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Book of the Ancestor

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Book of the Ancestor	comment	I was born for killing – the gods made me to ruin.At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices’ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist.But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse.Stolen from the shadow of the noose, Nona is sought by powerful enemies, and for good reason. Despite the security and isolation of the convent her secret and violent past will find her out. Beneath a dying sun that shines upon a crumbling empire, Nona Grey must come to terms with her demons and learn to become a deadly assassin if she is to survive…The Ancestor trilogy is a series of Science Fantasy novels by Mark Lawrence which are based around the adventures of battle nun Nona Grey. The first novel Red Sister came out on April 4th, 2017, with Grey Sister and Holy Sister following in 2018 and 2019; an e-book short story, "Bound," takes place between the second and third books. Book of the Ice, a prequel trilogy set in the same world but decades earlier and focusing on the ice rather than the Corridor, has been finished in 2022.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Book of the Ancestor / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Typical for a Mark Lawrence work. In Red Sister Hessa dies during the climax trying to prevent Yisht from escaping with the Sweet Mercy shipheart. In Grey Sister Darla is mortally wounded while escaping Sherzal's palace when Joeli Namsis pulls her threads during battle, causing her to freeze up and opening her up to attacking guards. She dies from her wounds shortly after. In Holy Sister the casualties of the final battle are heavy. Among the fallen are Sister Apple, Sister Pan, Abbess Wheel, Sister Tallow, Sister Iron, Alata, Leeni, Ketti, and several others.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_134ca130	type	Super-Reflexes
Book of the Ancestor / int_134ca130	comment	Super-Reflexes: Hunska are not really much faster than normal people, at least not for long enough that it matters (for example, being a Hunska does not help Nona in a race against the other novices), but rather their inborn talents let them react much faster.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Book of the Ancestor / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Objects can be engraved with sigils that can make them resistant to magical effects, including armor that protects the wearer from magical attack and cuffs that can be used to restrain a captive mage's power.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Book of the Ancestor / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: A common theme with Nona, as many of her closest friendships are with people she starts out in conflict with. Arabella, Darla, and Zole all start out as Nona's rivals or enemies (though in Arabella's case the animosity was mostly the result of a misunderstanding on Nona's part and never really existed from Ara's end in the first place) and end up being some of her staunchest allies.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Book of the Ancestor / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Zole proves to be superior than Nona (and pretty much everyone else for that matter) in practically every way, at least when it comes to skill, magic, and martial ability. Subverted in that most of the reason she proves to be so strong and skilled is as a result of using the shiphearts to rid herself of her "impurities" in the form of negative personality traits, but ridding herself of much of her humanity in the process, to the point where in Holy Sister she chooses to let Nona control the Focus Moon, accepting the reasoning that she herself is too separated from humanity to utilize it correctly.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Book of the Ancestor / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Emperor Crucical remains an off-page character for the whole trilogy, though his influence is certainly felt throughout. The Scithrowl Battle-Queen Adoma is frequently mentioned throughout the trilogy and leads an invasion of the Empire in the third book, but she herself is only glimpsed once by Nona from a distance before she blasts her to ashes with the moon.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Book of the Ancestor / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: At the climax of Grey Sister Nona subjects Thuran Tacsis to the Harm, his own torture device; the experience leaves him so weakened and debilitated that, though he's still alive by Holy Sister he's surrendered all the running of House Tacsis to his son Lano. Nona, for her part, is ashamed by what she did and, even though she knows Thuran probably deserved it, still considers the act a stain on her honor. What's more, using the flesh-bind to do it meant that she didn't have it on hand later to save Darla..
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Book of the Ancestor / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Book of the Ancestor / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Adoma is said to have gained unspecified powers by bargaining with the devils trapped in the Black Ice.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Book of the Ancestor / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: Central to the premise of the series, as Nona and her friends are in training to be holy warriors for the Church of the Ancestor.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Book of the Ancestor / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The Corridor is a world covered in an ice age with the moon (a giant focusing lens) being the only thing keeping the ice away. It's also riddled with corruption, tyranny, fanaticism, and slavery. Oh, and the fact that the Focus Moon is necessary because the local sun is burning out, as are all of the other visible stars, implying that the story takes place some time during the heat death of the universe.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Book of the Ancestor / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Subverted with Arabella, who Nona initially believes is this until she realizes that her first impressions were mostly a result of Clera's attitude, and that Ara is actually a very sweet and friendly person. Once Nona realizes this, they quickly become close friends. Played straight with Joeli Namsis. Though Holy Sister ends with Nona accepting that Joeli might not have deliberately intended Darla's death, and choosing to leave her fate up to court justice rather than seeking revenge herself, Joeli is never really sympathetic.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Book of the Ancestor / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Surprisingly averted. Thuran Tacsis and his son Raymel are the richest men in the Corridor, but they can't completely buy the Church or The Empire. It actually works against them as both the Archons and Emperor side with Nona because they're annoyed at the presumption they can be bought. Also something of a deconstruction; Thuran's money can genuinely buy a lot, but if he throws his weight around too much he risks stepping on the toes of other people who are at least as rich and connected as he is and who don't appreciate his antics.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_26f41623	type	Kill Sat
Book of the Ancestor / int_26f41623	comment	Kill Sat: What the Moon turns out to be, and used with extreme effect in Holy Sister.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Book of the Ancestor / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Clera does when attending a Sis party as a Tacsis agent in "Bound." Even Nona (watching through Ara's eyes) is impressed.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Book of the Ancestor / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Abbess Glass has no gift of the blood, but she is an extremely talented chessmaster, which she wields to protect the convent, the Church, the Empire, and eventually all of Abeth. Nona repeatedly mentions that Glass' gift of manipulating people and events to her liking makes her more powerful than any mage, warrior, or noble.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_2a3e0069	type	Amazonian Beauty
Book of the Ancestor / int_2a3e0069	comment	Amazonian Beauty: Nona starts off small and scrawny, but between hitting puberty and several years of Sweet Mercy cooking she shoots up massively over the course of the trilogy; by Holy Sister she's roughly six feet tall, very athletic, and as for the beauty part, Regol and Ara both certainly think so.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_2ce616ef	type	Heinz Hybrid
Book of the Ancestor / int_2ce616ef	comment	Heinz Hybrid: Technically everyone in Abeth is descended from all four of the ancient tribes, but this is most obvious in people who show the traits of multiple tribes: Zole, who demonstrates traits of all four tribes to a notable degree, is the most obvious example of this and is considered the most likely candidate to be The Chosen One because of it. Nona herself is only slightly behind, being a Hunska/Quantal/Marjal mix. Per Holy Sister, she might be a four-blood herself, since her adult height hints at a touch of Gerant as well; that said, it's never confirmed and though Nona is an unusually tall woman she's not outside the range of what's possible for a normal human, so there's some ambiguity there.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Book of the Ancestor / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Nona is the Tomboy to Ara's Girly Girl. Downplayed in that the convent setting and the clothing and lifestyle requirements of being novices doesn't really provide room for a huge range of expression in either direction, but Ara is both more conventionally beautiful than Nona and, thanks to her aristocratic upbringing, much more comfortable with conventional trappings of femininity on those occasions they're appropriate.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
Book of the Ancestor / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Battle-Queen Adoma is the ruler of the ambitious and expansionist kingdom of Scithrowl; she has a reputation as a tyrant and demagogue and leads an invasion of the Empire in Holy Sister, becoming the trilogy's final and most dangerous antagonist.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_2fb3170e	type	Enemy Within
Book of the Ancestor / int_2fb3170e	comment	Enemy Within: The second of the two types of devils act like this. What the Ice Tribes call a klaulathu is a malign remnant of the Missing that tries to possess people; a raulathu, on the other hand, is a devil created by someone spending too much time in contact with a shipheart, and rather than an external parasite it's more like a voice in their head that directly speaks that person's worst instincts.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_31708bd3	type	Terror Hero
Book of the Ancestor / int_31708bd3	comment	Terror Hero: Sister Cage. Everyone is terrified of her, and for good reason.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Book of the Ancestor / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Sherzal gets completely played by Abbess Glass's last scheme posthumously executed by Nona and her friends culminating in Sherzal's own death.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Book of the Ancestor / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Any mage, whether Marjal or Quantal, but Quantal Path-Mages are this to the extreme due to the nature of their powers. Where Marjals are adept at tasks such as the manipulation of thoughts and emotions or else control of elements like fire, earth, and water, Quantal powers fall under the lines of either subtle thread-work (tugging at "threads" that connect all of existence in order to alter reality), or else "Walking the Path", a practice that entails absorbing an enormous amount of energy from the fabric of the universe and redirecting it into whatever the Path-Mage requires. Walking the Path is an insanely dangerous task that requires the mage to both take in the power and then control it in a way that won't simply tear them and everything in a radius around them apart, and even the most experienced Path-Mages tend to end their lives as living bombs powerful enough to crack mountains open. Notably, the most important aspect of Path magic is not even knowing how to walk the Path, but how to stop walking before one takes on too much energy to control. To walk the Path more than once in a week is generally considered suicide even for the most skilled of Path-Mages. Because of the immense energies involved, walking the Path is an incredibly dangerous task requiring strict concentration and control. In Holy Sister Nona uses her superior hunska speed to beat a more experienced Path-Mage to the punch, and literally pushes him from the Path before he can fully own the power he has taken in. The results are less than pretty. In Holy Sister Sister Pan reveals the true reason she hasn't used her Path magic in decades: Because she started walking the path over thirty years ago, and has not left the Path in that entire time. Walking the path for a mere few steps as Nona and Ara do is enough to destroy buildings. When Sister Pan finally leaves the Path, her death kills thousands of enemies and blasts a trench meters deep and nearly a mile long.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_3fcb225a	type	OurGiantsAreDifferent
Book of the Ancestor / int_3fcb225a	comment	Our Giants Are Different: Gerants, one of the four original tribes; Gerant purebloods and primes can grow to be between eight and ten feet tall, and even people with a smaller percentage of gerant blood are still unusually large.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_4100c67e	type	I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship
Book of the Ancestor / int_4100c67e	comment	I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Nona refuses to jeopardize her friendships for anything, including her own romantic feelings. It takes her until the epilogue of Holy Sister to admit her feelings for Arabella, and only because Ara admitted them first.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
Book of the Ancestor / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Adoma's Fist are a group of Quantal and Marjal mages Adoma keeps on staff primarily to destroy her enemies in suitably spectacular ways.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_43fe061e	type	Agony Beam
Book of the Ancestor / int_43fe061e	comment	Agony Beam: Thuran Tacsis owns an artifact he calls the Harm which directly stimulates extreme pain in the victim. He actually doesn't much care for it, as he prefers more visceral forms of torture, but he finds it has its uses because its quick and easy to use and leaves no visible mark. He subjects Nona to it briefly in Grey Sister and she steals it and uses it on him in turn at the end of the book.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_449584c	type	Giant Wall of Watery Doom
Book of the Ancestor / int_449584c	comment	Giant Wall of Watery Doom: Downplayed in that it's not giant, but it doesn't have to be. When Nona, Ara, and Clera are evading pursuers in the undercaves, Nona cracks open the Stillwater and the water rushes into the caves. The three of them barely get out alive.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Book of the Ancestor / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Sister Pan and Yom Rala great each other as such during the siege of Verity in Holy Sister; Yom orders his subordinates to treat Pan with respect as well.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
Book of the Ancestor / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: Frequently, such as when Nona gets ambushed and imprisoned by the Noi Guin on behalf of Thuran Tacsis in Grey Sister.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_4c1e47cb	type	War Comes Home
Book of the Ancestor / int_4c1e47cb	comment	War Comes Home: At the end of Holy Sister, the army of the Scithrowl reaches the capital where the convent of Sweet Mercy is situated and starts a siege.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_4cc0c6f2	type	TruthSerum
Book of the Ancestor / int_4cc0c6f2	comment	Truth Serum: Sister Apple can - with the help of a mage from the Academy - create pills that let the person who eats one only speak the truth.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Book of the Ancestor / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Several, usually when one of Abbess Glass' plans comes to light. Nona picks up the knack herself. Grey Sister: At the trial for Glass's heresy: Holy Sister: When Nona is confirmed as Sister Cage, and several chapters later in the vault.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Book of the Ancestor / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: High Priest Jacob who is in Raymel Tacsis' pocket. This brings about his stripping of the rank as the four Archons under him actually have more authority collectively and put him in power in the first place. They severely dislike his blatant displays of corruption and toadying. Raymel Tacsis believes his father's money and power will allow him to be able to rape and kill as many girls as he wants. Also, to get revenge on Nona for resisting him. This gets him killed.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Book of the Ancestor / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Abbess Glass repeatedly reminds the High Priest that her name is Glass now, not Shella.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Book of the Ancestor / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: They're incorporeal beings who can possess humans under certain circumstances. It's theorized that they're connected to the Missing, and are possibly the remnants of negative traits they didn't want and ended up exorcising from themselves.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Book of the Ancestor / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Abbess Glass sets up as many possible pieces on the board as she can just in case she needs them, often decades in advance. She spent years building a fake rivalry with two people in the Inquisition, Seldom and Agika, just in case one of her real rivals decided to testify against her and summoned them.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
Book of the Ancestor / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: Those with strong ancestry in the four tribes tend not to live long. The powers and strength granted by their bloodline are very taxing on the body.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_528e8166	type	High Priest
Book of the Ancestor / int_528e8166	comment	High Priest: The head of the Church of the Ancestor is officially titled the High Priest. Their power, however, is not absolute, as the High Priest is elected by the four Archons and a unanimous vote of the Archons can overrule them - or, if necessary, remove a High Priest altogether and replace them with someone else. High Priest Jacob learns this the hard way in Red Sister.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_52c77876	type	Mark of the Supernatural
Book of the Ancestor / int_52c77876	comment	Mark of the Supernatural: The climax of Red Sister leaves Nona with solid black eyes and no shadow, giving her a very clear unnatural air. The climax of Holy Sister reverses both. Someone who is possessed by a devil has a discolored patch like a birthmark somewhere on their body, which is actually the devil's physical manifestation. It can move around to avoid discovery.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_53fd0a77	type	Out of the Frying Pan
Book of the Ancestor / int_53fd0a77	comment	Out of the Frying Pan: The original four tribes came to Abeth to flee their own dying star. Much later, Abeth's star is dying, and with the ships' tech lost to time and the glaciers they have no way off.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
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Book of the Ancestor / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
Book of the Ancestor / int_556a3059	comment	The Empath: one Marjal (also usable by Quantals) power is to recognize and manipulate other people's feeling. Brother Markus - who was together with Nona in the cage - as well as Zole are very strong empaths who can effortlessly persuade people to lose interest in whatever they were doing and set them on a new path with a few choice words and new feelings.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_56585e87	type	Combat Clairvoyance
Book of the Ancestor / int_56585e87	comment	Combat Clairvoyance: Yisht's marjal talent is to sense the intentions of others, which makes her a nearly invincible warrior. Most of the time, it's not a question of winning against Yisht as it is getting away from her, but she can be tricked. She's finally killed when Nona rigs a bunch of throwing stars to fly at her, since objects have no intentions. It doesn't kill her, but it leaves her weak and slow enough that she can't stop Nona's blows.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
Book of the Ancestor / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Any nun or novice who is skilled at blade training and has enough Quantal and/or Marjal blood to use magic qualifies; Nona and Ara are both standout examples.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Book of the Ancestor / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: The war between the Empire and Scithrowl; yes, the Empire is certainly an incredibly flawed and imperfect nation, but there's never much doubt the Scithrowl are far worse. This is explicitly discussed by Sister Kettle, who is of the opinion that the war would have been a case of Grey-and-Grey Morality where she'd still support the Empire but only because she was born there - except that she's seen what lives under the black ice and it's left her convinced that someone like Adoma who would ally with such a force to gain power absolutely must be stopped.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Book of the Ancestor / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: After spending two books getting away with everything because her family is too powerful to offend, Joeli is callously tossed aside by Sherzal, leaving her at the mercy of the Sisters she tormented for so long. Zole's magic confirms that she truly didn't kill Darla intentionally, so Nona spares her, but she's left to the humiliation of being stripped of her privileges and being tried by a court, a Fate Worse than Death for a character so haughty.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_5bc1b32d	type	FrameStory
Book of the Ancestor / int_5bc1b32d	comment	Frame Story: Red Sister and Grey Sister are bookended by accounts of Lano Tacsis leading an assault on Sweet Mercy some years after the events of the novels proper. Holy Sister catches up to it and shows the context and how things end.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
Book of the Ancestor / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Nona typically wears her hair like this; apparently she's tried to let it get long, but if she does it becomes untameably wild so she prefers to keep it short.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Book of the Ancestor / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: The trial by the Archons is supposed to be this. Averted when it's clear the Archons are a great deal less prejudiced than the High Priest assumed, not to mention angry at him for dragging them halfway across the Empire to settle a personal grudge he only cares about because he was bribed too.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
Book of the Ancestor / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: Arksteel, shiphearts, and many other devices are the scavenged remnants of the ships that first brought humanity to Abeth, their workings long-since forgotten as the knowledge and resources to maintain them was lost under the ice. Finding a way to open and then operate the Ark forms the premise of the Chosen One prophecy.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Book of the Ancestor / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Joeli Namsis, a novice of Sis background who, unlike Ara, embodies all the bad things one would expect from that background.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_6455e8e	type	Life Will Kill You
Book of the Ancestor / int_6455e8e	comment	Life Will Kill You: After evading countless attempts on her life and playing a very long game, Abbess Glass ultimately dies of old age and illness.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_64c8eea8	type	Wolverine Claws
Book of the Ancestor / int_64c8eea8	comment	Wolverine Claws: Nona is able to conjure six-inch long invisible blades from her hands, able to cut open chainmail armor with ease.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Book of the Ancestor / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: At the climax of Holy Sister, Sister Pan sacrifices herself to annihilate Adoma's Fist and a significant chunk of the regular Scithrowl army. Apparently she unleashed so much power in doing so that every Path mage in the world felt her die.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Book of the Ancestor / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Nona is surprised in 'Bound' to realize that, despite her antipathy for Sister Wheel, she actually agrees with a lot of the philosophy she teaches in Spirit class. Abbess Glass indicates that this is actually the reason she put someone as disagreeable as Wheel in charge of such an important class (Spirit dealing with the history, doctrines and rituals of the Church); novices need to learn that just because someone is unpleasant it doesn't mean they're wrong.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Book of the Ancestor / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Abbess Glass dies of disease (implied to be some form of cancer) in the Time Skip between Grey Sister and Holy Sister. Her death is shown in a flashback.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Book of the Ancestor / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Sherzal and Adoma are the primary antagonists of the trilogy, and though they briefly attempt an alliance (which falls through) at the end of Grey Sister they generally represent completely separate threats.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Book of the Ancestor / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Raymel Tacsis, who gets away with it by virtue of being the son of the richest man in The Empire. At least, until Nona nearly kills him.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Book of the Ancestor / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The different orders of nuns. Martial Sisters wear red, Sisters of Discretion wear grey, Mystic Sisters wear blue, and Holy Sisters wear black.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_7c4fdf65	type	Red Is Violent
Book of the Ancestor / int_7c4fdf65	comment	Red Is Violent: The Martial Sisters' habit is red, and they are the militant wing of the church.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
Book of the Ancestor / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Sister Wheel takes every opportunity to demean Nona for coming from the Grey, but is later revealed to be a Grey denizen herself.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Book of the Ancestor / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The Empire itself once lived up to the name, controlling a good chunk of the Corridor; within the last couple of centuries, however, it's shrunk to a relatively small nation between the Sea of Marn and the Grampain Mountains, beleaguered by the Durns to the west and the Scithrowl (who play The Empire trope much straighter) to the east.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_82b1fd4f	type	WorldHalfFull
Book of the Ancestor / int_82b1fd4f	comment	World Half Full: By the end of the trilogy, Nona has come to see Abeth this way. Yes, it's full of terrible things and people and is probably doomed... but there's also a lot in its that's good and worth fighting for.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
Book of the Ancestor / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Church of the Ancestor is very similar to Christianity, except for its sect of battle nuns. The Hope Church, the Empire's other major religion, resembles other aspects of Christianity, particularly in its emphasis on eschatology and messianism; that said, it doesn't get nearly as much focus or development.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Book of the Ancestor / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: What happens to Nona in the beginning as she and many other children are sold by their parents for the possibilities inherent in their blood. Subverted in Nona's case as it was the only way to get her away from her village as no one owned the means to take her far enough.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_84cbf6e4	type	Grandpa God
Book of the Ancestor / int_84cbf6e4	comment	Grandpa God: The Scithrowl apparently depict the Ancestor as looking like this. The Church in the Empire rejects this depiction as heretical, preferring a vague figure whose features and gender are undefined.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_854e85b0	type	Casts No Shadow
Book of the Ancestor / int_854e85b0	comment	Casts No Shadow: Nona, starting from the climax of the first book, where she cut it off to fight against Yisht.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Book of the Ancestor / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Nona gives them sometimes, as in the page quote. After she's possessed by Keot he'll occasionally take over her mouth when she's not paying attention and give them on her behalf, which she hates both because he's usually trying to get her into a fight and because his boasts tend to be embarrassingly overwrought.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Book of the Ancestor / int_89631688	comment	Zole, who demonstrates traits of all four tribes to a notable degree, is the most obvious example of this and is considered the most likely candidate to be The Chosen One because of it.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Book of the Ancestor / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The sun is red and dying, as are most of the other stars; the planet is slowly freezing and the area of livable land in the Corridor is slowly narrowing and will close completely when the Focus Moon stops working... but that's at least centuries away, and humanity's not out of the picture just yet.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Book of the Ancestor / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: Devils can become attached to a person's soul in various ways. Suffering a near-death experience for too long before being pulled back by a Marjal healer is the most common, but being exposed to a shipheart or someone else who was possessed works too. Nona picks up a devil called Keot after finally killing Raymel and he spends most of Grey Sister living in her head; one devil alone can't control a person's actions, but they can act to provoke their worse instincts.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Book of the Ancestor / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: In progress due to the local sun slowly burning out and bringing about an encroaching ice age. More than that, the stars themselves are burning out, implying that the story takes place shortly before the impending heat death of the universe.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Book of the Ancestor / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The Missing, a race who inhabited Abeth before humanity arrived and whose ruins can still be found under the ice that covers most of the planet. Very little is known of them, but they're implied to have ascended to a higher plane of existence.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Book of the Ancestor / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The Sis, the aristocratic class of the Empire, generally have a reputation as a corrupt, arrogant, backstabby bunch. They're not all that bad, but some definitely are - with the Tacsis family (Thuran and his sons Raymel and Lano) being prime examples.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_97522514	type	Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door
Book of the Ancestor / int_97522514	comment	Heel–Face Revolving Door: From the end of Red Sister and across Grey Sister and Holy Sister Clera seems to switch sides almost every time she appears. She ends up settling on Face.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Book of the Ancestor / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Given a twist. Abbess Glass really does believe that all of humanity are children of the Ancestor and worth protecting, but her Guile Hero ways still get people hurt and killed because she lives in a Crapsack World and part of her love for humanity is taking out people who threaten it. She trains Nona in this form of thinking as well, and when given the chance to use the focus moon, Nona opts to only incinerate Adoma rather than her whole army.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_9ae5a580	type	Razor Floss
Book of the Ancestor / int_9ae5a580	comment	Razor Floss: One of the tools of a Grey Sister are absurdly sharp wires, which gets particular focus in Holy Sister since the final exam of Shade is setting one up and then navigating it in complete darkness. Sherzal is finally killed when she evades one trap in the Ark, only to run into Ara's wire trap and be gruesomely eviscerated.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Book of the Ancestor / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The devils of the Black Ice represent the greatest evil known to the people of the Empire; during Nona's travel through the Black Ice, she gets the sense that they are far more powerful and malevolent than Keot, the devil who'd possessed her. Aside from their unspecified connection to Adoma, however, they don't really do anything plot-wise.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_9d15f525	type	Made of Evil
Book of the Ancestor / int_9d15f525	comment	Made of Evil: Demons are enhanced portions of a persons' worst personality traits. The demons of the Black Ice are the leftover evil of an entire civilization.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_9dbb9688	type	Fantastic Honorifics
Book of the Ancestor / int_9dbb9688	comment	Fantastic Honorifics: The aristocrats of the Empire are called 'Sis', and as a result a noble family's surname always has the syllable '-sis' added to the end of it.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Book of the Ancestor / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: What the Shields of the Chosen One, Sisters Thorn and Cage, become, and several nuns before them in history.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_a22c6d89	type	The Evil Prince
Book of the Ancestor / int_a22c6d89	comment	The Evil Prince: Sherzal is an evil princess (though not literally; an emperor or empress's siblings don't carry any special titles, lest they get ideas), determined to steal her brother's throne and grab as much power for herself as she can by any means necessary.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Book of the Ancestor / int_a2dd3c5	comment	My Death Is Just the Beginning: Abbess Glass certainly doesn't let death stop her from scheming; Nona and her friends are still following her instructions for much of Holy Sister.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
Book of the Ancestor / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: Given a twist in the final chapters of Holy Sister. When Adoma refuses to back down, Nona hits her with the Focus Moon, turning everything within thirty yards of her to ash. The Scithrowl army takes the hint and runs.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: Though the Empire is a pretty brutal place to live in most respects, it's also largely egalitarian when it comes to gender, with both women and men represented in positions of political, military and religious authority.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Book of the Ancestor / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: All the Sisters, as they take the names of objects once they take their vows to emphasize how they are set apart from the world (a nun's 'bride name' can be the name of a plant or animal as well as an object; the primary element is that it can't be something that would be an ordinary human name in Imperial society). Twice over in the case of Sister Mop, who is actually Sister Chrysanthemum.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Book of the Ancestor / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Hessa has a lame leg and is the most talented threadworker Sister Pan has ever seen, which considering her age says quite a lot. Unfortunately, she's killed in the first book before she can fully grow into her power, or else she'd have made short work of Joeli.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_a8d9ac65	type	Mage Species
Book of the Ancestor / int_a8d9ac65	comment	Mage Species: Marjals and Quantals. Marjals have 'lesser magics' which can include Elemental Powers, shadow powers and healing, among other tricks; Quantals can access the Path, which is more difficult and dangerous but can produce some massively spectacular effects when channeled properly. Of course, because everyone on Abeth is of mixed blood from the four original tribes, it's entirely possible (albeit rare) to have both sets of abilities.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_a9ea3c3c	type	Warrior Monk
Book of the Ancestor / int_a9ea3c3c	comment	Warrior Monk: Or, rather, warrior nun. All of the nuns of Sweet Mercy receive at least basic combat training as part of their convent education and can serve as fighters at need, with Red Sisters (more properly called Martial Sisters) specifically being the Church's militant wing. Warrior monks are also mentioned at various points but don't get much focus because, well, all the main characters are nuns or novices.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Book of the Ancestor / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Sister Cage the Shadowless. All Abbesses of Sweet Mercy get a title like this after their death. Abbess Glass is "She of the Moon" and Abbess Wheel is "She of the Battle." The Ice Tribe warrior Tarkax is known as 'the Ice-Spear.' Nona, however, thinks it sounds stupid and is less than impressed.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Book of the Ancestor / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Nona's fatal flaw is her bloodlust, which can cause her to seek needlessly violent solutions to her problems and to throw herself head-first into dangerous situations; this aspect of her personality is what Keot latches on to. With Character Development, however, she learns to tame this side of her nature and direct it towards productive goals rather than let it rule her. Subverted by her unreserved trust in her friends, which is a trait that she is warned repeatedly will get her into trouble; more often than not, however, she makes this one work for her.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
Book of the Ancestor / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Sister Apple; there's a reason her novices call her 'the Poisoner.' She's very good at making them, and has a tendency to use (mild but usually embarrassing) ones on unsuspecting students in her classes.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Book of the Ancestor / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Nuns are Brides of the Ancestor, and thus expected to retain a vow of celibacy. However, this vow only applies to heterosexual pairings (since they're the only ones that can conceive children and thus add branches to the Tree), so even Sister Wheel turns a blind eye to Sisters Apple and Kettle. In Holy Sister, this also applies to Nona and Ara.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
Book of the Ancestor / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: Magic and demons abound, but the moon is actually a giant focus mirror put in orbit around the planet to keep the ice from swallowing it, and humans arrived in spaceships (which may or may not be magic themselves).
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Book of the Ancestor / int_b454d74b	type	Sixth Ranger Traitor
Book of the Ancestor / int_b454d74b	comment	Sixth Ranger Traitor: Clera turns out to be this rather than Zole.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Book of the Ancestor / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: The four Archons are all corrupt to at least some extent but none of them are happy at High Priest Jacob's attempt to have an eight-year-old girl executed for stabbing a Serial Killer engaged in rape, no matter who his father is. They're also disgusted by how obvious his corruption is, believing a High Priest should be more circumspect. Oh and they're angry at being made to travel a good distance for this farce.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Book of the Ancestor / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Nona, Arabella Jotsis, and Zole are all at one point or another considered potential Chosen Ones due to their multiple Old Bloods and innate skills. Nona and Zole especially repeatedly overcome obstacles thought to be either far advanced beyond their ages or at times outright impossible. The energies of the Path are so immense and taxing that touching the Path more than once in a week is said to be suicide for even the most experienced and powerful Quantals. Legends of famous Path-Mages tend to end with "and then she touched the Path during battle six days later, and it blew up the entire mountainside". In the climax of Grey Sister Nona touches the Path for the second time in the same day, mere hours after having escaped weeks-long torture, starvation, and deprivation. While all of the Sisters Superior must be aces in their field, Sister Pan stands out as possibly the strongest Path-Mage in the world. Most people can only walk the path for a few steps, with the greatest being able to do fifty or so. Sister Pan has been walking the Path for twenty years, and when she lets loose annihilates the competing mages and a good chunk of the army in the greatest example of Path magic in the series and possibly in the history of Abeth.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Book of the Ancestor / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The epilogue of Holy Sister takes place some time after the book's events, and establishes what happened to the remaining nuns. Nona has become Mistress Blade, Jula has been named Sister Page and become Mistress Spirit, Clera has started several business ventures in close contact with Sweet Mercy, Ruli went back to her father's ships, and Ara became Lord Jotsis for several years before returning to the convent and Nona.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
Book of the Ancestor / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: If someone is fatally wounded, it's possible to magically prevent their soul from passing on while healers work to fix their body. Unfortunately, the longer this takes, the likelier it is that something will notice and decide to hitch a ride back. Happens to Raymel.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
Book of the Ancestor / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Downplayed in Holy Sister when Sister Wheel becomes Abbess. She's as fundamentalist, and unpleasant as ever and even tries to deny Nona the Red on a technicality, but Glass' machinations ensure that she doesn't cause too much trouble and she proves there's one thing she is good at: rallying an army to war.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Book of the Ancestor / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: One theory as to the ultimate fate of the Missing, the Precursors that inhabited Abeth before humanity. While Zole isn't quite there at the end of Holy Sister, she's implied to be most of the way along to the same fate as the Missing.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Book of the Ancestor / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Nona treats all friendships like this due to never been able to connect to anyone before. Sister Kettle warns her that not everyone is the same way, and she would do well to consider more carefully who she trusts this far.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Book of the Ancestor / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Abbess Glass is the undisputed master of this, especially during the trial at Sherzal's palace.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Book of the Ancestor / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: The Noi-Guin are a notorious, secretive order of magic-using assassins who show up as antagonists at key points across the trilogy. They have ties to both Sherzal and the Tacsis family. Grey Sisters can be used as this, though they're also trained as spies, detectives, and other sorts of sneaky work. It's noted that Grey Sisters are more versatile, but the average Noi-Guin is better as a pure killer, since that's all they focus on.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Book of the Ancestor / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Becomes a plot-point in Holy Sister. Sister Pan has a reputation as an immensely powerful Mystic Sister, but she's also incredibly old and infirm and hasn't used her powers in decades, with some of the novices, especially Clera, wondering if she's really all that special. Then she finally gets to show off what she can do near the end of the trilogy, and if anything, her reputation undersold her.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
Book of the Ancestor / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is the King: The ruler of the Empire is always titled as Emperor, regardless of gender. Similarly, the head of a Sis family is addressed as 'Lord' whether they're a man or a woman.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Book of the Ancestor / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Most of the senior nuns, with the possible exception of Sister Wheel, qualify; Abbess Glass and Sister Pan are probably the most obvious examples.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Book of the Ancestor / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Abbess Glass is a very good one. Her posthumous machinations in Holy Sister are particularly impressive.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Book of the Ancestor / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The leader of the Noi-Guin is known only as the Singular; if he ever had a name, it's been long obscured.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Book of the Ancestor / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: The Tetragode, headquarters of the Noi-Guin. Played with in that it's not a specific location and moves to a different part of the Empire every few years. As of Grey Sister, it's under Sherzal's palace.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Book of the Ancestor / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Sisters Apple and Kettle.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Book of the Ancestor / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: A surprising number of these given the Crapsack World nature of the setting. The church is corrupt and its The Empire but generally, they all try to do their jobs. Likewise, the sisters are almost universally this.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Book of the Ancestor / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Sister Thorn appears in the prologue and Frame Story years after the events of Red Sister and concurrent with Holy Sister and we're initially led to believe she's an older Nona. she's actually an older Ara. Nona becomes Sister Cage, who shows up later in the frame story.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_e062bcc4	type	Sink or Swim Mentor
Book of the Ancestor / int_e062bcc4	comment	Sink or Swim Mentor: All of the nuns of the Red Sisters are this. This includes lying to their charges, poisoning them, and worse. It's all for their own good, though.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Book of the Ancestor / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Nona will protect her friends, no matter how badly she's injured, how wild the plan, if there's a demon in her screaming not to, or even if that friend has betrayed her before. In a battle her strongest asset is her ability to keep going past incredible amounts of pain and injury, and Sister Pan notes at one point that even threadwork can't make Nona back down from those she loves.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Book of the Ancestor / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Sherzal, Joeli Namsis, and the entire Tacsis family are epitomes of Aristocrats Are Evil. Sherzal is willing to risk the entire country to become emperor and plans to use the moon to genocide competing nations, Joeli is a petty entitled brat who tries to kill Nona because she hates having to respect a peasant, and the Tacsis family are power-hungry sadists who consider it their birthright to hurt lesser people and are quite eager to rape, torture, and kill anyone who gets in their way.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_e905c892	type	The Heretic
Book of the Ancestor / int_e905c892	comment	The Heretic: The Empire and the Scithrowl practice somewhat different forms of the Church of the Ancestor and mutually consider each other horrible heretics because of it. The Hope Church is considered a recognized heresy of the Ancestor; as a result, even though the Church of the Ancestor is the Empire's official religion, the Hope Church can teach and practice without needing to fear persecution. Doesn't stop Ancestor and Hope clergy from making snide comments at or about each other whenever given the opportunity.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_e9550e66	type	Nun Too Holy
Book of the Ancestor / int_e9550e66	comment	Nun Too Holy: Not all of the Red Sisters are enamored of the Ancestor. Of course, there are plenty of nuns who do take their faith very seriously; Sweet Mercy alone is big enough for there to be plenty of room for variance. Nona herself starts out not really crediting much of the religious side of the Church of the Ancestor, but by the end of the trilogy she's grown into a strong, if somewhat unconventional, faith.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Book of the Ancestor / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Some of the powers gifted by the old blood cause people to age faster than normal, especially those of hunska blood.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_ef878d58	type	Court Mage
Book of the Ancestor / int_ef878d58	comment	Court Mage: Adoma keeps a cabal of these, nicknamed Adoma's Fist; their leader, Yom Rala, fits the mold most closely. She deploys them to Verity to bring down the walls at the final battle. They do, but immediately afterwards they get wiped out, along with a good chunk of the Scithrowl army, by Sister Pan.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Book of the Ancestor / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Sister later Abbess Wheel is the strictest in her faith of the major nuns at Sweet Mercy and the most standoffish and judgmental towards anyone who doesn't meet her standards, including Nona. Ironically, this proves useful in Holy Sister: when Nona swears herself as a Holy Sister, Wheel is so astonished by the act that she immediately reverses her dislike of Nona and lets her carry out Glass' orders.
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Book of the Ancestor / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
Book of the Ancestor / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: Keot tries to act as this for Nona, driving her to embrace her violence and bloodlust. He fails.
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