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Safehold

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Safehold	comment	When a spacefaring humanity discovered evidence that a hostile alien race known as the Gbaba was likely to try and annihilate them, they spent the next ten years preparing for the inevitable war.It wasn't enough.In the face of extinction, the human race played a last desperate gamble. They secreted a fleet away to terraform and colonize a new homeworld and prepare for Round Two. To remain hidden long enough to make sure the Gbaba wouldn't find them, those in charge of Operation Ark decided that on this new world, humanity would temporarily abandon its technology, so the Gbaba couldn't track them down by their emissions, and retrieve it later to confront the Gbaba again on their terms.That's when the real trouble began.Nine hundred years later, Terran Federation commander Nimue Alban wakes up in a robotic body called a PICA; inside a giant, strange cave, with no memory of how she got here. A recording left behind by her late mentor updates her with the bad news: Ark's chief administrative staff brainwashed the colonists into forgetting everything. Technological progress was banned under punishment of painful death, opposition was wiped out in a kinetic strike, and the planet of Safehold is now stuck in Medieval Stasis with the universal Church of God Awaiting suppressing most progress. The current Grand Inquisitor is a megalomaniac and control freak. The web of lies woven by Ark's chief administrator is bound to be unraveled sooner or later, and with no knowledge of the Gbaba humanity is sure to be annihilated again â€” this time, to the last man.Desperate to reveal the truth and avenge the Terran Federation, Nimue allies with the small island kingdom of Charis, a nation too independent in the eyes of the Church. Under the identity of a mythical warrior, a seijin, called Merlin Athrawes, she starts to steer Safehold slowly but surely towards the improvements it needs to survive â€” improvements the Church strictly prohibits.The Safehold series by David Weber consists of ten books to date: Off Armageddon Reef (2007) By Schism Rent Asunder (2008) By Heresies Distressed (2009) A Mighty Fortress (2010) How Firm a Foundation (2011) Midst Toil and Tribulation (2012) Like a Mighty Army (2014) Hell's Foundations Quiver (2015) At the Sign of Triumph (2016) Through Fiery Trials (2019)Has a Wiki all its own. For similar series, see David Drake's Belisarius Series and S. M. Stirling's The General Series.
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Safehold / int_1139de32	type	Scam Religion
Safehold / int_1139de32	comment	Scam Religion: The Church of God Awaiting is a scam created by Langhorne and co. to keep mankind on Safehold. It managed to last nearly a thousand years, but went completely corrupt, which is likely not what its creators intended.
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Safehold / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
Safehold / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: Sergeant Edvard Wystahn is a good country lad and a really nice guy; he helps out his comrades in learning to read or with words of reassurance or comfort as they need it. He also has no problem putting a bullet through an enemy officer's head from under cover at 500 yards.
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Safehold / int_12aa82b5	type	Interfaith Smoothie
Safehold / int_12aa82b5	comment	Interfaith Smoothie: The religion of the Church was created as a mash-up of various actual religions, although it mostly comes off as a Crystal Dragon Jesus of Medieval Catholicism.
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Safehold / int_13727d3e	type	You Can't Make an Omelette...
Safehold / int_13727d3e	comment	You Can't Make an Omelette...: Zhaspar Clyntahn says the entire phrase word by word more than once, either to justify his megalomania and increasing hold over the Church or as a sign that he's deep in the territory of Believing Their Own Lies. Oddly enough, the phrase is in-universe attributed to "archangel" Chihiro before engaging the Fallen.
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Safehold / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Safehold / int_1439161f	comment	In Midst Toil and Tribulation, Merlin has to slaughter a bunch of civilians (who are manning legit wartime targets) to make absolutely certain that his plan works and that the HMS Delthak doesn't get trapped in the canals. He doesn't mention this to anyone beforehand (even afterwards, the only person who is confirmed to have learned about it is Nahrmahn) and suffers some serious Heroic BSoD, both during and after.
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Safehold / int_15448489	type	Ancient Tradition
Safehold / int_15448489	comment	The Sisterhood of Saint Evahlyn and Sisters of Saint Kohdy to the Brotherhood of Saint Zherneau. Both Ancient Traditions which strive to maintain what they know about the truth of Safehold's origins.
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Safehold / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Safehold / int_15b09af9	comment	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam: Corisande's Prince Hektor and his older son are murdered on Clyntahn's orders to make them martyrs when his agents discover Hektor is planning to surrender. In the fourth book, we get several members of the clergy who don't like how corrupt the Group of Four has become. Most of them are subjected to the cruel torture/execution of the Punishment of Shueler. So are the clergy's families... including the women and children.
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Safehold / int_17dff23c	type	Dumb, but Diligent
Safehold / int_17dff23c	comment	Dumb, but Diligent: At the end of the fifth book, an Inquisitor is accused by the Charisians of killing an officer on his own side in an attempt to enrage his men into killing the people they're pursuing rather than take them alive. One of the officer's men describes his late commander as "dim but always trying his best" and sides with the Charisians, leading to the Inquisitor's execution.
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Safehold / int_181c8a41	type	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
Safehold / int_181c8a41	comment	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Clyntahn objects to Irys' wedding by sending a suicide bomber to the reception. Irys and Hector survive, two hundred innocent bystanders don't.
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Safehold / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Safehold / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Guess where a major naval battle takes place in Off Armageddon Reef. More obliquely in A Mighty Fortress, when Cayleb recalls his ancestor's words that the walls of Charis' fortress are its wooden ships. This, itself, is a Shout-Out to second President of the United States John Adams, especially considering that the man who said it was King Zhan II, who said that the wooden walls of the navy were his country's first line of defense. Which itself might have been a Shout-Out to the Oracle of the Wooden Wall, where the Oracle of Delphi supposedly told Athens to "look to your wooden wall" for protection, and Themistocles decided that the wooden wall meant Athens' fleet. Similarly in How Firm a Foundation, Cayleb talks about how he wants Charis to be a refuge from persecution and a foundation for human freedom and dignity â€” one firm enough to weather any storm.
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Safehold / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Safehold / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: King Rahnyld III of Dohlar, despite the importance of his country to the plot, has absolutely no page time throughout the first nine books, including when Earl Thirsk forces him to abdicate. He honestly doesn't seem to be an especially attentive ruler.
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Safehold / int_1c5d0ed0	type	Redemption in the Rain
Safehold / int_1c5d0ed0	comment	Redemption in the Rain: The consecration of Grand Vicar Rhobair II occurs in an icy rain, symbolically washing away the crimes of Clyntahn and the Group of Four.
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Safehold / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Safehold / int_1c8e096e	comment	Prince Daivyn has similar freedom due to Irys and Hektor's marriage. He ends up pursuing a Childhood Friend Romance with Grand Duke Zebediah's youngest daughter, and because he courts her with all due propriety, it goes a long way towards smoothing out hard feelings between her homeland and Corisande dating back to his father's reign. Nahrmahn's actually annoyed at this, because the possibility never occurred to him and it damn well should have.
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Safehold / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Safehold / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: The prologue of book 10 is a passage from a biography of Merlin, which suggests that one day he will succeed in breaking the Writ.
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Safehold / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Safehold / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Though the Church attempts to portray Charis and its allies as bloodthirsty heathens and monsters whenever possible, Charis only actually lives up to that slander when the Church does it first, such as refusing to take prisoners in battle after defeated opponents of the Church were brutally murdered, and burning down the entire waterfront of a city that had previously massacred unarmed merchants and their families.
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Safehold / int_1ed272c1	type	Automaton Horses
Safehold / int_1ed272c1	comment	Automaton Horses: Averted. If Merlin has to go on a long trip on horseback instead of recon skimmer, he gets frequent remounts. Some minor-character cavalry officers are specifically noted to have left most of their units without horses due to asking the horses to do too much on too little food and rest. On at least two occasions, Weber points out that even war-trained horses are not predators, are not going to act like predators, and are not going to charge headlong into an unbroken line of Charisian bayonets.
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Safehold / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Safehold / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Ahrmahk dynasty of Charis, and a few others. Cayleb's third scene in Off Armageddon Reef reveals he wanted to go hunting a slash lizard because the beast had been killing farmers and he wanted to make sure it was stopped before it did more damage. Also, as a man of action, he prefers to be on the field of battle with his soldiers and resents when he has to be relegated to staying behind even though he's fully aware he's doing just as much if not more good where he is.
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Safehold / int_1f067b97	type	Invented Individual
Safehold / int_1f067b97	comment	Invented Individual: Zhevons, Mab and Slaytyr are all Merlin's guises used by him when he has to be someplace that, by Safeholdian standards, he shouldn't be able to reach quickly. It goes up to eleven when Owl starts writing reports to a spymaster who's Locked Out of the Loop â€” it creates an entire host of fictional seijins, each of them with their own style and handwriting.
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Safehold / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Safehold / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Some characters wonder whether Clyntahn is cynically playing a Knight Templar to gain power, or if he's really a fanatic Believing His Own Lies. At the Sign of Triumph confirms it's the latter. The War Against the Fallen is a great pile of ambiguity, with only certain things being the fighting itself, its starting point, the victors and the fact that seijins were used. We don't even know who the factions fighting really were, what were their agendas and, alas, whether the victors were who they claimed to be. More answers seem to be forthcoming in Hell's Foundations Quiver. The discrepancy between Book!Schueler and Key!Schueler goes unexplained so far. Given the ending of Through Fiery Trials, book 11 may begin to explain his deal.
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Safehold / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Safehold / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Rayno comes to the conclusion that the only way La RÃ©sistance in Zion could accomplish all it does would be for it to have demonic assistance. Legitimate guess â€” if it was a fantasy setting. As it is, he doesn't even imagine he's in science fiction.
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Safehold / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Safehold / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: The Temple Guard is supposed to fulfill this role within Zion, but as the books go on the Order of Schueler and the Inquisition co-opt much of the Guard's duties. Once the land war starts up, the Temple Guard is partially converted into the Army of God and its commanders are given the rank of Bishop Militant.
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Safehold / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Safehold / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: When Sharleyan's nobles begin plotting to overthrow the crown in Chisholm, along with their previous tactics of watching them with SNARCs and keeping the local leadership informed by mundane methods, records are kept of the conspirators' written correspondence so replicas can be made and used as evidence in their trials even if the real ones are burned. As one character notes, they can't exactly claim they know the evidence is fake because they destroyed the real thing.
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Safehold / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Safehold / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: The Charisan leaders often have to make decisions in this vein, most prominently when facing defeated enemies and forcing them to surrender. They'll often try to negotiate a relatively peaceful surrender with any prisoners treated honorably, and threaten that there won't be any prisoners if that surrender is refused or betrayed. To date, no enemy commander has tried to call their bluff (mostly because they realize while speaking face to face with the Charisan commander in question that it isn't a bluff).
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Safehold / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Safehold / int_225b682	comment	Throw-Away Guns: Justified during the attack on the Convent of Saint Agtha in By Heresies Distressed, since Safeholdian firearms are single-shot at that point in the timeline. Sharleyan is given an armload of weapons, and after each shot tosses it to one of her reloaders and grabs a replacement.
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Safehold / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Safehold / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Often a problem with the Army of God's senior officers. Far too many of the high ranked officers got their posts by being related to someone important at court, and have useless aides who were chosen because they are related to the officers they serve.
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Safehold / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Safehold / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Before his death in A Mighty Fortress, Hauwerd Wylsynn slipped Duchairn a note pretending to run into him. In At the Sign of Triumph, it's revealed this paper was a list of potential anti-Inquisition allies who could be called upon to rise up.
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Safehold / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Safehold / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: As the things go awry for the Army of Justice, Alvahrez turns out to be the only person who can see the situation for what it is. Everyone else considers it defeatism and thinks they're on their way to victory.
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Safehold / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
Safehold / int_24ae6005	comment	The Political Officer: The Inquisition agents in the Army of God serve this role. And they provide ample evidence as to why allowing someone who doesn't understand military matters to override those who do in the name of ideological purity is a very bad idea.
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Safehold / int_26ad2fa8	type	Fictional Geneva Conventions
Safehold / int_26ad2fa8	comment	Fictional Geneva Conventions: Safehold's laws of war are mentioned a many times â€” usually in the context of how they're being thrown out the window with the Jihad. For example, the canals of Safehold are sacrosanct, but once things hit the stage of total war, blowing up locks becomes a core part of the Church's defensive strategy. The treatment of prisoners is also a major one. One of Thirsk's and the Dohlaran Navy's biggest regrets in the war was handing over Gwyllym Manthyr and his men to the Inquisition. To them, this amounted to submitting prisoners who had surrendered honorably and were due humane treatment over to Cold-Blooded Torture and summary execution.
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Safehold / int_26f41623	type	Kill Sat
Safehold / int_26f41623	comment	Kill Sat: The orbital platforms above Safehold remain a looming threat.
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Safehold / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
Safehold / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: Trellheim, which is mentioned once or twice as being inhabited, and Raven's Land, which forms the land border of the country of Chisholm, which is only noted in the world map. Raven's Land has gotten an upgrade as of Midst Toil and Tribulation.
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Safehold / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
Safehold / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Merlin uses two revolvers in How Firm a Foundation. Let's just say they make quite an impression. They were the first repeating firearms fired on Safehold.
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Safehold / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Safehold / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Inquisition learns to fear Merlin's alter ego Dialydd Mab very quickly. He's got this habit of hunting down Inquisitors he thinks have gone too far, you see...
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Safehold / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Safehold / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: At first glance, the King Haarald-class battleships. A single City-class ironclad could take on the entire Church fleet and win without difficulty, and a King Haarald costs as much as ten Citys. But the purpose of the King Haaralds isn't military — it's to be so awesome that anyone who wants to be taken seriously as a naval power has to build the equivalent, and it's impossible to do so without completely discarding the Proscriptions of Jwo-Jeng.
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Safehold / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Safehold / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: The dispute over the Earldom of Hanth in the first book, which is resolved by bribery rather than any actual examination of the evidence presented by the two claimants.
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Safehold / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Safehold / int_2d88e42c	comment	PICAs possess the ability to Gender Bend and are fully functional. Merlin learns this the hard way when he is invited by Cayleb to play rugby and discovers too late that Charisian rugby is played in the water and, more importantly, in the nude. As this is early in the story, Merlin still thinks of himself as (the female) Nimue, is in the water with several handsome naked members of the opposite sex, and encounters the male reaction to such a situation. When Cayleb is reminded of this incident while being told of Merlin's true nature, he busts up laughing at the realization of what had happened.
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Safehold / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
Safehold / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: Dohlaran screw-galleys. Armed with massive forward-facing cannon, with thick armor on the front — and only the front. One engagement between a group of them and a galleon sees the galleon require dozens of hits to sink, while just two hits on the side from the galleon's much smaller guns is enough to cripple one of the galleys. And the guns themselves are prone to shattering from time to time when fired.
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Safehold / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
Safehold / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: The Sisterhood of Saint Evahlyn and Sisters of Saint Kohdy to the Brotherhood of Saint Zherneau. Both Ancient Traditions which strive to maintain what they know about the truth of Safehold's origins. Nimue Chwaeriau to Merlin Athrawes, the former being a second PICA created and given Nimue's pre-Safehold Brain Uploading but remaining female. Aivah Pahrsahn/Nynian Rychtair to Nahrmahn Baytz. Both supreme chessmasters who work to upend the Church of God Awaiting using the less savory tools of assassination and political plotting.
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Safehold / int_30509b6d	type	Shapeshifter Baggage
Safehold / int_30509b6d	comment	Shapeshifter Baggage: No matter how much Merlin changes the appearance of his PICA body, he can't change its basic dimensions. The fact that all of the seijins who are popping up have the same height and shoulder breadth is part of the reason why Aivah is able to figure out that they're all the same person.
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Safehold / int_30763ed8	type	Eternal English
Safehold / int_30763ed8	comment	Eternal English: Averted. Nimue has to learn Safeholdian English before she can venture out among them. Also, many names have changed in spelling and/or pronunciation over the near millennium of Safehold's history.
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Safehold / int_30849c3e	type	Ruling Couple
Safehold / int_30849c3e	comment	Ruling Couple: Cayleb and Sharleyan, who make a point of being equal co-rulers, each able to act with the full authority of their Empire on their own. Of course, it helps that Merlin's tech lets them actually confer with each other in real time, but they made this decision before they had access.
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Safehold / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Safehold / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Clyntahn was worried that Charis was going to break from the Church and stand up to him, so he and the Group of Four ordered them destroyed by every other navy in "creation". Apparently, he never spared any thought for what Charis might do if they won. Three guesses.
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Safehold / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Safehold / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Cayleb, Sharleyan, and Lady Hanth seriously discuss the merits of bringing together Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk and Princess Irys, as much for political reasons as the fact they seem to genuinely care for one another. (Incidentally, this happens while on board a ship â€” they are literally on deck.)
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Safehold / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Safehold / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Every other human world except Safehold is presumed destroyed.
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Safehold / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Safehold / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: The Fist of God, AKA Helm Cleaver, the Nynian-sponsored guerilla organization working for justice in Zion.
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Safehold / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
Safehold / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: Wyverns are the subject of a number of bird related sayings, which is a bit odd as they still have Terran birds, like chickens. "To kill the wyvern that fetched the golden rabbit."
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Safehold / int_377effa6	type	My Own Private "I Do"
Safehold / int_377effa6	comment	My Own Private "I Do": While the relationship between Crown Princess Alahnah and Lywys Whytman needs to initially be kept quiet due to political concerns, nobody who knows of it actually has any objections. So when the couple decide to marry, wanting to make the most of the time they have in case the Archangels do return in a few years, they get a very private ceremony with close friends and family in attendance and Archbishop Maikel himself officiating.
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Safehold / int_3862fa01	type	Ludd Was Right
Safehold / int_3862fa01	comment	Ludd Was Right: Word of God says that Langhorne and BÃ©dard genuinely believed the Gbaba were punishment for humanity's technological hubris.
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Safehold / int_39b35d2b	type	Privateer
Safehold / int_39b35d2b	comment	Privateer: Charis puts these to good use in early books. They start having some problems with other privateers in Midst Toil and Tribulation.
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Safehold / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Safehold / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: The Inquisition comes to the conclusion that a gunpowder barge exploding (purely by accident) and destroying a critical canal lock had to have been done by heretic saboteurs through a mixture of paranoia and circular logic. They then use this as grounds to purge and/or relocate seventy percent of the population of the nearby town.
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Safehold / int_3a4e34fe	type	Themed Aliases
Safehold / int_3a4e34fe	comment	Themed Aliases: The majority of names used by the seijin network's operatives are Welsh words and phrases, such as Dagyr Cudd ("hidden dagger"), Cennady Frenhines ("Cennad y Frenhines" means "queen's messenger"), and Merch O Obaith ("Daughter of Hope"). The exceptions, like Zhevons, exist to be able to blend in with everyday Safeholdians rather than be deliberately mysterious or exotic.
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Safehold / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
Safehold / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: Merlin speaks to Sharleyan in Nimue's voice in the opening scene of A Mighty Fortress.
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Safehold / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Safehold / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Clyntahn of all people, but for all the wrong reasons. He's actually correct that Charis is part of a conspiracy designed to overthrow the Church. It would just never occur to him that the Church are the bad guys in that. It should be noted that some characters theorize he is actually paranoid by medical definitions. The Brotherhood of St. Zherneau is described throughout A Mighty Fortress as being "insanely cautious". But this insane level of caution is also regarded as completely justified, due to the danger to their entire cause inherent in inducting the wrong person into the inner circle. The prologue of Through Fiery Trials mentions the anthropologist who first speculated the existence of the Gbaba. Although the general public mostly didn't believe him, and the Federation government publicly didn't believe him, in secret they appointed him the first Navy Minister three years after he first proposed the theory, as they began to build a real military.
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Safehold / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Safehold / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The prologue of book 10 is from a history book written around 4200 AD, suggesting that one day Safehold will regain full knowledge of the past and eventually defeat the Gbaba.
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Safehold / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
Safehold / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: Federation tech seems to have reached this level, as everything is in a perfect or almost-perfect state after nine hundred years. Partly justified, as Merlin's equipment was kept in a neutral atmosphere specifically to defy an aversion of this trope, and defied with medicines, which Merlin doesn't dare use after such a long time.
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Safehold / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Safehold / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: How Nimue/Merlin views her/his condition. He's superhuman and immortal, but lonely and faced with considerable self-doubt over how much he counts as a person and who he really is.
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Safehold / int_3c598f56	type	Conflict Ball
Safehold / int_3c598f56	comment	Conflict Ball: One of the conflicts in By Schism Rent Asunder and By Heresies Distressed is the fact that Cayleb and Merlin can't tell Sharleyan anything about Merlin, because the Brotherhood is dragging its feet... ignoring the fact that they could easily have given her the "visions" story while leaving out the high-tech details. The inconsistency is highlighted by the fact that they bring Clareyk and Nahrmahn in on the "visions" on their own initiative in By Heresies Distressed. In those cases, Clareyk had already begun to suspect something was up so they needed to satisfy him, while Nahrman was told about the "visions" because they needed informed advice right then. Further, he was given the "vision" story immediately before the visit where Sharleyan was told everything. Still, not bringing in Sharleyan even on the "visions" is still a conflict ball, only justifiable by the fact Merlin wasn't even there for very long before they headed to Corisande, rendering visions specific to Merlin a moot point.
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Safehold / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Safehold / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Charis is beginning to approach this, as it starts being forced to skip over or work around holes in its technological progression to avoid triggering the Rakurai array.
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Safehold / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Safehold / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The final battles of Off Armageddon Reef, during which Charis takes on the combined naval might of the entire rest of the world and wins handily. Any swordfight involving Merlin, thanks to Merlin's superhuman capabilities. Merlin... versus alien squid-sharks! Pretty much the entire invasion of Corisande, which takes up most of By Heresies Distressed. Despite the fact that the Charisans are only just starting out in actual land warfare with their marines, the tech advantage and well-trained troops make up more than enough of the difference. The introduction of steam-powered ironclad gunboats in Midst Toil and Tribulation versus, well, anything. Nimue Chwaeriau completely destroys the sexist jerk Lieutenant Charlz Sheltyn in Like a Mighty Army after he picks a fight with her. Merlin finds the recording very entertaining.
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Safehold / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Safehold / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The cover of Like a Mighty Army prominently depicts Nimue Chwaeriau, whose introduction is one of the book's biggest twists.
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Safehold / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Safehold / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Delivered to Zhaspahr Clyntahn by Allayn Maigwair, of all people.
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Safehold / int_413c475b	type	Space Age Stasis
Safehold / int_413c475b	comment	Space Age Stasis: The Gbaba are suspected to be stuck in this, with evidence suggesting next to no technological advancement for hundreds or thousands of years. Unfortunately they're so advanced and numerous that they don't need any. Tragically for humanity, it's mentioned that if they'd only had a few more years, the pace of human advancement would have allowed them to hold back the Gbaba, and shortly thereafter handily defeat them. The original plan for Safehold was to have a refuge where they'd get those few more years.
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Safehold / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Safehold / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: In How Firm a Foundation, rather than lay low, Madame Ahnzhelyk assumes a false identity in Siddarmark and openly lives the high society life. This is also how several Wylsynns, including Paityr, hid the Key, which is described in the book as a suitable size and shape for a paperweight.
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Safehold / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Safehold / int_424c9a9b	comment	The treatment of prisoners is also a major one. One of Thirsk's and the Dohlaran Navy's biggest regrets in the war was handing over Gwyllym Manthyr and his men to the Inquisition. To them, this amounted to submitting prisoners who had surrendered honorably and were due humane treatment over to Cold-Blooded Torture and summary execution.
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Safehold / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Safehold / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Although Merlin has the specific mission to break the stranglehold of the Church of God Awaiting over Safehold, in At the Sign of Triumph, although continuing the war will inevitably cause the church to fall while accepting the peace offered by Duchairn and Magwair after they overthrow Clyntahn would allow it and its doctrine to continue to exist, thus delaying the mission, Merlin and his allies are so sick of the destruction, death and loss of innocent life that they decide to end the war.
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Safehold / int_45cec696	type	God Guise
Safehold / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: Langhorne's group used their technology to fake their various "angelic" abilities, and also meticulously craft their own holy book.
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Safehold / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Safehold / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: The Earl of Thirsk is consistently said by the Charisian characters to be the single most dangerous commander the enemy has. He proves them correct, too, as his overhaul of the Dohlaran navy makes it the only nation that can even attempt to challenge Charis at sea. More importantly, the only reason they don't have him assassinated is because he actually tries to treat his prisoners of war honorably. The whole Dohlaran military gets this from Charis, to the extent that a Charisian soldier who would gladly kill a helpless Army of God soldier spares a Dohlaran who he's knocked out on-mission, because of the sense that the Dohlarans don't deserve to be paying the brutal butcher's bill that Charisian firepower is exacting from the Temple Loyalists. This attitude also results in very cordial relations between Charis and Dohlar after the Jihad is over, as most Charisians will agree that Dohlar fought a relatively clean and honorable war.
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Safehold / int_48b01c26	type	Surveillance as the Plot Demands
Safehold / int_48b01c26	comment	Surveillance as the Plot Demands: The SNARCs give the protagonists an unbeatable ability to spy on their enemies. The only times it's ever failed them is when there's simply so much information that something gets lost in the shuffle, when dealing with agents acting on their own that they had no prior idea of, or when the planning is done within the Temple itself where Merlin doesn't dare send remotes for fear of setting off an alarm.
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Safehold / int_48da376b	type	Game Changer
Safehold / int_48da376b	comment	On a more individual scale, Merlin had been acting alone in this plan for the first book and a half. The Game Changer to this strategy was the revelation midway through the second book that there were others who knew the history he did, enabling him to bring more people in on his ultimate plan.
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Safehold / int_48e24f	type	Anti-Mutiny
Safehold / int_48e24f	comment	Anti-Mutiny: Shan-wei's goal before Langhorne killed her.
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Safehold / int_4abc2ca9	type	Virtual Ghost
Safehold / int_4abc2ca9	comment	Virtual Ghost: Nimue/Merlin is technically this, the mind of an ancient Terran military officer downloaded into a computer and equipped with a robotic body she uses to move around. Nahrmahn Baytz also becomes one following his death in a terrorist attack.
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Safehold / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Safehold / int_4b1afa0d	comment	In How Firm a Foundation: Gwylym Manthyr is the last to be tortured to death on a rack, and has had his tongue cut out so he can't speak in his own defense. So when Grand Inquisitor Zhaspahr Clyntahn performs his "cow the heretic" act before the crowd, knowing Manthyr can't speak, Manthyr finds a way. And as he dies, he gets to savor the look on the Grand Inquisitor's face.
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Safehold / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
Safehold / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: PICAs possess the ability to Gender Bend and are fully functional. Merlin learns this the hard way when he is invited by Cayleb to play rugby and discovers too late that Charisian rugby is played in the water and, more importantly, in the nude. As this is early in the story, Merlin still thinks of himself as (the female) Nimue, is in the water with several handsome naked members of the opposite sex, and encounters the male reaction to such a situation. When Cayleb is reminded of this incident while being told of Merlin's true nature, he busts up laughing at the realization of what had happened. Merlin takes advantage of that "functionality" once to maintain cover in A Mighty Fortress. It's the source of some idle thinking about whether doing so counts as his cover identity of Ahbraim Zhevons being interested in the opposite sex or Nimue being interested in other women.
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Safehold / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Safehold / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "That's why I'm speaking to you about it... Ahbraim." Aivah to Merlin, book seven. "This is my Testimony, the Testimony of Schueler, and I leave it with you so that all who see it may know I truly appeared before you, that this is truly my word. And that word, my children, is that it was not Shan-wei who Fell, but Chihiro who lied." Book ten.note Theologically, this is comparable to the Archangel Michael coming down to Earth and announcing that Satan didn't fall, he was pushed...by the Archangel Gabriel
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Safehold / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Safehold / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Madame Ahnzhelyk plans ahead â€” with a vengeance. Many of the actions she takes in the story, such as her evacuation of potential targets of Clyntahn's from Zion, utilize plans and preparations set up long before Clyntahn himself was Grand Inquisitor. The Archangels themselves. As noted by Doctor Mahklyn, they had to be able to give a divine explanation or justification to just about every single thing Safehold's descendants might possibly encounter to prevent the development of things like the scientific method or the very advances they wished to hold off. Decades before the main plot, back when he was still Crown Prince, Hektor successfully planted a double-agent inside the Inquisition. Years later, this ends up crucial to securing the safety of his children Irys and Daivyn. Hauwerd Wylsynn set up an entire secondary Helm Cleaver network inside the Temple Guard as a fallback plan in case the Circle fell. He then entrusted this network to Duchairn shortly before his death, which allowed the Treasurer to join forces with Nynian and topple the Inquisition.
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Safehold / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Safehold / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Earl Gray Harbor throws his knife to kill his traitorous son-in-law in the first book. The trope gains bonus points for taking the time to point out that the wielder hadn't been in any sort of combat in decades, the knife wasn't very fit for throwing, and the thrower was just coming off a drinking binge. He still nails the shot.
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Safehold / int_51bc8d33	type	The Church
Safehold / int_51bc8d33	comment	The Church: The Church of God Awaiting is, at first, the one church of Safehold. The Church of Charis splits off from it as the war changes from allegedly secular realpolitik to a holy war. After the war ends, the Church of Siddarmark forms from Siddarmarkians who reject both the Church of Charis' innovations and the authority of the Temple in Zion, and there are signs of a Church of Harchong forming, as the North Harchongian aristocracy and the local clergy reject Grand Vicar Rhobair's reforms.
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Safehold / int_5380d2f1	type	Painless Death for a Price
Safehold / int_5380d2f1	comment	Painless Death for a Price: In By Schism Rent Asunder, Erayk Dynnys was promised a relatively merciful death (by garrotting before the horrific tortures of his Punishment were applied) if he would give the public confession that the Grand Inquisitor wanted as an excuse to invade Charis. Instead Dynnys publicly confessed... to his faults for not standing up against the lies and corruption of the Church as it plotted to invade Charis for no good cause.
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Safehold / int_538637f	type	Cold Touch Surprise
Safehold / int_538637f	comment	Cold Touch Surprise: In A Mighty Fortress, Emperor Cayleb ministers to the morning sickness of Empress Sharleyan. Then he crawls back into their mutual bed and warms his cold feet against her.
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Safehold / int_53ecf83f	type	Lensman Arms Race
Safehold / int_53ecf83f	comment	Lensman Arms Race: As other nations try to emulate the innovations Merlin helped Charis discover. Merlin wants to encourage this, because forcing Charis' enemies to embrace innovation means victory for his ultimate goal of killing Safehold's technophobia. By Midst Toil and Tribulation, it has come full circle in that Earl Thirsk and his officers are actually starting to come up with new and innovative warship and weapon designs instead of just copying Charisian tech. Merlin has mixed feelings about this, as on the one hand, this development supports his long-term goal of destroying Safehold's technophobia, but on the other hand, it's going to make winning the war more difficult for Charis. Gets even more pronounced in Like a Mighty Army, when Earl Thirsk and Captain General Maigwair's men come up with a breech-loading rifle design they can mass-produce that is even better than the ones Charis has issued to its army. Thankfully for Charis, they quickly counter with the magazine-loading lever-action rifle. As an overall point of reference, at the start of book one, the height of naval technology is the oar-powered galley, with naval actions generally decided by boarding. Nine years later, the final naval action of the Jihad features a pre-dreadnaught battleship and a half-dozen armored cruisers taking on coastal defenses that are almost sufficient to stop them. On land, the rate of progress is similar: at the beginning, the matchlock arquebus is slowly displacing the crossbow as a projectile weapon, pike and shot is the premier infantry formation, and cavalry is a major (and prestigious) part of most armies. The final land battles of the Jihad would not have looked out of place on the eastern front of World War I. The King Haarahld class of warship is intended to be the pinnacle of this. It's noted with only mild exaggeration that a single King Haarahld is more powerful than every other ship on Safehold combined. However, it is blatantly overkill for what remains of the enemy naval forces by At the Sign of Triumph, when one is finally used, and the resources for one could be used to build ten of the lesser but still blatantly overpowered City class ships. It's explained that the awesome outweighs the impractical, because the true intent behind the King Haarahld is to make everyone else need one, or something like it, yet actually building one requires fully embracing the techniques and technology Charis has introduced, making it a potential death knell for the Proscriptions of Jwo-jeng.
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Safehold / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Safehold / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Owl, Nimue/Merlin's AI, stubbornly sticks to literal answers for the first three books, despite its supposed learning ability. Only when it starts interacting with living Safeholdians does it improve with colloquial replies.
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Safehold / int_54fdbff5	type	The Eeyore
Safehold / int_54fdbff5	comment	The Eeyore: Rhobair Seablanket, Earl Coris' valet. Though that could just be the face he presents to keep Coris from suspecting that Seablanket is really one of the Inquisition's agents. Except he's not.
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Safehold / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Safehold / int_5539b84f	comment	Madame Ahnzhelyk Phonda is another: a highly-cultured courtesan who caters to the most prestigious members of the Church of God Awaiting. Behind the scenes, she's a master spy and schemer who manages to sneak hundreds of people out from right under Clyntahn's nose. And did we mention that she later trains and leads a small army of counter-revolutionaries?
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Safehold / int_5558641	type	Gratuitous Japanese
Safehold / int_5558641	comment	Gratuitous Japanese: Although all of Safehold writes modern English and speaks a slightly shifted version of it, the multicultural founders borrowed foreign terms like seijin (Japanese for holy person) and rakurai, and used names from Asia for both places and people. "Archangel" Chihiro used Japanese names for many supernatural concepts in the Holy Writ, such as anshinritsumei ("lesser touch of God's fire" in Safeholdian, "enlightenment" in Japanese) or kyousei hi (Japanese for "great fire", Safeholdian for the light accompanying the archangels). Justified, as Maruyama Chihiro was of Japanese descent.
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Safehold / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Safehold / int_556a4e20	comment	Mother Church could also be considered The Empire. Or at least the Temple Lands and its secular rulers the Knights of the Temple Lands (who just happen to also be the leaders of the Church).
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Safehold / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Safehold / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: They're thick, alright. The shortest book in the series is just short of 500 pages.
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Safehold / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
Safehold / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: In the Army of Justice, the Dohlaran and Desnairan high command are at each other's throats almost as often as they are on Charis', and it comes to bite them when they start losing and only one side can admit this.
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Safehold / int_5773777b	type	One-Man Industrial Revolution
Safehold / int_5773777b	comment	Baron Seamount is a unique case in this. While his abilities would be incredibly useful combined with access to Owl in the short term, his status as a One-Man Industrial Revolution without access to Owl's records is far more valuable to Merlin's long-term plans to get Safehold's people to embrace technological innovation. Sharleyan, at least, is very displeased about the consensus being to keep him locked out. And there's another reason he's locked out: the inner circle fears that he would be so angry at what the "Archangels" did that he wouldn't be able to keep his knowledge secret.
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Safehold / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Safehold / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Charis as England and Emerald as Ireland are only a couple of examples. Merlin himself makes the comparison to 17th or 18th century England or Holland for Charis, and the audiobook narrator for books one and two reads Emeraldian dialogue with an Irish accent. Thanks to the relationship between them and Charis, Corisande may be a better fit for Ireland, especially considering the resentment they have for Charis after being conquered. Then again... Corisande might be a counterpart for France, which frequently warred with England until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like Corisande, France has been conquered by England and Salic law prohibited women from becoming queens regnant, just as Princess Irys cannot inherit her father's throne. Harchong, from what little we know, seems to be based on medieval China. Among other things, they invented gunpowder and have a corner on silk. They are also notorious for their gigantic bureaucracy. Siddarmark has some similarities to the United States, especially as of Midst Toil and Tribulation. Specifically, it can be compared to Civil War-era America. It's also the only powerful republicnote exaggerated to the point of being the first and only republic. Raven's Land and the Raven Lords who live there are Scotland and the Scots, respectively.
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Safehold / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Safehold / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Siddarmarkian Archbishop Zagyrsk and his staff spend the civil war providing food and medical care for forced laborers, preventing the inquisitors from harming people under their jurisdiction, and smuggling hundreds of children out of concentration camps. However, none of this is mentioned until the end of the conflict, when they meet Green Valley and he reveals his knowledge of their actions and praises them when they except to be arrested or worse as enemy prelates. In the eighth and ninth books, soldiers assigned to at least four concentration camps mutiny to try to save the prisoners (two groups succeed, one fails, and one is wiped out but does save some prisoners) but only of one of these mutinies is shown.
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Safehold / int_585db628	type	Vote Early, Vote Often
Safehold / int_585db628	comment	Vote Early, Vote Often: Many people find it very interesting that the person in charge of validating the vote count in the election that made Zaspahr Clyntahn Grand Inquisitor instead of Samyl Wylsynn was the man who would become Clyntahn's second in command. But given that this happened before the start of the main story, the reader never sees anything that would prove or disprove the speculation that Rayno rigged the election (although Word of God confirms that he did). Even if he did, any evidence proving this would likely have been long since destroyed. Post-Jihad, Siddarmark passes a law requiring returning war refugees to re-register to vote. Many places deliberately stall on processing the registrations of people who fled west (to the Temple Lands) as opposed to east (to Protector-held territory), resulting in a lot of people being legislatively disenfranchised for allegedly backing the Jihadâ€”whether they had committed any crimes or notâ€”for years.
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Safehold / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Safehold / int_5989e3b6	comment	His assassination of Prince Hektor and his heir ultimately results in the sincere loyalty of Irys and Daivyn in what would otherwise have been a tenuous Enemy Mine.
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Safehold / int_5dca2bb	type	Kill on Sight
Safehold / int_5dca2bb	comment	Kill on Sight: By How Firm a Foundation, the Church of God Awaiting's Inquistion has caused numerous atrocities, with their forcing honorably surrendered Charisian prisoners to be turned over to them for Cold-Blooded Torture and execution serving as the last straw for the Empire of Charis. They announce from that moment forward that, while any rank-and-file soldiers can surrender and expect honorable treatment, Inquisitors will be shown no quarter. The best they can hope for after that is to renounce their service to the Grand Inquisitor, at which point they'll stand trial for any crimes they committed rather than be executed outright.
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Safehold / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Safehold / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: After 9 books of important events happening on a monthly basis, book ten fast forwards through a decade, skipping the blow by blow details of how the world recovered from the short-term aftermath of the Jihad, such as rebuilding broken nations and economies stretched to the breaking point by wars, inquisitions and trade embargoes and moving on to the long-term aftermath that only became apparent after all the immediate problems were finally resolved. It also spans seventeen years from when At the Sign of Triumph ended, when most of the other books cover one year at most.
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Safehold / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
Safehold / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: Subverted, since Duke Tirian really wouldn't have hurt his father-in-law given any other alternative when he was confronted by him over his treason. Played completely straight in How Firm a Foundation when Urvyn Mahndrayn, Baron Seamount's assistant, tells his cousin, Trai Sahlavahn, at the Hairatha powder mill about 45 tons of missing gunpowder. Trai is actually responsible for this, and stabs him in the back when they go to check it out. Minutes later the entire powder mill explodes.
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Safehold / int_609eb275	type	Satan Is Good
Safehold / int_609eb275	comment	Satan Is Good: Played with in that while Shan-wei is the Satan-analogue for the Church of God Awaiting and is definitely on the side of good, she and the other "Archangels" were never supernatural beings and are all long dead by the time the main plot starts. At one point, Cayleb considers that the accusations of Shan-wei worship made against him are pretty close to the truth â€” he now considers Shan-wei someone worth venerating.
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Safehold / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
Safehold / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: Federation tech is this for both sides, although only one side is aware of it. Charis has ultimate spying bugs, invisible recon machines, laser weapons and Merlin, Implacable Man android. The Church has the Temple with its code-breaking capabilities and Rakurai, a Kill Sat nobody would like to awake.
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Safehold / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
Safehold / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: Cayleb plants one on Sharleyan at the end of By Schism Rent Asunder, just before his departure to invade Corisande and in front of everyone gathered to see them off. It's highly improper and breaks protocol in about seventy different ways. The crowd loves it.
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Safehold / int_614127a5	type	That Liar Lies
Safehold / int_614127a5	comment	That Liar Lies: A major Wham Line at the end of Through Fiery Trials involves a hologram of Schueler denouncing Chihiro as a liar in front of a stunned congregation.
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Safehold / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Safehold / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Prince Nahrmahn in By Schism Rent Asunder. He goes to Charis to offer his surrender, fully expecting that Cayleb will want his head over his role in past schemes against Charis. Cayleb instead drafts him into an Intelligence role and, to his own surprise, befriends Nahrmahn as the series progresses. King Gorjah of Tarot plans one in A Mighty Fortress. He eventually does so and, though we haven't heard much from him personally since, we do see Tarotisian commanders in the Imperial Charisian Navy, suggesting the integration seems to be going rather well. Corisande as a whole makes one, though it takes a while. They grow to accept the Church of Charis and tolerate the Empire of Charis' rule. As of Midst Toil and Tribulation, Prince Daivyn has decided to swear fealty and make Corisande an official and equal member of the Empire.
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Safehold / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Safehold / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: In Midst Toil and Tribulation, the Army of God eventually resort to a human wave attack when the Bishop decides that he has to take a fortified position now, before the Charisian armies can get any closer.
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Safehold / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
Safehold / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Most arranged marriages, especially among the good guys, are this. Cayleb and Sharleyan. Made as a cold-blooded strategic political decision, but turns out to be Love at First Sight. Also happened with Prince Nahrman and his wife Ohlyvya. Seems to be the case with newly betrothed Princess Irys and Hektor Alpyn-Ahrmahk. This example's played with, though; the marriage was, in part, arranged because the two were clearly attracted to each other anyway.
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Safehold / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Safehold / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Some of the more unrepentantly murderous and sadistic collaborators in Like a Mighty Army are members of a mountain clan who mourn how their own children are suffering from cold and hunger due to the supply shortages. A bishop who orders mass arrests and torture of people with legitimate grievances against Clynthahn is thinking about how nice it would be to take his wife and kids on a vacation right before La RÃ©sistance takes revenge on him.
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Safehold / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Safehold / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: The original Nimue Alban had herself transferred from one of the ships going to Safehold to one of the ships sacrificing itself to let them escape in order to set up the plan, as otherwise there was no way to "lose" her PICA from Langhorne's equipment lists. King Haarahld becomes a martyr via this, when he sacrifices his life to save a young midshipman who had been about to do the same for him. Prince Nahrmahn saves his wife from an assassin's bomb by throwing himself on top of her. One archbishop, along with two others, throw themselves on a grenade-wearing suicide bomber at a mass in book 5, saving the crowd. In Hell's Foundations Quiver, there are two scenes where (minor and relatively moderate) villains sacrifice themselves to save other people. Both are members of The Inquisition who convince the military commanders serving with them to surrender to The Alliance and save their men from annihilation, even though the inquisitors themselves will be executed due to Mikael's standing decree against them.
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Safehold / int_646407bd	type	We Named the Monkey "Jack"
Safehold / int_646407bd	comment	We Named the Monkey "Jack": Maikel Staynair named his pet cat-lizard after his late wife. The name was never changed, even after finding out the critter was male, since the late Mrs. Staynair would've found it hilarious.
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Safehold / int_64b2ff00	type	Jesus Was Way Cool
Safehold / int_64b2ff00	comment	Jesus Was Way Cool: Inverted. Most who learn of the "Archangels'" lies still hold God Himself in high regard.
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Safehold / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Safehold / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Merlin is this one, as he's lightning fast, made of metal and possible to destroy only by high-tech Federation gear. Visible especially in Like a Mighty Army, during his Inquisitor-killing trip as Dialydd Mab, when he shrugs off pistol and rifle rounds. Complete with Mook Horror Show.
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Safehold / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Safehold / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: A constant danger for the Inner Circle. Every time they bring someone new in they run the risk that person may not react as they hope and will betray them. Thus, each character we see informed about it from about the fourth book onward also gets a warning of what they'd have to do in case of such a betrayal. By later books, the Inner Circle removes murder from the equation after Merlin sets up Nimue's Cave to act as a Gilded Cage for those who need time to think the situation over or to use cryo-sleep on anyone who simply can't accept what they're doing. A specific instance also occurs in By Heresies Distressed when Merlin arrives at the scene of Sharleyan's attempted assassination. Merlin kills every enemy present because they absolutely cannot be allowed to realize Merlin was in Charis when he was supposed to be in Corisande. In Midst Toil and Tribulation, Merlin has to slaughter a bunch of civilians (who are manning legit wartime targets) to make absolutely certain that his plan works and that the HMS Delthak doesn't get trapped in the canals. He doesn't mention this to anyone beforehand (even afterwards, the only person who is confirmed to have learned about it is Nahrmahn) and suffers some serious Heroic BSoD, both during and after.
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Safehold / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Safehold / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: King Haarahld's defense of Midshipman Hektor Aplyn. Young Hektor was prepared to take the bullet for Haarahld, only for Haarahld to do it for him instead, insisting it's a king's duty to protect his people. Soldier-turned-devout-priest Hauwerd Wylsynn doesn't want to give the Inquisition a chance to haul information out of him or his brother through torture, so he instead chooses to die after killing his brother. He takes at least four armed and armored soldiers with him. In How Firm a Foundation: Gwylym Manthyr is the last to be tortured to death on a rack, and has had his tongue cut out so he can't speak in his own defense. So when Grand Inquisitor Zhaspahr Clyntahn performs his "cow the heretic" act before the crowd, knowing Manthyr can't speak, Manthyr finds a way. And as he dies, he gets to savor the look on the Grand Inquisitor's face. Also doubling as a Heroic Sacrifice, Nahrmahn, upon realizing he and his wife have just pulled up next to a suicide bomber driving a gunpowder-filled wagon, throws her out the other side and shields her from the ensuing explosion with his own body. Especially badass because he was in the middle of a very serious (read: distracting) conversation about an identical suicide bombing that had happened mere hours before all the way over in Tellesburg, but was still aware enough of his surroundings to notice it. And unlike some others among the royalty, Nahrmahn never served in the military, so he had no battlefield instincts to warn him.
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Safehold / int_66ce8a39	type	Fake Memories
Safehold / int_66ce8a39	comment	Fake Memories: The colonists of Operation Ark were to be reprogrammed with these so they could easily adapt to the low-tech lifestyle they would have to live on their new home. However, Langhorne and BÃ©dard instead used the equipment to program the colonists to believe in their God Guise.
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Safehold / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Safehold / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: The entire attack on the barge carrying the Inquisitors who ordered the Punishment of Manthyr's crew in Like A Mighty Army is narrated by the bad guys attacked, showing just how terrifying Merlin can be when he turns off his internal limits.
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Safehold / int_69065de	type	Naval Blockade
Safehold / int_69065de	comment	Naval Blockade: Both sides try this against each other. The Church tries to do it through politics, which falters because too many ports are dependent on the Charis trade for survival. Charis simply sinks or captures every ship flagged to a nation working for the Church that they can find, and since they have a bigger navy than the rest of the world combined, they manage to make this work.
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Safehold / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Safehold / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The best example is Nimue, already a name from Arthurian Legend, going by Merlin and naming Cayleb's sword Excalibur. The names of almost every seijin are Welsh. Not even necessarily Welsh names, either. Athrawes is the feminine form of "teachernote masculine form is 'Athrawon'". Dialydd Mab means "Avenging Son". Chwarieau is Welsh for "Little Sister". Ganieda Cysgodol translates as either "Shadow Witch" or "Shadow Sister". Ganieda was also the name of the Arthurian Merlin's half-sister. Dagyr Cudd means "Hidden Dagger". Cleddyf means "Sword". Gwyliwyr means "Sentinel". Merch O Obaith is "Daughter of Hope". Cennady Frenhines, or, more specifically, Cennad y Frenhines is "Queen's Messenger".
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Safehold / int_6c22a57b	type	Jumping on a Grenade
Safehold / int_6c22a57b	comment	One archbishop, along with two others, throw themselves on a grenade-wearing suicide bomber at a mass in book 5, saving the crowd.
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Safehold / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Safehold / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: The size of the Ahrmahk family explodes in the Time Skip between books 9 and 10.
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Safehold / int_6fcfbf9c	type	The Plot Reaper
Safehold / int_6fcfbf9c	comment	The Plot Reaper: A large number of important characters get killed off over the course of book ten, mostly though a combination of age, health problems, and the stress of dealing with the Jihad and its aftermath making the other two worse. Meanwhile, the book also spends a lot of time building up new important characters, such as Crown Princess Alahnah of Charis and Lywys Whytmyn.
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Safehold / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Safehold / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: King Cayleb of Charis marries Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm in what was originally a cold-blooded political move to unite their kingdoms. When they finally meet, it is Love at First Sight. Prince Nahrmahn of Emerald and his wife Princess Ohlyvya were betrothed at a young age, and eventually ended up falling in love, much to their mutual surprise and benefit, as the practically-minded Ohlyvya tempers some of Nahrmahn's... more volatile characteristics. Done deliberately with Irys and Hektor. They clearly like each other, but both are unwilling to make a move due to the circumstances. Sharleyan decides to deal with it by making their arranged marriage a condition of the peace treaty between Charis and Corisande. Through Fiery Trials: The tenth book plays with the trope in that, while not actively sought, it just sort of happens anyway. Between her place on the dynastic food chain and the fact that the Empire of Charis is, by this point, well established, Crown Princess Alahnah has more freedom to choose her husband than most. She ultimately chooses Lywys Whytman, the Earl of Thirsk's grandson and, while they initially have to keep their relationship quiet, the potential for a strengthening of bonds with Dohlar is built in to that relationship. This trope also gets mildy Inverted with Lywys and Alahnah. One of the main reasons they end up having to keep their relationship secret is precisely because of the inherent strengthening of bonds between Dohlar and Charis it brings â€” they're afraid that such strengthening will destabilize the already fragile political situation in Siddarmark. Prince Daivyn has similar freedom due to Irys and Hektor's marriage. He ends up pursuing a Childhood Friend Romance with Grand Duke Zebediah's youngest daughter, and because he courts her with all due propriety, it goes a long way towards smoothing out hard feelings between her homeland and Corisande dating back to his father's reign. Nahrmahn's actually annoyed at this, because the possibility never occurred to him and it damn well should have.
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Safehold / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
Safehold / int_72bafff5	comment	Surprisingly, Erayk Dynnys, combined with Doomed Moral Victor and a Facing the Bullets Final Speech as he's about to be executed as a scapegoat for the events of Off Armageddon Reef. He was offered a painless death if he said the right thing, but instead guaranteed a horrific and painful death by speaking the truth.
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Safehold / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Safehold / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The covers of Midst Toil and Tribulation and At the Sign of Triumph depict Charisian troops as heavily resembling German troops of WW1 in feldgrau uniforms and pickelhauben. The books however describe their uniforms more like modern splinter pattern camoflauge and plain steel helmets.
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Safehold / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Safehold / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: How Hauwerd Wylsynn chooses to go out. It later turns out that Major Phandys, the soldier who actually killed Hauwerd, was also in on the plan.
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Safehold / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Safehold / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: Oh so averted. A sizable number of Duchairn's scenes center around his effort to figure out how he's supposed to fund and supply the Church's forces. The initial campaign to conquer Siddarmark is thwarted when the Charisian Navy blows several key canal locks, making it impossible for the Church to ship supplies to the front lines, which bought the defenders a desperately needed year to reinforce and resupply. Charis has its own logistical problems on occasion, mainly centered around being able to make enough guns and ammunition to equip its forces.
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Safehold / int_7583ecbf	type	Morality Kitchen Sink
Safehold / int_7583ecbf	comment	Morality Kitchen Sink: In Off Armageddon Reef, it's definitely presented as Black-and-White Morality with the Charisians as the good guys and the Church of God Awaiting and its supporters as completely evil. Later books are more nuanced but with the Church forces as still far darker and no real bad guys in the Charisian Empire unless they turn traitor. While we don't see it directly in the narrative, it's clearly stated that the battered civilians on both sides of the conflict in Midst Toil and Tribulation have committed atrocities and counter-atrocities, including widespread murder, torture, and rape.
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Safehold / int_76c30df4	type	Will Not Tell a Lie
Safehold / int_76c30df4	comment	Will Not Tell a Lie: A significant factor in the propaganda battle between the Empire and the Church. The Charisians have done their best to restrict their propaganda to provable facts, regardless of whether anyone will believe them or not. On at least two occasions (Ahnzhelyk's files regarding Church corruption and the murders of vicars within Zion itself), Charisian leadership chose not to publish anything because they only have copies and not the original evidence (in the case of the former) and because there's an off-chance of Clyntahn's pulling a fast one and can disprove their claims (in the case of the latter). In At the Sign of Triumph, this becomes crucial when the propaganda broadsheets Owl's remotes tack up all over the Temple Lands call on the people of Zion to rise up against the Inquisition. The protagonists had been very careful to never tell any lies in those broadsheets, and even included easily checked local news to increase their validity where they were posted. Compared to the Inquisition's constant lies and denials, it made it easy for people to decide what to do. Merlin makes the decision early on to avoid outright lying to people as much as possible because he's aware that at some point the truth will come out about him and Safehold's true history, and he wants to have a reputation of having been as honest as he could be given the limits of what he could tell people.
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Safehold / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
Safehold / int_76db0ef5	comment	Desnairans and Dohlarans have to work together as the Army of Justice, but both would much prefer they didn't. The two nations' nobility are locked in a Slobs Versus Snobs situation and their two countries were at war with each other multiple times.
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Safehold / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Safehold / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: Some of the Sword of Schueler rioters learn the hard way that you shouldn't harass the family of a former pro ball player while he's carrying his lucky bat.
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Safehold / int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
Safehold / int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: As a result of a peasant uprising in Through Fiery Trials, Harchong is effectively split into four countries. The southern half is all that remains of the original nation. Meanwhile, in the north, the west ends up under the control of a coalition of nobles who avoided rebellion by avoiding the atrocities to justify one, who also create a parliamentary body so that the underclass can have a voice in government, which will gradually increase in power. The east ends up being pacified by former Mighty Host veterans, who again set up a less autocratic government. Both of these declare autonomy from the original nation. The land between them ends up a war-torn wasteland in which various nobles try to conquer as much territory as they can for themselves in the name of reclaiming it for their monarch.
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Safehold / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Safehold / int_7abd339f	comment	In Off Armageddon Reef, it's definitely presented as Black-and-White Morality with the Charisians as the good guys and the Church of God Awaiting and its supporters as completely evil. Later books are more nuanced but with the Church forces as still far darker and no real bad guys in the Charisian Empire unless they turn traitor.
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Safehold / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
Safehold / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: Rifles with bayonets eventually become the weapon of choice for the Imperial Charisian Army and they're so good with it, it's said that any Charisian force could take an enemy unit four times larger than them and win.
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Safehold / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Safehold / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Earl Coris on Clyntahn: "There ought to be a law that villains shouldn't be allowed to look like stereotypical villains."
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Safehold / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
Safehold / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: Everyone on Safehold speaks English, or at least a language that started out as English (with a few loan words derived from Japanese) before going through a thousand years of lingual drift. This makes the diary of the late Seijin Kohdy rather fascinating to those who have read it, as parts of it were written in Spanish.
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Safehold / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Safehold / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Grand Duke Zebediah. Cayleb and Nahrmahn enter into dealings with him knowing full well he'll attempt to betray them if it looks like a better opportunity. Their response is to keep an eye on him with SNARCs while he collects enough rope to hang himself with.
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Safehold / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Safehold / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: The Terran Federation is implied to be this in the backstory. Back when it still existed, anyway. The Charisian Empire is developing into an "imperial federation", of the sort that The British Empire never quite got around to becoming (despite several proposals).
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Safehold / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Safehold / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Back to back in How Firm a Foundation. Rhobair Duchairn gives the good guy version to Zahmsyn Trynair when the latter pleads with him to attend a public torture/ execution. Then it cuts to Zhaspahr Clyntahn who gives a more traditional, villainous one about Duchairn to his underling, revealing that he has a perfect understanding of what's going through Duchairn's head, how little it matters, how Hobbes Was Right, and how everything he does just plays into Clyntahn's hands. Also, at the end of the same book Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmanhk (who is 16 Safeholdian years old, or about 14Â½ Earth years) delivers one to an Inquisitor before turning his head into Pink Mist. Merlin takes some sadistic pleasure in inflicting these on priests of the Church of God Awaiting. Bishop Mylz Halcom in By Heresies Distressed and Father Vyktyr Tahrlsahn in Like a Mighty Army are each treated to a lecture about the true nature of the Church of God Awaiting before Merlin (or Dialydd Mab in the latter case) kills them. Merlin, as Dialydd Mab, also sends a letter to Zion addressed to Zhaspahr Clyntahn, Grand Fornicator. Merlin delivers one to Clyntahn himself as the latter is awaiting execution, providing documentary evidence to show the (former) Grand Inquisitor that everything he's believed in and fought for was a complete lie. Unlike the others, he has time to think about it before his death, and is utterly psychologically broken when executed.
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Safehold / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Safehold / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: This tends to happen every time Merlin gets in a sword fight. Witnesses (many of whom end up getting the same treatment a few seconds later) tend to be very impressed by his ability to do this, which is only possible because he has Super-Strength and an Absurdly Sharp Blade.
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Safehold / int_7e95adeb	type	High-Class Call Girl
Safehold / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: Madame Ahnzhelyk Phonda and her girls, which we later learn was Ahnzhelyk's way of getting information while in Zion.
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Safehold / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Safehold / int_7eb73553	comment	Nimue Chwaeriau completely destroys the sexist jerk Lieutenant Charlz Sheltyn in Like a Mighty Army after he picks a fight with her. Merlin finds the recording very entertaining.
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Safehold / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Safehold / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Rhobair Ducairn works to mitigate Clyntahn's evils and ultimately leads the revolt in Zion that deposes him. The heroes point out that while this saves a lot of lives and prevents a lot of destruction in the short term, had Rhobair not intervened, the power of Zion would have been broken once and for all and the Inner Circle might be well on their way to breaking the Church of God Awaiting itself. As it is, they will soon have to fight another war, one that will probably be even worse than the last, to finish the job.
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Safehold / int_7fd8b16a	type	Year Zero
Safehold / int_7fd8b16a	comment	Year Zero: Initially Creation, but in How Firm a Foundation Merlin notes that the end of Shan-wei's rebellion became the new Year Zero by which the "Years of God" are counted. This becomes a fairly significant plot point in the later books, since they learn from Paityr that the Archangels are prophesied to return after a thousand years. If that's a thousand years from Creation, the inner circle only has about twenty more years before their return, whereas if that's counting from Shan-Wei's murder they have close to a century.
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Safehold / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
Safehold / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: Aivah Parsahn manages to work out that Merlin is able to change his appearance and travel at speeds that should be impossible. Because Aivah is not aware of Safehold's true history, she deduces that these are simply part of Merlin's abilities as a seijin which, while not inaccurate, is not entirely correct. The Sisterhood of Saint Kohdy is an even older, mainland equivalent of Charis's Brotherhood of Saint Zherneau. However, their patron had only begun to suspect that the Archangels weren't entirely on the up-and-up. As a result, they do not know Safehold's full history like the Brotherhood does. They were, however, able to work out that the original Adams and Eves were someplace else before awakening on Safehold. There has been debate within the Sisterhood itself over whether it was the colonists or the colonists' souls that were somewhere else.
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Safehold / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Safehold / int_829b958e	comment	One of the aversions combines this with Embarrassing First Name: Midshipman Aplyn, who is introduced in Off Armageddon Reef, shares a given name â€” Hektor â€” with the Prince of one of his kingdom's enemies.
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Safehold / int_83641c73	type	Logical Weakness
Safehold / int_83641c73	comment	Logical Weakness: Just because the Church of God Awaiting doesn't know how the Charisians stay one step ahead of them doesn't mean they can't work out countermeasures against it, as the fourth, fifth, and sixth books demonstrate. The Church utilizes Sealed Orders, written in the Temple where they know Charisian spies haven't infiltrated, and those orders aren't revealed until the last moment possible so that, even if the Charisians do find out what's in them, the time they have to respond is drastically reduced. Clyntahn's Rakurai agents exploit a separate weakness. The Inner Circle can bust spy ring after spy ring because they can identify members and eavesdrop on conversations. The Rakurai work alone and act as independently as possible, as lone actors are far more difficult to track.
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Safehold / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Safehold / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The fraudulent Earl of Hanth, who had a major storyline in Off Armageddon Reef, and was last seen heading to Zion in By Schism Rent Asunder in order to be "the only legitimate Charisian noble to declare for the Church", has vanished completely. No mention of a ship sinking, of being killed simply for being a Charisian, or of making it there either to be tortured by the Inquisition, or to actually be part of their plans. We don't even know if they just ignored him or not. Grand Vicar Erek XVII is apparently such a nonentity in Church politics that when Duchairn launches a coup and takes control of the Church, the book doesn't even bother mentioning what happened to its previous nominal head, just the puppet masters. The following book just mentions that he was technically still in office until he was forcibly retired by his successor, but not what happened to him after.
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Safehold / int_88f45711	type	Space Amish
Safehold / int_88f45711	comment	Space Amish: Though the folk of Safehold aren't aware of it.
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Safehold / int_8941750b	type	Willfully Weak
Safehold / int_8941750b	comment	Willfully Weak: Merlin usually keeps governors in place to keep from betraying his superhuman nature too obviously, he removes them in emergencies when massive carnage is called for.
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Safehold / int_89443850	type	Absolute Xenophobe
Safehold / int_89443850	comment	Absolute Xenophobe: The Gbaba instinctively try to kill any other sentient species they find. It's possible that they do everything instinctively, and have stopped being sentient themselves.
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Safehold / int_89a98f45	type	Living Relic
Safehold / int_89a98f45	comment	Living Relic: For a given value of "living", Merlin and Owl are both relics of Terran Federation and humanity's high-tech SF past, and their aim is to bring this past back.
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Safehold / int_89f50aaa	type	Restraining Bolt
Safehold / int_89f50aaa	comment	Restraining Bolt: Autonomous PICAs are normally only able to remain active for ten days. This feature had to be hacked out of Nimue's PICA so it could perform the task needed of it, and doing so damaged the PICA's data port, so the PICA has to learn everything the old-fashioned way instead of just downloading it into his head. This does not apply to Nimue Chwaeriau, who was designed without said feature from the start.
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Safehold / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Safehold / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Book 2: Merlin discovering the Order of St. Zherneau, a monastic order of which Maikel Staynair is a brother, and whose highest members are actually aware of the true history of Safehold and the nature of the Archangels. Book 5: Paityr Wylsynn's revelation, that the archangels promised to return in one thousand years' time to see how Safehold was coming along
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Safehold / int_8e7ada2c	type	Technically a Smile
Safehold / int_8e7ada2c	comment	Technically a Smile: As in some of Weber's other works, this trope appears a lot.
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Safehold / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
Safehold / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Strictly enforced by the Proscriptions of Jwo-jeng. In Harchong they moved backwards, technologically speaking, from where the Archangels started them. This is mostly due to a preference for abusing their massive population of serfs/slaves rather than using more efficient draft animals, because serfs are cheaper. They are Mother Church's favorite secular power. Now that Charis has broken with the Church, they've broken out of this quite spectacularly. In book one, the world's tech level ranged from fifteenth to seventeenth century level. In book six, which takes place a mere six years later, Charis is introducing mid to late nineteenth century technology.
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Safehold / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Safehold / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: The fresh and new Harchongese army, titled "Mighty Host of God and the Archangels". When a noncom from another country complains about the name, his Harchongese friend replies that outlanders have no sense of poetics. There's also the royal family of Charis: Cayleb Zhan Haarahld Bryahn Ahrmahk, Sharleyan Alahnah Zhenyfyr Ahlyssa Tayt Ahrmahk and their daughter, Alahnah Zhanayt Naimu Ahrmahk. Deliberately invoked by Baron Star Rising early in Through Fiery Trials, when he suggests calling the ad-hoc governing body of one section of the former Harchong Empire "The Provisional Council of the United Provinces of Boisseau and Cheshire". Star Rising points out to the others that in common usage, everyone will abbreviate it to the "United Provinces" — meanng that by the time the Provisional Council is ready to turn things over to an elected Parliament, the populace will be used to thinking of themselves as citizens of the United Provinces instead of the Harchong Empire.
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Safehold / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Safehold / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: The series is very similar to the Thirty Years' War, especially in religious aspect and the land war technologies introduced. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, anyone? The scene where Gray Harbor confronts Duke Tirian in the first book bears a strong resemblance to the description of Howard Clinkscales confronting Jared Mayhew in Honor of the Queen. In both cases, upon discovering that the cousin of the current monarch is a traitor, one of said monarch's advisors confronts the traitor, who admits his treason and tries to recruit the advisor.
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Safehold / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Safehold / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Wyllym Rayno rigged the election for Grand Inquisitor so Zhaspahr Clyntahn would win. What he ultimately gets in return is being stabbed in the back by Clyntahn himself.
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Safehold / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Safehold / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Quite a few, but Grand Inquisitor Zhaspahr Clyntahn is the standout.
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Safehold / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Safehold / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: By book nine, Duchairn and Maigwair have figured out that Clyntahn is likely to seize the first plausible excuse he can find to purge them once he no longer needs them to win the Jihad. They purge him first.
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Safehold / int_935b90b6	type	Sabotutor
Safehold / int_935b90b6	comment	Sabotutor: The Holy Writ is accurate in its descriptions of a wide range of phenomena. However, it presents this information in such a way as to discourage people from questioning things too deeply by attributing the affects to the miracles and wrath of the Archangels. For example, it describes requirements for proper sanitation, but the sicknesses that result from not meeting those requirements is the wrath of Pasquale.
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Safehold / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
Safehold / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: Merlin's rescue of Earl Grey Harbour in book 1, via smashing through the skylight of Duke Tirian's townhouse and taking off the arm of the Earl's bodyguard, who secretly worked for the treasonous Duke. In the middle of a thunderstorm, for extra drama points.
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Safehold / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Safehold / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Surprisingly, Erayk Dynnys, combined with Doomed Moral Victor and a Facing the Bullets Final Speech as he's about to be executed as a scapegoat for the events of Off Armageddon Reef. He was offered a painless death if he said the right thing, but instead guaranteed a horrific and painful death by speaking the truth. Hauwerd Wylsynn's Crowning Moment of Awesome, effectively a Suicide by Cop as he fights the Temple Guard while denouncing Clyntahn all the while. Gwylym Manthyr gets to spit in Clyntahn's face before being put to the Punishment of Schueler. Also a Dying Moment of Awesome. Merlin even has prints of the moment distributed as part of his propaganda campaign. In the finale of At the Sign of Triumph, Clyntahn tries to be this, but when Merlin and Nimue visit him in his prison cell and show him archive footage of the "archangels", he breaks down completely.
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Safehold / int_97cd3d59	type	Remember the Alamo
Safehold / int_97cd3d59	comment	Remember the Alamo: When Gwyllym Manthyr is about to lead his damaged ships into doomed combat to allow the undamaged ships in his fleet to get way, he has his signalmen raise flags to spell out "Remember King Haahrald!"
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Safehold / int_98f19e68	type	Our Founder
Safehold / int_98f19e68	comment	Our Founder: The main dome of the Temple has a giant statue of Langhorne on top of it.
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Safehold / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Safehold / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Some of Clyntahn's potential targets did this in A Mighty Fortress. Hauwerd Wylsynn forced this on his brother before committing Suicide by Cop. Gwylym Manthyr kills one of his young midshipmen, rather than see the boy tortured in front of him and then executed in public. Also doubles as an extreme tearjerker. The forlorn hope defending Cliffpeak against the Army of God rig their own defenses with explosives, killing themselves rather than letting themselves be taken and face the punishment of heretics. And taking hundreds of their assaulting enemies with them. This is true for any enemy of Mother Church, especially after Clyntahn has over two thousand people tortured and killed in Zion for being part of the Reformist movement within the church or merely related to them. The only people spared were children under the age of four, with those between the ages of four and twelve being granted the "mercy" of being sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in cloistered monasteries and convents.
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Safehold / int_99390db0	type	Saintly Church
Safehold / int_99390db0	comment	Saintly Church: The Church of Charis under Archbishop Maikel Staynair. It pays lip service to many of the Church of God Awaiting's tenets, but stresses the individual's relationship with God while gradually phasing out reverence of the Archangels. With Staynair at the helm, the Church is a powerful force for good, even if it is based in the false religion Langhorne and BÃ©dard created.
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Safehold / int_9b6f7fbb	type	Secretly Earmarked for Greatness
Safehold / int_9b6f7fbb	comment	Secretly Earmarked for Greatness: For centuries prior to the novels, the inner core of the Brethren of Saint Zherneau have held proof about their planet's (and humanity's) history. They closely observe anyone nominated to be told the truth, and thus recruited to join them, to make sure that candidate can cope with finding out the "Archangels" were mortal men and women using proscribed technology to counterfeit divine powers. Once Merlin and Cayleb find out about the Brethren, Cayleb institutes the "Inner Circle", expanding knowledge of Safehold's true history outside the religious community and providing limited technological boosts to members. It's strongly implied that the Brethren have killed potential recruits who couldn't accept the truth, and the Inner Circle is willing to do so as well. However, the only failed recruitment we see on-page comes after Merlin has reactivated the cryosleep units in his cave; the failed candidate is reported dead but put into cryo until it's safe to release him.
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Safehold / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Safehold / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Allayn Maigwair has grown up at the end of Midst Toil and Tribulation, having led a largely successful military campaign into Siddarmark and telling off Clyntahn when he tries to blame Maigwair for the defeat suffered at the very end. Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk goes from a midshipman with a very minor role in book one, to leading his own company while still in his teens. By At the Sign of Triumph, he's a full-fledged member of the Inner Circle and commanding his own ship, the Fleetwing.
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Safehold / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Safehold / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Self-inflicted for Merlin. While everyone who learns the truth about Merlin is convinced that he's a living person, Merlin entertains constant doubt about his identity, and the reader is frequently reminded that he doesn't have a real heart when he feels strong emotions.
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Safehold / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Safehold / int_9ce6492a	comment	Prince Nahrmahn saves his wife from an assassin's bomb by throwing himself on top of her.
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Safehold / int_9d07277	type	Looking Busy
Safehold / int_9d07277	comment	Looking Busy: At one point in Hell's Foundations Quiver, the Inquisitor in charge of security for a meeting pretends to be in the nearby park for a picnic lunch and some reading in the sun.
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Safehold / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Safehold / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At the start of the Battle of Darcos Sound, Prince Cayleb has his ship signal the rest of his fleet "Engage the enemy more closely". This was Admiral Nelson's final signal to his fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. It's King Haarahld who dies in the battle, not Cayleb. The phrase "final solution to the Charisian problem" shows up in book 1. The concentration camps show up a few books later.
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Safehold / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
Safehold / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: All over the place, as the result of 800 years of language drift. A few examples: Lewis Whitman -> Lywys Whytman, Peter Wilson -> Paityr Wylsynn, Jasper Clinton -> Zhaspahr Clyntahn.
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Safehold / int_9e1e1e94	type	Fantastic Livestock
Safehold / int_9e1e1e94	comment	Fantastic Livestock: The setting has a mixture of imported earthly livestock and domesticated native animals. Particularly common examples of the latter are the domesticated draft dragons (six-legged herbivores roughly the size of elephants) and the various species of domesticated wyverns (the native bird-analogs).
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Safehold / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
Safehold / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: Graft is a way of life on Safehold outside the Charisian sphere, but it's particularly severe in Harchong (where corruption is even factored into the budget, because everyone is going to take a rake). In Through Fiery Trials, Siddarmark becomes another hotbed of corruption, due to a Gilded Age fuelled by rampant land speculation and an overheated banking sector.
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Safehold / int_9f063f19	type	Tough Leader FaÃ§ade
Safehold / int_9f063f19	comment	Tough Leader FaÃ§ade: Sharleyan. The throne of Chisholm was given to her when she was twelve years old, and she had to learn to be, or at least appear, as hard as possible in order to both keep that throne and govern her kingdom. One reason she cherishes her relationship with Cayleb is it lets her feel more like a woman than a queen.
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Safehold / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Safehold / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: From Off Armageddon Reef, doubling as a Shout-Out to "Crocodile" Dundee:
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Safehold / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Safehold / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: The Archangels attempted to create a Medieval Stasis by developing a theological explanation for everything: for example, there would be no need to develop germ theory to explain the hazards of drinking untreated water when your holy book says it's Pasquale's Curse of Pestilence for failing to bless it with the appropriate purifying powder. Eventually, somebody realized that you could design explosives by looking through the Writ for actions that would summon the Wrath of the Archangels, which was the starting point for a decidedly non-medieval chemical industry.
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Safehold / int_a1c0cab7	type	New Tech Is Not Cheap
Safehold / int_a1c0cab7	comment	New Tech Is Not Cheap: When the Jihad turns into a Lensman Arms Race, both sides find themselves facing the issue of how the heck they're going to pay for the weapons they have to have to survive. The discovery of gold and silver mines on Silverlode Island saves Charis' economy; meanwhile the Church of God Awaiting goes from the richest organization on the planet in book 1 to nearly bankrupt before the start of book 9.
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Safehold / int_a1ca3743	type	Believing Their Own Lies
Safehold / int_a1ca3743	comment	Zhaspar Clyntahn says the entire phrase word by word more than once, either to justify his megalomania and increasing hold over the Church or as a sign that he's deep in the territory of Believing Their Own Lies.
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Safehold / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Safehold / int_a2dd3c5	comment	My Death Is Just the Beginning: Shan-wei, all the wei. Her plan continued to develop and unfold long after she was killed.
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Safehold / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
Safehold / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: Safeholdians view the Rakurai, an automatic kinetic bombardment last used to kill Shan-wei, as this. It hangs over the protagonists' heads because they fear if they go too far, too fast, they could inadvertently trigger it on Charis. When Merlin sets up a test to see how far they can push things without triggering it, he does so as far away from civilization as possible to avoid any chance of someone seeing it and interpreting it as God's Wrath against one side or another.
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Safehold / int_a5a4c9a2	type	Majorly Awesome
Safehold / int_a5a4c9a2	comment	Majorly Awesome: Lt. Commander Nimue Alban. Merlin is eventually promoted to Major.
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Safehold / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Safehold / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Nyklas Stantyn is never seen getting any comeuppance for betraying the Wylsynn's group of reformers and falsely accusing them of pederasty and condemning them and many members of their families to horrible executions.
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Safehold / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Safehold / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Prince Nahrmahn is far more intelligent than he lets himself be known for. Many characters are aware of this and still underestimate him. Duchairn begins using this to keep Clyntahn from viewing him as a threat.
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Safehold / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Safehold / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Clyftyn Rahdgyrz has, by the ninth book, lost one leg, one hand and one eye. He is still actively commanding in the field and fighting in the thick of it with the best of them.
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Safehold / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Safehold / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Nimue is the most effective cross-dresser in history. It helps that she can actually change physical sex as many times as she needs with her PICA.
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Safehold / int_a86b13a9	type	Drums of War
Safehold / int_a86b13a9	comment	Drums of War: The Siddarmark army is specifically noted as using drum beats, instead of bugle calls, to pass commands in battle.
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Safehold / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
Safehold / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: Merlin finds himself forced into this a few times, because if anyone can testify that he was present in a place where it should have been impossible to be (and would have been impossible if not for his very Proscription-violating recon skimmer), the Temple will have proof that he's a demon.
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Safehold / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Safehold / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Cayleb and Sharleyan. Made as a cold-blooded strategic political decision, but turns out to be Love at First Sight.
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Safehold / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Safehold / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Prince Hektor's death is surprisingly moving, as he's abruptly shot down, along with and next to his partly estranged son, and realizes that he's always loved him.
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Safehold / int_ac546cd4	type	Worth It
Safehold / int_ac546cd4	comment	Worth It: Said by Merlin after his prank on Sharleyan at the start of A Mighty Fortress.
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Safehold / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Safehold / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Clyntahn's actions often do a lot of short-term damage to Charis, and long-term damage to the Church. His assassination of Prince Hektor and his heir ultimately results in the sincere loyalty of Irys and Daivyn in what would otherwise have been a tenuous Enemy Mine. His purge of the vicarate Reformists definitely cows the bulk of the population into obedience, but also makes all but the most zealous realize just how brutal Clyntahn is, if they hadn't already known, and prompts a lot of reconsideration of events that had been blamed on Charis (which directly results in the above example with Irys and Daivyn). His Sword of Schueler attack did much the same, devastating the Republic of Siddarmark, sparking a civil war within it, and forcing it to ally itself with Charis when it would otherwise have remained neutral, at worst, and giving Charis a much needed mainland ally. It's compared, in-universe, to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. In Hell's Foundations Quiver, Clyntahn's insistence that the Army of God's troops not give any ground, no matter how practical the reason, essentially makes Charis and Siddarmark's jobs significantly easier since it forces the AoG to defend positions that are far less defensible than other places they could go or maintain position on the wrong end of a cut supply chain. Magwair even flat out tells Clyntahn that his threat to have the Inquisition take direct control of the jihad would doom everything they've worked for, but Clyntahn's zealotry means he may well do it anyway, damn the consequences, if he thinks Magwair and Duchairn aren't doing their respective jobs to win the war.
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Safehold / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Safehold / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: There are many instances of this on the Temple Lands' part, especially when Charis manages to produce some new weapon. Special mention goes to the steamboat HMS Delthak and her sister ships. They even scare the crap out of their allies.
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Safehold / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Safehold / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Invoked by the Nahrman Plan. The Inner Circle know that if the Archangels return as prophecied, and if these returning Archangels have control of the Rakurai array, there is absolutely nothing they can do to stop these Archangels from raining devastation upon them. So their strategy is to spread industrialization so broadly before the prophecied date of the return that there will be no way to get rid of it without completely destroying human civilization on Safehold, and gamble that the "Archangels" will be smart enough to realize this and work with them.
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Safehold / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Safehold / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Nimue's name is already from Arthurian legend, so when she needs to adopt a male identity on Safehold she chooses to go by Merlin. One of the sejin network's names, Ganieda Cysgodol, also uses this as "Ganieda" is the name of the Arthurian Merlin's half-sister. Many of Mother Church's and the Navy of God's ships are named after Archangels and other figures in the Holy Writ. This theme naming carries over to the Army of God and its various squads and army forces.
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Safehold / int_af54b81d	type	Pillow Pistol
Safehold / int_af54b81d	comment	Pillow Pistol: Earl Coris keeps a dagger under his pillow. Not that it did him much good when Ahbraim/Merlin paid him a night visit.
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Safehold / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Safehold / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: For Merlin: "One tries." For Cayleb/Sharleyan: "Here I/We stand. I/We can do no other."
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Safehold / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Safehold / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: The Charisian leadership have to be very careful about dancing around the Proscriptions. Though doing so is made much easier once Father Paityr is inducted into the Inner Circle and cheerfully helps abuse said loopholes. Following the end of the Jihad, the Temple begins undergoing reforms. Unfortunately the Grand Vicar can't forbid the Punishment of Schueler as part of these reforms because that's enshrined in the Writ as holy law. He can, however, set the rules for when it is applied, and ensure that it's practically impossible to invoke.
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Safehold / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
Safehold / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Merlin mentions in book 5 that Owl doesn't have enough processing power to watch everything, so Owl just stores away the raw images (which don't show individuals) and enhances them later once they need more detail.
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Safehold / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Safehold / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: They're not actually bottomless, but when Merlin fires twelve shots from a pair of revolvers (killing fifteen people), those around him react as if they were. After all, everyone knows that you can only fire a pistol twice (once for each barrel) before you need to go through the laborious process of reloading.
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Safehold / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Safehold / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: What the Rakurai weapons platforms do, and how the Alexandria Enclave was destroyed.
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Safehold / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
Safehold / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: Merlin joins Cayleb and a few other guys for a game of rugby, only to discover too late that Charisian rugby is played in the nude, at this point in time Merlin still identifies as a woman, and that PICAs are fully functional. Cue the natural reaction to being surrounded by several hot, wet, naked members of the opposite sex. His only saving grace is that Charisian rugby is also played in the water, so he avoided detection by staying waist deep in the water, making sure to be the last to leave the water and being very careful to keep his Modesty Towel secured, something Cayleb remembers when he's reminded of the incident later and finds it hilarious. Merlin promptly shuts down that feature.
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Safehold / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Safehold / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The Church of God Awaiting's attack on Charis in book one. Mind you, they had no way of accounting for Merlin's satellite recon abilities, and little of accounting for the new artillery, but the people planning the thing didn't even understand how naval warfare normally worked, and didn't account for the weather, the limitations of ships designed for coastal waters, and the effects of wear and tear on the ships. And neither did several officers that were put in command of the fleets.
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Safehold / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
Safehold / int_b51128fa	comment	A constant danger for the Inner Circle. Every time they bring someone new in they run the risk that person may not react as they hope and will betray them. Thus, each character we see informed about it from about the fourth book onward also gets a warning of what they'd have to do in case of such a betrayal. By later books, the Inner Circle removes murder from the equation after Merlin sets up Nimue's Cave to act as a Gilded Cage for those who need time to think the situation over or to use cryo-sleep on anyone who simply can't accept what they're doing.
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Safehold / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
Safehold / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: Prince Nahrmahn of Emerald. He is ready to do anything it takes if it will benefit his Princedom. Even if doing so might mean his head, such as when he surrenders to Charis. Earl Thirsk continues to support the Jihad against Charis less out of personal conviction that it's right and more because he made vows to Mother Church and his king which he takes seriously. In At the Sign of Triumph, the circumstances change enough that he can begin to enact the "if wrong, to be set right" portion of the trope naming quote in Dohlar. The ultimatum that Cayleb issued in Off Armageddon Reef is the biggest sticking point for Thirsk in A Mighty Fortress.
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Safehold / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Safehold / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Cayleb does everything in his power to avert this trope out of a combination of his decent nature and an unwillingness to give the Church more fuel for its propaganda machine. As a result, his military has very good discipline and rarely does anything dishonorable. The few times they do cross the line, the perpetrators are promptly and publicly dealt with. This was the Group of Four's plan for Charis in Off Armageddon Reef, or at least the pillage and burn parts. The rape would be a side effect that they really wouldn't have bothered worrying about anyway. Happens a lot, on both sides, in Midst Toil and Tribulation, as the result of mixing a holy war with a civil war.
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Safehold / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Safehold / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: HMS Delthak, an improved copy of the CSS Virginia, otherwise known as the Merrimack. She and her sister ships deliver so many Oh, Crap! moments that the Army of God thinks they are demonic in origin. The HMS Gwylym Manthyr is essentially a WWI Battleship in a world where the most powerful vessel of every other nation in the world is an 18th-century ship of the line. Its entire purpose is to be so incredibly and lethally cool that the every nation in the world that doesn't have one is forced to acknowledge that their navy exists at the sufferance of the nations that do, forcing everyone to expand their tech base to be able to make comparable ships if they want to survive.
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Safehold / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Safehold / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The passage in the book of Schueler stating "Extremism in the pursuit of godliness can never be a sin" appears to be a license to act like this. The Inquisition certainly takes it as one.
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Safehold / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Safehold / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Most recently: "Oh, fuck you, Kahrnaikys! You always were a prick! And fuck Clyntahn, too!"
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Safehold / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Safehold / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Merlin expressly compares the Inquisition to the SS at one point.
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Safehold / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Safehold / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Cayleb and Sharleyan. Nahrmahn and Ohlyvya. Any number of others. Once again, despite the various other kinds of hell he puts his characters through, this really does seem par for the course in your average Weber novel.
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Safehold / int_bfb0f48a	type	Uncoffee
Safehold / int_bfb0f48a	comment	Uncoffee: It isn't until book 9 that "cherrybean tea" makes an appearance in the series, but its true nature is obvious almost instantly.
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Safehold / int_c011cd29	type	Path of Inspiration
Safehold / int_c011cd29	comment	Path of Inspiration: The original Church of God Awaiting.
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Safehold / int_c09c2921	type	Dystopian Edict
Safehold / int_c09c2921	comment	Dystopian Edict: The Proscriptions of Jwo-jeng, which forbids technological advancement of too high a level and which the protagonists have to dance around to avoid upsetting their own population with the innovations they're introducing.
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Safehold / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Safehold / int_c145f69b	comment	At the start of the Battle of Darcos Sound, Prince Cayleb has his ship signal the rest of his fleet "Engage the enemy more closely". This was Admiral Nelson's final signal to his fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. It's King Haarahld who dies in the battle, not Cayleb.
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Safehold / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Safehold / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Clyntahn and the rest of his Inquisition are explicitly compared to the SS in Midst Toil and Tribulation. There's also mentions of pogroms in the Temple Lands and camps set up for Reformists caught behind enemy lines in Siddarmark to hold them until the Inquisition gets around to torturing them to death. They are routinely called "concentration camps" in Like a Mighty Army, where the Temple Loyalists start using them as forced labor to help with the war effort.
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Safehold / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Safehold / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Personality-Integrated Cybernetic Avatar (PICA) Self-Navigating Autonomous Reconnaissance and Communication platforms (SNARC) Neural Education and Training machines (NEAT)
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Safehold / int_c271fe08	type	Machiavelli Was Wrong
Safehold / int_c271fe08	comment	Machiavelli Was Wrong: Clyntahn's downfall ultimately stemmed from his inability to understand Machiavelli's advice that a man who rules through fear must take care that he is not hated. When he finally pushes too far, a little push from the Inner Circle is all that's needed to spark open revolt in Zion itself.
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Safehold / int_c2ab0eaf	type	Double Agent
Safehold / int_c2ab0eaf	comment	Double Agent: Rhobair Seablanket. Book 4 reveals that he's an agent of the Inquisition. Book 5 reveals that he was planted in the Inquisition by Prince Hektor, having a very valid personal grudge against the Church.
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Safehold / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Safehold / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Played with. Initially, Nimue wanted to touch off a world war because it would force Safehold to develop new technologies and break through the Proscriptions of Jwo-jeng; either Charis would win, or it would lose, but in losing it would force the Temple to utilize technologies that they couldn't bottle up again. However, Merlin soon becomes personally invested in a Charisian victory, and this trope ceases to apply.
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Safehold / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Safehold / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Alhverez and his artillery officer, as one hates Thirsk and the other supports his policies. Over time, however, they get friendlier with each other, as Raynos realizes that his cousin's death wasn't Thirsk's fault and the Desnairans and Charisians get too problematic. Desnairans and Dohlarans have to work together as the Army of Justice, but both would much prefer they didn't. The two nations' nobility are locked in a Slobs Versus Snobs situation and their two countries were at war with each other multiple times. Vicars Rhobair Duchairn and Zhaspahr Clyntahn would be very grateful if the other one popped out of existence in some painful and bloody manner. While they prepare their plans to bring down the other, they need to cooperate as the Treasury and the Inquisition are the only things keeping the Church from falling.
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Safehold / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Safehold / int_c4240537	comment	In the fourth book, we get several members of the clergy who don't like how corrupt the Group of Four has become. Most of them are subjected to the cruel torture/execution of the Punishment of Shueler. So are the clergy's families... including the women and children.
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Safehold / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Safehold / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Clyntahn claims that Siddarmark had to have been planning to rebel against the Church. If they hadn't, they wouldn't have had the military strength to prevent the total takeover he launched without any warning. The same also goes for Charis â€” there's no way they could have survived this long if they hadn't been planning their heretical rebellion for years. Many of his other explanations for his actions/plans can come across as this as well, since the Writ's statement that "Extremism in the pursuit of godliness can never be a sin" means that everything he had done up to that point was always justified as far as he's concerned.
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Safehold / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Safehold / int_c75df49a	comment	More obliquely in A Mighty Fortress, when Cayleb recalls his ancestor's words that the walls of Charis' fortress are its wooden ships. This, itself, is a Shout-Out to second President of the United States John Adams, especially considering that the man who said it was King Zhan II, who said that the wooden walls of the navy were his country's first line of defense. Which itself might have been a Shout-Out to the Oracle of the Wooden Wall, where the Oracle of Delphi supposedly told Athens to "look to your wooden wall" for protection, and Themistocles decided that the wooden wall meant Athens' fleet.
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Safehold / int_cc396ff2	type	Rescue Introduction
Safehold / int_cc396ff2	comment	Rescue Introduction: How Merlin Athrawes introduced himself to then-Crown Prince Cayleb in the first book. This repeats when he appears to rescue Earl Coris, Irys, and Daivyn in How Firm a Foundation.
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Safehold / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Safehold / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God says that Langhorne and BÃ©dard honestly believed that locking Safehold in Medieval Stasis permanently would ensure humanity's survival.
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Safehold / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Safehold / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Wyllym Rayno is growing into this as Clyntahn spirals deeper and deeper into a Villainous Breakdown. If something happened to the Archbishop, Zion would probably turn into a charnel house, as all the competent Church officers would be put through Punishment along with their families and the Army of God's funding and supplies would break down completely. This is stated to be the exact reason no attempt has been made to assassinate Rayno.
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Safehold / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Safehold / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Dialydd Mab's retribution against those who committed the atrocities at Sarkyn. Said revenge includes the Inquisitors who carried it out and every officer in command of the Sarkyn garrison at the time.
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Safehold / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Safehold / int_d001c42c	comment	Vicar Rhobair Duchairn starts becoming this early in By Schism Rent Asunder after he starts to rediscover his faith. Though still a member of the Group of Four and still committed to the war against Charis, in By Heresies Distressed he has grown enough to warn the Wylsynns that Clyntahn must have found out about their secret organization. At the end of A Mighty Fortress, he's a full Anti-Villain. The only reason he's not moving openly against the other members of the Group of Four now is that he knows he wouldn't accomplish anything but becoming one more victim of the Inquisition without building a new political power base. And he's using his position as the Church's treasurer to make sure the Church run hospitals, soup kitchens, orphanages, and schools are fully funded to take care of those affected by the war and trying to become a Good Shepherd in general.
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Safehold / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Safehold / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Several characters lose limbs in battle, the most prominent being Admiral Sir Domynyk Staynair, Baron Rock Point, who loses his lower right leg at the Battle of Darcos Sound, leading to him often being referred to as the "one-legged admiral" in text.
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Safehold / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Safehold / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: Maikel Staynair and Paityr Wylsynn are both often noted for their serenity and confidence in their faith and are frequently good sources of advice for the other characters. Duchairn is making an effort to become one of these, as atonement for his role in bringing about the war with Charis. He largely succeeds, as it's often noted he's become a favorite among the populace and the more charitably minded members of the priesthood, who actually call him "the Good Shepherd". At the end of At the Sign of Triumph, he kickstarts a full-scale rebellion in Zion that ends with Clyntahn in chains and Duchairn himself as Grand Vicar, determined to rectify the excesses and evils of his Church. Not bad. Archbishop Zhasyn Cahnyr of Glacierheart, though a relatively minor character, is shown through the entire series as a Good Shepherd. As early as Off Armageddon Reef he's presented as a foil to the more corrupt Erayk Dynnys. Later, when Dennys is on death row, Cahnyr is the one to offer him comfort and helps smuggle messages to Dynnys' family, despite the prior bad blood between them. While initially fleeing Glacierheart to escape Clyntahn's purge of the Zion Circle, he soon returns to offer what moral support he can during the Siddarmark civil war.
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Safehold / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
Safehold / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: The official history of Shan-wei's fall and the War Against the Fallen was written by the Archangel Chihiro, who had fought the war on Langhorne's side. All documentation that portrayed Shan-wei and Kau-yung sympathetically was systematically destroyed, often along with any evidence as to the existence of the person who produced it in the first place.
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Safehold / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Safehold / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Cayleb loves to use this to maximum effect, to the occasional consternation of Merlin. In Off Armageddon Reef, after demolishing a hefty chunk of the Dohlaran navy and sending them running, Cayleb insists on giving chase. He insists on this even though it means sailing his fleet through a narrow area in pitch black, stormy weather â€” something only Merlin's SNARCs make possible. The sight of the Charisians coming at them in such impossible circumstances causes a near total panic in the remainder of Earl Thirsk's fleet, with some crews grounding or setting fire to their ships before the Charisians have the chance to do it to them. Cayleb is nothing compared to Madame Ahnzhelyk. In fact, Cayleb's reaction to her smuggling over two hundred potential Inquisition victims to safety in Grand Inquisitor Clyntahn's own transport sleighs is described as "almost reverent". Admiral Rock Point wants to marry her based on her reputation alone.
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Safehold / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Safehold / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The Group of Four decides to wipe Charis off the map in the first book, claiming the handful of innovations they've recently made were heretical. Failing that, they proceed to implement as many of those innovations as they can in an effort to destroy them. They claim that the Charisian versions of the innovations are powered by black magic, while the Church has managed to get the same effect without demonic help.
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Safehold / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Safehold / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: The Army of God is a multinational force formed from nations that had been rivals for centuries before Clyntahn launched his Jihad. As a result, there tends to be a great deal of friction when the overall commander of one of its armies is from one nation but some of the subordinate units are commanded by someone from another. Each nation also has a rivalry between the infantry and cavalry, and different doctrine as to how each should be used, which doesn't help. And that doesn't even account for the friction over how the chain of command works out between the career soldiers, their political masters, the Inquisition, and the local bishops and archbishops (who often theoretically outrank the Inquisitors, but get overruled anyway).
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Safehold / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Safehold / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: All regiments of the RSA that sided with the Temple Loyalists in the Sword of Schueler campaign. Their battle honors have been erased, and their centuries of contributions to their nation over centuries of war have been struck from the history books as punishment for treason. Some of the heroes of the War of the Fallen suffered this posthumously when the surviving Angels or Archangels learned that they were doubting the cause. Seijin Kohdy's legend survived as fairy tales, it's possible that others weren't so lucky.
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Safehold / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
Safehold / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Many local Safehold animals are named after mythical creatures from Earth, such as the kraken. Or even just regular creatures and plants from Earth. Such as titan oaks, near-pines, and spider-rats. Makes one wonder why the Archangels didn't change the names to completely original or more innocuous names to avoid questions like "What is a near-pine supposed to be near to?"
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Safehold / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Safehold / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Ahbraim Zhevons and Dialydd Mab are the most prominent, but Merlin has developed a significant number of seijins to run errands and perform tasks Merlin can not. He's lamented more than once at need for some kind of chart to keep track of them all. Aivah Pahrsahn, a.k.a. Nynian Rychtair, a.k.a. Ahnzhelyk Phonda. The woman has a large range of identities to hide herself as well as maintain assets and holdings without anything being traced to her.
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Safehold / int_d5f31c75	type	Rabble Rouser
Safehold / int_d5f31c75	comment	Rabble Rouser: Corisande sees an increase in these, courtesy of the Northern Conspiracy, after Charis takes over.
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Safehold / int_d739e2c2	type	Exponential Plot Delay
Safehold / int_d739e2c2	comment	Exponential Plot Delay: Seems to be heading this way as of the fourth book, thanks to the cast list increasing faster than characters are killed off. Even major characters like Nahrmahn can go hundreds of pages without an appearance.
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Safehold / int_d7c9f1a5	type	Amnesia Missed a Spot
Safehold / int_d7c9f1a5	comment	Amnesia Missed a Spot: The original seijins were Adams and Eves who had useful skills before their memories were reprogrammed, and then had their memories of those skills returned so they could fight more effectively against Kau-yung's followers. However, this caused some of them to start recalling things they weren't supposed to remember as well. When Seijin Kohdy started remembering his life as Sergeant Major Cody Cortazar and asked the Archangels what was going on, they murdered him.
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Safehold / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Safehold / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: On Safehold, friendship is defined as being able to freely insult one another. Merlin himself is deeply grateful for having people who are comfortable enough with him to give him grief.
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Safehold / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Safehold / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Merlin flat-out wonders if Haarahld and Cayleb have some genetic defect affecting their "fight or flight" instincts as they both fail to flip out when he does something obviously high-tech. Justified in the case of Haarahld.
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Safehold / int_d9b4cc7f	type	Abdicate the Throne
Safehold / int_d9b4cc7f	comment	Abdicate the Throne: In At the Sign of Triumph, Earl Thirsk forces King Rahnyld III to do this in favour of his son.
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Safehold / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Safehold / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: After book nine, the Mighty Host of God and the Archangels are effectively exiled from their homes in Harchong, because Harchong's northern aristocrats don't want to see their former serfs returning home as trained line infantry with an egalitarian junior officer corps.
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Safehold / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Safehold / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: More than a few Chekhov's Guns have gone unfired. The first book had both Hektor and Nahrmahn potentially plotting to kill Merlin, but nothing came of either instance. Clyntahn put the Circle of Reformists plotting against him to a horrible end. Nahrmahn's overly indulgent diet and the associated health risks were mentioned repeatedly. Princess Irys' vow of revenge against Cayleb was cast aside throughout How Firm a Foundation and Midst Toil and Tribulation.
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Safehold / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Safehold / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Done deliberately with Irys and Hektor. They clearly like each other, but both are unwilling to make a move due to the circumstances. Sharleyan decides to deal with it by making their arranged marriage a condition of the peace treaty between Charis and Corisande.
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Safehold / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Safehold / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Langhorne, BÃ©dard, and their fellow "Archangels".
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Safehold / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Safehold / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Haarahld and Cayleb both are pretty understanding. Haarahld especially when his own cousin was a traitor. Haarahld makes sure to offer consolation and assurance to the traitor's family, acknowledging they had done nothing wrong. Cayleb knows the value of not being a capricious ruler, so he'll do things like leave a potential backstabber like the Grand Duke of Zebidiah in place, until said backstabbing attempt is made at least, to avoid issues where other nobles might fear Cayleb will simply remove them in favor of cronies. Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm fits this as well. Among the clergy is Paityr Wylsynn, the intendant of Charis, who is perhaps the only member of the Inquisition who can make this claim. Earl Thirsk and perhaps Father Maik may also qualify, but their hands are often tied by their superiors.
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Safehold / int_de1e6c89	type	Heart Drive
Safehold / int_de1e6c89	comment	Heart Drive: Merlin's mind, memories and consciousness are not in his head, but in a small, fist-sized computer in his torso, hidden behind enough layers of battlesteel to withstand everything short of a nuclear strike zeroed on it. If the body's destroyed, this computer can be plugged into another PICA or VR unit.
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Safehold / int_de32cc52	type	Winter of Starvation
Safehold / int_de32cc52	comment	Winter of Starvation: The "Sword of Schueler" deliberately creates one of these in Siddarmark. The Inquisition-organized "spontaneous" rebellion against the Siddarmark government is specifically timed to start after the harvest but before those crops can be shipped east to more populated provinces, and the rebels are also ordered to destroy both food supplies and the canals that might have been used to ship food or rescue starving people.
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Safehold / int_e04ffce3	type	Lost Colony
Safehold / int_e04ffce3	comment	Lost Colony: Safehold was intentionally lost so that the remaining human population would be far enough away from the Gbaba to give them time to advance beyond their foe's level of technology, so they can definitively win the next war. Unfortunately, Langhorne and BÃ©dard's manufactured religion has slowed down the original plan considerably.
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Safehold / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
Safehold / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: All battlesteel weapons are this. Merlin has his katana, which is merely extremely sharp, and his wakizashi, which he only uses in special situations and is likely the sharpest weapon in the series.
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Safehold / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
Safehold / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: Merlin and Cayleb's reaction to a fist fight between Nimue and an insubordinate lieutenant.
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Safehold / int_e2abcbfd	type	Turbulent Priest
Safehold / int_e2abcbfd	comment	Turbulent Priest: Maikel Staynair, Samyl & Hauwerd Wylsynn, and other members of the Circle.
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Safehold / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Safehold / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Sharleyan is a skilled diplomat, a dedicated ruler, and a caring wife and mother. She's also perfectly willing and capable of helping her armsmen shoot a horde of attacking fanatics and later continuing to sentence traitors to death after getting shot by an assassin. The bullet didn't penetrate her armored clothing, but it did crack a couple of ribs. Madame Ahnzhelyk Phonda is another: a highly-cultured courtesan who caters to the most prestigious members of the Church of God Awaiting. Behind the scenes, she's a master spy and schemer who manages to sneak hundreds of people out from right under Clyntahn's nose. And did we mention that she later trains and leads a small army of counter-revolutionaries?
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Safehold / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Safehold / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Earl Thirsk, who is a) a dedicated Navy man trying to give his sailors a fighting chance of survival while hampered by a nation (or in his case planet-wide church) going mad with its own power around him, b) a genuinely honorable man, c) a Worthy Opponent to the protagonist Charisian Empire, d) determined to treat his prisoners of war with all due respect and dignity while terrified as to what will happen to them if the Inquisition gets its hands on them, and e) stages a coup to overthrow his country's bad government, winding up in a fairly high-ranking position, paving the way for said country to become an ally of the protagonists' country. He has a few too many parallels with the Honorverse's Thomas Theisman for it to be a pure coincidence.
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Safehold / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
Safehold / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: Clyntahn and the rest of the Group of Four claim that Charis' schism with the church is the result of a long-term plan by Shan-wei worshipers in Charis to subvert the authority of the Church of God Awaiting. Considering what the church sees as demonic and the tools Merlin brings to the table... Merlin never claims to be a seijin, but does note that he has some of the abilities traditionally attributed to them. It turns out that, just like Merlin, the original seijins got most of their abilities from Federation technology.
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Safehold / int_e905c892	type	The Heretic
Safehold / int_e905c892	comment	The Heretic: Everyone who isn't a pure Temple Loyalist, including not only the Church of Charis but also the Reformists. Even the Loyalist Charisians who emigrated to escape their kingdom's heresy are given the label thanks to association.
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Safehold / int_e95acf73	type	Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Safehold / int_e95acf73	comment	Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The Charisian navy after Merlin's innovations take hold. Already one of the most formidable naval forces on Safehold, Merlin's work makes them nigh invincible in naval combat. The few engagements they do lose come at an almost heavier price to the other side.
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Safehold / int_e96fe76d	type	Hobbes Was Right
Safehold / int_e96fe76d	comment	Back to back in How Firm a Foundation. Rhobair Duchairn gives the good guy version to Zahmsyn Trynair when the latter pleads with him to attend a public torture/ execution. Then it cuts to Zhaspahr Clyntahn who gives a more traditional, villainous one about Duchairn to his underling, revealing that he has a perfect understanding of what's going through Duchairn's head, how little it matters, how Hobbes Was Right, and how everything he does just plays into Clyntahn's hands. Also, at the end of the same book Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmanhk (who is 16 Safeholdian years old, or about 14Â½ Earth years) delivers one to an Inquisitor before turning his head into Pink Mist.
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Safehold / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Safehold / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In Off Armageddon Reef, Merlin is questioned with the assistance of a lie detector, and is very careful in how he words his responses. At least one person present notices this (and later comments on it), but not the person asking the questions.
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Safehold / int_eb8e12d6	type	Rules Lawyer
Safehold / int_eb8e12d6	comment	Rules Lawyer: Upon receiving an order from the Inquisition to stop accepting Charisian-flagged ships into their ports, the merchant houses of Siddarmark respond by buying the ships and hiring their Charisian crews to sail them for their new owners, thus making them Siddarmark-flagged ships which are legally permitted to trade in Siddarmarkian ports without violating the letter of the Church's order.
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Safehold / int_ec2d62b9	type	Cult Colony
Safehold / int_ec2d62b9	comment	Cult Colony: Langhorne and BÃ©dard's manufactured religion turned Safehold into one of these, not that they know it.
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Safehold / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Safehold / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted hardcore, but sometimes played with. There are people with the same first name, but sometimes with different spellings and/or pronunciations (e.g. Erayk and Erek). One of the aversions combines this with Embarrassing First Name: Midshipman Aplyn, who is introduced in Off Armageddon Reef, shares a given name â€” Hektor â€” with the Prince of one of his kingdom's enemies. A particularly unfortunate Charisian officer has the surname Clyntahn. The son of Hektor Aplyn-Armahk and Irys of Corisande in Through Fiery Trials is universally referred to by his first and middle names â€” Hektor Merlin â€” because of the number of Hektors in his family.
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Safehold / int_ef2582c3	type	Named Weapons
Safehold / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Cayleb's battlesteel, eternally sharp katana that Merlin gave him is named Excalibur. The late Seijin Kohdy had a sword named Helm Cleaver, which the Sisterhood of Saint Kohdy still possesses, and it is still sharp enough to cut granite.
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Safehold / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Safehold / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Among the many more practical things Cayleb uses Owl for: keeping track of baseball games.
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Safehold / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Safehold / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: Plays a major part in the plot from By Schism Rent Asunder onward, as the protagonists have to decide who to allow into their Inner Circle due to either how trustworthy an individual is or how they might react to the crisis of faith the truth would inevitably cause. Baron Seamount is a unique case in this. While his abilities would be incredibly useful combined with access to Owl in the short term, his status as a One-Man Industrial Revolution without access to Owl's records is far more valuable to Merlin's long-term plans to get Safehold's people to embrace technological innovation. Sharleyan, at least, is very displeased about the consensus being to keep him locked out. And there's another reason he's locked out: the inner circle fears that he would be so angry at what the "Archangels" did that he wouldn't be able to keep his knowledge secret.
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Safehold / int_f13a0451	type	Suicide Attack
Safehold / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: Project Rakurai, using gunpowder-filled wagons as terrorist bombs.
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Safehold / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Safehold / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Acknowledged in every battle, but especially in Midst Toil and Tribulation with the religiously inspired civil war in Siddarmark, following the Sword of Schueler.
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Safehold / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
Safehold / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Helm Cleaver, the Zion resistance organized by Aivah Parsahn, which uses methods such as assassination and blowing up churches, while avoiding innocent casualties. The Church always maintained that all the seijins fought for Mother Church during the War Against the Fallen. This is only true because they labelled all warriors with seijin abilities that fought on the other side as demons.
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Safehold / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Safehold / int_f3626b09	comment	In Midst Toil and Tribulation, this gets done en masse, to the survivors of an entire company of Siddarmarkians who fought to the finish despite impossible odds. Given that their fate would otherwise have been the Punishment of Schueler, they were grateful. It should be noted that officer who ordered the Mercy Kill was aware that he may be put to the Punishment himself for sparing them when he ordered it. In this case, there's even a name for it: "Pasquale's Grace", when it is more merciful to end someone's life then let them live in whatever painful condition they were in.
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Safehold / int_f39d7dbc	type	You Will Be Spared
Safehold / int_f39d7dbc	comment	You Will Be Spared: In Hell's Foundations Quiver, Merlin kills the commanders of a Death March and wounds a junior officer who tries to stop him, but leaves the wounded man alive while assuring him that he won't harm him any further and complimenting him for trying to keep the prisoners alive and healthy despite his superiors' disapproval.
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Safehold / int_f5eda11	type	Mix-and-Match Critters
Safehold / int_f5eda11	comment	Merlin... versus alien squid-sharks!
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Safehold / int_f68fcbc6	type	Sealed Orders
Safehold / int_f68fcbc6	comment	Just because the Church of God Awaiting doesn't know how the Charisians stay one step ahead of them doesn't mean they can't work out countermeasures against it, as the fourth, fifth, and sixth books demonstrate. The Church utilizes Sealed Orders, written in the Temple where they know Charisian spies haven't infiltrated, and those orders aren't revealed until the last moment possible so that, even if the Charisians do find out what's in them, the time they have to respond is drastically reduced.
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Safehold / int_f770e79d	type	Punished for Sympathy
Safehold / int_f770e79d	comment	Punished for Sympathy: An Inquisitor working in one of the concentration camps is sentenced to the Punishment for providing decent food to sick detainees who hadn't yet been convicted of anything. Dialydd Mab executes the people who sentenced him, then grants the Inquisitor a Mercy Kill.
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Safehold / int_f7916eb9	type	Afraid to Hold the Baby
Safehold / int_f7916eb9	comment	Afraid to Hold the Baby: Shortly after Hektor and Irys' twins are born, there's a cute scene where Prince Daivyn is asked to hold one of the babies. He agrees, but is clearly terrified of doing something that might harm the child. To be fair, Daivyn is roughly 12 at the time and had zero experience with babies.
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Safehold / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
Safehold / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: After At the Sign of Triumph, North Harchong is developing into this, as the last bastion of the Clyntahn-era Church, where serfdom remains the rule and innovation is distrusted.
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Safehold / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Safehold / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: What is it with Merlin, assassination attempts, and thunderstorms? When Sharleyan survives an assassination attempt she even points the thunderstorm out.
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Safehold / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
Safehold / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Number Two: Langhorne had two: Chihiro was the author of the Holy Writ and his chief administrator, while BÃ©dard was responsible for keeping the colonists in the dark.
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Safehold / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Safehold / int_fc52510	comment	Nimue Chwaeriau to Merlin Athrawes, the former being a second PICA created and given Nimue's pre-Safehold Brain Uploading but remaining female.
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Safehold / int_fc9cd837	type	Technology Uplift
Safehold / int_fc9cd837	comment	Technology Uplift: Nimue's/Merlin's goal is giving back to the humanity of Safehold the technology that was effectively stolen from them by Langhorne and his ilk.
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Safehold / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Safehold / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Zhaspahr Clyntahn is especially dangerous because he has himself convinced that he's merely this. Merlin is, for all intents and purposes, helping along war that will kill millions in order to bring humanity back to its old technological level as quickly as possible and hopefully enable humanity to eventually defeat the Gbaba. Unlike others on this list, he at least struggles with it. Word of God says that Langhorne and BÃ©dard honestly believed that locking Safehold in Medieval Stasis permanently would ensure humanity's survival.
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Safehold / int_fd86da63	type	Crisis of Faith
Safehold / int_fd86da63	comment	Crisis of Faith: While the Inner Circle's endgame goal of exposing the fraudulent nature of Mother Church is important in the long run, Maikel Staynair has expressed his worry at the consequences for the souls of those who might, for what he acknowledges are valid reasons, decide God himself is a lie after learning that the Church itself is.
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Safehold / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Safehold / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: With the intention of provoking an Oh, Crap! moment with Clyntahn, Charis has decided to name the lead ships of its new class of ocean-going ironclad battlecruisers after people Clyntahn had killed.
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Safehold	hasFeature	My Country, Right or Wrong / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	My Own Private "I Do" / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Named Weapons / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Naval Blockade / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	New Tech Is Not Cheap / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Not So Omniscient After All / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Nu Speling / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Number Two / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Obliviously Beautiful / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Occult Blue Eyes / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	One-Man Industrial Revolution / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	One True Faith / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Orbital Bombardment / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Our Founder / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Outside-Context Problem / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Painless Death for a Price / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Pass the Popcorn / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Path of Inspiration / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Permanent Elected Official / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Photographic Memory / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Pillow Pistol / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Plucky Middie / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Poison Ring / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Power Limiter / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Pre-Approved Sermon / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Pre-Battle Banter / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Price on Their Head / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Priceless Paperweight / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Privateer / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Proud Merchant Race / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Psychological Projection / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Public Execution / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Punished for Sympathy / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Rabble Rouser / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Rape, Pillage, and Burn / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Redemption Earns Life / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Reflexive Remark of Reverence / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Remember the Alamo / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Rescue Introduction / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Royal "We" / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Rugby Is Slaughter / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Ruling Couple / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Sabotutor / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Satan Is Good / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Scam Religion / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Science Is Bad / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Make Them! / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Secret Relationship / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Secret Secret-Keeper / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Secretly Earmarked for Greatness / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Self-Serving Memory / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Share the Male Pain / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Sinister Minister / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Sketchy Successor / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Sleeper Starship / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Sleeps in the Nude / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Slobs Versus Snobs / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Sole Surviving Scientist / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Space Amish / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Spoiler Cover / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Stealing from the Till / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Stress Vomit / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Suffer the Slings / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Sufficiently Advanced Alien / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Suicide Attack / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Super-Powered Evil Side / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Symbolically Broken Object / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Tantrum Throwing / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Technically a Smile / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Technology Uplift / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Book Cipher / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Cabin Boy / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Drunken Sailor / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Gadfly / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Good Chancellor / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Heretic / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Jailbait Wait / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Metric System Is Here to Stay / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Paranoiac / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Plot Reaper / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Political Officer / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Spymaster / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Theocracy / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Themed Aliases / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Throw-Away Guns / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Tough Leader FaÃ§ade / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Treachery Cover-Up / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	21-Gun Salute / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Uncoffee / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Universal Universe Time / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Uterine Replicator / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Vehicular Turnabout / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Vengeful Widow / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Vertebrate with Extra Limbs / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Villain Forgot to Level Grind / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Virtual Ghost / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Vocal Dissonance / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Vote Early, Vote Often / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	War Ship / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	We Named the Monkey "Jack" / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Weapons Breaking Weapons / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Weight Woe / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	When You Snatch the Pebble / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Widowed at the Wedding / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Will Not Tell a Lie / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Winter Warfare / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Wooden Ships and Iron Men / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Worth It / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Written by the Winners / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Year Zero / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters / int_cec99ed9
Safehold	hasFeature	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant / int_cec99ed9

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