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The Aurelian Cycle

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The Aurelian Cycle	comment	The debut fantasy series of Rosaria Munda. This series is a political fantasy following the nation of Callipolis, one of several island nations in an archipelago where a nation's military might is heavily influenced by the offensive force of their dragon riders, and those dragon riders have a tendency to also serve as the ruling aristocracy for a given nation. While Callipolis was previously ruled by the Triarchy, a group of three aristocrat families who each oversaw one of the three dragon breeds their nation rode, the old regime was violently overthrown ten years prior to the events of the story, with almost all of the survivors fleeing to a neighboring island that they had previously conquered.The new regime, while granting more opportunities and education to its people and having no (official) nobility with greater rights, is still rife with its own oppressive practices. It is this system which the protagonists are set to inherit. Annie, a former serf whose family was executed by the triarchy, and Lee, a secret survivor of the aristocracy, are among the most talented of the first generation of dragon riders under the new regime. Their loyalties are put to the test when the survivors of the old regime return, seeking to fracture their usupers and reclaim their old throne through whatever brute force or political subterfuge they can.The trilogy consists of Fireborne (2019) Flamefall (2021) Furysong (2022)
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_148efc99	type	Noble Tongue
The Aurelian Cycle / int_148efc99	comment	Noble Tongue: Dragontongue, the language spoken by the dragonlords and much of the upper class. The Atreus regime is trying to turn it into a Classical Tongue, since most classic literature and poetry uses it, but there remain a lot of influential holdovers from the old regime that prefer to speak Dragontongue.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_14d15f8f	type	Fictional United Nations
The Aurelian Cycle / int_14d15f8f	comment	Fictional United Nations: The Medean League, put in place to try and prevent the most powerful nations in the archipelago from starting wars.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_17686a40	type	Denying the Dead Parent's Sins
The Aurelian Cycle / int_17686a40	comment	Denying the Dead Parent's Sins: In flashbacks, Lee takes poorly to hearing his dad was the one to orphan Annie and rejects the idea that the famine his family was murdered over really happened.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_193adfd1	type	The Right of a Superior Species
The Aurelian Cycle / int_193adfd1	comment	The Right of a Superior Species: How the dragonlords see themselves. Julia cannot accept Leeâ€™s arguments defending the new regime because she genuinely believes sheâ€™s a superior form of human who is entitled to own others, and her property needs to be put back in place after the revolution.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
The Aurelian Cycle / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: When Mabalena gets a chance to strike back.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
The Aurelian Cycle / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: The new regime didnâ€™t just kill the old dragonborn, but also murdered as many of their children as possible. This is initially presented as spite, but is revealed to be a deliberate effort to ensure none of those children reinforce old notions of inherent talent by succeeding in the new system.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
The Aurelian Cycle / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: One of the government departments if openly called the Ministry of Propaganda. They make different versions of the newspaper with varying levels of propaganda depending on how informed or manipulated they want a given class to be.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Aurelian Cycle / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Most of the nobility, since they maintain their power by commanding the dragons that both defend their nations and enforce its laws.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_2034121a	type	Eat the Rich
The Aurelian Cycle / int_2034121a	comment	Eat the Rich: The dragonlords, having maintained a comfortable lifestyle while their subjects starved in a famine, are torn about in a bloody revolution at the start of the story.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_2196347f	type	Action Politician
The Aurelian Cycle / int_2196347f	comment	Action Politician: Griff becomes the elected ruler of a country while also leading a dragon fleet in battle.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Aurelian Cycle / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Power is practically seen by his fellow guardians as their Token Evil Teammate, Despite his personality defects and gleeful antagonism of others, he consistently does what he thinks is for the good of the people in serious situations, and is one of the more effective Guardians due to his ability to make calls others find emotionally difficult and convincingly play off a betrayal.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_2a297ab4	type	SlidingScaleOfIDidWhatIHadToDoVersusMoralEventHorizon
The Aurelian Cycle / int_2a297ab4	comment	Sliding Scale Of I Did What I Had To Do Versus Moral Event Horizon: The protagonists start grappling with where they and Atreusâ€™s regime fall on this scale when they take over food distribution during a famine and must choose who to let starve.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Aurelian Cycle / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Miranda Hane notes when confronted by Annie that entrenching her regimeâ€™s power turned her and her comrades from idealist revolutionaries into a corrupt politician guilty of many of the same crimes she once rallied against.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_30202b05	type	Censorship Bureau
The Aurelian Cycle / int_30202b05	comment	Censorship Bureau: An important part of the government, which believes Bronze and Iron citizens too stupid to appreciate the nuance of being able to hear about complicated real world issues or view classic works that might contain outdated worldviews. It ultimately causes a large enough portion of the political elite to turn against Atreus and back the old triarchy.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_35934e0e	type	Staged Populist Uprising
The Aurelian Cycle / int_35934e0e	comment	Staged Populist Uprising: While a lot of the passi are sincere in their cause, a lot of the major members of their movement are secretly working to restore the triarchy.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_366f3185	type	Book Burning
The Aurelian Cycle / int_366f3185	comment	Book Burning: Any works that Atreusâ€™s regime determines to be too counter to the regimeâ€™s goals is seized and burned, although a handful of copies are allowed to exist in restricted government libraries.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_3909db4f	type	Failed State
The Aurelian Cycle / int_3909db4f	comment	Failed State: The Atreus regime results in mass starvation and such callous willingness to sacrifice those who are â€˜easy to replaceâ€™ that the unskilled labor class is left to burn in an attack to ensure room in safety bunkers for the more valuable, even in districts where the bunkers are not at capacity.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Aurelian Cycle / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Atreus is very calm about his execution, and even offers his killer words of guidance in his final moments.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Aurelian Cycle / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The way in which reeducation is performed on those who speak out against the Atreus regime, or who otherwise insist on exposing ideas that the regime dislikes.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Aurelian Cycle / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Deloâ€™s conscious compels him to give Griff a chance to rebel, despite knowing it might get his family overthrown a second time.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_465b8fcd	type	Revealing Continuity Lapse
The Aurelian Cycle / int_465b8fcd	comment	Revealing Continuity Lapse: The history of Palace Day that the Fourth Order are given by Atreus lists Leo as dead, even though Atreus personally intervened and saved Leo. Turns out his intervention was for show and the order Atreus whispers in the opening was to kill Leo somewhere out of sight. The nameless soldier was the one who actually saved Leo when he decided to defy that order.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Aurelian Cycle / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Power, despite being a bully who seems amused by others suffering, is steadfastly loyal to Callipolis, becomes a supportive friend and steady ally to Annie, and is among the most willing to do whatever it takes to save his friends, family, and nation.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_4807342c	type	Easily Swayed Population
The Aurelian Cycle / int_4807342c	comment	Easily Swayed Population: Prior to New Pythos turning out to be an actual threat, the working class newspaper reports on them like they are to give the people an easy diversion for any negative feelings they mught have to the current government.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_4ab0d322	type	Regime Change
The Aurelian Cycle / int_4ab0d322	comment	Regime Change: The series opens in the middle of one before skipping ahead to ten years into the new regime, with much of the plot revolving around both the old regime trying to regain power and the populace threatening to overthrow the current regime in order to try establishing a third version.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_4d1ac25b	type	Villains Want Mercy
The Aurelian Cycle / int_4d1ac25b	comment	Villains Want Mercy: After the Norcian revolt, Delo drops to his knees and starts reciting every repentant Plea for mercy his people used to require of their subjects, then offers a deal to see his surviving family safely exiled while he remains behind as a hostage.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
The Aurelian Cycle / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: Itâ€™s made apparent pretty early on that even if Atreusâ€™s regime offers more opportunities than the dragonlords did, they have essentially created a new elite and exploited underclass, and maintain their position through oppressive censorship and totalitarian enforcement. Then a famine comes, and they seize all food under threat of dragon fire and leave the poor to starve while the rich are well fed, which is the exact thing the dragonlords were overthrown for doing.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
The Aurelian Cycle / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Power hates to be called Parry
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_5111ff0	type	Kill the Poor
The Aurelian Cycle / int_5111ff0	comment	Kill the Poor: Each time Atreusâ€™s regime is faced with a supply shortage (such as food or bunkers) they choose to prioritize by social class, leaving the â€˜easily replaceableâ€™ unskilled workers who tend to come from the poorest families to suffer the brunt of the casualties.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_52388345	type	Elective Monarchy
The Aurelian Cycle / int_52388345	comment	Elective Monarchy: The legal system in Norcia, prior to the dragonlords conquering it.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
The Aurelian Cycle / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: Annie and Lee spend much of the second book unable to coordinate any of their efforts due to their differing approaches to the ration policy. Even when Annie tries to come to Leeâ€™s side, communication breakdown is so severe that Leeâ€™s allies think Annie is attempting a power grab, resulting in further harassment of Annie.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
The Aurelian Cycle / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Lee and Annie were both made to watch the murder of their families as children.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
The Aurelian Cycle / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Ixion runs a series of trials against those who helped overthrow the triarchy in the past where his faction picks the jury and the defense isnâ€™t allowed to produce any of their own witnesses.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Aurelian Cycle / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Freyda and her goliathan manage to be this for both the Callipolian Guardians and the triarchy-in-exile. While providing Ixionâ€™s forces with the raw might of her massive dragon to realize their plans, her general disdain for Ixionâ€™s sadism and her moments of compassion to those he abuses drive her to repeatedly willfully undermine him.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Aurelian Cycle / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Leon treats the execution of Annieâ€™s family like part of the job, dissonantly juggling a methodical killing with a polite attitude and consoling Annie afterward. Lee realizes that any given day that his dad came home from work smelling of fire could have been the worst day of Annieâ€™s life, and not only can he not guess the day, but when he goes through his fatherâ€™s journals, it seems it was never significant enough for him to record having done.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_6a1cbf28	type	Rebellious Princess
The Aurelian Cycle / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Rebellious Princess: Freyda, taking inspiration from Julia, bucks as many traditional expectations for women and princesses in her empire as she can.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_6c4ed101	type	Breath Weapon
The Aurelian Cycle / int_6c4ed101	comment	Breath Weapon: Dragonfire is one of the strongest weapons any nationâ€™s military has, and thereâ€™s much tension in the first book about when or if the Callipolian dragons will mature to the point of being able to breath fire.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
The Aurelian Cycle / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Ixion seeks an arranged marriage with the Bassilean princess Freyda in order to get her empireâ€™s backing for a takeover of Callipolis. Freyda, upon realizing Ixion is a sadist, would rather legitimize her rule of Callipolis by marrying Lee.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Aurelian Cycle / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: In spades. Aside from Antigone going by Annie, Duck, Power, and Rock are almost never addressed by their real names.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Aurelian Cycle / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Annie faces massive public backlash after firing on a mob of starving citizens who threatened Power. She also later learns that her factionâ€™s city guard was â€˜overzealousâ€™ in squashing a rebellion in Southside when she was a child.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Aurelian Cycle / int_771f6307	comment	The Basillean Empire is worse, as royal siblings are expected to wed one another.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
The Aurelian Cycle / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Atreusâ€™s regime rewrites history to downplay the wrongs of their side and heap added blame on the dragonlords, including changing the dates of a massacre in the capitol to pretend it was dragonlords against revolutionaries, when it was actually the slaughter of protestors upset that the revolutionaries reneged on their commitment to democracy.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_808316b6	type	Politically Motivated Teacher
The Aurelian Cycle / int_808316b6	comment	Politically Motivated Teacher: Professor Tyndale, secretly a spy for New Pythos, doesnâ€™t hesitate to openly express his opinions about the Aurelian Cycle being banned. Annie uses this as a pretense to report him.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Aurelian Cycle / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: This becomes Annieâ€™s common justification once the Callipolians realize thereâ€™s an incoming famine, and the government decides to seize the insiufficient food supply which, decide which part of their population its most practical to let starve, and begins using the Guardians as enforcers against anyone who protests the ration policy.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
The Aurelian Cycle / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: The official policy of the Atreus regime is that the worse a personâ€™s performance on a standardized test, the more expendable their life is.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
The Aurelian Cycle / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: Lee, a member of one of the old aristocratic families, believes in the regime that overthrew the old government and murdered his family. His surviving relatives are offended by this, and his fellow Callipolians are hesitant to trust that heâ€™s really on their side.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Aurelian Cycle / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Megara leaks the location of all the granaries to the public so civilians can raid them. The New Pythos riders use the leak to plan an air raid.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_90766cc6	type	Voice of the Resistance
The Aurelian Cycle / int_90766cc6	comment	Voice of the Resistance: Atreus, during the revolution against the dragonlords. Megara Roper and later Lee sur Pallor when Atreusâ€™s famine policy causes unrest.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Aurelian Cycle / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Atreus is murdered by Lee in the very room where he killed Leon and ordered Leeâ€™s death. He finds it fitting, even if Lee is unhappy with the situation. Lee and Annie trick Ixion into engineering one in which Annie has to watch while Lee is burned alive in his own home, not knowing they set up an escape plan. After Annie tries to spare Ixion, his cruelty to his own dragon spurs Aela to kill him of her own accord, as she wants revenge for his murder of Pallor.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Aurelian Cycle / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Ixion kills Dora Mithrides once heâ€™s done forcing her to play hostess. She saw it coming, but thereâ€™s not much she could do to stop it.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
The Aurelian Cycle / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: While Griff technically plays along willingly when Julia takes him as her lover, the power imbalance and the fact that heâ€™s desperate for the medicine she pays him with make the situation dubious even before Griff starts hinting that heâ€™s not even attracted to women.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Aurelian Cycle / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Had by a nameless soldier during the revolution, who drops out of the military and goes to live a quite life after Palade Day. Seeing Leoâ€™s reaction to his familyâ€™s murder jolts him out of his bloodlust, and he saves Leoâ€™s life by smuggling him out of the palace.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_98a79aed	type	Occupiers Out of Our Country
The Aurelian Cycle / int_98a79aed	comment	Occupiers Out of Our Country: The goal of the Norcians, who have been under dragonlord rule far shorter than Callipolis was and still recall a lot of their old culture.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
The Aurelian Cycle / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: How the riders justify to themselves when they set farmers on fire.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Aurelian Cycle / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Given that dragons are a major military asset and common enforcement method for how regimes maintain power, this is present in spades.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
The Aurelian Cycle / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: To the extent that it can be called a happy death, Atreus promises Leon that his son will be spared and looked after before killing him.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_9d4b58ba	type	I Let Gwen Stacy Die
The Aurelian Cycle / int_9d4b58ba	comment	I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Annie spends a long time grappling with her decision to bring Duck on a dangerous mission.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_a0774be0	type	Forgotten First Meeting
The Aurelian Cycle / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: Atreus is noted to have forgotten all about Leo, who was spared as a result of his intervention during Palace Day, and doesnâ€™t recognize him when he later returns as Lee.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
The Aurelian Cycle / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The series opens on revolutionaries killing the old aristocracy in senselessly cruel ways, including forcing the old lords to watch as their children are murdered. Government-bound students are taught an only-lightly sanitized version of Palace Day and are discouraged from glorifying it. The Fourth Order are horrified to read a fraction of what occurred during the massacre and need to know if Atreus anticipated such violence, to which he tells them that he knew there was a chance things could escalate to that level. It is later revealed that he deliberately wanted to murder all of the families down to the last child.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_a195379b	type	Murder by Cremation
The Aurelian Cycle / int_a195379b	comment	Murder by Cremation: How Annieâ€™s family is executed.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_a2e96d18	type	Just the First Citizen
The Aurelian Cycle / int_a2e96d18	comment	Just the First Citizen: Played with. Atreus is noted to avoid putting on airs and requires his dragon riders take a vow of poverty, but when push comes to shove he puts himself and his friends above the general public.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
The Aurelian Cycle / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: While Freyda disdains the idea of peasant dragon riders, sheâ€™s otherwise nice to her staff and abhors seeing the upper class act abusive to commoners, and even gives Griff a chance to warn everyone of the plan to kill the Norcian riders after he warns her that Ixion would make a bad husband.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Aurelian Cycle / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: The Callipolis revolution destroys the remains of the dragonlords. The Norcians allow the survivors of their revolt to give their dead a funeral. Ixion has the corpses of ever member of Atreusâ€™s government that he doesnâ€™t need hung on display.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
The Aurelian Cycle / int_ab2ffd70	comment	Foreign Ruling Class: The dragonlords. Itâ€™s more noticeable in New Pythos, where Griff regularly notes how Norcian cultures has been defaced or suppressed. There are frequent allusions to conquest and overlap in Norcian and Calliponlian culture to suggest that Callipolis underwent a similar process and lost more of its native culture. In both nations, the dragonlords barely bother to learn the language of the natives.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_ad806839	type	Sexual Extortion
The Aurelian Cycle / int_ad806839	comment	Sexual Extortion: Griff depended on Julia to supply him with medicine for his sister, which she gave him as payment for him being a dutiful lover.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Aurelian Cycle / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: How Atreus responds when confronted about the violence he knew he was inciting during the revolution.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Aurelian Cycle / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: The dragonlords think it was their innate right to own others, and that theyâ€™re worthy of doing whatever they want to commoners without recourse. The cruelty they casually subject others to, they feel absolutely enraged to face for themselves. The protagonists are left grasping hard at any justification they can find for their moral superiority when the new regime begins engaging in the same practices the old was reviled for.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
The Aurelian Cycle / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: Farmers/serfs who have their food seized are set on fire. The dragonlords would burn their family to death in their house while the current regime instead leaves them with severe but not necessarily fatal burns. One of the Norcian riders was severely injured as punishment for supposed treason, but only after the rest of her family was murdered. The remaining Norcian riders were brought to watch so they would know not to get any funny ideas.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
The Aurelian Cycle / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: The Basillean prince has a glaring facial deformity that causes him to drool nonstop and is prone to seizures, likely due to his family practice of Royal Inbreeding.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_b9e0dbc3	type	Benevolent Dictator
The Aurelian Cycle / int_b9e0dbc3	comment	Benevolent Dictator: Atreus genuinely cares about his ideals and has a good approval rating before the famine.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_bb6c96a7	type	Culture Police
The Aurelian Cycle / int_bb6c96a7	comment	Culture Police: Art that runs counter to the new regime and is edited if small portions are objectionable and banned outright if the objectionable elements are too intrinsic to the work.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_c0935922	type	Dragon Rider
The Aurelian Cycle / int_c0935922	comment	Dragon Rider: The story focuses primarily on a group of young adults being trained as the new dragon-riding arm of their respective nationsâ€™ military.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_c4da82aa	type	Easily Elected
The Aurelian Cycle / int_c4da82aa	comment	Easily Elected: After all Atreus warnings about how unstable democracy is, Ixion shows up at the first democratic assembly and orders everyone to vote him in as their ruler. With the bribe of food and unspoken threat of attack, the vote goes in his favor.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
The Aurelian Cycle / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Lee becomes so focused on the injustice of the Atreus regime and Annie so focused on the threat of invasion by and oppression in New Pythos that theyâ€™re both blind to the other problem, and subsequently blindsided when each problem blows up in their face.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_cd86f11f	type	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child
The Aurelian Cycle / int_cd86f11f	comment	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child: Atreus does this unwittingly after brining about Leonâ€™s death and then taking on Lee as his protÃ©gÃ©.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_d0bab7f5	type	Royal Inbreeding
The Aurelian Cycle / int_d0bab7f5	comment	Royal Inbreeding: The dragonlords mostly married between their families, which didnâ€™t offer much fresh blood. The Basillean Empire is worse, as royal siblings are expected to wed one another.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
The Aurelian Cycle / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Ixionâ€™s final act of villainy is to kick his own dragon.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Aurelian Cycle / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Technically the cause of Annieâ€™s motherâ€™s death, although itâ€™s generally agreed that the famine is why she was weak enough for labor to kill her.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_d39a5164	type	Failure-to-Save Murder
The Aurelian Cycle / int_d39a5164	comment	Failure-to-Save Murder: Twice in Flamefall Corâ€™s reaction to Duckâ€™s death. Compounded by the fact that not only did Annie fail to protect him while they flew together for a strike, but sheâ€™d been asked to watch over him in that capacity after rejecting Corâ€™s request to leave Duck out of the mission. The government, realizing they donâ€™t yet have enough bunkers to protect everyone in an air raid, issues orders to the military to let Irons into bunkers last. Some officers donâ€™t let them in at all.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
The Aurelian Cycle / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: The violence of the revolt is downplayed in most public reporting and celebration, and any records that humanize the old regime or give a full account of their brutal deaths is censored.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_dc3df63a	type	Death Notification
The Aurelian Cycle / int_dc3df63a	comment	Death Notification: Occasionally, such as when Duck is lost in battle. Griff also had to do this for his sister when her husband dies, and anticipates having to tell her that her children burned alive. Heâ€™s spared from that conversation when it turns out Delo saved the peasant hostages.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_de62097f	type	Beyond Redemption
The Aurelian Cycle / int_de62097f	comment	Beyond Redemption: Atreusâ€™s regime becomes this to the main characters when the Irons are barred from entering the bunkers during a dragon attack.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_debf5019	type	Immune to Fire
The Aurelian Cycle / int_debf5019	comment	Immune to Fire: Dragons are immune to fire and heat, although their more flammable riders necessitate they still dodge fire attacks.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_df4edb04	type	Corrupt Bureaucrat
The Aurelian Cycle / int_df4edb04	comment	Corrupt Bureaucrat: Aside from how the government favors themselves when prioritizing who gets to eat during a famine, many of the important officials already had some degree of power in the old regime they helped overthrow. They often hold the same prejudices and ideas as the old regime while happening to have more power under the new system.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_e1ad8128	type	Lingering Social Tensions
The Aurelian Cycle / int_e1ad8128	comment	Lingering Social Tensions: The prejudice between the bourgeoisie and working class is still present, with many of the nationâ€™s established elite families looking down on those of poor origins despite ostensibly backing the metals test that purports to value people for merit over oldfangled blood supremacy ideas.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_e27693	type	The Coup
The Aurelian Cycle / int_e27693	comment	The Coup: Before Atreus sparked a revolution and took over running the nation, he was a close assistant and friend to one of the former dragonlords.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_e55d8627	type	Present Absence
The Aurelian Cycle / int_e55d8627	comment	Present Absence: Julia, in the second book. Her loss hangs heavy over both Lee and Griff.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Aurelian Cycle / int_e7bfdba	comment	Divide and Conquer: The New Pythos dragonlords deliberately incite disharmony between the native clans so that infighting between them can distract from rebellion efforts.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_e866f3b8	type	Puppet State
The Aurelian Cycle / int_e866f3b8	comment	Puppet State: Freyda intends to make Callipolis a vassal state of the Basillean Empire
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_e8a03fe8	type	Moral Pragmatist
The Aurelian Cycle / int_e8a03fe8	comment	Moral Pragmatist: Atreus tells the Fourth Order riders that they will often have to choose between the lesser of two evils. They shortly after are placed in a series of situations where they have to compromise their morals for the sake of what they hope will lead to fewer long-term deaths. It becomes especially pragmatic when the debate over which people to let starve during a famine is had.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Aurelian Cycle / int_eb04f8d5	comment	Fascist, but Inefficient: Atreusâ€™s regime allows for some class mobility, but sacrifices national self-sufficiency in favor of short term economic growth. When this is exploited by New Pythos to cause a famine, their ration policy and oversight of who works where causes them to starve the very people building the bunkers people shelter in during attacks, leading to mass casualties when the capitol is hit with an air strike.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_ebe34da1	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified
The Aurelian Cycle / int_ebe34da1	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: In-universe. Most of the public is taught a sanitized version of the revolution that obscured how violent it was and glorifies each of the revolutionâ€™s achievements. The day in which the old aristocracy was brutally murdered, Palace Day, is a national holiday in which the extent of the violence is covered up and everyone focuses on their escape from the tyranny of the families that were killed.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
The Aurelian Cycle / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: Everyone takes an Metals Test to determine what field of work theyâ€™re best suited for. Their rank is marked by a bracelet theyâ€™re given (gold, silver, bronze, or iron) which determines their job potential. Gold and silver are treated as more sophisticated intellects and get better pay for their work. Bronze and iron are considered too stupid to be trusted to think for themselves and are subjected to heavier propaganda and lower pay. Iron is also viewed as easily replaceable for how â€˜unskilledâ€™ the work theyâ€™re allowed to do is.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
The Aurelian Cycle / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: As a survivor of the Palace Day massacre, Lee has a very different take on most of the major victories of the revolution despite coming to agree with the new regimeâ€™s ideals.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
The Aurelian Cycle / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Duck is seen falling into a burning building and, much later, Griff is only able to find his armor and determines he burned away. Griffâ€™s father who disappeared at sea when he was a child comes back in the final chapter.
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The Aurelian Cycle / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Aurelian Cycle / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In a jarring moment of compassion, Leon Stormscourge comforted Annie over the loss of her family, who he just executed while forcing her to watch. Later flashbacks also note that he was polite in conversation to her family shortly before killing them, and even apologized for what was happening when he showed up to execute them.
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