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Dreams Of The Dying

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Dreams Of The Dying	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Dreams of the Dying (German: Träume eines sterbenden Gottes, "Dreams of a dying God"), part of a larger series called Every Day Like the Last, is an ongoing fantasy and horror Web Serial Novel set in the Vyn universe, the world of SureAI's total conversion mods Nehrim and Enderal. It's penned by Nicolas Lietzau, who also wrote the story of Enderal and explores the past of Jespar Dal'Varek, one of the game's protagonists. Though it's set in the same universe, the book doesn't require knowledge of the game. Lietzau have stated that he plans for the book to be the first part of a trilogy.Set eight years before the events of Enderal, Dreams of the Dying follows Jespar to Kilé, an ultra-capitalistic island nation. Due to a controversial decree that essentially privatizes every bit of land, it's on the brink of a civil war, spearheaded by a terrorist organization called the Scythe.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Jespar himself, plagued by PTSD-esque nightmares, learns that he has been hired by the island's most powerful merchant king's wife herself and that her husband has fallen into a magical coma of unknown origin, putting the already fractured stability of the archipelago at great risk.Together with a traveling healer called Lysia Varroy, Jespar is tasked to find Kile's last dreamwalker — a psychic capable of entering another person's dream — in order to enter the merchant king's mind and find the reason for behind his curse.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: It's encouraged for same sex couples in Makehu culture. Two people of the same gender can have a relationship, but there can't be PDA, and they need an opposite gender beard to act as the "True Partner" to have offspring with.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Zagash Enkshi is revealed to have two metallic legs.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_25cf1f3d	type	Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick
Dreams Of The Dying / int_25cf1f3d	comment	Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: Though Jespar isn't a jackass, travelling healer Lysia appears more caring, empathetic, and altruistic
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
Dreams Of The Dying / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: Jespar shows regret after several fight scenes, particularly the one in Yuva. At the same time, he states that it was necessary.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Dreams Of The Dying / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: Somewhat, since the writer felt that the Vyn universe had too shaky a canon due to having multiple authors. As he is the sole one now, for the most part, he's using this book as a jumping off point to restructure things to make the verse a more consistent narrative (as opposed to his thoughts on previous canon, which, from how he described it, might as well be described as a Comic Book Shared Universe canon in shakiness due to having too many cooks).
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Dreams Of The Dying / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The book starts with a nightmare where Jespar is being trialed by a corpse, whose skin begins to melt off like "hot wax" in the process.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Dreams Of The Dying / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Though this could apply to Jespar (he's in over his head in most combat scenes), this description fits Lysia, a healer with mediocre fighting skill, quite well.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_5c81a18b	type	I Am Not My Father
Dreams Of The Dying / int_5c81a18b	comment	I Am Not My Father: Jespar clearly rejects all his deceased father stands for. Though the irony of Ma'saa Oonai hiring him for the noble deeds of his father isn't lost on him.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_60b03a94	type	Parental Issues
Dreams Of The Dying / int_60b03a94	comment	Parental Issues: Jespar had an extremely conflicted relationship with his father, a judge with stalwart principles. The "Boy" did, too.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Dreams Of The Dying / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: There's a lot of smoking going on, though not classical tobacco rather than a drug called "nightflower"
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_78c4e567	type	Prosthetic Limb Reveal
Dreams Of The Dying / int_78c4e567	comment	Prosthetic Limb Reveal: In their discussion about the social injustice in Kilé, Lysia asks Zagash Enkshi if he, coming from a rich family, ever had to struggle. In response to this, he dramatically knocks his legs against one another to reveal his prosthetic limbs.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_7a4013f3	type	Deuteragonist
Dreams Of The Dying / int_7a4013f3	comment	Deuteragonist: Early on in the book, the story shifts to a second POV which introduces "the Boy."
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_843bc349	type	Invented Linguistic Distinction
Dreams Of The Dying / int_843bc349	comment	Invented Linguistic Distinction: "Inâl" is the lingua franca of the Vyn universe, and Jespar often describes the Kiléans as speaking their own version of it, using creole phrases and a distinguished accent
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_8776162d	type	Because I Said So
Dreams Of The Dying / int_8776162d	comment	Because I Said So: The entire dialogue between the Boy and his father.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Dreams Of The Dying / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Jespar describes Lysia's accent as: "There was no discernible accent in her Inâl, but there was a singsong quality in how she pronounced the syllables".
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
Dreams Of The Dying / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: After Ma'saa Oonai reveals the reason for her decision to hire a non-descript sellsword like Jespar, he resolves to take the job for the money.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_8a524789	type	Industrial Ghetto
Dreams Of The Dying / int_8a524789	comment	Industrial Ghetto: The bleak island-city Yuva, constantly covered in a greenish fog caused by ore mining, fits this description.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
Dreams Of The Dying / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: When examining the First Magnate, Jespar and Lysia notice an ominous fog covering his eyes that is directly linked to his declining health.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Dreams Of The Dying / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: Though the novel tries avoiding this by adding female combatants in the action scenes, more men die in the story - at least up until the point of writing this.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_9785b592	type	The Fatalist
Dreams Of The Dying / int_9785b592	comment	The Fatalist: This applies to "the Boy's" father. after he pushes his son's head under water for suggesting a scam to help them out of poverty, he repeatedly says, in an attempt to justify his own perceived failure, that people like themselves aren't made for greatness. Ending with: "There’s a place for people like us, son. Always remember that. Sometimes you just have to accept the hand life dealt you."
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_9af42bed	type	Appeal to Tradition
Dreams Of The Dying / int_9af42bed	comment	Appeal to Tradition: in a conversation with Jespar, Zagash Enkshi, the First Magnate's counselor, tries to justify Kilé's injustices by stating that it's always been this way.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_a713e674	type	Classical Anti-Hero
Dreams Of The Dying / int_a713e674	comment	Classical Antihero: Jespar doesn't have many traits of a classic hero - though he rarely acts on his views, he appears as rather cynical, doesn't possess superhuman strengths, consumes drugs on a regular basis, and is promiscuous (brothel visit)
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Dreams Of The Dying / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Though it's not clear if Jespar's father ever mistreated him directly, the Boy's father's violent outburst is a textbook example of this trope.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
Dreams Of The Dying / int_c2e295cd	comment	Curse: According to the First Magnate's wife and his counselor, his coma (and the preceding change in personality) is caused by a curse.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Dreams Of The Dying / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: With his somewhat questionable morals and cynical worldview, Jespar fits this description quite well.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_d5f35258	type	Adventures in Comaland
Dreams Of The Dying / int_d5f35258	comment	Adventures in Comaland: The First Magnate's wife, Nayima Oonai's idea to save her husband is to find a psychic who can help Jespar and Lysia navigate through her husband's comatose dream - in hopes of finding a way to wake him.
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Dreams Of The Dying / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Lysia isn't a fighter, but shows considerable combat skills when fighting back a Scythe terrorist on Yuva..
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