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Dragaera

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Dragaera	comment	The world of Dragaera is the brainchild of Steven Brust. It serves as the setting for two of his novel series — the Paarfi of Woundwood books (including the now-complete Khaavren Romances series) and the Vlad Taltos books (ongoing) — as well as the standalone novel Brokedown Palace.Dragaera is a fantasy world dominated by two major sentient races. The first are the Dragaerans, who are tall, long-lived, and vaguely elven. The second are the Easterners, who are human for all intents and purposes. Interestingly, both species call themselves "human," and use the formal name for the other. Most Dragaerans live in the vast and powerful Dragaeran Empire, which covers most of the main continent, and the rest inhabit some of the independent islands off the southern coast. Most Easterners live (surprise) to the east, in several small kingdoms, although some have emigrated to the Empire. Both of the series take place largely in the Empire. Brokedown Palace takes place in the Eastern kingdom of Fenario.The Empire consists of seventeen houses/castes, each named after an animal on the planet. Although some houses are considered superior to others, a certain amount of peace between them is maintained by the custom that all seventeen get their turn to provide an Emperor or Empress. "The Cycle" determines the order. As each abdicates, the next house in line provides their Heir. Assassination of an Emperor is discouraged by the Orb, a mystic sphere that orbits the head of the current sovereign and protects him or her from harm...at least until it is time for the Cycle to change.The number 17 is of mystic significance in Imperial culture, and that extends to the books themselves, which all run for 17 or 34 chapters. Another common trait to the books is Devera, a little girl who appears in some form in literally every book Steven Brust writes. In the Dragaera novels, she's established to be the daughter of a major character, only she technically hasn't been born yet.The Vlad Taltos series describes the life of the Easterner Vlad Taltos, an Imperial citizen after his father bought their way into the House of Jhereg, which is essentially the "Mafia caste." Despite being a second-class citizen, Vlad makes his way through life as an assassin and a mid-level power player in the underworld of the Empire's capital. Most of the novels are written from the first-person perspective of Taltos himself, but Brust will sometimes experiment with other approaches.The Paarfi of Roundwood books are a series of historical fiction novels written by Paarfi of Roundwood, an eccentric historian whose florid style is a parody of Alexandre Dumas. Each book in the series is based on a book written by Dumas. The books in the Khaavren Romances closely follow the structure of the The Three Musketeers stories, while The Baron of Magister Valley follows The Count of Monte Cristo. Paarfi writes the books during and sometime after Vlad's life, but they take place several hundred years before Vlad's time. Due to the long-lived nature of Dragaerans, there are a number of cross-over characters between the two series.A short introduction to the setting, written for a non-canon spinoff pick-a-path adventure book (Dzurlord), may be read here.
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Dragaera / int_1122ec31	type	Farm Boy
Dragaera / int_1122ec31	comment	Farm Boy: Deeply subverted with Savn in Athyra.
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Dragaera / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Dragaera / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: The jhegaala, a native Dragaeran animal for which one of the Houses is named, has a bizarre life cycle in which it variously transforms from an egg, to a blind, herbivorous aquatic nymph, to something like a large toad, to something moth-like and venomous. An intermediate stage is implied to occur between "toad" and "moth", in which it simultaneously transforms non-stop, and lays or fertilizes eggs.
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Dragaera / int_1186fcb5	type	Supernatural Gold Eyes
Dragaera / int_1186fcb5	comment	Supernatural Gold Eyes: The House of the Phoenix has them, one of the indicators of their exalted status.
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Dragaera / int_1384ff11	type	Humans by Any Other Name
Dragaera / int_1384ff11	comment	Humans by Any Other Name: Has a very weird relationship with this trope. Both what we consider humans ("Easterners") and the elflike Dragaerans refer to themselves as human and call the other something else.
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Dragaera / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Dragaera / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Teckla rebels are strongly reminiscent of Bolsheviks. Verra implies that this may be because they actually found a stash of the writings of Earth philosophers.
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Dragaera / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
Dragaera / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Tazendra is a rare female example. Dzur in general tend to be this, while Dragons are generally more serious but can also count.
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Dragaera / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
Dragaera / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: Dragaerans are called "elfs" by Easterners in the eastern kingdoms. They are tall, slender, extremely long-lived, highly magical, and some strains have pointed ears. Their Empire is based on the Protestant Reformation era of Europe. Dragaerans come from all walks of life, from peasants to criminals to tradesmen to professionals to nobles.
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Dragaera / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Dragaera / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: Mellar successfully fought his way into the House of the Dzur, defeating seventeen of their warriors in one-on-one duels. The only reason Vlad survives even the first few seconds of their fight is that Mellar's disoriented and has never confronted an Eastern-style fencer before.
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Dragaera / int_17e530e1	type	Punctuation Shaker
Dragaera / int_17e530e1	comment	Punctuation Shaker: House Dragon's patronymics take the form of "e'Something". It's probably a contraction, since the double-whammy "e'Marish'Chala" was a shortened form of a very long name. Terms like "S'yang stones" are explicitly shown to be contractions.
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Dragaera / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Dragaera / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Vlad's messed-up memories. Also, the Khaavren Romances are fictional accounts of historical events within the world of Dragaera. Word of God states that Paarfi embellishes and makes some things up. In one particular clash of unreliable narrators, the confrontation between Aerich and a Teckla is given vastly different accounts by the Teckla in Teckla and Paarfi in Sethra Lavode. Paarfi also completely ignores the Dragon-Jhereg War.
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Dragaera / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Dragaera / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Phoenix Stone, which comes in two forms that block sorcery and psionics.
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Dragaera / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Dragaera / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Averted and then Lampshaded in Five Hundred Years After. Khaavren initially thinks his future wife Daro (see Faux Interracial Relationship above) is a different House from him, and therefore their love is doomed, but he mentions this and she immediately reveals she's actually a Tiassa like him. Paarfi then goes on a digression about how readers may be surprised and disappointed by how quickly this was solved, since in such romances the convention is usually that a series of complicated and/or ridiculous plot contrivances would prevent a conversation like that until the end of the book, possibly just before or just after one of them marries somebody else. He concludes by saying they can't complain because it's historically accurate.
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Dragaera / int_1c4e308e	type	The Spock
Dragaera / int_1c4e308e	comment	The Spock: Daymar, who combines it with Cloudcuckoolander.
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Dragaera / int_1ca216ca	type	Scavengers Are Scum
Dragaera / int_1ca216ca	comment	Scavengers Are Scum: House Jhereg is named for a species of scavenging venomous reptile, and is the House associated with criminals. Subverted by Loiosh, an actual jhereg who can be quite courageous when acting on behalf of Vlad, who raised Loiosh as his companion and familiar.
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Dragaera / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Dragaera / int_1d029135	comment	Lefitt and Boraan, the detectives in the play Six Parts Water, which provides chapter quotes in Jhegaala, have a rather Nick and Nora Charles tone to their dialogue. In particular, the play's title refers to Boraan's intended drink at one point: six parts water ... to one hundred parts "oishka" (whiskey).
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Dragaera / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Dragaera / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: The end of Five Hundred Years After in which Mario's Spanner in the Works causes the Empire to fall and plunge into years of famine and chaos.
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Dragaera / int_207af763	type	Ominous Floating Castle
Dragaera / int_207af763	comment	Ominous Floating Castle: Castle Black. Most people are a little too nervous to create more, for good reason - they were relatively common before the Interregnum, but Adron's Disaster sent them plummeting.
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Dragaera / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Dragaera / int_216ff5ed	comment	Moses in the Bulrushes: The prequels reveal that Morrolan occupied this role, being raised as an Easterner and not discovering his true identity until some time later. There was a rather hilarious scene in which Teldra has trouble keeping a straight face while explaining his species to him in The Paths of the Dead. Even more true of Zivra, although the foster parents who raised her in secrecy until she could claim her Phoenix heritage weren't exactly poor.
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Dragaera / int_21fd09a7	type	How Do I Shot Web?
Dragaera / int_21fd09a7	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: Vlad has little understanding of Spellbreaker's full properties beyond its ability to negate spells. When it becomes Godslayer, he learns its properties on the fly, doing things like accidentally breaking memory modification spells put on him by a goddess and destroying the soul of a sorceress who's trying to kill him.
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Dragaera / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Dragaera / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Known as "grey humor"; at least, that's what Teldra calls it.
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Dragaera / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Dragaera / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In the novel Taltos, Vlad mentions being given the vial of a god's blood early in the novel, and this item ultimately proves important in the novel's resolution. Ironically, the climax of the book revolves around the fact that he didn't bring it with him, so he needs to invent a spell to teleport it there. Paarfi explicitly references this trope in Five Hundred Years After, albeit with flashstones rather than guns. Brust is a master of series-arc Chekhov's Guns — many books or subplots are based on a throwaway comment, cool fact, or inconsistency in a previous book.
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Dragaera / int_246989a4	type	Circling Vultures
Dragaera / int_246989a4	comment	Circling Vultures: Jhereg take the place of vultures for purposes of this trope. Loiosh and Rocza, seen circling Vlad's unconscious body in Tiassa, are mistaken for this by some guardsmen.
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Dragaera / int_24feb95d	type	Fantastic Fallout
Dragaera / int_24feb95d	comment	Fantastic Fallout: The Empire's old capital city was destroyed when a spell involving Elder Sorcery misfired, reducing the region to a permanently impassible lake of raw chaos that dissolves anything it touches. Similarly, millennia of magic use by various sorcerers has left the skies above the Empire with a permanent orange glow.
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Dragaera / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Dragaera / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Khaavren informs Finance minister Bellor that he's placing her under arrest, the clerk who'd admitted the captain to the office sits down in shock, misses his chair, and takes The Pratfall.
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Dragaera / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
Dragaera / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: With seventeen Dragaeran Houses, it's inevitable that at least some of them will end up stuck with this. As a general rule, the Houses whose hats are fighting, magic, and politics get more attention than the others. The rest are on a sliding scale—the Teckla have gotten more screen-time as the series progresses, while the Jhegaala and the Chreotha are still basically set dressing. (The former in particular don't even get a direct appearance in the novel named for them.)
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Dragaera / int_2881d45e	type	Gaining the Will to Kill
Dragaera / int_2881d45e	comment	Gaining the Will to Kill: Inverted in Orca, when death-on-two-legs Sethra Lavode reassures Vlad that she'd decided long ago that keeping her alternate identity as Kiera secret was not worth taking a life for. She's quite willing to kill for honour or necessity or a cause, but not for that.
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Dragaera / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Dragaera / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Paarfi, who Lampshades this shamelessly in The Phoenix Guards with his digression on how an historian (i.e. him) can feel equal or greater pride in recounting past great deeds than did those who simply performed them.
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Dragaera / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Dragaera / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Fenario is based on Hungary, as is their language. In one novel, Vlad goes by an assumed name that a Dragaeran mispronounces as "Mawdyear." This is an approximation of the pronunciation of "Magyar," which is a Hungarian surname and actually means "Hungarian." In Brokedown Palace, the names of Vili's pet norska translate as "Mother", "Father", "Brother", "Sister", and "Baby". Awwww...
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Dragaera / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Dragaera / int_2a090d00	comment	Paarfi's lengthy rants about how he will waste no words in his storytelling. He also tends to go back on his promises to the reader, e.g. saying he'll refrain from describing horses and explaining why he won't, then describing Khaavren's steed later in the same chapter. Heavily lampshaded by an essay following one of the novels in which the case is made that Paarfi really is being terse and laconic by Dragaeran standards. The entire novel is presented as being "one of his notebooks" for a work that needs expanding "by an additional eight or nine volumes" before publication! Jhegaala suggests that a "brief" survey for a Dragaeran is at least six volumes.
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Dragaera / int_2b9cf587	type	Back in the Saddle
Dragaera / int_2b9cf587	comment	Back in the Saddle: In Tiassa, Cawti briefly comes out of retirement to save Vlad from Jhereg assassins. Norathar puts on her Jhereg cloak on top of her Dragon uniform and joins her.
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Dragaera / int_2bde52a3	type	Fantastic Firearms
Dragaera / int_2bde52a3	comment	Fantastic Firearms: Gun-like magitek weapons appear from time to time in the series. Starting out, we have musket-like magical guns just as likely to rip off a soldiers fingers as they are to kill an enemy. Further along are flash stones, which are simple stones enchanted to fire a short-ranged blast of energy, more or less mimicking the functionality of pistol muskets.
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Dragaera / int_2d2c26c1	type	Daddy's Little Villain
Dragaera / int_2d2c26c1	comment	Daddy's Little Villain: Aliera isn't a villain, but she's violent, destructive, and prejudiced, and her tendency to help her daddy's plans out was partially responsible for Adron's Disaster.
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Dragaera / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Dragaera / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Vlad occasionally uses this, but given his Sophisticated as Hell attitude toward vocabulary in general, it tends to be more about an opportunity for Expospeak Gags than actually censoring himself. Iorich in particular is full of these sorts of jokes.
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Dragaera / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Dragaera / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: "Become dead" for "assassinated", and "work" (always in quotes) for "assassinating people". If it's just an assassination, it's "putting a shine on" someone, but if it's Morganti, it's a "dull shine".
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Dragaera / int_3130e2c6	type	Uplifted Animal
Dragaera / int_3130e2c6	comment	Uplifted Animal: The jhereg species wasn't originally intelligent, but gained these qualities due to Jenoine experimentation. Loiosh isn't exactly thrilled to learn this.
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Dragaera / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Dragaera / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Jhereg has a set of rigid rules that all members must follow. Some are obvious, such as never testifying before the Orb, while others amount to professional courtesy, such as never attacking someone in his home. To violate any of these rules even in matters of life and death is considered pretty outrageous.
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Dragaera / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Dragaera / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: The Jenoine, whose worldview is so unfamiliar that they don't even understand the concept of "place" outside of mathematics.
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Dragaera / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Dragaera / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: How Mica was introduced in The Phoenix Guards, having been thrown in through a tavern window by paid thugs seeking to incite a fight with the heroes. Luckily for Mica it was an oilcloth-covered window, not glass.
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Dragaera / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
Dragaera / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Both Paarfi and Vlad constantly drop references to things that don't get explained, in Paarfi's case because he isn't writing for humans, and Vlad seems to want to avoid digression. Examples of Vlad's unexplained references include fighting his own likeness, communing with Eastern spirits to recover the Necromancer's soul, and Morrolan fighting a demon who had taken his sword while Vlad lay helpless. Sound like important events to someone in their twenties? All of those events were recounted on one page of Phoenix, and happened in one room of Castle Black.
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Dragaera / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
Dragaera / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: "Noish-Pa" is Fenarian (i.e. Hungarian) for "Grandfather". Noish-Pa's actual given name has yet to be revealed, although Vlad's deceased parents' names were finally mentioned in Jhegaala.
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Dragaera / int_3545b7df	type	Proper Lady
Dragaera / int_3545b7df	comment	Proper Lady: Lady Teldra. This is a trait of the Issola, and to a lesser extent of the Lyorn.
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Dragaera / int_366dfa01	type	Silly Reason for War
Dragaera / int_366dfa01	comment	Silly Reason for War: Morrolan goes to war with Fornia in Dragon over the theft of a fairly worthless sword; lampshaded numerous times by Vlad, who can't understand it and feels like the Only Sane Man even though he's in the war for an similarly stupid reason. Subverted when he suggests the alternatives, like assassinating Fornia or stealing it back or negotiating, and all of his ideas are shot down immediately. Later justified by Sethra by explaining that both Morrolan and Fornia are ambitious Dragonlords with a common border - war was inevitable, the sword was just a convinient pretext for both of them. Fornia wanted also to fight with the sword against a Great Weapon to reveal the Great Weapon hidden inside the sword, but that was just a bonus.
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Dragaera / int_37fce466	type	Teleport Interdiction
Dragaera / int_37fce466	comment	Teleport Interdiction: Sorcerous teleporation blocks, which can be configured to either only keep people from teleporting in, or to prevent teleportation both ways. The blocks are always placed over battlefields, to prevent teleportation from being used in war. Sorcery, teleportation included, is suppressed on Greenaere as a natural phenomenon, as its bedrock is rich in Phoenix stone. Lucky for Vlad, this isn't true for pre-Empire sorcery.
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Dragaera / int_39af206f	type	Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb
Dragaera / int_39af206f	comment	Vlad. He learns that most of his life's choices have been influenced by Verra and Sethra in order to make him useful. In Issola, Sethra even states outright that facing the Jenoine in their own place in order to rescue Morrolan and Aliera is "the kind of activity Vlad is trained for." It is not yet clear if he is targeted against the Jenoine, or an all-purpose Tykebomb.
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Dragaera / int_3a95b3cf	type	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy
Dragaera / int_3a95b3cf	comment	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy: Vlad has to do this to himself with a knife in Hawk, when a Jhereg assassin punches him hard in the throat and collapses his windpipe.
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Dragaera / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Dragaera / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Since the Khaavren romances are both prequels and written as in-universe historical fiction, the audience already knows that Tortaalik will die, Adron's Disaster will destroy Dragaera City and begin the Interregnum, and Zerika IV will reclaim the Orb and rebuild the Empire.
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Dragaera / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Dragaera / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The guy wearing the wrong sort of boots, who could jump an eleven-foot crevasse. Paarfi cites a lot of historical examples in passing, a few of them (e.g. the 22-horse carriage that almost jumped an even bigger crevasse) better imagined than witnessed.
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Dragaera / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Dragaera / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Khaavren and Aerich take turns doing this to Chaler's corpse in Five Hundred Years After, to Tazendra's mystified amazement.
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Dragaera / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Dragaera / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Paarfi is very good at this; often he will also, in addition to stating the obvious, precede it with a statement telling the reader he is about to state something obvious. At one point he writes, "...but the Khaavren of two hundred years before was younger, and younger, we should add, by the amount of two hundred years."
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Dragaera / int_3f9a789a	type	Teleportation Sickness
Dragaera / int_3f9a789a	comment	Teleportation Sickness: After the Interregnum, magical teleportation is easy, safe, and relatively cheap. However, almost all Easterners suffer motion sickness when teleported, whereas Dragaerans don't.
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Dragaera / int_3ff34221	type	To Hell and Back
Dragaera / int_3ff34221	comment	To Hell and Back: The gateway to the afterlife for Dragaerans is a physical location that mortals can enter. Some Dragaerans become undead and walk back out again. Mortals have walked out of the Paths of the Dead twice so far. That's not counting another two Dragaerans known to have been conceived there, Tethia and Devera, who may not entirely rate as "mortal" as a consequence.
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Dragaera / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Dragaera / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Regardless of how formally they might address one another at other times, folks who communicate psychically always use first names, which maintains the necessary intimacy for a mental connection.
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Dragaera / int_41899e45	type	Monster-Shaped Mountain
Dragaera / int_41899e45	comment	Monster-Shaped Mountain: Dzur Mountain's name describes it perfectly. Paarfi suggests Adrilankha was named for how the cliffs there resemble a bird's outstretched wings, although Adron's Disaster subverted this when one of them collapsed into the sea.
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Dragaera / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Dragaera / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: A perpetual glowing red-orange Overcast hangs over the Dragaeran Empire, blotting out stars and obscuring the sun, but also making night much brighter. It's magical fallout from millennia of sorcerers channeling power from the Imperial Orb. This is probably why Vlad describes the sea as orange in Tiassa. The sky outside the range of the Empire is a standard clear blue. Vlad has a particularly hard time getting used to the blinding days and pitch black nights outside the Empire.
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Dragaera / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
Dragaera / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Definitely Kragar, and most of the cast to a lesser degree.
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Dragaera / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Dragaera / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Vlad is put into a position where he must torture a sorceress to gain information. Though he mostly only has to threaten, he finds the episode extremely distasteful. Vlad himself is subjected to extended torture in Jhegaala, and is interrogated via pain-inducing sorcery in Teckla.
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Dragaera / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
Dragaera / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Loraan, with Grita/Orlaan of the Khaavren books being an evil sorceress. Sethra Lavode is a subversion: she fits a number of the stereotypical traits, but is actually quite a nice person.
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Dragaera / int_43b6fb56	type	Vain Sorceress
Dragaera / int_43b6fb56	comment	Vain Sorceress: The Sorceress in Green uses magic to continue looking young and attractive. Arra, an Eastern (human) witch who appears to have a Dragaeran lifespan and looks quite attractive (and knows it) at over 100 years old.
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Dragaera / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Dragaera / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Daymar of all people uses such a quip when he delivers the promised thorn-hawk egg in Hawk. Vlad is amazed that Daymar actually told a joke, even if it's a cheap one.
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Dragaera / int_44796d0f	type	No Guy Wants an Amazon
Dragaera / int_44796d0f	comment	No Guy Wants an Amazon: Solidly inverted. Men from Houses with military prowess as their hat want women who are at least as competent with a sword as they are. Ibronka (Dzurlord) even notes that she'll never make a good match if she doesn't prove herself as a fighter.
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Dragaera / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Dragaera / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: The Sorceress In Green's plan in Yendi. Vlad himself plays a reasonably good game of it against the Jhereg in Hawk.
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Dragaera / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Dragaera / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Vlad lampshades how Fornia's scheme in Dragon is unnecessarily complex; he fought a large-scale war just in hopes of fighting Morrolan or Sethra, whose weapons could break open his greatsword and reveal the more valuable blade hidden within. While he just couldn't ask them to help since he'd stolen the weapon from Morrolan in the first place, there were still plenty of ways to accomplish what he wanted easily. But Dragonlords never choose the easy path.
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Dragaera / int_44a893af	type	Humans Through Alien Eyes
Dragaera / int_44a893af	comment	Humans Through Alien Eyes: The Phoenix Guards series has a lot of this due to Paarfi, a Dragaeran, acting as narrator.
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Dragaera / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Dragaera / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: The House of Dragon in general, Morrolan in particular. The House of Dzur especially, to the point of pride. The Lyorn are all about this trope.
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Dragaera / int_454bda24	type	Ancestral Weapon
Dragaera / int_454bda24	comment	Ancestral Weapon: Aliera acquires the greatsword of Kieron, who is her ancestor and her previous life's brother. Subverted when she gives it away in exchange for Pathfinder.
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Dragaera / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Dragaera / int_469e3e2f	comment	Used as a joke In-Universe. Apparently Vlad was quoting a play.
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Dragaera / int_470980a7	type	Fetish-Fuel Future
Dragaera / int_470980a7	comment	Fetish-Fuel Future: Brust seems to like Action Girls, and Dragaeran society's almost total lack of separate gender roles makes this a lot easier to accomplish.
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Dragaera / int_4712bc4f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
Dragaera / int_4712bc4f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Mario manages to pull off his assassination of the Emperor mostly because Sethra accidentally chooses the room he's hiding in to explain how an assassin could get past the extremely fatal security measures built into the Orb.
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Dragaera / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Dragaera / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: As an assassin, Vlad always uses the most safe, practical and dirty way to defeat an opponent. This gets him into trouble in the Paths of the Dead, when he must defeat 17 Dragonlords in single combat. When he starts throwing knives at them, without the proper trappings of a duel, they abandon their mook chivalry and zerg rush him.
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Dragaera / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
Dragaera / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Vlad's reaction the first couple of times he meets Sethra.
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Dragaera / int_4a87e664	type	Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
Dragaera / int_4a87e664	comment	Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List: The paratext before each chapter of Teckla is Vlad's laundry bill, and seems inconsequential, until you realize that the book shows how each item got dirty, torn, or covered in Vlad's blood.
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Dragaera / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Dragaera / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: Half the plot of Iorich.
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Dragaera / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Dragaera / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: In Hawk, Vlad arranges a meeting with Jhereg leaders to try to arrange an end to their pursuit of him. They quickly discover and negate the spell on the meeting room that would've compelled them to be agreeable, but don't find out until too late that Vlad's actually setting them up to get busted by Khaavren for threatening Imperial security.
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Dragaera / int_4dd42a04	type	Self-Surgery
Dragaera / int_4dd42a04	comment	Self-Surgery: See Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy (above).
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Dragaera / int_4ee5989a	type	Bizarre Alien Senses
Dragaera / int_4ee5989a	comment	Bizarre Alien Senses: The tendrils on the necks of dragons are sensory structures that detect other creatures' psychic energies. In Hawk, when Vlad tunes into Loiosh's senses, he mentions how some colors disappear and new ones emerge, suggesting jhereg see a different range of light wavelengths than Easterners.
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Dragaera / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Dragaera / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Some aspects of the world had not been completely fleshed out when Brust wrote Jhereg, resulting in a little bit of weirdness on rereads. For example, the Phoenix Guards are simply called Imperial Guards, and the Furnace is simply the sun. Vlad also seems to characterize assassinations a lot more lightly than they're taken in the rest of the series, implying that you might get assassinated simply as a warning.note This does get something of a callback in Tsalmoth, when Vlad gets "shined" as a warning that he was stepping on someone's toes. Kragar refers to Mellar's late mother as "a whore" as if it's disgraceful, yet "tag" work is shown by later books to be unstigmatized in Dragaeran society, with Kragar himself dating one of Vlad's sex workers.
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Dragaera / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Dragaera / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: There's a sequence in Issola where Vlad's passage through a dimensional gate causes the narrative to split into three simultaneous threads, with chunks of their three unique descriptions of his experience alternating in turn, like so:
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Dragaera / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
Dragaera / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: Being "revivified" is a rather simple procedure with a high chance of success, provided that your central nervous system is intact. Dead Dragaerans are reincarnated if they are not judged worthy to pass on to the next level of existence. Vlad is revealed to be a reincarnation of the founder of the House of the Jhereg.
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Dragaera / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
Dragaera / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Subverted in that Easterners are called "dwarfs" by Dragaerans outside of the Empire. Easterners are essentially real-world humans, and their society is based somewhat on Medieval Eastern Europe. Serioli are a short crafting people typically found in the mountains, and have been mentioned panning for gold, but have little physical similarity to classic fantasy dwarves.
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Dragaera / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Dragaera / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Not for the series, but Vlad himself ponders how the phase of his life in which he works for the Organization both begins and ends in the same jungle clearing.
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Dragaera / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Dragaera / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer
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Dragaera / int_5740acf7	type	Chickification
Dragaera / int_5740acf7	comment	Chickification: This happens to Cawti. Though she earns a fearsome reputation as an assassin, she leaves the life behind to join La RÃ©sistance and rarely uses her skills to help her. When she gets in over her head, Vlad barges in and fix things. However, Cawti resents Vlad's interference and seems to think she could have handled herself, and she kicks plenty of ass in Tiassa.
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Dragaera / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Dragaera / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Eastern Kingdom of Fenario is heavily based on Hungary. Its language is Hungarian and its "klava" seems to be based on Hungarian egg coffee. This might be justified in that Dragaera is sometimes suggested to have a science fiction background as a world populated by humans from Earth. Vague references are occasionally made to cross-overs between the universes. By the way, "taltos" means a shaman or wizard-like figure in Hungarian folklore and traditions.
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Dragaera / int_58a7abae	type	God Was My Co-Pilot
Dragaera / int_58a7abae	comment	God Was My Copilot: Sethra to Vlad while in her Kiera persona
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Dragaera / int_5979acea	type	Fragile Speedster
Dragaera / int_5979acea	comment	Fragile Speedster: Vlad must fight this way against Dragaerans, whose greater size and strength renders him effectively squishy. His Eastern style of fencing is focused on speed and evasion.
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Dragaera / int_59e20134	type	Immortal Breaker
Dragaera / int_59e20134	comment	Immortal Breaker: The Morganti blades are downplayed examples - they aren't surefire weapons against the Jenoine, but are one of the best ways to have a fighting chance of killing them.
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Dragaera / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Dragaera / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: The Demon and Vlad are this toward each other. While the Demon is still devoted to killing Vlad for betraying the Organization, he respects him a lot for risking death to help Cawti, and agrees to order his subordinates to leave her alone. For his part, Vlad thinks that if he was still in the Jhereg, he would like to work for the Demon, and is willing to take his side against other contenders to rule the House.
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Dragaera / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Dragaera / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": A teckla is a California salt marsh harvest mouse. There are a few mentions of animals called "mock-men", which from context sound like either monkeys or apes. Issola appear to be herons or cranes, based on descriptions scattered through the books. Subversion: Early on, fans were convinced that "kethna" was simply the Dragaeran word for "pig", until actual pigs were mentioned in Athyra.
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Dragaera / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Dragaera / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Dragaerans can live for thousands of years. Sethra Lavode is tens of thousands of years old. Many tens of thousands; Sethra is older than the Empire itself. The Warlock is an Easterner, but he is at least several hundred years old and looks young enough that he can be mistaken for Vlad.
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Dragaera / int_5d4be8ab	type	Soulless Bedroom
Dragaera / int_5d4be8ab	comment	Soulless Bedroom: The Necromancer's quarters in Castle Black are little more than a closet, despite her respected position and friendship with the owner. Subverted in that they, like her, have Hidden Depths — namely, a few extra dimensions accessible only to her.
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Dragaera / int_5e90d898	type	Prequel in the Lost Age
Dragaera / int_5e90d898	comment	Prequel in the Lost Age: The Paarfi books, especially the first two (set before the Interregnum).
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Dragaera / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
Dragaera / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: Most Easterners in Dragaera don't live long past 60, while Dragaerans live for thousands of years. Powerful Easterner witches can live hundreds of years, while undead Dragaerans can exist pretty much indefinitely.
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Dragaera / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
Dragaera / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: Jhereg in the Organization will never mess with someone in his or her home. Also, anyone who kills someone who is the guest of a Dragon is likely to cause a war between Houses. This has happened twice between them and the Jhereg.
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Dragaera / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Dragaera / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: No one was expecting Mario to actually succeed at assassinating the Emperor. His doing so, and with the worst timing possible, is what led to Adron's Disaster.
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Dragaera / int_61c3ca7b	type	Panthera Awesome
Dragaera / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Panthera Awesome: Tiassa. They're panthers with wings.
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Dragaera / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Dragaera / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: No one wears armor in Dragaera, which fits with the swashbuckling style that Brust likes. A novel in the Vlad series eventually explains that metal armor attracts sorcery, making it worse than useless.
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Dragaera / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Dragaera / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: While Vlad does possess a number of magical abilities, he usually goes against foes who are larger, stronger, far older, and much more magically powerful than him due to their species and social standing.
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Dragaera / int_6423f80c	type	Gender Bender
Dragaera / int_6423f80c	comment	Genderbender: Drien, one of Morrolan's ancestors, is said to have changed sex at some point in his/her life. S/he lived so long ago that nobody's sure which sex Drien was originally. (Also, while Drien reportedly had a child, it's unknown whether they were the father or mother at the time.)
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Dragaera / int_6509bb9f	type	Non-Indicative Name
Dragaera / int_6509bb9f	comment	Nonindicative Name: Vlad often Lampshades how South Adrilankha is on the west side of the city.
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Dragaera / int_6552b710	type	The Syndicate
Dragaera / int_6552b710	comment	The Syndicate: House Jhereg specializes in illicit businesses, such as drugs, assassinations, theft and fencing, gambling, loan sharking, prostitution, and illegal sorcery are just what's been mentioned so far. Note that the drugs, prostitution, and gambling would be perfectly legal if they paid taxes on the proceeds.
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Dragaera / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
Dragaera / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Inter-House marriages (although not flings) is generally about as repulsive to Dragaerans as incest is in real life. Dragaerans aren't able to explain why it's so anathema to them. They just feel the wrongness. It's the result of Jenoine tinkering with Dragaerans as part of their mysterious experiment. During the Interregnum, the taboo was much less pronounced, and it's possible for mixed Dragaeran couples born after the Disaster to hook up without understanding what all the fuss is about. Zerika IV and her Easterner lover Brimfrod/Lazslo, while not actually married as such, suffer from this. Grita leaks knowledge of their relationship to the Lyorn Heir, who promptly withdraws his support. However, after the war, it's not such a problem because everyone who knows either doesn't care or refuses to insult their lawful Empress. (Vlad at one point has a chance to ask about it, but has problems with how to phrase the question; Zerika decides to 'answer' anyway and says she considers Lazlo a soulmate.)
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Dragaera / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Dragaera / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Brust has stated that the key to writing interesting fiction is to simply write about whatever you think is cool. Brust thinks that swashbuckling, swirling-cape adventures are cool, and so that's generally the shape of the Dragaera books. Brust obviously likes food. Vlad worked in his father's restaurant and is a noted gourmand. Brust is proud of his Hungarian ancestry and puts a lot of Hungarian references into the world. Vlad's signature mustache makes a lot of sense when you see the one that Brust himself sports. A darker example comes from the organized crime angle in the first few books, which went by the wayside once a friend of Brust was killed by mobsters, making him realize that they aren't so cool after all.
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Dragaera / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
Dragaera / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: A bit character from Five Hundred Years After makes a meager living cleaning up the messes from this trope. He absolutely loathes the job, but lives for theater.
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Dragaera / int_674586f6	type	Trouble Magnet Gambit
Dragaera / int_674586f6	comment	Trouble Magnet Gambit: In Jhereg. Kiera uses her pickpocketing skills to replace Mellar's regular daggers with Morganti daggers (which destroy the victim's soul). Aliera then picked a fight with him and got stabbed, causing Mellar to panic and flee Morrolan's castle, allowing Vlad to kill him. Mellar didn't know that Aliera's soul was protected by her sword, allowing her to be resurrected. Subverted in Tiassa, when everyone only thinks Vlad has possession of the silver tiassa. The Jhereg-cultivated belief that he's got it still gets a lot of trouble heading his way.
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Dragaera / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
Dragaera / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: Each house has distinctive personality traits. It's suspected that the different houses actually have different strains of animal magically included in their bloodline by the Jenoine. The Jhegaala are unusual in that their hat is that they change hats over time. Dragaerans outside of the Empire do not have houses, which can be confusing for citizens of the Empire. Kelly, a human within the Empire, accuses the House hats of being artificial constructions. (Given how the Houses were set up to begin with, he's technically right.)
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Dragaera / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Dragaera / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: Precipice Manor, from Vallista, looks like a normal mansion from outside. On the inside, various halls, rooms, and stairways are linked together in weird, illogical, and/or geometrically-impossible arrangements.
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Dragaera / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Dragaera / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Paarfi gets a little overenthusiastic sometimes. Or a lot so, as with the 362-word sentence in Magister Valley. This is usually both intentional and played for laughs.
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Dragaera / int_6991bb9	type	Oracular Urchin
Dragaera / int_6991bb9	comment	Oracular Urchin: Devera.
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Dragaera / int_6a0dd0	type	Pretend Prejudice
Dragaera / int_6a0dd0	comment	Pretend Prejudice: Vlad says he hates Dragaerans, and in fact he got into his line of work just so that he could beat on them. However, as time goes on, he begins to realize that nearly all of his friends are Dragaerans, and that the really revolutionary human factions just irritate him. Aliera, too, is not especially fond of Easterners, but she likes Vlad and Cawti just fine.
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Dragaera / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Dragaera / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Mica and Lar, the lackeys of Tazendra and Piro in the Khaavren Romances, both use ridiculous weapons to surprisingly good effect, mostly from shock value. Mica wields a barstool, while Lar goes for a Frying Pan of Doom.
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Dragaera / int_6b4763f	type	Morph Weapon
Dragaera / int_6b4763f	comment	Morph Weapon: Godslayer, which turns into everything from a knife to a rapier.
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Dragaera / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Dragaera / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Tazendra at the end of Sethra Lavode, after hitting her Rage Breaking Point. Paarfi notes that this is a Dzur trait in general. While usually, Dzur enjoy themselves immensely in a fight, once you manage to get one really angry, they become about ten times more dangerous. Tazendra, despite having been imprisoned in a stasis spell and being severely injured, curb-stomps the hell out of her opponent. A freaking Jenoine.
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Dragaera / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
Dragaera / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: There are almost no projectile weapons of any sort in Vlad's time. In the Khaavren Romances, which are a parody of The Three Musketeers, magical "flash stones" take the place of muskets, being short-ranged and single-fire weapons. Word of God explains that flash stones have fallen out of use by Vlad's time because magical advances have made them too easy to sabotage.
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Dragaera / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Dragaera / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A "taltos" is a person with magical power in Hungarian mythology.
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Dragaera / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Dragaera / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Kragar is so easy to ignore that people are constantly getting surprised by him. Born a Dragon, he considers it a curse because it made it impossible to lead troops. Even as a Jhereg crime boss, he has to leave notes for his subordinates. The Necromancer sometimes plays the Stealth Hi aspect straight also.
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Dragaera / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Dragaera / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Vlad's main source of income while he is on the run is a gold coin he shows around in some shady taverns. Then he takes the money of the bandits that inevitably show up. From what is left of them. As an adolescent, Vlad became a Bully Hunter as payback for how Orca kids used to beat him up. Teen Vlad would walk around acting cocky to goad Orca youths into "teaching the Easterner a lesson", then gleefully kick the living crap out of them. Happens to Grita in the Khaavren Romances, when she's approached by a group of highwaymen, and eventually recruits them to be her thugs. ...and again later when she runs out of uses for them and kills the leader. Paarfi cites an occasion when a cutpurse tried to rob the sleeping Greycat, only to have him wake up long enough to slit the would-be thief's throat, then resume his nap as if nothing untoward had happened.
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Dragaera / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Dragaera / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: This is Mellar's scheme in Jhereg, hoping that his assassination would cause a civil war. Tazendra's parents allowed themselves to be killed by Shaltre's mercenaries rather than be captured and forced to tell where they'd hidden young Aerich.
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Dragaera / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
Dragaera / int_73f7975f	comment	Jerkass Gods: Vlad has gotten significantly more cynical about religion on the whole since Verra started screwing with his life. But she's not the worst of them by a long shot.
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Dragaera / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Dragaera / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each of the seventeen Houses' has official colors that their members almost always wear. The only House without identifying colors is the Yendi, and the only House whose members can seldom be bothered to dress the part are the Teckla. The Imperial Orb changes color in accordance with the current Emperor/Empress's mood, or with the truth or falsehood of a statement when used for lie detection during court cases.
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Dragaera / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
Dragaera / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Castle Black. Vlad notes that black is the color of sorcery, so calling it Castle Black is pretty ostentatious to a Dragaeran.
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Dragaera / int_77aedc5c	type	Horse of a Different Color
Dragaera / int_77aedc5c	comment	Horse of a Different Color: Dragaera has a lot of odd creatures, such as the named but never described winneasaurus, which seem to be similar to Earth animals.
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Dragaera / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
Dragaera / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: "Shut up, Loiosh." From Dragon: "I think I will soon begin taking it personally everyone telling me I'm taking things personally."
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Dragaera / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Dragaera / int_786bf97f	comment	A darker example comes from the organized crime angle in the first few books, which went by the wayside once a friend of Brust was killed by mobsters, making him realize that they aren't so cool after all.
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Dragaera / int_788b4436	type	I Like Those Odds
Dragaera / int_788b4436	comment	I Like Those Odds: The entire House of the Dzur. Tazendra gets most of them on the page, but that's just because she's the most prominent Dzur character.
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Dragaera / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Dragaera / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Paarfi references a story, "The Tale of the Smudged Letter", in which a single drop of water on a letter causes the sinking of islands. He also deconstructs the concept, pointing out how incompetent all the people who fell prey to the resulting chain of mishaps must have been to succumb to those mishaps.
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Dragaera / int_79da445d	type	Oblivious Adoption
Dragaera / int_79da445d	comment	Oblivious Adoption: Morrolan was raised as a human and didn't realize he was different, even as he remained youthful looking at over 100 years old, despite everyone else around him getting older and dying. His being at least a foot taller than anyone he knew should have been another clue... Zerika IV was raised under another name by Dragonlords, the better to conceal the last Phoenix from potential enemies or exploiters. She had honestly believed herself to be a Dragon or part-Dragon crossbreed, albeit a rare blonde example of unusually calm temperament.
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Dragaera / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
Dragaera / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Aerich, a stoic and sober-minded Lyorn warrior, wears a skirt and crochets in his spare time.
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Dragaera / int_7ae40f90	type	Manly Facial Hair
Dragaera / int_7ae40f90	comment	Manly Facial Hair: Vlad wears a signature mustache. Since Dragaerans cannot grow facial hair, it's a statement of racial pride and defiance.
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Dragaera / int_7b7f90d5	type	Pronoun Trouble
Dragaera / int_7b7f90d5	comment	Pronoun Trouble: The dominant Dragaeran language has "gya" as a gender-inclusive pronoun for "person of unspecified sex". The lack of similar terminology in English forces the person who translates Paarfi's works to use "he" instead: a liberty for which the Hawklord chews the translator out, when he's told about it.
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Dragaera / int_7c77081d	type	Language Equals Thought
Dragaera / int_7c77081d	comment	Language Equals Thought: Comes up when Teldra tries to explain what the Jenoine have to say in Issola.
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Dragaera / int_7cdfe326	type	Cosmic Retcon
Dragaera / int_7cdfe326	comment	Not to mention in Dzur we find out that the goddess Vlad was raised to worship has been screwing with his memories, and not even Vlad is sure what's true about his past anymore. This also functions as something of a Cosmic Retcon, since Verra's messing with his memories could explain certain inconsistencies.
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Dragaera / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Dragaera / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Hawk begins with a modified version of the Opening Narration of Burn Notice:
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Dragaera / int_7e716d9f	type	Expansion Pack World
Dragaera / int_7e716d9f	comment	Expansion Pack World: The Isles, a group of Dragaeran kingdoms that exist outside of the Empire but never seem to get conquered. They aren't even mentioned until well into the series, when Vlad visits one.
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Dragaera / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Dragaera / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Vlad describes his life before Cawti like this - successful though he was, the only ones who could understand his life were Dragaerans, whom he hates, while most Easterners saw him as too Dragaeran because of his Jhereg title. He had little problem getting dates but they were little more than pretty arm-candy there because he had money and a modicum of power. Cawti, as a fellow Jhereg assassin and Easterner, was the one person who could understand him, and he offered her the same in return. And the loneliness starts again once their marriage goes on the rocks.
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Dragaera / int_803e411	type	Betrayal Insurance
Dragaera / int_803e411	comment	Betrayal Insurance: A lot of Vlad's actions and Noodle Implements in Hawk turn out to be this, as he suspects (correctly) that the Jhereg will try to kill him as soon as they've got what he proposes to trade for the cancellation of their contract on his soul.
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Dragaera / int_813e694d	type	Continuity Cavalcade
Dragaera / int_813e694d	comment	Continuity Cavalcade: A lot of characters and elements from previous Vlad novels converge in Hawk.
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Dragaera / int_8145958b	type	Seemingly Profound Fool
Dragaera / int_8145958b	comment	Seemingly Profound Fool: Vlad has a hard time figuring out whether the drummer he meets on the Isles is incredibly profound or just a goofball who takes drumming too seriously. Ultimately it's left ambiguous. The character was based on Brust's friend, who really is that into drumming.
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Dragaera / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
Dragaera / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: In the Empire, everyone can cast at least minor spells by drawing power from the Orb, and magic takes the place of most technology. The simplest function of the Orb is to act as the Empire's official timekeeper. In the Khaavren Romances, based on The Three Musketeers, "flashstones" are the magical equivalent of flintlock pistols.
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Dragaera / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Dragaera / int_834420aa	comment	BFS: Many Dragaeran warriors, such as Aliera and Tazendra, fight with weapons nearly as tall as they are. As Aliera is short by Dragaeran standards, this makes her the sword equivalent of Small Girl, Big Gun. Vlad even makes a point of how he has to carry around a very heavy rapier. He uses a one-handed fencing style, so he has to use something durable or else it will break too easily.
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Dragaera / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Dragaera / int_83445b04	comment	All the chapter titles in Vallista are puns riffing on the titles of classic gothic stories, such as The Turn of Disacru and The Miseries of Odelpho.
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Dragaera / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
Dragaera / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Khaavren books have a character named Pel who studies Discretion, an art which allows its practitioners to comfort the Emperor or Empress by listening to their worries and keeping them confidential. While it's difficult to tell to what extent this is more like psychology than religion, it's notable that Discreets dress in monk-like robes and that Pel is the equivalent of Aramis, who was a priest. Also, Jhegaala, set in the East, features a Father Noji, a priest of Verra who could very easily pass for an Eastern Orthodox or Roman Catholic village priest in our world. The East is basically a Fantasy Counterpart Culture for Hungary.
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Dragaera / int_857d1626	type	Power Glows
Dragaera / int_857d1626	comment	Power Glows: Iceflame's blade is light blue, and glows the same shade.
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Dragaera / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Dragaera / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: Fluency in Snark seems to be a prerequisite for membership in the Jhereg, or at least the Right Hand. Most of Vlad's non-Jhereg friends also, probably because only other snarkers would put up with Vlad's own snarksmanship.
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Dragaera / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Dragaera / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Brokedown Palace never states whether any of the Old Palace servants or guards survived the climax.
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Dragaera / int_86f2d483	type	Frying Pan of Doom
Dragaera / int_86f2d483	comment	Frying Pan of Doom: The weapon of choice of Lar, Piro's lackey. Not to be outdone in terms of ridiculous weaponry, Mica, Tazendra's lackey, uses a goddamn barstool.
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Dragaera / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Dragaera / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Vlad is about as anti- as it's possible for a hero to get without being a Villain Protagonist, but we like him anyway because he's funny and the guys he's up against are usually as bad or worse. As the series goes on, Vlad experiences a crisis of conscience and becomes more moral.
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Dragaera / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Dragaera / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Jenoine are vastly powerful, extraplanar creatures who warp reality to unknown purposes and are generally considered hostile by everyone who is not Jenoine. The entire purpose of the Dragaeran Empire is to keep the Jenoine from coming back.
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Dragaera / int_88799cf4	type	Badass Cape
Dragaera / int_88799cf4	comment	Badass Cape: Morrolan.
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Dragaera / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Dragaera / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Fairly routine; as long as the person's central nervous system is intact and they weren't killed with a Morganti weapon or left too long before it's attempted, revivifying someone is just a matter of an admittedly expensive spell. The ease with which revivification can be achieved and the sure certainty of an afterlife is important in maintaining sympathy for most of the protagonists. The people they kill might not always have deserved it, but at least they're not dead dead.
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Dragaera / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Dragaera / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The series itself is written out of chronological order, and the plots of some books are written out of chronological order. Dragon weaves three different timelines together, for instance, and Taltos alternates between two. Dzur has a fairly straightforward timeline, but each chapter is introduced with a course of the dinner that initially got Vlad involved. Tiassa's three sections take place at widely-spaced intervals within Vlad's life. Lampshaded in Dragon: In-universe, Paarfi's first historical romance, Three Broken Strings, is implied to have used this trope heavily as well.
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Dragaera / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Dragaera / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Houses of the both the Dzur and the Dragon, with the former aspiring to be heroes and the latter aspiring to be conquerors.
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Dragaera / int_8d3349bb	type	Canon Character All Along
Dragaera / int_8d3349bb	comment	Canon Character All Along: The ending of The Baron Of Magister Valley reveals that the protagonist Eremit is the same person as The Demon in the Vlad stories and the Monte Cristo-retelling is his backstory.
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Dragaera / int_8d8c3304	type	Deadly Scratch
Dragaera / int_8d8c3304	comment	Deadly Scratch: The slightest cut from a Morganti blade allows the weapon to eat the victim's soul. Worse, the weapons are somewhat sentient and actively hungry, and Vlad can sometimes sense them yearning to reach the closest person.
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Dragaera / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Dragaera / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The ends of Phoenix, Orca, Issola, and Hawk. Five Hundred Years After is this for Dragaera's history.
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Dragaera / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Dragaera / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: In Tiassa, Khaarven's servant Borteliff is widely assumed to be mute. He can talk, he's just found that silence in a servant is so prized by his employers that he'll go for a year or more without saying a word.
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Dragaera / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
Dragaera / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Elder Sorcery, which is technically illegal, but everyone knows Aliera practices it. And Vlad can too.
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Dragaera / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
Dragaera / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Both averted and a Justified Trope. Magical "technology" leaped forward after the Interregnum due to changes in the Orb. Otherwise, the Dragaeran Empire's Great Cycle system is deliberately designed to keep it in stasis.
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Dragaera / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Dragaera / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: The god Tristangrascalaticrunagore, who's usually (fortunately) called Tri'nagore for short.
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Dragaera / int_909e0a46	type	Gentlemen Rankers
Dragaera / int_909e0a46	comment	Gentlemen Rankers: In Dragon, Baronet Taltos serves as a private in Morrolan's army. Most of the other troopers are this trope as well, as Dragonlords ignore social rank in military context.
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Dragaera / int_912ada71	type	Faux Interracial Relationship
Dragaera / int_912ada71	comment	Faux Interracial Relationship. In the prequel novel Five Hundred Years After. Khaavren, the main protagonist has a Meet Cute with his future wife Daro, and bewails the fact that while he loves her, their relationship won't work because she is of a different House (basically a race) than he is. She then reveals that while she dresses like a member of one House, she actually belongs to the same House as him, she just likes the other colors better. The fictional narrator then comments how great it was that this impediment was cleared up.
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Dragaera / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Dragaera / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Adron's Disaster is a Regional/Societal Disruption example. Paarfi points out that at the time, Sethra feared it'd be Planetary/Total Annihilation.
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Dragaera / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
Dragaera / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: The number 17 shows up everywhere, and is considered a holy number by the Dragaerans. Every single book Brust has written has a multiple of 17 chapters, which started as a coincidence and then became a tradition. Brust originally chose the number because it has no pre-existing mathematical or numerological significance. There are 17 houses of Dragaerans There are 17 "Great Weapons" The position of Emperor/Empress rotates through the Houses; each full progression of 17 rulers is called a "Cycle" and ends with a "Decadent Phoenix" ruling. 17 Cycles constitutes a "Great Cycle" and ends with a "Phoenix Reborn" on the throne instead. The calendar has 17 months of 17 days. In Yendi, Sethra's punishment of Sethra The Younger is based on 174.
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Dragaera / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Dragaera / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: In Tiassa Savn, somewhat if not completely recovered. Timmer from Orca also makes an appearance.
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Dragaera / int_952e4e06	type	Utility Magic
Dragaera / int_952e4e06	comment	Utility Magic: Dragaerans use sorcery for almost everything they can, and Vlad is certainly no different. He's used it to light candles, chill wine, and clean chamber pots. In Orca Kiera checks for security spells on a mansion and mostly finds fertility spells on the land, "spells that kept the latrines from smelling, spells that kept the mansion from sinking into the ground," and others that take the place of basic maintenance and gardening. The peasant Teckla, however, are kept largely ignorant of sorcery on purpose, barring a few spells useful for keeping up farmland. Magic is so wrapped up in everything Vlad can knock chunks of masonry off buildings by gently slapping Spellbreaker (a small golden chain) against them.
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Dragaera / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Dragaera / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The bulk of Dragon is basically a war movie, and it features a quite deep discussion between Vlad and Virt on the philosophy of war.
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Dragaera / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Dragaera / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Aliera and Mario—the daughter of (and later the) Dragon Heir paired with the Jhereg's best assassin.
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Dragaera / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
Dragaera / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: Sethra Lavode. She's commonly believed to be around twenty thousand years old (a typical Dragaeran lifetime being two to three thousand)...and that's off by a factor of ten. She is quite literally as old as the Dragaeran Empire—somewhere around 250,000 years. And she only became undead relatively recently. (How she did it is unknown, but she has said something about "merging with the rock of Dzur Mountain again...")
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Dragaera / int_99753740	type	Soul-Cutting Blade
Dragaera / int_99753740	comment	Soul-Cutting Blade: Morganti weapons consume and destroy the soul of anyone they so much as scratch, barring a rare few entities who can withstand their hunger.
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Dragaera / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Dragaera / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: In Kelly's opinion, the traits and "virtues" of the houses are effectively this because the rigid expectations each house has for its members prevent other strengths from growing from within.
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Dragaera / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
Dragaera / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: In Teckla, Easterner revolutionary Kelly narrowly stops Vlad from taking out rival Jhereg lord Herth because he believes the defeat of Herth and what the Jhereg represents belongs to the revolution - they've been fighting Herth too long to just let someone with a new grudge swan in and stick a knife in Herth's brain.
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Dragaera / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Dragaera / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Especially in the earlier novels, Vlad doesn't care about taking the lives of Dragaerans, and even enjoys it. In kind, Dragaerans see little value in Easterners' lives. Also, Dragaerans don't seem to view jhereg as anything more than wild animals, even though they are known to possess human-level intelligence.
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Dragaera / int_9c495599	type	Hide Your Children
Dragaera / int_9c495599	comment	Hide Your Children: Paarfi claims to have done this in Five Hundred Years After, to minimize the reader's horror at Adron's Disaster.
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Dragaera / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
Dragaera / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Values Dissonance: Discussed in Yendi, when Vlad tells Cawti what it's like to have Dragaeran friends who nod along when Sethra the Younger talks nonchalantly about her plans to invade and subjugate the East. Even Morrolan, who grew up among Easterners, would have made her Warlord if he were Emperor, and Aliera was only opposed to it because she felt it would weaken the Empire. invoked
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Dragaera / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Dragaera / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In regards to Setha Lavode: In Taltos, the first time Vlad talks to Sethra psychically, he notes that it was remarkably easy to set up the mind-to-mind contact given that they'd only met once before. A few books later, we discover that Vlad's been friends with Sethra for years in her guise as Kiera. In Jhereg, when Vlad mentions Kiera having once found him dead and took him to Sethra for revivification. Once you learn who Sethra is, why even a very accomplished thief should be taking her dead assassin protege to her for resurrection might seem mighty off. In the early books, Vlad mentions Spellbreaker's tendency to change its length as appropriate for however large an area he's using it to shield in a fight. Dzur provides an explanation when Godslayer, into which Spellbreaker is incorporated, turns out to be a Morph Weapon. In Paths of the Dead, Piro's falling in love with Ibronka is foreshadowed by his conversation with Krytaan about girls, as Piro is more interested in finding a brave girl - the signature trait of Dzur - than in appearing brave to impress one.
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Dragaera / int_9d29321a	type	Can't Argue with Elves
Dragaera / int_9d29321a	comment	Can't Argue with Elves: Vlad tends to push the envelope a lot more than usual, but in general this trope is justified. Most sane people wouldn't argue with a seven-foot-plus swordswoman packing a BFS.
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Dragaera / int_9d70c212	type	Sassy Secretary
Dragaera / int_9d70c212	comment	Sassy Secretary: Subverted, as Kragar is not just a rare male example, but knows full well that he could run the operation on his own. Moreover, given that he is wisecracking and refers to Vlad as boss, Loiosh might be argued as an example both male and animal.
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Dragaera / int_9d73f176	type	Wandering Minstrel
Dragaera / int_9d73f176	comment	Wandering Minstrel
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Dragaera / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Dragaera / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Vlad lies paralyzed, staring down a mass of advancing chaos that is dissolving everything in its wake.
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Dragaera / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Dragaera / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Sethra Lavode has the traditional need to drink blood, but from what description is given, it seems to be small quantities and there's no indication of her preying on Dragaerans or Easterners. She is also able to consume at least small quantities of normal food and appears completely human (or Dragaeran) in her Kiera identity. Loraan in Athyra is also undead and fits the traditional vampire idea better, having a number of Glamour Failure traits which reveal he's no longer alive.
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Dragaera / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Dragaera / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: As of Orca, Vlad knows that Kiera is actually Sethra Lavode. Played with in that, while he and Kiera/Sethra both know that he knows, they maintain the facade even during private conversations, as it helps the latter maintain the role and helps Vlad keep the two personas straight in his head. (It doesn't stop him from obliquely joking about it, such as telling Sethra that he picked up a habit of biting his thumb from Kiera, when everyone knows he's lying his ass off.)
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Dragaera / int_9ff2b000	type	The Consigliere
Dragaera / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Discreets are somewhere between this and therapists. Kragar also makes an excellent consigliere for Vlad because he's very competent and has no ambition to lead.
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Dragaera / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Dragaera / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Well, Sethra is a vampire after all. But the fact that nobody noticed that she'd become one of the undead for a few thousand years is rather telling. The Necromancer also.
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Dragaera / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Dragaera / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: The forward for The Baron of Magister Valley has a Dragaeran historian give a short critique of the work and then spend the rest of the forward complaining that he has to reach a certain word count or else the publisher won't pay him.
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Dragaera / int_a22c6d89	type	The Evil Prince
Dragaera / int_a22c6d89	comment	The Evil Prince: The Duke of Kana in the Khaavren series is a rather incompetent example of this; Probably Adron also, although Aliera and Morrolan would make you wish you'd never been born if you said so.
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Dragaera / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Dragaera / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Vlad sometimes likes to hold a blade right up to someone's eye (usually the left) as he threatens them, and talks about knifing targets through the eye. It's convenient for jamming the blade into the skull, since brain damage is one of the few ways to make sure a person can't be resurrected by sorcery short of using a Morganti blade.
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Dragaera / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Dragaera / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Aliera's father is Dragaeran and her mother is a Sufficiently Advanced Alien goddess.
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Dragaera / int_a3babc56	type	Lovely Angels
Dragaera / int_a3babc56	comment	Lovely Angels: Norathar and Cawti when they were the "Sword and Dagger of the Jhereg". Given the disparity in heights, they probably also count as a female version of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser type of Brains and Brawn.
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Dragaera / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Dragaera / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Lord Garland in The Phoenix Guards
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Dragaera / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
Dragaera / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Vlad's explanations for losing one of his fingers include "a very heavy weight," "too slow with Spellbreaker," and "a wound that got infected," among others. The real reason is given in Jhegaala.
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Dragaera / int_a5e2d3fc	type	Mutilation Interrogation
Dragaera / int_a5e2d3fc	comment	Mutilation Interrogation: The actual reason Vlad lost a finger.
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Dragaera / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Dragaera / int_a60f7120	comment	In Taltos, whenever anyone in the Paths of the Death notes that Vlad and Morrolan are alive, Vlad replies "How can you tell?" Only Verra likes the joke. Becomes a Brick Joke in Vallista, when it's Vlad who notes that the Warlock is alive, and Laszlo returns the phrase.
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Dragaera / int_a627a930	type	Gender Is No Object
Dragaera / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: The Dragaeran Empire places almost no distinction on gender, allowing women to participate equally in all professions, even the military. Most people in high office during Vlad's lifetime happen to be female. There are a few minor exceptions, such as the Jhereg Organization, which is traditionally divided into the male Right Hand of mobsters and female Left Hand of mercenary sorceresses. In the Khaavren Romances, two Dragaeren women discuss whether a male Dzur would really be attracted to a woman who could defeat him. They ultimately decide that he could. Even the Dragaeran language has gender neutral pronouns, so that they do not need to use male pronouns as a default.
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Dragaera / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Dragaera / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Vlad always refers to his grandfather as Noish-pa, which means grandfather in Fenarian. A number of Dragaerans are also referred to only by their nicknames or titles, such as the Demon, the Sorceress in Green, the Necromancer, and Sticks.
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Dragaera / int_a8d6bd1f	type	Reality-Breaking Paradox
Dragaera / int_a8d6bd1f	comment	Reality-Breaking Paradox: Adron's Disaster.
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Dragaera / int_aacc7ea6	type	Tyke-Bomb
Dragaera / int_aacc7ea6	comment	Tyke-Bomb: Vlad. He learns that most of his life's choices have been influenced by Verra and Sethra in order to make him useful. In Issola, Sethra even states outright that facing the Jenoine in their own place in order to rescue Morrolan and Aliera is "the kind of activity Vlad is trained for." It is not yet clear if he is targeted against the Jenoine, or an all-purpose Tykebomb. Possibly also the case with Devera, who actually engineered her own conception at Verra's instigation.
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Dragaera / int_ab44208d	type	Stock Medieval Meal
Dragaera / int_ab44208d	comment	Stock Medieval Meal: A parody example via expospeak occurs in the novel Issola. Here, the protagonists order at an inn what is described as the house bread with some kind of cheese and smoked fish; however, it's pretty clear that what they are actually ordering is bagels and lox. The series generally averts it, in part because Food Porn is Author Appeal. In one book (possibly Teckla) it's implied that a local inn/restaurant serves (American) Chinese food.
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Dragaera / int_ab7b9269	type	You All Meet in an Inn
Dragaera / int_ab7b9269	comment	You All Meet in an Inn: Khaavren and the others in Phoenix Guards. It is played so straight it is probably a parody of the trope.
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Dragaera / int_abbe5875	type	Evil Weapon
Dragaera / int_abbe5875	comment	Evil Weapon: Played pretty straight with Morganti weapons, although generally somewhat subverted with Great Weapons, which are are caring and protective of their wielders, and just happen to eat the souls of their victims. According to the short story "The Desecrator", this is played totally straight by the Great Weapon Nightslayer though.
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Dragaera / int_abe166cc	type	Bond Creatures
Dragaera / int_abe166cc	comment	Bond Creatures: Vlad's link with Loiosh. Other witches have familiars as well. Dragaeran sorcerers don't. The Warlock has two as a mark of his exceptional gifts as a witch.
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Dragaera / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
Dragaera / int_ac12cde1	comment	As an adolescent, Vlad became a Bully Hunter as payback for how Orca kids used to beat him up. Teen Vlad would walk around acting cocky to goad Orca youths into "teaching the Easterner a lesson", then gleefully kick the living crap out of them.
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Dragaera / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Dragaera / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Or book naming in this case, and sometimes chapter naming as well.
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Dragaera / int_ac6ecb56	type	Plague Doctor
Dragaera / int_ac6ecb56	comment	Plague Doctor: Tevna the pyrologist is a plague mortician, roaming from one disease-beset settlement to another during the Interregnum, and cremating the dead and their personal possessions to break the chain of infections. His all-gray clothing strikes the same morbid note for Dragaerans (who consider gray the "color of death") as a Real Life trope example's beak mask and garb.
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Dragaera / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
Dragaera / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: Sethra takes this and runs with it. She's not just a general, she's one of the greatest military minds ever known, and she's not just a badass, she's a vampire wizard who orders gods around.
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Dragaera / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Dragaera / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Kragar has exactly this reaction when he and Vlad realize that Mellar has intentionally set himself up to get assassinated in order to spark another Dragon-Jhereg war and destroy both Houses, as well as utterly humiliate House Dzur in Jhereg.
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Dragaera / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Dragaera / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: While Vlad is too much the gourmand to limit himself to just one favorite dish, he does prefer kethna-stuffed hot sweet rolls as his favorite breakfast. With klava. Lots of klava.
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Dragaera / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Dragaera / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Definitely Vlad. He even lampshades it in one exchange where he states that he'll pass time by exchanging sarcastic comments with Loiosh. Many of the other characters in the Taltos books display at least a touch of the trope. Kiera, Kragar, and Loiosh all do it as well, and Sethra has her moments.
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Dragaera / int_ae475b01	type	A True Story in My Universe
Dragaera / int_ae475b01	comment	A True Story in My Universe: Played with on a massive scale in the peripheral material of both series. In one Vlad book, he refers to a "fool" who is paying him for his stories, and in another novel describes how he's speaking into a "tube" to narrate the story. In the Khaavren Romances, Brust even interviews the series's fictonal author, Paarfi, and talks about the changes he's had to make in "translating" the original text. Paarfi reacts with outrage at the liberties he's taken.
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Dragaera / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Dragaera / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: In Yendi, it's revealed that Norathar is and always has been the Dragon Heir, which was not changed by the titular Yendi's plotting. That means Adron wasn't, and therefore could never have won his civil war.
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Dragaera / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Dragaera / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: A textbook case. In fact, the term was actually coined to describe this series.
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Dragaera / int_afe98316	type	Talkative Loon
Dragaera / int_afe98316	comment	Talkative Loon: Although it doesn't exactly sound crazy, Vlad's narration waxes so poetical/stream-of-consciousness when he's deeply in the process of using witchcraft, or otherwise in an abnormal mental state, that it can get confusing.
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Dragaera / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Dragaera / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Sticks's "No future in it". Napper's "Don't matter".
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Dragaera / int_b1825e95	type	Playground Song
Dragaera / int_b1825e95	comment	Playground Song: "Dung-Foot Peasant", a Teckla children's ditty in this vein, provides epigraphs for Athyra. It's mentioned that the song has evolved, adding new verses and forgetting others, between Savn's early childhood and his sister's.
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Dragaera / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
Dragaera / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: The Jhereg
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Dragaera / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
Dragaera / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: The series plays like Low Fantasy, but there are occasional glimpses of a science fiction background to the setting. In Dragon: a Serioli refers to Easterners as the "Old People," then "clarifies" this as "people from the small invisible lights." As the overcast hides the stars, this suggests the aboriginal Serioli remember humans coming to Dragaera from the stars. Sethra has admitted to Vlad that the Dragaerans were engineered from humans by the Jenoine.
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Dragaera / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
Dragaera / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: Brust usually opens chapters of the Taltos series with quotes from in-world documents or conversations, often hilarious ones. Sources range from court transcripts and legal memos in Iorich, to a list of instructions for Vlad's laundry service (mend cut in pants, remove bloodstains from shirt, etc) in Teckla.
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Dragaera / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Dragaera / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Used as a joke In-Universe. Apparently Vlad was quoting a play. Vlad spends much of Hawk assembling a bewildering array of obscure supplies for the scheme he's cooked up, and refusing to explain what they're all for to either his associates or his audience.
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Dragaera / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Dragaera / int_b593baf1	comment	In The Baron of Magister Valley, Paarfi makes a humanitarian Author Filibuster against cruel and unusual punishment against all citizens of the empire... except Teckla, "who do not feel pain as gentlemen do."
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Dragaera / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Dragaera / int_b5b4b077	comment	For assassins, Mario is The Ace. When you start off your career by eliminating the Emperor, it's hard not to be.
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Dragaera / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Dragaera / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Paarfi's lengthy rants about how he will waste no words in his storytelling. He also tends to go back on his promises to the reader, e.g. saying he'll refrain from describing horses and explaining why he won't, then describing Khaavren's steed later in the same chapter. Heavily lampshaded by an essay following one of the novels in which the case is made that Paarfi really is being terse and laconic by Dragaeran standards. The entire novel is presented as being "one of his notebooks" for a work that needs expanding "by an additional eight or nine volumes" before publication! Jhegaala suggests that a "brief" survey for a Dragaeran is at least six volumes. In The Baron of Magister Valley, Paarfi makes a humanitarian Author Filibuster against cruel and unusual punishment against all citizens of the empire... except Teckla, "who do not feel pain as gentlemen do."
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Dragaera / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Dragaera / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: All members of the House of the Dzur are this type, constantly searching for individual glory in battle, especially against impossible odds. This is largely what distinguishes the Dzur from the other warrior caste of Dragaera, the Dragons, who yearn for military conquest rather than simply the challenge of combat. Vlad comments in Jhereg that the best way to avoid a fight with a Dzur is to look as helpless as possible, because Dzur don't like to fight unless the odds are against them. He also tells the Dragaeran equivalent of a Lightbulb Joke.
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Dragaera / int_b7e1dcc8	type	Empathic Weapon
Dragaera / int_b7e1dcc8	comment	Empathic Weapon: The Great Weapons.
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Dragaera / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Dragaera / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Vlad really doesn't appreciate Verra deciding to make him useful. There isn't a whole lot he can do about it, but that doesn't stop him from being very, very angry.
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Dragaera / int_b87e9bc7	type	Sensory Tentacles
Dragaera / int_b87e9bc7	comment	Sensory Tentacles: Dragons have sensory tendrils on their cheeks and chin that detect psychic energies.
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Dragaera / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
Dragaera / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: After murdering his boss, Vlad bare-faces his way through his trial for the killing by testifying, under the lie-detecting Orb, that he believes his superior killed himself. He can truthfully claim this because, in his opinion, anyone treating him as badly as his boss did is just asking for Vlad to kill them. In The Phoenix Guards, the current Warlord attempts to pull this in reverse, asking manipulative questions and forbidding Khaavren to give more than the most basic of answers in an attempt to incriminate him in front of the Emperor. It almost works.
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Dragaera / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Dragaera / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: The fate of the Dzur warriors who have challenged Sethra Lavode and never returned is to be changed into animals by her. She says so herself.
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Dragaera / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Dragaera / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: On the one hand you have names like Morrolan, Loiosh, and Khaavren, while on the other are characters named Vlad, Mario, and Kelly. Common-sounding names mostly come from Eastern cultures and are even used by some Dragaerans. Loiosh is apparently a Dragaeran spelling of the Fenarian name Lajos. A few Dragaerans even have Serioli names, which sound no more fantastic than normal Dragaeran names to readers, but qualify as this trope in-universe. The roster of named deities in the series include Verra, Barlen, Kelchor, Ordwynac, Nyssa and ... Trout.
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Dragaera / int_ba0e3912	type	Power Nullifier
Dragaera / int_ba0e3912	comment	Power Nullifier: Spellbreaker negates magic that it touches. Sorcery also does not work on the Isles because of the rock they're made out of, which is probably why they never get conquered by the Empire.
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Dragaera / int_ba8b13ad	type	Catch-22 Dilemma
Dragaera / int_ba8b13ad	comment	Catch-22 Dilemma: Inevitable with the way the Cycle works (given where it's kept, you can hardly pop over to check on it). When the Cycle turns, the heir of the next House must take power. How do you know when the Cycle has turned? Well, when the heir of the next House takes power. Invoked by Adron in Five Hundred Years After, when he grimly points out that he'll only know he can win at the point he's already won.
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Dragaera / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Dragaera / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In Dragon when Loiosh keeps ignoring Vlad's "Shut up, Loiosh," to get another needling remark in, until Vlad graduates to, "Shut the fuck up, Loiosh."
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Dragaera / int_bc1865fb	type	Deader than Dead
Dragaera / int_bc1865fb	comment	Deader than Dead: The victims of Morganti weapons, which eat souls.
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Dragaera / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Dragaera / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Various characters have them: Aliera is very sensitive about her height, to the point that she will float a foot off the ground to hide it. Shortness in Dragaeran society is commonly associated with Easterners. Admittedly, Aliera is willing to fight to the death for just about any social infraction. Morrolan takes it extremely poorly if someone insults Adron. When Blackchapel was attacked, his first impulse was to hunt down and kill the raiders personally, even though he'd be outnumbered thirty to one. The Jhereg has certain rules you don't break, the major ones being: never kill someone in their home, or in front of their family; never steal from someone you were hired to kill; never give any information about who hired you; never go to the empire. They tend to take any violation of these rules very poorly, even if they come from people who don't have any reason to follow them. In Dragon Vlad views tracking down Fornia as a purely professional contract, until Fornia comes after him in his home. Then it gets personal. The other thing Vlad doesn't take well is having his people screwed with. Sethra Lavode gets away with setting up one of his people to get his attention once, because she's Sethra Lavode. Vlad recalls that he almost put a knife in Daymar's eye when the Dragaeran scanned his underling's thoughts. On both occasions, however, he became friends with the offending party, so he doesn't completely lose control.
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Dragaera / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Dragaera / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Some of the gods of the world are Dragaerans who have ascended. Sethra claims to have turned this down.
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Dragaera / int_bd9bcb8c	type	Deception Non-Compliance
Dragaera / int_bd9bcb8c	comment	Deception Non-Compliance: In Five Hundred Years After, Aerich is duty-bound not to inform Khaavren what his other friends are up to. Realizing Khaavren really ought to know, he sends Tazendra to converse with Khaavren about something else, knowing she's incapable of keeping a secret.
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Dragaera / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
Dragaera / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Lady Teldra speaks the Jenoine language well enough to pull off an insult so pithy it actually distracts a Jenoine.
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Dragaera / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
Dragaera / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: Don't try to be funny before I've had my klava, Kragar...
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Dragaera / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Dragaera / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Sethra is a bit mysterious. She has a reputation for, say, turning Dzur heroes who showed up to kill her into lizards, yet she's usually a fairly nice person, if kind of creepy. Vlad has on a couple of different occasions considered a list of Sethra myths and commented on which ones he thought were really, really stupid; in particular, if she actually does have a secret path to the Halls of Judgment in her basement, she owes him an apology. Great Weapons in general, and Godslayer in particular. Also Dzur Mountain, above and beyond its connection to Sethra. Mario Greymist's reputation as an unstoppable, undetectable assassin qualifies, as "Mario did it" is apparently the default Hand Wave for the Phoenix Guard if they can't solve a murder case. (In one particular case, Mario predicts this will happen... when he actually did do it. He finds it amusing.)
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Dragaera / int_be85ff22	type	Contract on the Hitman
Dragaera / int_be85ff22	comment	Contract on the Hitman: Happens to Vlad.
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Dragaera / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Dragaera / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Vlad himself. In the earliest books in the he's not much more than a murderous thug, but he has a few redeeming features and he's always up against people who are worse than him. As the series goes along, he becomes more traditionally heroic.
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Dragaera / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Dragaera / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: It is revealed in the novel Orca that Vlad's friend, the cat burglar, Kiera the Thief, is in actuality another of his friends, the feared vampire and near-goddess, Sethra Lavode. With this revelation, Vlad realizes that, far from acting out of free will, he had been manipulated into many of his life choices, including becoming an assassin. Not to mention in Dzur we find out that the goddess Vlad was raised to worship has been screwing with his memories, and not even Vlad is sure what's true about his past anymore. This also functions as something of a Cosmic Retcon, since Verra's messing with his memories could explain certain inconsistencies.
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Dragaera / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Dragaera / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Aliera is famous for her beauty, but her lover Mario Greymist has unexceptional looks and might even be a little paunchy. He makes up for it by being the most feared assassin in the world. (He was apparently better-looking as a young man in the Khaarven Romances, however.)
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Dragaera / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
Dragaera / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Most witches seem to have a familiar. Vlad is notable for having a jhereg familiar with human-level intelligence.
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Dragaera / int_bfb0f48a	type	Uncoffee
Dragaera / int_bfb0f48a	comment	Uncoffee: While regular coffee does exist, a variation called klava is an import from the Eastern kingdoms and very popular with Dragaerans. It's based on Hungarian egg coffee, and involves coffee being filtered through egg shells. For some reason, Dragerans serve it in a glass, which burns your hand if you don't let it cool. Vlad is a particular connoisseur of good klava, but prefers it in a mug.
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Dragaera / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Dragaera / int_c2393191	comment	In-universe, Paarfi's first historical romance, Three Broken Strings, is implied to have used this trope heavily as well.
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Dragaera / int_c267c2b4	type	Cataclysm Backstory
Dragaera / int_c267c2b4	comment	Cataclysm Backstory: The Viscount of Adrilankha books depict the slow recovery of the Empire from nation-wide devastation.
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Dragaera / int_c676a2f8	type	Blah, Blah, Blah
Dragaera / int_c676a2f8	comment	Blah, Blah, Blah: How a cynical and disinterested Loiosh summarizes the Eastern activists' conversations to Vlad in Iorich.
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Dragaera / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dragaera / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Due to the humorous nature of the series, Brust sprinkles in shout outs to some of his favorite things. In Issola, Vlad and Teldra come up with the recipe for bagels and lox. In Dzur, the old Tsalmoth who assists Vlad at the library uses a spell that finds specific patterns of characters in text, making it the sorcerous equivalent of a search engine. In Iorich, four-year-old Vlad Norathar is seen playing with the low-tech, soft toy equivalent of a Transformer. There are a few Monty Python and the Holy Grail jokes in Yendi: In one of the prefaces, Vlad riffs on Dragnet: "This is the city: Adrilankha, Whitecrest." The preface to the second Khaavren novel explains that Paarfi's writing style isn't historically correct but taken from a play called Redwreath And Goldstar Have Traveled To Deathsgate. Lefitt and Boraan, the detectives in the play Six Parts Water, which provides chapter quotes in Jhegaala, have a rather Nick and Nora Charles tone to their dialogue. In particular, the play's title refers to Boraan's intended drink at one point: six parts water ... to one hundred parts "oishka" (whiskey). Paarfi is apparently familiar with carpal tunnel syndrome, which he calls the Malady of the Tingling Hand in Five Hundred Years After. Hawk begins with a modified version of the Opening Narration of Burn Notice: Also from Hawk: "Let's go steal the Jhereg Council." There's a fan page on these, from Abbott and Costello to Hamlet, with a separate page for The Grateful Dead. Apparently Athyra has nine Hamlet references stuffed into it (guess he couldn't fit 17). Five are listed on the page above. The different denominations of coins have unique names, but Vlad still talks about them as five gold, two silver, etc. Now consider his office on Copper Lane... All the chapter titles in Vallista are puns riffing on the titles of classic gothic stories, such as The Turn of Disacru and The Miseries of Odelpho.
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Dragaera / int_c7c4dae7	type	Possession Implies Mastery
Dragaera / int_c7c4dae7	comment	Possession Implies Mastery: Subverted. One of Vlad's weapons, Spellbreaker, was stolen from a wizard; Vlad has no idea of its complete powers, and simply uses it to the best of his ability. He's even less competent with Godslayer.
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Dragaera / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Dragaera / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Used by Vlad to greater or lesser extents, as he usually narrates coming up with a plan but glosses over some of the details. For example, only a few details are left out of his big plan in Jhereg, while in Teckla he barely explains anything to do with his plan before carrying it out at the climax.
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Dragaera / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Dragaera / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: There are a number of characters who are Only Known by Their Nickname. The Sorceress in Green is never referred to by name. Pel, the Duke of Galstan, goes by a fake name and a fake title. No duchy of Galstan has ever existed. Both characters are Yendi, who are famous for their webs of deception.
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Dragaera / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Dragaera / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Aibynn and Daymar both show traits of this trope.
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Dragaera / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
Dragaera / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is the King: Inverted with the court office of Lady of the Chairs, which is referred to by that exact title even if the incumbent is male. Played straight with the Lord of the Keys, for whom the same rule applies.
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Dragaera / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Dragaera / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: One Jenoine dies in Issola by the simple expedient of becoming a snack for a dragon. In another scene, Tazendra notes with some amazement that she just defeated a Jenoine in single combat, then promptly dies.
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Dragaera / int_ccb97ff2	type	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
Dragaera / int_ccb97ff2	comment	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: The epigraph from the epilogue of Jhegaala features this closing line of a play:
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Dragaera / int_ccd7abf5	type	Fakeout Escape
Dragaera / int_ccd7abf5	comment	Fakeout Escape: Vlad uses this tactic in Hawk when some Jhereg are about to bust down the door to his flophouse room. Doubly lampshaded: Vlad's inner monologue comes up with the idea by speculating what someone in a play full of stupid action scenes would do, and Loiosh snarks about how he can't believe his boss is going with such a cliche.
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Dragaera / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Dragaera / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Paarfi makes something of a Running Gag of how Clari is more capable than her nominal superiors, out-classing Ibronka in preparation, getting directions, finding places to stay, and even charming higher-ranking soldiers.
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Dragaera / int_ce6652e5	type	Classy Cat-Burglar
Dragaera / int_ce6652e5	comment	Classy Cat-Burglar: Kiera the Thief.
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Dragaera / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Dragaera / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Kelly and his followers take this attitude towards the Cycle, believing they can force a change in the Empire even though it's thousands of years too early for another Teckla Republic.
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Dragaera / int_cf9b131f	type	Muscles Are Meaningless
Dragaera / int_cf9b131f	comment	Muscles Are Meaningless: Dragaerans typically have long, lean builds. It's unusual for them to be noticeably muscular. Nevertheless, they're all stronger than most Easterners across the board.
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Dragaera / int_d0d8df59	type	Lightbulb Joke
Dragaera / int_d0d8df59	comment	Lightbulb Joke: The Medieval Stasis version is apparently a sword-sharpening joke. After Vlad made several in Yendi, the fans took it upon themselves to write a whole lot more. Another book illustrates the differences in the attitudes of the Houses by describing how each would react to one rotten onion in a basket of them (A Dragon would throw out the whole basket, a Hawk would notice it was rotten but not stop you from eating it, a Jhereg would try to sell it regardless, etc).
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Dragaera / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Dragaera / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Vlad and his wife Cawti meet under an... extreme case of this.
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Dragaera / int_d2ce1cbd	type	Reasoning with God
Dragaera / int_d2ce1cbd	comment	Reasoning with God: At the end of the The Paths of the Dead, Zerika has to do this to get the Orb back—although it's more like convincing them to give her the Orb without condition, since she knows they have to do it anyway, they just want to manipulate her.
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Dragaera / int_d4689f3	type	Sarcasm Failure
Dragaera / int_d4689f3	comment	Sarcasm Failure: "This might be one of the great turning points in the history of the Empire. It seemed incumbent on me to say something to undercut to the whole significance of it, but nothing came to mind."
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Dragaera / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
Dragaera / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: The names of Serioli. Vlad's description of someone saying a Great Weapon's real name in Serioli is, "He made a sound that, if it had been louder, would have made the staff think he was choking to death." Also, Dragaerans from a certain part of the Empire have bizarre, consonant-littered names that Vlad can only approximate. One of his old bosses gets a new spelling on his name every time Vlad mentions him. In Orca, he doesn't even try with "Hwdf'rjaanci."
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Dragaera / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
Dragaera / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Orcas were originally described as much nastier and toothier than a real orca, although this is not reflected in official illustrations. Also, "Hawk" could refer to any bird of prey in the Dragaeran language.
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Dragaera / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Dragaera / int_d7b34c31	comment	The Sorceress in Green uses magic to continue looking young and attractive.
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Dragaera / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Dragaera / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Morrolan and Aliera are cousins and best friends, but any time they're in a room together odds are really, really good they're going to start yelling at each other. Lampshaded when Vlad finally gets sick of it and chews them out. Aliera and Sethra are a particularly extreme version of this in Five Hundred Years After, constantly challenging each other to duels and assumed by everyone seeing them to be worst enemies. Lampshaded by another character, who points out that this is nothing unusual among Dragonlords who are good friends. Piro and Shant may have been this as well, to judge by how resignedly Zivra and Lewchin react to the boys' bickering.
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Dragaera / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Dragaera / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Dragons in Dragaera are giant, powerful reptiles that do not breathe fire. Instead, they have tentacles that pick up psychic impressions from other animals. The House of the Dragon was named after dragons for their aggressive and warlike demeanor. Giant jhereg found around Deathsgate falls look more or less like classic wyverns. The smaller, more common jhereg look like cat-sized wyverns. They have human level intelligence and a poisonous bite.
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Dragaera / int_d8fdf777	type	Terminally Dependent Society
Dragaera / int_d8fdf777	comment	Terminally Dependent Society: The loss of the Orb to Adron's Disaster left the Empire in chaos, as sorcery failed and the Cycle was disrupted. Only its return could stave off the resulting anarchy, plagues, and invasions.
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Dragaera / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
Dragaera / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away / The Magic Comes Back: Happened to sorcery at (respectively) the start and end of the Interregnum, due to the absence of the Imperial Orb.
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Dragaera / int_d94f81a	type	The Sneaky Guy
Dragaera / int_d94f81a	comment	The Sneaky Guy: Kiera the Thief has a reputation as being able to steal anything and relies on stealth rather than combat prowess.
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Dragaera / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Dragaera / int_d9ffec82	comment	Vlad's main source of income while he is on the run is a gold coin he shows around in some shady taverns. Then he takes the money of the bandits that inevitably show up. From what is left of them.
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Dragaera / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Dragaera / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Dragaeran society is filled with them, because women are just as likely to be fighters as men. Of the major characters, Tazendra and Aliera are most prominent. While Sethra is better known as a sorceress, she is also a potent swordswoman. Cawti and Norathar had long careers as this trope before moving on to other things.
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Dragaera / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Dragaera / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Unfortunately encountered by Vlad in Jhegaala.
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Dragaera / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Dragaera / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: A double example in Jhereg: Mellar's scheme is to get himself assassinated at Castle Black by the Jhereg, thus insulting Morrolan and setting the Dragon and Jhereg Houses at each others' throats. Countered via the same trope by Vlad and his friends when they trick Mellar into (temporarily) killing Aliera, thus rescinding his rights as Morrolan's guest.
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Dragaera / int_db9dd05	type	Magic Misfire
Dragaera / int_db9dd05	comment	The Empire's old capital city was destroyed when a spell involving Elder Sorcery misfired, reducing the region to a permanently impassible lake of raw chaos that dissolves anything it touches.
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Dragaera / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Dragaera / int_dbb414ed	comment	Mario Greymist's reputation as an unstoppable, undetectable assassin qualifies, as "Mario did it" is apparently the default Hand Wave for the Phoenix Guard if they can't solve a murder case. (In one particular case, Mario predicts this will happen... when he actually did do it. He finds it amusing.)
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Dragaera / int_dc1c7647	type	Voice of the Legion
Dragaera / int_dc1c7647	comment	Voice of the Legion: Verra, whose voice sounds like two people speaking slightly out of sync. Has the added bonus that a group of different people, all listening to her at once, will all hear different things. And respond to what they hear. As Vlad put it, "She's the only person I know who makes those around her incomprehensible." Bolk from Brokedown Palace and the talking athyra which Morrolan and Vlad encounter on the Paths of the Dead have this quality.
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Dragaera / int_dc774000	type	Start X to Stop X
Dragaera / int_dc774000	comment	Start X to Stop X: The Serioli created Morganti weapons so no one would ever want to fight a war. It worked; Serioli were horrified by the idea of utterly destroying a soul. Dragaerans and Easterners lack that level of concern.
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Dragaera / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
Dragaera / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: Portions of Athyra are presented from Rocza's point of view.
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Dragaera / int_df1a0454	type	Fantasy Pantheon
Dragaera / int_df1a0454	comment	Fantasy Pantheon: The gods who sit in the Hall of Judgement, though they're really Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
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Dragaera / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
Dragaera / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: There's sorcery, witchcraft, and psionics. Sorcery is the most useful by far. And then there's Elder Sorcery...
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Dragaera / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Dragaera / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: The Baron Of Magister Valley is a stealth example for Vlad's old Right Hand boss, the Demon.
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Dragaera / int_e0e750b1	type	Shoulder-Sized Dragon
Dragaera / int_e0e750b1	comment	Shoulder-Sized Dragon: The jhereg.
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Dragaera / int_e1721fd1	type	Antiquated Linguistics
Dragaera / int_e1721fd1	comment	Antiquated Linguistics: A notable feature of the Khaavren Romances, emulating the prose of Dumas.
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Dragaera / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Dragaera / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: In Yendi, Vlad realizes he should start changing his weapons regularly. By Jhereg, set later but published earlier, he does this routinely. Many others due to the Anachronic Order.
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Dragaera / int_e459c80b	comment	Ability Mixing: Vlad Taltos dabbles in combining Eastern magic with Dragaeran sorcery and psionics. He once invokes a Sympathetic Magic principle of witchcraft to let a Psychic trace someone's mind through an object they used to own; later, he kludges all three disciplines together to eavesdrop on Telepathy, a feat previously thought to be impossible.
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Dragaera / int_e4c95972	comment	Innocent Bigot: The Empire is a hierarchical and fairly racist society, and lots of perfectly nice characters will say unintentionally offensive things about Easterners or Teckla without realizing it.
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Dragaera / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Dragaera / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The Khaavren Romances were conceived when Brust and a friend assigned Dragaeran Houses to the heroes of The Three Musketeers. In the resulting series, the main characters are obvious stand-ins for each of the original heroes. Khaavren is the young, ambitious d'Artagnan. Aerich is a consummate gentleman with a dark past, like Athos. Tazendra is a boisterous bruiser and dumb muscle, like Porthos. Pel is a cerebral schemer and womanizer, like Aramis.
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Dragaera / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: There is a group of weapons known as Great Weapons; Issola helps explain why they are important.
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Dragaera / int_e71ad328	comment	Plot Tailored to the Party: Played with in Hawk, in that virtually everyone Vlad knows contributes in some way to his scheme to get the Jhereg off his back: Daymar inspires the idea and provides the egg and wand; Kragar provides a safe place to stay; Kiera, the lockpick and information; Morrolan, the smoke-sphere; Aliera, healing for Kragar; Sethra, someone to build the stairs; Cawti, her uncharacteristic agreement to go into hiding; Sara, the euphonium; Perisil, the quotation from Dragaeran trade law; and Khaavren, the plan's final twist. Loiosh's and Rocza's help is vital, and Lady Teldra wakes up in time to consciously do her part. The Empress and Warlock intervene on Vlad's behalf after the park ambush, ensuring he's still alive to come up with the plan. The Demon ends up saving Vlad after plotting to kill him for years. Even characters who don't actually appear in the novel help out, albeit indirectly and/or symbolically: Norathar provides a safe place for Vlad's family to hide; both Savn and Vlad Norathar inspire Vlad to save, then recruit the young cutpurse; and Noish-pa's fencing lessons from decades ago give Vlad his strategy.
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Dragaera / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: Only Vlad's perspective (or Paarfi's rose-tinted view of history) makes the cast seem anything less than a bunch of total bastards.
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Dragaera / int_e8dd92fa	comment	Wastebasket Ball: Many of the clues Kiera collects in Orca were left behind at the bank because Vonnith had poor aim at this trope.
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Dragaera / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Dragaera / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Used in the in-Verse stage play Six Parts Water (which provides chapter quotes for Jhegaala).
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Dragaera / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Dragaera / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: No one knows what the Jenoine are trying to do or why. Their minds are too alien to fathom.
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Dragaera / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
Dragaera / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: Vlad thinks of Dragaeran society as evil, but with only a few minor exceptions they have almost no division of gender roles. Eastern society, while actually shown to be equally as ruthless as Dragaeran society, does have a more real-world distinction between genders. Noish-pa once curses himself for going easy on a hostile Dragaeran simply because she was female.
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Dragaera / int_eaa2b8f8	type	Bewitched Amphibians
Dragaera / int_eaa2b8f8	comment	Bewitched Amphibians: In Yendi, it's mentioned that Sethra Lavode, one of the world's most powerful sorcerers, sometimes turns intruders into jhegaala, a creature that has attributes of a toad. Also, the Sorceress in Green threatens to turn Vlad into a newt in the same novel, in a Shout-Out to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Dragaera / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Dragaera / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Tiassa combined characters and writing styles from the Paarfi and Vlad novels.
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Dragaera / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
Dragaera / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: Five Hundred Years After mentions a gender inversion. Rollondar e'Drien, who was the Warlord (commander of all military forces) fell in love with his wife after she defeated him in combat. It's noted that he receives a lot of ribbing in the barracks because of this. And of course, inverted with Vlad, who has only casual relationships until he falls in love with the woman who bests him. Fatally. Though he gets better.
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Dragaera / int_ec3ff1f7	type	In Which a Trope Is Described
Dragaera / int_ec3ff1f7	comment	In Which a Trope Is Described: The chapter titles in the Khaavren books.
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Dragaera / int_ed3a5a30	type	Big Labyrinthine Building
Dragaera / int_ed3a5a30	comment	Big Labyrinthine Building: Both the old Imperial Palace in Dragaera City and its successor in Adrilankha take this up to eleven, being bigger than many cities. Vlad gets lost repeatedly in the latter, and Tazendra in the former.
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Dragaera / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Dragaera / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted by the three women in the books named Ibronka with no connection to each other—the Dzurlord in the Khaavren Romances, Vlad's grandmother (named in Teckla) and a minor girlfriend of Vlad (named in Taltos). The name Ricardo is used for more than one male Easterner, and there's also a Ricard in Iorich.
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Dragaera / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Dragaera / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Most everyone in the Jhereg is ready and willing to take advantage of Klingon Promotion opportunities.
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Dragaera / int_ef20dac5	type	Servile Snarker
Dragaera / int_ef20dac5	comment	Servile Snarker: Loiosh is Vlad's familiar and obeys his orders, but that doesn't stop him from constantly busting his chops through their telepathic link. Loiosh is quick to blame Vlad's Deadpan Snarker personality for rubbing off on him.
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Dragaera / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Dragaera / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Morrolan, Paarfi, Daymar in lecture-mode
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Dragaera / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Dragaera / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Brust is a noted gourmand and Vlad is a cook who spends a lot of time in restaurants, leading to some obvious Author Appeal. The framing tale of Dzur is a single meal at the world's most luxurious restaurant. Each chapter represents a course. You will get hungry reading it. It's occasionally inverted into Food Gorn when epicurean Vlad despairs over having to subsist on army rations, linseed-soaked everything, or prison food.
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Dragaera / int_f3594e1	type	The All-Concealing "I"
Dragaera / int_f3594e1	comment	The All-Concealing "I": Kiera's narration in Orca.
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Dragaera / int_f6b70c98	type	Strongly Worded Letter
Dragaera / int_f6b70c98	comment	Strongly Worded Letter: A Running Gag in Hawk is Vlad snarkily recommending that the reader, if they don't like how he's telling the story, send a very rude letter to complain about it ... not to Vlad, but to some of his powerful friends who'd presumably beat the snot out of the reader for doing so.
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Dragaera / int_f7b32015	type	Sufficiently Advanced Alien
Dragaera / int_f7b32015	comment	Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The Jenoine are interdimensional beings who popped into the Dragaeran universe and warped everything around for their unfathomable experiments. The actual gods of Dragaera are mostly comprised of their helpers, who rebelled and kicked them out. Lesser beings can ascend to godhood if they become powerful enough.
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Dragaera / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Dragaera / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The "sword-sharpening jokes"— one for every House, at least by implication— and Vlad teasing Loiosh about lacking opposable thumbs in Yendi. In Taltos, whenever anyone in the Paths of the Death notes that Vlad and Morrolan are alive, Vlad replies "How can you tell?" Only Verra likes the joke. Becomes a Brick Joke in Vallista, when it's Vlad who notes that the Warlock is alive, and Laszlo returns the phrase. In Dzur, Vlad keeps spilling or breaking his drinking vessels, twice because somebody startled him and once because the wine was so awful that he threw the jug out the window at the first sip. In Hawk, Vlad repeatedly suggests that the reader, or he himself, send a Strongly Worded Letter voicing rude objections to how the story is playing out. Not to him, mind, but to the likes of Sethra, Morrolon, or the Empress: "Let me know how that works out for you." In Vallista, upon making some comment that'd make a good aphorism, Vlad spells out his last name so the reader can cite its source.
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Dragaera / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": All the Great Weapons have official names. Vlad, however, insists on referring to Godslayer as Lady Teldra, and for good reason.
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Dragaera / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: Referenced.
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Dragaera / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Dragaera / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: One interpretation of Adron is that he wanted to take over so that he could fix the mess that Tortaalik had gotten the Empire into. However, his choice of methods and some really inconvenient coincidences resulted in him crippling the Empire for two or three centuries. Notably, Adron's last words were a request that Khaavren and his friends not tell anyone that he'd been this.
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Dragaera / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Vlad engages in this occasionally. From Hawk:
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Dragaera / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Vlad gets a massive one in Teckla when he drops almost all of his fortune from Jhereg into buying control of South Adrilankha off the Jhereg lord he'd previously been fighting with, so he can help clean it up and be a good "landlord" for the Easterners who are forced to live there due to poverty.
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Dragaera	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Immortal Breaker / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Immortal Life Is Cheap / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Immortal Procreation Clause / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Immortality Begins at Twenty / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	In Love with the Mark / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	In Medias Res / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	In Which a Trope Is Described / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Innocent Bigot / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Instant Awesome: Just Add Dragons! / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Interquel / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Invisible Means Undodgeable / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Ironic Nickname / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Kitchen Sink Included / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Lady of Black Magic / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Lemony Narrator / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Levitating Lotus Position / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Lightbulb Joke / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Little Hero, Big War / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Little Miss Badass / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Loan Shark / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Lonely at the Top / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Long-Lived / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Long-Running Book Series / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Lost Colony / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Lovely Angels / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Luke Nounverber / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Lying by Omission / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Mad Mathematician / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Microts / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Mistaken Ethnicity / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Moe Greene Special / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Monster-Shaped Mountain / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	More than Three Dimensions / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Morph Weapon / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Multiple-Choice Past / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Mundane Solution / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Murder, Inc. / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Muscles Are Meaningless / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Mutilation Conga / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	My Species Doth Protest Too Much / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Named Weapons / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Narrative Profanity Filter / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Nay-Theist / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Neutral No Longer / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	No Questions Asked / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	No Sneak Attacks / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Noble Bigot / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Non-Human Sidekick / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Not My Driver / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Oblivious Adoption / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Of the People / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Oh, My Gods! / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Old Magic / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Omnibus / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Omniscient Morality License / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	One-Hit Kill / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Our Centaurs Are Different / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Our Dwarves Are All the Same / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Our Elves Are Different / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Our Humans Are Different / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Our Liches Are Different / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Our Souls Are Different / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Out with a Bang / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Padding / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Pals with Jesus / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Parody / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Parody Sue / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Perky Goth / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Person with the Clothing / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Phallic Weapon / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Phrase Catcher / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Physical Religion / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Planet England / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Powder Keg Crowd / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Power Limiter / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Prequel in the Lost Age / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Pretend Prejudice / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Professional Killer / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Prophecies Rhyme All the Time / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Proud Merchant Race / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Psycho Sidekick / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Punctuation Shaker / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Reality-Breaking Paradox / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Reincarnation / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Requisite Royal Regalia / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Resurrection Sickness / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Sacred Hospitality / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Sarcastic Devotee / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Scavengers Are Scum / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Science Fantasy / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Seemingly Profound Fool / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Self-Proclaimed Liar / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Sensory Tentacles / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Servile Snarker / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Sex Starts, Story Stops / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Sexy Discretion Shot / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	She Is the King / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Shoulder-Sized Dragon / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Snarky Non-Human Sidekick / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Something for Everyone / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Soul-Cutting Blade / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Soul Eating / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Soul Jar / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Soulless Bedroom / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Space Elves / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Spin to Deflect Stuff / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Square Race, Round Class / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Squirrels in My Pants / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Start X to Stop X / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Stay on the Path / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Stealth Hi/Bye / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Sufficiently Advanced Alien / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Supreme Chef / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Sword of Damocles / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Sympathetic P.O.V. / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Teleport Interdiction / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Teleportation / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Teleportation Sickness / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Terminally Dependent Society / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	That Old-Time Prescription / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Archmage / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Clan / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Confidant / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Conqueror / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Consigliere / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Croc Is Ticking / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Cycle of Empires / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Dark Arts / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Igor / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Magic Comes Back / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Magic Goes Away / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Napoleon / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Nondescript / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Older Immortal / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Phoenix / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Reveal Prompts Romance / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Sneaky Guy / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Storyteller / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Syndicate / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	They Call Him "Sword" / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Thieves' Guild / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	To Hell and Back / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Trolling Creator / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Turned Against Their Masters / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Two Aliases, One Character / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Unequal Rites / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Uncoffee / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Undeath Always Ends / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Underworld River / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Unfriendly Fire / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Unnamed Parent / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Uplifted Animal / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Variable-Length Chain / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Vicious Cycle / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Villainous Widow's Peak / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Voice of the Legion / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Walking Armory / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	We Are as Mayflies / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Weapon Wields You / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	What Would X Do? / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	What's Up, King Dude? / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Wild Card / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Wizards Live Longer / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	World of Snark / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	World of Symbolism / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Write Who You Know / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	You Just Told Me / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	You Need to Get Laid / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Young Face, Old Eyes / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Your Soul Is Mine! / int_33728d94
dragaera	sameAs	Dragaera
Dragaera	hasFeature	Love at First Punch / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	Mutilation Interrogation / int_33728d94
Dragaera	hasFeature	The Right of a Superior Species / int_33728d94

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