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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy

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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy	comment	A prequel of sorts to many of Mercedes Lackey's Heralds of Valdemar novels, The Last Herald-Mage is a trilogy that gives the "real story" of title character Vanyel Ashkevron.When the trilogy begins (in Magic's Pawn), Vanyel is a vain, somewhat petty fifteen-year-old with no manifested powers, sexual confusion, a simpering, weak-willed mother, and an abusive, prejudiced father who lets a brutish weapons master break Vanyel's arm in an attempt to "teach him to be a man". Although Vanyel's only real passion is for music, his father orders him to go to Haven to be fostered by his much-feared Aunt Savil, a Herald of Valdemar. Initially miserable in Haven, Vanyel finds happiness as he becomes aware of his gay identity, studies an appropriate style of combat, and falls in love with Savil's trainee Tylendel.Unfortunately, his unquestioning devotion to Tylendel causes tragedy when he helps the trainee, now grieving over his brother's death, to obtain a book of dark spells: not only does Tylendel use forbidden magic, murder several innocent people, and ultimately commit suicide out of guilt, but a massive flood of mystical energy unnaturally opens multiple magical channels into Vanyel.The remainder of Magic's Pawn concerns Vanyel's acceptance of his newfound responsibilities as a powerful Herald-Mage; in Magic's Promise, he tries to solve a mystery in another country while dealing with excruciating loneliness; and in Magic's Price, now famous, infamous, and exhausted, he finds new old love just before he has to face down a mage with the power to destroy Valdemar.Winds of Fury and Storm Breaking, later-set novels, have Vanyel and Stefan/Tylendel's ghosts appear as characters, hundreds of years after their deaths. In the Valdemar anthologies, Sword of Ice features Savil in the short story Sword of Ice, while Vanyel appears in that book in "Chance" and "In the Forest of Sorrows", as well as in No True Way in "Vixen" and Seasons in "A Midnight Clear".
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: An outlaw gang rapes Vanyel. It takes him a while to recover.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Krebain and Leareth are positively gleeful about their evil schemes.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Vanyel after Tylendel's suicide and, later, after ending his Roaring Rampage of Revenge against his former captors.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_146f8df0	type	Situational Sexuality
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_146f8df0	comment	Situational Sexuality: Because of his issues dealing with women, Tashir wants to be gay and hits on Vanyel. This trope probably also plays a role in Vanyel's rape by the brigands, as one of them says, "Pup's as good as a woman!"
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: As Starwind says of the Ashkevrons, "This is not a family, it is a small army. And half of them are mad." Not only are they headed by a hysterical woman and an abusive father, but they're breeding like rabbits. Some are itching for a war for no better reason than that Forst Reach doesn't have enough room for so many heirs.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Vanyel's father, Withen Ashkevron.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: a blink and you'll miss it example: in the penultimate scene of Magic's Price, Stefan comes to the Forest of Sorrows to commit suicide, only to be stopped by Vanyel's ghost. When he arrives at his chosen spot, he spends several hours playing, culminating in a song he's never performed in public, which he's left a copy of for the Bardic archives: written for Vanyel, it's called 'Magic's Price'.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Vanyel turns the Karsites' military magic against them so effectively that they not only lose the relevant battle, but also wind up establishing a Church Militant dedicated to rooting out magicians... whether inside or outside their own borders.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1c5f6177	type	The Twink
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1c5f6177	comment	The Twink: Early!Vanyel and Stefen.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: The main temptation of Herald-Mages In Pawn, Tylendel conjures magical assassins and sets them on the Leshara family in revenge for his brother's death. It results in a chain of tragedy that ends in his own suicide. In Price, Vanyel indulges in this twice: first, he magically tortures the construct creature that kills Savil, and then he incinerates most of a bandit gang who captures and assaults him. Fortunately, Stef is able to hold him back from a truly unforgivable act.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1d3d3c32	type	Welcome to the Big City
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1d3d3c32	comment	Welcome to the Big City: Treesa has a hard time adjusting to life at Haven in Magic's Price.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: The Mage Winds trilogy that came out shortly after this one contains a revelation about Leareth - that he's an ancient and long dead mage practicing Parasitic Immortality on men of his bloodline, and any individual incarnation being killed is only a setback. With that in mind, it's entirely possible that Krebain wasn't actually Leareth's apprentice, as Vanyel assumes, but a previous incarnation.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: Runs Karse after an upset loss to Vanyel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Savil's impatience and caustic tongue.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: When Vanyel arrives in Haven, Savil saves him from his father's minions' bullying but also tells him, "You're an imposition. It's your job to see you become less of one." Yfandes also comes across as this, at least in her conversations with Stefen.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_23a37bb9	type	So Happy Together
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_23a37bb9	comment	So Happy Together: Magic's Price gives Vanyel much needed closure, he finally reconciles with his family and his lifebond comes back to him in the form of Stefen. Shortly after Savil is killed and Vanyel goes on the revenge quest that will claim his life.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2461166d	type	All Gays Are Pedophiles
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2461166d	comment	All Gays Are Pedophiles: Averted and discussed repeatedly throughout Magic's Promise, as people keep expecting Vanyel to hit on minors, including his own twelve-year-old nephew, and he keeps explaining that he's not interested.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_24ec14c7	type	Crappy Holidays
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_24ec14c7	comment	Crappy Holidays: Vanyel hates the Valdemaran holiday of Sovven Night (implied to be a combination of All Saints' Eve and All Souls' Day) because that was when Tylendel died.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_25a31943	type	Slave Mooks
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_25a31943	comment	Slave Mooks: Vanyel suspects that Leareth has taken over his soldiers' minds.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: From Vanyel's generation: Mekeal looks almost exactly like Withen, while Lissa is pretty much a copy of her aunt Savil in her youth. From Stefen's generation: Young Medren is basically young Vanyel plus a Bardic gift and minus the homosexuality, and frequently refers to "young Meke", who is probably his oldest half-brother. One of Mekeal's daughters is mentioned to have been Chosen. This gets discussed for Treven and Jisa, as they can't be sure Treven won't develop the same health problems as Randale and it's known that Jisa will become King's Own when her mother Shavri dies. The narration in Magic's Pawn mentions the Ashkevron family manages to produce "one strong-willed woman per generation". These women have seemingly been in order: Vanyel's Grandmother, Savil, Lissa and presumably Ariel (Mekeal's daughter that has been Chosen when Magic's Price starts). Near the end of Brightly Burning, a book set roughly two hundred years later, an Ashkevron woman shows up who fits Savil and Lissa's mold and even has the "Ashkevron nose". It's noted that everyone in the Ashkevron family looks and acts exactly like the previous generation. Anyone who doesn't (Vanyel, Savil, Lissa, Medren) tends to head off to Haven. Vanyel, evaluating his daughter Jisa for Gift potential, realizes that just like him she has an astonishing degree of potential Mage-Gift, though if she's not blasted open the way he was she'll never be a mage. This sparks an upwelling of protectiveness and a bit of envy. She also takes after her mother, actively expressing both Empathy and Thoughtspeech, and he rightly expects that she'll be Monarch's Own after Shavri dies.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_25c7b33a	comment	Cruel to Be Kind: It's implied that Gala repudiated Tylendel to spare him from having to experience her dying moments. Then again that very act was agonizingly painful.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: Used by the main antagonist in all three books.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: mentioned in Promise; at one point, Vanyel goes into an imitation of 'the most languid fop in Haven', who isn't gay, but acts that way in order to provoke insults about his sexuality. He loves fighting duels, but he's so ferocious that no one will fight him anymore, so he uses the gay insults as excuses to challenge the makers to duels.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2823fd4d	type	Oddly Common Rarity
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2823fd4d	comment	Oddly Common Rarity: This trilogy is the record holder for the number of lifebonds within the series. The main Heralds of Valdemar timeframe only gets that number by having two or three of them in the Arrows trilogy and adding a new one about once a trilogy; lifebonds are discussed in Mage Storms as being astonishingly rare. Some of these make some sense with the reasoning that one lifebonded is required to help another - Tylendel in his fall from grace uses Vanyel and accidentally empowers him and then returns as Stefan who supports and helps him, and Shavri who manages to keep Randale alive through years of illness. But there are also Mardic and Donni, Starwind and Moondance, and Treven and Jisa, who don't seem to have similar "reasons".
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Heralds tend to this, as elsewhere in the series, but they display more flaws in this trilogy than is usual elsewhere. There's Tylendel, of course, the only Chosen to actually completely turn away from what's right, but there's also Savil and how her Good is Not Nice tendencies actually hurt people, and Jaysen's homophobia. Vanyel doesn't ever quite get to benefit from the sense of brotherhood and community with other Heralds because his Obfuscating Stupidity act had them hating the violent bigot they thought he was when he was Chosen, and later he's so strong and renowned that he's half-worshipped and slightly feared. Herald Lores in Magic's Promise was so horrified by the Highjorune Palace massacre and so certain that the newly-Chosen Sole Survivor was the cause that he beat Tashir's Companion with a whip assuming he was a demon, shutting out his own Companion's protests. Even Vanyel himself! Once, he starts relieving his sense of powerlessness and frustration by manipulating servants, but Yfandes tells him to knock it off or she'll kick him; he's also very harsh even to allies when on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Certainly the case for the ethereally gorgeous Tayledras, and for the Companions as is always the case in this setting. Moondance was a normal-looking peasant boy but took on the usual Tayledras look over time as his power changed him. Vanyel is also constantly described as gorgeous when he's not a wreck.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2a6bf668	comment	Inadequate Inheritor: The way Withen sees Vanyel. Being Chosen means he can no longer be Withen's heir, which he would have been glad about if not for everything else happening at that time.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: the main character is both gay and Doomed by Canon. While Vanyel goes through some angst over being gay in a medieval-era fantasy world, his sexuality had nothing to do with his tragic death - it would have happened either way. It's heavily implied in later-set books that Vanyel's outrageous heroics while alive was responsible for a huge advance in acceptance of same-sex relationships in his home country, especially after his death.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Perpetrated by most of the Mavelan family against Tashir.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: After Evan Leshara has Tylendel's brother Staven assassinated, Tylendel attempts to magically butcher the entire Leshara family and their guests on the Valdemaran equivalent of Halloween. This is why Gala repudiates him before she goes to her death.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Krebain and Leareth. They both attempt to seduce Vanyel, who does see Krebain's attraction as genuine even as he's horrified by the depths the man will sink to. Leareth's intense sexual presence, Van sees as just another weapon — it has nothing to do with love or even attraction.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3016de81	type	Reincarnation Romance
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3016de81	comment	Reincarnation Romance: Tylendel is reincarnated as Stefen, allowing him and Vanyel to renew their lifebond.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Withen hates Vanyel's musical interests so much that, despite being a reasonably talented performer, the son feels compelled to hide while he practices.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Medren sets up Vanyel and Stefen.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_32fca9db	type	Magical Queer
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_32fca9db	comment	Magical Queer: Two Tayledras, Starwind and Moondance, pulling double duty. Vanyel is also a gay man with magical powers, but his personality and philosophy don't really fit this trope.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: Treesa actually seems to take pride in embodying this trope. Hinted as a case of Obfuscating Stupidity as when actually attacked, Treesa is shown to be fairly calm, sensible and level headed. It's possible she just likes being a Drama Queen.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Withen's letting Jervis break Vanyel's arm. Vanyel's coldness toward Stefen while out for revenge against Savil's killer. An outlaw gang's decision to take turns raping a helpless captive. Maybe even Vanyel's use of a magically-altered bird to gain revenge on Leareth. There aren't a lot of perfect characters in these books.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_351205d2	type	Friends with Benefits
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_351205d2	comment	Friends with Benefits: Suggested to be the case between Savil and a number of men over the years.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_39488ea5	type	Mutant Draft Board
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_39488ea5	comment	Mutant Draft Board: Vanyel being the last Herald-Mage is also the last mage in Valdemar for centuries. In other countries, mages are everywhere. Some are employed by the state, noble houses usually keep some on retainer, and some are Wandering the Earth. In Valdemar, by Magic's Price the only non-enemy mages around are Heralds. As anti-magic sentiment sweeps Karse, its non-institutional mages flee the country into Valdemar. Vanyel advises that any of them who aren't Chosen be moved along quickly to some other country and has No Sympathy for anyone subject to the Being Watched spell he sets up - apparently at this time he and Valdemarans in general find mages who weren't drafted to be inherently suspicious.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: The vrondi that Vanyel brings into his anti-magic system are merely supposed to watch for non-Herald mages and alert the nearest Herald-Mage if they see one. After the Herald-Mages are gone, the vrondi simply swarm unknown mages and watch them incessantly — the resulting discomfort becomes Valdemar's anti-magic defense because mages are unable to tolerate the constant feeling of Being Watched.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Between the title of the trilogy and the bits of the story revealed in other books, we already know that Vanyel — like every other Herald-Mage — won't survive the trilogy.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: In Magic's Price, a chirra who loves roses looks for them everywhere - even in Stefen's hair - ever since a certain Herald-Mage made some for her out of snow. Replies Vanyel "She'd just carried me through a three-day snowstorm, and she deserved a treat."
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Being the most gifted person in Valdemar means Vanyel winds up nearly friendless, worked to the bone, and sent on nigh-impossible missions. Much of this can be blamed on the Big Bad who slowly and systematically kills off each and every one of the other Herald-Mages and Mage-Gifted Trainees over Vanyel's whole career, giving him an ever-worsening burden and finally leaving him as the titular Last Herald-Mage.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3c7ccb69	type	No Body Left Behind
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: Intriguingly suggested. Yfandes explains that Companions who don't die in combat are "Called" instead of just 'falling over;' Stefen at the end of his life is Called, and the Herald escorting him can't find his body afterward (or at least doesn't find it before his Companion distracts him).
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: The Big Bad of the series spends decades taking out Herald-Mages without raising alarm. When their numbers are down to four, two of them die in tragic accidents which Savil thinks could be murders. (She's right, and her death is an obvious assassination).
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Krebain, Vedric Mavelan, and Leareth.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_43b6fb56	type	Vain Sorceress
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_43b6fb56	comment	Vain Sorceress: Both Krebain and Leareth use magic to make themselves look like beautiful men. Unfortunately, Van recognizes this as a misuse of power and is not at all enticed by their appearance.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_44c279ae	type	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_44c279ae	comment	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: Brodie, a reclusive Healer blackmailed into helping Lord Dark's brigands.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Vanyel in Magic's Pawn.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: Tayledras are something of a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to idealized, generic Native Americans.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_487c525d	comment	Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Vanyel is responsible for The Magic Goes Away aspect of the setting, in response to becoming the last Herald-Mage. Having noticed that the people thought of Herald-Mages as better and more important than "plain Heralds", Van cast a great spell that caused Valdemarans to be unable to think of magic in the present tense unless directly threatened by magic or mages. He removes both this and the above spell in Winds of Fury, as they've lasted for long enough that enemies of Valdemar understood and could exploit them, and because magic being an Outside-Context Problem for Valdemarans caused them a lot of problems.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Between his grief for Tylendel, abusive father, and awareness of his grim destiny, our hero has developed enough issues to give any imaginary shrink a field day.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4a8fd6a0	type	Honor-Related Abuse
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4a8fd6a0	comment	Honor-Related Abuse: The verbal and physical treatment that Withen delivers to Vanyel, out of horror at Vanyel's homosexuality.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4ac77ae7	type	Mind over Manners
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4ac77ae7	comment	Mind over Manners: Regardless of how important Vanyel's intel-gathering is, there's no way around the fact that he reads people's minds without their consent.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Probably four out of five events in Vanyel's life qualify for this.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: One of the songs details Vanyel's confrontation with an enemy lord abusing his farmers, who offers Vanyel anything he could possibly want if he'll just go away. Vanyel's response — given in implausibly flowery language, presumably due to bardic license — amounts to "I don't need your damned money and I'm not letting you hurt these people."
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: In the afterlife, Tylendel knew he had exploited Vanyel's love and dedication to him, so he chooses to be reincarnated in hopes of atoning for his betrayal.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_4f4372e9	comment	This may be because Companions in the first trilogy were more remote and mysterious than they tend to come off as in later books, where close emotional bonds and frequent chatter back and forth are the norm.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: Several Companions in the 'modern-day' era (i.e. Arrows trilogy, By the Sword, Mage Winds, Mage Storms, Owl Trilogy) have suspiciously similar names to Heralds in Vanyel's time. After the revelation in Storm Warning that Heralds are sometimes reincarnated as Companions, Lackey has since confirmed that Savil was reincarnated as Kerowyn's Companion Sayvil, and Vanyel's friend Tantras came back as Kris' Companion Tantris. Dallen, Companion to Mags in the Collegium Chronicles and Herald Spy books, is also the reincarnation of an unspecified Herald who knew Tylendel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: Mages are capable of a kind of suicide attack that obliterates everything nearby. It's called "Final Strike". Also, Shavri drains her own life force into Randale, meaning that she won't long outlive his terminal illness.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Stefen convinces Vanyel of this with regard to the men who had kidnapped and raped the latter.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_556a3059	comment	The Empath: Tylendel has a touch of empathy. Vanyel, Shavri, and Jisa have considerably more.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_56563927	type	Noble Wolf
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_56563927	comment	Noble Wolf: A pack of kyree, Uplifted Animals resembling enormous wolves, come to Vanyel's aid as a Wingbrother of the Tayledras after his encounter with bandits. The Hot Spring clan gives him, Stefan, and Yfandes shelter in their hot spring caves and a chance to recover, a final place of safety before pushing on to face Leareth.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_56c79e38	type	Power Dyes Your Hair
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_56c79e38	comment	Power Dyes Your Hair: Working with high levels of magic in this setting gradually gives mages Mystical White Hair amd changes their eyes to blue. Vanyel notes in Promise that he seems to be more resistant to the bleaching effect than his Tayledras friends as his black hair is shot with an increasing amount of white rather than being all-white already. By the end of Price he's gone totally white-haired, but his eyes remain silver.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Vanyel suffers from this when he first gets his powers. He hasn't learned how to shield or control his powers yet, but because they didn't develop naturally, every use is still incredibly painful. Added to that is the fact that he is suicidally depressed due to the death of his lifebonded, and the physical trauma due to his attempted suicide. They end up needing to keep him heavily drugged until he is just well enough to send away for healing, to stop him from succeeding at levelling the Palace in a nightmare.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_58970bae	type	PromotedToParent
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_58970bae	comment	Promoted to Parent: oddly enough, Vanyel becomes a version of this to his own child, Jisa. Between Pawn and Promise, Vanyel serves as a glorified sperm donor to Shavri (It Makes Sense in Context), because she desperately wants a child and her lifebonded, King Randale, is sterile. In the early scenes of Promise he categorically states that Randale is Jisa's father, not him, and he's much happier being her 'Uncle Van' anyway. But by the time of Price, Randale is so sick he really only has two modes, 'patient' and 'king', and Shavri is spending all her time and energy keeping him going. Not only is Vanyel now on permanent assignment to the palace as Acting Monarch's Own, he's the one Jisa goes to for pretty much everything worse than a splinter.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Two of the book-finale villains (both male) whom he encounters try to seduce him, though he recognizes that it's not for love or even attraction, just power.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Vanyel and the many women who lust after him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The trilogy, and indeed the series that it's a part of, never uses the word "gay". Instead Vanyel "likes men", or uses the Tayledras word "shay'a'chern", which in Valdemar gets contracted and popularized as "shaych".
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_5b87dd9d	type	Superhero Paradox
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_5b87dd9d	comment	Superhero Paradox: Mages, especially Herald-Mages, tend to attract magical threats. Vanyel tries to argue that magic is not the solution to every problem, but by Magic's Price there's a stigma against "plain Heralds" that neither he nor Stefen can ultimately dispel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: Tylendel and Staven.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Jervis. When Vanyel returns to his family home in Magic's Promise, he assumes that Jervis is bullying Medren the way that he used to bully Van. He's taken completely by surprise when Jervis admits that he's regretted his treatment of Vanyel for years and, in his clumsy way, has been trying to do better by Medren. By the later portion of the book, Jervis has become a confidant to Vanyel and proves invaluable in helping poor Tashir.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_639aa0cd	type	Did You Just Have Sex?
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_639aa0cd	comment	Did You Just Have Sex?: An unusual example occurs in Magic's Pawn, as Savil realizes via Empathy what Tylendel and Vanyel have been doing.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Vanyel, Stefen, and Medren. Not to mention Tylendel who is reincarnated as Stefen and Tashir, who very strongly resembles him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_63cd6ccb	type	Image Song
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_63cd6ccb	comment	Image Song: Mercedes Lackey is a songwriter and lyricist, and her album Shadow Stalker: Songs from Vanyel's time contains several songs about Vanyel, from his initial breaking and healing, to the incidents which earned him his Red Baron titles, to an overview appropriately titled "Magic's Price"
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Tashir bears a strong resemblance to Tylendel (as Vanyel last saw him, a dozen years ago), and Vanyel feels strongly tempted to accept his proposition. Fortunately, given the disturbing moral issues, he remains chaste. Also done by Tashir: he's calmer around Jervis than almost anyone else at the Ashkevron estate, because Jervis closely resembles the court armsmaster who was the closest thing Tashir had to a father figure. Vanyel's Empathy means that he can see the subconscious connection Tashir's mind makes.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Vanyel, Yfandes, Donni, Mardic, and Gala.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: Vanyel and Tylendel and Vanyel and Stefen are chock full of this trope At one point Vanyel plays his fingers to bits and Tylendel uses an ointment of marigold and cinnamon to heal his fingers. Vanyel and Stefen's Meet Cute involve Stefen playing his fingers to bits and Vanyel using Tylendel's ointment to heal Stefen's fingers. It's the earliest hint of the Reincarnation Romance.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: In the short story Vixen, Vanyel breaks his leg and the Healer treating him gives him a medicine with a side effect of suppressing his gifts - meaning that when a monster attacks the village they're staying in, he's effectively given a Drama-Preserving Handicap as his physical, magical, and fighting skills are largely off the table. The Healer calls for help, which arrives Just in Time in the form of a Friendly Neighborhood Spider.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_6844f0d5	type	Undressing the Unconscious
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_6844f0d5	comment	Undressing the Unconscious: In Magic's Price, after Vanyel's Gift channels are blasted open, he's eventually sedated and taken to a Hawkbrother Vale for healing. He wakes up nude under a bedsheet, and Moondance freely admits to undressing Vanyel on his arrival.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: In Magic's Pawn, Savil fully believes that Gala's death was suicide. Tylendel throws himself off a chapel roof shortly afterwards, and Vanyel makes two failed attempts to follow him. In Magic's Price, after Vanyel's Heroic Sacrifice defeating Leareth, Stefen is about to poison himself, but Vanyel's ghost stops him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_704ac24	type	Uniqueness Value
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_704ac24	comment	Uniqueness Value: Vanyel's skill set is so uniquely valuable that he hardly ever gets a moment's rest. This also becomes true of Herald-Mages in this trilogy, since by the third book there are only four left. Stefan as well. His painblocking ability is unique not only among Bards but all Gifted. He ends up being worked to the bone by Healers and King Randale... until he puts his foot down and insists on some boundaries.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Vanyel in Magic's Pawn. His father knows he's gay because he likes music and fancy clothes. He remains gay, but becomes considerably less camp as he acclimates to the warrior's life.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: She doesn't appear herself except in a short story in the anthology novel Changing the World, but old Queen Elspeth the Peacemaker, the ruler during Magic's Pawn, married a noble from Iftel to help keep the peace. When her husband died, she never remarried but kept her options open and even pitted prospective suitors against each other to Valdemar's advantage. All the while her true love, a common-born Bard who understood that she couldn't put their happiness first, supported her and met with her in secret. In Magic's Promise, King Randale can't marry Shavri, his King's Own Herald — not for the conflict of interest but because he needs to be available for an alliance-marriage in much the same way . To that end and because she desperately wants a baby, Shavri (willingly and with Randi's full knowledge and consent) conceives a child with Vanyel, to end rumors of Randi's sterility. In Magic's Price, Randi's heir Treven marries Jisa before he takes the throne. Vanyel is outraged, but Trev rationally explains that there aren't any good candidates for an alliance-marriage in the current political situation, plus he and Jisa are already Lifebonded.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Vanyel attempts to kill himself twice after Tylendel's death. The first time, Yfandes Chooses him in time to pull him out of despair (and the river). The second time, he slits his wrists, but he cuts 'across' instead of 'down,' and bleeds out too slowly to escape rescue.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Averted; with a bit of thought you can pick the book scenes being depicted on each cover (though on the cover of Magic's Pawn Vanyel should be wearing civilian clothes). The cover for Magic's Promise is so accurate you can almost hear the dialogue; it also clearly shows the Word of God inspiration for Vanyel's character description - Michael Praed in his iconic role as Robin of Sherwood - so accurately that it could be a portrait.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Rumored between Ylyna and Vedric Mavelan before her marriage note and a major reason Tashir's father was so paranoid about her being around other men and treated Tashir so badly. A gossiping maidservant tells Vanyel that Vedric more or less confirmed it, "and he'd no idea that it was his own half-sister and not the wench he'd called for until daylight." However, given Ylyna's mental instability, twisted attitudes towards sexuality (this time confirmed by someone who'd actually known her) and that she wasn't more than fourteen when she married... one wonders what Ylyna's POV of that situation was.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7913eb6f	type	Healing Hands
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7913eb6f	comment	Healing Hands: One form of supernatural ability is healing; Vanyel has a little of it, but Shavri and Andrel have a lot more.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: While Medren doesn't really have the skill set to go around kicking ass, he certainly averts the Bastard Bastard stereotype by being a loving nephew to Vanyel and a good friend to Stefen.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_792e11ec	type	Dance Battler
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_792e11ec	comment	Dance Battler: Based on descriptions of his combat style, Vanyel likely fits this trope. Appropriate, given his passion for music.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7958175	type	Unequal Rites
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7958175	comment	Unequal Rites: About midway through Vanyel's career, the general public begins to see Herald-Mages as better than "plain Heralds." Van tries to counter this by promoting non-mage Heralds as specialists in their own fields, but it doesn't really take.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7b7182fe	type	Closet Key
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7b7182fe	comment	Closet Key: Tylendel for Vanyel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Between Mindspeaking Heralds and their Companions. There's also one between Lifebonded partners.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Savil, Lissa, and Vanyel deliver a relay version of this to Withen after he shows up to berate Vanyel for his homosexuality in Magic's Pawn.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: As Vanyel discovers when he becomes the most valuable (and feared) person in Valdemar. At one point he's enjoying a moment of camaderie with another Herald he's met on the road, only to see it turn to fear and awe the moment he mentions his name.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Valdemar has a war with Karse between the first two books and Vanyel serves in it, replacing five other Herald-Mages in an extended Offscreen Moment of Awesome during which he demonstrates that summoning demons against him is a very bad idea. This unfortunately leads to Karse fearing him, and by extension other Heralds and their assorted Gifts, on an existential level that has them becoming more fundamentalist and causing a lot of problems for Valdemar and their own people over the next several hundred years until Solaris becomes the Son of the Sun. Vanyel's solution upon finding himself the last Herald-Mage actually ensures that he's the last for quite some time. The quest the heroes go on in Winds of Fate to find a mage to teach Heralds could have happened pretty much immediately after Leareth died and stopped killing Valdemaran mages. Van's Brainwashing for the Greater Good spell making people struggle to think about magic ensures that it's an Outside-Context Problem every time it's used against Valdemar. The vrondi-spell was also very hard on people born in Valdemar with the Mage-Gift, such as Paxia in Weight of a Hundred Eyes.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_813afa05	comment	Defiled Forever: Averted twice. First, Stefen thinks Vanyel doesn't want him because he knows of Stefen's extensive sexual history, but he's wrong — Vanyel just hadn't realized Stefen was more than a star-struck, hero-worshiping virgin trying to explore his sexuality note Which was almost exactly the case with Tashir in Magic's Promise. Later, Stefen sees Vanyel's rapists escaping a burning building and muses that "they didn't matter. What mattered was Van."
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_81f8731	type	Chosen Conception Partner
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_81f8731	comment	In Magic's Promise, King Randale can't marry Shavri, his King's Own Herald — not for the conflict of interest but because he needs to be available for an alliance-marriage in much the same way . To that end and because she desperately wants a baby, Shavri (willingly and with Randi's full knowledge and consent) conceives a child with Vanyel, to end rumors of Randi's sterility.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Nothing, including Withen Ashkevron, keeps Lissa down.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8696b94c	type	EvilAlbino
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8696b94c	comment	Evil Albino: The witch Ke'noran, villain of the short story In The Forest of Sorrows, is tall, red-eyed, and white-skinned, and wants to murder a child to make use of his latent Gifts.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_887ca31e	type	Noble Male, Roguish Male
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_887ca31e	comment	Noble Male, Roguish Male: In the third book Van is the Noble to Stefan's Rogue. This doesn't apply to Van and Tylendel, though - Tylendel was reckless, but Vanyel in those days wasn't particularly interested in duty or nobility of purpose.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8aa496df	type	Rape Discretion Shot
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8aa496df	comment	Rape Discretion Shot: In Magic's Price (fortunately) all we witness of the assault is a sketchy description of how it sounded.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In one of the first conscious uses of his newly found powers Vanyel kills a colddrake queen and overdoes it with a spectacular explosion of power. His aunt and mentor, Savil, comments that with that kind of monster it's better to overkill.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Melenna goes to extremes in her doomed efforts to seduce Vanyel. In Magic's Promise he has to repeatedly resort to sleeping in the stables upon finding her naked in his bed.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8fac4a3a	type	Superpower Lottery
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8fac4a3a	comment	Superpower Lottery: Vanyel wins it, although it's not a pleasant experience.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: The grandson and great-granddaughter of Elspeth the Peacemaker, Treven and Jisa, turn out to be lifebonded and marry in secret before King Randale, Jisa's father, dies. This causes some upset but people become resigned to it. They are not actually related, as Randale was infertile and she was sired by Vanyel, but this is a closely-guarded secret.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: the original DAW paperback covers have illustrations of scenes from the books, with thick borders on either side with smoke-like depictions of important secondary characters and tree-related illustrations: the first has thin branches covered in blossoms, the second has thicker branches bearing fruit and the final book simply has dead leaves falling.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_926e0d7d	type	Hot Springs Episode
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_926e0d7d	comment	There is also the short story "Chance" by Mark Shepherd, which expands on the anecdote told in the second book of Vanyel hooking up with Guardsman Jonne. It features Vanyel's clothes getting cut to pieces in a mage attack, followed by Jonne taking him to a hot spring in a crystal cave and giving him an After-Action Patch-Up that then leads to sex. Compared to his characterization in the second two books, Van is more willing than usual to take a break from his duty and enjoy the moment. Maybe he just likes that Jonne's a few years older than he is and Straight Gay, so he doesn't feel like he's cradle-robbing and isn't reminded of Tylendel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_931fc523	comment	When they come Back for the Finale of Storm Breaking there's also a suggestion that being trapped haunting a forest fighting the enemies of Valdemar for seven hundred years with limited contact with anyone else ended up really wearing on Vanyel, Yfandes, and Tylendel/Stefan, for all that they were happy enough at first. They were there for a lot longer than they expected or wanted to be.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: A dark running joke is that whenever Vanyel takes a vacation at Forst Reach, he ends up dragged into a crisis that ends with him half dead. Vanyel wryly mentions that it'll probably be safer for him to parade up and down the Karsite border.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Jaysen in Magic's Pawn, when he realizes that he really doesn't want to be the kind of guy who drives angsty teenagers to suicide; later Vanyel, after realizing how badly his drive for revenge has led him to treat Stefen. Lord Withen has one of these of his own somewhere in between books, as evidenced by the way he treats Vanyel in Magic's Price vs Magic's Promise and especially Magic's Pawn.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Krebain, in his one meeting with Vanyel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Generally averted; some are bad, but most don't appear to be much worse than your average person.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Halfway averted: although there are no therapists as we think of them, Mind Healers can supposedly recognize and, to some degree, treat insanity. Unfortunately, no one ever seems to turn to them for this, so their utility remains in doubt. Possibly because in all the other series they're extremely rare. Vanyel ends up being a victim of this. In the first book, Van desperately needs some kind of help right after he's Chosen, but the only MindHealer among the Heralds is too busy cleaning up the mess Tylendel made. Lendel himself might have been stopped if someone had noticed his mind was breaking, but Van was able to cover for him, and so both are ignored until it goes too far. In the second and third book, Vanyel is clearly suffering from PTSD due to the Karsite War and lingering emotional problems from Tylendel's death. People recognize he has a problem but no one knows what to do about it except get him away from Haven and work so he can come down.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_970c790a	comment	It even goes beyond that: Leareth is a re-incarnation of Ma'ar, who will eventually re-incarnate again as Mornelithe Falconsbane, Big Bad of the Wings trilogy - who will have his soul finally shredded to bits beyond all hope of rebirth by Firesong, Vanyel's descendant.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Treesa loves bragging on Vanyel and showing him off, but she doesn't love him quite enough to stand up to Withen most of the time.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Tashir, due to rumors of his mother's promiscuity and the fact that his looks came entirely from her side of the family. As it turns out, he actually is Deveran's legitimate son.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Leareth has engineered the events of the first two books, as well as taking advantage of the Karsite War to kill off Herald-Mages. Vanyel doesn't even realize what's going on until the third book.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Aside from all that preening and sniping, young!Vanyel looks down his nose on peasants... until he meets a few and realizes that he has more in common with them than he does with most of the aristocrats he knows.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: a slightly creepy one. In Arrows of the Queen (which is later chronologically, but earlier in publishing order) Keren tells Talia the story of the Death Bell "there used to be a little chapel in Companion's field - it was torn down ages ago, there's only the bell tower now". In Pawn, Tylendel throws himself from the bell tower of the chapel in Companion's field, and when he's lying in state in the same chapel later, Vanyel makes his first suicide attempt. The chapel may have been torn down for Vanyel's sake, because no one wanted the most powerful Herald-Mage ever to be reminded of his life-bonded's suicide and his own attempt at same, or after he was gone as Tylendel's repudiation and fate are a dark spot even to Heralds born long after his time.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9fda81a7	type	The Summation
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_9fda81a7	comment	The Summation: Much of the plot of Magic's Promise revolves around discovering what happened in the palace in Highjorune, which requires quite a lot of investigation as Truth Spell and asking Tashir's Companion aren't on the table as solutions. Eventually Vanyel lays out his findings and conclusions on Savil, Jervis, and Tashir.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Vanyel has pale skin, silver eyes, blue-black hair, and a level of mystical power that scares the stuffing out of most people who recognize him. However he also qualifies as Raven Hair, Ivory Skin considering how many people pant after him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: There are hints that Vanyel heavily idealized Tylendel's memory. Tylendel, while a generally kind and easygoing young man could be extremely mercurial, close-off and impulsive at times (all three contributed to his death). Vanyel, in the later books makes no mention of any of these traits and constantly thinks that Tylendel could have handled X better. A good example is how Vanyel thinks that Tylendel would have slept with Stefan in a heartbeat. Tylendel's POV shows that he's fairly inexperienced and very careful about choosing lovers, having rejected Vanyel's advances at first.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a1ab4928	type	Hurt/Comfort Fic
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a1ab4928	comment	Hurt/Comfort Fic: There are some distinctly hurt-comfort aspects to Vanyel's life as portrayed in the trilogy, particularly late in Magic's Price when he's captured by bandits and nursed back to health and sanity by Stefan. There is also the short story "Chance" by Mark Shepherd, which expands on the anecdote told in the second book of Vanyel hooking up with Guardsman Jonne. It features Vanyel's clothes getting cut to pieces in a mage attack, followed by Jonne taking him to a hot spring in a crystal cave and giving him an After-Action Patch-Up that then leads to sex. Compared to his characterization in the second two books, Van is more willing than usual to take a break from his duty and enjoy the moment. Maybe he just likes that Jonne's a few years older than he is and Straight Gay, so he doesn't feel like he's cradle-robbing and isn't reminded of Tylendel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Vanyel after helping Tylendel obtain the forbidden book; Savil after realizing she should have had Tylendel examined by a Mind-Healer; Jaysen on "sen[ding] someone out to cut his wrists"; and Vanyel when his failure to listen to Savil's warning about a magical attack leads to her death, and again after he murders a child.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: The broad strokes of Vanyel's story — including his death — were described in Arrows of the Queen, the first-written book set in Valdemar.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a2bff6bc	type	Rape Leads to Insanity
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a2bff6bc	comment	Rape Leads to Insanity: In the first book Krebain attacks a village girl and in a show of power does something to her that leaves her a vacant-eyed wreck. Moondance says months with Tayledras Mind-Healers can bring her back but she'll never be the same, will always fear men, and sex will only ever bring pain, so it may be better to wipe her and start over. The spell put on him to make him helpless contributes, but after Leareth's thugs assault Van he's really not himself, to the point of killing a child as soon as he had use of his powers back.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: While themes dealing with sexual identity, homophobia, and even rape permeate the book, the amount of sex actually shown is very small, and it's always very vague. Usually there's either some kissing or some leering, then a skip forward to the postcoital bliss or trauma.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a4878b81	type	It's Not You, It's My Enemies
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a4878b81	comment	It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Why Vanyel considers breaking up with Stefen. Yfandes talks him out of it.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Vanyel, from a few months before Magic's Promise begins until he gets together with Stefen in Magic's Price. He has a few lovers off-screen but they're always short term.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a5f1568d	type	Dirty Mind-Reading
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a5f1568d	comment	Dirty Mind-Reading: Tylendel with Staven due to Twin Telepathy (it backfires horribly). A lonely Tylendel apparently once asked Gala if he could 'listen in' next time she was with a stallion; her teasing after he hooked up with Vanyel suggests she was threatening to do the same to him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Vanyel and Stefen meet after Stefen plays for the king. What makes this a Meet Cute is that Stefen's just played his hands to bits and is rather snappish and irritable towards one of the kingdom's most famous and feared Heralds.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a8a04f6f	comment	The spell put on him to make him helpless contributes, but after Leareth's thugs assault Van he's really not himself, to the point of killing a child as soon as he had use of his powers back.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Vanyel's and Yfandes's eyes glow red when angry.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: They get almost nothing right in the first three-quarters of Magic's Pawn. Vanyel's mother encourages his artistic and effeminate qualities in order to indulge her own yen for courtly love, treating him like a plaything; his father, meanwhile, is a narrow-minded homophobe who neither understands him nor makes any effort to, instead pushing his armsmaster to "make a man" of him by any means necessary. Armsmaster Jervis, who later admits to having known better, lets his loyalty and sense of indebtedness to Withen and his own frustration with Vanyel's bratty behavior drive him to bully the boy until he actually breaks Van's arm in a fit of rage — and even after this, Withen still takes Jervis's side rather than his son's. The Heraldic Circle note The Collegium hasn't actually been founded yet, training newly Chosen is done on a master-apprentice system does little better. Savil treats Vanyel coldly, writing him off as the shallow peacock he acts like; it takes Tylendel to figure out what's wrong with Vanyel and convince Savil not to abandon him by fostering him out, which would have further exacerbated his abandonment issues. Savil knows that Tylendel isn't rational where his family is concerned, but takes him at his word when he says he's fine, not providing him with adequate emotional support and counseling after his telepathically-linked twin brother is murdered by their longtime enemy. And after Tylendel's suicide, very few people aren't too wrapped up in their grief and horror over Tylendel's death to spare any concern for Vanyel, who's just witnessed a horrific supernatural slaughter and the suicide of his mind-linked lover, and whose newly-awakened and completely uncontrolled Mindhearing makes him all too sensitive to the thoughts of blame and resentment directed towards him from those who didn't know the truth about their relationship. There's also the whole mess that is Tashir's childhood and early adolescence: his father abuses him out of belief that Tashir isn't his son, and his mother alternatively treats him like a treasured pet and screams and throws things at him (because he's literally the only person in the palace who she can control). This goes on for years, culminating in Ylyna attempting to seduce Tashir, and his father deciding to disinherit him and send him to the maternal family that is not only their hereditary enemies, but Tashir is terrified of. Despite there being a Heraldic Envoy to the Bairean court, and everyone in the palace being related to Tashir's father to some degree, not a single person seems to have suggested to Deveran that he lay off the poor kid, get rid of him by fostering him out to another noble family, or perhaps take Tashir to the Heartstone in the palace basement that would have confirmed his paternity in about three seconds. Or even that Ylyna's increasingly obvious mental instability meant that she shouldn't be around children or tweens without supervision? Not to mention that it's implied that Tashir tried to tell someone about his mother's molesting him several times, and was ignored or dismissed because of his status as The Unfavorite. Tashir had one friendly adult on his side, the palace armsmaster, who had no power to protect him or influence the nobles around him. It's so bad that his Companion is revealed to be 'something of a Mind-Healer', and Yfandes pretty much states it's the equivalent of Heralds with rare Gifts showing up just before they're needed.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_aa55cd25	type	Brawn Hilda
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_aa55cd25	comment	Brawn Hilda: Bel, the hard-drinking, mannish, lecherous proprietor of the Inn of the Green Man.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Vanyel is "Demonsbane", the "Shadow Stalker" and the "Hero of Stony Tor"; Leareth also goes by Lord Dark.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Milked for all it's worth. The audience already knows much of Vanyel, Tylendel and Stefen's fate and it's painful to see Vanyel try to fight the Foregone Conclusion.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ab68c5cc	type	Chronic Hero Syndrome
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ab68c5cc	comment	Chronic Hero Syndrome: A feature of Heralds and of Tayledras is described as a "hunger" to use what they have for the good of others, and to be unable to look away if they can help. It takes until just about the end of the first book for Vanyel to understand and feel it himself.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each novel of the trilogy is called "Magic's P_____": Magic's Pawn Magic's Promise Magic's Price
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Leareth is hinted to have engineered or encouraged the events of the first book. Which created Valdemar's most powerful mage - and the man who would eventually kill him. It even goes beyond that: Leareth is a re-incarnation of Ma'ar, who will eventually re-incarnate again as Mornelithe Falconsbane, Big Bad of the Wings trilogy - who will have his soul finally shredded to bits beyond all hope of rebirth by Firesong, Vanyel's descendant.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_add14bc2	type	Orcus on His Throne
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_add14bc2	comment	Orcus on His Throne: There's a different villain in each book but they're all united in having worked remotely until the climax, only actually showing up as Vanyel comes to meet them. Krebain had been working for the Lesharas in Valdemar but was living and operating near Tayledras territory, so far away that a Gate was required to get near at all. Vedric was really only interested in the little country of Lineas and didn't leave his "throne" so much as he stood up when Vanyel poked around near it. Leareth, the overall Big Bad, was ambigiously involved with both of the other villains, was working to kill off Herald-Mages and Trainees for decades, and sent constructs and hirelings out to do his bidding. By the time Van rides out to meet him he's collected an army that Van heads off.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_aec63727	comment	Pragmatic Hero: Like all Heralds, Vanyel would do anything in the service of Valdemar.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Vanyel foresees his own death in Magic's Pawn, a couple of decades before it happens.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: While Treesa is merely silly and weak-willed, Withen's determination to turn Vanyel into "a toy version of [him]self" (per Savil in Magic's Pawn) leads him to outright cruelty: he allows an armsmaster to break Vanyel's arm, calls him a "perverted little catamite", and generally makes himself despicable until Magic's Price, wherein he becomes merely obnoxious. Poor Tashir's father despised him in the belief that he was as Lores says,"the worst kind of bastard". Not to mention his mother Ylyna: her constant Mood Whiplash towards him meant that Tashir was pretty much the only person in the entire castle who was afraid of her (not even the servants followed her orders); it was that, combined with his good looks and her twisted view of sexuality, that led her to attempt to groom and seduce him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Herald-Mage Savil wards her spellbooks so she'll know if another mage has used them. When Tylendel becomes obsessed with revenge, he gets around it by having Vanyel handle the books and turn the pages for him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: During Magic's Promise Vanyel examines young Jisa's Gifts and consults with Yfandes, who says if the then six-year-old girl needs to be trained she'll be Chosen at eight or ten. Van then informs her parents of this and says that as the next Monarch's Own she won't have a "bonded" Choosing until she gets the office and bonds with Taver, the Monarch's Own Companion. This fits in with a statement in the Arrows trilogy, that the Monarch's Own Companion normally Chooses someone who's already a Herald or at least in training. Then, in Magic's Price Van reflects that the now fifteen-year-old Jisa hasn't been Chosen despite being beloved by Companions because she won't be until her mother dies and Taver Chooses the next Monarch's Own Herald. Later canon follows this, with the same situation happening in the Mags books. This may be because Companions in the first trilogy were more remote and mysterious than they tend to come off as in later books, where close emotional bonds and frequent chatter back and forth are the norm.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b2463ea1	type	Intellectual Animal
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b2463ea1	comment	Intellectual Animal: Any given Companion is a highly intelligent, magically-gifted angelic being with a horselike body. The kyree are kind of the same, but they're an uplifted wolflike species instead.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: Stefen interrupts Vanyel while he's dishing out the second part.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Gala comes off as a playful, giggling young Companion who teases her Chosen at every opportunity. It makes her O.O.C. Is Serious Business moment all the more shocking.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Deveran Remoerdis, the king of Baires, made sure his queen never had a chance to be alone with a man, due to his obsession with paternity. In Valdemar, Vanyel tells Withen "I know good and well you've been with women other than Mother" and doesn't seem to regard it as dysfunctional, but also tells Stefen that he doesn't think Treesa would cheat on Withen because "I think she truly loves Father, in her own way".
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_b85c06f2	comment	Glowing Eyes of Doom: Vanyel acquaints a particularly nasty band of brigands with this trope during a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Combined with Red Eyes, Take Warning for extra scare value.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: When they die, Vanyel, Yfandes and Stefen become the guardians of the Forest of Sorrows. In the short story In The Forest Of Sorrows, Vanyel explains to a child he's rescued that he's aware of and can feel every tree and plant in the titular Forest, every breeze that moves through it, and every creature within. Centuries later, the three spirits anchor themselves to Stefen's old harp so they can be Back for the Finale of Storm Breaking, performing one final Heroic Sacrifice and at last getting to move on to the Heraldic afterlife.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: The two Friendly Neighborhood Spiderlings in Upon A Midnight Clear, presented with bandits threatening the village, inject venom to liquiefy their insides and then eat them. Vanyel is concerned about this and the implications of the village's beloved guardians being willing to eat people, but his worry is waved off by the other characters.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Stefen, prior to falling for Vanyel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: Krebain and Leareth, to Vanyel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c05de85d	type	Mindlink Mates
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c05de85d	comment	Mindlink Mates: Vanyel and Tylendel; Vanyel and Stefen; Donni and Mardic; Starwind and Moondance; Randale and Shavri; Treven and Jisa are all permanently-bonded couples. The trilogy's term for this phenomenon is "lifebonding".
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Vanyel, twice, in Magic's Pawn, and Stefen in Magic's Price. Both cases resulted from grief at the death of a lifebonded lover.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c099ca1a	type	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c099ca1a	comment	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: A perennial problem with Mercedes Lackey. The Ashkevrons get "one strong-willed woman in a generation" who's got masculine interests and abilities and is considered as a person; the others are all more feminine and consistently called weak and "empty-headed". Lady Treesa gets a lot more contempt and is the subject of more dehumanizing language (such as "creature") than her harsh sister-in-law Savil or her husband, who's far more abusive from the start but gets extensive Character Development that redeems him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c32201f6	type	Good Colors, Evil Colors
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c32201f6	comment	Good Colors, Evil Colors: Heralds dress in head-to-toe white while on the job. Lord Dark's Mook army wears all-black armor.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: Both the outlaw gang and the soldiers controlled by Leareth fall into this category.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c413cc5f	type	Jacob and Esau
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c413cc5f	comment	Jacob and Esau: Treesa dotes on Vanyel, while Withen prefers Mekeal (or possibly just any son who isn't Vanyel).
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: There are twelve years between Magic's Pawn and Magic's Promise, and nine years between Magic's Promise and Magic's Price. Vanyel does quite a few very impressive things in those years, hinted at by having him be incredibly Famed in Story. Some of the specific ones, like the source of a number of his epithets, are portrayed in Filk songs, but of course those are sparing on detail and may play up the drama of the events. In Promise he also says he'll relate a story about a badass bard but does it offscreen.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c8e375d3	type	Lover and Beloved
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_c8e375d3	comment	Lover and Beloved: Played with. Savil says that confident, experienced Tylendel was the leader and Vanyel the follower in their relationship, although they don't have the age difference generally associated with this trope. By contrast, Vanyel is nearly twice Stefen's age, but seems not to have any more confidence or sexual experience than the younger man.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ca39ac3e	type	Troubled Abuser
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ca39ac3e	comment	Troubled Abuser: The only character alive that actually knew Tashir's mother note Aside from the brother who probably molested her and later cast the spell that killed her says outright that she thinks this is the reason behind Ylna's treatment of Tashir.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ca5eda76	type	Heteronormative Crusader
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ca5eda76	comment	Heteronormative Crusader: Withen, Jaysen, and Father Leren.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Vanyel's two lifebonds avert this. In the first, Vanyel didn't have powers yet. He had some combat training, but it never got put to the test as he simply wasn't in any combat situations and wasn't inclined to think of violence anyway. In the second Stefen, while a strong Bard, is a Non-Action Guy.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ce3de500	type	LGBT Representation in Media
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ce3de500	comment	LGBT Representation in Media: This trilogy was very progressive in 1989-1990, when it came out. Van is unquestionably its hero and someone striving to do good and be moral, and unquestionably gay.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Years after completing the trilogy, Mercedes Lackey featured Vanyel in a pair of short stories in the Valdemar anthology books, stories set at some ambigious point betwen the first two novels. In Vixen and A Midnight Clear Vanyel and a sardonic Healer friend help out at a tiny, remote village. While they're not without tension, the expectation that Van sacrifice himself for others is much less pronounced, he's not horribly injured or in despair, and he has various friends taking on a lot of the load, as well as civilians who don't fear and distrust him - they're so open-minded they can take in Friendly Neighborhood Spiders, so they're not bothered by a mere Herald-Mage no matter how powerful. Consequently he seems much happier and more stable than he generally gets to be in the trilogy proper.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: There are a lot of these: from Tylendel against the Leshara; from Vanyel against the magically-altered bird that killed Savil; and from Vanyel again after an outlaw gang tortures and rapes him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: In Price, Savil tells Vanyel that two seemingly-accidental deaths were assassinations. Vanyel, distracted by all of the other crises going on, dismisses her warnings; she becomes the third victim the same night.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Despite getting on in years, Savil is still pretty badass, one of the only Heralds able to gate and the first person to figure out Lord Dark's plan.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Stefen gives this to Vanyel a lot, usually when Vanyel has just been snippy with him, but on one occasion when he finds Vanyel in the middle of slaughtering a gang of outlaws.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: The Frelennye and Leshara.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d583df82	type	Nurse with Good Intentions
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d583df82	comment	Nurse with Good Intentions: Haven's Healers trying to help Vanyel in Magic's Pawn are just not able to do so without setting off his psychic injuries, which is very dangerous given his Power Incontinence. Savil has to take him to the Tayledras, who're better equipped for such an unusual case.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d7512543	type	Friendly Neighborhood Spider
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d7512543	comment	Friendly Neighborhood Spider: The short stories Vixen and A Midnight Clear feature giant, psychic hunting-spiders. After "Melody" lost her home to a cave in she comes to the rescue of Van, his friend Vixen, and the village they were trying to save, killing and eating a monster threatening them and telling them she preferred to die doing something noble. Instead the villagers adopt her as their champion and give her a new home, and Van works a spell so that she can speak out loud. In the second story, she's had eight spiderlings and she and most of them hibernate over the winter, but two, lamb-sized and dressed in sweaters the doting villagers made for them, help Vanyel and Vixen address a bandit attack.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d7f21602	comment	Holding Out for a Hero: By Magic's Price Valdemarans have come to regard Herald-Mages as solidly superior to "plain Heralds". When Withen discusses local problems with his son, Vanyel asks why he hadn't asked Haven to send a Herald to help and is told that they did but he got a Telepath, not a mage. Feeling insulted and like Haven wasn't taking the problem seriously, Withen gave the Herald busywork and sent her back thinking she'd solved the problem, and Forst Reach tried to handle it on their own.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d861e4f8	type	War Crime Subverts Heroism
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d861e4f8	comment	War Crime Subverts Heroism: After being captured and assaulted in Magic's Price, Van massacres most of the men who raped him — and two people who were innocent, including a child. He hangs on to his morality because 1. he was clearly not sane in that instant, and 2. Stefen and Yfandes talk him down before he can knowingly torture their leader to death.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d86fcde6	type	Kick the Morality Pet
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d86fcde6	comment	Kick the Morality Pet: Poor Stefen, dealing with a vengeance-obsessed Vanyel in Magic's Price. Luckily, Van comes around before he completes his Face–Heel Turn.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: After this trilogy, true magic becomes a forgotten art in Valdemar. It takes centuries — and a bit of direct intervention by Vanyel himself — before there are Herald-Mages again.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d980738c	type	Eat the Summoner
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_d980738c	comment	Eat the Summoner: Van is proficient at turning summoned demons back on those who called them up, something that it doesn't appear most mages can do.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Vanyel's favorite sister, Lissa Ashkevron, becomes a successful soldier.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Mardic and Donni. Vanyel's two lifebonds avert this. In the first, Vanyel didn't have powers yet. He had some combat training, but it never got put to the test as he simply wasn't in any combat situations and wasn't inclined to think of violence anyway. In the second Stefen, while a strong Bard, is a Non-Action Guy.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ddfb4e53	type	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ddfb4e53	comment	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Shortly after Tylendel's suicide, Vanyel realizes that most of the Heralds around him wish Vanyel had been the one to die and 'Lendel had lived.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_df77bb33	type	Ambadassador
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_df77bb33	comment	Ambadassador: By Magic's Price, Vanyel is in demand as a diplomat as well as being Valdemar's most powerful warrior.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e07342ac	type	Makeup Is Evil
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e07342ac	comment	Makeup Is Evil: When Vanyel finds himself attracted to Big Bad Krebain on first sight he's dismayed by his own reaction. Beauty Equals Goodness! This isn't right!
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e26f04b4	comment	Vanyel's solution upon finding himself the last Herald-Mage actually ensures that he's the last for quite some time. The quest the heroes go on in Winds of Fate to find a mage to teach Heralds could have happened pretty much immediately after Leareth died and stopped killing Valdemaran mages. Van's Brainwashing for the Greater Good spell making people struggle to think about magic ensures that it's an Outside-Context Problem every time it's used against Valdemar. The vrondi-spell was also very hard on people born in Valdemar with the Mage-Gift, such as Paxia in Weight of a Hundred Eyes.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e38c6149	type	Settle for Sibling
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e38c6149	comment	Settle for Sibling: Melenna has sex with Mekeal after Vanyel turns her down, a decision that results in Medren. In Magic's Promise, Vanyel recognizes the new wife of another of his brothers as one of the women Treesa once tried to get him interested in.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e453ef50	type	Crystal Ball
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e453ef50	comment	Crystal Ball: Herald-Mages in Magic's Price use crystals or gems as focus stones for larger magical works. When Vanyel casts a major spell to rework the Web and bind it to a Node, five of these gets fused into the stereotypical 'ball', though it's actually the tip of a new Heartstone.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Vanyel, Lissa, and Savil all call Withen out quite thoroughly when he comes to Haven to berate the traumatized Vanyel.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Vanyel always knew that Father Leren was irritating, but he didn't expect him to attempt murder in the service of the Karsites' Church Militant.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e8491efa	type	Don't Fear the Reaper
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_e8491efa	comment	Don't Fear The Reaper: As elsewhere in Valdemar, Death is either the male Shadow Lover or the female Lady Death, appearing according to the viewer's prefence An in-universe piece of music is a love song to the Shadow-Lover portraying Death as a gentle, compassionate entity who can bring the singer peace. Vanyel sings it at one point and thinks to himself that he would welcome Death's kiss if it came. At the end of Magic's Promise, he finds himself facing the Shadow Lover and told to decide whether to die and be at peace or go on with a life that will only become harder, lonelier, and more painful. Knowing what will happen to those he loves without him, Van chooses to live. Death is well-pleased and gives him some comfort before sending him back. Tellingly, Van's vision of Death wears Heraldic Whites, making him a figure who also understands the weight of duty. In the same scene, another newly-dead character is able to talk briefly to Vanyel, explaining that Lady Death granted him that favor.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ea35fda5	type	Bastard Bastard
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ea35fda5	comment	Poor Tashir's father despised him in the belief that he was as Lores says,"the worst kind of bastard". Not to mention his mother Ylyna: her constant Mood Whiplash towards him meant that Tashir was pretty much the only person in the entire castle who was afraid of her (not even the servants followed her orders); it was that, combined with his good looks and her twisted view of sexuality, that led her to attempt to groom and seduce him.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ee0c0a79	type	Professional Sex Ed
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_ee0c0a79	comment	Professional Sex Ed: Withen hires a female prostitute for Vanyel in an attempt to 'set him straight'. It doesn't work.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: The villagers who adopt Melody the giant talking heroic spider as their protector in Vixen have by the follow up A Midnight Clear come to see some extra benefits of being friends with giant spiders, namely that spider-silk in large quantities is very useful and when a giant spider feeds on an animal it liquefies and slurps out the insides leaving skin, bone, and claws behind, which makes preparing the skin and hides convenient and easy.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Vanyel doesn't heal from Tylendel's death until the latter returns to him as Stefen, around eighteen years later.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_f1a0baf0	type	Sliding Scale of Parent-Shaming in Fiction
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_f1a0baf0	comment	Sliding Scale of Parent-Shaming in Fiction: Withen appears to be Type III, a bad person, in the first book, but even if he doesn't quite get it when he finds his son suicidal that does seem to stir him to want to do better. Twelve years later in the second book he's between Type I and Type II, showing better aspects of himself while still causing stress and upset to Vanyel. In the third book he's gone through enough Character Development to be regarded more sympathetically.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Tashir and his Evil Uncle in the second book both bear a striking resemblance to Tylendel, one as a teen and one showing what a Tylendel who'd lived into adulthood might have looked like, which certainly doesn't make Van's life any easier.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_f829585a	comment	Beauty Is Bad: Leareth and Krebain are strikingly beautiful and magically charismatic, but Vanyel can see that unlike good beautiful people they deliberately used magic to change their appearance. He compares that to using makeup, and Makeup Is Evil.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: a couple in Magic's Promise; in the first quarter of the book, just about everyone Vanyel runs into that he knows by name (and some complete strangers) tell him that he looks like Hell. In the middle section, Melenna's increasingly ridiculous attempts to seduce Vanyel, climaxing with Vanyel sleeping in the stables with Yfandes.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Near the end of Magic's Price, a healer forced into working with the bad guys who have captured and tortured Vanyel takes revenge on them by removing the block that's keeping Vanyel from using his magic. Unfortunately, Vanyel isn't remotely sane by that point, and kills everybody, including the healer and a child who was another innocent victim of the bandits.
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Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Due to the age difference and the fact that people close to Vanyel become targets, it takes a while for him and Stefen to consummate their love.
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