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Ranger's Apprentice

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Ranger's Apprentice	comment	In a medieval Europe much like ours but with all of the names changed, the young orphan Will becomes apprenticed to the elite Ranger Corps of Araluen after being rejected by the knights' Battleschool due to his small stature. Rangers, their work shrouded in secrecy and camouflaging cloaks, resemble nothing so much as a cross between Robin Hood and the CIA. Will discovers that being a Ranger is not only as exciting and heroic as being a knight, it is also something he excels at.Then he learns the Big Bad is about to invade his country, has sent killer animal monsters after his beloved mentor Halt, and would like to kill every single Ranger (and Ranger apprentice) while he's at it. Things go downhill for Will from there.Rather than just being about battles between good and evil, most of the books have the protagonists use not just martial prowess, but also stealth, cunning, and sometimes diplomacy to defeat their enemies. The author says he began writing the series to demonstrate to his then-small young son that you didn't have to be big and strong to be heroic. Later books have a fair amount of mystery mixed in with the action, and the settings for the adventures range from the icy North to the scorching desert.Books in the Series: The Ruins of Gorlan (2004) The Burning Bridge (2005) The Icebound Land (2005) Oakleaf Bearers (The Battle for Skandia in the US) (2006) The Sorcerer of the North (2006) The Siege of Macindaw (2007) Erak's Ransom (2007) (takes place in the Time Skip between books four and five) The Kings of Clonmel (2008) Halt's Peril (2009) The Emperor of Nihon-Ja (2010) The Lost Stories (2011) The Royal Ranger (2013) The Tournament at Gorlannote Takes place before Book 1 The Battle of Hackham Heath note Takes place between "The Tournament at Gorlan" and Book 1 The Royal Ranger 2: The Red Fox Clannote The sequel of The Royal Ranger The Royal Ranger 3: Duel at Araluen The Royal Ranger 4: The Missing PrinceJohn Flanagan has announced that he plans to end the series there. Considering he said the same thing about the tenth book (and the twelfth!), some fans hold onto hope that there will be more. It also produced a Spin-Off, the Brotherband Chronicles.Beware, spoilers for Books 1-7 are UNMARKED
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1139de32	comment	Scam Religion: The Outsiders. First, their white-robed leaders move to an area and set themselves up as humble worshippers of the golden god, Alseias. Then attacks and pillaging, carried out by hired bandits, start up. The Outsiders immediately begin to fast and pray for their god to drive away the bandits, but they claim that Alseias's power is fueled by gold, and they don't have enough. Once people start handing over money, the attacks stop, only to start up again before the people can get too comfortable, pressuring them to part with more to earn another respite. Once the community has been wrung dry, the Outsiders skip town, taking all the gold they've collected with them.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_135c6de7	type	Cannot Tell a Joke
Ranger's Apprentice / int_135c6de7	comment	Cannot Tell a Joke: Inverted by Baron Arald. He keeps telling jokes—pretty good ones, at that—but everyone takes him too seriously all the time to get them. Lady Pauline and Lady Sandra get them, but choose not to laugh.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_141f6a73	type	Artistic License â€“ Martial Arts
Ranger's Apprentice / int_141f6a73	comment	Artistic License â€“ Martial Arts: In general, averted, as the author is pretty good about showing their work. However, played straight in a few stories when it's mentioned that Halt "always watched an enemy's eyes." As any trained combatant will know, this tells you little to nothing in combat situations. People don't attack with their eyeballs (well, not in this universe, anyway), and a trained fighter can easily attack without glancing at their target. In Book 10, Alyss says that physical strength plays a large part in combat, and that she could never train to be as good as Horace in combat. While she's not entirely wrong, any Action Girl could tell you that sufficiently trained women are capable of dealing out plenty of havoc. However, in this case the trope is somewhat-justified as she's using it as an excuse to go on an ambassadorial mission to the Hasanu.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Ranger's Apprentice / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Alyss and Will in Book 6, and gender-inverted by Cassandra and Horace in Book 10. Played with in both cases, as the parties involved already had romantic feelings for each other, but the events of the rescues are what lead to them admitting those feelings and officially becoming couples.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Ranger's Apprentice / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Book 9, in which Halt is mortally wounded by a poisoned arrow. He gets better, but his recovery is Played for Drama, and it looked as if the author would be invoking Anyone Can Die.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_15929a2d	type	Man in a Kilt
Ranger's Apprentice / int_15929a2d	comment	Man in a Kilt: A non-Fanservice-y example is General MacHaddish of the Scotti Army in Book 6. Generally, the male populace of the country of Picta.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Ranger's Apprentice / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: When Horace rashly challenges Morgarath to single combat, Duncan asks him to spare the young man. Morgarath mockingly suggests that maybe Duncan should ask Horace to go easy on him. Horace ends up killing Morgarath using a Ranger trick he earlier learned from Will and Gilan.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Will lives for Halt's approval. Of course, as lampshaded near the end of Erak's Ransom, this sort of thing happens to nearly everyone who works with Halt. It is mentioned in later books that both Will and Halt see their relationship as essentially that of father and son. In Book Seven, it's shown that Will would literally rather die of thirst, having gotten hopelessly lost in the desert, than disappoint Halt. Then again, he isn't exactly thinking logically at the time.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Ranger's Apprentice / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The series begins in classic fantasy style—young orphaned hero has to fight against an evil sorcerer controlling an army of monsters. However, in later books, there's not a shred of the fantastic to be seen. One story deals with a plot about an old man using primitive science to fake magic. Strangely, it works.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Ranger's Apprentice / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: In Book 7, after Evanlyn/Cassandra cleverly establishes that circumstances have changed to the point where Selethen owes her money rather than the other way around, Selethen concedes that he's been outwitted and is genuinely impressed by Cassandra's skill as a negotiator. Cassandra then proves herself a graceful winner by foregoing the reward for Yusal and offering a decent sum to compensate both Selethen and the Bedullin for their trouble. Erak is impressed with her generosity until she reminds him that he's going to repay that money to her father, leaving him with a sinking feeling as he resigns himself to holding up his end of the bargain.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Explicitly the case for Cassandra, and most likely for Alyss and Jenny as well.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Happens to Halt. He invokes it on purpose so he can go and search for Will, who was captured by the Skandians. It's later revealed in Book 8 that he exiled himself from home after his brother tried to kill him one too many times.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1b8cef9c	type	The High Queen
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1b8cef9c	comment	Evanlyn/Cassandra matures from a sheltered princess into a capable leader who lives by her merits rather than her status and later becomes The High Queen.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Malcolm fills this trope perfectly.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Alyss knows that Evanlyn/Cassandra was attracted to Will when they were younger and feels jealous even after Will makes it clear he's chosen Alyss. These feelings of jealousy completely blind Alyss to the fact that Cassandra has moved on and continue to cause friction between the girls until things come to a head in Book 10. The trope is then subverted when Evanlyn gets fed up and makes Alyss sit down and talk about it, lampshading that she would have liked to become friends a long time ago, but never had a chance to properly get to know Alyss because the latter kept pushing her away. Once Alyss realizes how badly she was acting, she's deeply apologetic and the two are on much better terms from that point forward.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1dad7003	type	In the Hood
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1dad7003	comment	In the Hood: "And then he drew back into the bushes and pulled his hood over his eyes, blending in so as to be invisible..." every other damn chapter.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Will and Horace.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Don't mess with Will when Halt's around. Don't mess with Horace when Halt's around. Probably not a good idea to mess with Gilan when Halt's around either, but we haven't seen any evidence of it.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Bart and Carney, the two snarky bandits from Book 2, are a subtle shout-out to Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1ed272c1	comment	Automaton Horses: Averted. The special Ranger horses may be able to run for incredible amounts of time without rest (Ranger horses are specifically bred for endurance and intelligence), but it's pointed out as early as book one that even they need periods of recovery. In addition, Will's horse Tug isn't afraid to get into the fight if he sees his master in trouble, which is also shown as early as book one. A Ranger will almost always put their horse's safety far above their own. For the horses, there is no "almost".
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Cassandra, and how. Madelyn takes it a step further by becoming the first female Ranger though she isn't a royal when it happens.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_1fdc1aa	type	See the Invisible
Ranger's Apprentice / int_1fdc1aa	comment	See the Invisible: One Ranger can usually see through the other's camouflage. They make a game of it during their annual gathering, trying to catch each other sneaking up to the campgrounds.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Ranger's Apprentice / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Evanlyn's/Princess Cassandra's new belt and necklace in Book Seven. (Not quite a literal gun, but a sling at least.) Also, Horace points out Macindaw in Book 9, and Will later rides there to recruit Malcolm.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_26b0a73	type	Legendary in the Sequel
Ranger's Apprentice / int_26b0a73	comment	Legendary in the Sequel: In Book 12, Will is so well-known around Araluen, he is pretty much elevated to a Memetic Badass folk hero.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_26ff59b4	type	Knight Errant
Ranger's Apprentice / int_26ff59b4	comment	Knight Errant: Exploited while Halt and Horace are traveling through Gallica. Once Halt realizes Horace is more than a match for the average Gallican knight, he paints an oakleaf insignia on Horace's shield and lets "the Oakleaf Knight's" growing reputation precede them. Horace is not happy about this and pointedly reminds Halt that he's not really a knight, but Halt is just happy that they don't have to waste time dealing with every buffoon who tries to extract tolls from passerby. Horace later plays the trope straight when he goes undercover as a Blue Fist, a wandering knight with no employer.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_28c33276	type	Talented, but Trained
Ranger's Apprentice / int_28c33276	comment	Talented, but Trained: Sir Rodney notes in Book 1 that Horace is very much this, starting out with lots of natural skill but still no match for an experienced swordsman like himself. However, lots of training from different mentors and practicing for years makes him into a Master Swordsman of the highest caliber. Will, Halt, and Gilan all count as well, as do presumably the other Rangers.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_292d57cd	type	Crusading Widow
Ranger's Apprentice / int_292d57cd	comment	Crusading Widow: Will becomes this in Book 12 after finding out his wife died in an inn fire trying to save a child trapped inside. He becomes absolutely obsessed with finding out who set the inn on fire so he can take his revenge.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Quite a few, actually. Halt's frequently-assumed pseudonym, "Arratay", is pronounced suspiciously close to "arretez". Guess what it means. It means "stop!" Or... Halt. In the Lost Stories (a collection of short stories mostly focused on the events after Book Ten), two Genovesans named Mordini and Serafino are sent to assassinate Cassandra. Their names are Italian for "Devil" and "Seraph" (a class of angel).
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Ranger's Apprentice / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Ali, Selethan's lieutenant, is a recurring figure for most of Erak's Ransom, managing to keep his party alive in the desert despite a lack of water and working with Will and the Bedullin to save his leader. He receives fatal wounds in the final battle, dying with Will by his side. Shukin gets just enough time to be likable before his Heroic Sacrifice.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Ranger's Apprentice / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: Zigzagged. Will is a full-fledged Ranger in books five and six, then book seven goes back to show his actual promotion. Eight continues with Silverleaf!Will until book 12, where title character-privilege shifts to Will's new apprentice.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_2bbd9d44	comment	Noiseless Walker: the Rangers.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Ranger's Apprentice / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Cassandra and Alyss. Cassandra is the tomboy, particularly in her first few books when she's cut her hair short and dresses as a boy (though that was as much for practical reasons as personal preference). Graceful, feminine Alyss is the girly girl.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_2d85bd6d	type	Teach Me How To Fight
Ranger's Apprentice / int_2d85bd6d	comment	Teach Me How To Fight: Cassandra asks Will to teach her how to shoot. He tells her that he could - if they had several months.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_315dfcb0	type	Bow and Sword in Accord
Ranger's Apprentice / int_315dfcb0	comment	Bow and Sword in Accord: Gilan. He's the only Ranger trained in swordsmanship. This is Justified because most Rangers don't have time to study other weapons as well, but he had studied the sword for several years before joining the Corps.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_319cc4d7	type	Low Fantasy
Ranger's Apprentice / int_319cc4d7	comment	Low Fantasy: The earlier books have some shades of High Fantasy, featuring Black-and-White Morality, telepathy, and fantastic creatures, but by the third book, these elements have been dropped in favor of this approach, with no magic and Gray-and-Gray Morality. Book 5 clarifies that the vast majority of "supernatural" occurrences are faked or have other logical explanations. Book 8 later confirms that there is still some magic in the setting when Will encounters a barrow-wight, but he writes it off as All Just a Dream and real magic never appears again.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Ranger's Apprentice / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: All but named in The Royal Ranger, when one of Ruhl's sidekicks points out that Jory taunts Will with a flame while he's at a stake, ready to be burnt. "Even the most hardened criminal" wouldn't go that far, considering why exactly Will is being burnt.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Ranger's Apprentice / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Arald has always been one for Halt and Pauline, while both of them ship Will/Alyss. It's also implied that Duncan is this for Horace/Cassandra, and Alyss joins him in this after she gets over her jealousy. Meanwhile, Horace is also an avid shipper of Will/Alyss.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_325a15f1	type	Rags to Royalty
Ranger's Apprentice / int_325a15f1	comment	Rags to Royalty: Horace is a Cinderella version. He was a peasant boy who was orphaned as a child, but after entering Battleschool he proved to be a prodigy at swordfighting. This skill earned him a position in Cassandra's royal guard after he played an instrumental role in rescuing her from slavery in Skandia. Over the years, the two grow closer until, in Book 10, Horace proposes and Cassandra accepts. They get married in Book 11, and by Book 12 they're ruling Araluen together and have a teenage daughter. Madelyn is a King Thrushbeard version: her parents disinherit her in a last-ditch attempt to force her to grow out of being a Royal Brat. Once she's gone through some Character Development, she's reinstated as Crown Princess.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In Book 2, when Morgarath realizes he's managed to capture Princess Cassandra and Halt's own apprentice, he makes a point of taunting Halt and Duncan with this fact. In Book 3, a young knight whose family was murdered by Deparnieux shows up to challenge him. It quickly becomes clear that he's no match for his older and more skilled opponent, but Deparnieux chooses to cruelly toy with him for several minutes before finally killing him. In a literal variant, the first thing Will learns about John Buttle is that he injured his own dog and abandoned her to die on the side of the road.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Ranger's Apprentice / int_34f8042a	comment	Halt's frequently-assumed pseudonym, "Arratay", is pronounced suspiciously close to "arretez". Guess what it means. It means "stop!" Or... Halt.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Ranger's Apprentice / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Trobar, and, to a slighter degree, Horace.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_371854f1	type	Chekhov's Army
Ranger's Apprentice / int_371854f1	comment	Chekhov's Army: The Temujai, used as a throwaway name early in the first book, come back in painful force in Book Four.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_38b33e8d	type	Love Epiphany
Ranger's Apprentice / int_38b33e8d	comment	Love Epiphany: Alyss and Will. Followed by Love Confession.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
Ranger's Apprentice / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: Warmweed. It fills a person's body with a sensation of warmth, which makes it popular among the yard slaves in ever-frigid Skandia. Unfortunately, it's also addictive, and people who take it for too long lose all sense of self and become shambling wrecks who numbly follow orders and only care about when they'll get their next dose. The addiction can be broken, but addicts have to be gradually weaned off of the drug, or withdrawal could kill them. While Will is being weaned off of warmweed, he's completely reliant on Evanlyn for even simple tasks like making food, because he simply doesn't care about anything but the drug.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Ranger's Apprentice / int_3b113b7	comment	Horace, after some Character Development by way of three Jerk Jocks, is Will's best friend by the end of Book One.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Ranger's Apprentice / int_3c0a4666	comment	The incident with Buttle isn't the first time a Ranger has used an unorthodox and ethically questionable method to deal with someone who can't be properly punished by the law. When Will reports his actions to Crowley, Halt brings up a Noodle Incident of a certain Ranger who dealt with a bandit by chaining him to a mill and forcing him to spend five years grinding flour for the town he'd been terrorizing. Crowley hastily concedes that sometimes Rangers do have to deal with legally tricky situations and that so long as Will didn't get paid for what he did (which would be a crime), he can't think of any serious objections.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Ranger's Apprentice / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Every villain in the story (with the arguable exception of Keren) is this trope, while all of the good leaders are reasonable authority figures.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_3d3b3b34	type	ImprobableWeapon
Ranger's Apprentice / int_3d3b3b34	comment	Improbable Weapon: The common wooden ladle is referred to as an unofficial staff of office for both Master Chubb and his apprentice, Jenny. Partly justified in that they are good-sized ladles, and also solid, making them decent impromptu clubs. Lady Sandra also implies that she might use one on Arald if he has a foot in mouth moment.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Ranger's Apprentice / int_3ed23024	comment	The reason slavery is abolished in Skandia is that "You need the slaves to fight for you if you're going to have any chance of defending against the massive Temujai army. They're not going to fight for you unless you give them what they want: their freedom."
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Ranger's Apprentice / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Halt for Will, and Shigeru for Horace.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_3f8ea5cc	type	Shorter Means Smarter
Ranger's Apprentice / int_3f8ea5cc	comment	Shorter Means Smarter: Played straight with the Rangers, averted with Horace, Morgarath, and Duncan.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Ranger's Apprentice / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Tournament at Gorland. Morgarath's plan to make himself the royal heir is thwarted, but he escapes into the Mountains of Rain and Night, where he begins bending the warghuls to his will. Furthermore, King Oswald's health is failing; the heroes still have to get enough evidence and allies to win the trial, and Morgarath's forces surprise and kill Pritchard on their way out.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
Ranger's Apprentice / int_42008602	comment	Story Arc: The series relies on these rather than a single overarching narrative. The first arc is four books long, and after that the series shifts to two-book arcs alternating with stand-alone stories.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_42224ac2	type	The Good Kingdom
Ranger's Apprentice / int_42224ac2	comment	It may be safer to call Araluen a standard medieval fantasy kingdom.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
Ranger's Apprentice / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Averted—these arrows are plenty lethal. Individual Rangers do a great deal of damage, a small group of rangers are a deadly force unto themselves, and even relatively small groups of archers consistently have major impacts on the outcome of battles. It is somewhat played straight in the first book with the wild boar and Kalkara, but even these are reasonably justified. Wild boars are incredibly difficult to bring down, and the reason boar spears feature a crossbar beneath the head is to prevent boars from just running straight down the spear and goring the wielder. The Kalkara are somewhere between apes and bears, and are established to be remarkably difficult to injure at all throughout the book.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_45554ca2	type	"I Can't Look!" Gesture
Ranger's Apprentice / int_45554ca2	comment	"I Can't Look!" Gesture: Played for Laughs in The Battle of Hackham Heath; Crowley leads the archers in dealing with bandits trying to waylay the queen's party, takes their horses and weapons, and forces them to strip before telling the other archers to tie them up. Afterwards, Crowley tells one of the other party members to tell the queen to put her window blind down, because they're an ugly sight.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Ranger's Apprentice / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: A few of these, most notably Erak the Proud Warrior Race Guy who later becomes a close ally of the protagonists, and Selethen, who ends up the Graceful Loser, and also a close ally.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Ranger's Apprentice / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: In Book 4, Duncan's mother is mentioned by Cassandra as having "a face like a robber's dog, and a temperament to match." The second prequel, however, has a short POV sequence from the Queen Mother's point of view, which seems to portray her as a kind and gentle woman. Of course, it's possible that this is justified-either she became nastier later in life, or Cassandra just disliked her for some reason, or perhaps she really is that nasty and just doesn't realize it herself-POV sequences aren't always honest, after all.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Ranger's Apprentice / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: The Picta and the Temujai, among others. Justified by the protagnoists dealing almost entirely with soldiers in invading armies. This is later subverted for the Picta when the current Big Bad slaughters a family of Pictish farmers who were minding their own business, which is treated as a major Kick the Dog moment. The Tualaghi in Book Seven. They're nomads, like the allied Bedullin, but instead of traveling from oasis to oasis like the Bedullin, the Tualaghi travel from town to town, use up most of their supplies and then just leave, leaving the townspeople with barely enough to scrape by.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_498a6a21	type	Badass Teacher
Ranger's Apprentice / int_498a6a21	comment	Badass Teacher: Almost every mentor in the book, including Mr. Chubb, the cook. Horace only half-jokingly suggests that he should give ladle-whacking lessons to Battleschool students.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Ranger's Apprentice / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Will. Most of the Rangers, actually, considering the great majority of them carry little more than a bow and quiver, saxe knife, and throwing knife. This is contrasted with the chivalry of the knights. Horace grows into this a little as he matures, though he still prefers to win fights honourably if he can.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_4a852053	type	The Hero's Journey
Ranger's Apprentice / int_4a852053	comment	The Hero's Journey: The books trace how Will and Horace go from being a social outcast and Jerk Jock, respectively, to being a well-respected Ranger and Prince Consort of the Kingdom. Alyss and Evanlyn also go through this to a lesser degree. Book 12 is all about Maddie doing this.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Ranger's Apprentice / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Alyss in Book 12. Liam too.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Ranger's Apprentice / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Jenny takes down three robbers with a roasting pan, a rolling pin, several knives, and a leg of lamb.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_4f23179	type	Hit-and-Run Tactics
Ranger's Apprentice / int_4f23179	comment	Hit-and-Run Tactics: The favored approach of the Temujai — understandably, since they're basically Mongols. Under Halt's direction, the Skandians turn the tables on them, though, using their superior knowledge of the terrain to launch night raids on the Temujai supply trains and disappear into the darkness before the Temujai can effectively retaliate.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Ranger's Apprentice / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first couple books were more of a typical fantasy series with supernatural elements, while the later ones quickly developed into an adventure series that basically takes place in a differently-named version of our world.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Ranger's Apprentice / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Horace can come across as this. However, it's averted in later books, where it's shown he's well-studied in military tactics, warfare, and courtly protocols; it's just that his knowledge base tends to be inapplicable in most situations the main characters are shown dealing with, which usually require the Guile Hero approach.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Ranger's Apprentice / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Malcolm and Alyss are both this trope, as neither is much of a fighter (even in Book 10, Alyss is described and shown as being a mediocre swords-woman at best).
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Ranger's Apprentice / int_537dd8fe	comment	On the villainous side, Sir Keren from books 5 and 6 is an Affably Evil Anti-Villain who has sympathetic motivations (he's illegitimate and therefore automatically excluded from inheiriting anything, and his legitimate half-brother is an unlikeable snob before his Character Development), and Tennyson's Outsider cult has brought a sense of peace and order to Clonmel and its neighboring kingdoms that the weak, incompetent rulers of those kingdoms can't be bothered to enforce themselves.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_54433ca1	type	The Idealist
Ranger's Apprentice / int_54433ca1	comment	The Idealist: Horace, for quite a long time, and sometimes to a degree of an Idiot Hero.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_55ab1be5	type	Royal Brat
Ranger's Apprentice / int_55ab1be5	comment	Royal Brat: Madelyn is sent to be a Ranger partially because she needs life experience and partially because she's a minor example of this trope, as noted by several characters. She grows out of it about halfway through the book.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_5664dbe4	type	Hesitation Equals Dishonesty
Ranger's Apprentice / int_5664dbe4	comment	Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: Will learns that this is a common view when he prepares to travel undercover as a bard.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Ranger's Apprentice / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Araluen = England, Gallica = France, Celtica = Wales, Hibernia = Ireland, Picta = Scotland, Teutlandt = Germany, Arrida = North Africa (likely Tripoli), Skandia = Scandinavia, Nihon-Ja = Japan, Iberion = Spain, Toscana = Rome/Italy, the unnamed Temujai country, referred to as the Eastern Steppes = Mongolia (Genghis Khan's name was Temujin), Indus (briefly mentioned in Book Ten) probably = India, etc. A map appears in later books that is reminiscent of a early map of the Old World. These all really could really be seen just as Fantasy Counterpart Cultures. The names are not complete fiction, however; e.g., Gallica = Gallic = an old name for the rough area of France, "Toscana" is Italian for "Tuscany", Nihon-Ja = Nihon-Jan = Nihonjin = Japanese people, Iberion = Iberian = rough area of Spain, etc. It may be safer to call Araluen a standard medieval fantasy kingdom. Celtica could also be Cornwall, since that is where it's located on the map, and Cornwall was inhabited by the Celts far longer than the rest of England because the Romans never conquered it.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Ranger's Apprentice / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Expect this to occur whenever multiple Rangers get together. Or with their horses. Or Halt and Horace. Or Will and Horace. Or Halt and Arald. Or...you get the point.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_598c85e0	type	Enemy Scan
Ranger's Apprentice / int_598c85e0	comment	Enemy Scan: Horace and Selethen have one of these moments, which also doubles as an Establishing Character Moment for the latter.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Ranger's Apprentice / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: Tennyson seizes control of Hibernia this way. While the kings are all still nominally on their thrones, Tennyson is the one calling the shots. He has a similar deal with King Ferris, but Horace brings in Halt to impersonate him and discredit Tennyson, breaking their deal and forcing Ferris to commit to helping the protagonists if he wants to save his own skin.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_5aa60027	type	Tell Me About My Father
Ranger's Apprentice / int_5aa60027	comment	Tell Me About My Father: Will spends much of the first book dreaming of becoming a knight to follow in his father's footsteps. At the end, Halt reveals that Will's father died saving his life on the battlefield and tells Will what little he knows about him, giving closure to Will's previous aspirations. One of the short stories in Book 11 has Halt admit that he held back parts of the story and tell Will the entire tale, including that Will's mother died in a similarly heroic manner rather than in childbirth as Will previously thought.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Ranger's Apprentice / int_5bdcc85a	comment	In Book Six, Sir Keren gets acid thrown in his face and then falls through a tower window to the flagstones below.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
Ranger's Apprentice / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserkers: Skandians, since they're Vikings by another name.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_5d3c6435	comment	The Drunken Sailor: The majority of Skandians fit this trope.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Ranger's Apprentice / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Evanlyn for books two till four.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Ranger's Apprentice / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Two or three, depending on how one counts: Book five skips straight to Will being a full Ranger with his own fief after still being an apprentice in book four. Book seven goes back and fills in some of the gap. A pretty long one between the events of Book 10 and Book 12 (Book 11, being a collection of short stories, doesn't really count). For example, Cassandra and Horace now have a 15-year-old daughter named Madelyn. Other notable events include Crowley dying in his sleep of old age, Gilan becoming the new Ranger Corps Commandant, Halt retiring from the Ranger Corps, and, the most shocking thing, Alyss dying in an inn fire, trying to save a child trapped inside.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_5fcedca	comment	Also, Horace's status as a Big Eater, to the point where it becomes an Affectionate Nickname amongst the Nihon-Jan.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Ranger's Apprentice / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Erak, and, with him, most of the Skandians. Horace, after some Character Development by way of three Jerk Jocks, is Will's best friend by the end of Book One.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Ranger's Apprentice / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: This is basically how the Temujai fight in a nutshell. However, they have limits. When the main leader starts to grow incensed at how many of their men are getting killed, one of his sub-commanders tries to brush it off by stating they expected casualties fighting the Skandians. The leader rounds on him and roars they were expecting a "skirmish" against a bunch of Leeroy Jenkins, not a drag-out fight with archers and well-thought-out defenses.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Ranger's Apprentice / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: In Book 11, an injury forces Tug to retire as Will's horse, and Will is told that he would have had to retire soon anyway because he's getting old. Luckily, the Ranger's breeding program accounts for the strong attachment Rangers have to their horses. Will's new horse was carefully bred to be as similar to Tug as possible, so Will is able to pick up with the new Tug right where he and the old Tug left off. It's also shown that Rangers who've retired horses still cherish their old mounts and visit them when they can.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Ranger's Apprentice / int_6439de78	comment	Shukin gets just enough time to be likable before his Heroic Sacrifice.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Ranger's Apprentice / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: A hopelessly-complicated mutual example with Will and Alyss at the end of Book Six.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_66583b22	type	Weapons Breaking Weapons
Ranger's Apprentice / int_66583b22	comment	Weapons Breaking Weapons: The nation of Nihon-ja possesses a technique for folding iron rods together to form a very hard steel composite, which they use to make their distinctive curved swords. Horace discovers how effective it is when one shatters his straight Araluen sword, and he's forced to adapt to using a curved sword, despite the unfamiliarity, because any lesser steel can't compete. Eventually, for his service, he's gifted a custom-made straight sword forged with Nihon-jan steel and surprises an opponent who sees the shape and assumes he can easily break it.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Ranger's Apprentice / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: In Book Four, Will is still suffering the aftereffects of drug addiction and has lost his Ranger conditioning.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Ranger's Apprentice / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: A fairly mild example, but Horace and Will have this in regards to each other, and Gilan has this in regards to Will.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Ranger's Apprentice / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Alyss uses this to resist Keren's hypnotism in Book 7, imagining Will's face to keep her attention from being drawn to the mesmerising patterns of the jewel he's holding in front of her. At the climax, she falls completely under, but snaps out of it when Will confesses that he loves her.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Ranger's Apprentice / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Subverted. Halt survives the whole series (though "Halt's Peril" is well-named).
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Ranger's Apprentice / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: In-universe, the surname Will is given at his Ranger ceremony is Treaty, in honor of the peace treaty he negotiated with the Skandians, which would be a very important milestone in Araluan history.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_6d036d9c	type	CoveredInScars
Ranger's Apprentice / int_6d036d9c	comment	Covered in Scars: Deconstructed, as many expert warriors note that someone who has a face full of scars is more likely someone who doesn't know when to duck than a truly badass fighter.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_6dbf171	type	Fake King
Ranger's Apprentice / int_6dbf171	comment	Fake King: Inverted when Halt dresses up as King Ferris of Clonmel. Ferris is the acting king, but the twin brother who's impersonating him was born first and never formally abdicated when he fled the kingdom to avoid Ferris's assasination attempts, making him the rightful king and Ferris a usurper. In short, the rightful king ends up impersonating the Evil Twin who stole his throne.a more detailed explanation Halt and Ferris are twins, but Halt was born first, making him the Crown Prince. Ferris resented this and arrangd "accidents" for Halt several times in their youth so he could inherit the throne. Halt didn't care for the throne much to begin with, so when he realized Ferris would never stop, he told Ferris he could have it and left. Ferris told everyone Halt had died and took the throne while Halt eventually settled in Araluen.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_6feaf27b	type	Scarily Competent Tracker
Ranger's Apprentice / int_6feaf27b	comment	Scarily Competent Tracker: This is the entire point of the Rangers, though the author does try to make them as realistic as possible, such as when it's shown that even the best can't track at night, after rainfall, etc.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Ranger's Apprentice / int_7012424f	comment	The beginning of Book 12 has an older, bearded Ranger who pulls a Stealth Hi/Bye and grimly interrogates a prisoner before putting him down hard in a fight. Sounds like Halt? Sure, but it's actually Will, who at this point is a Broken Ace.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Ranger's Apprentice / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Cassandra grabs this hard in the third Royal Ranger book, when she insists on a duel to the death with the already-captured villain of the arc. It's hinted that she's blinded by vengeance.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Ranger's Apprentice / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Later books in the series start to feature this, in contrast with the Black-and-White Morality of the early books. Some of the villains are portrayed more sympathetically and the heroic characters are shown to not be above some morally dubious actions of their own, though the point is made that they only resort to this in situations where there are no good alternatives. Halt has a habit of forgery, which the more morally upstanding Horace calls him out on. Halt counters on one occasion by pointing out that King Duncan would give him the documents he's forging legitimately if Halt asked, but it would take far too long, so he's just saving everyone time and trouble. Duncan is also shown to be well aware of Halt's habit of putting his signature on things, but looks the other way because he trusts Halt to only use it for good reasons. On one occasion, Will gives a man to a crew of Skandians who will sell him into slavery. However, the man was an Asshole Victim who was suspected of a string of murders and guilty of a literal Kick the Dog, but hadn't left enough evidence to be held legally responsible for any of it. In addition, he was caught eavesdropping on a sensitive conversation and made no secret of the fact that he planned to sell the top-secret information he overheard to the highest bidder, meaning he had to be silenced somehow. Before Will has the slavery idea, Alyss outright says they might have to kill him to keep him quiet. Will (himself a former slave) also makes it clear that he wouldn't have done it if he didn't absolutely believe Buttle deserved what he was getting. The incident with Buttle isn't the first time a Ranger has used an unorthodox and ethically questionable method to deal with someone who can't be properly punished by the law. When Will reports his actions to Crowley, Halt brings up a Noodle Incident of a certain Ranger who dealt with a bandit by chaining him to a mill and forcing him to spend five years grinding flour for the town he'd been terrorizing. Crowley hastily concedes that sometimes Rangers do have to deal with legally tricky situations and that so long as Will didn't get paid for what he did (which would be a crime), he can't think of any serious objections. Even Horace, who usually acts as the moral compass of the group, gains some shades of this as the series goes on; on one occasion, he deliberately stabs a man with a poisoned arrow, then makes him exercise vigorously to spread the poison and speed up its effects. The man is a cold-blooded assassin who knows the antidote, which is urgently needed to cure one of his victims (Halt), but he refuses to reveal what it is. Horace also has no intention of actually letting the man die; Malcom is on hand to prepare said antidote and administer it to both parties as soon as the assassin cooperates. On another occasion, Horace realizes King Ferris isn't going to cooperate in ousting the Outsiders from Clonmel, so he punches him out and has Halt dress up as him. Even Halt is shocked by that one. On the villainous side, Sir Keren from books 5 and 6 is an Affably Evil Anti-Villain who has sympathetic motivations (he's illegitimate and therefore automatically excluded from inheiriting anything, and his legitimate half-brother is an unlikeable snob before his Character Development), and Tennyson's Outsider cult has brought a sense of peace and order to Clonmel and its neighboring kingdoms that the weak, incompetent rulers of those kingdoms can't be bothered to enforce themselves.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_75898be8	type	Tomboy Princess
Ranger's Apprentice / int_75898be8	comment	Tomboy Princess: Cassandra's hobbies including sneaking around at night and scaring the sentries half to death with her sling.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_7621a56b	type	Poison Is Evil
Ranger's Apprentice / int_7621a56b	comment	Poison Is Evil: The only instances of poison being used is by the antagonistic and ruthless Genovesan assassins.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Ranger's Apprentice / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Lady Sandra, Arald's wife, never appeared or was even mentioned before Book 7. A downplayed example since there's not much reason for her to have appeared previously-and it's possible that she and Arald may have married in between Books 4 and 7.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_7821f0a8	type	Team Chef
Ranger's Apprentice / int_7821f0a8	comment	Team Chef: While all Rangers learn how to cook satisfying meals while in the field, Will in particular has a certain knack for it.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_79fa704c	type	Training the Peaceful Villagers
Ranger's Apprentice / int_79fa704c	comment	Training the Peaceful Villagers: The Kikori in Book 10. They don't have any combat experience, but they are great at coordinating with each other, so Will is able to teach them some simple but effective mass-combat tactics that their opponents just don't know how to effectively counter.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Ranger's Apprentice / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: This holds true in early books, where the protagonists are unambiguously good and their enemies Obviously Evil. Later books shift more toward Gray-and-Gray Morality, showing that the heroes aren't always on the straight and narrow while the villains become more sympathetic or get the occasional Villain Has a Point moment.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
Ranger's Apprentice / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: In Book 1, the Mongols Temujai are briefly mentioned and described as being able to conquer Araluen without any hope of being stopped if they cared to. When they actually appear at the beginning of Book 4, they easily wipe out several Skandian forts and are portrayed as nigh-unbeatable thanks to their sheer numbers. However, from there they go downhill quickly, thanks to Halt knowing their tactics and how to counter them. By the end of the book, their army takes massive losses thanks to a combination of the Skandians using actual battle tactics rather than just relying on Attack! Attack! Attack! and a hastily-trained group of archers thinning their numbers from a distance, which they have no idea how to deal with. Downplayed, however, as even then Halt points out that they had the numbers to win if they really wanted to; they only retreated because if they kept fighting, they'd lose too many men to safely make the trip home.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_7ea8f5ce	type	Knight in Shining Armor
Ranger's Apprentice / int_7ea8f5ce	comment	Knight in Shining Armor: Horace, literally after Book Four.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Ranger's Apprentice / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Cassandra's reaction to learning that Halt was banished for drunkenly insinuating that her father was illegitimate (among other things) is to double over laughing and declare that, given how horrible her grandmother was, she wouldn't be surprised if that really was the case.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Ranger's Apprentice / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Cassandra and Alyss, with energetic Cassandra as the red and graceful Ayss as the Blue. Also Halt and Will, with taciturn Halt acting as the Blue Oni to his eager apprentice's Red.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_84f15fc4	type	Sapient Steed
Ranger's Apprentice / int_84f15fc4	comment	Sapient Steed: Ranger horses can't speak (because they're horses), but it has been shown several times that they all have human-level intelligence. Will's horse, Tug, in particular, has mastered the art of "saying something with a look". One of the short stories reveals that it's all in their heads, somehow. Zig-zagged in the twelfth book. The newest Ranger Apprentice, Maddie, immediately bonds with her Ranger horse, Bumper. Bumper "comments" on Maddie's shock that such a barrel-shaped little pony could go so fast. She asks Will about whether the Ranger horses can "talk" or not, and Will dismisses the notion as ridiculous...while silently marveling at the fact that Maddie can already understand her horse.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_8591611a	type	Shameful Strip
Ranger's Apprentice / int_8591611a	comment	Shameful Strip: After defeating a group of bandits trying to rob the royal carriage, Crowley forces them to strip themselves absolutely naked and leaves them in the forest, tied up.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Ranger's Apprentice / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: Pretty much everyone gets at least one or two snarky moments throughout the series.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Ranger's Apprentice / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Horace starts out as this in Book 1, but undergoes Character Development and becomes a Lovable Jock by the end of the book.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Ranger's Apprentice / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In Book 3, it looked as if Horace would have a final duel with Deparnieux, echoing Book 2. Instead, Halt duels him (and beats him pretty easily). At the end of Book 4, King Duncan revals that he's heard about Horace's adventures as "the Oakleaf Knight" in Gallica. Horace hasn't been properly knighted yet and shouldn't have been using a knightly title (as he lampshaded in the previous book). It looks like Horace will have to be punished, but Duncan instead knights him and inducts him into the newly-created Order of the Oakleaf, making his Oakleaf Knight moniker legitimate. The beginning of Book 12 has an older, bearded Ranger who pulls a Stealth Hi/Bye and grimly interrogates a prisoner before putting him down hard in a fight. Sounds like Halt? Sure, but it's actually Will, who at this point is a Broken Ace.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_884df77f	type	Instant Waking Skills
Ranger's Apprentice / int_884df77f	comment	Instant Waking Skills: The Rangers do this, but it is highly stressed that they aren't at full "alertness" yet.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Ranger's Apprentice / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Keren to Alyss. She makes very clear while rejecting his proposal that she could never love someone who betrayed his country — and that's not even bringing up the fact that he's been using Hypnotize the Captive on her.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Ranger's Apprentice / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: Erak and his crew, as is the vogue for most Skandians.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	On one occasion, Will gives a man to a crew of Skandians who will sell him into slavery. However, the man was an Asshole Victim who was suspected of a string of murders and guilty of a literal Kick the Dog, but hadn't left enough evidence to be held legally responsible for any of it. In addition, he was caught eavesdropping on a sensitive conversation and made no secret of the fact that he planned to sell the top-secret information he overheard to the highest bidder, meaning he had to be silenced somehow. Before Will has the slavery idea, Alyss outright says they might have to kill him to keep him quiet. Will (himself a former slave) also makes it clear that he wouldn't have done it if he didn't absolutely believe Buttle deserved what he was getting. The incident with Buttle isn't the first time a Ranger has used an unorthodox and ethically questionable method to deal with someone who can't be properly punished by the law. When Will reports his actions to Crowley, Halt brings up a Noodle Incident of a certain Ranger who dealt with a bandit by chaining him to a mill and forcing him to spend five years grinding flour for the town he'd been terrorizing. Crowley hastily concedes that sometimes Rangers do have to deal with legally tricky situations and that so long as Will didn't get paid for what he did (which would be a crime), he can't think of any serious objections.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_8f00b02a	comment	Always Identical Twins: Halt and Ferris. Of course, the latter is the Evil Twin. Also, while they were presumably identical as boys, it is noted that their differing life experiences have made them appear quite different at first glance.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Ferris. He spent years trying to assassinate his twin brother so he could be king of Clonmel. He's eventually assassinated himself by one of Tennyson's hired Genovesans.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_94945ef	type	Punctuality Is for Peasants
Ranger's Apprentice / int_94945ef	comment	Punctuality Is for Peasants: In The Sorcerer of the North, Will's friend/Love Interest Alyss, posing as an airheaded aristocrat named Lady Gwendolyn, calls him to her rooms in his entertainer guise, and promptly keeps him waiting for a long time. Will notes that this carelessness about commoners' time suits her aristocratic cover identity, but he still feels that she overdoes it a bit. However, once he's safely inside, she apologizes for having to hold him in the waiting room for so long.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_96f6335d	type	Bodyguard Crush
Ranger's Apprentice / int_96f6335d	comment	Bodyguard Crush: Cassandra and Horace. Though the crush started to develop even before Horace became Cassandra's bodyguard (he had already saved her a couple of times at this point).
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Ranger's Apprentice / int_970c790a	comment	This is later subverted for the Picta when the current Big Bad slaughters a family of Pictish farmers who were minding their own business, which is treated as a major Kick the Dog moment.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Ranger's Apprentice / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Horace, particularly after book 6. Add that he's one of Araluen's finest warriors and renowned heroes...oh, boy. Also lampshaded by Halt.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Ranger's Apprentice / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: In Book Six, Sir Keren gets acid thrown in his face and then falls through a tower window to the flagstones below. The fake prophet from Books Eight and Nine, Tennyson, gets hit with a box full of grenades, falls off a cliff, and gets crushed/impaled by falling rocks. The Kalkara in Book One. The first gets stabbed by two lances, then is thrown onto a bonfire and is instantly incinerated. The second gets shot with a flaming arrow, and burns alive. Similarly from Book Twelve, Jory Ruhl gets burned to death by the bonfire he set up to kill Will in the same way.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_9ba281f0	type	Knighting
Ranger's Apprentice / int_9ba281f0	comment	Knighting: Horace at the end of Book Four.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Ranger's Apprentice / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The Kalkara in the first book have thick waxy fur that resists blades and arrows, but the wax makes it extremely flammable.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Ranger's Apprentice / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When he first meets Evanlyn in Book 2, Gilan notices some slips in her story and surmises that she's a noblewoman who's assumed the identity of one of her servants to avoid unwanted attention. Later, he's proven right when he realizes she's actually Princess Cassandra and was using the name of her maid, who was killed by Wargals. In Book 3, Halt backs up his challenge of Deparnieux by claiming to be Hibernian nobility and in line for the throne, to boot. When Horace questions him, he simply says that Deparnieux can't prove he's lying. Book 8 confirms that he was telling the truth about being Hibernian nobility, but was downplaying his status — he's actually the rightful heir to the throne. In Book 5, Will's first attempt to explore the forest where Malcom lives ends when he's scared off by strange noises and apparitions. A later investigation confirms that they're all the product of primitive stage tricks. Those same tricks are later used to disguise Will's messages to Alyss and on a larger scale to distract and frighten Macindaw's garrison during the titular siege in Book 6.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_9e016800	type	Student and Master Team
Ranger's Apprentice / int_9e016800	comment	Studentâ€“Master Team: Will and Halt, but also Alyss and Lady Pauline. Naturally, Will takes over for master when he gets an apprentice. Though Gilan isn't Horace or Will's official master, he gets into this with both of them, particularly Horace, during Book 2.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Ranger's Apprentice / int_9e0c3153	comment	Every single time an apprentice is given a horse, they immediately try and mount it without waiting for the passphrase, then get bucked off. Every. Single. Time.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Ranger's Apprentice / int_9e943076	comment	In Book 6, while discussing how to retake Macindaw, Horace spells out that the protagonists simply aren't equipped for a siege, nor do they have the superior forces they'd need to overpower the castle's defenders. A One-Man Army is useless if he'll be shot down by crossbows before he even reaches the castle wall, so a traditional attack is out of the question.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Ranger's Apprentice / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When she's first threatened, then outright attacked by a thug in Book 12, Madelyn falls back on her training and puts her throwing knife through the man's heart. Then she realizes that she's just killed someone and is overwhelmed with guilt, eventually breaking down crying in Will's arms.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_a32a1881	type	Supporting Leader
Ranger's Apprentice / int_a32a1881	comment	Supporting Leader: Halt. Suspiciously similar to Aragorn, including being the rightful king of Clonmel. Although, unlike Aragorn, he doesn't take the throne, even when it seems logical to do so.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_a47340fe	type	One Riot, One Ranger
Ranger's Apprentice / int_a47340fe	comment	One Riot, One Ranger: The series actually uses this phrase to describe the kingdom's group of elite archers, spies, and tacticians. It's not exactly wrong, considering this happens several times during the series.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_a6c677c4	type	Not Hyperbole
Ranger's Apprentice / int_a6c677c4	comment	Not Hyperbole: Throughout the first several books, many characters comment that Halt's hair looks as if he cuts it with his saxe knife. Then in Book Eight he needs to cut his hair as part of a disguise... and pulls out his saxe.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_a75c8dc9	type	Left-Justified Fantasy Map
Ranger's Apprentice / int_a75c8dc9	comment	Left-Justified Fantasy Map: Very much resembling medieval Europe, including Hordes from the East.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_a78753d5	type	Lady and Knight
Ranger's Apprentice / int_a78753d5	comment	Lady and Knight: Horace and Cassandra.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Ranger's Apprentice / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Horace and Will; Horace started out as a bully and Jerk Jock before taking a few levels in humility and kindness.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
Ranger's Apprentice / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: The Temujai are conquering warriors who don't take prisoners or keep slaves. Either you submit to their rule and become part of their empire, or they wipe you out and claim the lands that formerly belonged to you.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Ranger's Apprentice / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: While Book 12 suffered critiques for the rather poor handling of Will's mental health following Alyss' death, this was a time period well before depression or any such mental illnesses were recognized as such. People died all the time, and the survivors were expected to just accept it and move on.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Ranger's Apprentice / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Sir Keren is genuinely regretting his actions even before things start going badly for him. You almost feel he can be redeemed with time, right up until his Family-Unfriendly Disney Villain Death.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Ranger's Apprentice / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: In The Burning Bridge, Will and Horace are taught the double knife defense. Near the end, Horace uses the skill to win a duel against Morgarath.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_ad3c0e49	type	Master-Apprentice Chain
Ranger's Apprentice / int_ad3c0e49	comment	Master-Apprentice Chain: Among the Rangers.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Ranger's Apprentice / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The series thrives on this trope, practically all important characters are this.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Ranger's Apprentice / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: For Will. It does not stop the series from being for children, though, as there is no Audience Shift.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_b356f7c1	type	Horns of Barbarism
Ranger's Apprentice / int_b356f7c1	comment	Horns of Barbarism: The Skandians habitually wear horned helmets, which results in a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome moment when one of the main characters uses the horns on a Skandian's helmet to grab the helm and smash it back down on his opponent's head.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_b51ffd20	type	To Be a Master
Ranger's Apprentice / int_b51ffd20	comment	To Be a Master: Every one of the young characters in their own profession: Will as a Ranger, Horace as a knight, Alyss as a diplomat—and Cassandra as a ruler. Jenny and George are also implied to follow this path.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Ranger's Apprentice / int_b58b4e3c	comment	For Halt - Old Joe Smoke. Don't play it. Also, don't hurt Will, or Horace, or Abelard (or, presumably, Gilan). And don't be an idiot. And do NOT insult Lady Pauline. You will be thrown in the moat. Finally, (though this is mostly Played for Laughs) anyone mentioning his seasickness would do well to safeguard their helmet. Halt's vomit can really stain. In fact, just don't mention it at all. Especially since you never know if he might be right behind you...
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Ranger's Apprentice / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Will is said to be one of the most skilled Rangers alive, and Horace is a Master Swordsman on par with the very best.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_b7fea698	type	Emotion Bomb
Ranger's Apprentice / int_b7fea698	comment	Emotion Bomb: Morgarath and his creatures.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Ranger's Apprentice / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Alyss, for Will. She was his childhood friend, and while he had temporary Ship Tease with Cassandra, Alyss is the only woman he ever shows real romantic interest in.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Ranger's Apprentice / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Plenty. For Will - don't hurt Tug. Don't try to kill Halt. For Horace - Has surprisingly few, but don't disrespect or hurt his friends. For Halt - Old Joe Smoke. Don't play it. Also, don't hurt Will, or Horace, or Abelard (or, presumably, Gilan). And don't be an idiot. And do NOT insult Lady Pauline. You will be thrown in the moat. Finally, (though this is mostly Played for Laughs) anyone mentioning his seasickness would do well to safeguard their helmet. Halt's vomit can really stain. In fact, just don't mention it at all. Especially since you never know if he might be right behind you...
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Ranger's Apprentice / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: All the Rangers, more or less, but especially Will. Possibly justified due to Ranger archery training, which could be considered a form of Charles Atlas Superpower. One of the many mantras of the Ranger Corps is "An archer practices until he gets it right. A Ranger practices until he never gets it wrong."
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
Ranger's Apprentice / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: Will, Gilan, and, to a lesser extent, Horace are all huge fans of coffee. Halt also loves coffee (with honey, no less), but doesn't show it much, being The Stoic. Depending on the book, that is. Sometimes Halt uses honey; other times he claims it's a "perfect way to ruin good coffee". In book 12, Will and Gilan barely even consider the chances of Madelyn becoming a ranger until she takes a liking to coffee.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_bdea4ea	type	Prank Punishment
Ranger's Apprentice / int_bdea4ea	comment	Prank Punishment: One of Halt's favorite teaching methods is to let the over-eager Will try a task on his own before telling him the correct way to do it. Most notably, he allows Will to mount a "ranger's horse" before telling him how. As it turns out, this is standard for all Rangers.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Ranger's Apprentice / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: The Rangers, of course. The foreword of Book Eleven, The Lost Stories, does this literally, telling about a group of late-19th-century historians searching for clues about the existence of the fabled Ranger Corps.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_be8f3491	type	The Theme Park Version
Ranger's Apprentice / int_be8f3491	comment	The Theme Park Version: A distinct feature of the series is the idealism, although this is somewhat tempered by realism. More like very idealistic on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism. The reason slavery is abolished in Skandia is that "You need the slaves to fight for you if you're going to have any chance of defending against the massive Temujai army. They're not going to fight for you unless you give them what they want: their freedom." Book 5 reveals that slavery hasn't been totally abolished, though there have been reforms regarding how slaves are treated. It's also pointed out that Duncan is the first king to appoint women to important positions, and the Bedullin suffer from racism towards the Arridi, as does Hal in the spin-off series. Racism and sexism are definitely strong forces at work, just less so in Araulen.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Ranger's Apprentice / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Halt and Lady Pauline. And by the eleventh book, Horace and Evanlyn/Princess Cassandra, Will and Alyss.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_c011cd29	type	Path of Inspiration
Ranger's Apprentice / int_c011cd29	comment	Path of Inspiration: The Outsiders in Book Eight.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_c06ec675	type	Gang of Bullies
Ranger's Apprentice / int_c06ec675	comment	Gang of Bullies: The group standing behind the transformation of Horace's character.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Ranger's Apprentice / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Madelyn is disinherited in Royal Ranger. Unusually for this trope, it's always intended to be temporary.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_c1f3eb00	type	Hypnotize the Captive
Ranger's Apprentice / int_c1f3eb00	comment	Hypnotize the Captive: Keren subjects Alyss to this in Book 6, using a combination of a drug (to make her more susceptible the first time he does it) and a jewel with mesmerizing properties to put her into a suggestible state while interrogating her. Finding a way to help her resist this before she's forced to give away all of the group's secrets is one of Will's major goals in the early part of the book. It's firmly played for drama, as Alyss is deeply humiliated by how easily she can be put into a trance just by looking at the stone and terrified that she might be forced to give up vital information that could get Will killed. Then, during the climax, her resistance fails, and Keren orders the hypnotized Alyss to kill Will, knowing he loves her too much to fight back and risk harming her. Luckily for both of them, The Power of Love snaps her out of it.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Ranger's Apprentice / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Well, more like "Thwack, Headshot"; since this is set long before the invention of modern firearms. And, surprisingly enough, it's not a Ranger that makes the epic headshot in Book Seven that took down the Tualaghi warlord. It was Evanlyn/Princess Cassandra with her sling.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: From Book Twelve, Jory Ruhl ends up burning himself alive in the same bonfire he intended to kill Will in.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_d4871dd	comment	Love Letter: At the end of book six, between Alyss and Will.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_d54fa1a6	comment	Magic Antidote: Averted. When Halt is saved from poisioning in Book 9, he doesn't regain consciousness for hours, and then just sitting up and speaking exhausts him enough that he passes out immediately. He has to spend a few more days on bed rest before he's well enough to travel, much to his aggravation, and when he tries to return to his normal routine too soon, he has a relapse and has to go back to bed rest.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Will and Horace still argue a bit after becoming friends. Particularly Horace, who loves the fact that he can suddenly make winning points in the argument. Of course, they are a much more mild example than most.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_dae62ef5	comment	The downside of falling in love with an Action Hero/Action Girl is that you'll have to constantly worry about them being in danger. It's worth it, though.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_db912a80	comment	The Good King: Duncan. Erak after Book 4. Shigeru has this in spades, to the point where he becomes a Parental Substitute to Horace and direct comparisons are drawn between him and Duncan.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The entire plot of The Burning Bridge.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Hoo, boy. In the prequel series, Halt and Crowley just happen to waylay one of Morgarath's messengers, who is conveniently carrying a letter from Morgarath to one of his supporters, laying out all of his plans in detail. In the best traditions of this trope, it's not even coded at all.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Some between Horace and Jenny in Book 1, though they end up with different people and remain Just Friends.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: In Book 6, Will and Horace take Castle Macindaw with twenty-seven Skandians. In Book 10, Halt mentions that they took it with "thirty men." Twenty-seven Skandians, plus Will and Horace-he could be rounding up, right? But then Horace corrects him to thirty-three. Are they counting Malcolm, Trobar, and Xander?
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_df77bb33	comment	Ambadassador: Cassandra, an Action Girl who's also a very perceptive and skilled diplomat. Just ask Selethen.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Ranger's Apprentice / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: Subverted in Book Eight. By the end of the book, it's come out that Ferris was a usurper and his twin brother (Halt) is alive and well. As far as everyone is concerned, the obvious course of action is for Halt to finally take his rightful place on the throne. Halt is having none of it and hands the throne off to his nephew Sean, then returns to what he was doing with his life before he got dragged back into Ferris's business.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: In The Battle of Hackham Heath, Queen Rosalyn is left fatally injured by her difficult labor with Cassandra. Suspecting from Crowley's unanticipated reappearance that trouble is coming, she pries the facts out of him. When she hears that Morgarath's forces are coming, she immediately tells Crowley that he needs to forget her and protect her daughter, forcing the reluctant ranger to swear to her that he will.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Ranger's Apprentice / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Will and Horace develop into this. Halt and Crowley were also this trope during the prequel series, though nowadays Crowley is mostly stuck behind a desk.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Horace receives minor injuries multiple times, and is mostly able to shrug them off and continue fighting. Examples are during the storm of Macindaw, the final fight in Erak's Ransom, and others. Subverted cruelly in Halt's Peril where Halt's minor wound turns nearly deadly due to poison. Also subverted in Royal Ranger: Madelyn is completely incapacitated by a javelin in her thigh, even though it misses anything important. Indeed, the wound is stated to still occasionally trouble her even years later.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_e6ab61d	type	Magic Realism
Ranger's Apprentice / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: The only supernatural elements in the series are Lord Morgarath's armies and the barrow-wight that Will catches a glimpse of while waking up in Halt's Peril (and the latter he dismisses as his nightmares).
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_e83fc5	type	No "Arc" in "Archery"
Ranger's Apprentice / int_e83fc5	comment	No "Arc" in "Archery": Subverted. The books describe how the Rangers and other archers have to angle their shots upward to account for gravity acting on the arrow. One time, Will "misses"* injures rather than kills his target an almost-impossible-except-for-a-Ranger longshot because he forgot that the bow he was using would have more drop-off than he was used to.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Ranger's Apprentice / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In the backstory, Halt is this when he leads the cavalry in the Battle of Hackham Heath. Will's father is also this in the backstory, saving Halt's life. Will and Evanlyn are this in Book 2 when they burn the bridge down. Halt and Horace are this in Book 4 to Will and Evanlyn and just barely manage to get their in time, as per the usual for this trope. Subverted with Halt for Will in Book 2 and Halt and Horace for Will and Evanlyn in Book 3 Played straight in Book 4 with Halt, Horace, Will, and Evanlyn in regards to the entire Skandian race.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Ranger's Apprentice / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Ferris and Halt, with the latter being the Abel-though, thankfully, he survived.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_ef20d7bc	type	A Minor Kidroduction
Ranger's Apprentice / int_ef20d7bc	comment	A Minor Kidroduction: Will, Horace, and Alyss are introduced in this way at the beginning of the first volume.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_efac5012	type	Fallen Princess
Ranger's Apprentice / int_efac5012	comment	Fallen Princess: Madelyn becomes this in The Royal Ranger when her parents, at their wit's end over how to deal with her headstrong, self-centered behavior, resort to disinheriting her. This news finaly shakes Madelyn out of her haughty attitude, and she spends the rest of the book steadiy undergoing Character Development. By the end, her parents decide she's earned the right to be reinstated.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Ranger's Apprentice / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: In Book 8, it's revealed that Halt uses his Improbable Aiming Skills to catch fish. Horace, having spent the last several years learning the "gentlemanly" way of fishing, is mildly horrified.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: One of these pops up for Halt in Book Eight, although with a bit of a subversion.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
Ranger's Apprentice / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Horace and Alyss have absolutely no romantic feelings for each other, and after Book 4, Will and Cassandra show no romantic feelings for one another either (though Alyss is Wrong Genre Savvy and takes a while to understand this).
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Morgarath would be a much better Chessmaster if he didn't suffer from this.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_f8173bd9	type	Medieval European Fantasy
Ranger's Apprentice / int_f8173bd9	comment	Medieval European Fantasy: Even though the names have been changed, it's pretty easy to tell which real-life countries the book's countries are based on. See Istanbul (Not Constantinople) above.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Ranger's Apprentice / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: A minor one where everyone (except Alyss) calls Will's mandola (a stringed instrument similar to a lute) a lute. Also, Horace's status as a Big Eater, to the point where it becomes an Affectionate Nickname amongst the Nihon-Jan. Crowley's complete inability/desire to keep the Ranger graduation serious, instead mumbling and bumbling and throwing pieces of paper around. Every single time an apprentice is given a horse, they immediately try and mount it without waiting for the passphrase, then get bucked off. Every. Single. Time.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: Baron Arald suffers from this on occasion, since his jokes often go over the heads of those he tells his jokes to. Played straight in the fact that he does this in the presence of Lady Pauline, who actually does get the jokes but chooses not to laugh.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_fe0330fb	comment	In Book 11, Will remembers Gilan's advice about dealing with an angry axeman.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_ff070bbd	comment	Attack! Attack! Attack!: Skandian battle tactics generally boil down to this. When they try some more advanced strategies, the Temujai are thoroughly taken by surprise.
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Ranger's Apprentice / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Most of the author's explanations on archery, culture and battle tactics is generally correct, if occasionally somewhat simplistic. The chillingly accurate portrayal of what it's like to virtually die of dehydration, and just how easily it can happen to anyone who doesn't know the desert.
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Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Hard-to-Light Fire / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Heartwarming in Hindsight / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Heroic Ambidexterity / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Hit-and-Run Tactics / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Hit Me, Dammit! / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Horns of Barbarism / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Horny Vikings / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Hypnotize the Captive / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	I Choose to Stay / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Impersonating the Evil Twin / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	In the Hood / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Interquel / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Ironic Echo Cut / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Istanbul (Not Constantinople) / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Joe Sent Me / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Karmic Injury / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	King Incognito / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Lawful Good / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Lemony Narrator / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Like a Son to Me / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Love Letter / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Made a Slave / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Magic Feather / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Master-Apprentice Chain / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Medieval European Fantasy / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Mentor in Sour Armor / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Moody Mount / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Mysterious Parent / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	New Rules as the Plot Demands / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Noiseless Walker / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Not His Blood / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Of the People / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Oh, My Gods! / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	One Dialogue, Two Conversations / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	One Riot, One Ranger / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Only I Can Make It Go / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Only One Name / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Outside-Genre Foe / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Patchwork Story / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Plot-Powered Stamina / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Political Hostage / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Prank Punishment / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Present Company Excluded / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Promotion, Not Punishment / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Punctuality Is for Peasants / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Quick Draw / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Ranger / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Really Royalty Reveal / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Reconstruction / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Remember the New Guy? / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Renowned Selective Mentor / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Ret-Gone / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Right Behind Me / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Right in Front of Me / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Rightful King Returns / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Same Surname Means Related / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Scam Religion / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Scarily Competent Tracker / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Seinfeldian Conversation / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Shorter Means Smarter / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Simple-Minded Wisdom / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Snark-to-Snark Combat / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Somewhere, an Equestrian Is Crying / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Spare to the Throne / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Spiritual Antithesis / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Stab the Scorpion / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Standard Hero Reward / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Stealth Expert / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Stealth Hi/Bye / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Strong and Skilled / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Sword Fight / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Talented, but Trained / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Taught by Experience / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Team Dad / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Territorial Smurfette / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	The Apprentice / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	The Oath-Breaker / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	The Runaway / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Throwing Down the Gauntlet / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Tree Cover / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Turn in Your Badge / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Villains Want Mercy / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Waking Non Sequitur / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Wax On, Wax Off / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Weapon-Based Characterization / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Weapons Breaking Weapons / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	What Would X Do? / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Wheel of Pain / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Written for My Kids / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	Young Adult Literature / int_f4b0cbe2
Ranger's Apprentice	hasFeature	How Much Did You Hear? / int_f4b0cbe2

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