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The Cycle of Fire

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The Cycle of Fire	comment	The Cycle of Fire is an 1980's fantasy trilogy, with a Science Fiction backstory, written by Janny Wurts.The world of Keithland looks like standard issue high fantasy, with a feudal society locked in medieval stasis under constant attack from a demon lord lairing in the far north; but it becomes apparent that the demons are actually psychic aliens, and the world a lost colony. Humanity, the only race with no significant psychic ability, was on the losing side of a genocidal war, so a ship was sent out to search for a countermeasure. That mission failed when the prisoners on board escaped, forcing it to land on an uninhabited world - the world of the story.The surviving crew deliberately reverted to a medieval society, concealing all evidence of their true origins, so that the aliens who now posed as demons would not suspect that the ship had survived intact. A secret inner circle in the priesthood retained memory of the truth, but could only passively wait for the demons to go away. Fortunately, the ship's computer had also survived. Posing as Tamlin of the Vaere, one of The Fair Folk, it stayed true to its assigned mission. Unfortunately, all the civilised societies of Keithland view Tamlin and its agents with deep suspicion, not without reason.At the start of the trilogy, Tamlin's scheme is the creation of sorcerors through a psychic bond with the power-amplifying living crystals called Sathid, but this is no partnership. The would-be sorcerer and their crystal fight a mental duel for dominance. Victory reduces the Sathid to nothing more than a battery; defeat means death. Worse, to gain elemental mastery, the sorcerer must experience illusory death by that element at the climax of the mental duel. Repeating this process a second time is much harder, but results in much greater power. So far, no one has survived a third repetition, nor have they been able to master fire without sacrificing all empathy. The last Firelord was nearly as destructive as the demons.The three books are: Stormwarden: The orphan Jaric discovers he is the son of the hated Firelord when he is called to fight the demons in his father's place, while a brother and sister from a remote village stumble into the middle of a conflict between the Stormwarden and Tathagres, agent of the demons. Keeper of the Keys: Jaric searches for a safer alternative to sorcery while being hunted by demons. Shadowfane: Jaric becomes a Firelord, like his father, but the demons' mistreatment of their minions has unleashed a greater evil.Not to be confused with Hal Clement's SF novel, Cycle of Fire.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_125a7a4e	comment	Dream Weaver: Taen Dreamweaver, naturally, and her brother, Maelgrim Darkdreamer.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
The Cycle of Fire / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: It doesn't involve a Doomed Hometown, but when Anskiere invokes the geas, Ivain has already died so The Call gets rerouted to his son Jaric. And because of the way the geas works, it's more like "The Call Will Cause You Massive Physical Pain Until You Answer."
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The Cycle of Fire / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Cycle of Fire / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Anskiere is actually the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Elrinfaer, which was destroyed by the Mharglings.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
The Cycle of Fire / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Karas demons can imitate anyone, and steal their memories too, but they have to eat their victim to complete the transformation.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
The Cycle of Fire / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The usual cost of mastering fire. Actually a risk in any form of Sathid-induced sorcery, which grows greater with the number of matrices you take in. Fire mastery is well known for this because nobody has ever survived mastering fire without first mastering earth, which means every known fire master has undergone two Sathid trials in rapid succession, and broken under the strain, at least until Taen's dreamweavery allows Jaeric to endure the second trial with his mind intact.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_33cb0b66	type	Fighting Down Memory Lane
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The Cycle of Fire / int_38047858	type	Squishy Wizard
The Cycle of Fire / int_38047858	comment	Squishy Wizard: The wizards of Mhored Kara are all described as being emaciated, having spent most of their lives in study and forsaking most physical work.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_42846e90	type	Elemental Powers
The Cycle of Fire / int_42846e90	comment	Elemental Powers: And high-end, too. The Stormwarden creates winds strong enough to melt rock by frictional heating alone, while Jaric goes nuclear.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
The Cycle of Fire / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: The Stormwarden freezes himself in ice to trap some demons.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
The Cycle of Fire / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: The demon races. Partially subverted by the Llondelei, believed to be as evil as the other aliens, but actually all good.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_4c095112	type	Call to Adventure
The Cycle of Fire / int_4c095112	comment	Call to Adventure: In the form of a spell (specifically called a "geas") placed upon Ivain Firelord by the Stormwarden Anskiere, that would force him to come to Anskiere's aid when it is invoked; the spell would also pass on to Ivain's children in the event of his death.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Cycle of Fire / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Ivain Firelord once burned an inn down because the roof in his room leaked. The betrayal of Anskiere that caused him to place a geas on Ivain was caused because Ivain saw no reason to aid a people who had snubbed him during a solstice festival - even though the cost of withholding his aid was the annihilation of the entire country at the hands of the demons he refused to help contain.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Cycle of Fire / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Successively Tathagres and Maelgrim Darkdreamer.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_5c53c410	type	Scry vs. Scry
The Cycle of Fire / int_5c53c410	comment	Scry vs. Scry: Jaric and the Morrigierj both use prescience during their duel, but the Morrigierj prevents him from seeing the positive outcomes.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Cycle of Fire / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: The Kielmark, leader of the pirates of Cliffhaven, a tough and strong-willed but otherwise normal human with no psychic abilities. He accompanies Jaric on a mission to sneak into Shadowfane to steal Sathid crystals, and when they're ambushed, the Thienz demons discover that the man is literally too angry for them to initiate Mind Control on, and he cuts a number of them down before he's finally overwhelmed.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
The Cycle of Fire / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: Part of the Sathid bonding process that Vaere-trained sorcerers must undertake. The Sathid matrix will attempt to take over the mind of the sorcerer and the sorcerer has to essentially beat the Sathid into submission with their willpower.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Cycle of Fire / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Gives Jaric the strength to survive his tortures.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_6c4ed101	type	Breath Weapon
The Cycle of Fire / int_6c4ed101	comment	Breath Weapon: The Mharg demons have breath so poisonous that the affected areas remain barren wastelands for decades afterwards.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Cycle of Fire / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Happens to Anskiere in Shadowfane. When Jaric inadvertently bonds with two dozen Sathid crystals, Anskiere fears that they could take over Jaric's mind and spell disaster for Keithland, and he resorts to destroying Jaric's two originally bonded crystals to try and avert this, which would kill Jaric. The newly bonded Sathid retaliate and the backlash seemingly kills Anskiere, however near the very end of the story it's revealed that the Mhored Kara wizards that had gathered at Cliffhaven managed to contain the backlash at the cost of several of their number, just barely saving Anskiere's life and also preventing the magical explosion from harming anyone else nearby.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Cycle of Fire / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: Implied at the end. Jaric wants to hang up his powers for good, but Tamlin tells him that if they are to liberate the colonies of humankind enslaved by demons, his skills will be needed to train other humans who have the potential for sorcery.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_7434bef6	type	SinsOfTheFather
The Cycle of Fire / int_7434bef6	comment	Sins of the Father: Jaric is drawn into the story when Anskiere calls in a debt incurred by a betrayal by the father Jaric never met, or for that matter even knew he was related to.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
The Cycle of Fire / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Most humans believe the Vaere to be this.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Cycle of Fire / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Empathy and prescience.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The Cycle of Fire / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Jaric spends much of the first book resisting the call, and of the second looking for another way of answering it than his father's.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Cycle of Fire / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Inflicted by the demons on their human pawns.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Cycle of Fire / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: First Demonlord Scait, then the Morrigierj.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Cycle of Fire / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Keys of Elrinfaer. Never used, their sole purpose is as an object to be kept away from the demons at all costs, for if they get them, the wards keeping the demons that destroyed Elrinfaer sealed in the ruins of Elrinfaer will be dispelled, allowing them to go out and destroy other lands.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_aa4fa3d5	type	Ancient Astronauts
The Cycle of Fire / int_aa4fa3d5	comment	Ancient Astronauts: The demons. Humanity too, even if most of them don't know it.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
The Cycle of Fire / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: Magic and aliens, and a nearly-sapient computer impersonating a faerie creature.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
The Cycle of Fire / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used To Be A Nice Guy: Ivain, before the Cycle of Fire set him on the path to madness. Emien's misplaced anger at Anskiere for the destruction of Tierl Enneth and the disappearance of his sister leads to a desire for power no matter the cost.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_c81e2bba	type	Necromancer
The Cycle of Fire / int_c81e2bba	comment	Necromancer: Maelgrim Darkdreamer kills everyone in a northern country with nightmares in a single day, then animates all their corpses.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
The Cycle of Fire / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: To master fire, Jaric must experience being burned alive, endlessly.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
The Cycle of Fire / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: The sorcerers use a combination of Elemental Powers, Psychic Powers, and force magic. Wizards use rule magic, nowhere near as strong as the Sathid-linked sorcerers but still formidable.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_e04ffce3	type	Lost Colony
The Cycle of Fire / int_e04ffce3	comment	Lost Colony: The setting, unknown to any of the characters until the very last pages.
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The Cycle of Fire / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
The Cycle of Fire / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: During Taen's training by the Vaere, she was put into a life-support capsule inside the hidden facility beneath their island. She aged several years while in the capsule, but her leg (crippled in a childhood accident) was healed by the Vaere's technology. (It's a little ambiguous since the aging is due to time dilation and she was aware of time passing in a virtual reality while in the capsule, so she is in some ways exactly as old as she appears.)
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The Cycle of Fire / int_f88bba7c	type	Detect Evil
The Cycle of Fire / int_f88bba7c	comment	Detect Evil: There is a field projected around the Free Isles by ancient technology from the humans' wrecked starship that detects any demons that cross its border.
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