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Mother of Learning

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Mother of Learning	comment	Mother of Learning is a complete (as of February 10th, 2020) fantasy/mystery Web Serial Novel by nobody103 (Domagoj Kurmaic). It begins with fifteen-year-old Zorian Kazinski, a studious, solitary (read: antisocial) young man, waking on the morning he is to catch the train to his third year of training at Cyoria's Royal Academy of Magical Arts. A man with no idea that in a month's time, he would find himself embroiled in circumstances far beyond the capacity of any fifteen-year-old mage-in-training to deal with ... and then find himself once again waking on the morning he is to catch the train to begin his third year at Cyoria.As the month continues to repeat itself over and over, though, Zorian must grow far beyond his humble roots if he's to have any chance of surviving and escaping from the endless loop. And even with the ability to reset time, he's not always safe from the dangers around him...Also published on Royal Road (here).
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Mother of Learning / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Mother of Learning / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: When Zorian asks about Alanic's ability to selectively burn his target, Alanic assumes that Lukav must have informed him about that, and Zorian doesn't feel like explaining that it was actually a previous iteration of Alanic himself.
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Mother of Learning / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Mother of Learning / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: Nearly everything in the story runs off of mana. Spells? Fueled by mana. Monsters? Can absorb ambient mana to power their unusual abilities. Trains? Crystallised mana is cleaner than coal.
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Mother of Learning / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Mother of Learning / int_130436b9	comment	Kirielle is the Annoying Younger Sibling and yet also the only family member Zorian claims to like. She's a little more understanding of Fortov's faults than Zorian is, but still doesn't like him, and Daimen is almost a stranger to her. As for their parents, she's trying to get out of an arranged marriage and into magic school, firmly against her mother's wishes, and can't even reveal her interest in drawing.
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Mother of Learning / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Mother of Learning / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: Zorian is skilled enough with alchemy that he intends to make himself actually sick through a deliberate potion "mistake", to get out of the school dance.
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Mother of Learning / int_145babc0	type	Expendable Clone
Mother of Learning / int_145babc0	comment	Expendable Clone: This is part of the ethics of the time loop. The entire world, including copies of every living soul, is destroyed at the end of each month only to be re-created again next time. The creators of the time loop decided that the only way this was at all ethical was by limiting the loop to a month; they decided that over the course of a single month, a soul would not diverge enough to be considered a "new" person, and therefore killing the entire world was not a crime. However, the Crown allows temporary loopers to exist for six months, more than long enough to diverge, and therefore killing them is inevitably murder. The Guardian insists that it is the responsibility of the controller to decide if the gain is worth the murder.
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Mother of Learning / int_14e526cb	type	Dimensional Cutter
Mother of Learning / int_14e526cb	comment	Dimensional Cutter: One of Zach's many (many, many) combat spells is a projectile that explodes into a cluster of spatial distortions. The first time Zorian sees it in use, it shreds a building "like an apple thrown into an industrial blender machine."
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Mother of Learning / int_14f69e56	type	Psychic Radar
Mother of Learning / int_14f69e56	comment	Psychic Radar: Zorian gets the perk after receiving some training in Mind Arts.
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Mother of Learning / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
Mother of Learning / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Taiven is a just-graduated Magic Knight looking to get apprenticed as an explorer and shameless in her ability to railroad through anything in her way.
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Mother of Learning / int_1606a707	type	Secret Test
Mother of Learning / int_1606a707	comment	Secret Test: Ilsa Zileti gives him one before he even gets to the Academy. The second meeting between Zorian and Detective Haslush Ikzeteri turns out to be one of these: Haslush combined a disguise and a compulsion spell to make Zorian think he was in the wrong place. He explains afterwards that part of his motive was emphasizing the importance of perceptiveness for divination. Xvim Chao likes to put his students through a month of hell to test their dedication and work ethic.
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Mother of Learning / int_175163cb	type	Transferable Memory
Mother of Learning / int_175163cb	comment	Transferable Memory: Aranea are capable of transferring their memories to others and even storing them in someone elseâ€™s mind for future retrieval.
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Mother of Learning / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Mother of Learning / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: The train to Cyoria is warded to make mana shaping harder. A skilled mage can overcome it, but it keeps rowdy students and casual vandals from getting out of control. There are manacles that entirely suppress the captive's ability to shape mana, for keeping mages prisoner. However, they don't stop entirely innate abilities like those possessed by shifters...
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Mother of Learning / int_192ba729	type	Older Is Better
Mother of Learning / int_192ba729	comment	Older Is Better: Explicitly subverted. As Zorian learns upon request, lost magic was usually lost either because it relies on nowadays unavailable or unethical requirements or was simply impractical.
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Mother of Learning / int_1997076f	type	Melting-Pot Nomenclature
Mother of Learning / int_1997076f	comment	Melting-Pot Nomenclature: We have Zorian Kazinski, Zach Noveda, Xvim Chao, Akoja Stroze, Tinami Aope and many, many more. We also have places named Cyoria and Knyazov Dveri (Knyaz' Doors) in one country and not too far from each other. Justified, as the country was founded by refugees/conquerors from another continent.
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Mother of Learning / int_1ca6727d	type	Actually a Doombot
Mother of Learning / int_1ca6727d	comment	Actually a Doombot: The aranea and a group of mercenaries ambush Red Robe, aiming to incapacitate him, but accidentally kill him instead - except that the simulacrum just turns to smoke and vanishes, after which the real Red Robe (or maybe even another copy) ambushes them in turn. Zorian uses a literal remote controlled magic robot as a body double to disguise his true movements within Iasku Mansion. The villain eventually works it out, but is already cornered by then. Near the end of the story, Zorian's simulacra are regularly clashing with Red Robe's simulacra, although Zorian's are tougher and usually win. The real Red Robe is out of the country at the time.
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Mother of Learning / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Mother of Learning / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Alanic is skilled in various types of magic, but a firm specialist in fire, to the point where he can control exactly what his spells will burn even after casting them. It synergizes well with his secondary focus, fighting the undead. Veyers Boranova has inherited a natural affinity for fire magic, able to use it without structured spells, with just a thought — even if he doesn't really want to.
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Mother of Learning / int_1d91d9bb	type	Deadly Gaze
Mother of Learning / int_1d91d9bb	comment	Deadly Gaze: Eye Beasts can kill with a look. Just another reason to not get too cocky against an unknown enemy.note Word of God is that this is a soul magic attack, so as his skills grow, Zorian might well be able to defend himself against it.
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Mother of Learning / int_1e75509c	type	Adventure-Friendly World
Mother of Learning / int_1e75509c	comment	Adventure-Friendly World: Between humans expanding into the monster-haunted wilderness, the worldwide Dungeon full of peril and wealth, the countries preparing for the next round of war and businesses using dirty tricks to compete, there are lots of options for skilled mages. Zorian gets invited to engage in corporate espionage while hunting monsters.
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Mother of Learning / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Mother of Learning / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Red Robe made an agreement with Panaxeth, getting himself incarnated in the real world with an enhanced body and his memories intact, but with a kill switch embedded in his body and soul. If Panaxeth isn't released by the month's end, he dies. Since he actively wants widespread destruction of the existing social order, he's okay with that. Silverlake, who is selfish enough to care more about her own survival than her original version or anyone else, eventually takes the same deal.
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Mother of Learning / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Mother of Learning / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: After the trauma of Nochka's kidnapping, Kirielle is very upset, but falls asleep quickly after having some of Imaya's "homemade calming tea". Zorian thinks it's suspiciously fast, actually, and suspects the tea was lightly drugged.
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Mother of Learning / int_256664a8	type	Death of Personality
Mother of Learning / int_256664a8	comment	Death of Personality: One of Zorianâ€™s true fears, given that thereâ€™s not much else that can harm him inside the time loop.
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Mother of Learning / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Mother of Learning / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: Repetitio est mater studiorum — repetition is the mother of learning.
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Mother of Learning / int_284ad04d	type	Feather Flechettes
Mother of Learning / int_284ad04d	comment	Feather Flechettes: "Iron beak" birds have metal feathers, which they can throw with considerable accuracy. Combined with flight and their tendency to work in flocks, the result is essentially a Rain of Arrows. Fortunately they're not very resilient compared to the other invading monsters like trolls and wolves.
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Mother of Learning / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Mother of Learning / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Magic is totally capable of making objects fly, but the mana cost scales up so quickly that magical aircraft are largely an impractical novelty, requiring expensive construction materials, consuming exorbitant amounts of magical fuel, and being restricted to paths with high ambient mana. For intercontinental travel, people generally prefer teleportation (if they're in a hurry) or sailing ships (if they aren't).
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Mother of Learning / int_2ec219ee	type	Butterfly of Doom
Mother of Learning / int_2ec219ee	comment	Butterfly of Doom: Zigzagged. Zorian's actions don't always have an effect proportional to the effort expended. Big changes sometimes do almost nothing, small changes often spread and have knock-on effects.
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Mother of Learning / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Mother of Learning / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Quatach-Ichl may be leading an invasion intended to kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people, but he has a clear foreign policy aim in doing so; he doesn't approve of Red Robe's plans for mass slaughter and chaos.
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Mother of Learning / int_37fce466	type	Teleport Interdiction
Mother of Learning / int_37fce466	comment	Teleport Interdiction: Wards to prevent teleportation, and ways to bypass those wards, feature repeatedly, to the point of almost becoming a Lensman Arms Race. One of Zorian's lessons with Xvim specifically focuses on it, with Zorian repeatedly attempting to ward an area against teleportation while Xvim dispels or bypasses his efforts. The ambient mana of the Dungeon works like static that makes teleporting much more difficult; not impossible for a skilled mage, but range is sharply reduced.
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Mother of Learning / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Mother of Learning / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: The humble "magic missile" spell is certainly eclipsed in raw power and spectacle by many other types of combat magic; Zach has long since moved on from it, preferring fireballs, ethereal shark jaws, and blades imbued with energy that will melt the innards of any target they hit. But magic missile is relatively easy to learn, and if well cast, is powerful enough to take out an unshielded human or many types of wild monsters, with a short casting time and minimal mana cost. By adjusting the shape of the missile, it's even possible to produce different effects; it can be a bludgeon, it can punch holes, it can follow a moving target, it can even just produce an audible shriek as it flies through the air (if the caster needs to draw attention). And like any spell, the more it's practised, the faster and more efficient it is to cast, until ultimately a perfect cast will have no energy leakage and will thus be invisible — or, alternatively, someone at that level can cast an imperfect version in a hurry with a single gesture. Naturally, having low mana reserves, but lots of time for practice, Zorian becomes an expert in this spell.
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Mother of Learning / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
Mother of Learning / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Deadly Gas: The traps in Iasku Mansion include flooding a corridor with "breath-stealer gas". Too bad that golems are unaffected.
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Mother of Learning / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
Mother of Learning / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: The details of the Iljatir bloodline magic are secret, but it's known to be related to divination. And then Zorian notices that Neolu seems very confident that she can tell whether or not people are being honest with her...
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Mother of Learning / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Mother of Learning / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: Lukav transforms himself into an Immune to Bullets magical bull, his enemies respond by casting two types of complex spell, and Zorian... Just stabs one with a knife. Zach knows hundreds of combat spells, but he actually likes to fight by telekinetically tearing up large chunks of the ground and throwing them. Dirt and concrete can't be dispelled like magic can, so the only real defence is to dodge — which is often easier said than done.
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Mother of Learning / int_3dfa74a8	type	Corrupted Contingency
Mother of Learning / int_3dfa74a8	comment	Corrupted Contingency: Liches tend to have protections intended to pull their souls back to their phylacteries if threatened. Which is how Kael's banishment coin is able to work; it couldn't have kicked Quatach-Ichl out by itself, but his contingencies triggered.
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Mother of Learning / int_3f0310d6	type	Magikarp Power
Mother of Learning / int_3f0310d6	comment	Magikarp Power: Shaping exercises are shaping up to be this. With enough practice, a mage can cast despite disruption wards, bypass wards that are triggered by structured spells, and can create mind shields to rival those used by actual psychics, all without speaking or gesturing. Xvim later tells Zorian that for a true arch-mage, there are exercises even more foundational than shaping, focused on developing better awareness of mana. They don't give quick results, but an increased ability to sense and manipulate mana gradually improves every spell.
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Mother of Learning / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Mother of Learning / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Zorianâ€™s mother.
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Mother of Learning / int_41ba335a	type	Amnesiac Hero
Mother of Learning / int_41ba335a	comment	Amnesiac Hero: When Zorian meets Zach, the latter can't remember how the loop started or what it's about, though he has a feeling that he should defeat the invasion of Cyoria. Zorian attributes the holes in his memory to Quatach-Ichl's soul magic attack. They're actually much older, from when Red Robe betrayed him and partially wiped his memory to stop him from interfering and let him die in the final loop collapse.
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Mother of Learning / int_42b97a7c	type	I'm Having Soul Pains
Mother of Learning / int_42b97a7c	comment	I'm Having Soul Pains: Soul magic attacks have very unpleasant effects, including excruciating pain, nausea, and in some cases ongoing weakness.
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Mother of Learning / int_4353c4b7	type	Magically-Binding Contract
Mother of Learning / int_4353c4b7	comment	Magically-Binding Contract: A sufficiently powerful mage can construct a magical contract that binds someone's soul. The angels used a divine artifact to make a contract with Zach, obligating him to stop the release of Panaxeth without telling anyone else about the time loop. In exchange, he was marked as the Controller and given a divine blessing that doubled his personal mana reserves without lessening his ability to shape them. However, if Panaxeth escapes, or if at the end of the month he's aware of anyone else knowing about the time loop, he dies. Panaxeth makes a deal with Red Robe, incarnating him in the real world in an enhanced body, but obligating him to release Panaxeth from prison. If that doesn't happen by the end of the month, Red Robe dies — possibly even warping his soul, too. Silverlake takes the same deal.
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Mother of Learning / int_4566ce0a	type	Literal Disarming
Mother of Learning / int_4566ce0a	comment	Literal Disarming: Even after practising until a spell is reflexive, mages still need at least a small gesture to cast it, so cutting off arms is an effective way to neutralise Sudomir.
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Mother of Learning / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Mother of Learning / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The primordials were imprisoned in pocket dimensions by the gods, thousands of years ago, because killing them was too hard, too expensive, had too many side effects, or was otherwise not practical (the records are too fragmentary to be sure). Technically they don't actually hate humanity, any more than a human who steps on an ant necessarily hates that ant, but that would make their release no less devastating.
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Mother of Learning / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Mother of Learning / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Chapter 26. The third time traveler reveals himself just before he figures out that Zorian's looping, kills the aranea permanently, and Zorian only avoids a similar or worse fate by mind-wrestling him to a standstill, shooting him with a gun, jumping down an extremely long vertical shaft with a monster at the bottom and blowing himself up midway down. End of Arc 1
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Mother of Learning / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Mother of Learning / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Sudomir is a bit unhinged after giving himself an unstable hybrid shifter form, and keeps breaking out into laughter — but trying to stop himself — when Zorian confronts him.
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Mother of Learning / int_4baebbc8	type	Soul Fragment
Mother of Learning / int_4baebbc8	comment	Soul Fragment: Zorian gets drawn into the timeloop as a side effect of having a fragment of Zach's soul merge with his own.
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Mother of Learning / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Mother of Learning / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Chapter 26: "When I killed them in the last restart, I didn't just kill their bodies. No matter how many times the time loop repeats itself, the aranea will always start the time loop dead, their bodies present but their souls forever gone. Soul magic is so fascinating, isn't it?" Chapter 54: "I'm sorry, but the gate is barred." Chapter 80: Chapter 89: "It doesn't matter anymore," Panaxeth said. "Someone else has already taken my offer."
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Mother of Learning / int_4ee5989a	type	Bizarre Alien Senses
Mother of Learning / int_4ee5989a	comment	Bizarre Alien Senses: Extra eyes, a sense of vibration, a sense of taste through touch... Zorian has to learn to cope with aranean thoughts in order to be able to read the Matriarch's planted memories. He deliberately commissions potions to grant him the sensory abilities of a Grey Hunter spider, allowing him to stomp on the ground and sense everything in their surroundings through the resulting vibrations. By that point, he has enough practice with alien senses that he's able to use them fairly effectively. It turns out that adjusting easily to unusual sensory input is part of being Open.
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Mother of Learning / int_4f2d8031	type	Anchored Teleportation
Mother of Learning / int_4f2d8031	comment	Anchored Teleportation: Under ideal conditions, the teleport spell lets the user travel to anywhere they have been before, with the mana costs being determined by distance. However, travelling down into the Dungeon results in magical interference that prevents regular teleportation from working. Zorian eventually finds a way around the interference by embedding a "spell of recall" onto an anchor object on the surface, allowing him to teleport back to it even from deep underground. The spell also allows the user to teleport to the anchor object even if it's taken to somewhere they have never been before.
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Mother of Learning / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
Mother of Learning / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: Played for Laughs when Zorian asks about the legality of owning a giant, magically-enhanced hydra in Eldemar, "for a friend." Not that he ever had any intention of going through any legal channels, of course.
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Mother of Learning / int_4fb8db6a	type	Skipping School
Mother of Learning / int_4fb8db6a	comment	Skipping School: Once he's learned everything that the first month of classes has to teach him, Zorian starts regularly skipping classes in favour of self-study. The fact that he demonstrably knows all the material and only needs to keep it up for a month helps him get away with it.
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Mother of Learning / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Mother of Learning / int_5008a1bb	comment	Mysterious Informant: Regularly invoked by Zorian to feed information to authority figures about The Conspiracy, without drawing attention to himself. At the start of the story, he sends anonymous letters; by the end, after a decade of constant magical training, he can create disguised clones that dissolve after handing over information directly.
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Mother of Learning / int_50727f8d	type	Death Is a Slap on the Wrist
Mother of Learning / int_50727f8d	comment	Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Due to the nature of the time loop Zorian finds himself in, the only consequence of death is the loss of a bit of time. Of course, later time eventually becomes much more valuable...
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Mother of Learning / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Mother of Learning / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Zorian may be invisible, but he still uses a scarf to hide his face. He also purchases a gun to supplement his combat magic. When he investigates the Ibasan base, he doesn't expect to find hordes of undead — so he "only" has five dispeller grenades as part of a standard loadout. When he tries it again, his explosives are being magically blocked, so he tries a succession of different types of grenades until he finally succeeds with a purely alchemical bomb containing no spells.
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Mother of Learning / int_5261369c	type	Sand Worm
Mother of Learning / int_5261369c	comment	Sand Worm: The invading forces have several specimens. The Sulrothum have a divinely enhanced and controlled one beneath their home, which they use for defense.
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Mother of Learning / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Mother of Learning / int_537dd8fe	comment	QI's Affably Evil nature takes a sudden turn when it turns into a race between him and the protagonists to see who can stab the other in the back first. Amusingly, the protagonists are usually the ones who betray him, and they even point out his honorable nature as a way to get him on their side.
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Mother of Learning / int_53ecf83f	type	Lensman Arms Race
Mother of Learning / int_53ecf83f	comment	Wards to prevent teleportation, and ways to bypass those wards, feature repeatedly, to the point of almost becoming a Lensman Arms Race. One of Zorian's lessons with Xvim specifically focuses on it, with Zorian repeatedly attempting to ward an area against teleportation while Xvim dispels or bypasses his efforts.
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Mother of Learning / int_54a20968	type	Immune to Mind Control
Mother of Learning / int_54a20968	comment	Immune to Mind Control: Golems and lesser undead are essentially magical robots, without true minds, so there's nothing for a telepath to connect to. Higher undead like vampires and liches are fair game, although they tend to be, powerful, skilled, and paranoid about their safety, so attacking their minds is risky.
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Mother of Learning / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
Mother of Learning / int_556a3059	comment	The Empath: Entertainingly, Zorian, considering that he is probably the most misanthropic character in the setting.
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Mother of Learning / int_568b9d5	type	Orphaned Etymology
Mother of Learning / int_568b9d5	comment	Orphaned Etymology: Kael's race is known as Morlocks, despite The Time Machine not existing and the worldwide cave system is called the Dungeon, for no explicable reason.
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Mother of Learning / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Mother of Learning / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Zorian's empathetic powers used to cause him headaches whenever he was stuck in crowds of people. Exploited by Zorian to defeat the Grey Hunter spider, which dodges or shrugs off most spells, but whose super-senses don't cope well with a magical flash-bang. Veyers Boranova struggles not to lose control of his native affinity for fire, with limited success.
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Mother of Learning / int_58075ef2	type	Stumbling in the New Form
Mother of Learning / int_58075ef2	comment	Stumbling in the New Form: One of the big advantages of full-blown "shifters", who actually have two souls fused together, over temporary potion-based transformations, is that shifters get instincts to go with their second form, allowing them to easily run with four legs as a wolf or fly as a bird. When Zorian tries an eagle transformation potion, he has to allow enough money for several potions, so he can get the hang of flying, before using it in earnest. When he later tries brewing more potions for some of his friends, they struggle even more because they're not "Open" aka psychic, which allows a mind to adapt better to new stimuli.
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Mother of Learning / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Mother of Learning / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: All over the place, from the princess of a shifter tribe dealing with her culture's sexism and xenophobia, to a Morlock who lost his wife in a plague and wants to become a great healer, an undead-hunting priest with a dark past, a former thief going straight for her daughter's sake, an adventuring archeologist . . .
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Mother of Learning / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
Mother of Learning / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Taiven is a combat mage who has been training in nonmagical combat since she was a little kid.
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Mother of Learning / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Mother of Learning / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The aranea have thrived beneath Cyoria, not by being the strongest species around (they aren't), but by being willing to cooperate with humans and provide them with useful intelligence to wipe out mutual enemies.
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Mother of Learning / int_5a5b7e42	type	Improperly Paranoid
Mother of Learning / int_5a5b7e42	comment	Improperly Paranoid: Elayer Inid considers the mysterious people who saved his country "foes", simply because he doesn't know who they are.
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Mother of Learning / int_5b12f598	type	Million to One Chance
Mother of Learning / int_5b12f598	comment	The entire way Zorian got into the time loop was by a Million to One Chance accidentally taking advantage of one; Zach's soul marker got partially copied over to him, in such a way that the safeguards intended to prevent it from being copied were damaged and didn't work.
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Mother of Learning / int_5f2a34e5	type	Drinking Contest
Mother of Learning / int_5f2a34e5	comment	Drinking Contest: Despite having much less experience, Zorian can drink Zach under the table, with a simple trick he learned from Haslush. Namely, covertly transmuting alcohol into sugar.
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Mother of Learning / int_5f611b7e	type	Good All Along
Mother of Learning / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: The Sulrothum, also known as the Devil Wasps, are, in fact, literally and firmly on the side of the angels. Within the loop, when approached diplomatically, they hand over the imperial ring without any complaint. Back in the real world, they assemble an army to fight against Red Robe.
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Mother of Learning / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
Mother of Learning / int_5fdf73bc	comment	Photographic Memory: The aranea can make "memory packets" that cause a memory to be stored flawlessly and permanently. They can even transfer packets to other minds. Which is how the matriarch piggybacks on the time loop, having Zorian carry selected memories between restarts and deliver them to her. When he starts hitting the limits of what he can remember from one restart to the next, Zorian seeks out a spell that lets him store the blueprint of an object in his mind. He can't actually read a notebook blueprint while it's in his head, but he can use it to flawlessly recreate the notebook, including the writing in it, from raw materials.
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Mother of Learning / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Mother of Learning / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Batak the priest is happy to have any visitors to the temple, but when Zorian asks him whether he knows anything about primordials, he chokes on his tea and spends several seconds coughing.
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Mother of Learning / int_648c3646	type	Enlightened Self-Interest
Mother of Learning / int_648c3646	comment	Enlightened Self-Interest: The aranea matriarch's plans to integrate with human society are based on human selfishness and the benefits the aranea can bring.
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Mother of Learning / int_651a8540	type	Indy Escape
Mother of Learning / int_651a8540	comment	Indy Escape: Subverted; the ancient palace of the Ikosian emperor used to have rolling boulder traps, but they've decayed into uselessness.
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Mother of Learning / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Mother of Learning / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: When his soul is damaged, preventing him from using any magic for several months while it heals, Zorian finds the whole thing a thoroughly miserable experience. He can't teleport, he can't craft magical items, he can't even repel vermin. By that point, he's essentially an archmage, but without his magic, he's reduced to being a mundane teenager.
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Mother of Learning / int_6bfd0c5c	type	When the Planets Align
Mother of Learning / int_6bfd0c5c	comment	When the Planets Align: The whole time-loop occurs every 400 years, based on a rare planetary alignment.
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Mother of Learning / int_6fc65638	type	Hypnotism Reversal
Mother of Learning / int_6fc65638	comment	Hypnotism Reversal: Red Robe captures Zorian, then attempts to use mind magic to read his memories and find out who else is aware of the time loop. However, while Red Robe has put considerable effort into training his unstructured mind magic skills, he doesn't have the bloodline gift that would make it truly effective. Zorian does, and even with his more limited training, he's able to seize on the mental connection Red Robe has created and use it to counterattack, scrambling Red Robe's thoughts and interfering with his muscle control for long enough to escape.
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Mother of Learning / int_7230cfe	type	Shoe Phone
Mother of Learning / int_7230cfe	comment	Shoe Phone: Upon returning to the real world, Zorian makes a miniature golem doll for his little sister, with enough animation magic to make it respond realistically. Her reaction is to paint a face on it and add hair and a dress. What she doesn't know is that the doll is a bodyguard, packed with weapons and defensive wards.
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Mother of Learning / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Mother of Learning / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The gods actually prepared contingencies in the core of the world to deal with disasters like the release of a primordial. However, "deal with" in this case means scorched earth to remove the threat. According to the angels, humanity would probably not be entirely wiped out in the conflagration, but there's no guarantees. Thus, preventing the primordial's release is of prime importance.
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Mother of Learning / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Mother of Learning / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The original eBook cover shows Zorian, holding a weapon, staring down an ominous Giant Spider who looks like the Big Bad. In actuality the aranea are, most of the time, some of his most reliable allies.
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Mother of Learning / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Mother of Learning / int_7360a6b6	comment	Quatach-Ichl is also an example of this. While he's a Noble Demon who adheres to a code of honor and never betrays people unless they betray him first, he's also at least a thousand years old, meaning that his moral system is extremely dated and generally far more brutal than most people would consider acceptable in the present day.
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Mother of Learning / int_74150406	type	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells
Mother of Learning / int_74150406	comment	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: It's actually quite difficult to enchant bullets, since they're small, usually made of magically inert materials, and can't be accessed once they're in the gun. Arrows are easier. However, with extensive effort, Zorian does manage to pack a bullet with a magical fluid that turns organic material to crystal, in order to take down the grey hunter.
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Mother of Learning / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
Mother of Learning / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: There are innumerable details in the early chapters whose importance only comes to light many, many chapters later. In chapter 2, he makes a very passing reference to the absence of Veyers Boranova, who was expelled. Veyers turns out to be a crucial link to the identity of the third time traveler, but is never mentioned again until chapter 56. Also in chapter 2, Taiven invites him to pad out her team's numbers on a find-and-retrieve job in the local Dungeon. The spiders that she would encounter eventually become crucial allies, after chapter 17. Then, much later, the ward breaker device that she was hired to retrieve turns out to be crucial in accessing the secret research chamber within the aranean base, which is essential in developing Zorian's ability to properly coordinate with his simulacra for the endgame. His first time going to Cyoria, Zorian helps a girl to pull her bicycle out of a creek. Nearly 40 chapters later, when Kirielle befriends the girl, she becomes an important lead in tracing the activities of the Dragon Cult. In Chapter 51, when Zorian goes to inform the Church about Sudomir's soul-sinking well, he enters into discussion with a priest about the importance of souls. The priest mentions that the divines could use a soul to create an identical copy of a person, indistinguishable from the original in every way. In Chapter 54, Zorian discovers that this is the exact mechanism of the time loop. By creating a fake world for the loop, the angels have populated it with exact copies of every single person that exists in the real world. Meaning, apart from Zach, who's the true Controller of the loop, every character seen so far is a clone.
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Mother of Learning / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Mother of Learning / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Zorian is able to explore this in detail during the many loops. He and Kael easily obtain a pass to visit the local Dungeon, but in the next restart, when he goes to Ilsa alone, she refuses to authorise it. Apparently Kael seems more self-sufficient and capable. Without intervention, Sudomir's assassins kill Alanic in his sleep. However, if Zorian instead rescues Alanic's friend Lukav, then they rush to an immediate frontal attack, fearing that Alanic will be forewarned. All Zorian's known patterns are disrupted by the ripples from the aranea being persistently killed. Even Taiven's sewer run has been upstaged by other opportunities.
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Mother of Learning / int_79c34029	type	The Nose Knows
Mother of Learning / int_79c34029	comment	The Nose Knows: Rea Sashal knows that Zorian is better connected than he appears, because she can detect his scent on almost all the people who approach her about evacuating from Cyoria.
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Mother of Learning / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
Mother of Learning / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Users of Mind Arts (e.g. the Aranea, Zorian, etc) can establish one.
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Mother of Learning / int_7d4a47d1	type	Let Us Never Speak of This Again
Mother of Learning / int_7d4a47d1	comment	Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Zach is of this opinion when the soulseizer chrysanthemum outsmarts and nearly kills him and Zorian, despite the two of them being extraordinarily skilled Archmages. He doesn't want anyone to find out that they were almost killed by a flower. This actually greatly works in Zorian's favor in the climax, since Zach not learning much more about the flower allows Zorian to study it in secret and adapt his own magic to overcome Mind Blank, thus saving Zach's life.
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Mother of Learning / int_7ef7e1cd	type	Every Man Has His Price
Mother of Learning / int_7ef7e1cd	comment	Every Man Has His Price: With no need to save wealth beyond the end of the time loop and the knowledge of where large amounts of extremely valuable crystallized mana deposits are, Zach and Zorian (and anyone else they let in on the secret of the time loop) are free to offer people whatever it takes to get their cooperation, even if it means paying much more - in wealth, information, or any other resource - than the help would normally be worth. They even manage to do this during the Final Battle. Zorian gets Oganj the dragon mage to abandon his allies and leave by making him a better offer than Red Robe did - two of the five divine artifacts that make up the key to the Sovereign Gate. Zorian is a little surprised to find himself on the other end of this, when Gurey persuades him to help with some corporate espionage, in exchange for Gurey's information about analysing and defeating wards, and an associated spellbook.
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Mother of Learning / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Mother of Learning / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: Zorian is blindsided and utterly helpless when the aranea matriarch pays him a visit. He's then presented with some annoyingly logical and reasonable suggestions why he should accept help from a colony of giant telepathic spiders. After the time loop, Zorian has no hesitation in using the same tactics back against her, giving her a choice between cooperating with him, or letting a rival gain the benefits of his help (which would likely result in her eventual death).
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Mother of Learning / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Mother of Learning / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: By allowing one wrong person to retain his memory for six loops, Zach immensely complicated his initial task.
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Mother of Learning / int_80491c2f	type	"Open!" Says Me
Mother of Learning / int_80491c2f	comment	"Open!" Says Me: Zach defeats both the locks and traps on a scroll case by magically shattering it into hundreds of pieces. Zorian is a little taken aback, but figures that if it works, it works.
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Mother of Learning / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Mother of Learning / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Kirielle's husband has already been chosen six years in advance.
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Mother of Learning / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Mother of Learning / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: Some politicians insist that The Alliance of Eldemar still exists ... it's just shrunk.
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Mother of Learning / int_8204a6ad	type	The Magic Versus Technology War
Mother of Learning / int_8204a6ad	comment	The Magic Versus Technology War: The Splinter War was so named for the knock-on effect the first mass deployment of artillery and rifles had on the country. The highly trained, magical elite couldn't quite prevail against large numbers of poorly trained, massed rifle troops. When the houses who were the most prominent battlemages, and thus took the heaviest losses, were also the politicians, the effect was further fragmentation of the country. To be fair, magic tends to do quite well against technology, with archmages sweeping aside entire platoons quite easily; it's just that before the war, mages thought guns were just cute little toys and no real threat. They were disabused of this notion quite thoroughly.
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Mother of Learning / int_82a4fadc	type	Our Liches Are Different
Mother of Learning / int_82a4fadc	comment	Our Liches Are Different: The variety that comes with phylacteries.
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Mother of Learning / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Mother of Learning / int_830b0ac9	comment	They even manage to do this during the Final Battle. Zorian gets Oganj the dragon mage to abandon his allies and leave by making him a better offer than Red Robe did - two of the five divine artifacts that make up the key to the Sovereign Gate.
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Mother of Learning / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Mother of Learning / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: In the real world, Zach and Zorian could shut down the invasion by contacting the capital and bringing in the army, but if they tried that, then Red Robe would retaliate by causing as much chaos as possible — weapons of mass destruction, assassinations targeted at starting wars, dragon rampages — in hopes of creating an opening to free Panaxeth. So, Red Robe wants a truce.
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Mother of Learning / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Mother of Learning / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: This is Zorian's description of the first-year "Operation of Magic Items" class, when reviewing the curriculum with Kael. First and second years are about learning to access one's magic, with few actual spells being learned, and pouring mana into items to activate them is part of that.
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Mother of Learning / int_87c62ade	type	Deadly Dodging
Mother of Learning / int_87c62ade	comment	Deadly Dodging: Xvim uses dimensional gates to redirect a spell from Quatach-Ichl into another invader. Zorian wonders for a moment why he didn't just return it to sender, then realises that that probably wouldn't have worked anyway, and he achieved more by taking out another enemy.
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Mother of Learning / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Mother of Learning / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Many cities choose to seal off parts of the Dungeon (an underground maze of caves and tunnels) to serve as sewers — which is why said sewers are so labyrinthine and oversized. Word of God is that the Dungeon spans the entire planet; no one knows how such a honeycomb holds up under its own weight.
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Mother of Learning / int_8844a843	type	Seeing Through Another's Eyes
Mother of Learning / int_8844a843	comment	Seeing Through Another's Eyes: In one instance, Zorian through the Matriarchâ€™s.
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Mother of Learning / int_88699eee	type	Bargain with Heaven
Mother of Learning / int_88699eee	comment	Bargain with Heaven: Zach agreed to a divine contract while dreaming, which resulted in him being marked as the loop Controller, given a divine blessing that doubled his mana reserves, and tasked with secretly defeating the invasion and keeping Panaxeth locked up. If he fails, though, or if anyone else finds out and isn't silenced, he dies.
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Mother of Learning / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
Mother of Learning / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: Zorian succeeds in bribing a dragon mage to leave the final battle alone, by offering him a better payoff. Red Robe is furious about it, but helpless to stop Oganj from just flying away.
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Mother of Learning / int_8a2d8868	type	Not Afraid to Die
Mother of Learning / int_8a2d8868	comment	Not Afraid to Die: A certain amount of fearlessness is needed in order to successfully use the simulacrum spell — otherwise, the copies will have an existential Freak Out and possibly betray the original or do something stupid. Silverlake doesn't use the spell, for this reason; she's too self-interested, and any copy of her would readily backstab the original if it keeps the copy alive. Zorian's copies aren't afraid of dying for the original, but are fond of pranking and inconveniencing him.
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Mother of Learning / int_8a9979ed	type	Immunity Disability
Mother of Learning / int_8a9979ed	comment	Immunity Disability: Zach's marker protects him from mind magic and soul magic, by resetting the loop if he's subjected to them. Unfortunately, this feature can't be disabled, and it's rather easy to trigger, so he can't temporarily die in order to undergo accelerated soul awareness training, or unlock the ability to perceive other souls, or acquire a familiar.
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Mother of Learning / int_8b5db38b	type	They Killed Kenny Again
Mother of Learning / int_8b5db38b	comment	They Killed Kenny Again: Many characters are killed, only to be reborn when the month inevitably resets.
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Mother of Learning / int_8bd16732	type	The Law of Conservation of Detail
Mother of Learning / int_8bd16732	comment	The Law of Conservation of Detail: Especially with all the exposition dumps and side characters.
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Mother of Learning / int_8c9cad1e	type	Psychic Static
Mother of Learning / int_8c9cad1e	comment	Psychic Static: Most mages, and many civilians, have some amount of training to carefully discipline their surface thoughts, making it harder to read anything without a more invasive and noticeable scan. Zorian tries using this against the aranea Matriarch only to find out that itâ€™s already too late.
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Mother of Learning / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Mother of Learning / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Chapter 26. The third time traveler reveals himself just before he figures out that Zorian's looping, kills the aranea permanently, and Zorian only avoids a similar or worse fate by mind-wrestling him to a standstill, shooting him with a gun, jumping down an extremely long vertical shaft with a monster at the bottom and blowing himself up midway down. End of Arc 1 Chapter 53. Zorian and Zach reconcile their differences and finally meet the secretive Ghost Serpent who tells them that the time loop is not a one-time event and can occur every 400 years, and tells them they are experiencing a training simulation where none of them are real. Chapter 54. Zorian concludes from their talk with Ghost Snake that only a single time traveller can leave the virtual reality with their powers intact, finally decodes the matriarch's memory packet with Kael and Zach's help and finds out about the facility where the exit from the loop is located. The two eventually infiltrate said facility only to find out from the Guardian of the Threshold that Red Robe has already left. End of Arc 2
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Mother of Learning / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
Mother of Learning / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Drawing on ambient mana directly without assimilating it into one's personal mana is prohibited, and for good reason; ambient mana is toxic when used, poisoning both the body and mind. Substantial use will cause sickness, prolonged use causes insanity, and even magical items have to be made resilient enough for the amount of mana they'll channel so that they don't burn out. Nonetheless, if a mage is running out of mana in a critical situation, it may be better to get sick for a week than die on the spot. Alanic knows multiple methods of teaching personal soul awareness, one of which is both the fastest and most effective, giving a level of awareness that the slower methods would just never achieve. The trouble is, it involves temporarily dying and then finding your way back to your body. Make a mistake, or linger outside your body too long, and you'll stay dead. Also, that brief absence of the soul is enough to let your life force run out of control, rendering your body seriously ill. Naturally, with the time loop ensuring that Death Is a Slap on the Wrist, and resetting any bodily harm each month, Zorian jumps at the chance.
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Mother of Learning / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
Mother of Learning / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: Completely applicable to Cranium Rats, who need to form a sufficiently large gestalt to even have substantial intelligence. Isolated rats just act like regular rats. Partially applicable to the Aranea, who are individuals, but are constantly in telepathic contact with each other, so ideas spread quickly. Hydras have eight heads that closely coordinate their activities, to the point where it's as if they have just one mind. By studying the above examples, Zorian achieves a similar unity with his simulacra, at least when they're coordinating on parts of the same task.
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Mother of Learning / int_9186eded	type	Helicopter Parents
Mother of Learning / int_9186eded	comment	Helicopter Parents: Zorian's mother is a close-minded, status-obsessed social climber who tried to groom him into a worthy successor for their merchant family. It didn't take. Later on, it's revealed that the reason why they are traveling all the way across the world to meet Daimen is because he intends to marry a noble in Koth, which very much goes against the parents' plans of having a local, influential in-law.
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Mother of Learning / int_91e9d733	type	Magi Babble
Mother of Learning / int_91e9d733	comment	Magi Babble: The story was originally created to illustrate the author's world building and magic system. It shows.
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Mother of Learning / int_91f9b1ad	type	Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom
Mother of Learning / int_91f9b1ad	comment	Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: Aranea names sound like this when translated into human speech, such as the matriarch, "Spear of Resolve Striking Straight at the Heart of the Matter", or Zorian's tutor, "Enthusiastic Seeker of Novelty". Their real names are telepathically communicated bundles of images and impressions.
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Mother of Learning / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Mother of Learning / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Zorian and Zach decide to take a short break after learning that Red Robe has already left the time loop and locked the gate behind him. That restart is promptly filled with Xvim and Alanic coordinating with each other and making a string of demands, fruitlessly trying to track down Veyers Boranova, Taiven stepping up Zorian's combat training, including martial arts practices that leave him regularly bruised, and then Xvim presenting him with the ethical quandary of whether to use his mind magic more aggressively to steal magical secrets that might help escape the loop world.
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Mother of Learning / int_9492d6a5	type	Evil Is Easy
Mother of Learning / int_9492d6a5	comment	Evil Is Easy: Souls can be used as mana batteries, since they generate mana ex nihilo. Of course, that means enslaving someone and denying them even the opportunity to go to an afterlife, but hey, it's cheaper than crystallised mana and doesn't run out! There are multiple potions for acquiring soul perception, and all have ingredients that are difficult and dangerous to come by. Or, alternatively, you can get soul perception by ritualistically torturing a dozen people to death, while temporarily soul-bonded to them so that you experience their deaths.
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Mother of Learning / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Mother of Learning / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Zorian easily gets tired of review lessons or teachers spelling out basic magic theory — even before they start being literal repeats.
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Mother of Learning / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Mother of Learning / int_99db72ee	comment	Lukav transforms himself into an Immune to Bullets magical bull, his enemies respond by casting two types of complex spell, and Zorian... Just stabs one with a knife.
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Mother of Learning / int_9a3285c	type	Invisibility
Mother of Learning / int_9a3285c	comment	Invisibility: Invisibility spells are illegal without special permits, but Zorian considers them to be "one of the ur-examples of what a proper mage can do," so he still wants one. Tinami Aope teaches him one in exchange for his help, although it requires intense concentration to maintain, so he can't do much else without breaking the illusion. The aranea achieve a similar effect by using their mind magic to edit themselves out of people's senses in real time. It's potent, but only works on unshielded (or inadequately shielded) minds.
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Mother of Learning / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Mother of Learning / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Daimen and Orissa do actually like each other, but he wouldn't be marrying her if she weren't a wealthy heiress, and she wouldn't marry him if he weren't a hereditary empath. His parents object to the marriage because her wealth and influence are all in Koth, nowhere near their home, and Orissa actually thinks their concerns are reasonable, though she intends to persuade them to change their minds.
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Mother of Learning / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
Mother of Learning / int_9be7c205	comment	Giant Spider: The aranea are a somewhat downplayed example; Zorian's narration describes them as being the size of his chest. But no matter, there are still giant tree spiders, giant trapdoor spiders, and the grey hunters left.
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Mother of Learning / int_9bfe4c17	type	Supernatural Fear Inducer
Mother of Learning / int_9bfe4c17	comment	Supernatural Fear Inducer: Lukav's bull transformation has a magical fear effect in its roar. Zorian has enough mental resistance training to ignore it, but untrained soldiers fare worse.
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Mother of Learning / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Mother of Learning / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Zorian's solution for dealing with the Yellow Cavern Guardians' frog monster is to trick it into swallowing a crate of explosives.
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Mother of Learning / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Mother of Learning / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Discussed in Chapter 22 with regard to the aranea living in Cyoria; "Grunt" (Oran) mentions humanity's tendency to assume that intelligent non-humans are hostile, but the matriarch argues that there are counterexamples, and says she hopes to expand them in order to secure a place for her web in Cyorian society.
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Mother of Learning / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Mother of Learning / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Defied by Tesen; one of the first things he did was dismiss the Noveda family servants as an "unnecessary expense".
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Mother of Learning / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Mother of Learning / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Quatach-Ichl is a threat on a whole different level from everyone else involved in the invasion. His surpassing mastery of high-level offensive, defensive, and mobility magic, combined with his tremendous personal mana reserves and extremely durable skeletal body, allows him to slaughter even elite and prepared battlegroups head-on, as he teleports around bombarding them with instant-death and area attacks, while dodging, blocking or ignoring return fire. Even when Zach and Zorian are prepared to fight an army, their first priority is to ensure Quatach-Ichl doesn't hear about it and intervene.
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Mother of Learning / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
Mother of Learning / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: Zorian's mana reserves are much smaller than those of combat mages like Taiven and Zach, but as the loop continues he picks up enough finesse and trickery to hold his own against a lot of very dangerous opponents. During a conversation about mana reserves in Chapter 22, Taiven tells Zorian that this trope is a general rule: mages with larger mana reserves simply can't hone their shaping skills to the degree that weaker mages can. Tinami demonstrates how proper application of force can let her punch above her weight, when fighting against magic-resistant war trolls that would have shrugged off anything her classmates could do and crushed them into paste. Rather than attacking them physically, she casts pain spells that leave them screaming in agony and thoroughly incapacitated. It even works — albeit less effectively — on a giant brown worm that shrugs off physical attacks. Subverted when it comes to learning pocket dimension creation, which is so mana-intensive that despite Zorian's excellent shaping skills, he learns slowly because he just can't practise enough.
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Mother of Learning / int_9eb229d9	type	Cynical Mentor
Mother of Learning / int_9eb229d9	comment	Cynical Mentor: Professor Xvim has impossibly high standards he expects Zorian to live up to immediately, and whenever Zorian reaches one, Xvim just expects even more next restart. Everyone hates him. It's later revealed that he spends one month putting all his new apprentices through hell to break down what he sees as arrogance and see where they most desperately need instruction. Zorian couldn't possibly get to the 'real' tutelage inside the Time Loop without revealing himself. Even when he relaxes somewhat, he's still a ridiculously difficult teacher. As expected of an Archmage who specialises in defensive applications of unstructured magic.
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Mother of Learning / int_9eb71c7c	type	Super-Toughness
Mother of Learning / int_9eb71c7c	comment	Super-Toughness: This was the main aim of Sudomir's troll/dragon hybrid abomination shifter form. It does make him quite physically resilient, but less stable.
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Mother of Learning / int_9f9ef70f	type	The Unchosen One
Mother of Learning / int_9f9ef70f	comment	The Unchosen One: Zach Noveda quite probably thinks he's the main character, the Chosen One who will save the country single-handedly through his own power. Zorian, whom the story actually follows, isn't so sure this will work, concentrating instead on building his meagre skills and investigating the root cause of the loop. It turns out that Zach was indeed chosen to fix everything singlehandedly, but since he got himself stuck, he needs Zorian to help him out.
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Mother of Learning / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Mother of Learning / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: Going backwards in time is widely known to be completely and utterly impossible — so in Chapter 16, when Taiven asks Zorian how Zach, a third-year student like Zorian, managed to slay a dragon, he goes ahead and tells her, knowing she won't believe him. Unfortunately — or, rather, fortunately — his sister and his roommate do.
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Mother of Learning / int_a19135a6	type	Mind Control
Mother of Learning / int_a19135a6	comment	Mind Control: Mind magic allows for so many different kinds of control that there is a classification system (targeting the mind vs targeting the body and senses, forceful vs subtle), but all of them range from slightly illegal to very illegal, so students are usually only taught the theory of how to fight against them, and sometimes trained in building up resistance.
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Mother of Learning / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
Mother of Learning / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	â€¦And That Little Girl Was Me: When Zorian hears Raynie asking how he'd react if he had been older than his Child Prodigy brother Daimen, and had been initially favoured but then replaced, he's pretty sure it's not really just a hypothetical, and he's right.
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Mother of Learning / int_a590182a	type	Disintegrator Ray
Mother of Learning / int_a590182a	comment	Disintegrator Ray: Quatach-Ichl's signature spell is a red ray shot from his finger, disintegrating whatever it hits. More than once, a flash of jagged red light is the last thing Zorian sees before time resets.
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Mother of Learning / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Mother of Learning / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Survivability is a major priority for Red Robe's body in the real world, so he makes sure high-speed regeneration is included.
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Mother of Learning / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Mother of Learning / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Although traveling back through time is supposed to be impossible, time dilation is well established, in the form of "Haste" spells that allow the user to briefly experience perhaps four or five times as much subjective time as everyone else. Black Rooms take it a step further, isolating the interior physically and magically from the outside world in order to achieve a cleaner dimensional boundary that allows a dilation factor of up to thirty. The world of the Sovereign Gate is in a pocket dimension, almost entirely cut off from not only the real world, but even the spiritual planes, allowing it to achieve orders of magnitude more dilation. Hundreds of years can pass there, while only a fraction of a second passes in the real world.
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Mother of Learning / int_a748fe7a	type	You Can Turn Back
Mother of Learning / int_a748fe7a	comment	You Can Turn Back: Kael accompanies Zorian on his first visit to the aranea, though Zorian tries to assure him that he doesn't have to. Kael doesn't like that they've been reading his mind, though, and isn't going to miss the chance to give them a talking-to.
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Mother of Learning / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Mother of Learning / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: When Zorian compliments Haslush on being more competent than Zorian first gave him credit for, Haslush responds that he cultivates that persona on purpose to help people relax — and that he knows Zorian is trying to butter him up for something.
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Mother of Learning / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Mother of Learning / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Among Zorian's classmates is Benisek, a boy whose primary occupation at school is the pursuit of girls.
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Mother of Learning / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Mother of Learning / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Some traditionalists in Zorian's neck of the woods believe it's a waste of time to educate female children. But until she tells him, he doesn't know his parents thought that way about Kirielle. He promises to teach her, no matter what.It turns out to be a little more complicated as Zorian later learns that the reason his mother doesn't want Kirielle to learn magic is because there's a specific stigma against the daughters of witches. Zorian's mother dealt with that stigma and doesn't want her daughter to, as well. Quatach-Ichl is also an example of this. While he's a Noble Demon who adheres to a code of honor and never betrays people unless they betray him first, he's also at least a thousand years old, meaning that his moral system is extremely dated and generally far more brutal than most people would consider acceptable in the present day.
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Mother of Learning / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Mother of Learning / int_ab2ffd70	comment	Foreign Ruling Class: The Altazia nations used to be like this, being formed by refugees from the fallen Ikosian Empire conquering the native Khusky. There's no mention of racial tensions in the current setting, but Ikosian is the language of the educated, while the peasants tend to speak a local Khusky language as their everyday tongue.
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Mother of Learning / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
Mother of Learning / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: Everything in the Dungeon near Knyazov Dveri wants to kill and eat you, but the ordering of those two is flexible.
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Mother of Learning / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Mother of Learning / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Several victories are only made achievable by the actions of villains themselves; In chapter 26, Zorian banishing Quatach-Ichl is only possible because the lich considers him enough of a non-threat to catch the enchanted coin Zorian throws at him and his anti-soul-magic wards are so sensitive that they trigger even for such a weak attack. Red Robe was more-than-capable of defeating Zach and Zorian after the events of chapter 26 but chose to flee the timeloop immediately instead of confronting them, which is the only reason those two had the chance to become capable of beating him in the end.
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Mother of Learning / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
Mother of Learning / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: Much of the early action takes place within the Cyorian Academy of Magic.
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Mother of Learning / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Mother of Learning / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Awan-Temti Khumbastir invaded Koth, wanting fame and glory and his name to never be forgotten. His campaign was a failure and he died in the jungle, making him a popular cautionary tale against arrogance and glory-seeking.
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Mother of Learning / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Mother of Learning / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: The entire way Zorian got into the time loop was by a Million to One Chance accidentally taking advantage of one; Zach's soul marker got partially copied over to him, in such a way that the safeguards intended to prevent it from being copied were damaged and didn't work. Subverted with the reason Zach is in the time loop in the first place. The angels explain that normally, if Zach managed to loophole out of his contract, they would just descend and violently enforce the contract anyway. But since the whole situation is so desperate, he's responsible for saving the world, and he was tricked into it in the first place, they promise they won't do that. They are flat-out incapable of letting him out of any part of the contract, but if he does weasel out of it, they'll allow it. Furthermore, Zach's contract is that if the safeguards on the primordial's prison go off before the end of the month, or if anyone still knows about the time loop at the end of the month, Zach dies. If Zach passes the end of the month with those conditions satisfied, the contract dissolves and whatever happens next doesn't matter. Zorian determines that it's Zach's perception that governs the "knows about the time loop" portion; under normal circumstances he can mind-wipe witnesses, but if he believes that they have enough mind magic to defend against that, he has to kill them. So Zorian traps Zach in an illusory world (while Zach is under a mind blank that should render him completely immune to such things but which Zorian has found a way to circumvent) and shows him Zorian, Quatach-Ichl, and Jornak dying, then everyone else getting mind-wiped of the past month. It's good enough to fool Zach, which means it's good enough to fool the contract, and Zach survives the month.
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Mother of Learning / int_b4cbb37f	type	Good Morning, Crono
Mother of Learning / int_b4cbb37f	comment	Good Morning, Crono: Zorian's loop always begins with his little sister jumping on top of him and shouting "Good morning!" repeatedly.
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Mother of Learning / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
Mother of Learning / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: Although, unusually, the central character of the loop is not the protagonist, but Zach Noveda, one of Zorian's classmates.
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Mother of Learning / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Mother of Learning / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: The Kazinskis. The parents seem more or less united by their shared ambitions, although Cikan is seen openly disparaging her husband in front of her children, and his reaction to Zorian being sick is to scoff at Zorian's weakness. The only time Zorian ever seems to draw his approval is when Zorian is extremely ill from soul damage, but still wants to return to school — not exactly a glowing recommendation. Daimen is the "golden child" who nonetheless has alienated all three of his siblings, and their parents are now unhappy with his fiancee and are traveling to another continent to talk him out of it. Fortov is charismatic but unmotivated, failing in his studies and falling out of favor with their parents as a result. In the many years Zorian spends repeating the month, he never checks how Fortov copes during the invasion, and his experience is that Fortov only approaches him when trying to get something. Zorian is now being activated as the spare heir after Fortov's failures, but wants nothing to do with his parents or their business. He doesn't approach Daimen until it's clear that escaping the loop will require Daimen's help, and doesn't want to touch Fortov with a pole. Kirielle is the Annoying Younger Sibling and yet also the only family member Zorian claims to like. She's a little more understanding of Fortov's faults than Zorian is, but still doesn't like him, and Daimen is almost a stranger to her. As for their parents, she's trying to get out of an arranged marriage and into magic school, firmly against her mother's wishes, and can't even reveal her interest in drawing.
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Mother of Learning / int_b7059ab0	type	Dungeon Crawling
Mother of Learning / int_b7059ab0	comment	Dungeon Crawling: One common source of employment for mages and students of magic is exploring The Dungeon (also known as the Underworld or the Labyrinth), an enormous underground maze of caves and tunnels. Appropriately, the deeper one travels, the stronger the magic and the more dangerous the inhabitants.
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Mother of Learning / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Mother of Learning / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: He's not obsessive about it, but Zach loves the thrill of combat. His reaction to the appearance of an immense eight-headed hydra, after fighting through a hundred chameleon drakes, is, "Looks like I might have some actual fun here after all!"
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Mother of Learning / int_ba0e3912	type	Power Nullifier
Mother of Learning / int_ba0e3912	comment	Shaping exercises are shaping up to be this. With enough practice, a mage can cast despite disruption wards, bypass wards that are triggered by structured spells, and can create mind shields to rival those used by actual psychics, all without speaking or gesturing.
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Mother of Learning / int_ba6e98a7	type	Priceless Paperweight
Mother of Learning / int_ba6e98a7	comment	Priceless Paperweight: Zorian discovers that Kirielle has been going through his things, and found a crate of "pretty stones" that she used to make doll crowns. They're actually highly valuable mana crystals that he retrieved from the Dungeon as his primary income.
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Mother of Learning / int_bc1865fb	type	Deader than Dead
Mother of Learning / int_bc1865fb	comment	Deader than Dead: With the possible exception of a few males, the aranea all die immediately upon the start of every loop. According to Red Robe, itâ€™s because he didn't just kill their bodies but their souls as well. In reality, Red Robe simply ejected the spiders from the loop, meaning that after the final iteration they wake up just like the rest.
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Mother of Learning / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Mother of Learning / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Zorian is startled by the strength of the aranea matriarch's reaction when he merely mentions a human empath. The matriarch is not happy about the usual human attitudes to empathy and mind magic, especially how they limit what can be done with it.
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Mother of Learning / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Mother of Learning / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Referenced when Zorian shoots Red Robe rather than using a spell.
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Mother of Learning / int_c241adec	type	Supernatural Sensitivity
Mother of Learning / int_c241adec	comment	Supernatural Sensitivity: Mages are able to sense mana, and training to develop that ability.
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Mother of Learning / int_c26ebed4	type	Finagle's Law
Mother of Learning / int_c26ebed4	comment	Finagle's Law: Zorian is Genre Savvy enough to exploit this law when searching for a MacGuffin, checking the most dangerous location first. Naturally, he's correct.
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Mother of Learning / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Mother of Learning / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Early in the story, Zorian seems to have the solution to the time loop, by breaking the invasion of Cyoria — but this turns out to be a Red Herring. Except that it later turns out, in the original plan the angels had for Zach, this would have broken the loop by informing Zach of how to leave. Much later, Chapter 89, "Victory". All five key pieces are collected by the loopers, but it turns out that the resultant deal is cataclysmic — and then Silverlake snatches freedom away anyway.
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Mother of Learning / int_c81e2bba	type	Necromancer
Mother of Learning / int_c81e2bba	comment	Necromancer: Since necromancers have knowledge about soul magic, they are one of the primary dangers to someone inside a temporal loop.
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Mother of Learning / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
Mother of Learning / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Taiven calls Zorian "Roach", and her two partners in Dungeon Crawling "Grunt" and "Mumble".
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Mother of Learning / int_c8415a22	type	Mage-Hunting Monster
Mother of Learning / int_c8415a22	comment	Mage-Hunting Monster: The grey hunter is a Giant Spider specifically adapted for hunting magical prey (which includes the majority of really dangerous beasts). It has a highly refined ability to sense and perceive magic around it, its body is highly magic-resistant, and its venom is not directly fatal, but disrupts the victim's ability to shape mana. Zorian tries using a magical floating eyeball to study one in its lair, and it responds by instantly shredding the spell and rocketing out of the cave to hunt for him. As soon as he starts casting a teleport spell to get away, it zeroes in on his location and comes straight at him.
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Mother of Learning / int_cabd513c	type	Jedi Mind Trick
Mother of Learning / int_cabd513c	comment	The second meeting between Zorian and Detective Haslush Ikzeteri turns out to be one of these: Haslush combined a disguise and a compulsion spell to make Zorian think he was in the wrong place. He explains afterwards that part of his motive was emphasizing the importance of perceptiveness for divination.
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Mother of Learning / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
Mother of Learning / int_cd7ef676	comment	Seen It All: Over the course of the loops, Zorian goes from thinking "a freaking Aegis" to wondering why a mage used such a basic spell as an Aegis variant to protect his superweapon.
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Mother of Learning / int_cec7dac0	type	The Magocracy
Mother of Learning / int_cec7dac0	comment	The Magocracy: The old Alliance of Eldemar was definitely ruled by the leading mage families; the situation post-Splinter War seems to be less straightforward. As revealed in chapter 49, after The Splinter Wars and The Weeping, the loss of life, and thus skilled mages, suffered by all of the noble houses led to a huge upswing in the number of first-generation mages unaffiliated with any noble house needed to fill suddenly vacated economic positions. This furthered the decline of the noble houses, as unaffiliated mages are far more likely to side with the crown or the mage guild than any of the houses in a political conflict. This gives both the royals and the mage guild more influence within Eldemar than they have had at any other point in their history.
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Mother of Learning / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Mother of Learning / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: He has legitimate reasons beyond revenge, but after Nochka is kidnapped, Zorian drops most of his other activities to aggressively attack as many cultists as he can, multiple assaults a day, for the rest of the month, seeking information.
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Mother of Learning / int_d298bc9a	type	I Wished You Were Dead
Mother of Learning / int_d298bc9a	comment	I Wished You Were Dead: Rea speculates that Raynie has often wished ill on her little brother, due to their acrimonious family history, and that Raynie is thus feeling incredibly guilty about him being kidnapped.
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Mother of Learning / int_d4f5426	type	Absence of Evidence
Mother of Learning / int_d4f5426	comment	Absence of Evidence: In the second arc, Zorian is paranoid about Red Robe, who cannot be traced with magic and seems to have stopped aiding the invaders. He is afraid of what he might be up to and of doing anything that might attract his attention. He had, in fact, left the time loop.
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Mother of Learning / int_d5eed41c	type	Cry into Chest
Mother of Learning / int_d5eed41c	comment	Cry into Chest: Taiven breaks down sobbing on Zorian's shoulder when his superior skills make her doubt her own ability and the value of her years of hard work. Zorian tells her about the loop, the source of his strength, because he doesn't have the heart to leave her feeling that way.
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Mother of Learning / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Mother of Learning / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: The entire time loop serves as this for both Zach and Zorian. It involves both of them to gain skills and abilities to survive against hordes of monsters and enemies. Justified as the true purpose of the time loop was to train the Branded One in a simulation of reality. Zorian's mentorship by Xvim is a horrible grind, but effective in refining his skills. Notably, it's not dangerous or even especially painful, but month after month after month of trying to sense marbles being thrown at him is its own special kind of torture. Mind Like Fire's mental combat training means seven days a week of splitting headaches, from constructing a mental "shell" and then having it smashed, punctured, and crushed, over and over again, for months. Zorian only sticks with it because it produces results.
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Mother of Learning / int_daa710c8	type	Try Not to Die
Mother of Learning / int_daa710c8	comment	Try Not to Die: Being casual about death is actually reasonable in this case, but still, Zorian isn't impressed when Alanic's pre-battle advice is, "Try not to get yourself killed, I guess."
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Mother of Learning / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Mother of Learning / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: The grey hunter spider has a well deserved reputation as a mage killer. It is blindingly fast, tough enough to shrug off small firearms, highly magic resistant, strong enough to break bones, has absurdly good physical and magical senses, and dexterity that would put a ninja to shame. When Zach and Zorian fight it, they keep getting bitten, legs broken, etc, and even after many repeated attempts, they still can't trap it or put it down without using so much force that they destroy the egg sac that Silverlake wants.
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Mother of Learning / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Mother of Learning / int_dbca2c99	comment	Early in the story, Zorian seems to have the solution to the time loop, by breaking the invasion of Cyoria — but this turns out to be a Red Herring. Except that it later turns out, in the original plan the angels had for Zach, this would have broken the loop by informing Zach of how to leave.
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Mother of Learning / int_dc61f525	type	Dig Attack
Mother of Learning / int_dc61f525	comment	Dig Attack: One of Zorian's early deaths is to a giant brown worm that can travel through dirt like water, allowing it to hide underground and ambush its prey. And the invaders have more than one. But they get a lot less threatening once Zorian's empathy develops enough to sense the locations of their minds and see them coming.
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Mother of Learning / int_dcf1e0e2	type	Punch a Wall
Mother of Learning / int_dcf1e0e2	comment	Punch a Wall: Taiven shocks Zorian by slamming her fist into a wall when she's having a crisis of self-doubt sparked by his own advancement.
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Mother of Learning / int_e430b3a3	type	Psychic Block Defense
Mother of Learning / int_e430b3a3	comment	Psychic Block Defense: The book explores Mind Arts quite a lot.
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Mother of Learning / int_e5455dac	type	Mana
Mother of Learning / int_e5455dac	comment	Zorian's mana reserves are much smaller than those of combat mages like Taiven and Zach, but as the loop continues he picks up enough finesse and trickery to hold his own against a lot of very dangerous opponents.
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Mother of Learning / int_e69004a6	type	There Can Be Only One
Mother of Learning / int_e69004a6	comment	Chapter 54. Zorian concludes from their talk with Ghost Snake that only a single time traveller can leave the virtual reality with their powers intact, finally decodes the matriarch's memory packet with Kael and Zach's help and finds out about the facility where the exit from the loop is located. The two eventually infiltrate said facility only to find out from the Guardian of the Threshold that Red Robe has already left. End of Arc 2
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Mother of Learning / int_eb5cbe42	type	Me's a Crowd
Mother of Learning / int_eb5cbe42	comment	Me's a Crowd: The simulacrum spell. Each one is sentient, sharing the soul/mana pool of the caster, although they are not biological copies. It becomes necessary to use to be in multiple places at the same time during a month long time loop.
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Mother of Learning / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Mother of Learning / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Invoked by Ilsa when thanking Zach and Zorian for helping to contain Veyers' outburst, but telling them that they'll be called in as witnesses.
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Mother of Learning / int_ed8d2f51	type	Leave Me Alone!
Mother of Learning / int_ed8d2f51	comment	Leave Me Alone!: At least initially, Zorian tends to be dismissive of people trying to help him out, like Byrn on the train.
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Mother of Learning / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Mother of Learning / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Mixed in with the dramatic battle or creative magic are spells that do such useful things as "keep off the rain" and "make a floating platform which can be used to carry things," and even "transmute alcohol in drinks into sugar." Zorian also spends his spare time putting his extensive knowledge of spell formulae and golemancy in use to create toys for his little sister. Among Zorian's tricks is picking mechanical locks by sensing and moving the tumblers with his mana - just like a shaping exercise. Being a skilled psychic also allows nifty things like photographic memory, storing entire books as mental packets, and in extreme cases, mental modification of the self: Multi-threaded processing, calculation, sense-changes, time dilation, adding compulsions or damping extreme behaviours. Zorian's early experiments in magical item crafting take the form of puzzles and toys to keep his little sister out of his hair. When he later studies golem making, he's able to provide her with animated dolls.
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Mother of Learning / int_f19ff224	type	TheUNFavourite
Mother of Learning / int_f19ff224	comment	The Un-Favourite: Zorian's lack of personal charm and disinterest in the family business are heartily disapproved of by his parents.
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Mother of Learning / int_f1e837cc	type	Mind over Matter
Mother of Learning / int_f1e837cc	comment	Mind over Matter: Zorian is in the process of learning to do this without spells.
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Mother of Learning	hasFeature	Mother of Learning / int_f1e837cc
Mother of Learning / int_f6ca5b54	type	The Archmage
Mother of Learning / int_f6ca5b54	comment	The Archmage: While Archmage has a specific meaning in-universe (roughly speaking, a Master of All who has reached a high level of skill in multiple schools of magic) and several characters have the skills, Quatach-Ichl is the person all other mages are measured against.
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Mother of Learning / int_f6ca5b54	featureConfidence	1.0
Mother of Learning	hasFeature	Mother of Learning / int_f6ca5b54
Mother of Learning / int_f9439c84	type	Haunted House
Mother of Learning / int_f9439c84	comment	Haunted House: Iasku Mansion doesn't look particularly spooky, but it's swarming with undead, and the soul of Sudomir's late wife is bound into the warding scheme, allowing the whole building's wards to be aware of Zorian and respond intelligently to his invasion.
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Mother of Learning / int_f9439c84	featureConfidence	1.0
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Mother of Learning / int_fd7a9d0	type	Removed Achilles' Heel
Mother of Learning / int_fd7a9d0	comment	Removed Achilles' Heel: The Troll Healing Factor can usually be overcome with fire, but many of the invaders' war trolls are magically warded against it.
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Mother of Learning	hasFeature	Alternate Self / int_2c0b7945
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Mother of Learning	hasFeature	Cassandra Did It / int_2c0b7945
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Mother of Learning	hasFeature	Every Man Has His Price / int_2c0b7945
Mother of Learning	hasFeature	Evil Is Easy / int_2c0b7945
Mother of Learning	hasFeature	Familiar / int_2c0b7945
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