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Hurog is a series of two books, Dragon Bones and Dragon Blood, written by Patricia Briggs. It is mainly about Ward, who pretended to be stupid ever since his father gave him a beating that would almost have killed him. At the start of the novel, his father died, and Ward has problems to convince everyone that he is fully capable of inheriting and managing the estate.The death of his father brings about many changes, among them the fact that he inherits Oreg, who he thought was just a ghost. Oreg is actually an immortal being, ''made'' into castle Hurog so that the man who did it (Oreg's own father) would not need any other servants. Things are further complicated by the fact that two noblemen ask Ward to deliver a slave, who had fled to Hurog. Ward will do no such thing, stating that "There are no slaves in Hurog", and flees the place, with his Cute Mute sister Ciarra, Oreg, the slave, and two loyal men of the castle staff in tow. | |
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A Taste of the Lash | |
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A Taste of the Lash: Oreg has a flashback to being whipped after laying a curse on one of his old masters. His powerful magic makes the damage real, at least until he can get enough of a grip to heal himself again. Also happens offscreen to Tisala as part of her torture by Jakoven's guards. | |
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Incredibly Inconvenient Deity | |
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Incredibly Inconvenient Deity: In Dragon Bones, the god Aetherveon takes possession of Cute Mute Ciarra, and uses her body to tell the other protagonists cryptic things. This causes Oreg, who tried and failed to protect Ciarra, to suffer horribly.note Oreg was Made a Slave hundreds of years ago, and is magically bound to a ring that belongs to Ward. Ward ordered him to protect Ciarra as an innocent request, as Ward didn't quite understand that Oreg must obey. It isn't clear what the consequences of failure to obey are, exactly, but Oreg clearly suffers. Ciarra's protective big brother Ward is not amused. But that's what you get for camping in the ruins of an ancient temple. Ward is angry at Aetherveon for quite some time afterwards, and refuses to pray to him out of spite, instead summoning Siphern, the god he usually worships, from his homelands. (Deities seem to be usually bound to a place in that universe, but as Ward proves, that is not absolute.) | |
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Haunted Castle | |
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Haunted Castle: Oreg is generally considered to be a Friendly Ghost roaming Castle Hurog. He's a bit more than that. | |
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I Am Not Pretty | |
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I Am Not Pretty: Tisala brings this up in an attempt to convince Ward that she would not make the right kind of wife for him. Ward retorts that he's not so shallow as to need a beautiful trophy wife to bolster his self-esteem, but at any rate he personally finds her ridiculously attractive. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Downplayed with Garranon, who looks several years younger than he actually is. This is apparently why Jakoven keeps him around. | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me: Oreg begs this of Ward after they are separated in Dragon Bones. Justified as it turns out being separated from Ward triggers the slavery curse, putting Oreg in unbearable agony as long as Ward is away. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Ward is huge, a deadly fighter, and also caring, protective and a Friend to All Living Things. | |
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Amazon Chaser | |
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Amazon Chaser: Ward is attracted to Tisala's muscles and Brawn Hilda build, and absolutely smitten after seeing her fight. | |
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Refuse to Rescue the Disliked | |
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Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: Ward is confronted with the fact that a runaway slave has hidden in his castle. He is asked to return the slave to Landislaw, a noble he dislikes, because Landislaw bought the slave from someone who didn't actually own her, and will get in big (maybe lethal) trouble if he doesn't give her back. Ward states that "There are no slaves in Hurog", and therefore, the slave is not a slave, and he won't deliver her to the noble. His uncle later asks him whether he made this decision out of principle, or whether he would have decided differently if he didn't dislike Landislaw. Ward himself isn't quite sure about his reasons. | |
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Pietà Plagiarism | |
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Pietà Plagiarism: Beckram carries Erdrick's body before the king before asking for a position in his military. | |
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"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization | |
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"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Brought up and discussed. The heroes come to the conclusion that rape is rape, regardless of any accidental "enjoyment". | |
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Fluffy the Terrible | |
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Fluffy the Terrible: Downplayed with Ward's horse, a huge, powerful warhorse with a bad temper honed by previous mistreatment, to the point where it killed its former rider. Getting the horse to trust him is a slow process for Ward. He names it Pansy. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Happens to both Tisala and Ward in Dragon Blood, on separate occasions. (Ward gets an Agony Beam, Tisala has good old-fashioned whips and knives.) Tosten is briefly tortured by Bastilla in Dragon Bones. | |
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Evil Sorcerer | |
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Evil Sorcerer: Oreg's father. Turning Oreg the child into a castle Powered by a Forsaken Child, and, despite Oreg being a powerful mage himself, making it so that Oreg is enslaved to whoever wears a certain ring and can't break this curse ... no mean feat. That evil sorcerer is long dead when the story begins, but there are others, such as Bastilla who is a very powerful, very sadistic mage and the antagonist of the protagonists for much of the plot. | |
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Agony Beam | |
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Agony Beam: This is one of Jade Eyes's powers, which he uses liberally on Ward during his imprisonment in the Asylum. The binding spell's punishments of Oreg for disobeying an order or straying too far from Ward seem to have a very similar effect. | |
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I'm Cold... So Cold... | |
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I'm Cold... So Cold...: Subverted in Dragon Bones when Ward says that he will never be warm again, after killing someone else. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The book starts with a Dictionary Opening saying Hurog means Dragon and ends with Oreg repeating those words as a cryptic answer to Ward's inquiry. | |
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The Dragon | |
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Jakoven's lover and Dragon Jade Eyes counts as this as well. | |
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Immune to Mind Control | |
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Immune to Mind Control: Ward seems to be immune to mind control to some extent. Doesn't help him much, though. The villains have other means. A magician who tried to compel him to do something complained that her magic didn't work on him. She theorized it could be due to his stubborn character and thick skull. | |
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Genius Loci | |
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Oreg's (illegitimate) father counts as well, poisoning his son in order to transform him against his will into the slave and Genius Loci of Castle Hurog. Oreg specifically notes that the reason he still has a physical body which feels pain is because it "amused" his father. | |
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Friendly Ghost | |
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Friendly Ghost: Oreg, the family slave/ghost. He is a sweet kid (albeit with a knack for snarking and occasional mischief) despite his awful past and has a soft spot for children, animals and people who treat the aforementioned groups nicely. | |
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Pretty Boy | |
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Pretty Boy: Both Tosten and Oreg, according to Ward. A darker variation with Oreg, as Ward notes that his beauty and magically-enforced obedience mean he was almost certainly used as a Sex Slave by previous masters. Garranon as well, with about the same results as Oreg. It's dangerous to be pretty in this universe. Jade Eyes is a villainous example. | |
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A Family Affair | |
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A Family Affair: Ward's father had an affair with his wife's half-sister/Ward's aunt. | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different: Oreg, who is bound to the head of the family through magic. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
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Big Brother Instinct: Ward towards his younger siblings. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Tosten apparently attempted suicide after being beaten by his father one too many times, but was rescued by Ward and sent away from Hurog to keep him safe. Oreg very much wants to die, but can't: he can only be killed by his current master, and no-one wants to waste such a useful slave. Eventually he convinces Ward to kill him. This breaks the curse and leaves him both alive and free, but he had no idea it would. | |
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"Everybody Helps Out" Denouement | |
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"Everybody Helps Out" Denouement: In the end of Dragon Bones, everyone works hard at rebuilding castle Hurog, which had been destroyed in the victory over the villains. | |
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Self-Punishment Over Failure | |
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Self-Punishment Over Failure: Oreg, who is magically enslaved to the head of the Hurog family (which, at the moment, is the protagonist, Ward) punishes himself for failing to protect Ciarra, after Ward ordered him to do so. To some extent, he seems to be in pain that comes as a part of the Fate Worse than Death he was given when he was Made a Slave, but he also beats his head against a rock. He stops it after Ward tells him that it's not his fault, and the order was only to try to protect Ciarra. (Actually, it was more of a "Great that you're protecting my little sister, keep doing it", which makes the consequences all the more tragic.) | |
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Faster Than They Look | |
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Faster Than They Look: Ward is assumed to be slow, because of his huge size. He's actually quite fast both in body and mind, but talks slow, contributing to his image of a fool. | |
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Heroic Build | |
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Heroic Build: Ward and Tisala are both extremely tall and heavily-muscled for their respective sexes; Tisala in particular stands out since she is not a busty, statuesque, "slender-yet-toned" Amazonian Beauty, instead having a wide, blocky, muscular frame that rivals most men in strength. | |
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Heroic Bastard | |
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Heroic Bastard: The evil king Jakoven's illegitimate half-brother is a brave and noble general who eventually befriends Beckram. He is planning to overthrow Jakoven, but it's hard to blame him, and he doesn't want the throne for himself, but for their kind-hearted brother. As it turns out, Oreg is this as well, as the bastard son of a previous Hurog lord. | |
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Man in the Iron Mask | |
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Man in the Iron Mask: King Jakoven built the Asylum specifically to lock up his brother Kellen, having been warned in a prophecy that it would be a very bad idea to kill his brother. While it's common knowledge that he's in there, most of the common people seem to have bought the idea that he's genuinely nuts, rather than unjustly imprisoned. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: Ward is horrified and disgusted to learn that his historical childhood hero, Seleg, was the man who killed the dragon beneath the keep, and had Oreg tortured for speaking against him. | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: A major theme of the books, with many of the villains also being rapists of some form. Also goes out of its way to avert both Double Standard Rape: Female on Male and Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male, with Jakoven and Bastilla treated as equally evil to Fenwick's attacks on the servant women. | |
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Chemically-Induced Insanity | |
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Chemically-Induced Insanity: In Dragon Blood, the protagonist is given drugs as part of a plot to make him seem unfit to rule. The reader gets to know what he thinks his surroundings look like (people talking to him are monsters, etc). | |
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Kissing Cousins | |
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Kissing Cousins: Hurog cousins Beckram and Ciarra marry at the end of Dragon Bones, and have a child midway through Dragon Blood. It's noted that this is fairly commonplace in Shavig, so long as the bloodline is healthy and the family doesn't do it too often. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: When Ward's father is thrown by his horse, causing his death, this is directly connected to his mistreatment of said horse. People believe the stallion to be too dangerous to ride, but Ward manages to tame him, proving that the horse only behaved like a monster because it had been mistreated. | |
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Significant Green-Eyed Redhead | |
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Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: A villainous example with Jade Eyes, Jakoven's Dragon and, apparently, Starscream, in Dragon Blood. He's described with red hair and unsettlingly pale green eyes, and is terrifying. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Jade Eyes is this to Jakoven in the second book, doubling as The Dragon. | |
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Depraved Homosexual | |
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Depraved Homosexual: Jakoven, the Big Bad, is a rapist and paedophile who keeps Garranon as a blackmailed Sex Slave. However, the narrative does go out of its way to note that being a rapist is what makes Jakoven irredeemable, rather than his sexuality. Jakoven's lover and Dragon Jade Eyes counts as this as well. | |
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Dumb Muscle | |
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Dumb Muscle: Ward pretends to be this to protect himself from his father's wrath. | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
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Half-Human Hybrid: Half the cast have a dragon ancestor several generations back. Axiel is half-dwarf. Oreg's father was a half-dragon. | |
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Nice to the Waiter | |
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Nice to the Waiter: One of the more obvious signs that Ward is not like his father is the way he treats Oreg. It does take Oreg a while to accept it, though. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Ward started feigning brain damage as a young boy to protect himself from his abusive father. As Ward is officially next in line for his father's title, his apparent incompetence becomes something of an obstacle later on. It's implied Ciarra may also have been doing this, as she begins acting much steadier after her father's death. | |
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Naïve Animal Lover | |
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Naïve Animal Lover: Ward is thought (partly due to his Obfuscating Stupidity) by other characters to be this with regard to a very vicious horse, but in fact is really a Friend to All Living Things, as he knows his way around horses and the horse in question is actually not so much aggressive as ruined by his violent father. The horse actually killed his father, but Ward decides to keep it and give it a cutesy name. | |
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Brawn Hilda | |
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Brawn Hilda: Tisala is a practical application of this trope. She's taller than most men, has a masculine face and a short, practical haircut, is Covered with Scars and callouses, broad-shouldered, lean, and muscular enough to match most men in strength. Ward, of course, is completely smitten by her. | |
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Stock Medieval Meal | |
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Stock Medieval Meal: In Dragon Bones, while fighting bandits, the heroes live on (increasingly mouldy) bread and cheese. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Oreg's way of dealing with people who annoy him or he doesn't agree with. He is a slave, but he can mostly do and say what he wants unless ordered to shut up. His better judgement is the only other thing that can stop him, considering his long time serving abusive masters. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Fenwick, the previous Hurogmeten, was physically abusive to all three of his children: Ward Obfuscates Stupidity to avoid his wrath, Ciarra hides as much as possible, and Tosten was sent away by Ward after attempting to kill himself to escape. Oreg's (illegitimate) father counts as well, poisoning his son in order to transform him against his will into the slave and Genius Loci of Castle Hurog. Oreg specifically notes that the reason he still has a physical body which feels pain is because it "amused" his father. | |
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I Cannot Self-Terminate | |
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I Cannot Self-Terminate: Oreg can only be killed by his master, the Hurogmeten. Eventually he convinces Ward to kill him, though it's a variation, as Oreg's death wish isn't the major deciding factor: his death allows the protagonists to collapse Castle Hurog on top of the people seeking to steal the dragon's bones. And it doesn't stick. | |
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Ambiguously Bi | |
| Hurog / int_bd0230fb | comment |
Ambiguously Bi: Garranon mentions having "the desire to sleep with men instead of women", but also seems to care deeply about his wife, though he doesn't see her often and they have no children. His forced relationship with Jakoven muddies the waters further. Ward has had relationships with a few women, and eventually ends up with Tisala, but also spends a lot of time noticing how attractive Garranon and Oreg are, going so far as to describe watching Oreg use magic as "beautiful" and "erotic". | |
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Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In Dragon Blood, Ward delivers an angry telling-off to the ancient god Aethervon for possessing Ciarra and tormenting Oreg in the previous book. | |
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Real Women Don't Wear Dresses | |
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Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Averted with Tisala. It is lampshaded, as Ward notices that despite her badassery, she knows how to wear a dress. | |
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Strong Family Resemblance | |
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Strong Family Resemblance: Apparently this is very marked in the Hurog family, with Ward, his siblings, his uncle, the bastard children of his father, and even Oreg looking very similar. Tisala also strongly resembles her father. | |
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Stranger Safety | |
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Stranger Safety: This trope is sometimes subverted (Ward's younger brother ran away from the man Ward sent him to live with, because he didn't trust Ward, and thought strangers to be the safer option. Ward is perfectly trustworthy.), but also played straight a number of times - which this is justified by the number of scheming nobles. Random strangers are more trustworthy if a large number of people wants you dead because of who you are. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Seleg reinstated Hurog's status as a refuge against slavery and a sanctuary for escaped slaves...and also captured a dragon and chained her under the keep, eventually killing her for power, and had the castle's magically-bound slave tortured for protesting it. | |
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Our Dragons Are Different | |
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Our Dragons Are Different: Hurog means "Dragon". It turns out the family has dragon blood — dragons can take human form. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
| Hurog / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Dragon Blood begins with a Torture Technician working his trade on Tisala and trying to educate his young grandson in what he's doing. The boy is disgusted and quickly leaves, to the disappointment of his grandfather (who is killed when Tisala escapes about a page later). | |
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Evil Tainted the Place | |
| Hurog / int_df1cea7e | comment |
Evil Tainted the Place: Castle Hurog is stained by the evil magic that turned the place into a Powered by a Forsaken Child building. This is implied to be the reason why an unusually high number of people don't survive their childhood there, turn mad, or have other things wrong with them. Ciarra, for example, was born mute, with no physical reason to be found. She gets better once the place is de-cursed and she goes to live somewhere else. | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
| Hurog / int_e21faf11 | comment |
Friend to All Living Things: Ward. According to Oreg, he has irrepressible need to help children, abused animals and slaves, with the plot of Dragon Bones set in the motion by his adamant resolution to help a slave. Ward's kind heart was actually one of the reason why his father abused him, as he considered his son weak. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Wary, abused Oreg is regularly and explicitly compared with Stygian (aka Pansy), Fenwick's skittish and ill-treated warhorse. | |
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Powered by a Forsaken Child | |
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Powered by a Forsaken Child: Castle Hurog is powered by Oreg, who was killed and transformed into the building's Genius Loci as a teenager many, many generations ago. Killing him destroys the castle. | |
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Lady Looks Like a Dude | |
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Tisala also strongly resembles her father. | |
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Dictionary Opening | |
| Hurog / int_ef6e5c9d | comment |
Dictionary Opening: Dragon Bones opens with the phrase "Hurog means dragon" under the chapter title, and the protagonist repeats the definition in an inner monologue on the second page. It foreshadows much of the plot. | |
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Court Mage | |
| Hurog / int_ef878d58 | comment |
Court Mage: Like the high king and many nobles, Ward's father kept one of those. Everyone else uses him (the mage) as a unit of magical incompetence. Oreg eventually serves as this to Ward at Hurog Keep. Jade Eyes is this to Jakoven in the second book, doubling as The Dragon. | |
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Reluctant Gift | |
| Hurog / int_f109b8e5 | comment |
Reluctant Gift: In Dragon Bones, Oreg gives a ring to Ward, that he prior to handing it over held in his fist, with his knuckles white, as though it was hard for him to part with it. Not surprising, as the ring gives Ward ownership of and absolute power over Oreg, who is magically compelled to do anything his owner tells him to. He has no choice, as the ring must go from Ward's father to Ward, Oreg can't keep it. Ward doesn't learn about all the implications until later. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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Undying Loyalty: It's noted in Dragon Blood that Oreg is just as devotedly loyal to Ward as he would be if the slavery curse were still in effect. Rosem also has this for Kellen. | |
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Tyrannicide | |
| Hurog / int_f2802897 | comment |
Tyrannicide: In Dragon Blood, high king Jakoven is an overall bad ruler, who also murders innocent people and rapes children. La Résistance has been planning his carefully timed demise for some time, and is only waiting for him to dig himself a bit deeper so that even more people will oppose him. After the revolutionaries get the Hidden Backup Prince out of prison, there is nothing that stands between the tyrant and a sharp blade anymore ... at least nothing that would hinder the heroes in any meaningful way. | |
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Twin Switch | |
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Twin Switch: Beckram and Erdrick on occasion, when Beckram has too many things to do at once. Turns very tragic when an attempt is made on Beckram's life for pursuing the queen. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
| Hurog / int_fb3576b2 | comment |
The Dog Bites Back: The warhorse Fenwick mistreated eventually causes his death, by bucking him off during a hunt. | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished | |
| Hurog / int_fe614133 | comment |
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. Tisala has a distinctively masculine face that is Covered with Scars from years of fighting. Ward also notes that she's not "slim-fragile" like most tall women, instead having a broad, "square build" that is lean and heavily-muscled, " ...stronger, I [Ward] dare say, than many men." | |
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Death Seeker | |
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Death Seeker: Oreg admits to being this during his servitude, antagonising his masters in the hopes that they would snap and kill him. It didn't work. | |
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