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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Acts of Caine is a series of fantasy-science fiction (trending toward fantasy) books by Matt Stover.There are currently four books: Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, Caine Black Knife, and Caine's Law.The series's setting is an interesting combination of a futuristic earth run by corporate governments with a strict caste system and loads of repression, and a parallel high fantasy world called Overworld that earth humans have learned to travel to and exploit. This exploitation initially takes the form of The Studio, a company that produces a sort of reality entertainment by sending "actors" to Overworld. These actors are trained in either magic or combat, implanted with a kind of video recorder and sent to Overworld to "risk [their] lives in an interesting way". On the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, the series tends towards cynicism, although it's not without bouts of idealism. A more detailed synopsis here, with minor spoilers from the first three books.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The books are centered on the character of Caine and his actor Hari Michaelson. Heroes Die tells the story of Hari/Caine as he tries to rescue his love interest Shanna/Pallas Ril from Ma'elKoth. As with all the books in the series, Heroes Die comments on the morality of violent entertainment and explores of a myriad of other moral questions.Blade of Tyshalle takes place seven years later, reintroducing Hari and Shanna in their later married, unhappy and semi-retired lives (along with the no longer divine Tan'elKoth). This tedium is of course shattered by plots set into action by the corporate leaders of Earth which Hari's friend, Kris Hansen/Deliann Mithondionne tries to avert. This novel turns the moral philosophizing up to 11 or 12, adds questions of identity, resource usage, destiny (or lack thereof) and humanity's drive to exploit and use up everything. It also features the end of the world, in a way.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Caine Black Knife follows Caine in both the present (three years after the end of Blade of Tyshalle) and twenty-five years ago as he interacts with the Black Knife clan of Ogrillos. The present arc of the story includes a broader exploration of Orbek Black Knife, a side character introduced in Blade of Tyshalle. The philosophizing is turned back down to about 8, but questions concerning the legitimacy of guerrilla warfare and online FPSs are still asked. Also has some rather overt references to either the Iraq War or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, complete with a suicide bombing.Caine's Law follows immediately after (and in some cases, simultaneously with or even preceding) the events of the third book, as Caine faces the consequences of a deal he made with a god at the start of his Acting career—and the fallout from the last book, as timelines begin to get screwed around and gods start to intervene. The philosophical questions return with the advent of a mysterious mythical woman called "the horse-witch" and a recurring theme about the treatment of horses and humans. Caine travel through different parts of his life, trying to put things in order for an explosive showdown with the dark Powers at work. | |
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Dirty Coward: Lamorak. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Many central characters have died. Several have died and come back. One character got killed, came back as a semi-god, got killed again, and then became a true God. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Caine after Shanna's death. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: Ma'elKoth's voice is usually described as rumbling. | |
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Our Orcs Are Different | |
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Our Orcs Are Different: The ogrilloi are slightly closer to Warcraft Orcs, with the exception of the Black Knife tribe, who are the ogrilloi that other ogrilloi tell horror stories about and act like Tolkien Orcs on a real bad day. Ogrilloi also differ from the typical depictions of orcs in their physiology (namely their quadripedal lope, ridged back, and fighting claws). | |
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The Slow Walk | |
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The Slow Walk: Played straight in Blade of Tyshalle, mildly deconstructed in Caine Black Knife. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: As per Caine's Third Rule, messing with Caine's family is a good way to get yourself marked for death. | |
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Vancian Magic | |
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Vancian Magic: Thaumaturgists pattern spells into physical items, giving them a limited stock, likely as an intentional nod to the series's Dungeons & Dragons inspiration. However, this is subverted in that patterning spells in this manner is done for convenience rather than necessity. Magic requires enourmous concentration to pull off without the aid of these items and only a very small number of extremely skilled thaumaturgists can really kick butt without them. | |
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Faceless Goons | |
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Faceless Goons: The Social Police. | |
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Sword Pointing | |
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Sword Pointing: From the Blade Of Tyshalle: | |
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Church Militant | |
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Church Militant: The Knights of Khryl. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Earth. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Toa-Sytell's poisoned dagger. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Earth's caste system means that most of the Businessmen (management) caste think this way, and the Leisuremen (executives and shareholders) above them are even worse. | |
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Blood Sport | |
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Blood Sport: The whole point of Actors like Caine and their Studio-sponsored adventures on Overworld. | |
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Too Cool to Live | |
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Too Cool to Live: Talaan, the main Action Girl from Heroes Die, who may have been a better fighter than Caine. | |
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State Sec | |
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State Sec: The Social Police. | |
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Privately Owned Society | |
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Privately Owned Society: All the world's government collapsed years earlier after a viral outbreak, and society was rebuilt by private corporations, with the current rulers of the world being the Leisure Council, a group of the richest few hundred people on Earth. As a result, the society has a very rigid caste system. | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: Berne. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius: T'Passe. | |
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Power Levels | |
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Power Levels: Caine registers as a grade six weapon due to his Monastic training. This is only slightly higher than an armsman, so the Khryllians aren't particularly worried about it. After all, their Knights have divine-given Super Speed and Super Strength, they can deal with entire armies. Caine enjoys proving to them that their system is bunk. | |
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Good Is Dumb | |
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Good Is Dumb: Shanna/Pallas's blindness and moral obliviousness ironically only get worse when she becomes nearly omniscient. | |
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Name of Cain | |
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Name of Cain: Obviously. | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: From Blade of Tyshalle: | |
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Dystopia | |
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Dystopia: Earth in a nutshell. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: By Caine Black Knife Overworld has shotguns and automatic weapons but is still mainly a medieval-to-Renaissance aesthetic. | |
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Twincest | |
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Twincest: A probably nonconsensual example: Berne is revealed to keep twin sex slaves, one male and one female. This being Berne, if you think he wouldn't order them to have sex with each other, you plainly haven't read the books. | |
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Nay-Theist | |
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Nay-Theist: The Monastics in general and T'Passe in particular. The Monasteries were, in fact, developed for the express purpose of protecting humanity's interests from the predations of deities. | |
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Involuntary Suicide Mechanism | |
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Involuntary Suicide Mechanism: Actors are conditioned not to say that they're Actors, speak Earth languages, etc. This protocol is eventually reversed when Aktir hunters get wise to the simple test of demanding a suspect say "I am an Aktir." | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Caine gives one to Ma'elKoth. | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: In the prologue of Blade of Tyshalle, protagonists Kris Hansen and Hari Michaelson plot to get Hari out of Magic School and into Battle School. Their plan hinges on getting Hari to demonstrate his fighting prowess by "saving" Kris from a rival, crippling him in the process. Afterward, the head teacher tells them their plan has succeeded, but laments that another person's dream was crushed so that they could have theirs, adding plaintively "Couldn't you have asked?" | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: The Khryllians, which Caine thinks is stupid for two reasons. First, because despite being merely a grade six fighter, he's managed to kill more than a few Knights by not adhering to any codes. Second, because at one point when Caine insults a Knight's honor by calling him a coward, it ends in a duel to the death. | |
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Badass in Distress | |
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Badass in Distress: Seems to still happen more often to the females. | |
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Walking Disaster Area | |
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Walking Disaster Area: Caine is this for multiple reasons. For one, because he was an actor by training and for the longest time either sought out or created violent situations to provide material for his adventures. Also, because the way he forces himself on reality actually causes the fabric of magic and chance to send hell his way (according to his more metaphysically-minded companions). But mostly, it's because the crazy bastard can almost never resist the urge to escalate a fight. | |
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Finger-Tenting | |
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Finger-Tenting: Subverted in Heroes Die, where Kollberg laces his fingers together not as a sign of deception, but to try and keep calm while talking to the Board of Governors. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Caine/Hari embodies this trope. | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: Humans are bastards. Well, to be exact, the metaphorical psychomorphic deity-incarnation of humanity is a bastard. But the human hero who achieves its humiliating defeat is also a bastard, so in this series humanity doesn't look good at the individual or species level. | |
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Gods Need Prayer Badly | |
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Gods Need Prayer Badly: Gods only have power from their worshippers. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: "A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth." | |
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Rebellious Spirit | |
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Rebellious Spirit: Caine and the Cainists in general. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: A few times, though it never goes on for more than a few pages at a time. | |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same | |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same: They are called Stonebenders ("Dwarves" is a racial slur used by humans) and can do all of the impressive stone- and metalwork associated with the Dwarves with their bare hands. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_5281d5b1 | |
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Bookends | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_5313c266 | comment |
Bookends: in Blade of Tyshalle. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_5313c266 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_55940b68 | type |
Doorstopper | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_55940b68 | comment |
Doorstopper | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_55940b68 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism and Fantastic Slurs: Played with in that the Earth fantasy names for the species are considered slurs: elves prefer to be called primals, dwarves to be called stonebenders, orcs to be called ogrilloi, and pixies to be called treetoppers. The ogrilloi have an interesting nickname in their language for humans too. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_57b80b45 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_588d6b3e | type |
Vasquez Always Dies | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_588d6b3e | comment |
Vasquez Always Dies: Talaan gets hit by this in Heroes Die, as well as Marade, in an offhand way, in Caine Black Knife. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_588d6b3e | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_60414102 | type |
Zombie Apocalypse | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_60414102 | comment |
Zombie Apocalypse: HVRP is rather similar to one. Infectees are fully conscious the whole time, and grow more and more paranoid and violent as their physical condition degrades. It was estimated that every victim with the virus killed 2.8 people. It led to the breakdown of standard government and the rise of the Caste system of corporate overlords. Exactly as the Blind God wanted. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_60414102 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_634321c5 | type |
Master of One Magic | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_634321c5 | comment |
Master of One Magic: In Heroes Die, Lamorak is a crappy mage overall, but his Dominate is really good. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_634321c5 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Caine, at first. Also, the Monastics and the Khryllian armsmen. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_6411dac8 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Talaan in Heroes Die, Deliann in Blade of Tyshalle. Subverted in Caine Black Knife, where Caine acts to make the Adventure look like this but is really just planning to mess up the Black Knives for the hell of it. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_6439de78 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_649b0880 | type |
Background Magic Field | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_649b0880 | comment |
Background Magic Field: The "Flow" is generated by all living beings and can be used by magical adepts for their own purposes. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_649b0880 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_64edb99c | type |
Always Save the Girl | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_64edb99c | comment |
Always Save the Girl: "I'd burn the world to save her". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_64edb99c | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6bcfbc7e | type |
Fantasy Gun Control | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6bcfbc7e | comment |
Fantasy Gun Control: Initially starts this way, but gets violated by the end of Blade of Tyshalle. By Caine Black Knife Overworld not only has shotguns and automatic weapons they captured as trophies, but figured out how to produce more. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_6bcfbc7e | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Well, of course. The eponymous protagonist has set in motion events that would lead to the death of his wife, best friend(s), father, the suffering of everyone who's cared for him, etc. etc. If the dude had a brother he probably would have offed him too. Also like the biblical Caine, there are gods looking out for him after his punishment (although gods who want to punish him tend to get owned hard). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_6bda9a30 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6e8a4791 | type |
Heroic Comedic Sociopath | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_6e8a4791 | comment |
Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Caine skirts the line of this. Well, maybe dances on it. Okay, he does a full soft-shoe number up and down with Broadway routines and a full stage orchestra in the background. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_6e8a4791 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_71c42298 | type |
Super-Detailed Fight Narration | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_71c42298 | comment |
Super-Detailed Fight Narration: "The gassy thing about the figure-four headlock..." *cue paragraph of description in loving detail* | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_71c42298 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7360806f | type |
In-Series Nickname | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7360806f | comment |
In-Series Nickname: The Social Police are sometimes referred to as "soapies". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_7360806f | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_753a61d4 | type |
Time-Travel Tense Trouble | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_753a61d4 | comment |
Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Caine's Law has this in spades. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_753a61d4 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_762f71cb | type |
Unwinnable Training Simulation | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_762f71cb | comment |
Unwinnable Training Simulation: The Lakefront simulation in chapter 0 of Blade of Tyshalle. The College of Battle Magic has an advanced class that opens with the Lakefront simulation. In it, the student Actor is put into a VR simulation of Overworld, in the docks of the city of Ankhana, where (s)he hears the sound of a woman being assaulted down a nearby alley by a single man. Those actors who confront the man will quickly find out that there are two others waiting on the low rooftops to jump some fool like you rushing to her aid. Even defeating all three won't do; the best student in the College, Kris Hansen, got that far only to be knifed by the woman, who is in on the charade. When Hari Michaelson, a Labour-caste near-dropout with terrible magick skills, enters the challenge, he becomes the first person in the history of the College to beat the simulation. Not bothering with spells, he gets the jump on the first man, KOs the other two before they can recover from jumping into the alley, and knows better than to trust the woman, who gets her throat cut when she tries to knife him. He only fails because the test expected him to use magick, and the instructor hacked the simulation to bring the other players back to life and beat him senseless, something that was never before needed for the Lakefront sim. Regardless, as the instructor points out, the point of the test is to show whether the Actor-to-be can give the viewers an interesting death scene. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_762f71cb | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_76c30df4 | type |
Will Not Tell a Lie | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_76c30df4 | comment |
Will Not Tell a Lie: Caine has a bit of a warped sense of honor, which has given him the well-deserved reputation that he would rather kill a man than lie to him. The last act of the first book hinges entirely on lies and deceit, which makes him very uncomfortable. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_76c30df4 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7831b670 | type |
Gaia's Vengeance | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7831b670 | comment |
Gaia's Vengeance: Chambaraya through Pallas. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_7831b670 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7aa858c1 | type |
Consummate Liar | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7aa858c1 | comment |
Consummate Liar: Caine is immune to the truthsense of Khryl's holy knights for reasons he doesn't quite understand. Though it might have something to do with the fact that he would rather kill a man than lie to him. Maybe that kind of "honor" just confuses the poor god trying to read him. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_7aa858c1 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: "What do you want?" About two-thirds into Blade of Tyshalle Tommie asks this of Deliann, which takes a little under a page and a half. "What do you want?" happens to be both the identifying code phrase and the central tenet of the persecuted philosophy Tommie holds. Tommie has to ask the question, with mildly different phrasing, over five times. No, Deliann, not what you feel guilty about, not what you think went wrong in the past, not what you like or wish or would settle for. What you want. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_7b6e47a5 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7ea8f5ce | type |
Knight in Shining Armor | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7ea8f5ce | comment |
Knight in Shining Armor: The Knights of Khryl in Caine Black Knife. They are good guys...but... | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_7ea8f5ce | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Oh man, poor Deliann... | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_7fbb2a3 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_813afa05 | type |
Defiled Forever | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_813afa05 | comment |
Defiled Forever: An interesting example. There's a religious sect of priestesses who are completely chaste virgins, to the point of dressing like men to stave off advances. If they ever give into temptation, they lose their power. If they are raped, however, they can basically turn into a magic nuke. Unfortunately, they rarely survive the massive influx of power, not to mention the resulting destruction. | |
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1.0 | |
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| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_813afa05 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_85c5db50 | type |
In Love with Your Carnage | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_85c5db50 | comment |
In Love with Your Carnage: Ma'elKoth has almost said this word-for-word to Caine multiple times. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_85c5db50 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: More than a few: Heroes Die: Blade of Tyshalle: Caine Black Knife: | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_86b21114 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8767b1f3 | type |
Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: Qualifies for this trope only due to what the protagonist must become to stop the antagonists, and how badly the "pure" heroes like Deliann and Pallas Ril manage to fuck things up. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_8767b1f3 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Inverted in the Blind God, played straight with the "god" of the Black Knives. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_8774fb47 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_88ebc539 | type |
Always a Bigger Fish | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_88ebc539 | comment |
Always a Bigger Fish: At the end of Heroes Die, Kollberg is taken by the Social Police. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_88ebc539 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8a4988bb | type |
Mind Rape | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8a4988bb | comment |
Attempted in Blade of Tyshalle with the Blind God and Ma'elKoth trying to gain control of Overworld by mind-raping Faith. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_8a4988bb | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8ae880f7 | type |
Deconstruction | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: Of a wealth of Fantasy tropes, being a Low Fantasy take on archetypal Dungeons & Dragons settings like the Forgotten Realms. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_8ae880f7 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8bf19707 | type |
No Dead Body Poops | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8bf19707 | comment |
No Dead Body Poops: Repeatedly averted. | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8bf19707 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_8bf19707 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8c16c5d | type |
Powers That Be | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8c16c5d | comment |
Powers That Be: All other gods besides Ma'elKoth and Pallas Ril. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_8c16c5d | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8c1ad82f | type |
Proud Warrior Race Guy | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8c1ad82f | comment |
Proud Warrior Race Guy: Orbek | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_8c1ad82f | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8d6d9535 | type |
Artistic License – Medicine | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8d6d9535 | comment |
Artistic License – Medicine: An In-Universe example in Heroes Die. Hari complains to the guys at The Studio after playtesting their Bloodier and Gorier version of one of his adventures that the wounds Caine took in their version should have had him immobilized from pain and shortly dead of blood loss. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_8d6d9535 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8fd7af48 | type |
Sir Swears-a-Lot | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_8fd7af48 | comment |
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Caine's very foul-mouthed, to say the least. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_8fd7af48 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9620c3a1 | type |
God-Emperor | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9620c3a1 | comment |
God-Emperor: The Most Beloved Ma'elKoth. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_9620c3a1 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9712e10 | type |
Sword of Plot Advancement | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9712e10 | comment |
Sword of Plot Advancement: Kosall, though a Justified Trope here in that Kosall just happens to do a lot of important stuff. Except it turns out it might also be the sword of a god that was also in possession of an order of knights for the past five hundred years (the timeline gets complicated when gods are involved). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_9712e10 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9ac6b0c1 | type |
Sociopathic Hero | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9ac6b0c1 | comment |
Sociopathic Hero: Caine. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_9ac6b0c1 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9bfb2f41 | type |
Dead Guy on Display | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9bfb2f41 | comment |
Dead Guy on Display: In Blade of Tyshalle the body of Caine's late rival and master swordsman Berne is kept as a tourist attraction on Earth in the Studio Curiouseum. Ultimately his body is kidnapped and reanimated so it can kill Pallas Ril. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_9bfb2f41 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9dfb8296 | type |
This Is Gonna Suck | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: Trope Namer. In the Blade of Tyshalle, Har, is a paraplegic —and at the moment, he is trapped in a burning building thanks to an assassination attempt. His 200-lb. companion has been knocked unconscious and must be dragged along, the air is full of dust and smoke (making it hard to breathe), his wheelchair is unavailable, and he has to bypass several stories of staircase anyways before he can find an exit. "This, thought Hari, is gonna suck." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_9dfb8296 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9eb11fac | type |
Weak, but Skilled | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9eb11fac | comment |
Weak, but Skilled: Deconstructed in Heroes Die. Talaan may have more skill than Berne but it isn't enough to compensate for the latter's superior power, which gets her killed. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_9eb11fac | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9edbda07 | type |
Elite Mooks | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_9edbda07 | comment |
Elite Mooks: The Social Police, the Black Knives, Esoteric Friars, and the Grey Cats. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Acts of Caine | hasFeature |
The Acts of Caine / int_9edbda07 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a0db7803 | type |
It's Personal | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a0db7803 | comment |
It's Personal: Subverted. One of the things that makes Caine/Hari dangerous is his willingness to take all fights this way. | |
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Eye Scream | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: The first book opens with one. And then there's the Black Knife Kiss. | |
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Action Dad | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a3f6d92c | comment |
Action Dad: Caine, from second book onward. | |
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Dented Iron | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a54c2273 | comment |
Dented Iron: Caine, who considers himself the sum of his scars. | |
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Healing Factor | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a5fb0d24 | comment |
Healing Factor/Healing Hands: The Knights and Priests of Khryl have both — but, seeing as Khryl is a god of war, their powers only work on wounds sustained in battle. | |
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Physical God | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a60f7120 | comment |
Physical God: Ma'elKoth and Pallas Ril, before the events at the climax of Blade of Tyshalle. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Raithe. | |
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Due to the Dead | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a679184b | comment |
Due to the Dead: The Last March, a funerary procession of drummers and the bodies of fallen soldiers. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_a7b324e | type |
Handicapped Badass | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a7b324e | comment |
Handicapped Badass: Caine/Hari before he he figures out how to magic the bypass. Even with that he's got a noticeable balance problem, and that magic can be shut down. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Orbek. The irony lies in that Caine originally targeted Orbek first when breaking up Orbek's old gang because he thought the young ogrillo was the gang's weakest point. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_a9ea3c3c | type |
Warrior Monk | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_a9ea3c3c | comment |
Warrior Monk: The Monastics. Played with in that they're not a religious order per se, but a brotherhood devoted to protecting the Future of Man and the Covenant of Pirichanthe that keeps the gods in check. | |
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Red Shirt | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_ac2094ca | comment |
Red Shirt: subverted. Guys who seemed like mooks in Heroes Die have plot impacts in Blade of Tyshalle, and the unfortunate death of one guard in Caine Black Knife becomes a point of argument between Caine and his Knight of Khryl escort. | |
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Heartbroken Badass | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_ad3d8092 | comment |
Heartbroken Badass: Initially Caine. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_adfd3165 | type |
For the Evulz | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_adfd3165 | comment |
For the Evulz: Inverted. The bad guys always act out of self-interest, ideology, or pure hedonistic lust. The protagonist is the one who, for fun, escalates conflicts almost compulsively. This includes "escalating" a verbal argument into a lethal fight, a skirmish with an ogrillo tribe into ethnic cleansing, and a minor political conflict into a civil war. And the bad guys are still worse. | |
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First-Person Smartass | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_af157b58 | comment |
First-Person Smartass: Justified. The protagonist is having his experiences as a particularly violent sort of adventurer in a fantasy world recorded for the entertainment of the masses on a dystopian future Earth. He's even trained in an internal monologue technique called Soliloquy, and by the time of the later books he does so reflexively and can't turn it off. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Berne: "Fuck me like a virgin goat." | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_b01abe4f | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b0740635 | type |
Master of Your Domain | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b0740635 | comment |
Master of Your Domain: Monastic Control Discliplines. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_b0740635 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b0fb2427 | type |
Bread and Circuses | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b0fb2427 | comment |
Bread and Circuses: The function of the Adventures on Overworld is to turn an entire planet into the arena of a Blood Sport for the entertainment of the masses on Earth. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_b2407a69 | type |
Talk to the Fist | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b2407a69 | comment |
Talk to the Fist: Happens no less than five times in Blade of Tyshalle alone. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_b2407a69 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b3b162c8 | type |
Honesty Is the Best Policy | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b3b162c8 | comment |
Honesty Is the Best Policy: Comes at the end of the Xanatos Gambit Caine spent all of Caine Black Knife finagling into place. Caine has just royally screwed the Board's plans up. Their two choices are: reward him for sabotage and murder of one of their number by giving him a total pardon and more authority and free rein than they gave to the guys sent out to catch him, or permanently lose access to Overworld and possibly risk Overworld's most powerful empire marching over a portal with dragons and warmages to blast Earth into submission. Caine is happy to unveil all the details because he's not afraid to die and they have no alternatives. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_b6287eff | type |
Briar Patching | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b6287eff | comment |
Briar Patching: In Heroes Die, Caine uses this as part of tricking Ma'elKoth into following his Batman Gambit. He directly refers to the trope name while doing so. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_b7c53a22 | type |
Blood Knight | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b7c53a22 | comment |
Blood Knight: Caine and Berne. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_b8ffbba6 | type |
Staring Through the Sword | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_b8ffbba6 | comment |
Staring Through the Sword: The cover of Caine Black Knife. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_bbfaa837 | type |
Knight Templar | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_bbfaa837 | comment |
Knight Templar: The Knights of Khryl. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_bbfaa837 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_bcb4f1f1 | type |
You Just Told Me | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_bcb4f1f1 | comment |
You Just Told Me: In the third book Caine meets a spy for an old friend of his, and instructs the spy to take a message to her. The spy plays dumb for a while, until Caine offers to explain what gave to spy away (so that he can correct the mistake). The spy admits it would be useful to know how Caine was so sure. Caine just says "I wasn't sure." | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_bcb4f1f1 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Caine. | |
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1.0 | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_c2299d6e | type |
Cutting the Knot | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c2299d6e | comment |
Cutting the Knot: Caine's usual way of solving problems. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_c26e2b1 | type |
New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c26e2b1 | comment |
New Powers as the Plot Demands: Or rather, new species traits we weren't told about in the last novel, as Caine Black Knife introduces the ogrilloi's horse-outrunning quadripedal lope. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_c26e2b1 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c3bdfbb9 | type |
Let's You and Him Fight | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c3bdfbb9 | comment |
Let's You and Him Fight: Lampshaded in Caine's Law. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_c3bdfbb9 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c4eff1b7 | type |
Sorcerous Overlord | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c4eff1b7 | comment |
Sorcerous Overlord: Ma'elKoth. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_c4eff1b7 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c6d11745 | type |
Telepathy | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c6d11745 | comment |
Telepathy: Kris's "flashes". | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_c6d11745 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c7b6f3b5 | type |
Satisfied Street Rat | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c7b6f3b5 | comment |
Satisfied Street Rat: Caine to a ridiculous degree, Orbek Black Knife and Majesty/Toa M'Jest to a lesser extent. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_c82e751f | type |
Unspoken Plan Guarantee | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c82e751f | comment |
Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Mentioned in Heroes Die. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_c8ba12ee | type |
Interplay of Sex and Violence | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_c8ba12ee | comment |
Interplay of Sex and Violence: Happens a lot, perhaps best personified by Count Berne. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_ca04edd6 | type |
Charles Atlas Superpower | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_ca04edd6 | comment |
Charles Atlas Superpower: Hari/Caine. In Heroes Die he tries to vent his anger against a gel punching bag that hardens against force up to the strength of human bone before resetting. Well before he's gotten the rage out of his system, he's easily, repeatedly working it over. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_cb6178fc | type |
Rule #1 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_cb6178fc | comment |
Rule #1: | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_cbd2bfa3 | type |
Glory Days | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_cbd2bfa3 | comment |
Glory Days: Ma/Tan'elKoth, Hari, and Shanna in Blade of Tyshalle, some of the surviving Black Knife Nation in Caine Black Knife. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_cbd2bfa3 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Marc Vilo. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_cbe687ab | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_cc4d190a | type |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Caine tends to come up against Physical Gods a lot. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_cc4d190a | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_cd3703a2 | type |
Genre Mashup | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_cd3703a2 | comment |
Genre Mashup: Dark Fantasy meets Dystopia. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_cd3703a2 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d001c42c | type |
Anti-Villain | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: Toa-Sytell. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_d08595d3 | type |
Broken Bird | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d08595d3 | comment |
Broken Bird: Angvasse in Caine's Law. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_d08595d3 | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d129e13e | type |
"Eureka!" Moment | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: Toa-Sytell has one when he reads the Monastic records on Caine and realizes that he's an Aktir. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_d129e13e | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Eventually, anyone who cares about Overworld asks the Actors this. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_d5d976dd | type |
I Have Many Names | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d5d976dd | comment |
I Have Many Names: There's virtually no god, main character, or figure of power in the novels without at least two names, identities, and/or titles. Orbek and Kollberg are notable by exception. By Caine Black Knife, Caine himself is known variously as the Lord of Chaos, kwatcharr of the Black Knives, Agent of Khryl, and the Hand of Ma'elKoth. | |
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The Acts of Caine / int_d5d976dd | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d839c530 | type |
The Unfettered | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_d839c530 | comment |
The Unfettered: The series demonstrate how the Unfettered make setting right and wrong in your story very difficult. Caine, the protagonist, is a prime example of an Unfettered character (but not his alter ego Hari, interestingly enough). He manages to be both a genocidal murderer and the world's saviour, an amoral cutthroat and a loving father. Stover successfully pulls it off because the morality in his novels is more about how much control you are willing to exercise over events to bring around the right outcome and less about whether causing death is right or wrong. Other Unfettered characters include Talaan, T'Passe, and Tommy to a degree. Ma'elKoth is Unfettered until the Blind God owns him. Berne comes close but loves infamy and pleasure (read: rape) too much. Raithe manages to be Unfettered for about all of two chapters in Blade of Tyshalle. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_da346c6b | type |
Disabled Snarker | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_da346c6b | comment |
Disabled Snarker: Caine after Heroes Die. "It's like having a pair of dead dogs strapped to my ass. Except that I can't eat them." | |
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Action Girl | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Talaan in Heroes Die, Marade in Caine Black Knife, Angvasse in Caine's Law. | |
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Torture Technician | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_db38d6ca | comment |
Torture Technician: Arkadeil in Heroes Die. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_dc1761bd | type |
A God Am I | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: Shanna/Pallas Ril and Hannto the Scythe/Ma'elKoth. To be fair, they actually became gods. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_dd5faec5 | type |
Only Mostly Dead | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_dd5faec5 | comment |
Only Mostly Dead: Caine in the end of "Heroes Die". | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_e0c00a95 | type |
Absurdly Sharp Blade | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_e0c00a95 | comment |
Absurdly Sharp Blade: Kosall combines this with Vibroweapon. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_e1acc872 | type |
From Nobody to Nightmare | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_e1acc872 | comment |
From Nobody to Nightmare: Ma'elKoth used to be the wimpy necromancer Hannto the Scythe. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_e35ab565 | type |
Indy Ploy | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_e35ab565 | comment |
Indy Ploy: Caine's speciality. | |
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1.0 | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_e482cfa7 | type |
To the Pain | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_e482cfa7 | comment |
To the Pain: Arkadeil in Heroes Die has a cold, dispassionate delivery of this as he teaches apprentice torturers. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_e70127 | type |
The Mole | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_e70127 | comment |
The Mole: Lamorak. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_e71283f5 | type |
NeverBringAKnifeToAFistfight | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_e71283f5 | comment |
Never Bring A Knife To A Fistfight: All Caine has are his fists and maybe a knife, but he tends to come out on top in a fight. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_e794cb54 | type |
Powered by a Forsaken Child | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_e794cb54 | comment |
Powered by a Forsaken Child: In Heroes Die, Ma'elKoth spends the life of his devotees when using combat magic. Unlike most, he is aware of the cost; when he gives Berne a smidgen of that power to use, he reminds the man of the human cost, and he uses this fact against Pallas Ril. Attempted in Blade of Tyshalle with the Blind God and Ma'elKoth trying to gain control of Overworld by mind-raping Faith. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_ee9877ea | type |
Too Good for This Sinful Earth | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_ee9877ea | comment |
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Deconstructed with Shanna and Deliann, both of whom made significant mistakes that aided the bad guys and put innocents in danger. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_f2877d9e | type |
IncrediblyLamePun | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_f2877d9e | comment |
Incredibly Lame Pun: Caine occasionally has these. | |
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1.0 | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_f4a3140c | type |
Survival Mantra | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_f4a3140c | comment |
Survival Mantra: "Keep your head down and inch towards daylight." | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_f642b1f9 | type |
You Bastard! | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_f642b1f9 | comment |
You Bastard!: In Heroes Die Caine uses this on his audience, who collectively share his body for the duration of his adventures. Due to the character narrating to his own audience, it also ends up directed at the reader by extension. | |
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| The Acts of Caine / int_f64a9cf7 | type |
Earn Your Happy Ending | |
| The Acts of Caine / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: Insomuch as there are happy endings. | |
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