals of the Western Shore / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Orrec realizes near the end that he has no gift at all. His father manipulated him into thinking he did so he could use the reputation of a new Blind Caddard as a weapon.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Annals of the Western Shore / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The god Lero is repeatedly invoked; Memer describes the day she meets Orrec and Gry as a day of Lero, for example. She doesn't explain until Chapter 10 that Lero is the god of balance, and a balanced approach is exactly how the people of Ansul resolve their problems with the Alds.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Annals of the Western Shore / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Iddor tries this, but Tirio is able to save Iorrath by getting the Waylord and Orrec to help.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
Annals of the Western Shore / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: Eventually, the Waylord passes the title of Reader to Memer, since the Oracle has started speaking to her.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_7842867	type	Vengeance Feels Empty
Annals of the Western Shore / int_7842867	comment	Vengeance Feels Empty: Memer ruthlessly mocks and insults Simme, a young Ald soldier who tries to befriend her as Mem. Although he's not great—when he first meets her, he wants to know if "Mem" has a prostitute sister to rent—he's otherwise comes off as a lonely kid who's ignorant rather than malicious. After repeatedly shaming Simme when he visits the house, Memer feels defeated instead of satisfied.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_79b5677	type	Belief Makes You Stupid
Annals of the Western Shore / int_79b5677	comment	Belief Makes You Stupid: More like mindless adherence to religious dogma makes you stupid, but Atth's most devout don't come off well. (You kind of set yourself up for ignorance when you declare writing demonic.) It should be noted that the people of Ansul are also extremely religious, it's just their religion is polytheistic, animist, and largely undogmatic while the Alds are strict monotheists (or Manichean dualists, for the ones who believe in the Night Mouth} and extremely dogmatic.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Annals of the Western Shore / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Invoked with Everra, who refuses to read anything written in the last hundred years. When Gav finally reads a few and questions how the new works could corrupt when they're so beautiful, this is how Everra answers:
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_7b7f1657	type	Canine Companion
Annals of the Western Shore / int_7b7f1657	comment	Canine Companion: Coaly, the guide dog that Gry trains for Orrec. He keeps her even after he stops wearing the blindfold.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Annals of the Western Shore / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Yaven to Father Altan Arca, which is bad since Yaven is far and away the better of his two sons.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Annals of the Western Shore / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: When the neighboring city-states invade Barna's city, they cut off his head and kick it around like a ball.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_7ec8506d	type	Animal Talk
Annals of the Western Shore / int_7ec8506d	comment	Animal Talk: The Barre gift of calling, practiced by Gry and her mother Parn. Gry can also perceive fetuses in utero, but it stops working once brain development reaches a certain point because the thoughts start getting too complex.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Annals of the Western Shore / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Desac thinks that the change of politics in Asudar will allow them to rebel without being crushed by the Ald army. Instead, his actions give Iddor opportunity to "disappear" Ioratth and grind down the bootheel even more; meanwhile Ioratth actually wanted to ease up on the occupation. Also, Desac misjudged Ald reaction to fire and wound up burning to death with many of his rebels. However, Desac's failed plan upsets the status quo enough that it simultaneously encourages the people of Ansul to rise up in a significantly more peaceful fashion under the direction of the Waylord, Orrec, and Per Actamo, and causes Iddor and the priesthood to overplay their hand by kidnapping Ioratth and pretending he was killed, which discredits them when they're exposed, allowing the more moderate military to shut them out completely
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Annals of the Western Shore / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Standard practice to build alliances and ensure the next generation will carry the gift. Ogge deliberately insults Caspromant by offering a marriage with a mentally disabled niece.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_80cd1f62	type	God of Evil
Annals of the Western Shore / int_80cd1f62	comment	God of Evil: The Alds believe that Atth is the one true god, but that he has an evil counterpart in Obatth (roughly, Anti-Atth), whose powers are associated with night and water and that he will come from the "Night Mouth" to destroy the world. They also think that the Night Mouth is in Ansul.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_830f2f0e	type	Police State
Annals of the Western Shore / int_830f2f0e	comment	Police State: Ansul. The Alds have no intention of bringing their own people there to colonize it—they're just there to smash the heretics.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Annals of the Western Shore / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: We never find out if Yaven did live through the wars or anything else about Arcamand after Gav leaves. All we know for sure is that Hoby is still around.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Annals of the Western Shore / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Learning of Father Altan's hatred for Yaven and Torm going unpunished for Sallo's death tumbles the pedestal that Gav has put the Family on all his life, especially when he later realizes that the Mother (whom he'd always believed to be all-wise and all-just) must have been complicit. The Barnavites in the Heart of the Forest. Although they style themselves as a free man's paradise, Barna rules them as surely as any other master, and they abduct women as sex slaves. The seer speaker of South Shore, who makes himself out as a wise master teaching Gav, but who is really only interested in regaining his prestige. And while he claims his first seer died of shellfish poisoning, Ambamer says that he was killed through the speaker making him overuse the drugs.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Annals of the Western Shore / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Memer becomes the new Reader of the Oracle.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_8b385e6a	type	Origin Story
Annals of the Western Shore / int_8b385e6a	comment	Origin Story: In a way this is one for Orrec and Gry, as the next book is set seventeen years after this one and Orrec becomes quite an influential figure by then.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
Annals of the Western Shore / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: Even for Arcamand's slaves, "Master's pet" is a deadly insult, and Gav suffers a lot when Hoby sticks the name to him.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Annals of the Western Shore / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Emmon the lowlander and his curiosity gives Orrec and Gry an excuse to explain what the titular gifts are and what they mean to Upland society.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_98a79aed	type	Occupiers Out of Our Country
Annals of the Western Shore / int_98a79aed	comment	Occupiers Out of Our Country: What Memer desperately wishes for and Desac is trying to bring about. Ultimately, the occupation is neutralized not by open revolt but patience and mostly nonviolent means.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Annals of the Western Shore / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: Gav eventually makes his way to the Marsh People and reunites with his mother's family, but as he's a scholar and they explicitly don't tell stories except on sacred occasions, he feels out of place and leaves.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Annals of the Western Shore / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Inverted with Alds. Fire is holy, so they kill heretics by drowning or burying alive. This also means that Desac's plan to burn the tent doesn't go off as planned because Alds just aren't afraid of burning to death.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_9dbb9688	type	Fantastic Honorifics
Annals of the Western Shore / int_9dbb9688	comment	Fantastic Honorifics: Etran slaves append di or io to names of the male and female members of their owning Family, and it's seen as a general honorific later.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Annals of the Western Shore / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Ista the cook, who takes a great deal of pride in keeping up what standards she can, and who raised Memer alongside her own daughter as a "by-mother."
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
Annals of the Western Shore / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: The role and treatment of women in society is explored heavily, as well as the differences (and similarities) between the way men and women behave.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_a201dad2	type	Passive-Aggressive Kombat
Annals of the Western Shore / int_a201dad2	comment	Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Canoc verses Ogge, which Orrec describes as a fencer (Canoc) fighting a man with a bludgeon (Ogge).
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Annals of the Western Shore / int_a58802b7	comment	Most of the slave girls that Gav knows, including his sister, are destined to be "gift-girls" for the silk rooms. Curiously, this still overlaps with Happiness in Slavery for Sallo, since she and Yaven are genuinely in love and he treats her kindly. But it's certainly not true for all gift-girls, and Sallo's status still makes her vulnerable to Torm.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_a5c29c9c	type	Persecuted Intellectuals
Annals of the Western Shore / int_a5c29c9c	comment	Persecuted Intellectuals: Ald religion holds that books are demonic—anyone found to own one is drowned. The Waylord was imprisoned and tortured for a year because of this.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_a627a930	type	Gender Is No Object
Annals of the Western Shore / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: Ansul was like this until the Alds came in and imposed their sexism on the population.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Annals of the Western Shore / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Gavir protests that Torm being sent to boot camp for killing Miv is an Unishment, as Torm dreams of being a soldier. Though he's told that discipline will be much harsher than any of Torm's games, the question of the Father favoring Torm returns later after Torm and his friends steal Sallo and a virgin gift-girl and end up killing Sallo. This time, nobody can provide a good explanation to Gav.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_a75c8dc9	type	Left-Justified Fantasy Map
Annals of the Western Shore / int_a75c8dc9	comment	Left-Justified Fantasy Map: Apart from Gifts, which doesn't take place anywhere near the ocean. Since it's the Western shore, it's to be expected.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Annals of the Western Shore / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Gav is very quick to trust. When he becomes aware of it, he tries to stop doing it, but it's really hard.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Annals of the Western Shore / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Gav's reaction when he learns from tavern gossip that Hoby has been stalking him for goodness knows how long now and getting closer.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Annals of the Western Shore / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: In the end, Canoc kills Ogge through unmaking, but he's killed himself by a Drum crossbowman. And with Orrec unable to use the gift, it's implied that Caspromant will become a part of Roddmant, at least for the time being.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Annals of the Western Shore / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Gand Ioratth. After Orrec makes a Rousing Speech and refers to Tirio as Ioratth's wife, Ioratth just quips, "Married us, did you?"
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Annals of the Western Shore / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Played with in regards to the visit to Drummant. Whether Canoc consciously deceived his son or not, the quickly approaching trip must have contributed to his more extreme actions. Orrec would be expected to demonstrate his newfound gift during that visit, or else leave Caspromant looking foolish - and vulnerable. Even after Orrec's eyes are blindfolded, Canoc insists upon making the trip. Ogge Drum had been making trouble for quite some time, and it was Canoc's hope that the invitation to Drummant might avert the coming strife, especially if Ogge's offer of an Arranged Marriage came through. Upon leaving Drummant, Orrec has been well established as a deterrent for any further actions against Caspromant, and Canoc was able to bring back his stolen cows. However, that is the extent of the good that came from that visit. The Arranged Marriage offer turned out to be a calculated insult, not a genuine offer to mend fences. Canoc may have retrieved his cows, but that only ensured that Ogge would eventually move to retrieve the cows that had been "stolen" from Drummant. And worst of all, Ogge took the opportunity to use his Wasting gift on Melle out of envy, dooming her to a protracted and painful death. All in all, it seems unlikely that Canoc would regard the results as worth the trip.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Annals of the Western Shore / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Gudit the stablemaster has "stands to reason" as his.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Annals of the Western Shore / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: For Orrec and Gry as they try to figure out what to do with their gifts when their society expects them to be used for one thing and they want to use them for the other.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Annals of the Western Shore / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Ogge Drum. He steals two of Caspromant's valuable white cows and is subtly but incontrivertably called on it by Canoc. A year later, Ogge attacks Caspromant claiming that they stole them.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_b66a24a7	type	Trauma-Induced Amnesia
Annals of the Western Shore / int_b66a24a7	comment	Trauma-Induced Amnesia: As a result of Heroic BSoD, starving, and being whacked on the head by a hermit, Gav locks all his memories of Arcamand behind a "wall". He can still remember stories when his new companions ask for them, but his mind keeps him from fully remembering until Derio asks him about it.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
Annals of the Western Shore / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: Although the Alds don't seem to make Ansulites worship Ald, they come down very hard on worshipping Ansul's gods.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_b8eb11d7	type	Definitely Just a Cold
Annals of the Western Shore / int_b8eb11d7	comment	Definitely Just a Cold: Melle's strange illness, but it quickly progresses beyond her ability to try and power through it.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Annals of the Western Shore / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Memer. Her mother was raped by Ald soldiers during the invasion. There are many like her and they're referred to as "siege brats".
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Annals of the Western Shore / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Falling for a girl that Barna has claimed, despite how many he has claimed. Also, challenging his authority. He's maimed and killed men over both and Gav has to flee for his life when Barna turns on him for looking at Irad too long.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
Annals of the Western Shore / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Gry's mother Parn, gifted with Animal Talk, is said to border on this.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Annals of the Western Shore / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Canoc and Melle. Even though he went to kidnap a wife, Melle volunteered because it was better than her family's extremely restrictive views about women.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_c27d3939	type	Soap Opera Disease
Annals of the Western Shore / int_c27d3939	comment	Soap Opera Disease: Justified, as it's the Drum gift. The victim doesn't have any symptoms except a gradually increasing weakness and wasting, to the point where even a light touch can mean broken bones. It's the fate of Orrec's mother.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_c3bc970f	type	Seers
Annals of the Western Shore / int_c3bc970f	comment	Seers: Gav has precognative abilities that he keeps secret. Among the things he sees are a snowfall, the Casicar invasion, and the funerals of Miv and his sister Sallo. Such powers are common among his original people, the Marsh folk.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
Annals of the Western Shore / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is the King: Played with. Most brantors are male, but it's a unisex title. Orrec and Gry find it ridiculous when a lowlander calls Parn a "lady-brantor."
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Annals of the Western Shore / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Gavir. The most fighting he does is playing soldiers with other children in Arcamand.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_ce60aef3	type	Heroic Resolve
Annals of the Western Shore / int_ce60aef3	comment	Heroic Resolve: The Waylord. He charges through the library to confront the crowd of Ald soldiers gathering at the house in spite of being long crippled from their torture. Memer points out that while the book and the fountain was a trick, his ability to run had to come from the gods.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Annals of the Western Shore / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Melle has a hard time fitting the gifts of the uplanders into her worldview.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_cf740b9f	type	Victory Through Intimidation
Annals of the Western Shore / int_cf740b9f	comment	Victory Through Intimidation: Canoc uses this tactic when he and his raiding party find themselves outnumbered by the townspeople of Dunet. By briefly demonstrating his gift of undoing, he cows the townspeople, who don't know the limits of his power, into handing over "tribute" without a fight. This could be foreshadowing for Canoc's later scheme of pretending that Orrec has a terrifyingly powerful wild gift in order to maintain Caspromant's independence.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Annals of the Western Shore / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Downplayed with Emmon. He's not loveable on his own merits, but Canoc tolerates him because the lowlander accent is a reminder of his wife. Orrec and Gry like his stories as well. Most everyone else is just stoic about the fact that he's a fugitive thief and don't make a fuss when he takes some spoons on the way out.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Annals of the Western Shore / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Sotur after the war with Casicar. She's hit hard physically from the malnutrition and becomes very cynical and disgusted with the forthcoming Cycle of Vengeance, still maintaining the weary "siege face". Irad. She went from an abused slave to sex toy for Barna, who beats her when she resists him. Her ultimate fate after Barna's death is unstated, but probably horrible whether she lived or died.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_d0bab7f5	type	Royal Inbreeding
Annals of the Western Shore / int_d0bab7f5	comment	Royal Inbreeding: Although they're not royal, strictly speaking, it's common for gifted individuals to marry cousins so the lineage remains strong.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
Annals of the Western Shore / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Iddor, who takes every chance he can get to upstage Orrec with religious ceremony and blast his stories as heresy to make his father look bad.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_d4b013c1	type	Does Not Like Magic
Annals of the Western Shore / int_d4b013c1	comment	Does Not Like Magic: The people of the city-states, usually. The only people who have common and accepted magical powers are the Uplanders and Marsh People, both groups considered to be barbarians on the coast.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
Annals of the Western Shore / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: A frequent occurence between different domains. In some cases, like the Drums, feuds can happen within families.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_d581ba71	type	Comes Great Responsibility
Annals of the Western Shore / int_d581ba71	comment	Comes Great Responsibility: One of the major themes in all three books is about the nature of power and how to use it.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Annals of the Western Shore / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Waylord. It's significant whenever he's addressed by his first name, Sulter.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Annals of the Western Shore / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: The Waylord actually defends Ioratth with this, since the worst of the abuses were carried out by Ioratth's son, Iddor, and the priests. In fact, Ioratth is delighted when his superiors give him less oppressive orders.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_df1a0454	type	Fantasy Pantheon
Annals of the Western Shore / int_df1a0454	comment	Fantasy Pantheon: Ansul has dozens of gods, at least. The Waylord says they stopped him from betraying the secret library during his torture. Contrasted with the Alds, who have just the one.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
Annals of the Western Shore / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: It's always Inherent Gift.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Annals of the Western Shore / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Gry's gift allows her to call animals to her. Usually it's used to call animals for hunting, but Gry won't use it for that.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_e42fbc	type	The Gift
Annals of the Western Shore / int_e42fbc	comment	The Gift: In case you couldn't guess by the title. The magical talents of Upland families are called gifts, but certain individuals are innately powerful in them—Alloc will never be as powerful as Canoc, and Blind Caddard was so good at unmaking that he had to go blindfolded as a child. In the end, Orrec discovers that his real gift is storytelling.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Annals of the Western Shore / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Orrec confronts his father just before the end on creating the false impression that Orrec has a wild gift. Canoc has a hard time admitting it, having convinced himself that it was Orrec who did those things.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Annals of the Western Shore / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When sweet, kind, endlessly charitable Sallo accuses the Father of being jealous of Yaven and wanting him dead, Gav is shocked into total silence by the hatred in her voice.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_ea35fda5	type	Bastard Bastard
Annals of the Western Shore / int_ea35fda5	comment	Bastard Bastard: Hoby, who is the son of Altan Arca and his personal slave and thus a slave himself. He's mean, resentful, and violent, and later participates in the rape of Sallo and Ris, and Sallo's drowning.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_ea3716ac	type	Targeted to Hurt the Hero
Annals of the Western Shore / int_ea3716ac	comment	Targeted to Hurt the Hero: Gav wonders if Torm killed Sallo just to hurt Yaven.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
Annals of the Western Shore / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: Gav spends most of the book being forced out of his circumstances and reacting to what other people do or say.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Annals of the Western Shore / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Irad's little sister Melle shares her name with Orrec's mother, Gav meets another Sallo when he reaches the marshes, and Melle randomly picks the name "Miv" when she has to pose as a boy.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
Annals of the Western Shore / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Sallo, abused and drowned by Torm and his friends. The whole household mourns her death and say that she was one of the sweetest people they ever knew.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Annals of the Western Shore / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Gry's father has the gift of the knife, so named because it can cut flesh. He uses it to painlessly remove splinters.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Annals of the Western Shore / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The siege of Etra by Casicar is a long, hard affair. The only people who escape deprivation and starvation are the priests, who have their own private food supply.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_f52ae5d8	type	Enemy Civil War
Annals of the Western Shore / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War: There's a lot of tension between the priests of Atth and the soldiers, who consider the Ansul occupation to be a waste of time and resources. Halfway through the book word comes down that the religious faction has lost power in their homeland of Asudar.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Annals of the Western Shore / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Ioratth's son Iddor. Unlike his dad, who only invaded Ansul because he was ordered to, Iddor gets really into the holy war and search for the Night Mouth.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
Annals of the Western Shore / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Gry becomes one to Memer, encouraging her to take more risks and think about things differently.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
Annals of the Western Shore / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Number Two: Alloc is Canoc's right hand in running Caspromant, though he doesn't consider himself smart and doesn't have a very strong gift.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
Annals of the Western Shore / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: Irad is resigned to being used by Barna's men, but she pulls a knife as soon as they try to keep her away from her little sister Melle.
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Annals of the Western Shore / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Annals of the Western Shore / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: One of the first things we know about Ioratth is that he took Tirio Actamo, an Ansul woman, as a lover and treats her honorably.
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