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Earthsea	comment	A classic series of high fantasy books by Ursula K. Le Guin, which began as a pair of short stories: "The Word of Unbinding" (1964) "The Rule of Names" (1964)These stories were shortly followed by a trilogy of young adult novels: A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) The Tombs of Atuan (1971) The Farthest Shore (1972)Decades later, Le Guin returned to Earthsea with a fourth novel, followed after another decade by a collection of new short stories and one final novel. These books were more adult than the original trilogy, dealing with some very mature subjects. Tehanu (1990) Tales from Earthsea (2001) The Other Wind (2001)Le Guin revisited Earthsea again with a few more short stories: "The Daughter of Odren" (2014) "Firelight" (2018)The world of Earthsea is a sprawling archipelago where magic is a part of everyday life, dragons are an occasional threat, and the afterlife is a very real place. The original trilogy focuses on Ged, a wizard who rises from a modest life as a goatherd in a sleepy village to become the Archmage, the master of the school of magic who rules in place of Earthsea's long-abandoned line of kings. Ged overcomes grave mistakes made early in his life in A Wizard of Earthsea, then acts as a mentor to the young priestess Tenar in The Tombs of Atuan and the young prince Arren in The Farthest Shore as each of these characters comes of age and accepts their role in life as he once did.The later books shift the focus away from Ged and instead build Earthsea itself as a more complex and rich character, exploring the history and geography of its various islands, examining the lives of commoners who don't spend their days sailing around on grand adventures and speaking to dragons, and addressing the massive weaknesses of the archipelago's society, especially its treatment of women.In many ways the Earthsea Cycle represented a radical departure from the then dominant view of fantasy in featuring a wizard as the main character rather than as a supporting character, featuring a cast of mostly brown-skinned and red-skinned characters, featuring women in prominent roles, exploring an islander society instead of the standard medieval European setting, and advancing the story by having the characters make increasingly complex moral and personal decisions rather than simply winning in sword fights or obtaining treasure. It also avoids ever becoming particularly verbose; all but the fifth book are well under 300 pages, with few words spent on the intricate and time-consuming exposition that defines other fantasy authors like Tolkien. 2018's The Books of Earthsea, the first book to collect the Cycle in its entirety, books, short stories and all, clocks in at just over 1000 pages in hardback, including Charles Vess's illustrations.The series was the subject of an animated film from Studio Ghibli called Tales from Earthsea and a TV adaptation by Syfy, originally called Legend of Earthsea, and later retitled Earthsea.The BBC adapted the works as radio dramas twice: in 1996, as a two hour adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea, and in April and May 2015, as a full adaptation of the original trilogy (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore) in six episodes, each half an hour long.
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Earthsea / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Earthsea / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Every book has its fair share of darkness, but as the series wears on, more and more down-to-earth concerns are introduced. The Tombs of Atuan introduces religious fanaticism into the setting, The Farthest Shore discusses drug addiction and slavery, and Tehanu concerns child abuse and sexist violence.
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Earthsea / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Earthsea / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: A variant — the titles of the books are often casually said early on, and then dropped traditionally with meaning.
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Earthsea / int_1a81be	type	Exponential Potential
Earthsea / int_1a81be	comment	Exponential Potential: Dragons seem to follow this pattern. Any competent wizard can kill a young dragon with little to no effort—early in his career, Ged defeats six dragons in rapid succession pretty easily. Ancient dragons, however, are almost impossible to kill by conventional means and can use magic just as well if not better than the most powerful human mages.
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Earthsea / int_1bb2c500	type	The Horde
Earthsea / int_1bb2c500	comment	The Horde: The Kargs.
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Earthsea / int_1e020735	type	Heroic Suicide
Earthsea / int_1e020735	comment	Heroic Suicide: In The Word of Unbinding, the good wizard Festin is entombed by the evil Voll, and after trying every means he can to escape but failing, ends his life with the titular word. This sends him into the afterlife, in which he can find Voll's corpse and seal him to it, which prevents him from harming any more of the living.
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Earthsea / int_1ebfd039	type	Magical Incantation
Earthsea / int_1ebfd039	comment	Magical Incantation: Magic works by the user speaking the language of dragons; since it is impossible to lie in said language, the universe will change to make what is said true.
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Earthsea / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Earthsea / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: Additional volumes were very belatedly added to the original three.
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Earthsea / int_2905fbec	type	Your Magic's No Good Here
Earthsea / int_2905fbec	comment	Your Magic's No Good Here: When Sparrowhawk (Ged) travels to the island of Osskil in the far north, his magic fails because he isn't familiar with the differences in magic there. Roke-taught magic also cannot summon fish in the deep sea, apparently because the fish there "don't know their own names". The mage Vetch tells of the differences in magic between locations.
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Earthsea / int_2fc2d6e1	type	Shapeshifter Mode Lock
Earthsea / int_2fc2d6e1	comment	Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Wizards who spend too much time shapeshifted into animal forms can forget their humanity, especially when distracted by the animal's power of flight or ability to freely range the oceans. Ged almost loses his personality once. It is stated that one wizard spent so much time as a bear he lost his humanity and killed his son. He had to be hunted down afterwards.
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Earthsea / int_30ab0aa1	type	Worldbuilding
Earthsea / int_30ab0aa1	comment	Worldbuilding: Le Guin and her creation of Earthsea.
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Earthsea / int_31d6fd00	type	Legend Fades to Myth
Earthsea / int_31d6fd00	comment	Legend Fades to Myth: Discussed as regards the legendary Princess Elfarran. Evidently she was real, though, because when Ged tries to summon her spirt they do see her, for a moment, before the shadow leaps out of the rip instead.
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Earthsea / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Earthsea / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: A wizard can do this, if he changes something's true name, or otherwise changes something's nature.
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Earthsea / int_3be6d35	type	Rescued from the Underworld
Earthsea / int_3be6d35	comment	Rescued from the Underworld: Attempted by Ged in A Wizard of Earthsea; he follows the soul of a dying child on the way to the land of the dead, but he doesn't manage to keep her from entering it and being lost.
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Earthsea / int_461defa0	type	Two-Faced
Earthsea / int_461defa0	comment	Two-Faced: Ged has a half scarred face from an encounter with a vaguely defined creature that he accidentally summoned. (It later turns out to be, appropriately, his own dark doppelgÃ¤nger.) Therru provides a full body example of this trope, having been horribly burned by her parents prior to the events of the book.
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Earthsea / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Earthsea / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Most Eldritch Abominations are this. Some are locked in tombs, one is bound into a rock... doesn't stop them from causing a good deal of trouble.
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Earthsea / int_4971b851	type	Aggressive Categorism
Earthsea / int_4971b851	comment	Aggressive Categorism: As far as Earthsea is concerned, all female magic users are both weak and wicked. All those good and powerful ones are just because they're too weak to pose a threat or they stole it from other male magicians. It gets especially bad in Tehanu, where the local lord believes Aspen is trustworthy while Tenar is a Wicked Witch based solely on their genders.
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Earthsea / int_4a84e5be	type	Wandering Culture
Earthsea / int_4a84e5be	comment	Wandering Culture: The Children of the Open Sea, a tribe of raft-dwellers who only come to land once every year, when they need to cut some trees for their homes. They provide a Bedouin Rescue Service to the heroes in the third book.
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Earthsea / int_4aa3c552	type	Animorphism
Earthsea / int_4aa3c552	comment	Animorphism: Wizards are capable of transforming into animals, though the process is dangerous, due to the animal form's instincts slowly dominating and overriding their human thought processes. In one particularly memorable example, Ged turns into a hawk in order to escape an enemy—and, forced to spend weeks in his new form, almost ends up getting stuck that way. Also, a tragic warning story told at the Wizarding School is of a wizard who loved turning himself into a bear, until he actually became one in mind as well as body, killed his own child, and was hunted down and killed like any other dangerous wild animal.
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Earthsea / int_4ccd1c09	type	Gender-Restricted Ability
Earthsea / int_4ccd1c09	comment	Gender-Restricted Ability: The original trilogy features mostly male wizards. In fact, there was a proverb "As weak as a woman's magic." Later books reveal that this is more of a cultural restriction, however.
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Earthsea / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Earthsea / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Ged, after unleashing a never-exactly-specified evil into the world, is scratched up rather terribly by the thing on one side of his face, and scarred for life. However, in that same book someone says approvingly that the scars indicate him as a true hero—and more importantly they are a sign of his kinship with the Nameless Ones, which Tenar is priestess of. Ged himself is actually not aware that anyone thinks his scars are heroic. The guy who thinks this is very young, and very awed by Ged, and he thinks the scars are the tracks of a dragon's claws, since Ged is known for having vanquished an important dragon early in his career. Averted in Tehanu, where Therru gets a terrible set of scars after being thrown in a fire, but these are not an indication that she's a terrible person.
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Earthsea / int_4fceaf4d	type	Primal Polymorphs
Earthsea / int_4fceaf4d	comment	Primal Polymorphs: A cautionary tale every wizard student knows tells of a wizard who liked becoming a bear so much, one day he became a bear for real and killed his own son. The people were forced to hunt him down after that.
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Earthsea / int_5526b660	type	Humans Are White
Earthsea / int_5526b660	comment	Humans Are White: Averted. The only white people are the Kargish, and they make up a small portion of Earthsea's population. Everyone else is Ambiguously Brown. Most of the Archipelago's people are red-brown. The people of the East Reach are black-brown.
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Earthsea / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Earthsea / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Word of God claims there's no specific analogue but draws heavily from many non-European cultures, an aspect that perhaps is one of the setting's strongest points. Broadly speaking, the world seems to be based on a Polynesia with metallurgy, some cultures even vaguely matching Hawaii, Rapa Nui and the Maori, but elements from Babylon, Mesoamerica and West African are also abundant.
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Earthsea / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
Earthsea / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: Le Guin dislikes unambiguously evil characters. Even obviously antagonistic figures like Cob and Aspen are portrayed as warped by society or their own fears, rather than doing anything For the Evulz. Dragons are described as having their own morality, and while perilous for humans to interact with, are not actively evil. They appear to qualify more as Blue-and-Orange Morality.
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Earthsea / int_5adf099a	type	Fictional Constellations
Earthsea / int_5adf099a	comment	Fictional Constellations: A Wizard Of Earthsea discusses the constellations of the land of the dead, which do not match those of the living world. Their names include the Sheaf, the Tree, the Door and the One Who Turns.
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Earthsea / int_5b965319	type	Language of Magic
Earthsea / int_5b965319	comment	Language of Magic: It even has regional dialects!
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Earthsea / int_5c00e7d7	type	Language of Truth
Earthsea / int_5c00e7d7	comment	Language of Truth: The Old Speech. Except for the dragons. Well, dragons can't lie, but they can certainly omit, obfuscate and otherwise mislead. Or, you know, set you on fire and eat you.*
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Earthsea / int_5ca04734	type	The Legend of Chekhov
Earthsea / int_5ca04734	comment	The Legend of Chekhov: The myth of human-dragon hybrids trapped in human form, mentioned at the beginning of Tehanu, is proven true at the book's end and forms the basis for the plot of the next novel, The Other Wind.
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Earthsea / int_5fb5dad8	type	Royal Blood
Earthsea / int_5fb5dad8	comment	Royal Blood: Why the God-Emperor did not just kill the prince and princess but instead stranded them on an island where Ged ran into them.
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Earthsea / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
Earthsea / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: Sacred hospitality appears pretty deeply ingrained in Earthsea, in both the Hardic and Kargad lands. Despite Ged's private gripe in A Wizard of Earthsea, his boat was provisioned for free on the island where people thought he might be some kind of demon, and the innkeeper who told him their island already had a wizard gave him free lodging, food, and ale. Staff-carrying wizards almost never pay for such things, or for ship's passage. While hospitality to wizards is mere common sense, there are many examples in the stories of non-wizards (or wizards in disguise) getting the benefit of sacred hospitality.
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Earthsea / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Earthsea / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Erreth-Akbe. The dragon Orm attacks Havnor, forcing Erreth-Akbe to take dragon form and prevent Orm from destroying the city. Erreth-Akbe manages to defeat Orm, but dies in the process. His descendant, Orm Embar, goes out the same way, destroying Cob's physical form in The Farthest Shore.
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Earthsea / int_65c05bde	type	Telescoping Staff
Earthsea / int_65c05bde	comment	Telescoping Staff: Ged's staff in A Wizard of Earthsea. He picks a blade of grass, he speaks to it to expand it into a full-sized wooden staff, and to suit this trope, it is able to shrink/grow it again.
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Earthsea / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Earthsea / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Sparrowhawk in the later books.
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Earthsea / int_6cdbfb36	type	People of Hair Color
Earthsea / int_6cdbfb36	comment	People of Hair Color: The Kargs are typically blond.
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Earthsea / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Earthsea / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Early Earthsea covers had a marked tendency to show Ged as white, and the setting along the lines of Medieval European Fantasy. Le Guin resented the publishers' art departments for insisting that this was what would sell, and was ashamed of the misrepresentation.
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Earthsea / int_74911014	type	Internal Deconstruction
Earthsea / int_74911014	comment	Internal Deconstruction: The first trilogy (and the first book especially), portrayed female magic users as near universally wicked and weaker than their male counterparts, and always out to steal power they couldn't control. The second trilogy gives a hard look at both where this assumption came from, and what believing in it can do to a culture.
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Earthsea / int_77a55dfa	type	Endless Daytime
Earthsea / int_77a55dfa	comment	Endless Daytime: One of the backstory's greatest heroes, Erreth-Akbe, is said to have gained eternal fame by defeating a being (a mage or possibly a dragon) called the Firelord who sought to stop the sun at noon so that there would be light unending.
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Earthsea / int_7958175	type	Unequal Rites
Earthsea / int_7958175	comment	Unequal Rites: A distinction is made between "true" magic (based on an ancient language, studied in a Wizarding School, practiced only by men) and several lesser forms of magic, including sorcery, illusionism and village witches. There are also other forms of religious magic in different cultures.
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Earthsea / int_7a6fc5ab	type	Man in the Iron Mask
Earthsea / int_7a6fc5ab	comment	Man in the Iron Mask: The brother and sister on the deserted island. They're a Kargish prince and princess who were abandoned to get them out of the way without outright killing them. It's from one of them that Ged gets the first half of the long-lost Ring of Erreth-Akbe.
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Earthsea / int_7af365d7	type	Reality Warping Is Not a Toy
Earthsea / int_7af365d7	comment	Reality Warping Is Not a Toy: If you use the Old Speech to warp reality, you will face the consequences (probably). Plus, some forms of reality warping are just plain impractical: For example, one could use it to change a rock into a diamond, but due to the way True Name magic works, all of the islands of Earthsea would change into diamonds too, which obviously would make them pretty unsuitable for living on.
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Earthsea / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Earthsea / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ged to Cob, about exactly why his attaining immortality was a very bad thing.
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Earthsea / int_7ef9fa03	type	Expanded Universe
Earthsea / int_7ef9fa03	comment	Expanded Universe: Le Guin's Earthsea short stories, some of which were compiled into Tales From Earthsea.
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Earthsea / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Earthsea / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: In a world where the magic of true names is a serious thing, and someone who has your true name and sufficient willpower can control you with it, Orm Embar proudly uses his true name as his only name. Of course, he is a very powerful dragon, but it's still an impressive boast.
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Earthsea / int_86cd25b5	type	Females Are More Innocent
Earthsea / int_86cd25b5	comment	Females Are More Innocent: Inverted. Part of Earthsea culture is the assumption that female magic users are wicked.
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Earthsea / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
Earthsea / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: Hardic, which we see a little of. And Kargish, Osskili and Old Speech, in which wizards cast spells.
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Earthsea / int_93b39134	type	Training the Gift of Magic
Earthsea / int_93b39134	comment	Training the Gift of Magic: Ged is first taken as a trainee by a witch when he shows a remarkable ability to cast simple spells after hearing them once, then recruited for (extensive) training at a Wizarding School after showing greater but still limited power. It's possible that anyone could achieve something if they knew the right true names, but most people would probably be dangerously clumsy at best.
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Earthsea / int_944eb8fb	type	All Deaths Final
Earthsea / int_944eb8fb	comment	All Deaths Final: Mortality is a necessary and fundamental part of the world in Earthsea: attempts to circumvent it are disastrous and unsustainable. In A Wizard of Earthsea, Ged attempting to prove his prowess as a mage by summoning the dead spirit of a legendary woman instead releases the Gebbeth, killing Nemerle, scarring Ged and setting the stage for the hunt over the rest of the book. In The Farthest Shore Ged encounters the mage Cob who claims power over the dead, and brings him physically to the barrier of life and death in order to humble him. The mage instead uses the experience to open a passage between life and death that allows him to return from death eternally but in doing so disastrously upsets the balance of the world, draining art and magic through the wound. In the climax, Ged reveals that even Cob himself has been diminished by sacrificing his mortality: he can no longer remember his true name, nor can he exert power through the true names of others.
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Earthsea / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Most people in Earthsea are like this—they receive a True Name when they come of age, but keep it a secret to all but those whom they trust completely. They go by a "use-name," which may differ from the name their mother named them as a baby. Ged for instance, was named Duny by his mother, and is known to the vast majority of Earthsea's population as Sparrowhawk.
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Earthsea / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars are Forever
Earthsea / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars are Forever: Ged has disfiguring scars down one side of his face, inflicted by an evil Living Shadow he summoned as a boy, which remain even when he is the Archmage. He seems to regard them as a reminder of the cost of arrogance and misuse of magic.
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Earthsea / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
Earthsea / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: The school for magic on Roke, which only admits men, and which is portrayed pretty much as the center of the magical world. May be the Trope Maker.
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Earthsea / int_b00a7c5e	comment	Robe and Wizard Hat: Averted in the main series, as while wizards usually wear simple robes and practical cloaks, they never have hats — at most, they have a hood. However played straight in Tales from Earthsea: before the existence of Roke, when wizards acted as magical mercenaries and magic was still a wild and mysterious thing, they all wore extravagant robes of many colors covered in runes, as well as tall, pointy and wide-brimmed hats to look even more imposing.
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Earthsea / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
Earthsea / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: The reason why it's dangerous for a wizard to stay shifted into an animal shape. The longer you stay in a given form, the more your mind gets taken over by that form's instincts.
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Earthsea / int_b80b2ba5	comment	Namedar: High-level wizards are implied to have Namedar for people's True Names, which is used in coming-of-age ceremonies, among other things.
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Earthsea / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Earthsea / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Ged is the main character of the first and third books (being the eponymous Wizard of Earthsea), and plays an important role in the second even though he's not its protagonist; but after he loses his power at the end of The Farthest Shore, he becomes a peripheral figure in Tehanu and The Other Wind, having given way to Tenar and Tehanu.
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Earthsea / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
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Earthsea / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Earthsea / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: Even after Sparrowhawk loses his magic in the third book, he retains his ability to turn up precisely where and when he's needed. Tenar comments on this pointedly.
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Earthsea / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
Earthsea / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": In the novella "The Finder": In the short story "Dragonfly":
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Earthsea / int_c0091e94	type	Dragon Hoard
Earthsea / int_c0091e94	comment	Dragon Hoard: The dragons in the series are obsessed with hoarding jewelry... at least at first.
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Earthsea / int_c011cd29	type	Path of Inspiration
Earthsea / int_c011cd29	comment	Path of Inspiration: Originally, the series portrayed the Kargish religion this way, its religious beliefs (particularly their prejudice against magic-users) being imposed by evil gods. This was later retconned into being a good/neutral religion which got corrupted.
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Earthsea / int_c0935922	comment	Dragon Rider: Ged earns the title of Dragon Lord simply because he's one of the few humans the dragons will deign to speak with. So when the most ancient dragon gives him a lift home, it's a significant mark of honor.
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Earthsea / int_c5474384	comment	Vow of Celibacy: Wizards are required to be male and celibate. One entry in Tales from Earthsea shows the origins of the Wizarding School on Roke, showing that they initially admitted women and didn't require celibacy, but an extremist faction gained control of the order early on and changed the rules. Another entry has a woman with magical gifts attempt to gain admittance to Roke, with the help of a wizard who was kicked out for bringing a barmaid back to his dorm room and getting caught in flagrante delicto.
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Earthsea / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Earthsea / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Done (and threatened to be done) quite often in The Tombs of Atuan.
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Earthsea / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Earthsea / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The word for stone in Old Speech is tolk and that for sea is inien, making Earthsea translate as "tolkienian".
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Earthsea / int_c97ca4d8	comment	Magic Staff: Wizards trained on Roke are distinguished from mere sorcerers by carrying staves. Ged is awarded a staff made of yew bound with copper in A Wizard of Earthsea. When it is lost in Osskil, Ogion makes him a replacement from a length of wood formerly intended for a longbow. Wizards of Paln, certainly Seppel in The Other Wind, and at first Cob in The Farthest Shore, do not seem to use staves— but Cob does acquire the metal staff of the Pelnish Grey Mage later in the book.
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Earthsea / int_cb14cb28	type	The Power of Language
Earthsea / int_cb14cb28	comment	The Power of Language: A Central Theme of the series. Earthsea starts out fairly simply, as a world with a Language of Truth that doubles as a Language of Magic reliant on the memorization of things' True Names, but as the story progresses, it questions the origins of this magic and reveals that words only have so much power—language-based magic is a relatively shallow, masculine form of magic, and there are deeper forms of magic and understanding that do not rely on the imperfect medium of speech.
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Earthsea / int_cbac6f8a	comment	Resurrected for a Job: It is mentioned that one wizard used to summon souls of ancient kings and wizards for royal council. It ended up with him being exiled, since, apparently, the advices of the dead are of little use to the living.
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Earthsea / int_d1b0004	comment	Portal Statue Pairs: The land entrance to the Port of Gont is flanked by two dragon statues.
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Earthsea / int_d3b02ffb	type	I Know Your True Name
Earthsea / int_d3b02ffb	comment	I Know Your True Name: The name is the thing, and the true name is the true thing. Know the true name, and you can control the thing. This power is limited in that there are literally countless numbers of names in the world, and no human, at least, can ever learn them all. You can't control the sea, for example, because you would have to know the name of every shore it touches, something impossible for a man to do in one lifetime.
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Earthsea / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Earthsea / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: The land of the dead is presented as a dry sunless place where the dead keep their names, but not their spirits. This is later revealed to not be the real afterlife but a barrier to reaching the real one, established because the first human wizards wanted access to the true names and thus power. Nice job breaking it, wizards.
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Earthsea / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Earthsea / int_d88e125e	comment	Dragons are described as having their own morality, and while perilous for humans to interact with, are not actively evil. They appear to qualify more as Blue-and-Orange Morality.
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Earthsea / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: A much more specific example, limited to Ged only, who used up all his magic to seal the door between the land of the dead and the living. Which makes for a parallel with his teacher Ogion, who used much of his magic up to stop a disaster of some kind prior to the first book. The later novels suggest that the full-scale version may be beginning.
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Earthsea / int_d934b1c7	comment	Small, Secluded World: The exiled brother and sister Ged encounters on a small island in A Wizard of Earthsea. They were marooned on the island as small children, and having spent their whole lives there have "forgotten that there were other people in the world."
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Earthsea / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Roke Island is home to the School of Magic which results in all sorts of bizarre occurrences such as flying houses, people transforming into an animal (or vice versa), etc. The locals are used to this and barely give a second glance.
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Earthsea / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
Earthsea / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: A Wizard of Earthsea is explicitly described as being about Ged when he was young and not famed in story; in it, a friend declares he will make a song so his deeds will be remembered, but either he didn't or the song was lost (only distorted pieces survive). However, by The Farthest Shore, Ged is indeed famed. Despite the lines in A Wizard of Earthsea saying that stories of the events of that novel were lost, it is clear that they are common knowledge by the time of The Other Wind, as shown by Alder.
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Earthsea / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: The magic taught in Roke seems to cover the gamut pretty widely, though with an unusual caveat of geography: the further one gets away from Roke, the less reliable the magic that Roke teaches becomes. Vetch, grown up in the East Reach, says that certain spells he learned at home are useless at Roke, while some spells taught to him in Roke lose their potency in the East Reach. Additionally, the way magic works in Earthsea is that it's impossible for anything said in the true speech, the dragons' tongue, to be a lie. Anything you say in the true speech is true, even if physical reality has to change to make it so. The only exception seems to be dragons, who speak nothing but the true speech, and can still lie all they want.
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Earthsea / int_e74e8d62	comment	Weather Dissonance: Wizards like controlling the weather. It's the first ability that Ged manifests. But it's not always wise. In the sixth book, the sea-captain Tosla grumbles about sailing to Roke, saying there's not an honest wind or current for miles around the island, but all wizard's brew.
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Earthsea / int_e9154c4f	comment	Naming Ceremony: Children are given their True Name by a wizard in a special Rite of Passage ceremony when they come of age.
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Earthsea / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: The Kargs as a people view reading and writing as "black arts" and avoid them at all costs, though ironically they are excellent at mathematics. When Ged rescues Tenar from the Tombs of Atuan and brings her with him to his land, she eventually learns to how speak his language, and then to read and write in it.
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Earthsea / int_ee6201b8	comment	It Was a Gift: Ged's half of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe.
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Earthsea / int_f609fcfe	comment	Fictional Holiday: The Long Dance, a festival celebrated by every culture in Earthsea.
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Earthsea / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Averted. There are no emotions in the afterlife. Though this is possibly subverted in The Other Wind, when Alder is reunited with his dead wife Lily.
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Earthsea / int_f6a0872	comment	Mage Tower: The Master Namer of Roke, Kurremkarmerruk, lives in a tower some way from the School.
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Earthsea / int_f77aa221	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod
Earthsea / int_f77aa221	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: A king received a prophecy his empire will fall because of a person from the former royal house. By then, there were only two children left; a boy and a girl. He was afraid to kill them (Royal Blood), so he banished them to a desolate island. They survive until old age. Then, one day, Ged is washed ashore. The girl gives him an old family keepsake...
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Earthsea / int_f8173bd9	type	Medieval European Fantasy
Earthsea / int_f8173bd9	comment	Medieval European Fantasy: Totally averted. Most of the characters are dark-skinned/non-white (with great care taken to distinguish between the various shades of brown), and if any era of actual history matches Earthsea, it's ancient times, not the Middle Ages (for instance, the tech level is late Bronze Age, augmented by widespread use of magic for things like animal husbandry and weather control). If you're having a hard time figuring this out, just envision the settlements as looking Middle Eastern or Indian or perhaps Polynesian (and yes, African), and you'll probably end up freeing yourself from the chains of this trope forever. The first edition cover◊ appears to be Mayan-inspired.
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Earthsea / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Subverted in "The Rule of Names". Two sorcerers get into a duel involving shapeshifting; it ends with one back in his human form, and the other a dragon. The human says something like, "I'm tired of this; it ends now; show me your true shape, by the power of your True Name." He speaks the Name. The dragon is unaffected, and replies, "That is my true name; this is my true shape." CHOMP!
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Earthsea	hasFeature	Never Sleep Again / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	North Is Cold, South Is Hot / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Ominous Fog / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Once Upon a Time / int_35c648b2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Path of Inspiration / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	People of Hair Color / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Physical Heaven / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Portal Statue Pairs / int_35c648b2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Primal Polymorphs / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Reality Warping Is Not a Toy / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Red Right Hand / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Resurrected for a Job / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Rite-of-Passage Name Change / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Seal the Breach / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Shoulder-Sized Dragon / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Somebody Named "Nobody" / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	That's No Moon / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	The Dying Walk / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	The Legend of Chekhov / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	The Nothing After Death / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	The Place / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	The Power of Language / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	The Trope without a Title / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Trainee from Hell / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Trope Codifier / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Two-Faced / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Unequal Rites / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Wandering Culture / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	Weredragon / int_35c6c0d2
Earthsea	hasFeature	The Horde / int_35c6c0d2

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