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Protector of the Small

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Protector of the Small	comment	The third series in the Tortall Universe. Ten years after King Jonathan decreed that noble girls can train for the knighthood, someone finally comes forward to accept the offer: Keladry of Mindelan, daughter of the Tortallan ambassadors to the Yamani Islands, Baron Piers and Lady Ilane. However, the presence of Alanna and Thayet hasn't magically done away with the deeply entrenched misogyny and paternalism of Tortallan culture, and Kel is faced with discrimination right away when the training master, Lord Wyldon of Cavall, insists that she be put on probation. Fighting against bullies and frequently shifting standards, Kel is ready to fight injustice and earn her shield.Protector of the Small is also the last Tortall series to be a quartet. The success of Harry Potter made publishers realize that kids and teens will, in fact, read long books, allowing Pierce quite a bit more leeway after the writing of Page.The character sheet may be found here. First Test Page Squire Lady Knight
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Protector of the Small / int_105d50b1	type	Psychological Torment Zone
Protector of the Small / int_105d50b1	comment	Psychological Torment Zone: The Chamber of the Ordeal. If you go in, and are not fit to be a knight, to bend to the Chamber's torment, it will break you. As Joren and Vinison found out. And if you are, you'll still be quite wobbly afterwards.
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Protector of the Small / int_1370519b	type	Must Let Them Get Away
Protector of the Small / int_1370519b	comment	Must Let Them Get Away: The mastermind of Lalasa's kidnapping, Joren of Stone Mountain, is only able to be fined for the loss of her working hours because she's only a commoner and he's a noble, even though the ruffians who carried out the crime get hard labor. The injustice is obvious to everyone present, but even though he agrees to pursue a change to the law, King Jonathan can't change the outcome of that specific case. He also strikes a deal with Kel - he'll prioritize changing the law, but she can't issue a private challenge to Joren since that would violate the spirit of the reform she asks him to institute.
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Protector of the Small / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Protector of the Small / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: When the seer-child Irnai tells Kel that the refugee children are already in Blayce's possession, she uncharacteristically breaks off conversation and kicks Peachblossom into a gallop, riding past her forward scouts to the gates of the keep to confirm the news for herself.
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Protector of the Small / int_152e7951	type	Anonymous Benefactor
Protector of the Small / int_152e7951	comment	Anonymous Benefactor: Alanna acts as this for Kel, anonymously sending her practical and high quality gifts such as a bruise balm infused with healing magic, armor and weapon cleaning supplies from the realm's best armory, and saddlebags stocked with camping gear, since she is not allowed to openly mentor the girl. Kel doesn't find out who her mysterious benefactor until after she is knighted and Alanna presents her with a new longsword suitable to her height.
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Protector of the Small / int_170cf4b6	type	Heroes Love Dogs
Protector of the Small / int_170cf4b6	comment	Heroes Love Dogs: Kel has Jump, who attaches himself to her after she rescues him from a butcher after Jump stole some sausages. Lord Wyldon breeds dogs, and his letting Jump stay with the pages and generally treating him well shows that he's not as bad as he seems, before his character development.
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Protector of the Small / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Protector of the Small / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Kel's stern training master Lord Wyldon serves as one of these for Kel â€” a conservative opposed to the concept of female knights, but fair enough to recognize her hard work and skill. He even admits to Kel that it took a little arm-twisting from his own conscience for him to allow her to stay on as a page after her first year, and up until that point she was all but convinced that he intended to see her fail regardless of her actual talent.
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Protector of the Small / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Protector of the Small / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In Lady Knight, the Chamber of the Ordeal names her Protector of the Small through Irnai. Kel is not thrilled with the nickname, but it gets picked up by the rest of Tortall anyway.
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Protector of the Small / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Protector of the Small / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Occasionally, or respect if not actually friendship. In Squire, one conservative knight admits that he was wrong after a jousting match; he wins but Kel acquitted herself well, and this leads him to tell her that the things he'd heard of her were wrong and to wish her luck. In Lady Knight a convict soldier, Gil, turns out to be one of the bandits she'd fought as a page, and once he establishes that yes, she was the leader of the pages he'd fought, he pretty much worships the ground she walks on after that. People also gain respect for Kel when Wyldon doesn't knock her out of the saddle during their second jousting match, though she does get "tilt-silly". After this, even Wyldon gets more respectful of her.
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Protector of the Small / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
Protector of the Small / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: Wyldon upped his Training from Hell to ensure that Kel wouldn't complete her training. Not only does she succeed and win his respect, but he belatedly realizes that his methods allowed a rapist and a kidnapper â€” Vinson and Joren respectively â€” to act horribly without his notice or punishment until they faced their Ordeal. Joren tries to make Kel's life harder through things like giving her a weighted practice lance (aka one that's much heavier than the normal lances) and talking conservatives into jousting her once she's a squire. Neither of them work- weighted practice weapons just make Kel stronger, and jousting the conservatives gives her more practice and shows everyone that she's just as good as any man.
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Protector of the Small / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Protector of the Small / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Maggur Rathhausak, the King of Scanra, is often referred to but is never encountered by any of the characters.
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Protector of the Small / int_1c34e06b	type	Only the Chosen May Ride
Protector of the Small / int_1c34e06b	comment	Only the Chosen May Ride: There's a mundane example in Peachblossom. He's a gelding with a foul temper and generalized misanthropy after having been abused, and begrudgingly allows Kel to ride him at Stefan's insistence. She wins him over to a degree on her own, but it takes a chat with Daine to establish a better relationship, after which Kel can ride him without trouble. Kel is the only person who can do so (he'll kick or bite anyone else) until Tobe, who has horse magic and can communicate with him like Daine and Stefan, comes along.
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Protector of the Small / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Protector of the Small / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Kel and her "Yamani face". She uses it to get through the hazing and sexism without visibly blowing a gasket, and takes comfort in how her total lack of visible reaction infuriates people who hate her.
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Protector of the Small / int_20cf2065	type	Jousting Lance
Protector of the Small / int_20cf2065	comment	Jousting Lance: Plays an important role in Squire, allowing Kel to show that she is just as worthy to be a knight as any male.
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Protector of the Small / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Protector of the Small / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: This series moves away from the Black-and-White Morality some with this. Prejudiced Lord Wyldon proves eventually to be good, though flawed. With regards to Jon, who certainly can be charismatic and nice but sometimes makes decisions Kel hates, Raoul tells her that that a good king isn't necessarily a nice king, something she'd also known was true of the Yamani emperor, who orders the executions of whole bandit clans, children included.
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Protector of the Small / int_22711892	type	It Never Gets Any Easier
Protector of the Small / int_22711892	comment	It Never Gets Any Easier: Buri tells Kel this after a Public Execution of bandits Kel helped capture. Kel is disturbed by the festival atmosphere when she knows the bandits' circumstances are as mean as their victims, and Buri assures Kel that nobody in the Riders or King's Own enjoys hangings either.
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Protector of the Small / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Protector of the Small / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Balor's Needle â€” a very tall, thin tower in the palace that Kel shudders to even look at, and which pages are barred from since one committed suicide there a few years ago â€” is pointed out in First Test. She actually winds up forced to climb it early in Page when Gary chances to send her up on an errand. Jon has to put her in a trance so she can get back down. She has to go back alone and unaided at the end when Lalasa is kidnapped there in the end.
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Protector of the Small / int_24f5d83b	type	Bandit Clan
Protector of the Small / int_24f5d83b	comment	Bandit Clan: Traveling raider groups are a frequent problem even near the capital city. Kel's group runs into a thirty-man crew during Page and barely survive the encounter. Her first week as Raoul's squire is a hunt for another group of twenty or so humans and centaurs who burned out a village. Although they don't have a formal family structure, they're usually made up of farmers and other peasants who are down on their luck and are often relatives of the people they rob, which makes their victims reluctant to give evidence.
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Protector of the Small / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Protector of the Small / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Joren of Stone Mountain is so filled with bigotry that he dies during his Ordeal (a magical experience in which one's flaws are tested), and when his father comes to blame Kel for it, he proves himself to be much the same.
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Protector of the Small / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Protector of the Small / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Squire and Lady Knight. The killing devices are powered by the souls of dead children.
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Protector of the Small / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Protector of the Small / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: During the hunt for the refugees, Kel has to order "no prisoners" when attacking a group of Scanrans—her group can't hold them, and she can't risk them getting back to their comrades and warning them.
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Protector of the Small / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
Protector of the Small / int_2b9affed	comment	The animals at the Palace are all unnaturally bright thanks to Daine living there. The sparrows Kel feeds soon become attached to her enough that they drive away bullies, both from Kel and people Kel likes, and fetch help when needed. A bunch of horses break up a fight between the pages, unsettling the training masters. And Daine deliberately infuses the camp animals with intelligence in Lady Knight, although she considers it Dirty Business.
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Protector of the Small / int_30ab0aa1	type	Worldbuilding
Protector of the Small / int_30ab0aa1	comment	Worldbuilding: This quartet does a lot to expand Tortall's setting, particularly in Squire. As squire to the Knight Commander of the King's Own, Kel sees quite a lot of Tortall, from the Palace to the Great Southern Desert to little villages struck by bandits and earthquakes. The royal family's Grand Progress also showcases Tortall's culture and the ways it's starting to change due to events from the first two quartets.
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Protector of the Small / int_30d71ee	type	Flaying Alive
Protector of the Small / int_30d71ee	comment	Flaying Alive: Blayce deals with disobedience this way, though Stenmun carries it out. A number of rotting victims hang in cages from the castle walls. Disobedience can be giving poppy to children so they can die free of pain after he's selected them to fuel a killing device.
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Protector of the Small / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Protector of the Small / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: After being dubbed "the Protector of the Small" by Irnai in Lady Knight, Kel finds it embarrassing.
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Protector of the Small / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Protector of the Small / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: By the mid-point of Squire, Joren and Vinson are set to become knights. Both have serious grudges against Kel, and the former flat out threatens to kill her. Before either can do anything to her, they undergo their Ordeals- and the Chamber tortures Vinson before letting him go to face the punishment for his crimes, and flat out kills Joren. The Chamber and the being inside it may be there to make sure that only the worthy become knights, but it's a cruel, sadistic, nasty being.
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Protector of the Small / int_347e35d6	type	Grim Up North
Protector of the Small / int_347e35d6	comment	Grim Up North: The northern border region between Tortall and Scanra becomes the focus and setting as Kel reaches adulthood. The lands up there are harsh, with winter conditions extending well into the spring months, and the river that forms the border is an icy torrent that "keeps what it takes." One of the ways Scanra's new King, Maggur Rathhausak, persuades Scanra to declare war on Tortall is by promising his troops that they'll have their pick of the rich southern lands as opposed to their own barren landscape. The people Kel meets in Scanra are noticeably flinty and cynical about their lives.
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Protector of the Small / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
Protector of the Small / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: Kel remembers it's her birthday after falling out of a tree. She spends another fending off a bandit attack with a few of her friends, and then throwing up in front of Lord Wyldon thanks to her fear of heights.
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Protector of the Small / int_36eea50b	type	Drowning Unwanted Pets
Protector of the Small / int_36eea50b	comment	Drowning Unwanted Pets: The series begins with Kel confronting a group of boys who are trying to dispose of a sack of kittens in the river.
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Protector of the Small / int_3cc3ed1d	type	Abuse Mistake
Protector of the Small / int_3cc3ed1d	comment	Abuse Mistake: Kel goes to the public baths one day to enjoy soaking in the warm water after a session of jousting training with Raoul. When they see the state of her body, concerned women rush over to assure her that whoever he is, even if he's a noble, he'll be caught and tried and made to pay. She has to explain that she is a squire and those are normal injuries that one gets from combat training (and taking care of a baby griffin).
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Protector of the Small / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Protector of the Small / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Wyldon is a lot friendlier in Lady Knight than he was in any of the previous books. Kel eventually realizes that this is in large part due to the fact that he didn't actually enjoy being the training master, he merely felt it was his duty- he's much happier actually doing his job as a knight, protecting the defenceless and fighting the enemy.
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Protector of the Small / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Protector of the Small / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: It takes a full decade since Alanna's knighthood for any noble girl to apply for training as a knight herself. The presence of a single legendary hero did not make much of a dent in the nobility's attitude towards women knights. Both the dangers involved and the inherent scandal of girls and boys in a mixed environment mean that no noble family is willing to let their girls pursue knighthood until the Mindelans—who had spent years out of Tortall as ambassadors to a country with a completely different cultural view of women and combat. There's also the fact that Alanna is a mage who had the personal attention of the Goddess, so everyone said she was a once-in-a-lifetime figure, someone a normal girl couldn't possibly emulate. Furthermore, Kel gets some comments from other women that are just as disparaging as the ones she gets from men, because women in patriarchal societies enforce those standards too. Related to the above: Kel finds out that Princess Kalasin had wanted to become the first openly-female page, only for the king to talk her out of it. The rules are different for princesses; their first duty is to the realm, usually by making advantageous marriages, and the king had marriages in mind for her with men whose people would object to a queen who was a knight. Jonathan did give Kalasin more freedom with regard to her future marriage than most princesses would get, but in the end, she went along with her father's wishes the way most princesses would. When Kel first joins the palace as a page, the majority of the boys make it plain that they don't think she deserves to be there and they don't want her there. Kel manages to make friends and proves herself even to some of her most fervent detractors, but others don't change their minds and aren't convinced by her efforts, no matter what happens. Sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you work or how much effort you put in, many people will not be moved. Theoretically, anyone who undergoes page training and fulfills their term as a squire will undergo the Ordeal and become a knight, unless something happens during the Ordeal. But as Raoul points out in Squire, not all the pages are strong enough or good enough to become knights, and not all are suited for it â€” and in those cases, the training master discouraging them or sending them home is doing them a favor. He flat out says that if he'd been the training master, he'd never have let Joren become a squire. What happens to Joren and Vinson during their Ordeals suggests that those who fail the Ordeals might not only be squires who weren't strong enough to succeed- at least some of them might have just been awful people. At one point in Squire, Kel is furious about how unjust a law is and asks the king and queen to change it. They then tell her that while they agree with her and want to help, they can't just wave their hands and change the law. The royals have to constantly negotiate and compromise with different groups of people in order to get anything done, and any change they propose will offend someone. They agree to try to change the law, but tell her that it's going to take a long time and will probably be a very arduous process.
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Protector of the Small / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Protector of the Small / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: In First Test, Kel attacks the older boys who were pushing Merric around. The next day he shoves her in the hall and yells at her before storming off. Neal grumbles about Merric being ungrateful, but Kel shrugs it off - she fully understands that getting saved, especially by The Girl, was damaging to the boy's pride. She did it out of principle, not to earn gratitude. Merric does join the circle of Kel's friends, but doesn't discuss the rescue or the aftermath.
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Protector of the Small / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Protector of the Small / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Peachblossom's bad temper is humorously contrasted by his name.
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Protector of the Small / int_41feb209	type	Non Sequitur, Thud
Protector of the Small / int_41feb209	comment	Non Sequitur, Thud: Not as random as some examples, but Kel is noticeably... ineloquent after three rounds of jousting with Lord Wyldon.
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Protector of the Small / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Protector of the Small / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Joren is abruptly killed off partway through book three, between chapters. Kel only hears about it when his father tries to kill her over it. After this, the main plot of the book switches to the Scanran war.
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Protector of the Small / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Protector of the Small / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Fully aware that it's technically treason, Kel still rides off into enemy territory to rescue her kidnapped refugees. In the middle of a war. Once she's got them to safety she has to decide whether or not to run off and save herself from being executed for treason, and decides to stay and take responsibility. The rules are still important to her, and she starts to protest when Lord Wyldon waives the consequences.
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Protector of the Small / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Protector of the Small / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: Somehow after Joren dies, his father is able to break into Kel's room and attempt to murder her. If not for Jump being vicious and Raoul being reasonable, he may have succeeded.
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Protector of the Small / int_4dce8058	comment	All Periods Are PMS: Discussed between Kel and Lalasa when Kel has her first one and finds herself unexpectedly crying. Lalasa points out the different moods that can seize a person, such as her mother getting mean, and Kel notes that her own mother craves sweet things. The weepiness ends up being a routine symptom for Kel, who mentions it in Squire when she cries over a bad day that she doesn't think would normally affect her that way.
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Protector of the Small / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Yamani Isles are a direct analogue to Japan. Yamani characters have Japanese names, they are noted for their strict etiquette, they practice Japanese-style martial arts (including the use of naginata) and much is made of Princess Shinkokami's arrival introducing kimonos and similar articles into Tortall's fashion trends. Kel even has a collection of lucky cat statues from her family's time as ambassadors there.
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Protector of the Small / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Joren is only fined as a sentence for having Lalasa abducted due to his status as a noble and hers as a servant. Kel is quite disgusted. However, this is only true for one book; see below.
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Protector of the Small / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Protector of the Small / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: People with strength and power should use it to protect those who don't have any, rather than abuse it. Societal progress is a long process that is painful for pioneers, but worthwhile.
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Protector of the Small / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Kel, the only protagonist in any of Pierce's novels not to have any magical abilities. This is a major part of her character- Kel becomes an icon for the girls and women of Tortall because she was a normal girl who became an exemplary squire and knight despite lacking magic or any divine assistance. That is, everything Kel achieved is something that any girl in Tortall could also achieve if she was willing to put in the work and effort.
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Protector of the Small / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
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Protector of the Small / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: When Kel kills Blace the Gallan at the end of Lady Knight, all the killing devices he made stop working.
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Protector of the Small / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Kalasin's brother Roald, the Crown Prince, is engaged to a minor Yamani princess in the first book, a marriage negotiated by protagonist Kel's diplomat parents. In the second book, Princess Chisakami dies in an earthquake before even meeting her intended, and the marriage has to be renegotiated from scratch. Much of the third book deals with the arrival of the new Yamani princess and her delegation. Kel notes that Princess Shinkokami is of a much higher rank than Princess Chisakami was, which means that the Yamanis must be placing a lot of importance on their alliance with the Tortallans.
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Protector of the Small / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Joren and co. are sexist whenever they feel they can get away with it. As a bonus, they are also extremely classist and treat commoners like dirt.
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Protector of the Small / int_75111e3e	comment	The Tourney: They're mentioned in the first couple of books and become a major element in the third. Wyldon, ever the traditionalist, lectures his students on how tourneys had been going out of fashion as risky and extravagant until the Immortals War, after which they were taken up as necessary events for knights to hone their skills. There are numerous tourneys during the stops on the Grand Progress, and Kel's jousting in public does a good deal to engender support for lady knights as she demonstrates her considerable skill.
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Protector of the Small / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Protector of the Small / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Most of Kel's page friends disappear for Squire, as they're scattered around the country with their own knight-masters. Neal and Cleon are the ones most frequently seen. The Bus Came Back in Lady Knight when they were all posted to the Scanran front. A mini-example with Faleron of King's Reach, in particular, who is one of Kel's better friends in Page (so much that he jumps to defend Kel's honor when it's implied they sleep together) and features prominently in the fight with hill bandits, only to disappear completely in Squire when it comes time for his year-mates to go through their Ordeal.
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Protector of the Small / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Protector of the Small / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Lalasa was raped by her older brother, and her parents refused to believe her. It made her understandably cynical about authority and men.
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Protector of the Small / int_77c0952e	type	Face Your Fears
Protector of the Small / int_77c0952e	comment	Face Your Fears: The Chamber, as in the Lioness books, although it turns out to be more complex than that; the knights keep repeating that you have to be willing to "bend" to the Ordeal, and those that don't bend will break. Whenever Kel is at the Palace in Squire, she makes a point of testing herself against its brutal visions before undergoing the real thing.
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Protector of the Small / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Protector of the Small / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: By Jon's time, duels of honor are satisfied without a fight to the death. However, one knight tries to do this â€” illegally â€” in a joust against Kel in Squire. She responds by knocking him out of the saddle on the next pass.
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Protector of the Small / int_7b3352a9	type	Heroic Safe Mode
Protector of the Small / int_7b3352a9	comment	Heroic Safe Mode: When Kel realizes if she had reported Vinson for attacking Lalasa in Page, he might not have gone on to attack and rape three girls the following year. She wanders the halls aimlessly until she is jumped by Joren. She attacks him without thinking, pushing him against the wall and shoving her arm against his neck. She then goes outside and pursues Percussive Therapy by shooting at targets with an unfamiliar bow.
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Protector of the Small / int_7b405f5b	type	Percussive Therapy
Protector of the Small / int_7b405f5b	comment	Percussive Therapy: Kel, after Vinson confesses to beating two girls and raping a third after his Ordeal, goes out in the snow to practice archery with a bow she's not adept with. Buri comes to talk to her, and tells her that learning from her mistakes is more productive than beating herself up, Deconstructing the trope.
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Protector of the Small / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Protector of the Small / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: In the first book, Neal confronts Kel over her continually fighting Joren and the other bullies. She tells him and their other friends that hazing is plain wrong, and even if one boy limits it to having a newcomer run harmless errands, others take the opportunity to physically abuse new pages knowing that their teachers will turn a blind eye to "tradition." Kel asks what happens when a bully becomes a knight—does he magically become a Knight in Shining Armor, or does he keep picking on the small and weak without fear of reprisal, just like he did all through his youth? Neal takes her point, and he and her other friends start joining her patrols after that.
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Protector of the Small / int_7c8a4602	type	Horsing Around
Protector of the Small / int_7c8a4602	comment	Horsing Around: The horses of Tortall have very distinct personalities in general, but special mention goes to Peachblossom, Kel's inappropriately named, bad-tempered gelding, who decides to be Kel's equine partner because she treated him well, and because, as he tells Daine she needs to be looked after.
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Protector of the Small / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
Protector of the Small / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: Wyldon will only retain his post as training master if Kel is accepted on probation instead of a full page, despite the letter of the law, and the king agrees. Kel is very unhappy.
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Protector of the Small / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Protector of the Small / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Our first meeting with Kel establishes several important things about her: at the age of ten, she attacks a spidren (a giant spider with a human head) by throwing rocks, in order to save some kittens, and then has a crippling attack of acrophobia.
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Protector of the Small / int_815215f5	type	Chilly Reception
Protector of the Small / int_815215f5	comment	Chilly Reception: In First Test, Kel hasn't even set foot in the castle for her page training before she's being hazed, having been put on probation by her training master. Needless to say, the boys she trains with don't exactly improve matters. She makes friends and triumphs regardless.
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Protector of the Small / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Protector of the Small / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The title of each book in the quartet. Fitting with Kel's matter-of-fact and unromanticnote in the poetic sense personality. The things that the Tortallans dub "killing devices" from the last two books: giant metal contraptions that Scanra uses as weapons.
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Protector of the Small / int_84976907	type	On Patrol Montage
Protector of the Small / int_84976907	comment	On Patrol Montage: Occurs in First Test. Kel goes "running in the halls" every night to fight older pages who take hazing too far (which is mostly Joren). Eventually Neal and her other friends insist on joining her. As they come to outnumber the bullies, the bullies take to dispersing rather than fighting back.
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Protector of the Small / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Protector of the Small / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Keladry is soured on Jonathan when he allows Wyldon to put her on probation. Although she acknowledges that he has charisma, she can't forget that he reneged on his decree in a way that seriously hurt her, and her one friendly encounter with him has a page leaves her convinced that she'll be expelled for showing him her fear of heights. When she meets him after Joren's trial and learns that he has to keep a lot of things balanced if he wants to make reforms without his vassals rebelling, she's a little more understanding, but she remains wary of him. We also hear that this decision caused the longest rift ever between him and Alanna.
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Protector of the Small / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Protector of the Small / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Chamber of the Ordeal, which becomes a major character in the last two books.
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Protector of the Small / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Protector of the Small / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: A brief example in Lady Knight. Neal magics Alvik, the innkeeper who physically abused Tobe, so that any attempt to beat his other servants will rebound on him. Forcing a magic is illegal, but Neal's response is basically "I'm a Queenscove." The problem is, noble abuse of privilege and private law was a major point in Squire, one that Kel protested fiercely. Granted, Neal threatened the magistrate first, and Alvik's implications that they were buddies was when Neal went with Plan B. But given how big a deal it was in Squire, it stands out.
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Protector of the Small / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Protector of the Small / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Girl: Buri. At this point, she's a high-ranking member of the Queen's Riders.
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Protector of the Small / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Subverted—it's breaking down. Jonathan and Thayet are working to actively reform the country through new laws for women's equality, establishing universal education, and more. Certain noble privileges have become dangerously outdated due to the rise of a large and influential middle class as another group who could rebel if pushed too far. Bazhir are integrated into the ranks of the nobility and serve in the King's Own. Relations with other nations also exert an influence; when Prince Roald's betrothed arrives from the Yamani Islands, kimono-esque clothing becomes highly fashionable.
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Protector of the Small / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Protector of the Small / int_90c018ac	comment	This is invoked and justified in the small prologue for First Test. Alanna is eager to mentor the first openly female page in over a century, but Jonathan and Wyldon forbid her from doing so, as the conservatives will just claim that Alanna helped her with magic. She makes up for it by anonymously sending practical and high-quality gifts like sharpening stones and bruise balm, but she's only able to meet Kel in public after Kel is a squire, and briefly, to keep people from getting suspicious.
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Protector of the Small / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Joren of Stone Mountain, punished by the Chamber of the Ordeal. Too fatally inflexible to handle the prospect of Keladry succeeding as a lady knight, the Chamber breaks him.
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Protector of the Small / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
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Protector of the Small / int_91f9c100	type	She Will Come for Me
Protector of the Small / int_91f9c100	comment	She Will Come for Me: If you are under her protection and something happens to you, Keladry will come for you. While deciding whether to look for her kidnapped maid or attend the big exams, Kel remembers Lalasa saying "I knew you'd come" after Kel saved her from Vincent, and that decides it for her.
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Protector of the Small / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Protector of the Small / int_927b2f11	comment	Most of Kel's page friends disappear for Squire, as they're scattered around the country with their own knight-masters. Neal and Cleon are the ones most frequently seen. The Bus Came Back in Lady Knight when they were all posted to the Scanran front.
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Protector of the Small / int_93311f8e	type	The Squadette
Protector of the Small / int_93311f8e	comment	The Squadette: The only female page during her training, the only woman with the King's Own during her years as a squire, and only the second lady knight in recent Tortallan history. (And during the four books, she never serves in combat with Tortall's other lady knight, but they do spar in a short scene in the next books.)
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Protector of the Small / int_9588c44b	comment	First Period Panic: Kel, like Alanna, experiences her first period during page training and is not happy about it. Unlike Alanna, Kel had a responsible mother who informed her long ago that this was going to happen. After the initial confusion at seeing her hose bloodied, Kel realizes she's started her "monthlies" and is upset because it's going to make training that much more difficult.
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Protector of the Small / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Protector of the Small / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: After Joren and Vinson's Ordeals, Lord Wyldon resigns as training master. When Kel talks to him about it, he tells her that two failures in one year has never happened before, that he had at least some responsibility for their actions because he never stopped them from bullying the younger pages, that her probation was wrong and they both know it, and that it's a miracle that he remembered his honour and let her stay when she passed the tests, but there might not be another miracle next time, so it's best for everyone that he quit.
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Protector of the Small / int_969c0ac2	comment	Fresh Clue: In book four, Kel and her soldiers are able to tell how close they are to the Scanrans they're pursuing by the freshness of the horse manure they leave.
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Protector of the Small / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Protector of the Small / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: In-universe, people speculative about how Garvey made it through his Ordeal intact, given he was part of Joren's Gang of Bullies and neither Joren nor Vinson pass. He just seems happy to come out of it considering the number of people that gather to see if he's going to fail.
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Protector of the Small / int_96e967f8	type	Anti-Climax Boss
Protector of the Small / int_96e967f8	comment	Anti-Climax Boss: Invoked in Lady Knight when Kel finally reaches Blayce the Gallan. Once she sees through his concealment spell, he goes down easily. She's a little incredulous at how little effort it takes to kill such a monstrous individual.
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Protector of the Small / int_988a2796	type	Pet Baby Wild Animal
Protector of the Small / int_988a2796	comment	Pet Baby Wild Animal: The griffin, in a sense. It's much less sweet than most uses of the trope, attacking Kel and her pets and being much like a real, high-maintenance rehabilitated animal than a loving pet. Caring for it is a duty and a hassle. Despite herself Kel is still sad when its parents are found and reclaim it, though this lifts to simple relief. The griffin for its part never looks back or returns. Its parents give her some of their feathers as thanks, something that's a low-effort gift for them but that they know humans value.
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Protector of the Small / int_9d09bf1a	type	American Kirby Is Hardcore
Protector of the Small / int_9d09bf1a	comment	American Kirby Is Hardcore: The original edition covers for the US and UK all depict Kel in roughly the same scenes (holding a spear, the baby griffin, her helmet) but the American ones for Squire and Lady Knight make her look serious and intent rather than smiling and optimistic.note The exception is First Test, which uses the same picture on both sides of the pond.
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Protector of the Small / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Protector of the Small / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The lords of fiefs Eldorne, Tirragen, Malven and Sinthya are invited to host extremely expensive banquets during the royal progress due to members of those families causing trouble for Tortall in the past.
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Protector of the Small / int_9df812ad	type	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
Protector of the Small / int_9df812ad	comment	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Kel's father is stated to be about five foot four, while her mother is a good several inches taller. Kel inherited her mother's height.
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Protector of the Small / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
Protector of the Small / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: Neal and his father Duke Baird, when compared to Numair magically. Nowhere near as powerful, but as healers, they're trained to a level of precision that Numair could never hope to match because of his Ace Lightning Syndrome. It's only in comparison to people like Numair and Alanna, though; otherwise they are considered to have a strong Gift.
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Protector of the Small / int_9fb11776	type	Non-Lethal Warfare
Protector of the Small / int_9fb11776	comment	Non-Lethal Warfare: Mock battles using non lethal weapons are introduced in Kel's Page years.
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Protector of the Small / int_a3f6fcb0	comment	Action Mom: Alanna is a mother by this time and still an active-duty knight, although she has to play a minor role thanks to politics. Kel's mother is not a warrior by trade, but that didn't stop her from fighting off pirates in the Yamani Isles when Kel was a little girl.
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Protector of the Small / int_a3f706c4	type	Action Pet
Protector of the Small / int_a3f706c4	comment	Action Pet: Jump, a dog of war if there was ever one.
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Protector of the Small / int_a5fa59c9	comment	Punishment Detail: In Lady Knight, Kel makes sure everyone â€” including herself â€” rotates through latrine detail. But she also uses extended latrine detail in lieu of whipping and threatens a particularly difficult man that she'll have him noted as having a particular talent for cleaning sewage tubs if he doesn't settle down.
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Protector of the Small / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Protector of the Small / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Raoul of Goldenlake becomes Kel's knight-master in Squire.
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Protector of the Small / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Protector of the Small / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Vinson, Joren, and Garvey go through the Chamber of Ordeal. Vinson is tortured and given the same beatings and injuries that he inflicted on his rape victims, Joren is killed, but Garvey comes out with his mind and body intact.
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Protector of the Small / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Protector of the Small / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Garvey comes out of the Chamber of the Ordeal pale and sick, but whole and sane, able to be knighted. Some fans speculate that being away from Joren and paired with a knight-master who was friendly with Raoul and complimented Kel's jousting skills spurred Character Development. Given that plenty of knights are jerks and some are outright bad people (Duke Roger passed his Ordeal), it might simply be that he's a bully but not malicious or inflexible enough to earn the Chamber's particular ire.
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Protector of the Small / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Protector of the Small / int_a8217606	comment	Both Lord Wyldon's position and some of the training practices for pages were put in place specifically because of Alanna sneaking through eight years as "Alan". Wyldon was given the job of training master to placate conservatives who were outraged that Alanna was allowed to keep her shield. The final, public exams for pages were instituted so no one could claim that a page was illicitly allowed through by collusion with the people in charge of training (even though the legalization of girls in knight training made another Sweet Polly Oliver situation unlikely).
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Protector of the Small / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
Protector of the Small / int_a922f8de	comment	To Be Lawful or Good: Kel believes in the law but holds chivalric code, in which those with power take exacting care of those in their charge, more highly. Faced with a choice she'll always choose to be Good, and then return and accept the consequences. Both when it comes to missing the big exams because she was rescuing Lalasa, and later when she faces a charge of treason for disobeying and saving her people, she wants to protest as Lord Wyldon waives the consequences because he too believes that the chivalric code is more important than other laws.
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Protector of the Small / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
Protector of the Small / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: Kel during her page days. She eventually persuades her friends to join her, and having several older and bigger boys alongside her eventually smothers Joren's efforts - he was willing to pick on younger pages and fight her when it was him and one to three friends versus her or her and Neal, but not when the odds were against him.
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Protector of the Small / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
Protector of the Small / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: Raoul, as Commander of the King's Own.
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Protector of the Small / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Protector of the Small / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Between Joren's antics and Wyldon's desire to make Kel leave of her own accord, Keladry becomes stronger and more skilled than she probably would have otherwise. Wyldon acknowledges that Kel became a stronger person than her male peers because she had to overcome so much more than they did.
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Protector of the Small / int_add9026	type	Older and Wiser
Protector of the Small / int_add9026	comment	Older and Wiser: King Jonathan is much more experienced and political here than he was during the Lioness books. Having had to walk a tightrope of instituting reforms without provoking rebellion, particularly after a costly war, he is very careful so that he can (as he puts it) be the sort of king who lives to meet his grandchildren. When dissecting the conversation Kel had with him in Squire, Raoul notes that Jon probably wants her to be confused about him, never does anything for just one reason, and is much more complicated than he was when they were lads.
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Protector of the Small / int_ae087674	type	I Can Still Fight!
Protector of the Small / int_ae087674	comment	I Can Still Fight!: Merric pulls this in Lady Knight. Though still affected by blood loss from his wounds, he insists on joining Kel's quest to save Haven's captured refugees by being tied to his horse.
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Protector of the Small / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Protector of the Small / int_ae3d6438	comment	Flighty Deadpan Snarker Neal to level-headed stoic Kel.
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Protector of the Small / int_afe5728	type	Promotion, Not Punishment
Protector of the Small / int_afe5728	comment	Promotion, Not Punishment: At the end of Lady Knight, Kel is "punished" for her desertion by being put in charge of a new and bigger refugee camp. This is helped by the fact that Wyldon realised that he asked too much of her by ordering her to abandon her kidnapped people, particularly when she was chosen for the duty in the first place because she would care about them.
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Protector of the Small / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Protector of the Small / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Joren manages to be this trope simply because of how blind his misogyny makes him. Kel proves that she's the equal of the male pages and stands up to everything he throws at her, but he's still adamant that she can't possibly be good enough to be a knight and that she only succeeds because the progressives want her to and are fudging the exams for her. During his trial, he makes it clear that he thinks Lord Wyldon was forced to let Kel train and then let her pass her probation year. Lord Wyldon tells him that he wasn't forced and that Kel earned the right to stay, and Joren flat out says that he doesn't believe him, even though he and Kel both know that Wyldon would never lie. He also says that he thinks that Kel was only allowed to take the big exams (and that she only passed them) because the progressives want her to succeed, even though kidnapping a page's maid to force them to miss the big exams is such an extreme action that such allowances likely would have been made for any page in that situation, regardless of their gender. In addition, the big exams were set up so nobody could watch them and claim that a page only passed because they had help or cheated, but that doesn't make a difference to Joren- if Kel passed, it couldn't have been legitimate.
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Protector of the Small / int_b039b1d7	type	Split Hair
Protector of the Small / int_b039b1d7	comment	Split Hair: Raoul demonstrates the sharpness of Kel's naginata to Flynn by placing a feather on the blade. It, of course, cuts the feather in half without any effort. Kel also tests the sharpness of a blade sent by her Anonymous Benefactor with a hair from her head.
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Protector of the Small / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Protector of the Small / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: The Chamber forces Vinson to relive all the abuses he inflicted upon the women he assaulted or raped. To seal the deal, it forces him to call an audience with the king and confess to his crimes, while making him go through more pain. He begs the court to make the Chamber stop hurting him, but they don't actually know if or when it will stop when they have him taken away.
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Protector of the Small / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Protector of the Small / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: Not as much as Alanna or Daine, but Keladry is given a quest by the Chamber of the Ordeal in Squire, and it sticks with her for Lady Knight. Since it can't give her direction, a timeline, or any kind of divine assistance beyond nightmares to make sure she doesn't forget her task, Kel finds the experience extremely frustrating.
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Protector of the Small / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Protector of the Small / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Wyldon resigns as training master after Joren's death and Vinson's confession to rape. He may be a Jerkass but even he knows that if two students failed and their common link was a girl that Wyldon hated who ended up surpassing the odds, then he failed as an instructor.
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Protector of the Small / int_b4ed2f29	type	The Man Behind the Curtain
Protector of the Small / int_b4ed2f29	comment	The Man Behind the Curtain: The man creating the killing devices, revealed in the Chamber's vision to be a dumpy, fidgety little man with acne. When Kel kills him in Lady Knight, she's shocked at how easily he dies.
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Protector of the Small / int_b506c9ff	type	Hide Your Lesbians
Protector of the Small / int_b506c9ff	comment	Hide Your Lesbians: Pierce has said that Lalasa is gay, but it wasn't important enough to put in the books outside of subtext between her and Tian without invoking Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?.
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Protector of the Small / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Protector of the Small / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: This is invoked and justified in the small prologue for First Test. Alanna is eager to mentor the first openly female page in over a century, but Jonathan and Wyldon forbid her from doing so, as the conservatives will just claim that Alanna helped her with magic. She makes up for it by anonymously sending practical and high-quality gifts like sharpening stones and bruise balm, but she's only able to meet Kel in public after Kel is a squire, and briefly, to keep people from getting suspicious. Sir Myles, Lindhall Reed, Tkaa, and Sarge all contribute to the pages' education but are essentially cameos. A lot of the regular characters in First Test, Page and Squire either don't appear or have very minor appearances in Lady Knight.
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Protector of the Small / int_b95cd640	comment	Huge Schoolgirl: The last time Kel's height is mentioned, she's 5'10", fifteen, and not done growing yet.
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Protector of the Small / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: At the end of Lady Knight. Kel is still attracted to Dom, and the book ends with her excited to see him again, but without saying if they strike up a relationship or not. Pierce specifically avoided Official Couples to show that it's possible to have a happy ending without romance. She later confirmed that they don't end up together.
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Protector of the Small / int_baa2bf80	comment	Amplified Animal Aptitude: The animals at the Palace are all unnaturally bright thanks to Daine living there. The sparrows Kel feeds soon become attached to her enough that they drive away bullies, both from Kel and people Kel likes, and fetch help when needed. A bunch of horses break up a fight between the pages, unsettling the training masters. And Daine deliberately infuses the camp animals with intelligence in Lady Knight, although she considers it Dirty Business. Defied by the baby griffin Kel takes care of in Squire, which is a realistically difficult wild animal that might wind up trusting Kel more than any human who's not Daine, but is high maintenance, bites and scratches especially when her attention wavers, is noisy and messy, and never gives any sign of understanding her or caring what she thinks. Its parents are intelligent, but as an infant the baby griffin is mostly a huge pain.
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Protector of the Small / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: One of the messages of the series, particularly evident in Squire, is that no single person can really stop the injustice that is ingrained on the societal level. One outstanding female knight and Thayet's new egalitarian military corps has done little to change most people's minds about female soldiers (and the assumptions about their morality). Kel is forced to accept that she cannot give Lalasa the justice she deserves even though Jon fully agrees that the laws governing the noble treatment of commoners are morally wrong and dangerous besides. Changing laws around traditional societal values takes years if you want to do it without an uprising. Similarly, some people will never "come around" and will even act against their own interests to serve their hardheaded ideology. None of this makes doing the right thing pointless, but it does mean there are limits to what you can expect to happen.
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Protector of the Small / int_bd39588d	comment	Desecrating the Dead: Keladry normally buries enemy dead before the Stormwings can have their bodies, but she allows them to have the Big Bad and his Dragon because they're so monstrous.
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Protector of the Small / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Protector of the Small / int_c02ce551	comment	Straight for the Commander: Discussed in Squire. Some of the King's Own favor killing the soldiers first as they're the ones who do most of the fighting; Kel and Dom prefer to kill officers first because they think and lead.
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Protector of the Small / int_c099ca1a	comment	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Defied by Kel on her first day there. She wears a dress specifically to remind everyone that she is a girl and has a perfect right to be there, thank you very much. It's noted that she didn't particularly care for dresses before arriving at the palace, only having brought a few, but liked the idea of this tiny revenge against everyone thinking to drive her away.
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Protector of the Small / int_c1a545d0	comment	Defacement Insult: The first book has Kel walk into her room at the palace to see that her belongings have been mauled and a disparaging message against girl pages has been painted on the wall.
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Protector of the Small / int_c301532f	comment	Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Alanna is still frosty with Jonathan for succumbing to political pressure and making Kel start on probation. She takes it as him weaseling out of something he'd sworn to do. Same with Kel. While she does eventually come to understand why he did it, she never truly warms up to Jonathan for making her journey to be a knight harder then everyone else.
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Protector of the Small / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Kel, Neal, and several other pages from their year become this.
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Protector of the Small / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Joren's plot at the end of Page. Either Keladry ignores the kidnappers' note, incurring shame for abandoning her servant, or she rescues Lalasa and misses the page exam, thus having to repeat the four years of training (and, the culprit assumes, quitting rather than doing it all over again). She chooses to rescue Lalasa, and the examiners decide to let her take the exams anyway in light of the extraordinary circumstances.
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Protector of the Small / int_c3743565	comment	Time Dissonance: The Chamber of the Ordeal describes its perception of human time as that of a person trying to perceive the interior of a globe from the outside. Thus, it can't answer Kel's demand to know when she is going to meet Blayce the Gallan and if she should run off to find him before she can be given a stationary posting on the warfront. All it can tell her is that she is definitely going to meet him sooner or later.
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Protector of the Small / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: Readers will quickly guess that Alanna is the person sending Kel all of those practical gifts and gear, with the prologue scene demonstrating Alanna's character for those who haven't read previous books. Kel never imagines that it's her because to her, the Lioness is a distant legend she dreams of meeting. Kel even feels hurt as a first-year page for never seeing Alanna, not knowing the Lioness was barred from meeting her, and wonders if Alanna hates the idea of another female knight.
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Protector of the Small / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Lord Wyldon of Cavall is a blatant one to Cavall, King Arthur's favourite hunting dog. He is pathologically loyal, ruthless, kindhearted and breeds dogs.
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Protector of the Small / int_c887dc21	comment	You Can Barely Stand: The climax of Lady Knight, when Kel faces Blayce the Gallan. While fighting Stenmun, Kel gets stabbed in the shoulder. She manages to give herself a makeshift bandage after the fight, but by the time she faces Blayce, she's woozy from blood loss and needs to lean on her glaive. It's the only reason why Blayce's illusion spells kept her at bay for as long as they did. She ends up passing out from the blood loss afterwards, though luckily her friends find her.
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Protector of the Small / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: Numair SalmalÃn manages to retrieve several large boulders to fortify the defences around an army camp in Lady Knight. (Word of God says that the name of the music he uses â€” "The Sorcerer's Dance" â€” is a Shout-Out to the Sorcerer's Apprentice.) It should also be noted that the Sorcerer's Dance is considered an absurdly simple spell (the scale which Numair uses is rather huge, though). Scanran mages are also mentioned to be quite good at music magic.
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Protector of the Small / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Protector of the Small / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In Lady Knight, Raoul says that no one has ever entered the Chamber of the Ordeal twice. Except that Song of the Lioness established that kings have to do it too, and presumably there have been quite a few who were knights first, although he may have just meant that nobody goes in for a reason that is not an actual Ordeal.
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Protector of the Small / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Kel, a natural leader, wonders in Lady Knight if her old schoolmates resent her commanding them. She also has to refrain from greeting old friends with a hug â€” the leader can't drop her dignity. Plus, in order to gain the trust and respect of her command, she needs to do every unpleasant chore in camp without complaining, and she fully expects to be executed for coming to the rescue of several hundred children. She spends at least sixteen hours of every day working. However, her people do eventually come to see her as too important to do the messier chores anymore and nudge her off those rosters. Princess Kalasin is another example that occurs off-screen. She had wanted to become the first openly female page, but her father vetoed the idea for political reasons. So she made a deal with him where she got final veto power over any marriage arrangements and heavy involvement in any negotiations. Prince Roald is far more careful than his father was in how he interacts with his fellow pages, keenly aware of his position and influence. He's careful to rotate the groups he spends his off-time with (though he spends more time with Kel's friends than Joren's) and Kel doesn't blame him for hanging back from her anti-hazing patrols because he doesn't want to look like he's abusing his position as prince and heir. When serving as a knight in the Scanran war, he's frustrated by not being allowed near actual battles, and unlike Jon he stayed out of them.
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Protector of the Small / int_cb060751	type	War Refugees
Protector of the Small / int_cb060751	comment	War Refugees: Much of what Kel deals with in Lady Knight. Even though they're civilians, they're subject to frequent attack due to their location and must be trained to fight alongside the meager amount of soldiers allotted to the camp's protection.
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Protector of the Small / int_d19343fc	type	Glove Slap
Protector of the Small / int_d19343fc	comment	Glove Slap: Any knight Kel refuses to joust in Squire does this â€” once it happens a few times, she gives up and just accepts from the start. That is, until Crown and Freckle pass away and Kel, too upset to joust, angrily maintains her refusal to her challenger even after being slapped.
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Protector of the Small / int_d28eb9e1	comment	Serial Romeo: Neal. His friends are quite surprised when he starts to act very differently around Yukimi whom he marries. Usually, he will sigh and mope and write bad poetry about women who already have husbands, or at least lovers.
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Protector of the Small / int_d3246c34	type	Politically-Active Princess
Protector of the Small / int_d3246c34	comment	Politically-Active Princess: Kalasin, who's mentioned even if she never appears. She wants to be a knight, but Jon persuades her that due to the current state of the country she cannot do so without causing trouble. She decides instead to compromise with her parents, allowing her considerably more freedom with who she marries if she doesn't become a page. Keep in mind she's thirteen at best during this.
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Protector of the Small / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The conservative knights claim that taking Lerant of Eldorne, whose aunt rebelled against the crown, into the King's Own is yet another proof of Raoul's corruption (in addition to taking on a female squire, treating Bazhir and K'miri as equals, and daring to put a noble on trial for a crime he committed), but have among their number Voelden of Tirrsmont, whose family took part in the exact same rebellion.
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Protector of the Small / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Protector of the Small / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: Wyldon does this on purpose anyway (they are, after all, training to be war leaders), but Kel has to deal with the misogynists' continual attempts to drive her out of training on top of that.
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Protector of the Small / int_d782bd52	type	Equivalent Exchange
Protector of the Small / int_d782bd52	comment	Equivalent Exchange: Kel is warned of this in her classes on mages, saying that even if they create miraculous feats the energy has to come from somewhere and there's always a price to pay. Jonathan's heroic attempt to hold the land together against magical earthquakes in Song of the Lioness is revealed to have caused a major famine from him exhausting the earth.
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Protector of the Small / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Protector of the Small / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Kel, of course, who is in training to become a lady knight.
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Protector of the Small / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Protector of the Small / int_dca70c44	comment	Royal processions are extremely long and arduous affairs, and kings can use it not only to get a feel for their land and establish personal ties to their kingdom, but to drain the resources of any hosting lords who cause trouble to the crown.
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Protector of the Small / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Protector of the Small / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: The infamous-among-fans "missing year", in which Kel celebrates her 14th birthday, then her 16th just one year later.
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Protector of the Small / int_df77bb33	type	Ambadassador
Protector of the Small / int_df77bb33	comment	Ambadassador: Kel's parents, but her mother in particular. Her defending sacred artifacts from pirates raised the Mindelans' stock quite significantly with the Yamanis.
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Protector of the Small / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Protector of the Small / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Despite never actually having children, Kel fits the mold quite well indeed. She easily comes to care deeply about animals and people with little power. There's a reason the quartet of books featuring her are collectively called the "Protector of the Small" series. Kel's mother and Alanna would like to get in line when it comes to confronting Lord Wyldon about how he's been treating Kel. The only reason that her mother doesn't is that it wouldn't help Kel's situation at all, though Wyldon after about half a decade has the courtesy to apologize to Kel for being a sexist jerk.
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Protector of the Small / int_e192c0a7	type	Standard Female Grab Area
Protector of the Small / int_e192c0a7	comment	Standard Female Grab Area: Defied. In Squire, Lerant tries to intimidate Kel by grabbing her roughly by the arm. Her response is to flex her bicep, which forces his hand open.
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Protector of the Small / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Protector of the Small / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Although Kel lacks wild magic, she has long had a habit of taking care of abandoned baby animals and strays, from kittens to sparrows to an infant griffin â€” hence her eventual nickname. (Daine's proximity at the palace means that many of these animals start gaining intelligence anyway.) She also favors humans with little power.
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Protector of the Small / int_e22feb9c	type	Mind-Control Device
Protector of the Small / int_e22feb9c	comment	Mind-Control Device: Blayce tries to do this on Kel in their battle. Not really a specific device, as Numair explains, but most mages need a shiny object to grab their target's attention.
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Protector of the Small / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Protector of the Small / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: This seems to be the default state of Yamani women. We don't get to see them in action, but after Neal interrupts a game of fan toss, Yuki tells him the following Yamani proverb, right before she uses the fan to slice up a wooden tent pole as if it were made of paper.
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Protector of the Small / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Protector of the Small / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Kel has this in spades. Whether it's dealing with the rigors of training, facing the prospect of repeating four years of pagehood, or rescuing two hundred refugees who've been taking deep into enemy territory, you had better not get in the way of her doing it.
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Protector of the Small / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Protector of the Small / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: When the killing devices show up, they speak like toddlers or cry like infants once they're broken. It's later revealed that Blayce, their creator, does not actually have to use children. He just likes to because he's a sick, twisted little man.
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Protector of the Small / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Protector of the Small / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Lalasa, at first. Over three years serving Kel, and feeling safer in her service, she becomes much more bold and confident.
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Protector of the Small / int_eb8856	type	The X of Y
Protector of the Small / int_eb8856	comment	The X of Y: Protector of the Small.
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Protector of the Small / int_ebd01bc5	type	Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me
Protector of the Small / int_ebd01bc5	comment	Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: A borderline example in Lady Knight. Stenmun drags children to the castle, then Blayce has them bathed, clothed in silk, fed well, and given toys before he kills them for his ghost-powered war machines. Stenmun rationalizes that these peasant kids are getting better treatment in those last days than their parents could give them in their whole lives.
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Protector of the Small / int_ed3866b7	type	Kidnapped from Behind
Protector of the Small / int_ed3866b7	comment	Kidnapped from Behind: Lady Knight Kel's group takes out stragglers of the Scanran group they're tracking and takes back the prisoners they can reach without being seen in blitz attacks.
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Protector of the Small / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Protector of the Small / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Present in the encounters with bandits that happen during Keladry's page years, but it becomes a major theme in Squire and Lady Knight as hostilities with Scanra become a full-fledged war. The descriptions of death and brutality are quite vivid. Men of the Own call someone's first exposure to a real war "seeing the Kraken".
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Protector of the Small / int_f1eb7e68	type	Naginatas Are Feminine
Protector of the Small / int_f1eb7e68	comment	Naginatas Are Feminine: Keladry is trained in them, and her mother once helped hold off a pirate invasion with one. They're specifically mentioned as a weapon women train with in the Yamani isles, which are based on Japan. A later book describes Kel as "that mad woman with the giant pigsticker."
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Protector of the Small / int_f32dadad	type	Instant Messenger Pigeon
Protector of the Small / int_f32dadad	comment	Instant Messenger Pigeon: The sparrows, Justified because they are smart enough to recognize commands and names and faces rather than relying solely on homing instinct, and they're only sent over short distances (elsewhere in a village or on a battlefield).
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Protector of the Small / int_f5c3983a	type	Camping a Crapper
Protector of the Small / int_f5c3983a	comment	Camping a Crapper: Joren and his gang try to ambush Kel at the latrine in First Test â€” only to be attacked by her sparrows.
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Protector of the Small / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Protector of the Small / int_f617419c	comment	Trial by Combat: Not actually done, but discussed. Raoul notes that many knights like to claim that if they win jousts against their opponents, it's proof that the gods favor their side of the argument, but if they lose those jousts, it's because the opponent cheated or they had faulty equipment rather than them being in the wrong. Kel learns the truth of it when several knights joust her to "prove" that the gods don't want women to be knights, only to take it back when she wins. Despite the gods being very real in this universe, Cleon believes that they're too busy to care about minor jousts, and nothing in the narrative says otherwise.
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Protector of the Small / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
Protector of the Small / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: After losing her schoolgirl crush on him, Keladry and Neal became this.
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Protector of the Small / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: Kel usually ignores it, but she is aware that being a woman in a "man's job" invites disgusting gossip and speculation about her. Her friends get into fights about it behind her back, and Raoul's Number Two brings it up as a problem when she first becomes his squire. (He cheerfully replies that the court gossips have had him in bed with other men for years given his long bachelorhood, so being put in bed with his squire doesn't worry him.) Kel, advising young girls who are inspired by her example, tells them that they will have to be able to hold up under lurid, vicious gossip themselves if they want to try to become knights.
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Protector of the Small / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Seaver and spidrens. He flips out at the end of First Test and attacks the spidrens head-on, saying the trope name word-for-word.
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Protector of the Small / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The first sign that Wyldon isn't as bad as he seems comes when other pages are reluctant to sponsor Kel. Joren volunteers, and he hesitates rather than agreeing, aware of how Joren feels about a female page. Later Wyldon does this literally. He takes a liking to Jump, despite rules against pages having pets.
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Protector of the Small / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Crown's death happens not for any plot-related reason, but simply because the story had reached the absolute limit of how long wild sparrows are known to live. She was already leader of the flock when Kel met her. Royal processions are extremely long and arduous affairs, and kings can use it not only to get a feel for their land and establish personal ties to their kingdom, but to drain the resources of any hosting lords who cause trouble to the crown.
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