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Spellslinger Series

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Spellslinger Series	comment	Born to a noble house in a society of mages that value magic and power above all else, fifteen-year-old Kellen, House of Ke, has no magic. No matter how hard he tries, the mystical bands tattooed onto his arms refuse to ignite, showing the world that he hasn't been able to successfully work a single spell, and that at the upcoming Mage Trials all sixteen year old Jan'Tep go through, he will inevitably fail and be stripped of his title and freedom, indentured as a non-magical Sha'Tep servant.Then the Argosi traveler, Ferius Parfax arrives in town. The Argosi are mysterious people, seeming to show up only when historic disasters are about to occur and seeming to divine fate through their mysterious decks of cards. With her help and the help of a violent, kleptomaniacal "Business Partner" (NOT a ''familiar'') squirrel-cat named Reichis, Kellen uncovers the hidden truth behind his people's history and begins a journey that takes him all across the continent to discover the secrets behind his own family's machinations and the dreaded Shadowblack curse.The series is by Sebastian de Castell and takes place in the same universe as his Greatcoats series, but on a different continent, and requires no knowledge of the other series to enjoy. The books in the series are: Spellslinger (2017) Shadowblack (2017) Charmcaster (2017) Soulbinder (2018) Queenslayer (2019) Crownbreaker (2019)As well as the prequel stories, Way of the Argosi and Fall of the Argosi that follow a young Ferius.Not to be confused with the Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster.
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Spellslinger Series / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Spellslinger Series / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Reichis and Kellen bicker constantly, with the former quick to mock and belittle Kellen for his failings. However, when the chips are down, the two will always try to come through for one another. When Kellen believes Reichis to be dead in the fourth book, he spends the entire novel mourning and on the brink of a Despair Event Horizon.
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Spellslinger Series / int_11db78ec	type	Opponent Instruction
Spellslinger Series / int_11db78ec	comment	Opponent Instruction: K'heops finally starts giving Kellen fatherly dueling advice. . . in the middle of their duel to the death. Kellen points out that it's a little late for it.
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Spellslinger Series / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Spellslinger Series / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: The White Binder possesses Kellen and forces him onto a serving woman at the tavern they're at, a deed that sends Kellen into a Despair Event Horizon. It's only later that we find out the woman was a paid prostitute who thought it was all an elaborate roleplaying session for her client, and that the only person really raped was Kellen himself.
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Spellslinger Series / int_15afb02	type	Gruesome Grandparent
Spellslinger Series / int_15afb02	comment	Gruesome Grandparent: Kellen is cursed because his insane grandmother bound his soul in shadow on purpose. For much of the series, it's believed that she did this in order to use Kellen as a sort of magical battery and steal what power he may have.
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Spellslinger Series / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Spellslinger Series / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Kellen and Shalla both. Shalla is openly sycophantic in her desire to earn their father's approval. Even after Kellen's parents counterband him and he sees just how power-hungry and ambitious his father is, and how his father is willing to sacrifice anything including his own children to get what he wants, Kellen admits that some part of him still wants his father's approval and love.
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Spellslinger Series / int_18d420b0	type	Lovable Coward
Spellslinger Series / int_18d420b0	comment	Lovable Coward: Kellen is often accused of being a coward because his first impulse upon finding danger is to avoid it and when that's not possible, he relies of outsmarting his opponent, rather than fighting directly. Kellen admits that he probably is a coward, but that doesn't mean he's going to make it easy for whoever's trying to kill him.
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Spellslinger Series / int_1a0881b	type	Muggle Born of Mages
Spellslinger Series / int_1a0881b	comment	Muggle Born of Mages: Despite the sorcerous Jan'Tep being the ruling class their lands are named for, there is a sizeable underclass of Sha'Tep who are nonmagical individuals born to mage families. Historically, Sha'Tep had been equal citizens beside the Jan'Tep, but as of the current day, they are essentially a class of slaves. If a mage family likes their nonmagical family member, they try to keep them in the household to be a servant there, but often, the family is ashamed and disowns them, and they are assigned to menial work in a different house, or to do hard manual labor in the mines.
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Spellslinger Series / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Spellslinger Series / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Kellen's father is perfectly fin arranging for Kellen's death, either by manipulating Kellen into being a Sacrificial Lion, or by publicly placing a bounty on his head in order to please his political allies. It's only when they meet again in person that his father seems to have reservations about killing him.
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Spellslinger Series / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
Spellslinger Series / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: The fate of all Argosi. They are driven by their "paths" to wander the world, drawn to events that they then document in their cards, and it's accepted that every Argosi will eventually wind up alone because very few people walk the exact same path.
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Spellslinger Series / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Spellslinger Series / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Ferius and Kellen. Both are essentially BadassNormals in a world full of magic, political intrigue, warring nations, and bounty hunters, all of whom want them both dead (either because they're Argosi or because of Kellen's numerous bounties). Both of them rely on playing their opponents and, in the disgusted words of Kellen's father, being "clever."
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Spellslinger Series / int_2b1d7c0a	type	The Drifter
Spellslinger Series / int_2b1d7c0a	comment	The Drifter: What Kellen becomes as the series progresses, traveling from one new place to another, all while being hounded by bounty hunters and zealots.
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Spellslinger Series / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Spellslinger Series / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Conversely, Ferius' Agrosi sister, Path of Thorns and Roses, dislikes the nickname Rosie that Ferius insists on using.
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Spellslinger Series / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Spellslinger Series / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Kellen and Ferius' M.O. As an example, the series opens with Kellen defeating a childhood bully in magical combat by pretending that he's doing some magic to the other boy, relying on the fact that the other boy will focus so much on protecting himself that he accidentally squeezes his own organs with his shield spell.
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Spellslinger Series / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Spellslinger Series / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Kellen begins the series as a cowardly, spoiled, and clueless fifteen year old kid who is arrogant from a life as the son of nobility in a culture that already considers themselves the pinnacle of the modern world. Through the course of the series he becomes more humble and realizes the error of his people's ways, but also becomes a formidable Mage Killer who relies on his quick thinking to outmaneuver people vastly more powerful than he is.
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Spellslinger Series / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Spellslinger Series / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Shadowblacks are people infected with a magical disease/curse/taint in their blood that causes dark tendrils to form on their skin (usually the eyes). The tendrils are actually some form of connection to one of the many, many chaotic shadow dimensions, and depending on which one the Shadowblack is connected to, they will be able to wield their shadows like weapons, or walk through shadow realms as a form of Fast Travel, or have some clairvoyant abilities, or any number of useful skills. They also receive visions of death and destruction, have horrifying nightmares, have the voices of demons whispering into their minds regularly, and will eventually be transformed into an out of control monstrous demonic being themselves. Kellen is blessed with double-suck: His grandmother gave him the Shadowblack curse by tattooing him the way other magics are channeled through tattoos, and the way she did it means that he cannot do any of the useful offensive stuff. Instead, he occasionally gets minor clairvoyant abilities if he asks a question the specific way. Sometimes. But he's still at risk of being transformed into a demon, and he still gets the nightmarish visions and mental trauma.
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Spellslinger Series / int_45ca5950	type	Never Accepted in His Hometown
Spellslinger Series / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: Kellen wasn't popular even before he met Ferius, was outed as a shadowblack, and was disowned by his family. When he comes back in the last book, despite him having become trusted friends with monarchs and important foreign dignitaries (and the notorious, but respected, enemy of others), as well as having accrued a body count in the double digits of powerful mages who have tried to kill him, people in his home town still see him as the weak disappointment from one of their noble houses.
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Spellslinger Series / int_4a44d616	type	Death of the Author
Spellslinger Series / int_4a44d616	comment	Death of the Author: Specifically brought up in the last chapter of the final book. De Castell adds an essay after the acknowledgements portion of the book stating how Kellen and company's futures are, at least for the moment, within the minds of the readers, and that he has just as much clue as to what happens next as the reader does. He then adds a short vignette of Kellen reuniting with nephania, but then says again that it's only one possible way that reunion might have gone.
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Spellslinger Series / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Spellslinger Series / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Ferius' Agrosi name is Path of the Wild Daisy, which she doesn't like to use outside of Argosi matters.
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Spellslinger Series / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Spellslinger Series / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Poor Kellen. Not only can he not get any higher magic to work, His shadowblack ability was intentionally "locked" by his grandmother, meaning it only works under rare circumstances, and only when he asks the "correct" question. Because of that, it almost never works when it would be useful.
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Spellslinger Series / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
Spellslinger Series / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: The Argosi in a nutshell, but Ferius in particular. Kellen is pissed when he learns that Argosi have an entire system of learning for their teysan (students), and that Ferius has apparently shown him none of it, only to learn that the innocuous things she ''has'' been teaching him are all parts of the Argosi ways, she just doesn't use the fancy names.
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Spellslinger Series / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Spellslinger Series / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Ke'heops, Kellen's father, wants to start a war between two nations, but needs an excuse. He arranges for Kellen to be discovered in enemy territory, fully expecting him to die and be the catalyst to start the war. Ke'heops even explains to him (as Kellen is running for his life) that Kellen should allow himself to be sacrificed for the good of his people.
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Spellslinger Series / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Spellslinger Series / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Ferius has no magic whatsoever, yet she manages to outmaneuver mage assassins and remains one of the most capable characters in the series.
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Spellslinger Series / int_66e0117c	type	Gambling Brawl
Spellslinger Series / int_66e0117c	comment	Gambling Brawl: Kellen and Ferius get into their fair share of gambling related brawls, though most are off screen and [Noodle Incident mentioned in passing].
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Spellslinger Series / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Spellslinger Series / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Jan'Tep mages channel their magic through tattoos on their arms made of special alloys found beneath the magical "oasis." The ultimate punishment for a mage is to be "counterbanded" and have those tattoos marred over with magic sigils that cuts off their connection from magic.
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Spellslinger Series / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Spellslinger Series / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: After everything that's happened, Kellen realizes that despite all the offers he's getting for permanent homes and positions, he would never be happy staying in one place, so he and Reichis decide to travel to the next continent over and let his homeland start the rebuilding efforts without him.
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Spellslinger Series / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
Spellslinger Series / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: Reichis is constantly stealing things, from allies, enemies, and random strangers alike. Sometimes this is helpful, but usually it results in Kellen being run out of another town. Kellen knows that anything he puts in his bag is basically fair game for Reichis to root around through later, so anything he really wants to keep safe, he winds up keeping on his person or lending to someone else to hold on to.
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Spellslinger Series / int_7836c43	type	Casting a Shadow
Spellslinger Series / int_7836c43	comment	Casting a Shadow: One of the most common powers Shadowblacks at the Ebony Abbey have is the ability to wield their shadows like weapons, using them to create shields or sending out tendrils of shadow to attack or move things.
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Spellslinger Series / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Spellslinger Series / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Kellan. He thinks at first this is because of his lack of magical talent. It turns out Its because his parents know he has the Shadowblack curse, and have known it since he was a small child, and so they have intentionally kept an emotional distance, knowing he was either doomed to be executed for his curse, or that his magic would forever be stunted, and he would be sent away as a servant.
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Spellslinger Series / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Spellslinger Series / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: When Kellen returns to his home clan, his childhood bullies immediately set upon harassing him at Kellen's own mother's funeral. Kellen reminds them that despite his lack of powerful magic, he's managed to kill numerous mages more powerful than said bully, and that he is completely willing to add another corpse to the pile.
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Spellslinger Series / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
Spellslinger Series / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: At the beginning of the series, Shalla, Kellan's younger sister, is arrogant and spoiled. Though she genuinely cares about her brother, her selfishness does nothing but cause him problems. This doesn't change muchas she grows older and becomes one of (if not the) the most powerful mages in the series.
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Spellslinger Series / int_88dbce75	type	Card Sharp
Spellslinger Series / int_88dbce75	comment	Card Sharp: One of the skills Ferius teaches Kellen. All of the Argosi are quick hands at cards, in no small part because their sect's non-magical forms of divination rely on using cards to represent the assorted nations and goings on in the world.
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Spellslinger Series / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Spellslinger Series / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: After two years of travel, Kellen says the Jan'Tep oasis and his own home are as grand as ever, but he is now keenly aware how 'small (and small minded) his people actually are. The Jan'Tep see themselves as the masters of the arcane arts and the rightful center of the world, but the rest of the world tends to see them as a tiny little nation that the common man would have trouble finding on a map, and views their magic as sometimes useful, but mostly inconsequential.
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Spellslinger Series / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Spellslinger Series / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Several times in the course of the series, Kellen has wound up embarrassingly naked in front of someone he fancies, hates, or is being intimidated by.
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Spellslinger Series / int_a8cff6a	type	Familiar
Spellslinger Series / int_a8cff6a	comment	Familiar: Though not common in the current day, the Jan'Tep can bond with an animal familiar. Having one is supposed to allow a mage to access their magic, even if they are away from their Oasis for long periods of time. Most familiars are Bond Creatures, who serve their human mages. ''Reichis',' on the other hand, refuses to be considered a familiar and refers to he and Kellen as Business Partners.
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Spellslinger Series / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Spellslinger Series / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Kellen's parents at first seem like KnightTemplarParents, but it turns out they are. . . for their daughter only. Kellen is a cursed Shadowblack, and his parents end up strapping him down to a table for days on end and forcibly removing his ability to do magic because he may be a threat to her. While they seem to experience some guilt over this, it's not enough to stop his father from repeatedly trying to Offing the Offspring.
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Spellslinger Series / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
Spellslinger Series / int_b892dd2d	comment	Girl of the Week: Almost every book involves Kellen coming across a girl who needs his help, or whose help he needs to solve the conflict, and the two becoming very close romantically. The second book has Seneira, the Third has Nephenia (who was also in the first, but to a lesser extent) and Cressia, the fourth has Diadera, and the fifth has Mariadne.
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Spellslinger Series / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Spellslinger Series / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Though Kellen has a few romantic moments with girls his age as the series progresses (about one per book), the one he's actually in love with, and who genuinely loves him back, is his childhood crush Nephenia.
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Spellslinger Series / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Spellslinger Series / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The series as a whole has fairly clean language, with only the occasional curse. But Kellen's sister, who expressly considers profanity to be beneath her, gives Kellen the only F-bomb in the series:
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Spellslinger Series / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
Spellslinger Series / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Reichis is a "demonic" Nekhek to the Jan'Tep people, though his species are known outside their lands as a squirrel-cat— essentially a two-foot long cat-like creature with a fluffy squirrel tail and furry webbing under his arms that allow him to glide like a flying squirrel. He is also a self-serving, unempathetic, kleptomanaiacal brawler whose first impulse upon coming across anything new is wondering if he can steal it, eat it, or kill it.
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Spellslinger Series / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
Spellslinger Series / int_c32ff95d	comment	Playing Card Motifs / Tarot Motifs: Invoked. Every nation has their own versions of cards and card games and the specific motifs of those culture's cards are often used in-story to represent the events going on, using the playing card connotations unique to each nation. For example, Kellen knows that in a certain country, certain cards are associated with death, and so is able to understand a coded message. In other meaningful games, he's able to understand messages about what's happening behind the scenes or in the past because he understands how the cards and card games mirror the world (like learning a child queen is being abused by her tutors when the queen card is left alone against several stronger cards). Kellen himself is represented as a "Discordance" card— a special type of card from an Argosi deck that shouldn't be in the game, but reflects change in the real world. It Makes Sense in Context.
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Spellslinger Series / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: For a moment in the last book, after his father begins the process of undoing the counterbands on Kellen's arm, it looks like perhaps Kellen and his family will finally reconcile. Of course his father ruins it by trying to start a war on purpose, intending to mindchain Kellen and murder all of his friends when they resist, and then finally actually trying to kill Kellen personally in a duel.
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Spellslinger Series / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Ra'meth tells Kellen he wouldn't mind having him as his second, especially since his sons have turned out so disappointing. He even lets Kellen know that if Kellen needs to kill off one of the sons to make the deal work, then that would be acceptable.
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Spellslinger Series / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Ferius is prone to giving nicknames to everyone, which annoys the more strict Argosi. Path of Throns and Roses becomes "Rosie" and Path of Stormy Mountains becomes "Stormy", among others.
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Spellslinger Series / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The third book, Soulbinder, is named for one of the villains of the book.
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Spellslinger Series / int_ce21f442	comment	Mage Killer; By the end of the series, Kellen has racked up a body count in the double digits of powerful mages who have tried— and failed— to kill him. Though it was all in self defense, his father comments that the reputation Kellen has built for himself is that of an unpredictable and highly skilled assassin.
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Spellslinger Series / int_ce6a1069	type	Wax On, Wax Off
Spellslinger Series / int_ce6a1069	comment	Wax On, Wax Off: How Ferius teaches Kellen the Argosi ways. For example, instead of outright teaching him to fight, she teaches him "dancing," with dances that just so happen to work as martial arts.
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Spellslinger Series / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Spellslinger Series / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: This is the big twist of Fall of the Argosi. Penta Corvus unwittingly and unknowingly infected herself with the Scarlet Verses while researching the Red Scream. The artificial plague's been in control of Penta this whole time rather than the other way around.
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Spellslinger Series / int_da360137	type	Prone to Tears
Spellslinger Series / int_da360137	comment	Prone to Tears: Kellen cries a lot throughout the series. Often it's warranted, but he also admits that after every battle and near-death experience, he'll go hide and break down from the adrenaline. A few times, when someone interrupts him on his way to go cry, he'll have to fight the urge to break down in front of them.
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Spellslinger Series / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Though his life is something of a Trauma Conga Line, Kellen only gets two real moments of complete and utter despair: When it looks like Reichis is dead, and when the White Binder possesses him and makes him believe he's raping a woman.
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Spellslinger Series / int_e0828de1	type	Deathbringer the Adorable
Spellslinger Series / int_e0828de1	comment	Deathbringer the Adorable: To the Jan'Tep, Nekhek are dreaded, abominable, demonic creatures who served the ancient enemy of the Jan'Tep people. The rest of the world calls them "squirrel cats" (for their catlike featues and fluffy squirrel tail) and considers them to be your average neighborhood pest animal, going through rubbish and stealing food. Played with as the Nekhek themselves like the idea of being known as bloodthirst fiends, and generally take offense whenever someone implies they may be cute.
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Spellslinger Series / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet / Morality Chain: Kellen to Reichis; Kellen is generally more peaceful and looks for an option that doesn't involve fighting (even if that option is running away), while Reichis's first impulse is to murder anything that looks at him wrong. All the same, Kellen is the only person who can occasionally keep Reichis reigned in, and the only human Reichis genuinely cares about (though he hates to admit it).
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Spellslinger Series / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Spellslinger Series / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Ferius Parfax is not a "Lady." Kellen is Mister, not ''Master," and he is definitely not Ke'Helios. Nephenia is not Neph'aria. Shalla is Sha'maat, and Reichis is a business partner, not a familiar.
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Spellslinger Series / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: In the Jan'Tep culture, after a child passes the Mage's Trial, they are given a mage name. In the Argosi culture, people are named by their "paths"— the road of fate they choose to walk. The Gitabrians name by profession, family, and position in the family. In As Kellen grows and moves through different cultures, he picks up several names, the two most meaningful to him being Kellen Argos and The Path of Endless Stars. In the final books, he gains another name he doesn't appreciate: Ke'Helios, after his father pardons him and tries to get him to serve the family.
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Spellslinger Series / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In the final showdown between Kellen and his father, every single Argosi and an entire tribe of squirrel cats all show up ready to fight.
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Spellslinger Series / int_f79b419e	comment	The Most Wanted: Kellen and Nephenia. Kellen is hunted down like a dog for being a Shadowblack. It gets to the point that the bounty on his head is so large that non-mages are also joining in the hunt, and as the series progresses Kellen has to deal with multiple different groups of bounty hunters coming after him.
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