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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A trilogy of books by C.S. Friedman that successfully manages to combine the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres. The books' titles in order are Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls, and Crown of Shadows. There is also a short story prequel, Dominion, which takes place about five hundred years before Black Sun Rising.The story takes place on Erna, a planet colonized many centuries ago by humans who soon realized that a mysterious force originating from the planet, the fae, had the power to let their subconscious emotions such as their desires and especially their fear affect their environment and even create embodied creatures out of their nightmares. These creatures, called faeborn or in some cases demons, feed from humans, sometimes literally, sometimes in a more subtle way. They vary greatly in shape and strength. Some are literally gods that humans worship (and thus feed) in exchange for favours and help.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })In return, some humans have managed to manipulate the fae to their need by using symbolism and the pattern of sacrifice, practicing Sorcery. Some humans, the Adepts, have even adapted to Erna to the point that they are born with the ability to perceive the fae and manipulate it instinctively. There exist four different kinds of fae: Earth fae originates from Erna's frequent seismic activity and is the one most often used by humans. Solar fae originates from the sun's light when it touches the atmosphere, it usually cannot be used unless a massive amount of people are concentrating on the same thing. Tidal fae is tied to the gravity of the different moons of Erna and their alignments. No human is known to be able to use this very subtle force. Dark fae originates in true darkness, either from subterranean places that never see light, or during True Night, during those lapse of time when no moon nor star light the sky. As powerful as it is dangerous, it is implied that the demonic Hunter is the only fleshborn who can utilize it directly.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The fae renders technology unreliable because people's fear affects its operation. As a result, the civilization of Erna has fallen down into a medieval level of technology. Some 1,000 years ago, some of the people who yearned for their Earth heritage created the Church. Based upon the writing of the Prophet, they hope that by garnering enough faith and mass symbolism to affect the fae on a macro scale they can manage to join/create the God of Earth and free themselves from the effect of the fae.The story centers around the characters of Father Damien Kilcannon Vryce, a priest and warrior who also practices Healing sorcery, and Gerald Tarrant, the Neocount of Merentha, a mysterious Adept who allies himself with Damien Vryce for his own reason. Damien is seeking to kill demons to allow Ciani, the woman he's in a relationship with, to recover her memory and Adept abilities, sucked away by demons. Their quest will bring them to a deeper, more complex threat.See Magister Trilogy for another of C.S. Friedman's work involving magic and the cost of using it. | |
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Jacob Marley Apparel: The shadows of the dead in Crown of Shadows are gruesome examples of the "stuck in the moment of death" type. The Gorn is justified in that they're moments of violent death given form by the fae rather than "lost souls". | |
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Heroic BSoD: Ciani, after her memories and Adept talents are taken from her near the start of the trilogy. | |
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Evil Versus Evil: Tarrant versus any of the other bad guys. It's also a documented philosophy of the church: Set evil against evil. With a little luck, they'll destroy each other. | |
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Incurable Cough of Death: Tarrant, so it doesn't stick. However, the show of weakness is so uncharacteristic it shocks everyone into silence. Also significant: first, following the direction of the wind shows the party where Senzei's corpse is; second, they discover that they've lost the Fire in the flask; and third, the unnaturally generated wind shows them that it's of the Master's making. | |
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Wicked Cultured | |
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Wicked Cultured: Gerald Tarrant and the Undying Prince. When Damien sees them side by side, he observes that they're both similarly regal and arrogant. | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: Tarrant often shapeshifts into a large black or, occasionally, white bird. | |
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The entire interaction with the Fae is actually dictated by a Deal with the Devil of sorts. One of the original human colonists, Ian Casca, realized that there was a force on Erna that was interacting with them. He established a means of communicating with the fae through ritual and sacrifice by detonating the mothership that brought them to the planet. His efforts made sorcerers, adepts, and long-term life on Erna possible, but his fellow colonists killed him for it. | |
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Harmful Healing: The titular substance can be used to heal, but the process isn't pleasant. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Some adepts succumb to this, unable to cope with their sensitivity to the fae. And then there's the Master of Lema, too. | |
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Chekhov's Gun: At the beginning of the first novel, there's an apparent throwaway scene in which The Hunter, traveling in disguise, promises a young woman that she will come to no harm by his hands. She reappears at the end of the novel when Calesta tries to trick the Hunter into killing her. The Hunter rescues her and gives her a safe-passage token; she disappears from the story. Both she and the safe-passage token reappear as major elements of the third novel. Tarrant's damaged heart, mentioned in the prologue of Black Sun Rising that threatens his life and consequently kicks off his Start of Darkness. He has a congenital heart defect, and the instant he becomes human again it comes back with a vengeance, severely weakening him. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Most definitely Gerald and Damien at the end of the series. When Andrys "kills" Gerald, Damien mourns the death of his friend. | |
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Cold Flames | |
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Cold Flames: The Anti-Villain developed his own version of fire magic that burns cold rather than hot. As an undead, it's the only way he can safely wield fire. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: What Damien is afraid to become. What Andrys almost becomes. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older than They Look: Ciani, thanks to Wizards Live Longer. Other adepts too, like Tarrant and the Master. Although the Master who isn't naturally an adept shows more signs of aging. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: Subverted since the trilogy takes place years and years after such a period, where humanity is back on its feet but nowhere near its former glory. | |
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Mad Scientist: Tarrant. For instance, his accomplishments in genetics and heredity are impressive, yet horrifying. | |
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Rapid Aging: Happens to the Terata that worship Calesta. First without their knowledge, but it becomes obvious to all once they get chosen for sacrifice. It is not a pretty sight. | |
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The Man Behind the Man | |
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The Man Behind the Man: Calesta, multiple times. | |
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Obstructive Code of Conduct | |
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Obstructive Code of Conduct: The rules that Iezu must obey. The terms of his compact that Tarrant cannot breach. The rules of the Church Damien tries to uphold. | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: Mercia, where the absolute faith of the people have ensured both their safety and a technological superiority over that of the westerners. However, their faith crosses over to extremism—adepts are slaughtered, and some children are raised purely as sacrifices to kill the malevolent faeborn monsters that wait just outside the city boundaries. | |
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Cowboy Cop | |
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Cowboy Cop: Damien is this, plus Church Militant and a side of Good Shepherd. He takes his public service (primarily demon slaying) very seriously, but will flout the rules to accomplish demon slaying. Except for harming innocents. It takes him a long time to cross that line. The follow-through on Cowboy Cop, Turn in Your Badge, shows up in the third novel. | |
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Costume Porn: C.S. Friedman was a costume designer before she was a writer; she always goes into loving detail when describing particularly elegant clothing. Gerald Tarrant gets these descriptions the most. | |
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To Hell and Back | |
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To Hell and Back: Literally, when Karril and Damien rescue Tarrant from his personal hell. | |
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First-Name Basis: Supposing you have the standard number of fingers, you have enough to count the total number of times Damien and Tarrant address each other by their first names. Tarrant calls Damien by his first name twice in the course of the trilogy. Don't expect any in the first book. | |
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Alien Sky | |
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Alien Sky: In a number of ways. Erna has three moons—Prima, Domina, and Casca—and a slightly Weird Sun that is noted to be whiter than Earth's. The planet's position in the Milky Way causes most stars to appear in one of two clusters—the Core, (the center of the galaxy,) and the Rim. True Night occurs after all these bodies have set. | |
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Evil Sorcerer | |
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Evil Sorcerer: Tarrant, Amoril, the Undying Prince, the Master of Lema. Heck, in Church doctrine all sorcerers are like this. | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Played mostly straight by Gerald Tarrant and Damien Vryce respectively, except for Tarrant's cruel sociopathic tendencies. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Stated to be the last piece of Tarrant's human identity. Although he'd definitely prefer if reason won out. | |
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Badass in Distress: Both Tarrant and Vryce end up in this situation at least once a book. Since they're fighting things that are way beyond their power (particularly for Vryce), it's to be expected. And since Tarrant's the bigger threat, he gets in these situations more often. In the first book, Tarrant is crucified and trapped in a fire, and is just barely keeping himself alive. In the second, he's chained to the top of the Undying Prince's tower, where the focused light of the sun will kill him. And in the third, he's in hell. | |
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Would Hurt a Child: The priests of the east continent would, for the sake of keeping their city free from the faeborn. And of course, Tarrant would. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship: Ciani and Senzei, although it doesn't look like it since Ciani looks like she's in her thirties. They first met when Senzei was just a child. | |
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Emotion Eater: The Hunter and the Iezu. | |
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Always Chaotic Evil: Averted, even with the demons. While they're all dangerous, they're not all evil, and some can be quite helpful if you know how to work with them. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe / Psychoactive Powers: A blend of these describe how the fae works. Human emotions inspire changes in laws of probability. The stronger the emotion, the greater the odds it will become real. | |
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Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Gerald Tarrant, much to Damien's annoyance. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: The Hunter's standard modus operandi. The town of Mordreth in particular has drawn the Hunter's wrath: in one case where some people tried to overthrow him, the Hunter responded by impaling twenty heads minus eyes and tongues on the stakes just outside the gates of the city. On another briefly-mentioned incident, when another group tried to set the Forest on fire, the Mordreth Massacre occurred: the Hunter turned the thriving port into a ghost town overnight. | |
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The Church | |
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The Church: A big deal. It's recognizably Christianity, except not, but this is acknowledged and justified in that the elimination of the Messiah figure was deliberate. On Erna, Messiahs always lead to counterproductive apotheosis. The Church is sincerely trying to do good, but has gotten into trouble over church militancy. | |
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Book Ends: The plot really starts to kick in when Ciani gets attacked and all of her collections and her valuable library is burned down. The plot more or less comes to a close when Gerald Tarrant dies and his library and his castle is burned to the ground. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Tarrant, who has both cruelty and harsh pragmatism and impeccable, old-world manners. The Undying Prince as well, for the small parts we see him. | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: The Matria-led church in the east, much to Damien's horror. But subverted—the Matria are the only corruption, and have complete control over those who follow them, but the faith is kept pure. | |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_5539b84f | |
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The Empath | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_556a3059 | comment |
The Empath: Jenseny. Taken a step further—she can even hear sunlight. It's because she can control the tidal fae. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_556a3059 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_556a3059 | featureConfidence |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_556a3059 | |
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Death Trap | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_55c79f7c | comment |
Death Trap: Tarrant falls into one where he experiences getting burned again and again as soon as he heals himself. Fun times. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_55c79f7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_55c79f7c | featureConfidence |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_55c79f7c | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_5989e3b6 | type |
Enemy Mine | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: The whole concept of Damien and Tarrant agreeing to work together. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_5989e3b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_5989e3b6 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_5989e3b6 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_5a7fc31 | type |
Faux Death | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_5a7fc31 | comment |
Faux Death: Tarrant erasing his identity as the Hunter and the Prophet and changing his appearance at the end. Subverted somewhat in that since magic now requires self-sacrifice, "Gerald Tarrant" and "The Hunter" both actually need to be destroyed as entities. What's left afterward isn't Tarrant anymore and can't even acknowledge that he once was except in the most oblique fashion or his sacrifice is lost. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_5a7fc31 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_5a7fc31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_5a7fc31 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_60194b82 | type |
Spanner in the Works | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_60194b82 | comment |
Spanner in the Works: Jenseny for Tarrant's plan to take them to the Undying Prince. Subverted since it turns out to be not a good thing—the long journey takes them into the Wasting, where they wear themselves out and lose Hesseth. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_60194b82 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_60194b82 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_60194b82 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6040801a | type |
Self-Inflicted Hell | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6040801a | comment |
Self-Inflicted Hell: What Tarrant fears most and eventually suffers as his punishment from breaking his compact with the Nameless Ones. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6040801a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6040801a | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_6040801a | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: For Gerald Tarrant. It quickly seems like a Heel–Face Door-Slam, but he shows up at the last chapter of the series; younger, but just as arrogant. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_617f0563 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_617f0563 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_617f0563 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_63557923 | type |
Death World | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_63557923 | comment |
Death World: Erna, where dark emotions like fear can manifest into malevolent monsters. Each book features at least one particular local with Everything Trying to Kill You. The Forbidden Forest, the valley of the Terrata, the Black Lands, Shaitan... | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_63557923 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_63557923 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_63557923 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_63be4131 | type |
Pretty Boy | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_63be4131 | comment |
Pretty Boy: Tarrant skirts this line. In the very first chapter, his wife even describes his features as being almost feminine, and perhaps would be on another man. His new incarnation at the end of Crown of Shadows is even more so, as well as being younger, shorter, and with longer, waist-length hair. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_63be4131 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_63be4131 | featureConfidence |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_63be4131 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_643618e5 | type |
Replacement Goldfish | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_643618e5 | comment |
Replacement Goldfish: Jenseny for the child Hesseth lost years before the series' start. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_643618e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_643618e5 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_643618e5 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6439de78 | comment |
Hesseth, who dies while holding off attacking beasts on top of a bridge. The bridge collapses into a deep chasm, and nobody could possibly survive the fall. Despite the Sorting Algorithmof Deadness, she's quite dead for the remainder of the series. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_6439de78 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_649b0880 | type |
Background Magic Field | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_649b0880 | comment |
Background Magic Field: The fae has every hallmark of this trope. The Fae is a natural phenomenon; a sort of energy governed by its own rules. The earth fae, the type used by humans, flows across the planet's surface and collects in places of power. Weak currents limit a sorcerer's capabilities, and tapping into strong currents can fry a sorcerer's brain. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_649b0880 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_649b0880 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_649b0880 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: See Costume Porn below. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6627695f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6627695f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_6627695f | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_66ea7e5c | type |
Brought Down to Normal | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_66ea7e5c | comment |
Brought Down to Normal: By the end of the series, everyone. Damien gets some satisfaction out of this when he sees Tarrant's new incarnation get a little dirty and he can't automatically groom himself anymore. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_66ea7e5c | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_66ea7e5c | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_66ea7e5c | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6b8b122b | type |
The Good, the Bad, and the Evil | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6b8b122b | comment |
The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: Damien is the good, Tarrant is the bad, Calesta and his partners/pawns are the evil, and the Nameless is the off-the-chart evil. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6b8b122b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6b8b122b | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_6b8b122b | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Faith in Dominion, a soldier for the church. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6c275297 | type |
The Fettered | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6c275297 | comment |
The Fettered: Damien and Tarrant are both bound to strict codes of conduct. Damien has his priestly vows. Tarrant has terms of his demonic pact (and the personal code that lets him maintain his human psyche on top of that). Damien and Tarrant's interactions with each other degrade their ability to hold to their codes. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6c275297 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6c275297 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_6c275297 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: Tarrant strikes a bargain with a woman on the trip back to the western: if she survives for five months while he feeds on her fear, he'll free her and make her a wealthy woman. She doesn't make it, and throws herself off the ship. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_6d332aea | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6f7c8268 | type |
Waif Prophet | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6f7c8268 | comment |
Waif Prophet: Jenseny. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6f7c8268 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6f7c8268 | featureConfidence |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_6f7c8268 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6fb5cb83 | type |
I Gave My Word | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6fb5cb83 | comment |
I Gave My Word: Quite a big deal for Gerald Tarrant. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6fb5cb83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6fb5cb83 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_6fb5cb83 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6feaf27b | type |
Scarily Competent Tracker | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6feaf27b | comment |
Scarily Competent Tracker: The earth fae currents pick up signatures of the creatures who pass through them, and the Hunter, unsurprisingly, is uncannily good at interpreting them and using them to locate people. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_6feaf27b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_6feaf27b | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7012424f | type |
Stealth Hi/Bye | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7012424f | comment |
Stealth Hi/Bye: Tarrant gets moments like these at the beginning of the trilogy, when Damien's still suspicious of him. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7012424f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7012424f | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_7012424f | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_72e54916 | type |
Retired Monster | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_72e54916 | comment |
Retired Monster: Or semi-retired. The Hunter has a sort of truce with the human settlements of the eastlands. If the humans endure his themed serial killing, he won't slaughter every last one of them. He's 100% okay with resting on his laurels... of course, anyone who makes the slightest move against him winds up messily and conspicuously dead. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_72e54916 | featureApplicability |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_72e54916 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: In Crown of Shadows Ciani, who had her memories restored to her, seems like she'll have an appearance, but it never actually happens. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_754df088 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_754df088 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_754df088 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_776a06eb | type |
All Myths Are True | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_776a06eb | comment |
All Myths Are True: Creatures like vampires and sirens exist because the fae creates them out of people's subconscious. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_776a06eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_776a06eb | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_776a06eb | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7c897aaa | type |
Psychic Link | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7c897aaa | comment |
Psychic Link: Between Gerald Tarrant and Damien Vryce. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7c897aaa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7c897aaa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_7c897aaa | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7ea8f5ce | type |
Knight in Shining Armor | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7ea8f5ce | comment |
Knight in Shining Armor: Damien Vryce. Andrys gets literal shining armor, but any delusions of shining knighthood are crushed quickly. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7ea8f5ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_7ea8f5ce | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: Andrys Tarrant, coupled with several other vices. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7eebe99c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_7eebe99c | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_7eebe99c | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_803e3201 | type |
Satanic Archetype | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_803e3201 | comment |
Satanic Archetype: The Nameless and Calesta split this between them. The Nameless is the most powerful evil force in the trilogy, explicitly referred to as "Erna's Devil", but is in many ways more Eldritch Abomination-y than traditional devil. Calesta is not a counterpart to Satan in terms of his role in the cosmology, but he sure does act like him. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_803e3201 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_803e3201 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_803e3201 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_85bfd195 | type |
They Look Like Us Now | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_85bfd195 | comment |
They Look Like Us Now: The rakh, who started to evolve when the humans came to Erna. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_85bfd195 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_85bfd195 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_85bfd195 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_86b21114 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_86b21114 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_86b21114 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_86d4f985 | type |
Doing In the Wizard | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_86d4f985 | comment |
Doing In the Wizard: It's hinted from the first book on, but the third book outright states that the inhabitants of the world are descendants of space travelers and the most powerful gods and demons are advanced aliens. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_86d4f985 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_86d4f985 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: The Nameless. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_8774fb47 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_890d778 | type |
Wizards Live Longer | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_890d778 | comment |
Wizards Live Longer: It's not that difficult for sorcerers to undo the effects of aging. Ciani is seventy, but looks like she's in her thirties. Really determined sorcerers (the Hunter or the Undying Prince for instance) can effect immortality. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_890d778 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_890d778 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Happens 3 or 4 times to Tarrant. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8967e17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8967e17f | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_8967e17f | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: Tarrant starts out as this, with Character Development subsequently moving him through Sociopathic Hero and into Anti-Hero territory. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_898ff050 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_898ff050 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_898ff050 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8a4988bb | type |
Mind Rape | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8a4988bb | comment |
Ciani's Mind Rape early on kicks off the plot. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8a4988bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8a4988bb | featureConfidence |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_8a4988bb | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8c1ad82f | type |
Proud Warrior Race Guy | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8c1ad82f | comment |
Proud Warrior Race Guy: Hesseth and the Rakh. The males of the species are especially described this way. Hesseth still qualifies, despite claiming a greater degree of sensibility and mocking the male Rakh. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8c1ad82f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8c1ad82f | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_8c1ad82f | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8dd4a996 | type |
Identical Grandson | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8dd4a996 | comment |
Identical Grandson: Andrys looking so much like his grand-grand-grand-and some-father is quite handy to the plot. This isn't accidental. The Hunter has been performing a kind of negative eugenic experiment by periodic slaughter of all his descendants except the one who looks most like him. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8dd4a996 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_8dd4a996 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8e5c862 | type |
Ancient Conspiracy | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8e5c862 | comment |
Ancient Conspiracy: Evil plots often take multiple centuries to orchestrate, and time is no object to the villains. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8e5c862 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_8e5c862 | featureConfidence |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_8e5c862 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_927b2f11 | type |
The Bus Came Back | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_927b2f11 | comment |
The Bus Came Back: Subverted. In Crown of Shadows, Karril takes her form when he guides Damien through Tarrant's hell. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_927b2f11 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_927b2f11 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_927b2f11 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_952d21ec | type |
Bus Crash | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_952d21ec | comment |
Bus Crash: Rasya. Her foreign appearance gets her killed by a mob suspicious of the strange. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_952d21ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_952d21ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_952d21ec | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_95f2d65e | type |
DefrostingIceKing | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_95f2d65e | comment |
Defrosting Ice King: Tarrant. Damien guesses that spending time with people, instead of brooding in the dark fae-infested Forest, is making him more human. Lampshaded when Damien says that it was easier to deal with him when he was nastier. It betrays him, at the end of When True Night Falls—Tarrant accidentally shows Toshida a vision of the corrupted Church if it continues, bringing the leader to his senses and possibly saving thousands or millions of lives in the process. This breaks the contract he made with the Nameless and vulnerable to their wrath. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_95f2d65e | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_95f2d65e | featureConfidence |
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Coldfire Trilogy / int_95f2d65e | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Calesta. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_970c790a | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_976d265c | type |
Your Worst Nightmare | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_976d265c | comment |
Your Worst Nightmare: Subverted. Damien actually agreed Tarrant would cause these, in order to feed from them. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_976d265c | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_976d265c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_976d265c | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_985d6d7f | type |
Master of Illusion | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_985d6d7f | comment |
Master of Illusion : Calesta and all Iezu. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_985d6d7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_985d6d7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_985d6d7f | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_99404851 | type |
Ladykiller in Love | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_99404851 | comment |
Ladykiller in Love: Andrys, when he falls in love with Narilka. Emphasized later during their wedding, when all the women he previously dated try their luck with him again, only to find that he's truly quite in love with her. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_99404851 | featureApplicability |
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| Coldfire Trilogy / int_99404851 | featureConfidence |
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| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_99404851 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_9b04a8d1 | type |
This Is Not a Floor | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_9b04a8d1 | comment |
This Is Not a Floor: Calesta never harms people directly, but his illusion powers make it easy to keep people from noticing imminent threats as great as incoming tidal waves and as literal as deceptive floors. | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_9b04a8d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_9b04a8d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy | hasFeature |
Coldfire Trilogy / int_9b04a8d1 | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_9b06e314 | type |
Greater-Scope Villain | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_9b06e314 | comment |
Greater-Scope Villain: The Nameless. The ultimate evil, but he/she/it/they doesn't direct or drive the plot nearly as much as Calesta does. | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: the Undying Prince is the evil-er counterpart to the already evil Tarrant. Similarly, the Patriarch is the Good Counterpart to the fallen Prophet. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Narilka. She starts out a Distressed Damsel Ingenue, but she matures, masters her Shrinking Violet side, and develops a plucky streak that gets her through some serious adversity. | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
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Kill It with Fire: The Forest at the end of the trilogy, to purify it of any of its inhabitants left alive. | |
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DistressedDamsel | |
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Distressed Damsel: Ciani. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: Played straight, but there are implications of inversion too. The Hunter is the main subject of this trope, and he is an Emotion Eater, preferring to feed on fear and other negative emotions rather than blood (though he can make do with blood if necessary). Ordinary vampires are out there as well—fae constructs that the reader may assume conform to the popular conception of vampires. The Hunter claims he started out as one of these, but he's since surpassed "mere" vampirism. It's actually implied in spots that he actually started out as a cannibal; vampirism was a stepping stone to what he is now. | |
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Genocide Backfire | |
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Genocide Backfire: Tarrant runs a grizzly sort of heredity experiment on his own descendants. He periodically goes back and murders the whole clan, leaving one survivor—the one who looks most like him. Of course, this bites him in the ass when the current sole survivor plays a key role in the Calesta's scheme to destroy him. | |
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child | |
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child: ...but thankfully Damien won't. And Hesseth, even if she does hate humans. | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
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Half-Human Hybrid: The Iezu, although specifically engineered as such by the Mother. | |
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Chessmaster | |
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Chessmaster: Calesta. The Undying Prince. Tarrant is perfectly capable of this, though normally he prefers manipulating the environment to people. | |
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Da Chief | |
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Da Chief: The Patriarch, so very much—he is the exacting, intimidating, by-the-book foil to Cowboy Cop Damien. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: The Undying Prince's victims when he pulls a Grand Theft Me. They're aware of whatever he's doing, see through his eyes, but can't move their body at all. The Prince usually stays in them for three to four decades, and when he finally releases them, most of them have been driven insane. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
| Coldfire Trilogy / int_a8dcb1d7 | comment |
Love at First Sight: Andrys for Narilka. | |
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Mordor | |
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Mordor: The Wasting in When True Night Falls, designed by the Undying Prince to ward off opponents. | |
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You All Meet in an Inn | |
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You All Meet in an Inn: Doesn't fully play the trope, but Senzei, Ciani, and Damien do first meet Gerald Tarrant in a tavern. Only this time they're the ones in the dark, shadowy corner, watching him. | |
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Pure Energy | |
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Pure Energy: The coldfire that Tarrant stocks in his sword is dark fae in solid form. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Both Damien and Tarrant have their moments. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Tarrant is chained in an eternal fire constantly burning and regenerating, with no way to free himself. | |
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I Did What I Had to Do | |
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I Did What I Had to Do: Tarrant's justification for some of the things he does, if he bothers giving any. Damien grudgingly learns this reasoning from him. | |
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Fake Defector | |
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Fake Defector: Tarrant pretends to accept the Undying Prince's offer to give Damien one good shot at trying to kill the Prince. Too bad it didn't work. | |
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Evil Is Deathly Cold | |
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Evil Is Deathly Cold: Tarrant's trademark. | |
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Blood from the Mouth | |
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Blood from the Mouth: Tarrant in Black Sun Rising. See Incurable Cough of Death below. | |
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Evil Overlord | |
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Evil Overlord: The Undying Prince. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: Names like Gerald and Damien appear alongside names like Senzei and Ciani. | |
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Mind Probe | |
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Mind Probe / Mind Rape: Your mind is not safe, especially if the Master of Lema and the Dark Ones are involved. Ciani's Mind Rape early on kicks off the plot. Villainous characters appreciate how violating it is to rifle through the minds of captives for information. Exploited when Damien deliberately gets captured to feed false information at the end of Black Sun Rising. Tarrant comes close to this at times when he compels traumatized people to relate the horrible things they've been through in order to learn what the enemy is up to. | |
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Monster Misogyny | |
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Monster Misogyny: Justified Trope: The Hunter targets beautiful, young women because it's apparently an effective way to terrorize a population. Of course, aesthete that he is, he just likes it better this way. | |
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We Can Rule Together | |
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We Can Rule Together: The Undying Prince's offer to Tarrant. | |
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The Dark Side | |
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The Dark Side: The Church disapproves of using fae because it reinforces the pattern of its answering human imagination. Yet Damien still uses it, as long as he believes it's necessary and not a selfish use. Tarrant of course has no such compunction, and they often argue about it. Also how Senzei got convinced to steal the Fire in hopes of becoming an Adept. | |
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Grand Theft Me | |
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Grand Theft Me: The source of the Undying Prince's immortality, though he still has a tenuous link to his original body, which he keeps preserved in an undisclosed location to act somewhat like a Soul Jar. | |
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Hot Witch | |
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Hot Witch: A Spear Counterpart. Sexy, elegant, mysterious, uses magic to maintain his appearance...you guessed it, it's Tarrant. See also Vampires Are Sex Gods below. | |
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Non-Action Guy | |
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Non-Action Guy: Senzei. His powerlessness, lust for power, and their dependency on Tarrant are what the Master's demon plays on to make him try to take the Fire. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: Several. Senzei, who is tricked into taking the holy Fire in the hope that it would make him an adept. Hesseth, who dies while holding off attacking beasts on top of a bridge. The bridge collapses into a deep chasm, and nobody could possibly survive the fall. Despite the Sorting Algorithmof Deadness, she's quite dead for the remainder of the series. Jenseny, who kills herself and the Undying Prince when he tries to take over her body. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain/ Anti-Hero / Sociopathic Hero: Gerald Tarrant manages to hit all of these boxes over the course of his Character Development. | |
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Vampires Are Sex Gods | |
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Vampires Are Sex Gods: Subverted. Tarrant's incredibly attractive, but his vampirism renders him functionally asexual. | |
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game | |
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: The Hunter's favorite game. And that of his "son", Riven Forrest. | |
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Gender-Neutral Writing | |
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Gender-Neutral Writing: Used to disguise the Master's true gender. | |
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I Have Many Names | |
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I Have Many Names: Tarrant has a lot of titles, almost all of them spoilers. The Hunter, the Prophet, Premier of the Order of the Golden Flame, Neocount of Merentha ...to name the major ones. | |
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Love Redeems | |
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Love Redeems: Narilka for Andrys. And then a very late example in Almea for her husband, Tarrant. Her ghost—inspired by the last moments of love she felt for her husband before she died—helps lead Tarrant and Vryce through Calesta's illusions and to Shaitan. | |
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The Magic Goes Away | |
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The Magic Goes Away: By the end of the series, humanity loses the ability to manipulate the fae, but can no longer be manipulated by it; the rules have been changed through the actions of Gerald Tarrant and the Patriarch of Vryce's Church so that the fae responds only to self-sacrifice. This comes with the implication that humans can start advancing their technology again, and one day return to the stars. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Hesseth. Tabra Zefila too, for the few pages that we even know her. | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: This is not too difficult to accomplish on Erna. Demons often play gods—Karril is a fairly benign example. Calesta and the Undying Prince both aspire to this, and offer it to Gerald Tarrant in return for his support. They don't know that Tarrant represents a subversion of this trope in that godhood is against his principles. The Mother acts like this to the Iezu. | |
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Try to Fit That on a Business Card | |
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Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Damien Kilcannon Vryce—Knight of King Gannon's Order of the Golden Flame, Companion of the Earth-Star Ascendant. Reverend Father of the Church of the Unification of Human Faith on Erna. | |
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Hunter of Monsters | |
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Hunter of Monsters: Seems so straightforward, but Damien, staunch slayer of evil, is the one who best fits this trope. The Hunter goes more for The Wild Hunt. | |
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Functional Magic | |
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Functional Magic: Sorcery is used in internally consistent ways, described with fairly accessible Magibabble. Sorcerers use Rule Magic; Adepts and the Erna-native Rakh have an Inherent Gift. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
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Tarrant's damaged heart, mentioned in the prologue of Black Sun Rising that threatens his life and consequently kicks off his Start of Darkness. He has a congenital heart defect, and the instant he becomes human again it comes back with a vengeance, severely weakening him. | |
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Lost Colony | |
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Lost Colony: Played with somewhat. The setting is low-tech, yes, but the people of Erna all know they're descended from Earth colonists. They know that their ancestors had advanced technology too, but absolutely none of it remains. | |
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Load-Bearing Boss | |
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Load-Bearing Boss: The Undying Prince. His death causes the Wardings between the rakh and the humans in the north of the east continent to fall. The humans immediately begin massacring and purging any trace of the rakh—even when it turns to other humans, who they believe had any contact with them. The Hunter too, for the Forest. When his connection to it is severed, the Forest immediately loses its meticulous balance, and its inhabitants start turning on each other. And then Amoril takes over... | |
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The Igor | |
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The Igor: Gerald Tarrant's albino servant, Amoril. | |
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Cult | |
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Cult: Many of the Iezu act as gods to their own minor religions, some of which are more cult-like than others. The Terata... kind of. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: The Hunter allows nothing to stand between him and success—he determines what is most likely to work and makes it work. Amazing feats are routine, and the shadow of his Moral Event Horizon loom behind them all. | |
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Meaningful Rename | |
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Meaningful Rename: The Golden Glory, the boat Damien takes to the eastern continent, gets renamed to God's Glory following Captain Rozca's conversion. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Damien Vryce's, "Damn you, Tarrant!" Lampshaded later, when he wonders when he started not to really mean it. | |
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Kill and Replace | |
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Kill and Replace: The eastern rakh to some leaders of the protectorates, starting with Kierstaad. | |
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Garden of Evil | |
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Garden of Evil: The Forest, as designed by the Hunter. | |
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The Not-Love Interest | |
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The Not-Love Interest: Tarrant to Damien, oddly enough, despite being an incredibly powerful, sadistic, undead Magnificent Bastard. Tarrant gets Damseled at least once a book; he's frequently described as seductive (by Damien as well as other characters); and his evolving, increasingly magically intimate relationship with Damien forms the emotional core of the book. Despite all this, there's no indication the author intended for them to be anything other than close friends. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: Performed by Tarrant on a comatose demon victim early in Black Sun Rising. | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: The Terata, a tribe of lost children who seem off somehow. Most of them aren't actually children at all—they're physically malformed, psychologically stunted adults made unaware of the effects of time, illness, and injury on their bodies thanks to a veil of illusion. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: The series really ends like this, more than a Bittersweet Ending. Plenty of people died to get there, and plenty of sacrifices were made, but at the end the world has changed for the better. With their lives no longer under the mercy of the fae, people are safer from the terrors that it once spawned; humans are also free to finally tap into Earth science now that their own doubts no longer hold them back. Most definitely one for Andrys Tarrant. It's easy to forget that he's just one of the many victims of the Hunter, since he throws his lot in with Calesta early in the third book. At the end of Crown of Shadows, he even comes to forgive the Hunter (somewhat), killing his identity instead of his life. It doesn't seem like one for Damien Vryce at first, but it's really just the shock of the world changing so quickly, as well as the apparent death of Gerald Tarrant, that keeps him in place for so long. Otherwise, the book implies that he'll be fine. | |
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Bastard Understudy | |
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Bastard Understudy: Amoril. | |
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You Have No Chance to Survive | |
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You Have No Chance to Survive: When trapped in Hell, the Nameless agree to let Tarrant go, under the condition that he find another way to sustain his life at the end of the thirty days or he just dies again. He doesn't, so he does die, but he's revived by the Iezu Mother, rendering the contract void. | |
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Weakened by the Light | |
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Weakened by the Light: Tarrant and other creatures of the dark fae. | |
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Was Once a Man | |
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Was Once a Man: Happens to Amoril twice. The first time is in Dominion, where he's introduced as a former sorcerer who tried to conquer the Forest but failed. Tarrant transforms him back into a human. The second time, in ''Crown of Shadows'... he's not so lucky. | |
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The Magnificent | |
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The Magnificent: Several people have these kind of titles, such as the Master of Lema and the Undying Prince. Gerald Tarrant has several—the Hunter, the Prince of Jahanna, the Neocount of Merentha, and the Prophet. | |
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The Corrupter | |
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The Corrupter: Calesta. | |
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We Would Have Told You, But... | |
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We Would Have Told You, But...: Tarrant's plan to kill the Undying Prince required Vryce's ignorance. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Gerald Tarrant. Before he makes his Deal with the Devil, he lived most of his life during the brutal end years of Erna's Dark Ages, under the tyranny of both his father and the "sibling cruelty" of his eight older brothers. It was bad enough that their deaths at his hand are among his most pleasing memories. Tarrant theorizes that this is also the reason behind the Master's insane need for power. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Tarrant giving toys for Jenseny to play with. Earlier in the trilogy, in a moment of magnanimity, Tarrant giving Narilka his word that harm would not come to her. As mentioned above, comes in handy in the final book. | |
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