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Cradle Series

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Cradle Series	comment	Wei Shi Lindon lives in Sacred Valley, an isolated place where sacred artists train to master the magic of the world and themselves. Unfortunately, Lindon is an Unsouled, a cripple who will never be able to be as strong as any other sacred artist no matter how hard he tries. He is barely above an outcast, his every deed spit upon or ignored. At age fifteen, the average eight year old can easily defeat him in battle.Everything changes at the Seven-Year Festival, when a rival clan summons their immortal Grand Patriarch from another world. As the Grand Patriarch is easily slaughtering his way through the most powerful sacred artists of the Valley, Lindon tries to help. He is killed as casually as one might brush off a speck of dirt. But then, time stops, a goddess descends from the sky, and throws the Grand Patriarch in prison. She congratulates Lindon on his courage, and reverses time to before the Grand Patriarch's interference, reviving the dead and removing their memories.Lindon, however, is allowed to remember. He is allowed to remember that his home is destined to be destroyed in thirty years time—and he will be able to do nothing to stop it. To save Sacred Valley, he must travel to the outside world, where even the strongest sacred artists from the Valley would be considered little more than children. There, he can find the power to save his home.A series of fantasy novels by Will Wight. The series consists of twelve books, the first three of which have been gathered into the "Foundation" collection, Books four through six into the "Path of Gold," and books seven through nine into the "Rise of Lords." Unsouled (June 2016) Soulsmith (September 2016) Blackflame (April 2017) Skysworn (September 2017) Ghostwater (May 2018) Underlord (March 2019) Uncrowned (September 2019) Wintersteel (October 2020) Bloodline (2021) (April 2021) Reaper (2021) (November 2021) Dreadgod (July 2022) Waybound (June 2023)On December 17th 2023, a Kickstarter for an animation project was announced, launched on January 15th.
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Cradle Series / int_12b045	type	Winds of Destiny, Change!
Cradle Series / int_12b045	comment	Winds of Destiny, Change!: The Abidan have the ability to manipulate Fate, often on the scale of a world. For example, there is only a one-in-a-hundred chance that the Jai Patriarch's betrayal of his vows would wake up a Dreadgod, but Makiel loads the dice.
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Cradle Series / int_1356acfa	type	Success as Revenge
Cradle Series / int_1356acfa	comment	Success as Revenge: Lindon was spat on and mistreated his entire life by the people of Sacred Valley, who saw him as a cripple who couldn't do anything useful. He spent that life trying to make something of himself regardless, and never considered fighting back. When he discovers that a great catastrophe is coming, he leaves the Valley to train to become strong enough to defeat it. When he comes back he reflects that his ability to save them is a kind of revenge.
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Cradle Series / int_16972b3c	type	Peninsula of Power Leveling
Cradle Series / int_16972b3c	comment	Peninsula of Power Leveling: Ghostwater, once Monarch Northstrider's research facility, now more of a garbage heap. Lindon jumps from Lowgold to Truegold while spending some time inside, drinking magic water and killing and eating sacred fish.
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Cradle Series / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Cradle Series / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Lindon and Yerin spend much of book 2 worrying about Jai Long and Kral, two Highgold sacred artists who could kill them both in a heartbeat. Then Eithan forces an entire room full of Golds to kneel merely by unveiling his core.
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Cradle Series / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
Cradle Series / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: Each of the Dreadgods has a cult. While some cultists genuinely worship their Dreadgod, many of them simply see them as a means of gaining power quickly.
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Cradle Series / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Cradle Series / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Pure madra, the type every human is born with, disrupts other madra and is also great for working with soulsmith constructs. There are two major problems with it: There is no such thing as pure aura (meaning you can't cycle aura to restore your madra, you have to wait for your body to replenish it naturally), and pure madra can only affect madra. It has no effect on, say, someone throwing a rock at you. The vast majority of people outgrow pure madra shortly after they learn to walk, as they choose a Path with different types of madra and cycle those, which changes the composition of their cores. Lindon, since he was denied the right to study his family Path, kept pure madra much longer than normal. Once he splits his core in two, he keeps one pure and the uses the other for another Path. Eithan also uses pure madra.
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Cradle Series / int_18e7aa01	type	Practical Currency
Cradle Series / int_18e7aa01	comment	Practical Currency: The standard currency is a "scale," a coin made of Forged pure madra (though the actual shape doesn't matter). Pure madra can be given to children to advance them faster, or be used to activate magical devices and items. Pure madra is the type that humans are born with, but due to its limited uses nearly everyone gives it up for something else very quickly. Scales are therefore made using special devices to purify aura, though the extremely rare adults who use pure madra can just forge scales themselves, making them richer than usual for their advancement. It is also perfectly possible to forge non-pure scales, but those are only useful to people of the exact same madra type or for powering some constructs so they're less common.
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Cradle Series / int_19947832	type	The Exact Center of Everything
Cradle Series / int_19947832	comment	The Exact Center of Everything: The Hound built the iteration Oversight at the exact center of the Way so that he could watch Fate more clearly.
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Cradle Series / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
Cradle Series / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Mercy. Generally cheerful nice girl who wants to be friends with everyone. She's one of the few sacred artists who's genuinely kind and respectful of everyone she meets, regardless of rank, but as the favored daughter of a Monarch she has been kept at a distance by everyone for most of her life.
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Cradle Series / int_1bdeb353	type	PhysicalGods
Cradle Series / int_1bdeb353	comment	Eithan Aurelius is the Gadfly to the Blackflame Empire; he's on friendly terms with the Emperor, but doesn't hesitate to annoy everyone in a position of power, from rival families, to the Emperor's siblings, to the Emperor himself. He also openly taunts Monarchs, trading veiled threats with Reigan Shen (though admittedly, that's personal) and risking Northstrider's ire by flamboyantly taking a dive during the Uncrowned King Tournament. His actual serious goal is to irrevocably change Cradle by getting rid of the Dreadgods permanently, which requires all Monarchs to ascend or die.
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Cradle Series / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Cradle Series / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Cradle has one rule: The strong can do as they like. The physically strongest member of any group is, almost without exception, its leader. Rules of honor limit abuse to some extent (for example, being forced to kill someone significantly weaker than you would be considered extremely embarrassing) but even then the only thing that truly stops extreme abuse of power is the risk of pissing off stronger people. Anything not backed by threat of force is basically worthless. Eithan tries to rule more gently, but doesn't have much success, and ultimately still relies on throwing his weight around to get things done. This is played with, however, in that the honor system is based on theoretical asskicking potential. Lindon is seen as dishonorable for beating people of a higher rank, and not just because he does it through Combat Pragmatism. He simply shouldn't be challenging people that far above him.
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Cradle Series / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
Cradle Series / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: Subverted. Yerin and Lindon are adopted by the Aurelius family and begin training as outer disciples. Eithan proudly tells them that they are the first and second-ranked outer disciples, respectively. Since they haven't met a single other outer disciple and Eithan is The Gadfly, they assume they're the only outer disciples at the moment. But when the Skysworn demand their ranks and Lindon explains, he is informed that there are thousands of outer disciples in the Aurelius family, and assume he's screwing with them. He's not, and judging by the progress the two make, Eithan wasn't either.
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Cradle Series / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Cradle Series / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Eithan's response to finding out someone he thought he killed didn't actually die. While Emperor Huan gloats about knowing something Eithan didn't know first, Eithan grabs the wine Huan was pouring and starts guzzling it down directly from the pitcher.
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Cradle Series / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Cradle Series / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: Sacred Beasts that reach a certain level of advancement gain this ability. Xorrus of the Gold Dragons is seen both in the form of a young beautiful woman and a mile long dragon. In Underlord Orthos leaves the party to try and determine what his next form would be, Lindon jokes that he could finally turn into the Dragon he has called himself since the beginning, but he says he might look like a human the next time they meet. Orthos doesn't look like a human when he finally does advance to Underlord, instead he grows to the size of a baby Dreadgod, but since that form is too large to travel easily he then shapeshifts again to the size of a normal baby turtle. Most Sacred Beasts take human form at least some of the time once they reach the Lord realm because humans have finer control over madra, and it may be required to touch Icons.
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Cradle Series / int_216c3bf0	type	Flying Weapon
Cradle Series / int_216c3bf0	comment	Flying Weapon: One of Lindon's prizes from the Uncrowned tournament is Wavedancer, a flying sword made of Wind and Water madra that he and Dross can take turns controlling with their minds during battle.
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Cradle Series / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Cradle Series / int_21f3aa44	comment	Akura are almost exclusively named after virtues, with the occasional vice thrown in (Mercy has a brother named Pride, and the matriarch is named Malice). Although, from the Akura clan's perspective, they're all virtues.
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Cradle Series / int_22569655	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Cradle Series / int_22569655	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: While the Monarchs are supposed to be cooperating against the Dreadgods, in practice they still constantly snipe at each other even in emergencies. And of course, everyone under the Monarchs does the same. Most of the Judges of the Court of Seven don't get along with each other, and refuse to work together directly unless forced.
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Cradle Series / int_256664a8	type	Death of Personality
Cradle Series / int_256664a8	comment	Death of Personality: Powerful, self-sustaining spirits are difficult to truly kill. However, if they take too much damage or exhaust themselves too much, they can destroy their personality. Their abilities and even memories will be largely unchanged, but it is unlikely for them to recover anything of who they truly were before. In Bloodline, Dross pushes himself too far to help fight the Wandering Titan. Lindon still has many of the benefits of a Presence while he is "dead," but knows that he likely won't ever truly get Dross back.
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Cradle Series / int_26764512	type	I Just Want to Have Friends
Cradle Series / int_26764512	comment	Eithan is the highest ranking sacred artist around for quite a long time, but avoids exerting his authority as much as possible. He forgives slights to his honor, gives Lindon and Yerin plenty of instruction, and treats his subordinates well. He claims that his only goal is to have people who can walk his Path beside him.
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Cradle Series / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
Cradle Series / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: Blood madra Paths aren't particularly uncommon, and many healers combine it with life madra to great effect. However, blood Paths have a negative reputation because the most common source of blood aura is spilled blood. Paths that combine sword madra and blood madra are often disparagingly referred to as "slaughter Paths," since that's the most common way to advance them. And it doesn't help that one of the four Dreadgods is the Bleeding Phoenix, and its cultists/victims can quickly gain a lot of power by accepting its bloody children.
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Cradle Series / int_2804d516	type	Master of None
Cradle Series / int_2804d516	comment	Master of None: The reason why no one learns more than one Path. Even if you could find two Paths with compatible madra and find someone willing to teach you, you'd still have to focus on them both separately. Instead of having two full-power Paths, you'd have two half-power Paths, which is deadly when there are such major differences in power levels in the world. Lindon finds a loophole by splitting his core (letting him use madra types that would otherwise conflict), a Path that is extremely powerful, and by training at every waking moment.
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Cradle Series / int_2a154192	type	Impossibly Tacky Clothes
Cradle Series / int_2a154192	comment	Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Eithan wears these while taking a dive in the Uncrowned King tournament.
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Cradle Series / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
Cradle Series / int_2ab79021	comment	Emerging from the Shadows: A favorite travel method of the Akura family being their their paths are almost universally Shadow based and enough advancement allows them travel through shadows.
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Cradle Series / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Cradle Series / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Jai Patriarch tries to hire assassins to kill Eithan. No one will take the job.
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Cradle Series / int_2d834a85	type	Un-Sorcerer
Cradle Series / int_2d834a85	comment	Un-Sorcerer: When Lindon was tested as a child in the Sacred Valley, it was determined he had no affinity for the sacred arts. He was named an "Unsouled," a cripple to be spat upon and ignored. He wasn't allowed to learn any of the sacred arts beyond some basic breathing exercises. By the time Lindon is sixteen, he is only barely strong enough to fight children. As it turns out, the Sacred Valley is full of idiots who have no idea what they're talking about. Lindon's "disability" is so minor that most cultures don't even have a name for it; he has to train a bit harder to start out, but not that much harder.
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Cradle Series / int_2f52c0af	type	Accidental Pervert
Cradle Series / int_2f52c0af	comment	Accidental Pervert: When Lindon is stuck undergoing unnecessary medical treatment, he finally realizes that for the first time in his life, he has a high ranking and can just do as he likes. He leaves his tent, goes to find his friend Yerin, and ignores her doctor when she tries to stop him from going into her tent. He walks in on her topless, blushes, leaves, and apologizes to the doctor for ignoring her.
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Cradle Series / int_302730a	type	Fusion Dance
Cradle Series / int_302730a	comment	Ruby is basically plastered to Lindon's side for the two chapters they're together in Wintersteel and this seems to have carried over to Yerin after her and Ruby's Fusion Dance.
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Cradle Series / int_30763ed8	type	Eternal English
Cradle Series / int_30763ed8	comment	Eternal English: While Suriel speaking Lindon's language is justified by her Presence (Lindon even notes her accent shifting to one he's more familiar with), no explanation is given for why the rest of the world shares a language with Sacred Valley until most of the way through the series. The Valley only had minimal contact with the rest of the world for thousands of years at least, but somehow Lindon understands everyone perfectly. No one even comments on his accent being especially odd, although Word of God says that he does have one. Uncrowned reveals that Emriss Silentborn, the Monarch Remnant, travels around the world to make sure language doesn't change too much. Wintersteel expands on this reveal. When she was alive, Emriss shared ALL knowledge throughout the world, going as far as to make constructs that would update with new knowledge automatically as it was discovered. She was killed by an alliance of three Monarchs who believed that sharing knowledge was dangerous. When Emriss came back as a Remnant, she came up with a new plan: make sure that everyone can speak to each other. Cooperation is more dangerous than knowledge alone.
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Cradle Series / int_323f135b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Evil
Cradle Series / int_323f135b	comment	The Jai clan patriarch insists on sticking with the Sorting Algorithm of Evil, sending first Lowgolds against an enemy, then Highgolds, then Truegolds, and only if all of them are defeated will he finally fight himself. It would be an insult for him to fight directly before all his subordinates have been killed. Except in this case, their enemy is Jai Long, one of their own, and he has a spear that lets him consume Jai family madra to get stronger. By the time the stronger Golds face him, he is more than strong enough to defeat them.
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Cradle Series / int_324e2fcf	type	Power Levels
Cradle Series / int_324e2fcf	comment	Power Levels: According to Sacred Valley, there are five power levels: Foundation, Copper, Iron, Jade, and Gold. No one has reached Gold in centuries. As it turns out, the outside world considers Gold to be the first level of a real sacred artist; everything below that is for children. Gold is split into Lowgold, Highgold, and Truegold, the Lord level is split into Underlord, Overlord, and Archlord, and above that are the Heralds, the Sages, and finally the Monarchs. Monarchs are the strongest a sacred artist can be before leaving the planet; Heralds and Sages have the choice to either stay and rule or leave and become even more powerful. And then subverted once more is revealed about the nature of Heralds and Sages: in contrast to the earlier stages, which have a strict order of progression, the latter are more freeform - an Archlord can advance directly to Herald or to Sage, and a Monarch is 'just' someone who is both a Herald and a Sage. In fact, it's not even strictly necessary to reach Archlord first. During the events of Wintersteel, Yerin becomes an Overlord-level Herald by fusing with her blood shadow, and Lindon an Underlord-level Sage by invoking the Void Icon. Sages and Heralds are half-ascendant beings. Monarchs are fully ascendant beings who are supposed to leave the world. The fact that they remain creates Hunger Aura, which weakens all other aura in the world. The first attempt to fix this created the Dreadgods, and now the more Monarchs there are in Cradle the more powerful the Dreadgods are. If all the Monarchs left, the Dreadgods and Dreadbeasts would disappear over the course of decades. The Monarchs are well aware of this.
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Cradle Series / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
Cradle Series / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: Those born into powerful clans have a far easier time advancing along their Path than the average sacred artist, thanks to the rare and expensive resources available to them: medicines and pills, training manuals and dream tablets, etc.
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Cradle Series / int_348c1707	type	Sword Beam
Cradle Series / int_348c1707	comment	Sword Beam: Yerin can use sword madra to create this effect.
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Cradle Series / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Cradle Series / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: After eight books and several in universe years together, Lindon and Yerin finally reconcile their feelings for each other and share a kiss in Wintersteel.
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Cradle Series / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Cradle Series / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: After a certain level of advancement nearly all of the residents of Cradle have the ability to become this. Chief among them are all of the Monarchs, Heralds, and Sages. The Abidan and their enemies have members among them that fit comfortably in the Planet Destroyer trope.
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Cradle Series / int_378476a2	type	Abandoned Laboratory
Cradle Series / int_378476a2	comment	Abandoned Laboratory: Much of the overall plot of the series centers around a mysterious cursed ancient labyrinthine laboratory that has entrances all over the world, and the researchers' creations. One of the plotlines in Ghostwater takes place in the discarded laboratory from a Monarch's failed experiment. For someone of far lower power like Lindon, even a Monarch's trash is a valuable (if dangerous) resource.
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Cradle Series / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
Cradle Series / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Lindon and Eithan both often give their opponents the chance to surrender, and refuse to kill defeated enemies. Everyone always gets mad. Multiple people swear vengeance on Lindon for leaving them alive.
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Cradle Series / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
Cradle Series / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Eithan: Lindon and Yerin's teacher for most of the series, he seems to prefer directing things from the shadows while maintaining a weak, silly public persona. In addition to being a genius at everything, he is also The Omniscient.
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Cradle Series / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Cradle Series / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Lindon has a few of these. One of his key advantages throughout the series is that he has pure madra—the same kind children have—which has some Anti-Magic properties and some benefit to soulsmithing. When he eventually invents an Enforcement technique for his pure madra, all it does is improve his physical abilities. It's not much, but compared to the explosive bursts of power from his other Enforcer technique, it's often more useful. In a world where everyone has custom-made magical weapons, Eithan has ordinary janitor tools like brooms and shears. He reforges them in soulfire (which makes them Nigh-Invulnerable) and then uses them to kill people who can survive having mountains thrown at them. Likewise, Eithan's solution to most problems is "throw madra at it." He has deep madra reserves due to his advanced cycling technique (which he teaches to Lindon), so he basically always has more power to use. As he says, there are other cycling techniques that improve recovery time and so on, but why worry about all that when you have so much power that you'll never run out? Underlords such as Eithan can also turn natural treasures into soulfire. Most underlords are miserly with their soulfire because natural treasures can be hard to find, but Eithan burns it casually because he is confident he can always find the needed resources with his Aurelius Sense.
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Cradle Series / int_3a27d685	type	Sword of Damocles
Cradle Series / int_3a27d685	comment	Sword of Damocles: The winner of the Uncrowned King tournament attempts to invoke this in Wintersteel. The prize is Penance, which can kill any one being in Cradle. The winner asks to hold it for later, because the threat of annihilation is a far more potent tool than just killing someone off. Kiuran the Hound agrees that this is absolutely correct, but that he can't allow it because it would disrupt the existing Balance of Power in Cradle.
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Cradle Series / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
Cradle Series / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenager: When Eithan drops Yerin and Lindon off to train alone for a few months, he warns them not to get "distracted." Yerin blushes and says she has too much self-control to do something that stupid. Eithan just bluntly says they're teenagers.
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Cradle Series / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Cradle Series / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: All Sages and Monarchs are this. Heralds can do it to a lesser degree. Yerin eventually gains reality warping strength due to her iron body, and Lindon gains enough to at least be able to hold hands with Yerin without having his hand pulverized thanks to his theft of power from Yan Shoumei's Blood Shadow. Sages, Monarchs, and Ascended beings can order reality to change with vocal commands as long as their orders align with their authority. The Dreadgods warp the world just by existing, and the Mad King has to live in a sealed environment to stop his aura from breaking down machines and driving his subjects insane and/or killing them.
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Cradle Series / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Cradle Series / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: In general, any time someone of a higher rank fights someone of a lower rank, the results are incredibly lopsided. Lindon is unusual in being able to occasionally defeat someone of higher rank, due to being a ruthless Combat Pragmatist. Eithan and Sha Miara are nominally of the same rank. Their duel in the Uncrowned tournament lasts nine seconds, during which Sha Miara manages to touch Eithan once: a block that Eithan predicts and uses as leverage for a follow-up blow. Sophara 'had' been curb-stomping everyone else in the Uncrowned King Tournament right up until her and Yerin's fight. Part way through, Yerin advances to Herald, despite still being an Overlord. This is so unheard of that Northstrider and the other Monarchs seriously consider either disqualifying her or giving her the win outright. The Abidan Kiuran has them let her fight anyway, and the ensuing two fights are so one-sided that even Yerin is surprised they're letting her do it. Both fights between Lindon and Li Markuth. The first is so lopsided that it can't even be called a fight: Li Markuth is so much more powerful than Lindon that he never notices Lindon's attack, and is only vaguely aware that he killed Lindon. The second takes place after intense Level Grinding on Lindon's part: Li Markuth is confident that he can beat the "Wei Grand Elder" without trouble, but unloads everything he's got at him just to be safe. Lindon proceeds to No-Sell the barrage while simultaneously protecting any bystanders, then refuses his attempt to surrender.
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Cradle Series / int_446adf5f	type	Summoning Ritual
Cradle Series / int_446adf5f	comment	Summoning Ritual: Is basically what kicks off the main plot of the story. Without Li Markuth being summoned to the Sacred Valley and Suriel arriving to banish him she would never have been able to witness Lindon attack Markuth and would not have given Lindon the knowledge to survive and advance.
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Cradle Series / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Cradle Series / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Lindon, a Foundation-stage sacred artist who would have trouble fighting a skilled child, tries to attack the Grand Patriarch of the Li clan, who has been carving through Jades like grass. Lindon knows the attempt will kill him, but prays it will weaken the Grand Patriarch long enough for the Jades to take advantage. It has about as much effect as splashing a bucket of water at a mountain, and Lindon is slapped away. When Suriel arrives to fix everything, she praises his courage and lets him keep his memories so that he might be able to save his home from a coming disaster in a few decades. The Jai clan patriarch insists on sticking with the Sorting Algorithm of Evil, sending first Lowgolds against an enemy, then Highgolds, then Truegolds, and only if all of them are defeated will he finally fight himself. It would be an insult for him to fight directly before all his subordinates have been killed. Except in this case, their enemy is Jai Long, one of their own, and he has a spear that lets him consume Jai family madra to get stronger. By the time the stronger Golds face him, he is more than strong enough to defeat them. Subverted by Fisher Gesha. After Lindon masterfully builds a bomb Fisher Gesha accuses him of cheating. Lindon starts to apologize before Gesha gleefully interrupts him with, "No no! Cheat some more!" Unsurprisingly, Gesha, like Lindon, is a Combat Pragmatist.
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Cradle Series / int_49bbfaee	type	Everything's Better with Rainbows
Cradle Series / int_49bbfaee	comment	Everything's Better with Rainbows: The Ninecloud City on the Ninecloud Continent, home to the Ninecloud Court is a Shining City full of crystal towers, each with a different color. This seems to be a reflection of their Monarch's Royal madra, which is rainbow colored.
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Cradle Series / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Cradle Series / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Subverted by Fisher Gesha. After Lindon masterfully builds a bomb Fisher Gesha accuses him of cheating. Lindon starts to apologize before Gesha gleefully interrupts him with, "No no! Cheat some more!" Unsurprisingly, Gesha, like Lindon, is a Combat Pragmatist.
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Cradle Series / int_4ae72307	type	Be Yourself
Cradle Series / int_4ae72307	comment	Be Yourself: Each Iteration has many ways to reach immortality, but as Suriel tells Lindon, they all boil down to one philosopy: Improve yourself. However, as Yerin and Mercy learn, it can't be for another person's reason. Sages don't usually take direct deciples because each Sage needs to establish their own Authority on reality. Imitating their teacher to do so usually doesn't work.
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Cradle Series / int_4bc2a19c	type	Villain Forgot to Level Grind
Cradle Series / int_4bc2a19c	comment	Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Averted; when Lindon has a duel with a Highgold in a year's time, Eithan promises him that with training, he'll have a good chance of defeating a Highgold by then. After Lindon leaves, Yerin notes that Eithan didn't mention his opponent won't be a Highgold by the time of their duel, since he just got his hands on a weapon that gives him a Cannibalism Superpower. In Bloodline, however, Jai Long, who has spent the last couple of years in Sacred Valley's suppression field, assumes that Lindon is still Gold like he is. He is shocked when he realizes that Lindon is an Underlord, and doesn't believe that he's a Sage until he witnesses his Sage Authority in action.
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Cradle Series / int_4e4ea654	type	Workaholic
Cradle Series / int_4e4ea654	comment	Workaholic: Even among sacred artists, who work insanely hard as a rule, Lindon takes this to an absurd extreme. He was denied the right to training in the Sacred Valley, so instead he just worked even harder on his own. Outside the Valley he discovers he was even further behind than he thought, and simply redoubles his efforts to catch up. He's training, planning, or at the very least cycling. Always. While Eithan (who pushes him as hard as he can) and Yerin (who's an absurd workaholic herself) don't really see an issue, others do notice how absurdly hard Lindon works. Fisher Gesha lambastes Eithan for the fact that they're in the cultural heart of the Empire for a year and Lindon has seen literally none of that since he hasn't had a single break in his training. Mercy takes Lindon to a play and ends up chiding him when he takes the intermission as a chance to get in some more cycling. Even Akura Charity, who fully admits she pushes her students to the breaking point, feels the need to force him to take a break from his training. Not counting the times he is actively fighting or unconscious, it generally takes active threats to get Lindon to stop training. And even then he's probably still thinking about training.
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Cradle Series / int_4e6ace53	type	Eldritch Transformation
Cradle Series / int_4e6ace53	comment	Eldritch Transformation: All dreadbeasts were once ordinary sacred beasts who were transformed by an infusion of Hunger.
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Cradle Series / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
Cradle Series / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: Queen Sha Miara of the Ninecloud Court is one of eight Monarchs in the world, and is still a child. This leads to a lot of questions, as Monarchs are by far the most powerful people in the world, and it typically takes them centuries to earn that power. A brief view of the Ninecloud Court in the epilogue of Underlord makes it clear that Sha Miara isn't merely pretending to be a child, she really is one, and it takes her court a lot of effort to keep her whims in check.
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Cradle Series / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Cradle Series / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Ziel. A big guy with green horns who wields a giant warhammer that's too heavy to lift without enforcing himself. He is also The Sixth Ranger, since he doesn't join the team until book 8, and is the scripting genius to Lindon's Soulsmith.
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Cradle Series / int_51bf74d6	type	Power Crystal
Cradle Series / int_51bf74d6	comment	Likewise, Eithan's solution to most problems is "throw madra at it." He has deep madra reserves due to his advanced cycling technique (which he teaches to Lindon), so he basically always has more power to use. As he says, there are other cycling techniques that improve recovery time and so on, but why worry about all that when you have so much power that you'll never run out? Underlords such as Eithan can also turn natural treasures into soulfire. Most underlords are miserly with their soulfire because natural treasures can be hard to find, but Eithan burns it casually because he is confident he can always find the needed resources with his Aurelius Sense.
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Cradle Series / int_5334fb89	type	Auto-Revive
Cradle Series / int_5334fb89	comment	Jai Daishou had a Auto-Revive script and a spare Remnant squirreled away in his Soul Space in the event of his death to fool whoever beat him into thinking he was gone. This ends up biting Eithan since he was certain he'd put Daishou down for good.
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Cradle Series / int_549cd62d	type	Level Grinding
Cradle Series / int_549cd62d	comment	Both fights between Lindon and Li Markuth. The first is so lopsided that it can't even be called a fight: Li Markuth is so much more powerful than Lindon that he never notices Lindon's attack, and is only vaguely aware that he killed Lindon. The second takes place after intense Level Grinding on Lindon's part: Li Markuth is confident that he can beat the "Wei Grand Elder" without trouble, but unloads everything he's got at him just to be safe. Lindon proceeds to No-Sell the barrage while simultaneously protecting any bystanders, then refuses his attempt to surrender.
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Cradle Series / int_56585e87	type	Combat Clairvoyance
Cradle Series / int_56585e87	comment	Combat Clairvoyance: Every Abidan has a Presence, an Artificial Intelligence that collects and collates information. One of its uses is for combat simulations. Of course, since every individual Abidan is a Physical God, this function is rarely needed—and if it is needed, your opponent is quite likely so far beyond you that your Presence isn't much help. Lindon finishes the Monarch Northstrider's AI project, which was an attempt to replicate a celestial Presence, and ends up with one of his own. While it's much weaker since it hasn't had a chance to consume planets worth of information yet, it's still extremely useful since he's more likely to face people around his own power level.
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Cradle Series / int_56c55ed8	type	I Am Not Left-Handed
Cradle Series / int_56c55ed8	comment	I Am Not Left-Handed: Eithan is the 11th-ranked Underlord in the Blackflame Empire only because he chooses to be. When he faces the Jai Patriarch and all his top men, he is only concerned at first that someone else might see. Likewise, he later curb-stomps an Underlord of Redmoon Hall in the two minutes Eithan's allies aren't watching. In Reaper, Eithan drops all pretense and reveals his actual ability as Ozriel, the Reaper, Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court and the most powerful being in the multiverse in a straight-up fight.
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Cradle Series / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
Cradle Series / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: The squabbling Monarchs don't even agree that the Dreadgods rising is a bad thing. Which makes it hard for any of them to intervene when one does, because if they do, even when they beat the Dreadgod, they'll be weakened and their assets threatened by their rivals. Akura Malice is able to make the Bleeding Phoenix back off from the Blackflame Empire, but after that her hands were tied, and even that cost the Akura clan a lot. This is partly an excuse: they could defeat them any time but don't want to pay the personal price that it would require. They would rather spend the lives of their subjects.
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Cradle Series / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Cradle Series / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Lindon's status as an Unsouled means he has no standing among his own people. He is allowed to live and eat, but little more. He is not allowed to learn any sacred arts beyond basic breathing techniques, he will not be allowed to marry, and anyone could kill him at any time if he annoyed them. Due to centuries of war, many in the Akura clan hate sacred beasts in general and dragons in particular. Most dragons in turn treat humans as lesser beings even though many of the strongest [[Hypocrite take human form]] because it gives greater control over madra.
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Cradle Series / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Cradle Series / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Yan Shoumei is the "guardian spirit" of her home city, and has an arch nemesis who is named but never appears.
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Cradle Series / int_582564f5	type	The Gadfly
Cradle Series / int_582564f5	comment	Eithan loves insert himself into conversations by basically resting his head on the shoulder of whoever's talking.
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Cradle Series / int_59828815	type	Fakeâ€“Real Turn
Cradle Series / int_59828815	comment	Fakeâ€“Real Turn: Jai Chen makes up the Sect of Twin Stars on the spot to explain where a horde of refugees from Sacred Valley came from. The bluff takes on a life of its own, and Lindon finds himself with an actual sect at his command.
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Cradle Series / int_5ad65904	type	Magic Enhancement
Cradle Series / int_5ad65904	comment	"The dragon advances." The text for the Enforcer technique. The original intent was for attendants to protect the Blackflame while they completed the trial—Lindon and Yerin use it to mean to always keep moving forward, no matter what. In Uncrowned, Naian Blackflame asks that the phrase is related to Lindon as his last words. Later in Bloodline, Lindon's Overlord revelation is "I... advance."
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Cradle Series / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Cradle Series / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Orthos the dragon-turtle does not like heights. This causes problems, as the primary method of transportation in the Empire is by cloudship. He spends most of his time tucked in his shell, ignoring everything around him.
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Cradle Series / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Cradle Series / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Since ageing slows down the more advanced you get, and the most talented Sacred Artists reach at least Underlord by their early twenties, most Monarchs, Sages, and Heralds look young. Sage Akura Charity, for instance, looks to be in her early twenties but is really over 150 years old. Subverted with Lindon and Yerin, who actually look their age.
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Cradle Series / int_5cbb67eb	type	Pocket Dimension
Cradle Series / int_5cbb67eb	comment	Pocket Dimension: What all of Ghostwater is, created by the Monarch Northstrider as a research facility. He abandoned it when it apparently failed, but it is still picked over every once and awhile because "The trash of a Monarch is still the treasure of lesser beings." Thanks to The Bleeding Phoenix waking up and destroying Ghostwater's anchor to Cradle, it slowly falls apart. Northstrider creates another one of these as a reward for Yerin's advancement in the Uncrowned King Tournament. This one only lasts a day, but thanks to Year Inside, Hour Outside, they get thirty-six days inside of it. What all Void Keys essentially are. We have seen them as small as a picnic basket and as big as a barn when opened. They are controlled by small constructs that are kept on one's person. Sophara receives one that turned out to be the late Aurelius Monarch's vacation home. After her death at his hands it comes into Lindon's possession. In Dreadgod, Lindon and Yaren steal an incomplete pocket world from Reigan Shen to make a Year Inside, Hour Outside training space for the rest of the team before the Final Battle.
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Cradle Series / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Cradle Series / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: There are a few aesops about helping others, not abandoning your friends, and so on. But the most explicit Aesop is explained in the last book: Everyone needs help, and that's okay; just don't forget who helped you.
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Cradle Series / int_5edb884e	type	Face of a Thug
Cradle Series / int_5edb884e	comment	Face of a Thug: Lindon looks like a troublemaker who starts fights for fun, and this only gets worse once he advances to an Iron body (which perfects his body and removes the last of his baby fat). While Lindon is a friendly man who would rather never fight anyone, every time he apologizes people think he is mocking them.
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Cradle Series / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Cradle Series / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Yerin. Red Oni to Lindon's Blue, she prefers to take the direct approach. As the physically strongest in the group she also has shades of The Big Guy even though she is smallest in stature.
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Cradle Series / int_60e2ec3e	type	Artificial Intelligence
Cradle Series / int_60e2ec3e	comment	While Suriel speaking Lindon's language is justified by her Presence (Lindon even notes her accent shifting to one he's more familiar with), no explanation is given for why the rest of the world shares a language with Sacred Valley until most of the way through the series. The Valley only had minimal contact with the rest of the world for thousands of years at least, but somehow Lindon understands everyone perfectly. No one even comments on his accent being especially odd, although Word of God says that he does have one.
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Cradle Series / int_60e49895	type	The Leader
Cradle Series / int_60e49895	comment	The Leader/ The Hero: Lindon. While Eithan is the team's teacher for most of the series, he increasingly puts Lindon into leadership positions. As of Reaper he's also the head of the Sect of Twin Stars. As the tallest and most visibly muscular member of the team he could also count as The Big Guy, particularly with his tendency to make huge Energy Weapons on the fly.
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Cradle Series / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Cradle Series / int_61a12ee2	comment	Eccentric Mentor: Eithan often gives Lindon and Yerin bizarre orders that make no sense, such as locking Lindon in a room with monsters for two weeks. He will explain himself when pressed, and everything he does ultimately has a reason behind it. Yerin grudgingly admits that this isn't too different from how her master trained her; the difference is she doesn't trust Eithan enough to follow his direction.
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Cradle Series / int_62e7f243	type	Instant Armor
Cradle Series / int_62e7f243	comment	Instant Armor: The Akura bloodline power lets them manifest crystalline purple armor, which can be just one part of their body or cover everything equally. Some time is spent describing the limitations of the armor, and how the Akura overcome these limitations.
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Cradle Series / int_63557923	type	Death World
Cradle Series / int_63557923	comment	Death World: Magic is everywhere to the point that even random animals can use it, nearly anything that dies will leave behind a dangerous ghost, and the average person can punch through stone and will happily demonstrate on your skull. That's Sacred Valley, the safe and coddled place. Outside the Sacred Valley, not only are the ghosts and magical animals much stronger, but there are also horrifically mutated "dreadbeasts" that are just as dangerous as the rest but are rabidly insane, and even the random bandits are an order of magnitude stronger than the strongest people in Sacred Valley.
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Cradle Series / int_641e953	type	Bizarro Elements
Cradle Series / int_641e953	comment	Bizarro Elements: Aura and madra come in many different forms. You've got the basics like Fire, Water, Life and Death, then the weirder ones like Force, Dream, and Hunger. Since aura can also be influenced by human creations, some really weird types are perfectly commonplace; Sword aura is technically a specialized type of force aura that gathers around edged weapons, but it's generally more common since people use sharp weapons more than blunt ones.
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Cradle Series / int_649b0880	type	Background Magic Field
Cradle Series / int_649b0880	comment	Background Magic Field: "Vital aura" is the natural energy of the world Cradle, and it gathers in all kinds of forms, such as fire aura, life aura, and even sword aura. Normally, aura is invisible and harmless, but sacred artists can cycle it into their bodies using special breathing exercises, eventually refining it into madra, which they use for all their techniques. Ruler-type techniques control the aura in the area for a certain purpose; Yerin's famous Endless Sword technique causes all sword aura in the area to go wild, basically attacking her opponents with the edges of their own weapons.
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Cradle Series / int_65163c3a	type	Evil Tower of Ominousness
Cradle Series / int_65163c3a	comment	Evil Tower of Ominousness: A staple of the architecture for the homes of the Akura family, right up to including Archlord level guard dog remnants that rest on a pile of skulls.
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Cradle Series / int_6547ce31	type	Accidental Proposal
Cradle Series / int_6547ce31	comment	Accidental Proposal: In book 7, Yerin and Lindon are both rewarded customizable cloudships. Lindon points out that they could do a lot better if they combine their rewards into one ship. Yerin stares at him, and it takes him a minute to realize he just asked her to build a home with him. He doesn't rescind the offer, though.
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Cradle Series / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Cradle Series / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: When something filled with madra dies, it leaves behind a Remnant, the remains of its power. Weaker Remnants act completely at random, but stronger ones have some intelligence and are even capable of speech. Notably, Remnants actually get stronger the longer they last, rather than weaker (so long as they have other spirits or madra to eat).
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Cradle Series / int_673b2da6	type	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
Cradle Series / int_673b2da6	comment	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Literally. Dross started out as a construct with some pre-programmed phrases he would speak under specific circumstances; he was little more than an automated greeter. He was annoying enough that someone tossed him in the Dream Water well, which is used to sharpen the focus of mortal minds. After fifty years, he developed real intelligence and a mind of his own... but he was still stuck in the pool for five years until Lindon found him. He becomes a Presence on par with that of an Abidan's once he is able to finish the Monarch Northstrider's AI project.
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Cradle Series / int_675056e4	type	Signature Move
Cradle Series / int_675056e4	comment	The Signature Move of the Arelius family involves spreading out a wide net of madra that lets you sense absolutely everything in range. At minimum this is a dozen feet, but Eithan can cover at least a small city. It's considered polite not to acknowledge all this, though, resulting in Cassias relaying a message to Eithan that everyone knows Eithan heard. Ozriel, the founding patriarch of the Aurelius clan, seems to have senses that cover the entire multiverse. Even the other Abidan only refer to him as him most of the time so as to avoid his notice.
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Cradle Series / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Cradle Series / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: Cradle is filled with them, but notable among them are the older Dragons who can reach miles in length and the Bleeding Phoenix, which is so large it eclipses cities.
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Cradle Series / int_69ed963a	type	Not So Omniscient After All
Cradle Series / int_69ed963a	comment	Not So Omniscient After All: Eithan's powerful bloodline ability, combined with his spy network (which has plenty of people with a lesser version of the same ability), means that he is almost never blindsided in any situation. When he is, the results are always extremely dangerous. The Jai Patriarch manages to trick him with a magic item that resurrects him a single time, with a bound Remnant to fake his death. This almost causes the destruction of the Blackflame Empire, as Jai is desperate enough to gather a forbidden treasure that accidentally awakens a Dreadgod.
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Cradle Series / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Cradle Series / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Subverted. Lindon is shown the future and actively improves himself to fight that fate. At the time, Suriel plots out his future, but does not anticipate him running into Eithan, nor Ozriel's own alterations to fate. The ability to read fate only shows the most likely outcomes, not what will happen, particularly if someone has hidden a branch of fate from others' view.
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Cradle Series / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Cradle Series / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: A Monarch engaging in combat is considered this. If they have to fight chances are that cities or large portions of the landscape will be destroyed in their wake. Especially because if a Monarch is fighting chances are it's going to be against another Monarch or a Dreadgod.
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Cradle Series / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Cradle Series / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: Eithan walks into the most secure Skysworn cells, including ones intended to contain someone exactly like him, multiple times without trouble. To make it even more annoying for the jailers, he brings along Yerin, Fisher Gesha, and a turtle the size of a car. He doesn't bother breaking out the prisoner, he just wants to make sure he has a chance to train while in prison. Lindon proves that he is Eithan's apprentice in Wintersteel by breaking through every security measure that the Nine Cloud Court puts in front of him to reach Yerin and Mercy. He does so again in Dreadgod by robbing the Monarchs.
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Cradle Series / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Cradle Series / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: In this world, one's Power Level generally is one's rank, which leads to this trope when someone can punch above their weight class. In the first couple of books, Lindon makes a habit of defeating opponents well above his official Power Level - Iron and Jade at Foundation, Highgold at Iron, and so on - through ruthless Combat Pragmatism. Later, he Ranks Up beyond this, until he starts punching even higher. Eithan is rated as the eleventh-strongest Underlord in the Blackflame Empire. He's sandbagging - he's the most powerful, but he doesn't like being too obvious about that. Discussed in Uncrowned. Eithan explains to Yerin that sometimes, the best way to increase one's fighting ability is not to rush the next level, but to build up one's skill at one's current level instead.
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Cradle Series / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Cradle Series / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The Blackflame trials have the family mottoes inscribed on tablets, which continue to be mentioned after the trials to illustrate the themes. "The dragon advances." The text for the Enforcer technique. The original intent was for attendants to protect the Blackflame while they completed the trial—Lindon and Yerin use it to mean to always keep moving forward, no matter what. In Uncrowned, Naian Blackflame asks that the phrase is related to Lindon as his last words. Later in Bloodline, Lindon's Overlord revelation is "I... advance." "The dragon destroys." The text for the Striker technique. The simplest (and thus the one that comes up the least after); it's all about blasting through your obstacles with pure, focused force. "The dragon conquers." The text for the Ruler technique. The point is that the dragon will win, no matter what. "The dragon descends." Lindon comes up with this on his own, for his secret Forger technique. Lindon is willing to use trickery, to fall to any level necessary to win.
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Cradle Series / int_766c1cc6	type	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?
Cradle Series / int_766c1cc6	comment	The Blackflame Path is the Path the previous masters of the Empire used, and it is looked down on for being exceedingly violent and dangerous to both the user and everyone around them. But as Eithan points out, it's not actually illegal, if only because no one is stupid enough to actually use it. Lindon's dual cores and Bloodforged Iron body make him even better suited for the Path than the original Blackflames. He ultimately gets arrested by the Skysworn, but there's little they can do since he hasn't broken any laws.
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Cradle Series / int_77e8d49d	type	Clingy MacGuffin
Cradle Series / int_77e8d49d	comment	Clingy MacGuffin: Suriel gives Lindon a small marble, a glass bead with an ever-burning blue flame inside. The marble will let her find Lindon again when she chooses to, and cannot be lost because it is tied to him with strings of Fate. Many times, he drops the marble, or it is taken from him, only for him to find it again in his pocket minutes later.
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Cradle Series / int_7836c43	type	Casting a Shadow
Cradle Series / int_7836c43	comment	Casting a Shadow: The basis for almost all of the Akura family's various paths.
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Cradle Series / int_784a71d0	type	Crime of Self-Defense
Cradle Series / int_784a71d0	comment	Crime of Self-Defense: Lindon spends most of the series weaker than basically everyone around him, and in this world, no one much cares if the weak are killed. So when someone decides to crush the annoying little insect instead of having a conversation, Lindon defends himself, often with lethal results. Multiple people demand duels of honor after he defended himself from an unprovoked attack. It doesn't help that he has a Face of a Thug, so everyone always assumes his genuine politeness is him mocking them.
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Cradle Series / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
Cradle Series / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: Almost everyone on the planet speaks the same language, to the point that it doesn't even need a name. Lindon, who lives in a secluded valley that has had absolutely minimal contact with the outside world for a thousand years, has no trouble communicating with outsiders. Eventually it's explained that Emeriss Silentborn, one of the Monarchs, wanders the world spreading language and making sure everyone can communicate. Lindon mentions that he's heard of other languages, but has never actually encountered any. When he finally meets people from the other side of the world they speak other languages or have extremely thick accents, but still can speak his language.
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Cradle Series / int_7cb1cbb5	type	Herd-Hitting Attack
Cradle Series / int_7cb1cbb5	comment	Herd-Hitting Attack: Ruler techniques make use of the vital aura of the world, ruling it and forcing it to the practitioner's purpose. These techniques have a wide Area of Effect and are powerful, but they often take time to set up (more if the right aspects of aura aren't around) and can be difficult.
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Cradle Series / int_7d294245	type	Caught the Heart on His Sleeve
Cradle Series / int_7d294245	comment	Caught the Heart on His Sleeve: Lindon does this with Yerin, and is embarrassed when he holds on for a little too long.
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Cradle Series / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Cradle Series / int_80621707	comment	Lindon and Akura Grace have a couple of scenes, culminating in her asking Akura Charity to propose an Arranged Marriage between Grace and Lindon.
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Cradle Series / int_80cd1f62	type	God of Evil
Cradle Series / int_80cd1f62	comment	God of Evil: The Dreadgods are four impossibly powerful beasts that exist for no other reason than to devour everything in the world. Every few centuries they wake up, and the Monarchs have to work together to derive them back. Just drive them back—killing them is absolutely impossible. One Dreadgod awakening is a regional catastrophe and generally dealt with by evacuating half a continent, but the last time all four woke up at once, the previous generation of Monarchs died defeating them. And of course they have legions of cultists worshiping them as an easy path to power, which usually involves draining everyone they meet. And then there's Subject One, sometimes called the fifth Dreadgod, but more precisely the source from which the Dreadgods sprang, and to which they seek to return.
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Cradle Series / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Cradle Series / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Launchers are a Magitek weapon that puts a Striker technique inside an object, basically making it a simple magical gun. They're not particularly popular, but Fisher Gesha discovers ways to have different techniques resonate and enhance each other, creating weapons capable of damaging enemies far above their power level. And of course, all the extra magic and bindings need a lot of space, resulting in massive magical cannons as big as the person using them.
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Cradle Series / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Cradle Series / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Subject One, the first Dreadgod, is a skeletally thin humanoid with six arms.
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Cradle Series / int_874c712f	type	Dug Too Deep
Cradle Series / int_874c712f	comment	Dug Too Deep: What the original empire of the Blackflame dragons did. They found the Labyrinth filled with treasures and left the doors open for years. This caused the Dreadgods to all converge upon the Blackflame Empire and lay waste to it. When they were finished, the Empire was a fraction of a fraction of its original size and strength. Now entering the Labyrinth is considered a last resort and requires the Monarch's approval to do so. Jai Daishou violates this restriction, and by going into the Labyrinth (along with interference from the Abidan) causes the Bleeding Phoenix to attack the Blackflame Empire.
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Cradle Series / int_881b90be	type	Bling of War
Cradle Series / int_881b90be	comment	Bling of War: How the Eight Man Empire is seen at all times. Their armor allows a combination of four Sages and four Heralds to exist as a collective Monarch by combining their powers. The armor is unquestionably impressive, even miraculous... but it's also unnecessarily shiny.
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Cradle Series / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Cradle Series / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: At every plateau of power, a sacred artist is practically undefeatable to anyone below them. Coppers can easily defeat Foundation artists, Irons can defeat Coppers, Jades can defeat Irons. There is a level above Jade, Gold, but there hasn't been a Gold in Sacred Valley in hundreds of years. And then Lindon finds out that the outside world considers Gold to be the first real level of the sacred arts—most people reach that level in their teens. On a political scale, the Sacred Valley is an unimportant backwater that the Blackflame Empire doesn't even know exists. And the Blackflame Empire itself is a minor tributary of the Akura clan, who don't bother governing their lands directly because their Monarch is as far above the Emperor as the Emperor is above the people of the Sacred Valley. She's one of the most powerful people in Cradle...a name given to their world by the Abidan, because it's where they keep their infants.
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Cradle Series / int_8a83cabc	type	Captured on Purpose
Cradle Series / int_8a83cabc	comment	Captured on Purpose: When the Sandvipers take Lindon and Yerin to be mining slaves in some extremely dangerous ruins, Eithan appears before the Sandvipers and begs to be enslaved "for his sins." They can tell there's some trick involved, but put a power-dampening collar on him and send him in with the others. Within five minutes, he's freed Lindon and Yerin, taken them to an even more dangerous section of the ruins, and locked Lindon in a room with monsters so he can train.
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Cradle Series / int_8bbcd5ce	type	Code of Honour
Cradle Series / int_8bbcd5ce	comment	Code of Honour: To a sacred artist, reputation and honor are everything. An artist keeps his word, respects and serves his clan or school, and honors those above him in rank. He also doesn't kill his juniors, but that's a much less important rule, so the weak had better treat the strong with respect. As Eithan explains, this system is the only thing keeping a world full of overpowered psychopaths from complete anarchy.
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Cradle Series / int_8cda3dc2	type	Flawed Prototype
Cradle Series / int_8cda3dc2	comment	Flawed Prototype: Before he ascended, the man who would become Ozriel created Penance, the greatest weapon of Cradle, an arrowhead which would unerringly kill one single target. However, it apparently took him quite a while to perfect it, so in all his labs scattered around the world you could always find a handful of prototypes. Most were used up long ago.
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Cradle Series / int_8ea9eb54	type	Black Swords Are Better
Cradle Series / int_8ea9eb54	comment	Black Swords Are Better: Netherclaw, the Archlord weapon that Yerin gets as a prize in the Uncrowned tournament, has a black blade. Yerin sometimes dual weilds it with her master's sword, which is white.
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Cradle Series / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
Cradle Series / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The Blackflame Path, a sacred art stolen from dragons, which was used to build an empire. In a world where Asskicking Leads to Leadership and everyone challenges everyone, no one challenges the Blackflame sacred artists. Not only is it focused on offense to an insane degree, but the flames are not designed for humans; they slowly eat away at mind and body, resulting in the imperial family slowly dying out without any outside intervention at all. When Eithan tells Cassias that he plans to train Lindon in this path, a normally calm Cassias screams at him, and the Skysworn arrest Lindon on general principle when they discover him.
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Cradle Series / int_8f8e7d2b	type	Spirit Cultivation Genre
Cradle Series / int_8f8e7d2b	comment	Spirit Cultivation Genre: Everyone has madra, meaning they practice cultivation to some extent. Lindon is the weakest in Sacred Valley due to being an Un-Sorcerer, but he is the one who discovers that his home is going to be destroyed in thirty years. He needs to become one of the strongest beings in the world in an impossibly short timeframe to stand a chance of saving everyone. It has many tropes straight from Cultivation, with most of the Chinese-ness stripped out.
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Cradle Series / int_8fdd68fc	type	Self-Serving Memory
Cradle Series / int_8fdd68fc	comment	Self-Serving Memory: Jai Long tells Gokren that Eithan distracted Kral long enough for Eithan's disciple to stab him in the back, and this was all unnecessary because if Eithan had just revealed his identity they would have given him whatever he wanted. What actually happened was Kral flippantly decided to murder Lindon (who was so far below Kral he could have been ignored completely), and attacked Eithan. Then, after Eithan decided not to kill them all out of spite (which would have been well within his rights), he did him the favor of warning him that Lindon wasn't dead. Kral died facing Lindon head-on, and Lindon won with luck and skill.
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Cradle Series / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Cradle Series / int_91cab736	comment	Akura Pride's is even more impressive as it makes him essentially immune to bleeding out. He demonstrates this by stabbing himself directly in the throat while staring directly at Lindon.
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Cradle Series / int_92587498	type	Five-Man Band
Cradle Series / int_92587498	comment	Five-Man Band: The Leader/ The Hero: Lindon. While Eithan is the team's teacher for most of the series, he increasingly puts Lindon into leadership positions. As of Reaper he's also the head of the Sect of Twin Stars. As the tallest and most visibly muscular member of the team he could also count as The Big Guy, particularly with his tendency to make huge Energy Weapons on the fly. The Lancer: Yerin. Red Oni to Lindon's Blue, she prefers to take the direct approach. As the physically strongest in the group she also has shades of The Big Guy even though she is smallest in stature. The Smart Guy: Eithan: Lindon and Yerin's teacher for most of the series, he seems to prefer directing things from the shadows while maintaining a weak, silly public persona. In addition to being a genius at everything, he is also The Omniscient. The Heart: Mercy. Generally cheerful nice girl who wants to be friends with everyone. She's one of the few sacred artists who's genuinely kind and respectful of everyone she meets, regardless of rank, but as the favored daughter of a Monarch she has been kept at a distance by everyone for most of her life. The Big Guy: Ziel. A big guy with green horns who wields a giant warhammer that's too heavy to lift without enforcing himself. He is also The Sixth Ranger, since he doesn't join the team until book 8, and is the scripting genius to Lindon's Soulsmith. Team Pet: Split between Blue, Orthos, and Dross.
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Cradle Series / int_95f4a369	type	Attack on One Is an Attack on All
Cradle Series / int_95f4a369	comment	Attack on One Is an Attack on All: How most clans and families operate. An offense against any member is expected to be responded to by the house as a whole. Retaliation will generally be appropriate to the strength of those who were attacking/attacked, but there will almost always be some sort of response. And as demonstrated in Soulsmith, "refused to be bullied" counts as an insult worthy of retaliation. This is why fighting the Dreadgods is considered a stalling measure at best, if someone were to damage one of them enough the others would become active and the damage would be incalculable. The last time a group of Monarchs attempted to do this it resulted in all but two of those Monarchs dying.
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Cradle Series / int_9657fe0f	type	Transformation Sequence
Cradle Series / int_9657fe0f	comment	Transformation Sequence: When the Reaper reveals himself, his hair grows out and changes color, he summons his armor and shadowy cloak from seemingly nowhere, and the entire world goes still and silent.
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Cradle Series / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Cradle Series / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: In Unsouled, Yerin explains that the Sword Sage was killed by being poisoned and then dogpiled in his sleep by every Jade in the Heaven's Glory school. Initially, it's presented as a measure of how powerful he is that he still managed to kill half the attackers. Later, as we find out more about the relative power levels, it becomes obvious that not only should they not have been able to kill him, they should not have been able to disturb his sleep. Turns out the Valley-wide suppression field is to blame.
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Cradle Series / int_9885d4ab	type	Min-Maxing
Cradle Series / int_9885d4ab	comment	Min-Maxing: Really good mentors (especially Eithan) will pick combinations of Path and Iron Body for their students that give them the greatest possible power, taking into account their students' other abilities. In particular, this is used for the Removed Achilles' Heel, as the Iron Body can mitigate the weaknesses of the Path. Also, the Blackflame path is one of almost pure destructive power, but Lindon's Path of Twin Stars means he can employ two Paths at once, meaning that he has a wider array of abilities through his second core (a pure madra path).
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Cradle Series / int_9a3c3d17	type	The Omniscient
Cradle Series / int_9a3c3d17	comment	The Omniscient: The Signature Move of the Arelius family involves spreading out a wide net of madra that lets you sense absolutely everything in range. At minimum this is a dozen feet, but Eithan can cover at least a small city. It's considered polite not to acknowledge all this, though, resulting in Cassias relaying a message to Eithan that everyone knows Eithan heard. Ozriel, the founding patriarch of the Aurelius clan, seems to have senses that cover the entire multiverse. Even the other Abidan only refer to him as him most of the time so as to avoid his notice. All Monarchs can sense when their names are spoken allowed, and can extend their spiritual senses over the entire world.
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Cradle Series / int_9a99d3df	type	Stealth Mentor
Cradle Series / int_9a99d3df	comment	Stealth Mentor: Akura Charity is annoyed at Lindon for letting her nephew die, but is not so petty as to kill him. Instead, she finds some extremely powerful people and has them fight him, knowing that this will improve his own advancement and make him more useful to her in the future. Even Mercy, who understands Charity's plans and how she works, finds this a bit cruel.
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Cradle Series / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Cradle Series / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: The Sacred Valley tests children to determine their affinity for sacred arts, and then they train only in those types of arts their entire lives. Yerin says she'd like to kill all the elders in the Valley for that garbage. In the outside world, you're considered a child if you haven't mastered techniques from all the types. In Bloodline, Elder Whisper explains that this started as an attempt to get around the suppression field by teaching children one technique at a time. Over the generations, everyone forgot that it was normal to learn more than one technique. The Blackflame royal family cultivated Iron bodies that would improve the already incredible offensive power of the Blackflame Path. This backfired as the flames ate away at their minds and bodies; in a world where a normal sacred artist can still be in fighting shape at age one hundred, they were practically paralyzed at age sixty. Part of the reason Eithan gives Lindon an Iron body with such an overpowered Healing Factor is to handle Blackflame. Pure madra is excellent at disrupting other forms of madra... but can't be used for anything else, which is why almost no adults still have Pure madra.
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Cradle Series / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Cradle Series / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The entire plot is driven by the antagonism of Mad King Daruman, who isn't even mentioned until Wintersteel, more than halfway through the series. The one time any of the main cast encounter him in person, every single person on Cradle, up to and including the near-omnipotent Monarchs, immediately concludes that death is inevitable. Except for Eithan.
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Cradle Series / int_9b76b81	type	Evolutionary Levels
Cradle Series / int_9b76b81	comment	Evolutionary Levels: Sacred Beasts have this in regards to their advancement levels. When they get to Underlord they have to decide what form to take. Some decide to just become insanely large and others decide to change their appearance to that of another species. The Dragon King is notable for taking on the appearance of a human child of maybe twelve years old and staying that way for hundreds of years.
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Cradle Series / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Cradle Series / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: In Unsouled Lindon can barely take on eight-year-olds at sixteen. By the time he's twenty, he starts taking on opponents who are millennia older than him.
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Cradle Series / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Cradle Series / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At the end of some books, there are "Reports" generated explaining some current events Lindon may not be aware of, giving some insight on other characters, and documenting probability results of charaters' actions. They are revealed to be Reports that Suriel's Presence is creating, giving her periodic updates about how Lindon is doing. Later on, Lindon finds Dross, and his ability to generate Reports is the first clue that he's an Abidan style Presence. The fact that a Sage was able to be killed by a bunch of Jades foreshadows the eventual reveal that Sacred Valley is under a suppression field that keeps everyone at Jade level. Yerin spends the entire series carrying her master's sword, an Archlord-level weapon. She mentions off-hand at one point that if she had a weapon "with a binding I could use," she'd be much more powerful. In the fight against Lindon, she is able to briefly use the sword's binding. Mercy is noted to be impossibly clumsy; anyone with an Iron body should have nearly perfect balance, but she trips over her own feet on a regular basis. This is one of the first hints that she has artificially been sealed at a lower power level. Fury and Charity reference something that the children will learn when they reach Archlord, and Emriss Silentborn was murdered in her first life for trying to share knowledge. There's a Dark Secret that everyone figures out eventually, and is sworn to secrecy. During Eithan and Reigan Shen's conversation in Wintersteel, there are a couple of mentions of killing Dreadgods and Shen ascending. One in particular is Eithan mentioning that Shen's plan, ostensibly to kill the Dreadgods, won't work unless Shen ascends. So much of Eithan foreshadows various reveals in Reaper. In Suriel's visions for Lindon in Unsouled, Eithan is nowhere to be seen, despite being the main catalyst and financier for Yerin and Lindon's training. In the Report generated at the end of Blackflame regarding Lindon's future, the Presence giving the Report notes that there are severe deviations in Lindon's fate, and that the Reports aren't accurate anymore. That's because Eithan is the deviating factor. His stolen cloak, as well as his own power, means he's got some immunity from Fate (and thus the predictions of Suriel's Presence). One Abidan Judge changing one kid's fate won't affect the fate of Cradle, even if Lindon ascends. Two Abidan Judges making changes, one of which is the most powerful of all the Judges, and who is specifically angling to eliminate the Dreadgods, however. . . He immediately realizes the significance of Suriel's marble, making him even more interested in Lindon. The first twist is that he has his own marble. It's been in the Aurelius family for generations, passed down from their ascended patriarch, Ozmanthus. The second twist is that he wasn't given it by Ozmanthus, he is Ozmanthus and made it for his family to inherit, then took it back when he started masquerading as his own mortal descendant. In his first appearance, he is looking for Yerin specifically, "or someone like her," and is well aware of who her master was. Eventually it is revealed that Tiberian Arelius is the one who gave the Sword Sage the key to the Labyrinth, likely at Eithan's suggestion. Every single time he seriously demonstrates his strength, he is far more skilled than anyone of his advancement should be. Several people demand to know what he is, but he waves it off as focusing more on skills than advancement. While that's true, it's also a sign that he's already gone through all the levels before, and thus knows far more about the Sacred Arts than anyone else still on Cradle, although it's suggested that he was like that in his first life as well. He is shocked when he thought he killed someone but was actually tricked. "That hasn't happened since—no, it's never happened!" In addition to being the Reaper (and thus very, very skilled at killing people), he's using pure madra instead of the destruction madra from his first life, in addition to the Death Icon. He isn't quite used to how much weaker he is now than he was the first time around, and thus was genuinely tricked. He calls himself the greatest janitor in all existence. He's not just talking about Cradle. The Reaper cleaned the universe itself.
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Cradle Series / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Cradle Series / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: When a sacred artist reaches Iron level, not only does their strength and toughness greatly increase, but so does their healing. While in the Sacred Valley they considered every Iron body the same as every other, outside they know how to create improved and specialized Iron bodies that will making it easier to reach higher levels (it's one of the reasons the Sacred Valley's progression is so slow). The Sandvipers use the Bloodforged Iron body, which grants improved healing, by taking a single prick of sandviper venom and drinking a thimble of sandviper blood. Eithan gives Lindon a Bloodforged Iron body by having four sandvipers bite him directly and then drink all their blood. Lindon's body is ridiculously overpowered, to the point that he has trouble keeping up with it at first due to his small madra supply. Yerin has the Steelborn Iron body, which is supposed to be the best in the world for pure strength. It basically lets her body Enforce itself, which is important because the Path of the Endless Sword is terrible at full-body Enforcement. Eithan has the Raindrop Iron body, which is said to enhance reflexes to the point that one can weave between raindrops (he immediately notes that it's an exaggeration). He got it by... playing games. Catching birds, running as fast as he could, hitting balls with sticks, that sort of thing. The two people who were just discussing the Training from Hell Iron bodies require glare at him. Between Uncrowned and Wintersteel, Orthos goes through the lengthy process of removing Wei Shi Kelsa's old malformed Iron body and replacing it with one that will best fit her path. Not too much detail is given on the Skyhunter Iron body, but it has something to do with tracking objects in flight or seeing through illusions.
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Cradle Series / int_9d94e410	type	Working Out Their Emotions
Cradle Series / int_9d94e410	comment	Working Out Their Emotions: Yerin's done basically nothing but fight and train since the Sword Sage took her in at the age of seven. As a result pretty much the only response she has to strong emotions is "train, preferably by killing something." She does develop emotionally as the series goes on, but when she's confused and doesn't know what else to do, she still tends to default to training.
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Cradle Series / int_9e64cd1f	type	Caught in the Rain
Cradle Series / int_9e64cd1f	comment	Caught in the Rain: A Ship Tease moment between Lindon and Yerin, where they take shelter in a cave. They have a heart-to-heart talk and lean on each other as they watch the rain together.
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Cradle Series / int_9ffbadef	type	Fantastic Naming Convention
Cradle Series / int_9ffbadef	comment	Fantastic Naming Convention: The first is what the Sacred Valley uses: [clan] [family] [given]. So Wei Shi Lindon is Lindon of the Shi family of the Wei clan. The Blackflame Empire, where most of the story takes place, uses [clan] [given], so Jai Long is Long of the Jai clan. Some clans always use their clan names and given names together (even Jai Long's sister calls him Jai Long), but the Akura clan that rules most of the continent typically just uses their given name in casual conversation; Akura Mercy is almost exclusively just called Mercy. Akura are almost exclusively named after virtues, with the occasional vice thrown in (Mercy has a brother named Pride, and the matriarch is named Malice). Although, from the Akura clan's perspective, they're all virtues. The Arelius clan uses a [given] [clan] format, so Eithan Arelius is Eithan of the Arelius clan. While they are well-established in the Blackflame Empire, they're foreigners from another continent where that is the normal naming format. It also makes it convenient when they want to adopt promising young people into the family, as they can just slap their clan name on the end. Lindon becomes Wei Shi Lindon Arelius when he joins the family.
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Cradle Series / int_a2c7a31	type	Internal Reformist
Cradle Series / int_a2c7a31	comment	Internal Reformist: Akura Mercy's family is one of the strongest on the continent, but she hates how they bow and scrape to everyone above them while demanding everyone below them do the same to them. She decided she would become the most powerful in her family so that she could change that. Her plan got derailed a bit when she had her Underlord revelation and realized that the real reason she learns the sacred arts is just so that her mother will be proud of her. In Wintersteel, Lindon encounters a black dragon Underlord who from his memories was a vocal opponent of the Dragon King's directive to destroy the empires of humanity and had adopted many human children to protect them from other dragons. Lindon awkwardly assures himself that the dragon will recover. Ozriel is searching for a way to stop the spread of corruption on worlds before they are dead and need to be utterly destroyed by him, but unfortunately the Abidan in general would much rather purge those corrupted worlds from The Way because A Million Is a Statistic.
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Cradle Series / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
Cradle Series / int_a414c3f0	comment	One-Hit Kill: Essentially what the Abidan weapon Penance is, which makes sense as it was created by Ozriel, the Abidan's Reaper. In Wintersteel Yerin uses it to instantly kill a Monarch who is orders of magnitude more powerful than she is. The amount of power she had in that moment terrifies her.
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Cradle Series / int_a5e5c6d0	type	Aura Vision
Cradle Series / int_a5e5c6d0	comment	Aura Vision: What everyone in Cradle obtains when they reach the Copper cultivation level, referred to as Copper sight.
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Cradle Series / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Cradle Series / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Even the lowest of sacred artists can improve their healing ability by cycling madra through their body, but it gets really impressive at the Iron level. At that point, anything that doesn't kill you can be healed—and it takes a lot to kill you. Eithan intentionally gives Lindon an overpowered Bloodforged Iron body, which has an even higher healing factor, to the point that he can be back at full capacity after a near-lethal wound in a matter of hours. Akura Pride's is even more impressive as it makes him essentially immune to bleeding out. He demonstrates this by stabbing himself directly in the throat while staring directly at Lindon.
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Cradle Series / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Cradle Series / int_a60f7120	comment	What all of Ghostwater is, created by the Monarch Northstrider as a research facility. He abandoned it when it apparently failed, but it is still picked over every once and awhile because "The trash of a Monarch is still the treasure of lesser beings." Thanks to The Bleeding Phoenix waking up and destroying Ghostwater's anchor to Cradle, it slowly falls apart.
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Cradle Series / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
Cradle Series / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: Yerin inherits her master's sword, which has a pure white blade made of wintersteel. It has a binding, but since it's an Archlord weapon she can't activate it. At least until she gets strong enough, and reveals that its binding is an Ice ruler technique.
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Cradle Series / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Cradle Series / int_a62dca03	comment	In Dreadgod, Lindon and Yaren steal an incomplete pocket world from Reigan Shen to make a Year Inside, Hour Outside training space for the rest of the team before the Final Battle.
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Cradle Series / int_a6e375d4	type	Armor of Invincibility
Cradle Series / int_a6e375d4	comment	Armor of Invincibility: Armor in Cradle usually comes packed with constructs and different abilities that use the wearers Madra to fuel them, but it still can be completely negated by a powerful enough opponent. Sort of played straight in Wintersteel with Lindon's Powered Armor; it makes him monstrously powerful, but the financial cost to fix it each time is such that he would rather just get stronger. The Akura family has a type of armor from their bloodline. For those who have it, it forms an integral part of their Path. Interestingly, it's noted several times that the armor is completely indestructible—attacking the armor instead puts spiritual pressure on the user, eventually causing them to drop it. Abidan armor is so invincible that most Abidan don't wear helmets. The only weapons that work on them are ones that work on a conceptual level.
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Cradle Series / int_a96c2803	type	Space Master
Cradle Series / int_a96c2803	comment	Northstrider creates another one of these as a reward for Yerin's advancement in the Uncrowned King Tournament. This one only lasts a day, but thanks to Year Inside, Hour Outside, they get thirty-six days inside of it.
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Cradle Series / int_aabdf2c6	type	Tyke-Bomb
Cradle Series / int_aabdf2c6	comment	Tyke Bomb: How many of the established powers regard Lindon and Yerin. Most people take decades if not centuries reaching the level of power that they have attained by Wintersteel.
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Cradle Series / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Cradle Series / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: After his Screw This, I'm Outta Here Jai Long thinks to himself that he will never see Lindon again, since he and his sister intend to find and retreat to a legendary hidden valley. Unbeknownst to Jai Long, said valley is where Lindon grew up.
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Cradle Series / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Cradle Series / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: One-Word Title style: Unsouled, Soulsmith, Blackflame, Skysworn, Ghostwater, Underlord, Uncrowned, Wintersteel, Bloodline, Reaper, Dreadgod, and Waybound.
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Cradle Series / int_af682bc7	type	Heavenly Blue
Cradle Series / int_af682bc7	comment	Heavenly Blue: The Way Between Worlds is described as a textured river of blue, and is both the source of power and the medium through which Abidan (and people with Sage Authority or higher) can teleport between or on Iterations. It connects all healthy Iterations like a tree. Suriel in particular has huge blue fiery wings and gives Lindon a marble containing a blue flame of Restoration.
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Cradle Series / int_b10d7e8e	type	Head-in-the-Sand Management
Cradle Series / int_b10d7e8e	comment	Head-in-the-Sand Management: When Lindon returns to Sacred Valley to evacuate the residents, the local clans and Schools have...mixed reactions. Many either try to bunker down instead of run, or assume Lindon is lying to them as part of some scheme. Even Mercy is forced to use an Appeal to Force to get one clan moving.
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Cradle Series / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Cradle Series / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: When Elder Whitehall says that the new disciples of the Heaven's Glory school could use "any means at their disposal" to complete the Trial of Glorious Ascension, he didn't mean that Lindon should con his way into getting a ride in a carriage. Elder Rahm, on the other hand, clearly realizes Lindon cheated and is fine with it. The Blackflame Path is the Path the previous masters of the Empire used, and it is looked down on for being exceedingly violent and dangerous to both the user and everyone around them. But as Eithan points out, it's not actually illegal, if only because no one is stupid enough to actually use it. Lindon's dual cores and Bloodforged Iron body make him even better suited for the Path than the original Blackflames. He ultimately gets arrested by the Skysworn, but there's little they can do since he hasn't broken any laws. There is an ancient conspiracy of silence regarding the nature of the Dreadgods, enforced by magical oaths. The Sage of Red Faith is able to get around this by virtue of having outlived everyone he swore an oath of silence to — magical oaths here are only binding as long as both parties to the oath are alive.
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Cradle Series / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
Cradle Series / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: While Lindon and Yerin do not exclusively fit into these roles, they do have a preference for a they solve problems. Yerin is all about going all in a fight, and Lindon is about preparation and trying to think of a clever way to win.
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Cradle Series / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Cradle Series / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Due to the constant use of Asskicking Leads to Leadership, the vast majority of sacred artists are bullies who will do anything to get ahead, and then call an honor duel when someone else does the same thing to them. Lindon has, on multiple occasions, been called an honorless dog for the crime of not dying when someone much more powerful randomly attacked him.
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Cradle Series / int_b55698cd	type	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond
Cradle Series / int_b55698cd	comment	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: By Blackflame Empire standards, Jai Long is powerful (one in ten thousand) but not particularly special. However, by Sacred Valley standards, he's a warrior of legendary strength and skill. He hopes to exploit this by moving to Sacred Valley when he wants to retire from the sacred arts, though it doesn't work out that way. Most Monarchs stay in Cradle because if they left they would be fairly average compared to the Abidan.
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Cradle Series / int_b7059ab0	type	Dungeon Crawling
Cradle Series / int_b7059ab0	comment	Dungeon Crawling: Rooms connected by tunnels? Check. Random traps? Check. Random monsters? Check. Treasures, both hidden and visible? Check. Powerful rewards in the deeps? Check. Most of Reaper is a dungeon crawl as the team explores the Labyrinth
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Cradle Series / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
Cradle Series / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: Lindon is placed in a great many of these by the Skysworn to await his upcoming duel with Jai Long. Notably Eithan keeps breaking into them with apparent ease, so the Skysworn keep moving Lindon till they finally just give up after even their most secure facility is breached.
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Cradle Series / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
Cradle Series / int_bb03c099	comment	Cool Gate: One of the many means of travel on Cradle. They are massively inefficient in terms of power consumption, and only Sages and Monarchs can make them, so they're used sparingly. The one from Eithan's homeland to the Blackflame Empire only opens once every ten years. One is set up as a method of escape for the Akura forces in Wintersteel in the event that their fighters lose the Uncrowned King tournament. It ends up being used as a method of evacuation anyway when a four-way fight between a Monarch and three Heralds begins.
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Cradle Series / int_bb5e187b	type	Captured Super-Entity
Cradle Series / int_bb5e187b	comment	Captured Super-Entity: Subject One, the first Dreadgod, is traped in the Labrynth where he was created. Somewhat subverted in that he was created there and then never allowed to leave.
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Cradle Series / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Cradle Series / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Once someone on Cradle reaches a sufficient power level (specifically Herald or Sage, either of which is the stage before Monarch), they can choose to ascend from their world and join the wider cosmos. In fact, this is possible on any world, but Cradle's magic system greatly encourages personal strength, so it happens with far more frequency. Most Iterations will be lucky to produce one ascendant being through their entire lifetime, but Cradle produces roughly one every century. Hence one reason why the Abidan named it "Cradle." The Monarchs have all refused to ascend, and therefore are looked down on by the Abidan like teenagers throwing a tantrum. In book Reaper, we find out that it's more than that. The Monarchs are, in fact, fully ascendant beings who absolutely should not be on the planet any more. The world is constantly trying to push them out, and their mere presence creates the Hunger aura that creates the Dreadbeasts and the Dreadgods.
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Cradle Series / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Cradle Series / int_beb9a361	comment	In Bloodline, however, Jai Long, who has spent the last couple of years in Sacred Valley's suppression field, assumes that Lindon is still Gold like he is. He is shocked when he realizes that Lindon is an Underlord, and doesn't believe that he's a Sage until he witnesses his Sage Authority in action.
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Cradle Series / int_c06bdf26	type	Cannibalism Superpower
Cradle Series / int_c06bdf26	comment	Averted; when Lindon has a duel with a Highgold in a year's time, Eithan promises him that with training, he'll have a good chance of defeating a Highgold by then. After Lindon leaves, Yerin notes that Eithan didn't mention his opponent won't be a Highgold by the time of their duel, since he just got his hands on a weapon that gives him a Cannibalism Superpower.
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Cradle Series / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Cradle Series / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Lindon is shockingly kind and compassionate considering his upbringing, constantly worried about slaves and workers who are getting hurt by the titanic events he's involved in. His entire reason for leaving Sacred Valley is so that he can save it from a coming cataclysm, despite the fact that no one in the Valley except maybe his family cares for him in the slightest. Eithan also dislikes the constant dog-eat-dog nature of the world, where the strong bully the weak and everyone tries to fight everyone else. He repeatedly forgives major slights to his honor that he could have used as excuses to execute his enemies, and often uses his omniscience to make minor corrections to make people happier (such as moving a ladder half an inch so that it won't fall). Akura Fury is similar to Eithan, in that as long as someone is trying their best at whatever they're doing he will treat them with the utmost respect. His opinion of Eithan dips in a major way after Eithan takes a dive in the Uncrowned King Tournament.
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Cradle Series / int_c58de9b	type	Supernatural Martial Arts
Cradle Series / int_c58de9b	comment	Supernatural Martial Arts: Absolutely everyone trains in the sacred arts to some extent, which result in incredible powers of attack and defense, a supernaturally powerful body, and even utility abilities like Forging items out of thin air. This has, unfortunately, resulted in a culture obsessed with strength, where little matters besides how good you are at fighting.
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Cradle Series / int_c7950d47	type	Never Be Hurt Again
Cradle Series / int_c7950d47	comment	Never Be Hurt Again: Advancing to Underlord requires a revelation about why you practice the sacred arts in the first place. Lindon's revelation is that he hated being the weakest, most useless person in Sacred Valley, and never wants to feel that way again. Yerin's revelation is that she hates losing people close to her.
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Cradle Series / int_c85adb75	type	Semantic Superpower
Cradle Series / int_c85adb75	comment	Semantic Superpower: The defining trait of a Sage is connecting to an Icon, an abstract concept which gives the Sage Authority over the scope of that Icon. Their ability to reality warp is limited by the nature of the Icon or Icons they can access. For instance, the Winter Sage has an Icon that relates to freezing and cold, and the Blood Sage can control blood, for good or ill. A powerful sage can use the concept creatively to achieve various effects, such as using the Void Icon to empty a shelf of a cup to move it to another place, or to heal someone by ordering their wounds to stop existing.
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Cradle Series / int_cc8109ab	type	Mistaken for Romance
Cradle Series / int_cc8109ab	comment	Lindon gets the tiniest dash with several other Akura women. Not only does Pride mistakenly think that Lindon and Mercy are dating, but Mercy is notably horrified at the thought of Lindon specifically seeing her shamed. Lindon and Charity grow to have a healthy respect for each other over their association, and she gives him permission to call her by name after he becomes a Sage. And then there's Malice, who shamelessly flirts with Lindon every time she sees him. Lindon is unnerved by Malice's attention.
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Cradle Series / int_cdb45c07	type	No Sense of Personal Space
Cradle Series / int_cdb45c07	comment	No Sense of Personal Space: Eithan loves insert himself into conversations by basically resting his head on the shoulder of whoever's talking. Ruby is basically plastered to Lindon's side for the two chapters they're together in Wintersteel and this seems to have carried over to Yerin after her and Ruby's Fusion Dance.
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Cradle Series / int_d0a09849	type	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence
Cradle Series / int_d0a09849	comment	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Lindon finds himself on the receiving end of this a lot. First off, as an Unsouled, in his home he is considered completely worthless and could be murdered by anyone at any time with no fear of reprisal. In the first book, some teenagers blame him for ruining their (illegal) hunt because he happened to be nearby, he is blamed for winning two different impossible fights that he was forced into, and is challenged to a duel because Lindon survived a trial while someone else didn't. Lindon wasn't even nearby, but he still gets blamed. This tapers off once he leaves Sacred Valley since outside he is merely seen as weak rather than an abomination, but stronger people repeatedly call him an honorless coward for not dying when they decide to attack him for whatever reason.
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Cradle Series / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Cradle Series / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Most people on the Ashwind Continent have black hair, so when Lindon first encounters Eithan, he assumes the latter's long yellow locks are his Goldsign. In reality, he's just naturally blond.
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Cradle Series / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Cradle Series / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: Standard practice for all sacred artists. The Sword Sage trapped Yerin in a ring of razor-sharp swords so close that every time she breathed she cut herself, and Eithan locks Lindon in a room with monsters for two weeks. Lindon isn't much better himself, constantly pushing himself even farther and doing the equivalent of training with weights on his arms.
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Cradle Series / int_d72b5003	type	Technicolor Fire
Cradle Series / int_d72b5003	comment	Suriel in particular has huge blue fiery wings and gives Lindon a marble containing a blue flame of Restoration.
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Cradle Series / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Cradle Series / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Most Sages are known only by their title, such as "Sage of a Thousand Eyes" or "Sage of the Winter Heart." Despite the Sword Sage being introduced (posthumously) during the first book, we don't learn his first name until most of the way through the seventh book, and his full name isn't revealed until the eighth. The Blood Sage/Sage of Red Faith may have forgotten his own name.
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Cradle Series / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Cradle Series / int_d88e125e	comment	Sacred Beasts that reach a certain level of advancement gain this ability. Xorrus of the Gold Dragons is seen both in the form of a young beautiful woman and a mile long dragon.
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Cradle Series / int_d89e305a	type	Area of Effect
Cradle Series / int_d89e305a	comment	"The dragon conquers." The text for the Ruler technique. The point is that the dragon will win, no matter what.
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Cradle Series / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Cradle Series / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Even before they officially become a couple, Lindon and Yerin fight like this.
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Cradle Series / int_db452de7	type	Flying on a Cloud
Cradle Series / int_db452de7	comment	Flying on a Cloud: The primary method of transportation is the Thousand-Mile Cloud, a relatively simple construct that is basically cloud madra scripted to hold its shape. The rider feeds it madra, and it travels. Small clouds are only big enough for two people, but cloud ships carry a building or two, and the Skysworn headquarters is an entire city on a massive cloud fortress.
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Cradle Series / int_dbfc51e	type	MagicMissile
Cradle Series / int_dbfc51e	comment	"The dragon destroys." The text for the Striker technique. The simplest (and thus the one that comes up the least after); it's all about blasting through your obstacles with pure, focused force.
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Cradle Series / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Cradle Series / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: The most powerful someone can become before ascending to a higher world is Monarchs, but those who stay tend to have something "wrong" with them, in that they tend to be the type of person who likes ruling over lesser beings. With some this edges toward With Great Power Comes Great Insanity.
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Cradle Series / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Cradle Series / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Elder Rahm of the Heaven's Glory school is perfectly happy to have Lindon as a student despite him being an Unsouled, makes it clear he knows Lindon cheated his way in but praises him anyway, and offers him a small but honorable job helping to maintain the smallest treasure vault. Lindon feels guilty that he has to rob him on the way out, and asks Yerin not to kill him. Later subverted in Bloodline, when he stubbornly refuses to believe that Sacred Valley is about to be destroyed because the news comes from Lindon. Eithan is the highest ranking sacred artist around for quite a long time, but avoids exerting his authority as much as possible. He forgives slights to his honor, gives Lindon and Yerin plenty of instruction, and treats his subordinates well. He claims that his only goal is to have people who can walk his Path beside him. Blackflame Emperor Naru Huan treats his subjects fairly and listens to their ideas. He wants what is best for his people.
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Cradle Series / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Cradle Series / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Lindon and Yerin have a lot over the series, mostly of the subtle kind. Early on she makes an unbreakable vow to help him, but that quickly gets ignored when she goes above and beyond the call of duty. When they are separated in Ghostwater they are both extremely uncomfortable, not just because they are worried about each other but simply because they don't like being apart. And in Underlord Yerin says she wants to go back to Sacred Valley with him one day and meet his parents. Lindon and Jai Chen get a bit. Not only does he heal her fractured soul, but it's implied that in the original timeline where Lindon did not leave Sacred Valley, she was the woman who he would eventually marry. Suriel even notes the oddity that they ended up crossing paths after the major Fate change. Lindon and Akura Grace have a couple of scenes, culminating in her asking Akura Charity to propose an Arranged Marriage between Grace and Lindon. Lindon gets the tiniest dash with several other Akura women. Not only does Pride mistakenly think that Lindon and Mercy are dating, but Mercy is notably horrified at the thought of Lindon specifically seeing her shamed. Lindon and Charity grow to have a healthy respect for each other over their association, and she gives him permission to call her by name after he becomes a Sage. And then there's Malice, who shamelessly flirts with Lindon every time she sees him. Lindon is unnerved by Malice's attention.
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Cradle Series / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Cradle Series / int_dd082289	comment	Ozriel is searching for a way to stop the spread of corruption on worlds before they are dead and need to be utterly destroyed by him, but unfortunately the Abidan in general would much rather purge those corrupted worlds from The Way because A Million Is a Statistic.
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Cradle Series / int_dd963bd3	type	Our Giants Are Bigger
Cradle Series / int_dd963bd3	comment	Orthos doesn't look like a human when he finally does advance to Underlord, instead he grows to the size of a baby Dreadgod, but since that form is too large to travel easily he then shapeshifts again to the size of a normal baby turtle.
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Cradle Series / int_df1cea7e	type	Evil Tainted the Place
Cradle Series / int_df1cea7e	comment	Much of the overall plot of the series centers around a mysterious cursed ancient labyrinthine laboratory that has entrances all over the world, and the researchers' creations.
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Cradle Series / int_e542b0f5	type	Geas
Cradle Series / int_e542b0f5	comment	There is an ancient conspiracy of silence regarding the nature of the Dreadgods, enforced by magical oaths. The Sage of Red Faith is able to get around this by virtue of having outlived everyone he swore an oath of silence to — magical oaths here are only binding as long as both parties to the oath are alive.
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Cradle Series / int_e5455dac	type	Mana
Cradle Series / int_e5455dac	comment	Mana: "Madra" is the energy sacred artists use for everything, from the flashiest techniques to basic body reinforcement. It is made by cycling "aura," the natural energy of the world, through their bodies in specialized breathing exercises.
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Cradle Series / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Cradle Series / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: To reach Sage, a person must spend years honing their willpower, meaning that every character who has reached that stage is a determinator. Lindon brings it to another level though.
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Cradle Series / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Cradle Series / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Seishen Daji. No one in or outside of the books likes him. He seemingly only exists to be an angry jerk and even his more understandable traits, like wanting vengeance on Lindon for his brother Kiro, is tinged with the knowledge that he more wants to just show that he's better than Kiro.
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Cradle Series / int_e7bfbb3b	type	Clingy Costume
Cradle Series / int_e7bfbb3b	comment	Clingy Costume: When she is introduced, Yerin wears a bloody red "rope" around her waist that can't be taken off and always appears on top of whatever else she's wearing.
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Cradle Series / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Cradle Series / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Reaper Eithan wears the same outfit for three days straight, and since he usually changes clothes at least twice per day, Lindon worries that he might be dying. He also rarely drops his smile.
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Cradle Series / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Cradle Series / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Yerin. She didn't have a chance to learn as a child, and once she joined the Sword Sage he didn't consider it important to teach her. At first she seems a little embarrassed when she tells Lindon about it, but later she jokes about it. Notably, she does have at least some basic understanding of scripts, something that is immediately relevant to being a sacred artist. In Wintersteel the Winter Sage is appalled at this and declares that she will teach her. In Dreadgod, Yerin mentions that she didn't make much progress until Lindon took over the teaching, because she found his lessons more fun.
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Cradle Series / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Cradle Series / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Lindon finds the Akura trapped by dragons in a mockery of the Uncrowned King tournament, forced to fight for their amusement. Lindon, identifying it as a game, proposes a prize: The winner gets to take everything the loser has on them when they enter the ring. His opponent, of course, removes all her most valuable treasures before stepping into the ring. He consumes her lifeline and madra. For some reason, they aren't willing to play after that. The instructions for the Trial of Glorious Ascension are to reach the top of a staircase up a mountain by "whatever means you have at your disposal". Lindon tricks someone into giving him a ride in a supply wagon. The enslaved remnant of Tiberian Arelius uses malicious compliance whenever he can. When ordered not to hold back, he uses his most powerful attack, but out of synch with the rest of the assault. Averted with most soul oaths, which force the person to adhere to the spirit of the oath, not its exact words.
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Cradle Series / int_ebaf3065	type	Powers Do the Fighting
Cradle Series / int_ebaf3065	comment	Powers Do the Fighting: Present in some paths, very evident in certain types of Blood and Shadow paths. Part of Yan Shoumei's problem with her path is that she is so reliant on her Blood Shadow to fight for her, when it goes down she has to quickly retreat.
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Cradle Series / int_ed53e31f	type	Summon Everyman Hero
Cradle Series / int_ed53e31f	comment	Summon Everyman Hero: Parodied near the end of Waybound. With the worlds within the Way collapsing, there's a lot of worlds summoning heroes to save them. Instead of some random schmuck like your average isekai, they get Yerin, Mercy and Ziel, who are all new-minted Abidan who've just taken their first steps past Monarch level. The only thing that slows them down is deciding how to solve the various problems, since any Evil Overlord they'd have to face is like an insect beneath their boots.
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Cradle Series / int_ee045685	type	Council of Angels
Cradle Series / int_ee045685	comment	Council of Angels: The Abidan, combined with Space Police. Lesser beings on the many Iterations call them Messengers of the Heavens, and their primary antagonist is the Mad King.
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Cradle Series / int_f020c621	type	Cast From Stamina
Cradle Series / int_f020c621	comment	Armor in Cradle usually comes packed with constructs and different abilities that use the wearers Madra to fuel them, but it still can be completely negated by a powerful enough opponent. Sort of played straight in Wintersteel with Lindon's Powered Armor; it makes him monstrously powerful, but the financial cost to fix it each time is such that he would rather just get stronger.
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Cradle Series / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Cradle Series / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Cradle culture is built around a constant battle for power, with the strong doing as they like with the weak. Partly because of this, almost nobody ever understands that Lindon generally doesn't want to fight or kill people, leading to the pointless deaths of a lot of people who should have known when to leave well enough alone.
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Cradle Series / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Cradle Series / int_f909b16b	comment	Sages and Heralds are half-ascendant beings. Monarchs are fully ascendant beings who are supposed to leave the world. The fact that they remain creates Hunger Aura, which weakens all other aura in the world. The first attempt to fix this created the Dreadgods, and now the more Monarchs there are in Cradle the more powerful the Dreadgods are. If all the Monarchs left, the Dreadgods and Dreadbeasts would disappear over the course of decades. The Monarchs are well aware of this.
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Cradle Series / int_f9339f97	type	The Red Mage
Cradle Series / int_f9339f97	comment	The Red Mage: The Twin Stars technique allows a person to split their core and their madra, which was traditionally seen as a useless curiosity. Lindon, however, uses it to master two separate paths: The awe-inspiring Blackflame Path and a new Anti-Magic path of his own invention that relies on pure madra: The Path of Twin Stars.
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Cradle Series / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Cradle Series / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Jai Daishou had a Auto-Revive script and a spare Remnant squirreled away in his Soul Space in the event of his death to fool whoever beat him into thinking he was gone. This ends up biting Eithan since he was certain he'd put Daishou down for good. What Northstrider has been doing for years, Lindon knows that he is alive thanks to Suriel telling him, but no one believes him until Northstrider himself decides to stop hiding and takes over as the judge of the Uncrowned King tournament. Eithan does it himself for comic effect in Wintersteel, but Lindon doesn't buy it for a second.
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Cradle Series / int_f9a85905	type	Planet Spaceship
Cradle Series / int_f9a85905	comment	Planet Spaceship: A necessity for the Vroshir. The void between universes is nothing but corrosive, horrific Chaos. The only thing that keeps it at bay is a healthy world with millions of living human souls. The Abidan control and watch over normal worlds, but the Vroshir are those who are criminals under Abidan law, so they can't find safety there. The solution is to kidnap people by the billions and force them to live on nomadic planets, giving the individual Vroshir a mobile base of operations.
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Cradle Series / int_fb9e2ffd	type	Team Pet
Cradle Series / int_fb9e2ffd	comment	Team Pet: Split between Blue, Orthos, and Dross.
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Cradle Series / int_fd7a9d0	type	Removed Achilles' Heel
Cradle Series / int_fd7a9d0	comment	Removed Achilles' Heel: Every Path has its strengths and weaknesses. A well-chosen Iron body, however, can mitigate or eliminate the weaknesses of more overspecialized paths. Lindon's Bloodforged Iron body, while not as directly powerful as the offensive bodies of the original Blackflame Emperors, can heal from and survive the corrosive power of the Blackflame Path. And since Yerin's Endless Sword Path has no useful Enforcement techniques, she received a Steelborn Iron body that Enforces itself.
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Cradle Series / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Cradle Series / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Eithan telling Lindon to take care of his hair. In Wintersteel, as Eithan's being dragged through a portal by the Oracle Sage, he shouts for Lindon to visit a barber and says his hair lacks definition. Once through, he tells the Oracle Sage that his only regret is not emphasizing how important hair care is. In Dreadgod, after Eithan has been forcibly removed from the party and they have no idea when or if he will be able to return, Lindon sadly goes through his room looking for any clues or messages. All he finds is a bottle with a note that says, "for Lindon's hair." Culminates at the end of Waybound, at Lindon's big reunion, Eithan grabs him in a hug and tearfully says how happy he is Lindon has finally used the shampoo he left him. Even Ozmanthus gets in on this; when Lindon speaks to his echo in the labyrinth for help with the Dreadgods, Ozmanthus' parting shot is for Lindon to get a hair cut. Lindon becomes obsessed with points in Wintersteel when the Akura Clan creates a bounty system with impressive prizes. He becomes noticably unhinged and even considers missing out on watching the Uncrowned King Tournament (though that thought only lasts briefly). Later in Waybound, he's shown to still take the notion of points very seriously.
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Cradle Series / int_fe5e40e2	type	Gondor Calls for Aid
Cradle Series / int_fe5e40e2	comment	Gondor Calls for Aid: The Blackflame Empire sends Eithan to the Akura homeland when the Bleeding Phoenix invades. The Empire has the manpower to fight Redmoon Hall, but none of them can match the Phoenix. When the Monarchs realize that the rest of the Dreadbeasts are waking up, they move the Uncrowned King tournament forward a few years, in order to train and recruit promising new students faster.
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Cradle Series / int_ff38c97b	type	Exotic Eye Designs
Cradle Series / int_ff38c97b	comment	Exotic Eye Designs: All over the place in the universe of Cradle, most commonly in form of a Goldsign or due to merging with their remnant. After reaching Lowgold, Lindon's eyes take on a black sclera with red irises while he's using Blackflame. The entire Akura family seems to have the same purple eyes, save Fury whose eyes are red. After merging with her Blood Shadow, Yerin's eyes turn red as well. The Vroshir Iri the Angler has electric blue triangles in her eyes as a result of her ascension from her homeworld.
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Cradle Series / int_ff64d968	type	Anti-Mentor
Cradle Series / int_ff64d968	comment	Anti-Mentor: Lindon soon learns that no one in the Sacred Valley has any idea what they're doing. Practically everything they do to advance their sacred arts is horrendously wrong, hamstringing their own development to the point that no one in the Valley has reached Gold in centuries. Their cruelty towards Lindon ends up working in his favor, as they refused to teach him all these things that would have seriously crippled him. Carried over to Uncrowned and Wintersteel where Orthos is forced to rebuild Wei Shi Kelsa's Iron Body because the residents of the Sacred Valley did not know that they could or should be tailored to your individual path.
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	A Wizard Did It / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Ability Mixing / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Absurdly Long Stairway / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Accidental Proposal / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Alternative Calendar / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Always a Bigger Fish / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Anti-Magic / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Anti-Mentor / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Ask a Stupid Question... / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Background Magic Field / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Cast from Hit Points / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Changed My Mind, Kid / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Clingy MacGuffin / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Code of Honour / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Combat Clairvoyance / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Common Tongue / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Dark Secret / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Divine Conflict / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Drama Queen / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Energy Bow / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Have You Seen My God? / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Horse of a Different Color / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Human Resources / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	I Just Want to Have Friends / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Lost Orphaned Royalty / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Luxury Prison Suite / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Magic by Any Other Name / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Magic Enhancement / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Mana Potion / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Meditation Powerup / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Meet the In-Laws / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Metallic Motifs / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Mistaken for Romance / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Modest Royalty / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Mook Horror Show / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Mrs. Robinson / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Multi-Armed and Dangerous / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Muscles Are Meaningless / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Mutually Exclusive Magic / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	My Fist Forgives You / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Named After Somebody Famous / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Nature Spirit / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Never Split the Party / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	New Super Power / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Not So Omniscient After All / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	One Extra Member / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	One-Hit Kill / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Only in It for the Money / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Opening a Can of Clones / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Our Ghosts Are Different / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Overly Narrow Superlative / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Perky Goth / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Person of Holding / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Planet Spaceship / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Please, Don't Leave Me / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Poison Is Corrosive / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Portent of Doom / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Power Levels / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Power Stereotype Flip / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Powers Do the Fighting / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Practical Currency / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Prisons Are Gymnasiums / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Projectile Spell / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Prophetic Names / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Purple Is Powerful / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Reconcile the Bitter Foes / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Reptiles Are Abhorrent / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Resurrective Immortality / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Revenge Myopia / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Royal "We" / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Rummage Sale Reject / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Sad Clown / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Self-Serving Memory / int_733f2aaf
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Cradle Series	hasFeature	Series Goal / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Shadow Walker / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Shaping Your Attacks / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Sherlock Scan / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Signature Scene / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Sinister Scythe / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Sins of Our Fathers / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Smoldering Shoes / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Spontaneous Weapon Creation / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Success as Revenge / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Summon Everyman Hero / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Summoning Ritual / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Supernatural Martial Arts / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Supporting Harem / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Swiss-Cheese Security / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Sword Beam / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Sword of Damocles / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Apprentice / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Chosen Zero / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Dead Have Names / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Empire / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Four Gods / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Gadfly / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Needs of the Many / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Omniscient / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Phoenix / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Quest / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Red Mage / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Social Darwinist / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	The Symbiote / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Time Master / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	To Be a Master / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Tournament Arc / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Transferable Memory / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Un-Sorcerer / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Underequipped Charge / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Unique Protagonist Asset / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Unskilled, but Strong / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Utility Magic / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Vagueness Is Coming / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Villain Forgot to Level Grind / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Wardrobe Wound / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	While You Were in Diapers / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Workaholic / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Working Out Their Emotions / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	You Didn't Ask / int_733f2aaf
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Your Eyes Can Deceive You / int_733f2aaf

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