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A Science Fiction pentalogy by Jack Vance, comprising these volumes: Star King (1964) The Killing Machine (1964) The Palace of Love (1967) The Face (1979) The Book of Dreams (1981)Re-released in a two volume omnibus edition in 1997, simply titled The Demon Princes: Volume 1 and The Demon Princes: Volume 2.Set in the Oikumene, a loose federation of planets, they chronicle the adventures of one Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five supercriminals — the "Demon Princes" — for their raid on his hometown, causing the death or enslavement of every inhabitant except himself and his grandfather. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: One of the introductory Fictional Document excerpts at the beginning of Chapter 6 of Star King is by "Jan Holberk Vaenz LXII." | |
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Masochist's Meal | |
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Masochist's Meal: Darsh food is intentionally vile: the people of Dar Sai seem to pride themselves on their ability to stomach it. The once-mentioned Sandusker cult also has the same attitude to their food. And part of The Book Of Dreams revolves around a banquet for the highest-ranking members of The Institute at which charnay is served - a foodstuff which, apart from being fruit, is more or less a direct stand-in for fugu. And in its defence, charnay is indeed delectable - it's just that it is lethally poisonous if prepared incorrectly. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic: Jehan Addels. High-ranked members of the Institute are expected to be this. | |
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Fictional Document | |
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Fictional Document: Lots of these are used through all five books to round out the setting. Notable documents include the multi-volume Life by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey, (excommunicated from the human race); The Avatar's Apprentice, a Scroll of the Ninth Dimension, a narrative romance populated by tricksters and used as an Epigraph whenever shenanigans are about to go down; and The Demon Princes by Caril Carphen, used as an Encyclopedia Exposita. | |
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Alternative Calendar | |
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Alternative Calendar: The calendar was recalibrated starting from A.D. 2000. Retconned in the post-Apollo books to A.D. 1969, First Man on the Moon. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Navarth is a partial example. Although a neglectful and... erratic... parent to Drusilla / Jheral IV, he is still willing to go to great lengths and privations to get her back. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Thamber. Much of the Beyond. One of the first things that happens to new arrivals on many worlds Beyond is that they are interrogated by the Deweaseling Corps, a criminal organisation whose sole purpose for existing is the detection and extermination of law enforcement officers. On one landing, Gersen reflects that their absence is an indication that the planet is not under the control of slavers and other heinous criminals. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gersen gives one of these to a barbarian chieftain in The Killing Machine. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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He Cleans Up Nicely: Gersen, whenever he has to disguise himself. | |
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Nightmare Fetishist | |
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Nightmare Fetishist: Kokor Hekkus. | |
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Faster-Than-Light Travel | |
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Faster-Than-Light Travel: Called the Jarnell intersplit, after its inventor. It's a kind of Warp Drive. | |
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Black Knight | |
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Eia Panice the White | |
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Mad Artist | |
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Mad Artist: Navarth the poet (The Palace of Love). Depending on your tastes, his poems as seen in the book may be a fine example of Stylistic Suck. | |
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Split Personality | |
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Split Personality: Howard Alan Treesong Eerily so. They are: Loris Hohenger the Red Rhune Fader the Blue Eia Panice the White Spangleway the Jape (color: yellow) Mewness of the Green Jeha Rais the Black Immir (no colour), who seems to be an idealized Expy of Treesong himself. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Alone of all the Demon Princes, Howard Alan Treesong achieves this. He has been trapped and irreversibly paralysed (literally petrified, even) from the waist down, and he puts aside all bombast and fantasising in his last minutes to ask mildly what more Gersen intends to do to him, and then politely requests to be left alone since he must certainly die soon. By contrast, Malagate dies ignominiously in a mud-hole, Kokor Hekkus only gasps in horror before being shot, Viole Falushe practically begs for mercy; only Lens Larque dies fighting and spends several minutes succumbing to a rapidly fatal strain of cluthe. (Treesong then somehow manages to overturn his immovable chair, despite his useless legs, and kill himself, seemingly with the assistance of his imaginary "paladins".) | |
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Immortality Immorality | |
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Immortality Immorality: A "hormagaunt" (not that kind) is a being who has achieved immortality from a substance extracted from children. Like Kokor Hekkus. | |
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Doomed Hometown | |
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Doomed Hometown: The Mount Pleasant colony. | |
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Spoiler Title | |
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Spoiler Title: Part of the plot of Star King revolves around the fact that the villain is a member of a non-human alien race — a fact that Gersen does not know for half the story, but which the reader's attention is inescapably drawn to. | |
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Even Mooks Have Loved Ones | |
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Even Mooks Have Loved Ones: In The Star King, Gersen interrogates and kills a man who participated in the Mount Pleasant raid. Said man now has a wife and young son, whom Gersen meets. (He leaves them the dead guy's money and tells the son a cover story that will explain why Dad may never be coming home again.) | |
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works | |
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works: used straight and subverted in one case, where Gersen's opponent was wearing a mail vest and he had to scramble to get his knife back. The second time, he aims for the bare throat. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: While Sivij Suthiro is happy to call himself evil ("I am a man; I am a Sarkoy"), he is pleasant enough to Pallis Atwrode when he meets her while not "on duty", warns Gersen that Tristano (whom Gersen savagely beat a chapter or two previously) is going to be coming after him for revenge, and points out that he kills "only when I must, or when it profits me" — and when he points out that Hildemar Dasce "surpasses me as grandly as I surpass you", he isn't kidding. He even passes off a mild jibe from Gersen as not worth rising to, and bears no grudge at having been tricked by Gersen earlier in the story. Part of this comes from Gersen having studied poisons on Suthiro's home world and having an appreciation of his culture; it ironically gives the two men common ground. | |
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Last Girl Wins | |
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Last Girl Wins: Alice Wroke | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Attel Malagate has Beauty Dasce as his Dragon. Lens Larque has Bel Ruk. Howard Alan Treesong has two Co-Dragons. | |
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Deface of the Moon | |
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Deface of the Moon: Lens Larque's final plan in The Face. | |
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Really 700 Years Old | |
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Really 700 Years Old: Kokor Hekkus has been operating for two hundred and eighty-seven years. | |
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Wife Husbandry | |
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Wife Husbandry: Viole Falushe's motivation in The Palace of Love, horribly mixed with Truly Single Parent. Subverted, though: after all the effort he's put into raising clones of the girl he wanted to love him, it all falls flat: one is terrified of him, another falls for his nemesis on sight, and a third laughs in his face and regards him as something of a bad joke. Worst of all, Gersen uses them to reveal his identity, and that consequently costs him his life. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Each of the Demon Princes has selected a name that appeals to him: Lens Larque is a predatory bird from his native planet; Howard Alan Treesong is named for the hero of an obscure story cycle; Kokor Hekkus' Meaningful Name comes from the screeching sound made by his titular beheading machine. | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Surprisingly averted by all five Princes; despite their lives of horrible atrocities they all remember the Mount Pleasant raid just fine. However, they have no idea who Gersen is, and don't connect the two until reminded. | |
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Always Save the Girl | |
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Always Save the Girl - The Palace of Love. This is Navarth's primary motivation for visiting the titular building. Star King - When Pallis Atwrode is kidnapped, Gersen immediately factors a rescue mission into his revenge plan. The Killing Machine - Overnighting with the Tadusko-Oi, Gersen realizes why Alusz Iphegenia is so despondent: according to their customs, all of the men that so wish are entitled to sleep with the only available woman, meaning her. He promptly challenges their leader to combat, earning himself a severe beating but managing to win and so officially reserve her use to himself but in fact give her sanctuary in his tent. | |
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The Syndicate | |
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A story is recounted of a mugger who tried to jump Howard Alan Treesong, who at that point was licensing every criminal act in that section of the Oikumene. Treesong had the man arrested. | |
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Planet of Hats | |
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Planet of Hats: Sarkovy, a Planet of Poisoners (mentioned in Star King and featured in The Palace of Love) as well as Methlen (The Face), a Planet of Snobs. One of the planets of The Book of Dreams is clearly influenced by the Deep South. | |
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Systematic Villain Takedown | |
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Systematic Villain Takedown: The five titular crime lords are described in the beginning chapter in the first novel (with one even making an appearance in disguise) but only one is eliminated by the end of the first novel and each subsequent novel focuses on the hunt and elimination of a single Prince. It is also a recurring theme that the minions of each Prince are eliminated one by one over the course of each novel. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: Young Kirth's first kill happened this way. A story is recounted of a mugger who tried to jump Howard Alan Treesong, who at that point was licensing every criminal act in that section of the Oikumene. Treesong had the man arrested. | |
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Vengeance Feels Empty | |
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Vengeance Feels Empty: The protagonist trains since childhood to avenge his parents' deaths and his Doomed Home Town, but after finally taking revenge on all of the titular princes, he realizes he no longer has any purpose in life and feels a bit numb. | |
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Transplanted Humans | |
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Transplanted Humans: Through colonization of the Oikumene, and to the extent that Human Subspecies exist. Apart from the Star Kings (a race of adaptable aliens to which the first Demon Prince, Attel Malagate, belongs), no other sapient aliens are seen in the entire series, though here are hints of extinct sapient races whose extinction predated human arrival on their planet. | |
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Let Us Never Speak of This Again | |
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Let Us Never Speak of This Again: A charabanc-load of Methlen tourists of both sexes go out into the Darsh desert by moonlight, not realizing that the locals will consider this as willingly taking part in the rough sexual customs of Dar Sai. After having suffered unspeakable outrages (as the genteel Methlen consider it), they decide it is the better part of wisdom to return home and preserve each other's good names as best they can. | |
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Duel of Seduction | |
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Duel of Seduction: Alice Wroke has been told by Treesong to seduce Gersen for information. Gersen, however, is way ahead of her and chooses to simply Feed the Mole. | |
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Spangleway the Jape (color: yellow) | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
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Abhorrent Admirer: The Darsh of The Face seem to feel this way about each other, even (or especially) if they're married. One Darsh tradition is a chase for desirable sexual partners on the night of the full moon. Some of the women use younger, cuter (pre-mustache) women as bait. Rape in Darsh society appears to be part of the deal in courtship, and cuts both ways for both genders. Typically Darsh marriage is based on male earning and female homemaking, with no romantic attraction on either side and both partners affecting contempt for the other. Husband and wife will both be far more interested in forcing younger (but sexually mature) members of the opposite sex to accommodate their desires than in actual marital intimacy. | |
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Ancient Conspiracy | |
| The Demon Princes / int_8e5c862 | comment |
Ancient Conspiracy / Ancient Tradition: The Institute, which is officially "just" a society of philosophers. Its (many) detractors consider it to be the former. In some ways, it also resembles an Absurdly Powerful Student Council. | |
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Evil Genius | |
| The Demon Princes / int_90769dd0 | comment |
Jeha Rais the Black | |
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Karmic Death | |
| The Demon Princes / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Malagate is killed by the world he wanted to conquer. | |
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Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism | |
| The Demon Princes / int_94f4832c | comment |
Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: The Human Subspecies known as the Darsh have women who are larger and hairier than the men (who are usually hairless after puberty) to the point of often growing mustaches. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
| The Demon Princes / int_950bbfa7 | comment |
Take a Third Option: Lens Larque, after Gersen has arranged that he can either show up in court (where Gersen plans to kill him) or forfeit his ship. He blows it up and collects on the insurance... the policy for which is underwritten by a company owned by Gersen. | |
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Bodyguard Crush | |
| The Demon Princes / int_96f6335d | comment |
Bodyguard Crush: After a very awkward start, Drusilla Wayles starts to feel this way about Gersen. | |
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Revenge Before Reason | |
| The Demon Princes / int_97d97c28 | comment |
Revenge Before Reason: A recurring theme throughout the series. One of Gersen's girlfriends leaves him when he refuses to end his quest for revenge. | |
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Coup de Grâce | |
| The Demon Princes / int_98770aab | comment |
Coup de Grâce: Howard Alan Treesong—to himself. Also indirectly Suthiro the poisoner, whom Gersen has infected with cluthe but who still needs a finishing shot when Gersen nearly gets too close. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_98770aab | |
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Constellations as Locations | |
| The Demon Princes / int_988defe7 | comment |
Constellations as Locations: In The Palace of Love Alusz Iphigenia says "Ophiuchus isn't a star. It's a sector". There's also a reference to an Aquarius Sector. | |
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Head Desk | |
| The Demon Princes / int_99156d7e | comment |
Head Desk: Gersen, "a man not given to demonstrations" does this when he realizes he has just been maneuvered into paying Lens Larque a very large sum of money. | |
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Better to Die than Be Killed | |
| The Demon Princes / int_99298c71 | comment |
Better to Die than Be Killed: Howard Alan Treesong's other personalities decide this fate for him. | |
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Dead Guy on Display | |
| The Demon Princes / int_9bfb2f41 | comment |
Dead Guy on Display: Marmelizing is a process mentioned in The Book of Dreams that turns a body into its own memorial statue. It almost becomes Demon Prince Howard Alan Treesong's Fate Worse than Death when the parents of one boy he killed beat Kirth Gersen to a revenge Best Served Cold. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
| The Demon Princes / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: In Star King Rundle Detteras makes a passing reference to the odd mask-wearing behavior of the population of the planet Sirene, which is the setting for Vance's "The Moon Moth." | |
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Reunion Revenge | |
| The Demon Princes / int_9dca8373 | comment |
Reunion Revenge: Howard Alan Treesong does this in The Book of Dreams, with his former classmates. Each and every one of them is an Asshole Victim to some degree and the revenge takes the form of cruel and painful pranks that are contextual to the original slight, rather than mindless torture or execution, to the point where it's not all that difficult to identify with Treesong. | |
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Amazing Technicolor Population | |
| The Demon Princes / int_9e83f027 | comment |
Amazing Technicolor Population: Skin, hair, and eye color can be altered at will. Notably, in the first book Gersen dates a Green-Skinned Space Babe. | |
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Celibate Hero | |
| The Demon Princes / int_a5d92fce | comment |
Celibate Hero: Kirth Gersen, at first. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
| The Demon Princes / int_a796d2a6 | comment |
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Unusually applies to the protagonist, who over the course of the adventure misses opportunities to kill his targets at a distance through inexpert marksmanship (Attel Malagate once, Howard Treesong twice). | |
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Warrior Poet | |
| The Demon Princes / int_a9eb984b | comment |
Rhune Fader the Blue | |
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Master Poisoner | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ac69035c | comment |
Master Poisoner: The planet Sarkovy's Hat is brewing and finding creative ways to administer poisons. The higher ranks of their grand masters can be Poisonous Persons, although in a touch of realism, these people tend to die rapidly themselves. Hero Kirth Gersen spent several instructive years there, to the point of being able to outwit and infect a rival Master Poisoner. | |
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All-Powerful Bystander | |
| The Demon Princes / int_adb98918 | comment |
All-Powerful Bystander: Gersen muses that the Institute could destroy the Demon Princes if it wanted to. The Triune informs him later that it could easily control all of humanity if it wished, and that the Dexad (its highest council) will often sabotage the lower ranks' efforts at critical moments in order to prevent this from happening. This is the reason why Treesong wanted to become Triune so badly; he had the ambition to become the first Emperor of Human Space, and he came perilously close to doing so. | |
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Whip of Dominance | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b09bf442 | comment |
Whip of Dominance: Darsh males are famed for their prowess with the whip and their culture has several sadomasochist and domineering tendencies. A traditional art form on their planet, Dar Sai, is a dance where nude young men are whipped into performing acrobatic maneuvers by an older male. Very young men - the Darsh culture is essentially one of institutionalized paederasty, bordering on (if not crossing over into) pedophilia. The Fourth demon prince, Lens Larque is supposedly an "artist" with his whip but we never get to see him use it. | |
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Ray Gun | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b1f18adb | comment |
Ray Gun: Projacs are this. | |
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Retcon | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retconned in the post-Apollo books to A.D. 1969, First Man on the Moon. | |
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So What Do We Do Now? | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b2ad812d | comment |
So What Do We Do Now?: The final lines of The Book of Dreams: | |
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The Demon Princes / int_b2ad812d | |
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Space Sector | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b3da5507 | comment |
Space Sector: The Ophiuchus Sector and the Aquarius Sector in The Palace of Love are both collections of star systems. | |
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Got Over Rape Instantly | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b41b74ef | comment |
Got Over Rape Instantly: In "The Face", Kirth Gersen rescues Jerdian Chanseth, the girl he has a crush on, from Attempted Rape. They end up spending the night together. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_b41b74ef | |
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Gilded Cage | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b51128fa | comment |
Gilded Cage: Interchange in The Killing Machine, a planet whose sole purpose is to house kidnap victims awaiting their ransom. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_b51128fa | |
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Evil Overlooker | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b5f7b739 | comment |
Evil Overlooker: Justified in The Face: it's actually foreshadowing. | |
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Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b6b58f | comment |
Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Kirth has been trained by his grandfather since childhood in fighting, assassination, poisons, weapons, disguise... but his socializing abilities are primarily focused on infiltration rather than regular human interaction. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_b6b58f | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b7c53a22 | type |
Blood Knight | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b7c53a22 | comment |
Loris Hohenger the Red | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
| The Demon Princes / int_b9d334b2 | comment |
Aerith and Bob: Names in all five books range from slightly odd-sounding (Kirth Gersen) to fanciful (Kakarsis Asm) to... Myron Patch and Howard Alan Treesong. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
| The Demon Princes / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: Averted. Marksmanship is Gersen's weakest point compared to his ninja-like hand-to-hand skills; in The Book of Dreams he has two opportunities to shoot at Howard Alan Treesong and fails to deal a killing blow both times. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
| The Demon Princes / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: Such as Silas Sparkhammer, Caril Carphen, and others. | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
| The Demon Princes / int_be0ad6b7 | comment |
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Howard Alan Treesong is remembered fondly by his kindergarten teacher. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_be0ad6b7 | |
| The Demon Princes / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| The Demon Princes / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: One of the introductory chapter texts in The Killing Machine cites an opinion by "The dean of modern cosmologists, A. N. der Poulson." Similarly, one of the footnotes in Star King makes reference to an article by Frerb Hankbert. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_c75df49a | |
| The Demon Princes / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
| The Demon Princes / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Almost all of the Demon Princes have poor or at least pathetic backgrounds, but that's far from justifying their crimes. Well, you can't really blame Lens Larque for having been warped by upbringing in one of the most repulsive cultures ever imagined — although, to be fair, most Darsh stay honest. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_c868a42a | |
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Informed Ability | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ca3a6dbd | comment |
Informed Ability: Lens Larque is supposedly quite an artist with his whip, Panak. Though given what this artistry could ensue, maybe we're better off not seeing it. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_ca3a6dbd | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
| The Demon Princes / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: A subtle example with Howard Alan Treesong and his Split Personalities: one of his captors says that it should have been impossible for him to commit suicide the way he did without help. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_cb70651c | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ccab244d | comment |
Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Although we don't see it demonstrated, the Thribolt Gun is this - a projectile powered by the intersplit device that drives spacecraft, it is described as offering instantaneous capability over vast distances... provided that you can aim it adequately. It also offers the opportunity for a non-lethal warning shot, depending on the payload. Gersen has to be mindful of these when visiting some planets, as recklessly transgressing customs protocols can get you killed. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_ccab244d | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ccbd82d3 | type |
Gotta Kill Them All | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ccbd82d3 | comment |
Gotta Kill Them All: Except for Howard Alan Treesong, whom Gersen is satisfied has been broken as a man. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_ccbd82d3 | |
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Foreign Queasine | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ce1d78bc | comment |
Foreign Queasine: Half the food in the Oikumene. | |
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| The Demon Princes / int_d05cf3f | type |
Footnote Fever | |
| The Demon Princes / int_d05cf3f | comment |
Footnote Fever: The footnotes are seldom important to the core plot, instead adding color and forcing the reader to imagine what various strange words would sound like. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_d05cf3f | |
| The Demon Princes / int_d3d94018 | type |
Girls with Moustaches | |
| The Demon Princes / int_d3d94018 | comment |
Girls with Moustaches: Darsh women, especially as they get older. | |
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The Demon Princes / int_d3d94018 | |
| The Demon Princes / int_d4e9de59 | type |
Dreadful Musician | |
| The Demon Princes / int_d4e9de59 | comment |
Dreadful Musician: Gersen once goes undercover as a band member. Eventually, the target gets fed up and orders him thrown in the river. Hilarity Ensues. And you can also put an S on the front of "laughter". | |
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The Demon Princes / int_d4e9de59 | |
| The Demon Princes / int_d62dd556 | type |
The Chessmaster | |
| The Demon Princes / int_d62dd556 | comment |
Mewness of the Green | |
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The Demon Princes / int_d62dd556 | |
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Rescue Sex | |
| The Demon Princes / int_d71f18e | comment |
Rescue Sex: Jerdian Chanseth. | |
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Fictional Sport | |
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Fictional Sport: Hadaul, in The Face | |
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Aloof Dark-Haired Girl | |
| The Demon Princes / int_dbc41ba9 | comment |
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Jerdian Chanseth. | |
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Green-Skinned Space Babe | |
| The Demon Princes / int_de085a36 | comment |
Green-Skinned Space Babe: Pallis Atwrode in Star King. It's actually an artificial dye. | |
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Lost Colony | |
| The Demon Princes / int_e04ffce3 | comment |
Specifically, it's being kept in medieval stasis by Kokor Hekkus for his personal playground. Its artificial separation from the entirety of the human race also makes it a Lost Colony. | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique | |
| The Demon Princes / int_e154ff08 | comment |
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Gersen, on several occasions. Mitigated by the fact that many of the people he does it to were trying to kill him at the time. | |
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Sugar-and-Ice Personality | |
| The Demon Princes / int_e24a1629 | comment |
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Alusz Iphigenia. | |
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| The Demon Princes / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| The Demon Princes / int_e5421161 | comment |
Immir (no colour), who seems to be an idealized Expy of Treesong himself. | |
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We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future | |
| The Demon Princes / int_e77e2787 | comment |
We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: Part of the reason the slave trade thrives. | |
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Old Master | |
| The Demon Princes / int_e7b1cb24 | comment |
Old Master: Kirth Gersen's grandfather, who trains him and is hinted to have had criminal ties in the past. | |
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Named Weapons | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ef2582c3 | comment |
Named Weapons: Lens Larque's whip, Panak. | |
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| The Demon Princes / int_f1d2c779 | type |
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin | |
| The Demon Princes / int_f1d2c779 | comment |
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Both Jerdian Chanseth and Jheral Tinzy qualify as this: the former induces Love at First Sight in Kirth Gersen; the latter was locally known as The Vamp, and had Viole Falushe obsessed with her to the point of repeatedly cloning her after she died. | |
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| The Demon Princes / int_f23ad6de | type |
Food Porn | |
| The Demon Princes / int_f23ad6de | comment |
Food Porn: The other half. | |
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Devil in Plain Sight | |
| The Demon Princes / int_f273b1cb | comment |
Devil in Plain Sight: The Princes are very good at concealing themselves despite their notorious reputations (and in Malagate's case, his literal inhumanity - but this latter ability is lampshaded by Gersen in-universe and also in the footnotes). | |
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Insult Backfire | |
| The Demon Princes / int_f6f2ff1 | comment |
Insult Backfire: | |
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| The Demon Princes / int_f788b2c5 | type |
Love Makes You Evil | |
| The Demon Princes / int_f788b2c5 | comment |
Love Makes You Evil: Demon Princes Howard Alan Treesong (The Book of Dreams) and Viole Falushe (The Palace of Love). Especially Viole Falushe. It's hard to tell who is worse. Howard's brother describes him liking "young, little girls", Gersen deduces that he murdered at least one of them and it's reasonable to imply that Alice Wroke would have been next, but Falushe's lifelong obsession with one girl is an extreme monomania and there are rumours about him which suggest that he too engages in sex followed immediately by murder for his entertainment. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
| The Demon Princes / int_fb6b207f | comment |
You Killed My Father: Part of Gersen's motivation as well as Alice Wroke's. Inverted for Otho and Tuty Cleadhoe, whose motivation is vengeance for the murder of their only son. | |
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Talking to Themself | |
| The Demon Princes / int_fb8b5014 | comment |
Talking to Themself: Howard Alan Treesong's multiple personalities after he is wounded early in the hunt, and also just before his death. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
| The Demon Princes / int_fe64d5a1 | comment |
Evil Is Petty: All five Demon Princes are seen exacting Disproportionate Retribution for relatively minor slights. | |
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Feudal Future | |
| The Demon Princes / int_fea715c1 | comment |
Feudal Future: The planet Thamber in The Killing Machine. Specifically, it's being kept in medieval stasis by Kokor Hekkus for his personal playground. Its artificial separation from the entirety of the human race also makes it a Lost Colony. | |
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Heroes Want Redheads | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ff16efbf | comment |
Heroes Want Redheads: Alice Wroke from The Book of Dreams. | |
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Bawdy Song | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ff24ad1d | comment |
Bawdy Song: In The Face, about the unfortunate adventures of a Darsh man who runs afoul of a "vile old khoontz." | |
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| The Demon Princes / int_ff8afd14 | type |
Spider Tank | |
| The Demon Princes / int_ff8afd14 | comment |
Spider Tank: Built to resemble a dnazd, a monster native to Thamber (The Killing Machine). | |
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