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Dragonriders of Pern

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Dragonriders of Pern	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Pern, an isolated world with no useful resources, seemed like the ideal place for people tired of technology to establish a pastoral utopia, until Thread, an alien fungus that could devour a cow in seconds, began to fall from the skies. Rather than permanently resort to technological measures, the colonists used genetic engineering to create dragons, a solution compatible with their principles since, like the spaceships that had brought them to Pern, it was technology they could use once, then discard. Using planes to fight Thread would mean living in an industrial society capable of supporting them; dragons could be supported by the idealised medieval society the settlers had wanted. There's also the matter that they'd been warned the planet's resources were "negligible". There's insufficient metal and fuel for such an industrial society, whether or not they want one.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Written by Anne McCaffrey, the first Pern novella, "Weyr Search", was published in Analog, an adult science fiction magazine edited by John W. Campbell, in October 1967. She kept writing them for another forty years, though later in collaboration with her son, Todd, who eventually took over the series. She was the first woman writer in history to win the Hugo and Nebula Awards, for "Weyr Search" and the original "Dragonflight" (Analog, December 1967/January 1968).Most of the books take place over two thousand years after Pern was first settled, beginning when Thread has been absent for 400 years, ever since most of the dragonriders mysteriously disappeared. Only a handful of people still believe Thread was ever real, and there aren't enough dragons left to fight it if it should return, which it does. Fortunately, it turns out that dragons aren't just fire-breathing telepathic teleporters; they can also Time Travel. The heroine travels 400 years into the past, and brings forward the missing dragonriders, creating a Stable Time Loop.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Subsequent books dealt with the culture clash between the old-fashioned time-displaced dragon riders and the people they had come to save, and with the gradual rediscovery of technology, which led to the unearthing of the original colony, and a final end to Thread. There are also several prequels, describing how various aspects of Pern society came to be. Some of the books overlap with each other, covering the same events but following different characters.The series initially had a fantasy feel, with a few Science Fiction trappings,note If John W. Campbell published it in Analog, he at least believed it to be science fiction. He did not publish anything he thought of as fantasy literature, which is why Ray Bradbury and Zenna Henderson never appeared in the magazine. then evolved into Science Fantasy. McCaffrey, for her part, always insisted that the stories were straight Sci-Fi, though it could be hard to tell in many of the books.There was also a board game from Nova Game Designs.Novels and short stories (in order of publication): Dragonflight (Anne McCaffrey) Dragonquest (Anne McCaffrey) Dragonsong (Anne McCaffrey) Dragonsinger (Anne McCaffrey) The White Dragon (Anne McCaffrey) Dragondrums (Anne McCaffrey) Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (Anne McCaffrey) Nerilka's Story (Anne McCaffrey) Dragonsdawn (Anne McCaffrey) "The Impression" (Anne McCaffrey) Renegades of Pern (Anne McCaffrey) All the Weyrs of Pern (Anne McCaffrey) The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (Anne McCaffrey) "The Survey: P.E.R.N." (Anne McCaffrey) "The Dolphins' Bell" (Anne McCaffrey) "The Ford of Red Hanranhan" (Anne McCaffrey) "The Second Weyr" (Anne McCaffrey) "Rescue Run" (Anne McCaffrey) The Dolphins of Pern (Anne McCaffrey) Red Star Rising / Dragonseye (Anne McCaffrey) The Masterharper of Pern (Anne McCaffrey) The Skies of Pern (Anne McCaffrey) A Gift of Dragons (Anne McCaffrey) "The Smallest Dragonboy" (Anne McCaffrey) "The Girl Who Heard Dragons" (Anne McCaffrey) "Runner of Pern" (Anne McCaffrey) "Ever the Twain" (Anne McCaffrey) "Beyond Between" (Anne McCaffrey) Dragon's Kin (Anne and Todd McCaffrey) Dragonsblood (Todd McCaffrey) Dragon's Fire (Anne and Todd McCaffrey) Dragon Harper (Anne and Todd McCaffrey) Dragonheart (Todd McCaffrey) Dragongirl (Todd McCaffrey) Dragon's Time (Anne and Todd McCaffrey) Sky Dragons (Anne and Todd McCaffrey) Dragon's Code (Gigi McCaffrey)
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_124d7bce	type	Intimate Hair Brushing
Dragonriders of Pern / int_124d7bce	comment	Intimate Hair Brushing: In the novel Dragon's Fire, Trader Tarri washes and brushes Halla's hair. Halla, a twelve-year-old homeless orphan, can't remember anyone ever doing this for her before.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Dragonriders of Pern / int_133f1c12	comment	The Spymaster: MasterHarpers seem to be relatively benign examples. In addition to their teaching duties, almost all harpers sent abroad to teach also report on the general mood of the holds they're assigned to. In addition the Hall seems to produce one or two overly curious and quick-witted apprentices each generation. They eventually become one step below active spies, sent wherever their particular talents can be used and reporting directly to the MasterHarper. As of the Ninth Pass their chief agents seem to be Nip, Tuck/Traller, Sebell, and Piemur.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_13b3655d	type	Geographic Flexibility
Dragonriders of Pern / int_13b3655d	comment	Geographic Flexibility: Travel times around Pern seemingly vary according to the needs of the plot.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
Dragonriders of Pern / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Averted, as the Pernese settlers were armed with advance surveys and the science to clearly identify which local lifeforms were good to eat and which weren't, and they wouldn't have tried to settle Pern in the first place if the atmosphere wasn't breathable, etc. They also brought a lot of Earth lifeforms and conducted extensive experiments to determine compatibility, modifying genes where necessary — incidentally, this is why there are no bees or turkeys on Pern. Or coffee. In Dragonsdawn it's mentioned that for some unknown reason coffee had proven unable to be adapted to growth on any planet other than Earth. On Pern, this leads to the development of a substitute made from the ground bark of a native tree, a drink that becomes known as klah.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_171b1206	type	Men Can't Keep House
Dragonriders of Pern / int_171b1206	comment	Men Can't Keep House: Late in Dragonflight, T'ton of Fort Weyr mentions that Mardra, his Weyrwoman, believes this.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Robinton grew up as one; his father ignored him in favour of his work and never gave him any approval despite how accomplished he was even as a young child. Even when Robinton proved his abilities beyond what anyone expected of him, Petiron wouldn't praise him, he'd just act as though it was the bare minimum required and criticise his son for faults nobody else cared about.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Dragonriders of Pern / int_17ce80aa	comment	According to background material, Pern society became more patriarchal after the Plague in Moreta's time, as the population reduction forced women to focus more on making and raising babies.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_17e530e1	type	Pūnct'uatìon Sh'akër
Dragonriders of Pern / int_17e530e1	comment	Pūnct'uatìon Sh'akër: All male Weyr riders have their names ritually contracted after Impression, to make shouted communication easier during Threadfall. For example, F'lar was born Fallarnon. Losing your dragon (and surviving) sometimes revokes this, as Lytol was L'tol when he was a rider, but went back to Lytol after his dragon died. Some humor comes from the difficulty in figuring out what Jaxom's rider name ought to be after he accidentally impresses Ruth; the situation is resolved by allowing him the unique privilege of being a dragonrider and Lord Holder.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Dragonriders of Pern / int_1869b4b1	comment	In Dragonsong, Menolly's father beats her for composing music, and her mother may have deliberately attempted to cripple her hand so she can't play an instrument. She rises above every other hardship in her life, but she never forgives her parents. However, the canon text is explicitly contradictory on whether Menolly's mother did her best and was sad that she couldn't help more, or deliberately let her be crippled.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Dragonriders of Pern / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Late in The Renegades of Pern, when Jayge is fighting Thella to save his family.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Dragonriders of Pern / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Robinton, in-universe. In one scene Piemur is torn between amusement and frustration that his elderly mentor distracts all the ladies from him.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Dragonriders of Pern / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Piemur faced a quartet of them in the Drum Heights, and the abusive Journeyman Dirzan who ignored his complaints about the four bullies. The bullies' last act against him was to grease the steps of the stairs, so he would slip on his run back up the steps. When the fall knocks him unconscious, they clean the grease off the steps so it will look like an accident...and then leave him lying there.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1c34e06b	type	Only the Chosen May Ride
Dragonriders of Pern / int_1c34e06b	comment	Only the Chosen May Ride: The titular Dragonriders of Pern are chosen this way. The dragons form an empathic bond with a particular human, who then becomes a dragonrider. Candidates are "searched" — basically anyone even slightly telepathic is shanghaied into the Weyr from their family and former life. The bond is so strong that riders of dragons who mate often wind up having sex as well whether they meant to or not.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Dragonriders of Pern / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Early on, Lessa and F'lar spend a lot of time not telling each other things. They get better.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1d9a2764	type	RealityEnsues
Dragonriders of Pern / int_1d9a2764	comment	Reality Ensues: Dragons were explicitly created to fight Thread. The Weyrs are supported by the Holds for their services in fighting Thread. So once the dragonriders stop Thread from falling again, the big problem immediately becomes the question of how the Weyrs will support themselves once there is no Thread to fight, and the Holds therefore won't be supporting them- and exactly what they'll do with their time.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1e95dd12	type	Adam and Eve Plot
Dragonriders of Pern / int_1e95dd12	comment	Adam and Eve Plot: In the short story "Rescue Run", Steve Kimmer and his family are discovered by Pern's would-be rescuers on the Southern Continent. Rather than "repopulate the planet", they've become an insular clan with strong implications of Parental Incest.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Dragonriders of Pern / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: In Dragonsdawn Paul Benden has a couple of prosthetic fingers.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_1f7b2d59	type	Law of Chromatic Superiority
Dragonriders of Pern / int_1f7b2d59	comment	Law of Chromatic Superiority: A dragon’s or fire lizard’s size and physical ability is directly linked to its color. Though there have been exceptions, such as Canth - a bronze-sized brown. Intelligence was gauged this way as well, up until Ruth, a runt white dragon as smart as any dragon portrayed.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_204a1207	type	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
Dragonriders of Pern / int_204a1207	comment	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Between, the dimension used by dragons and fire lizards when they teleport, is devoid of sensation, airless, and brutally cold. And also apparently prone to causing miscarriages if a female rider is still in the early stages of pregnancy when she goes between. Since the time spent between increases the further you go in time, hypothermia and sensory / oxygen deprivation almost killed Lessa when she went back 450 Turns—she was babbling and needed bed rest for a while after getting out. It's explicitly stated that the only thing keeping her and Ramoth from going completely insane was their mental contact. (On the return trip they figured out how to take a series of much smaller time jumps, resting after each one.)
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off
Dragonriders of Pern / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off: Menolly's father beats her in this manner for the grave sin of improvising her own music. While F'lar doesn't go quite this far, he has a tendency in the earlier books to shake Lessa when she upsets him. He does it so often that she expects it when she returns from her heroic mission through time. He does, though it's implied to be because he's relieved to see her, not out of anger.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2216d255	type	Monster's Favorite Petting Spot
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2216d255	comment	Monster's Favorite Petting Spot: Dragons are known to love having their eye ridges scratched.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2933bdf5	type	Genetic Memory
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2933bdf5	comment	Genetic Memory: There is a very strong implication that fire lizard memory is this; it's hard to imagine any other way that they could remember the events of Landing so vividly two thousand years later. In fact, it's fire lizard memory that leads Jaxom's team to discover the original Landing site, as well as AIVAS. Another possibility that has been implied is that the telepathic firelizards form a weak hivemind, complete with a collective memory. However, the effect is functionally the same.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Dragonriders of Pern / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Lessa (parents murdered by Fax), Jaxom (mother died in childbirth, father was the aforementioned and unlamented Fax), and others. A common occurance with Weyrfolk, due to the dangers inherent in being a Dragonrider. Children in Weyrs are raised in a communal manner to make this easier on the children.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: F'lar and Robinton, later Lessa. Also Sebell. It seems that this is one of the traits required to become MasterHarper. Menolly, Piemur and Jaxom to lesser degrees.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Discussed by riders in Dragonseye who are about to face the first Threadfall in two hundred years. Invoked by the riders in Dragonsdawn, after their first (unplanned) flight between.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: If a rider who loses his dragon does not commit suicide, he or she is frequently left as this. The quintessential example is Kylara, who is left almost catatonic when her queen dies. Lytol manages to avert this. While he never gets over the pain of losing his dragon, he presses on through life by engaging in other pursuits. First by being a Weaver, then by dedicating himself to making Ruatha Hold prosperous again for his ward Jaxom, whom he treats as a son (albeit in a distant fashion).
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: A few of them: A minor one in Dragonflight, where Lessa, Fax and F'lar are all intriguing over who has the right to rule Ruatha Hold. Lessa is the (unknown) dispossessed rightful heir to Ruatha, Fax is the usurper, and F'lar unseats Fax, but in favor of Fax's son Jaxom rather than in Lessa's favor. In F'lar's defense, he didn't know at the time that Lessa was farther up the line of succession. No one except Lessa did. In the Harper Hall trilogy, Meron deliberately avoids naming a successor as he's dying (he wants a bloody succession fight to spite everyone), until Robinton uses reverse psychology to get him to select the relative he thinks nobody wants. In All The Weyrs Of Pern, Oterel's death requires the other lords to vote on his successor. Thanks to petty political bickering, they have a lot of trouble getting consensus on the one son who isn't blatantly an idiot or wastrel. The manner of resolving these changes across the books. In Dragonflight F'lar resolves the matter of Fax's succession by himself. In Dragondrums the matter of the Nabol succession requires an explicitly named successor. All the Weyrs has a Council of the combined Lords and Craftmasters electing a new Lord when there is no named successor, with the chosen Lord being appointed after the meeting is over. Skies has another Council-appointed Lord Holder, only this one is appointed moments after being elected by the Council, and is invited to sit on the Council as a full participant for the remainder of the session.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2e528f4e	type	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2e528f4e	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Dragons? Gaze up in awe and go "whoa, cool!" Fire lizards? Gather round and Squee! over the pretties. Watch-whers? Chained to a wall as barely tolerated "watchdogs". Although they are shown as capable of friendship and loyalty, and their distant kinship to dragons is mentioned from book one, it is not until the prequels that their origin is revealed — partially failed experiments in creating a second type of dragon.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2e7d6711	type	Enemy to All Living Things
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2e7d6711	comment	Enemy to All Living Things: Thread eats its way through anything organic — being tied out during threadfall is the single most dire punishment that a criminal can be sentenced to. Drowned Thread OTOH (Thread can't survive in water) is a rich food source for marine life. While the rest of Pern suffers due to Thread, fish and other sea animals thrive. Played with later on, when it is discovered that Thread is actually only a small part of an extremely complex ecology of space-born lifeforms in Pern's Oort cloud. Presumably, its effects on Pern are an accidental side effect rather than its normal life cycle, since thread on Pern is stranded with no way to get back or reproduce. There's even a brief discussion of the ethics of causing the extinction of Thread, since this will disrupt the oort cloud ecology, but they quickly decide to go through with it anyway.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2f5b9954	type	Alphabetical Theme Naming
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2f5b9954	comment	Alphabetical Theme Naming: Dragons name themselves at Impression, always with a name that ends in -th: Faranth, Ruth, Mnementh, etc. Why they all seem to hatch instinctively knowing to do this is not explained or even brought up.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_2f7a76ac	type	Can't Live Without You
Dragonriders of Pern / int_2f7a76ac	comment	Can't Live Without You: Once a rider dies, the dragon normally commits suicide post-haste. Moreta's queen is temporarily tethered by her mothering instinct for the eggs she just laid, but suicides as soon as the eggs are hard enough to survive without her. Riders whose dragons die also frequently suicide; those who don't, such as Lytol, remain somewhat shattered for the rest of their lives, if not outright mindblasted (Kylara). Brekke is helped a great deal by her rare ability to hear other dragons.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_30763ed8	type	Eternal English
Dragonriders of Pern / int_30763ed8	comment	Eternal English: Over 2500 years on Pern have introduced a lingual shift despite the best efforts of the Harpers. However, the shift is not so severe that, allowing for the loss of context, they cannot understand the language of their ancestors. Documents and recordings from the colonists are still understandable to modern characters (though some of the context has been lost). After being unburied, AIVAS is able to rapidly adjust its language to make itself understood. The dolphins underwent a similar linguistic shift, mostly becoming simpler and filled with abbreviations (for instance, the "blood fish" that attach themselves to the dolphins' undersides like leeches became "bluufis").
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_3079b64	type	Author Catchphrase
Dragonriders of Pern / int_3079b64	comment	Author Catchphrase: McCaffrey has a name, "Johnny Greene", or "J.G.", that she likes to insert into most of her works. Jayge is an example. One of the companion pieces revealed that the real "Johnny Greene" was a family friend who was murdered in France prior to the publication of Renegades of Pern.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_31b99a18	type	Naming Your Colony World
Dragonriders of Pern / int_31b99a18	comment	Naming Your Colony World: A retcon has Pern named from a four-letter code summarizing its geology and ecology — Parallel Earth; Resources Negligible.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_31bace22	type	Rape and Switch
Dragonriders of Pern / int_31bace22	comment	Rape and Switch: Anne McCaffrey had an infamous opinion that anal rape releases hormones that turn men permanently gay; according to Word of God this would canonically apply to male greenriders if one who wasn't already gay was chosen. This is never stated in the text, and as it makes very little sense to most people who are not Anne McCaffrey, it's usually ignored. As of Sky Dragons, it's been officially retconned.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_31d6fd00	type	Legend Fades to Myth
Dragonriders of Pern / int_31d6fd00	comment	Legend Fades to Myth: In Dragonflight the riders first realize Thread is falling when F'nor comes in covered in a mysterious black dust. Lessa quotes a verse about frozen Thread turning to black dust saying it's from "The Ballad of Moreta's Ride". Dragonsinger has people actually singing the ballad, about the Dragonlady who saved Pern from a deadly epidemic at the cost of her own life. Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (published at a later date) recounts the actual events that gave rise to the legend. Over time, knowledge that the Pernese came from another planet was lost. In Moreta's time, the "two crossings" (coming to Pern, and then leaving the Southern Continent) was considered a fringe theory. By the Ninth Pass, even that much is forgotten, and the Pernese assume they have always been there.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_326c4b4f	type	Scare Dare
Dragonriders of Pern / int_326c4b4f	comment	Scare Dare: Robinton has to spend the night in an abandoned Weyr as an unofficial rite of passage among Harpers. Due to his previous experiences with Benden Weyr, he's unimpressed: they actually have to run around shouting to find him, since he's comfortably asleep in one of the heated caves.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
Dragonriders of Pern / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Lessa was ready to wait ten years disguised as a menial servant to take revenge on the man who slew her entire family. During this time she turned Ruatha, one of the wealthiest Holds, into a complete ruin through simple sabotage and slight adjustments of co-workers' emotions and decisions via telepathy, and manipulated F’lar into a duel with Fax to make him pay. She was only ten years old when this started.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_35d4beb4	type	Horde of Alien Locusts
Dragonriders of Pern / int_35d4beb4	comment	Horde of Alien Locusts: Thread.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
Dragonriders of Pern / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: All time travel in the series either results in one of these, or is the result of one of these. There's even a case or two where someone travels in time because they see something that makes them realize they already had.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Dragonriders of Pern / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Menolly gets caught out during Threadfall and runs the skin off the bottoms of her feet (after wearing through the soles of her shoes) trying to reach shelter. She's spotted and rescued by a dragon and rider. Years later, she comments that her feet are still unusually sensitive.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_3a6a7b0a	type	Starving Artist
Dragonriders of Pern / int_3a6a7b0a	comment	Starving Artist: Iantine, in Dragonseye, is reduced to this on account of the bad weather and political corruption he encounters in Bitra.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Dragonriders of Pern / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: F'lar, about Thread.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_3b39ad7b	type	Multiple-Tailed Beast
Dragonriders of Pern / int_3b39ad7b	comment	Multiple-Tailed Beast: Pernese dragons have forked tails.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_3c598f56	type	Conflict Ball
Dragonriders of Pern / int_3c598f56	comment	Conflict Ball: Some characters seem to switch between supportive and antagonistic between books as plot demands. Jayge and Aramina, who were seeking confirmation of dolphin intelligence from AIVAS in All the Weyrs so their son and Alemi wouldn't be seen as crazy, to Dolphins where they thought he was crazy and irresponsible. Toric is a force unto himself; see Wild Card below. He seems to have a Conflict Ball sewn into his clothes, as pretty much any time he shows up in a story, he's causing trouble.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_3d63f495	type	No Mere Windmill
Dragonriders of Pern / int_3d63f495	comment	No Mere Windmill: Type B. When F'lar (and his father before him) warns the political leaders of the soon-to-begin Ninth Pass about the return of Thread, they refuse to believe him, until it starts dropping on their heads of course.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_3fcddd2c	type	Mad Lib Fantasy Title
Dragonriders of Pern / int_3fcddd2c	comment	Mad Lib Fantasy Title
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Dragonriders of Pern / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: The Red Star, of course, but Pern also has two moons. Plus, Pern is far enough away from Earth that the night sky would look very different, with none of the familiar constellations. A few references in The Skies of Pern do make it clear that at least some of the same stars are visible, though naturally from a completely different perspective.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Dragonriders of Pern / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted with AIVAS, who is the anti-HAL 9000. Not only does he help free Pern from thread forever, he commits suicide rather than let the people of Pern become dependent on him.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_422878ca	type	Cinderella Circumstances
Dragonriders of Pern / int_422878ca	comment	Cinderella Circumstances: Lessa. Born into the ruling family of Ruatha, the richest and grandest Hold on Pern, she disguises herself as a Scullery Maid after the rest of her family is slaughtered by the tyrant Fax. Weyr Search is the story of a Cinderella who's in the process of rescuing herself, using her Psychic Powers to ruin her family's land and castle and manipulate visiting dragonman F'lar into killing Fax, after which she's completely prepared to clean up, take over and restore the place. She is less than enthused by F'lar and certainly does not regard him as a Prince Charming coming to her rescue.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_44989f6f	type
Dragonriders of Pern / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Had Lessa just asked F'lar for help, as was her right, instead of trying to trick him into it she really would have become ruler of Ruatha hold as she wanted. None of the rest of the plot would have proceeded as written due to that one mistake on her part.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_454d9422	type	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
Dragonriders of Pern / int_454d9422	comment	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Todd McCaffrey's books tend to end with the antagonist (and/or most of his cohorts) getting slaughtered.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_45ca5950	type	Never Accepted in His Hometown
Dragonriders of Pern / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: In Dragonsong, the first Dragonriders' young-adult novel, Menolly is a girl who dares to perform and even compose music in a fishing village of a practical and pragmatic (and repressive) sort. In the course of the novel, Menolly injures herself cleaning fish, and her own mother deliberately stitches her palm up wrong, crippling her hand so she can barely perform routine household tasks (making her even more despised), let alone play any instrument. Meanwhile, the Master Harper Robinton and his faithful have been searching for the "anonymous" author of the fine music mailed to him by a rural harper, and take her away from all that to make her as much a star as a Medieval setting permits.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_46e7492b	type	Comet of Doom
Dragonriders of Pern / int_46e7492b	comment	Comet of Doom: The Red Star, although it's technically not a comet, serves the role plot-wise. There's a more direct example in The Skies of Pern.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Dragonriders of Pern / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Sort of an example-by-proxy with Jaxom. He's very sensitive about Ruth's unusual color and small size (he's about the size of the original Dragons, but they were engineered to get way bigger), and wants Ruth to be treated like any other dragon. He becomes very embarrassed when he finds out that Ruth is Asexual, though Ruth shows a lack of concern typical of Dragons in this setting.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_4a32f262	type	Reassignment Backfire
Dragonriders of Pern / int_4a32f262	comment	Reassignment Backfire: A subversion occurs with Petiron, who was assigned to a backwater fishing Hold that just happened to beget one of the greatest musical prodigies in Pernese history, Menolly. Then it turns out that he was assigned at his own request, and that his son is the current Masterharper, Robinton.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Dragonriders of Pern / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: F'lar and Lessa. Lessa is explicitly described as being little bigger than a child while F'lar is a six-footer.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Dragonriders of Pern / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Even decades later, Lytol drinks to unconsciousness after a dragon dies to numb the pain of losing his. Robinton is also overly fond of drink, and has been ever since his bride Kasia died of a plague. Though he's managed to cultivate a reputation as a wine connoisseur and implies it enhances his music, and so his frequent drinking is rarely looked down upon. He also manages to never become falling-down drunk, or even particularly sloppy, even when he's drinking people like Lytol under the table (he's even implied to have pretended to be more drunk than he was for Lytol's benefit).
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_539179db	type	Synchronization
Dragonriders of Pern / int_539179db	comment	Synchronization: Riders and their dragons.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Dragonriders of Pern / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Mostly maintained, although a convalescing Menolly is helped to use "the necessary" at one point. And Piemur has some “uncomfortable moments” after a few days surviving on raw fruit in the jungle.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Dragonriders of Pern / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Aramina leaves Benden Weyr because she can hear any and all dragons and can't shut them out.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
Dragonriders of Pern / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks: For Piemur, puberty ends his sheltered life as a boy soprano. On the other hand, it also began his life as Robinton's secret apprentice, going to hatchings, smuggling queen fire lizard eggs, and... well, it stopped sucking pretty quickly.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_58e83efd	type	Disease by Any Other Name
Dragonriders of Pern / int_58e83efd	comment	Disease by Any Other Name: A fast-spreading illness almost wipes out the human population until a Healer and a weyr-woman manage to re-invent vaccination. The Pernese don't know what the illness is, but any reader who's ever had the flu will recognize it immediately. (Most of the deaths are from secondary illnesses, which matches Real Life influenza epidemics.)
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Dragonriders of Pern / int_590eb583	comment	In fact, there is a lot of Domestic Abuse all the way through the series. F'nor thinks the selfish Kylara needs "a sound thrashing", as if this is the normal way unruly people are treated. Her maid observes that T'bor gets drunk and beats Kylara. Kylara is also having an affair with Lord Meron, who leaves her covered in bruises, though that is implied to be as a result of the less-than-safe rough sex she enjoys.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_5a2c2468	type	Teleportation Misfire
Dragonriders of Pern / int_5a2c2468	comment	Teleportation Misfire: One of the obvious risks of a poorly visualized trip between.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a
Dragonriders of Pern / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Runnerbeasts and herdbeasts, sort of. While they are related to horses and oxen (and are described as looking similar), they were significantly genetically engineered by the original colonists to be able to eat Pernese flora, which is high in Boron. So they're probably a different species, technically.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Dragonriders of Pern / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: McCaffrey based her dragon riders' personalities and physical characteristics on real-life fighter pilots.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_5eca52dc	type	Distress Call
Dragonriders of Pern / int_5eca52dc	comment	Distress Call: In Dragonsdawn, the colonists could have sent a distress beacon into space after the Threadfall, but this would most likely have brought scavengers down on them, who would pick over the bones of the colony regardless of whether there was anyone still alive or not. Not to mention that it would take at minimum ten years for help to arrive. They decided not to call for help. A rogue group of colonists fire it off anyway, which caused interesting things several generations down the road.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Dragonriders of Pern / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Stev Kimmer, in Rescue Run, has sex with his stepdaughters, and possibly his biological daughters.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_60f992e8	type	Florence Nightingale Effect
Dragonriders of Pern / int_60f992e8	comment	Florence Nightingale Effect: Jaxom and Sharra's relationship begins this way, after she treats him for Firehead Fever. When Lessa is treating F'lar's knife wound, she can't help but notice his manliness.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: How F’lar manages to convince the Holders to cooperate with Benden Weyr after the Long Interval — he sends dragons to abduct their wives and daughters. Unusual mainly in that the hero (well, the heroine's Love Interest) is pulling this maneuver - and has justification. If the dragonriders starve, the entire colonized continent of Pern will either be eaten by Thread or starve in the midst of their dead land.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: In the second part of Dragon's Fire, Moran decides to secretly follow Tenim after he abandons their group. Several chapters later, Moran is shown caring for the sick in a completely different location without any information as to how he got there.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_63557923	type	Death World
Dragonriders of Pern / int_63557923	comment	Death World: F'nor and Canth pay a visit to the Red Star at the end of Dragonquest and come back near-dead and skinless from the corrosive, unbreathable atmosphere. Pern itself was one before the Colonists engineered the Dragons. The original surveyors of the planet had wondered why there were circular patterns of new growth, and so few biological niches filled. The Colonists found out the answers the hard way.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6369571f	type	Never the Selves Shall Meet
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6369571f	comment	Never the Selves Shall Meet: This seems to change at different points in the series. At the start, Jaxom coming close to himself causes incredible exhaustion, and Lessa overrunning herself three times at the same temporal point results in swaying and mumbling gibberish. This might be a problem exclusive to dragonriders - being the result of their telepathic bond with their dragon effectively becoming duplicated - as a number of non-dragonriders in Todd McCaffrey's books avoid this trauma when travelling through time, and Masterharper Zist even talks to his past self outright with no issue.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6370e1c0	type	Gender Rarity Value
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6370e1c0	comment	Gender Rarity Value: Applies in this case to the dragons; golds are the least common dragon color and yet the ones primarily responsible for populating the Weyrs. Over the last Long Interval, the Weyr population diminished to the point where there was only one gold alive at any time (because Lessa had gone back in time to the end of the Eighth Pass to bring the population of every Weyr except Benden to the future), making the extinction of the species a real possibility and justifying the taboo against flying golds in combat, something which had not existed in previous Passes.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6587a846	type	Fantastic Time Management
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6587a846	comment	Fantastic Time Management: Used mostly-trivially by Jaxom, and far more seriously by Moreta.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Dragonriders of Pern / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: The Pernese colonists were specifically selected for their lack of susceptibility to religion, with reverence to the dragons filling a similar cultural space. Throughout the entire series, God is not mentioned once. On the other hand, it's mentioned in Dragonsdawn that much of the Judeo-Christian Bible consists of plain common sense that the Pernese hold to "without any trace of fanatical devotion," and Aivas considers the Bible to be "the greatest book ever written by mankind."note The specific quote he gives comes from Ecclesiastes, which even noted atheists like Richard Dawkins have called the most beautiful piece of literature in the English language
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Dragonriders of Pern / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: The dragons.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_68a91d1c	type	Honest Advisor
Dragonriders of Pern / int_68a91d1c	comment	Honest Advisor: Harpers, and Masterharper Robinton in particular, see this as part of their role as educators. Robinton never hesitates to let a Lord Holder know if he's about to do something unwise, whether he likes it or not. His Establishing Character Moment was to give the convened Lord Holders a massive "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Since Mastercrafters and Lord Holders are equal in rank, they can't make him shut up, either.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6a1cbf28	type	Rebellious Princess
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Rebellious Princess: Nerilka, a Lord Holder's daughter (which is about as close to a princess as you can get in Pernese society), refuses to obey her Jerkass father's commands and becomes a nurse during the plague. Thella even moreso, an extremely negative example.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Menolly is elevated to the rank of journeyman, Master Robinton recites the same speech his own Master Gennell said when Robinton became a journeyman.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6c4ed101	type	Breath Weapon
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6c4ed101	comment	Breath Weapon: Most of the dragons ingest an ore called "firestone" to enable them to breathe fire. The phosphorus in the firestone reacts with the dragon's stomach acid to produce phosphine (chemical formula PH3), a poison gas that ignites spontaneously upon contact with air. The egg-laying gold dragons aren't allowed to chew firestone because it has the side effect of sterilizing females. In Dragonsdawn, it's revealed that this is a misinterpretation of the actual reason: Greens were genetically tweaked to be sterile regardless of firestone, and queens who try to eat firestone vomit it back up, making it necessary for their riders to use flamethrowers. This tweaking was to match the conservative gender views of the geneticist who did the work: on finding out after her death, the queen riders were not pleased. Though it also protects the only viable females. The greens were meant to be sterile because green firelizards were neglectful mothers at best, with clutches forgotten or destroyed by predators. Golds were much more successful, but this meant they were the ONLY thing keeping the dragon species going (all males could sire clutches of all colors, upping the odds of having a fertile male around.) Risking them in any way meant risking everyone's survival, as Benden Weyr found out by the start of the Ninth Pass when the survival of the entire species hinged on one egg (Ramoth's, luckily.)
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Happens to riders whose dragons die, and vice versa.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Robinton and Menolly, but an unusual example. They know they're fond of each other, and after his heart attack they both admit that said feelings are not 100% platonic. However, she's involved with someone else, and he is very much in favor of that relationship. So other than that brief recognition and pang, his relationship to her remains teacher / surrogate family.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: Toric, though a brother and not a father, tries to enact one of these on his sister Sharra and Jaxom. He doesn't have any problem with Jaxom as a person, but he planned on a more politically advantageous Arranged Marriage for his sister. It fails miserably when Jaxom makes it clear that they aren't taking no for an answer and that, as a dragonrider, he can and will come for her anywhere on Pern.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_6f07b093	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Dragonriders of Pern / int_6f07b093	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: F'lar and Lessa in Dragonflight. It takes mating dragons/fire lizards to get them to admit their feelings. Sebell and Menolly in Dragonsinger. It takes mating dragons/fire lizards to get them to admit their feelings. In Dragonsdawn, Tarvi didn't tell Telgar he loved her until she was about to die... and they had been married for years and had several children.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Dragonriders of Pern / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Between Weyr, Hold, and Craft. Their traditions have diverged sharply over the centuries and frequently come into conflict in the main storyline. Similarly, a major conflict arises between the Oldtimer Weyrfolk who are brought forward in time by Lessa and the more "modern" Weyrfolk under F'lar's command.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Dragonriders of Pern / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Dragons' colors denote gender, size, and rank, exactly as their fire lizard ancestors. Gold = Queens, the dominant females and the primary egglayers; Bronze = the largest and dominant males, ridden by wingleaders; Brown = smaller and weaker males, tend to be ridden by wingseconds; Blue = the smallest, fastest, and least intelligent males; Green = the smallest, subordinate females, who are infertile due to firestone consumptionnote Or so it's believed. It later turns out that they were engineered to be sterile from the beginning. The Bronze, Brown, and Blue dragons are Boy dragons. The Gold and Green dragons are Girl dragons.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_77aedc5c	type	Horse of a Different Color
Dragonriders of Pern / int_77aedc5c	comment	Horse of a Different Color: Dragons, of course, although real horses and oxen do exist.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Dragonriders of Pern / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: In Weyr Search, the first story in Dragonflight, Lessa telepathically goads the bronze dragonrider F'lar into one of these against the corrupt Holder named Fax, since Fax murdered every one of Lessa's family.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
Dragonriders of Pern / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: Part of Lessa's Psychic Powers manifest as a subtle form of this. Actually she does the opposite in Weyr Search, causing everyone to think she is an ugly, elderly drudge worker since the age of ten. When F'lar notices that her hands are quite young and graceful, she reaches into his mind and blurs the image.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_7d89315b	type
Dragonriders of Pern / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Robinton delivers three of these: to the Lord Holders in Dragonflight and Dragonquest, and to the Abominators in All The Weyrs of Pern. Indeed, Robinton sees it as part of a Harper's job to let people know when they're being asses.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Dragonriders of Pern / int_7ef728b1	comment	When a queen dragon is ready to mate, she turns into very touchy Tsundere, growling and taking swipes at any of the males that get too close. It's implied that the mating flight results in some pretty rough sex.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_80cf519a	type	Head Pet
Dragonriders of Pern / int_80cf519a	comment	Head Pet: Firelizards that have impressed on a human will ride around on them. Most prefer to ride on the human's shoulders, but Menolly, who impressed a whole brood of nine of them (and later accidentally added a tenth) usually has one on her head.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_815215f5	type	Chilly Reception
Dragonriders of Pern / int_815215f5	comment	Chilly Reception: Menolly is accepted by almost everybody in Harper Hall...but the ones who object to her presence make her life hell. A rare example of the protagonist not winning everyone over; instead, she settles for getting her own back. Piemur's example is worse: after his voice breaks, he's sent to become a drum apprentice until his voice stabilizes. However, he's also (secretly) made Master Robinton's apprentice, which often involves being sent on very confidential missions. Determined to prove that he's not just a joker and a slacker who coasts by on natural talent, Piemur makes a decision to stop playing around and start working — and the other drum apprentices, who were expecting the joker, don't take it well, especially when Piemur learns drum measures at a speed most of them probably couldn't match. His going on said missions, including one to a Gather at Igen Hold and, as far as they knew got a free day because of a Hatching at Benden Weyrnote In truth, he went to the Hatching but knew that would make things worse., just makes it a lot worsenote Starting with finding his belongings and bed soiled with urine and other natural byproducts upon his return and ending with them greasing some steps so he nearly killed himself returning up the steps.. Further problematic was the Journeyman who was generally on watch never believed him on any matters. And he doesn't go to Robinton, because he doesn't want the Masterharper to think he can't handle his assignment. Then Menolly, by then a Journeyman herself, and Master Robinton, found out what was going on and the shit hit the fan very hard indeed.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Dragonriders of Pern / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Master Shonagar from the Harper Hall trilogy, fills his room with his melodramatic declarations, banging, and shouting all done with an eloquent vocabulary.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_82a51bc7	type	Bad Moon Rising
Dragonriders of Pern / int_82a51bc7	comment	Bad Moon Rising: Well, technically it's a planet, but the Red Star definitely counts.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_862e9997	type	FirstGuyWins
Dragonriders of Pern / int_862e9997	comment	First Girl Wins: Robinton's short-lived wife Kasia still haunts his dreams. When he becomes involved with Silvina, he offers to marry her when she informs him that she's pregnant. She refuses (gently) because it's Kasia's name he still says in his sleep; he never recovers from losing her.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Dragonriders of Pern / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Mardra abruptly vanishes halfway through The Renegades of Pern and is never mentioned again.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
Dragonriders of Pern / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: The series begins with fire-breathing dragons, telepathy, and teleportation, all regarded as a kind of magic (although it's never explicitly called that). By the third book in the series, the dragons are genetically modified lizards with technobabble explanations for the telepathy and teleportation and telekinesis that let the massive dragons fly with wings too small for their bodies. As mentioned in the description at the top of the page, MacCaffery always considered the series to be pure Science Fiction, even if it looks like Low Fantasy at first glance.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Dragonriders of Pern / int_874176be	comment	Lessa's Psychic Powers are explicit and quite strong in Dragonflight, with F'lar considering them unusual in their strength — she's actually a true telepath, capable of reaching into your mind and changing your thoughts — or erasing them — but hardly surprising. She's from the ruling Ruathan family, and they're supposed to have such gifts. Several great Weyrleaders down through history, male and female, have been Ruathan. Later books downplay this to the point where it's almost ignored, leaving only the ability to talk to more than one's own dragon as a defined power. At least, up until Dragonheart, when the Psychic Powers are said to be a skill possessed by strong-willed Weyrwomen as a side-effect of their bond with their dragon.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
Dragonriders of Pern / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Lessa.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Dragonriders of Pern / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Lessa nearly refused F'lar's offer to become weyrwoman. Aramina is selected as a candidate for a queen dragon and considered guaranteed to Impress one. After Jayge rescues her from Thella, she refuses to go back. Jayge finds this unfathomable until she explains that she's incapable of tuning out the dragons' constant chatter.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_88424df3	type	I Thought Everyone Could Do That
Dragonriders of Pern / int_88424df3	comment	I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Lessa talking to dragons, which gets F'lar extremely angry with her when he had been trying for years to figure out a way to coordinate all the dragons of a Weyr in combat.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_88f45711	type	Space Amish
Dragonriders of Pern / int_88f45711	comment	Space Amish: The original colonists wanted to get away from a spacefaring society that had just been through an interstellar war, but they didn't plan on losing as much technology as they did.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
Dragonriders of Pern / int_8984e5d1	comment	Commonality Connection: In Dragonsinger, when Menolly is caught in a fight during a fair, another girl, jumping to join her side, calls for a boy to join in because Menolly, like them, comes from a sea hold. It works. Robinton rebukes him because his father had sent him to be fostered where he was to broaden his mind.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_89a98f45	type	Living Relic
Dragonriders of Pern / int_89a98f45	comment	Living Relic: Aivas, an artificial intelligence set up by the settlers when they first landed on Pern. When it is discovered during the Ninth Pass, it uses its knowledge of Lost Technology to bring the Pernese back to the level the colonists originally intended. It even helps the Dragonriders end the threat of Thread forever.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_8a298b91	type	Cool Pet
Dragonriders of Pern / int_8a298b91	comment	Cool Pet: Fire lizards.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Dragonriders of Pern / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Most notably with T'ton/T'ron and Mardra between Dragonflight and Dragonquest. Toric arguably qualifies as well.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Dragonriders of Pern / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Tenim's plan towards the second half of Dragon Fire is to amass a vast amount of firestone before Thread returns and then destroy the source so that he can profit from controlling its supply to the dragonriders. Tenim seems to miss the obvious flaw with this plan; since dragonriders go through a lot of firestone over a short period of time, his supply wouldn't last very long, and if it ran out when Thread started falling practically everyone on the planet would die.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
Dragonriders of Pern / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: For about two thousand years, Pern was medieval with very little structural/social change. Justified by the fact that most of the colonists' technology was lost or worn out after two hundred years, and the whole "Thread trying to eat everything organic" situation made them more concerned about surviving rather than technological advancement. When this incentive is removed after All the Weyrs of Pern, they begin to reclaim their lost technology with the help of the records and instruction provided by AIVAS. Also justified because Pern was settled by Space Amish who wanted to get away from technology and develop a more agrarian society (see also Metal-Poor Planet below), though they didn't want to decay quite as far, hard or fast as they did.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_8f9c00fd	type	The Apprentice
Dragonriders of Pern / int_8f9c00fd	comment	The Apprentice: Apprenticeships are the main form of education for most of the series. In particular the protagonist of the Harper Hall trilogy is an apprentice Harper.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
Dragonriders of Pern / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: Weyrwoman Brekke, who was raised in a craft guild with strict morals, loves brown rider F'nor. When he finds she is a virgin — unheard of for Weyr people — and isn't open to having sex with the rider of whichever bronze mounts her Queen dragon, he takes her away ("for her good and for the good of her dragon") and initiates her. Even though she started to enjoy it at the end, and it leads to a Relationship Upgrade, she tried to get away from him when she realized what was about to happen and F'nor forced the issue anyway.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_946a1600	type	Not Good with People
Dragonriders of Pern / int_946a1600	comment	Not Good with People: Lessa would be a combination of both types in her childhood and young adulthood, lavishing love and tenderness on the castle's watch-wher, while people were just pawns on her telepathic chessboard toward her ultimate revenge against the man who murdered her family.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_95a4c6df	type	Wild Card
Dragonriders of Pern / int_95a4c6df	comment	Wild Card: Toric of Southern, in particular, seems to go back and forth between grudging ally and scheming antagonist. For the most part he's an over-ambitious control freak who, for various reasons, dislikes most of the series' protagonists and enjoys inconveniencing them, but doesn't really cross the line into actual villainy; he can even be occasionally helpful. In the later books, however, he becomes more and more obsessive and secretive, and his agenda more overtly sinister.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Dragonriders of Pern / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The lion's share of the Lord Holders at the beginning of the series are spiteful, narrow-minded old men that create headaches for F'lar and the other protagonists on a regular basis. They gradually get replaced by younger and more reasonable (or, at least, pragmatic) successors. And some that don't get replaced for a long time, like Lord Raid of Benden Hold, do loosen up a bit.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_961c30e5	type	Teleportation
Dragonriders of Pern / int_961c30e5	comment	Teleportation: Dragons and fire lizards are innate teleporters, and can bring passengers with them. This is accomplished by making use of Another Dimension, colloquially termed between, which lacks all sensation and is killingly cold. It is later discovered that they can teleport across interplanetary distances as well as through time, but the amount of time spent between increases with distance travelled (temporally and spacially). There's no oxygen between, which puts a very definite limit on hops through space and/or time (until the Pernese rediscover their ancestors' technology and gain access to space suits allowing them to carry an air supply between).
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_98a67517	type	Creature-Hunter Organization
Dragonriders of Pern / int_98a67517	comment	Creature-Hunter Organization: The Titular Dragonriders, being specifically formed to fight Thread, a dangerous, if mindless, lifeform from space.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Dragonriders of Pern / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Dragons and fire lizards do indeed breathe fire, although it's the result of a hypergolic gas released when they chew a naturally occurring mineral named "firestone". On foot and in the queens' wing, Thread is fought with flamethrowers, or nitric acid sprayers (colloquially termed "agenothree" in the books — HNO3, get it?)
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Dragonriders of Pern / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: An innate, if rarely used, ability of dragons and fire lizards. When travelling between, one must visualize one's destination accurately; apparently, this also includes time references. For example, if you visualize your destination in the morning, that's when you'll get there. It's even got a colloquial term in the story: "timing it".
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_9d786a68	type	A Master Makes Their Own Tools
Dragonriders of Pern / int_9d786a68	comment	A Master Makes Their Own Tools: AIVAS has each member of the team dissecting Thread make their own tools, despite the presence of a craft guild that could have easily provided enough tools for the team. The Harpers also make their own instruments. Menolly learned how to make a simple drum in her apprenticeship and is asked to demonstrate this skill when she gets to the Harper Hall.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Dragonriders of Pern / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Rannelly, for Kylara.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
Dragonriders of Pern / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: Well, the installments written in the 1960s and 1970s were, by the standards of the time. The goalposts have been moved considerably since then.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_9ffbadef	type	Fantastic Naming Convention
Dragonriders of Pern / int_9ffbadef	comment	Fantastic Naming Convention: A common naming convention among Weyrborn is to have the first half of one parent's name combined with the second half of the other's (modifying the end to the appropriate gender, adding '-n' or '-a'). In this way, you have Falloner and Lorana giving Falarnon, and Falloner and Manora giving Famanoran. When a male rider Impresses, they shorten their name and contract the first syllable. The first dragonriders noticed their dragons clipped their riders' names, so adopted the practice, first as the equivalent to a pilot call sign, then more formally to aid communication during combat; later it became an honorific. One conversation notes that mothers in the weyr plan for this, choosing names for boys that are easily contracted. Falloner becomes F'lon, Falarnon becomes F'lar, and Famanoran becomes F'nor. One of the things that distinguishes Jaxom of Rutha Hold as not a Dragonrider is that he does not receive the honorific. Although before that decision was made, Lessa amuses herself by wondering his name might be shortened to since—not being weyr-born—his name was never designed with contraction in mind. For the dragons themselves, each one has a single personal name, which always ends in "th". In Todd McCaffrey's books from the 3rd Pass, it is revealed that watchwher have their own naming convention. Their names end in '-sk', with the first part taken from the name of the person or bloodline they are linked to. The closer the bond, the more of their name taken. The watchwher for Fort Hold is Forsk. Nuella's first, green, watchwher renames herself to Nuelsk when she transfers her bond from Kindan. After she dies, Nuella then bonds a gold, Nuellask.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_a11ee4de	type	Blind Jump
Dragonriders of Pern / int_a11ee4de	comment	Blind Jump: Going between without a destination firmly in mind will cause the dragon and its passenger(s) to never emerge, which is fatal. Poorly imagining one's destination can result in a Tele-Frag. Conversely, imagining aspects of one's destination too well can result in accidental Time Travel. This is all covered in the extensive training given to young dragonriders, with the grisly examples of those who didn't pay attention in the past serving to drive the lessons home.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Dragonriders of Pern / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: When Petiron submitted Menolly's songs to the Harperhall, he neglected to mention that they were written by a girl. When Petiron died, the Hall scrambled, attempting to find the boy who wrote those lovely songs. When they find Menolly, the general reaction is exasperation that Petiron thought Robinton would be reluctant to let a girl become a Harper.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_a19a70f8	type	Evil Luddite
Dragonriders of Pern / int_a19a70f8	comment	Evil Luddite: The Abominators, a group of people who distrusted the rediscovered technology that was introduced into Pern society by AIVAS during the Ninth Pass and considered AIVAS itself an abomination that was threatening their way of life. The first group successfully kidnapped MasterHarper Robinton, intending to use him as a hostage and only releasing him if AIVAS was destroyed, but they were ultimately captured and exiled (and their actions hastened Robinton's own death). A second group appeared several years later during The Skies of Pern, trying to destroy the new Crafthalls that had come into being as a result of the reintroduced technologies, but they were rendered mostly defunct when their leader tried to invade AIVAS' main chamber (again, as he'd been part of the first group) and was killed by the still active defenses.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_a246aed6	type	Sapient Cetaceans
Dragonriders of Pern / int_a246aed6	comment	Sapient Cetaceans: The original settlers brought intellectually enhanced dolphins with them, but lost contact after the exodus to the Northern Continent. In the aptly titled Dolphins of Pern, Jayge and Aramina's son Readis becomes the first to reestablish contact with the "shipfish".
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Dragonriders of Pern / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Centuries after she sacrificed her life to save Pern, Sallah Telgar's body is brought down from space and given a very elaborate ceremonial funeral, including the coffin being borne by queen dragons. Menolly is first introduced in Dragonsong as singing the funeral elegy for Petiron, the Harper of her family's hold, her friend and teacher.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_a7ae714	type	Planetary Romance
Dragonriders of Pern / int_a7ae714	comment	Planetary Romance
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_ab729e43	type	Disappointed in You
Dragonriders of Pern / int_ab729e43	comment	Disappointed in You: Piemur had a reputation for getting by on his looks and talent, but wanted to prove himself to Robinton and Menolly as someone who could work hard and be serious. He didn't want to disappoint them. So he kept silent about the full extent of the abuse his fellow drum trainees were putting him through. Even after he nearly died because they greased the stairs, this was the reason he gave. His friends were horrified at the thought that they inadvertently caused the situation by putting the pressure on him.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_abe166cc	type	Bond Creatures
Dragonriders of Pern / int_abe166cc	comment	Bond Creatures: Both dragons and fire lizards, since the former are descended from the latter.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_ac711709	type	Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion
Dragonriders of Pern / int_ac711709	comment	Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: Thread is a ravenous mycorrhizoid spore that can eat virtually anything carbon-based and burrow into the earth. But water (even a good soaking thunderstorm) kills it, as does fire and cold. In one book, the Pernese don't realize that Threadfall has started because the first few falls are over the northern area of the continent during winter. The trouble is, although Thread is doomed from the moment it arrives, it can still do a hell of a lot of damage before it dies.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Aramina tells Readis that he must either promise to never again have anything to do with dolphins, or he cannot live in Paradise River Hold. Rather than being cowed and obeying, he simply tells her that he can't make that promise and leaves the Hold with no intention of returning.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: Petiron completely ignored his son when Robinton was growing up, and expected him to be skilled with music despite never paying any attention or trying to help Robinton develop his skills. When he finally realised that Robinton was a musical genius whose compositions were being widely played, he was furious that everyone had 'kept' this knowledge from him, only for several people- including his wife- to point out that literally everyone else had seen it from the start, he was the only one who never bothered paying his son enough attention to realise it.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Petiron was not a good father, to put it lightly. Not actively vicious, but cold and harshly critical of Robinton to the point where it's hard to tell the difference. In Dragonsong, Menolly's father beats her for composing music, and her mother may have deliberately attempted to cripple her hand so she can't play an instrument. She rises above every other hardship in her life, but she never forgives her parents. However, the canon text is explicitly contradictory on whether Menolly's mother did her best and was sad that she couldn't help more, or deliberately let her be crippled. Aramina has a very 'my way or the highway' viewpoint, and refuses to try to compromise or understand things from her son's point of view. Eventually he leaves the Hold after they fight and she demands that he make a promise he doesn't want to make.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Most Pernese consider being banished from a hold a harsher punishment than execution, since they automatically assume the condemned is going to be eaten by thread. Several characters learn to survive holdless simply by hiding in caves. Menolly notes that most of the time very little Thread actually gets to the surface thanks to the dragonriders. Losing their bondmates is this for dragons/dragonriders. Riders whose dragons die usually commit suicide. Dragons whose riders die always commit suicide.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: A lot of plot elements got modified without comment between novels. Some characters undergo spontaneous name changes between Dragonflight and Dragonquest: T'ton to T'ron, for example. He was M'ron in the initial appearance of the story, in two parts in Analog December 1967 & January 1968. Lessa's Psychic Powers are explicit and quite strong in Dragonflight, with F'lar considering them unusual in their strength — she's actually a true telepath, capable of reaching into your mind and changing your thoughts — or erasing them — but hardly surprising. She's from the ruling Ruathan family, and they're supposed to have such gifts. Several great Weyrleaders down through history, male and female, have been Ruathan. Later books downplay this to the point where it's almost ignored, leaving only the ability to talk to more than one's own dragon as a defined power. At least, up until Dragonheart, when the Psychic Powers are said to be a skill possessed by strong-willed Weyrwomen as a side-effect of their bond with their dragon. In Dragonquest, there's a specific reference to fire lizards "eating Thread". Granted that the person making the claim, Kylara, is mentally unstable and an unabashed liar, in later books the idea seems to be dropped in favor of fire lizards flaming thread like their larger cousins. There's also a mention in Dragonsinger, which parallels Dragonquest in the Harper Hall trilogy: Menolly's fire lizards, while shut inside the Harper Hall refectory during Threadfall, get very excited and are described as making the motions of "licking Thread from the air." In Sky Dragons, Green Dragons produce eggs, as they never consumed firestone, and one of them lays a gold. Prior to this, green fire-lizard clutches only ever produced lower-ranked colors.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: One of the classic unclassifiables. McCaffrey has always contended that her books are Science Fiction, not Fantasy. Her reasoning is that everything in the books is (in her estimation, at least), scientifically backed. Weyr Search, the first story, and the two-part Dragonflight, were initially published in 1967 and 1968 in Analog, a prestigious science fiction magazine. Editor John W. Campbell had extremely strict standards, so Anne's belief that the stories are Sci Fi has confirmation from what was then the highest authority.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: The early Pern books have snippets of Harper songs at the start of each chapter.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b5c47a93	type	A Degree in Useless
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b5c47a93	comment	A Degree in Useless: By the time of the Second Pass, Pern's sole college (that later becomes the Harper Hall) is wondering why they still consider Computer Science to be a prestigious degree when they only have one computer left on the planet - that gets destroyed by a lightning strike a few chapters later.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: Used on Lessa in Weyr Search; she had never thought beyond the moment when Fax was dead.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: The Weyr culture is highly liberated due to the nature of dragon/rider relationships; dragons mate with whom they choose and their partners are compelled to do the same. Children are fostered and raised by the Weyr as a whole to avoid attachments to any particular parent, given their high mortality rates.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b82676ad	type	Jackie Robinson Story
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b82676ad	comment	Jackie Robinson Story: Menolly becoming the first female Harper in the Harper Hall Trilogy. Well, the first one in a long time. It's been stated that before the pandemic in Moreta's time, which nearly wiped out humans on Pern, that there was far more sexual equality. After that, women reverted to more "traditional" roles because of the need to repopulate. Dragonseye, which takes place before Moreta's time, shows a pretty even distribution of labor among the sexes.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b8f0415	type	Dramatis Personae
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b8f0415	comment	Dramatis Personae: Used in most of the early Pern novels, then quietly dropped later.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Dragonriders of Pern / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: Dragonseye was published in the UK as Red Star Rising.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_baa2a78d	type	Knife Nut
Dragonriders of Pern / int_baa2a78d	comment	Knife Nut: Dragonriders don't carry swords, but many are deadly efficient duelists with eating knives. Swords don't seem to exist in the setting, even machetes are referred to as long, flat knives. This is most likely due to the scarcity of metals on Pern.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
Dragonriders of Pern / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: The first two things colonists look for on a new planet are plants that can be distilled into booze, and plants that can be made into a coffee substitute. On Pern, the latter is fulfilled by a boiled tree bark beverage called klah.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Dragonriders of Pern / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: A lot of Pernese couples don't actually marry, but among those who do, there are a number of happy couples. Petiron and Merelan fit this trope, as did Robinton and Kasia (for the few days of their marriage). Even those who aren't officially married act like this anyway.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Dragonriders of Pern / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Green dragons are the only other females, besides gold dragons. They're also far more promiscuous than golds. Fortunately, chewing firestone renders them infertile. Otherwise, the dragon population would explode into unsustainable numbers.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_bfb0f48a	type	Uncoffee
Dragonriders of Pern / int_bfb0f48a	comment	Uncoffee: Klah, which is made from tree bark, started out as the colonists' ersatz coffee, and ended up filling the same cultural niche. It's explicitly stated to contain stimulants and taste exactly like hazelnut coffee. Dragonsdawn explains that coffee can't flourish on Pernese soil, and the tea plants were lost in the first threadfall, so the colonists looked elsewhere for their caffeine needs.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c0935922	type	Dragon Rider
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c0935922	comment	When a male rider Impresses, they shorten their name and contract the first syllable. The first dragonriders noticed their dragons clipped their riders' names, so adopted the practice, first as the equivalent to a pilot call sign, then more formally to aid communication during combat; later it became an honorific. One conversation notes that mothers in the weyr plan for this, choosing names for boys that are easily contracted. Falloner becomes F'lon, Falarnon becomes F'lar, and Famanoran becomes F'nor. One of the things that distinguishes Jaxom of Rutha Hold as not a Dragonrider is that he does not receive the honorific. Although before that decision was made, Lessa amuses herself by wondering his name might be shortened to since—not being weyr-born—his name was never designed with contraction in mind.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Pern (Parallel Earth; Resources Negligible), and AIVAS (Artificial Intelligence Voice-Address System). Word of God says that Pern is a backronym; McCaffrey came up with the name for the planet a long time before deciding it meant anything.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: In The Skies of Pern, the dragons "discover" their powers of telekinesis. This is not entirely pulled out of thin air; in All The Weyrs of Pern, AIVAS said that dragons should be able to do it, and it was covertly confirmed when the dragons were able to carry huge starship engine assemblies that, despite the lower gravity of the Red Star, they should not have been able to support, even en masse. In a variation of the Magic Feather trick, AIVAS told no one that truth except Jaxom (and by proxy, Ruth).
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: Tarvi Andiyar married Sallah Telgar because he got her pregnant - because she drugged his klah with an aphrodisiac. And most of their later children were conceived when she went down on him while he was half-asleep and unable to refuse her advances. After her horrible death at the hands of Avril Bitra, Tarvi changes his name to his wife's and regrets that he never told her how much he loved her until she was dying.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: Pernese native animals have green, copper-based blood.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: Lessa is completely willing to let dragons battle with each other because she feels insulted. This is also the source of most of her friction with F'lar in the first book, combined with her being unused to being able to rely on anyone besides herself.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c47f7ce6	type	Evil Reactionary
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c47f7ce6	comment	Evil Reactionary: The Abominators in The Skies of Pern, while primarily Evil Luddites, also qualify for this trope as their efforts to destroy Aivas and anything he restored to Pern are motivated by their desire to keep things as they were before, feeling that any changes will destroy their traditional values and way of life, and that permanently destroying Thread was a bad idea because the threat it posed kept Pern's people working together. As such, they resort to the Evil Luddite method, trying to destroy or prevent the use of anything Aivas shared, in order to turn society back to the way it was before Aivas was discovered. This includes attacking the new Crafthalls founded more recently, since they're based on Aivas' teachings.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c8146c52	comment	Synthetic Plague: How thread is ultimately made extinct, as a fail-safe in addition to altering the course of the Red Star. Using rediscovered technology, they learn that thread is just one part of a complex space-borne ecology in the Pernese Oort Cloud and that it has natural parasites. They then genetically engineer one of these parasites into a lethal and virulent form, and seed the parasites such that the oort cloud will be infected by it.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When F'lar gets ill in Dragonquest, he starts Wangsting and must be told this by Lessa.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Dragonriders of Pern / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: When a queen dragon is ready to mate, she turns into very touchy Tsundere, growling and taking swipes at any of the males that get too close. It's implied that the mating flight results in some pretty rough sex. This applies to queen fire lizards. In "Dragondrums" Sebell's Kimi refuses to share any fish she caught.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_ca6b7737	type	No Blood Ties
Dragonriders of Pern / int_ca6b7737	comment	No Blood Ties: Although bloodlines are acknowledged, it is common practice among Weyrfolk to foster their children to avoid maternal or paternal attachments; this lessens the trauma when riders are lost fighting Thread.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Dragonriders of Pern / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Quite a few; The year number got muddled when The White Dragon was published (15PP when it should really have been 13PP), and subsequent prequel books made this problem impossible to fix without messing up the chronology of the stories. The two main side-effects of this is that it means F'lessan somehow became a Candidate while two years underage, and Mirrim's Path took four years instead of two to become fully mature. Character names - both major and minor - frequently end up changing between books. The worst example of this happening is probably that Lord Larad's wife's name strangely changes from Dulsay to Janissary in All the Weyrs of Pern and back to Dulsay again in The Skies of Pern. In a few instances, a dead character has ended up appearing in a book that takes place after their death. Lord Oterel offers his support to young Readis in The Dolphins of Pern, despite a major part of the previous book dealing with people choosing his successor after his death. In Dragonquest, Fandarel claims to have no sons. In Renegades of Pern, which takes place only a few years later, he apparently not only has four off-screen sons, but Piemur ends up in a relationship with his adult granddaughter.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_cb1fe02e	type	Magic by Any Other Name
Dragonriders of Pern / int_cb1fe02e	comment	Magic by Any Other Name: Officially, there's no magic in the books, since they're supposed to be a science fiction series. The dragons' supernatural powers are referred to as psychic abilities instead.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Lessa
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Lessa. She was the only survivor of a slaughter that killed the rest of her family and then spent years hiding who she was as a lowly servant. She gets better. Menolly's teacher and only friend who encouraged her abilities died, and then her father put her through a great amount of abuse to ensure she never sang or played again. Her mother helped him do it.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d087a0b6	type	Sex by Proxy
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d087a0b6	comment	Sex by Proxy: Thanks to the mental link between dragons and riders.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: When not using Pern-specific curses, characters have a tendency to say things like "dratted" or "blasted." There's even "Jays" in Dragonsdawn, mean to be a Bowdlerization of "Jesus." Strangely, in the same book, one character calls another a "gobshite." By contrast, there are quite a few "S-" and "F-bombs" in Dragonsdawn, what with the initial colonists still speaking (future) English. It's mentioned in the indices that there are no religious or sexual curses on Pern, since the first doesn't exist and the second isn't taboo.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Happens to Jaxom's mother, and is generally a risk in a low-tech, feudal society.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d2bff11f	type	Loads and Loads of Characters
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d2bff11f	comment	Loads and Loads of Characters: Just try keeping the scores of dragonriders (and their dragons!), harpers, Lord Holders (and their spouses and kids!), weyr ladies, and various other characters straight. The abbreviated names don't help either; they tend to blur together, and several have even been subject to name drift. When Dragonflight (the original novella, published in Analog in December 1967) first appeared, the Fort weyrleader who greets Lessa after her long time trip is named M'ron. When the "Dragonflight" novel was published in July 1968, his name had been changed to T'ton. By Dragonquest, he was T'ron, and remained so.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d4f5426	type	Absence of Evidence
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d4f5426	comment	Absence of Evidence: When bullies hurt Piemur by greasing up a flight of stairs, they clean up afterwards to hide the evidence. Their superiors start to suspect foul play when they realize that only the trapped stair was too clean, while the rest of the stairs were still dirty.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Distances seem to change at the plot's convenience, and either dragons in the Ninth Pass are ludicrously huge (bronzes and golds being much bigger than blue whales) or someone said "meters" when they meant "feet."
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Shards", "Shells", "Scorch it", and various other oaths are employed by Weyrfolk, mostly relating to dragons or Thread. Makes sense, as there's no religion on Pern, but respect for the dragonriders as saviors from Thread kind of fills a similar cultural role. "Fardling" is their variant of the "F" word. There's an index specifically for these in the early novels.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Dragonriders of Pern / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Another Trope Codifier.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Dragonriders of Pern / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Several of the Ninth Pass books are a bit inconsistent with their events and what year they took place in. For example, The White Dragon is repeatedly said to take place five years after Dragonquest, yet the date given - 15PP - is actually seven years afterwards. In one particularly jarring example, Readis is said to be seven at the beginning of The Dolphins of Pern, despite the fact that his parents only met each other five years prior.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_da3bdd2e	type	Mood Ring Eyes
Dragonriders of Pern / int_da3bdd2e	comment	Mood Ring Eyes: Dragons' and fire lizards' eyes change color according to their mood.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Dragonriders of Pern / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Prior to the Ninth Pass, female dragonriders are entirely normal and accepted. During the last Long Interval, however, Benden Weyr devolves to a male-dominated society until Lessa proves beyond any doubt her ability to both command the Weyr and ride her dragon into combat. Later, Mirrim undergoes a similar ordeal as a green dragonrider. According to background material, Pern society became more patriarchal after the Plague in Moreta's time, as the population reduction forced women to focus more on making and raising babies.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_dc1b3fb6	type	Real Men Hate Affection
Dragonriders of Pern / int_dc1b3fb6	comment	Real Men Hate Affection: Petiron's attitude toward his son Robinton is a good example. Because Petiron loved his wife so much and didn't want to share her, even with his son, Robinton as a young boy is constantly looking for affection his father never offers. The situation improves as Robinton becomes an adult and is named MasterHarper, upon which Petiron steps down as MasterComposer and exiles himself to a minor holding to allow Robinton to become a leader in his own right. Later on, Petiron redeems himself when he discovers Menolly's talents (and sees her father's attempts to squelch her) and begins to send her compositions to Robinton hoping she'll eventually be accepted for mentoring.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Dragonriders of Pern / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: F'lar proves himself to one one of the wisest and influential men on Pern by his handling of crises in the first three books. Robinton shows himself willing to listen to any issue within his Hall, punish those who break the rules regardless of rank or station, and admit to his own follies. Harper Journeyman Rokayas of the Drum Heights was the only one who saw the shades of abuse Piemur was suffering but with no admittance from Piemur, his hands were tied. When Piemur fell down on greased steps, he got Piemur to medical help, and told Robinton and Menolly everything he suspected happened.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_dd51740f	type	P.O.V. Sequel
Dragonriders of Pern / int_dd51740f	comment	P.O.V. Sequel: Moreta and Nerilka's Story. There's also a multitude of books that take place around the beginning of the Third Pass and near the middle of the Ninth that play with this; while they show many of the same events from different perspectives, they also have a tendency to cover time further back or forward than each other instead of taking place entirely simultaneously like a true P.O.V. Sequel.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Dragonriders of Pern / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: The death of a dragon or its rider will send the living member of the pair into despair or insanity. If the rider dies, his dragon will invariably commit suicide by going between. If the dragon dies, the rider may become Ax-Crazy, suicidal, an Empty Shell, or all of the above.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_dea1fec3	type	PullingTheThread
Dragonriders of Pern / int_dea1fec3	comment	Pulling the Thread: The bullies' grease-the-steps plot against Piemur unravels because while they removed the evidence from the stairs, they A. failed to clean the soles of Piemur's boots, and B. forgot that cleaning the steps they greased, but not any of the others, would make it stand out that something sneaky had been done there.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_df4edb04	type	Corrupt Bureaucrat
Dragonriders of Pern / int_df4edb04	comment	Corrupt Bureaucrat: Chalkin, Lord Holder of Bitra in Dragonseye, who refuses to believe that Thread will return and won't take the necessary precautions to protect his people. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of the things he does.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_dff85d24	type	Fantastic Recruitment Drive
Dragonriders of Pern / int_dff85d24	comment	Fantastic Recruitment Drive: When the dragonriders go on Search, they seek young men and women with latent telepathic abilities, able to bond with dragons. Though as their scientific knowledge regresses, they lose an understanding of what exactly they're looking for, relying on their dragons to tell them if someone is suitable.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_e04ffce3	type	Lost Colony
Dragonriders of Pern / int_e04ffce3	comment	Lost Colony: The colonists wanted Pern to become this to live peacefully; the later discovery of Thread by a rescue ship mean it's now permanently lost as the entire system is under quarantine.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_e0e750b1	type	Shoulder-Sized Dragon
Dragonriders of Pern / int_e0e750b1	comment	Shoulder-Sized Dragon: The fire-lizards.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Dragonriders of Pern / int_e11b003d	comment	By contrast, there are quite a few "S-" and "F-bombs" in Dragonsdawn, what with the initial colonists still speaking (future) English.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Dragonriders of Pern / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: In Dragonsdawn, Tarvi Andiyar changes his name to Telgar, which was originally his wife's surname. He never admitted how much he loved her until she was dying and made the change to honor her sacrifice to help the Pern colony.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_e9e2c54d	type	You Already Changed the Past
Dragonriders of Pern / int_e9e2c54d	comment	You Already Changed the Past: There are no Temporal Paradoxes in this universe. If you use Time Travel to go backwards, you had already been there and had done what you did. In fact, several characters use this type of foreknowledge specifically to plan their trips, setting up a Stable Time Loop.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_e9e2c54d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_ef3d1b57	type	Technician vs. Performer
Dragonriders of Pern / int_ef3d1b57	comment	Technician vs. Performer: Petiron vs. Robinton/Menolly.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_f25c69a1	type	WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis
Dragonriders of Pern / int_f25c69a1	comment	We Could Have Avoided All This: Silvina's reaction in Dragonsong when she finds out Menolly is Petiron's secret prodigy. She becomes rather angry at all the trouble they all could've avoided had Petiron trusted in Robinton not to dismiss such a talent simply because of her gender.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Dragonriders of Pern / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Sometimes administered to badly injured Thread victims, by means of a lethal dose of "fellis", an herbal sedative.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_f5b390b	type	Magical Abortion
Dragonriders of Pern / int_f5b390b	comment	Magical Abortion: The cold of between is sufficient to induce miscarriage and is deliberately used for this by female dragonriders, who are seldom able to take enough time off for pregnancy. It's either that, suffering accidental miscarriage from riding a dragon all the time, or fostering the kid out as soon as possible.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
Dragonriders of Pern / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: The Pern colony was founded on the principle of rejecting reliance on high technology to solve problems. Millennia later, this sentiment bestirs itself in the form of a violently Luddite group that attempts to sabotage anything related to AIVAS. AIVAS' discovery, however, is what eventually leads to the final end of Thread on Pern.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_f97a063c	type	Metal-Poor Planet
Dragonriders of Pern / int_f97a063c	comment	Metal-Poor Planet: The planet Pern has limited amounts of available metal, meaning it is of little interest to the large corporations that normally colonize worlds, but perfect for a group of people who want to create a low-tech agrarian society.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_f9971b12	type	Mile-High Club
Dragonriders of Pern / int_f9971b12	comment	Mile-High Club: Dragons (and fire lizards) mate in the air, with the female taking off and males chasing her into the sky. The winner in queen flights is typically the male with enough stamina to keep up with her, which is why the smaller dragons don't bother competing. A significant amount of altitude is also necessary for a safe and productive mating, as the dragons, particularly the queen, are unable to safely use their wings during the actual copulation. Insufficient height can lead to the pair being forced to disengage too early in order to break their falls, resulting in fewer viable eggs—or even worse, one or both of the pair being injured or killed on impact due to being too wrapped up in the act of mating to realize they're about to hit the ground.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_fd0925ef	type	Bitch Alert
Dragonriders of Pern / int_fd0925ef	comment	Bitch Alert: A weyrwoman or greenrider usually gets alerted to mating time when she/he notices her/his queen/green is in a foul, violent mood. Later this applies to Mirrim, if only making her slightly worse off than her normal attitude. Humans around the rider in question tend to notice that the rider's getting more than a little cranky, too. This applies even to queen fire lizards. In "Dragondrums" Sebell's Kimi refuses to share any fish she caught.
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Dragonriders of Pern / int_fea715c1	type	Feudal Future
Dragonriders of Pern / int_fea715c1	comment	Feudal Future: When first seen, Pern has a medieval society to go with the dragons, although this starts to change once it gets back in touch with its past.
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Crossover / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Dragonriders of Pern
Dragonchoice / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Dragonriders of Pern
Literature / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Dragonriders of Pern
The Queen Who Fell To Earth / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Dragonriders of Pern
TheRegicide	seeAlso	Dragonriders of Pern
DragonRidersOfPern	sameAs	Dragonriders of Pern
DragonridersofPern	sameAs	Dragonriders of Pern
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Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	A Master Makes Their Own Tools / int_f9742e61
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Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle / int_33f8281
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Accidental Truth / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Ace Pilot / int_f9742e61
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Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	And Then What? / int_f9742e61
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Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Antimatter / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Aroused by Their Voice / int_f9742e61
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Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Remarried to the Mistress / int_f9742e61
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Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Uncoffee / int_f9742e61
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Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	We Will Spend Credits in the Future / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Weak to Fire / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Wizards Live Longer / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Women Prefer Strong Men / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Write Who You Know / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	You Already Changed the Past / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Youngest Child Wins / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Zeerust / int_f9742e61
Drakerider	seeAlso	Dragonriders of Pern
Dragons: Riders of Berk	seeAlso	Dragonriders of Pern
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Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Law of Chromatic Superiority / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Not Good with People / int_f9742e61
Dragonriders of Pern	hasFeature	Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f9742e61

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