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Song of the Lioness

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Song of the Lioness	comment	Song of the Lioness is the first series set in the Tortall Universe and stars Alanna of Trebond, a young girl who disguises herself as a boy to become a knight. The books follow her from the beginning of her training to adulthood as she struggles with issues both internal and external: chiefly her feelings about her gender and sexuality, and then the court intrigues surrounding the King's brother as well as becoming part of Tortall's army as it wars with its neighbors... to say nothing of her dealings with gods.Originally meant as one book for the adult market, Pierce divided it into four and made a large amount of cuts to conform to the rules of length and content that Young Adult Literature had in The '80s. It is also a famous work of Feminist Fantasy due to the focus given to gender issues and its message that girls have nothing to be ashamed of, whether compared to men or other kinds of girls.A list of characters is found here, but because many of the characters appear in subsequent series, there are many spoilers. Alanna: The First Adventure In the Hand of the Goddess The Woman Who Rides Like a Man Lioness Rampant
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Song of the Lioness / int_116a648e	type	Half-Identical Twins
Song of the Lioness / int_116a648e	comment	Half-Identical Twins: Alanna and Thom are able to pass themselves off as each other as children, long enough to get to where they'd prefer to go. Not so much as adults, though.
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Song of the Lioness / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
Song of the Lioness / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: The Bazhir in the third book have elements of this, being Proud Warrior Race Guys who are very big on honor and ritual and live in nomadic tribes — with the exception of Persopolis, which they built specifically to keep an eye on the Black City. Alanna says more than once that she finds their more honest ways preferable to the social maneuvering at court, something which Raoul agrees with. (Pierce has said that she does regret playing into this trope.)
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Song of the Lioness / int_13a499b8	type	Diabolus ex Nihilo
Song of the Lioness / int_13a499b8	comment	Diabolus ex Nihilo: The Ysandir in book one. The only thing approaching foreshadowing for them is Alanna's visions of the Black City — which, in fairness, happen several times.
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Song of the Lioness / int_1892d512	type	Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Song of the Lioness / int_1892d512	comment	Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Most notably Jonathan of ContÃ©. Duke Roger, too, so it's probably a trait of ContÃ© men.
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Song of the Lioness / int_1a5af733	type	Outfit-Rip Sex Check
Song of the Lioness / int_1a5af733	comment	Outfit-Rip Sex Check: Alanna's true sex is revealed to the public in the second book during her duel with Duke Roger when he accidentally cuts through the special corset that she uses to flatten her chest, causing her to inadvertently flash the entire crowd.
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Song of the Lioness / int_1b2b1d2c	type	Violation of Common Sense
Song of the Lioness / int_1b2b1d2c	comment	Violation of Common Sense: Alanna learns to win she must sometimes surrender.
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Song of the Lioness / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
Song of the Lioness / int_1c3423d6	comment	The Quest: Alanna's search for the Dominion Jewel in Lioness Rampant, which was added at the behest of Pierce's editor because fantasy's gotta have quests. Basically, Alanna hears about this thing and decides it'll be a useful way to prove herself as a worthy person to Tortall (rather than a disgrace or a curiosity) and it'll be handy for Jon to rule the kingdom with.
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Song of the Lioness / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
Song of the Lioness / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Alex, to Alanna. She also has a Bazhir one in the third book, after she becomes a Bazhir shaman against her will.
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Song of the Lioness / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Song of the Lioness / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Jonathan. Roger too, but it would be better if he didn't.
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Song of the Lioness / int_1eecf6be	type	Resurrect the Villain
Song of the Lioness / int_1eecf6be	comment	Resurrect the Villain: After Roger's death at the end of In the Hand of the Goddess, Thom is goaded into resurrecting him during the events of The Woman Who Rides Like a Man so he can "prove" he's the most powerful mage living. However, Roger later claims that he was Only Mostly Dead. Regardless of how dead he was, though, he's gone completely mad upon resurrection, and no longer cares about ruling Tortall, instead deciding to destroy it.
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Song of the Lioness / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
Song of the Lioness / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: Liam Ironarm writes a final message for Alanna in Lioness Rampant, only to be read if he dies. Which he does.
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Song of the Lioness / int_2489e8bd	type	The Diaper Change
Song of the Lioness / int_2489e8bd	comment	The Diaper Change: In Lioness Rampant, Alanna is saddled with the task of changing the diaper of a baby being cared for by Thayet's group of refugees. Coram ends up having to show her how to do it because he used to change Alanna and Thom's diapers when they were babies.
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Song of the Lioness / int_26ff59b4	type	Knight Errant
Song of the Lioness / int_26ff59b4	comment	Knight Errant: Alanna starts doing this in The Woman Who Rides Like a Man to escape court and find adventure.
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Song of the Lioness / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Song of the Lioness / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Alanna's first one comes in In the Hand of the Goddess, when she starts taking lessons from Mistress Cooper in feminine dress and behavior, and George and Jon see her in a dress. Lampshaded by Alanna after Jon starts coming onto her: Also in Lioness Rampant, where her comrade/lover Liam, despite thinking she looks pretty, reacts snappishly and tells her basically that she can't be a warrior and a lady and she'd better straighten out her priorities. Later he apologizes.
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Song of the Lioness / int_27705cf8	type	Textile Work Is Feminine
Song of the Lioness / int_27705cf8	comment	Textile Work Is Feminine: Alanna starts learning how to spin and weave from the women of the Bloody Hawk tribe, having never properly learned while she was being a tomboy in Trebond. When Ishak scoffs at this "women's work", Alanna uses a few pieces of thread magic to show him the error of his ways. Kourrem and Kara later make use of it themselves.
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Song of the Lioness / int_27ebe639	type	Prince Charming
Song of the Lioness / int_27ebe639	comment	Prince Charming: Justified in Prince Jonathan of the realm of Tortall, who is a lover and a fighter. And oh boy is he a lover — right up until he meets Thayet, anyway, and she steals his heart and his ability to speak in all of ten seconds.
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Song of the Lioness / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Song of the Lioness / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Most of the soldiers Alanna befriends in camp when at war with Tusaine get a bit of screentime, just enough for us to feel bad when the inevitable war casualties begin. Several become Sacrificial Lambs as well.
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Song of the Lioness / int_2b2d9e53	type	Once is Not Enough
Song of the Lioness / int_2b2d9e53	comment	Once is Not Enough: Roger. He was Not Quite Dead.
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Song of the Lioness / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Song of the Lioness / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Josiane of the Copper Isles. Literally. Stated to have been the result of inbreeding in the island kingdom; apparently her family throws out one utter nutcase every generation.
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Song of the Lioness / int_3094ec26	type	Artifact of Death
Song of the Lioness / int_3094ec26	comment	Artifact of Death: The crystal sword in The Woman Who Rides Like a Man. It's soaked in Roger's magic and incites horrible bloodlust in anyone who wields it while trying to drain their life-force. Alanna eventually claims it and puts a lot of work into neutralizing it.
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Song of the Lioness / int_319e101e	type	Amplifier Artifact
Song of the Lioness / int_319e101e	comment	Amplifier Artifact: The Dominion Jewel. It has been used by famously good rulers and tyrants alike; it all depends on who's holding it.
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Song of the Lioness / int_33d76f78	type	Heroic Ambidexterity
Song of the Lioness / int_33d76f78	comment	Heroic Ambidexterity: Alanna can fight just as well with either hand, a skill that helps her win her first duel.
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Song of the Lioness / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
Song of the Lioness / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: When Alanna and the other knights and squires are sent off to fight in Tusaine, she notes how she'll be in her first war before she turns 16. Indeed, her birthday comes during that grueling summer, which is filled with fighting and death.
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Song of the Lioness / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
Song of the Lioness / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: In The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, Alanna intervenes when a village, suffering from a drought and inflamed by a religious fanatic, turns on its local healer and tries to burn her at the stake.
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Song of the Lioness / int_37c95f05	type	Asleep for Days
Song of the Lioness / int_37c95f05	comment	Asleep for Days: Alanna does this after the battle by the river in In the Hand of the Goddess. It happens again after her ordeal to gain the Dominion Jewel in Lioness Rampant.
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Song of the Lioness / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Song of the Lioness / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Roger's plan in Lioness Rampant is this. Alanna only manages to stop it when she realizes he is expecting her every move, then does what he doesn't expect of her.
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Song of the Lioness / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Song of the Lioness / int_3dcc914f	comment	Jonathan was picked out for pragmatic reasons by the previous Voice (via his minor prophetic gifts, he'd come to realize that Tortall would win the long war with the Bazhir and his people would be destroyed, so took steps to unify the peoples and avert it) and still had to humble himself, prove himself to the skeptical Bazhir, memorize their laws and their history — Alanna specifically notes that she'd never previously seen Jonathan work so hard — and pass a grueling test to become the Voice. And in the end, when he became the Voice, the reaction was "you'll do".
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Song of the Lioness / int_3e01fd7	type	Arrow Catch
Song of the Lioness / int_3e01fd7	comment	Arrow Catch: Liam, the Shang Dragon, catches an assassin's arrow during the assassination attempt on Thayet in Rachia.
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Song of the Lioness / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Song of the Lioness / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: One of Roger's men puts a burr in Duke Gareth's saddle so the horse will throw him. While it's not lethal, it does break his leg and Roger takes over leading the army in the Tusaine war.
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Song of the Lioness / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Song of the Lioness / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Both Myles of Olau and Coram replace Alanna's distant and neglectful father (to the point that Myles adopts her and Coram outright says he has "a father's interest" in her).
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Song of the Lioness / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Song of the Lioness / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: In the climax of book one, Alanna saves the day with a magical ability we'd never heard about before, with a flashback abruptly thrown in of her learning it. This is a result of the book having to be considerably trimmed down to fit the maximum page length of young adult novels at the time.
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Song of the Lioness / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Song of the Lioness / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Josiane allies with Roger after being dumped by Jonathan.
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Song of the Lioness / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
Song of the Lioness / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: Thayet, called "The Peerless". Her mother, Kalasin, was reported to be just as beautiful, if not more.
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Song of the Lioness / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Song of the Lioness / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: More of a case of Prince Incognito: "Johnny", the rich young merchant's son befriended by the King of Thieves, is really Prince Jonathan. Princess Thayet jian Wilima of Sarain does this while fleeing a civil war in Lioness Rampant.
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Song of the Lioness / int_4603ea49	type	Mystical Plague
Song of the Lioness / int_4603ea49	comment	Mystical Plague: The Sweating Sickness that hits Corus in the first book. Although the illness was previously known, this version specifically targets healers by draining their magic when they try to treat people, leaving none capable when it reaches its intended target — the royal family.
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Song of the Lioness / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Song of the Lioness / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: In In the Hand of the Goddess, Alanna throws up after killing for the first time and again after helping the wounded in the field hospital. When she feels ashamed for this, Jon confesses that he threw up himself after his first battle.
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Song of the Lioness / int_4b220918	type	Godhood Seeker
Song of the Lioness / int_4b220918	comment	Godhood Seeker: Part of Duke Roger's motivation, crossed with Rage Against the Heavens.
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Song of the Lioness / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
Song of the Lioness / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking Is Love: In The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, George has Alanna tailed during some of her adventures and says that they're destined for each other. Pierce admits this seems creepy now. There's also his forcing a kiss on her immediately after promising to give her space. The '80s were a different time where portrayals of romance were concerned, and Pierce has since said she regrets writing their romance this way and it's the thing she most wishes she could go back and fix.
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Song of the Lioness / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Song of the Lioness / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Kourrem, Kara, and Ishak — Alanna's students in the third book — are shunned by most of the rest of the Bloody Hawk tribe because their Jerkass shaman rails against them as demonic.
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Song of the Lioness / int_4d359d57	type	Loyal Phlebotinum
Song of the Lioness / int_4d359d57	comment	Loyal Phlebotinum: The Dominion Jewel doesn't care about the morals of the person who claims it, but it will always end up back in Chitral's hands eventually, and someone will have to go questing for it all over again. It's made clear that this will happen to Jonathan's family at some point, although it tends to happen through neglect or thievery.
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Song of the Lioness / int_4dd46feb	type	Polar Opposite Twins
Song of the Lioness / int_4dd46feb	comment	Polar Opposite Twins: Alanna prefers using her muscles and is overall more trusting then her brother Thom, who prefers using magic and does not trust anyone. Alanna makes friends and tries to help wherever she goes, while Thom... doesn't.
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Song of the Lioness / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Song of the Lioness / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line:
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Song of the Lioness / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Song of the Lioness / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: This series departs from its main heroine's viewpoint far more than any other Tortall series. Demonic entities like the Ysandir have not appeared in any subsequent series, although they did get a mention in the third Beka Cooper book. Similarly, this is the only series to mention the Old Ones. Most magic users, with the exceptions of healers and Bazhir shamans, are exclusively called "sorcerer"/"sorceress". The word "mage" doesn't appear once. Notably, Lioness Rampant has a dedication where Pierce thanks someone for helping her get over her fear of the "M word". Alanna is completely willing to drink alcohol, even accepting ale as a page. Possibly to avoid criticism related to minors drinking, Pierce's other heroines make a point of not doing this, until Beka only in select situations.
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Song of the Lioness / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Song of the Lioness / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Akhnan ibn Nazzir, the shaman of the Bloody Hawk tribe. He continually picks fights with Alanna even though she's both more powerful and more competent at magic than he is. He endangers the tribe several times by sloppy magic, including trying to summon a demon without putting down the right protections, claiming the evil crystal sword that Halef Seif wanted to leave in the desert, and ostracizing three kids rather than teaching them how to control their magic. When he tries to wield the crystal sword against Alanna, its power easily eats him up.
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Song of the Lioness / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
Song of the Lioness / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: All casters start to do this if they exhaust their magical strength, sometimes without realizing they have overdrawn.
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Song of the Lioness / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Song of the Lioness / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Alexander of Tirragen begins the series as one of Alanna's friends, begins drifting away from her partway through the first book and displaying troubling behavior in the second, and ends up her enemy.
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Song of the Lioness / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Song of the Lioness / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Alexander of Tirragen. Goes from a Deadpan Snarker and The Quiet One to a Blood Knight and The Rival. Alanna even has to face him before she can defeat the Big Bad.
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Song of the Lioness / int_550e75cd	type	Braving the Blizzard
Song of the Lioness / int_550e75cd	comment	Braving the Blizzard: In Lioness Rampant, Alanna, who hates cold weather, has to do this to face Chitral and gain the Dominion Jewel to bring home. The Genius Loci, knowing why she's come, sends the storm in part to test her. After their duel, the storm instantly lifts.
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Song of the Lioness / int_56352cc6	type	Animal Assassin
Song of the Lioness / int_56352cc6	comment	Animal Assassin: In the second book, Roger magics a boar to kill Alanna in her snow shelter. Later, he does the same with a man-eating wolf and its mate. Alanna defeats both.
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Song of the Lioness / int_567f7ec	type	Shock Value Relationship
Song of the Lioness / int_567f7ec	comment	Shock Value Relationship: Jonathan's sole aim in courting Princess Josiane at the end of the third book is to spite Alanna after the two of them have a falling out and she rejects his marriage proposal. Josiane was not a good choice for this.
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Song of the Lioness / int_56c55ed8	type	I Am Not Left-Handed
Song of the Lioness / int_56c55ed8	comment	I Am Not Left-Handed: After members of a foreign delegation insult the prowess of Tortallan knighthood, Alanna is chosen to defend Tortall's honor in a duel against Tusaine's champion. She does well enough until her opponent manages to wound her in her right arm. Instead of accepting his victory, the knight presses in for the kill. At this point Alanna switches to her left hand, beats him in short order, and delivers a "Reason You Suck" Speech. The best part? Alanna was only a squire at the time and this was her first serious duel. Justified in that Alanna had to learn to fight with her left as well as her right after a bully broke her right arm during her time as a page.
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Song of the Lioness / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
Song of the Lioness / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Alanna has a very strong Gift. Initially, she hates to mix fighting and magic, but she gradually changes her mind. Unfortunately, conservatives use this as a reason girls shouldn't be allowed to train for knighthood in later books, claiming that she could only have achieved knighthood through magic.
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Song of the Lioness / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Song of the Lioness / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: Chitral, the creator of the Dominion Jewel, is the spirit of a mountain pass in the Roof of the World.
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Song of the Lioness / int_58a7abae	type	God Was My Co-Pilot
Song of the Lioness / int_58a7abae	comment	God Was My Copilot: Alanna is blessed by the Goddess. Faithful is hinted to be this as well, which is confirmed in Daine's quartet.
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Song of the Lioness / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Song of the Lioness / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Sir Myles and Eleni Cooper. Jonathan and Thayet are also played like this, despite being the future rulers of Tortall.
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Song of the Lioness / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Song of the Lioness / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Love and femininity can be great strengths rather than weaknesses. Don't be ambitious for ambition's sake.
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Song of the Lioness / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Song of the Lioness / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: In the first couple of books, but this is justified by the fact that women are restricted from doing most of the things that Alanna is involved with. More female characters become prominent later on.
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Song of the Lioness / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
Song of the Lioness / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: If you kill a Bazhir shaman, you are obliged to take over his duties until a permanent replacement can be arranged. Alanna winds up serving as a Bazhir shaman this way.
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Song of the Lioness / int_61fe92e6	type	Reality Changing Miniature
Song of the Lioness / int_61fe92e6	comment	Reality-Changing Miniature: In the Hand of the Goddess has the Big Bad using highly detailed and exact doll replicas of everyone in the palace to affect their real-life counterparts, notably wrapping most of them in a veil so that their "vision" of him is obscured and they won't suspect his true motives. However, the spell only partially works on Alanna, because he made her doll to replicate her (male) false identity and only later discovers she's actually a girl.
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Song of the Lioness / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Song of the Lioness / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Guard Captain Aram Sklaw, the pages' sword instructor in Alanna: The First Adventure.
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Song of the Lioness / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Song of the Lioness / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Liam Ironarm is one of the most skilled fighters in the world. He hates magic.
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Song of the Lioness / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Song of the Lioness / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: During the Final Battle, Liam Ironarm dies Taking the Bullet for Jon. (Well, arrow.)
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Song of the Lioness / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Song of the Lioness / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Delia of Eldorne. To what extent she gets any Character Development, Princess Josiane is also this.
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Song of the Lioness / int_6760ff37	type	Secret Secret-Keeper
Song of the Lioness / int_6760ff37	comment	Secret Secret-Keeper: Myles of Olau finds out that Alanna is a girl in disguise when she invokes the Goddess' power to heal Jon of the sweating sickness, and her voice becomes that of a grown woman during the spell casting.
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Song of the Lioness / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
Song of the Lioness / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Alanna frequently does this, making a number of comments in narration about the attractiveness of Jonathan, Liam, and (interestingly) Roger.
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Song of the Lioness / int_686083e8	type	Ethnic God
Song of the Lioness / int_686083e8	comment	Ethnic God: The persecuted K'mir tribes of Sarain worship the Horse Lords.
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Song of the Lioness / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
Song of the Lioness / int_69391768	comment	This also might be because they were Expecting Someone Taller. Also, teasing.
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Song of the Lioness / int_6aada778	type	Only the Chosen May Wield
Song of the Lioness / int_6aada778	comment	Only the Chosen May Wield: Lightning. Its vault only opens when Alanna is there (after sending Myles prophetic dreams).
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Song of the Lioness / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Song of the Lioness / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Ralon of Malven, who starts off as an arrogant bully, grows up to become a rapist, gets acid thrown on his face by the maid of his almost-victim, and ends up becoming the would-be King of the Rogues, Claw. For all this, he remains rather pathetic and easily dispatched in the end.
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Song of the Lioness / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Song of the Lioness / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Jon says as much about his father's fatal riding "accident", which happened very soon after the death of the Queen.
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Song of the Lioness / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Song of the Lioness / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Yes Thom bringing the powerful sorcerer who tried to kill the Queen, Prince Jonathon, and your own sister back from the grave is a really great idea.
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Song of the Lioness / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Song of the Lioness / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Prince Jonathan is slated to marry a princess from the Copper Isles in whom he has little interest. Fortunately for him, she goes Ax-Crazy and takes herself out of the running, freeing him up to make a love match with the newly arrived Princess Thayet.
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Song of the Lioness / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Song of the Lioness / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: One edition of The Woman Who Rides Like a Man looks like the male models for a certain other series got lost on their way to the shoot. Aside from the fact that Alanna's romantic woes are only a tiny part of the story, look at the characters' clothes — you'd be forgiven for thinking that the book takes place in modern times... On a lesser note, the horse pictured on this edition's covers for In the Hand of the Goddess and Lioness Rampant is a very decidedly dark brown color. One would assume that this horse is meant to be Moonlight, Alanna's signature mare, who is described on several occasions in the novels to be more of a creamish color, hence the name.
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Song of the Lioness / int_746704c9	type	Divided for Publication
Song of the Lioness / int_746704c9	comment	Divided for Publication: As the summary says, Alanna's story had been written as a single book. Pierce says that fixing it up for YA publication improved it significantly.
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Song of the Lioness / int_74c6e65c	type	Forceful Kiss
Song of the Lioness / int_74c6e65c	comment	Forced Kiss: Happens to Alanna twice in Goddess — first by George, who takes advantage when her hands are full, and later Jon.
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Song of the Lioness / int_77c0952e	type	Face Your Fears
Song of the Lioness / int_77c0952e	comment	Face Your Fears: Alanna's experience in the Chamber of the Ordeal conjures up scenarios that include her deepest fears.
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Song of the Lioness / int_7913eb6f	type	Healing Hands
Song of the Lioness / int_7913eb6f	comment	Healing Hands: Kourrem, one of Alanna's Bazhir students, is a natural healer.
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Song of the Lioness / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Song of the Lioness / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Partly as a product of the books mostly being from Alanna's point of view, and partly owing to the nature of the world and Alanna's aspirations to be a female knight and the reactions this draws. Broadly, though, people who like Alanna are good; people who do not like Alanna are bad. Particularly stark with Alanna's friendship with the Rogue and his Court, which means that one of the Realm's knights, and later other knights as well as the Crown Prince himself are aware of crimes being committed but do nothing to interfere. Lioness Rampant hints that part of the reason that the Rogue and his Court are tolerated is because they don't push it too far and keep a kind of order in the criminal classes, meaning that it's more trouble than it's worth for the Lord Provost to clear them out — a balance which Claw threatens to upend. The narration also doesn't shy away from some of the darker aspects of the characters, such as the fact that George, while he's a charming, likeable and honourable man, killed his predecessor in the traditional duel for the throne of the Rogue and his primary choice of discipline is a three strike system that involves first a warning, then an ear being removed, then death.
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Song of the Lioness / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Song of the Lioness / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The historic Thanic Empire, whose states are the modern Eastern Lands. Roughly analogous to Ancient Rome.
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Song of the Lioness / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Song of the Lioness / int_830b0ac9	comment	Final Battle: They get to do this twice, thanks to the Big Bad being brought Back from the Dead. The second time involves everybody — while Alanna is busy getting sage advice from Thom's Old Master, takes out Princess Josiane, and then goes to face The Dragon and the Big Bad, Jonathan has to hold the land together with the Dominion Jewel, George has to face Claw (actually Ralon of Malven), and then he, Rispah, Coram, Buri, Raoul, and Gary have to face the combined forces of Claw's rogues and revolutionaries led by Tirragen and Eldorne soldiers. Even Myles, Thayet, and Mistress Cooper get involved.
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Song of the Lioness / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Song of the Lioness / int_83fb6177	comment	Second Book Twist: The identity of the Big Bad. All right, it's more of The Un-Twist, but considering the first book ended with Alanna thinking he was the villain but being unable to prove it, while the very first POV we get from him in the second chapter of the next book makes it clear he is the villain, addressing each suspicion Alanna had... it kind of makes it hard to discuss the series without giving away too much. A secondary example, with the same villain, occurs after he comes Back from the Dead: much mileage is gotten out of playing up just what forbidden thing Thom did in book three, and whom he brought back... only to have the resurrectee's identity revealed by the cover blurb on book four. Sigh.
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Song of the Lioness / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Song of the Lioness / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Alanna and George: Alanna is hot-tempered and fiery and George is much more laid-back and even-keeled.
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Song of the Lioness / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Song of the Lioness / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Played with. Alanna, at the slightly below-average 5'4", is often called tiny, though this may only be because she spent much of her life disguised as a boy among other boys — big boys at that — and carried over even after she revealed her true gender. This also might be because they were Expecting Someone Taller. Also, teasing.
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Song of the Lioness / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Song of the Lioness / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The thing inside the Chamber of the Ordeal can come off as a less malevolent, if not outright Lawful Neutral, version of this, given all the wonky descriptions about how it is not a god and how it is completely incapable of defining time and space in ways that can be comprehended in human terms. About the only thing missing is the idea that contact with it can potentially break one's mind. That it does rather deliberately, but it also doesn't play favorites. If the would-be knight can face their fears and make it out alive (and with mind intact), they will truly be made stronger for it and can serve Tortall admirably. And because its power is so great and can overcome that of mortal sorcerers, it enables Alanna to tear through the veil keeping a villain from suspicion, so she can understand the extent of his plot.
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Song of the Lioness / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Song of the Lioness / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Alanna kills the Big Bad of the first quartet very dead in book two. Alas, it doesn't stick.
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Song of the Lioness / int_8dac2dd8	type	Great Gazoo
Song of the Lioness / int_8dac2dd8	comment	Great Gazoo: Chitral, the elemental spirit residing on the mountain of the same name. He created the Dominion Jewel, an artifact with nigh-unlimited power, to keep him company. And he'll give it up to mortals who fight him for it if they can make it through his blizzards and his yeti form, or if they otherwise spark his interest. He gives it up to Alanna after she decides she doesn't want to fight him to the death because he thinks she's funny.
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Song of the Lioness / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Song of the Lioness / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Used a number of places. The most obvious would be the final battle, where Jonathan wearing the Dominion Jewel creates a Fisher King bond with the land which, if he is killed, will wreak utter havoc on the world. But as early as the first book there is the scene where Alanna rescues Jonathan from the world of the dead (and faces off with the Dark God himself) by descending into a dark well. Her obtaining of the sword Lightning from the Old Ones' ruins (and activating its latent power to save her life) comes only after she "surrenders" to death. (Which doubles as a nice Chekhov's Gun to how she ends up defeating the Big Bad in book four.) In the second book, the obscuring magic the Big Bad uses to keep anyone from suspecting him is represented literally by bundling dolls of everyone in a white veil. Later, after Alanna used the Chamber of the Ordeal to "tear through" this veil, she finds a hole in the veil, from which the doll representing her has slipped. Book three's resurrection of a certain character naturally occurs at Tortall's equivalent of Halloween.
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Song of the Lioness / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Song of the Lioness / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: George is the Betty (common-born, friendly, more physically plain, very vocal and consistent about his feelings, and Alanna's best friend) and Jonathan the Veronica (a prince, remarkably handsome, tempestuous, high-handed, and Master of the Mixed Message, although his friendship with Alanna is just as close) to Alanna's Archie. She ultimately chooses George, but only after her relationship with Jonathan has already crashed and burned due to their diverging feelings on the possibility of marriage.
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Song of the Lioness / int_955aba87	type	Mook Chivalry
Song of the Lioness / int_955aba87	comment	Mook Chivalry: Averted whenever possible, but justified a time or two — Alex wants to test himself against Alanna for real, so tells the soldiers with him to stay out of the fight.
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Song of the Lioness / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Song of the Lioness / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Roger flips his lid when "Alan" is revealed to be female in front of the entire court. It's probably not as much misogyny as the fact that something escaped his notice (more specifically, that his failure to notice her deception allowed her to escape the full effect of his image magic and ultimately ruined his entire plan).
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Song of the Lioness / int_9588c44b	type	First Period Panic
Song of the Lioness / int_9588c44b	comment	First Period Panic: Alanna (disguised as a boy so she can train for the knighthood) panics when she gets her first period, since she was never told about it. She has to out herself to her friend George because his mother Eleni is a healer.
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Song of the Lioness / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Song of the Lioness / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Roger, the main villain of Song of the Lioness. There's a reason George calls him Alanna's "smilin' friend". And it's precisely because he seems too nice on the surface that Alanna suspects him, since she's figured out that villains aren't always Obviously Evil. He also plays up the Modest Royalty angle by attempting to be familiar and informal. ("Please don't call me Your Grace, it makes me feel old!")
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Song of the Lioness / int_97574d55	type	RealWomenNeverWearDresses
Song of the Lioness / int_97574d55	comment	Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Deconstructed. Alanna hates being a girl for most of her childhood, but she learns to accept and enjoy being a woman (including fancy dresses) with some encouragement from Mrs. Cooper and the Great Mother Goddess.
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Song of the Lioness / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
Song of the Lioness / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: Page Alanna always excuses the cuts and bruises (and in one case, a broken arm) from Ralon's beatings as "I fell down." Stefan helpfully elaborates that "Alan" did fall down, several times, and was assisted in doing so by Ralon.
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Song of the Lioness / int_9c23f3a0	type	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
Song of the Lioness / int_9c23f3a0	comment	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: The Roof of the World, Tortall's equivalent of the Himalayas, has its own version of the Yeti, the rarely-seen rock apes.
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Song of the Lioness / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Song of the Lioness / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Coram to Alanna's family, and Buri to Thayet's. Shortly after Alanna and Thayet meet, they have a tongue-in-cheek commiseration about how old family servants don't always do what you want them to.
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Song of the Lioness / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Song of the Lioness / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Don't be ambitious for ambition's sake.
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Song of the Lioness / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
Song of the Lioness / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: Pierce's first published work starts a career of writing these.
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Song of the Lioness / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Song of the Lioness / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: In the first book, George Cooper and his mother become this for Alanna out of necessity; see the First Period Panic example above. Prince Jonathan also finds out near the end of the book, and Gary learns about it near the end of the second book when she needs another knight to be with her when she bathes in preparation for her Ordeal.
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Song of the Lioness / int_a2b332f9	type	Afraid of Needles
Song of the Lioness / int_a2b332f9	comment	Afraid of Needles: Alanna faints when getting her ears pierced, much to Thayet's amusement.
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Song of the Lioness / int_a74e8ba4	type	Thieves' Guild
Song of the Lioness / int_a74e8ba4	comment	Thieves' Guild: The "Court of the Rogue" is introduced here, with George as its head.
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Song of the Lioness / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Song of the Lioness / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Sir Myles has a mild form of it, both when it comes to Alanna's true identity and how she obtained her magical sword in the first book. The latter is a tactic he and Alanna agree on to fool the court and Duke Roger, but the former is one he pulls on Alanna herself when her healing Jonathan of the Sleeping Sickness gives her away. His reputation as the court drunk also conceals how intelligent he is. Thom freaks his teachers out spectacularly when he stops doing this and becomes the youngest living Master.
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Song of the Lioness / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Song of the Lioness / int_a8217606	comment	King Roald forgives Alanna's Sweet Polly Oliver act very quickly, albeit rather grudgingly — it's generally accepted that it doesn't hurt that she's going away for a long while. Less good is how quickly he forgives Roger's high treason after Roger comes back from the dead. See Head-in-the-Sand Management below.
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Song of the Lioness / int_a91f07ee	type	"No Peeking!" Request
Song of the Lioness / int_a91f07ee	comment	"No Peeking!" Request: Alanna sneaks into George's room for his help and she reveals to him that she was a girl all along. While he's naked (He Sleeps in the Nude). Alanna isn't bothered by it (she in fact points out that she saw him naked plenty of other times) but he insists it's different now and tells her to turn around anyways while he puts on some clothes.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b10d7e8e	type	Head-in-the-Sand Management
Song of the Lioness / int_b10d7e8e	comment	Head-in-the-Sand Management: King Roald was known as "the Peacekeeper", and as a result would avoid confrontations at any cost. On one hand this means that he doesn't punish Alanna for lying about who she was to become a knight, simply wanting her to get out of the way for a while, and on the other hand Roger gets off free from his attempts to kill the Queen after his revival.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b14ca7ba	type	Two Aliases, One Character
Song of the Lioness / int_b14ca7ba	comment	Two Aliases, One Character: Claw, a rogue who turns up in book 3 trying to take over the Court of the Rogue and who is plotting with the greater villains, is revealed in Lioness Rampant to be Ralon of Malven, the page who had bullied Alanna in the first book.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b2226c2f	type	Sheathe Your Sword
Song of the Lioness / int_b2226c2f	comment	Sheathe Your Sword: In a metaphorical way, Alanna passes Lightning's Secret Test of Character like this. Once she stops struggling against the magic and accepts that it will kill her, it goes away and leaves her with the sword. Later played straight with the struggle with Chitral and the final battle between Alanna and Roger. He crafted his plan around the fact that Alanna keeps fighting.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
Song of the Lioness / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: Despite being the only child of the late Warlord, Thayet cannot take the Saren throne because it is written in the Book of Glass that women shall never rule Sarain. There's an implication it's either magically or divinely enforced.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b3f77675	type	Grass Is Greener
Song of the Lioness / int_b3f77675	comment	Grass Is Greener: Alanna feels stifled by Tortall's gender roles, and rightly so. But she gets some perspective when Thayet informs her that the consensus among Sarain's nobility was that Alanna should have been put to death for daring to take a man's role.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
Song of the Lioness / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: After Alanna kills Roger, she struggles with guilt over his death (despite his having been very Obviously Evil) and dreams about him coming back to life, even wondering if part of her wishes he would. She gets her wish.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Song of the Lioness / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Pierce's major inspiration for the story was her disappointment at the end of Ã‰owyn's character arc in The Lord of the Rings, where her Action Girl credentials are portrayed as just something she needed to get out of her system before she could happily Stay in the Kitchen.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Song of the Lioness / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: George, Jonathan and Alanna have this issue until Alanna cuts them loose to pursue adventure and other options, though ultimately George wins. Unusually, George and Jonathan like and trust each other and there's never any tension about Alanna between them, or really any pressure on Alanna to choose. There's also really only one real moment of jealousy, and while George is saddened to hear Alanna's hooked up with Liam there's no tension over that, either. It's unusually relaxed for a love triangle.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b7e7ff52	type	TyingUpRomanticLooseEnds
Song of the Lioness / int_b7e7ff52	comment	Tying Up Romantic Loose Ends: Thayet's basic purpose as a character appears to be being so perfect a love interest for Jon that there's no way he could possibly fail to fall for her, even though he already loves Alanna, because Pierce decided Alanna should end up with her other main love interest. However, Thayet mostly manages to avoid Satellite Love Interest status by prioritizing her friendship with Alanna over her potential romance with Jonathan, having a compelling and tragic backstory (though it's not explored very much after she tells it to Alanna), and serving as the reader's introduction to the K'miri people along with her best friend and bodyguard Buri.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Song of the Lioness / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Roger's motivation, in a particularly pathetic example-he decides to tear down the gods (and die in the process) simply because they didn't bother to notice him, or grant any of his requests for power. Essentially, "if they won't help me, I won't believe in them". On the other hand, considering what is learned about the gods in later series, he may have had a point. Not that that excuses either his methods or his ultimate goal.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
Song of the Lioness / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: Thayet's family. She was able to escape from them. The royals of the Copper Isles, due to inbreeding.
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Song of the Lioness / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
Song of the Lioness / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: Implied to be the case for Duke Roger. At first it seems not so, thanks to his very clever and self-effacing attitude after coming back to life, but during the final battle it's pretty clear he's gone completely insane (and lost most of the nasty manipulations and misleading obfuscation that made him such an admirable villain the first time around).
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Song of the Lioness / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Song of the Lioness / int_ba0791de	comment	First Guy Wins: George Cooper is the first guy Alanna meets in Corus.
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Song of the Lioness / int_ba557643	type	Terms of Endangerment
Song of the Lioness / int_ba557643	comment	Terms of Endangerment: Roger to Alanna. Although initially they come off as simple taunting, by the end of Lioness Rampant they seem to have become frighteningly sincere.
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Song of the Lioness / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Song of the Lioness / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Alanna's red hair suits her hot temper.
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Song of the Lioness / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Song of the Lioness / int_c36cba70	comment	Numerous individuals (mooks and all) who sided with Roger against Jon. Their lives would otherwise be forfeit, but Jon doesn't want to start his reign by killing a bunch of his people.
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Song of the Lioness / int_c3c3c608	type	Evil Former Friend
Song of the Lioness / int_c3c3c608	comment	Evil Former Friend: Alexander of Tirragen starts off as one of Alanna's friends, but that changes when he becomes Duke Roger's squire.
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Song of the Lioness / int_c9c317cd	type	Last-Minute Hookup
Song of the Lioness / int_c9c317cd	comment	Last-Minute Hookup: Despite being the future rulers of Tortall, Jonathan and Thayet come off as this after Jonathan and Alanna decide they are Better as Friends and she hooks up with George. The characters have a lot in common, are genuinely smitten with one another, and truly do make a great couple, but the fact Thayet isn't introduced until the last book of the quartet (after Pierce had decided Alanna was better with George), and that there's a definite element of Love at First Sight involved (especially on Jonathan's part) makes this sort of writing inevitable. Pierce herself says it wasn't quite at first sight, but it was fast.
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Song of the Lioness / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
Song of the Lioness / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: In the Hand of the Goddess has Alanna trying to figure out who is plotting against Jonathan and his parents, a search which is interrupted by the seemingly unconnected war with Tusaine which draws her, Jonathan, and their friends off into battle. But it turns out the king of Tusaine and his mages were manipulated into the war by Duke Roger, so it all ends up being connected after all.
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Song of the Lioness / int_d2cd18c0	type	Forbidden Fruit
Song of the Lioness / int_d2cd18c0	comment	Forbidden Fruit: Roger invokes the hell out of this trope to make sure Jon really wants to visit the Black City, giving the pages a big long lecture about how dangerous it is, and the Bazhir stories are just boogeymen to scare their children but no really lads even I know not to tangle with whatever's going on in there, etc. (That Roger was using Mind Control magic definitely helped.)
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Song of the Lioness / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Song of the Lioness / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Roger's death. He is magically fighting his opponent over control of a sword: when they very suddenly stop fighting him for it, he doesn't react fast enough, and the sword zooms towards him with enough speed to run him through.
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Song of the Lioness / int_d581ba71	type	Comes Great Responsibility
Song of the Lioness / int_d581ba71	comment	Comes Great Responsibility: Before Alanna goes to Corus, Maude warns her that her Gift has the power to both heal and kill, and she must use the healing to make up for the deaths she'll cause as a knight.
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Song of the Lioness / int_d67f0a23	type	Modest Royalty
Song of the Lioness / int_d67f0a23	comment	Modest Royalty: Prince Jonathan, aside from his brief Royal Brat stage, doesn't really wear or do much that the other nobles around him don't have access to.
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Song of the Lioness / int_d72b162f	type	Technicolor Eyes
Song of the Lioness / int_d72b162f	comment	Technicolor Eyes: Alanna and Thom have purple eyes that match the color of their magic; so does Faithful.
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Song of the Lioness / int_da512040	type	Fantasy Contraception
Song of the Lioness / int_da512040	comment	Fantasy Contraception: A magic charm to prevent pregnancy, usually worn on a necklace, is commonly available.
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Song of the Lioness / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Song of the Lioness / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Alanna herself, of course: she is training to be a knight and has skills in combat. Thayet and Buri also count; neither is afraid of physical altercations.
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Song of the Lioness / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Song of the Lioness / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Duke Gareth of Naxen, Gary's father. Very stern, but very fair. See how he handles the Ralon of Malven situation in book one. He becomes a key adviser to Jonathan in later books, along with Sir Myles.
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Song of the Lioness / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Song of the Lioness / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: The King of Tusaine spends most of his time lounging around and sleeping around — it's his brothers who start the war. When they're captured, the king sues for peace immediately so they can go back to running the country for him.
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Song of the Lioness / int_df1a0454	type	Fantasy Pantheon
Song of the Lioness / int_df1a0454	comment	Fantasy Pantheon: The huge pantheon of Tortall is introduced here, with Alanna being chosen to do the work of the Goddess.
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Song of the Lioness / int_e0d0fb13	type	Please Put Some Clothes On
Song of the Lioness / int_e0d0fb13	comment	Please Put Some Clothes On: In Alanna: The First Adventure, when Alan (Alanna) and Jon are fighting the Ysandir, said evil magicians make her clothes disappear, revealing her naked girliness. Jon ogles her for a moment before blushing and offering his tunic. Also been described as the "lolwutboobies" moment.
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Song of the Lioness / int_e22feb9c	type	Mind-Control Device
Song of the Lioness / int_e22feb9c	comment	Mind-Control Device: Roger's sapphire pendant and the crystal on his staff. (Later series establish that this trick can be done with any shiny or eyecatching object.)
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Song of the Lioness / int_e235202a	type	The Power of Blood
Song of the Lioness / int_e235202a	comment	The Power of Blood: Pretty much every major Bazhir ritual involves bloodletting and, in some cases, blood mixing. Kids, don't try this at home.
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Song of the Lioness / int_e360ae63	type	Reforged Blade
Song of the Lioness / int_e360ae63	comment	Reforged Blade: Alanna's sword Lightning is broken and reforged during The Woman Who Rides Like a Man. Being an ancient artifact, normal reforging techniques turn out not to be sufficient, and Alanna has to figure out a special reforging method, which has its own consequences later.
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Song of the Lioness / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Song of the Lioness / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Duke Roger, thanks to the Sorcerer's Sleep. Backfires on him though, as this leaves him Buried Alive until Thom resurrects him, with the end result he Came Back Wrong.
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Song of the Lioness / int_eb8856	type	The X of Y
Song of the Lioness / int_eb8856	comment	The X of Y: Song of the Lioness.
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Song of the Lioness / int_ed43de19	type	Hunting "Accident"
Song of the Lioness / int_ed43de19	comment	Hunting "Accident": The "horseback riding mishap" variant occurs in Lioness Rampant. It's self-inflicted. King Roald dies in a risky jump after Lianne's death. Jonathan is certain that it was a suicide because his father was an excellent rider, and Roald was also visibly shattered by the loss of his wife.
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Song of the Lioness / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Song of the Lioness / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The Tusaine War. Although it only lasts a summer and doesn't go into gory detail, Alanna doesn't enjoy the experience at all and finds both killing and the aftermath of battle to be horrific.
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Song of the Lioness / int_f273b1cb	type	Devil in Plain Sight
Song of the Lioness / int_f273b1cb	comment	Devil in Plain Sight: Roger. Turns out to be justified when it's discovered that he was using a spell to keep anyone from suspecting him. Alanna's status as the Only Sane Man on this point is eventually revealed to be because the spell was partially ineffective on her because he'd crafted it to target the young man he knew as Alan.
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Song of the Lioness / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Song of the Lioness / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: King Roald forgives Alanna's Sweet Polly Oliver act very quickly, albeit rather grudgingly — it's generally accepted that it doesn't hurt that she's going away for a long while. Less good is how quickly he forgives Roger's high treason after Roger comes back from the dead. See Head-in-the-Sand Management below. Numerous individuals (mooks and all) who sided with Roger against Jon. Their lives would otherwise be forfeit, but Jon doesn't want to start his reign by killing a bunch of his people.
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Song of the Lioness / int_f44ad3e1	type	Twin Switch
Song of the Lioness / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: Variation: Alanna is to be sent to the convent to receive instruction in the proper behavior of a noblewoman and wants to be a knight; her twin Thom is supposed to go to the palace to be a page, but wants to learn magic (taught at the convent). Instead of switching identities, Alanna dresses as a boy and the two switch destinations.
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Song of the Lioness / int_f5c3defd	type	Cosmic Deadline
Song of the Lioness / int_f5c3defd	comment	Cosmic Deadline: The strict maximum page limit Pierce was working under means the pacing gets a bit wonky at times, with months or even years passed over with barely a mention.
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Song of the Lioness / int_f941d0b5	type	Living Mood Ring
Song of the Lioness / int_f941d0b5	comment	Living Mood Ring: Liam's eye color changes depending on his mood.
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Song of the Lioness / int_fc9b6be5	type	Foe Romance Subtext
Song of the Lioness / int_fc9b6be5	comment	Foe Romance Subtext: Just a touch between Alanna and Roger, whom Coram identifies as her "one great enemy," and whom she spends a lot of time and energy thinking about both before and after his death and often has dreams or nightmares about. She even ultimately merges his (evil) sword with her own in order to repair it. It becomes much more noticeable in the final book, when her vision before Jonathan's coronation implies very strongly that Roger has been harboring a twisted Villainous Crush on her.
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Song of the Lioness / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
Song of the Lioness / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Played With when Prince Jonathan becomes the Voice of the Tribes to the Arab-inspired Bazhir Tribesmen, and Alanna becomes a respected shaman to the Bloody Hawk Tribe. Jonathan was picked out for pragmatic reasons by the previous Voice (via his minor prophetic gifts, he'd come to realize that Tortall would win the long war with the Bazhir and his people would be destroyed, so took steps to unify the peoples and avert it) and still had to humble himself, prove himself to the skeptical Bazhir, memorize their laws and their history — Alanna specifically notes that she'd never previously seen Jonathan work so hard — and pass a grueling test to become the Voice. And in the end, when he became the Voice, the reaction was "you'll do". Alanna, meanwhile, did not want the job and only got it because she killed the previous shaman in self-defense, and had to stay to counter the sorcerers of the enemy Hill Tribes. She also pretty quickly started training up apprentice shamans so she could move on. While she is depicted as more powerful than the other shamans, she's also one of the most powerful magic users in the entire series, favoured by the Goddess (who occasionally helps her out), behind only Duke Roger, her brother, Numair and Jonathan armed with the Dominion Jewel and tapping into the magic of Tortall itself. All either specialised in sorcery or explored it far more than she did, and considering that her brother is second only to Numair, she would probably have similar potential. It is also quite plainly shown that she has, in many ways, as much to learn from the women of the Tribe as they might do from her.
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	A Birthday, Not a Break / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Abandon Shipping / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Action Pet / int_8dba7131
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Amplifier Artifact / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Animal Stereotypes / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Artifact of Death / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Asleep for Days / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Beta Couple / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Better with Non-Human Company / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Blood Magic / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Bond One-Liner / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Boyish Short Hair / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	But We Used a Condom! / int_8dba7131
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Challenging the Bully / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Chew-Out Fake-Out / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Comes Great Responsibility / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Coming of Age Story / int_8dba7131
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Cosmic Plaything / int_8dba7131
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Dead Man Writing / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Death by Childbirth / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Decemberâ€“December Romance / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Defeat by Modesty / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Derailing Love Interests / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Devil in Plain Sight / int_8dba7131
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Entitled to Have You / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Ethnic God / int_8dba7131
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	I Am Not Left-Handed / int_8dba7131
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Outfit-Rip Sex Check / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Please Put Some Clothes On / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Polar Opposite Twins / int_8dba7131
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Reality Changing Miniature / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Rearing Horse / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Rebel Prince / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Reforged Blade / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Relationship Upgrade / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Self-Proclaimed Knight / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	She Is the King / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Situational Sword / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Sobriquet Sex Switch / int_8dba7131
Song Of The Lioness	seeAlso	Song of the Lioness
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Spare to the Throne / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Stalking Is Love / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Stress Vomit / int_8dba7131
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Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Summon to Hand / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Textile Work Is Feminine / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	The End / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	The Leader / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	The Magnificent / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	The Nudifier / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	The Quest / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	The X of Y / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Throw the Sheath Away / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Trial by Combat / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Twin Telepathy / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Two Aliases, One Character / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Uptown Girl / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Vanity Is Feminine / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Wardrobe Malfunction / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Weapon Wields You / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Wholesome Crossdresser / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Word of Gay / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	You Kill It, You Bought It / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Young Adult Literature / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Anti-True Sight / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Blade Lock / int_8dba7131
Song of the Lioness	hasFeature	Blood Oath / int_8dba7131

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