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Old Kingdom

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Old Kingdom	comment	A young adult fantasy series by Garth Nix.Set in a world sharply divided into the Old Kingdom, where magic rules, and the Southern Nations, where science is law, the Old Kingdom series revolves mostly around the conflict between two varieties of magic â€” Charter and Free, which correspond roughly to the traditional alignments of Law and Chaos. Charter Magic is defined by the Charter, a runic language, which gives structure and purpose to sorcery to make it a beneficial and constructive force; Free Magic is wild, uncontrolled and given to corruption and wanton destruction. Poised between the two is the Abhorsen, who partakes of both to defend the people of the Charter from the Dead and other monsters that Free Magic and its servants spawn in order to work their wills.The first book tells the story of Sabriel, daughter of the Abhorsen, who discovers that since something bad has happened to her father, she must protect the world from the hordes of undead that threaten it. The second and third are set some years later and follow several protagonists â€” the eponymous Lirael, a librarian, and Sam, Sabriel's son â€” as they attempt to prevent a great evil from escaping its prison.Although parts of the setting bear a superficial similarity to the "stock" medieval fantasy, Nix quickly heads off into new territory, bringing a unique and different flavor to what might have otherwise been yet another fantasy Cliché Storm. The magic systems used in the book are radically different from the expected and contribute significantly to its originality. One of the more interesting touches is the presence of the more advanced technological lands to the south of the Old Kingdom â€” in particular Ancelstierre, home to many of the characters, which comes across much like England circa 1910-1920.The series consists of: Sabriel Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (forms a two-book arc with Abhorsen) Abhorsen "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case" (novella, found in the collection Across the Wall) Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen (a prequel set 600 years before Sabriel's birth) "To Hold the Bridge" (short story set in the same time period as Clariel but a few years at most before it, found in the collection of the same name) Goldenhand (follows Abhorsen and overlaps with "The Creature in the Case") Terciel and Elinor (a prequel about Sabriel's parents)
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Old Kingdom / int_10dafb12	type	Flaming Sword
Old Kingdom / int_10dafb12	comment	Flaming Sword: The Free Magic sword that Clariel obtains is one of these.
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Old Kingdom / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Old Kingdom / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Sameth and Ellimere are almost always shown bickering throughout "Lirael", though Ellimere does express concern for Sam upon his return from his confrontation with Hedge, relaxing her schedule for him in order to give him time to recover. Additionally, in "Abhorsen," Sam is implied to be upset by the idea of never seeing Ellimere again when he thinks of her after finding out he's a Wallmaker, and Ellimere immediately runs to hug him upon arriving at the scene of the New Seven's ultimate confrontation of Orannis.
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Old Kingdom / int_1350733b	type	Fantastic Light Source
Old Kingdom / int_1350733b	comment	Fantastic Light Source: One basic Charter mark produces a clean, long-lasting light when inscribed on a surface. Charter Magic is so ubiquitous in the Old Kingdom at the time of Clariel that some urban elites use mundane chandeliers instead as a form of Conspicuous Consumption.
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Old Kingdom / int_13b30193	type	Deadly Ringer
Old Kingdom / int_13b30193	comment	Deadly Ringer: Necromantic bells can be wielded to produce any number of nasty effects, including Forced Sleep, erasing memories, or just hurling the listener into Death.
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Old Kingdom / int_14908436	type	Never Given a Name
Old Kingdom / int_14908436	comment	Never Given a Name: In Goldenhand, one girl in each of the barbarian tribes that swears fealty to Chlorr of the Mask is only ever called "The Offering", since she'll either be taken over by Chlorr as her new body or killed after she turns 17 to return the bit of Chlorr's power that she puts in each girl to her. When one such girl ends up being sent on an important mission to deliver a message she starts calling herself "Ferin", short for "Offering", so that people have something to call her.
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Old Kingdom / int_14a8e0a2	type	Villain Opening Scene
Old Kingdom / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: Lirael's prologue involves Hedge first meeting Chlorr of the Mask and tricking her into his master's service.
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Old Kingdom / int_14e014a8	type	Stars Are Souls
Old Kingdom / int_14e014a8	comment	Stars Are Souls: It is eventually revealed that this is the nature of the Ninth Gate.
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Old Kingdom / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Old Kingdom / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: There are two metallic hemispheres, explicitly described as denser than gold. Even when divided, they emanate harmful energy. When forced together, they explode in blinding light, flash-incinerating everything within 10 miles and raising a towering, mushroom-shaped cloud.
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Old Kingdom / int_1599db45	type	Ritual Magic
Old Kingdom / int_1599db45	comment	Ritual Magic: Both Charter Magic and Free Magic have aspects of this, the former more than the latter. You can cast spells on the fly with both, but more complex and lasting effects tend to require rituals.
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Old Kingdom / int_161fa3b8	type	Hidden Agenda Villain
Old Kingdom / int_161fa3b8	comment	Hidden Agenda Villain Aside from his stated desire to torture all the remaining carriers of the Abhorsen bloodline to death in vengeance for his millennia of servitude, when Mogget acts independently, his motives are never quite clear, until the end of Abhorsen - though Character Development is also in play - he mostly just wants to be free and left alone to enjoy life... and occasionally turn up to annoy Sam for fish. Aziminil, Baazalanan, and Mogget keep their motives a secret from Clariel. It turns out they are trying to use the king's blood to destroy the Great Charter Stones, so that the Charter can no longer bind them.
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Old Kingdom / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Old Kingdom / int_1645005b	comment	Played with (it's a case of Evil Versus Evil) in Abhorsen â€” after Yrael makes his choice, he proceeds to tell the Big Bad, an Omnicidal Maniac who hates life, why. He does so in an incredibly poetic and smug way.
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Old Kingdom / int_17122b19	type	Exactly What I Aimed At
Old Kingdom / int_17122b19	comment	Exactly What I Aimed At: Abhorsen reveals a strategy written in The Book of the Dead to handle Greater Dead encounters in the Sixth Precinct that involves using the bell Saraneth, the Binder, not on the Greater Dead themselves, but on the hordes of Lesser Dead also in the Sixth Precinct, as a distraction. While the Greater Dead are distracted dealing with the Lesser Dead, the Abhorsen can use a Charter-spell to discern the name of the Greater Dead and banish them. Lirael uses this against Lathal the Abomination, causing its two fellows to retreat.
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Old Kingdom / int_17fe1048	type	Naked on Arrival
Old Kingdom / int_17fe1048	comment	Naked on Arrival: Touchstone was naked when placed into stasis as a figurehead, and is thus still naked when Sabriel revives him.
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Old Kingdom / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Old Kingdom / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: The oubliette that Kilp puts Clariel in is enchanted so that Charter Magic cannot be used inside of it. Not that Clariel knows much Charter Magic, anyway.
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Old Kingdom / int_192d04d5	type	Mutually Exclusive Magic
Old Kingdom / int_192d04d5	comment	Mutually Exclusive Magic: Charter Magic is an orderly and disciplined magic based on using Charter Marks to construct spells with specific effects and is tied to life, order, and creation; Free Magic is a much more destructive and chaotic power whose limits are defined primarily by the strength of the user's will and the amount of magic they have on hand. Gaining too much power in one magic will actively inhibit your ability to use the other, since their natures and the mindsets needed to control them are so opposed. The primary exception being the Abhorsens, who can use some Free Magic, particularly of the necromantic persuasion, despite being primarily Charter Mages. Or Nick, whose Free Magic fuels his Charter ability.
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Old Kingdom / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Old Kingdom / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Clariel mentions her mother and father when killing Aronzo. Kilp still doesn't realize who she is, infuriating her that he can't even keep his victims straight.
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Old Kingdom / int_1a0881b	type	Muggle Born of Mages
Old Kingdom / int_1a0881b	comment	Muggle Born of Mages: What Lirael initially believes herself to be, as a teenage Clayr who has yet to receive the Sight. She's not. She doesn't get the Sight only because she inherited her father's abilities as a future Abhorsen. It seems at first like Sam is a version of this, as his sister is clearly the future Queen and he's pretty hopeless at his Abhorsen-in-Waiting training, despite being a more than adequate Charter Mage. However, it's subverted at the end when we find out that Sam has his own abilities, as a Wallmaker.
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Old Kingdom / int_1a68cbdc	type	Character Name and the Noun Phrase
Old Kingdom / int_1a68cbdc	comment	Character Name and the Noun Phrase: "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case".
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Old Kingdom / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Old Kingdom / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Touchstone, and his kilt. Squee.
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Old Kingdom / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Old Kingdom / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Necromancers use deceased humans as weapons, not merely as zombies (or "Hands") but also binding their spirits in other ways, such as splintering them to put in Gore Crows, or creating a Mordicant out of bog-clay and human blood and a Dead spirit as a guiding force.
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Old Kingdom / int_1c662a5d	type	LongLostSibling
Old Kingdom / int_1c662a5d	comment	Long Lost Sibling: Lirael is Sabriel's half-sister.
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Old Kingdom / int_1ca3c244	type	Who Are You?
Old Kingdom / int_1ca3c244	comment	Who Are You?: At the climax of Clariel, the Big Bad asks Clariel this when she storms into his attempted coup, vows vengeance for her parents, kills his son, and sets her sights on him. True, she's masked and armed for an Hour of Power that looks entirely unlike her, but she's furious that he doesn't make the connection.
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Old Kingdom / int_1dd12556	type	We All Die Someday
Old Kingdom / int_1dd12556	comment	We All Die Someday: Sabriel's father reminds her of this. It is an extremely important idea for Abhorsens to remember, so that they don't meet their own death with fear or denial, or seek to undo deaths that they find unfair.
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Old Kingdom / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Old Kingdom / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: At the end of Abhorsen, when Lirael uses the reforged Nehima to break Orannis, the fingers of her right hand literally fuse into the molten hilt. And then the Dog bites her hand off.
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Old Kingdom / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Old Kingdom / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Absolutely necessary since the magic that keeps the Dead down and the ability to repair the Charter Stones that keep the Kingdom safe is present in the royal bloodline. Averted by King Orrikan in Clariel, and enforced by Sabriel and Touchstone in the second book â€” the prince and princess have time set apart every two weeks to do chores around the palace alongside the servants to give them a sense of perspective and appreciation.
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Old Kingdom / int_1f80d7be	type	Wild Magic
Old Kingdom / int_1f80d7be	comment	Wild Magic: Free Magic.
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Old Kingdom / int_203f069d	type	Tongue-Tied
Old Kingdom / int_203f069d	comment	Tongue-Tied: In Sabriel, a spell tied to the corruption of the Charter and the two broken Great Charter Stones causes people to choke on their words if they try to talk about certain things, including the Great Charters. Mogget describes the corruption as widespread and the spell indiscriminate. Non-Charter Mages and children with the Charter mark can talk about it, which Sabriel uses to get a little girl among the survivors of Nestowe to tell her the rhyme about the Great Charters. Touchstone is only able to tell Sabriel about how the two Great Stones were broken when they're at sea, as the ocean can weaken even Charter Magic, but the moment their boat gets close enough to Belisaere, even though the land is still out of sight, they can't speak of it anymore.
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Old Kingdom / int_216c045b	type	The Scottish Trope
Old Kingdom / int_216c045b	comment	The Scottish Trope: Saying the name of the Big Bad of Lirael and Abhorsen is made clear to be a bad idea, especially for the good guys, as that will attract Its attention. The Disreputable Dog will write Its name down, but not speak it, and only calls It "The Destroyer" aloud. Its name is Orannis. Demonstrated when It is freed at the climax of Abhorsen; saying Its name makes the huge pillar of fire It first manifested as visibly grow.
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Old Kingdom / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
Old Kingdom / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: As well as "Like Mother, Like Daughter". Sam is described as being tall, with tightly curled dark brown hair and grey eyes, like his father. The only way he seems to look like his mother is that he inherited black eyebrows. Near the start of Lirael, the Clayr mention that Ellimere looks a great deal like Sabriel, and in the text they are described almost identically, as is Lirael, having mostly inherited her looks from her father, the Abhorsen Terciel.
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Old Kingdom / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Old Kingdom / int_245cb69d	comment	Changing of the Guard: The main character of the first book is Sabriel, and the story focuses on her first quest as Abhorsen. In the second and third books, set 18 years later, Sabriel is offstage for most of the story; the story focuses in part on her son Sam who is in training to be the next Abhorsen himself. The trope is played with in that he is obviously desperately unqualified to be an Abhorsen and then perhaps double-subverted, in that the other main character turns out to be Sabriel's long-lost half-sister, and she becomes the next Abhorsen.
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Old Kingdom / int_2487c879	type	Forced Sleep
Old Kingdom / int_2487c879	comment	Forced Sleep: Ringing the bell Ranna can put both the living and the Dead to sleep. Kargrin puts Clariel to sleep using Charter Magic after she goes into a berserk rage.
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Old Kingdom / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
Old Kingdom / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Lirael's closest relative in the Glacier after her mother left is her aunt Kirrith, who by the beginning of Lirael is also the Guardian of the Young, in charge of the Hall of Youth where all the orphaned Clayr children, including Lirael, live. Kirrith, however, is rather self-centred and judgemental, and Lirael doesn't like her very much.
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Old Kingdom / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
Old Kingdom / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: Breaking or mending or making a Charter Stone requires Charter Mage blood. For the Great Stones, it needs royal, Abhorsen, or Clayr blood. The only exception to this is when the Disreputable Dog grants Nicholas Sayre his Charter mark and pulls him out of Death, making him a type of Charter Stone never seen before. Consuming blood strengthens the Dead, helping them to remain in Life for longer.
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Old Kingdom / int_2726d167	type	The World Is Just Awesome
Old Kingdom / int_2726d167	comment	The World Is Just Awesome: Basically the reason Yrael sides with Sabriel and co. over Orannis: he's come to love Life and doesn't want to see it end.
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Old Kingdom / int_27636a1	type	Hellish Horse
Old Kingdom / int_27636a1	comment	Hellish Horse: Hedge rides a horse-shaped Free Magic construct because ordinary animals won't have anything to do with him. It is on fire.
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Old Kingdom / int_27b6b53d	type	No Tech but High Tech
Old Kingdom / int_27b6b53d	comment	No Tech but High Tech: Justified: Ancelstierre's technology is near that of early 20th-century England, whereas the Background Magic Field of the Old Kingdom destroys anything that isn't hand-crafted, effectively leaving it in Medieval Stasis - though magic makes up a lot of the gap as Nick notes in Goldenhand, resulting in Schizo Tech.
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Old Kingdom / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
Old Kingdom / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: The (live) Southerlings in Abhorsen, who border on being a Mauve Shirt Army.
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Old Kingdom / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
Old Kingdom / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: With a dash of Heroic Sacrifice and Amputation Stops Spread; also a rare case where someone else makes the decision. The ritual to bind Orannis gives It an opening to kill the person who makes the last step in Its imprisonment; Lirael is entirely willing to make that sacrifice, but the Disreputable Dog finds a loophole by biting off Lirael's hand before the Destroyer's curse can fully affect her, dying in Lirael's place.
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Old Kingdom / int_28951c74	type	Top-Heavy Guy
Old Kingdom / int_28951c74	comment	Top-Heavy Guy: Kerrigor. In Sabriel, his construct body is described as being ridiculously tall and barrel-chested, as though he was trying to remake his old self, but "either his skills, memory, or taste were sadly lacking." (How un-fabulous.)
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Old Kingdom / int_2b3e7d3e	type	Sketchy Successor
Old Kingdom / int_2b3e7d3e	comment	Sketchy Successor: In Clariel, although the Abhorsen Tyriel, like his two immediate predecessors, is far more focused on hunting than doing his actual job due to how peaceful the Kingdom is at the time, his great-nephew Belatiel is of the impression that the current Abhorsen-in-Waiting, Tyriel's daughter Yannael, is going to be even worse at the job, suspecting her of never even having read The Book of the Dead or walked in Death. In fact, it's made clear that of Tyriel's three children, Yannael is clearly the most unsuited to be Abhorsen. Fortunately, she's not the real Abhorsen-in-Waiting at all. Belatiel is.
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Old Kingdom / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
Old Kingdom / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: Clariel comes pretty close to getting out of Kilp's prison before Kargrin shows up to rescue her.
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Old Kingdom / int_2c17d6b6	type	Medical Monarch
Old Kingdom / int_2c17d6b6	comment	Medical Monarch: In "To Hold the Bridge", it's mentioned that it was traditional to petition for the opportunity to be healed by the King on important feast days. Morghan considered it to have his bad arm healed, but by that time, it also depended on connections and large amounts of bribery money.
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Old Kingdom / int_2cd6b637	type	Fantastic Nuke
Old Kingdom / int_2cd6b637	comment	Fantastic Nuke: Orannis the Destroyer functionally is one. The first of his nine manifestations is a vast pillar of fire; the second through ninth are cataclysmic explosions that increase exponentially in power until they destroy the world. Even the weakest explosion can only be resisted by a triple diamond of protection.
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Old Kingdom / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Old Kingdom / int_2d768e2d	comment	In Clariel, King Orrikan had only one living heir in Princess Tathiel. Her disappearance years ago led to a Succession Crisis. She shows up to take the throne at the end of the book.
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Old Kingdom / int_2f074524	type	Enigmatic Minion
Old Kingdom / int_2f074524	comment	Goldenhand has Chlorr, who played a subordinate role in her previous appearances, step into this position.
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Old Kingdom / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Old Kingdom / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Nineteen year old Lirael claims she's thirty-five to keep teenager Sam from hitting on her shortly after they meet. She admits the lie once she discovers she's actually Sam's half-aunt.
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Old Kingdom / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Old Kingdom / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Princess Ellimere is named after one of her mother's best friends from school, who died during Kerrigor's attack on Wyverley College.
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Old Kingdom / int_30c1cab7	type	Seeking Ultimate Strength
Old Kingdom / int_30c1cab7	comment	Seeking Ultimate Strength: Free Magic sorcerers inevitably get addicted to the experience of forcing magic and other creatures to obey their will. Best exemplified by Kerrigor, who, not content with being Crown Prince, mastered Free Magic, transformed himself into an Undead Abomination, made human sacrifices of his family, and tried to tear apart the Kingdom so he could rule over a Necrocracy of his thralls.
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Old Kingdom / int_30cdefe1	type	Reluctant Ruler
Old Kingdom / int_30cdefe1	comment	Reluctant Ruler: In Clariel, Princess Tathiel ran away and hid at the Clayr's Glacier because she absolutely did not want to be Queen. She returns and takes the throne at the end of the book after her grandfather's death, but it's said she is not happy about it.
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Old Kingdom / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Old Kingdom / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Clayr live on these. They initiate new members into their ranks when they See themselves initiating her! Although, presumably, their powers awake shortly after. And they do occasionally hand out jobs which haven't been forecast.
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Old Kingdom / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Old Kingdom / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Touchstone. Mogget gives him the name, and Touchstone finds it quite annoying (it's a fool's name) â€” yet he can't argue with it.
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Old Kingdom / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
Old Kingdom / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: There are all these hints thrown in around the wider world around and in the Old Kingdom.
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Old Kingdom / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Old Kingdom / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: From the second book onward, Mogget, though very knowledgeable and powerful, spends most of his time snoozing, rousing only to snark his "companions" or in life-and-death (or Life-and-Death) situations. Supposedly, this is because his Restraining Bolt binds him with the power of Ranna, "the Sleeper", though it's heavily implied numerous times that he chooses when to obey. In the first book, he has no such excuse, but is still a lazy, unhelpful git. After, when he appears in Goldenhand, he's a free agent, and thus not actually obligated to help. Though, to his credit, he does always help out when the chips are down - even if, in the latter case, his motive seems to mostly relate to Chlorr's plan ruining the fish in one of his favourite rivers.
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Old Kingdom / int_359f619	type	It Is Not Your Time
Old Kingdom / int_359f619	comment	It Is Not Your Time: Towards the end of Sabriel, Sabriel is killed, but when she enters Death she is greeted by the spirits of her ancestors, who tell her she cannot go with them until there is another to carry on the family line. Towards the end of Abhorsen, Lirael reaches the Ninth Gate and begins to float upwards towards the stars, but floats back down to the ground before she can be brought beyond the Ninth Gate and made Deader than Dead. The Dog explains that this is because it is not her time.
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Old Kingdom / int_370fcc49	type	Meaningful Appearance
Old Kingdom / int_370fcc49	comment	Meaningful Appearance: When she's feeling particularly depressed and unsociable, Lirael is prone to hiding behind her hair so she doesn't have to look people in the eyes.
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Old Kingdom / int_371fdcd1	type	Royal Bastard
Old Kingdom / int_371fdcd1	comment	Royal Bastard: Touchstone is the bastard son of the Queen and a nobleman, and thus the last surviving heir of the royal family after all the legitimate members are extinguished.
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Old Kingdom / int_390ad811	type	Royalty Super Power
Old Kingdom / int_390ad811	comment	Royalty Superpower: Royals have stronger magic, are tied to the fate of the realm and the Charter, and have a magical link to those who serve them. Sameth finds this out when a guard isn't killed when he accidentally uses defensive magic on him. Kerrigor also managed to use this to strengthen himself and his servants, in a corruption of this protection.
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Old Kingdom / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
Old Kingdom / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: After leaving the Clayr's Glacier on a critical mission, Lirael tries to explain their quest to the Disreputable Dog:
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Old Kingdom / int_3977aeb5	type	Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear
Old Kingdom / int_3977aeb5	comment	Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear: More Chaos than Evil, but Mogget.
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Old Kingdom / int_3af9f8b6	type	Magical Gesture
Old Kingdom / int_3af9f8b6	comment	Magical Gesture: Charter Magic is done by drawing the signs on the air, with hands or with sword-tip. A diamond of protection is drawn with one's sword. Using the magical bells requires gestures (different ways of ringing will produce different effects), so this all crosses over into Ritual Magic.
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Old Kingdom / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Old Kingdom / int_3b113b7	comment	Aside from his stated desire to torture all the remaining carriers of the Abhorsen bloodline to death in vengeance for his millennia of servitude, when Mogget acts independently, his motives are never quite clear, until the end of Abhorsen - though Character Development is also in play - he mostly just wants to be free and left alone to enjoy life... and occasionally turn up to annoy Sam for fish.
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Old Kingdom / int_3b451101	type	Leaking Can of Evil
Old Kingdom / int_3b451101	comment	Leaking Can of Evil: Commonly goes with Nix's favored Sealed Evil in a Can. Kerrigor's sarcophagus, when unearthed, is so riddled with Free Magic that it makes most people who approach it feel nauseated and weak. And the evil that is buried at the Red Lake has an ability to resist the Clayr's scrying, even when they focus their wills there. When unearthed, the hemispheres not only induce sickness, but they call down lightning â€” constant lightning. Free Magic corrodes Charter Magic so every attempt to seal away evil will eventually fail. Often binding spells have to be renewed and the evil inside dealt with.
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Old Kingdom / int_3bf27a8d	type	Right Through the Wall
Old Kingdom / int_3bf27a8d	comment	Right Through the Wall: Sabriel is bathing in her room at the Sign of Three Lemons when she overhears a man and a woman starting to have sex in the room next door. She automatically assumes the man is Touchstone and feels upset, only for Mogget to arrive and tell her that actually, his room is the one in the other direction and he wanted to know if he could use the bathtub next.
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Old Kingdom / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Old Kingdom / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Even Garth Nix isn't sure of the events that led Clariel to become Chlorr of the Mask.invoked
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Old Kingdom / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Old Kingdom / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Some of the major families' special abilities are a decidedly mixed-blessing: The Royal Families' berserker rage often causes more problems than it solves, since they often lose reason and rationality at critical moments. It's also a wild ability close to Free Magic, as Clariel shows. The Clayr's Seer abilities are diluted when they're not using their powers together in a large number (with a very few and highly powerful exceptions) leaving individual Clayr with an impossible to control ability that triggers randomly and shows useless flashes. All Clayr are also "gifted" with portents of their own death and the ability overwhelms them as they age, leaving them Unstuck in Time and lost in their visions. Furthermore as a Story-Breaker Power, the Clayr's ability is often blocked or impeded.
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Old Kingdom / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Old Kingdom / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: The Old Kingdom, thanks to its Magitek, something briefly discussed by Nick in Goldenhand — on the one hand, it's all sword and sorcery, on the other, there are sophisticated plumbing and hot water systems, Sendings (magical constructs that function along the lines of semi-sentient robots), and magical lights that stand in for electrical lights. Additionally, Sabriel has Touchstone mention sophisticated pumping systems that helped reclaim a great deal of land from the seas.
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Old Kingdom / int_3ce2dc84	type	Save Both Worlds
Old Kingdom / int_3ce2dc84	comment	Save Both Worlds: Ancelstierre ends up at risk from both Kerrigor and the Destroyer, and as the Abhorsen will probably tell you, The World Is Always Doomed in the Old Kingdom.
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Old Kingdom / int_3e6ae9ba	type	Raised as a Host
Old Kingdom / int_3e6ae9ba	comment	Raised as a Host: Ferin from Goldenhand was one of the many future bodies prepped for Chlorr by the barbarian tribes that swear fealty to her. "Ferin" isn't even a proper name since she was always just called "The Offering" and only came up with it when she realized she should give people something to call her.
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Old Kingdom / int_3e8d3ea5	type	Escaped from Hell
Old Kingdom / int_3e8d3ea5	comment	Escaped from Hell: This is how really powerful undead are created. The farther down into the afterlife they fight their way back from, the stronger they are when they pop out and find a body to possess.
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Old Kingdom / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
Old Kingdom / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: A number of plot-relevant events, such as Sabriel being sent to grow up in Ancelstierre and Lirael's conception, are only done because one of the Clayr had a vision of it happening and made sure it came to pass, not because anyone freely chose to do anything.
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Old Kingdom / int_401fc6b9	type	Targeted Human Sacrifice
Old Kingdom / int_401fc6b9	comment	Targeted Human Sacrifice: Charter Stones can only be broken by an exceptionally evil Free Magic ritual involving the sacrifice of a Charter Mage. The Great Charter Stones specifically require Royal Blood.
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Old Kingdom / int_405f7e7b	type	Armed Legs
Old Kingdom / int_405f7e7b	comment	Armed Legs: Aziminil has blades for feet, which are her primary means of combat.
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Old Kingdom / int_4236acb3	type	Kid with the Leash
Old Kingdom / int_4236acb3	comment	Kid with the Leash: Played with with Mogget. The Abhorsen has his leash, all right, but there's a very good reason they keep him on it.
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Old Kingdom / int_42c8293a	type	Sibling Team
Old Kingdom / int_42c8293a	comment	Sibling Team: In "Goldenhand", Sabriel and Lirael, though as mentor and mentee, not as full equals.
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Old Kingdom / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
Old Kingdom / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Almost every wielder of Free Magic or necromancy, as while Free Magic isn't "evil", exactly, it's a very chaotic and destructive power that tends to induce unpleasant effects such as madness in its wielders; the necromancer Hedge is the most prominent Free Magic sorcerer in the books (and perhaps incidentally, wielders of this kind of magic are almost always called sorcerers, in contrast to those who use Charter Magic, who are usually called mages). This trope also applies to the magic-using Greater Dead, such as Kerrigor or Chlorr of the Mask.
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Old Kingdom / int_44440354	type	Sealed Evil in a Six Pack
Old Kingdom / int_44440354	comment	Sealed Evil in a Six Pack: A downplayed example. Orannis the Destroyer was split into two pieces, which were set apart and buried under seven wards. Perhaps separating It into more bits would have been advisable - though that might might not have been possible.
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Old Kingdom / int_449584c	type	Giant Wall of Watery Doom
Old Kingdom / int_449584c	comment	Giant Wall of Watery Doom: The Third Precinct of Death has enormous waves which catch up and carry anyone, Dead or alive, caught up in them. The spells that allow entry and exit to the Third Precinct delay the waves temporarily, but there's a reason everyone crossing the Third Precinct does so at a dead run. Sabriel, in the novel that bears her name, summons one at Abhorsen's House to sweep away the dead attempting to gain entry and keep her trapped. In this case it's a flood sent down the river which the house is built on by the Clayr, fueled by their glacier. At the climax of Goldenhand, Chlorr's defeat and being made Deader than Dead causes the spell-net she created to hold back the Greenwash River to collapse, resulting in this. Many of the participants in the battle raging on the riverbed, including large numbers of barbarians and an entire Trained Band, are washed away, and the Greenwash Bridge's deck is washed out.
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Old Kingdom / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Old Kingdom / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: Touchstone, due to guilt and feeling unworthy, does not reveal that he is the bastard son of the last Queen, so Sabriel doesn't find out until her father mentions a surviving royal prince in suspension to her. Sam attempts to do this when he goes out to save Nick, but it goes poorly.
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Old Kingdom / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
Old Kingdom / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: Touchstone has been sealed for 200 years as the wooden figurehead of a ship to keep the last of the Royal Blood safe from Kerrigor.
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Old Kingdom / int_45ca5950	type	Never Accepted in His Hometown
Old Kingdom / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: Lirael in "Goldenhand", except by the other librarians.
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Old Kingdom / int_477bc5c4	type	Go and Sin No More
Old Kingdom / int_477bc5c4	comment	Go and Sin No More: Justified at the end of the prequel Clariel. Clariel uses Black Magic in desperation to avenge her parents, goes Drunk on the Dark Side, and becomes an Unwitting Pawn of two malevolent spirits, yet pulls a near-Heroic Sacrifice to stop them. Because of this, her friends help her escape into exile with her magic bound rather than let the Queen execute her. She genuinely means to live a simple life in the woods, but it's her Start of Darkness as the legendary sorcerer Chlorr of the Mask.
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Old Kingdom / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Old Kingdom / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Abhorsen's House is a very comfortable manor which is fortified to withstand attacks from the Dead.
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Old Kingdom / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Old Kingdom / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: The Dead, who even when not affiliated under a necromancer will kill anything that moves, if only to eat their life force. Being a walking and animated sin against the cosmic order will do that to a person. Free-willed Dead are more selfish and cowardly than anything else, willing to eat life force and kill people rather than truly die. This is mostly a self selection phenomenon: "natural" undead don't happen unless the spirit powering them was evil and determined enough to claw their way back to life in the first place, while the Free Magic of necromancy corrupts and damages souls that necromancers trap. Free Magic sorcerers more just Always Chaotic, but fit the spirit of this trope as are twisted into The Unfettered due to Wild Magic corrupting them into wanting power and control at any price. We see barbarian sorcerers who are so dangerous that they must be collared with a literal Morality Chain lest they turn on their own people.
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Old Kingdom / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Old Kingdom / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Lots, ranging from the seriously dangerous to all but the very skilled, to the World-Destroying God-Thing. The Clayr's Great Library, for starters, keeps sets of tools laid out centuries ago for precisely the main character, as well as various Free Magic monsters (eg the Stilken that Lirael accidentally frees) and an artifact capable of summoning one of the beings that shaped the world.
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Old Kingdom / int_495bc028	type	Magical Library
Old Kingdom / int_495bc028	comment	Magical Library: The Library of the Clayr. It's carved out of a glacier and is the largest repository of magic books and monsters around. It's kept in order by Crazy-Prepared Magic Librarians.
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Old Kingdom / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
Old Kingdom / int_4a57732a	comment	Friendless Background: Lirael was both isolated and self-isolated - aside from The Disreputable Dog - throughout her life in the Glacier when she passes the age by which most Clayr gain The Sight.
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Old Kingdom / int_4aa3c552	type	Animorphism
Old Kingdom / int_4aa3c552	comment	Lirael is in the form of an owl when she first meets Nick, so Nick assumes he's dreaming and thinks nothing of getting out of bed in the nude. She politely suggests that he put some clothes on before leaving with her. In both cases, the pair end up a couple.
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Old Kingdom / int_4c095112	type	Call to Adventure
Old Kingdom / int_4c095112	comment	Lirael's comes from the Clayr, seeing her on the Red Lake sometime during the coming summer (and in a way, the Disreputable Dog is a walking, talking Call to Adventure).
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Old Kingdom / int_4c1a359f	type	William Fakespeare
Old Kingdom / int_4c1a359f	comment	William Fakespeare: Elinor is a fan of the works of Charlotte Breakespear, and many of the titles of her plays appear to be modelled on Shakespeare's (such as "The Three Noble Kinswomen").
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Old Kingdom / int_4cccd2a9	type	Mad Oracle
Old Kingdom / int_4cccd2a9	comment	Mad Oracle: The Clayr. An entire clan built of this. In most circumstances, their power of Sight is divided among the hundreds of Clayr, granting each of its members with random fragments of possible futures. This also gives them a rather incoherent sense of time and causality (which might help explain the number of one-night stands they have).
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Old Kingdom / int_4d22bdfc	type	Light/Fire Juxtaposition
Old Kingdom / int_4d22bdfc	comment	Light/Fire Juxtaposition: As part of the Order Versus Chaos duality of Charter and Free Magic. The Charter was created to support life and appears as Instant Runes made of light, whereas Free Magic is a corruptive, consumptive force that usually manifests as harsh white fire.
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Old Kingdom / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
Old Kingdom / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: Touchstone is a nude wooden statue when Sabriel first sees him. Being an eighteen-year-old, she takes an embarrassed glance before focusing her attention on the puzzle he poses. Lirael is in the form of an owl when she first meets Nick, so Nick assumes he's dreaming and thinks nothing of getting out of bed in the nude. She politely suggests that he put some clothes on before leaving with her. In both cases, the pair end up a couple.
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Old Kingdom / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Old Kingdom / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: In Lirael, Sam and his classmates fend off zombies with cricket equipment. (Note: the book pre-dates Shaun of the Dead by three years.) Clariel uses an eel knife as a weapon at one point.
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Old Kingdom / int_4ea822ce	type	Songs in the Key of Lock
Old Kingdom / int_4ea822ce	comment	Songs in the Key of Lock: A shortcut to Abhorsen's House in Sabriel will only open to the sound of Mosrael, a bell which is otherwise almost never used in the series by the protagonists (it sends the ringer into Death and the Dead into Life, rather inappropriate for the good guys).
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Old Kingdom / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Old Kingdom / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: After Orranis' defeat, accomplished by Yrael finally getting off the fence and picking a side, It questions why Yrael sided against It.
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Old Kingdom / int_50f85863	type	Magic Harms Technology
Old Kingdom / int_50f85863	comment	Magic Harms Technology: Upon crossing the border from Ancelstierre into the Old Kingdom, magic starts working, but anything produced by machines and technology will begin to deteriorate until it completely falls apart. Nicholas Sayre, who insists that magic isn't real, has been told repeatedly to use parchment when sending letters to the Old Kingdom, but he persists in using paper, which always ends up in shreds.
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Old Kingdom / int_511728ae	type	Magic Versus Science
Old Kingdom / int_511728ae	comment	Magic Versus Science: Magic tends to win. While it's unclear if the Wall is sealing in the magic, it's simply protecting a boundary, or it's the lack of Charter Stones in the south, it certainly marks where things get strange. In any place with a high Background Magic Field, any technology not made by hand either rapidly breaks down or simply doesn't work.
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Old Kingdom / int_514bc7f8	type	Foreseeing My Death
Old Kingdom / int_514bc7f8	comment	Foreseeing My Death: All Clayr are "gifted" with portents of their own death - though not the actual death itself.
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Old Kingdom / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Old Kingdom / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Played with. Just after the breaking of two of the Great Charter Stones, Touchstone threw his sword at Rogir to stop him from reaching a third stone with a cup of the Queen's blood. The sword hit him, all right, and it would have killed him... but Rogir was now one of the Greater Dead wearing a Free Magic construct as a body, so he instead taunted Touchstone about his inability to die.
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Old Kingdom / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
Old Kingdom / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: "Zombie" and "lich" do not exist in the vocabulary of the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre. They are simply Dead Hands and the Greater Dead.
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Old Kingdom / int_529a3369	type	Fights Like a Normal
Old Kingdom / int_529a3369	comment	Fights Like a Normal: Nick in the novella, where he acts almost entirely as a Badass Normal but has absurd amounts of Free Magic left in his blood thanks to his little stint as Orannis' mouthpiece, which seems to interact with the Charter Mark the Dog gave him in very weird ways.
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Old Kingdom / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Old Kingdom / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Governor/Lord Protector Kilp, the Big Bad of Clariel. A would-be usurper who's raised a total sociopath for a son, but the man himself is usually polite, gracious, and accommodating to his enemies/prisoners as well as his peers. He prefers to weave his plots through discussion and politicking, and only resorts to violence when the mundane options fall through. Clariel reflects that had her mother been willing to compromise with Kilp, then her parents' massacre would likely have been averted.
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Old Kingdom / int_53ea03ee	type	Last Girl Wins
Old Kingdom / int_53ea03ee	comment	Last Girl Wins: For Lirael. She first encountered a visitor in the Clayr's Glacier, but was too depressed (and fourteen years old) to notice he was trying to ask her out. Then she met Sam, while he was busy running away and she was undertaking a voyage to find out what Hedge was up to and Sam turns out to be her nephew, so yeah. Last guy she meets? Nick Sayre. The book ends with the two obviously attracted to each other, but not actually dating yet.
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Old Kingdom / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Old Kingdom / int_53f5119f	comment	Of normal necromancers, the most prominent is Hedge, The Dragon of Lirael and Abhorsen. Chlorr of the Mask was a necromancer, but spends more page-time as one of the Greater Dead.
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Old Kingdom / int_54eceae6	type	Magic Is Evil
Old Kingdom / int_54eceae6	comment	Magic Is Evil: Free Magic is, but it wasn't always. The Charter was created from the Free Magic that existed before, and all that remains of Free Magic are the evil parts.
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Old Kingdom / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
Old Kingdom / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: This is actually after the survival has been revealed to the readers, but the Perimeter soldiers tell Sam his parents have been killed in Abhorsen. They return by the end to help save the day, of course.
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Old Kingdom / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Old Kingdom / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Lirael is around 700 pages long. Since it was Divided for Publication, along with Abhorsen, the full story is over 1000 pages. There exists an omnibus of the first three books and "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case", which is just as large and heavy as you'd expect despite being a paperback.
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Old Kingdom / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Old Kingdom / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Abhorsens, the royal family, and the Clayr.
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Old Kingdom / int_55f2c035	type	Formal Full Array of Cutlery
Old Kingdom / int_55f2c035	comment	Formal Full Array of Cutlery: When Sabriel enters the dining room at Abhorsen's House, she notes that the table is full of place settings and cutlery she'd only previously seen in her Etiquette textbook at boarding school, including a real golden straw for sucking out the insides of a pomegranate.
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Old Kingdom / int_55f5d33	type	We Only Have One Chance
Old Kingdom / int_55f5d33	comment	We Only Have One Chance: To defeat Orannis. Once unbound, It's only vulnerable during the rest period between its second and third manifestations, so the binding ritual needs to be performed in that time and has no room for error. Compounding the difficulty is the massive blast radius of Its second manifestation.
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Old Kingdom / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Old Kingdom / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Ancelstierre and the Old Kingdom are basically northern Britain â€” the map even resembles the border between England and Scotland, with Belisaere roughly in the equivalent position of Edinburgh, and the Wall a fantastical version of Hadrian's Wall. Ancelstierre's culture is equivalent to Britain in the 1910s or 20s. The Nomads introduced in Goldenhand are also based on Asian Steppe tribes.
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Old Kingdom / int_5838c7c4	type	Hunter of His Own Kind
Old Kingdom / int_5838c7c4	comment	Hunter of His Own Kind: The Abhorsen has the powers of a necromancer and a duty to find and deal with necromancers and the trouble they cause.
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Old Kingdom / int_58a7abae	type	God Was My Co-Pilot
Old Kingdom / int_58a7abae	comment	God Was My Copilot: The Disreputable Dog (Kibeth) and Mogget (Yrael).
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Old Kingdom / int_58e3bec6	type	Cats Are Lazy
Old Kingdom / int_58e3bec6	comment	Cats Are Lazy: Invoked. A horrifically powerful Free Magic spirit Yrael, one of the Nine Bright Shiners, is bound by a Restraining Bolt in feline form as "Mogget", a Brilliant, but Lazy sapient cat that spends most of his time in Lirael and Abhorsen asleep. This sleep is supposedly because of the enchantment that keeps him bound, but several characters correctly suspect that he only listens when he wants to.
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Old Kingdom / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Old Kingdom / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Mogget, who qualifies for one of the meanest beings in the Old Kingdom - which is not to say that he doesn't have his softer moments.
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Old Kingdom / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Old Kingdom / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: In Clariel, it's revealed that the real reason Jaciel was invited to join Belisaere's High Guild of Goldsmiths is because the Guildmaster, Kilp, also Governor of the city, is secretly a Free Magic sorcerer and has designs on making either her or her daughter Clariel into a puppet monarch, as they are cousins of the current King, who isn't doing much ruling.
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Old Kingdom / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Old Kingdom / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The "Hereditary Arbiter" appears to be Ancelstierre's equivalent to the King or Queen of the United Kingdom, with a side of the Speaker of the House of Commons (a neutral political figure who's supposed to keep things balanced), and likewise for the Moot taking the place of Parliament. Even "Ancelstierre" is something of a calque of England ("Land of the Angles"), although the name is pronounced with a soft "c" rather than a hard "c".
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Old Kingdom / int_5b0eaf89	type	Upgrade Artifact
Old Kingdom / int_5b0eaf89	comment	Upgrade Artifact: The Book of the Dead helps in speeding Lirael along in her Abhorsen training while avoiding a case of Instant Expert. (She fumbles a lot and would probably not have survived many of her actions without the Disreputable Dog.)
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Old Kingdom / int_5b47c8c7	type	Magic Mirror
Old Kingdom / int_5b47c8c7	comment	Magic Mirror: The Dark Mirror, a handheld portal into the past, only workable by Remembrancers. By walking into Death and reciting the incantation, the user can see into past events. The farther back one wants to look, the farther into Death she must walk.
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Old Kingdom / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
Old Kingdom / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: Sameth's hitting on Lirael is less than welcome anyway, and then it turns out he's her nephew. He drops the subject after that.
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Old Kingdom / int_5be7bcfa	type	Older Than They Think
Old Kingdom / int_5be7bcfa	comment	In Lirael, Sam and his classmates fend off zombies with cricket equipment. (Note: the book pre-dates Shaun of the Dead by three years.)
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Old Kingdom / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
Old Kingdom / int_5c300c3b	comment	Kargrin puts Clariel to sleep using Charter Magic after she goes into a berserk rage.
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Old Kingdom / int_5e90d898	type	Prequel in the Lost Age
Old Kingdom / int_5e90d898	comment	Prequel in the Lost Age: Clariel takes place 600 years before the original trilogy, and 400 years before the events that threw the Kingdom into chaos. "To Hold the Bridge" is set in the same time period, an unknown amount of time before the novel.
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Old Kingdom / int_5fb5dad8	type	Royal Blood
Old Kingdom / int_5fb5dad8	comment	Royal Blood: Not only the kingship, but the Abhorsen and the Clayr are also defined by bloodline. At the beginning of the story, the kingdom has gone to pot because there's no legitimate heir of royal blood to take the throne.
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Old Kingdom / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Old Kingdom / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Dead Hands, which are corpses reanimated and somehow deformed by Free Magic, are mindless, squishy, and very persistent. In Lirael, Sabriel and Touchstone think that making enough of them to overrun the entire continent is Hedge's plan; unfortunately, it turns out they're rather underestimating the damage he intends to cause.
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Old Kingdom / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
Old Kingdom / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: In Sabriel, Sabriel's father has vanished and sent her the Abhorsen's tools of the trade. She heads up to the Old Kingdom to investigate, and must come to terms with how little she really knows him, and how she cannot save him.
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Old Kingdom / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Old Kingdom / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Kerrigor, the Greater Dead Adept. Astarael, the Sorrowful; also, the Weeper: If you hear it, you die. Orannis, the Destroyer.
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Old Kingdom / int_61459062	type	Perception Filter
Old Kingdom / int_61459062	comment	Perception Filter: In Clariel, Kargrin uses a spell that makes him and those standing next to him unnoticeable.
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Old Kingdom / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Old Kingdom / int_617f0563	comment	Mogget and the Disreputable Dog are Bright Shiners and thus the most powerful and knowledgeable creatures in the setting. The Dog "dies" saving Lirael from Orannis and Mogget is freed after making a definitive Heelâ€“Face Turn which removes them from future stories outside of occasional appearances.
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Old Kingdom / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Old Kingdom / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Plenty in the course of the series. In Sabriel, Abhorsen Terciel sacrifices himself to drag Kerrigor deep into Death and help Sabriel and Touchstone escape. In Abhorsen, the Disreputable Dog, a.k.a. Kibeth, absorbs the deadly backlash from Orannis' re-binding so it doesn't kill Lirael. Being a Bright Shiner, she's not gone, just discorporated.
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Old Kingdom / int_649b0880	type	Background Magic Field
Old Kingdom / int_649b0880	comment	Background Magic Field: The Old Kingdom and the lands beyond it are steeped in one. The Charter Stones and the Wall generate one allowing access to Charter Magic, but in places beyond their reach north of the Wall, there is only Free Magic. The Charter also has deleterious effects on machine-made objects from Ancelstierre, causing them to break down.
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Old Kingdom / int_65244998	type	Lightning Can Do Anything
Old Kingdom / int_65244998	comment	Lightning Can Do Anything: Nick Sayre is convinced that the "Lightning Farm" is going to be a great energy resource when he gets it to work. The way of the future! What it actually does is crack open Orannis's can and set it briefly free.
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Old Kingdom / int_658a406d	type	Not Too Dead to Save the Day
Old Kingdom / int_658a406d	comment	Not Too Dead to Save the Day: The entire line of Abhorsens, including her father for Sabriel, and the Disreputable Dog for Nick and Lirael in Goldenhand. Both examples send the recipient back to the world of Life.
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Old Kingdom / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Old Kingdom / int_659ef759	comment	Mordicants: Essentially a golem of bog clay with a Dead spirit animating it. These are extremely powerful and hard to damage, and have a rare ability to pull their physical forms with them into Death and emerge intact somewhere else, allowing them to travel extremely quickly and bypass most obstacles. In Sabriel, Kerrigor uses one as his Dragon.
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Old Kingdom / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Old Kingdom / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Residents of the Old Kingdom seen or mentioned who appear to have a second name that isn't an epithet of some kind can be counted on one hand, and none of them are main characters. This also applies to the Nine Bright Shiners and all named Greater Dead.
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Old Kingdom / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Old Kingdom / int_66479d0	comment	Shadow Hands: Similar to Hands, but just the spirit rather than the body. They're usually smarter and, lacking a physical form to attack, near impossible to destroy or banish without catching them in bright sunlight or using enchanted bells/panpipes. They're usually encountered shepherding troops of regular Hands for a necromancer who is busy elsewhere. Like regular Hands, independent versions exist.
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Old Kingdom / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Old Kingdom / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Sabriel's mother died giving birth to her, and Lirael's vanished when she was five (though she had reason for that).
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Old Kingdom / int_67c0ef1a	type	Hidden Backup Prince
Old Kingdom / int_67c0ef1a	comment	Hidden Backup Prince: Touchstone was sealed into a wooden figurehead on a hidden ship to protect him from Kerrigor. Sabriel, and later Ellimere and Sameth, live most of their younger years in Ancelstierre to protect them from the enemies of the Old Kingdom. In Clariel, King Orrikan had only one living heir in Princess Tathiel. Her disappearance years ago led to a Succession Crisis. She shows up to take the throne at the end of the book.
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Old Kingdom / int_6a157a14	type	Color-Coded Patrician
Old Kingdom / int_6a157a14	comment	Color-Coded Patrician: The royal house has red and gold as their heraldic colors, the Clayr have green and silver, and the Abhorsen family uses blue and silver.
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Old Kingdom / int_6a44ee29	type	Jeanne d'ArchÃ©type
Old Kingdom / int_6a44ee29	comment	Jeanne d'ArchÃ©type: Sabriel is visually and thematically paralleled with Joan of Arc, even becoming something of a legendary figure by "Lirael", as noted by the eponymous character. She inspires fortitude in others as well, generally being seen as a pillar of strength by her children and other characters and more explicitly, her words in the binding of Orannis in "Abhorsen" being described as lending hope to the others who must speak against the Big Bad after her.
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Old Kingdom / int_6ad1eeb8	type	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality
Old Kingdom / int_6ad1eeb8	comment	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: The Old Kingdom is right around a 5 â€” men and women serve in near-equal numbers as Abhorsens, royalty, and guards (the only exception being the almost all-female Clayr bloodline). Lirael notes in "Goldenhand" that there is no distinction even between male and female clothing in the Old Kingdom, save for underclothes. South of the Wall, however, Ancelstierre seems to rate a 4 (as befits a land culturally and technologically similar to early 20th century England). Seeming to confirm this, Nicholas mentions tiresome "debs" or debutants in "The Creature in the Case", hinting at more traditional English norms. However, it is mentioned in "Abhorsen" that some of Sabriel's old school friends have become powerful in their own right and Sabriel, who herself grew up in Ancelstierre, is never shown to have qualms about gender roles. Furthermore, Nicholas, an Ancelstierran through and through does not dismiss or diminish the powerful women he meets in the Old Kingdom. Also, the siege at the end of Sabriel demonstrates that women there are not to be trifled with. That being said, all the Ancelstierran Perimeter troops and politicos we see are men. However, it should also be noted that in Sabriel, it's mentioned that in both Ancelstierre and the Old Kingdom, Sabriel and Touchstone travelling together, being young and unmarried, would be assumed by many to be illicit lovers, lowering themselves in most people's eyes - something Touchstone avoids by announcing Sabriel as the Abhorsen and himself as her Sworn Swordsman.
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Old Kingdom / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Old Kingdom / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Quite a lot regarding The Reveal of the Disreputable Dog's identity as Kibeth, the Walker, one of the Seven.: Lirael finds the statuette that summons the Dog on the third of seven small plinths in the room with the bound Stilken. Her first question after being summoned? "When are we going for a walk?" This continues to be her number one favorite activity thereafter. Where Mogget's collar is an incredibly powerful binding spell, the Dog's is more like a Charter Stone. She helped make the Charter, so her collar is a physical manifestation of her connection to it. When Lirael is cornered by Hedge, she manages to get away by blowing a pipe at random. The one she gets? Kibeth, because Kibeth a) likes her and wants to protect her and b) is right across the border with Life. And when Lirael gets back, the Dog immediately knows something bad happened â€” she felt Lirael call on her power. When discussing how some Free Magic creatures don't mind running water, the Dog says that it's no barrier to "those of the Third Kindred, or anything bearing the essence of the Nine." She, a Free Magic creature, is on a boat in the middle of a huge river as she says this. (In the midst of a conversation with fellow Free Magic creature Mogget, who turns out to be the eighth of the Nine, at that.) After a man with a crossbow attempts to kill Sam and Lirael from a bridge, the Dog howls, and he jumps to his death. Her explanation? "I made him walk." What else do we know that can do that? After encountering the spirit of Astarael under Abhorsen's house, the Dog barks to get Lirael running. During the moments before the final confrontation with Chlorr, Lirael hesistates over which bell to wield in her off-hand. Kibeth feels more familiar to her, but she decides to go with Saraneth for its strength.
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Old Kingdom / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Old Kingdom / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Clayr â†’ clairvoyance. (And, more generally, to "clear"; "clairvoyant" literally means "clear-seeing" in French.) Orannis sounds like "Ouranos", the name of the primordial sky god in Greek mythology. It is an Eldritch Abomination that destroys worlds. Belatiel from Clariel is known as "Bel". He finds out after Tyriel's death that he is the next Abhorsen, destined to wield the seven bells of necromancy. The sendings even summon him to Abhorsen's House after Clariel escapes with a message-hawk that draws him as a bell riding a horse.
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Old Kingdom / int_6c51e9e1	type	Fisher King
Old Kingdom / int_6c51e9e1	comment	Fisher King: The health of the Old Kingdom is tied to the Royal Family (and all the great Charter families). Destroying a family plunges the kingdom into chaos. Justified in that every family serves a vital purpose due to powers inherent in their bloodline.
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Old Kingdom / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Old Kingdom / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Lirael at the start of the second book. She's fourteen, and doesn't get the chance to go through with it. After a Time Skip to age nineteen, her internal monologue mentions in passing that she came close to it on her seventeenth birthday as well.
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Old Kingdom / int_6ec3e83	type	The Journey Through Death
Old Kingdom / int_6ec3e83	comment	The Journey Through Death: There are Nine Precincts and Nine Gates in Death, and only beyond the Ninth Gate can a dead be at rest. Of course, all manner of monsters and necromancers plague Death, and the Abhorsen's job is to enter Death to fight them.
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Old Kingdom / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Old Kingdom / int_6ee10e0	comment	Touchstone cannot remember his own name when revived by Sabriel, and only accepts the "fool's name" Mogget bestows upon him because of guilt. His real name, Torrigan, is only mentioned during the binding of Orannis in Abhorsen.
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Old Kingdom / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Old Kingdom / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: The narration seems to go out of its way to state that the characters attacked in the prologue to Abhorsen have indeed been killed. Only 1/3 of the novel later is it revealed that those lines were from a limited perspective and not an omniscient one.
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Old Kingdom / int_70c06a09	type	The Undead
Old Kingdom / int_70c06a09	comment	The Undead: The Dead are a central element of the series (except in Clariel); they come into being when a spirit returns to the living world from Death, whether of its own free will or forced by a necromancer, and have a number of vampire-like traits, including an aversion to fire, sunlight, and running water and a need to feed off the living. Otherwise, they come in numerous types, including: Dead Hands: The basic sort â€” reanimated corpses with a Dead spirit inside. They're not very intelligent or powerful, but are often used as mooks by necromancers, and tend to come in large numbers, and as Goldenhand grimly demonstrates, even in relatively limited numbers they're dangerous to people without powerful Charter Magic. On occasion, independent Dead that are essentially free-willed Hands will show up; Sabriel is accosted by such a creature early in the first book. Shadow Hands: Similar to Hands, but just the spirit rather than the body. They're usually smarter and, lacking a physical form to attack, near impossible to destroy or banish without catching them in bright sunlight or using enchanted bells/panpipes. They're usually encountered shepherding troops of regular Hands for a necromancer who is busy elsewhere. Like regular Hands, independent versions exist. Gore Crows: The result of a single Dead spirit being splintered and used by a necromancer to animated a large group of dead crows. Not very powerful individually (or, it must be said, very bright), but they make good scouts and expendable forces for an aerial Zerg Rush. Mordauts: Similar to Shadow Hands, but instead of existing as pure spirit, they prefer to possess living people, masking their presence with person's lifeforce, sneaking away at night to drain the living, especially children. Clever, but not particularly powerful; Sabriel defeats such a creature during her first time doing proper Abhorsen duties in the first book. Mordicants: Essentially a golem of bog clay with a Dead spirit animating it. These are extremely powerful and hard to damage, and have a rare ability to pull their physical forms with them into Death and emerge intact somewhere else, allowing them to travel extremely quickly and bypass most obstacles. In Sabriel, Kerrigor uses one as his Dragon. Greater Dead: The strongest and most malign of all the Dead, a challenge even for an Abhorsen. They typically take the form of immense, roughly-humanoid shadows with Glowing Eyes of Doom and have formidable Free Magic powers, especially if, like Kerrigor and Chlorr, they were sorcerers in life. Unlike most other Dead, they retain their memories and mental faculties from life. They tend to surround themselves with Lesser Dead, Free Magic elementals, and the odd mortal necromancer as minions.
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Old Kingdom / int_711714da	type	Opposites Attract
Old Kingdom / int_711714da	comment	Opposites Attract: Nicholas Sayre is a mostly Muggle, outgoing, optimistic, Constantly Curious fellow from Ancelstierre. Lirael is a powerfully magical Abhorsen and Daughter of the Clayr who is painfully quiet, shy and with a tendency towards morbid thinking. Ferin and Sam fill out the Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl dynamic. Sam is shy, introverted, a bit of a Deadpan Snarker and prefers to spend his time in his workshop. Ferin is a Northern Barbarian warrior Action Girl.
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Old Kingdom / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Old Kingdom / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: In Abhorsen, a trio of Greater Dead in the Sixth Precinct decide to attack someone who they assume to be an inexperienced necromancer, and the "necromancer's" apparent misuse of Saraneth on the hordes of Lesser Dead surrounding them instead of one of them only solidifies their impression. They only realize their mistake when Lirael, having used Charter Magic to find out the name of the nearest of the Greater Dead, forces Lathal the Abomination to its final death beyond the Ninth Gate.
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Old Kingdom / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Old Kingdom / int_72cdfc33	comment	Clariel opts for more of a Big Bad Ensemble, with no single person responsible for the troubles facing the Kingdom, but many who have their hands in it — most obviously, Guildmaster Kilp, Aziminil, and Mogget.
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Old Kingdom / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Old Kingdom / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Charter marks glow golden, while Free Magic is white electrical fire, and necromancy often features red flames. Additionally, the Dead usually have blackened flesh.
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Old Kingdom / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Old Kingdom / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"
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Old Kingdom / int_746704c9	type	Divided for Publication
Old Kingdom / int_746704c9	comment	Lirael is around 700 pages long. Since it was Divided for Publication, along with Abhorsen, the full story is over 1000 pages.
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Old Kingdom / int_7630ffdb	type	The Call Put Me on Hold
Old Kingdom / int_7630ffdb	comment	The Call Put Me on Hold: Lirael. Usually by the time a Clayr is fourteen, she has gained the power of the Sight and is considered an adult. Lirael, however, reaches nineteen without even a glimmer of precognition. She never does develop precognition; instead, she receives a different Call, from her father's side, and becomes the Abhorsen-in-Waiting.
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Old Kingdom / int_769f241d	type	Magical Sensory Effect
Old Kingdom / int_769f241d	comment	Magical Sensory Effect: The presence of Free Magic causes a telltale acrid odour like hot metal. In high concentrations, it's enough to weaken and nauseate people nearby. Broken Charter stones cause nausea, sweating, and cramps, the worse the more powerful the stone was.
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Old Kingdom / int_78314050	type	Unstuck in Time
Old Kingdom / int_78314050	comment	Unstuck in Time: The Clayr live like this. See Mad Oracle.
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Old Kingdom / int_78338469	type	A Hero Is Born
Old Kingdom / int_78338469	comment	A Hero Is Born: Sabriel is a type 2, with the prologue involving her nearly dying at birth and being rescued from Death and Kerrigor by her father.
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Old Kingdom / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Old Kingdom / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Touchstone was the bastard son of the Queen and a nobleman. Lirael of the Clayr, although not technically illegitimate since the Clayr don't typically marry, has to deal with very similar social disapproval because her mother ran off mysteriously (against tradition) and returned pregnant with Lirael, and completely refused to speak of the identity of Lirael's father. The odd circumstances of Lirael's birth, combined with her non-Clayr looks and lack of Clayr gifts, all cause her to be treated by some as an awkward "love child" rather than a "true daughter of the Clayr".
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Old Kingdom / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
Old Kingdom / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title: Abhorsen.
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Old Kingdom / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
Old Kingdom / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: The job of Sabriel's family, Abhorsen, shares a name with the executioner in Measure for Measure. In order to hide his true identity, Mogget gives Torrigan the name Touchstone. An expy of Shakespeare, Charlotte Breakespear is mentioned in Terciel and Elenor
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Old Kingdom / int_7b459dff	type	'20s Bob Haircut
Old Kingdom / int_7b459dff	comment	'20s Bob Haircut: Sabriel is described as having one during her very first appearance, though it's not reflected in the cover illustration. (The novel is set in a fantasy world, but Ancelstierre is a f to 1920s England in technology level and culture.)
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Old Kingdom / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Old Kingdom / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: In Clariel, Jaciel is decapitated by Kilp's guards.
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Old Kingdom / int_7f9bfc3f	type	Human Mail
Old Kingdom / int_7f9bfc3f	comment	Human Mail: In Abhorsen, Sabriel and Touchstone make the last leg of their undercover journey through Ancelstierre hiding in mailbags on a mail truck which takes them to Wyverley College.
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Old Kingdom / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Old Kingdom / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: At the end of Clariel, Bel can't bear to kill Clariel, so he binds her from using Free Magic and sends her north, giving her the perfect opportunity to â€” eventually â€” become Chlorr of the Mask.
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Old Kingdom / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Old Kingdom / int_815556aa	comment	Tome of Eldritch Lore: The Book of the Dead. The Book of Remembrance and Forgetting also qualifies to a lesser extent.
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Old Kingdom / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Old Kingdom / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: When Corolini's assistant arrives at the Wall with the papers permitting Hedge to cross, he asks for the last payment for destabilizing the Ancelstierran government, arranging for the arrival of the Southerling refugees, and assassinating the King and Queen. Hedge simply burns the papers and cuts the man's head off.
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Old Kingdom / int_82a4fadc	type	Our Liches Are Different
Old Kingdom / int_82a4fadc	comment	Greater Dead: The strongest and most malign of all the Dead, a challenge even for an Abhorsen. They typically take the form of immense, roughly-humanoid shadows with Glowing Eyes of Doom and have formidable Free Magic powers, especially if, like Kerrigor and Chlorr, they were sorcerers in life. Unlike most other Dead, they retain their memories and mental faculties from life. They tend to surround themselves with Lesser Dead, Free Magic elementals, and the odd mortal necromancer as minions.
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Old Kingdom / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
Old Kingdom / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: Wallmaker abilities seem to include a talent both with Charter Magic and artifice. Ceramic armor much harder and lighter than steel, enchanted weapons, magic-powered clockwork things, and after the epilogue a magical artificial hand.
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Old Kingdom / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
Old Kingdom / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: Wyverley College, for "Young Ladies of Quality", is less than forty miles south of the Wall and considers Fighting Arts a mandatory subject for its students. They also teach Charter Magic to any girl who can get permission from her parents. It's for this very reason that Sabriel's father chooses it when he sends her to Ancelstierre to keep her safe. The climax of Sabriel returns to the school. In Abhorsen, the school serves as a safe haven for Sabriel and Touchstone to leave a chest with their things when they travel further south, and to return there after they're presumed dead in an assassination attempt and have to travel undercover.
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Old Kingdom / int_82da9d46	type	Mundane Fantastic
Old Kingdom / int_82da9d46	comment	Mundane Fantastic: Charter Magic is an everyday fact of life in the Old Kingdom; almost everyone is baptized into the Charter and has access to it. In the time period of Clariel, magic is even denigrated as the work of servants.
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Old Kingdom / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Old Kingdom / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Ferin from Goldenhand was raised to be a host body for "The Witch With No Face" (Chlorr) knowing she'd either be possessed by the age of 17 or be killed if Chlorr didn't choose her and wasn't even given a proper name, since "Ferin" is just a shortening of "Offering", what her people called her since she realized she needs something to call herself. Despite this she presses on with her mission despite all the obstacles in her path, and she even takes needing to have her foot amputated surprisingly well.
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Old Kingdom / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
Old Kingdom / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: Nicholas Sayre thinks his best friend's obvious magic is just showing off, and other obvious signs of magic are superstition. In Nick's defense, his brain was operating rationally on the subject until Hedge planted a shard of the Destroyer's prison in his heart. Also, Nick admits to the existence of functional magic, having confronted and killed honest-to-god zombies, but he believes that there is a scientific explanation behind the usage of magic. Though when he is feverish, later on, he discounts many of the very real dangers of the Old Kingdom as superstition.
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Old Kingdom / int_86ba007a	type	Bad Powers, Good People
Old Kingdom / int_86ba007a	comment	Bad Powers, Good People: The Abhorsens have the same abilities as necromancers, namely those of awakening and otherwise controlling dead bodies and spirits. The Abhorsens' bells, however, are fired through with Charter Magic, hence their commitment and ability to keep the Dead journeying down the river of death.
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Old Kingdom / int_86c63f9	type	Female Feline, Male Mutt
Old Kingdom / int_86c63f9	comment	Female Feline, Male Mutt: Inverted. The Disreputable Dog is actually the "Disreputable Bitch, if you want to get technical". If she's a bitch, Mogget is certainly a bastard.invoked
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Old Kingdom / int_8712e4c9	type	Story-Breaker Power
Old Kingdom / int_8712e4c9	comment	The Clayr's ability to see to future is a Story-Breaker Power which is why they're regularly subject to this trope. In Lirael and Abhorsen, the Destroyer is actively blocking the Sight, and in Goldenhand the Clayr are hit with a convenient, possibly magical plague of the flu before the plot starts.
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Old Kingdom / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Old Kingdom / int_8774fb47	comment	Orannis sounds like "Ouranos", the name of the primordial sky god in Greek mythology. It is an Eldritch Abomination that destroys worlds.
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Old Kingdom / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Old Kingdom / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Sameth as the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. The Call wasn't actually for him, though. He just happened to be standing closest to the phone. And when he does get his proper call, as a Wallmaker, he gladly accepts it. Seems to be what brought about Mogget's original imprisonment. Where Orannis chose to fight the Seven rather than ally with them, Yrael just ran away and hid until they tracked him down and bound him.
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Old Kingdom / int_890d778	type	Wizards Live Longer
Old Kingdom / int_890d778	comment	Wizards Live Longer: For reasons not fully understood, Clayr tend to live for well over a century. In Clariel, it turns out that Mistress Ader, the headmistress of the school Clariel is sent to, is actually Maderael, a former Abhorsen who retired a century ago. Given that the book takes place in a period of relative peace and prosperity for the Old Kingdom, with magic known that has been lost by the time of the later books, it's possible that all of the Charter bloodlines have the potential to live as long as the Clayr, but don't due to living more dangerous lifestyles.
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Old Kingdom / int_89443850	type	Absolute Xenophobe
Old Kingdom / int_89443850	comment	Absolute Xenophobe: Orannis' motivation seems to be a desire to be entirely alone and free from the noise of other beings:
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Old Kingdom / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Old Kingdom / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: The Abhorsen, responsible for making The Undead Deader than Dead.
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Old Kingdom / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Old Kingdom / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: The Book of the Dead has a mechanism built in to prevent readers from remembering some of the less pleasant parts unless they need them, since otherwise they risk this.
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Old Kingdom / int_89f50aaa	type	Restraining Bolt
Old Kingdom / int_89f50aaa	comment	Restraining Bolt: Mogget's collar. Don't take it off if you value your life.
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Old Kingdom / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Old Kingdom / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Lirael's mother Arielle is long dead and past the Ninth Gate by the beginning of Lirael, but the actions she took guided by her powerful visions are crucial, especially in Goldenhand.
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Old Kingdom / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Old Kingdom / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Sabriel starts the series, and Lirael and Abhorsen are a two-book arc taking place a generation later. Clariel jumps back several centuries before Sabriel, while Goldenhand then follows Abhorsen and Terciel and Elinor jumps back again, this time a couple of decades or so before Sabriel.
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Old Kingdom / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Old Kingdom / int_8ba9512b	comment	Dead Hands: The basic sort â€” reanimated corpses with a Dead spirit inside. They're not very intelligent or powerful, but are often used as mooks by necromancers, and tend to come in large numbers, and as Goldenhand grimly demonstrates, even in relatively limited numbers they're dangerous to people without powerful Charter Magic. On occasion, independent Dead that are essentially free-willed Hands will show up; Sabriel is accosted by such a creature early in the first book.
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Old Kingdom / int_8d4799d1	type	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl
Old Kingdom / int_8d4799d1	comment	Ferin and Sam fill out the Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl dynamic. Sam is shy, introverted, a bit of a Deadpan Snarker and prefers to spend his time in his workshop. Ferin is a Northern Barbarian warrior Action Girl.
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Old Kingdom / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Old Kingdom / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The prologue to Abhorsen is an account of the brutal assassination of Sabriel and Touchstone on foreign ground, using modern weaponry. They received very little screen time in Lirael and are only revealed to have survived a third of the way through Abhorsen (and the attack still killed all but one of the royal escort), making it especially shocking, particularly if reading the trilogy start to finish. Their deaths are even more convincing due to a subtle perspective shift in the narration which falls just short of lying to the reader's face.
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Old Kingdom / int_8ed601a6	type	Two-Part Trilogy
Old Kingdom / int_8ed601a6	comment	Two-Part Trilogy: Lirael and Abhorsen were conceived of as one book.
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Old Kingdom / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Old Kingdom / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Belatiel makes no secret of having a crush on Clariel, his second cousin. No one seems to think that's odd; her rejection is because she's just not interested in that kind of thing due to being asexual, not because they're relatives. Lirael's parents are technically distant cousins. There's a lot of this among the Abhorsen, Clayr and royal bloodlines.
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Old Kingdom / int_902ff525	type	Sdrawkcab Alias
Old Kingdom / int_902ff525	comment	Sdrawkcab Alias: Kerrigor = Rogirek. It was his old childhood nickname originally, made up by Touchstone.
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Old Kingdom / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Old Kingdom / int_906365a2	comment	Mordauts: Similar to Shadow Hands, but instead of existing as pure spirit, they prefer to possess living people, masking their presence with person's lifeforce, sneaking away at night to drain the living, especially children. Clever, but not particularly powerful; Sabriel defeats such a creature during her first time doing proper Abhorsen duties in the first book.
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Old Kingdom / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Old Kingdom / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: It's suggested that a Class 1 (Large-Scale Civilization Disruption) happened north of the Wall two hundred years before the story opens, in response to Kerrigor's assassination of the royal family, and his armies of Dead ravaging the land. By the time Sabriel arrives, civilization is sort of functioning, but only in isolated enclaves who can't really help each other, and things are clearly getting worse as Kerrigor's forces continue to break Charter stones. In Lirael, Class 5 (Planetary Extinction) is the Sealed Evil in a Can's goal. A Class 6 (Planetary Scale, Total Extinction) is implied to have happened in the Empty Lands north of the Great Rift, which separates the Old Kingdom from the remnants of a destroyed world just as the Wall separates the Old Kingdom from Ancelstierre.
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Old Kingdom / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
Old Kingdom / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: There are seven bells, named after the Seven who made the Charter. Orranis is bound under seven layers of wards. And the world of the Old Kingdom was the seventh world he was going to destroy. There are Nine Bright Shiners in all, and Nine Precincts and Gates in Death. Not to mention the Clayr's Nine Day Watch.
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Old Kingdom / int_920ca805	type	Night of the Living Mooks
Old Kingdom / int_920ca805	comment	Night of the Living Mooks: standard any time that Dead Hands are around.
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Old Kingdom / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Old Kingdom / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Nicholas Sayre, once the Destroyer is unbound, dies from the trauma his body's been put through, rather than a direct wound.
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Old Kingdom / int_92d6110b	type	Grenade Hot Potato
Old Kingdom / int_92d6110b	comment	Grenade Hot Potato: When Sabriel and Touchstone get ambushed in Corvere, Damed, one of their Royal Guard, attempts this, and while he succeeds in saving the king and queen, he dies.
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Old Kingdom / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
Old Kingdom / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: Since sunlight is damaging to the Dead, fog is sometimes used instead of darkness as a cover for a large group of Dead. When Kerrigor crosses the Wall with an army of Dead, he brings fog with him. Also, Chlorr creates a white fog while the Destroyer is being brought across the Wall.
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Old Kingdom / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Old Kingdom / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: "Think of Life!" from Sabriel. Set between the showdown in the reservoir and Touchstone's berserker rage, this is Sabriel and Touchstone's First Kiss. Epic enough to resist the power of Astarael, the Weeper, which sends all who hear it into Death. Also an aversion of Hollywood Kiss, because an accidental bite and a little blood is involved — which probably actually helps in distracting from Astarael's call.
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Old Kingdom / int_94eb5311	type	Geometric Magic
Old Kingdom / int_94eb5311	comment	Geometric Magic: The Charter Marks are unique and named runes, each of which has its own power, which can be written with hand or sword, or even whistled or barked (if one is so inclined).
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Old Kingdom / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Old Kingdom / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: After Sameth goes into death alone and is mind-controlled by Hedge, he is taken back to the Old Kingdom, whereupon his mother decides leaving him in the care of his sister is a better idea than staying and ensuring he's in a sound state of mind. Jusitified, to an extent, as one of the smaller plot points is that everyone is too busy (his parents) or too self-assured (his sister) to notice his massive unsuitability for the position of Abhorsen-in-Waiting; also, until his traumatic encounter with Hedge, Sam probably didn't seem so massively unsuitable. His family knew he was traumatized but were too busy to realize the direction the trauma took. Especially since Sam was ashamed to reveal it. Given this, it is unsurprising that they did not spend the time or understanding required to counsel him after a traumatic experience in Death. Lirael has been suffering from depression for years and when we first meet her she is about to attempt suicide, and none of the Clayr â€” who are seers, go figure â€” ever noticed or did anything to help until Sanar and Ryelle intervened. (The Clayr's Sight tends to make them somewhat distant, compounded by the fact that none of them had ever Seen Lirael in their visions, at all.)
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Old Kingdom / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Old Kingdom / int_970c790a	comment	Hedge in the third book. At first he appears to be the Big Bad, but it turns out he's only a puppet of Orannis. Chlorr is pretty much his Dragon, though.
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Old Kingdom / int_973d4e8	type	Loved I Not Honor More
Old Kingdom / int_973d4e8	comment	Loved I Not Honor More: In later books, it seems that Sabriel and Touchstone, as Abhorsen and hands-on King, have constantly put their callings above their marriage and their duties to their children (although they can always slay Dead together). The first book showed in lavish detail what happens when the Abhorsen and King are not active in the Kingdom, so they're not shown as being selfish or mean â€” it's just a bad situation. Sabriel does look forward to her son Sam taking on the mantle of Abhorsen-in-Waiting, as that means they'll get to spend time together. Sabriel's father, Terciel, sent his daughter to a boarding school in Ancelstierre, far from his home in the Old Kingdom, partially because the Clayr had a vision that one day an Abhorsen would be needed who knew this relatively foreign terrain, and partially because Terciel knew the only alternatives were risking Sabriel's life by taking her with him on his dangerous adventures or keeping her as a lonely prisoner in his isolated house while he was away, and that was no kind of life for a child. Desire over duty and honor is a major theme in Clariel. The main character's and the major bloodines' selfish desires and refusal to do their duty nearly allow a few Free Magic creatures and their human pawns to plunge the Old Kingdom into chaos. Even Belatiel's crush on Clariel is viewed in a very unsympathetic light as she's clearly uninterested, he's emotionally cheating on his current girlfriend and it drives him to spare her which will lead to Chlorr of the Mask.
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Old Kingdom / int_97838192	type	Heroic Lineage
Old Kingdom / int_97838192	comment	For Sabriel, Lirael, and Ellimere. However, averted with Sabriel's father â€” his aunt trained him â€” and with Sam, who inherits neither of his parents' Heroic Lineages, since Ellimere is the heiress to the throne and Lirael is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Luckily for Sam, he gets his own ability as a Wallmaker â€” the first in nearly a millennium.
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Old Kingdom / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Old Kingdom / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: It is implied that being a berserker runs in the Royal blood. Also, Charter bloodlines seem to share certain personality trains, most prominently in the head figures of the bloodline (i.e. tendancy towards solitude and stoicism in the Abhorsens, charisma in the Royal line, a certain airiness in the Clayr). Admittedly, it is sometimes unclear whether these are in the Blood, or the result of familial culture. Certainly they're related to the Charter abilities that run in the Blood (Clairvoyance for the Clayr, the Death sense for the Abhorsen, innate talent with creating things for the Wallmakers, innate abilities to lead(?) for the Royals).
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Old Kingdom / int_99db27be	type	NecessaryEvil
Old Kingdom / int_99db27be	comment	Necessary Evil: Free Magic Sorcerers and Necromancers are viewed as this by the Northern Tribes. They are important to the military strength of a tribe but must be watched, collared and chained to stop them from turning on their own tribe.
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Old Kingdom / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
Old Kingdom / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: Sabriel's father, Sabriel herself, and even Lirael's mother, sort of.
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Old Kingdom / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Old Kingdom / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Mogget toes â€” or paws â€” the line between this and Hidden Agenda Villain, ultimately swinging more towards the former.
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Old Kingdom / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Old Kingdom / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: After Orannis is bound again at the end of Abhorsen, it can no longer play a direct role in the story, but it still casts a long shadow over "The Creature in the Case" and Goldenhand.
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Old Kingdom / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
Old Kingdom / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: When Mogget is unleashed at the end of Sabriel, he attacks Kerrigor to prevent a Kill Steal.
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Old Kingdom / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Old Kingdom / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: In the novella, Nick fights an ancient Free Magic elemental and an army of evil shadow government agents with basically whatever's handy. Word of God says that this story was intended to be something of a joke: Nick looks like a Badass by normal standards, but he faints during his failed attempt to poison the elemental, only to have Lirael (still a novice Abhorsen-in-Waiting) swoop in and defeat the creature with nothing but a thistle.
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Old Kingdom / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Old Kingdom / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The Nine Precincts of Death are an unsettling, unnatural location stalked by the Dead who refuse to move on. In Goldenhand, the Great Rift and the world beyond, hinted to be the remnants of a world destroyed by Orannis. There's no air, and the land is charged with Free Magic.
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Old Kingdom / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Old Kingdom / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: One of the ways of dealing with the Dead, especially those who aren't fazed by running water.
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Old Kingdom / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Old Kingdom / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: Towards the end of Lirael, Sam and Lirael fail to rescue a band of Southerling refugees from Dead Hands, led by Chlorr. The one man who got away dies of his injuries, but not before Sam lies to him, saying that the rest of his band all survived and escaped.
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Old Kingdom / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Old Kingdom / int_9ce6492a	comment	In Abhorsen, the Disreputable Dog, a.k.a. Kibeth, absorbs the deadly backlash from Orannis' re-binding so it doesn't kill Lirael. Being a Bright Shiner, she's not gone, just discorporated.
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Old Kingdom / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Old Kingdom / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: There's some in Sabriel regarding Touchstone's status as the last member of the royal family: He is in stasis in Holehallow, which as the burial place of the rulers of the Old Kingdom has very strong magical protections, notably ones against necromancy laid by the Abhorsens. On top of that, why would someone go to such lengths for an apparently ordinary member of the Royal Guard? When cremating the healer's body in Nestowe, Sabriel is surprised when Touchstone turns out to have just as much strength in Charter Magic as she does, despite having been "only" a Royal Guardsman. When he recounts what happened the night the Great Charter Stones were broken, he starts off by stating that the Queen had four children. He then mentions Rogir and the two princesses, but never mentions the fourth child again, even though the story also makes it clear that the Queen trusted him enough for Rogir to be able to use that when luring the Queen down to the reservoir. He also calls Rogir the Queen's oldest son. When Sabriel is releasing Touchstone, after she puts his spirit back inside his body, Mogget tells her that all that's needed is a kiss to finish the job, or also a breath, but she has to start kissing someone sometime. She decides to breathe on him because she thinks a kiss is too forward... and yes, she does kiss him later on. As Sabriel is hugged by Sanar and Ryelle, she thinks about how with her father's death she has no family, and wonders if she might find sisters among the Clayr. Her half-sister Lirael grows up among the Clayr because her mother was one. Quite a lot regarding The Reveal of the Disreputable Dog's identity as Kibeth, the Walker, one of the Seven.: Lirael finds the statuette that summons the Dog on the third of seven small plinths in the room with the bound Stilken. Her first question after being summoned? "When are we going for a walk?" This continues to be her number one favorite activity thereafter. Where Mogget's collar is an incredibly powerful binding spell, the Dog's is more like a Charter Stone. She helped make the Charter, so her collar is a physical manifestation of her connection to it. When Lirael is cornered by Hedge, she manages to get away by blowing a pipe at random. The one she gets? Kibeth, because Kibeth a) likes her and wants to protect her and b) is right across the border with Life. And when Lirael gets back, the Dog immediately knows something bad happened â€” she felt Lirael call on her power. When discussing how some Free Magic creatures don't mind running water, the Dog says that it's no barrier to "those of the Third Kindred, or anything bearing the essence of the Nine." She, a Free Magic creature, is on a boat in the middle of a huge river as she says this. (In the midst of a conversation with fellow Free Magic creature Mogget, who turns out to be the eighth of the Nine, at that.) After a man with a crossbow attempts to kill Sam and Lirael from a bridge, the Dog howls, and he jumps to his death. Her explanation? "I made him walk." What else do we know that can do that? After encountering the spirit of Astarael under Abhorsen's house, the Dog barks to get Lirael running. During the moments before the final confrontation with Chlorr, Lirael hesistates over which bell to wield in her off-hand. Kibeth feels more familiar to her, but she decides to go with Saraneth for its strength. For Lirael being the real Abhorsen-in-Waiting and Sam being a Wallmaker, Sam being Sameth, rather than something ending in -el. When Sam is sneaking out of Belisaere to go rescue Nick, he thinks that maybe he should have packed lighter as his saddlebags are surprisingly heavy. He later discovers that the bells his mother gave him and The Book of the Dead have magically come along for the ride. After Lirael has left the Glacier, when she tells the Disreputable Dog about her quest, she starts off that she needs to find a man (Nick Sayre), prompting the Dog to interrupt "Good! Time you were bred!" to Lirael's embarrassment, and she responds that it's not like that. Guess who Lirael ultimately ends up with?
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Old Kingdom / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Old Kingdom / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Dig faster, for I... must... be... whole... again!"
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Old Kingdom / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
Old Kingdom / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: Free Magic isn't intrinsically evil but can't be wielded by humans without mental harm; sorcerers inevitably turn into rampaging megalomaniacs over time. And the best source of power is to assimilate Free Magic spirits to claim their strength... Necromancy is the most feared use of Free Magic because it traps the spirits of the dead as servants, not merely their bodies — which gives them plenty of motive to create more dead.
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Old Kingdom / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
Old Kingdom / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: Chlorr. "Oh, I hear there's an ancient and mysterious force of evil near the Red Lake! I shall go grab it, since there's obviously no way it could outclass me!"
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Old Kingdom / int_9ffbadef	type	Fantastic Naming Convention
Old Kingdom / int_9ffbadef	comment	Fantastic Naming Convention: All the Abhorsen's bloodline have names ending in "iel" or "ael", possibly in a nod to Astarael the Weeper. Jaciel split from her family under highly acrimonious circumstances but still maintained the tradition with her daughter Clariel.
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Old Kingdom / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
Old Kingdom / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: Touchstone is revealed to be the last surviving member of the royal family, a bastard son of the Queen, and so in eighteen years, not only are he and Sabriel happily married, they're king and queen as well. Belatiel in Clariel comes back to find the Abhorsen's house in chaos. He calls for a sword and a set of bells and then all of the sendings slowly bow to him, acknowledging him as the new Abhorsen. It actually catches him by surprise, as up until then he and the other members of the family were under the impression that his cousin Yannael, his predecessor Tyriel's last living child, was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and he doesn't know if they're going to obey his orders or not.
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Old Kingdom / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Old Kingdom / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: The Abhorsen bloodline tend to be pale with black hair and eyes, plus their skin bleaches out from exposure to Death. Lirael is described with "white skin... dark eyes and even darker hair" before she learns of her ancestry, whereas Sabriel and Terciel have "deathly white" skin, even though Terciel had dark skin as a child.
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Old Kingdom / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
Old Kingdom / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: In Lirael, it's mentioned that the only time Sam has ever seen his father go into a berserker rage was after a false ambassador from a northern clan attempted to stab Sabriel at a banquet, prompting Touchstone to throw him the length of the banquet table. Abhorsen opens with one on Sabriel and Touchstone while they're in Corvere. They're not revealed to have survived until a third of the way in, and some Dramatic Irony arises later as Lirael and Sam, among others, believe them to be dead until they turn up with Ellimere, Sanar and Ryelle at the climax.
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Old Kingdom / int_a270b9e5	type	Anarchy Is Chaos
Old Kingdom / int_a270b9e5	comment	Anarchy Is Chaos: Since the fall of the royal family, the Old Kingdom has been steadily sliding into chaos as the years go by, since the very existence of the family is necessary to the health of the kingdom. It turns out that Kerrigor was actively managing the chaos in order to weaken the Charter and make himself more powerful â€” he may never have proclaimed himself King, but after the last regent died it's clear just who was the dominant force in the Old Kingdom.
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Old Kingdom / int_a588cd12	type	Cool House
Old Kingdom / int_a588cd12	comment	Cool House: The Abhorsen's House. A heavily defensive mansion located on an island in the middle of a waterfall. It has secret passages, magic servants, dangerous books, areas and magical creatures and is filled to the brim with Charter Magic.
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Old Kingdom / int_a5cc639b	type	Birthday Beginning
Old Kingdom / int_a5cc639b	comment	Birthday Beginning: Lirael's book opens on her fourteenth birthday, completely despondent because she has not yet received the Sight.
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Old Kingdom / int_a659f3a4	type	Sibling Murder
Old Kingdom / int_a659f3a4	comment	Sibling Murder: Rogir had his minions sacrifice his two sisters on two of the Great Charter Stones to break them, and only the arrival of the Abhorsen prevents him from killing his half-brother. 200 years later, he gets another chance to try and kill his little half-brother, but is ultimately defeated instead. In Clariel, this is why Jaciel is estranged from her family. Her older brother, Teriel, was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting and, unlike their father, actively studied necromancy and Free Magic and walked in Death. However, on his last such trip, he was killed and his body stolen by some manner of Dead creature. The Dead thing in Teriel's body walked into Jaciel's forge, where she immediately realized what had happened and killed it in self-defence by dousing it in molten gold. However, no one else at Hillfair believed her when she explained, and she was kicked out.
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Old Kingdom / int_a6eb94b0	type	Cannot Cross Running Water
Old Kingdom / int_a6eb94b0	comment	Cannot Cross Running Water: The Dead and most Free Magic creatures can't cross running water (unless it's bridged with boxes of grave dirt), and at least some of them are harmed by rain. They can't pass under it either; in Sabriel, the centre of Belisaere is protected by the aqueducts circling it.
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Old Kingdom / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Old Kingdom / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Touchstone cannot remember his own name when revived by Sabriel, and only accepts the "fool's name" Mogget bestows upon him because of guilt. His real name, Torrigan, is only mentioned during the binding of Orannis in Abhorsen. Mistress Ader from Clariel goes by a shortened form of her full name to hide that she is the former Abhorsen Maderael, and rather a bit older than she seems.
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Old Kingdom / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Old Kingdom / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: It's hinted in Sabriel that Touchstone was very vaguely aware while he was in magical suspension with his spirit in Death, but fortunately he seems to forget everything about the experience not long after being released (although he does panic briefly when he wakes up under a grey blanket).
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Old Kingdom / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Old Kingdom / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: The night two of the Great Charter Stones were broken, Touchstone was the only member of the royal bloodline to survive going into the reservoir. He still feels guilty about this for some time afterwards. Kerrigor, the one responsible for all the deaths that night, was a member of the royal family, but he was already Dead.
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Old Kingdom / int_aaedd10	type	Given Name Reveal
Old Kingdom / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: In Sabriel, the protaganist's father is referred to only as "Abhorsen" and even his daughter assumes that his name, until Mogget points out that it is simply a title. In "Lirael", he off-handedly refers to Sabriel's father as Terciel. In Abhorsen, during the binding of Orannis, Touchstone finally mentions that his real name, which he couldn't initially remember upon revival in Sabriel, is Torrigan. In Clariel, it turns out that Mistress Ader is a nickname, and her real name is Maderael, marking her as a former Abhorsen.
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Old Kingdom / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Old Kingdom / int_ab5eea65	comment	Abhorsen opens with one on Sabriel and Touchstone while they're in Corvere. They're not revealed to have survived until a third of the way in, and some Dramatic Irony arises later as Lirael and Sam, among others, believe them to be dead until they turn up with Ellimere, Sanar and Ryelle at the climax.
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Old Kingdom / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
Old Kingdom / int_abe1e24e	comment	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Mogget describes the Ahborsen who held the post at the beginning of the Interregnum as being a very powerful Charter Mage and a master of the Bells, but, unfortunately, "a little too good-hearted to deal with treachery", and that he had a hard time getting him to Belisaere, which is why they weren't in time to save the Queen and princesses.
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Old Kingdom / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Old Kingdom / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Right at the start of Sabriel, Kerrigor, having just made it back into the First Precinct of Death, grabs the spirit of baby Sabriel, who nearly died at birth, attempting to hold her hostage against her father. This prevents her from dying for real by going past the First Gate, allowing her to grow up and defeat him.
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Old Kingdom / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Old Kingdom / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Thralk, the Dead creature who attacks Sabriel on Cloven Crest, when it/he realizes that he's attacked the Abhorsen. The Greater Dead known as Lathal the Abomination and its two fellows get this when they attack Lirael, who they presume to be an inexperienced necromancer, in the Sixth Precinct, only for her to banish Lathal beyond the Ninth Gate.
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Old Kingdom / int_ad32b97	type	The Call Left a Message
Old Kingdom / int_ad32b97	comment	Most of the stuff written in The Book of the Dead is forgotten the moment it is read, and the reader only remembers when it is required.
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Old Kingdom / int_ae2b8366	type	Possessing a Dead Body
Old Kingdom / int_ae2b8366	comment	Possessing a Dead Body: Less powerful Dead such as Hands are created by a Dead spirit possessing and reanimating a corpse â€” any corpse will do, so long as it's mostly intact, though it's implied there's a stronger connection to the spirit's original body. They also tend to reshape it thereafter to better fit their spirit's form in Death, or be more combat-effective, invariably resulting in Body Horror. More powerful Dead entities can do this too, but are just as likely to use artificially created construct bodies or even exist as raw spirit with no body at all.
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Old Kingdom / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Old Kingdom / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Mogget, in spades, at the expense of whoever's around him - usually either Sabriel, Touchstone, or Sam.
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Old Kingdom / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Old Kingdom / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: At the end of Clariel, Clariel realizes that her self-destructive Roaring Rampage of Revenge was pointless — the villain would have been defeated without her, and her use of Free Magic almost inflicted a catastrophe on the Kingdom. She leaves as a fugitive to pursue her Tragic Dream of becoming a solitary woodsman, but the reader knows she's doomed to succumb to Free Magic and become Chlorr.
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Old Kingdom / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Old Kingdom / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?" for pretty much anyone associated with the Abhorsens.
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Old Kingdom / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Old Kingdom / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Dying and having your spirit controlled by a necromancer who will inflict such pleasant fates as splintering your spirit into pieces or using you to massacre your friends and family. Occasionally main characters will speak to death spirits or dying people who will beg to be sent through the Ninth Gate rather than be used in such a manner.
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Old Kingdom / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Old Kingdom / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: Orannis and, by extension, Hedge.
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Old Kingdom / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Old Kingdom / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: For the title characters and for Sameth as well. In Clariel, Belatiel's ascension as Abhorsen.
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Old Kingdom / int_b2463ea1	type	Intellectual Animal
Old Kingdom / int_b2463ea1	comment	Intellectual Animal: Several, particularly the Disreputable Dog and Mogget.
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Old Kingdom / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
Old Kingdom / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Played With. While it's heavily implied that Mogget spending so much time as a cat while bound into the service of the Abhorsens has effects on his personality: he's always demanding fish, and is affected by catbalm growing in Holehallow, and in Goldenhand, even after regaining his freedom, he still chooses to take feline form, it is revealed that one of his historically favoured forms was that of the great Athask, an enormous big cat, the totem of Ferin's tribe, suggesting that he liked cat-like forms anyway. Lirael can make skins that allow her to take on the form of an otter, or a bear, or an owl, but each one alters her temperament and perception for a while, even when she takes them off (the otter-skin gives her a great craving for fish, the bear-skin makes her extra irritable and hungry, and the owl-skin makes her more sensitive to light, for example).
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Old Kingdom / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
Old Kingdom / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: Clariel sees Belisaere and the Abhorsen's House as this. Even though she lives in luxury, she resents being controlled by other people and is constantly trying to find a way to escape to the forest.
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Old Kingdom / int_b5185c4c	type	Extra-Dimensional Shortcut
Old Kingdom / int_b5185c4c	comment	Extradimensional Shortcut: The first of Death's precincts is different to the others in that its outer edge touches Life, so lateral movement has meaning. Dead willing and able to resist the river can walk along the edge of the boundary to change where in Life they will emerge, sometimes voluntarily re-entering Death for this purpose. Necromancers are unable to make use of this as only their spirit enters Death and their return location is tied to their physical body.
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Old Kingdom / int_b60f7d43	type	Badass Bandolier
Old Kingdom / int_b60f7d43	comment	Badass Bandolier: Used by Abhorsens and necromancers to carry their bells.
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Old Kingdom / int_b9baed0a	type	Lost Common Knowledge
Old Kingdom / int_b9baed0a	comment	Lost Common Knowledge: During the Interregnum, the destruction of repositories of knowledge and history and the decimation of the Royal and Abhorsen lines meant that a great deal of knowledge of magic and the Charter was lost. To demonstrate this, later Abhorsens struggle to control Mogget, not knowing that it requires nothing more than a verbal reaffirmation of his bindings something that a half trained Abhorsen apprentice knew how to do.
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Old Kingdom / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Old Kingdom / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: Clariel's father, Harven, to a degree. He has little skill as a goldsmith, is something of a Bad Liar, and is generally ineffectual (although he does skillfully manage his wife's finances and household so she can concentrate on her art and politics).
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Old Kingdom / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Old Kingdom / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Sabriel to Touchstone.
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Old Kingdom / int_bba8939	type	Cats Are Snarkers
Old Kingdom / int_bba8939	comment	Cats Are Snarkers: Mogget has a very dry wit.
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Old Kingdom / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
Old Kingdom / int_bbcdd673	comment	One-Gender Race: Though there are some male Clayr, seemingly all of the named ones are women - something noted in Lirael. They're also all willowy dark-skinned blondes with blue or green eyes (except pale-skinned, dark-haired, and dark-eyed Lirael).
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Old Kingdom / int_bc1865fb	type	Deader than Dead
Old Kingdom / int_bc1865fb	comment	Towards the end of Abhorsen, Lirael reaches the Ninth Gate and begins to float upwards towards the stars, but floats back down to the ground before she can be brought beyond the Ninth Gate and made Deader than Dead. The Dog explains that this is because it is not her time.
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Old Kingdom / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Old Kingdom / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Eighteen years after their escapades in the first book, Sabriel and Touchstone are shown to be very satisfied together, while not verging into mushy territory.
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Old Kingdom / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Old Kingdom / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: In Sabriel, during Touchstone's story of what happened that night in the reservoir, Rogir came over to gloat to his face after Touchstone impaling him on a thrown sword did nothing. This prevented any more of the Great Stones from being broken, as during the gloating, the Abhorsen's arrival caused Rogir to drop the cup with the Queen's blood, and also saved Touchstone's life. Played with (it's a case of Evil Versus Evil) in Abhorsen â€” after Yrael makes his choice, he proceeds to tell the Big Bad, an Omnicidal Maniac who hates life, why. He does so in an incredibly poetic and smug way.
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Old Kingdom / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
Old Kingdom / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: Sabriel, Lirael, Clariel and Goldenhand (the last being Lirael's epithet after losing her hand and getting a golden prosthetic from Sam).
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Old Kingdom / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Old Kingdom / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: The Reveal that the Disreputable Dog is Kibeth, or rather what remains of Kibeth, directly contradicts an earlier statement, when she said she wasn't one of the Seven. This is the explanation: "After all, I am the Disreputable Dog."
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Old Kingdom / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Old Kingdom / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: In the first book, Sabriel is at the top of her class in every subject, most notably Swordfighting and Magic (with Music close behind), and, while well-liked, certainly gives very little indication to her school friends of her real powers. Lirael is a much more extreme example. Aside from being a Second Assistant Librarian, her secret after-hours activities regularly include awakening horrible Free Magic creatures locked in the deepest dungeons of the library, and destroying them with the help of the Disreputable Dog. Hell, anyone working at the Clayr's Great Library pretty much has to be. Librarians are given magical daggers on first recruitment, and are instructed to attach whistles to their lapels so they can call for help if they can't use their arms. Or if their arms are no longer attached. It's later revealed that librarians along with the Rangers make up most of the Clayr's armed forces. Magister Kargrin lives alone in a tower with a lot of books. He also happens to be a huge, muscle-bound man and a powerful Charter Mage.
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Old Kingdom / int_c3a1e89b	type	Cats Are Magic
Old Kingdom / int_c3a1e89b	comment	Cats Are Magic: Mogget, the sarcastic, fish-demanding, white feline servant of the Abhorsens who is actually Yrael, one of the Nine Bright Shiners, and a Free Magic creature, bound by a ring. Kerrigor is bound along with Mogget by the same ring and becomes a sleeping black cat, though he is also imprisoned by additional means.
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Old Kingdom / int_c48aea92	type	Supernatural Sealing
Old Kingdom / int_c48aea92	comment	Supernatural Sealing: The Seven Bright Shiners divided Orannis and bound It behind a sevenfold ward. Lirael uses her Remembrancer powers to recreate the binding ritual at the climax of Abhorsen; it requires a stand-in for each of the Seven with their bell, a complicated Charter spell, a specially enchanted sword, careful timing... and the strength of will to stand against It.
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Old Kingdom / int_c5ee8215	type	Magical Society
Old Kingdom / int_c5ee8215	comment	Magical Society: The group Kargrin is a part of in Clariel, consisting of mages formerly employed by the King.
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Old Kingdom / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Old Kingdom / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Thanks to Superpowerful Genetics, the Abhorsens are all Pale-Skinned Brunettes who get sunburned absurdly fast and the Clayr are all dark-skinned blondes with a severe shortage of men.
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Old Kingdom / int_c63e5338	type	It Runs in the Family
Old Kingdom / int_c63e5338	comment	It Runs in the Family: Lirael's morbid personality and even her idea to kill herself in Lirael make sense when one learns she is the last Abhorsen's daughter. She also has a strong affinity to Free Magic, the pipes and bells, and The Book of the Dead, despite having no exposure at all in her upbringing. She's also the one of the most powerful Clayr ever in terms of Charter Magic, since, aside from the Sight, most Clayr tend to be rather weak with it by themselves.
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Old Kingdom / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
Old Kingdom / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: At the end of Abhorsen, Mogget hints that Chlorr of the Mask was once an Abhorsen. The prequel novel Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen portrays her Start of Darkness a few hundred years before the events of the main trilogy: she wasn't actually an official Abhorsen; her grandfather was the Abhorsen of her time, but she had good intentions before being corrupted by Free Magic.
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Old Kingdom / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Old Kingdom / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Breaking a Charter Stone requires sacrificing a Charter Mage on it. Breaking one of the Great Charter Stones requires the blood of a member of one of the Great Charter bloodlines (the Abhorsens, the Clayr and the royal family). To break two of the Great Stones, Kerrigor had his sisters sacrificed on them, before slitting his mother's throat and catching her blood in a cup to try and break a third. Had the Abhorsen not arrived, Kerrigor had the chance to break four of the six Great Stones with the blood of his family.
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Old Kingdom / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Old Kingdom / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Mogget and the Dog. Cassiel's bells, The Book of the Dead, and The Book of Remembrance and Forgetting, do this as well.
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Old Kingdom / int_c81e2bba	type	Necromancer
Old Kingdom / int_c81e2bba	comment	Necromancer: The Abhorsens are effectively counter-necromancers who work to make sure the Dead stay dead. Of normal necromancers, the most prominent is Hedge, The Dragon of Lirael and Abhorsen. Chlorr of the Mask was a necromancer, but spends more page-time as one of the Greater Dead.
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Old Kingdom / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Old Kingdom / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: The Dog is prone to biting people who she feels deserve it.invoked
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Old Kingdom / int_c91bf297	type	Iron Lady
Old Kingdom / int_c91bf297	comment	Iron Lady: Sabriel in the later books, acting as Queen.
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Old Kingdom / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Old Kingdom / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: The necromancers' and Abhorsens' bells, as well as the panpipes. Each of the seven â€” named for the creators of the Charter â€” has a different effect. One of the bells casts the listeners deep into the realm of Death, but if you're appropriately skilled and/or powerful, you can just walk back. Whistling is also used when Sabriel brings a rabbit back to life at the very beginning of the first book. Weather magic is another example of this, as it is done by whistling.
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Old Kingdom / int_c98c5622	type	Non-Human Undead
Old Kingdom / int_c98c5622	comment	Gore Crows: The result of a single Dead spirit being splintered and used by a necromancer to animated a large group of dead crows. Not very powerful individually (or, it must be said, very bright), but they make good scouts and expendable forces for an aerial Zerg Rush.
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Old Kingdom / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Old Kingdom / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Queen of the Old Kingdom whose death began the Interregnum, Touchstone and Rogir's mother, does not have a mentioned name.
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Old Kingdom / int_cb060751	type	War Refugees
Old Kingdom / int_cb060751	comment	War Refugees: The Southerlings are fleeing a civil war in their homeland only to be pushed out of Ancelstierre and used as sacrifices in the Old Kingdom.
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Old Kingdom / int_cb71c461	type	Deus Exit Machina
Old Kingdom / int_cb71c461	comment	Deus Exit Machina: The Clayr's ability to see to future is a Story-Breaker Power which is why they're regularly subject to this trope. In Lirael and Abhorsen, the Destroyer is actively blocking the Sight, and in Goldenhand the Clayr are hit with a convenient, possibly magical plague of the flu before the plot starts. Mogget and the Disreputable Dog are Bright Shiners and thus the most powerful and knowledgeable creatures in the setting. The Dog "dies" saving Lirael from Orannis and Mogget is freed after making a definitive Heelâ€“Face Turn which removes them from future stories outside of occasional appearances.
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Old Kingdom / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Old Kingdom / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The end of Abhorsen, for the Eight that bind the Destroyer again.
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Old Kingdom / int_cdcd7a78	type	Derelict Graveyard
Old Kingdom / int_cdcd7a78	comment	Derelict Graveyard: Sabriel, in the first book, lands her Paperwing in a very unique one: the underground and enchanted grotto full of the burial ships of kings. As such, there's nothing harmful lurking there, but she does find a Human Popsicle that needs rescuing while she's there.
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Old Kingdom / int_cf168867	type	The Corruption
Old Kingdom / int_cf168867	comment	The Corruption: This is what happens to dead spirits that either decide they don't want to travel up any farther past the River of Death, or are unwillingly pulled back into Life by a necromancer. Also an explicit consequence, even for the living, for tarrying in Death (only necromancers and the Abhorsen know how to avoid these pitfalls). Free Magic will eventually corrupt its users, giving them a desire for power and turning them into The Unfettered.
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Old Kingdom / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Old Kingdom / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: At the climax of Abhorsen, the Disreputable Dog bites Lirael's right hand off so she doesn't have to make a Heroic Sacrifice to re-bind Orannis. Sam makes her a golden prosthetic. In Goldenhand, Ferin eventually loses her foot as a result of an injury sustained during her pursuit by barbarians serving Chlorr. She asks Sam to make her eventual prosthetic black, because she intends to show it off and gold is too shiny for sneaking about at night.
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Old Kingdom / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Old Kingdom / int_d08049db	comment	Touchstone is a nude wooden statue when Sabriel first sees him. Being an eighteen-year-old, she takes an embarrassed glance before focusing her attention on the puzzle he poses.
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Old Kingdom / int_d24b61a8	type	Patchwork Map
Old Kingdom / int_d24b61a8	comment	Patchwork Map: Ancelstierre has no magic at all and its weather and seasons are completely different from the Old Kingdom. The Old Kingdom is fairly temperate weather until you get to the Clayr's Glacier, where it's suddenly eternal winter. In the North, past the Great Rift, are either giant forests or an inhospitable plain devoid of anything but Free Magic. It's suggested that the world might be a mix of multiple realities that happen to overlap.
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Old Kingdom / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Old Kingdom / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: The first book opens with Sabriel's mother dying after giving birth to her.
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Old Kingdom / int_d323d090	type	Incendiary Exponent
Old Kingdom / int_d323d090	comment	Incendiary Exponent: Quite a few of the higher-level Dead are on fire.
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Old Kingdom / int_d45cbb16	type	Wonder Twin Powers
Old Kingdom / int_d45cbb16	comment	Wonder Twin Powers: Sanar and Ryelle (thought they can work apart).
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Old Kingdom / int_d4cd6668	type	Precautionary Corpse Disposal
Old Kingdom / int_d4cd6668	comment	Precautionary Corpse Disposal: Dead bodies are disposed of by cremation because any intact corpse is a risk to become an undead monster of some kind (either reoccupied by a dead spirit that refuses to go on to the afterlife, or reanimated as a servant by a necromancer).
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Old Kingdom / int_d5ae49c3	type	Prescience Is Predictable
Old Kingdom / int_d5ae49c3	comment	Prescience Is Predictable: The Clayr. At least, they like it when it is.
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Old Kingdom / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Old Kingdom / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Mogget, aka Yrael, tells Sabriel that he has many other names, including Moregrim, which is the name Terciel knew him by. Hedge is said to have acquired multiple names over his unnaturally long life, but again, we don't learn any of them.
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Old Kingdom / int_d6268c2e	type	Shoot Everything That Moves
Old Kingdom / int_d6268c2e	comment	Shoot Everything That Moves: SOP on the Ancelsterrian side of the Wall, where everything not coming over from the Old Kingdom via the Crossing Point is assumed to be one of the Dead and fired on.
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Old Kingdom / int_d66c4f39	type	Matricide
Old Kingdom / int_d66c4f39	comment	Matricide: The last Queen of the Old Kingdom before the Interregnum was murdered by her son Prince Rogir, who had become a Greater Dead Adept and intended to use her blood to break one of the Great Charter Stones. Fortunately, the arrival of the Abhorsen caused Rogir to drop the cup of the Queen's blood.
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Old Kingdom / int_d69dea33	type	Addictive Magic
Old Kingdom / int_d69dea33	comment	Addictive Magic: Free Magic is all about dominating a source of power and wielding it through pure willpower, an addictive experience that quickly corrupts the user's mind and twists them into The Unfettered. Clariel's first brush with Free Magic gives her uncharacteristic power fantasies, and using it twice imprints it on her so strongly that she's almost physically unable to prevent her body from grasping for more.
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Old Kingdom / int_d705a976	type	The Soulsaver
Old Kingdom / int_d705a976	comment	The Soulsaver: Part of the Abhorsen's job description is to save the victims of the Dead — including the Dead themselves, who invariably Go Out with a Smile when they finally cross the Ninth Gate.
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Old Kingdom / int_d72929ed	type	Afterlife Antechamber
Old Kingdom / int_d72929ed	comment	Afterlife Antechamber: Death is like a river running through a series of caves, called Precincts, the last of which opens out under what looks like, but isn't, a sky full of stars. That's as far as any character goes; anybody who goes on from there never comes back. Undead raised by necromancers are always souls from within the caves, either because they died recently and hadn't finished the journey or because they deliberately lingered in one of the caves in hope of finding a way back to the land of the living.
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Old Kingdom / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Old Kingdom / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Sabriel was rather surprised to find out that Abhorsen was not actually her father's name, but instead his title.note His real name is Terciel.
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Old Kingdom / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
Old Kingdom / int_d839c530	comment	Free Magic will eventually corrupt its users, giving them a desire for power and turning them into The Unfettered.
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Old Kingdom / int_d8463201	type	Quieting the Unquiet Dead
Old Kingdom / int_d8463201	comment	Quieting the Unquiet Dead: The Abhorsens are sort of anti-necromancers: they use Charter Magic to return the Dead to Death.
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Old Kingdom / int_d8cad890	type	Cough Snark Cough
Old Kingdom / int_d8cad890	comment	Cough Snark Cough: In Clariel, Aronzo does this, calling the Abhorsens "rat-catchers".
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Old Kingdom / int_d8f3dc8	type	Eternal Recurrence
Old Kingdom / int_d8f3dc8	comment	Eternal Recurrence: Lirael discovers in Abhorsen that the world has been destroyed and remade seven times in the past.note Well, that or the Destroyer annihilated seven or so other planets before it got to theirs. It's not totally clear. The Great Rift acting as a boundary between this world and the airless remnants of one of the destroyed ones tips things more to the latter.
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Old Kingdom / int_d9b4cc7f	type	Abdicate the Throne
Old Kingdom / int_d9b4cc7f	comment	Abdicate the Throne: Clariel has a bit of this: King Orrikan III was planning on abdicating before his heir Princess Tathiel disappeared. He still effectively abdicated all responsibilities and ignored his royal duties, becoming a shut-in in his palace. It turns out that Abhorsens can do this too: Ader/Maderael abdicated her post a century prior to her successor Kariniel, the Abhorsen who built Hillfair. According to Mogget, she came to the bells very young, so she was still relatively young when she abdicated her post and went to Belisaere to practice Charter Magic.
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Old Kingdom / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Old Kingdom / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Sabriel and Touchstone, throughout all of the books. After the first book, they also become a Ruling Couple, fulfilling different but equal roles in partnership to rebuild and rule the Old Kingdom. They partially fulfill the Sword and Sorcerer trope as Touchstone was a Royal Guard and is a highly skilled warrior, while Sabriel is a Necromancer. In the first book, Touchstone pledges himself as Sabriel's swordsman and defends her body in Life when she is in Death, leading to a number of Back-to-Back Badasses moments both in this book and later in the series. However, their roles are not truly dichotomous as Sabriel is also a warrior and both are Charter Mages. The trait runs in the family, in Terciel and Elinor, the titular characters (Sabriel's parents) fight together, Terciel with his bells and Elinor with her circus knives and Charter Magic.
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Old Kingdom / int_dc2c2968	type	Superpowerful Genetics
Old Kingdom / int_dc2c2968	comment	Superpowerful Genetics: Several of the creators of the world invested their power in bloodlines. As a result, the Abhorsens, the royal family, the Clayr, and the Wallmakers all tend to manifest special powers and traits.
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Old Kingdom / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Old Kingdom / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Colonel Horyse in Sabriel, who leads the soldiers to help when Sabriel and Touchstone arrive with news about Kerrigor's approach and that they need to destroy his body. Major Greene in Abhorsen is rather eccentric, but he's immensely helpful to Lirael and Sam when they're trying to warn people in Ancelstierre about Orannis.
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Old Kingdom / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Old Kingdom / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: There are at least two occasions when Sam hears something in the grass, freaks out, and draws his sword and it turns out to be Mogget.
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Old Kingdom / int_df04089a	type	Lineage Comes from the Father
Old Kingdom / int_df04089a	comment	Lineage Comes from the Father: For Sabriel, Lirael, and Ellimere. However, averted with Sabriel's father â€” his aunt trained him â€” and with Sam, who inherits neither of his parents' Heroic Lineages, since Ellimere is the heiress to the throne and Lirael is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Luckily for Sam, he gets his own ability as a Wallmaker â€” the first in nearly a millennium. Averted with Touchstone. The identity of his mother is what ultimately shapes his destiny, having inherited his Royal blood from her, as well as his berserkering (though it is not mentioned whether she herself was a Berserker). Also played with: Lirael's ability as a Remembrancer, that is, the ability to see into the past, something which can only come from being a child of both the Abhorsen and the Clayr. Also averted with Clariel. Both her Abhorsen and Royal bloodlines come through her mother.
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Old Kingdom / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
Old Kingdom / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: Several varieties: Rule for Charter, Wild for Free, and a mixture of Theurgy and Device Magic for the Abhorsen.
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Old Kingdom / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Old Kingdom / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: The prequel book Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen is the story of how the title character becomes corrupted by Free Magic and eventually becomes Chlorr of the Mask.
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Old Kingdom / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Old Kingdom / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: In Sabriel, the Old Kingdom has been without a monarch for 200 years, and the royal family is believed to be extinct. Only the Abhorsens know that there is a surviving royal prince hidden in magical suspension in Holehallow, although he might be crazy, which is part of why he was put there in the first place. Sabriel winds up at the royal burial ground and releases Touchstone without knowing who he is or why he's there, and due to his Heroic Self-Deprecation he doesn't tell her about his royal blood; she finds out from her father. After the defeat of Kerrigor, he officially takes the throne.
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Old Kingdom / int_e235202a	type	The Power of Blood
Old Kingdom / int_e235202a	comment	The Power of Blood: Blood from a Charter Mage â€” and especially one of the Charter bloodlines â€” has great powers, especially for destruction.
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Old Kingdom / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
Old Kingdom / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: By Sabriel, the massacre of the Royal Family and the ensuing conflict have reduced the Royal and Abhorsen lines from large sprawling clans to Sabriel and Touchstone. While Kerrigor and Chlorr have royal and Abhorsen blood, they are not interested in preserving the safety of the kingdom. Later Lirael is revealed to be Sabriel's half-sister.
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Old Kingdom / int_e3613529	type	Protective Charm
Old Kingdom / int_e3613529	comment	Protective Charm: The most prominent defensive Charter spell is the diamond of protection — it takes some setup to draw the component Marks at each cardinal point, but encloses the area in a powerful protective field that repels both natural and magical harm.
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Old Kingdom / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Old Kingdom / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: From Clariel: Mogget, Baazalanan and Aziminil have designs on trying to use royal blood to destroy the Great Charter Stones, which Kerrigor will succeed at 400 years later. Also from Clariel, The Abhorsen-in-Waiting is not the individual who the Abhorsen and family assume them to be, but another character who has already been shown to have far more aptitude in the skills required for the post. Said character only finds out thanks to the sendings at Abhorsen's House. In the epilogue of Terciel and Elinor, Elinor sees a vision of herself dying while giving birth to Sabriel.
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Old Kingdom / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Old Kingdom / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Free Magic creatures tend to be associated with light, with the most powerful glowing with a particularly baleful white fire from part or all of their bodies. And while they're not always evil per se, they are very, very dangerous. Mogget's true form is bright white light, as one of the "Bright Shiners," and Orannis the Destroyer is basically a living nuclear device when made whole.
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Old Kingdom / int_e670e8ab	type	Old Magic
Old Kingdom / int_e670e8ab	comment	Old Magic: The original form of magic is Free Magic, the manipulation of raw power. Given its corrosive effect on the bodies and minds of its users, the Bright Shiners created the Charter to filter magic through a safer system of runes, and Free Magic was outlawed.
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Old Kingdom / int_e6a8bbd0	type	Telegraph Gag STOP
Old Kingdom / int_e6a8bbd0	comment	Telegraph Gag STOP: Some of the Old Kingdom characters have adopted "telegraphese" from Ancelstierre for message-hawks (birds that are able to store short voice recordings). While Sam's inclusion of "stop"s in Abhorsen is justified because he's actually dictating a telegram, Touchstone in Goldenhand has no such excuse.
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Old Kingdom / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Old Kingdom / int_e794cb54	comment	Free Magic isn't intrinsically evil but can't be wielded by humans without mental harm; sorcerers inevitably turn into rampaging megalomaniacs over time. And the best source of power is to assimilate Free Magic spirits to claim their strength...
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Old Kingdom / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Old Kingdom / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Most of the stuff written in The Book of the Dead is forgotten the moment it is read, and the reader only remembers when it is required. After Lirael is caught having eavesdropped on a brief visit by the King and the Abhorsen to the Clayr's Glacier, and the seven senior Clayr present agree to assign her a job, Sanar and Ryelle put a spell on her that makes her forget seeing Sabriel and Touchstone that day until she needs to remember.
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Old Kingdom / int_e8491efa	type	Don't Fear the Reaper
Old Kingdom / int_e8491efa	comment	Don't Fear the Reaper: "Everyone and everything has a time to die."
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Old Kingdom / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Old Kingdom / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil and Dark Is Not Evil: The same magic is wielded by both the antagonists and the protagonists â€” the heroes just balance it with relatively good magic.
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Old Kingdom / int_e8bb3043	type	Kill It with Water
Old Kingdom / int_e8bb3043	comment	Kill It with Water: Nearly all of the Dead have trouble crossing running water; this is why the Abhorsen's House is built in the middle of a river, right above the edge of a waterfall, only reachable on foot by hopping across a series of rather precarious stepping stones. And if the Dead decide to lay siege... well, the river's fed by the Clayr's glacier, and the Abhorsens keep a block of ice in their basement for a reason.
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Old Kingdom / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Old Kingdom / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Zig-zagged. When the Disreputable Dog tells Lirael about the creation of the world and the Charter, she says that two of the Seven chose to retain their immortal and integrated selves. She says that perhaps they weren't tired of life, and were interested in how the world would develop, which implies that the other Five had wearied of their lives, which by then must have spanned millennia.
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Old Kingdom / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Old Kingdom / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The arrival of Sabriel, Touchstone, Ellimere, Sanar, and Ryelle when Sam and the army are holding off the dead near the end of Abhorsen.
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Old Kingdom / int_ec1ec2dc	type	Non-Protagonist Resolver
Old Kingdom / int_ec1ec2dc	comment	Non-Protagonist Resolver: At the end of Clariel, Belatiel and Ader (the latter having barely appeared in the book before this point) show up to bind Aziminil and Baazalanan and renew Mogget's constraints. They also save Clariel from a mortal wound. It's also mentioned that Clariel didn't need to do anything. Tathiel was marching on Belisaere with the Clayr. Had Clariel stayed put for a few more days, Tathiel could have taken the palace.
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Old Kingdom / int_ecc99ac2	type	Fire Keeps It Dead
Old Kingdom / int_ecc99ac2	comment	Fire Keeps It Dead: Undead are so serious a problem for the Old Kingdom that the spell to burn dead bodies is one of the first ones every Charter Mage learns. Subverted as fire is only useful against the lesser undead; Shadow Hands and Greater Dead no longer need their bodies to cause harm.
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Old Kingdom / int_ecf4f7ce	type	Constantly Curious
Old Kingdom / int_ecf4f7ce	comment	Nicholas Sayre is a mostly Muggle, outgoing, optimistic, Constantly Curious fellow from Ancelstierre. Lirael is a powerfully magical Abhorsen and Daughter of the Clayr who is painfully quiet, shy and with a tendency towards morbid thinking.
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Old Kingdom / int_ee73f471	type	Shadow Dictator
Old Kingdom / int_ee73f471	comment	Shadow Dictator: King Orrikan in Clariel had actually planned to abdicate before his granddaughter Tathiel disappeared, and has spent the last several years refusing to do any sort of governing, instead spending most of his time sitting on the balcony where the Clayr saw a vision of his granddaughter returning. The resulting machinations to fill the power gap left by him is a big subplot of the novel.
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Old Kingdom / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Old Kingdom / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: In Clariel, Belatiel is frustrated by the fact that despite officially being the Abhorsen, his great uncle Tyriel does virtually nothing required of his post. He speculates that his cousin Yannael, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, hasn't even read The Book of the Dead (more or less the manual on how to be an Abhorsen). Bel is rather surprised when, after Tyriel's death, he discovers that he was the real Abhorsen-in-Waiting all along.
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Old Kingdom / int_ef20dac5	type	Servile Snarker
Old Kingdom / int_ef20dac5	comment	Servile Snarker: Mogget, since he's basically an enslaved Eldritch Abomination of godlike power and does not appreciate the magic compelling him to always help the Abhorsens. Being completely insufferable is his only way around it.
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Old Kingdom / int_ef2582c3	type	Named Weapons
Old Kingdom / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Weapons made by the Wallmaker; also the Bells of Necromancy.
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Old Kingdom / int_efbc288f	type	Heroic Self-Deprecation
Old Kingdom / int_efbc288f	comment	Heroic Self-Deprecation: Lirael and Sam. Even Touchstone, to an extent.
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Old Kingdom / int_f217cdab	type	Great Big Book of Everything
Old Kingdom / int_f217cdab	comment	Great Big Book of Everything: The Book of the Dead.
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Old Kingdom / int_f3d9aa5b	type	All-Accessible Magic
Old Kingdom / int_f3d9aa5b	comment	All-Accessible Magic: Free Magic is usable by anyone with a strong mind, though because most of the world's magic is now bound up in the Charter, most sorcerers look for a concentrated power source like Death or a subservient spirit to expand their capabilities. This is a problem, since practitioners either start out as Evil Sorcerers looking for unfettered power or turn into them.
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Old Kingdom / int_f52cc7b8	type	Entropy and Chaos Magic
Old Kingdom / int_f52cc7b8	comment	Entropy and Chaos Magic: Free Magic, which has no rules beyond the caster's will, but comes with unpleasant side effects.
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Old Kingdom / int_f53e50a7	type	Allergic to Evil
Old Kingdom / int_f53e50a7	comment	Allergic to Evil: Free Magic has this effect on people, and broken Charter Stones induce extreme nausea in Charter Mages.
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Old Kingdom / int_f6a0872	type	Mage Tower
Old Kingdom / int_f6a0872	comment	Mage Tower: Kargrin lives and teaches in a tower that used to be part of Belisaere's walls.
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Old Kingdom / int_f6b7820b	type	Cosmic Keystone
Old Kingdom / int_f6b7820b	comment	Cosmic Keystone: The Great Charter Stones under the royal palace in Belisaere are the physical anchor of all the Charter in the Old Kingdom. When Kerrigor broke some of them, it made things difficult for a while.
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Old Kingdom / int_f88f2449	type	Downer Beginning
Old Kingdom / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: In the prologue to Abhorsen, Touchstone and Sabriel's motorcade in Ancelstierre is blown up by ultra-nationalist terrorists. The narrator states the King and Queen were killed, although eventually a later chapter reveals they survived. Doubles as a mid-arc Wham Episode since Abhorsen is the second half of the story begun in Lirael.
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Old Kingdom / int_f9b4eb23	type	Symmetric Effect
Old Kingdom / int_f9b4eb23	comment	Symmetric Effect: The last and largest of the seven bells is Astarael, the Weeper, which sends all hearers deep into Death — including the one ringing it. It's generally used by Abhorsens only as a final Taking You with Me gambit. When used on Kerrigor, it doesn't stick, since his Soul Jar lets him return, but it does delay him, and the ringer is on the verge of death anyway.
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Old Kingdom / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Old Kingdom / int_f9e16ef	comment	Distressed Dude: Nick Sayre in Lirael, Abhorsen, and especially Goldenhand.
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Old Kingdom / int_fab3c1e1	type	Weakened by the Light
Old Kingdom / int_fab3c1e1	comment	Weakened by the Light: Some of the weaker Undead such as Shadow Hands are weakened and sometimes killed by sunlight.
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Old Kingdom / int_fb0fa76d	type	Runic Magic
Old Kingdom / int_fb0fa76d	comment	Runic Magic: Charter Magic works by using Charter Marks, runic letters and pictograms, to manipulate the Charter and cause specific effects to happen. Charter Marks can be written, spoken, sung or even whistled, though physical marks always appear as part of the spellcasting even if they haven't been literally written. Free Magic relies chiefly on raw willpower, but Free Magic sorcerers sometimes use written runes to help focus that power; they're described as resembling twisted or corrupted Charter Marks.
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Old Kingdom / int_fc024bb3	type	The Grand Hunt
Old Kingdom / int_fc024bb3	comment	The Grand Hunt: In Clariel, Great Hunts are all Tyriel really cares about, although Clariel doesn't much care for them. She is particularly aggrieved by the fact that he refuses to do anything about her parents' deaths and Kilp's coup until after the Summer's End Hunt.
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Old Kingdom / int_fd6b88cb	type	Ruling Family Massacre
Old Kingdom / int_fd6b88cb	comment	Ruling Family Massacre: The Interregnum was kicked off when the Greater Dead Adept Kerrigor, a renegade member of the royal family, murdered his mother and sisters in order to break the Great Charter Stones, succeeding in breaking two of them. As his illegitimate half-brother was apparently the only other member of the royal family besides him, he succeeded in throwing the Old Kingdom into a chaos from which it would not recover for 200 years, during which time the royals were believed to be extinct.
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Old Kingdom / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Old Kingdom / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: All named Abhorsens have names that end in -el. Interestingly, Sameth, whom everyone thought to be Abhorsen-in-Waiting, does not, while Lirael, who was the real but unknown Abhorsen-in-Waiting, does.
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Old Kingdom / int_fdee662	type	Semi-Divine
Old Kingdom / int_fdee662	comment	Semi-Divine: Three of the Nine poured most of their power into mortal bloodlines; the Clayr, the Abhorsen, the royal family and the Wallmakers. Consequently, although not directly related to a deity, they all do have powers inherited from a god (or close enough).
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Old Kingdom / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
Old Kingdom / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Kerrigor. Performed in the audio books in all his scenery-chewing glory by Tim Curry.
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Old Kingdom / int_fe374b99	type	Gloomy Gray
Old Kingdom / int_fe374b99	comment	Gloomy Gray: Death is shrouded in dim grey mist that inflicts a pervasive sense of grief and hopelessness on living visitors. However, the spirits of the dead don't suffer this effect and instead find it peaceful.
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Old Kingdom / int_fe48cea2	type	Lady of War
Old Kingdom / int_fe48cea2	comment	Lady of War: Sabriel in the later books. She is mentioned as being very intimidating, and has a natural authority even in the first book. She is outwardly The Stoic. Though she is certainly no stranger to getting dirty in her role as the kingdom's anti-necromancer (which does involve swamps much more than she would like), she retains an air of grace and power and always seems measured and controlled in her use of physical and magical force. In an interesting somewhat-subversion of the trope, she is never portrayed as the Ice Queen and her internal monologue and interactions with most non-nefarious people, notably children and her family and friends, show a very kind, gentle, warm side of her.
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Old Kingdom	hasFeature	A Hero Is Born / int_a32877f1
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Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Afterlife Antechamber / int_a32877f1
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Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Badass Bandolier / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Big Friendly Dog / int_a32877f1
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Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu / int_a32877f1
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Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Consistent Clothing Style / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Cool Big Sis / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Crystal Weapon / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Dark Is Evil / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Deadly Ringer / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Decade Dissonance / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Derelict Graveyard / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Destroyer Deity / int_a32877f1
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Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Wizards Live Longer / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Wrong Context Magic / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Yin-Yang Bomb / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	You Need to Get Laid / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Young Adult Literature / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Younger Than They Look / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Your Magic's No Good Here / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Zombie Apocalypse / int_a32877f1
Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Soul Power / int_a32877f1

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