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Spellsinger

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Spellsinger	comment	The Spellsinger series is a fantasy series written by Alan Dean Foster.In the first book, Spellsinger, the hero Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, also known as Jon-Tom, is a prelaw student with pretentions to rock stardom, who is innocently smoking pot when he's abruptly transported from the University of California at Los Angeles to a weird world in which animals talk, wear clothing, and live alongside humans by the turtle wizard Clothahump, who was searching for a great wizardly "En'geeniar" (meaning an engineer, as he was under the impression that this is the name our world gives to wizards). Unfortunately, he caught Jon-Tom, a law student and would-be rock star who works part-time as a janitor and on his pay stubs is called a "sanitation engineer"note and his mind was "the most receptive" at the moment, which might have had to do with that joint he smoked.It all works out for the best, though, as Jon-Tom soon discovers that in the magical world he has the power of a spellsinger: a wizard who can make powerful magic through music. Using this new-found power, he and a cast of creatures set out to do battle with the evil anthropomorphic insects known as the Plated Folk.Not to be confused with Spellslinger.
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Spellsinger / int_1228314a	type	Strong as They Need to Be
Spellsinger / int_1228314a	comment	Strong as They Need to Be: Jon-Tom is almost an Anthropomorphic Personification of this trope. The results of his spellsinging are not very predictable and range from cosmically powerful to hilariously pathetic. But in the final confrontations and other important moments it always works perfectly, or far better than expected.
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Spellsinger / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Spellsinger / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Mudge likes to pretend he's one of these, probably so that others won't expect anything from him, but is closer to a Lovable Coward. The degree of competence he reveals when his help is truly needed also makes him more of a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass.
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Spellsinger / int_13cd498e	type	Kangaroo Pouch Ride
Spellsinger / int_13cd498e	comment	Kangaroo Pouch Ride: Snooth keeps an uber-powerful genie in her pouch.
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Spellsinger / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Spellsinger / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Unsurprisingly due to her young, impressionable age and the circumstances, Folly in book three ends up falling for Jon-Tom after they save her from the pirates and attempts to pursue him romantically for most of the book (even inspiring jealousy from Roseroar, it seems). Thanks to still pining for his One True Love Talea, Jon-Tom rebuffs her by saying they are Just Friends, and she is never seen again after this book. But since in the very last chapter she seems quite intent on getting her way during the journey back to the Bellwoods (she's "getting older every day"), and Talea remains AWOL until book five, it's never made clear what if anything may have happened between them. Though it's heavily implied that Jon-Tom also doesn't feel comfortable having a relationship with her because she's too young for him. It seems implied she's only 14 or 15.
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Spellsinger / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Spellsinger / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the fourth book, Markus has some similarities to the Wizard from The Wizard of Oz. Both he and the Wizard are magicians who dress in a smart suit and top hat, both end up in a fantasy world where they take the throne and call themselves the ruler, and can use real magic in the fantasy world. (In the later Oz novels, the Wizard takes magic lessons from Glinda and learns "real magic" instead of just illusions.) The main difference is, Markus is a tyrant, while Oz is benevolent, though the second Oz novel states that he stole the throne from Princess Ozma which was immediately retconned in every book after.
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Spellsinger / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Spellsinger / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Bringing the communist dragon Falameezar...into a rich city of soldiers, merchants, and other greedy capitalists sure to brag about their riches or simply say the wrong thing.
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Spellsinger / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Spellsinger / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: The wolverine in the Bar Brawl at the Pearl Possum uses a variation of this to insult Jon-Tom's singing.
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Spellsinger / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
Spellsinger / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: Clothahump manages to pull this on Mudge and Jon-Tom in their very first meeting.
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Spellsinger / int_1825867d	type	Tastes Like Chicken
Spellsinger / int_1825867d	comment	Roseroar. Although when dealing with Corroboc at the end of the third book she doesn't even bother with her swords. She doesn't actually eat him, but uses her claws to dismember him faster then he can draw his sword.
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Spellsinger / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Spellsinger / int_18dd6739	comment	When Jon-Tom and his party, having sneaked into Cugluch by Dressing as the Enemy, need to escape the city, Mudge makes a distracting noise, and one guard does go to investigate...but the others stay right where they are, requiring the others to attack and take them out—and even then, one guard was in the bathroom and emerges in time to cause trouble.
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Spellsinger / int_1ad744c5	type	Son of an Ape
Spellsinger / int_1ad744c5	comment	Son of an Ape: Used frequently by Mudge in reference to Jon-Tom. Also on one occasion by Dormas the hinny. Given that monkeys in Mudge and Dorcas's world are fully sentient and civilized, the implication may have been that Jon-Tom is foolish or frivolous rather than primitive.
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Spellsinger / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Spellsinger / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Markus the Ineluctable, it turns out.
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Spellsinger / int_1b99522b	type	WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs
Spellsinger / int_1b99522b	comment	What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The whole concept of the Warmlands can make one seriously ask this question, but it's also amusingly literal since Jon-Tom is summoned while high on marijuana and thus thinks at first what he's seeing is due to being on drugs. (This comes back as a Brick Joke in Polastrindu when he wishes for a toke to help him face the council.)
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Spellsinger / int_1c08ee8f	type	Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum
Spellsinger / int_1c08ee8f	comment	Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: Subversion: The villain in the fifth book harnesses a transcendental creature, the perambulator, and Clothahump assumes he intends to destroy the world with it as a grandiose form of suicide. As it turns out, though, Braglob did it For the Evulz (and so the whole world would be mad like him) and had no specific plans for the thing at all.
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Spellsinger / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
Spellsinger / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Zancresta to Clothahump. It's enough to compel the former, after Clothahump's unequivocal success at predicting and thwarting the Plated Folk invasion, into traveling halfway across the world to obtain the medicine that can save the turtle...so that Clothahump will either be forced to acknowledge Zancresta as the better wizard or die when the Evil Sorcerer withholds the cure from him. It was stated that each city has a resident wizard who all strive to be better than the rest and see all others as rivals, but Zancresta seems to take this a bit farther, and more personally.
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Spellsinger / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Spellsinger / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Jalwar declares this after Jon-Tom and Mudge save him from ruffians. It's all a ruse, since he's actually Zancresta.
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Spellsinger / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Spellsinger / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: The "funniest story ever told" which Mudge relates to the limbless serpent/dragon. We never learn what it was about, let alone the punchline, except that it apparently changes/is embellished with the telling, and that somehow an elephant, six chimps, a Baker's College, and a traveling lady's choir were involved...
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Spellsinger / int_1f75bca8	type	Wizard Duel
Spellsinger / int_1f75bca8	comment	Wizard Duel: A friendly sort occurs in book three where Jon-Tom has to battle another spellsinger hired by Zancresta, but between Only in It for the Money, admiring a fellow spellsinger's talents, and being abused by Zancresta, he ends up changing sides. A true one occurs between Jon-Tom and Markus the Ineluctable in the next book—fairly short, and typically comedic, until the end...
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Spellsinger / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Spellsinger / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Jon-Tom for the first four books. He keeps expecting people and animals to behave like modern liberal Californians and be friendly, moral, and altruistic and tends to Angst when they don't. Mudge calls him on this. A lot.
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Spellsinger / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
Spellsinger / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: Cautious the raccoon seems to hail from here, based on his diction.
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Spellsinger / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Spellsinger / int_21d70919	comment	Although initially the combination of finding himself in a far too realistic Crapsack World of mostly furries and the inability of the one who summoned him to send him back home makes Jon-Tom terrified and desperate to escape, once he discovers the duar and his spellsinging talents, and then finds out just what the threat Clothahump called him to stop is, he immediately knuckles under to try and help. Throughout each of the subsequent books he becomes more and more adapted to his new home, as well as developing his spellsinging talents, until by the time he finds a way home again he not only isn't sure he wants to leave, but after visiting Earth, reassuring family and friends, and making arrangements for his continued absence he goes right back with various Earth goodies (including, naturally, plenty of music).
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Spellsinger / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Spellsinger / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: Falameezar. After leaving the group because of being forced to kill a collective "communist" plant that was threatening the heroes, he shows up at the Jo-Troom Gate leading an army of the oppressed mice and rats of the Warmlands. Then in book four he shows up again in the dungeons of Quasequa, where he not only helps convince the geolk to break them free but leads a rampage through the Quorumate against Markus's soldiers.
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Spellsinger / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Spellsinger / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: One of the more disturbing aspects of the Plated Folk's culture, and why their Bug War is such a frightening prospect — they generally don't take prisoners, and don't distinguish between military and civilians. Everyone is food. Many of the Wacky Wayside Tribes also are quite happy to dine on passersby - even the friendly ones!
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Spellsinger / int_22569655	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Spellsinger / int_22569655	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: One of the big reasons the warmlands are in such danger from the Plated Folk invasion—they are "divided and independent" while the Plated Folk "possess a unity of purpose under their ultimate leader". Centuries of complacency have made matters worse, so that when Clothahump tries to warn everyone and gather them together to make a stand, at first no one will listen or even believe him.
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Spellsinger / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Spellsinger / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The large amount of money that Jon-Tom wins by gambling in the first book is used to pay a boatman to take them into Plated Folk lands when no one else has any money. The geolk, who just seemed like a random encounter, show up in the climax of book four to help Jon-Tom and the others escape from the dungeon. The cocaine that is accidentally brought from the real world. A disgusted Jon-Tom orders it to be dumped into the ocean, despite an ignorant Mudge insisting they keep it or sell it, not realizing how dangerous it truly is. Later on, they are riding a Pegasus who can't fly, and needs a boost and they only have seconds to escape... what did Mudge happen to sneak in his pocket earlier? Despite Jon-Tom hating himself later for approving that plan, they had no choice.
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Spellsinger / int_23d6eccb	type	Non-Mammal Mammaries
Spellsinger / int_23d6eccb	comment	Non-Mammal Mammaries: Considering the moments, when Jon-Tom was unable to recognize that the animal before him is female, before hearing her voice/paying attention to her makeup, this is decisively averted.
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Spellsinger / int_241dac3a	type	Wise Old Turtle
Spellsinger / int_241dac3a	comment	Wise Old Turtle: In the magical world where animals talk, wear clothing and live alongside humans, the wizard Clothahump is a turtle. He's the closest the setting has to Wizard Classic, except, as a turtle, he isn't into robes and pointy hats.
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Spellsinger / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Spellsinger / int_245cb69d	comment	Changing of the Guard: Subverted. The 7th book hands off the story to Jon-Tom's son and Mudge's kids, but the original duo take back the spotlight for the 8th and final novel.
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Spellsinger / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Spellsinger / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The later books seem to imply the Wizard's World is slowly becoming one. As Jon-Tom gradually brings over his world's technology and influences, for example Mudge's kids grew up watching Disney movies and Anime and being fans of rap in fact the seventh book, can be seen as a rather interesting (pretend) psychology study on how multiple kids growing up in a fantasy world are raised on our technology and pop culture influences.
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Spellsinger / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Spellsinger / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Squill to Mudge. Both are cheeky and arrogant, don't like to open up or admit they were wrong, both are adept at thieving and being cunning. The main difference is that Squill was obviously raised better, and thus is hardly considered depraved and is much friendlier than Mudge was for the majority of his adventures. Also helps that while Mudge was forced into Jon-Tom's friendship, Squill's friendship with Buncan came naturally as they grew up together.
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Spellsinger / int_25e44fa8	type	There's No Place Like Home
Spellsinger / int_25e44fa8	comment	There's No Place Like Home: Jon-Tom spends most of the series desperately wishing to return to his home dimension. When he finally can, he decides to take some of what he considers the best bits of it and return to his friends and love interest in his adopted dimension.
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Spellsinger / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Spellsinger / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Occurs right in the very first pages of the prologue, to demonstrate what a Crapsack World this is (and what horrific villains it has).
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Spellsinger / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Spellsinger / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Many animals when talking to Jon-Tom finish their sentence with "Man" regardless of the dialogue. And not in the context that they're referring to him as a man, nor the way an Erudite Stoner would use it. Even Mudge used it early on in the first book but quickly dropped it, so it can be assumed it's used towards humans that aren't well acquainted yet.
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Spellsinger / int_27636a1	type	Hellish Horse
Spellsinger / int_27636a1	comment	Hellish Horse: M'nemaxa. He takes on the appearance of a giant equine literally made of fire. Played with in that, while hardly a force for good, neither is he evil—more a case of a neutral Eldritch Abomination that can't be bothered to notice mere mortals, being neither aware of nor caring what his presence does to them.
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Spellsinger / int_27a58d30	type	Carnivore Confusion
Spellsinger / int_27a58d30	comment	Son of Spellsinger also averts this, in the form of a very feral smilodon as the Guardian of the Grand Veritable. There isn't the least bit of Carnivore Confusion about him. They turn him into an Androcles' Lion by repairing his rotting sabertooth with spellsinging. He's so overjoyed to be free of pain he lets them have the Veritable and the giant golden stand it came with.
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Spellsinger / int_28f170e9	type	Whatevermancy
Spellsinger / int_28f170e9	comment	Whatevermancy: Colin the badass koala is a runecaster, a form of cleromancy.
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Spellsinger / int_2a3e0069	type	Amazonian Beauty
Spellsinger / int_2a3e0069	comment	Amazonian Beauty: Subverted with Roseroar. Jon-Tom and Mudge both tell her how attractive they think she is because she's twice the size of both of them put together and they're terrified of making her angry. Though she isn't explicitly unattractive.
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Spellsinger / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Spellsinger / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Every so often Clothahump likes to shift out of his usual Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness to emphasize a dire situation, such as when he admits the prospect of going to free the perambulator and face its captor has him "scared shitless" or when the extent of his wizardly wisdom and experience is to pronounce Jon-Tom had "broke[n] the shit" out of the duar.
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Spellsinger / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Spellsinger / int_2d4fa515	comment	The female Warthog warrior "Regrett" who is not only Ax-Crazy but is completely invincible.
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Spellsinger / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Spellsinger / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: One of the perambulator's reality tweaks causes this to the party. Much Hilarity Ensues, particularly involving Mudge.
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Spellsinger / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
Spellsinger / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Empress Skrritch of the Plated Folk. As vile, vain, and vicious as can be, she's Always Chaotic Evil; regularly eats her attendants (being a Praying Mantis); and because she is possessed of the unwavering belief that she and her people are superior and more deserving of power and lands than the Warmlanders, she constantly forces her tribe into futile warfare with them, something that many of the Plated Folk don't like (but don't dare voice). She is even determined to not only conquer, enslave, and feed upon the Warmlands with impunity, but other worlds as well. When she's killed in the nuclear blast at the end of Hour of the Gate, the rest of the Plated army promptly surrenders...though, in the following books, a few still lurk and wait for warmlanders to capture.
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Spellsinger / int_304f9e0b	type	Flowery Insults
Spellsinger / int_304f9e0b	comment	Flowery Insults: In Paths of the Perambulator, the group are trapped in a magical cage made of "gratuitous insults". Both Clothahump and Caz are also prone to these.
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Spellsinger / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Spellsinger / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Subverted. Mudge doesn't believe that Colin can predict the future through runes, but they decide that Colin read his future anyway. Colin sadly states that Mudge will die in thirty seconds. Mudge in half denial/half fear backs away and bumps into a tree, which causes a large loose branch to fall and hit him on the head, dazing him and giving him a rather nasty wound. Everyone assumed he was dead, but luckily it didn't kill him (as Colin's predictions aren't 100% accurate).
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Spellsinger / int_3130e2c6	type	Uplifted Animal
Spellsinger / int_3130e2c6	comment	Uplifted Animal: Deconstructed. What do you get when you take a bunch of animal species, give them human mannerisms and sentience but retain their natural instincts and abilities, and then put them all close together in cramped civilized quarters? The...aromatic musk of Lynchbany Towne. (And it's even worse in the summer, at high noon.)
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Spellsinger / int_319e101e	type	Amplifier Artifact
Spellsinger / int_319e101e	comment	Amplifier Artifact: Jon-Tom's dual-necked, guitar-like duar is sometimes this, sometimes not. In the first few novels, it's implied that duars are fairly common instruments in the series' Alternate Universe setting (in the first book, Jon-Tom picks his up from a sack of musical instruments dropped by a fleeing merchant, and his companions act as if it's a common item), and it merely functions as a focal point for his latent magical powers. In later novels, however, it's indicated that the magic comes from the duar itself, which has been retconned into a rare and valuable item, and Jon-Tom's facility with it is more practice than anything else. Considering some of the world-shaking effects Jon-Tom achieves with his duar in the first few books, however, it's conceivable that the instrument became magically-empowered as a result of these events. At least one of his feats, the summoning of M'nemaxa, can be performed only once in a wizard's lifetime, which would explain why he can't just repeat the process to enchant another duar.
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Spellsinger / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Spellsinger / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: A twisted version thanks to In-Universe Values Dissonance, but many of the Plated Folk generals are disturbed by and afraid of the "Font of Evil" Eejakrat has conjured...because it kills from a distance, and across worlds.
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Spellsinger / int_32a4f5d	type	Strange Secret Entrance
Spellsinger / int_32a4f5d	comment	Strange Secret Entrance: No one knows the way to Crancularn; legend has it that the town moves from place to place, and even requires Jon-Tom obtain a magic map from the village of fairies to find it. It later turns out the town doesn't move, only seems to because those looking for it believe it does; however to find it/be able to see it you still have to want to. Double Subverted, however, since when the heroes later flee the town they see it and its residents change into ghosts and demons, then fade away, though this could have been due to their own expectations, or the fact they were leaving and thus didn't want to find it any more.
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Spellsinger / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
Spellsinger / int_339b3062	comment	Played straight with Caz, although contrasted by his Quintessential British Gentleman personality.
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Spellsinger / int_34a592b6	type	Unicorns Prefer Virgins
Spellsinger / int_34a592b6	comment	Unicorns Prefer Virgins: Downplayed. Although the male unicorn character is drawn to human virgins and somewhat protective of them, he's gay and mainly interested in other equines in any case, so attempting to distract him with virgin human females to capture him simply doesn't work.
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Spellsinger / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Spellsinger / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Zancresta, Big Bad of the third book, is quite prone to acts like this. Notable is his treatment of Folly—hypnotizing her into coming with him to be a beast of burden, slave, and cook, trapping her within her own mind and futilely calling for Jon-Tom while her body acted against her will, and using her as an insurance policy to make sure Jon-Tom wouldn't dare to attack him. And when he no longer had any need of her, he compelled her to follow an aisle of the Shop of the Aether and Neither until she walked right into the volcanic fissure at its end. While the pirates were never particularly likable to begin with, the scene where they have Weegee tied up and hung from a tree branch so they can treat her like a pinata is deliberately cruel and twisted.
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Spellsinger / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Spellsinger / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: The rare negative example of the trope, in the form of the humans of Polastrindu who, motivated by Fantastic Racism and encouraged by a Plated Folk Mole, have joined with the invaders and are secretly working to bring down the animals of the Warmlands so that they can take over as "nature intended".
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Spellsinger / int_35e2fb78	type	The Mirror Shows Your True Self
Spellsinger / int_35e2fb78	comment	The Mirror Shows Your True Self: The One True Mirror in the Lost City acts like this. Cautious and Weegee see themselves just the way they are (although the latter has her beauty emphasized). Mudge is shown just what a decrepit, diseased, dissipated old lecher he'll become if he doesn't change his ways—but isn't fazed by it one bit since he already knew such was his fate but he also knows he can (and will) change it for Weegee. Jon-Tom sees...nothing, as in no image at all. Whether this is because he lacks self-worth, he isn't from that world, he hasn't yet decided where he belongs, or some other reason, is never explained.
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Spellsinger / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
Spellsinger / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: In the Son of Spellsinger, the Grand Veritable is a magical, sentient lie detector that can not stop declaring the truth. Hilarity Ensues as it wrecks relationships across the Bellwoods.
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Spellsinger / int_366dfa01	type	Silly Reason for War
Spellsinger / int_366dfa01	comment	Silly Reason for War: In Moment of the Magician, two tribes of prairie dogs go to war periodically over possession of an ugly statue, which gave the victors exclusive rights to use the nearby hot springs' water. The springs produced enough hot water to meet the needs of both tribes, but their egos were too caught up in the competition to care. That and they just enjoyed the bloodshed. When Jon-Tom smashed the statue in order to stop the cycle of violence, both sides joined forces...to chase after him and his party.
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Spellsinger / int_378a8006	type	World-Healing Wave
Spellsinger / int_378a8006	comment	World-Healing Wave: The rainstorm Clothahump creates to restore Ospenspri acts like this.
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Spellsinger / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
Spellsinger / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: When the heroes are trapped in their respective Lotus Eater Machines in book five, Jon-Tom dreams of being a famous singer, and there are rumors that "because of the penetrating and powerful social commentary contained in his lyrics, the Nobel committee in Stockholm was giving serious consideration to awarding him a special prize".
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Spellsinger / int_38f5ed1a	type	Dragged Off to Hell
Spellsinger / int_38f5ed1a	comment	Dragged Off to Hell: Markus the Ineluctable's ultimate fate.
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Spellsinger / int_3a4898fb	type	Power-Up
Spellsinger / int_3a4898fb	comment	Variation—the cocaine which accidentally gets brought back to the Wizard's World with Jon-Tom and the others in Time of the Transference manages to act as enough of a stimulant/Power-Up to help Tevya overcome his fear of heights. Unusually, this also ends up being a downplayed version of Drugs Are Bad, since the stimulation is strong enough it causes Teyva to overdo it, straining his wings to the point he has to be grounded for several days to heal.
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Spellsinger / int_3b0bd0ab	type	Thirsty Desert
Spellsinger / int_3b0bd0ab	comment	Thirsty Desert: The Timeful Desert. It also provides an example of Sand Is Water, but justified for a very good reason.
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Spellsinger / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Spellsinger / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: The perambulator in the fifth book.
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Spellsinger / int_3b9a9d4	type	Death's Hourglass
Spellsinger / int_3b9a9d4	comment	Death's Hourglass: Both downplayed and exaggerated at the same time in the case of the Timeful Desert. On the one hand, despite the symbolism inherent in the flowing Sands of Time and unlike most examples of the trope, the desert causes no harm to the living unless one is trapped within it at the time of Conjunction—it only represents the mortality of the living rather than causing it. On the other hand, if the legend is true it's literally a world-level hourglass of sand being turned by some unknown deity or entity and is thus the trope on a macrocosmic scale.
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Spellsinger / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Spellsinger / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Downplayed, and realistically done—Flor's beauty makes everyone discount her mind and other talents, seeing her only as a woman and sex object and refusing to take her seriously; she's forced to be a cheerleader and go into acting because that's the only things anyone thinks someone who looks like her would be good at, when all she wanted to do was be an astronaut.
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Spellsinger / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Spellsinger / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: After numerous mishaps and misadventures in and around Lynchbany, Jon-Tom goes back to Clothahump's Tree, planning to try using his newfound spellsinging combined with the wizard's magic to send him home and exchange a real engineer. This event happens...with about half of the book still left to go, guaranteeing the attempt is going to be a failure. The way it fails, however, and what the result of it is, are still rather unexpected.
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Spellsinger / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Spellsinger / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Whatever Mudge's "worst insult" was that he never got to use on the cage of insults, it was bad enough that, combined with the duar's lingering magic, it actually split the ground open.
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Spellsinger / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Spellsinger / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: Jon-Tom, being from Earth, often solves the problems facing him and his friends by means of this rather than his spellsinging. Examples: using Communist philosophy to befriend Falameezar; using psychology to help the depressed fungi of the Muddletup Moors; teaching aerobics to the Enchanted Folk to burn off their fat (and cannibalistic urges); educating the female ogres about gender equality.
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Spellsinger / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Spellsinger / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: At the Battle of the Jo-Troom Gate, Jon-Tom manages to summon M'nemaxa himself. Played with in several manners, however—while it is safe to say that the sight of Jon-Tom swooping down on his back is a big part of what frightens Eejakrat into rushing his formula, thus setting off the nuclear bomb too soon and only wiping out himself and the Empress, in all other respects M'nemaxa doesn't really do anything to help win the day, in fact having to detour back into his own world to protect himself and his riders from the bomb. (The real Deus ex Machina here is that this journey also allows Jon-Tom to capture Talea's soul-gneechee, thus bringing her Back from the Dead.) Also, said summoning is only made possible because Jon-Tom inadvertently gave M'nemaxa a shortcut in his journey—meaning, the time until he finishes it and the universe ends has now been shortened. However, considering this shortcut still only brings the time period to three million years, and it was done to help stop the Plated Folk, most of the Warmlands would probably consider the cost both negligible and justified.
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Spellsinger / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Spellsinger / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: In Chorus Skating, after Jon-Tom and Mudge save half a dozen Princesses from a Grizzly who is implied to have kept them as sex slaves. Once they escaped, and Jon-Tom states that he isn't able to send them all to their respective Kingdoms through magic, and calmly explained the complicated and dangerous reasons. They continue to whine up a storm about it. Mudge calls them out on that.
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Spellsinger / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Spellsinger / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The Plated Folk's preferred method of attack, rather appropriately as they are all insects. In The Hour of the Gate, they actually use a Zerg Rush as a feint to cover their real tactics: explode the Jo-Troom Gate from underneath and drop paratroopers behind the wall to catch the Warmlanders in a pincer.
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Spellsinger / int_4292ebbf	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Attack
Spellsinger / int_4292ebbf	comment	Doppelgänger Attack: Braglob uses this sort of spell to create a whole platoon of Taleas to make Jon-Tom freeze up and thus be left defenseless against their attacks. Unusually, this is also an example of Me's a Crowd since the real Talea is hidden amongst them under a compulsion spell; the only way to Spot the Impostor in this case is when she is first injured without exploding like the other fakes, and then when she not only speaks but does so with Something Only She Would Say.
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Spellsinger / int_44bed11d	type	Stubborn Mule
Spellsinger / int_44bed11d	comment	Stubborn Mule: Dormas is less stubborn than most examples of this trope, but she still has her moments.
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Spellsinger / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Spellsinger / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: Subverted not once, not twice, but three times. When Jon-Tom and his party, having sneaked into Cugluch by Dressing as the Enemy, need to escape the city, Mudge makes a distracting noise, and one guard does go to investigate...but the others stay right where they are, requiring the others to attack and take them out—and even then, one guard was in the bathroom and emerges in time to cause trouble. In Day of the Dissonance, Jon-Tom tries to trick the Malderpot jailer, a dim-witted porcupine, into letting him have his duar to "brighten a dreary dungeon"...but the guard has been warned he's a spellsinger and only allows it when Jon-Tom is chained through the cell door and a cord is tied to the duar, to be yanked and pull it out of his grip if he tries any dangerous songs. In Moment of the Magician, Jon-Tom tries to convince the jaguar leader of Markus's guards that they have an appointment with Markus and that he will be in big trouble if he doesn't let them through. Not only does the fellow immediately reveal that Markus is asleep and thus couldn't be meeting anyone, but he mocks Jon-Tom, first by saying "Next I suppose you're going to tell me that this is all a misunderstanding and that it'll easily be straightened out as soon as I take you to the advisor?" and then, after agreeing to let them meet Markus when he awakens, taking them to "the new conference chamber" of the Quorum while he waits (which is just the dungeon cell), guarded by a doorman (jailer), where their evening meal (swill) will soon be served. And later when he is to be taken to Markus, Jon-Tom tries to convince the fellow that he's "just a harmless minstrel" and if he could have his duar back he could convince Markus of the truth; although he visibly hesitates and even debates a bit with one of his soldiers, the guard rules that prisoners can't be allowed to have their possessions back no matter what, and the only way he'll get the duar is if he convinces Markus he's innocent first. The trope is played somewhat straight when a lesser guard is fooled into entering their cell by a collection of bones from dead prisoners and a rather convincing performance from Jon-Tom that the ex-wizard of the city had killed them all by "melting off their flesh".
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Spellsinger / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
Spellsinger / int_45ad2569	comment	Vagueness Is Coming: Justified — Clothahump's divinations have not told him what or who the threat to the Warmlands is, so he has no choice but to describe the crisis in vague terms. This is rectified once he is able to learn more information, though he still isn't able to figure out just what the danger is, even after infiltrating Cugluch, until practically the last minute during the battle (and it still takes Jon-Tom to actually identify it).
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Spellsinger / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Spellsinger / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Oddly, despite the tendency toward Trash Talk, pettiness, and You Fool! thinking to be found in Zancresta, he does show a certain respect and admiration toward Jon-Tom's spellsinging while in disguise as Jalwar. A good part of this is likely faked as part of his servant's attitude, particularly the awe he shows when Jon-Tom puts Corroboc and his crew to sleep, but at least some of it might be real to judge from some of his comments at Crancularn and the fact he considered Jon-Tom dangerous enough to bring Charrok along in case he turned out to be too much to handle. It's also possible any worthiness he ascribed to Jon-Tom was extended solely because he believed the spellsinger should be his apprentice instead of Clothahump's, thus taking another victory away from his rival and training such a great magic-user himself.
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Spellsinger / int_46332d5a	type	Civilized Animal
Spellsinger / int_46332d5a	comment	Species which lack manipulative appendages (most hoofed mammals, cetaceans) fall more under Civilized Animal, as they don't wear clothing other than the purely-functional (e.g. armor) and move like normal animals.
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Spellsinger / int_469e49de	type	Booze-Based Buff
Spellsinger / int_469e49de	comment	Booze-Based Buff: Clothahump's means of saving Ospenspri from the perturbation which has settled permanently over it in the form of a dark cloud is to seed it...with "Essence of Booze", explaining he needed something both soluble in water and which could "shock" the cloud back to reality. The result is rain that continually changes its flavor to every kind of alcoholic beverage imaginable. Variation—the cocaine which accidentally gets brought back to the Wizard's World with Jon-Tom and the others in Time of the Transference manages to act as enough of a stimulant/Power-Up to help Tevya overcome his fear of heights. Unusually, this also ends up being a downplayed version of Drugs Are Bad, since the stimulation is strong enough it causes Teyva to overdo it, straining his wings to the point he has to be grounded for several days to heal.
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Spellsinger / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Spellsinger / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The Plated Folk (at least, under Skrritch), as befitting their Always Chaotic Evil role. Their "dry run" is to annihilate a border town and its wall. They briefly discuss keeping the kids "for breeding" but instead slaughter them all - for meat.
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Spellsinger / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Spellsinger / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Mudge certainly thinks that the world (and particularly Clothahump and Jon-Tom) has conspired to make him this starting from his first meeting with Jon-Tom. And he's right to some extent - for five books he gets constantly dragged or outright forced into misadventures he doesn't care about and often accompanied by people who hardly care about him (even Jon-Tom sees him more as a "hired" guide than a friend for a long time), and whenever it is time for someone to be humiliated for comedic purposes on these misadventures that's usually him. On the other hand, as the karmic reward for all that toil, he ends up happily married to the one otter he truly loved (besides himself, that is) and living to old age as a respected and well-off citizen, which certainly beats ruining himself into infirmity and early undignified death with unrestrained drinking and sex, which was outright shown to be his future if he hadn't met Jon-Tom.
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Spellsinger / int_48aac61d	type	Chummy Commies
Spellsinger / int_48aac61d	comment	Chummy Commies: Played with: the local communist, the dragon Falameezar, who is quite heroic if a bit of a Knight Templar.
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Spellsinger / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Spellsinger / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: For a number of Talking Animal characters, including Mudge's rural-British speech and Roseroar's Southern drawl. The description of Colin's accent and some of his word choices bring to mind John Wayne.
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Spellsinger / int_49cd62a0	type	The Monolith
Spellsinger / int_49cd62a0	comment	The Monolith: In Chorus Skating, two huge black rectangular objects appear on the beach when Jon-Tom is about to have his final sing-off battle with the villain. True to this trope, they were indeed sent by a mysterious alien from another level of reality ... as amplifiers to give Jon-Tom's duar a much-needed and decisive boost.
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Spellsinger / int_4bc2095b	type	One Head Taller
Spellsinger / int_4bc2095b	comment	One Head Taller: Jon-Tom (over six feet tall) and pretty much any human in the other world (even the males top out at five-and-a-half).
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Spellsinger / int_4cdcba84	type	Bunnies for Cuteness
Spellsinger / int_4cdcba84	comment	Bunnies for Cuteness: Played straight with Caz, although contrasted by his Quintessential British Gentleman personality. Averted with The Monks in Son of Spellsinger who are rabbits, who are so outright sick of being called "Cute and cuddly" that they became savage psychopaths that kidnap children and permanently fuse them into monstrous hybrid killing machines
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Spellsinger / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Spellsinger / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Talea is actually fairly tall for a human in her native land, but she's a good foot shorter than Jon-Tom.
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Spellsinger / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Spellsinger / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: One scene in Son Of Spellsinger has a spell gone wrong which has the characters literally fall to pieces only to reassemble wrong (for instance, Buncan's head is sticking out of his chest and his arm is where his head should be). Oddly the way the scene is described (the characters totally nonchalant and lack of detail), it feels like if anything, it was intended to be a "silly scene" as if from a cartoon. Later in the book, the heroes deal with Mad-Scientist/Sorcerer monks who fuse multiple species into grotesque combinations.
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Spellsinger / int_5070f1ab	type	Tricking the Shapeshifter
Spellsinger / int_5070f1ab	comment	Tricking The Shape Shifter: Used rather cleverly by Jon-Tom to escape the mimicvines in Moment of the Magician.
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Spellsinger / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Spellsinger / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: Roseroar. Although when dealing with Corroboc at the end of the third book she doesn't even bother with her swords. She doesn't actually eat him, but uses her claws to dismember him faster then he can draw his sword. Corroboc himself could allegedly throw four knives at once: one with each wing, one with his beak, and one with his good foot while perching on his peg leg. It doesn't do him the slightest bit of good against an enraged Roseroar.
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Spellsinger / int_5171abed	type	Loads and Loads of Races
Spellsinger / int_5171abed	comment	Loads and Loads of Races: Possibly the record-holder for this, as every species of mammal, bird, amphibian or turtle known to Earth is a sentient race. Also an unspecified number of insects and spiders, plus assorted mythical creatures and unique creations.
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Spellsinger / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Spellsinger / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: In the first book, Mudge goes missing, and Jon-Tom follows him into an underground tunnel system, and hears some very suspicious sounds, then Mudge yelling at someone. Cue him finding Mudge lying on the ground with his hands and feet tied with rope, and a creature looming over him. It turns out he was stealing gold and was held as a prisoner. But seriously, how many people expected a rape scene?
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Spellsinger / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Spellsinger / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: In the very first book, the first scene has Jon-Tom swearing off pot, since he thinks he's hallucinating the fantasy world/Mudge. The final scene ending on a Cliffhanger has him extremely nervous and wishing he had some pot to calm him down.
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Spellsinger / int_5321053	type	In the Doldrums
Spellsinger / int_5321053	comment	In the Doldrums: The Muddletup Moors in The Day of the Dissonance. It's overcast all the time, food is tasteless and anyone traveling through it gets so bored and depressed that they just lie down and die. It turns out that the depression is caused by the telepathic broadcasts of the intelligent giant fungi who live there. But of course, Jon-Tom provided some magical entertainment (and a cross between pop-culture psychology and nihilistic philosophy) to the fungi and passed through the moors safely.
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Spellsinger / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Spellsinger / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!
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Spellsinger / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Spellsinger / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The hummingbirds who save Pandro the raven messenger from the "demons" (fighter planes) Markus sends after him.
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Spellsinger / int_53c7c51b	type	And Call Him "George"
Spellsinger / int_53c7c51b	comment	And Call Him "George": The Brulumpus, a sort of sentient swamp from The Moment of the Magician. All it wanted was companionship that was "new and interesting". In order to coax it to let them leave, Jon-Tom conjures up a variety of objects from his own world such as a grandfather clock or a flea circus to entertain it, and eventually it is overcome by...TV commercials.
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Spellsinger / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Spellsinger / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: In Paths of the Perambulator, the mad wolverine mage turns the Perambulator into one to try and stop the party. It comes precious close to working, too.
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Spellsinger / int_568974fd	type	Single-Species Nations
Spellsinger / int_568974fd	comment	Single-Species Nations: Most places in the Spellsinger world are mixtures of various mammal and bird species, but there are exceptions across the novels. The Weavers are a nation made up of human-sized spiders who keep to themselves because they find mammals to be scary. In Moment of the Magician, Jon-Tom and Mudge find a pair of cities, one inhabited exclusively by gophers, the other exclusively by moles. And Paths of the Perambulator features a tribe of cannibal muskrats (who naturally capture the heroes).
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Spellsinger / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Spellsinger / int_5707e92c	comment	Feather Fingers: The birds, to the extent that they can play stringed instruments and use weapons with specially-designed hollow grips.
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Spellsinger / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Spellsinger / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Rats and mice are treated as inferior and have to cope with jobs like janitor, though during the Battle of the Jo-Troom Gate Falameezar rallies them to drive back the Plated Folk, which boosts them into near-respectability from then on. In general in fact there seems to be suspicion and distrust between a number of species (see Mudge's view of ferrets), not to mention the view of some humans toward the furries, and of course that of the Plated Folk toward the warmbloods.
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Spellsinger / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Spellsinger / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: The Brulumpus, though calling it "genius" is a serious stretch. (See And Call Him "George", above).
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Spellsinger / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
Spellsinger / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: Although Clothahump does his best to save the world, when it needs saving, otherwise he's quite a dick, not above tricking Jon-Tom into going on highly dangerous quests because he feels like it. Unlike many fantasy mentors, though, he's at least aware of his own dickishness, even if he does justify it as necessary to save the world. Most of the time Jon-Tom and the others put up with it, albeit with a lot of grumbling and annoyance, but at least once it prompts an enraged tirade from the spellsinger (because he had used implication and omission to suggest he could bring Talea back from the dead so the rest of them could get out of Cugluch safely).
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Spellsinger / int_58e117b4	type	Pirate Parrot
Spellsinger / int_58e117b4	comment	Pirate Parrot: Played with in the case of Corroboc and Kamaulk. The parrots are the pirates, and incredibly nasty.
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Spellsinger / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Spellsinger / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Played with. While many felines in the series are bad guys, they tend more to be Mooks than anything else and, as such, are not particularly nasty, merely acting as Punch-Clock Villains. There's also Roseroar, who is unequivocally a good guy as well as quite likable and charming, and the smilodon in Song of Spellsinger, while not bothered in the slightest by eating other sentients, didn't mean anything personal by it and was only doing his job in guarding the Grand Veritable. (And he ended up sparing the heroes in gratitude for their ending of his tooth pain). Even Sasheem, the rather cruel and sadistic leopard first mate of Captain Corroboc, is not outright evil and even has a sense of humor, honor, and respect for Jon-Tom and his party. And the jaguar Thornrack from Moment of the Magician, although fairly nasty, is also smart and rather funny at times.
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Spellsinger / int_5ac8f358	type	Hordes from the East
Spellsinger / int_5ac8f358	comment	Hordes from the East: The Plated Folk are most certainly a horde; the Greendowns where they dwell are to the east; and they periodically invade and try to conquer the Warmlands as such hordes are wont to do.
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Spellsinger / int_5b965319	type	Language of Magic
Spellsinger / int_5b965319	comment	The Language of Magic equals Techno Babble here.
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Spellsinger / int_5d25f366	type	You Can Leave Your Hat On
Spellsinger / int_5d25f366	comment	You Can Leave Your Hat On: The dancing ermine at the Pearl Possum. Jon-Tom is squicked at finding himself as aroused as the various other species of patrons.
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Spellsinger / int_5d6e6919	type	Magicians Are Wizards
Spellsinger / int_5d6e6919	comment	Magicians Are Wizards: Markle Kratzmeier Markus the Ineluctable, a two-bit Stage Magician on Earth who finds his tricks work for real after he gets into the Spellsinger world.
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Spellsinger / int_5d8adef6	type	Wonder Twin Powers
Spellsinger / int_5d8adef6	comment	Wondertwin Powers: In Son of Spellsinger, Jon-Tom's son and Mudge's kids have to perform together as a band to gain the full benefits of spellsinging magic. They're a trio, not a duo, but same idea.
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Spellsinger / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
Spellsinger / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: Clothahump actually pulls this at the end of book six, when he claims that if he hadn't kept knowledge of his hidden gems (instead of the gold they kept asking for) from the thieves, Jon-Tom would not have had to rescue him and ended up breaking his duar, Mudge would never have met Weegee, and Jon-Tom wouldn't have found the Cave-With-No-Name and figured out what world he belonged in. So his deception is justified.
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Spellsinger / int_5e2ae7ee	type	Inexplicable Treasure Chests
Spellsinger / int_5e2ae7ee	comment	Inexplicable Treasure Chests: Lampshaded in book eight, when Mudge finds a chest of treasure and Jon-Tom ponders that, for all many their adventures, it's the first time they've ever found any.
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Spellsinger / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Spellsinger / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast/The Dreaded: Crancularn is this for a number of people. The female Warthog warrior "Regrett" who is not only Ax-Crazy but is completely invincible.
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Spellsinger / int_6134738	type	Find the Cure!
Spellsinger / int_6134738	comment	Find the Cure: Most of the third book, Day of the Dissonance, is Jon-Tom on a quest to find a cure for the dying Clothahump.
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Spellsinger / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Spellsinger / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Hinckel is the only Big Bad in the series to reform at the end
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Spellsinger / int_61c3ca7b	type	Panthera Awesome
Spellsinger / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Panthera Awesome: Roseroar, the Amazonian, Southern-drawl-sporting tigress.
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Spellsinger / int_61d054a0	type	Animal Stereotypes
Spellsinger / int_61d054a0	comment	Animal Stereotypes: Appears everywhere, from clever foxes to villainous cats to sex-crazed otters to temperamental badgers to evil insects. But a particularly prominent example is the Big Bad of book five, a wolverine...who is an Ax-Crazy wizard who abandoned his people because they in turn would not accept him for being a coward—and this is actually suggested as the reason he is insane, that being Hot-Blooded and fierce fighters is so in the nature of wolverines that his mind could not handle him being a coward. As a result, he wants to make the whole world insane like him, even if the being he uses to do it also destroys creation. When the departure of the perambulator cures his insanity, he then still ends up trying to kill the heroes—partly because by freeing it Jon-Tom took away something he was actually enjoying that made him unique and powerful in his opinion, and partly because of the Hot-Blooded Berserk Button tendency of wolverines. Subversions do exist, however. The Weavers of Gossameringue, despite their fearsome appearance, turn out to be loyal and dependable allies; Colin the koala, far from being somnolent, lethargic, and slow of mind is a badass warrior and runecaster; and Dormas the hinny, while a bit stubborn, is also one of the calmest and most sensible members of the party. Also, the guinea pig who leads the group of thieves that try to rob Clothahump in Time of the Transference is anything but cute and harmless.
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Spellsinger / int_621b5533	type	Your Universe or Mine?
Spellsinger / int_621b5533	comment	Your Universe or Mine?: In The Time of the Transference, Jon-Tom must choose between returning to our world and remaining in the warmlands — where he not only has friends and magical abilities, but a wife, Talea.
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Spellsinger / int_64c38832	type	Inevitable Waterfall
Spellsinger / int_64c38832	comment	Inevitable Waterfall: Four waterfalls actually, at the Helldrink in the second book. Unlike most examples of the trope, Helldrink is quite lethal to anyone foolish enough to get that far, and only some VERY fast work by Clothahump saves the party.
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Spellsinger / int_653fdd53	type	Shaped Like What It Sells
Spellsinger / int_653fdd53	comment	Shaped Like What It Sells: All the shops of the craftspeople in Strelakat Mews are of this sort, either decorated with the sort of products found within or actually shaped like them (although some of this is illusion).
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Spellsinger / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Spellsinger / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: Book four has a rather extensive opening scene which doesn't include Jon-Tom or any of his companions at all—starting first with a Villain Opening Scene (though not from the villain's perspective) showing how he rises to power, then shifting to the wizard he deposed and his attempts to call for Clothahump's help, and finally on the messenger who is nearly slain en route but manages to barely escape with his life. It's rather effectively done, and even the fact it seems like a case of Developing Doomed Characters is subverted by the fact that the councilors mentioned here, and the wizard, all turn up alive in the dungeon at the end (except for Oplode's apprentice).
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Spellsinger / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Spellsinger / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: Chorus Skating, the last novel, includes repeated cameo appearances by a dimension-hopping thranx. Earlier, in book 4, Jon-Tom conjures a "fugelbell tree" once, which is a plant from the same Humanx Commonwealth universe.
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Spellsinger / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Spellsinger / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Raptors (birds of prey), led by the one from the Nazi emblem.
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Spellsinger / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
Spellsinger / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Unfazed Everyman: Jon-Tom, owing to his being a stoner, takes most of the weird medieval world in stride once he gets used to it.
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Spellsinger / int_6a6c1f35	type	The Power of Rock
Spellsinger / int_6a6c1f35	comment	The Power of Rock: Literally—the music Jon-Tom plays with his duar creates magical spells of varying effect. In the third book it even becomes more literal, as Jon-Tom has to battle with a mockingbird Spellsinger brought in by the villain - after their battle ends in a draw, though, the bird declares Jon-Tom a Worthy Opponent and joins with him in a "jam" session (minus the berries). And then book five has a whole band of Magic Music-playing demons Jon-Tom has to fight—and he actually destroys them with a particularly powerful song (musically, not just magically). And the final book ends with a duel of two magical rock musicians: the evil Hinckel summons legions of bad musicians from the world of the dead, and the good Jon-Tom dispels all them with giant amplifiers provided by his Sufficiently Advanced Alien friend.
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Spellsinger / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
Spellsinger / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble doubles as the Language of Magic.
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Spellsinger / int_6bab4b2e	type	Like a Duck Takes to Water
Spellsinger / int_6bab4b2e	comment	Like a Duck Takes to Water: Although initially the combination of finding himself in a far too realistic Crapsack World of mostly furries and the inability of the one who summoned him to send him back home makes Jon-Tom terrified and desperate to escape, once he discovers the duar and his spellsinging talents, and then finds out just what the threat Clothahump called him to stop is, he immediately knuckles under to try and help. Throughout each of the subsequent books he becomes more and more adapted to his new home, as well as developing his spellsinging talents, until by the time he finds a way home again he not only isn't sure he wants to leave, but after visiting Earth, reassuring family and friends, and making arrangements for his continued absence he goes right back with various Earth goodies (including, naturally, plenty of music). Flores Quintera is an even stronger example, since the chance to escape misogyny and assumptions about her intellect and goals in life, plus live out her secret fantasies, causes her to prefer the Wizard's World to home and to fit in immediately. Though it would have been nice closure to see (or just mention) her saying a final goodbye to her parents and eleven siblings who no doubt assume she's dead.
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Spellsinger / int_6bd6c8b7	type	Captured by Cannibals
Spellsinger / int_6bd6c8b7	comment	Captured by Cannibals: Happens to Colin in book five, until Jon-Tom and the others rescue him. Happens three times in book six.
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Spellsinger / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Spellsinger / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name/Stealth Pun: M'nemaxa's name, when Jon-Tom sounds it out, sounds like "Omni-maxa". M'nemaxa is described by Clothahump as the supreme gestalt embodiment of all beings, and "omni" means "all", while "max" means "most" or "greatest". Also Folly from book three. Not only was the name given to her by Corroboc because he and his crew believed her to be useless and worthless, she ends up inadvertently causing a great deal of trouble for Jon-Tom by getting mugged and taken to the Friends of the Street, then believing The Mole and getting kidnapped and ensorcelled. Lampshaded several times by both Mudge and Roseroar.
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Spellsinger / int_6c07693b	type	Carry a Big Stick
Spellsinger / int_6c07693b	comment	Carry a Big Stick: Jon-Tom's backup weapon when he's unable to use his spellsinging. Justified due to his lack of weapons training and long reach compared to almost everyone/thing else. A series of four or five "decorative" studs on the staff release a concealed spearpoint from the butt end of said "stick", however...
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Spellsinger / int_6dd33e15	type	True Beauty Is on the Inside
Spellsinger / int_6dd33e15	comment	True Beauty Is on the Inside: Deconstructed with Pog. Despondent that a beautiful woman he loves won't even give him the time of day, he is told by Jon-Tom, "She should see you for what you are on the inside"—only for the bat to point out that in Real Life, looks do count. They are part of who you are. It might not be the most important, but they still are something. Not to mention that one of the reasons he wants her in the first place is for her looks, so it would be a Double Standard if he wanted her to ignore his ugliness. The fact that he ends up being transformed into a beautiful phoenix by Jon-Tom could be seen as either part of the cynical deconstruction (that only such a change could make him worthy in Uleimee's eyes) or playing the trope straight after all by making Pog's outer appearance resemble his good, if gruff, heart.
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Spellsinger / int_6efdfe5c	type	Money Mauling
Spellsinger / int_6efdfe5c	comment	Money Mauling: In the first book, Mudge suggests that Jon-Tom sew his gold coins into the hem of his cloak, as it's not merely a safe place to stow them but allows the cloak to be used as a blunt instrument in emergencies.
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Spellsinger / int_70910ae0	type	Creepy Cleanliness
Spellsinger / int_70910ae0	comment	Creepy Cleanliness: The extremely neat and clean orphanage run by the Friends of the Street in Snarken appears to be on the up and up until Mudge points out that with so many orphans present it should be more dirty. The protagonists investigate and discover that the operators are puritanical religious fanatics who regularly beat the orphans, as well as neuter them to make them more docile and less likely to make messes. The residents of the Arabian-eqsue city Hygria. They are obsessed with cleaning to the point of it being an outright illness. And shun any outsiders are they are "filthy". They sweep the streets every day by the clock, and their completely white clothes (white everything for that matter) are always completely spotless.
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Spellsinger / int_71538259	type	Token Human
Spellsinger / int_71538259	comment	Token Human: Although minor human characters appear (such as Folly in book three), the series sports only two (three, if you count the Son of Spellsinger) major human characters, including The Hero Jon-Tom. All others are anthropomorphic animals.
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Spellsinger / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Spellsinger / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Zancresta not only dismisses Snooth as being of any consequence, he actually insults and threatens her with bodily harm when she won't give him the medicine and dares to interrupt his Motive Rant by demanding payment for the damages to her shop. Big mistake, since she's got an all-powerful and fairly wicked genie in her pouch. He doesn't have much time to regret it.
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Spellsinger / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Spellsinger / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Most of the early editions' covers seem to have nothing to do with the actual contents. Talea fares particularly badly on books one and two, and Mudge looks old and gnarled on the latter as well (and also looks like a rat instead of an otter). Book five is probably the worst contender. As the cover shows the heroes surrounded by 4 multicoloured punk imps playing electric guitars. First, they did not dress like punks in the book, they were all red generic looking imps, and they had unique instruments each, none of which were electric guitars. As well as Clothahump on the cover is wearing a ridiculous looking wizard's hat, he is never shown wearing any hats ever and if he did, it wouldn't be one that goofy looking. Book three has Roseroar on the cover. Only instead of the 500 lb block of muscle the book describes her as, she's noticably smaller than Jon-Tom (when it was mentioned that she's one of the few individuals who's taller than he is) and appears to be nothing more than a human wearing a costume from Cats—she's even got breasts and a human nose.
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Spellsinger / int_737394ab	type	Iconic Item
Spellsinger / int_737394ab	comment	Iconic Item: When Weegee is kidnapped by the pirates in book six, Jon-Tom and Mudge realize they are the same group they met three books earlier when one of their fellow passengers recalls seeing Sasheem's peg-tail.
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Spellsinger / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
Spellsinger / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Essentially the reason M'nemaxa helps Jon-Tom at the Jo-Troom Gate—because summoning him (and making him safe to ride) inadvertently shortened his billions-of-years journey, thus inspiring extreme gratitude.
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Spellsinger / int_73fbe27d	type	It's the Journey That Counts
Spellsinger / int_73fbe27d	comment	It's the Journey That Counts: Despite the fact The Day of the Dissonance ends up being a "Shaggy Dog" Story, it can be said much was learned and accomplished along the way that never would have been if they hadn't gone on the trip, ranging from eliminating Corroboc and saving Folly, to exposing the truth about the Friends of the Street, to helping the fairies so they would no longer eat travelers, to eliminating the evil wizard Zancresta. Jon-Tom, naturally, is not amused by the lesson, however. Also book 6 does the same. If Clothahump simply gave the bandits the jewels Jon-Tom would have never broke his Duar and never went on the quest, Mudge would have never fallen in love with Weegee and redeemed himself, and never had kids, and Jon-Tom would have never found the portal to home. As well as multiple characters would have died or continue to live in misery This is lampshaded at the end.
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Spellsinger / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Spellsinger / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Played with—the cops themselves are not brutal, nor do they do anything particularly out-of-line to keep the peace or bring in perps...but rather than using tear gas, they do fumigate those criminals and lawbreakers they arrest...because they're skunks.
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Spellsinger / int_746704c9	type	Divided for Publication
Spellsinger / int_746704c9	comment	Divided for Publication: The first story in the series was split into Spellsinger and The Hour of the Gate.
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Spellsinger / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
Spellsinger / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: Flores has eleven brothers and sisters.
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Spellsinger / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Spellsinger / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Jon-Tom and Talea, lampshaded by Mudge when the two meet again in book five and their "heartfelt" reunion is witnessed by Colin.
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Spellsinger / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Spellsinger / int_762b9223	comment	Invariably, whenever something bad happens to Mudge, he will either forget the lesson he learned from it the next time a similar situation shows up, or he'll have an epiphany and swear to change his ways which he ends up dismissing/abandoning a short time later. Or it will be Played for Laughs and the Aesop will be subverted or broken by Mudge Comically Missing the Point about what he was supposed to learn. Example: after having been inflicted with a venereal disease by the perambulator, he swears off bedding a different lady every night: "I guess I'll 'ave to restrict meself to a different lady every other night."
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Spellsinger / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
Spellsinger / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: Played with—apparently fictional animals from our world have been known to pop up as anthros in that world. Such as the Hound Of The Baskervilles and the Nazi Eagle Emblem.
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Spellsinger / int_791ef98c	type	Everything Makes a Mushroom
Spellsinger / int_791ef98c	comment	Everything Makes a Mushroom: Jon-Tom's final spellsong attack that takes out the demonic spellsingers in book five inexplicably creates a mushroom cloud. (Although to be fair the song in question was the Pointer Sisters' "Neutron Dance.")
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Spellsinger / int_7950239f	type	Humanity Ensues
Spellsinger / int_7950239f	comment	Humanity Ensues: Clothahump threatens Mudge with it when the otter initially refuses to help Jon-Tom. Also happens to Jon-Tom's group in Perambulator.
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Spellsinger / int_7b096be7	type	Cannibal Tribe
Spellsinger / int_7b096be7	comment	Accidentally applies to a Cannibal Tribe in Time of the Transference, where turning pink is among several misfortunes Jon-Tom inflicts.
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Spellsinger / int_7b2ae131	type	All Guys Want Cheerleaders
Spellsinger / int_7b2ae131	comment	All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Flores, whom Jon-Tom had a crush on back at UCLA. To his great dismay, it turns out she's not a ditzy cheerleader, but an Action Girl.
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Spellsinger / int_7c1d92d7	type	Now Do It Again, Backwards
Spellsinger / int_7c1d92d7	comment	Now Do It Again, Backwards: At one point in book five, when one of the perambulator's reality tweaks causes all the animal members of the party to turn into humans, Jon-Tom proceeds to change them back by singing Rick Springfield's "Human Touch"...backwards. Unfortunately for him, this also causes him to turn into a howler monkey; he considers singing the song forwards again to restore himself, but has to pick something else so as to protect his friends.
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Spellsinger / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Spellsinger / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A spell goes wrong in Son of Spellsinger—instead of boosting a rhino mercenary's confidence, it grows his tickbird to massive size, big enough to carry the rhino in his talons, and the party on his back. Though it only lasts about five minutes.
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Spellsinger / int_7d95c5e7	type	XtremeKoolLetterZ
Spellsinger / int_7d95c5e7	comment	X Treme Kool Letterz: Quasequa, the destination in the fourth book.
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Spellsinger / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Spellsinger / int_7eebe99c	comment	There was one brief scene where an owl (Clothahump's drunken assistant Sorbl) is seen quickly gulping down a mouse; whether or not it was someone's father was never addressed. However, since mice are considered quite sentient in this world and the suggestion of eating any sentient being fills anyone but the most evil with disgust and horror, it's more likely Jon-Tom only caught a glimpse of something mouse-sized with a long tail in the frying pan, and subconsciously assumed it was a mouse for the same reason. In which case, it was probably a small long-tailed lizard. Indeed, a mouse from the Warmlands would probably be much too big for Sorbl to swallow, and in the scene where he first meets Sorbl in Day of the Dissonance, the owl a) is horrified at the idea of eating mice and b) specifically mentions going to find some lizards to eat.
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Spellsinger / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Spellsinger / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Talea. In Jon-Tom's words, she is like "clove and pepper" and her words are "like firecrackers". Yet she also has a softer, caring side revealed over time as she begins falling for him, and she possesses Hidden Depths (when asked what the most common trait of humanity is by Falameezar, she says "Love").
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Spellsinger / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Spellsinger / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Bellwoods have flowers shaped like bells (and ring like them too). Lynchbany is named for the Con Man ferret Tilo Bany who, after one too many schemes, was lynched at that spot hundreds of years ago. (And his magically-preserved body is still there.)
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Spellsinger / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Spellsinger / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Normal in the warmlands to the point that Jon-Tom gives offense by refusing the advances of a lupine female. Roseroar briefly muses about a dalliance with Jon-Tom but quickly decides he's much too fragile. (At least, that's what she tells herself to keep her obvious jealousy under control.) Flor, a human, is infatuated with Caz, a rabbit. Much to Jon-Tom's chagrin, they end up a couple at the end. Pog the bat is in love with a falcon. Jon-Tom turns him into a most magnificent phoenix in the end, but whether he gets the girl is left up to the reader.
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Spellsinger / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Spellsinger / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In the fourth book, Oplode's apprentice Flute is never mentioned again after hiring a messenger to contact Clothahump and his ultimate fate remains unknown. Similarly, Drom and Roseroar indicate a desire to return to the Bellwoods with Jon-Tom and Mudge at the end of the third book, as did the group of otters from the fourth, but aside from a few passing references to Roseroar, none of them are ever seen or mentioned again. Nor, for that matter, is Folly. The fate of Flor and Caz from the first two books is also left unstated, though you'd think Jon-Tom would want to inform the former about the gateway home that he eventually discovers. They too do receive a few passing references, however. Picket, Mudge's daughter from Transference, seems to have vanished without trace during the hiatus between it and Son of. None of Jon-Tom's group is able to draw the One True Sword in the Lost City, so they leave it behind. This would seem to be Foreshadowing or a Chekhov's Gun (the predictions made by the goblet seem to be accurate) but it is never mentioned again. Nor, for that matter, is the goblet which they do take with them. While asking where Couvier Coulb's house is—the shopkeeper in question gave directions but said that whatever they do, do not go down a certain street. So they smartly heed the advice, yet where it actually leads never comes into play, as it is never brought up again. The sunken treasure Mudge unearths in book 8, while he let the Princesses take some jewelry. He legally was able to keep the rest of the treasure for himself, though said treasure is never mentioned again after that scene. Whatever became of Sasheem's body. Since he died in "our world" and his corpse was left on the doorstep, someone must have come across it and studied it, since it's a freaking 7 ft anthropomorphic Leopard and we shouldn't assume that the two drugrunners would destroy or hide the body, because they'd logically be all too willing to sell it to science for the cash.
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Spellsinger / int_8758ea2e	type	Arboreal Abode
Spellsinger / int_8758ea2e	comment	Arboreal Abode: The turtle wizard Clothahump's home is inside a massive oak tree. As well as is Jon-Tom's home, after he marries Talea; Clothahump gave it to them as a wedding gift. But he had deeper reasons as well. Both their homes are very close by—Clothahump ensured this, in case he ever needs Jon-Tom immediately for anything.
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Spellsinger / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Spellsinger / int_8774fb47	comment	Subverted in the first book. The morning after Clothahump summons M'nemaxa, it appears as if Mudge has abandoned them...only for him to reappear having hunted down some breakfast for the party. However, it isn't that after planning to abandon them to save his own skin, he changed his mind out of altruism, friendship, or in consideration of the money the turtle was paying him—he simply knew better than to leave since Clothahump would curse him if he did. And he was right.
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Spellsinger / int_87c7f99d	type	Sidetracked by the Analogy
Spellsinger / int_87c7f99d	comment	Sidetracked by the Analogy: Jon-Tom's rather hilarious argument with himself about whether he was really alive, after the otters save him from the Plated Folk and he's recovered from the Ruze's venom...using the extended metaphor of a court case and legal terminology.
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Spellsinger / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
Spellsinger / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: Mudge's reason for doing anything to help Jon-Tom and the others for most of the series.
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Spellsinger / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Spellsinger / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Played with but ultimately averted. At first when Clothahump summons Jon-Tom it seems to be an utter mistake, a mix-up caused by Jon-Tom's job title and his state of mind at the time. Later when it turns out he can spellsing, he still has to practice and learn a great deal before he can even be reliable with his magic, let alone save the day—he does manage to stop the Plated Folk invasion, but mostly by accident. As the series progresses, he does learn enough to become a proficient spellsinger and be able to do what he wants, most of the time, as well as combating various threats to the world, but in the end all he wants to be is a singer and husband to Talea. When he discovers the Lost City in book six and learns the One True Sword can be drawn only by a true hero, he actually has hope it's meant for him. It isn't...and he is perfectly fine with that.
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Spellsinger / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Spellsinger / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Talea at the end of book two, courtesy of a jaunt into M'nemaxa's plane of existence and a meeting with her soul as a gneechee.
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Spellsinger / int_89d694cc	type	Place of Power
Spellsinger / int_89d694cc	comment	Place of Power: The Glade of Triane (and three other locations around the world).
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Spellsinger / int_8a3c406e	type	Hair-Raising Hare
Spellsinger / int_8a3c406e	comment	Hair-Raising Hare: In the seventh book, there is a group of rabbits who are so sick of being regarded as cute and harmless that they went insane and started messing around with The Dark Arts/Mad Science in order to take over the world.
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Spellsinger / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Spellsinger / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Several bears turn up as elite Mooks for villains, and occasionally as The Dragon.
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Spellsinger / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Spellsinger / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Mudge accuses Jon-Tom of having one and insists on shortening it. Ironic since he knows someone named "Caspar di Lorca di l'Omollia di los Enansas Giterxos", but then he shortens that to Caz. The hummingbird Councilor in Polastrindu is named Millevoddevareen. One of the otters Jon-Tom and Mudge meet in the Wrounipai is named Flutzasarangelik ("but you can call him Flutz").
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Spellsinger / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Spellsinger / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Whether it was Braglob or the perambulator reading his nature, having Mudge, the resident sexual predator, get turned into (and contract) a venereal disease takes the cake for karmic fates.
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Spellsinger / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Spellsinger / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Both played straight and averted. Early on in Lynchbany Jon-Tom watches some furry children playing, only to be horrified when it turns into actual fighting with a fair amount of bloodiness and ferocity. In Polastrindu, however, just before speaking to the town council, he observes the people of the city in order to remind himself of the peaceful, innocent people who will die if they don't succeed in their quest, and among them are some cute, friendly children he is easily able to imagine as human.
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Spellsinger / int_93f74e38	type	Playful Otter
Spellsinger / int_93f74e38	comment	Playful Otter: Mudge most prominently, but any given otter also qualifies, particularly since otters as a rule tend to be crazily awesome. Invoked directly In-Universe in the truism "one otter can focus on something serious for a while, but two or more otters is a permanent party." Weegee seems to be the lone exception to this, as she plays another trope.
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Spellsinger / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
Spellsinger / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: Jon-Tom attempts this with the two prairie dog colonies in book four after stealing their "trophy" to end their pointless war over the hot springs. It doesn't work, only causing them to unite against him, to his great chagrin.
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Spellsinger / int_9515716	type	Working for a Body Upgrade
Spellsinger / int_9515716	comment	Working for a Body Upgrade: Pog wants Clothahump to transform him from bat to falcon. Jon-Tom eventually gives him an even better upgrade, to phoenix.
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Spellsinger / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Spellsinger / int_970c790a	comment	Zancresta, Big Bad of the third book, is quite prone to acts like this. Notable is his treatment of Folly—hypnotizing her into coming with him to be a beast of burden, slave, and cook, trapping her within her own mind and futilely calling for Jon-Tom while her body acted against her will, and using her as an insurance policy to make sure Jon-Tom wouldn't dare to attack him. And when he no longer had any need of her, he compelled her to follow an aisle of the Shop of the Aether and Neither until she walked right into the volcanic fissure at its end.
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Spellsinger / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
Spellsinger / int_97522514	comment	Heel–Face Revolving Door: The Plated Folk army at the end of the second book, having surrendered, finally begin to talk with the Warmlanders rather then fight. The two sides seem well on their way to mutual understanding, but by the fourth book, the Plated Folk are back to being Always Chaotic Evil. Though that group was implied to be a rogue faction who still hang on to the few threads left of their evil army. No different from people today who still support the Nazis, despite Nazis being long gone.
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Spellsinger / int_97b5e1f9	type	Bug War
Spellsinger / int_97b5e1f9	comment	One of the more disturbing aspects of the Plated Folk's culture, and why their Bug War is such a frightening prospect — they generally don't take prisoners, and don't distinguish between military and civilians. Everyone is food.
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Spellsinger / int_99404851	type	Ladykiller in Love
Spellsinger / int_99404851	comment	Ladykiller in Love: Mudge ends up being this once he meets Weegee. By implication the reason for this (and for why he actually agrees to reform) is because she's stubborn, determined, brooks no nonsense, and refuses to accept his lies, cowardice, or criminal ways.
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Spellsinger / int_9a480050	type	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
Spellsinger / int_9a480050	comment	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: What the denizens of Pelligrew learn the hard way in the prologue of the first book.
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Spellsinger / int_9aee92b4	type	Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better
Spellsinger / int_9aee92b4	comment	Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Eventually retconned: in the first book, Jon-tom is informed that most hoofed mammals aren't intelligent, but later books show these quadrupedal warmlanders talking and using tools designed to be grasped with lips.
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Spellsinger / int_9af96ec2	type	Acrophobic Bird
Spellsinger / int_9af96ec2	comment	Acrophobic Bird: Teyva the winged horse is literally this, thanks to a trauma he experienced as a young colt. Jon-Tom has an...unusual method of curing him (albeit brought on by desperation).
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Spellsinger / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Spellsinger / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Hinckel, to Jon-Tom. Both are young aspiring rock musicians who end up in a magical world, and both have problems with their particularly unmelodic performances. However, Jon-Tom tries to become a better musician, and Hinckel decides to destroy all music but his.
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Spellsinger / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
Spellsinger / int_9be7c205	comment	The spider folk of Gossameringue and the owl/lemur mountainfolk of Ironcloud. Rather like the elves and Rohirrim in The Lord of the Rings, both send late war parties to help defend the Jo-Troom Gate, and combined prove decisive.
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Spellsinger / int_9c4003a1	type	One True Love
Spellsinger / int_9c4003a1	comment	One True Love: Jon-Tom is initially attracted to both Flores and Talea, but remains unwaveringly faithful to the latter, after finally getting together with her. Mudge of all people, finds one in Weegee. Perhaps realistically, while even love does not entirely banish his old womanizing habits from his mind, he finds that his body disagrees on this matter.
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Spellsinger / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Spellsinger / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Very firmly addressed, deconstructed, and eventually subverted. Upon first finding himself in the Warmlands, Jon-Tom believes the place to be a Crapsack World, is horrified by the Fantastic Racism and The Dung Ages setting, and even suffers from some prejudice toward the Interspecies Romance common to the world, as well as being personally squicked himself by such things as an ermine stripper and a female wolf he's expected to take to bed after winning her in a game. It gets to the point that, even though he goes along with Clothahump and the others to help save the world, he finds himself resenting Caz for being The Rival to him for Flor's affections simply because he's "an oversized hare" who shouldn't even be a possibility due to the notion being "repugnant". And when he encounters the human La Résistance of Polastrindu that is working with the Plated Folk to bring down the animals and establish themselves as the "rightful" rulers, he is actually tempted to join them—since even as he denies the fact animals on Earth are not sentient has anything to do with the clearly sentient and intelligent animals of the Warmlands, he finds himself wondering what he even owes this world he was brought to against his will. In the end, however, when the others come to his rescue and thus remind him of their loyalty and friendship, he rejects the offer, is made physically ill at the thought of his near-betrayal, and declares that Mudge, Caz, and Pog were "more 'human' than the so-called humans who'd kept him prisoner"...and that if he'd been tempted it was because he was "only human": "Maybe if I work real hard, I can manage to overcome that." The future books make it clear he has, in fact, come to see the animals of the Warmlands as perfectly equal to humans and worthy of respect and defense, and he even considers their animal selves to be natural, since he finds it as wrong and unsettling when his companions get turned into humans in book five as they do.
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Spellsinger / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
Spellsinger / int_9c88cfb	comment	Mermaid Problem: Double subversion in Chorus Skating. A mermaid offers to have a sexual encounter with Jon-Tom. She's got compatible equipment and he considers accepting her offer, but she's still close enough to a fish that his allergy to seafood reacts to her and causes him to have a sneezing fit. He figures out a solution (wear a scuba tank and breathe through that), but by then she's already left. The fact that he'd be cheating on his wife is ignored. Presumably he's spent too much time around Mudge.
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Spellsinger / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Spellsinger / int_9d12bbc1	comment	None of Jon-Tom's group is able to draw the One True Sword in the Lost City, so they leave it behind. This would seem to be Foreshadowing or a Chekhov's Gun (the predictions made by the goblet seem to be accurate) but it is never mentioned again. Nor, for that matter, is the goblet which they do take with them.
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Spellsinger / int_9d73f176	type	Wandering Minstrel
Spellsinger / int_9d73f176	comment	Wandering Minstrel: Jon-Tom becomes this after the Plated Folk are defeated.
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Spellsinger / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
Spellsinger / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: Accidentally applies to a Cannibal Tribe in Time of the Transference, where turning pink is among several misfortunes Jon-Tom inflicts. Accidentally applied to a village full of wading birds in Chorus Skating, when Jon-Tom magically re-grows their lost feathers by revising the lyrics of songs about custom auto paint jobs. Luckily, the altered birds get a real kick out of their new makeovers.
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Spellsinger / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Spellsinger / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Sorbl's fear of "nothing" in the basement.note It was nearly a case of Poor Communication Kills; all anyone would have had to do was say "The Nothing" ala The Neverending Story.
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Spellsinger / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Spellsinger / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: Gyrnaught is the physical personification of the Nazi Eagle Emblem, starting his own Third Reich of birds, to conquer all non-bird species. Jon-Tom through manipulation causes the entire army to collapse upon itself within 25 minutes after meeting them.
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Spellsinger / int_a139f52b	type	Fantasy World Map
Spellsinger / int_a139f52b	comment	Fantasy World Map: Every book provides one. For the first two only a small subsection is shown relevant to each book's plot (with a zoomed-in view of the Bellwoods for the first); after that a full-sized world map is provided, identical in each book, again with subsections added for that book's plot. Though oddly, there is an error in the sixth book's map. Once the party enter the Cave With No Name, they end up in our world, in San Antonio, Texas which is still displayed on the Fantasy World's map.
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Spellsinger / int_a220d528	type	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Spellsinger / int_a220d528	comment	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Jon-Tom has the unfortunate habit of claiming this when he's about to go off on a supposedly safe, relaxing journey. It's especially painful by book six.
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Spellsinger / int_a246aed6	type	Sapient Cetaceans
Spellsinger / int_a246aed6	comment	Sapient Cetaceans: In a world where every species of mammal or bird is intelligent, dolphins are essentially a bunch of slackers, whose only interest in land-goers is the chance to swap dirty jokes.
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Spellsinger / int_a5c30aec	type	Floating Water
Spellsinger / int_a5c30aec	comment	Floating Water: Sloomaz-ayor-le-Weentli, the literal Double River.
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Spellsinger / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Spellsinger / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: What generally determines the effects of Jon-Tom's magic whenever he's not fighting a Big Bad.
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Spellsinger / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Spellsinger / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: Subverted in the second book when the heroes find the Plated Folk are fighting with intelligent tactics, which are supplied by a military computer from Earth. This is an Oh, Crap! moment by Clothahump who notes that magic items or great beasts he can counter, but there is no simple way to deal with what an enemy knows. Also see Shout-Out below.
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Spellsinger / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Spellsinger / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: There are three magical items in the Lost City: a sword, a mirror, and a goblet. (Nicely archetypal too.)
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Spellsinger / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Spellsinger / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Though the main villain from Chorus Skating reforms at the end, he is never truly punished. (Though many wanted to outright slaughter him) in fact he ends up dating a beautiful princess though it's slightly implied he was never "truly evil", while still a complete Jerkass, he had no wish to conquer (Like Markus did) he just really wanted people to like his music to the point he lost all rationality
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Spellsinger / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Spellsinger / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Jon-Tom when he's captured by the underwater Plated Folk colony in the fourth book. His captors need to carry him back alive and whole to their homeland to answer for his crimes, but they don't dare give him the slightest chance to work his magic. Enter "The Ruze"... When Jon-Tom attempts to go back home in the first book, Clothahump warns him of this, that he could end up trapped in the void between worlds for all eternity where he can't die. Jon-Tom is willing to risk it regardless.
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Spellsinger / int_a971e83c	type	Hidden Elf Village
Spellsinger / int_a971e83c	comment	Hidden Elf Village: The spider folk of Gossameringue and the owl/lemur mountainfolk of Ironcloud. Rather like the elves and Rohirrim in The Lord of the Rings, both send late war parties to help defend the Jo-Troom Gate, and combined prove decisive. A more literal one in the third book. With fat man-eating elves. Crancularn is an odd case, as at first it appears to be a completely normal town, one which just happens to be hard to find because it's the way you get there that is hidden, which is mistaken by most travelers to mean the city itself changes location. Maybe they're mistaken... But when Jon-Tom and his party flee, its citizens take on the weirdly distorted forms of beasts and demons, and then the whole town fades away into nothing. Whether this was its true form or an effect created by the genie to scare them into never returning isn't known.
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Spellsinger / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Spellsinger / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Jon-Tom. A modern human in an alternate, medieval-equivalent universe filled with Talking Animals, who is pretty much useless in a fight, at least in the first few books...except for his spellsinging, which is the ultimate wild card and capable of doing anything he can sing about. The only trouble is that 1.) he has to know the right song, 2.) sometimes nothing happens, and 3.) even he's not sure what's going to happen when he starts. It's done everything from switching the entire party's genders, to changing a wizard's apprentice into a phoenix, to summoning a god. The otter tribe in general are like this - they can barely keep a serious thought in their heads and are always brawling with one another, but heaven help you if you directly attack one of them, or their friends.
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Spellsinger / int_aa55cd25	type	Brawn Hilda
Spellsinger / int_aa55cd25	comment	Book three has Roseroar on the cover. Only instead of the 500 lb block of muscle the book describes her as, she's noticably smaller than Jon-Tom (when it was mentioned that she's one of the few individuals who's taller than he is) and appears to be nothing more than a human wearing a costume from Cats—she's even got breasts and a human nose.
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Spellsinger / int_abdf8966	type	Flying Postman
Spellsinger / int_abdf8966	comment	Flying Postman: A bird postman (postbird?) is the second animal (Mudge is the first) Jon-Tom meets - an (American) Robin that's a two-legged Sir Swears-a-Lot.
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Spellsinger / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Spellsinger / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: Apparently a last resort of the Plated Folk in the second book's final battle. It's actually a very clean bomb, as there is nothing described about the radiation affecting anyone. (It's suggested earlier that the Plated Folk actually stumbled on a Neutron Bomb plan).
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Spellsinger / int_ad40d85	type	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This
Spellsinger / int_ad40d85	comment	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: After so many adventures with Jon-Tom and experiencing his hit-or-miss spellsinging, Mudge actually declares he'd rather Jon-Tom were a lawyer.
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Spellsinger / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Spellsinger / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: At the end of the sixth book, Jon-Tom finds a stable portal to return to his home dimension, but he's grown so comfortable in the fantasy world, he returns home on a tentative basis and decides to return to the fantasy for good, taking as many goodies from Earth such as songbooks as he can with him.
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Spellsinger / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Spellsinger / int_ae3d6438	comment	In Moment of the Magician, Jon-Tom tries to convince the jaguar leader of Markus's guards that they have an appointment with Markus and that he will be in big trouble if he doesn't let them through. Not only does the fellow immediately reveal that Markus is asleep and thus couldn't be meeting anyone, but he mocks Jon-Tom, first by saying "Next I suppose you're going to tell me that this is all a misunderstanding and that it'll easily be straightened out as soon as I take you to the advisor?" and then, after agreeing to let them meet Markus when he awakens, taking them to "the new conference chamber" of the Quorum while he waits (which is just the dungeon cell), guarded by a doorman (jailer), where their evening meal (swill) will soon be served. And later when he is to be taken to Markus, Jon-Tom tries to convince the fellow that he's "just a harmless minstrel" and if he could have his duar back he could convince Markus of the truth; although he visibly hesitates and even debates a bit with one of his soldiers, the guard rules that prisoners can't be allowed to have their possessions back no matter what, and the only way he'll get the duar is if he convinces Markus he's innocent first.
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Spellsinger / int_aecacbd5	type	Clip Its Wings
Spellsinger / int_aecacbd5	comment	Clip Its Wings: Pog, the Talking Animal bat, carried a sewing kit to stitch up tears in his wings.
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Spellsinger / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Spellsinger / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Mudge can never get the name of Strelakat Mews right. The farther they go in their journey, and the more bitter and cynical the otter becomes, the more obvious it's turned into Malicious Misnaming.
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Spellsinger / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Spellsinger / int_af696bef	comment	Jon-Tom. A modern human in an alternate, medieval-equivalent universe filled with Talking Animals, who is pretty much useless in a fight, at least in the first few books...except for his spellsinging, which is the ultimate wild card and capable of doing anything he can sing about. The only trouble is that 1.) he has to know the right song, 2.) sometimes nothing happens, and 3.) even he's not sure what's going to happen when he starts. It's done everything from switching the entire party's genders, to changing a wizard's apprentice into a phoenix, to summoning a god.
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Spellsinger / int_af739531	type	Inept Mage
Spellsinger / int_af739531	comment	Inept Mage: Jon-Tom's spellsinging is variable, to say the least. After years of practice and dedication finally turning Jon-Tom into a skilled and (mostly) reliable spellsinger, he is turned into this once again by having to use the substandard suar when his duar is broken.
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Spellsinger / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Spellsinger / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Jon-Tom has such a moment in Polastrindu when he is tempted by the human La Résistance to turn against his companions. Thanks to a timely rescue, he passes the test...which is a good thing since it turns out he wasn't actually alone with the villains, with no one the wiser about his actions and choices...since Talea was listening in from the ceiling crawl space.
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Spellsinger / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Spellsinger / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Crancularn—or at least, a bad reputation, since those who know of it also know of the Shop of the Aether and Neither so it's hardly secret. The true nature of the shop and its owner, however...
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Spellsinger / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Spellsinger / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: Skrritch, Empress of the Plated Folk. She wants nothing less then mass genocide of as many worlds as she can conquer, and treats most of her courtiers and underlings no better then she would treat the warmlanders.
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Spellsinger / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Spellsinger / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In the first book, Jon-Tom is told that hoofed mammals aren't intelligent, but later books have him converse with talking camels and horses, and hire a talking hinny to accompany his group. In Son of Spellsinger when Neena is kidnapped and Squill pretends not to care, Buncan calls him out on this stating she's "his only sibling". The author seems to disregard Picket and Nickum from the previous book.
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Spellsinger / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
Spellsinger / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: Talea, when the party's Dressing as the Enemy gambit goes pear-shaped. It works, and allows her to break them out of prison—until it turns out the guards aren't crazy...leading to her Hostage Situation and Heroic Sacrifice.
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Spellsinger / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
Spellsinger / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Never shown, but it's hard not to imagine Pog after turning into a Phoenix, that his personality shifted to match his new image. After all a Phoenix smoking and drinking and cursing constantly seems beyond comprehension, even for these books. His final words as he flies away do suggest this, as the diction is completely different from his usual.
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Spellsinger / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Spellsinger / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Mudge is not normally one to voluntarily stick his neck out for anyone, but when he sees what the Friends of the Street are really up to, Jon-Tom asks if they can risk rescuing all the children. Mudge's reply is that they're going to rescue the children regardless of risk.
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Spellsinger / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Spellsinger / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Every title after Hour of the Gate has this, save for Chorus Skating. The Quasequa Quorum in Moment of the Magician.
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Spellsinger / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Spellsinger / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The description of the music which the demon spellsingers in book five use (country music) is this: "It arises from the deepest well of confusion, from the black pits where unpleasant songs of sorrow and despair mix together to form the most depressing soul-suffocating sludge. Our music moans of dark moments and wails of woeful weeping. No living creature is immune. None can ignore its effects...[they] sing of a world in which work led only to poverty, beauty only to heartbreak, and love only to misery and loneliness." Also, when Colin reveals that the perambulator and its reality warping has traveled to Earth and become stuck in Washington, D.C.: "They'd never notice the difference there anyway."
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Spellsinger / int_b58642b1	type	Trapped in Another World
Spellsinger / int_b58642b1	comment	Trapped in Another World: Jon-Tom is stuck in this world of talking animals since Clothahump summoned him but doesn't know how to send him back, or can't, depending on the novel. Eventually he does find a way home, but by then he doesn't want to leave.
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Spellsinger / int_b9ae0e32	type	Diligent Draft Animal
Spellsinger / int_b9ae0e32	comment	Diligent Draft Animal: In The Path of the Perambulator, the heroes hire a hinny named Dormas as a pack animal. Dormas is a businesslike and no-nonsense animal, who frequently snarks about her companions, but never complains about the actual work.
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Spellsinger / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Spellsinger / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Talea. She's the first human Jon-Tom meets, and the first female as well; despite his summoning of Flor, it's Talea he falls for while Flor ends up with Caz, and no matter how many other females he meets in his journeys, he always comes back to her. They eventually wed and have children.
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Spellsinger / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Spellsinger / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Talea. Her hair is explicitly described as not the usual red-orange but "flashing crimson that looked...like kinky blood"...and the first thing she does after meeting Jon-Tom is insult him, tell him to shut up, and instantly draw a knife on him despite him being a good head-and-shoulders taller than she is.
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Spellsinger / int_bba8939	type	Cats Are Snarkers
Spellsinger / int_bba8939	comment	Cats Are Snarkers: Domurmur the lynx, of the Quasequa Quorum, in regards to Markus. For contrast, the Mook Thornrack who heads up Markus's dungeon guards is one to some degree as well.
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Spellsinger / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Spellsinger / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: Played straight with the cannibal fairies; inverted with Kamaulk, who's mistaken for a chicken and eaten by homeless men from our own Earth.
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Spellsinger / int_beb91a53	type	Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
Spellsinger / int_beb91a53	comment	Ogre Chief's Ugly Daughter: Jon-Tom meets one of these on the way from Chejiji to Strelakat Mews—and thanks to managing to befriend the chief through a song of unity, love, and hope, he ends up engaged to her too.
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Spellsinger / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Spellsinger / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The perambulator not only causes these, it is one—but rather than making those who view it Go Mad from the Revelation, it only causes awe at its incredible complexity and beauty.
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Spellsinger / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Spellsinger / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Mudge likes to insinuate this about Talea... then turn it into Innocent Innuendo whenever she overhears. On the other hand Talea strongly implies that, even if the spirit (and flesh) is willing, Mudge doesn't get around nearly as much as he claims he does. This comment might seem motivated by either jealousy or a desire to insult a disgusting habit, except it is stated in the context of her warning Flor to avoid Caz because "unlike Mudge, who's a talker, this one's a doer". (I.e., if Mudge really did get around and she was just trying to insult him, surely she'd have warned Flor away from the otter too.) Though she contradicts herself in book six "that otter will screw anything that moves, and probably a few things that don't." Most likely, Talea meant that while Mudge would act crude and lecherous toward Flor, he wasn't actually interested in sex with a human while Caz was—while Interspecies Romance occurs frequently, it's typically limited to couples who are members of the same genus or order, and it's much rarer with humans.
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Spellsinger / int_bf414570	type	Cunning Like a Fox
Spellsinger / int_bf414570	comment	Appears everywhere, from clever foxes to villainous cats to sex-crazed otters to temperamental badgers to evil insects. But a particularly prominent example is the Big Bad of book five, a wolverine...who is an Ax-Crazy wizard who abandoned his people because they in turn would not accept him for being a coward—and this is actually suggested as the reason he is insane, that being Hot-Blooded and fierce fighters is so in the nature of wolverines that his mind could not handle him being a coward. As a result, he wants to make the whole world insane like him, even if the being he uses to do it also destroys creation. When the departure of the perambulator cures his insanity, he then still ends up trying to kill the heroes—partly because by freeing it Jon-Tom took away something he was actually enjoying that made him unique and powerful in his opinion, and partly because of the Hot-Blooded Berserk Button tendency of wolverines.
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Spellsinger / int_c006a73a	type	Removable Shell
Spellsinger / int_c006a73a	comment	Removable Shell: Played with. Clothahump doesn't have a removable shell, but he has enchanted his plastron to install transdimensional cabinet drawers in his chest.
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Spellsinger / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Spellsinger / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: When Mudge won't leave their tree-house, Talea gets him to go (and accompany Jon-Tom to get his duar fixed) by threatening to make him pay the long, outstanding bill he owes her for all the room and board. Thanks to Jon-Tom's legal tutelage, she finds this sort of cutthroat dealing as much delicious, nasty fun as, well, cutting throats.
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Spellsinger / int_c0c460b4	type	Tribal Carry
Spellsinger / int_c0c460b4	comment	Tribal Carry: When the Ogres capture Jon-Tom and his friends.
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Spellsinger / int_c0d106a8	type	Wrecked Weapon
Spellsinger / int_c0d106a8	comment	Wrecked Weapon: Jon-Tom ends up falling on his duar and breaking it after saving Clothahump from thieves, and has to go get it repaired.
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Spellsinger / int_c1b7d6e2	type	Wizard Classic
Spellsinger / int_c1b7d6e2	comment	Wizard Classic: Subverted. Jon-Tom was sure he knew what a mighty wizard looks like. He was wrong about the height, the beard, the robes, the hat, and in fact everything except his concession that the mighty wizard might wear glasses.
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Spellsinger / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
Spellsinger / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: Played with throughout the series, but especially in the first book. These animals walk upright and are sentient, but Jon-Tom just cannot bring himself to a liaison with them. It's hinted several times that humans in general avoid interspecies relationships, which most other species find prudish.
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Spellsinger / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
Spellsinger / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: The Plated Folk made this offer to the humans of Polastrindu to get their aid against the other animals. They in turn offer it to Jon-Tom.
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Spellsinger / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Spellsinger / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia/Ignored Epiphany: Invariably, whenever something bad happens to Mudge, he will either forget the lesson he learned from it the next time a similar situation shows up, or he'll have an epiphany and swear to change his ways which he ends up dismissing/abandoning a short time later. Or it will be Played for Laughs and the Aesop will be subverted or broken by Mudge Comically Missing the Point about what he was supposed to learn. Example: after having been inflicted with a venereal disease by the perambulator, he swears off bedding a different lady every night: "I guess I'll 'ave to restrict meself to a different lady every other night." This was put to the ultimate test in Chorus Skating. He had sworn off all other women in Book Six. A young beautiful flirtatious otter princess, reverts him back to his old ways. Which tears him apart two-fold, as he has feelings for her, but feels massively guilty about the possibility of cheating on Weegee. Which in turn, made him realize he has a conscience. (His worst fear) Also in "Time of the Transference", once he found true love, he was friendlier and mature than usual, mainly because Weegee was keeping him in line and he was terrified of alienating her, but notably his emotional speech to Jon-Tom really hammered it in that he had changed. But in Chorus Skating he resets to his default Jerkass persona.
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Spellsinger / int_c66245e9	type	Inconvenient Summons
Spellsinger / int_c66245e9	comment	Inconvenient Summons: When Clothahump summons Mudge to join Jon-Tom for his quest in book four, it's during a big card game when he was just about to win a huge pot (by cheating, of course). The otter is less than happy.
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Spellsinger / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Spellsinger / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A huge one to Lord of the Rings in The Hour of the Gate. The Plated Folk blow up the Jo-Troom Gate exactly like the Uruk-Hai blew up the outer wall in Helm's Deep - with high explosives. More generally, they had acquired a military computer, and were using it to vastly improve their tactics, much as Saruman gave the Uruk-Hai new tactics to breach the wall mere Orcs never had managed to breach. The way Clothahump distracts the Polastrindu guards is very reminiscent of how Gandalf in The Hobbit fooled the trolls into quarreling. The same applies to the scene where the cage of insults appears: it initially fools the heroes the same way. One of the last exchanges of insults between Mudge and the cage trapping them in book five calls to mind a certain Winston Churchill quote: The cage had previously knocked out Jon-Tom's spellsinging with the insult "He runs the gamut of emotions from A to B", which was originally (or possibly just most famously) thrown at Katharine Hepburn by Dorothy Parker.
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Spellsinger / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
Spellsinger / int_c8bea4ec	comment	My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The Plated Folk wagon driver who helps the group reach the Jo-Troom Gate, and is completely against the invasions and conquests perpetrated by his people. It costs him his life.
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Spellsinger / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Spellsinger / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: Any song Jon-Tom plays and sings with his magical duar will create spells. The effects vary greatly depending on what song/poem he chooses, his concentration, and Rule of Funny.
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Spellsinger / int_ca5938c0	type	Hive Caste System
Spellsinger / int_ca5938c0	comment	Hive Caste System: Averted; the social ranks of the Plated Folk are determined by what species of insect they are, rather than what caste within a species.
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Spellsinger / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
Spellsinger / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: Buncan, Neena and Squill from book 7.
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Spellsinger / int_cbaa9102	type	Signature Headgear
Spellsinger / int_cbaa9102	comment	Signature Headgear: In the same style as Robin Hood and King Graham Mudge wears a peaked green hat with a feather sticking out. His love for this hat has even been passed down to his son Squill who wears a similar one. And it's implied he has several, as his original was put on display in his house.
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Spellsinger / int_cbe3a70d	type	Beware My Stinger Tail
Spellsinger / int_cbe3a70d	comment	Beware My Stinger Tail: The gatekeeper of Polastrindu is an intelligent beaver, whose personal armament includes a spiked metal plate that turns his flat tail into an intimidating weapon. Quite literal in the case of the Ruze, a very nasty member of the Plated Folk that injects paralyzing venom into its victims.
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Spellsinger / int_cbf5c04	type	Insult of Endearment
Spellsinger / int_cbf5c04	comment	Insult of Endearment: Eventually these come to be used on a regular basis between Mudge and Jon-Tom. This is also true of him and Talea, and Mudge and Talea, which may say something about the otter's relationship with Jon-Tom.
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Spellsinger / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
Spellsinger / int_cd7ef676	comment	Seen It All: After their encounter with the Queen of Nightmares in book two, the main cast is simply not scared of anything, since they've basically stared into the face of the anthropomorphic personification of fear itself.
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Spellsinger / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Spellsinger / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Whatever Markus sees inside his hat when he summons Death, Jon-Tom's experiences in the mist thereafter, and Markus's fate. ("The whimpering from the throne simply stopped.") Also, the actual "nothing" in the basement of Clothahump's tree in book five.
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Spellsinger / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Spellsinger / int_ce104b8e	comment	And then book five has a whole band of Magic Music-playing demons Jon-Tom has to fight—and he actually destroys them with a particularly powerful song (musically, not just magically).
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Spellsinger / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
Spellsinger / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Averted; even once he finds out his first real meal in the Warmlands is snake, Jon-Tom doesn't have any problem with it. "Why be squeamish in the face of good taste? Meat was meat." Also averted when Jon-Tom brings, Mudge, Weegee (Mudge's girlfriend) and Cautious (a raccoon) temporarily to our world, the furs enjoyed eating chocolate bars, potato chips and canned tuna.
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Spellsinger / int_cedeae6a	type	Wacky Wayside Tribe
Spellsinger / int_cedeae6a	comment	Wacky Wayside Tribe: The first two novels are episodic, but still possess a plot. The rest ... not so much. It is particularly prevalent in books three, four, and six. Book three has the fungi of the Muddletup Moors, Corroboc and his pirates, the Hidden Elf Village, the interlude with the bandits and the virgin from Crestleware, and the town of Redrock they had to hole up in to be safe from the moving sands of the Timeful Desert. Book four has the prairie dogs of the Duggakurra Hills, Gyrnaught and his flock, the mime-vines, the Brulumpus, and the Plated Folk colony, while book six has the pirates (again), the cannibal village, the Tree-Hunters, and the Ogre village. (Even one of the characters complains about the monotony.) Book five also has a literal one with the tribe that Jon-Tom and the others find in the northern forests which has captured Colin. The attack by the Mimpa in Hour of the Gate could also be considered this, since the only purpose it served in the plot was to separate the party from Falameezar until his Big Damn Heroes moment at the Jo-Troom Gate.
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Spellsinger / int_cf7ccd79	type	Orphanage of Fear
Spellsinger / int_cf7ccd79	comment	Orphanage of Fear: The Friends of the Street in Snarken. Considered a great place with well behaved kids, albeit unnervingly quiet, it is eventually discovered by Jon-Tom to be horrific beneath its happy appearance: the food is great and healthy, but every child is required to be "perfect" with any misbehavior a cause for whipping, and all kids have their sexual organs (castration, etc) removed because sex isn't "perfect".
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Spellsinger / int_d171a8c1	type	Evil Debt Collector
Spellsinger / int_d171a8c1	comment	Evil Debt Collector: The demons who are tormenting poor Couvier Coulb are a group of these, members of the Interdimensional Reliquary of Spirits who assail their victims with endless reams of inexplicable tax collection jargon (as they Speak in Unison, no less) until they give in and give up their souls.
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Spellsinger / int_d2b4b6f2	type	SomeoneElsesProblem
Spellsinger / int_d2b4b6f2	comment	Someone Else's Problem: How Talea views Clothahump's dire warning of a coming crisis, until she finds out just what it entails, and how Mudge continues to view it even after that until he gets paid to help.
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Spellsinger / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Spellsinger / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Memaw, who manages to even whip Mudge into some semblance of civilized behavior. Snooth. She's a Kangaroo who takes no crap from anyone, has an interdimensional knickknack store, and a genie living in her pouch. Though her age is never shown, she looks to be in her late forties early fifties, but is implied to be ageless as she can close her shop for thousands of years at a time.
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Spellsinger / int_d2ddb362	type	ReasonYouSuckSpeech
Spellsinger / int_d2ddb362	comment	"Reason You Suck" Speech: Mudge gives a rather blistering one to the deposed Quoromate and Oplode when they are less than pleased with the help Clothahump sent them. Of course, true to character, when Jon-Tom thanks him for the defense he immediately blasts him too for dragging him on the quest in the first place.
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Spellsinger / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Spellsinger / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Markus summons Death out of his hat to take Jon-Tom, but because he was Dead All Along it takes him instead. Lampshaded by Oplode (and Death—a case of literal Death by Irony).
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Spellsinger / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
Spellsinger / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Jon-Tom can play well, but his singing is appalling. This actually gets him and Mudge into a bar fight in the first book with a wolverine and his associates. The villain from the eighth book takes this trope up to eleven, singing so horribly that merely being on the same island as him kills plants.
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Spellsinger / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Spellsinger / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: The standard dynamic between Jon-Tom and Mudge. Mudge's idea of an introduction is to stab Jon-Tom in the leg, and Clothahump has to threaten to turn Mudge human to get him to go off with Jon-Tom. But by the end of The Time of the Transference he's bawling his eyes out at the idea of Jon-Tom leaving permanently. Mudge and Talea as well, as evidenced by how she starts chasing him with a sword when he teases her about which "staff" of Jon-Tom's she should borrow: "I should've split that otter years ago...one of these days I'll feed that foulmouthed otter his works."
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Spellsinger / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Spellsinger / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Averted in that in The Time of the Transference, Jon-Tom discovers a passage that allowed him to go back. He did go back to his own world, but returned to Clothahump's, because he liked it there better. The last two books suggest he's made the trip back and forth a few more times, to sample our world's new music and stay in touch with his parents.
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Spellsinger / int_dd56e9b9	type	Bizarre Instrument
Spellsinger / int_dd56e9b9	comment	Bizarre Instrument: Jon-Tom's duar is a double-necked guitar in which the two sets of strings cross over one another. When used for spellsinging, some of its strings start fading in and out, as if crossing into another dimension.
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Spellsinger / int_df02a97f	type	City of Canals
Spellsinger / int_df02a97f	comment	City of Canals: Quasequa.
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Spellsinger / int_dfc3e10a	type	The Dung Ages
Spellsinger / int_dfc3e10a	comment	The Dung Ages: Let's just say this is a medieval-style world that actually gets the unsanitary, unsavory, and extremely harsh nature of the time period right, but also without going too far in that depiction or peopling it with nothing but Medieval Morons. Jon-Tom's first visit to Lynchbany, which highlights the different strata of society, does not shy away from the river as community sewer or the nature of the "nightsoil" slops which would be poured out of upper-story windows, and includes such things as a strip show, corruption, and street robbery, exemplifies this.
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Spellsinger / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
Spellsinger / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: Indeed, their wizard's speech is our technical language, and mention is made of working with transuranic elements. If Clothahump had succeeded in capturing a real engineer, he'd have been pretty powerful.
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Spellsinger / int_e0ecc959	type	Changed My Mind, Kid
Spellsinger / int_e0ecc959	comment	Changed My Mind, Kid: Subverted in the first book. The morning after Clothahump summons M'nemaxa, it appears as if Mudge has abandoned them...only for him to reappear having hunted down some breakfast for the party. However, it isn't that after planning to abandon them to save his own skin, he changed his mind out of altruism, friendship, or in consideration of the money the turtle was paying him—he simply knew better than to leave since Clothahump would curse him if he did. And he was right. Played straight twice in Moment of the Magician, where Mudge has two different opportunities to abandon Jon-Tom (when Gyrnaught kidnaps him and after they're caught by the Plated Folk colony and he manages to escape alone) and both times he comes back for him. Although the second time is partly because the otter fishing company insisted on it.
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Spellsinger / int_e1721fd1	type	Antiquated Linguistics
Spellsinger / int_e1721fd1	comment	Antiquated Linguistics: For some reason, the magical items which Jon-Tom and the others find in the Lost City all speak in this way. Mocked by Mudge.
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Spellsinger / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Spellsinger / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: What happens when a two-bit Stage Magician who had always been the brunt of jokes, abuse, and scorn from family and the public alike, who would never amount to anything in life, and who knew it, ends up in a world where his magic is real and he can use it to turn himself into a tyrant.
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Spellsinger / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
Spellsinger / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Parodied quite frequently. Start with Jon-Tom (an obvious hippie) and go from there. Probably the crowning example in the series, though, was Falameezar the Marxist dragon - he visited our world for a while and decided that the old dragon trope of hoarding wealth was all wrong, and simply can't understand why the feudal world he inhabits isn't ready to depose its royalty and form a commune. He gets a Big Damn Heroes moment at the end of Hour of the Gate, where he organizes the actual downtrodden, the mice and rats, and leads them into battle against the "Imperialist warmongers!" - aka the Plated Folk.
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Spellsinger / int_e2f9c107	type	Advanced Ancient Acropolis
Spellsinger / int_e2f9c107	comment	Advanced Ancient Acropolis: The Lost City they find in book six is a downplayed version of this, for while there's no actual evidence that they had great or unusual technology, the place is very large and impressive and contains some rather unusual magical artifacts. All that is known about its inhabitants is that, like some ancient or primitive Earth cultures, they seemed to dislike or fear having images of themselves included in their artwork.
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Spellsinger / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Spellsinger / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer/The Casanova: Caz acts more like the former, though according to Talea he's the latter. He does his womanizing by virtue of his impeccable taste, sense of style and dress, and gentlemanly manners. Amusingly, he's a rabbit. Also amusingly, the first female he tries his act on on-screen is Flor and it fails utterly. (This may be what eventually causes him to fall for her...but she reciprocates in the end, so perhaps she wasn't as proof against his charm as she appeared.)
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Spellsinger / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Spellsinger / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The Muddletup Moors seem to be this series' equivalent to the Swamp of Sadness, though here it's more "The moors of 'I stopped giving a crap to the point of dying from utter depression and boredom'". Perhaps closer, then, to the Doldrums.
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Spellsinger / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Spellsinger / int_e70127	comment	The Mole/Devil in Disguise: Jalwar in book three is actually the Big Bad Zancresta.
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Spellsinger / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Spellsinger / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The "(sanitation) engineer" mix-up which brings Jon-Tom to the Warmlands. How Clothahump gets out of not having given the thieves any of his hidden stash of gems in book six—because they didn't ask for any, only gold.
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Spellsinger / int_eabb8130	type	Swamps Are Evil
Spellsinger / int_eabb8130	comment	Swamps Are Evil: Played with with the Wrounipai in book four; there are dangerous encounters (the mime-vines, the Brulumpus, Gyrnaught) but two of them are resolved in rather amusing fashion and involve antagonists that aren't evil at all; there's a Will o' the Wisp, but it turns out to be friendly; and while the swamp itself is described as gloomy, grimy, and depressing, there's also an interesting interlude where Jon-Tom waxes eloquent about nature's wonders due to the upside-down rain and the karst landscape. The only "evil" aspect comes when they discover the Plated Folk colony.
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Spellsinger / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Spellsinger / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Mudge does this in the first book during a fight.
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Spellsinger / int_eaf83237	type	The Grotesque
Spellsinger / int_eaf83237	comment	The Grotesque: The ogres in book six are all of great size and with some awful deformity. The mutants in book seven are a horrifying mish-mashes of various creatures. Not only are they two or more people/species fused together, but their minds/souls as well as bodies were fused. The first sentient one the heroes meet, is a Human/Kangaroo hybrid. All he wishes is to be put out of his misery. Though thankfully the local town accepts the mutants and treats them like their own.
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Spellsinger / int_eb99df21	type	Funny Animal
Spellsinger / int_eb99df21	comment	Funny Animal: The world is entirely populated by these, the vast majority being walking, talking, and clothes-wearing but otherwise looking like their animal counterparts. Very much a Furry Fandom world. Species which lack manipulative appendages (most hoofed mammals, cetaceans) fall more under Civilized Animal, as they don't wear clothing other than the purely-functional (e.g. armor) and move like normal animals.
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Spellsinger / int_ed07a226	type	No More for Me
Spellsinger / int_ed07a226	comment	No More for Me: As soon as Jon-Tom arrives in the Bellwoods and encounters Mudge, he tosses aside his joint and swears never to smoke again, at least not unless he knows for sure what's in a particular cut.
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Spellsinger / int_ed249f44	type	Hitodama Light
Spellsinger / int_ed249f44	comment	Hitodama Light: Gneechees are floating flames which appear whenever Jon-Tom's spellsinging is on track and particularly powerful. They aren't the cause of magic, exactly, but their presence facilitates or enhances it. They normally cannot be seen because they actively dodge away whenever you try to look at them directly. When Jon-Tom is in M'nemaxa's plane, he discovers each is actually the soul of a deceased person. Because of this spoiler, gneechees have different interests and affinities, and so Couvier Coulb must summon particular musically-inclined ones when retuning the broken duar in Time of the Transference.
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Spellsinger / int_ed53e31f	type	Summon Everyman Hero
Spellsinger / int_ed53e31f	comment	Summon Everyman Hero: Quintessential example in Jon-Tom being summoned by Clothahump. That he turned out to be a magician after all, which is what Clothahump expected an "engineer" to be, suggests it's not just Jon-Tom whose magic brings what's needed rather than what's expected. Jon-Tom tries helping Clothahump summon an actual engineer after discovering his spellsinging, but his mind wanders during the spell and they get Flor Quintera, a cheerleader, instead.
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Spellsinger / int_ed72657e	type	Rhino Rampage
Spellsinger / int_ed72657e	comment	Rhino Rampage: In Son of Spellsinger, the young travelers recruit an alcoholic rhino as both transport and bodyguard. When he's not drunk off his feet, he's an armor-wearing badass.
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Spellsinger / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Spellsinger / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Caz the rabbit, and Caz the alternate-reality hopping alien
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Spellsinger / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
Spellsinger / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Jon-Tom near the end of book six decides to go back to his own world for an undetermined amount of time. Mudge in reaction to this gives the most gut-wrenching emotional scene in the entire series, which his entire character development was leading up to.
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Spellsinger / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Spellsinger / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Clothahump's speech patterns, naturally enough. Also Caz.
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Spellsinger / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
Spellsinger / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Well, Corroboc was evil too, but the fact his nearly identical brother Kamaulk is much smarter, more cautious, and more sane actually makes him deadlier and thus this trope in comparison as far as Jon-Tom is concerned.
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Spellsinger / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
Spellsinger / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: Mudge actually acts as if, after having long overstayed his welcome at Jon-Tom and Talea's tree-house, leaving is all his own idea. Talea reacts appropriately.
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Spellsinger / int_f61cddc9	type	Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!
Spellsinger / int_f61cddc9	comment	Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: Pretty much the whole series is based on this trope; the lions and tigers all talk, are sentient, and many will happily tear you limb from limb if you get on their wrong side. Almost every species of warm-blooded mammal in the Wizard's World (and even others such as arachnids and arthropods) are sentient, intelligent, talking beasts who wear clothes and have complex cultures just like humanity does. (Except all reptiles but turtles, and the hooved mammals—until a Retcon after the first two books.) The world also, however, possesses humans; interestingly, they are much shorter than the average Earth human, while the furries are much larger than their non-sentient Earth counterparts, allowing for a more seamless blending of the species and compatibility (of all kinds) between them. Explained by divergent evolution between this world and Earth (specifically identified by Clothahump as linking manual dexterity to sentience).
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Spellsinger / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Spellsinger / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Mudge is pretty much immune to any criticism or invective, but a particularly memorable one, after the otter can't take his eyes off of Flor's tetas:
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Spellsinger / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Spellsinger / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: Or possibly Animorphic Personification. Or something in between. Either way, Gyrnaught is evidently the Personification of the Nazi Iron Eagle symbol.
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Spellsinger / int_f7b32015	type	Sufficiently Advanced Alien
Spellsinger / int_f7b32015	comment	And the final book ends with a duel of two magical rock musicians: the evil Hinckel summons legions of bad musicians from the world of the dead, and the good Jon-Tom dispels all them with giant amplifiers provided by his Sufficiently Advanced Alien friend.
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Spellsinger / int_f7ea98a2	type	Handy Mouth
Spellsinger / int_f7ea98a2	comment	Handy Mouth: All mammals in the world's Verse are intelligent and capable of speech, but most of the hoofed species lack the ability to handle objects with their forelimbs. A variety of mouth-operated tools allow them to manipulate objects.
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Spellsinger / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Spellsinger / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Oddly averted when the animals turn into humans in the fifth book. They are panicking and freaking out like crazy, stating it as the worst thing that ever happened to them. Even Clothahump saying that this was the worst part of their adventure yet after turning into giant caterpillers, having their genders swapped, turning into literal germs only to temporarily catch the same disease afterwards Jon-Tom by all cases should have been mortally offended but instead simply tried to calm them down, and admitting to Clothahump (who couldn't concentrate with all the whining) that their complaints didn't really bother him. By this point though he's been in the Wizard's World long enough to be used to how humans are viewed and treated.
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Spellsinger / int_fad7b727	type	Fun with Foreign Languages
Spellsinger / int_fad7b727	comment	Fun with Foreign Languages: Mudge has a great Double Entendre moment with Flor after she praises his cooking.
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Spellsinger / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Spellsinger / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Dizzy Izzy in Yarrowl speaks like this, true absolutely for sure so.
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Spellsinger / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
Spellsinger / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: Clothahump is either depicted as a kind grandfatherly mentor, or a Manipulative Bastard. Mudge constantly jumps back and forth between a loyal companion who generally cares about Jon-Tom as a friend and keeping him safe, or a complete asshole who hates his guts and wants nothing to do with him. Though the latter usually only comes out when he's pissed off or upset.
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Spellsinger / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Spellsinger / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke/Call-Back: In book Five while in a Lotus-Eater Machine Mudge thinks he's having sex with a large group of female otters. In which Jon-Tom (Who already broke free) can only watch dumbfoundedly as Mudge makes out with a log. In Book Six, Talea says "That otter will screw anything that moves, and probably a few things that don't"
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Spellsinger / int_fe1b2e75	type	Bigger on the Inside
Spellsinger / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: Clothahump's Tree, he used a similar spell to turn his shell into a cabinet. And the Shop of the Aether and Neither in Crancularn.
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Spellsinger / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
Spellsinger / int_fe61495d	comment	Grail in the Garbage: After being thrown out of Thieves' Hall, Jon-Tom just so happens to find a collection of trading goods that had been lost by or stolen from some traveler...containing the magical duar he carries for the rest of the series.
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Spellsinger / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Spellsinger / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Zancresta is so jealous and resentful of Clothathump's prowess and admiration in the warmlands (despite the fact most of this comes from his having helped save the world from the Plated Folk) that he disguises himself as the lowly, servile merchant Jalwar and travels to Crancularn to obtain the medicine the turtle needs...so he can take it back to the Bellwoods, dangle it over Clothahump's bed-ridden form, and taunt him. Also, he would have escaped the Shop of the Aether and Neither with the medicine untouched if he could swallow his Pride and a) pay for the damages and b) be polite and courteous to Snooth instead of mocking and insulting her.
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Spellsinger / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Spellsinger / int_ff5a74c8	comment	Talking Is a Free Action: Apparently. It's the only explanation that really makes sense for how Jon-Tom can pull out his duar and sing a several-minute-long song in the middle of a fight without the fight ending through more mundane means before the spell actually gets cast.
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Spellsinger / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Spellsinger / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Mudge gets moments like these every so often, usually when he comes back to save the day, defends Jon-Tom, or otherwise shows his quality, but a memorable one is in book five when, while facing the army of Talea clones, he actually expresses true anguish at the thought of having to kill them. Another would be his good-bye to Jon-Tom in book six. (Even Jon-Tom tears up.)
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Spellsinger / int_ffe1bbf8	type	Defiant Captive
Spellsinger / int_ffe1bbf8	comment	Defiant Captive: Weegee during all of the various captures that happen on the way to Strelakat Mews, when she isn't an outright Damsel out of Distress, but especially when held by the pirates—she doesn't just Show Some Leg, she actually attempts to seduce their captor...and then as soon as they're alone and he's in the middle of doing the deed, she knees him and batters him unconscious with a rock. With her feet.
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