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Arcia Chronicles

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Arcia Chronicles	comment	The Arcia Chronicles (Ð¥Ñ€Ð¾Ð½Ð¸ÐºÐ¸ Ð�Ñ€Ñ†Ð¸Ð¸, Khroniki Artsii) is a High Fantasy novel series by Russian author Vera Kamsha, set in a Constructed World of Tarra, which itself is a part of a multiverse. What makes Tarra stand out among other worlds is that unlike them, it doesn't have any gods: some nine thousand years ago, seven alien deities known as the "Lightbringers" conquered Tarra, slaughtered the native Old Gods and whatever worshipers they had, and ruled Tarra for seven thousand years in the name of the "Light". After that, the "Light" called them back, leaving Tarra effectively defenseless against cosmic threats. Therefore, it is up to local humans and a handful of Elves (left behind by two renegade Lightbringers) to punch out cosmic monstrosities eying Tarra. The books are mostly set in Arcia (hence the title), a Vestigial Empire (later, a much smaller kingdom) in what is likely the most densely populated region of the world.The first book in the series, The Dark Star, is set two and a half millenia after the Great Exodus and opens with two men, a Wandering Minstrel named Roman and Duke RenÃ© Arroy of Eland, a notorious explorer and pirate, stumbling across a string of mysterious brutal murders in Arcia's south-eastern neighbor, the Kingdom of Tayana. Following the evidence, they soon clash with the cultists of Roigu, the last surviving Old God, who aim to incarnate their eldritch patron as the child of the meek princess Gerika Godoya, who happens to be RenÃ©'s distant relative. Fortunately, Roman is not a simple bard but, in fact, an undercover Elven spy among humans, while Lucky RenÃ© is a descendant of both Elves and the Old Gods, making him uniquely suited to withstand dark magics. Together, they take up arms against the Roigians to protect Gerika, the future "Dark Star", but in doing so, also kick off the devastating War of the Deer (named after Roigu's totem form)...The Dark Starnote then titled Izbrannitsa Preispodney, meaning "The [female] Chosen One/Love Interest of Hell/Abyss", which was presumably deemed too kitschy — not to mention lore-breaking, since there is no concept of "hell" in Tarra started off as a Deconstruction Fic of the High Fantasy genre and, in particular, of Nick Perumov's Chronicles Of Hjorvard, but eventually lost all connections to the source material (with only slight conceptual overlaps, such as the "True Mages"), and when Perumov himself discovered the manuscript, he took it straight to his publisher. A total of six books had been published between 2001 and 2003, before Kamsha switched her attention to her second series, Gleams of Aeterna, for what turned out to be the next two decades. The official line since has been that Arcia will be completed after Aeterna, but unfortunately, it looks increasingly like it will never happen, due to a combination of the author's interests and style evolving in completely different directions and the zeitgeist changing too much in the intervening decade for the plot she had originally drafted (at least, according to the Word of God, although her comments from early 2018 suggest that she hasn't fully abandoned hope of one day giving the series a proper closure).
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Arcia Chronicles / int_10aef86b	type	Dashed Plot Line
Arcia Chronicles / int_10aef86b	comment	Dashed Plot Line: The second duology is prone to multi-year time skips between parts.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_12c6bf73	type	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Arcia Chronicles / int_12c6bf73	comment	Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Appear in Tower of Fury, albeit without horses (yet?). In a twist, each of them is a reincarnation of a human who committed a terrible treachery in his life.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_138fe57e	type	All Witches Have Cats
Arcia Chronicles / int_138fe57e	comment	All Witches Have Cats: Gerika keeps pet lynxes before and after she gains powers, but switches to ordinary cats when she pretends to be a swamp witch while healing Alexander in book five (which is lampshaded). She can also possess her cats, look through their eyes, and use them as conduits for her power (which probably explains it).
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Arcia Chronicles / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Arcia Chronicles / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Erasti suffers one after discovering that his beloved Ciala betrayed him for fun and profit.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Arcia Chronicles / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: All Elves are basically interrelated somehow. Also, the royalty and aristocracy of Arcia and nearby countries.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_166258c3	type	Character Overlap
Arcia Chronicles / int_166258c3	comment	Character Overlap: There is a possibility that the Chronicles and Kamsha's other cycle, Gleams of Aeterna, are set in the same multiverse: in Black Poppies, Gerika mentions that her last love interest (while she was still amnesiac, wandering the other worlds) was a certain "blue-eyed Alva from Cinaloa". It just so happens that Reflections feature a major character named Roque Alva, who has blue eyes and rules a province named Kenalloa (though Gerika's lover may have been any one of his ancestors, too). Word of God, however, says that this is just a coincidence.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Arcia Chronicles / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The Dark Star contains numerous references to the Dark Star (though primarily as Arc Words of mystery), but also has a short Internal Monologue by Roman where he refers to her as the "Chosen One of Hell", which was the original working title of the book.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_1a303edf	type	Our Orcs Are Different
Arcia Chronicles / int_1a303edf	comment	Our Orcs Are Different: Dark Is Not Evil and Proud Warrior Race Guy variety.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_1c34e06b	type	Only the Chosen May Ride
Arcia Chronicles / int_1c34e06b	comment	Only the Chosen May Ride: Gib the Water Horse is less of a horse and more of a sentient force of nature, so he is extremely picky about whom he allows to ride him. Specifically, the only human he has ever allowed close to him is Rene Arroy, who just happens to be an old sea dog as well as an experienced horseman.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Arcia Chronicles / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: The collective suicide of the Elven Clan of the Swan in Wind's Harvest borders Stupid Sacrifice, even, except that they couldn't have known that Gridetara would have been killed by Neo and his gang, anyway.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_20016429	type	Experienced Protagonist
Arcia Chronicles / int_20016429	comment	Experienced Protagonist: The human lead of Dark Star is Rene Arroy, who is 48 years old at the outset and is Famed In-Story as both a Bold Explorer, having spent much of his 20s out at sea, and a shrewd politician, having had to assume the duties of the head of his clan when every other member died of a mysterious illness 20 years prior to the events of the book. There is also Roman, who is quickly revealed as a 300 years old elven spy and is well-versed in both magic and martial arts. Subverted at the very end of the book, when Gerika rounds off the protagonist trio, having exactly zero knowledge of her magic, and a very superficial understanding how the real world works.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Arcia Chronicles / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: And Kudzu Plot. And Door Stopper. Not quite as bad as The Wheel of Time in this department, but by the middle of Wind's Harvest it became apparent that the plot is not going to be resolved any time soon.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Arcia Chronicles / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Of the Wolf Cubs, only Alexander, Raphael, and Louis Truelle survive the Battle of Graza in the beginning of Black Poppies.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Arcia Chronicles / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: According to the Word of God, the original series conclusion, which would have comprised the Wild Wind duology, has been abandoned as early as 2005 and will be rewritten from scratch, should Kamsha ever return to the series. She has incorporated elements of this abandoned arc into her 2005 short novel Crataegus Sanguinea,note whose plot can be summarized as "Richard III's ghost teams up with Joan of Arc to fight Nazi dwarves", which she describes as her "farewell to Arcia and to Richard York".
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Arcia Chronicles / int_2410cc23	type	The Time of Myths
Arcia Chronicles / int_2410cc23	comment	The Time of Myths: Twice. First, there is the time when Tarra was ruled by Omm and other Old Gods, though only the Orcs remember it in modern times. Then, there were the seven millenia-long rule of the Lightbringers, of which the Elves have the best memories. Modern humans barely remember what the "Great Exodus" was, despite counting years from it.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_273ad2d0	type	Spark of the Rebellion
Arcia Chronicles / int_273ad2d0	comment	Spark of the Rebellion: The overthrow of the Tarskan occupation in Tayana is kicked off by the murder of Rodolph Gleo — an otherwise completely unremarkable drunkard poet — who reads a rousing poem in public, is shot by a Tarskan lackey, and, with his dying breath, calls upon the onlookers to liberate Tayana.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Arcia Chronicles / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: Incomparable Right, as mentioned above, is a reference to Nikolay Gumilev's poem. Argument of Kings is a play on Louis XIV's "Ultima Ratio Regum" ("the last argument of kings", meaning the declaration of war). Tower of Fury comes from a 1956 poem by Nikoyal Zabolotsky, which is quoted in the epigraph to Black Poppies.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_2bc8bdeb	type	Speak of the Devil
Arcia Chronicles / int_2bc8bdeb	comment	Speak of the Devil: The Damned One, the greatest heretic of all times, is only known by this nickname, when, in fact, he is the same person as St. Erasti Cerna, one of the most revered saints of The Church, Emperor Ankhel's most trusted henchman, Lunar King Laren's disciple, and the first True Mage of Tarra.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
Arcia Chronicles / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Quite a few examples, most of whom end up broken.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_2e032e41	type	Latin Lover
Arcia Chronicles / int_2e032e41	comment	Latin Lover: Raphael Cerna, a toreador and Alexander Tagere's Best Friend, is the most popular guy among Arcian noblewomen and Really Gets Around (without forming any emotional attachments so far).
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Arcia Chronicles / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
Arcia Chronicles / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: A recurring motif from the second duology onward is that women in power are more dangerous than they are useful. Gerika's explanation is that men can be (though not always are) motivated by honor and abstract obligations, whereas women always live for themselves and the ones they love. Especially bad are those who only love power, which is what the Cialian Order is all about. This is particularly evident in the stories of Agnesa (Margaret of Anjou's expy) and Anastasia, though notably subverted by Marta Tagere (Margaret of York's expy), who is a far more capable monarch than her first husband.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_30cdefe1	type	Reluctant Ruler
Arcia Chronicles / int_30cdefe1	comment	Reluctant Ruler: RenÃ© is crowned Emperor of Arcia in the end of Incomparable Right but manages to walk out and get himself killed. Alexander becomes a King of Arcia after his brother's death, despite being perfectly fine with remaining a mere general.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_32a1f455	type	Alliterative Family
Arcia Chronicles / int_32a1f455	comment	Alliterative Family: All seven Lightbringers.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Arcia Chronicles / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Arthur Barrot stays back to hold off an entire enemy army on a narrow bridge while his True Companions are bringing the reinforcements. And he survives.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
Arcia Chronicles / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: Ciala's Rubies, which have a very corrupting effect on all who wear them, turning even The Ingenue in a Manipulative Bitch over a few months. According to some pieced-together lore, they were made by Greditara out of the blood of a demigod who lived in the ancient jungle temple.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_3c2659de	type	Belated Love Epiphany
Arcia Chronicles / int_3c2659de	comment	Belated Love Epiphany: Nanniel is a staunch proponent of Elven supremacy, permanently in opposition to her husband Asten and his brother Emzar's more pro-human stance. After Asten is killed by Nanniel's faction and Emzar decides that he had enough and leaves the hidden Elven kingdom with his supporters to live with the humans, Nanniel realizes that despite their differences, she has actually been in love with Emzar for thousands of years and decides to follow him. Ironically, she dies saving a bunch of human victims of a Roigian cult because that's what Emzar would do, but neither he, nor anyone else ever learns about her change of heart.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_3ce914fb	type	Macabre Moth Motif
Arcia Chronicles / int_3ce914fb	comment	Macabre Moth Motif: The moths are an attribute of evil (not dark, but dirty gray) magic, such as the one of the Cialian Order.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_3fa56924	type	Rearing Horse
Arcia Chronicles / int_3fa56924	comment	Rearing Horse: When RenÃ©' and Gib kill the Roigian ambassador to Eland, after RenÃ© returns Back from the Dead.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Arcia Chronicles / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Let's see. Marita is raped by the Big Bad and Driven to Suicide. Solange/Anastasia is separated from her beloved Charles Tagere, loses their child, and eventually becomes a Big Bad herself. Dariolo is in love with Alexander but coerced to marry Arthur Barrot, and Alexander is apparently killed, on top of that.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_4c1a359f	type	William Fakespeare
Arcia Chronicles / int_4c1a359f	comment	William Fakespeare: One book features a character obviously based on Shakespeare, though it's not a very favorable portrayal: more like a Take That! for his work on Richard III, since Richard III's expy is one of the good guys in the story.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Arcia Chronicles / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The magical power of the Orders comes from the belief of the congregation. In a twist, The Church originally had little to no magic but since the Elven magic during the War of the Deer was intentionally attributed to clerics to uphold The Masquerade, the people started believing in miracles, allowing them to perform even more miracles... Also of note, the only Order who don't have their own magic are the Erastians — because all power gathered by them goes directly to Erasti (who is still alive!) himself.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_4e3f6d57	type	What Would X Do?
Arcia Chronicles / int_4e3f6d57	comment	What Would X Do?: During Pierre Tartue's coronation, one of the feline guardian spirits of Ankhel's Palace takes a dump on the throne just before the usurper is supposed to sit in it. A stickler for etiquette, Pierre panics, desperately trying to think of what would the famous monarchs of the past (whom he idolizes) do in such a situation: RenÃ© would just laugh and sit down on the stairs leading up to the throne, Ankhel would crack a joke that would send the audience laughing, while Philipp Tagere would break ceremony altogether and jump into the crowd to make out with the first pretty girl he found. Pierre instead loses composure and breaks off the rest of the ceremony.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Arcia Chronicles / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Kamsha clearly doesn't like Christianity. Or Henry VII (as well as anyone who was historically opposed to Yorks in general). She misses no opportunity to remind readers of that.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Arcia Chronicles / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Owing to its origins, the first duology is crammed with light-hearted elements aimed mainly at deconstructing fantasy staples — in a rather jarring contrast to the author's later, much more somber and politics-heavy Low Fantasy. The Dark Star is particularly egregious, both in terms of lore (e.g. it is the only book where "trolls" are regularly mentioned as inhabiting Tarra) and in style (the book has a habit of heavily foreshadowing future consequences of decisions the characters have just made — something that is completely absent from later volumes). Both of the above has been completely expunged from the Updated Re-release of The Dark Star, while instead adding extra Worldbuilding that ties it better with the later installments.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Arcia Chronicles / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: The great majority of villains. Initially, at least some of them were somewhat competent, if not nearly as much as they thought, but in the latter books all of the surviving ones are downright pathetic. Nearly all of the human-level bad guys past the first duology only remain dangerous because the good guys tend to suffer from Contractual Genre Blindness and fail to treat them as they deserve. Magical ones, well, have magic, which makes them more threatening, but their level of competence is the same.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_51bc8d33	type	The Church
Arcia Chronicles / int_51bc8d33	comment	Also the entire country of Tayana was accused of heresy, when they refused to follow through with The Church's rewriting of the official history of the War of the Deer.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
Arcia Chronicles / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Dwarves never appear in the novels but are alluded to as the most skilled smiths in Tarra on many occasions. Word of mouth is, they hide in the mountains of Er-Atev.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Arcia Chronicles / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The Church of Arcia is generally portrayed this way but individual priests are often shown in positive light. This is especially evident with several religious Orders, first of all, the Cialian Order.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Arcia Chronicles / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Malvani clan. They are so badass that the title of the Marshal of Arcia seems to be their family heirloom, regardless of the petty power struggles in the court. Even the priests from the Malvani family quickly turn into Church Militants. And they can shapeshift into tigers, apparently.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_55b8d46d	type	Bastard Angst
Arcia Chronicles / int_55b8d46d	comment	Bastard Angst: Pierre Tartue/Lumen comes from a bastard bloodline of the Lumens — one of the two clans vying for the throne of Arcia from book three onwards. He does a lot of very unsavory things to cover up his illegitimacy both before and after he usurps the throne, and hates being reminded that he is still a bastard.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_56563927	type	Noble Wolf
Arcia Chronicles / int_56563927	comment	Noble Wolf: Not only is the wolf a symbol of Agnes, God (Lightbringer) of War, but it is also on the personal coats of arms of both RenÃ© and Alexander. Considering how Agnes is the only Lightbringer who still cares about Tarra, and both Rene and Alexander are among its most heroic inhabitants, wolves are definitely a symbol of benevolent power in this setting.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Arcia Chronicles / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Oh so much. Roman draws upon the "Power of Darkness" so often, he eventually arrives at the conclusion that it's no different from the Power of Light inherent to all Elves.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Arcia Chronicles / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Starting from the third novel, Arcia becomes very much like the England during the the Wars of the Roses. Ifrana is France (King Joseph is obviously Louis XI), Orgonda is the Duchy of Burgundy, Cantisca is Vatican, Miria is Spain, Darnian Union is the Swiss Confederacy, Er-Atev is the Abbasid Caliphate, Tayana is, per Word of God, a mixture of Poland and Hungary, Frontera is Ukraine, Escota is Scotland, etc. The original Eland in the first duology is a weird mixture of post-Reconquista Iberia and Viking Scandinavia.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Arcia Chronicles / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Daphne, the blankess (Cialian prioress) of Miria, is not so much a psycho as a Manipulative Bitch who likes young girls. Laying her eyes on Raphael's little sister Dariolo, however, was a very bad idea...
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Arcia Chronicles / int_59e24999	type	Supernaturally Marked Grave
Arcia Chronicles / int_59e24999	comment	Supernaturally Marked Grave: When the Elven lord Asten is killed, Gerika causes the earth to magically envelop it, then transmutes the earth into a giant amethyst.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_5bb02372	type	Inhumanly Beautiful Race
Arcia Chronicles / int_5bb02372	comment	Inhumanly Beautiful Race: Elves are exceptionally beautiful, which is justified by their species being many times older than humans, meaning that they represent the peak of humanoid evolution (frozen in time thanks to their immortality) while humans are still getting there. However, having a perfect physique and looks means that all elves (of the same gender) look the same to humans, since their physical differences (read: deviations from perfection) are so minimal that only fellow elves can spot them. Hair/eye color and clothes are the only way mortal races can tell elves they don't know personally apart. Orcs, another race much older than humanity (though not as old or immortal as the Elves), have a kind feral beauty some humans admire (while others are intimidated by their appearance).
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Arcia Chronicles / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Arcia Chronicles / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Actually, Gerika is 600+ after the Time Skip. But she looks about the same age as she was during the War of the Deer (late twenties?) thanks to her godlike powers. And since she hides her origins, men (most notably, Alexander) keep falling for her.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Arcia Chronicles / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: If you start reading the series from any book after The Dark Star, it is pretty much impossible to avoid The Reveal that the Dark Star!Gerika is not the same individual that the original Gerika was in the first book, despite having the same physical body, in other words, that Gerika's original soul departed into the afterlife after giving birth to Roigu, but another woman's soul (possibly even from another world) has been somehow transplanted into her body immediately thereafter.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Arcia Chronicles / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Blood of Sunset takes place ca. 600 years after Incomparable Right. The second duology is prone to many-year skips, too.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Arcia Chronicles / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Roman effectively manipulates Kriza (his love interest) and Urrik (his Worthy Opponent) into falling in love with each other.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_6120e265	type	The Fate of the Princes in the Tower
Arcia Chronicles / int_6120e265	comment	The Fate of the Princes in the Tower: In this fantasy world, the boys are murdered by the Henry Tudor analog.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_61c7f576	type	Sedgwick Speech
Arcia Chronicles / int_61c7f576	comment	Sedgwick Speech: Lupe's drunkard husband is shot to death by a Tarskan lackey after reading a rousing poem against Tarskan occupation of Tayana in public. With his dying breath, he calls out to the onlookers to fight the occupiers — and actually manages to spark a massive uprising that eventually frees Tayana.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_62df7833	type	Multiple Narrative Modes
Arcia Chronicles / int_62df7833	comment	Multiple Narrative Modes: The books are written predominantly in third person but, starting from book two, switch to first-person whenever Gerika becomes the POV character.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Arcia Chronicles / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Too many examples to list. Perhaps the most touching example happens in Incomparable Right with the sacrifice of Faithful, Gerika's lynx, who willingly throws himself into magical fire to let her escape Tarra. Actually, for that particular sacrifice, nothing short of an Elven sacrifice would have worked (originally, Roman was to be sacrificed), but Faithful's sheer devotion and intelligence apparently sufficed. In fact, the very title of the second novel comes from a poem by Nikolay Gumilyov and refers to the "incomparable right to choose one's own death".
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Arcia Chronicles / int_69065de	type	Naval Blockade
Arcia Chronicles / int_69065de	comment	Naval Blockade: The Church blockades Orgonda from the sea after it refuses to acknowledge Pierre Lumen (whom the clergy endorsed) as king. The blockade is eventually lifted by the Eland Mariners.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Arcia Chronicles / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Raphael and Dariolo Kerna.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Arcia Chronicles / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: When Eanke kills Asten, Gerika taps into The Dark Side and unleashes her innate magic for the first time. Let's just say that all that's left of both Eanke and her escort afterwards can be put into a small box. A very small box.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
Arcia Chronicles / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: Averted in the Deer duology, where pistols were common among rich nobles, but played straight after the Time Skip. It was justified in-story by The Church discovering a magic that'd make gunpowder explode prematurely, rendering guns useless since they could explode in your hands at any moment. The Deer duology had not only pistols, but early 17th-century level of tactics in warfare, with the mix of musketeers and pikemen ruling the field.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_6fc2ca79	type	Fictionary
Arcia Chronicles / int_6fc2ca79	comment	Fictionary: The universal language in Arcia and neighborhood is (obviously) Arcian, but there are also others, from the Elven and Orcish to Er-Atevian, Mirian, and Darnian after the Time Skip. Most of them get at least a few words spoken in the text of the novels.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
Arcia Chronicles / int_707bb8ce	comment	Pair the Spares: Invoked by Shander Gardani when he proposes to Ilana in the end of book two. They don't love each other, having both lost their respective beloved ones, but he needs a family to establish a dynasty, while she is on the verge of becoming a nun. However, their purely pragmatic marriage results in a genuine love and becomes surprisingly happy for both parties.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Arcia Chronicles / int_7464705c	comment	Probably the most important prophecy that drives the rest of the series (thanks to containing more Arc Words than the rest of the book combined) is the one delivered by old Eric Connac in the end of book two after taking Agva Zakta.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_77f3a070	type	Consummation Counterfeit
Arcia Chronicles / int_77f3a070	comment	Consummation Counterfeit: Dariolo Kerna is supposed to be a virgin when she marries Arthur Barrot, when, in fact, she already has two (illegitimate) children. Arthur, automatically assuming that his wife was a victim of sexual abuse (and that that's why she ran away from home), cuts himself to produce a stained bed sheet as proof that his wife was a virgin before marriage, as the nobility custom dictates.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
Arcia Chronicles / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: Elves do not age and cannot die of natural causes.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_7b454a57	type	White Sheep
Arcia Chronicles / int_7b454a57	comment	White Sheep: Basil Grizier (based on Anthony Woodville, who unexpectedly survives), the completely irrelevant member of the "poodles" who suddenly becomes one of Arcia's leading diplomats and courtiers — all while retaining the self-deprecating attitude to himself as a result of his family history.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_816c63d4	type	Dramatic Wind
Arcia Chronicles / int_816c63d4	comment	Dramatic Wind: One of abilities Rene acquired after returning back from the dead seems to be conjuring wind to dramatically ruffle his hair even indoors.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Arcia Chronicles / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: Ankhel's Arcia, briefly resurrected under RenÃ© only to fall apart for good later.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_82d1d1af	type	Defecting for Love
Arcia Chronicles / int_82d1d1af	comment	Defecting for Love: Gerika is daughter of the first duology's Big Bad Mikhai Godoi but falls in love with RenÃ© and joins his side.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_8374444f	type	Mary Tzu
Arcia Chronicles / int_8374444f	comment	Mary Tzu: In-Universe, Alexander Tagere's tactical skills are acknowledged as supernatural (by actual supernaturals, no less).
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Arcia Chronicles / int_83ab1b39	type	The Tragic Rose
Arcia Chronicles / int_83ab1b39	comment	The Tragic Rose: In The Dark Star, the roses motif is strongly associated with Marita Veldovna, a Ghelanian beauty who falls in love with Roman but is raped and Driven to Suicide by Mihaly. Upon his return, Roman plants magically-empowered wild roses on her grave.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_8738b454	type	Signs of the End Times
Arcia Chronicles / int_8738b454	comment	Signs of the End Times
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Arcia Chronicles / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Arcia Chronicles / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Orc/Goblin infantry are one of these and that's probably why they tend to be rather peaceful.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Arcia Chronicles / int_8ae880f7	comment	Elves are exceptionally beautiful, which is justified by their species being many times older than humans, meaning that they represent the peak of humanoid evolution (frozen in time thanks to their immortality) while humans are still getting there. However, having a perfect physique and looks means that all elves (of the same gender) look the same to humans, since their physical differences (read: deviations from perfection) are so minimal that only fellow elves can spot them. Hair/eye color and clothes are the only way mortal races can tell elves they don't know personally apart.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Arcia Chronicles / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The later books emanate this feel. Also, the visions on the dead world that Roman and company visit.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_8ce49f80	type	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't
Arcia Chronicles / int_8ce49f80	comment	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't: Alexander Tagere has the best friends a man could wish for: a tightly-knit group of young nobles who view him as their leader and dub themselves the "Wolf Cubs", after his personal coat of arms. His family, on the other hand, is Big and Royally Screwed Up, starting with his mom, who hates him, through his middle brother, who fears and despises him, all the way to their distantly related rival clan of Lumen, who see him as the devil on earth.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_8f23f7e5	type	Horrorscope
Arcia Chronicles / int_8f23f7e5	comment	Horrorscope: Alexander Tagere's horoscope predicted that he would die within hours after his birth. He didn't, but it got worse from then on for him with lots of suffering which he faced stoically.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_8fe7f493	type	Ancestral Name
Arcia Chronicles / int_8fe7f493	comment	Ancestral Name: The firstborn sons of the aristocratic Malvani clan are named either Henry or Cesar, after a pair of famous ancestors, usually alternating with each generation. Younger sons do get other names, like George, though.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_900c8947	type	Best Friend
Arcia Chronicles / int_900c8947	comment	Best Friend: Raphael Kerna is Alexander Tagere's closest friend, who accompanies him everywhere. In fact, he seems to be the only major character in the second duology who is not based on a historical personality from the Wars of the Roses, and basically becomes the living Point of Divergence by taking steps to ensure Alexander's survival where Richard III, lacking a comparable ally, died.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_902fa0b4	type	Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Arcia Chronicles / int_902fa0b4	comment	Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Gridetara, a True Mage corrupting Tarra, was properly introduced in the final chapters of Wind's Harvest and dispatched just as quickly. He was foreshadowed since the second book, sure, but was still rather unexpected.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_919b10d2	type	Gunpowder Fantasy
Arcia Chronicles / int_919b10d2	comment	Gunpowder Fantasy: The first duology features early 17th-century level of warfare tactics, with the mix of musketeers and pikemen ruling the field, but from book three onward, technology actually regresses back to high medieval level, with firearms completely abandoned.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_91b5521d	type	Complete Immortality
Arcia Chronicles / int_91b5521d	comment	Complete Immortality: Gods border this, but not quite.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_91e7082a	type	Remarried to the Mistress
Arcia Chronicles / int_91e7082a	comment	Remarried to the Mistress: A gender-inverted example where Duchess Martha Tagere marries her long-time lover Cesar Malvani after her husband, the Duke of Orgonda, is murdered by the mob.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_95a4c6df	type	Wild Card
Arcia Chronicles / int_95a4c6df	comment	Wild Card: Estel Oskora, the Dark Star, is prophesied to wield tremendous power, but the prophecy is vague on whether she will use it in service of or against the Roigians who created her. Gerika's evil father Mihaly grooms her to be devoid of any willpower, so she wouldn't even conceive of rebelling against him and his masters, but then another, much more determined woman's soul takes over Gerika's body, who eventually falls in love with Rene and allies herself with him against Mihaly and the Roigians.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_9793f1b9	type	Solitary Sorceress
Arcia Chronicles / int_9793f1b9	comment	Solitary Sorceress: This becomes Gerika's modus operandi after she learns to control her powers. Before returning to Tarra, she lived on the outskirts of a kingdom in another world, counseling many generations of kings as the a Wise Witch. Afterwards, she uses the same guise to explain herself to Alexander (that she lived in a forest hut that his horse just happened to bring his wounded and unconscious body to), in order to avoid revealing that she was basically summoned to save his life by the self-sacrifice of one of his most loyal friends.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Arcia Chronicles / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Only humans descended from Elves, Old Gods, or St. Erasti's family seem to have prominent magic talents.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Arcia Chronicles / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Happens near the end of the first duology, when Shander Gardani proposes to Princess Ilana. They don't love each other, but he, having recently been elected king by the people, needs to start a dynasty, while she is on the verge of becoming a nun, having lost pretty much everything. Ultimately, their purely pragmatic marriage results in a genuine love and becomes surprisingly happy for both parties.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_a139f52b	type	Fantasy World Map
Arcia Chronicles / int_a139f52b	comment	Fantasy World Map: A map of Arcia and neighboring countries is included on endpapers of most volumes of the series. Notably, the parts east of Tayana and Tarska (including the mythology-relevant Grizzled Field) have never been mapped until now.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_a1d753b6	type	Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue
Arcia Chronicles / int_a1d753b6	comment	Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue: Happens in the prologues and epilogues of some volumes, with two or three mysterious figures discussing the events of the respective volume in the context of the apocalypse Myth Arc. Their identities have not yet been revealed but two of them are strongly implied to be the Great Brothers, the Eagle and the Dragon revered as gods by the Eland mariners.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_a45ca6ee	type	Fantasy Counterpart Map
Arcia Chronicles / int_a45ca6ee	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Map: The two known continents resemble Europe and Africa in shape and position, if "Europe" consisted only of France, Germany, Hungary, and Poland, if the latter shared a land border with Sweden and the Iberian peninsula were a large island. Additionally, a large steppe region stretches beyond the mountain range demarcating the eastern border of the fantasy "Poland-Hungary", but it has never been depicted on official maps, so it is unclear how large the "Asian" landmass beyond the mountains is. The land masses are also much smaller than their Real Life counterparts.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: Gib, the Water Horse. He is not so much a horse as a force of nature, in fact... Many Elves also see him as a Hellish Horse because he is part of Old Tarra, inherently opposed to the Light.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Pretty much any "god" in the setting. Also, True Mages like Erasti Cerna gain god-like powers if properly trained.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_ab0a1453	comment	Prematurely Grey-Haired: Rene Arroy went completely grey-haired after being shipwrecked beyond the Forbidden Line and spending weeks floating in the ocean.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: Lots and lots of blue blood. About 90% of all recurring characters are aristocrats or related. The other 10% are supernatural creatures.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_ae0bbe52	comment	Living Statue: The Riders of Gorda are two giant mounted statues of unknown origins towering over the Gorda mountain pass separating Tayana and Frontera. While local superstitions abound concerning them (such as that catching a glimpse of either of their faces is a Portent of Doom), they do actually come alive when Gerika intuitively calls out to them at the end of The Dark Star, revealing that they are actually two of the few remaining servants of the Old Gods, tasked millennia ago to prevent Roigu from ever escaping Takhena. Even though the Old Gods are long dead, the Riders found a way to petrify themselves until they are needed again, at which point they attack Roigu's totem pursuing Gerika and Roman, allowing them to escape. Gerika never meets them again, however, as Roigu finally gets the better of them off-screen during Incomparable Right.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: Roman and Kriza. Bonus points for him being an Elf and her, an Orc. Also, Alexander and Gerika: this time, with the roles the other way around.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Upon their meeting, Greditara cannot help but give a speech explaining his evil plans to Roman, whom he believes he can kill at any moment. Justified somewhat by the fact that Roman is the first person he has spoken to in centuries.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: RenÃ©, while not completely immune to misfortune, is by far the luckiest character in the books. Even though he gets screwed up pretty badly every so often, most notably, in the end of the second novel.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_b53c57d5	comment	Tower of Fury comes from a 1956 poem by Nikoyal Zabolotsky, which is quoted in the epigraph to Black Poppies.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_b5ab695c	comment	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: The War of the Daffodils duology is a fantasy retelling of the Wars of the Roses.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: RenÃ©'s Lynx Constellation, which becomes a literal Flying Dutchman at the end of the second novel.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_bc1865fb	comment	Deader than Dead: After killing the Old Gods, the Lightbringers fed their bodies to the Burier, a minor Eldritch Abomination, to make sure they stay dead, since "gods have a tendency to spontaneously come back to life". They didn't really count on having to leave Tarra for good later...
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Arcia Chronicles / int_bf5fc089	comment	Tarot Motifs: The O card deck is the local variation of Tarot. The symbolism isn't helped any when Elven artist Clare takes real heroes of the War of the Deer (many of whom are still alive in one way or another) as models for card images on his deck... which becomes the most imitated version in Arcia.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: RenÃ©'s Jan-Florentine (a toad who doubles as a living Philosopher's Stone) and Gib. Gerika's "pet" lynx Faithful, who was passed down to her after his original master Stefan, Crown-Prince of Tayana and her love interest, died.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_bf9ed416	comment	Immortality: The Ageless: Elves do not age and cannot die of natural causes. Complete Immortality: Gods border this, but not quite.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_c02ce551	comment	Straight for the Commander: During the Battle for Graza in book five, Alexander's army is betrayed, so he gathers the remaining loyal cavalry and orders a Self-Destructive Charge against the the enemy commander Pierre Tartue's position. He doesn't make it all the way there (though his Best Friend saves him from a certain death), but he gets close enough for Pierre to literally need a new pair of pants afterwards.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The "Wolf Cubs", Alexander's personal merry gang comprised of youngest children of aristocratic families loyal to Tagere, which eventually evolves into the most feared regiment of Arcia and is slaughtered almost completely in the beginning of the fifth book.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_c4dc0698	comment	The Soulless: Orcs believe that, unlike humans or elves, they do not have souls, so they only have one life to make an impact on the world with no chance of rebirth.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Trust Password: Throughout the first duology, the goblin Urrik signs his secret missives to Rene with emiko, the Elvish word for "friend". This works because Rene is pretty much the only human in Arcia who speaks Elvish, and Urrik only learned that word from Roman when the two of them briefly teamed up to save Shander Gardani from Godoy. Even though Rene has never met Urrik (instead assuming "emiko" to be Princess Ilana), he correctly infers that anyone using that penname must have had contact with his elf allies, and if they let him live, he must be trustworthy.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: Popes Philipp and Felix, Cardinals Maximilian (before his Faceâ€“Heel Turn) and Joachim, etc.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_d2a11313	comment	Death of the Old Gods: Part of the backstory of includes the Seven Lightbringers physically destroying all the Old Gods of Tarra. This returns to bite Tarra mightily in the ass nine thousand years later when the Lightbringers leave and a bunch of cosmic monstrosities show up to devour the now completely defenseless world.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: The Corrupt Church is particularly guilty of this. After the War of the Deer, they overwrite its history, e.g. making Mikhai the righteous king and RenÃ©, the bad guy, who seduced Mikhai's innocent daughter Gerika to get his throne. They attempt to do it even more blatantly after Alexander's defeat, presenting him as a Card-Carrying Villain and Pierre Tartue, as the rightful heir. They even employ a playwright... a slight poke of William Shakespeare's Richard III.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_d46e1d62	comment	Philosopher's Stone: Actually, a Philosopher's Toad. Jan-Florentine is a toad-like spirit/creature who can transmute any material into any other on touch and has a penchant for philosophic Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: The Elven Clans of the Swan and of the Silver Moon were left behind in Tarra on purpose by their Lightbringer patrons. However, desperate and believing that the other Clan was guilty, they engaged in a suicidal conflict known as the War of Monsters, where most of the remaining Elves in Tarra died. Eventually, the sides struck an uneasy truce but even two thousand years later, there's still enmity between them (not helped any by the circumstance that most participants of the War are still alive).
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Arcia Chronicles / int_d5d34629	comment	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Treachery is treated as one of the worst sins: it is a treachery that sets in motion events that culminate in The End of the World as We Know It, and the resident Horsemen of the Apocalypse are reincarnations of four kings who betrayed their loyal subjects and friends during their lifetimes.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_df1793de	comment	Updated Re-release: The first duology re-released in a single volume titled Tarra: Edge of the Storm in 2009, with many of the plot holes and continuity errors fixed. The rewrite also shifts the tone of The Dark Star slightly away from the mysticism and horror towards the grand political intrigue of the later books by strategically injecting additional exposition in certain dialogues, changing many names from whimsical to lore-proof, and reordering many scenes. The tone shift is particularly exemplified by the swapping of the book's final two scenes: whereas the original edition ends with Roman and Gerika being rescued from the White Deer by the Riders of Gorda (the mystical plotline), the re-release instead ends with the gun salute celebrating RenÃ©'s provisional coronation as the King of Eland (the political storyline).
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Arcia Chronicles / int_e00b1dc1	comment	Unluckily Lucky: Rene Arroy was Born Lucky, so when things are left up to chance, they usually go his way. However, this also means that he casually subjects himself to incredible dangers that, even though he always manages to survive them (in some way), have long-lasting and grave consequences for him.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Of several historical figures of 16th Century Kamsha doesn't like. However, while they are upgraded in villainy, they are downgraded in competence.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_e24a1629	comment	Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Gerika, to a certain degree.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_e294a0be	comment	Our Souls Are Different: Orcs admittedly don't have souls though what exactly makes a "soul" is never explained. Apparently, souls can be used for reincarnation (as well as becoming a Horsemen of Apocalypse) and orcs only have one lifetime, unlike humans and Elves.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: The Lightbringers and, by projection, Elves are portrayed as invaders from Another Dimension who attacked Tarra without warning, ruthlessly eradicated any opposition, then left it to sink or swim in the name of the "Light".
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Arcia Chronicles / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Gerika and RenÃ©.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_e905c892	comment	The Heretic: The Damned One a.k.a. St. Erasti Cerna. Also the entire country of Tayana was accused of heresy, when they refused to follow through with The Church's rewriting of the official history of the War of the Deer.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_ea0f58c0	comment	God's Hands Are Tied: Or rather, the Old Gods are dead and the Lightbringers abandoned Tarra because the Light needed them elsewhere.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_f5b974c6	comment	Superior Species: Belief of some Elves in their superiority over other races causes a lot of evil, most notably, Roman's sister Eanke who murders her own father Asten, one of the strongest opponents of "Elven superiority". It is also subverted soon thereafter with Eanke's mother Nanniel, who shares much of her views but dies by sacrificing herself to save human victims of a Roigian cult. After that, the idea of Elven superiority slowly withers and dies, until an entire Elven clan sacrifices themselves to protect Tarra.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_f6a464c2	comment	The Modern Gods: The Lightbringers were seven deities who conquered the Constructed World of Tarra, killed its entire original pantheon, and ruled it for seven thousand years. Unfortunately, they were still subordinate to an even greater deity, the Throne of Light, so when it called them back, they had to leave Tarra behind with no more gods to protect it from cosmic dangers.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: Roigu is the last of the Old Gods by the (mis)fortune of having been imprisoned by his own kind long before the Lightbringers invaded Tarra. The Seven have never found him before the Great Exodus. On a smaller scale, the Roigian cult still exists in Tarska even six hundred years after the Deer has been defeated in book two.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: Inverted with Raphael who actively encourages Alexander and Dariolo's extramarital affair despite their doubts about his reaction. However, he also (violently) rejects Dariolo when she is later manipulated into marrying Arthur Barrot by the Cialians.
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Arcia Chronicles / int_fe91380c	comment	Nobility Marries Money: Everyone thinks that this is the reason why Alexander (the king's youngest brother) marries Jacqueline re Flo (daughter and sole heir of the wealthy late King Maker). However, in reality, he does it mainly to protect his Childhood Friend from other, less scrupulous suitors.
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Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Nobility Marries Money / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Noble Wolf / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Only the Chosen May Ride / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Perfection Is Static / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Physical Religion / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Predator Turned Protector / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Prematurely Grey-Haired / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Professional Sex Ed / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Reasoning with God / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Reluctant Ruler / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Remarried to the Mistress / int_b60f87d1
Russian Reading	seeAlso	Arcia Chronicles
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Sedgwick Speech / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Signs of the End Times / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Solitary Sorceress / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Something for Everyone / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Spark of the Rebellion / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Straight for the Commander / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Supernatural Floating Hair / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Supernaturally Marked Grave / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Takes One to Kill One / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Taking the Veil / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	The Creon / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	The Fate of the Princes in the Tower / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	The Heretic / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	The Modern Gods / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	The Old Gods / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	The Soulless / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Unfit for Greatness / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Unluckily Lucky / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	William Fakespeare / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Written by the Winners / int_b60f87d1
Arcia Chronicles	hasFeature	Your Worst Memory / int_b60f87d1

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