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Black Jewels
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A "dark" fantasy trilogy series by Anne Bishop, involving high amounts of rape, torture, and other abuse. If you're sensitive to these subjects, steer clear. Largely notable for trying to invert a number of standard fantasy setting tropes - power is matriarchal, black is the most powerful color, the demons are the good(ish) guys, and so on.The individual books are:Original Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood (1998) Heir to the Shadows (1999) Queen of the Darkness (2000)Additional Works: The Invisible Ring (2000) Dreams Made Flesh (2005) (two short stories and two novellas) Tangled Webs (2008) The Shadow Queen (2009) Shalador's Lady (2010) Twilight's Dawn (2011) (four novellas) The Queen's Bargain (2020) The Queen's Weapons (March 2021) | |
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Eye Color Change: Jaenelle Angelline's eyes turn from "summer-sky" blue to "sapphire" when she's in Witch mode. | |
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Supernatural Gold Eyes | |
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Supernatural Gold Eyes: A trait of the long-lived races. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Just about every single scene featuring the villains (especially in the first book) involves either this or torture. | |
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Dragon-in-Chief | |
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Dragon-in-Chief: Dorothea, despite being High Priestess of Hayll and the known root of Terreille's corruption, is subservient to Hekatah and her rise to power was part of Hekatah's own plans of controlling the three Realms. Dorothea, however, doesn't see it that way and is waiting for her chance to be rid of Hekatah forever. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Falling into the Twisted Kingdom is a magical form of this, but characters have the normal type as well. Tersa, herself a permanent denizen of the Twisted Kingdom, disappears for weeks at a time. Daemon's BSOD lasts for eight years. Both characters have to be corralled for their own protection, but have a knack for slipping away. | |
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Heroic RRoD | |
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Heroic RRoD: Jaenelle, when trapped in the landen village with Lucivar, the villagers and insufficient supplies. Her power begins to consume her body as it is used. Then one of her friends dies... After she kills the attacking jhinka, she can't even walk under her own power. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Wee!Jaenelle. On the surface she's a shy, sweet girl with mega helpings of power. Then Briarwood "teaches her to hate" and she almost kills a stranger for approaching her handicapped Papa and develops a habit of splattering enemies all over the walls. | |
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Calvinball | |
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Calvinball: The game Cradle. All we know about it is that it is played with a game board, colored stones, bone discs, a deck of cards, and sadistic ingenuity. We also know it has 27 variations, all but the last of which are totally incomprehensible to males; the last variation is totally incomprehensible to females and was devised (of course) by Daemon. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Surreal and Rainier in Tangled Webs. Justified, since the spooky house they're trapped in was explicitly made in-universe after all the classics elements of horror stories, and the characters are well-read. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Saetan is fiercly protective of Jaenelle. | |
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Take Our Word for It | |
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Take Our Word for It: We never do find out what Daemon does to Cornelia. Most likely, it's better if we don't know. | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Telepathic Animals: The kindred. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Male characters are frequently driven to this by the antics of female characters. Female characters also—as evidenced by Marian after trying to teach Jaenelle (whose excessive power has odd effects on this particular mundane task) to boil eggs. | |
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Discard and Draw | |
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Discard and Draw: Happens to Jaenelle at the end of the trilogy. | |
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The Sacred Darkness | |
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The Sacred Darkness: The Darkness is the source of power, the Creator Deity, and representative of the Blood's most positive values. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Tereille. | |
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Good Is Not Soft | |
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Good Is Not Soft: One of the major themes of the series, taken to Anvilicious level. | |
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Ambiguously Brown | |
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Ambiguously Brown: All three of the long-lived races are stated to have "golden brown" or "brown" skin, along with gold eyes and straight black hair. Because the major racial tensions in most of the series are along different lines, it's hard to gauge their race against that of POC in real life. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Kermilla, in Shalador's Lady. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Daemon wears a black suit and white silk shirts for apparently most of his 1,700 year lifespan. Lampshaded by his valet, under duress, to Daemon's dismay. | |
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Dirty Business | |
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Dirty Business: Saetan executes people and feels terribly about it, not least because their evil stench gets in his clothes and hair. Daemon, while playing the Sadist one last time in a gambit to rescue his father and brother, admits that even he can't keep his lunch down. | |
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Nom de Mom | |
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Nom de Mom: Jaenelle uses her mother's maiden name because Witch follows the matriarchal ways and because her legal father is actually not her father. | |
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Violently Protective Girlfriend | |
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Violently Protective Girlfriend: Jaenelle. Also, to a lesser degree, Marian. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Dorothea, despite being, by her own admission, an incredibly cruel and vicious person, is shaken by the way Daemon seemingly murders Marian and Daemonar. | |
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Present Peeking | |
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Present Peeking: In the extended story "Winsol Gifts", adult offspring try to do this with their Winsol presents, as well as youngsters. Saetan anticipated this attempt and used magic to make it impossible for even his more powerful son to open his present early. | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: The Blood can explicitly 'vanish' and 'call in' items from a private pocket dimension. The amount one can carry seems to depend on the character's power level — the black-jeweled Saetan doesn't have any trouble 'vanishing' an entire houseload of furniture and carpets, while less powerful characters can have trouble with a few large or heavy items. | |
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Person of Mass Destruction | |
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Person of Mass Destruction: Jaenelle. Initially she can't figure out how to lend her power to fighting the war because if unleashed she'd wipe out everything. Saetan, Daemon, and to a lesser extent Lucivar, not only have extremely potent power, but also have seriously lethal tempers and protective male aggression up the wazoo hardwired into their psyches. Part of the reason Daemon and Lucivar are so infamous in Terreille is because they've both destroyed entire courts single-handedly, despite being bound by the Ring of Obedience. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
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Blessed with Suck: Jaenelle can do things no member of the Blood had ever dreamed of... and it makes her life hell. It alienates her entire family, causes her to be sent to an asylum periodically where she's sexually assaulted and tortured, her entire family as a child believes she's insane and more than halfway convince her of it, and it renders her completely incapable of a variety of basic tasks. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: The trilogy has cigarettes, cameras and bathrooms with running water, but no weapons more advanced than crossbows. This is because every member of the society can shield, making them everything proof, not to mention the ability to kill people with a thought. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Albeit not physical fights. It's just that the villains are pretty ineffectual at achieving anything but traumatizing the protagonists. Their various evil plots tend to get introduced in one chapter and foiled within the next 20 pages... | |
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Family Relationship Switcheroo | |
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Family Relationship Switcheroo: Philip Alexander is really Jaenelle and Wilhelmina's father, but their legal father is Robert Benedict, who is Philip's older brother | |
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Occult Blue Eyes | |
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Occult Blue Eyes: Jaenelle, whose intense blue eyes change to a darker shade when she becomes Witch. | |
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Sssssnaketalk | |
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Sssssnaketalk: Draca and Lorn. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: If someone's tangible psychic manifestation of power should happen to "go cold", you may as well not even bother to run. | |
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Constructed World | |
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Constructed World: Terreille (the Realm of Light), Kaeleer (the Shadow Realm), and Hell (the Dark Realm) seem to bear no relation to our world, and the human races may not be human as we understand it. | |
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Why Couldn't You Be Different? | |
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Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Jaenelle Angelline is neglected all through her childhood because her role as Witch, the Chosen One, means she's not entirely human and her family, unable to reconcile their fear/horror of her with her relatively innocuous outside, decide she's insane. | |
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Trap Is the Only Option | |
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Trap Is the Only Option: Lucivar's wife and kid get captured. Lucivar deliberately walks into the trap. Saetan receives word that his son has been captured. Saetan deliberately walks into the trap. Surreal hears that these people have been captured and gets ready to deliberately walk into the trap, but is thankfully intercepted by Daemon, who makes plans before he saunters into the trap. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: In Twilight's Dawn, Lucivar reveals that if he were to die in battle or be killed, it would trigger a spell of Saetan's that would wipe out the entire Eyrien race, save for Lucivar's own wife and descendants. Originally, the spell would activate if he died at all but Jaenelle modified it so that if he died peacefully, her spell would cancel out Saetan's, saving the Eyrien race. | |
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Badass Family | |
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Badass Family: The SaDiablos. And they're in the habit of more or less adopting and teaching the new members to be badass, like Lucivar teaching all the females to use Eyrien weapons in book three. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: Darkness is associated with positive thing like comfort, warmth, and rich loam. It is also the color of the most powerful jewels in the series. | |
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BlackAndGreyMorality | |
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Black-and-Grey Morality: The antagonists are unmitigated evil. The protagonists rack up remarkable body counts, indulge in some interesting torture against enemies, and the heroine commits partial genocide to save the world. Sometimes, the morality of the Black Jewels 'verse verges on Blue-and-Orange Morality. The ruthless, violent actions of the protagonists are accepted as justified, if not always right, within the moral framework of the story. However, the main characters, even though most of them are described as having an appearance similar to normal human beings, are not human. They have very different instincts, whether due to biology, their magic, or both, and this means that their morals sometimes differ from normal, real life people. However, they still do share some morals with the real world. For example, while murder is sometimes considered justified - to the point it is mentioned several times there is no law against murder and the most you have to fear from killing someone is another person doing the same to you - rape is both a berserk button and a special kind of evil to most of the protagonists. | |
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Even the Guys Want Him | |
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Even the Guys Want Him: Daemon. | |
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The Lifestream | |
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The Lifestream: The Darkness is the benevolent source from which the Blood draw their powers, as well as where their souls go when they die and come from when they are born. It is occasionally appealed to similarly to a deity, but without any anthropomorphic representation. Interestingly, the series never addresses whether the non-Blood landen come from the Darkness, or somewhere else. | |
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No Badass to His Valet | |
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No Badass to His Valet: The relationship between the SaDiablo family and the Hall's servants is this. They prefer it this way. | |
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Black Jewels / int_5cd4cebb | |
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Panthera Awesome | |
| Black Jewels / int_61c3ca7b | comment |
Panthera Awesome: The "kitties", Kaelas and Jaal. | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_61c3ca7b | |
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Gullible Lemmings | |
| Black Jewels / int_620e256f | comment |
Gullible Lemmings: Dorothea tries to pass off a lifetime of unrestrained evil as her having been the victim of manipulation by the High Lord of Hell... and people are willing to believe it. | |
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Black Jewels / int_620e256f | |
| Black Jewels / int_63d861f8 | type |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
| Black Jewels / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Averted for the main villains of the original trilogy. Dorothea had no qualms about raping her own son and then abandoning him when he was no longer useful. Hekatah married Saetan only for his power and never loved him or her sons; in fact, she was willing to allow their third son to be killed just to get back at Saetan and outright says at one point that children are only good for securing alliances and basically used her sons to keep Saetan under her thrall. | |
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Black Jewels / int_63d861f8 | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Black Jewels / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Pretty much every character at least tries to. All of the demon-dead do this at the end to assist Jaenelle's final release of dark power. | |
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Black Jewels / int_6439de78 | |
| Black Jewels / int_66ea7e5c | type |
Brought Down to Normal | |
| Black Jewels / int_66ea7e5c | comment |
Brought Down to Normal: Jaenelle's attack against the Big Bad leaves the Blood of Terreille either destroyed, untouched, or reduced to their most basic abilities. It also reduces her to the normal levels of power within the blood; she's the one that makes this happen. Recently they revealed that her power could potentially be restored by breaking the spell she put in place to restrict it, but since they had to rebuild her body it's doubtful she would survive being its vessel again. On a smaller scale, other releases of dark power do this to various people, reducing them from their adult strength to their birthright powers. | |
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Black Jewels / int_66ea7e5c | |
| Black Jewels / int_67d5984e | type |
Mills and Boon Prose | |
| Black Jewels / int_67d5984e | comment |
Mills and Boon Prose: Parodied in Tangled Webs, where Jaenelle is reading a bad romance novel and shows her husband a particularly purple passage. He responds, "Sweetheart, if my penis ever does that, you'll be the first to know. Not as my wife, but as a Healer." | |
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Black Jewels / int_67d5984e | |
| Black Jewels / int_67edaf78 | type |
Gargle Blaster | |
| Black Jewels / int_67edaf78 | comment |
Gargle Blaster: Gravediggers. The Blood have very high metabolisms, especially when their power is deep; this makes it difficult for some characters to get drunk without making use of a Gargle Blaster concoction. Or two. Or seven. On the other hand, if a more mid-powered Blood gets any in them, Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Black Jewels / int_67edaf78 | |
| Black Jewels / int_680bb6b1 | type |
Hot-Blooded | |
| Black Jewels / int_680bb6b1 | comment |
Hot-Blooded: The Blood can politely be described as emotionally intense people, and this tendency seems to be most marked in the most powerful members. In-universe, Protocol exists as a means to keep a society full of emotionally volatile high-powered magic users from irritating each other into Unstoppable Rage on a regular basis. | |
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Black Jewels / int_680bb6b1 | |
| Black Jewels / int_69681e01 | type |
Big Brother Instinct | |
| Black Jewels / int_69681e01 | comment |
Big Brother Instinct: Lucivar can only be considered the younger brother by maybe a few months tops. But Daemon will end you if you even think about hurting him. Lucivar considers himself to be this to Jaenelle pretty much from the moment they meet. By extension, he also serves in this role to most of the First Circle, the way Saetan is an honorary uncle. Rainier in Tangled Webs seems to have this for Surreal. Jaenelle, despite being the younger sister, shows this for Wilhelmina, who even acknowledges this in the third book. | |
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Black Jewels / int_69681e01 | |
| Black Jewels / int_6a4f3cf7 | type |
Took a Level in Dumbass | |
| Black Jewels / int_6a4f3cf7 | comment |
Took a Level in Dumbass: Theran Grayhaven, epically in Shalador's Lady. He's stubbornly obsessed with getting a glamorous Queen because that's what he believes his land (not to mention, what HE, the last Grayhaven) deserves, which leads Theran to trivialize all of the unglamorous Cassidy's hard work and accomplishments because she doesn't fit his image of a 'proper' Queen. Instead, Theran falls for the vivaciously beautiful, but spoiled Kermilla, and ends up constantly making excuses for or trying to rationalize away Kermilla's blatantly selfish and inconsiderate behavior as he tries to make her Queen of Dena Nehele. Partially justified by his reaction to Kermilla. All Warlord Princes have an instinct to "belong to" and submit to a particular Queen. Unfortunately, Theran is drawn to the selfish and vain Kermilla. According to his new Queen, "Theran is not a bad human. He is just male and foolish. And confused." | |
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Black Jewels / int_6a4f3cf7 | |
| Black Jewels / int_6b4b3eba | type |
Lady Land | |
| Black Jewels / int_6b4b3eba | comment |
Lady Land: Terreille is the bad kind, Kaeleer is a more enlightened kind. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_6b4b3eba | |
| Black Jewels / int_6b5a92dc | type |
Uncanny Valley | |
| Black Jewels / int_6b5a92dc | comment |
Uncanny Valley: In-universe example. Jaenelle, being not quite human, disturbs some people when they see her as Witch. The darkness of her power also makes her relatives uneasy, even before one of them sees her true form. As a child, her eeriness is attributed to a disturbed mind, and her grandmother later thinks that she must go beyond that and into complete insanity. | |
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Black Jewels / int_6b5a92dc | |
| Black Jewels / int_6b983bf7 | type |
Unstoppable Rage | |
| Black Jewels / int_6b983bf7 | comment |
Unstoppable Rage: The anger of male Blood (and Jaenelle) is a tangible psychic manifestation of power. Some unleash it more readily than others. Other witches as well, but they rise to the killing edge less easily and are much more merciless when they do, so the males make sure to take care of it. Jaenelle just has a whooole lot of triggers so she shows what happens when a witch gets that pissed off. | |
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Black Jewels / int_6b983bf7 | |
| Black Jewels / int_6bcfbc7e | type |
Fantasy Gun Control | |
| Black Jewels / int_6bcfbc7e | comment |
Fantasy Gun Control: There are no weapons more advanced than crossbows. This is because every member of the society can shield, making them everything proof, not to mention the ability to kill people with a thought. | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_6bcfbc7e | |
| Black Jewels / int_70dc3a86 | type |
Had to Be Sharp | |
| Black Jewels / int_70dc3a86 | comment |
Had to Be Sharp: Daemon and Lucivar's backstories. | |
| Black Jewels / int_70dc3a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_70dc3a86 | |
| Black Jewels / int_71e8a5c5 | type |
Trauma Conga Line | |
| Black Jewels / int_71e8a5c5 | comment |
Trauma Conga Line: Most of the protagonists have this inflicted on them. It sometimes takes the form of Deus Angst Machina wrought by the villains. | |
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Black Jewels / int_71e8a5c5 | |
| Black Jewels / int_7315fd38 | type |
Covers Always Lie | |
| Black Jewels / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: The covers featuring Jaenelle usually show her wearing gowns or dresses, which is out of character as she dislikes them. | |
| Black Jewels / int_7315fd38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_7315fd38 | |
| Black Jewels / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| Black Jewels / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood." Explained to the reader, not to the victims of said pretty poison. "Everything has a price." Typically said whenever an action or event occurs that deeply affects the plot or the relationships between the characters. "Freely Given, Freely Taken". Often used with the Demons (Who need to drink blood to keep their strength up) but occasionally with other gifts to imply a complete lack of obligation on either side. | |
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Black Jewels / int_7464705c | |
| Black Jewels / int_792bb47a | type |
Heroic Bastard | |
| Black Jewels / int_792bb47a | comment |
Heroic Bastard: Daemon, Lucivar and Surreal Jaenelle and Wilhelmina are both this, technically, since their uncle is their real father, but this is not public knowledge. | |
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Black Jewels / int_792bb47a | |
| Black Jewels / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
| Black Jewels / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Dorothea. Hekatah. Kartane. Greer. | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_7c0bfb83 | |
| Black Jewels / int_7cda47b | type |
Dying Declaration of Love | |
| Black Jewels / int_7cda47b | comment |
Dying Declaration of Love: Luthvian makes a dying declaration of maternal love to Lucivar. | |
| Black Jewels / int_7cda47b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_7cda47b | |
| Black Jewels / int_7e84a642 | type |
Serial Rapist | |
| Black Jewels / int_7e84a642 | comment |
Serial Rapist: Kartane SaDiablo. Growing up in an evil matriarchal Decadent Court gave him some major issues around women, power, and sexuality, and he reacts to this by preying on adolescent girls from lower social classes. | |
| Black Jewels / int_7e84a642 | featureApplicability |
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Black Jewels / int_7e84a642 | |
| Black Jewels / int_83c7baa0 | type |
Step Servant | |
| Black Jewels / int_83c7baa0 | comment |
Step Servant: Marian's situation before meeting the other main characters. She was the least favored daughter of her family and had to do all the housework. | |
| Black Jewels / int_83c7baa0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_83c7baa0 | |
| Black Jewels / int_85c5db50 | type |
In Love with Your Carnage | |
| Black Jewels / int_85c5db50 | comment |
In Love with Your Carnage: Hekatah is reeeally happy with the Sadist. | |
| Black Jewels / int_85c5db50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_85c5db50 | |
| Black Jewels / int_8618825d | type |
Portal Network | |
| Black Jewels / int_8618825d | comment |
Portal Network: The Gates between the Realms, as well as the dark Winds. One of Jaenelle's rule-breaking abilities is to traverse the spaces between the ordinary Winds, jump back and forth between the Realms, and build a theoretically impossible bridge into Hell. | |
| Black Jewels / int_8618825d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_8618825d | |
| Black Jewels / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Black Jewels / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Jaenelle's biological family completely disappears after the third book; we're not even told of what happened to them after Jaenelle cleanses the Blood. Even Wilhelmina, the only member of the family who cares for Jaenelle and who settles in Kaeleer, never appears again. | |
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Black Jewels / int_863fa679 | |
| Black Jewels / int_86bb7d97 | type |
Cultured Badass | |
| Black Jewels / int_86bb7d97 | comment |
Cultured Badass: Saetan. Daemon. | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_86bb7d97 | |
| Black Jewels / int_86f2d483 | type |
Frying Pan of Doom | |
| Black Jewels / int_86f2d483 | comment |
Frying Pan of Doom: Marian was trained to use one as a weapon by Lucivar, who was not happy until she could throw one accurately and break bones. | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_86f2d483 | |
| Black Jewels / int_890d4ef2 | type |
Humiliation Conga | |
| Black Jewels / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: What happens to Theran, when he tries to convince the other Warlord Princes to make Kermilla the Queen of Dena Nehele. | |
| Black Jewels / int_890d4ef2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_890d4ef2 | |
| Black Jewels / int_8ba9512b | type |
Our Zombies Are Different | |
| Black Jewels / int_8ba9512b | comment |
Our Zombies Are Different: The demon dead are a cross between this and Our Vampires Are Different; there's no biting involved, no healing, no super powers, they're just dead that reanimate when enough psychic power remains in the corpse, but they do drink blood, and sunlight drains them. | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_8ba9512b | |
| Black Jewels / int_8c1ad82f | type |
Proud Warrior Race Guy | |
| Black Jewels / int_8c1ad82f | comment |
Proud Warrior Race Guy: Lucivar, as an Eyrien. Andulvar, for the same reason. | |
| Black Jewels / int_8c1ad82f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_8c1ad82f | |
| Black Jewels / int_8cb1a369 | type |
Took a Level in Jerkass | |
| Black Jewels / int_8cb1a369 | comment |
Took a Level in Jerkass: Falonar. In Queen of the Darkness, Falonar is depicted as a proud but loyal Eryien. But two years later, in the novella Shades of Honor, Falanor is revealed as a nasty, scheming, power-hungry class-obsessed Straw Misogynist and hardcore Eryien bigot who uses treachery and drugs in his attempts to manipulate and eliminate his much more powerful rival, Lucivar. This is all explained as Falonar hiding his true nature from everyone (including Witch, somehow) when he first came to Kaeleer. | |
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Black Jewels / int_8cb1a369 | |
| Black Jewels / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
| Black Jewels / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Villain deaths tend to be very messy. (Given the amount of Moral Event Horizon crossing, this is also pretty necessary.) Your Head A-Splode is used in the sense of "Splortch means No!" by Daemon and then later Jaenelle, who are both plagued by violations of their respective sexual boundaries. | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_90d44f44 | |
| Black Jewels / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Black Jewels / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: In Shalador's Lady, both Theran and Kermilla. Theran gets the powerful and dazzling Queen he wanted, but she's a Green-jeweled Sceltie Queen who happens to be Vae's aunt, while the narcissistic Kermilla is allowed to survive, but is trapped for over a year in the illusion of a decidedly ugly woman. | |
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Black Jewels / int_90e31482 | |
| Black Jewels / int_91e894b4 | type |
Apocalypse How | |
| Black Jewels / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: In Dreams Made Flesh it is revealed that in his living days Saetan snapped and executed a regional/metaphysical annihilation on an entire island city-state, leaving memories but not a single scrap of evidence that it existed. This scared everyone, including him, so much that it is used to justify both his insistence on following the laws and the fact that his name is used to scare children fifty thousand years later. | |
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Black Jewels / int_91e894b4 | |
| Black Jewels / int_96144372 | type |
Aristocrats Are Evil | |
| Black Jewels / int_96144372 | comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: Played straight for pretty much every aristocratic character who isn't part of the SaDiablo Family or a friend of Jaenelle. | |
| Black Jewels / int_96144372 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_96144372 | |
| Black Jewels / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Black Jewels / int_970c790a | comment |
Jaenelle's attack against the Big Bad leaves the Blood of Terreille either destroyed, untouched, or reduced to their most basic abilities. It also reduces her to the normal levels of power within the blood; she's the one that makes this happen. Recently they revealed that her power could potentially be restored by breaking the spell she put in place to restrict it, but since they had to rebuild her body it's doubtful she would survive being its vessel again. | |
| Black Jewels / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_970c790a | |
| Black Jewels / int_9823f7c | type |
ProudWarriorRace | |
| Black Jewels / int_9823f7c | comment |
Lucivar, as an Eyrien. | |
| Black Jewels / int_9823f7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Black Jewels / int_9823f7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_9823f7c | |
| Black Jewels / int_9ac6b0c1 | type |
Sociopathic Hero | |
| Black Jewels / int_9ac6b0c1 | comment |
Sociopathic Hero: Dear god, the entire main cast. For example, Saetan fantasizing about snapping the bones of a "slutty" teenage girl, an incredibly inappropriate response to a mild transgression. Or Daemon in general. The only reason none of the "heroes" are portrayed in a negative light is because the villains are worse. In any other series, Jaenelle and her cronies wouldn't be the heroes. To be fair, Daemon's reactions are usually justified, considering the people on the other end of them are usually horribly corrupt if not outright evil. Saetan's reaction to Roxy was less about her being "slutty", so much as seeing in her the potential of become another Dorothea or Hekatah. | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_9ac6b0c1 | |
| Black Jewels / int_9c7e3137 | type |
Hyperspace Arsenal | |
| Black Jewels / int_9c7e3137 | comment |
Hyperspace Arsenal: The more combat-oriented characters like Lucivar and the assassin Surreal explicitly use the Blood's Hammerspace ability to stash a supply of weapons, healing and food supplies, etc.... just in case. | |
| Black Jewels / int_9c7e3137 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_9c7e3137 | |
| Black Jewels / int_9dd2cbc2 | type |
CloudCuckooLander | |
| Black Jewels / int_9dd2cbc2 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Tersa, due to being broken, has a....unique way of seeing the world that most people take a while to understand. | |
| Black Jewels / int_9dd2cbc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Black Jewels | hasFeature |
Black Jewels / int_9dd2cbc2 | |
| Black Jewels / int_9e08a5c2 | type |
What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
| Black Jewels / int_9e08a5c2 | comment |
What Measure Is A Nonhuman: The Kindred. Invoked by Lucivar in Heir to the Shadows, in regards to his wings: "What am I, High Lord? By the Council's reckoning of who is human and who is not, What am I?" | |
| Black Jewels / int_9e08a5c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_9e08a5c2 | |
| Black Jewels / int_9e943076 | type |
One-Man Army | |
| Black Jewels / int_9e943076 | comment |
One-Man Army: Lucivar. | |
| Black Jewels / int_9e943076 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Black Jewels | hasFeature |
Black Jewels / int_9e943076 | |
| Black Jewels / int_9fbe06a5 | type |
Badass in a Nice Suit | |
| Black Jewels / int_9fbe06a5 | comment |
Badass in a Nice Suit: Daemon. Saetan. | |
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Rape Leads to Insanity | |
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Rape Leads to Insanity: Witches who are "broken", that is, raped before they can lose their virginity the normal way, gradually lose their sanity, as well as most of their power. | |
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More Deadly Than the Male | |
| Black Jewels / int_a3458bf2 | comment |
More Deadly Than the Male: This is pretty explicitly part of the worldbuilding. The culture is matriarchal, with males serving females as guardians and protectors; but females generally have more powerful (or at least more deadly) magic, and one character even says outright that the reason males serve is because "you're deadlier when you're angry" and at least if they go down first the males won't have to deal with them when their tempers are roused. | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
| Black Jewels / int_a536f3a3 | comment |
Gender-Blender Name: Jaenelle's mother, Leland, whose name is usually a male one. Ladvarian is this by Eyrien standrads, since Eyrien women's names always end in -ian | |
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Cool House | |
| Black Jewels / int_a588cd12 | comment |
Cool House: The Hall and its subsidiary estates. Which include but are not limited to: The Hall in Kaeleer, The Hall in Hell, the other three estates in Dhemlan, Jaenelle's cottage, Jaenelle's summer home in Scelt, the family's townhouse in Amdarh, and others mentioned only in passing. In some of the prequels this may also include the Hall in Tereille kinda sorta. | |
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Mega Neko | |
| Black Jewels / int_aa92a5d2 | comment |
Mega Neko: Kaelas, the Arcerian cat. Described as "eight hundred pounds of feline fury". | |
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Red Baron | |
| Black Jewels / int_ab2df806 | comment |
Red Baron: Daemon is also known as "The Sadist". | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
| Black Jewels / int_af3ea0e3 | comment |
Face–Heel Turn: Brutally faked by Daemon at the end of Queen of the Darkness. | |
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"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word | |
| Black Jewels / int_b09c818 | comment |
"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: “Oooooh, that’s a harsh word. But I won’t quibble about it.” | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
| Black Jewels / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Jaenelle casts a spell that causes the "uncles" who visited Briarwood to suffer all the rapes and tortures they inflicted on the little girls there—and makes sure it doesn't kill them; death would be too easy. | |
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Mayfly–December Romance | |
| Black Jewels / int_b1efb7a7 | comment |
Mayfly–December Romance: Daemon and Jaenelle. Daemon was about 1700 years old when Jaenelle was born, and can expect to live as long again, while Jaenelle dies in her nineties. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
| Black Jewels / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Vulchera, in The Shadow Queen, for being foolish enough to try playing sexual power games with Daemon Sadi, a Black-jeweled Warlord Prince notoriously known for centuries as "The Sadist". | |
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Politeness Judo | |
| Black Jewels / int_b6b6355f | comment |
Politeness Judo: The easiest way to redirect any male, but especially an upset/angry one, is to ask them for help, as one landen girl proves. The setting's rules of protocol in general are designed to keep them all from killing each other as much as possible. | |
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Gift Shake | |
| Black Jewels / int_b979b371 | comment |
Gift Shake: In "Winsol Gifts", Saetan anticipates this and actually has prepared some obvious, attractive presents that rattle nicely, filled with junk, to save the more delicate gifts. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
| Black Jewels / int_b9d334b2 | comment |
Aerith and Bob: Names range from blatant "Darkness von Gothick" Name (Daemon, Lucivar, Hekatah) to the relatively mundane (Alexandra, Marian, Cassidy). | |
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Everyone Is Related | |
| Black Jewels / int_bbdf5f31 | comment |
Everyone Is Related: Not quite everyone, but a ridiculous proportion of the characters in the original trilogy are connected to the SaDiablo family through blood, marriage, or adoption. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Black Jewels / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
When they accuse Saetan of sexually assaulting her Jaenelle rips apart a room—only a room merely because Saetan is trying his best to contain her—trying to tear apart Council Members. Jaenelle is a sweet girl, but definitively cracked; after her childhood, it takes her a long time to bury buttons easily triggered by even the hint of threat to anyone she cares about or anything that evokes memories of her childhood sexual abuse. Given that she's way past demigod on levels of power, her instability could get quite dangerous. | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
| Black Jewels / int_be0ad6b7 | comment |
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Daemon and Kartane both until Dorothea got to them. | |
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Shrouded in Myth | |
| Black Jewels / int_be8416ea | comment |
Shrouded in Myth: The High Lord of Hell. Cassandra. | |
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Real Women Don't Wear Dresses | |
| Black Jewels / int_c099ca1a | comment |
Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Jaenelle and all her friends prefer comfortable clothing and pants and hate wearing dresses and therefore only do it when they absolutely must, much to Saetan's chagrin. In fact, this is more or less a good marker on whether a female character in the series is good or evil; if she prefers sensible clothing to fancy clothing, she's probably good. If she adores being dressy or is fashion-obsessed, she's probably a villain. | |
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I Have No Son! | |
| Black Jewels / int_c132c0c5 | comment |
I Have No Son!: Dorothea about Kartane in the third book, after he tries to barter information about her to the SaDiablo family in order to see a skilled healer about his mysterious illness. | |
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True Companions | |
| Black Jewels / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: Jaenelle's powerful but eclectic band of friends. Saetan and Andulvar, with fifty thousand years of shared experience behind them. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
| Black Jewels / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: Most of the sex scenes are ugly rapes. | |
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Heroic Willpower | |
| Black Jewels / int_c696f3ba | comment |
Heroic Willpower: What Daemon and Lucivar use to fight the Rings of Obedience. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
| Black Jewels / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Kartane SaDiablo is an evil misogynist and rapist/pedophile because he was raped by his mother. Among other, mostly female-related reasons. In a flashback, it's shown that he wasn't actually that bad as a kid. He's a total bastard later, though. And he still gets an extremely Karmic Death. | |
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Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand | |
| Black Jewels / int_ccffaa84 | comment |
Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: Daemon and Lucivar in the third book. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Black Jewels / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: The Cassidy books, in comparison to the main trilogy. The world has already been saved, so the stakes are a lot lower, all the soul-searing abuse and trauma took place in the past and off-screen, and the main villainess is a Spoiled Brat. | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels | |
| Black Jewels / int_ce9f550c | comment |
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: In Dreams Made Flesh, Daemon wants to impress Jaenelle by telling her how much she means to him in the old tongue. He plans to say this one phrase he has taught himself in a very intimate situation, but during a faked public argument, he utters it as it's the only one he knows that their listeners won't be able to understand. Lucky for him he did that then, as what he was really saying was: "I eat cow brains." | |
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The Magocracy | |
| Black Jewels / int_cec7dac0 | comment |
The Magocracy: The Blood are powerful magic-users who effectively rule over the world, including the non-Blood (called landens). The Territory Queens, supported by their Courts (mostly male), control kingdom-sized areas, with the smaller areas (provinces, cities, villages, etc.) being controlled by less powerful Queens who answer to the Territory Queens. The quality of governance ranges from enlightened to vile corruption. | |
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No Periods, Period | |
| Black Jewels / int_d0bf8a6d | comment |
No Periods, Period: Averted in that a female's moontime is a big deal. While witches don't lose their powers while menstrating, they can't use their powers without excruciating and debilitating pain. This leaves the females dangerously vulnerable to hostile males because males can detect the scent of moon's blood and know when a witch is unable to protect herself. So when a female is having her moontime, her male relatives become fiercely protective. There are extensive Protocol (social rules) for dealing with such situations, especially when Warlord Princes are involved because Warlord Princes, already extremely aggressive and protective, manage to became even more aggressive and protective at these times — i.e., strangers and non-family members run a very serious risk of being killed for merely being in the same room as a female in her moontime. | |
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Long Bus Trip | |
| Black Jewels / int_d39771a4 | comment |
Long Bus Trip: Cassandra disappeared, only to be mentioned in the finale as dying with the rest of the demon-dead. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
| Black Jewels / int_d71d51fd | comment |
Jaenelle. Initially she can't figure out how to lend her power to fighting the war because if unleashed she'd wipe out everything. | |
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The Starscream | |
| Black Jewels / int_d852da6d | comment |
The Star Scream: Dorothea is technically Hekatah's second-in-command and wants to be rid of her so she can rule without having to deal with her. | |
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Famed In-Story | |
| Black Jewels / int_db9940c4 | comment |
Famed in Story: The High Lord of Hell (aka Saetan) The Demon Prince (aka Andulvar). Daemon "The Sadist" Sadi. Lucivar Yaslana. Jaenelle herself, as of Queen of the Darkness. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
| Black Jewels / int_dda99fa8 | comment |
Despair Event Horizon: Several characters get forcibly thrown across it. | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
| Black Jewels / int_e21faf11 | comment |
Friend to All Living Things: Since Jaenelle is the incarnation of both human and Kindred dreams and is therefore part Kindred herself, she is the catalyst to the reconciliation of the humans and Kindred races. | |
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Authority Equals Asskicking | |
| Black Jewels / int_e34ada78 | comment |
Authority Equals Asskicking: Particularly in Kaeleer and Hell. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Black Jewels / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Sometimes, the morality of the Black Jewels 'verse verges on Blue-and-Orange Morality. The ruthless, violent actions of the protagonists are accepted as justified, if not always right, within the moral framework of the story. However, the main characters, even though most of them are described as having an appearance similar to normal human beings, are not human. They have very different instincts, whether due to biology, their magic, or both, and this means that their morals sometimes differ from normal, real life people. However, they still do share some morals with the real world. For example, while murder is sometimes considered justified - to the point it is mentioned several times there is no law against murder and the most you have to fear from killing someone is another person doing the same to you - rape is both a berserk button and a special kind of evil to most of the protagonists. | |
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Bastard Bastard | |
| Black Jewels / int_ea35fda5 | comment |
Bastard Bastard: Philip Alexander zigzags this trope; he has his decent moments and is a good person at heart, but also has several moral failings, especially where Jaenelle is concerned. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
| Black Jewels / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: Lucivar attempts this at the smallest provocation, much to the annoyance of the women he serves. Jaenelle hands out rings to her nearest and dearest whose purpose is to call in the cavalry. | |
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Not a Morning Person | |
| Black Jewels / int_ebf8fc6 | comment |
Not a Morning Person: Jaenelle Angelline is not a delightful person before her first cup of coffee. | |
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Princesses Rule | |
| Black Jewels / int_eede3c98 | comment |
Princesses Rule: Averted in the case of females; all women of the ruling caste are called Queens. Gender-Inverted for males, who are either called Prince or Warlord Prince even if they rule a territory. | |
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Capital Letters Are Magic | |
| Black Jewels / int_f4061d83 | comment |
Capital Letters Are Magic: The series is chock full of it. The Blood, the Craft, the Jewels, the Winds, and so on and so forth. | |
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Gold Digger | |
| Black Jewels / int_f6b2bfb7 | comment |
Gold Digger: Hekatah, during her marriage to Saetan. | |
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Matriarchy | |
| Black Jewels / int_f7057d51 | comment |
Matriarchy: The traditional society of the Blood is supposed to be the Enlightened version of this, where Queens rule and males serve, but there are enough rights given to men and nuances between the genders that they remain more or less equal. which it is in Kaeleer. In Terreille, thanks to Dorothea's corruption, it's become a Straw Matriarchy in some places, where females rule harshly and forcibly control all powerful males, who in turn terrorize weaker females or destroy the potential of those who could become strong later, and a Matriarchy in Name Only in other places, where the Queens are basically figureheads controlled by powerful males. Dena Nehele was the sole exception in Terreille but even that fell eventually. | |
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Haunted House | |
| Black Jewels / int_f9439c84 | comment |
Haunted House: Invoked as the setting of Tangled Webs: the book's villain specifically created one to trap the SaDiablo family in. | |
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Black Jewels / int_f9439c84 | |
| Black Jewels / int_fccd06b6 | type |
Beware the Nice Ones | |
| Black Jewels / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones: Jaenelle seems like a nice, polite, adventurous girl...until you try to hurt the people she cares about. | |
| Black Jewels / int_fccd06b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Black Jewels / int_fccd06b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Jewels | hasFeature |
Black Jewels / int_fccd06b6 | |
| Black Jewels / int_fd497586 | type |
You Mean "Xmas" | |
| Black Jewels / int_fd497586 | comment |
You Mean "Xmas": Winsol (presumably meaning "winter solstice") is an obvious stand-in for Christmas, complete with tree and gifts. (It lasts for thirteen days, rather than twelve.) | |
| Black Jewels / int_fd497586 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Black Jewels / int_fd497586 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Jewels | hasFeature |
Black Jewels / int_fd497586 | |
| Black Jewels / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| Black Jewels / int_name | comment |
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| Black Jewels / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Black Jewels / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Black Jewels / int_name | |
| Black Jewels / int_name | itemName |
Black Jewels |
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