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Incarnations of Immortality

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Incarnations of Immortality	comment	Incarnations of Immortality is an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony. It tells the story of mortals who assume various immortal offices, becoming the Anthropomorphic Personification of varying concepts. The first five books deal with that person's life as they assume the office, as well as their first encounter with Satan, who attempts to use their lack of experience to his own advantage. The series was originally conceived as being only five books long, but by popular demand the author wrote three more. The sixth book tells the story of Satan, and offers a Perspective Flip on some of the events of the previous books. The seventh book deals with a recurring character trying to save her baby's soul, and in turn, becoming the Incarnation of good (God). The last book deals with how Nox, aka Night, assumed her Office and became heavily involved in Satan's Xanatos Gambit (explaining some plot from prior books along the way). By the end of the series, all of the Incarnations are related to one another somehow.The books and the incarnation featured in them are, in order: On a Pale Horse featuring Zane as Thanatos, the Incarnation of Death. Bearing an Hourglass featuring Norton as Chronos, the Incarnation of Time. With a Tangled Skein featuring Niobe as Clotho and Lachesis (at different times), aspects of the Incarnation of Fate. Wielding a Red Sword featuring Mym as Mars, the Incarnation of War. Being a Green Mother featuring Orb as Gaea, the Incarnation of Nature. For Love of Evil featuring Parry as Satan, the Incarnation of Evil. ...and Eternity featuring mysterious stuff about God, the Incarnation of Good. Under a Velvet Cloak, which is largely a prequel to the main series, featuring Kerena as Nox, the Incarnation of Night.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_10978c26	type	Runaway FiancÃ©
Incarnations of Immortality / int_10978c26	comment	Runaway FiancÃ©: Asian Clotho in With a Tangled Skein; she runs away from her strict family because she doesn't like the husband they have chosen for her.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_11af4e0e	type	Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle
Incarnations of Immortality / int_11af4e0e	comment	Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle: Presented as a Demon-Rapist-Girl Puzzle, with three women and three demons, and if the demons outnumber the women at any point they'll be raped.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_12c6bf73	type	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Incarnations of Immortality / int_12c6bf73	comment	Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Incarnation of War is accompanied by Famine, Conquest, Slaughter, and Pestilence. The Incarnation of Death, of course. The first book lampshades it with its title being a paraphrase of the Bible: Death rides On a Pale Horse.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_140e849	type	The Problem with Fighting Death
Incarnations of Immortality / int_140e849	comment	The Problem with Fighting Death: Well, sort of. If you kill Death you get his job — whether or not it was intentional or you want the burden. Although in that case you can just find someone more willing and let them kill you.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Incarnations of Immortality / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Lucifer sent Lilah to turn Parry, leader of the Dominicans and his deadliest foe, to evil. He succeeded...and Parry promptly overthrew him. Remember, Prince of Darkness, Evil Is Not a Toy.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Incarnations of Immortality / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: It turns out the malady in Gawain's family which eventually dooms Orlene's baby came about thanks to the original Gawain giving in to temptation with Kerena and thus failing to be pure enough to obtain the Holy Grail. Her conversion to vampirism while pregnant doesn't help their child much, either.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_1d1b3c81	type	Team Switzerland
Incarnations of Immortality / int_1d1b3c81	comment	Team Switzerland: Prior to Norton, Chronos was usually neutral between Satan and the other Incarnations, and he and Satan had a good working relationship.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Incarnations of Immortality / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Satan, particularly as characterized in the later books, is just doing a dirty but necessary job in tempting humans to sin and punishing the guilty. Most of his predecessors really were genuinely evil, leading to some really ugly office politics before Orlene becomes Goddess and patches things up.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
Incarnations of Immortality / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: In ...And Eternity, Orlene is transformed into a man and immediately becomes an aggressive, misogynistic, testosterone-charged boor, attempting to rape her friend Jolie. Upon having her female form restored, she and Jolie are horrified and conclude that "Men have passions that women do not", and that the reason all men are not constantly overwhelmed with violent lust is that "they have learned control". Possibly subverted, as both Orlene and Jolie were transformed into a specific man (the grown version of Orlene's child) to show what his genetic affliction would do to him. The purpose of this was ultimately to teach Orlene to show compassion even towards rapists, which is relevant to her future role.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Incarnations of Immortality / int_21f3aa44	comment	All the Incarnations, when "on the job," operate on a much larger scale than individual human lives. As a result, Fate is a grade-A bitch to anyone who has the misfortune of being caught in a tangled skein, while Thanatos, Mars and Gaea all dispassionately oversee such things as teenagers dying of enchanted heroin overdoses, mothers recruited as suicide bombers to feed their children, and ecological devastation without so much as blinking or intervening to save the people involved; Thanatos is a maverick because sometimes he will step in and save someone who was supposed to die, which isn't usually done because it makes more work for the other Incarnations. And Satan is doing his job as the Adversary to evoke the evil in humanity so that it can be dealt with properly.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Incarnations of Immortality / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In book two, when Norton has confronted Satan and undone his latest scheme to take over, and threatens to keep interfering until Satan gives in and fixes the timeline.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_2741a951	type	Merlin Sickness
Incarnations of Immortality / int_2741a951	comment	Merlin Sickness: Chronos lives backwards from the time of taking the Hourglass to his birth. Understandably, this gets pretty confusing for other characters. In one scene in For Love of Evil, Satan goes to visit Chronos for advice and finds that the new Chronos doesn't like him. When the new Chronos rails on Satan for his various atrocities, Satan has no clue what he's talking about. In With a Tangled Skein, Niobe, newly assuming the office of Clotho, meets Chronos for the first time, and he immediately kisses her. He is confused when she slaps him, but eventually it turns out that they have had a long-time Friends with Benefits affair. Later in the book, when Chronos is nearing the end (beginning from his perspective) of his time in office, he becomes far more awkward and unsure around her, to the point that she has to seduce him for the first time after having had a decades-long sexual relationship.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Incarnations of Immortality / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: Orlene getting temporarily turned into a man as described in I'm a Man; I Can't Help It below. There's also Nicolai turning into a woman when he becomes an aspect of Fate.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Incarnations of Immortality / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: In Being a Green Mother, For Love of Evil and ...And Eternity, Satan wins major victories. He wins Orb's love and marries her, but commits suicide through the wedding; he is freed and regains his position as Satan; he gets his chosen God elected.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
Incarnations of Immortality / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: Luna gets this. Her kidnappers strip her topless and then zap her bared nipples. It's made explicit that it's very painful.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Incarnations of Immortality / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Both Death and Satan get a bad rap, the former because he's The Grim Reaper, the latter because he was literally the most evil person alive when he got the job. Okay, that might not make him sound like a hero, but read his book and you'll get it.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_314c56b9	type	Time Stands Still
Incarnations of Immortality / int_314c56b9	comment	Time Stands Still: Any Incarnation can do this in some way, though ultimately the power derives from Chronos.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
Incarnations of Immortality / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Human Origin: All of the present Incarnations were originally human, including God.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Incarnations of Immortality / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Two cases: Gaea, the Incarnation of Nature, before Orb, because she doesn't really see the point in clothing. Lilah because she's a succubus.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_34a592b6	type	Unicorns Prefer Virgins
Incarnations of Immortality / int_34a592b6	comment	Unicorns Prefer Virgins: In For Love of Evil when Parry is about to marry Jolie, someone drives a unicorn into the bridal party, but Jolie is able to call and touch the unicorn, proving she is still a virgin (and stunning her father and the entire town).
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_351205d2	type	Friends with Benefits
Incarnations of Immortality / int_351205d2	comment	In With a Tangled Skein, Niobe, newly assuming the office of Clotho, meets Chronos for the first time, and he immediately kisses her. He is confused when she slaps him, but eventually it turns out that they have had a long-time Friends with Benefits affair. Later in the book, when Chronos is nearing the end (beginning from his perspective) of his time in office, he becomes far more awkward and unsure around her, to the point that she has to seduce him for the first time after having had a decades-long sexual relationship.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_3c9a1e4a	type	Purgatory and Limbo
Incarnations of Immortality / int_3c9a1e4a	comment	Purgatory and Limbo: Limbo is where the various Incarnations live when they aren't on Earth actively running the universe. Their "support staff", the people who serve and support the Incarnations in their jobs, are all dead people who weren't good enough to get into Heaven, nor evil enough to be sentenced to Hell.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_3e8d3ea5	type	Escaped from Hell
Incarnations of Immortality / int_3e8d3ea5	comment	Escaped from Hell: When Satan tricks Mym, the Incarnation of War, into Hell to keep him out of the way while he enacts his plans, Mym successfully leads a revolt.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_3e95582f	type	The Greatest Story Never Told
Incarnations of Immortality / int_3e95582f	comment	The Greatest Story Never Told: Satan prevents Hitler's rise to power, and only JHVH and himself remembers this. Orlene, Jolie, and Vita eventually learn about this.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Incarnations of Immortality / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: The first four books, and to a lesser extent the sixth, follow a rather linear path: We are introduced to the soon-to-be-incarnation, who because of some issue related to someone they are in love with, becomes an incarnation (often because they cannot be with the one they love). The new incarnation gets the run down of their office and the office's supporting cast. Meets the other Incarnations and Satan. Uncovers Satan's scheme, and narrowly averts it, usually by learning the full extent of their duty as an Incarnation, usually using it as a bluff or threat against Satan (Death threatens to kill Satan, War threatens to start the end of days before Satan can win, Fate threatens to cut the strands of fate of all of Satan's minions). Interestingly, the above plots even happen in the sixth book, where Satan is the protagonist. Instead of beating Satan, Satan needs to beat his successor to reclaim the office. The third book also mixes things up by having the whole thing happen twice - with Niobe first as Clotho then later when she returns as the middle aspect of fate, Lachesis. The fifth book is about Orb, but gives her very little time as Gaea, and Satan wins this round, though he has to die to do it.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Incarnations of Immortality / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: ...And Eternity has one of these, when Orlene asks Thanatos to give her the soul of an infant to repair the damage done to her baby's. He takes her to a dumpster where an abandoned baby is about to be crushed, and tells Orlene to take the infant's soul. She refuses and instead asks Thanatos to save the baby, even if it means failing her quest. Thanatos saves the infant, then explains that the test was to see whether Orlene would value a soul for its own sake, instead of as a means to an end, and agrees to get her a soul from an infant who couldn't be saved.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_3fe6a857	type	Public Domain Character
Incarnations of Immortality / int_3fe6a857	comment	Public Domain Character: Thanks to how long-lived Nox turns out to be (Kerena was from the Middle Ages), both Morgan le Fey and the original Gawain of the Round Table (ancestor of the one from Norton and Orlene's backstory) appear in the last novel.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_3ff34221	type	To Hell and Back
Incarnations of Immortality / int_3ff34221	comment	To Hell and Back: After Cedric sacrifices himself to save Niobe, Niobe travels to Purgatory in an attempt to make a deal with death and bring her husband back to life, even if it means she must die in his place. Sadly, Death is not convinced that her "but I love him!" argument outweighs the fact that Niobe's survival is crucial to the betterment of mankind. All the Incarnations visit Hell at some point in their careers. Usually it's a trap, sometimes it's just to negotiate.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Incarnations of Immortality / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Thanatos develops a bit of this by ...And Eternity. It's the nature of his job as Death; he starts referring to children's deaths in callous, technical terminology, like a surgeon who's been in the business for a while. It's still downplayed in his case, as he's the most compassionate of the Incarnations, and the most willing to use his position to save individual lives.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
Incarnations of Immortality / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: Niobe for her generation, her daughter Orb for her generation, and her granddaughter (via her son) Luna for her generation.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Incarnations of Immortality / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Zane as Thanatos is not bound by Honor Before Reason, and is happy to tell everyone else where to stick the rules of death, the afterlife, and the war between God and Satan. If he wants someone to live, that person lives, and nothing Satan, Fate or anyone else says can change that. He mellows out later and stops saving everyone he can, to avoid making too much work for Chronos and Lachesis, but even then he'll exercise his prerogative for good reason.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Incarnations of Immortality / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: An heiress in the beginning of the first book wears a "magic mink coat".
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Incarnations of Immortality / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: By the seventh book, it's clear that Satan and the other Incarnations are actually on the same side. The reason that Satan opposes the overthrow of God is essentially because he's been fighting the Incarnations for centuries and it would be unsporting to not at least try to oppose them, even if their success would give him a complete victory too.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
Incarnations of Immortality / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: In On a Pale Horse, it's stated that people generally go to an afterlife, but which afterlife depends to some extent on what they believe; one incidental character is a firm atheist who believes that cessation of existence is what happens to everybody when they die, and although he's wrong about the "everybody", it is indeed what happens to him.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Incarnations of Immortality / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: In For Love of Evil, Satan tries to meet up with the other Incarnations and make friends. With the exception of Chronos, they treat him utterly like crap, to the point of watching while Gaea has him raped by an ape.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_4ccd1c09	type	Gender-Restricted Ability
Incarnations of Immortality / int_4ccd1c09	comment	Gender-Restricted Ability: Subverted. Death, Time, War, Evil and Good have always been men, and Fate and Nature have always been women. It's not actually a rule. In ...And Eternity, Nicolai becomes Atropos, an aspect of Fate, and then Orlene becomes Goddess.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Incarnations of Immortality / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The Incarnations of good and evil gain power by how many people believe in them. When religions fade away, so do their respective Incarnations of good and evil. Certain spells work this way, as Satan (Parry) learns of the spell to destroy his own demonic minions; it works because the target believes it works. Thanatos' protective outfit has shades of this: it does protect him when worn properly, but Zane realizes that he doesn't need to wear (all of) it if he truly believes in the job he's doing. But if he were to get tired of the duty, and act as if the items aren't as effective....
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Incarnations of Immortality / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Part of Satan's desire to take power from God is because he discovered that this is the case in Hell: People are damned for relatively minor sins or sins that were justified under the circumstances. (For example, there's a guy in there whose only sin was stealing food so that his family would have enough to eat.) He wants to change this situation, but is unable to do so because changing the definitions of good and evil requires him and God to reach a mutual agreement, which is impossible because God isn't paying attention.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
Incarnations of Immortality / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: Zane in On a Pale Horse. Justified because of the logical paradox that is in play at the time: When he took the office of Death, his soul became temporarily balanced between good and evil. As such, if he were to die, Death would have to collect his soul...and he's Death. Since collecting his own soul is physically impossible, he can't die. Death in general has this. At the end of the book it's revealed that the cloak is more of a Magic Feather: Death can only die if he (at least subconsciously) desires to. As such, the only way for Death to die is if he wants it (Essentially it requires Death to kill Death). Except for Chronos (who exists primarily during a fixed period of time) and Mars (who dies if world peace ever breaks out), no Incarnation can be deposed if they don't want to retire. God can only be impeached because He's too self-absorbed to even notice the impeachment proceeding; if He were defending His turf, then deposing him would be impossible.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
Incarnations of Immortality / int_54321e11	comment	Gaea, the Incarnation of Nature, before Orb, because she doesn't really see the point in clothing.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_5769a98e	type	Heaven's Devils
Incarnations of Immortality / int_5769a98e	comment	Heaven's Devils: This is how it's supposed to work, but in practice the system has broken down and God and Satan are not working together. Supposedly, Satan is corrupting people and manipulating souls for the purpose of self-aggrandizement, while God is not minding the store, leaving the other Incarnations to fight against Satan's plots. In his own book, however, Satan is portrayed as a Punch-Clock Villain who has gotten tired of the system's breakdown, and is plotting a takeover so that he can update the system's definitions of Good and Evil, and stop souls who are supposed to go to Heaven from ending up in Hell. After the Incarnations defeat Satan's final plot, God is fired, Satan chooses God's replacement, and the system starts working again.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_57f23855	type	The Death of Death
Incarnations of Immortality / int_57f23855	comment	The Death of Death: Anthropomorphic Personifications like Death are revealed to be "Offices" that are filled by specific mortals. In On a Pale Horse, a suicidal man is so startled to see Death come for him that he puts a bullet through the Grim Reaper's head, only to learn that You Kill It, You Bought It. It's mentioned that Death's armor is completely invulnerable, but sooner or later everyone gets careless or bored enough to let themselves be killed.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_58e008c	type	Sharing a Body
Incarnations of Immortality / int_58e008c	comment	Sharing a Body: The three persons of Fate (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos) can manifest physically, but only one at a time. Being Fate requires some diplomacy to work out who will have the body at any given moment.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_5a89975a	type	Breast Attack
Incarnations of Immortality / int_5a89975a	comment	Breast Attack: Luna is tortured by Satan's minions giving her electric shocks right against her breasts.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Incarnations of Immortality / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Satan in the last book is this to Orlene. He tries to tempt her to do evil because that's his job, but otherwise he does his best to help her with her quest, and neither side holds grudges.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
Incarnations of Immortality / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: When Zane calls Fate out for wrecking his life in On a Pale Horse to force him into the job of Incarnation of Death, and asks her what right she has to meddle with his life, she calmly puts him down. He doesn't take this very well, but in later books he's become more-or-less used to working as an Incarnation, though he remains one of the most compassionate of the bunch. All the Incarnations, when "on the job," operate on a much larger scale than individual human lives. As a result, Fate is a grade-A bitch to anyone who has the misfortune of being caught in a tangled skein, while Thanatos, Mars and Gaea all dispassionately oversee such things as teenagers dying of enchanted heroin overdoses, mothers recruited as suicide bombers to feed their children, and ecological devastation without so much as blinking or intervening to save the people involved; Thanatos is a maverick because sometimes he will step in and save someone who was supposed to die, which isn't usually done because it makes more work for the other Incarnations. And Satan is doing his job as the Adversary to evoke the evil in humanity so that it can be dealt with properly.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
Incarnations of Immortality / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: The office of Death is transferred this way. This is also one of the ways the office of Evil can be transferred.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_5e6ee70e	type	Takes One to Kill One
Incarnations of Immortality / int_5e6ee70e	comment	Takes One to Kill One: A convoluted version of this, but the Incarnation of Death can only die by consenting to their death, since Death is supreme in its own domain as Zane realizes at the climax of the first book. As the Incarnation of Death is guaranteed passage in heaven upon its death if his performance rating is good, an Incarnation of Death can subconsciously "consent" to Death if he's weary of his office. Zane's predecessor subconsciously consented to his Death when he got shot by Zane, as he was not wearing his cloak of protection properly.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_6040801a	type	Self-Inflicted Hell
Incarnations of Immortality / int_6040801a	comment	Self-Inflicted Hell: A person's faith determines what afterlife it gets. Atheist souls disintegrate upon death. It is this system that Satan is opposing through the sixth and seventh books.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_609eb275	type	Satan Is Good
Incarnations of Immortality / int_609eb275	comment	Satan Is Good: The sixth book's entire premise. (Sort of.)
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Incarnations of Immortality / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Zane is a compassionate Death, saves many people who were meant to die, and takes a holiday at one point to fight a scheme of Satan's. These traits don't stop him from doing his job very effectively indeed, and in fact Zane's compassion is why Fate chose him to become Death in the first place, because it meant that he wouldn't put up with Satan's gamesmanship.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
Incarnations of Immortality / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: A couple of characters are married by arrangement, sometimes Because Destiny Says So; though initially unhappy, they eventually find happiness with their new spouses. On his deathbed, the Magician throws his daughter Luna at Zane and tells them both that they're going to get married. Luna accepts this as her duty, while Zane is horrified by the thought. They fall in love later. Niobe's parents married her to Cedric Kaftan. She protested at first, but then after living together for a while, and seeing what a good man he was, realized that she had fallen in love with him. (Also, she got to see that he was a hunk and a badass.)
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Incarnations of Immortality / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Atropos cuts her own life short to save her granddaughter from her abusive husband and put the bastard away for good.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_651cd39e	type	Cloak of Defense
Incarnations of Immortality / int_651cd39e	comment	Cloak of Defense: The Grim Reaper's cloak and mask render the wearer completely invulnerable. It is later revealed to be partly a Magic Feather — whoever holds the office of Death is immortal when they want to be, but they can also loan out the cloak.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Incarnations of Immortality / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Piers Anthony has been vocal in the past about his belief that pedophilia isn't really as bad as it's made out to be. This is showcased in ...And Eternity when Vita, a fifteen-year-old prostitute, falls in love with a judge in his fifties and they end up in a sexual relationship. It also appears in the description of the tanana in Being A Green Mother, with girls as young as six performing it and Orlene musing that she can understand why many Gypsy girls are sexually active before puberty even sets in.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_6678a036	type	Forgot I Could Change the Rules
Incarnations of Immortality / int_6678a036	comment	Forgot I Could Change the Rules: Played with. In the first novel, it isn't so much that Death forgot that he could change the rules; it's that he didn't know that he could (in fact, he didn't even know half of them), causing infant souls born under questionable circumstances to go to Purgatory and later triggering an end to all death worldwide because he refused to take one soul. At the end of the book, he realizes that it's his prerogative to do what he damn well pleases as the Incarnation of Death, and that all of Satan's rulesmongering didn't mean a damn thing. He also changes the rules regarding infant souls, sending one to heaven instead of Purgatory in the end. The last is retconned in later books, as Death is acting outside of his authority.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_6bab4b2e	type	Like a Duck Takes to Water
Incarnations of Immortality / int_6bab4b2e	comment	Like a Duck Takes to Water: The inexperienced Nicolai is better at reading a messy tangled skein than the vastly-more-experienced Lachesis or Atropos. On his field test, he neatly unravels one of Satan's plots with only six deaths, while the existing Fates all miss the trick and their solution involves over twenty.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_6c51e9e1	type	Fisher King
Incarnations of Immortality / int_6c51e9e1	comment	Fisher King: Gaea's feelings affect the planet. It rains when she cries, and her anger can cause earthquakes.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_705f57d0	type	Demon Lords and Archdevils
Incarnations of Immortality / int_705f57d0	comment	Demon Lords and Archdevils: Subverted. Hell initially appears to be set up this way, with Satan at the top of a hierarchy of other archdevils and demon lords who manage the infernal bureaucracy and sometimes perform tasks in the mortal realm at Satan's orders. In a twist, however, none of the named denizens of hell except Lilith are actual demons or devils (while there are many true demons in Hell, almost all of them are unnamed mooks). Satan is the throne name of a living human holding the office of the Incarnation of Evil, and most of his key underlings such as Lucifer, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, and Mephistopheles are also former officeholders. While they still retain certain powers such as Beelzebub's control over insects, they are merely damned souls whose mortal lives ended once they were overthrown, and they effectively only have as much political power in Hell as Satan allows them to have.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Incarnations of Immortality / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: Subverted, as it's only a costume Thanatos wears.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Incarnations of Immortality / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: When Orb sings the "Song of Chaos" despite being warned not to.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_735b3587	type	Naked First Impression
Incarnations of Immortality / int_735b3587	comment	Naked First Impression: Zane meets Luna when she is teleported out of the shower.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Incarnations of Immortality / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Pretty much Satan in a nutshell. In his mortal life he was Parry, an honest and honorable priest who sought to punish the truly wicked while saving the souls of creatures and men who were technically evil but were not truly evil in their souls. Now he is Satan, the Incarnation of Evil, but his goal remains the same. His reason for the war against God is that the system for determining whether a person goes to Heaven or Hell is flawed, and he gets too many good people. He makes a deal with the Archangel Gabriel to keep the war from harming mortals. He is friends with JHVH, the previous Incarnation of Good.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
Incarnations of Immortality / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason Satan helps out JHVH by taking down Adolf Hitler, in order to end the persecution of Jews in World War II; it repays a favor from near the beginning of Satan's term.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_76cde6e	type	Better the Devil You Know
Incarnations of Immortality / int_76cde6e	comment	Better the Devil You Know: Literally. After Parry abdicates his position as Satan, the vacant office automatically goes to the (current) most evil man in the world: a serial murderer, rapist, and pedophile. The other Incarnations agree that they vastly preferred Parry to his replacement.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
Incarnations of Immortality / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: While some of the incarnations (like War and Evil) pass to a particular mortal with the right characteristics (being the most violent man, being the most evil man), and Death is a You Kill It, You Bought It situation, others can choose their successors, such as Norton being chosen by Chronos in the second book.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Incarnations of Immortality / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Orlene is the bastard daughter of Mym and Orb, but she is a woman of unimpeachable goodness. This becomes a major plot point in ...And Eternity, as she comes to represent everything that's wrong with the setting's existing definitions of morality.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_7c58fe32	type	Louis Cypher
Incarnations of Immortality / int_7c58fe32	comment	Louis Cypher: Natasha — Ah Satan, Backwards
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_7dad519f	type	Sex Is Evil
Incarnations of Immortality / int_7dad519f	comment	Sex Is Evil: Sex outside of marriage is evil, according to the rules God set down. Most of the other characters consider this particular bit of moralism stupid, but God isn't listening.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_7e851477	type	Balancing Death's Books
Incarnations of Immortality / int_7e851477	comment	Balancing Death's Books: In this case, it's "balancing Fate's books." When someone lives who isn't supposed to, it means Fate has to rearrange the skein to account for their being alive. Atropos substitutes her own death for her daughter's, allowing everything to work smoothly despite her granddaughter's survival.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Incarnations of Immortality / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Satan's retaliation against Gaea turns out to be hitting Europe with the Black Death after she retires and is replaced with an inexperienced successor, which ends up nuking most of Europe and teaching Satan a lesson in uncontrolled revenge.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Incarnations of Immortality / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Atroposnote the one with the longest on-page tenure is an old Black woman with no time for foolishness and empowered to cut the threads of fate. She can threaten a teenager into a better life or murder Satan's chosen agents with a smile on her face, and sacrifices herself without hesitation to save her granddaughter.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_869c1b40	type	Now It's My Turn
Incarnations of Immortality / int_869c1b40	comment	Now It's My Turn: When Cedric confronts four drunk college students who were attempting to rape Niobe, he deliberately allows them to strike him first, which has no effect. He then grins and says, "Now you have had the first blow, I'll have the last," and proceeds to lay out all four of them in seconds. This turns out to be deliberate, as his professor is able to use water magic to "replay" the scene, disproving the drunks' accusations that Cedric attacked them for no reason.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_8738b454	type	Signs of the End Times
Incarnations of Immortality / int_8738b454	comment	Signs of the End Times: Plague, earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions are all the result of singing the Llano of Chaos, which ends all living things within weeks of it being sung. Although one could argue that these are less signs of the end and more the cause.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Incarnations of Immortality / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Satan advertises hell openly as a "Cool" place to hangout to entice mortals to sin and doom themselves. We find out that this is Satan's means of weeding out those who are latently evil, so as to properly classify them under the headings of "Good", "Evil", or "Neutral".
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Incarnations of Immortality / int_890d4ef2	comment	* Humiliation Conga: Zane is subjected to this at the beginning of On A Pale Horse, which convinces him to commit suicide.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
Incarnations of Immortality / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With An S: The succubus "Lilah" goes by slightly different names at different points in the series, changing it depending on the persona she is assuming at the time.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_8a1cd5de	type	Historical Person Punchline
Incarnations of Immortality / int_8a1cd5de	comment	Historical Person Punchline: Or literary person, depending on viewpoint—Lila(h) turns out to be the Lilith of the Bible, while Erebus is revealed to be Cain.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Incarnations of Immortality / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Mostly. Oddly enough, children can be "tainted" by their circumstances, in which case they are not evil but are still treated as such by the system.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_93a38c9b	type	Magic Feather
Incarnations of Immortality / int_93a38c9b	comment	Magic Feather: All the Incarnations' implements function more or less like this. They're symbolic of the Incarnations' power, but mostly act as tools of visualization and control; Death doesn't need his cloak for invulnerability, and Gaea and Satan use their music as an easy focus for their techniques. The only apparent exceptions are the skeins of fate, and possibly the Hourglass of time.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Incarnations of Immortality / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Satan in Wielding a Red Sword when Mars threatens to start World War III and the Apocalypse early. Satan may have been faking, though.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_959cb9aa	type	One Degree of Separation
Incarnations of Immortality / int_959cb9aa	comment	One Degree of Separation: Everyone's related! Justified by the Gambit Pileup revealed in the later books.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Incarnations of Immortality / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Under a Velvet Cloak reveals that the Incarnation of Darkness, Erebus, has been working on destroying all of reality for eons, out of a combination of Revenge, It Amused Me, and megalomania. The fact he is also Cain doesn't help either.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_9821d339	type	A Chat with Satan
Incarnations of Immortality / int_9821d339	comment	A Chat with Satan: All of the protagonists have conversations with Satan, most quite casual.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_99213234	type	Death Takes a Holiday
Incarnations of Immortality / int_99213234	comment	The resolution of On a Pale Horse hinges on an aversion. The climactic storyline was about Death being forced to take a holiday to spare a single soul, but it turns out that Thanatos can choose to spare lives or let them end as he pleases, and even God and Satan can't stop him from doing so. It's probably no surprise that he develops into the Bunny-Ears Lawyer of the Incarnations.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Incarnations of Immortality / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Most of the Incarnations play this trope straight (oddly, even Evil), but Zane takes the cake because that's why he was manipulated into becoming Death, as the sorcerer in question wanted a man in the office who had compassion for those he collected.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Incarnations of Immortality / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Lilah was the serpent that caused Adam and Eve to fall from grace.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_9c209a57	type	The Hecate Sisters
Incarnations of Immortality / int_9c209a57	comment	The Hecate Sisters: Fate; three people sharing one body, with different roles for each one.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_9d0cfdb9	type	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
Incarnations of Immortality / int_9d0cfdb9	comment	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Judge Scott, with Vita and Orlene in ...And Eternity.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Incarnations of Immortality / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Wielding A Red Sword, Chronos sees that somebody gained the ability to freeze time from advice he got in a dream with assistance from Satan. He references the fact this isn't the first time he's seen that happen. Since Chronos's tenure in office starts in the future and works his way back, he knows that in Being A Green Mother, Satan uses dreams to trick Orb into falling in love with him.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_a0b0840c	type	More Expendable Than You
Incarnations of Immortality / int_a0b0840c	comment	More Expendable Than You: When Cedric discovers a plot to kill Niobe, he decides to make the Heroic Sacrifice by taking her place without telling her.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_a0f3c6a0	type	Succubi and Incubi
Incarnations of Immortality / int_a0f3c6a0	comment	Lilah because she's a succubus.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Incarnations of Immortality / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: In Wielding a Red Sword, Mym says that the closest equivalent to Satan in Hindu terms would be Shiva. In actuality, while Shiva is "the Destroyer", he is also a beloved and heroic deity revered by all Hindus. He's the destroyer of evil, the guy who kills demons, and thus could hardly be more opposite to the traditionally-held image of Satan (as to Satan himself in this series...it's complicated).
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_a59e28a9	type	Overpopulation Crisis
Incarnations of Immortality / int_a59e28a9	comment	Overpopulation Crisis: In ...And Eternity, Gaea's assignment for the protagonists is to study a girl who's about to become pregnant, relate that to the looming population crisis facing the Earth, and come up with solutions.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Incarnations of Immortality / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: At the beginning of On a Pale Horse, Zane goes into a shop where an extremely dishonest shopkeeper sells magic stones. Zane was fated to win the love of an incredibly beautiful and rich woman, but the shopkeeper tricks him into trading this destiny for a magical stone whose powers are all but useless. The shopkeeper gets to marry this beautiful, rich, and loving wife, while Zane is so distressed by losing this chance at happiness that he is Driven to Suicide. We never see this shopkeeper again, so his story ends with him Riding into the Sunset with the woman whose love he stole from Zane.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Incarnations of Immortality / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Gender-inverted. As Fate is traditionally female, Nicolai adopts a female identity when he becomes Atropos.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Incarnations of Immortality / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Many minor details about the world are changed because of the existence of magic and divinities. Iraq and Iran are called Babylonia and Persia (but still have a war), India is a collection of unrelated sultanates, Islam is not mentioned (though Allah and Mohammed do receive very brief references in For Love of Evil), and "pigskin" (football) uses magic as part of the game, is measured in feet instead of yards, and is an all-female game. Also, some historical events are changed in-series, up to and including Satan manipulating Chronos into preventing World War II and the Holocaust.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_a8d6bd1f	type	Reality-Breaking Paradox
Incarnations of Immortality / int_a8d6bd1f	comment	At one point, Fate mentions that she cannot physically intervene when meddling in a tangled skein, because that leads to unmanageable snarls. If physical intervention (as opposed to simply cutting and pulling threads) is necessary, she needs to use agents to do it.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Incarnations of Immortality / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The moral axis of the universe is dominated by a form of Christian morality laid down in the first century. Sex Is Largely Evil, bastards are born halfway-damned already by Original Sin, and suicide is seen as a grave sin instead of a psychological problem. The crux of Satan's plan is to get a new God who is as evil as possible by the old standards and has suffered terribly from them, while actually being of unimpeachably good moral character, because that's exactly the kind of woman who can help fix the world's moral mess. An issue between Clotho and Samurai is that they're both Japanese, but have very different definitions of what that means; Clotho comes from the Westernized modern Japan, while Samurai identifies with the medieval Japanese ways.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_abb78742	type	12 Coins Puzzle
Incarnations of Immortality / int_abb78742	comment	12 Coins Puzzle: In With a Tangled Skein, The Heroine has to solve this puzzle to find a certain soul disguised as a demon, out of the 12 demons. She only knows that, so initially does not realize how weight plays a factor. After some internal panic, she remembers that sin weighs souls, so a good soul will be lighter to drift to heaven. It doesn't work due to Satan, but things resolve regardless.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Incarnations of Immortality / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Every Incarnation has supreme authority in his own domain and possesses one ability that the other Incarnations cannot block (e.g. if Time stops time, it stays stopped; if Death refuses to take souls, no one dies). Incarnations also cannot directly harm each other. This forces a certain level of cooperation and diplomacy... or at least, it's supposed to.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Incarnations of Immortality / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Three out of the seven books have a "[Verb] [a/an] [Noun]" pattern for their titles: On a Pale Horse Bearing an Hourglass With a Tangled Skein Wielding a Red Sword Being a Green Mother For Love of Evil Under a Velvet Cloak
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Incarnations of Immortality / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: A ghost is installed in the position of Incarnation of Good, as there's no actual rule specifying it can't be done. The rule only limits eligibility to those who remain in the mortal realm, which includes the ghosts.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Incarnations of Immortality / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Satan in the first four books appeared to be pure, irredeemable evil. In the fifth book, he gets cast more sympathetically, and after that he's a Necessarily Evil Punch Clock Anti-Villain. Re-reading the series later thus has some interesting effects, particularly in how the later characterization makes scenes common to all the books look when the reader sees them again from the Incarnations' perspectives. Similarly, the succubus "Lila" sent to seduce Mars in book 4 turns out to be much more than a low-ranking succubi: she was "Lilah", the same succubus that turned Parry to evil, and was also the "Lilith" of folklore who rejected Adam because he refused to acknowledge her as an equal. Also, at the end of the original book, Death changes the rules for infant souls born in bad situations to send them to Heaven. Later books establish that that is not within his competence.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_b2e3bb4d	type	Historical Rap Sheet
Incarnations of Immortality / int_b2e3bb4d	comment	Historical Rap Sheet: Satan engineered the Black Plague by tricking Gaea. He later regretted how far it went, and the experience taught him his responsibility as the Incarnation of Evil. Inverted later as he tricks Chronos into averting the Holocaust and World War II as a favor to JHVH though this costs him his friendship with subsequent Incarnations of Time who till then were the only ones friendly to him.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_b2f7c60a	type	Living Motion Detector
Incarnations of Immortality / int_b2f7c60a	comment	Living Motion Detector: Zane fights a demon like this in the first book.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
Incarnations of Immortality / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Chronos is the only Incarnation with a fixed lifespan, that being the duration of his mortal life. This throws a bit of a wrench into both the title and concept of the series - the incarnations are supposed to be immortal so that they can focus on their jobs, but Chronos is clearly NOT immortal, and in fact knows exactly when he is going to die - the day of his birth (this is really brought home when an 8-year-old accidentally becomes the office holder in one of the books).
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_bba82718	type	Asmodeus
Incarnations of Immortality / int_bba82718	comment	Asmodeus: Asmodeus first appears in the sixth book as a former Incarnation of Evil who now works for Lucifer, the current officeholder, managing the day-to-day operations of Hell. Becomes a minor antagonist when Satan takes the office away from Lucifer, since he initially remains loyal to the old regime.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_bbdf5f31	type	Everyone Is Related
Incarnations of Immortality / int_bbdf5f31	comment	Everyone Is Related: By the ending, every Incarnation is either a member of the Kaftan family by birth, by marriage, or by fathering a bastard on a family member.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Incarnations of Immortality / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Zane, while not exactly ugly, is average at best, while Luna is one of the most beautiful women of her generation. Zane was also destined to marry a comparably beautiful and rich woman before a shady salesman tricked him into giving up this destiny.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_bfaff026	type	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy
Incarnations of Immortality / int_bfaff026	comment	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: The martial arts master Samurai in With a Tangled Skein.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
Incarnations of Immortality / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Zane is interrupted by Thanatos and kills him, claiming the office. Also the Asian Clotho in With a Tangled Skein; she is preparing to commit suicide when the Fates swoop in and make her Clotho.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
Incarnations of Immortality / int_c2afffe	comment	After Cedric sacrifices himself to save Niobe, Niobe travels to Purgatory in an attempt to make a deal with death and bring her husband back to life, even if it means she must die in his place. Sadly, Death is not convinced that her "but I love him!" argument outweighs the fact that Niobe's survival is crucial to the betterment of mankind.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Incarnations of Immortality / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: By the end, things end up arranged so that Satan gets what he wanted regardless of whether Good or Evil ends up in charge of the world. If Good wins, God gets replaced by someone who is going to do the job properly. If Evil wins, Satan gets to take over. Either way, Hell stops getting souls who don't deserve to be there. Under a Velvet Cloak reveals that the entire series was one for Nox, who was working to stop Erebus from destroying all of reality.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Incarnations of Immortality / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: At the beginning of the series, Zane (Thanatos) is informed that the Incarnations have to be immortal so that they can focus on their jobs. However, of the 5 standard ones, this only counts for two of them (Fate and Nature - and it's unlikely to be a coincidence that they are the female Incarnations). Death can be killed by a client, War moves on to the afterlife if all War ceases, and Time is the worst of all - he specifically has only his regular lifespan that he has lived so far to live out in reverse before he fades and is replaced, so he is most definitely not immortalnote Death is only killed by a successor when he is sloppy enough to leave himself open, and war is such an omnipresent part of human existence that it's total cessation is rare enough that the officeholder likely doesn't concern himself with it much. The aspects of Fate, on the other hand, stay in office as long as they like, and decide when the time is right for them to leave. Nature can feel when someone is becoming strong enough to take over, and chooses to allow the next office holder to claim the office, effectively stepping to the side.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Incarnations of Immortality / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: Satan falls in love and, to prove it's real, kills himself and goes to hell. The other Incarnations are quickly horrified to learn that he was actually a good guy and his replacement is an absolute abomination of a human being.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Incarnations of Immortality / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: The Llano, a song that can do strange things. Nature and Satan use it. Earlier, Orb learns the tanana, which is an erotic Gypsy dance with surprising efficacy on nonhuman entities (although this is more likely the result of Orb's nascent powers), and uses it on her quest to find the Llano. Cedric Kaftan and his cousin Pacian (Orb's father) both have an inherited brand of magic that causes invisible orchestras to spring up with sparkly backing tracks whenever they sing. Niobe instantly falls in love with each of them in turn after hearing their singing.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Incarnations of Immortality / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: With a very few exceptions, none of the Incarnations other than the specific protagonists of each novel are ever named. Despite getting a fair amount of screentime, Orb's bandmates in Being a Green Mother are only ever referred to as "the guitarist", "the drummer", etc.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_cb4c72d8	type	Rerouted from Heaven
Incarnations of Immortality / int_cb4c72d8	comment	Rerouted from Heaven: The system for processing souls is rather messed up, due to God slacking off. Zane, the new Death, is unsatisfied with babies going to Purgatory, and manages to get the system adjusted to send them to Heaven instead...only to learn that he's acting way outside of his authority. Later on, when Parry takes over running hell in For Love Of Evil, he realizes a large portion of souls arriving there don't deserve it, and tries to show them A Hell of a Time instead. Eventually he instigates a plan to get God replaced.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_cdc4a218	type	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
Incarnations of Immortality / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Averted. To repay a debt to the Jewish God JHVH, Satan convinces Chronos through Reverse Psychology to prevent Hitler's rise to power. While there is still a war that Germany starts, it is as the restored Holy Roman Empire, and the Holocaust never happens.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_d19dc823	type	The Gods Must Be Lazy
Incarnations of Immortality / int_d19dc823	comment	The Gods Must Be Lazy: Or in God's case, zonked out on his own Divine Presence.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Incarnations of Immortality / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Happens to Satan in book 3 by the Fates. By his own admission, even the Master of Lies can be fooled.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Incarnations of Immortality / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Zane rips the Fates a new one when their lack of knowledge about the threads causes them to trim the wrong end of the threads and he has to collect an entire ward of newborns at a hospital.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_d3da7dd6	type	Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Incarnations of Immortality / int_d3da7dd6	comment	Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: In On a Pale Horse, Death decides to read his mail against the advice of his household staff, and one of the letters is from a girl who is afraid that she'll die in her sleep because her mother makes her recite this prayer before going to bed.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Incarnations of Immortality / int_d62dd556	comment	Lachesis is one of the premier Chessmasters on the side of Good. She's responsible for wrecking Zane's life to the point where he contemplates suicide, because she needs him on the front line against Satan.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_d64c3cd4	type	Living MacGuffin
Incarnations of Immortality / int_d64c3cd4	comment	Living MacGuffin: Luna. Niobe to a lesser extent, before she stops being a chess piece and starts playing.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
Incarnations of Immortality / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems: After falling in love with Orb, Satan kills himself, thereby abdicating the Office of Evil. It doesn't stick, because everyone prefers Satan to his replacement and the Incarnations fish him out of his cell.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
Incarnations of Immortality / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: The ability to push this (albeit only under the most dire and necessary of circumstances, since it would tangle the threads of Fate) is one of Chronos's main and most useful powers. One of its most notable uses is in Being a Green Mother when, after she agrees to marry Satan, Orb's use of the Llano to bring about The End of the World as We Know It is undone this way.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Incarnations of Immortality / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Satan wins Orb's love and her hand in marriage, but to do so, he has to burn his own life out and damn himself to Hell. His death is temporary, though.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Incarnations of Immortality / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The great deal of time in ...and Eternity spent on developing Judge Roque Scott, his backstory, and his relationships with the other characters (especially the Incarnations) sets the reader up to think he will be the new God; this was in fact Orb's intention when she set Jolie to watching Vita (whom Fate knew would encounter him), and it's what all the other Incarnations think too, and even vote for. Even Satan is willing to elect him due to his sinful nature. But he turns them down flat—mostly to be with Vita, but also because he is too afraid of screwing up the cosmos as God. Orlene is elected instead. Aided by the built-in gender expectations for God (despite God not explicitly having a gender in the Bible, the male pronouns are still used, after all), although having Nicolai become an Aspect of Fate should have been a big clue for other possible subversions.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Incarnations of Immortality / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Quite a few. Most notably Orlene, who serves only to set up Norton into becoming Chronos by dying, then becomes the main character of ...And Eternity. Nicolai appears in Being a Green Mother as someone Orb meets during her travels (and is left to find a rich adoptive family for Orlene), but in ...And Eternity he becomes an aspect of Fate.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_de15a322	type	Tangled Family Tree
Incarnations of Immortality / int_de15a322	comment	Tangled Family Tree: A mild one as things go, but the Kaftan family still has to deal with time travel, prophecies, and temporary agelessness, leading to Niobe's daughter and first granddaughter being born about the same time, and Niobe herself screwing her second granddaughter's affair from the future. Come to think of it, we should be very grateful that Incarnations can't reproduce while in office.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Incarnations of Immortality / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Satan, various Fates, Norton as Chronos, Nox, and the Archangel Gabriel have all set up Xanatos Gambits and Roulettes, some hundreds of years long, to manipulate each other, the other Incarnations, and any mortal who might be useful in the final conflict, until everything finally comes crashing together in ...And Eternity. Subverted in the end, everyone won. And I mean everyone. Except Erebus.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_e3fcfa4a	type	I Hate You, Vampire Dad
Incarnations of Immortality / int_e3fcfa4a	comment	I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Plays a major role in the events of Under a Velvet Cloak, which leads to all the Incarnations being affected in some way.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_e404c1ba	type	Go Seduce My Archnemesis
Incarnations of Immortality / int_e404c1ba	comment	Go Seduce My Archnemesis: In addition to Lucifer's attempt in book 6, described above, in book 4, Satan tries sending Lilah to seduce and corrupt the new Mars. Once again, it ends up backfiring.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_e54362ef	type	Hunk
Incarnations of Immortality / int_e54362ef	comment	Niobe's parents married her to Cedric Kaftan. She protested at first, but then after living together for a while, and seeing what a good man he was, realized that she had fallen in love with him. (Also, she got to see that he was a hunk and a badass.)
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_e8491efa	type	Don't Fear the Reaper
Incarnations of Immortality / int_e8491efa	comment	Don't Fear the Reaper: Zane is unique among Incarnations of Death in that he has compassion and does his best to help people in his job, and hang the rules. Later on, he learns to work with the other Incarnations and stops saving everyone he can, but he still can chat with a dying person if it'll ease their pain. This trait is why Fate manipulated him into becoming Death.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_ea0f58c0	type	God's Hands Are Tied
Incarnations of Immortality / int_ea0f58c0	comment	God's Hands Are Tied: The fact that Satan's agents frequently interfere in the mortal world, while God apparently does nothing, is initially attributed to God and the Devil having made an agreement to leave the mortal world alone, which the Devil of course immediately broke but God still keeps. (This eventually turns out not to be true, but it's initially portrayed as a straight example of the trope.) At one point, Fate mentions that she cannot physically intervene when meddling in a tangled skein, because that leads to unmanageable snarls. If physical intervention (as opposed to simply cutting and pulling threads) is necessary, she needs to use agents to do it. An Incarnation cannot directly oppose another Incarnation within the latter's sphere without their consent. For example, Chronos cannot rewind time unless all Incarnations have agreed (including Satan, who can be awfully sticky about it), because otherwise he's stepping on everyone else's past actions. Satan does do this, but even then, the Incarnation in question has usually given their implied consent (for a very loose definition of "consent") or doesn't know the rules. The resolution of On a Pale Horse hinges on an aversion. The climactic storyline was about Death being forced to take a holiday to spare a single soul, but it turns out that Thanatos can choose to spare lives or let them end as he pleases, and even God and Satan can't stop him from doing so. It's probably no surprise that he develops into the Bunny-Ears Lawyer of the Incarnations.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
Incarnations of Immortality / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: Asian Clotho in With a Tangled Skein; she only falls in love with Samurai after he defeats her in combat and shows her her place. That being said, she was using the Sword of War in the fight, and was therefore literally incapable of losing. She forfeited the match so that Samurai wouldn't be humiliated in front of his students.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_ebe4eb97	type	Cue the Flying Pigs
Incarnations of Immortality / int_ebe4eb97	comment	Cue the Flying Pigs: Orlene, when inside the body of one of the flying saucer hostages, has to tell the terrorists that the captain refuses to surrender control to them. The person she's possessing is too frightened to do so, so Orlene does it for her with the rather ballsy, "when God kisses Satan and the Incarnations applaud, maybe then". And then it happens at the end, once she is made God(dess) and kisses Parry in thanks for him making it all possible.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_ec57843	type	Time Loop Trap
Incarnations of Immortality / int_ec57843	comment	Time Loop Trap: One of Hell's key punishment forms, shown in ...And Eternity. The sinner is condemned to experience the consequences of their sins, one sin at a time, until each is repented.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_ee29a942	type	Supernaturally Young Parent
Incarnations of Immortality / int_ee29a942	comment	Supernaturally Young Parent: Niobe doesn't age during her stint as Clotho, with the result that when she attends her son's wedding she looks younger than him.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_eece5183	type	Have You Seen My God?
Incarnations of Immortality / int_eece5183	comment	Have You Seen My God?: The Christian God, who is the current Incarnation of Good, is inattentive because He is contemplating His own goodness to the exclusion of all else. In ...and Eternity, He is impeached and replaced by a new God. And, he doesn't realize this because he is still into himself too much.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Incarnations of Immortality / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Jolie is this to Parry (and later becomes his Morality Pet). Orlene was also this to Norton.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Incarnations of Immortality / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: Because Orlene is a ghost when she assumes the Office of Good, Vita points out that this makes her a Holy Ghost.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_f566c6dc	type	Why Isn't It Attacking?
Incarnations of Immortality / int_f566c6dc	comment	Why Isn't It Attacking?: Zane wonders this about a monster Satan sent after him in On A Pale Horse. He eventually works out that the monster isn't attacking him because it would create an impossible situation: Zane's soul is perfectly in balance until the end of his trial period in office. If the monster attacked and killed him, then Death would have to come and collect his soul...except Zane is Death. Since it's not possible for him to collect his own soul, the monster can't kill him.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Incarnations of Immortality / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: When Nicolai is chosen to become Atropos, he decides to "pass away in his sleep" instead of explaining his new circumstances to his clan. Since he's an old man, they were already expecting him to go soon.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Incarnations of Immortality / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Orlene, when inside the body of one of the flying saucer hostages, has to tell the terrorists that the captain refuses to surrender control to them. The person she's possessing is too frightened to do so, so Orlene does it for her with the rather ballsy, "when God kisses Satan and the Incarnations applaud, maybe then". And then it happens at the end, once she is made God(dess) and kisses Parry in thanks for him making it all possible.
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Incarnations of Immortality / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Incarnations of Immortality / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The depiction of Morgan le Fey in Under a Velvet Cloak is neither outright evil (as her usual depiction) nor a poor misunderstood woman manipulated by others and unfairly condemned for her magical nature and adherence to pagan ways (as she is often reimagined as in modern works), instead being a cunning, sophisticated manipulator who works to get what she wants by often underhanded and dark ways but who also possesses emotional depth and well-roundedness and inspires some sympathy—in other words, much closer to her more complex (and conflicting) portrayals throughout Arthurian canon.
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Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Sympathetic P.O.V. / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Sympathy for the Devil / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	The Black Death / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	The Death of Death / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	The Gods Must Be Lazy / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	The Omnipotent / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Theme Table / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Time and Relative Dimensions in Space / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Time Loop Trap / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Time Master / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	To Hell and Back / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Touch of Death / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Ugly All Along / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Unicorns Prefer Virgins / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Urban Fantasy / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Utility Magic / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Vetinari Job Security / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Villain Teleportation / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Virgin Power / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	You Are Worth Hell / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Blood Oath / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Ouroboros / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Red String of Fate / int_788767ba
Incarnations of Immortality	hasFeature	Romancing the Widow / int_788767ba

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