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Books of the Raksura

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Books of the Raksura	label	Books of the Raksura
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Books of the Raksura	comment	The Books of the Raksura are a fantasy series by Martha Wells (website here). The first book, The Cloud Roads, introduces us to Moon. In the Three Worlds, there are perhaps hundreds of wildly diverse humanoid species — but Moon has spent most of his life thinking he's the only one of his kind. And unfortunately Moon, who is a shapeshifter, just happens to resemble, in one of his two forms, the most rapacious and vicious predators on the planet, the Fell. Moon just wants a place to belong, but he must constantly guard against others learning of his secret. When he finally meets a member of his own kind, a whole new set of adventures begin for him, and he faces his biggest challenge of all; fitting in.There are currently five books in the series: The Cloud Roads (2011) The Serpent Sea (2012) The Siren Depths (2012) The Edge of Worlds (2016) The Harbors of the Sun (2017)As well as two novella collections: Stories of the Raksura, Volume I (2014) "The Falling World" "The Tale of Indigo and Cloud" "The Forest Boy" "Adaptation" Stories of the Raksura, Volume II (2015) "The Dead City" "Mimesis" "Trading Lesson" "The Almost Last Voyage of the Wind-ship Escarpment" "The Dark Earth Below"
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Books of the Raksura / int_12113808	type	Dangerous Drowsiness
Books of the Raksura / int_12113808	comment	Dangerous Drowsiness: Flower's constant fatigue in The Serpent Sea is one sign that she's near death from old age.
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Books of the Raksura / int_15f64844	type	Lying by Omission
Books of the Raksura / int_15f64844	comment	Lying by Omission: When Stone first finds Moon and invites him to Indigo Cloud, he mentions that he's bringing back a present for his great-great-granddaughter. The present turns out to be Moon himself as an eligible Consort — a caste that Stone also neglected to tell Moon about.
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Books of the Raksura / int_15ff68cf	type	Cultural Rebel
Books of the Raksura / int_15ff68cf	comment	Cultural Rebel: Moon, a consort, learns that other Raksuran consorts are supposed to be refined, shy creatures who never leave home. His history has made him tougher and much more crude, and he's not particularly interested in being protected or courted.
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Books of the Raksura / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
Books of the Raksura / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Potentially every female Raksura; they're cute when they're little, but adult females are bigger and stronger than males, and queens are basically born badasses.
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Books of the Raksura / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Books of the Raksura / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: One of the early signs that Moon is starting to think of Kethel as a person rather than a monster is that the narration starts referring to him as "he", rather than "it".
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Books of the Raksura / int_170468a0	type	Magic Tool
Books of the Raksura / int_170468a0	comment	Magic Tool: Literal; mentors create light by infusing magic into inanimate objects, like rocks and shells. Other races in the Three Worlds use various created and found magical tools, such as creating flying ships from pieces of flying islands.
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Books of the Raksura / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Books of the Raksura / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Stone and Delin both have a long lifetime of adventure under their belts and don't let their advanced age deter them from seeking out new ones. Delin's an enthusiastic scholar, whereas Stone has become massively strong with age as a line-grandfather.
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Books of the Raksura / int_17b5862b	type	Chariot Pulled by Cats
Books of the Raksura / int_17b5862b	comment	Chariot Pulled by Cats: The setting is amazingly species-diverse and open to people with radically different ways of living, but even so, Moon is a bit taken aback to visit a town where the carts are pulled by thirty-yard-tall flightless birds with armored plumage.
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Books of the Raksura / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Books of the Raksura / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Moon can border on paranoia at times, and his narration often describes perfectly innocuous actions as if they were the most suspicious thing in the world.
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Books of the Raksura / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Books of the Raksura / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: By default, Fell see every other species as prey, and any hunting tactic — mass-murder, infiltration, mind control, rape, and so on — as fair game.
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Books of the Raksura / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Books of the Raksura / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Moon's big problem among the Raksura is that he's considered a "solitary" — a Raksura without family ties or a court. Solitary Raksura are treated much like solitary members of any pack species — barely tolerated, rarely adopted, usually not highly-ranked.
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Books of the Raksura / int_21579c25	type	Ancient Artifact
Books of the Raksura / int_21579c25	comment	Ancient Artifact: Essentially the whole of the Three Worlds, which is littered with the ruins of extinct empires and species.
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Books of the Raksura / int_22ecc839	type	Kryptonite Factor
Books of the Raksura / int_22ecc839	comment	Kryptonite Factor: The poison used on Moon at the beginning of the first book, which "outs" him as a shapeshifter. It turns out to be deadly to Fell.
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Books of the Raksura / int_2588feac	type	Winged Humanoid
Books of the Raksura / int_2588feac	comment	Winged Humanoid: Aeriat, Raksura queens, and most Fell are winged, scaly humanoids in their shifted forms.
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Books of the Raksura / int_2765af58	type	Language Fluency Denial
Books of the Raksura / int_2765af58	comment	Language Fluency Denial: The Raksura are initially suspicious of Callumkal's expedition, so they communicate in Altanic and pretend not to understand Kedaic, so they can listen in when the others try Hiding Behind the Language Barrier. It gets them some very useful information from the people who do turn out to be enemies, but makes for an awkward confession to the ones who were honest all along.
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Books of the Raksura / int_2973a4d6	type	Turtle Island
Books of the Raksura / int_2973a4d6	comment	Turtle Island: The leviathan in The Serpent Sea doesn't have plant life growing on it other than moss, but it is big enough to host an entire groundling city.
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Books of the Raksura / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Books of the Raksura / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: River, after Pearl dumps him. He loses his status in the court, and becomes desperate to prove that he still has worth as a warrior even without his former rank. Because he was such a Jerkass while he still had power, the warriors he used to boss around are happy about his downfall.
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Books of the Raksura / int_2bde52a3	type	Fantastic Firearms
Books of the Raksura / int_2bde52a3	comment	Fantastic Firearms: The Imperial Kish have solar-powered Organic Technology firearms — one trigger launches wooden targeting disks; a second ignites a fireball at the disks' location. They range in size from handguns to ship-mounted artillery.
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Books of the Raksura / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Books of the Raksura / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Gender-flipped when Moon meets Ember, a more conventional consort who's slightly in awe of Moon's independence and personal exploits.
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Books of the Raksura / int_2fa9979c	type	Tomboy Angst
Books of the Raksura / int_2fa9979c	comment	Tomboy Angst: Gender-flipped. Moon has some self-esteem issues revolving around how he's not a "normal" consort, most obvious in The Siren Depths, where he finds himself wondering if he's a liability to Jade.
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Books of the Raksura / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Books of the Raksura / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Moon and Jade's first clutch are named for their father's adoptive sister, their mother's father, and three long-dead consorts and queens of the court.
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Books of the Raksura / int_3110f888	type	Illness Blanket
Books of the Raksura / int_3110f888	comment	Illness Blanket: When Moon attends a tense meeting with a rival Raksuran Court while recovering from poisoning that nearly killed him, he is embarrassed when the queen interrupts the meeting to order him another blanket.
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Books of the Raksura / int_3ceec7d7	type	No Focus on Humans
Books of the Raksura / int_3ceec7d7	comment	No Focus on Humans: If any of the miscellaneous "groundling" peoples are human, it's never specified.
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Books of the Raksura / int_40582f4b	type	Guttural Growler
Books of the Raksura / int_40582f4b	comment	Guttural Growler: All the Raksura's voices get lower and much raspier in their shifted forms. Shade once shifts to exploit this as an intimidation tactic — more or less his only one; unknown to the groundlings, he's quite the Shrinking Violet.
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Books of the Raksura / int_410fe01f	type	Bite of Affection
Books of the Raksura / int_410fe01f	comment	Bite of Affection: The Raksura use gentle bites as their equivalent of kissing, to show affection or to solicit sex.
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Books of the Raksura / int_42c8293a	type	Sibling Team
Books of the Raksura / int_42c8293a	comment	Sibling Team: Traditionally, queens are supported by their female warrior clutchmates. For example, Jade's clutchmate Balm is the head of her warrior faction.
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Books of the Raksura / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
Books of the Raksura / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Ardan, the Big Bad of The Serpent Sea.
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Books of the Raksura / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
Books of the Raksura / int_454b2f2b	comment	Secretly Dying: Flower sickens and dies of old age over the course of The Serpent Sea, pretending all the while that she'll be fine if she can just get some rest. The trope is subverted, as it was only kept secret from Moon. Everyone else had recognized the signs long beforehand.
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Books of the Raksura / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Books of the Raksura / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: In The Siren Depths, Moon meets his surviving relatives—mother, sister, and half-Fell brother. All of them are eager to form a relationship, while Moon is angry that they removed him from Indigo Cloud and bitter that they didn't find him sooner.
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Books of the Raksura / int_471b2ede	type	Obviously Not Fine
Books of the Raksura / int_471b2ede	comment	Obviously Not Fine: Despite her obviously failing health, Flower insists that she's just "tired" throughout The Serpent Sea. She eventually tells the protagonist that she's dying of old age, that all the other Raksura knew the signs, and that she left him out of the loop because she liked that he was treating her normally. She passes soon after.
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Books of the Raksura / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Books of the Raksura / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Pearl, who seems to delight in pissing off everyone around her. Yet she does want what's best for the court and will go toe to toe work any who threatens them (like all queens).
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Books of the Raksura / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Books of the Raksura / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Initially seems to be played straight with the Fell. Later books reveal it's more complex than that, and only true of Fell progenitors.
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Books of the Raksura / int_49dc50a4	type	Hybridization Plot
Books of the Raksura / int_49dc50a4	comment	Hybridization Plot: Several Fell flights have tried to interbreed with the Raksura, who are descended from the same Precursors, to create new magical abilities or to produce hybrids that are capable of using Forerunner Magitek. Given the Fell's Always Chaotic Evil nature and the Raksura's utter enmity for them, this always involves kidnapping Breeding Slaves and usually backfires catastrophically on the Fell.
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Books of the Raksura / int_4d8ff753	type	Orc Raised by Elves
Books of the Raksura / int_4d8ff753	comment	Orc Raised by Elves: In Harbors of the Sun, the Fell in Consolation's flight were largely raised by an unnamed consort.
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Books of the Raksura / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Books of the Raksura / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Moon reflects on this when he learns about Chime's abrupt change from mentor to Aeriat.
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Books of the Raksura / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Books of the Raksura / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: The Fell aren't demons, exactly, but they're fairly close. They're Always Chaotic Evil and the scourge of much of the world, and in their shifted forms the dakti resemble winged imps, while the kethel are enormous winged, horned humanoid monsters.
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Books of the Raksura / int_5171abed	type	Loads and Loads of Races
Books of the Raksura / int_5171abed	comment	Loads and Loads of Races: Mostly of the Rubber-Forehead or Humanoid variety, the Three Worlds are peopled from the ocean depths to the upper atmosphere. Upwards of 50 species are named, and Moon's narration often doesn't bother to identify characters' species beyond a cursory description of their physical traits. Some of them are so unusual that it takes some work to confirm that they're even sapient.
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Books of the Raksura / int_51c28ba3	type	Non-Action Big Bad
Books of the Raksura / int_51c28ba3	comment	Non-Action Big Bad: The expected role of a Fell progenitor. They are the overall leaders of their flights, and thus responsible for the incredible destruction caused by the Fell as well as most of the Evil Plans their people carry out... but their shifted forms are unarmored and they remain in safety rather than leading from the front lines like Raksuran queens. Ranea is an exception; as a hybrid queen-progenitor, she is perfectly able to fight, although she does so only when the Raksura reach her temporary stronghold.
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Books of the Raksura / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Books of the Raksura / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Happened to Moon, who was raped in the past by the Fell ruler. When he was younger and still trying to find signs of his race, he came across a city Saraseil, which was attacked by Fell. Moon, who never saw either Raksura or Fell before, went to ask them to tell him what he was. There, a Fell ruler called Liheas tried to brainwash him into thinking he was Fell too, and then raped him, after which Moon realized he was not one of them and broke the ruler's neck while the ruler was sleeping, then set the room on fire and escaped. Because of this traumatic event, he stopped all attempts to ever try to find his race, didn't care anymore about himself for a long time, and became cynical, wary and distrustful of others, especially of the Fell and even more of the Raksura.
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Books of the Raksura / int_5312637f	type	Tomboy with a Girly Streak
Books of the Raksura / int_5312637f	comment	Tomboy with a Girly Streak: As he settles into his position as consort, he's a dedicated caregiver to the court's children, and later on starts taking more of an interest in his appearance.
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Books of the Raksura / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Books of the Raksura / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Pearl, who stops being an ass whenever her court is threatened, long enough to rip her enemies' heads off.
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Books of the Raksura / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Books of the Raksura / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Surprisingly uncommon, considering, but there are a few examples. Many groundlings distrust shapeshifters, assuming they're dangerous predators. Some persist in speaking of the Raksura as "creatures" even after having a conversation with them; Moon derides one for not even being able to see him as a person. The swamplings featured early on in Harbours of the Sun despise soft-skinned races.
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Books of the Raksura / int_58075ef2	type	Stumbling in the New Form
Books of the Raksura / int_58075ef2	comment	Stumbling in the New Form: Chime involuntarily metamorphosed from a wingless Arbora to a winged Aeriat due to a population imbalance in the colony. He struggles to adapt to the new body at first, and remains a relatively poor flyer even years later.
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Books of the Raksura / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
Books of the Raksura / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: The Imperial Kish have a lot of moss-driven technology — their airships are grown, and a moss that generates solar power is used in everything from the ships to their firearms.
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Books of the Raksura / int_5be7bd04	type	Raised by Wolves
Books of the Raksura / int_5be7bd04	comment	Raised by Wolves: Inverted; Moon has trouble among the Raksura because he wasn't raised in their wolfpack/lion-pride-like society.
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Books of the Raksura / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Books of the Raksura / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: As large shapeshifting predators, Raksura need far more food than their groundling forms would suggest. Stone is even more so because of his massive winged form.
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Books of the Raksura / int_61459062	type	Perception Filter
Books of the Raksura / int_61459062	comment	Perception Filter: The Raksura Queen Malachite can prevent people from noticing her (very large and incredibly imposing) presence, even when she's standing right in front of them; afterwards they remember that she was there all along. It's one of the unique tricks she's developed to impose her will directly on others.
Books of the Raksura / int_61459062	featureApplicability	1.0
Books of the Raksura / int_61459062	featureConfidence	1.0
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Books of the Raksura / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Books of the Raksura / int_61a12ee2	comment	Eccentric Mentor: Stone again, who never bothers to tell Moon anything, thinks it's funny to joke about eating sentient beings, and periodically slaps him in the head.
Books of the Raksura / int_61a12ee2	featureApplicability	1.0
Books of the Raksura / int_61a12ee2	featureConfidence	1.0
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Books of the Raksura / int_62702eb0	type	Age Is Relative
Books of the Raksura / int_62702eb0	comment	Age Is Relative: Pearl may be a hundred years old or more, but she competes with her daughter Jade (who is probably Moon's age, in her thirties/forties) as if they're sisters. Inverted in Stone, who is Really 700 Years Old, or at least a few hundred, and acts more like a big brother to Moon (though Moon does see him as a surrogate father).
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Books of the Raksura / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
Books of the Raksura / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Seems to be the norm for Raksuran consorts.
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Books of the Raksura / int_63be4131	featureConfidence	1.0
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Books of the Raksura / int_697e3ecb	type	Involuntary Shapeshifting
Books of the Raksura / int_697e3ecb	comment	Involuntary Shapeshifting: Raksura children can be forced to change shape just by startling them. Older Raksura can control it, but Moon fears sex with groundlings because in a moment of, er, distraction, he might give his lover a little surprise.
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Books of the Raksura / int_6a2c0cc6	type	Living Distant Ancestor
Books of the Raksura / int_6a2c0cc6	comment	Living Distant Ancestor: As line-grandfather of Indigo Cloud, many members of the Colony are Stone's descendants from his youth as an active Consort, and he looks after them all, no matter their blood relation. Only Stone knows how distant an ancestor he is, but it's on the order of centuries.
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Books of the Raksura / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Books of the Raksura / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The unusual half-Fell queen turns out to be named Consolation, a sign that the Raksura Breeding Slave who sired her had genuinely loved her and cared for her. He also taught her morality and inspired her to side with the Raksura over the Fell, making her an agent of a happier future, even though he didn't live to see it.
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Books of the Raksura / int_6de1a09e	type	Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid
Books of the Raksura / int_6de1a09e	comment	Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid: The Fell are trying to hybridize with Raksura to re-create something like a Forerunner. It's also the origin story of the Raksura themselves: the Aeriat and Arbora were originally separate species who merged through interbreeding.
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Books of the Raksura / int_6fde1981	type	Alien Landmass
Books of the Raksura / int_6fde1981	comment	Alien Landmass: The Three Worlds are dotted with floating islands, many of which hold ruins of long-lost civilizations.
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Books of the Raksura / int_73bf188d	type	Menacing Stroll
Books of the Raksura / int_73bf188d	comment	Menacing Stroll: Most Aeriat females, and Ranea, the half-Fell half-Raksuran queen.
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Books of the Raksura / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
Books of the Raksura / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: Altanic and Kedaic are the primary trade languages, as well as being some peoples' native languages; Kedaic is described as a mishmash of several other languages. They're ubiquitous enough that most people can at least communicate in one or the other, and the exceptions tend to be very unusual species.
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Books of the Raksura / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Books of the Raksura / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: Imperial Kish, a large, multi-species confederation, and the most powerful civilization on the Raksura's home continent.
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Books of the Raksura / int_81f8731	type	Chosen Conception Partner
Books of the Raksura / int_81f8731	comment	Chosen Conception Partner: Raksura are polyamorous and raise their young communally, so it's common to choose a conception partner for non-romantic reasons, such as to produce young of a specific caste. Nonetheless, when a colony-mate is panicking in the middle of an emergency, Moon shocks her calm by offering to sire a clutch with her afterwards — and they follow through with it later.
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Books of the Raksura / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
Books of the Raksura / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Frost, the fledgling queen, and leader of the Sky Copper orphans.
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Books of the Raksura / int_838748cb	type	Sour Outside, Sad Inside
Books of the Raksura / int_838748cb	comment	Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Pearl is an antagonistic figure for much of the first book, aggravating the schism in her Colony, and mellows out to merely prickly and sardonic by the end of the series. However, at the beginning, she was also utterly grief-stricken from the deaths of her sister-queen, consort, and many more in her Colony, and the Colony itself was close to collapse; her mood improves alongside the Colony's fortunes.
Books of the Raksura / int_838748cb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Books of the Raksura / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Books of the Raksura / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Moon's initial relationship with two groundling women; it's implied that he's had other relationships in the past. Also, a big secret of the Raksura is that they came from the same Forerunner race as the Fell. The Raksura became a distinct race after the 'Aeriat' interbred with the Arbora, who were once a separate species entirely.
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Books of the Raksura / int_85bfd195	type	They Look Like Us Now
Books of the Raksura / int_85bfd195	comment	They Look Like Us Now: The Fell can pass for ordinary groundlings when not transformed, and take full advantage of that to infiltrate groundling communities they intend to prey on. They're largely responsible for a general in-universe distrust of shapeshifters, which causes the Raksura considerable inconvenience.
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Books of the Raksura / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Books of the Raksura / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Whatever that ... thing was at the end of The Siren Depths.
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Books of the Raksura / int_87854c3d	type	The Usual Adversaries
Books of the Raksura / int_87854c3d	comment	The Usual Adversaries: The Fell are the common enemy of pretty much the entire population of the Three Worlds. People like the Kish aren't as frightened of Fell as others, but it's because they have more effective weapons against them, not because they see them as less of a threat.
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Books of the Raksura / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
Books of the Raksura / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Gender roles among the Raksura seem to be more or less nonexistent... except among queens and consorts. Queens are stronger, aggressive, bossy, and possessive; consorts start out weaker (although they get Stronger with Age), and aside from Moon, are supposed to be shy and high-strung. Queens fight over them and — as Stone implies to Moon re: Pearl — may not take no for an answer, especially with younger consorts.
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Books of the Raksura / int_89cf0914	type	Parental Sexuality Squick
Books of the Raksura / int_89cf0914	comment	Parental Sexuality Squick: Stone is his colony's line-grandfather and is centuries old, so when he unexpectedly takes an interest in someone — an outsider of a different species, no less — his younger relatives are as confused as they are appalled. When Moon points out that Stone probably already has experience navigating Exotic Equipment, Jade cuts off the conversation.
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Books of the Raksura / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Books of the Raksura / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: Several. The most important are the forerunners, ancestors of the Raksura and the Fell, and their allies the foundation-builders, ancestors of most of Imperial Kish.
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Books of the Raksura / int_9578d077	type	My Instincts Are Showing
Books of the Raksura / int_9578d077	comment	My Instincts Are Showing: Moon doesn't know much about proper Raksuran behavior, but fortunately much of it is rooted in predatory dominance behavior.
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Books of the Raksura / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Books of the Raksura / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The Fell have this down to an art. They can be polite, charming, and even strive to appear reasonable, but it's all an act.
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Books of the Raksura / int_9820c37a	type	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
Books of the Raksura / int_9820c37a	comment	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Line-grandfathers are largely exempt from Raksuran etiquette, something that Stone takes full advantage of.
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Books of the Raksura / int_9854688f	type	Shapeshifting Heals Wounds
Books of the Raksura / int_9854688f	comment	Shapeshifting Heals Wounds: Inverted: If a Raksura's wings are injured, it can't safely shift back to human form until it heals; when Moon is forced to do so, the injury transfers to his human body's chest and back muscles and becomes much worse in the process.
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Books of the Raksura / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
Books of the Raksura / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: The Fell don't create anything, they just steal from other races. Aeriat Raksura also have a bit of this, but to a far lesser degree; they're just more combat-oriented than the Arbora.
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Books of the Raksura / int_9b0b8109	type	Floating Continent
Books of the Raksura / int_9b0b8109	comment	Floating Continent: The Three Worlds are strewn with floating islands. A specific type of magical rock is responsible for their flight; one race uses it to build flying boats. No, not Cool Airships, but flying boats.
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Books of the Raksura / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Books of the Raksura / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Gender-flipped and Downplayed with Raksura Consorts, who are generally expected to lead pampered, cloistered lives within their home colony, fathering clutches with their Queens and otherwise looking pretty. Moon comes across as a bit of a Rebellious Princess for remaining an active, deadly fighter and going on missions outside his colony.
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Books of the Raksura / int_9d647997	type	Double Consciousness
Books of the Raksura / int_9d647997	comment	Double Consciousness: Moon has learned to fit in, more or less, among groundlings. It's his own people who confuse him badly.
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Books of the Raksura / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
Books of the Raksura / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: Some of the most human-like groundling races, such as the Golden Islanders, just have unusual coloration.
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Books of the Raksura / int_9ffbadef	type	Fantastic Naming Convention
Books of the Raksura / int_9ffbadef	comment	Fantastic Naming Convention: Raksura tend to be named after nouns that follow a theme within lines of descent, like Chime, Knell, and Bell.
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Books of the Raksura / int_a633a438	type	Really700YearsOld
Books of the Raksura / int_a633a438	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Raksura don't show many outward signs of age, so in his groundling form, Stone is a grey-skinned and white-haired but otherwise youthful-looking Pretty Boy. In reality, he's far older than anyone else in Indigo Cloud.
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Books of the Raksura / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
Books of the Raksura / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: The major kethel are Giant Flyers as big as Stone's shifted form, but because they're not very bright, they're simply very dangerous mooks as well as transport for the smaller Fell.
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Books of the Raksura / int_b0206477	type	Spiked Blood
Books of the Raksura / int_b0206477	comment	Spiked Blood: Fell poison is harmless to most species, so some people in high-risk areas would regularly consume it so that if they happen to be killed by Fell, their flesh will kill them. It's little use to the dead, but it's at least some consolation.
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Books of the Raksura / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
Books of the Raksura / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Moon gets a lot of negative attention among Raksura for having lived most of his life as a "solitary" among groundlings. Justified — if not in Moon's case — since Raksura are intensely social, so "solitaries" are almost always those exiled from their Court for horrible misdeeds. Indeed, the solitary that Moon meets in The Serpent Sea turns out to be a Serial Killer.
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Books of the Raksura / int_b61b755f	type	Tomboy
Books of the Raksura / int_b61b755f	comment	Tomboy: Having grown up alone, around groundling cultures with more conventional gender roles, Moon is essentially the Raksuran equivalent of a tomboy. This sometimes causes friction with traditionally-minded Raksura who expect him to be a pampered, Non-Action Guy consort.
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Books of the Raksura / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Books of the Raksura / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Considering the Fell had a plan to make crossbreed children by abducting Raksura for breeding, most of the children were either killed or hidden or taken by the Fell or the Raksura, the most notable being: Ranea: half-Fell progenitor half-Raksuran queen. Shade: half-Fell half-Raksuran consort. Lithe: half-Fell half-Raksuran mentor. Demus: half-Fell dakti half-Raksura mentor. Erasus: half-Fell half-Raksura who could also force shapeshifting of Raksura into their groundling forms. Consolation, the hybrid progenitor-queen and her siblings from The Edge of Worlds, whose Raksura father lived long enough to impart basic morality to them.
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Books of the Raksura / int_bbaadc6e	type	A Rotten Time to Revert
Books of the Raksura / int_bbaadc6e	comment	A Rotten Time to Revert: Invoked when Moon fights an enemy who can psychically override Raksura shapeshifting. Moon's wings are injured, and when he's forced into human form, the injury transfers to his chest and back muscles, becoming much worse in the process.
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Books of the Raksura / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Books of the Raksura / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The series is very light on profanity overall, and character dialogue even more so, but the maze of Malevolent Architecture in The Edge of Worlds provokes both Stone and Jade to blurt, "This shitting place".
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Books of the Raksura / int_c03860d2	type	Womb Level
Books of the Raksura / int_c03860d2	comment	Womb Level: Moon and friends get inhaled by the leviathan. Giant parasites and even an intelligent race call it home; Moon remarks that having tunnels chewed into its flesh has to hurt.
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Books of the Raksura / int_c0b36b55	type	Prefers Raw Meat
Books of the Raksura / int_c0b36b55	comment	Prefers Raw Meat: The Raksura are fine with hunting live prey when they're traveling; within their communities, they serve the raw meat nicely prepared with a range of side dishes. In fact, Jade is fairly apprehensive when she visits a human settlement and is served cooked meat for the first time.
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Books of the Raksura / int_c2b0ebc0	type	Never Gets Drunk
Books of the Raksura / int_c2b0ebc0	comment	Never Gets Drunk: Raksura biology is different enough not to react to most species' intoxicants, though Raksura sometimes partake just to enjoy the flavour.
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Books of the Raksura / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
Books of the Raksura / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: Moon is incredibly cynical by the start of The Cloud Roads, bordering on outright paranoia at times.
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Books of the Raksura / int_c3bc970f	type	Seers
Books of the Raksura / int_c3bc970f	comment	Seers: The mentor caste of the Arbora have Psychic Powers that include auguring the future and sensing the attention of hostile forces.
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Books of the Raksura / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
Books of the Raksura / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: Queens are taller than other Raksura and get larger with age. Malachite is so old she towers over other Queens, and is a no-nonsense veteran Determinator whom absolutely no one wants to antagonize.
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Books of the Raksura / int_c949edd4	comment	Magic Pants: The ability to keep one's clothes when shifting is mentioned to be a "bit of magic" early on. It can also be used to hide weapons.
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Books of the Raksura / int_ca5938c0	comment	Hive Caste System: The Raksuran social structure includes two breeds (winged Aeriat and wingless Arbora), and several castes within each breed, all ruled by a powerful queen. Moon is a consort, the only male who can breed with a queen to produce children, which makes for some interesting gender dynamics given that the queens are bigger, stronger, and decidedly aggressive.
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Books of the Raksura / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The Raksuras' shifted forms, especially those of the Aeriat, are basically humanoid dragons: scales, wings, tails, claws, and they have a taste for shiny things. They're omnivores and not carnivores, and they don't breathe fire. No need, since as s/he gets older an Aeriat becomes a Giant Flyer.
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Books of the Raksura / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: All female Aeriat are required to be capable fighters, but special mention goes to the queens, who are even faster and stronger than the warrior caste. They can — and do — literally tear much larger monsters apart bare-handed.
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Books of the Raksura / int_e78aa97d	comment	Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Many groundling races are humanoid, but with a feature like fur, horns, or oddly colored skin to set them apart. The official website lists several examples. The Raksura and Fell's shifted forms are also humanoid in shape, but even the wingless ones are out of the Rubber Forehead category.
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Books of the Raksura / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Moon never learned to read Raksuran. Since he doesn't want to admit that, he tries to learn by sitting in on the royal clutch's lessons until Stone catches him out. By the time of the fourth book, he's literate but remains The Illegible.
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Books of the Raksura / int_e9d6eff8	comment	Cool Airship: A bunch of different ones that all operate on different principles. Golden Island wind-ships look like wooden sailing ships, but are in fact suspended, propelled, and controlled by a shard of rock from the flying islands. The explorers in The Serpent Sea have a heavily armored hovercraft. The Kishans build airships out of a special moss that converts sunlight into power. A few civilizations just have straight-up blimps, which are disparagingly referred to as "bladder-boats".
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Books of the Raksura / int_eb467486	comment	Monster Progenitor: Literally in the case of both Fell progenitors and Raksuran queens. And especially Ranea, who's both, and who's been laying waste to the Three Worlds just to get her hands on Moon, whom she wants as a(n unwilling) mate. Fell progenitors are likely also Mothers of a Thousand Young, because they're the only female Fell and yet somehow give birth to giant kethel, rulers and other progenitors, and numerous swarms of dakti.
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Books of the Raksura / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Books of the Raksura / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Traveling cross-country in The Cloud Roads, Moon and Stone shift to groundling form at a discreet distance from some travelers and have a polite but tense conversation. They realize that being in the middle of the wilderness without any traveling gear is a dead giveaway that they're more than they seem.
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Books of the Raksura / int_ef9abb3c	comment	Death Is Gray: Raksura lose their natural colouration and turn white when they're very near death from old age. Moon, who was Raised by Humans, doesn't know what it means when it happens to Flower, and she doesn't tell him so he'll keep treating her normally.
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Books of the Raksura / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
Books of the Raksura / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": In Harbors of the Sun, Moon eventually starts to think of the kethel accompanying him and Stone as a person named "Kethel".
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Books of the Raksura / int_f2667f5f	comment	Impostor-Exposing Test: One drug is harmless to groundlings but temporarily incapacitating to Raksura and outright poisonous to Fell. Unfortunately, most groundlings don't know the difference, so Moon's own partner and neighbours drug, betray, and nearly kill him at the beginning of the series.
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Books of the Raksura / int_f4aeb714	comment	Human Aliens: Fell and Raksura can both pass for human in their groundling forms - they're more resilient than they look, and don't need to wear shoes, but otherwise they're by far the most visibly human-like species in the setting.
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Books of the Raksura / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: A regular shortcoming of Raksura, since they tend to lapse into predatory dominance displays when they feel threatened. Moon and Stone get close to having several fights because they're too emotionally constipated to process that they're concerned for each other's well-being.
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Books of the Raksura / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Moon is suspicious of the Raksura because he's tried before to find his people, which led him into the clutches of a Fell ruler, who raped him. Although this incident clearly scarred him, Moon doesn't want sympathy.
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Books of the Raksura / int_ff7c3bb0	comment	Stronger with Age: Raksura consorts become stronger as they age, and both queens and consorts grow larger as long as they live, so that an elderly queen is twice Pearl's size, and Stone, the oldest Raksura shown, has a wingspan three times Moon's.
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