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Emberverse

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Emberverse	comment	An enormous electrical storm of unknown properties encompasses the island of Nantucket and transports it back to the bronze age. The resultant time shock causes everyone on Earth to suffer an intense migraine at the exact same moment. The far more important consequence is that any device run off of electricity, gunpowder, explosives, internal combustion or steam power ceases to function. Permanently. In a single instant, humanity has been, metaphorically, bombed back to the Stone Age.Thus begins Dies the Fire, the first "Novel of the Change" by S. M. Stirling. The Novels of the Change, a.k.a. the Emberverse, concern what happens to the modern world after the island of Nantucket is hurled back through time in Island in the Sea of Time, the other side of the Emberverse coin.The Emberverse currently consists of two completed trilogies, a completed tetrology, a (presumably) concluding pentalogy, four short stories ("Something for Yew", "Ancient Ways," "A Murder In Eddsford" and "Hot Night at the Hopping Toad"), and a shared-universe anthology.There is also an officially-sanctioned fanfiction page.The first trilogy consists of: Dies the Fire (2004): After the Nantucket Event, Michael Havel and the Larsson family make their way from Montana to the Larsson estate in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, picking up survivors on the way, and eventually forming the mercenary outfit "The Bearkillers". Meanwhile, in Corvallis, the Oregon State University "faculty senate" rallies the city survivors to their banner, while Juniper Mackenzie and her Georgian Wiccan coven form the "Clan Mackenzie" in the hills south of Lebanon, Oregon. Finally, history professor Norman Arminger rallies the members of his local branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism and the criminal element of Portland to his "Portland Protective Association", based on a feudalistic monarchy with some minor Mordorian influences. All this is accomplished amid the backdrop of billions dying as most of the world's mass food production capabilities and rapid transport fail, leaving everyone to fend for himself. The Protector's War (2005): Eight years after the Change, with the various factions of the Willamette Valley relatively settled, Lord Protector Arminger sets his sights on conquering the rest of the valley, something the Bearkillers, Mackenzies and Corvallans want no part of. This marks the start of the Protector's War A Meeting at Corvallis (2006): The Protector's War ends, and peace finally comes to the Willamette Valley...for a time.The second trilogy takes place 22 years after the Change, after a 12-year Time Skip: The Sunrise Lands (2007): Ingolf Vogeler, a traveler from Readstown, Wisconsin, arrives at Dun Juniper, the capital of the Clan Mackenzie, searching for a man known as "The Son of the Bear Who Rules," so the Wisconsinite can take him to obtain "The Sword of the Lady," after a vision he received while visiting the island of Nantucket. He is pursued by assassins from the Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT), a religious cult who view the Change as punishment from God. Rudi Mackenzie, son of Juniper Mackenzie and Mike Havel, long ago prophesied as "The Lady's Sword" at his naming ceremony, leads Ingolf, Mathilda Arminger (his childhood friend and heiress to the PPA throne), her vassal Odard Liu, Rudi's sisters Mary and Ritva (both DÃºnedain Rangers), and Father Ignatius (a warrior-monk of the Benedictine order of Mount Angel). Together they embark on a cross-country quest to recover "The Sword of the Lady," which waits for Rudi back at Nantucket. The Scourge of God (2008): The CUT gains in power, land and influence, apparently aided by otherworldly forces, threatening the entirety of the Willamette Valley and all of what used to be the United States. Meanwhile, Rudi and company make their way across the Midwest, and arrive at the Provisional Republic Of Iowa. The Sword of the Lady (2009): Rudi and his companions finally arrive at Nantucket, and obtain the titular sword, as the war between the CUT and the Willamette forces takes a turn for the worse.The next series, a tetrology, tracks Rudi and co.'s journey back to the Willamette to complete their quest, then wraps up the war with the CUT. The High King of Montival (2010): Now in possession of the Sword, Rudi - Artos - must journey back to the western lands he'd left behind, and muster from them an army to rescue his homeland. Both he and his people back home work to consolidate the newborn kingdom, should they prevail against the Cutters. The Tears of the Sun (2011): The kingdom of Montival takes firmer shape under Artos's leadership, the disparate groups within drawing together to meet the CUT threat. Allies from the eastern lands, as well as from the former Canada, provide vital support. Part of the war effort includes sowing dissension in the enemy ranks, with the goal of taking the CUT's ally Boise out of the war. Lord of Mountains (September 2012): The combined armies of Montival and its allies, led by Rudi with the Sword, take on the CUT invasion, and do their best to reduce the CUT influence in Boise. (The death of Martin Thurston is a significant step toward that end, but more remains to be done.) After a climactic battle in the Horse Heaven Hills, the leaders of Montival decide on a further course of action and formally unify under Rudi's leadership. The Given Sacrifice (September 2013): The war against the CUT concludes and a new generation comes of age. Rudi's final fate is shown when he intervenes in a conflict between Haida raiders and a party from Japan.The final series, a pentalogy, takes place a generation afterwards, and includes: The Golden Princess (2014): Rudi's Mackenzie's heir, Orlaith, meets up with Nipponese princess Reiko and her band, who are fleeing the evil CUT-like force which has taken over much of Asia. As Rudi did a generation before, Reiko seeks a sacred sword which may give her and her people a chance of victory over their life-hating enemy. Orlaith, her faithful knight Heuradys d'Ath, and other children of the last tetrology's heroes join Reiko in her quest. The Desert and the Blade (2015): As they travel further into California (now called Westria), Crown Princess Orlaith and Prince John must elude the pursuing troops of their mother, even as they confront evil forces backed by those who seek to thwart Reiko's quest. Some faces and places from the The Change anthology make an appearance. Prince of Outcasts (2016): A mystically-generated storm sweeps John's ship across the Pacific, to the island chains of the Ceram Sea. With new allies at his side, he finds himself fighting against new and unexpected foes both from Earthly realms, and others. Meanwhile, in Montival, a new alliance prepares to take on the enemies of the Nipponese. The Sea Peoples (2017): John's spirit has fallen captive to the powers of the Yellow Raja and his servant, the Pallid Mask. His motley band of friends and followers quest through realms of dark and shadow to save him from a fate worse than death. Meanwhile, Orlaith and Reiko muster their kingdoms for war, but more than weapons or even the dark magic of the sorcerers of Pyongyang threatens them. The Sky-Blue Wolves (2018): With her fire-forged friend and ally, Japanese Empress Reiko, Ã“rlaith must take up her sword to stop the spread of the mad malignancy behind the Yellow Raja, who has imprisoned her brother Prince John. And from the emerging superpower of Mongolia, the Sky-Blue Wolves of the High Steppe ride once more beneath the banner of Genghis Khan—the thunder of their hooves resounding across a world in turmoil.A shared-world anthology set in the Emberverse, titled The Change, was released in 2015. S.M. Stirling's short story "Hot Night at the Hopping Toad" was reprinted, and other authors included Harry Turtledove, Diana Paxson, John Barnes, Alyx Dellamonica, Jane Lindskold, Emily Mah, John Birmingham, and Walter John Williams.Now has a Character page in need of much love
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Emberverse / int_111f14e	comment	Proverbial Wisdom: Juniper Mackenzie is famous for having a Gaelic proverb ready to fit any situation; she claims to have gotten them from her mother, who is the same way.
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Emberverse / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Emberverse / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Tiphaine d'Ath has reached her mid-forties in The Given Sacrifice and while still very effective as a combatant, her reflexes are beginning to slow down just as old social and political grudges are starting to manifest themselves in the form of personal challenges. Mathilda and Rudi name her Marshal of Montival's armies, essentially a desk job consisting of staff planning duties for a skeleton force. The appointment places her under their direct protection, much to her consternation.
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Emberverse / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Emberverse / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Mike Havel in A Meeting in Corvallis. Chuck Barstow in the The Scourge of God. Odard Liu in The Sword of the Lady Astrid Larsson Loring in Tears of the Sun. Epona in Lord of Mountains. Sandra and Rudi in The Given Sacrifice.
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Emberverse / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Emberverse / int_1282bf4f	comment	The Iowa State Police has evolved into such an agency. This is a rare case where the secret police are on the side of the good guys, as they're the ones who verify Rudi's claims about the CUT even as the cult is trying to subvert Iowa's leadership. Probably a minor case of No Celebrities Were Harmed, as making the actual Iowa State Police look evil when the rest of the state government survived more or less intact probably wasn't the author's goal.
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Emberverse / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
Emberverse / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: Tiphaine D'Ath
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Emberverse / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Emberverse / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: "Son of the Bear Who Rules"... "Sword of the Lady"... Where have we heard those before...
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Emberverse / int_15200cf7	type	No Bikes in the Apocalypse
Emberverse / int_15200cf7	comment	No Bikes in the Apocalypse: Averted. Bicycles become a popular mode of transportation after the Change, even being used by armies going into battle.
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Emberverse / int_15929a2d	type	Man in a Kilt
Emberverse / int_15929a2d	comment	Man in a Kilt: Kilts are everyday and ceremonial wear for the Clan Mackenzie. They're often considered Fanservice in-universe, especially when worn by fit and attractive men such as Rudi and Edain. Discussed in the short story 'Something for Yew', a mystery set in post-Change England. A murder victim found in a dockside warehouse is determined to be a member of Clan Mackenzie by the fact that he was wearing a kilt for everyday work, whereas actual Scots post-Change save their kilts for formal dress.
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Emberverse / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Emberverse / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: Ten-year-old Rudi Mackenzie is beautiful and charming. And he deals out almost as much damage to his would-be kidnappers as do his two adult bodyguards.
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Emberverse / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Emberverse / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The series begins as an apocalyptic disaster thriller with brutally realistic consequences of the loss of much of the US' infrastructure. In short order it evolves into medieval structures. The actual destination is the closest kin to a fantasy world one can do with Alien Space Bats. The Sea Peoples, book 14, takes a turn straight into old-fashioned horror.
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Emberverse / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Emberverse / int_17a606bd	comment	Masters of the Sword: Rudi Mackenzie, Tiphaine d'Ath, Norman Arminger, Pamela Larsson
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Emberverse / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
Emberverse / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: The Church Universal and Triumphant edges on Path of Inspiration, but the fact that they're pretty openly out for world conquest and the way they keep followers in line by freaking them out with aural Alien Geometries plunks them in this category. Not to mention that they turn out to be a front for Eldritch Abominations that want to reduce the universe to nothing.
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Emberverse / int_192ba729	type	Older Is Better
Emberverse / int_192ba729	comment	Older Is Better: Enforced by the setting. Anything above a certain level of technology no longer functions, so older technology with no electronic or other advanced technology is the only option.
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Emberverse / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Emberverse / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: In A Meeting at Corvallis, Tiphaine d'Ath delivers an epic one of these, along with a brutal beat-down, to a treacherous former member of her squad. She closes with a flourish of Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
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Emberverse / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Emberverse / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: In the homophobic PPA, Lady Delia de Stafford (lover of Lady Tiphaine d'Ath) and her gay husband Rigobert play this role for each other. They even refer to one other as "my beard" in Tears of the Sun.
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Emberverse / int_1bb2c500	type	The Horde
Emberverse / int_1bb2c500	comment	The Horde: The Bekwa tribes, descendants of the survivors in Quebec, have become a large, barely-united band of marauders who continually menace the outposts of civilization in northern Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. The only reason they show any unity at all is because the CUT has gained influence over them.
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Emberverse / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
Emberverse / int_1c3423d6	comment	The Quest: A lot of characters, especially the aforementioned Tolkien fangirl comment on the auspiciousness of the fact that Rudi's journey will take him across the land to find a mythical sword and that he will have nine members in his group.
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Emberverse / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Emberverse / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: And if you think the CUT is chilling on general principle, you should see what happens when its influence is suddenly removed...
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Emberverse / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Emberverse / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Norman Arminger, Mike Havel, and Abbot Dmwoski, for starters — given the world, for good reason. Averted with Juniper Mackenzie, who is a charismatic leader but only a fair combatant, and even more so with Sandra Arminger, who is small in stature and repeatedly described as lacking experience with weaponry.
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Emberverse / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Emberverse / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Astrid Larsson and Eilir Mackenzie. Arguably Edain and Rudi, or Little John Hordle and Alleyne. In The Given Sacrifice, we see that Orlaith and Heuradys are headed this way, if they aren't there already.
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Emberverse / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Emberverse / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Many. Norman Arminger, Mike Havel, and Astrid Larsson are war leaders; the multitalented Juniper Mackenzie is a bard, a high priestess, an expert weaver, and a pretty decent archer. Mathilda Arminger and Rudi Mackenzie, the heirs apparent, undertake the quest for the sword in the second trilogy, and fight in combat repeatedly. 'Mad' King Charles of Greater Britain, despite having been groomed to be a figurehead his entire life, proves invaluable in organizing the survivors on the Isle of Wight. His expertise in organic farming (Prince Charles in Real Life is an expert on the topic) in particular helps to ensure Greater Britain's survival. Unfortunately some of the decisions he had to make left him a broken man, easily manipulated by Hallgerda and her retinue. Prince Harry has, to get him away from Hallgerda and her manipulations, been given command of "Cutty Sark" and sent to Africa to combat pirate attacks on the new British colonies in Spain. He does his duty magnificently well, often commanding boarding action from the front. Although Lawrence Thurston would vehemently object to being called a 'royal' he did have near-absolute control over most of the state of Idaho from just after the Change until his son Martin assassinated him. An Army officer pre-Change, he reorganized the state government (but kept the legislature intact, although he suspended elections) and built Boise's military practically from scratch into one of the most feared fighting forces on the continent. He also sponsored research into the cause and effects of the Change, helped reorganize the civilian economy to adapt to the Change, and like many other leaders who arose during the Change kept civilization alive through sheer force of will.
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Emberverse / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Emberverse / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Ken Larsson, Aaron Rothman, and Eric Larsson all use prosthetics thanks to injuries incurred in combat or by torture.
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Emberverse / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Emberverse / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: An apt description of the Mormon church in New Deseret. Given they have the CUT for neighbors, it's understandable. The CUT itself definitely qualifies. The Benedictine Monks of Mt. Angel.
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Emberverse / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Emberverse / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Between the rampant starvation, plagues, cannibalism, and neo-warlords and gangs running amok, it is not a fun place to be in Dies The Fire. Even after this, vast swaths of North America at least are depopulated wastelands with the occasional cannibal band. Oregon suffered a death rate of over 95% and is considered to have done better than most of the rest of the United States since it has several working societies, some of which are not evil. In a lot of places where society has recovered in North America, there's a general lack of freedom in most of the world. Between the superficially romantic but misogynistic and repressive feudalism of the Portland Protective Association where commoners have very little freedom of movement, the centralized autocracy in Boise, the slavocracy in Pendleton, the superficially nice Iowa and the League of Des Moines which features a caste system and harsh punishments for minor offences, and the all-conquering Church Universal and Triumphant, which has institutionalized slavery, crucifixion, murder, and treats women like chattel, your average person in the Emberverse has a pretty grim lot in life. Even the ostensibly heroic Bearkillers become a de facto stratocratic feudal hierarchy with the vast majority of people no better off than a Portland peasant, no thanks to Signe ignoring Mike's last wishes and effectively suppressing any chance of true democracy. Much of India has been taken over by an Arminger-style tyrant, China is in chaos, having balkanized into multiple warlord states, with Tibet and neo-Mongols being the most notable. A CUT-like cult has taken root in the Kim family, who not only survive the Change but conquer all of Korea, and parts of Japan as well. Ditto for the Yellow Raja in the Indonesian archipelago. Ultimately zig-zagged. It should be noted that the real crapsack are those forced to live under the brutal thumb of the Cutters. Things get much better when the CUT falls for good in The Given Sacrifice. The PPA has several reforms forced on it after the War of The Eye, and quite a few people got the hell out of dodge as a result. Boise did go through an unpleasant period after Martin's coup, but again, got better after Fred took over and finally instituted real elections. Not so much for Iowa or its buffer states, sadly. Australia has similarly balkanized, but there at least seems to be some stability there.
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Emberverse / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Emberverse / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Right after the Change, groups of cannibals, called "Eaters", are one of the most common bands of survivors, particularly in larger cities. They take the place of the post-apocalyptic zombie horde in parts of the first book, but through a combination of disease and madness have largely removed themselves from events by the second book.
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Emberverse / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Emberverse / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: The seven books of the second generation of the series were originally meant to be just three.
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Emberverse / int_22eff5dd	type	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam
Emberverse / int_22eff5dd	comment	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam: As the Change caused all higher technology to suddenly cease working and happened instantaneously all over the world, every road and highway on the planet became a graveyard of cars that would never run again, each stopped where it drifted to a halt after its systems died. They also became the graveyard of the hordes of motorists stranded there, as most of them died of starvation or exposure either while waiting for rescue or while trying to follow the roads towards a city.
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Emberverse / int_23153741	type	Suddenly Significant City
Emberverse / int_23153741	comment	Suddenly Significant City: Corvallis, a relatively small city in Oregon, becomes a major player in the post-change world.
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Emberverse / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Emberverse / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Iron Rod, a minor villain (seriously, he's only around a few chapters) in Dies the Fire that's essentially a glorified gang leader that thinks he's hot stuff just because he's running roughshod over a number of farmers before the Bearkillers show up. Once they do show up he doesn't last very long.
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Emberverse / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
Emberverse / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Cutters make extensive use of slave labor, and it's every bit as brutal as you might think. In the first trilogy, the PPA did have peons, serfs and bond tenants, complete with iron collars, though they didn't call them slaves per se, obviously.
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Emberverse / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
Emberverse / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: Kidnap Mathilda (or try to), and you have an excellent chance of finding yourself facing the sharp pointy end of her sword. Signe does a good job of keeping her potential rapist pinned while the rescues is being made in the first book.
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Emberverse / int_2bdfcf74	type	OffscreenVillainDarkMatter
Emberverse / int_2bdfcf74	comment	Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: The PPA somehow managed to conquer not only most of Washington State but most of British Columbia and up into the Yukon, all within the first few years of the Change. Given how bad logistics were at that point as well as the very limited numbers Portland would have had to work with and the distances involved, it somewhat stretches suspension of disbelief to have a deliberately fractious feudal state steamroll basically everyone from Vancouver to Dawson.
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Emberverse / int_2cac8d77	type	Rooting for the Empire
Emberverse / int_2cac8d77	comment	Rooting for the Empire: In-Universe. The PPA base their society around Mordor and Sauron, of all things. Boise makes the shift from trying to establish itself as a successor to the United States to replicating the Roman Empire outright after President-General Thurston is assassinated.
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Emberverse / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Emberverse / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tiphaine d'Ath and Delia de Stafford. Tiphaine is the toughest woman — arguably the toughest person — in the Protectorate, dresses in male garb (usually a big no-no in that realm), wears her hair in a pageboy and would wear it shorter if she could, and doesn't like children. Her lover Delia is a complete creampuff, an expert weaver and needlewoman who never dresses in anything less than the height of feminine fashion, wears her hair long and lush, and loves babies. Naturally, they're inseparable.
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Emberverse / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
Emberverse / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Hallgerda of Greater Britain manipulates her mad husband and places her royal stepsons in harm's way in an effort to ensure her own children will inherit the throne. She eventually kills King Charles when he refuses to disinherit his older sons in favor of her children. Interestingly, the trope does not apply to Lady Regent Sandra of Portland. Ruthless as she can be, she is constrained by the need to avoid alienating her subjects thanks to an open-borders policy. She also sincerely loves her spouse and is devoted to her daughter.
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Emberverse / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
Emberverse / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: Where do we begin... Finnish and Icelandic are pretty commonly used and abused. Irish, too. It gets to the point where it starts feeling like the entire series is written in Irish sentences followed by their English translations. Elvish gets used a lot by the crazed Tolkien fangirl Astrid, who takes the story's suggestion that it is based on actual history a little too literally. It's subject to Translation Convention, but Stirling still gets more mileage out of it than he needs. Lampshaded at least twice in The Scourge of God. Rudi says that Astrid's endless Elvish is insufferable, and Tiphaine d'Ath calls her a "pseudo-elf" later on. As of The Given Sacrifice Japanese, and in particular a specific regional dialect gets in on the fun.
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Emberverse / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Emberverse / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Several. Rudi is named for Juniper's first husband, who died on the day of the Change. Nigel's late-in-life daughter Maude is named for his first wife. Ritva and Mary Havel are named for their paternal and maternal grandmothers, respectively.
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Emberverse / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Emberverse / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Played With. Will Hutton; Lawrence, Martin, and Frederick Thurston; and the 'Moorish' (actually Senegalese) corsairs. They're all black and all very imposing individuals, but to survive and succeed in the Emberverse one has to be a pretty scary individual when it counts. Racism seems to have died in the Change, with race seldom if ever discussed by the main characters after the first trilogy (although it does figure prominently there, with Will being rescued by Mike Havel from white supremacists who were torturing him to death in the first volume). The Thurstons aren't even described as black until met in person in the second trilogy.
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Emberverse / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
Emberverse / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: Delia, Tiphaine's lover.
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Emberverse / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Emberverse / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Tiphaine d'Ath is by all accounts a decent suzerain to those who swear fealty to her; hates the CUT as badly as anyone else; and will not tolerate the abuse and exploitation of refugees by other nobles in the PPA during the war against the CUT. Several characters observe that, as bad as they are, the Cutters are still an improvement over Eaters.
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Emberverse / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Emberverse / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The setting of the series, once the change occurred.
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Emberverse / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
Emberverse / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: Rigobert claims to have worked for one pre-Change, a fact that made him very valuable to Norman Arminger (and subsequently allowed him to survive at least as a closeted homosexual in a deeply homophobic realm; Rigobert's sexual orientation is of less concern to Arminger than what he knows, and Arminger in the early Change years controlled the Catholic Church in Portland).
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Emberverse / int_33d76f78	type	Heroic Ambidexterity
Emberverse / int_33d76f78	comment	Heroic Ambidexterity: Rudi McKenzie is a born warrior, which includes ambidexterity. He fights equally well with either hand, and switches whenever it would help.
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Emberverse / int_3407c500	type	The World Is Not Ready
Emberverse / int_3407c500	comment	The World Is Not Ready: NOTE: The following spoiler explains the origin behind The Change. Do not read further if you want this to remain a mystery until the end of the sixth book. The Change was caused by the Powers That Be (see above) because humanity was showing more and more irresponsibility with its current technology levels. The god(s) decided the best course of action was a "do-over" in order for humanity to mature more as a species before inheriting their tech. This is why we were bombed back into medieval times, rather than having history wiped clean. The idea was to learn from the first time through, so we were better prepared for the next time.
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Emberverse / int_34d5c13f	type	What the Romans Have Done for Us
Emberverse / int_34d5c13f	comment	What the Romans Have Done for Us: The Portland Protective Association was established by Norman Arminger as a brutal,warmongering despotism directly responsible for a lot of deaths. However, later in the series it's generally conceded in-universe that Arminger's actions actually saved the lives of many in Portland (and certainly saved the city as a city), and forged a strong kingdom that would go on to play a vital role in the creation and survival of Montival.
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Emberverse / int_37b5c1b0	type	Big Badass Battle Sequence
Emberverse / int_37b5c1b0	comment	Big Badass Battle Sequence: The series features several, though the biggest is the Battle of the Horse Heaven Hills in Lord of Mountains.
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Emberverse / int_39b7a7cd	type	Amazon Chaser
Emberverse / int_39b7a7cd	comment	Amazon Chaser: The Morrowlander Scout the Cutters are using to track Rudi's party in The Scourge of God pretty much instantly falls in lust with Ritva Havel because of her skills at stealth, tracking and fighting, telling her;
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Emberverse / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Emberverse / int_3b79029a	comment	In a lot of places where society has recovered in North America, there's a general lack of freedom in most of the world. Between the superficially romantic but misogynistic and repressive feudalism of the Portland Protective Association where commoners have very little freedom of movement, the centralized autocracy in Boise, the slavocracy in Pendleton, the superficially nice Iowa and the League of Des Moines which features a caste system and harsh punishments for minor offences, and the all-conquering Church Universal and Triumphant, which has institutionalized slavery, crucifixion, murder, and treats women like chattel, your average person in the Emberverse has a pretty grim lot in life. Even the ostensibly heroic Bearkillers become a de facto stratocratic feudal hierarchy with the vast majority of people no better off than a Portland peasant, no thanks to Signe ignoring Mike's last wishes and effectively suppressing any chance of true democracy.
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Emberverse / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Emberverse / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Based on Rudi's vision during the kingmaking in Lord of Mountains, we know that Orlaith and John and their siblings, as well as Reiko, Mathilda, and "Grandma Juniper," will survive at least until Orlaith undergoes the same ritual. Also, that Orlaith will not be married at the time of her crowning, since she is not accompanied during the king(queen?)making.
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Emberverse / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Emberverse / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Amid all of the post-change horror and carnage, apparently something happened in St. Louis that horrifies even the most hardened characters; however, it's never relayed to the audience.
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Emberverse / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Emberverse / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: the survivors post-Change implement useable technology from all eras, from the Stone Age to the 19th and 20th centuries (among other things, knowledge of modern medicine and sanitation proves very helpful).
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Emberverse / int_3cc67dff	type	The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People
Emberverse / int_3cc67dff	comment	The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: It also brings out the worst, more often than not.
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Emberverse / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
Emberverse / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: Having been chosen by The Powers That Be, Rudi has very little choice but to lead the fight against the CUT, and unify a group of diverse peoples.
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Emberverse / int_3f71c185	type	Teenage Wasteland
Emberverse / int_3f71c185	comment	Teenage Wasteland: Averted by the Morrowlanders, surviving members of a Boy Scout troop left stranded after a plane crash in Yellowstone National Park after the Change. They managed with minimal adult assistance to form a well-organized, functioning society and are able to keep the CUT out of their territory (albeit with a few nasty deals they try their hardest to avoid). Lack of manpower, along with knowing the CUT for what they are, makes joining Montival a very attractive proposition to them. Played straight to varying degrees by the various Eater bands and other bands of marauders who survived, particularly in the larger cities.
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Emberverse / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Emberverse / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Norman Arminger is seen practicing this. (Though he doesn't need much practice, as he appears to have a considerable natural talent.)
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Emberverse / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
Emberverse / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Averted in Dies the Fire. With guns no longer working and no one wearing serious armor yet, people swiftly learn to fear someone carrying any kind of bow or crossbow.
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Emberverse / int_45a01289	type	Angel Unaware
Emberverse / int_45a01289	comment	Angel Unaware: While none have actually shown up, the Mackenzies (who are Wiccans) they treat every visitor they have as if they are these.
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Emberverse / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Emberverse / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe. The PPA base their society around Mordor and Sauron, of all things.
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Emberverse / int_46a45570	type	No Healthcare in the Apocalypse
Emberverse / int_46a45570	comment	No Health Care In The Apocalypse: Most medicine becomes useless within days of the worldwide blackout, after the refrigerators stop working and the cars that would have carried it elsewhere died as well. Juniper and her Wiccan coven are experienced at using herbs and other natural medicine to help people, but can only do so much. One doctor who settled near Juniper has a box with 12,000 doses of a powdered medicine that can stop diseases like the plague. He mentions that it was the only thing he could carry away with him on foot after leaving his hospital, and notes that they need to save it for emergencies, otherwise it will all be gone in no time.
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Emberverse / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
Emberverse / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: Several are seen. Played straight in that all myths and religious traditions are equally valid (and have real, demonstrable power) in the Emberverse. Subverted in that the surviving Native Americans use as much pre-Change technology as possible...down to a group of Sioux having a portable medical laboratory with their encampment and their chief (a pre-Change university graduate) being just as aware of the implications of the situation as any other successful leader in this setting.
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Emberverse / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Emberverse / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Attempted by an entire battalion during the siege and fall of Boise by pretending to be a loyal reinforcing unit; averted when a member of the gate guard recognizes personally the commander of the unit (which had previously defected to Montival and was known to have done so) and sounds the alarm.
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Emberverse / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Emberverse / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Chuck and Judy Barstow's children Sanjay, Aoife, and Oak, whom Chuck and Judy adopted from the group of children Chuck found abandoned on a school bus, just after the Change. Juniper speculates that before the Change "those three didn't really have parents, only people who paid the bills." Reiko's foster daughter Kiwako, previously severely neglected and close to feral, blossoms in Reiko's care.
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Emberverse / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Emberverse / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: During the Dying Time, Oregon and Idaho deal with mass starvation (some of it quite deliberate), imposition of slavery by strong-arm rule, outbreaks of the Black Death, rampant Rape, Pillage, and Burn including massacres of children, and an infestation of cannibal bands. After all that, no one believes - or recounts to the reader - the stories they are hearing from bicycle refugees from California and St.Louis. At one point the Bearkillers defeat a cannibal band. Mike enters their base alone and it's heavily implied that someone was being cooked/eaten alive; those outside can hear him asking someone if they want to die, and an unintelligible response being cut short. By the time the rest of the group enters, Mike has covered whatever it was with a tablecloth. Whatever happened inside the Catholic Church in Bend just before the CUT were forced to abandon the city was enough to make Father Ignatius and Eric Larsson order the building burned to the ground, although the rest of their party—and the readers—are spared a look inside.
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Emberverse / int_4b045a8a	type	Villainous Valour
Emberverse / int_4b045a8a	comment	Villainous Valour: Whether outnumbered and pursued by the Mackenzies, surrounded by Astrid and friends, or betrayed by a member of her own band, Dark Action Girl Tiphaine d'Ath earns her victories with remarkable skill, ingenuity, and courage. She's not a particularly likable person, and her objectives are often other than admirable, but her wit and her grit are outstanding.
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Emberverse / int_4b2c373	type	Impractically Fancy Outfit
Emberverse / int_4b2c373	comment	Impractically Fancy Outfit: Sandra wears a full-length ermine cape to the first Meeting in Corvallis. Juniper notes that it would be too heavy to carry/wear for any length of time, but Sandra's carriage pulls up as close to the exit as possible so that she won't have to walk far. In The Sunrise Lands, Mathilda tells the Thurston daughters that she doesn't wear her formal gowns while traveling because she wouldn't be able to ride or fight well in them.
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Emberverse / int_4d45aa06	type	Banana Republic
Emberverse / int_4d45aa06	comment	Banana Republic: The Kingdom of Las Esmereldas (formerly northern Ecuador), representatives of whom are first seen in The Desert and the Blade, is strongly implied to be one.
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Emberverse / int_4e90e76c	type	Be All My Sins Remembered
Emberverse / int_4e90e76c	comment	Be All My Sins Remembered: Lawrence Thurston suspended elections in Boise pending the resolution of the emergency situation. Unfortunately the emergency situation never resolved itself. By the time he was ready to start having elections again an entire generation with no firsthand experience with democracy had come into prominence, his own son, who expected to inherit his father's position, among them. Thurston did realize in the end that perhaps he had waited far too long to have a vote.
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Emberverse / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Emberverse / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Norman Arminger, Duke Iron Rod, Piotr Stavarov, Eddie Liu
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Emberverse / int_4fc20818	type	Born After the End
Emberverse / int_4fc20818	comment	Born After the End: Rudi Mackenzie and Mathilda Arminger were born after The Change.
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Emberverse / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
Emberverse / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: Corvallis's contentious Faculty Senate is sometimes shown this way. The Protectorate manipulates their politics in an effort to keep Corvallis from entering the War of the Eye. Nice try.
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Emberverse / int_52388345	type	Elective Monarchy
Emberverse / int_52388345	comment	Elective Monarchy: The leadership of the Mackenzies could be described as this. "The Mackenzie" functions more like a monarch than an elected official, but the heir to that position, the tanist, is "hailed" by acclamation of the assembled Clan. The two tanists chosen by the end of the tetrology, Rudi (who resigns in favor of becoming The Good King of Montival) and Maude Loring Mackenzie, are the children of the first Mackenzie, but it is nowhere indicated that the position is necessarily hereditary. Word of God is that the tanist can be removed by the Clan as well, and that a talented non-relative can be groomed and positioned for the position if no sufficiently talented or willing relations exist to take up the position.
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Emberverse / int_52b517e7	type	Culturally Religious
Emberverse / int_52b517e7	comment	Culturally Religious: Juniper MacKenzie was raised Catholic, and other characters observe that, despite having converted to Wicca, she still seems to be carrying her Catholic Guilt and occasionally instinctively starts to do the sign of the cross. After the change, Juniper becomes concerned that some members of the clan wish to join her coven for cultural reasons rather than out of true conversion, as Wicca is the dominant religion.
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Emberverse / int_533d53a0	type	Fantasy Americana
Emberverse / int_533d53a0	comment	Fantasy Americana
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Emberverse / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Emberverse / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Both Norman and Sandra Arminger do a nice line in this.
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Emberverse / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Emberverse / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Signe, before the Change. She's a vegetarian and thinks the prospect of a world without guns is wonderful. Then she lives in that world....
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Emberverse / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Emberverse / int_53f5119f	comment	Conrad Renfrew and Sandra Arminger are the only advisors with the nerve (and the license) to tell Norman Arminger when he's wrong.
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Emberverse / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Emberverse / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The Roman Catholic Church in Portland, in the days of Lord Protector Norman Arminger, has its own "pope," burns heretics and dissenters, and supports the PPA's brutal tyranny. Its opposition includes Mount Angel and its Warrior Monk order, who believe the Catholic Church should uphold what Abbot Dmwoski calls "the best of our long tradition." Note that Arminger so very much wanted his own tame Pope to go along with his Norman-England fetish. Thus Pope Leo was given his own inquisition and was mainly in existence to increase the Big Bad's powerbase. After Norman dies, the Portland church reunites with the main Church based out of Badia, and Leo met with an 'accident' in the process. The Church Universal and Triumphant evolves from a fringe (but relatively harmless) New Age religious sect into an all-conquering Religion of Evil with nothing but enmity toward its neighbors.
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Emberverse / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Emberverse / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Havel-Larsson clan - including Mike, Signe, Pam, Eric, Luanne, and all of their adult descendants that we meet by the end of the tetrology. Of the whole family, only Ken doesn't qualify — and he's in his fifties at the time of Dies the Fire, so give the guy a break.
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Emberverse / int_5603d2d5	type	Coming Straight Story
Emberverse / int_5603d2d5	comment	Coming Straight Story: When Heuradys, Delia's daughter by Rigobert (with plastic kitchenware assist) is an adult, she has to tell her mother to stop finding nice girls to set her up with , because she 'really likes boys better'. Delia, who is a Changeling more or less (having been a small child when the Change happened) and largely unfamiliar with pre-Change culture, asks her anxiously if this might be "just a phase". Rigobert and Tiphaine (who are older and remember the world before the Change) have a big laugh at the irony of the situation—but Delia stops setting her up with other girls. Heuradys, who was born twenty years after the Change, is unfamiliar with the idiom too. But she's a bit annoyed with her mother wanting her to be gay, since she's a knight of the PPA, where female knights are rare and many people just assume she's gay because she's following a typically male profession for her culture, and because both her mothers and her father are. Rigobert and Tiphaine don't care.
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Emberverse / int_56691220	type	Even the Girls Want Her
Emberverse / int_56691220	comment	Even the Girls Want Her: Mary and Ritva Havel have each had to bounce many a lovelorn lass from their respective beds. At least once Ingolf is looking on laughing.
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Emberverse / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Emberverse / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Rudi Mackenzie and King Bjarni of Norrheim regard each other as this. They're allies against the CUT, but otherwise each is content to leave the other to his own realm. This may become subverted later on, as Eric Larsson is interested in establishing a closer relationship involving trade and information exchange with Norrheim, possibly as a means of bolstering his position (and that of the Bearkillers) within Montival in the future. Although the PPA is an antagonist in the first part of the series, the citizens of Walla Walla regard them as heroes, as it was an expedition from Portland that rescued the city from convicts who had taken over after escaping the nearby state prison in the aftermath of the Change. This trope applies to many of the people Rudi and Co. encounter in their journeys. Abbott Dortje, the new Iowa civil government (and Ingolf's brother), the Senegalese pirates, Captain Wellman, the Last Eagle and his successors, and even Justin Gruber are just a few of the people who could become (or are already) heroes to their own people. The current tetrology introduces even more, including Reiko's grandmother and father and the Loyal Men who preserved the Nipponese royal line, King John of Darwin, and the leaders of Topanga and of the Mist Hills.
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Emberverse / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
Emberverse / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Father Ignatius. Rudi even more so.
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Emberverse / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Emberverse / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: The Prophet's War in second trilogy from Sword of the Lady on in a nutshell. On one hand, you have the CUT, an Ax-Crazy, Eldritch Abomination worshipping Religion of Evil which slaughters anyone who doesn't convert, treats women like chattel, utilizes slavery to a massive degree and is overall thoroughly monstrous. On the other, you have . the homophopic, sexist PPA, and the Des Moines League, all of which are at least implied to be dictatorships to some degree and which in at least Iowa's case metes out incredibly harsh punishments for minor offences even by post-change standards.
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Emberverse / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Emberverse / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Rudi invokes this when he decides to warn President-General Thurston of the Cutter ambush, and again when urging Thurston to ally with Deseret against the Cutters. (Thurston had previously refused to do so on the grounds that he was opposed to theocracies.)
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Emberverse / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
Emberverse / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: If he is to be believed, Rigobert was apparently such a hot guy in his high school days that even straight guys were willing to sleep with him.
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Emberverse / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
Emberverse / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Probably best exampled by a quote:
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Emberverse / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Emberverse / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: A specialty of Sandra Arminger's, especially in the first trilogy. For example, when the PPA are holding nine-year-old Rudi captive, she keeps her husband Norman from killing him not because she has any problems with cold-blooded murder (she's ordered a number of assassinations herself), but because she thinks that suborning Rudi would be a more effective means of bringing the Mackenzies under control.
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Emberverse / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Emberverse / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: I...see...you
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Emberverse / int_5e4c5d63	type	DungAges
Emberverse / int_5e4c5d63	comment	Dung Ages: Massively and deliberately averted. Although the overall tech level of the Emberverse is pre-industrial if not completely medieval, modern medicine and sanitation (and the relationship between sanitation and public health) are still well-known and widely practiced.
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Emberverse / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Emberverse / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Mike Havel, the founder and "boss man" (de facto head of state, often styled "Lord Bear") of the mercenary outfit-cum-nation the Bearkillers, passes on his title to his right-hand man Will Hutton on his deathbed with instructions to begin free elections the next year. Havel's widow Signe announces this plan in a speech to the people in which she frames Hutton's appointment as a regency until the majority of her and Havel's children, which she expects the Bearkillers to elect as soon as they are of age. When next we see the characters after a between-books Time Skip, the unelected Signe is wielding power as de facto regent herself.
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Emberverse / int_6068c76b	type	Clock Punk
Emberverse / int_6068c76b	comment	Clock Punk: Especially in the third trilogy. Bicycle-powered trains anyone?
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Emberverse / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Emberverse / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Sam Aylward, for one. His son, Edain to Rudi as well. Edain later takes on the same role for Mathilda. In the third generation, Heuradys is this to Orlaith.
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Emberverse / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Emberverse / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn aside, Tiphaine never does get called to account for all the murders and sabotage she committed on Sandra's payroll, most notably those of Aoife and Liath.
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Emberverse / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Emberverse / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Astrid believes that the The Lord of the Rings stories are actual histories. But she's a kick-ass fighter and wilderness scout and also has both the charisma and organizational ability to turn her delusion into an actual organization and quasi-religion. Norman Arminger is a former SCA dork, uses Sauron's Mordor banner as his flag, and is probably more than a bit crazy himself. With how he is numerically the most effective leader immediately post-Change and willing & able to kill almost anyone hand-to-hand, no one under him has much to say about it. In-universe, Lawrence Thurston is regarded as one for his insistence upon restoring the United States (an idea seen as completely impractical by just about every other leader on the continent). However, he does manage to preserve at least the state of Idaho as a coherent political entity (in part by keeping the pre-Change state legislature intact), build a post-Change army (along the lines of the Roman legions) from the remnants of the US military in the area, and overall is one of the more effective and humane leaders in the series. Of course he had to die...
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Emberverse / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Emberverse / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Averted as the world re-learns why people used to wear chain mail.
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Emberverse / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Emberverse / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Played straight when the evil is of purely human origin: Norman and Sandra Arminger are Happily Married and love their daughter, Tiphaine d'Ath loves Delia and fights to protect her when she is threatened; Martin Thurston initially is seen to love his wife and son. Averted with those who are possessed by the Malevolence notably, post-possession Mary Liu and Martin Thurston.
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Emberverse / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Emberverse / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Mike Havel Only the first of many. The heroic body count has since increased to include Odard Liu and Astrid Larsson in later volumes.
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Emberverse / int_65163c3a	type	Evil Tower of Ominousness
Emberverse / int_65163c3a	comment	Evil Tower of Ominousness: Norman Arminger's Castle Todenangst is deliberately designed to be ominous, imposing, and intimidating. And yet it has a food court and the elevator (powered by a serf in the basement) plays Muzak.
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Emberverse / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
Emberverse / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: With the Sword of the Lady, Rudi can make this possible for those possessed by the Malevolence behind the CUT. He does this for Martin Thurston.
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Emberverse / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Emberverse / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Early on, Eric Larrson and Mike Havel travel alone. The testosterone-laden Eric starts trying to push Mike. Bad idea.
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Emberverse / int_68a91d1c	type	Honest Advisor
Emberverse / int_68a91d1c	comment	Honest Advisor: Conrad Renfrew and Sandra Arminger are the only advisors with the nerve (and the license) to tell Norman Arminger when he's wrong. Rudi deliberately picks Father Ignatius for the role because he's 1) smart enough to show Rudi where he's wrong and 2) tough enough to make it stick. Politically, as a Catholic priest from an order that was specifically set up to counter Portland's abuses he 'balances the ticket' with Rudi's paganism and makes Montival an easier sell to communities who had earlier resisted the PPA's encroachment.
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Emberverse / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
Emberverse / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: An average-sized man with a giant reputation, Sam Aylward gets this reaction a lot.
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Emberverse / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Emberverse / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: For some reason, ''Artos'' leaps to mind.... - "Artos" is also Greek for "bear". Guess who his father is. There's also Kaur and Singh of Vogeler's Villians.
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Emberverse / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Emberverse / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: How the Bearkillers make their living on the march from the Idaho backcountry to their eventual home. Mike even refers to the Bearkillers as condottieri (a free company of mercenaries) more than once. There is however a strong helping of We Help the Helpless involved, as the Bearkillers will rescue a party in distress and won't take more than their client can afford to part with in payment.
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Emberverse / int_6feaf27b	type	Scarily Competent Tracker
Emberverse / int_6feaf27b	comment	Scarily Competent Tracker: Ritva and Mary are followed by an uncannily competent scout and Scout! in The Sunrise Lands; they later describe him as having trailed them across the type of terrain over which it would be difficult to find traces of a full team pulling a cart. Along with his people, the Morrowlander Pack, he becomes an ally against the CUT in The Given Sacrifice.
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Emberverse / int_6ff7c60e	type	Queer People Are Funny
Emberverse / int_6ff7c60e	comment	Queer People Are Funny: Played straight by Aaron Rothman, the closest any character comes in the series to being comedy relief (although he may be doing it deliberately, as noted elsewhere). Averted by Tiphaine and Delia, who are better developed as characters and whose relationship (and the implications it has for them socially and politically) is explored more seriously. Rigobert de Stafford's sense of humor is very well-developed but more subtle and most definitely does not make people take him any less seriously. Estella Maldonado (who makes her final appearance in Lord of Mountains) was not developed as well as the series' other gay characters; most (but not all) of the time when she was shown it was in a purely professional context. The one time Estella did demonstrate a sense of humor was in delivering a verbal smackdown to a CUT follower in her party, making her more of a Snark Knight than Camp Gay.
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Emberverse / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Emberverse / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Aaron Rothman. Mike Havel suspects that Aaron is deliberately camp in reaction to the puritanical attitudes of many post-Change societies.
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Emberverse / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
Emberverse / int_72bafff5	comment	In-universe, Lawrence Thurston is regarded as one for his insistence upon restoring the United States (an idea seen as completely impractical by just about every other leader on the continent). However, he does manage to preserve at least the state of Idaho as a coherent political entity (in part by keeping the pre-Change state legislature intact), build a post-Change army (along the lines of the Roman legions) from the remnants of the US military in the area, and overall is one of the more effective and humane leaders in the series. Of course he had to die...
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Emberverse / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Emberverse / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The covers have become notorious among the fan base for not portraying anything remotely resembling what happens in the books.
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Emberverse / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Emberverse / int_7317b97d	comment	The Cutters' attempt at assassinating the main characters fails and only succeeds in offing Bossman Anthony Heasleroad and police chief Edgar Denton, which in turn pisses off Iowa big-time and brings them and the other Midwestern states into the war, causing them to have to deal with a second front in a war they were winning up to that point. In addition, the deaths of Denton and Heasleroad may very well have been the catalyst for positive social change in Iowa, as the lower classes, especially in the farmlands, were badly treated and one step above serfdom in many parts of the state. A power-sharing arrangement maneuvers Abel Heusink and many of his allies into positions of power, and he explicitly states he plans to force through reforms because those in power need the common Iowan on their side, not simply obeying orders.
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Emberverse / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Emberverse / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Justified and discussed with Will Hutton, the only black member of the Bearkillers; he acknowledges that there are very few black people around in rural Idaho. Portland is shown to be much more diverse.
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Emberverse / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Emberverse / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: Majorly averted. The need to avoid overstretching supply lines, proper division of forces to avoid overs, manpower needed for campaigns, proper weather for campaigning seasons and the possibilities of defeat in detail are all discussed repeatedly. One reason Portland's main offensive fails in A Meeting At Corvallis was Norman getting overeager and trying to push his forces too many places at once, which the Bearkillers, Mackenzies, Corvallans and other allied communities take advantage of. Afterwards, Conrad lays into Norman over this.
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Emberverse / int_75c952bf	type	Our Presidents Are Different
Emberverse / int_75c952bf	comment	President Action: President-General Lawrence Thurston of Boise (see Four-Star Badass, above).
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Emberverse / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
Emberverse / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: Seen to be the case with the Mackenzies' Wiccan/Celt faith in the first trilogy, and with other religions, including the familiar, the ancient, and the new, in the second. Prophecies are also presented as true and reliable.
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Emberverse / int_7a570c0	type	The Good Chancellor
Emberverse / int_7a570c0	comment	The Good Chancellor: Father Ignatius is this to Rudi/Artos, although he is something of a Beleaguered Bureaucrat due to the lack of qualified individuals to fill out the new kingdom's civil service. When Sandra Arminger offers the services of the Protectorate's administrative professionals, the good Father refuses, knowing that it's just an invitation for her to subvert Montival to her own ends before the kingdom is even fully established.
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Emberverse / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
Emberverse / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Sandra Arminger, amongst the founders of the High Kingdom of Montival. None of the other leaders trust her any farther than they could throw John Hordle — wise of them, as even though she is sincere in her desire to make the High Kingdom a viable entity (helps that her own daughter will be High Queen and her grandchildren will form the subsequent dynasty), she is never above seeking the PPA's advantage. Her political acumen and her extensive information network make her a very effective ally all the same, as does the fact that she will make sure the dirty work, such as blackmail or assassination, is taken care of.
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Emberverse / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
Emberverse / int_7b0fddcd	comment	Battle Cry: Many, including the PPA's "Haro Portland!" and "Holy Mary for Portland!", the Bearkillers' "Hakkaa paalle!" (based on the real-life battle cry "Hakkaa pÃ¤Ã¤lle!" of troops serving under 17th-century Swedish ruler Gustav II Adolf), Mount Angel's "Jesu-Maria!", Rudi Mackenzie's "Morrigu!", Odard Liu's "Face Gervais, face death!", Virginia Kane's "Sweetwater forever!", and the United States of Boise's "U-S-A! U-S-A!" And of course the Church Universal and Triumphant's uncanny scream of "CUT! CUT! CUT!"
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Emberverse / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
Emberverse / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: The only viable strategy for the Topangans to hold off the Chatsworth Lancers in The Desert and the Blade. Orlaith is able to bring Topanga and later Chatsworth into Montival by showing how much force the kingdom is able to muster. That her expedition was ''not'' authorized by the Lady Regent is entirely coincidental.
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Emberverse / int_7e0bdc30	type	Weddings for Everyone
Emberverse / int_7e0bdc30	comment	Weddings for Everyone: The first trilogy ends with a massive handfasting ceremony whose participants include a number of the central characters.
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Emberverse / int_7ed7b58c	type	Sentient Cosmic Force
Emberverse / int_7ed7b58c	comment	Sentient Cosmic Force: The Change was caused by what's best described as the Universal Mind having an argument with itself and reaching the least bad compromise. Mind you this least bad option resulted in the worldwide collapse of civilization and the deaths of billions.
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Emberverse / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
Emberverse / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: The Portland Protective Association is in practice (and originally, in law) a Roman Catholic kingdom, practicing a fairly conservative version of that faith. The Baroness (later Grand Constable later Marshall) Tiphaine d'Ath is gay and in a monogamous relationship with Delia de Stafford, wife of the equally-gay Rigobert. Everybody except their confessors is quite aware of the true nature of Tiphaine and Delia's, and Delia and Rigobert's, relationships, but the attitudes of the kingdom prohibit any public acknowledgement.
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Emberverse / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
Emberverse / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: In Dies the Fire, street gang members take advantage of the collapse in law enforcement to loot electronics and jewelry stores. Norman Arminger, a history professor, organizes other manpower and secures food and water supplies. Norman becomes a Dark Lord styled king in all but name. The gang members wind up working for him - or else.
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Emberverse / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Emberverse / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: Clan MacKenzie's war chant:
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Emberverse / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Emberverse / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Malevolence that is controlling Sethaz and the rest of the CUT High Seekers definitely qualifies.
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Emberverse / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Emberverse / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: George Tracker, to Ritva. From the admiring way he speaks of her martial prowess as they fight one another, George is apparently a bit of an Amazon Chaser. Ritva is, to put it mildly, rather less impressed with him than he is with her.
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Emberverse / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Emberverse / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Rudi Mackenzie. Duh.
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Emberverse / int_8b3fe1cb	type	Flaw Exploitation
Emberverse / int_8b3fe1cb	comment	Flaw Exploitation: In A Meeting at Corvallis, Mike Havel identifies Arminger's central flaw, and uses it in a heroic bid to end the War of the Eye with a minimum of bloodshed.
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Emberverse / int_8b682bd5	type	The Magic Comes Back
Emberverse / int_8b682bd5	comment	The Magic Comes Back: Hinted at in the first trilogy, full blown in later works.
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Emberverse / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Emberverse / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: In-universe, and likely out, few tears were shed(save by their respective loved ones) for Eddie Liu, Joris Stein, or Norman Arminger. Ditto for Iowa's bossman, Anthony Heasleroad. As the story goes on, the asshole kill count has come to include such people as Mary Liu, Kuttner, and the Prophet Sethaz himself.
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Emberverse / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
Emberverse / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Zigzagged. This is the in-universe goal of the Mind, more or less, but pretty much every character in the series is working to avert it... with varying degrees of success, of course.
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Emberverse / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Emberverse / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Class 2, Planetary/Societal Collapse. About 95% of Earth's population dies off in the first few years after the Change. Most of the world's existing civilizations are destroyed during "the dying times," and are replaced by entirely different ones.
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Emberverse / int_93253bcd	type	LampShading
Emberverse / int_93253bcd	comment	Lampshaded in A Meeting at Corvallis, where some young fighters actually sing the song of the same name.
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Emberverse / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Emberverse / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: This trope is an accurate summary of the early PPA under Norman Arminger. Though as the series progresses after he dies a fair number of them mellow out. The fact that the Protector's War weeded out a number of the gang members and morally dubious SCA reenactors, replacing them with the younger generation who sincerely believed in the old school chivalry certainly helps. Though there are some who consistently fall into this trope, such as the Stavarovs.
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Emberverse / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Emberverse / int_970c790a	comment	Note that Arminger so very much wanted his own tame Pope to go along with his Norman-England fetish. Thus Pope Leo was given his own inquisition and was mainly in existence to increase the Big Bad's powerbase. After Norman dies, the Portland church reunites with the main Church based out of Badia, and Leo met with an 'accident' in the process.
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Emberverse / int_9712e10	type	Sword of Plot Advancement
Emberverse / int_9712e10	comment	Sword of Plot Advancement: The Sword of the Lady reveals all truths, brings the influence of the good parts of the Mind into the world, and also can chop clean through anything from a gnarled tree trunk to an airborne hair. It also acts as a Universal Translator for any language, including invented languages such as the Elvish used by the Rangers (it even fills in gaps in grammar and syntax which neither Tolkien nor the DÃºnedain addressed) and languages presumed extinct, like Japanese, encountered by Rudi and company at the end of The Given Sacrifice.
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Emberverse / int_980f7fac	type	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It
Emberverse / int_980f7fac	comment	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It: After the Change, the calendar changes to designate the Change as Year 0.
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Emberverse / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Emberverse / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Defied in The Scourge of God. Rudi Mackenzie is describing Chuck Barstow's actions at the time of the Change, including survival-motivated fighting, deception, and theft (see Break Out the Museum Piece, above). Odard Liu, thinking of his own brutal sire's actions at that time, is about to invoke this trope, with a side of Our Parents Only Did What They Had To Do. Rudi shuts him down by pointing out one more thing Chuck Barstow felt he "had to do": rescue and take in a group of stranded schoolchildren (including his son Oak, whom Odard knows personally), something that Eddie Liu would certainly never have considered.
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Emberverse / int_98f19e68	type	Our Founder
Emberverse / int_98f19e68	comment	Our Founder: After the Change several notable individuals or groups are recognised for successfully rebuilding society, the early books mainly focus on three. Mike Havel of The Bear Killers, Juniper Mackenzie of The Clan Mackenzie, and Norman Arminger of the PPA. Of these three it should be noted that only Arminger actually set out to build a kingdom to rule over, Mike and Juniper were just good,charismatic people who fell into the job and were more than a little uncomfortable with the hero worship that followed.
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Emberverse / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Emberverse / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The 1250 BC Nantucket that's been switched for the modern version has become... extremely temporally unstable.
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Emberverse / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
Emberverse / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Ritva and Mary Havel begin very much like this, though they develop/display more distinct personalities in the course of the second trilogy.
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Emberverse / int_9ce10feb	type	Delicious Daydream
Emberverse / int_9ce10feb	comment	Delicious Daydream: It's stated that about every other mealtime in Clan Mackenzie, someone will start fantasizing about all the food they wish they had. They aren't exactly starving, but it's as much about the variety as it is about the amount. This dies down later as the group gets established and is able to produce a greater quantity and variety of food.
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Emberverse / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Emberverse / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Dies the Fire, Mike is concerned about the injuries or mutual death that almost always result from trying to knife-fight anyone who isn't completely incompetent. Two books later, he challenges Master Swordsman & Big Bad Norman Arminger to single combat. Both of them die. Epona meets her final fate in the Horse Heaven Hills, with her impending demise set up over several pages in Lord of Mountains.
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Emberverse / int_9d27a8be	type	Army of Thieves and Whores
Emberverse / int_9d27a8be	comment	Army of Thieves and Whores: Arminger's initial cadre of fighters is recruited from Portland's street gangs, along with a few of the more morally dubious medieval reenactors he associated with pre-Change.
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Emberverse / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Emberverse / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: A lot of the early conversations between Mike and Astrid are variations on this theme.
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Emberverse / int_9d94dcfd	type	Persecution Flip
Emberverse / int_9d94dcfd	comment	Persecution Flip: Downplayed. Wicca is the dominant religion in Clan Mackenzie. Juniper, as head of the Coven, is concerned that some people are looking to convert for cultural rather than religious reasons, and notes the irony of someone becoming a Wiccan in order to fit in when pre-change they were definitely regarded as oddballs.
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Emberverse / int_9f2ca67b	type	Gaydar
Emberverse / int_9f2ca67b	comment	Gaydar: Unaffected by the failure of technology in the Emberverse. When two male Corvallan guards are made to look as if they were overcome by alcohol whilst making out, Aaron Rothman smells a set-up, as he is quite certain the guards in question are straight. When Signe Havel questions his certainty, Aaron answers archly, "Radar may not work any more, but my gaydar, I assure you, is fully functional."
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Emberverse / int_9f5e99a7	type	DistressedDamsel
Emberverse / int_9f5e99a7	comment	Distressed Damsel: Signe, early in the first book. It's this experience which prompts her to Take a Level in Badass. Mathilda is also taken hostage at least three times during the series. Justified in that as the Protector's daughter she has high political value to her potential captors. She also becomes quite capable of rescuing herself when necessary as she gets older.
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Emberverse / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
Emberverse / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: For Rudi and Mathilda, in Lord of Mountains.
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Emberverse / int_a1a38c5d	type	Divine Right of Kings
Emberverse / int_a1a38c5d	comment	Divine Right of Kings: In many parts of the post-Change world, it becomes an article of faith that monarchs (whatever their title: Protector, King, Bossman, or something else) are chosen by God or the gods, with the prerogatives that implies. Understandable in that most dynasties have their origin in people who saved lives and formed the basis for new civilizations just after the Change. It doesn't hurt that some, like Rudi Mackenzie, show demonstrable signs of having otherworldly assistance and favor. It also helps that some, like Rudi, Orlaith, John, and Her Majesty of Nippon, have Royalty Superpowers, like prophetic dreams and the ability to use magical weapons.
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Emberverse / int_a24eaaf2	type	Nemean Skinning
Emberverse / int_a24eaaf2	comment	Nemean Skinning: Michael Havel, Lord Bear of the Bearkillers, wears the head of the bear that earned him and the outfit their names on his helmet. Subverts the trope by making Havel nearly get killed by the bear, and tanning is done by specialists off-page. Further subverted by Havel being totally against the idea in the first place (thinks it's too hokey), until he realizes it will serve the purpose of something for his people to rally behind.
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Emberverse / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Emberverse / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Emiliano Gutierrez failing to put his visor down when pursuing a feigned retreat by the Mackenzies. He gets an arrow through the eye for his trouble.
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Emberverse / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Emberverse / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Father Ignatius.
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Emberverse / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Emberverse / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: Averted. Ambushes, proper use of terrain, supply lines, and discipline all come up often. At least once in A Meeting at Corvallis when the PPA knights under the command of Leeroy Jenkins extraordinare Piotr Stavarov try to use a straight cavalry charge against the Mackenzie archers, it costs him a good chunk of his cavalry, much to Conrad Renfrew's fury. Emiliano Guttierez's recklessness against the same goes even worse for him.
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Emberverse / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Emberverse / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: A few examples. Heelâ€“Face Turn aside, Tiphaine never does get called to account for all the murders and sabotage she committed on Sandra's payroll, most notably those of Aoife and Liath. For that matter, Sandra herself. After orchestrating all of that, and being arguably as responsible for the atrocities committed by the Association as Norman, she ends up dying of old age in her bed surrounded by loved ones, knowing her grandchildren will make up the ruling dynasty of Montival. As countries, Iowa and the other Midwest states maintain their generally oppressive feudal structures throughout the series with not a sign of any hope for positive change in sight.
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Emberverse / int_a7ae597a	type	No New Fashions in the Future
Emberverse / int_a7ae597a	comment	No New Fashions in the Future: Inverted in many places, as many societies (Clan Mackenzie, PPA, Norrheim, Indian tribes, ranches) went back to old fashions. Played straight with Corvallis, Boise, and the surviving urban centers of the Midwest. Greater Britain meanwhile is mishmash of Medieval, Victorian and Modern-ish attire. Averted by Mount Angel, as Catholic priests and monks have dressed the same way for hundreds of years and probably weren't likely to alter their basic attire any time soon anyway, Change or not.
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Emberverse / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Emberverse / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: In his first encounter with Norman Arminger, Mike Havel takes advantage of the fact that Arminger thinks of him as a stupid jarhead.
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Emberverse / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Emberverse / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Eilir, who doesn't let her deafness interfere with — well, anything. She's a kickass fighter and wilderness scout, who thanks to her mother's early training is very good at stealthy approaches. Eric Larsson doesn't let the loss of a hand stop him from doing much (including riding into battle).
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Emberverse / int_a7ea5c1c	type	LesYay
Emberverse / int_a7ea5c1c	comment	Les Yay: In-universe. For a time, close friends Astrid and Eilir are rumored to be lovers. They find the rumor "inexpressibly funny." Eddie Liu asks "Have you found the Ring of Power in her Crack of Doom yet?"
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Emberverse / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Emberverse / int_a8559a9f	comment	'Mad' King Charles of Greater Britain, despite having been groomed to be a figurehead his entire life, proves invaluable in organizing the survivors on the Isle of Wight. His expertise in organic farming (Prince Charles in Real Life is an expert on the topic) in particular helps to ensure Greater Britain's survival. Unfortunately some of the decisions he had to make left him a broken man, easily manipulated by Hallgerda and her retinue. Prince Harry has, to get him away from Hallgerda and her manipulations, been given command of "Cutty Sark" and sent to Africa to combat pirate attacks on the new British colonies in Spain. He does his duty magnificently well, often commanding boarding action from the front.
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Emberverse / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Emberverse / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: On 3/18/98, no one in the Emberverse was worrying about Y2K or the performance of their tech stocks...
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Emberverse / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
Emberverse / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: employed by several of the post-Change nations: The Iowa State Police has evolved into such an agency. This is a rare case where the secret police are on the side of the good guys, as they're the ones who verify Rudi's claims about the CUT even as the cult is trying to subvert Iowa's leadership. Probably a minor case of No Celebrities Were Harmed, as making the actual Iowa State Police look evil when the rest of the state government survived more or less intact probably wasn't the author's goal. Boise has the Natpols (National Police; originally an FBI-equivalent but later on becomes a secret police organ after the elder Thurston's death). The Inquisition run by Pope Leo served this role for Norman Arminger. Arguably, Tiphaine d'Ath in her role as Grand Constable fulfills the trope, as she is frequently called upon by Sandra to make certain individuals 'disappear'. The PPA also maintains a secret prison facility (location generally unknown) for high-value prisoners (this is where Mary Liu ends up after her failed power play against Sandra Arminger). The CUT High Seekers fill the role for areas under the cult's control.
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Emberverse / int_a8e5bc60	type	All Hail the Great God Mickey!
Emberverse / int_a8e5bc60	comment	All Hail the Great God Mickey!: The Rangers have a quasi-religious reverence for the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, considering them actual histories and swearing by the Valar. How seriously they take this varies from individual to individual.
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Emberverse / int_a9ea3c3c	type	Warrior Monk
Emberverse / int_a9ea3c3c	comment	Warrior Monk: The local monastery becomes an order of these after the change. Lampshaded frequently, in that they draw comparisons with the Shaolin and other martial orders and lament that they cannot spend more time simply studying and praying. Don't forget the Buddhist Monks in the Valley of the Sun where the party winters to heal Rudi's shoulder after he sustained a nasty evil arrow wound. The monks also train the party so as they all Take a Level in Badass.
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Emberverse / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Emberverse / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Played with; when modern values are forced into a medieval setting, they don't necessarily travel very well: A vegetarian character is very quickly forced to abandon that liftestyle A character mentions having been against the death penalty pre-change, but now recognizes it as an absolute necessity. A few characters who had anti-gun beliefs before the change are forced to acknowledge that it would be pretty nice to have a working gun around. Even in the "good" groups, representative democracy is a thing of the past; if you join a group, you largely accept the decisions made by the leaders or leave (an effective death sentence).
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Emberverse / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Emberverse / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: In Prince of Outcasts, Orlaith attaches no significance to the yellow-and-black symbol her love interest, Alan Thurston, wears on his gear. Readers, however, have seen it elsewhere in the novel. It's the symbol used by the evil forces her brother John is encountering in the Ceram Sea — and, by the description, is or at least resembles a symbol right out of the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Emberverse / int_ab74122a	type	Wasteland Elder
Emberverse / int_ab74122a	comment	Wasteland Elder: Several examples appear after the worldwide blackout. Juniper McKenzie, who has a young teenaged daughter, leads her coven of Wiccans, the neighboring farming family, and various others in forming a new civilization. Reverend Dixon takes charge of the nearest town to Juniper's homestead prior to his death from a stroke. He's a grouch who is intolerant of Juniper's religion, but he is capable of peacefully interacting with her, does his share of the work, and never hordes food. Luther Finney, a farmer with children and grandchildren, provides food to the people of Corvalis to keep them from starving to death, allowing the town to survive the immediate aftermath of the Change. Afterward, he becomes a notable figure on the town council. The Last Eagle Scout was only a kid during the Change, but is a young example of the trope a few decades later. He was on a plane that crashed in Yellowstone National Park. All of the adults from the plane died within the first few years, forcing him to undergo a Promotion to Parent despite his own injuries from the crash. The toll of it all kills him before he turns fifty.
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Emberverse / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
Emberverse / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: In the first book, a character predicts that universal literacy will die out in a generation or two. Starting to crop up with the Changelings as they come of age. Although all of the main characters are well-educated, their understanding of the pre-Change world is at best theoretical and at worst, horribly flawed. Rudi/Artos, and at least a few other changelings, seem to revere President Roosevelt, but are unaware that Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt were separate people. Later in the series, his daughter Ã“rlaith is not only unaware that World War I and World War II were two separate conflicts, she thinks Kaiser Wilhelm II and Adolf Hitler were the same person.
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Emberverse / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
Emberverse / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: President-General Lawrence Thurston puts together an army and a country largely through the strength of his will. Oh yeah, and if there are any other assassins in his guard detail, he dares them to take your best shot (said while unarmed and unarmored).
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Emberverse / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Emberverse / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Norman Arminger's big offensive in the War Of The Eye fails primarily due to him overextending his forces and sending them too many places at once, allowing the heroes to outsmart his frequently less-than-stellar commanders. Conrad Renfrew makes sure to call him out on it. The Cutters' attempt at assassinating the main characters fails and only succeeds in offing Bossman Anthony Heasleroad and police chief Edgar Denton, which in turn pisses off Iowa big-time and brings them and the other Midwestern states into the war, causing them to have to deal with a second front in a war they were winning up to that point. In addition, the deaths of Denton and Heasleroad may very well have been the catalyst for positive social change in Iowa, as the lower classes, especially in the farmlands, were badly treated and one step above serfdom in many parts of the state. A power-sharing arrangement maneuvers Abel Heusink and many of his allies into positions of power, and he explicitly states he plans to force through reforms because those in power need the common Iowan on their side, not simply obeying orders.
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Emberverse / int_ad63e89f	type	Disaster Democracy
Emberverse / int_ad63e89f	comment	Disaster Democracy: Though other types of government are more common in the post-Change world, Corvallis and at least one of the Dominions (in what was formerly known as Canada) form their governments along these lines. This makes them actual decent places to live in what is a decidedly crapsack setting full of tyrannies and oppressive feudal states. Iowa managed to maintain not only democracy but its pre-Change system of government up until the third trilogy, although there are very big signs that the government is becoming functionally corrupt and a caste system (established farm families vs. descendants of refugees from the cities) is taking root. And Mike Havel's original plan for the Bearkillers was to form a democracy, but this was subverted by Signe after his death. Norrheim, like the Vikings they draw their inspiration from, has an Althing. Later in the series we encounter the "Participatory Democracy of Topanga," a small city-state that practices direct democracy: every citizen may debate and vote on issues of importance. Originated by Harry Turtledove in his short story in The Change anthology, "Topanga and the Chatsworth Lancers"; integrated into the "main" Emberverse by Stirling in The Desert and the Blade.
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Emberverse / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
Emberverse / int_aec63727	comment	Pragmatic Hero:
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Emberverse / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Emberverse / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Right after the Change, Mike Havel discovers that his gun is not working. Signe says, wistfully, wouldn't it be wonderful if all guns had stopped working? Well, about that, Signe....
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Emberverse / int_b0ae741	type	The Black Death
Emberverse / int_b0ae741	comment	The Black Death: Makes a comeback post-change; hypothesized to have been present in rodents and made the jump to humans, then evolved to a much more contagious airborne strain.
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Emberverse / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Emberverse / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: The Bearkillers, proto-Clan Mackenzie and other towns encountered also turn away people they can't feed in the Dying Time. It is actually Word of God that the biggest reason Oregon is almost uniquely inhabitable is that the PPA directly and indirectly eliminated the disorganized surplus population. In other words, what Norman does is the better outcome...
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Emberverse / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
Emberverse / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: Eddie Liu (brains) and his friend/dragon Mack (brawn).
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Emberverse / int_b343fa47	type	Feudal Overlord
Emberverse / int_b343fa47	comment	Feudal Overlord: Norman Arminger, to the PPA. Very, very deliberately.
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Emberverse / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Emberverse / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Fred Thurston basically being peer pressured into claiming the Presidency of Boise despite his own unwillingness to do so plus citing his father's memory and opposition to hereditary rule is treated as something positive. Juliet Thurston having done something very similar to convince Martin to stage a coup in the first place, however, is viewed as loathsome by the same characters who pressured Fred in the first place, notably, his love interest and eventual wife, Virginia Kane. .
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Emberverse / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Emberverse / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The CUT tries to kill off Rudi and his party while they're in Des Moines. While not necessarily a bad move in and of it self, ot only do they not kill any of the party, the only significant casualties are Edgar Denton and Anthony Heasleroad. This attack on their soil enrages Iowa to the point where they and their Midwestern allies/client states join the war against the CUT when they had previously been completely unconcerned and in Iowa's case was starting to be subverted by the cult. Nice Job Fixing It, Villain doesn't even begin to cover it.
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Emberverse / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Emberverse / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Jon Wooton in "A Murder in Eddsford". He tried to build a nuclear powered steam engine without wearing protective material, thus dying of radiation poisoning. Also Astrid in the first book, who thinks that provoking a bear is a smart thing to do. After the bear is dealt with Mike rightly chews her out. Emiliano Gutierrez failing to put his visor down when pursuing a feigned retreat by the Mackenzies. He gets an arrow through the eye for his trouble.
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Emberverse / int_b5ba2c2b	type	It's Raining Men
Emberverse / int_b5ba2c2b	comment	It's Raining Men: At the climax of the first novel, Mike Havel, Signe Larsson, Eric Larsson, and Sam Aylward assault the PPA fort this way. As the Change has rendered powered flight impossible, no-one bothers to watch the skies. But unfortunately for the PPA, hang-gliders still work perfectly. The four of them glide one-by-one to the top of the forts tower, and make the way from their to open the gate from the inside.
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Emberverse / int_b8a13baa	type	Meat Versus Veggies
Emberverse / int_b8a13baa	comment	Meat Versus Veggies: Averted. After the change, vegetarians convert to meat eaters out of necessity; after months of having meat as the staple of their diet, everyone craves vegetables.
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Emberverse / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
Emberverse / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: Happens a few times, although both sides dread the thought of having to do so.
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Emberverse / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Emberverse / int_ba6cf869	comment	During the Dying Time, Oregon and Idaho deal with mass starvation (some of it quite deliberate), imposition of slavery by strong-arm rule, outbreaks of the Black Death, rampant Rape, Pillage, and Burn including massacres of children, and an infestation of cannibal bands. After all that, no one believes - or recounts to the reader - the stories they are hearing from bicycle refugees from California and St.Louis.
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Emberverse / int_bd30d87c	type	They Call Him "Sword"
Emberverse / int_bd30d87c	comment	They Call Him "Sword": The first title Rudi ever receives is "Sword of the Lady," which is given to him by the Powers at his Wiccanning. Once he retrieves the actual weapon of that name, however, the title is usually used for it, rather than him.
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Emberverse / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Emberverse / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Applies to many of the married couples in the series, notably including Big Bad Norman Arminger and his wife Sandra.
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Emberverse / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
Emberverse / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Epona to Rudi; Garbh to Edain.
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Emberverse / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Emberverse / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The members of the Quest for the Sword rely on one another completely, and form bonds they will retain all their lives. The core group of the second Quest (Reiko's quest) show signs of forging similar connections.
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Emberverse / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Emberverse / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: several of the petty thugs and warlords Mike Havel disposes of at the beginning of the series qualify, including the white supremacist survivalists (the first people to attack his party) and Iron Rod (who was quite effective terrorizing a convent—against the Bearkillers, not so much). Mary Liu, who tries to outwit the Lady Regent. Uh, yeah, good luck with that....
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Emberverse / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
Emberverse / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: The Meeting against the CUT in the second trilogy. The League of Des Moines later on might count, but given that every member is a rather nasty dictatorship, it would fit as a Legion of Doom too.
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Emberverse / int_c9da2b5	type	Cast Full of Rich People
Emberverse / int_c9da2b5	comment	Cast Full of Rich People: Outside of the likes of Father Ignatius, virtually the entire main cast of characters comes are rich aristocrats of some sort, which tends to color perspectives of the quality of life in the setting.
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Emberverse / int_cab5085a	type	Rain of Arrows
Emberverse / int_cab5085a	comment	Rain of Arrows: The combat strategy of the Mackenzie archers.
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Emberverse / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Emberverse / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Discussed. Mike offers Will leadership of the Bearkillers; Will declines, with the reasoning that it's much easier just to tell Mike what needs to be done, then let Mike take the heat if it proves to be unpopular.
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Emberverse / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Emberverse / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: At over 60, he's not much use at hand-to-hand combat, but Ken Larsson is the husband of one Action Hero (Pam), the father of three more (Eric, Signe and Astrid), and the father-in-law of Lord Bear himself. He's also the Bearkillers' premier engineer and one of Lord Bear's most trusted advisers.
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Emberverse / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Emberverse / int_cc4b45f6	comment	It is actually Word of God that the biggest reason Oregon is almost uniquely inhabitable is that the PPA directly and indirectly eliminated the disorganized surplus population. In other words, what Norman does is the better outcome...
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Emberverse / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Emberverse / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Rudi (and, on at least one occasion, Ignatius) versus any given High Seeker. Especially after Rudi retrieves the Sword.
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Emberverse / int_ce54d44f	type	Apocalyptic Logistics
Emberverse / int_ce54d44f	comment	Apocalyptic Logistics: Without industrialized farming or an efficient way to transport food from farms to population centers, a lot of people get very hungry very quickly during the dying times.
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Emberverse / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Emberverse / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Ultimately averted, at least among the main characters. Though Sandra Arminger and Tiphaine d'Ath are presented as atheists for much of their portion of the series, both eventually realize that it's an insupportable position in a world where there is objective evidence for the existence, and influence, of deities. In Tears of the Sun, Sandra actually rejects this trope by name. Minor characters King John of Darwin and Cap'n Pete Holder seem to fit the trope, though. King John describes himself as "an old-fashioned atheist," and Pete takes issue with the term "accursed" being used to describe an outsized, and unnaturally determined and aggressive, saltwater crocodile. During the mystical quest in The Sea Peoples, Pip finds herself thinking that "Uncle Pete" might enjoy hearing of her adventures, but wouldn't believe a word.
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Emberverse / int_d171a8c1	type	Evil Debt Collector
Emberverse / int_d171a8c1	comment	Evil Debt Collector: By The Given Sacrifice, the First National Bank of Corvallis has become notorious for these. The DÃºnedain Rangers (customers of said bank) use them to collect their commissions when necessary.
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Emberverse / int_d27471a7	type	Multiple Government Polity
Emberverse / int_d27471a7	comment	Multiple Government Polity: The High Kingdom of Montival encompasses a variety of smaller political units. While a number of these are kingdoms, other forms of government are also represented, including representative (Boise) and direct (Topanga) democracies, oligarchies (Corvallis), theocracies (Deseret), tribal councils (the Seven Fires Council), and, of course, clan chiefs and councils (Mackenzie).
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Emberverse / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Emberverse / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero??" In A Meeting At Corvallis, Mike Havel is called out in short order by both Eric and Signe after he agrees to meet a PPA knight one on one in a joust. Granted, he had won by that point, but Mike is one of the things holding the Bearkillers together, and the father of Signe's children, so their concern is quite warranted.
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Emberverse / int_d40e1a9f	type	Break Out the Museum Piece
Emberverse / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece: In the first book, Juniper's friend Chuck Barstow gets the idea to raid the Eugene history museum's Living History exhibit and steal a wagon and horses during the chaos. Juniper's other friend Dennis' brother is an amateur blacksmith (who lives on Nantucket and gets flung back in time along with it), and during the escape from Corvallis, Dennis arms Juniper and himself with swords and axes his brother made for him. A character, who is struggling with an old-fashioned plow, laments that he had previously owned a much more advanced version of the same plow but had sold it as scrap metal. In areas where they have survived, the Amish are now highly-valued technical experts.
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Emberverse / int_d4937788	type	Days of Future Past
Emberverse / int_d4937788	comment	Days of Future Past: Several societies fulfill this trope although it also has a foot in Fantasy Counterpart Culture as supernatural elements creep in during the second trilogy. The Clan Mackenzie is based on a New Age interpretation (much against the liking of its founder) of a Celtic clan, while the Portland Protective Association was deliberately created by an SCA member as a copy of a medieval feudal society with trappings of Mordor. The oddest example are the DÃºnedain Rangers, founded by a mildly insane Tolkien fangirl who has a quasi-religious reverence for his books. There are also several "Indian" tribes many of whose members have, at best, only nominal amounts of First Nations ancestry and Norrheim and Kalksthorpe, Viking-style nations founded by Asatru. Additionally, the remnants of the American military in Idaho have formed into a hybrid Roman Legion. Meanwhile, over in England, "Mad King Charlie" tries to turn what remains of his nation into something of a vast Rennaisance Faire, although his subjects draw the line at Morris dancing. In A Meeting at Corvallis, a graffiti in the city of that name reads: "Help! I've fallen into the RenFaire and I can't get out!" Corvallis itself seems to be run by the 'council of wise men' Plato recommended. Although Corvallis has retained much of the pre-Change world's customs, it's channelling Classical Greece as much as the other nations are looking toward their ancient inspirations. Averted, at least at first, by Lawrence Thurston's efforts in Boise—he adopted Roman military organization out of practicality, not out of any great desire to emulate the ancient past; his main focus to the end was to restore the pre-Change United States. His son Martin turned the Romanisms up to eleven when he sold out to the CUT.
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Emberverse / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
Emberverse / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: Tiphaine d'Ath and Katrina Georges.
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Emberverse / int_d5c229d1	type	Fictional Age of Majority
Emberverse / int_d5c229d1	comment	Fictional Age of Majority: In the treaty of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, it's established that the heir to the Portland Protective Association must be 26 to assume the throne. Later, that also becomes the age to assume the throne of the High Kingdom of Montival. Justifiable because of the level of training and responsibility these positions require. Also because it allows adult heirs like Mathilda and Orlaith to have adventures before becoming responsible monarchs!
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Emberverse / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Emberverse / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Sandra Arminger. Oh dear Lord, Sandra Arminger. Signe Havel also shows some aptitude for this. Mary Liu attempts it, but isn't quite smart enough, especially not for going against Sandra.
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Emberverse / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
Emberverse / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: Boy, is it! Lampshaded in A Meeting at Corvallis, where some young fighters actually sing the song of the same name.
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Emberverse / int_d72929ed	type	Afterlife Antechamber
Emberverse / int_d72929ed	comment	Afterlife Antechamber: Mathilda has a vision of her father, Norman Arminger, in Purgatory—having learned his lesson but still serving his penance. The Blessed Virgin Mary even drops by with the penitent's lunch!
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Emberverse / int_d791dbbb	type	Cannibal Larder
Emberverse / int_d791dbbb	comment	Cannibal Larder: Dies the Fire has several of these. Most of the cannibal bands that arose after the end of the world keep live prisoners in them as well (best way to keep the meat fresh).
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Emberverse / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Emberverse / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Mike and Signe. Rudi and Mathilda. Aoife and Liath.
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Emberverse / int_dbab18ef	type	Morally Bankrupt Banker
Emberverse / int_dbab18ef	comment	Morally Bankrupt Banker: Professor Tom Turner of the Corvallis Economics Faculty will take the best deal for himself even if it means throwing his city under the wagon. He is also using refugees as sweatshop labor and engaging in war profiteering. This all bites him in the ass during negotiations to set up the Kingdom of Montival in Lord of Mountains and to decide whether to continue to pursue the CUT into Montana after the enemy's field army was destroyed. When Turner asserts that Corvallis is a democracy and cannot accept a monarch, Sandra Arminger produces a document signed by Turner stating his willingness to subjugate Corvallis to the PPA during the Protector's War, thus destroying Turner's credibility at the negotiating table generally and with the rest of the Corvallis delegation specifically.
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Emberverse / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Emberverse / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: In High King of Montival, Rudi's party is exploring the long-abandoned CN Tower in Toronto when they discover the skeletons of a woman (apparently a suicide) and her cat. Though they live in a world in which billions died at the time of the Change, they are powerfully moved by the evidence of these particular deaths. Rudi is quite aware of the nature of their response, and of this trope.
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Emberverse / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Norman Arminger started as an undistinguished history professor and SCAdian, and became one of the most successful (and brutal) despots in the post-Change world.
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Emberverse / int_e38d605	comment	Big Guy, Little Guy: Mack and his friend and boss Eddie Liu. Arguably applies to John Hordle and Alleyne Loring as well, though Alleyne is not small compared to anyone but John (or Mack).
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Emberverse / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: Rigobert, Delia's husband and father (via turkey baster) of her four children.
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Emberverse / int_e5a814a8	type	Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap
Emberverse / int_e5a814a8	comment	Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap: Inverted. In the years following the Change, many people will go on and on about all the fantastic processed foods that are no longer available when everyone is reduced to eating natural, home-grown food.
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Emberverse / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Kuttner Also, Alex, Odard Liu's manservant who sells out Rudi's party to the CUT as part of Mary Liu's failed power grab.
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Emberverse / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Emberverse / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board / Author Filibuster : To varying degrees, though relatively low. That's S. M. Stirling for ya...
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Emberverse / int_e8dcd1c0	type	Four Lines, All Waiting
Emberverse / int_e8dcd1c0	comment	Four Lines, All Waiting: The series' cast bloat is particularly evident in books 4-10. In an epic example in The Given Sacrifice, Tiphaine d'Ath senses an attack on the royal family, and she and her picked band start up the stairs to counter it. We see them reach the scene of the attack ninety pages later.
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Emberverse / int_e95acf73	comment	Wooden Ships and Iron Men: the Change has forced a return to the Age of Sail, seen as early as the first trilogy (where we meet Prince William in command of the Cutty Sark—impressed into the Royal Navy despite being a decrepit museum piece—on what appears to be a suicide mission arranged by Hallgerda).
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Emberverse / int_edf8db61	comment	Oh, My Gods!: Juniper substitutes "Goddess" for "God".
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Emberverse / int_eef85d73	comment	People's Republic of Tyranny: The Provisional Republic of Iowa, which on the surface appears to have maintained its pre-Change democracy, is in practice a hereditary dictatorship where people can be sent to slave labor in mines for stepping out of line. The other Midwest states, Fargo, Kirksville, Concordia, Marshall, and Richland are implied to be much the same. And in the later books, these are assumed to be the good guys! At least compared to the CUT.
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Emberverse / int_f12d9d83	comment	The Last Eagle Scout was only a kid during the Change, but is a young example of the trope a few decades later. He was on a plane that crashed in Yellowstone National Park. All of the adults from the plane died within the first few years, forcing him to undergo a Promotion to Parent despite his own injuries from the crash. The toll of it all kills him before he turns fifty.
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Emberverse / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: The scout the Cutters have tracking Rudi's band is, in fact a Boy Scout — or at least, a member of a settlement based on the Boy Scouts. Oh, it's justifiable; a member of such a group would be likely to have the right skill set. It is, however, still a groaner. In-universe, Delia uses a series of dreadful puns to get the attention of Tiphaine d'Ath.
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Emberverse / int_f4548f8a	type	Hereditary Republic
Emberverse / int_f4548f8a	comment	Hereditary Republic: Common in the post-Change world, often despite the best intentions of the founders of any given nation: Mike Havel, the founder and "boss man" (de facto head of state, often styled "Lord Bear") of the mercenary outfit-cum-nation the Bearkillers, passes on his title to his right-hand man Will Hutton on his deathbed with instructions to begin free elections the next year. Havel's widow Signe announces this plan in a speech to the people in which she frames Hutton's appointment as a regency until the majority of her and Havel's children, which she expects the Bearkillers to elect as soon as they are of age. When next we see the characters after a between-books Time Skip, the unelected Signe is wielding power as de facto regent herself. Also within the Bearkillers, the next level of authority below the Lord Bear is the "A-List," a group of elite professional soldiers who are compensated for their service with land over which they hold political authority. While admission into the A-List is ostensibly by meritocracy, it's pointed out early on that the children of A-Listers will have a distinct advantage over the children of the lower classes by virtue of having more free time to train. In effect, the ostensibly democratic system creates a de facto landed aristocracy that becomes more entrenched as time goes on. Clan Mackenzie ostensibly chooses its own chief through popular election; however the reigning chief appoints a "tanist" (apprentice and heir-apparent) who seems to be a shoe-in for the position barring extraordinary circumstances. The first chief, Juniper Mackenzie, appoints her son Rudi, who ends up becoming High King over the Mackenzies, Bearkillers, and several other nations in the setting. In the United States of Boise, the presidency passes to the previous president's eldest son in a perfunctory election after the latter conspires with a foreign cult to assassinate his father. Boise will later go on to hold perfectly legitimate presidential elections, in which no serious opposition is ever raised to the line of the first President-General: in one contest, the opposition candidate is a literal clown. The first President-General, Lawrence Thurston, would have been appalled, as he was opposed to hereditary leadership and didn't even want his sons to run for office.
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Emberverse / int_f7b57d62	type	Enforced Technology Levels
Emberverse / int_f7b57d62	comment	Enforced Technology Levels: The Change includes adjustments to the laws of physics to prevent anything higher than medieval level technology. Will Hutton hypothesizes that maybe this isn't the first time and technological advancement was artificially limited on earth previously, but the characters acknowledge this is impossible to test short of time travel.
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Emberverse / int_f9671119	type	Death Equals Redemption
Emberverse / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: Martin Thurston, after he is slain with the Sword of the Lady and the influence of the Power behind the CUT is lifted.
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Emberverse / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
Emberverse / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: The United States Government in Boise is centered around the leftovers of both the US Army and the pre-change State Government attempting to reunify the United States In the first book, Mike Havel theorizes that the US President (Heavily implied to be Bill Clinton ) Survived the change with the help of the Secret Service and is still in charge... of a scrap of land around Camp David.
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Emberverse / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Emberverse / int_f9e16ef	comment	Distressed Dude: Ingolf gets captured with alarming frequency.
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Emberverse / int_fa9cd4db	type	Democracy Is Bad
Emberverse / int_fa9cd4db	comment	Democracy Is Bad: The single democracy amongst the surviving Willamette communities, Corvallis, is easily manipulated by Portland during the Protector's War, and it's notably inefficient at the best of times. Averted (so far as we know) by the Dominion of Drumheller, seen in the second trilogy. It's worth mentioning that this is an Aesop completely opposite to that expressed in the related series Island in the Sea of Time. The series in general portrays the handful of democracies as inefficient and reluctant to acknowledge threats like Portland in the first trilogy and the CUT in the second, and more autocratic or feudal states as more organized and generally better. The very notion of democracy and basic human rights is likewise treated by some characters as an outdated fad and a weakness, with downsides of a democratic system played up and the obvious flaws of feudalism heavily downplayed. There's even a multi-page conversation in Sword Of The Lady wherein monarchy is treated as 'natural' and democracy viewed as a chaotic roll of the dice with those elected by the will of the people considered terrible and power-seeking, while a system based on inheriting the state is considered steady and more virtuous.
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Emberverse / int_fab3235a	type	Easy Evangelism
Emberverse / int_fab3235a	comment	Easy Evangelism: Pagan religions have a very easy time attracting converts. Most of the CORA refugees ditch Christianity to go for the Old Religion and a large part of Boise's population seem to have followed Fred into going Asatru more or less automatically and offscreen.
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Emberverse / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Emberverse / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics - It's an acceptable breach, given that it's a fantasy work, but if the laws of physics were broken the way this novel broke them, the Universe would probably end up breaking and become less an apocalyptic wasteland, and more an Eldritch Location. However, there is a mention in the original trilogy that the Change appears to be limited to Earth and its immediate surroundings - the rest of the cosmos are unaffected. If you like that idea, try Steven R Boyett's "Change" series, Stirling's inspiration for the Change. The laws of the universe, or even Earth as a whole, haven't changed. The Mind is powerful and precise enough to constantly monitor the entire world, watch for people trying to use technology, and selectively suppress things just at the places and times where it's needed.
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Emberverse / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
Emberverse / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Arguably, any of the characters originating in the non-Stirling stories of The Change anthology who later make an appearance in the main storyline. Deor Godulfson and Thora Garwood, who originally appear in Diana Paxson's "Deor," are the most prominent; but Jared and Connor Tillman and Kwame Curtis (Harry Turtledove's "Topanga and the Chatsworth Lancers") and Cap'n Pete and Fifi Lamont Holder (John Birmingham's "Fortune and Glory") also play minor roles. Prince John becomes romantically involved with Philippa "Pip" Balwyn-Abercombie, daughter of another Birmingham character, the late Lady Julianne Balwyn.
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Emberverse / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Emberverse / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Ian Kovalevsky is one of the nicest people in the series (when he's not in a fight, that is).
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Emberverse / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Emberverse / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When Delia bears her third child, her partner Tiphaine says, quite firmly, that she thinks three children are enough. Though she loves babies, Delia meekly acquiesces to this. A book later, we find out she's pregnant again — and it cannot possibly be by accident, as Delia and her husband never have sex; all of their children are engendered via turkey-baster. Hey, Tiphaine, we know you're the one who wears the pants in the outside world, but who is it who wears them in your relationship?
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Emberverse / int_fe10cf42	type	Alien Space Bats
Emberverse / int_fe10cf42	comment	Alien Space Bats: Most of the characters assume that these caused the Change, lampshading it to the point of referring to the trope by name.
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Emberverse / int_fe1ccea	comment	Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Though admittedly, even shamelessly, evil herself, Sandra Arminger gives Mathilda a religious and moral upbringing, and says the young woman is one of the few good things she has ever done.
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Emberverse / int_fe48cea2	comment	Lady of War: Signe Larsson, Tiphaine D'Ath, Astrid Larsson, Orlaith Arminger Mackenzie, Heuradys d'Ath — Astrid and Heuradys are perhaps particularly sterling examples, as they both place emphasis on style.
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Emberverse / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Emberverse / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Abbot-Bishop Dmwoski of Mount Angel, who leads his Warrior Monk troops both spiritually and in battle. Also Father Ignatius, though he generally does not wear his robe into combat.
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Emberverse / int_feb0e2fe	type	SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
Emberverse / int_feb0e2fe	comment	Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: Suspected at first of being responsible for the Change. It turns out that the responsible party is several levels beyond that...
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Emberverse / int_fed441ad	comment	All Gays are Promiscuous: Don't tell Tiphaine d'Ath that, unless for some reason you feel the urge to die a quick and bloody death. However, Estella Maldonado and Aaron Rothman each labor gallantly to uphold this trope. As does Rigobert, at least until he's old enough to settle down after reaching his senior years.
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Emberverse / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Emberverse / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Tiphaine d'Ath with regard to her page (and later squire) Lioncel—when appropriate, of course.
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Emberverse / int_ffea0f47	comment	Situational Hand Switch: Rudi Mackenzie's right arm is wounded and has to learn to use his left arm as his sword arm. When practicing with youths in the Free Republic of Richland they complain that he has an unfair advantage as a southpaw. His mentor responds "Yah hey, if someone attacks you using different moves, or if they're a leftie you're just going to say you're taking your bat and ball and going home 'cause it ain't fair? Christ, Weiss, I've known you were a dumb little punk for years, but do you have to show it off in front of strangers?"
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Emberverse	hasFeature	Men of Sherwood / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	More Deadly Than the Male / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Multiple Government Polity / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Mystical Plague / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Nerds Speak Klingon / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	New Eden / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	No Healthcare in the Apocalypse / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	No Party Like a Donner Party / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Noble Savage / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Nude Nature Dance / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Omniscient Morality License / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Our Orcs Are Different / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Our Presidents Are Different / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Padding / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Power Makes Your Voice Deep / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Prescience Is Predictable / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Public Domain Artifact / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Rain of Arrows / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Religion is Magic / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Religion of Evil / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Right-Hand Cat / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Scar Survey / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Sentient Cosmic Force / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Single-Minded Twins / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Situational Hand Switch / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Sneaky Spider / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Southpaw Advantage / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Sword of Plot Advancement / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Sworn Brothers / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Technology Erasure Event / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Terminally Dependent Society / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Thank Your Prey / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	The Beard / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	The Beforetimes / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	The High King / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	The Magic Comes Back / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	The Magic Goes Away / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	The Role-Playing Game / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	They Call Him "Sword" / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Torture Cellar / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	24-Hour Armor / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Uncoffee / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Unholy Matrimony / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Warrior Monk / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Wasteland Elder / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	Wasteland Warlord / int_4bf9cc7b
Emberverse	hasFeature	We Sell Everything / int_4bf9cc7b
emberverse	sameAs	Emberverse

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