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Elantris was the city of the gods. Elantrians were people who had been magically transformed by a strange effect that strikes people at random, turning them into near-immortals able to wield powerful magic. Anyone the transformation took—beggar, peasant or nobleman—would leave their old, mundane lives behind and move to Elantris, to live in glory, wisdom, and splendor, worshiped by mere mortals for all eternity.Eternity, as the introduction puts it, ended ten years ago. In a cataclysmic event that tore open the land, the magic suddenly failed, turning the Elantrians into grotesque zombie-like creatures stripped of their magic and their glory. The transformation still strikes at random, but now as a curse, condemned by all the religions of the world.The story opens with Raoden, the beloved Crown Prince of Arelon, waking up to find it took him in his sleep. He's thrown into the now-ruined city of Elantris, which has transformed over the last ten years from a majestic City of the Gods into a crumbling, filth-covered insane asylum filled with cursed immortals whose bodies do not heal from even the slightest injuries. His fiance from a political marriage, Sarene, arrives from another kingdom to be told that he suddenly died during her journey, leaving her officially his widow under the terms of the contract. She immediately suspects assassination, but soon she finds far more pressing matters to worry about...And then everything starts going wrong all at once. The kingdom of Arelon is unstable due to inept leadership, the most beloved man in the kingdom (who could have held things together) is "dead," and a high priest of the militaristic Dereth religion has just arrived in the capital city. He has three months to convert the people of Arelon, or they will all be wiped out by the Derethi in a holy war. And that's just the first couple of chapters. To say anything more would be to spoil things.Elantris is the first published book by Brandon Sanderson, who went on to write the Mistborn books, Warbreaker, and The Stormlight Archive for his Verse, The Cosmere, which Elantris is also a part of.Sanderson has also written The Emperor's Soul, a standalone novella set in the same world as Elantris, but in a distant Empire.Not to be confused with the Hyundai Elantra. The Heavy Metal band Elantris is named after the novel.
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Alone Among the Couples
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Alone Among the Couples: Sarene finds it painful.
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Rasputinian Death
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Rasputinian Death: Given how hard it is to kill an Elantrian, this comes up.
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Arbitrary Skepticism
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Lord Spirit calls Sarene on this when she says that AonDor was "just a heathen legend."
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: Each Hoed, an Elantrian who has been driven into a catatonic state by the injury, has their own.
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Cosmic Flaw
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Cosmic Flaw: The catastrophe known as the Reod basically inflicted The Magic Goes Away in the mage-city of Elantris, turned the demigod-like inhabitants into zombies and created a huge chasm just for good measure. It turned out that the new chasm caused everything, since the Elantrians' Hermetic Magic is based on the country's geography, which the chasm's appearance altered.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: The planet on which Elantris takes place is named Sel. This fact was first mentioned in the annotations for Warbreaker, and in print in another book set in the Mistborn setting, in an appendix that compares Allomancy with Aons.
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Religion of Evil
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Religion of Evil: Shu-Dereth is considered one by many, as its the state religion of an expansionist empire who uses its precepts of "unity under one nation" as justification for conquest. Hrathen, of course, thinks that it's perfectly logical, even after he agrees that its current leader is evil.
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Anti-Magic
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Anti-Magic: Dilaf's is immune to Aonic magic, even able to destroy Aons from a distance.
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Always Someone Better
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Always Someone Better: Duke Roial always seems to be one step ahead of his business rival and friend Ahan. This eventually leads to Ahan's betrayal of the group so he can finally get the better of Roial.
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God Before Dogma
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God Before Dogma: Hrathen eventually comes to this view after his Heel–Face Turn, saying "My problem is with Wyrn, not with Jaddeth."
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Sins of Our Fathers
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Sins of Our Fathers: Dilaf wants to destroy all Elantrains and potential future Elantrains because one of them accidently cursed his wife while trying to heal her.
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Servant Race
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Servant Race: The Seons are magical spirits appearing as balls of light, who bind to certain humans and serve them. That said, the seon Ien objects to terms like servant or slave: to a Seon, there is no such thing as rank, only those they love.
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Lord Ahan decides this after Sarene declares that she plans to go into Elantris.
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Cape Swish
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Cape Swish: Hrathen does this. When she first sees him, Sarene hopes he'll trip on it.
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Church Militant
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Church Militant: The Shu-Dereth religion views combat as an expression of one's loyalty to God and Wyrn, and all of its priests are expected to be at least competent warriors. Hrathen's vestments actually include a full set of ceremonial armor. It isn't just for show.
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Ironic Echo
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Ironic Echo: At the beginning of the novel, Hrathen is convinced that eventually, the people of the city will see him as their savior. Well... yeah, but not exactly the way he intended.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Raoden only meets one person who's managed to retain both his wits and his humanity after becoming an Elantrian, Galladon. At first.
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Turn the Other Cheek
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Turn the Other Cheek: Played straight, averted, and subverted. Raoden is fond of using this gambit to convince other Elantrian factions to join his side, returning initial cruelty with kindness. However, he recognizes that it won't work with everyone, so he sometimes uses it as part of a greater gambit (giving Shaor's men uncooked grain in the hope that they'll turn on her for help cooking it) or doesn't bother at all (going straight for the kill with the Dakhor men when they try to negotiate, because he knows they're lying to make Elantris let its guard down).
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Principles Zealot
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Principles Zealot: Subverted by Hrathen, who is quite reasonable, all things considered. Played terrifyingly straight by Dilaf.
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Elephant in the Living Room
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Elephant in the Living Room: Nobody at court wants to discuss Prince Raoden's death, which annoys Sarene to no end. Elantris itself is also this for the Arelenes after the Reod.
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Femininity Failure
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Femininity Failure: Sarene tries to be traditionally feminine, but isn't exactly good at it. This leads to her having trouble fitting in with the court.
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Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
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Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Under King Iadon, Arelone peasants are basically slaves, with no right to leave their master's land. And Sarene is particularly horrified by an argument between two aristocrats over the ownership rights to a runaway slave - and a child he has fathered, with no regards that they would be splitting a family.
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Guile Hero
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Guile Hero: Sarene, certainly, and Prince Raoden, to a lesser extent.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: Dilaf starts as a Knight Templar only too happy to massacre heretics, especially Elantrians, and only gets worse.
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Amplifier Artifact
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Amplifier Artifact: The entire city of Elantris is one. It and its outlying cities both transform ordinary people of certain bloodlines into Elantrians and provides them a huge amount of investiture for their use of the Dor. When Elantrians are far away from it their power is reduced, and when Elantris is broken, they are turned into The Undead.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: Hrathen is practically defined by this, to contrast from Dilaf.
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After the End
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After the End: Sort of. Elantris is not a pleasant place to live in anymore, though the world outside its walls continues as normal.
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Best Served Cold
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Best Served Cold: Dilaf's revenge is planned as this type... Gone very very far over the edge.
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Baldness Means Sickness
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Baldness Means Sickness: One of the first signs of turning into a Elantrian is the loss of all the victim's hair. Elantrians are all damned to slowly decay and fall into madness due to their immortality and inability to heal.
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Blessed with Suck
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Blessed with Suck: In pre-Reod days, Raoden's strong connection to the Dor would have made him an extraordinarily powerful Elantrian. Post-Reod, it just means he's the target of the Dor's failed attempts to escape, and is regularly wracked with pain as it tries to force its way out through him. This ends when Elantris is fixed.
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Bad Boss
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Bad Boss: A major reason Hrathen left the monastery was when he saw its leader, Dilaf, make one of his subordinates sacrifice himself to provide energy to teleport a distance he could easily have travelled conventionally.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In the ending, while the Dakhor monks are conquering Kae, the noblewomen decide to put their fencing lessons to use and react. The point is, that's not a formal duel, and they are trained and ruthless soldiers, so they have no problem in handling them once the surprise wears out.
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King Incognito
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King Incognito: Raoden, sort of, several times. When he's first sent to Elantris, he doesn't give his real name. People unusually smart and/or close to him figure out who he is in the end, but most people come to follow him simply because he's leading by example and getting things done. When Sarene accidentally subverts his efforts to help Elantrians by giving them handouts, he doesn't admit to being in charge and lets her think the former gang leaders are still running things. And later, he leaves the city disguised as a Dula, because he's still trying to figure out how to fix the magic.
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Honor Before Reason
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Honor Before Reason: When Hrathen uses his special poison to make Sarene appear to be an Elantrian, then exacts a promise from Eventeo to convert if Jaddeth can "heal" his daughter, Eventeo follows through on it, even after he finds out it was all a trick, because he gave his word. However, it's also made clear that he was likely going to convert anyway in the hopes of saving his kingdom and this gave him a way to save face.
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Worthy Opponent
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Worthy Opponent: Hrathen considers Sarene one of these, in a political sense. At their first real clash on the Elantris walls, he gives her a nod of respect when she outmaneuvers him, and later tells Dilaf that she was "magnificent."
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: In the 10th anniversary edition, there is a scene at the very end of the book of Hoid having a conversation with a Skaze after attempting to become an Elantrian, followed by him diving into the Shardpool.
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Fantasy Counterpart Appliance
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Fantasy Counterpart Appliance: The Seons have many functions that make them like sentient, floating versions of a personal computer.
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NotUsingTheZedWord
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Not Using the Zed Word: The Elantrians—no bleeding, no heartbeat, no healing, unable to die unless beheaded or purged with fire, accumulating unfading pain with every minor injury, and constantly ravenous. Almost all Elantrians are reduced to moaning, immobile heaps within a year of transformation even if they avoid going insane from pain and hunger before then. Sanderson plays up those who've managed to keep their sanity as victims of something like zombie apartheid. Though there are two major distinctions between Elantrians and regular zombies: Elantrians don't spread their condition to anyone else. And the way they experience pain arguably makes them easier to injure and incapacitate than them humans.
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It's the Only Way to Be Sure
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It's the Only Way to Be Sure: Invoked by Dilaf, acting on Wyrn's orders. He is willing to commit genocide, wiping out the entire Aonic race, to ensure that no more Elantrians can be created.
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Smug Snake
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Smug Snake: Duke Telrii thinks he's a Magnificent Bastard. He is very, very wrong, and winds up a puppet to pretty much all of the more competent villains. King Iadon is a bit better, but he still falls squarely into this too.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Some of the not-quite-dead Elantrians. The bone manipulation used by the Dakhor monks, including making them seem like different ethnicities, are gruesome.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: So the Elantrians were benevolent semi-divine beings who ruled over a genuine utopia... and then they were all made into hideous zombie-like creatures because they earned the wrath of God (according to Shu-Dereth). Seems more than a little unfair. Not to mention that Dilaf had planned for the extermination of everyone in Arelon and Teod to make sure no Elantrians exist ever again as far as he can tell, over the (accidental!) cursing and death of his wife.
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Our Demons Are Different
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Our Demons Are Different: Hrathen tries to undermine Elantris by calling Elantrians demons. Dakhor monks are explicitly connected to demons, but are human.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: Hrathen ends his first chapter considering that the people of Kae will call him their savior. In the last chapter of the book, on Hrathen's grave, Sarene does indeed call him their savior. Although it means something completely different from what Hrathen had thought.
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This Is My Name on Foreign
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This Is My Name on Foreign: Raoden chooses the name of "spirit" when he becomes an Elantrian.
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Action Survivor
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Action Survivor: Pretty much any Elantrian who isn't Ax-Crazy or past the Despair Event Horizon.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Invoked by Sarene. She has heard that Elantris is a barbarous place ruled by cruel warlords. When she meets Spirit, she quickly figures out that he's got a lot more power than the "simple advisor" guise he introduces himself as. When he proves to be friendly and genial, she figures he's probably an example of this trope.
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You Monster!
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You Monster!: Hrathen declares Dilaf a monster for wanting the massacre of Teod and Arelon because he deems all of their citizens to be possible future Elantrians.
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Corrupt Church
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Corrupt Church: It's very heavily implied that Wyrn, the priest-emperor of the Derethi, cares more about power on earth than righteousness before God. This is subverted with the two main Derethi characters, however—Hrathen is genuinely devout, and Dilaf's belief is crazy but sincere.
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The Empire
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The Empire: Fjordell. While they aren't a traditional empire and have let people think their Glory Days are over, they have been manipulating other countries into converting to Shu-Dereth, which teaches that Fjordell is the one true nation and Wyrn is God's representative on Earth. By the modern day, only Arelon and Teod are holding out against its influence, and Wyrn sends Hrathen to either convert them in three months, or they'll do it by force.
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Derethi/Fjordell empire is a combination of the Romans and the Norse, per Word of God. Jindo is loosely based on China, and Teod is remniscent of Britain in that it's a tiny island that is nonetheless a world power due to its incredibly formidable navy.
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Vasquez Always Dies
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Vasquez Always Dies: Karata is killed by Dilaf's warrior-priests.
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What Happened to Mommy?
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What Happened to Mommy?: Adien is an Elantrian.
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Faux Death
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Faux Death: Played with. Hrathen commissions a poison that shows the physical appearance changes of an Elantrians without the hunger or pains. He uses it on himself, then on Sarene.
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The pirate Dreok Crushthroat. For bonus points, "Reo" means "Vengeance" in Aonic. Fortunately, he was defeated before the story begins. It's actually Dreok Crushedthroat, but that's not much better.
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Made of Magic
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Made of Magic: The Elantrians. Aon Shao (as in Shaod) means "transform"/"change". After reading about a failed healing and what it did to the patient, Raoden figures out that they are not cursed, just incomplete, stuck in limbo until the transformation finishes.
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Perfectly Arranged Marriage
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Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Raoden and Sarene politically arranged marriage. Justified, as they arranged it themselves, and only after getting to know each other through letters and magic telephone.
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Heroic Sacrifice
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Heroic Sacrifice: Hrathen first has a Heel–Face Turn to save Sarene and is nearly killed by Fjon, then dies after killing Dilaf and taking another wound in the process.
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Background Magic Field
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Background Magic Field: The Dor, which different groups access in different ways, both for good and ill.
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Non-Indicative Name
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Nonindicative Name: Iadon, see character sheet for details.
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Only One Name
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Only One Name: Everyone in the book has only one name, aside from titles or nicknames, with Aonic names including an Aon. The fact that Dilaf's name does not include such an Aon is a clue that he is not truly from Arelon at all.
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Dying Moment of Awesome
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Dying Moment of Awesome: Hrathen gets one. Driven by sheer willpower, he gets back up and uses his very last moments to hunt down and kill Dilaf.
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Planet of Hats
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Planet of Hats: Subverted with the Dulas. They're supposed to be an entire culture of optimistic, lazy, rather silly airheads, but the main Dula character, Galladon, is a pessimistic, cynical Deadpan Snarker who has the most common sense of anyone in Elantris. This is frequently remarked on by other characters, to his annoyance, and we don't ever really see a "typical" Dula in the book. Then played with further when, through AonDor and costuming, Raoden impersonates a Dula, playing every stereotype of them he knows to the hilt. The Arelene nobility don't know the difference between the impersonator and a genuine Dula, while the difference is perfectly clear (and also very annoying) to Galladon. Sarene becomes suspicious when she realizes just how much of a stereotype he is.
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Meaningful Echo
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Meaningful Echo: When Saolin goes Hoed, his Madness Mantra is "I have failed my Lord Spirit." When Raoden does, his is "Failed my love."
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Plenty, most of which are only revealed by checking the Aonic glossary in the back.
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Magic A Is Magic A
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Magic A Is Magic A: As Sanderson is known for. If you want a slightly different effect, you'll need to use Magic A'. It is heavily implied that the old Elantrians had to learn all this over long time, in universities. Word of God is that all magic on Sel is essentially "programming," building desired effects by creating symbols with very specific meanings.
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Babies Ever After
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Babies Ever After: Not in the novel itself, but the sequel short story The Hope of Elantris shows Sarene heavily (and happily) pregnant.
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Politically Incorrect Villain
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Iadon is extremely sexist.
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Peaceful Korathi priests wear blue, while militant Derethi priests wear blood red.
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Noble Demon
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Noble Demon: Hrathen, ironically considering he is a priest. He is working to convert the entire country to Shu-Dereth and is happy to lie, manipulate, and even kill to see it done, and gets the idea to pin all their hate on the Elantrians. However, he's doing it to avoid Fjordell forcefully subjugating them. Karata, especially compared to the other gang leaders. She's not shy about threatening broken limb and agonizing pain on those that cross her and is the first to attack Raoden's gang. She's also the first to come around and join them after Raoden does her a favor, and has been secretly sheltering the children of Elantris.
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Morality Kitchen Sink
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Morality Kitchen Sink: Furthest toward the Hero end, you have Sarene, who's upstanding but can be a little deceptive. A little further away from the Hero end, you've got Raoden, who resorts to some practical tactics. On a good deal toward the Villain side, you have Hrathen, but he shifts further toward Hero before the story is done with. All the way down at the Villain end, you have Dilaf.
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Chekhov's Armoury
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Chekhov's Armoury: Plenty of seemingly minor details turn out to be significant later on, and only the most important one was obvious enough to identify as a Chekhov's Gun beforehand.
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The Ageless
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The Ageless: The Elantrians were this before the Reod. They didn't age, but they could still be killed by things like accidents and organ failure. The pond on the mountainside was used to dispose of corpses. The Reod made them into The Undead.
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No Zombie Cannibals
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No Zombie Cannibals: Justified. The Elantrians' flesh tastes so horrible that even the perpetually-ravenous Elantrians can't bring themselves to eat each other.
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Armor-Piercing Question
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Armor-Piercing Question: To Hrathen from Omin: "What happened to your faith?" Hrathen being Hrathen, he initially seems to be only mildly annoyed, but later it's clear that the question has shaken him to the core.
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Symbol Face
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Symbol Face: Exaggerated with the seons — small Spark Fairies with a central magic rune making the whole body technically a symbol. Although they don't derive any unique abilities from the rune other than an innate knowledge of its meaning, the seons are fragments of one of the gods that fuels the magic system, and there is one seon in existence per rune in the Language of Magic.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Sarene gives a nasty one to to Iadon that actually leaves the man as a blubbering wreck.
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Super-Soldier
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Super Soldier: The Dakhor.
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Vestigial Empire
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Vestigial Empire: Subverted. Fjorden very much 'looks like one at first glance. However, since the political leaders attached themselves to the Shu-Dereth faith, in essence becoming a theocracy, Fjorden's influence is felt wherever there is a Shu-Dereth Temple. While not geographically expansive, Fjorden is a cultural powerhouse, and the militancy of Shu-Dereth make them a military superpower too.
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Power Glows
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Power Glows: All magic glows, the more the better. Elantrians and their very city all possessed a constant glow of power before the disaster struck. Interestingly, the glowing was responsible for one of the problems that occurred after the Reod. The light attracted a fungus which fed on it. This was not a problem while the fungus was alive but once the magic went away so did the glow, and the fungus died and rotted coating the surfaces of Elantris in a thick oily slime.
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Mystical City Planning
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Mystical City Planning: The eponymous city is a focus of magical power and its inhabitants are the next thing to physical gods. But just prior to the beginning of the book, the magic fails and the blessing becomes a curse. The protagonist eventually figures out that the magic system — and the design of the city itself — is based on a glyph which represents the basic shape of the continent, and a disaster caused a huge chasm that renders the shape inaccurate. Drawing a line to represent the chasm corrects this.
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Broken Pedestal
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Broken Pedestal: Downplayed Trope with Sarene's opinion of her father. They love each other, but eventually she is incredibly disappointed that he's willing to convert in order to protect his kingdom, and finds out that he probably usurped the throne from her favorite uncle.
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer
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Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: City of Kae has one. Justified, as (just like everything in the city) it was created by Elantrian magic and Elantrians created things that were beautiful, useful and improved people's lives. However, after the Shaod, the sewers are in disrepair, smelly and filled with filth. A perfect place for the meeting of a forbidden cult, as Sarene finds out.
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Wizards Live Longer
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Wizards Live Longer: Elantrians and Dakhor both have longer-than-natural lifespans.
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Teleporter's Visualization Clause
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Teleporter's Visualization Clause: Downplayed. Anyone who knows the teleportation spell can do it with only a direction and a distance, but there's no protection against jumping into a wall. Raoden can only jump to a different city because someone memorized the distance.
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Villain Protagonist
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Villain Protagonist: Hrathen is somewhere between this and Anti-Hero in his own POV sections.
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The Magic Comes Back
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The Magic Comes Back: All it needed to function again was to add one line: the Chasm.
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Zombie Advocate
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Zombie Advocate: Justified in a setting where no one calls them zombies and they aren't mindless.
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Dragon with an Agenda
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Dragon with an Agenda: Dilaf. Eventually he reveals himself to be a Dragon-in-Chief.
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Exaggerated Trope
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Then played with further when, through AonDor and costuming, Raoden impersonates a Dula, playing every stereotype of them he knows to the hilt. The Arelene nobility don't know the difference between the impersonator and a genuine Dula, while the difference is perfectly clear (and also very annoying) to Galladon. Sarene becomes suspicious when she realizes just how much of a stereotype he is.
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Sinister Minister
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Sinister Minister: Subverted with Hrathen, who is both a priest and fairly sinister but really just wants to save everyone from being massacred by a holy war. Played completely straight with Dilaf and his followers, however.
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Kill It with Fire
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Kill It with Fire: Post-Reod Elantrians are very flammable, and many people are more than happy to help out.
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Fantasy World Map
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Fantasy World Map: Of Arelon. It's also an important clue as to what caused the Reod.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: When Roial dies in a very touching scene, right as Spirit reveals himself as Prince Raoden. Immediately afterwards, Sarene's shock upon realizing that she's married to this guy is almost palpable.
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Happiness in Slavery
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Happiness in Slavery: Seons. They happily serve their human masters, and refuse to accept freedom if offered.
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Physical God
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Physical God: The Elantrians were this before the Reod and return to this state once AonDor is restored.
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: The story alternates between the perspectives of the three main characters, Raoden to Sarene to Hrathen and back to Raoden. Only for it to fall apart completely (mixing up the order and including perspectives from other minor characters) towards the end during the 'Sanderson Avalanche' as various plotlines reach fruition.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Wyrn gets away untouched, with just his recent plotting thwarted. Sanderson hopes to write a sequel someday and intended to preserve Wyrn as Big Bad of the setting.
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Obfuscating Stupidity
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Sarene's very good at this, although she's helped by Iadon's utter disregard for women. So is Dilaf.
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Warrior Monk
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Warrior Monk: All the priests of Shu-Dereth, but especially Hrathen. It seems from Dilaf's reaction that the other priests don't make a practice of wearing real armor day in and day out.
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Demonization
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Demonization: Hrathen very publicly blames the Elantrians for all of Arelon's misfortunes. Notably, he doesn't bear the Elantrians any particular ill-will, he just needs a rallying cry to convert the masses quickly.
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Wound That Will Not Heal
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Wound That Will Not Heal: When the cursed Elantrians suffer pain of any sort, it doesn't fade, remaining as strong forever as it was when they were first injured. Nobody's quite certain whether massive damage ends their suffering, or leaves them semi-conscious in their component bits, still in pain forever.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Subverted with the Dulas. They're supposed to be an entire culture of optimistic, lazy, rather silly airheads, but the main Dula character, Galladon, is a pessimistic, cynical Deadpan Snarker who has the most common sense of anyone in Elantris. This is frequently remarked on by other characters, to his annoyance, and we don't ever really see a "typical" Dula in the book.
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Fate Worse than Death
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Fate Worse than Death: Elantrians' fate post-Reod. They cannot die so every injury feels as new as the moment they got it, and eventually they will go catatonic from pain as their wounds pile up. Brandon Sanderson recently posted an alternate ending [1] which ended with Dilaf being changed into a zombie Elantrian by means of the Ian Aon, a healing Aon, sacrificing itself to defeat him. Due to the damage done to the Seons from the Reod, it healed him imperfectly and doomed him to the same fate as his lover.
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Mayfly–December Romance
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Mayfly–December Romance: It's not really addressed in the book, but it's implied that as an Elantrian, Raoden will far outlive Sarene.
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No Cure for Evil
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No Cure for Evil: Dilaf notes that there is no healing mechanism in Dakhor, though there is for Elantris.
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Soiled City on a Hill
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Soiled City on a Hill: Elantris, in the eyes of Derethi priests, who claim it was destroyed because of its inhabitants's pride.
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Hollywood Autism
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Hollywood Autism: Adien, son of Kiin, appears to be this. He's never stated to be autistic, but he constantly repeats strings of numbers, and is socially completely withdrawn. Subverted. He's actually an Elantrian, and a Hoed at that, for whom the numbers are his Madness Mantra. His family has disguised his condition as this trope. Double Subverted. After Raoden reconnects Elantris to the Dor, Adien becomes properly conscious, but maintains that the peculiarities of his mind are still present, and his head for numbers is vital to saving Sarene and Teod.
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Obfuscating Insanity
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Obfuscating Insanity: Raoden figures out early on that Aanden can't be as insane as he acts, and he's too well-organized and thoughtful for the show he puts on. Exposing his ruse before his court leads to him reclaiming his true name of Taan and joining Raoden.
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Knight Templar
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Knight Templar: Hrathen, though a combination of Character Development and Sympathetic P.O.V. soon make it clear he is far less fanatical than he seems, and Dilaf.
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Götterdämmerung
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Götterdämmerung: Elantris was known as the City of the Gods until all the magic went sour.
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Non-Human Sidekick
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Non-Human Sidekick: The Seons, glowing balls of light that can communicate with other Seons and wish to serve. Also Skaze, but they're only playing the part because they have to.
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Irony
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Irony: The Korathi and Derethi religions have a common founder. The reason for their schism? They disagree on what he meant by "unity."
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Supernatural Martial Arts
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Jindo's ChayShan, which apparently works by tracing patterns though special movements, sort of like a Supernatural Martial Arts. Shuden cuts down a superpowered monk with his eyes closed.
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Human Sacrifice
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Human Sacrifice: The cult of the Mysteries is known for this. Iadon takes to it out of desperation. On a similar, but more functional note, the Dakhor use this to power some of their magics.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: An entire aristocracy full of them, (the king set up his system of nobility and titles specifically based on the ownership and production of wealth), but Telrii and the King are by far the worst.
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Word of God
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Word of God is that all magic on Sel is essentially "programming," building desired effects by creating symbols with very specific meanings.
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Mental Shutdown
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Mental Shutdown: Hoed are Elantrians who have been driven into catatonia by the accumulated pain of their unhealing wounds. Zig-zagged at the end when The Magic Comes Back and heals them.
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Anti-Villain
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Anti-Villain: Hrathen, as a Type III. His primary motivation in coming to Arelon isn't because he believes the Arelene to be wrong (though he does), it's that he wants to save them from a terrible fate, namely genocide at the hands of Wyrn's forces. The one time he had to convert a population through bloodshed, it weighed heavily on his conscience, and continues to do so even to the present time of the story.
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"Eureka!" Moment
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"Eureka!" Moment: When Raoden as "Spirit" shows Sarene his research on AonDor, she tells him of a mnemonic trick she uses to remember some of the Aons, based on Arelon's geography. This leads Raoden, later in the story, to realize that all Aons are based on Arelon's geography, which changed because of the Chasm, so now the Aons need an extra line... and then to realize that Elantris itself is one giant Aon that only requires the Chasm line to be complete. Similarly, Galladon's story of what happened to a woman after an Elantrian screwed up a healing using AonDor leads Raoden to realize the Reod is just an incomplete transformation into an Elantrian.
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Insult Friendly Fire
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Insult Friendly Fire: When Raoden describes Shaor's men worshipping her, he refers to it as a "primitive" religion. Galladon takes offense to this, as Duladel's own religion of Jesker is considered "primitive" by the Shu churches, and Raoden corrects it to "simplistic".
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: In his first chapter, Hrathen tells a artheth, Fjon, to look for a monastery to undergo training and restore his faith. Fjon picks up the monastery that trains assassins, and he's told he has to prove his ambition by killing a target they give him. Who ends up being Hrathen himself. Where it not for the enhancement he received at Dakhor, Hrathen wouldn't have been able to survive his injury to kill Dilaf, the Dakhor's gradget. Even better, the enhanced arm itself is what he uses to kill him with, and Dilaf's actions were what caused Hrathen to lose faith in Shu-Dereth in the first place.
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Dramatic Unmask
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Dramatic Unmask: Raoden, in the home of his conspirator friend, to the usurper King Telrii. He was even Crazy-Prepared about it, making it look like his disguise was mundane when it was really the product of The Magic Comes Back.
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The Chessmaster
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The Chessmaster: Sarene and Hrathen. Also Dilaf.
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The Magic Goes Away
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The Magic Goes Away: Ten years before the start of the story, the type of magic wielded by the godlike Elatrians (known as AonDor) suddenly stopped working and they all become hideous zombie-like horrors.
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Just Woke Up That Way
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Just Woke Up That Way: The story opens with Raoden waking up and feeling odd, discovering that he's turned into an Elantrian only when his servant runs away screaming.
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The Cavalry
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The Cavalry: The rest of the newly-empowered Elantrians teleporting to Teod to Raoden's rescue and unleashing a massive battery of attack magic on the Derethi monks.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Not Sarene's forte, as she's more of a political type, but she does fence regularly for sport and is good enough to hold her own against the most physically powerful character in the novel, Dilaf. Karata is a more typical example.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: Raoden reads about an Arelene woman whose husband took her to Elantris for healing, only for the Elantrians to err and give her the disfigurement and pain that post-Reod Elantrians have, leading to her suicide. This woman was Dilaf's wife and her death fuels his hatred of Elantris.
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: Elantrians who cross it turn catatonic and spend all day whispering Madness Mantras to themselves.
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Functional Magic
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Functional/Geometric Magic: AonDor, the magic of the Elantrians, is based on a set of special runes that must be traced exactly the right way in the air, with an endless variety of effects generated using special modifiers and varied line lengths. What bit them in the ass ten years ago was the fact that the geometry was in turn geography-based. When the geography changed, the runes stopped working because they no longer matched. Adding an extra line to represent the newly-formed chasm restores the functionality of the runes. Jindo's ChayShan, which apparently works by tracing patterns though special movements, sort of like a Supernatural Martial Arts. Shuden cuts down a superpowered monk with his eyes closed. The Dakhor have also discovered a way to "channel the Dor", using chanting to cause their bones to painfully grow and reshape into ancient runes that grant them special powers.
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Good Republic, Evil Empire
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Good Republic, Evil Empire: Averted; all the nations involved on both sides are monarchies and Hrathen was able to topple the Duladen Republic in favour of a Fjorden-backed monarchy in part because he was able to exploit the fact that the Duladen were ruled by an oligarchic out-of-touch ruling class, known simply as "the republicans".
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Mama Bear
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Mama Bear: It's eventually revealed that Karata is one of these, and her attempts to escape Elantris are actually trying to see her daughter one last time. In fact, her whole gang is this or Papa Wolf: they've taken the children of Elantris to keep them safe and fed, and their desire to protect them is what's keeping them all sane.
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Switching P.O.V.
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Switching P.O.V.: The book rotates its point of view character every chapter from Raoden to Serene to Hrathen. This is abandoned in the third act and viewpoints begin switching within chapters and to other characters.
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Hollywood Satanism
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Hollywood Satanism: The Jeskeri Mysteries turn out to be this, in practice. The brief glimpse we get is of a powerful nobleman standing naked before an altar, disemboweling a young woman and writing demands in her blood while his followers watch, clothed in dark robes.
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Cult
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Cult: "The Jeskeri Mysteries." Spun off from the main religion of Jesker, but abandoned its teachings of the Dor in favor of Human Sacrifice and Blood Magic.
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Powered by a Forsaken Child
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Powered by a Forsaken Child: Dakhor magic supplements Geometric Magic with techniques that require sacrificing their own practitioners; one must die to cast a teleportation spell, while fifty were needed to grant Dilaf his Anti-Magic powers.
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Steven Ulysses Perhero
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Steven Ulysses Perhero: When Raoden gets asked his name in Elantris, he tells the guy to call him "Spirit," which is the meaning of the Aon (rune) Rao in his name. Galladon figures out his identity in part through this.
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Phosphor-Essence
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Phosphor-Essence: Before being reduced to twisted wrinkled pseudo-zombies, Elantrians glowed faintly. After the problem that removed their powers is fixed, they start glowing again.
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Redemption Equals Death
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Redemption Equals Death: Hrathen. Twice.
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: New Elantris is left in ruins after the Dakhor attack, Arelon and Teod swear themselves to Fjordell, and Raoden himself is rendered Hoed from pain. At the last moment, however, Raoden is able to fight through the pain and fix Elantris, restoring it to its former glory, healing its people, and saving Arelon and Teod from genocide.
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"You!" Exclamation
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"You!" Exclamation: Hrathen, on realizing who Dilaf really is.
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The Fundamentalist
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The Fundamentalist: Dilaf.
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Foe Romance Subtext
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Foe Romance Subtext: Hrathen toward Sarene, especially near the end.
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Well-Intentioned Extremist
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Hrathen will lie, cheat, steal, and kill to make Arelon convert to Shu-Dereth...because if they don't convert fast enough, the Fjordell Empire will do it by force, and he's seen how brutal that can be. Unfortunately for him, Wyrn never planned on converting Arelon, and just wants to genocide it to prevent the rebirth of Elantris once and for all.
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Magical Underpinnings of Reality
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Magical Underpinnings of Reality: The Dor is described by Galladon as a force that makes things do what they do. The only beings exempt from it are humans.
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Love Before First Sight
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Love Before First Sight: Both Raoden and Sarene began to fall in love with one another when they could only speak over Seon and via letters, but hadn't met face to face.
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Evil Is Petty
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Evil Is Petty: How else could you define sacrificing monks(in a ritual that's supposed to destroy his very soul) just to avoid a fifteen-minutes walk? Dilaf justifies it saying that the occasional sacrifice reminds everyone of their place, but that's not really better.
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Badass Preacher
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comment
Badass Preacher: Derethi priests look like this, in large part because their typical garb consists of a suit of ornamental, ceremonial armor. Hrathen, on the other hand, is this; that armor he wears constantly? Totally real.
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Literal Genie
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Literal Genie: Karata and Mareshe as "gang leaders" spend hours formulating their demands to Sarene, while she is performing her Widow's Trial, and Sarene always finds a way to turn their wishes against them. They wish for cloth - they get the most horrible shade of orange that ever existed, they wish for metal sheets, they get iron beaten almost to foil, they wish for food that is edible, they get one that is stale, etc.
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Old Maid
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Old Maid: In Teod, most women are at least engaged by 18 if not married already, but Sarene is 25 and had no offers until she met Raoden, due to her often blunt and forceful personality.
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