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The Ember Blade

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The Ember Blade	comment	A fantasy novel by Chris Wooding, author of the The Braided Path series, the Broken Sky series and The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray. It is the first of a planned trilogy called The Darkwater Legacy.Aren has lived by the rules all his life. He has never questioned it; that is just the way things are. But then his father is executed for treason, and he and his best friend Cade are thrown into a prison mine, doomed to work until they drop. Unless they can somehow break free . . .But what lies beyond the prison walls is more terrifying still. Rescued by a man who hates him yet is oath-bound to protect him, pursued by inhuman forces, Aren slowly accepts that everything he knew about his world was a lie. The rules are not there to protect him, or his people, but to enslave them. A revolution is brewing, and Aren is being drawn into it, whether he likes it or not.The key to the revolution is the Ember Blade. The sword of kings, the Excalibur of his people. Only with the Ember Blade in hand can their people be inspired to rise up . . . but it's locked in an impenetrable vault in the most heavily guarded fortress in the land.All they have to do now is steal it . . .
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The Ember Blade / int_1b65eaf3	type	The Caper
The Ember Blade / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: The entire third act of the novel features the implementation of the plan to steal the Ember Blade from the fortress of Hammerholt on the eve of a Royal Wedding.
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The Ember Blade / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Ember Blade / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Garric is fighting for the freedom of his people against an evil expansionist empire. However he is very callous about how he goes about it and is willing to carry out a terrorist act that will trigger an all-out war against his own people in order to force them to fight the Krodans.
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The Ember Blade / int_22569655	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The Ember Blade / int_22569655	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: In-Universe this is considered the Ossian hat, as they are constantly arguing with each other and are perceived as incapable of working together towards a common goal.
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The Ember Blade / int_226875bb	type	Caper Crew
The Ember Blade / int_226875bb	comment	Caper Crew: The team brought together by fate to attempt to steal the Ember Blade: Aren and Mara together are The Mastermind. Grub is both The Burglar and The Pickpocket. Orica is The Distraction. Harod is The Muscle.
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The Ember Blade / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Ember Blade / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The aptly named dreadknights are the Krodan Empire's most feared weapon, to the point that some people believe that their existence is a ruse to keep people in line. But they're all too real.
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The Ember Blade / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
The Ember Blade / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse: Aren and Cade both begin to develop feelings for Fen. This triangle is resolved when Cade dies during the escape from Hammerholt.
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The Ember Blade / int_2cd6b637	type	Fantastic Nuke
The Ember Blade / int_2cd6b637	comment	Fantastic Nuke: Elarite oil is a highly unstable substance produced as a byproduct of elarite mining operations that can be detonated by any spark and emits fumes capable of igniting the air itself. Eight wine barrels worth of the substancenote A dozen wine barrels each 2/3 full can produce an explosion powerful enough to demolish an entire fortress and burn down what is left in a blaze that can be seen hundreds of miles away.
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The Ember Blade / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Ember Blade / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Overwatchman Klyssen has no scruples about using torture or employing Humanoid Abominations to hunt his prey, but he scrupulously keeps his promises and firmly believes that he is fighting on the side of law and order. He also consider Harte's bloodthirstiness appalling.
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The Ember Blade / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Ember Blade / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Garric will keep his oaths, no matter how impractical or dangerous to himself they might be. Case in point, since he once swore to protect Aren's father's family, he goes to rescue him from the prison camp, even though he later came to hate Aren's father fiercely. Overwatchman Klyssen was counting on this and was the only reason Aren was arrested in the first place.
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The Ember Blade / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
The Ember Blade / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Both Aren and Keel betray Garric to Klyssen. Aren wants to return home with Cade while Keel has a sick son who can only be healed with an expensive Krodan medicine. The difference is Garric expected Aren's betrayal but not Keel's. As such, Aren's betrayal allows Garric to evade capture a while longer, as Garric gave Aren false information, while Keel's betrayal is what results in Garric's capture.
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The Ember Blade / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Ember Blade / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Krodan Empire is a fantasy Expy of Nazi Germany, with an stereotypical Aryan phenotype, an obsession with rules and regulations, a brutal secret police, and is rounding up an ethnic minority into concentration camps and carrying out a genocide against them. The Sards are a combination of Gypsies (traditionally nomadic life, work as entertainers, are despised as thieves) and Jews (ethnic minority living in ghettos on major cities). Ossia seems to be based partly on various Celtic cultures with a tradition or irreverent oral stories and druids who travel from place to place serving their gods.
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The Ember Blade / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Ember Blade / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Fen is terrified of heights due to her father throwing her off a cliff when she was younger to see if she could survive by herself.
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The Ember Blade / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Ember Blade / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: The work camp at Suller's Bluff is little better than a death sentence, since the prisoners are forced to work to exhaustion because the Krodans figure its cheaper to get fresh prisoners than it is to properly feed or rest the ones already there. And that doesn't go into the the fact that the mineral they're mining produces a highly combustible oil byproduct that can trigger massive explosions in the mines with little to no warning.
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The Ember Blade / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Ember Blade / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: As may be expected in the first book of a planned trilogy, the novel leaves several plot threads hanging to be resolved in sequels. To wit: The reason why the Divide between the world of the living and the Shadowlands is thinning and the Outsiders are threatening to return. The reason why the Krodans are conducting a secret genocide against the Sard people. The favor that Aren is oath-bound to perform for the pirate Rapha.
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The Ember Blade / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Ember Blade / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Overwatchman Klyssen is a ruthless high ranking officer in the Krodan Secret Police who pursues our heroes relentlessly... but he is also a devoted family man who loves his wife and daughters dearly.
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The Ember Blade / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
The Ember Blade / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Once a dreadknight has caught your scent, it will pursue you to the ends of the world without rest or mercy. Only some seriously powerful magic will be enough to prevent them from following you and make them lose the scent.
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The Ember Blade / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
The Ember Blade / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: Partially averted. Even though firearms don't exist in the setting, Xulan military engineers have been known to dabble in explosives as siege weapons and Garric's true plan revolves around using a dozen barrels of elarite oil (a dangerous byproduct of elarite mining) as a make-shift bomb to destroy the fortress of Hammerholt.
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The Ember Blade / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Ember Blade / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: While Keel was never all that stable to begin with and is implied to have had suicidal feelings all his life, his betrayal of Garric is enough to push him over the edge and hang himself.
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The Ember Blade / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The Ember Blade / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: One of the main themes of the novel is an exploration of the choice between collaborating with a foreign power that conquers your country and continuing to resist. If the fight truly cannot be won, is it moral to continue fighting even though it will kill untold thousands of your own people? If your people have lost the will to fight, is it right to force their hand regardless?
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The Ember Blade / int_7c4e1599	type	Loving Parent, Cruel Parent
The Ember Blade / int_7c4e1599	comment	Loving Parent, Cruel Parent: A mild case with Cade's parents. His father frequently browbeats and criticizes Cade due to his poor carpentry skills, and his friendship with Aren, who he considers a traitor to his Ossian heritage. His mother treats him better due to Cade being more at home in the kitchen and telling folk tales than following in his father's footsteps.
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The Ember Blade / int_7f3e75b6	type	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
The Ember Blade / int_7f3e75b6	comment	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Ossia is positively littered with grandiose ruins from the days of the Second Empire, when the Sorcerer Kings of Ossia ruled the continent. Besides that there are other impressive but less beautiful ruins from the days of the First Empire, ruled by the urds.
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The Ember Blade / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Ember Blade / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Cade's impersonations of various Krodan guards manage a chuckle out of the guards themselves.
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The Ember Blade / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
The Ember Blade / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Krodan religion worships a single monotheistic deity called The Primus, which has many cosmetic similarities to Christianity, if of a more martial flavor. Grub worships the Skull God who seems to be a Crystal Dragon Odin; especially given he's seen as a judge of the dead and crows are sacred to him.
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The Ember Blade / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Ember Blade / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The Iron Hand's aptly named dreadknights might look like people, but it is clear from the get go that they're not really human. This is confirmed when the magical wards of Skavengard prevent them from following Garric's party into the valley.
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The Ember Blade / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Ember Blade / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Beast of Skavengard, and unholy mass of tentacles, eyes and mouths that is trapped on the island-palace of Skavengard. It was summoned from another dimension and slaughtered everyone on the palace centuries ago. Just a glimpse of it is enough to pretty much break Keel's mind.
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The Ember Blade / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
The Ember Blade / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Fen is the masculine girl, being the hunter of the group and lethal with a bow. Cade is the feminine boy, being the group's cook, singer and storyteller.
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The Ember Blade / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
The Ember Blade / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: The Krodan religion has very regimented gender roles, with women being considered not intelligent enough for scholarship or administration, let alone fighting.
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The Ember Blade / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
The Ember Blade / int_9e062ca3	comment	Suicide Mission: Garricâ€™s true plan is not to steal the Ember Blade (he thinks it is impossible) but instead to smuggle a dozen barrels full of elarite oil into Hammerholt on the eve of the royal wedding and detonate them, killing himself, the Krodan crown prince, the Krodan high command in Ossia, and most of the wedding guests. He succeeds.
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The Ember Blade / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
The Ember Blade / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: If the fate of the Sorcerer King Azh Mat Jaal is any indication, the Sorcerer Kings and Queens of Old Ossia brought about their own destruction by tinkering with forces from the Shadowlands that they couldn't fully control.
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The Ember Blade / int_a78753d5	type	Lady and Knight
The Ember Blade / int_a78753d5	comment	Lady and Knight: Orica and Harod. She is the Bright Lady (albeit not an aristocat) but Harod has vowed to protect her. He takes her death hard.
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The Ember Blade / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
The Ember Blade / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: The Iron Hand is the organization charged with stamping out all dissidence in the Krodan Empire, both among the conquered peoples and within its own population.
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The Ember Blade / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Ember Blade / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Cade's ability to impersonate the prison guards enables him to persuade those on watch that nothing is wrong.
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The Ember Blade / int_c2ef5a3d	type	Druid
The Ember Blade / int_c2ef5a3d	comment	Druid: Vika Walks-the-Burrows, who wanders from place to place, gathering herbs and serving the Nine Aspects. There is also her mentor Agalie, and mention of another druid Polla Fetch-the-Water. Although Krodan's military seems intent on wiping them out in the hopes of stamping out worship of the Nine.
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The Ember Blade / int_c5835f29	type	Ghostly Goals
The Ember Blade / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: The ghosts that haunt Skavengard are very much of the Type B variety, given that they deliberately try to kill the protagonists or at least delay them enough that the Beast can get to them and devour them.
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The Ember Blade / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
The Ember Blade / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Grub comes up with nicknames for everyone else in the party, ranging from the mere descriptive (the Bittenbracker for Keel, Painted Lady for Vika, Freckles for Fen) to the offensive (Mudslug for Aren, Dumbface for Cade).
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The Ember Blade / int_df04109a	type	Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All
The Ember Blade / int_df04109a	comment	Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: Rapha the Carthanian pirate runs a gang inside the prison and has most of the guards in his pocket, getting special privileges and only working in the mines for the exercise. This clues Aren in to the fact that he could escape anytime he wanted, and only stays there because he must be hiding from someone on the outside.
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The Ember Blade / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
The Ember Blade / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Garricâ€™s true name is Cadrac of Darkwater and he is the last of the Dawnwardens.
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The Ember Blade / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Ember Blade / int_e5421161	comment	The Krodan Empire is a fantasy Expy of Nazi Germany, with an stereotypical Aryan phenotype, an obsession with rules and regulations, a brutal secret police, and is rounding up an ethnic minority into concentration camps and carrying out a genocide against them.
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The Ember Blade / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
The Ember Blade / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The various Ossian resistance groups opposed to the Krodan occupation have been known to go to some pretty nasty extremes in their pursuit of freedom, carrying out assassinations against collaborators and informers, as well as considering butchering their families to discourage collaboration with the Krodans. Garric's plan after the failure of open rebellion at Salt Fork is to smuggle a dozen wine barrels two thirds full of elarite oil into Hammerholt fortress on the eve of a royal wedding and detonate them. This would create an explosion powerful enough to destroy most of the fortress and burn the rest, killing crown prince Ottico, the entire Krodan high command in Ossia, and hundreds if not thousands of Krodan soldiers... but also hundreds of Ossian servants and wedding guests, including foreign dignitaries and children.
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