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The Empirium Trilogy

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The Empirium Trilogy	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Empirium Trilogy is a series of young adult fantasy novels written by Claire Legrand.In a world where people can control only one element, Rielle Dardenne can control all seven. There are just two people who are said to possess such power: a Queen of light and renewal and a Queen of death and destruction. A prophecy foretells of their arrival but it doesn't specify which Queen will appear first. For all her father knows, Rielle could be either.In an effort to keep her safe from such scrutiny, he forces Rielle to keep her powers hidden, only letting the most trusted individuals know. This works for eighteen years until Rielle sneaks herself into the annual horse race. During the race, a group of assassins ambushes Prince Audric, her close friend and crush. Without hesitation, she reveals her multielemental status, managing to save him but killing over a dozen innocent racers in the process.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Questioning her intentions and control, the King of Celdaria gives Rielle an ultimatum: she must face seven trials that will test her powers and morality. If she passes all of the trials, she will be deemed the Sun Queen, savior of the land. If she fails, she will be executed- if she can even survive the trials first.Over 1,000 years in the future lives a young women named Eliana Ferracora. She keeps a powerful secret: she is nigh invulnerable. Cuts and bruises heal in the blink of an eye and even falling off a roof leaves not a scratch. This mysterious power is an asset given that she is a bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, a ruthless dictatorship that's taken over almost every kingdom.When women and girls start to mysteriously vanish, Eliana suspects that the rebel group known as Red Crown is behind it all. After her own mother disappears, she crosses paths with the Wolf, a masked killer and right hand man to Red Crown's mysterious leader, the Prophet. The Wolf makes a deal with Eliana: if she joins him, he will help her find her mother. Knowing that this might be her only chance, Eliana accepts. Her missions with the Wolf slowly reveal a darker truth about the Empire and its leader, ones that will make Eliana question what she is fighting for as well as her own identity.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })In a story that spans centuries, Rielle and Eliana's fight against the perils that threaten them begin to intersect. It is these connections that will ultimately determine the fate of their lives and their world.The series consists of: Furyborn (2018) Kingsbane (2019) Queen of the Blazing Throne (2020, ebook novella) Lightbringer (2020)
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_116a648e	comment	Half-Identical Twins: The male Ilmaire and the female Ingrid are a pair of twins, born to the King of Borsvall. They both sport the Borsvallic blond eyes and hair and are similarly pale skinned.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: By the end of the series, several named and important characters are dead and the fate of many, many others is left ambiguous due to the new timeline.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
The Empirium Trilogy / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: Rielle is torn between her long held love for Audric and Corien's appeals to her bruised pride. On the one hand, she'd love nothing more to stay forever with Audric and become a revered heroine in the eyes of her countrymen. On the other hand, her power is insatiable and always hungers for more, thus making the restrictions placed on their use and her actions all the more stifling. Corien claims that if she joins him, she'll be given free reign and won't have to answer to anyone. It's this internal conflict that drives her as much as external ones.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Despite only being twelve, Obritsa is already a Queen and a figurehead for the human rebellion in Kirvaya. She's quite adept at hiding her true feelings regarding elementals and is a powerful marque, able to travel at least thirty miles apace without breaking much of a sweat.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: Fidelia is a cult that worships angels and is trying to bring them back. Because of this, they willingly aid the Undying Emperor in his various experiments and conquests.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1888979e	type	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Empirium Trilogy / int_1888979e	comment	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Corien does genuinely want to restore his brethren to flesh and blood, but the main reason he's doing it isn't entirely selfless: he views humanity as an inferior species while simultaneously being jealous of their power over the elements, something that the ancient angels can't even do. As such, he'd happily kill all humans to make room for his kind. It's also suggested- if not outright stated- that he's angry with God, and will move heaven and earth to go against Him in any way he can.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_19b6f396	comment	Alternate Timeline: In Kingsbane, Eliana's brief trip to the Second Age altered the pasts of various characters and events of future-Ventera and not for the better: their evacuation mission is now the next day instead of a few days from then, and one of Eliana's allies now works for the Empire. In Lightbringer, after successfully talking Rielle into destroying Corien, Remy and future-Eliana disappear. The epilogue shows a new timeline in which Audric and his daughter are living happily in a slowly recuperating Celdaria.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: The real Ludivine died a couple years before the start of the series. The being calling herself Ludivine is actually an angel that took over Ludivine's body and name.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: The end of the Angelic Wars ushered in the Second Age and the fall of elementals is what ushers in the Third Age. Even before Rielle's last spell nullified all elemental magic, it's stated that magic in general was on the decline.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Many of the events in Rielle's storyline happen because of the various lies told or secrets kept: After Rielle's accidental killing of her mother, Rielle's father forces her to keep her powers hidden from everyone. Because she doesn't have any healthy outlet for her power, it often bursts out of her in unpredictable and often destructive ways, as proven when innocent horse racers get caught up in her attempts to save Audric from some assassins. Ludivine seems to die during the chaos at the fire trial, but she survives the fall off a cliff thanks to actually being an angel. To cover for this, she makes a dramatic entrance at Rielle's anointing where she claims that Rielle resurrected her, forcing Rielle to go along with the charade. This has the unintended side affect of turning the people who lost loved ones in the massacre against Rielle with some of them even trying to assassinate her.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
The Empirium Trilogy / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Firebrands are people who can manipulate fire.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: There are multiple chapters that start off with excerpts from in-universe texts, letters, and other such documents. They're used to give the audience glimpses of the goings on of background characters, flesh out the world of Avitas, or both.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1d47dc06	comment	Alternative Calendar: The timeline is split between three eras: the First Age, the Second Age, and the Third Age. The First Age was the era of strife between humanity and the angels, the Second Age was the era of peace for humanity up until its very end, and the Third Age was the era of the Undying Empire's eventual rise to power.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Empirium Trilogy / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Audric is the Prince of Celdaria and does what he can to ensure the happiness and safety of his subjects. He reaches out to the Borsvallic prince, Ilmaire, in order to reforge the lost friendship between their two countries and he stops a massive storm created by the empirium on his own to help save an ally country's capital.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1ef7232d	comment	Wild Child: Simon turns into a feral child after spending about a year alone on the desolate mountain he was transported to. He quickly learns how to kill and skin animals in order to feed himself. By the time Corien finds him, Simon is so starved for any kind of personable interaction that he doesn't mind much that the man giving it is the same genocidal angel that killed his father.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Empirium Trilogy / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: In Furyborn, Ludivine suggests partaking in some celebratory drinks after Rielle successfully completes the first trial. During Kingsbane, Rielle damages the Gate even more and the Obex give Rielle the task of finding the Saint's castings on her own. Ingrid offers up a round of drinks to which Ludivine holds up a hand.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Being a human in the Third Age is a constant source of stress and danger. If you're not worrying about Empire agents potentially ruining your life, then you're worrying about your female friends or family members randomly disappearing without a trace.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Empirium Trilogy / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Red Crown is a rebel group dedicated to talking down the tyrannical and merciless Undying Empire. Due to who they're up against, the members of Red Crown take part in some morally questionable, if not downright villainous, acts themselves: using child soldiers so they have more numbers, killing innocents in order to maintain secrecy, and so on.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Empirium Trilogy / int_224f98fa	comment	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: One of the main themes of the series is just how much being the subject of a prophecy messes with your life. Having incredible powers don't mean much if you can't use them freely, and everybody has different ideas about how they should and shouldn't be used. Despite how much grief her father gives her for being powerful, Rielle takes pride in being able to split the sea, control a shadow dragon, and summon fireballs all without the requirement of a casting. However, everyone expects her to use her powers to protect crown and country, and be dutifully loyal. She would love to revel in her abilities as much as she wants, but she can't without potentially turning the public against her. It's why Corien's words of devotion and his promise that he will never fear her are so appealing. Before finding out about her heritage, Eliana had an incredibly useful healing ability, but deep down it always worried her. After learning that she's the daughter of the infamous Blood Queen, she comes to hate and fear her powers. Unfortunately, the world needs her now more than ever and a big part of that is accepting who she really is, up to and including her powers. As such, she's thrust into a role that makes her deeply uncomfortable and is forced to quickly learn how to use her newfound abilities without much time to come to terms with it all.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_23a98693	type	Power Crutch
The Empirium Trilogy / int_23a98693	comment	Power Crutch: Elementals have to craft a casting through which they can channel their abilities. Even the incredibly powerful Saints each needed one. The fact that Rielle doesn't need one is another mark of how powerful she is. Theoretically, Eliana doesn't need one either, but since her connection to the empirium is far weaker than Rielle's, she made a casting anyway in order to help with tapping into and controlling her powers.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Empirium Trilogy / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Eliana and Remy's father, Ioseph, went to war one day and never returned. It's assumed that he died in battle. In actuality, his body was possessed by one of the Undying Emperor's admirals.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_2a321a1f	type	A Date with Rosie Palms
The Empirium Trilogy / int_2a321a1f	comment	A Date with Rosie Palms: In Furyborn, Rielle wakes up in the middle of pleasuring herself while dreaming about Corien. She has another date while fantasizing about Audric and Ludivine in Kingsbane.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
The Empirium Trilogy / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: All the angels are centuries old or even older, and none of them look a day over thirty.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The Empirium Trilogy / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Though it's more title than literal, the Blood Queen is a human girl who is fated to destroy the world.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
The Empirium Trilogy / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Eliana Ferracora helped push Rielle into killing Corien by empathizing with her ordeal. However, this resulted in Eliana F. vanishing since her timeline no longer came to pass. In the new timeline, Audric and Rielle decide to name their daughter Eliana after Eliana F.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_2ff4c09b	type	Special Person, Normal Name
The Empirium Trilogy / int_2ff4c09b	comment	Special Person, Normal Name: Simon is one of the most important characters in the series since his time traveling magic is a key component in the Prophet's plan of taking down Corien. He also has a name that's commonly used in the real world, something that sticks out in a cast full of fantastical names.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
The Empirium Trilogy / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Eliana has control over all seven elements and later develops the ability heal others. Since the Blood Queen has already appeared and she's the only one who has these powers, she's thought to be the Sun Queen. Everyone expects her to just accept this role and save the world even when Eliana herself is terrified of her powers.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_30b41d96	type	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
The Empirium Trilogy / int_30b41d96	comment	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: In Kingsbane, Rielle's golden wedding dress becomes drenched in blood during her escape from Âme de la Terre.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_319e101e	type	Amplifier Artifact
The Empirium Trilogy / int_319e101e	comment	Amplifier Artifact: Eliana forges a casting in the hopes that it'll help her tap into the empirium more easily, giving her more control over her powers. It doesn't work that well at first, but as she slowly accepts her abilities and practices regularly with them, she begins unable to think of ever taking her castings off.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Empirium Trilogy / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Ludivine has been secretly rooting for Rielle and Audric to get together, as it's quite obvious the two are head over heels for one another.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_32e279c4	type	Humans Are Flawed
The Empirium Trilogy / int_32e279c4	comment	Humans Are Flawed: One theme woven throughout the trilogy is that no human is perfect. Trying to force someone into being completely flawless is inhumane and will bring about more misery, and not just for the person being scrutinized. One of the characters pretty much states this theme outright during the climax of Lightbringer:
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_330a3b9c	comment	Differently Powered Individual: Humans who can manipulate one of the seven elements are called "elementals".
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: Lightbringer's epilogue jumps forward five years after Corien's defeat and Rielle's death; Celdaria is still picking up the pieces from its battle with the angels, an alliance between wraiths and humans has been established, Audric adores his daughter and is taking pains to teach her that her powers aren't to be feared but neither should they be worshiped.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_342b426d	type	Instant Fan Club
The Empirium Trilogy / int_342b426d	comment	Instant Fan Club: Soon after Ludivine's dramatic entrance during Rielle's anointing, a group calling themselves the House of the Second Sun formed. They're obsessed with Rielle and how she brought Ludivine back from the dead.note (Rielle didn't, but the general public doesn't know this.) Group activities include reenactments of Ludivine's death and her (apparent) resurrection.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3498cb66	type	Love-Obstructing Parents
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3498cb66	comment	Love-Obstructing Parents: Rielle's father and both Ludivine's and Audric's parents don't approve of Rielle and Audric becoming a couple. In Ludivine and Audric's case, it's because their parents want to strengthen their political ties. In Rielle's case, it's because her father doesn't want her to overshadow Audric's talent or have her unpredictable powers accidentally kill him.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Empirium Trilogy / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: Red Crown is a rebel group whose main goal is fighting back and eventually taking down the Undying Empire. It originally started as push back against Merovec for taking the Celdarian throne while King Audric was still alive. In Second Age Kirvaya, the elementals suppressed any and all non-powered humans. To fight back against this oppression, a rebellious group made up of non-powered humans and their sympathizers formed and plan to covertly usurp the throne. Obritsa (despite being a marque) was raised by one of their members, groomed to become the next Queen of Kirvaya so she'll be in a position of power and thus able to enact lasting change.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Towards the end of Kingsbane, Audric marries Rielle despite only openly being a couple with her for a few months and a bit more than that privately. This is partly because Audric genuinely loves Rielle and wants to spend the rest of their lives together, and because he wants to show his people that the crown of Celdaria still has faith in their Sun Queen.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_37f9376a	type	Barrier Maiden
The Empirium Trilogy / int_37f9376a	comment	Barrier Maiden: The prophecy states that the Sun Queen will save the world, presumably from the Blood Queen's wrath. Eliana does end up fulfilling the prophecy, for she successfully convinces Blood Queen Rielle to end Corien. This nips the Undying Empire in the bud.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: Both of Rielle's parents were kind and loving up until her mother's death. This event turned Rielle's still-living father against her. From then on, he became emotionally distant and verbally abusive by repeatedly telling her she's a dangerous monster. Eliana's household was warm and loving despite the harsh situation outside their door. Even though Ioseph wasn't home often, whenever he was he made sure to make Eliana and Remy feel needed. That is, until he went off to war one day and never came back. Rozen still tried to do right for her daughter and son, right up until she was captured by Fidelia and turned into a crawler.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
The Empirium Trilogy / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Eliana used to be a part of the Empirical machine, mainly because doing so helped keep her family safe. It takes a combination of finding out that the Empire is run and headed by angels- and learning about her heritage and powers- that she decides to join the rebel group Red Crown.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3a29c5c8	type	Villainous Legacy
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3a29c5c8	comment	Villainous Legacy: The impact Rielle's death had on Avitas can be felt even 1,000 years later. Eliana and many others blame her for the rise of the Undying Empire and leaving humanity without any means of stopping it.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3a42d36c	type	Gold and White Are Divine
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3a42d36c	comment	Gold and White Are Divine: The colors for Rielle's Sun Guard are gold and white, and her supporters tend to use these colors. Though Rielle isn't truly a goddess, she is pretty damn close to one: she has the power of all the Saints, she doesn't need a casting (something that all regular elementals require), she can heal others as well as herself, she can bind the consciousness of wraiths to a human body, and can even bring people back from the dead.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3b4c1417	type	Unstable Powered Woman
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3b4c1417	comment	Unstable Powered Woman: As Rielle becomes more and more connected to the empirium, her mental state deteriorates. It gets to the point where Corien- the genocidal angel- worries after her health, often having to remind her that she's not immortal and has to take better care of herself.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: There's no attempts made to hide which of the prophesied Queens Rielle and Eliana are. The main questions then become "What events lead to Rielle becoming the Blood Queen?" and "Will Eliana be able to defeat the Undying Emperor?". Additionally, since Eliana refers to Audric as Rielle's husband and Eliana herself is their daughter, the sexual tension between Audric and Rielle will culminate in their marriage and Rielle becoming pregnant.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Rielle can control all seven elements without the need of a casting, a feat no other elemental can achieve. However, it's these exact powers that mark her as one of the prophesied Queens, one of whom is apparently destined to destroy the world. Since no one can tell which Queen she is, she's forced to undergo grueling trials and intense scrutiny of her every move and thought.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: The outfits Rielle wears for the Sun Queen trials, as well as her wedding dress, are each given a paragraph to describe them whereas all other forms of clothing are given a couple of sentences if that.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Empirium Trilogy / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: While traveling through the Vespers, Navi and her crew are ambushed with Navi getting drugged so she passes out. When she wakes up, a masked figure aligned with the Undying Empire asks her if she will join them or die. Navi responds with the Sun Queen's prayer and the hope that the Sun Queen will one day destroy the Empire. The masked figure is pleased by this, revealing themself to be Ysabet, the leader of the Vesper branch of Red Crown and the same woman that Navi and her crew were traveling to meet.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Empirium Trilogy / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Pretty much as soon as he introduces himself to Rielle, Corien uses Rielle's fears in a way that slowly distances her from her friends and family. He plays up the hypocrisy of her loved ones and the public, that they will restrict her freedom while claiming they love her and, will instantly turn against her once they find out just how destructive her powers truly are.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Empirium Trilogy / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The series ends with Eliana empathizing with Rielle about her struggles. This helps Rielle make the decision to kill Corien. She winds up killing Ludivine in the process, and Remy and future-Eliana disappear since their timeline no longer came to pass. Rielle gives birth to a daughter, dying in a flash of light a few months afterward. Celdaria is still picking up the pieces five years later, but Audric and the wraiths sympathetic with humanity become allies. Having learned from Rielle's hardships, Audric teaches his daughter (who he and Rielle have named Eliana) not to fear her powers, but to also value other things besides them.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_42846e90	type	Elemental Powers
The Empirium Trilogy / int_42846e90	comment	Elemental Powers: There are seven elements available to elementals: sun, air, fire, water, shadow, metal and earth. Excluding the Sun and Blood Queen, each elemental can only control and possibly master one element.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_43555d33	type	Heroes Prefer Swords
The Empirium Trilogy / int_43555d33	comment	Heroes Prefer Swords: Audric is the most powerful sunspinner to be seen in decades- if not centuries- and his main casting, Illumenor, is a sword. Saint Katell was also an incredibly talented sunspinner, the leader of the Saints, and wielded a sword casting.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_458c7e61	type	Constructed World
The Empirium Trilogy / int_458c7e61	comment	Constructed World: The world of Avitas is a fictional world split into a four or more continents with seven kingdoms spread throughout.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
The Empirium Trilogy / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: Furyborn opens with Rielle screaming while giving birth to her daughter.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_4712bc4f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
The Empirium Trilogy / int_4712bc4f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: In Kingsbane, Eliana and Harkan have a discussion about Blood Queen Rielle, her legacy, and what it means to Eliana. Eliana offhandedly mentions how she killed her and Remy's mother. The conversation comes to a grinding halt when she hears Remy let out a soft cry of despair; he had just arrived with a large stack of books and overhead what Eliana said.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Empirium Trilogy / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Corien kidnaps elemental children and forces their powers to emerge prematurely. He then has these children forge castings, both for themselves and for the beasts he's experimenting on in order to better utilize their elemental abilities during battle.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Empirium Trilogy / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The Gate is made of a giant, powerful barrier that keeps the angels from reentering Avitas. On a smaller scale are blightblades, arrows made with cruciata blood that can absorb and conceal wraiths. Wraiths are trapped inside until the blightblade is broken.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_4977559e	type	Our Angels Are Different
The Empirium Trilogy / int_4977559e	comment	Our Angels Are Different: Angels are winged humanoid beings with telepathic powers and are completely immortal. They were the first sentient beings to form on Avitas, having been created by the empirium with cosmic material.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_4de061b6	type	Extra-ore-dinary
The Empirium Trilogy / int_4de061b6	comment	Extra-ore-dinary: Metalmasters are people who can manipulate metal.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
The Empirium Trilogy / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: Three days before the fire trial, Audric sneaks into Rielle's rooms to discuss his personal fears as to what becoming Sun Queen would mean to them both. The conversation culminates with Rielle and Audric making love on her bed.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
The Empirium Trilogy / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: Obritsa was declared Queen by the Magisterial Council of Kirvaya despite only being twelve. Justified, since the vote was rigged in her favor: she was raised by the human revolution specifically so she could become the next queen.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Empirium Trilogy / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: During the ambush at the Jubilee in Kingsbane, Eliana sees Simon standing on the beach when she notices something off:
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_4ee61c1f	type	Liar Revealed
The Empirium Trilogy / int_4ee61c1f	comment	Liar Revealed: During the reception for Rielle's wedding, Corien shows everyone a vision that exposes the truth behind their previous king's death as well as the king's commander: afraid that Corien would kill them, Rielle unleashed a ton of power that did end up burning Corien, but it also killed both king and commander. When Audric found her shortly thereafter, she lied to him, too scared of losing him and his love to tell him the truth. The effect this reveal has on Audric momentarily turns him against Rielle, the ensuing argument culminatimg in Rielle running away from Baingarde to seek out Corien.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
The Empirium Trilogy / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: At twelve-years-old, Obritsa is able to perfectly act the "stoic orphan suddenly picked to be queen" role while secretly being an agent for the human revolution. Justified, since she's been raised practically since birth to play that part without giving anything away.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Empirium Trilogy / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The Third Age version of crawlers are creatures who were originally woman but were so experimented upon that they became ferocious monsters. All of them still retain some human-like features. During Kingsbane, Rielle comes across a severely wounded villager. She tries to heal his burns, but the flesh she's attempting to regrow ends up enveloping her hands. By the time Audric snaps her out of her trance, the villager is nothing more than a large puddle of blood and gore. It's this event that permanently sets the public against Rielle, cementing her as the Blood Queen in their minds.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Empirium Trilogy / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Corien can't stand Rielle's affection for Audric, finding the prince a simpleminded, foolish dullard. He would've most certainly killed Audric if not for the fact that doing so would've turn Rielle's wrath against him. Instead, Corien limits himself to manipulating Rielle into believing Audric would hate her if he ever found out the destructive potential her powers hold and Rielle's desires to test them.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Empirium Trilogy / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: At the beginning of Furyborn, there is a noticeable attraction shared between Rielle and Audric. Problem is both of them have very good reasons not to act on their feelings: Rielle's father has forbidden her from getting together with Audric, thinking her volatile powers might one day kill the prince. Since she doesn't want to risk becoming pregnant with just anyone, Rielle's restricted herself to fantasizing about and flirting with Audric. In Audric's case, he's already engaged to Ludivine, an arrangement based in politics and therefore difficult, if not impossible, to break. Towards the end of Furyborn, this unresolved tension between the two does become resolved.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_527fc5fe	type	Gotta Catch Them All
The Empirium Trilogy / int_527fc5fe	comment	Gotta Catch Them All: Towards the beginning of Kingsbane, Rielle is tasked with finding all seven of the Saint's castings; in theory, the castings remember how the Gate was made which would make repairing it more successful. Rielle manages to get three castings before her situation gets infinitely worse, bringing this quest to a screeching halt.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_5288f02	type	All Your Powers Combined
The Empirium Trilogy / int_5288f02	comment	All Your Powers Combined: While the average elemental is limited to one element, the Queens of Prophecy have power over all seven. The Sun Queen is hailed as a heroic figure whereas the Blood Queen is seen as her villainous counterpart.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_52c77876	type	Mark of the Supernatural
The Empirium Trilogy / int_52c77876	comment	Mark of the Supernatural: During the Third Age, any human body possessed by an angel will sport black eyes. Marques have wing marks on their backs. This is because they're born with wings which are cut off shortly after birth in order for them to hide better among elementals and humans.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Empirium Trilogy / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Furyborn opens with a prologue titled "An End and a Beginning". It shows Queen Rielle's death, the end of the elemental age, and the beginning of the newborn princess' life as a child raised in Third Age Ventera. Lightbringer ends with Queen Rielle's death and an epilogue titled "A Beginning and an End". The epilogue shows how the major and supporting characters are fairing five years after the battle with Corien, and the start of Eliana Courverie's life as a princess born and raised in Second Age Celdaria.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
The Empirium Trilogy / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: Remy calls Eliana a monster upon finding out that she killed their mother.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Empirium Trilogy / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Angels hate humans because of their short lifespan and less robust bodies. Humans fear and hate angels because they hunted them down. Both species despise marques because of their half-breed nature and powers over space and time. In Kirvaya, there's a contingent of elementals who force the nonpowered population into slavery.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Empirium Trilogy / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: After Rielle and company split ways with Ilmaire and his companions midway through Kingsbane, Ilmaire doesn't make a further reappearance (at least not until the very end of Lightbringer) but he isn't fully out of the picture: excerpts from the letters he sends to Audric and from his journal are placed at the beginning of several chapters in both Kingsbane and Lightbringer. These excerpts show his own personal journey as he tries to fit into the crown his recently deceased father left, deal with the usurper Merovec, and eventually strike out on his own while searching for aid.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_5890b975	type	One Person, One Power
The Empirium Trilogy / int_5890b975	comment	One Person, One Power: Each elemental is restricted to one element out of seven: windsingers can only control air, sunspinners can only control light, earthshakers can only control earth, etc. The Queens of Prophecy are the only exceptions to this rule, as they have power over all seven.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Empirium Trilogy / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: The name of the angel that took over Ludivine's body is never stated. The angel refuses to share her name and insists on being called Ludivine, and when Corien tries to tell Rielle what it is, she cuts him off before he can.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_5ba5a470	type	Here There Were Dragons
The Empirium Trilogy / int_5ba5a470	comment	Here There Were Dragons: Godsbeasts were powerful, ancient creatures who were more in-tuned to the empirium than most elementals. By Eliana's time, it's believed that they became extent or were never even real in the first place.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
The Empirium Trilogy / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Angels can live for hundreds of thousands of years and not look a day over thirty. This holds true for any human body they possess as a wraith.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Empirium Trilogy / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: There is a five year gap between the final chapter and epilogue of Lightbringer.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Empirium Trilogy / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Previously known as Kalmaroth, Corien is a genocidal maniac who has no compunctions about using anyone and doing anything so long as it benefits him in some way.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6501c092	type	Impartial Purpose-Driven Faction
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6501c092	comment	Impartial Purpose-Driven Faction: The Obex are an organization that are solely focused on protecting and studying the Gate. They aren't associated with any particular country or ruler, being loyal only to the Saint's legacy.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
The Empirium Trilogy / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: Rielle and Audric dance together for a couple hours during their wedding reception. They're both enamored with one another, Rielle in particular being able to ignore all of her worries for once.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
The Empirium Trilogy / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: When she was younger, Eliana loved hearing stories about the time before the Fall, a time when the empirium was still available and magic still in use. By the start of the series, she views those same stories and all talk about the Sun Queen's eventual arrival as wishful thinking by people desperate for an escape from their dark reality.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
The Empirium Trilogy / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: Despite being turned into a crawler, Rozen, Eliana's mother, manages to regain enough of her humanity in her final moments to beg Eliana to kill her.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
The Empirium Trilogy / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: Wraiths are angels that were stripped of a physical body. They still retain the powers they had as an angel, though they're far weaker than they were before.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Empirium Trilogy / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Rielle's mother died when Rielle was five.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
The Empirium Trilogy / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Queen Rielle's last act of magic suppressed every elemental's connection to the empirium, rendering them all powerless. One thousand years later, the age of elementals is considered more legend or myth than actual fact. In the new timeline, Rielle suppresses the connection intentionally, only leaving the godsbeats, allied wraiths, and her own daughter's powers untouched.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_685d06d	type	Plot Parallel
The Empirium Trilogy / int_685d06d	comment	Plot Parallel: Much of Rielle and Eliana's plots parallel each other, from the broader strokes (such as becoming one of the two prophesied Queens) to some minor details (such as each of them having a wraith ally).
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In Furyborn, Ludivine appears to die only to arrive at Rielle's crowning completely intact. She later explains that the real Ludivine died of a fever three years ago and she's actually an angel that has been watching over Rielle since birth. Said angel managed to escape the Deep due to cracks in the slowly weakening Gate. Kingsbane ends with Simon revealing to actually have been in league with the Empire since the beginning and Eliana's adoptive father was taken over by an angel. Lightbringer shows that the Prophet is Ludivine, who has been orchestrating everything behind the scenes, including Simon's betrayal. Simon was a double agent for Ludivine and the betrayal was one small part of her overarching scheme to make Eliana more powerful.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6b750ec9	type	I Am a Monster
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6b750ec9	comment	I Am a Monster: Eliana sees herself as a heartless monster due to her work as a bounty hunter for the very Empire that took over her home kingdom (among others). This view of herself gets worse after unleashing her powers in catastrophic ways and finding out that her birth mother was the reviled Blood Queen. After some soul searching, she comes to terms with her powers and her heritage, helping her self-image improve somewhat.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6b7a6c55	type	Face–Monster Turn
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6b7a6c55	comment	Face–Monster Turn: Rozen was a genuinely good parent who only wanted to keep her children safe from the Undying Empire. After being kidnapped by Fidelia, the cult's scientists experimented on her, turning her into a crawler, a not-quite-human beast. She manages to regain a bit of her humanity at the last minute when she asks Eliana to kill her.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: There are only seven elements that a human can potentially control. Once discovered, an elemental can control that element and only that element. In order to manipulate their element, the elemental must create at least one casting in order to help channel their power. The only elementals that buck these rules are the Queens of Prophecy.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The death of King Bastien wrecks his wife, Queen Genoveve, in both mind and body. By the time Corien makes mental visits, she's contemplating suicide so she can see Bastien again. Thanks to Corien's urging, she goes through with it by throwing herself off of a balcony. The only reason she survives is due to Rielle bringing her back to life. A significant subplot in Lightbringer is dedicated to Audric's growing depression, thanks in no small part to learning that the love of his life had a hand in his father's death, then watching her leave to join his worst enemy on the same night they married. During the darkest point of his depression, he stands in the middle of a room and ponders suicide. Subverted, in that he ultimately doesn't go through with it.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: The angel that took over Ludivine's body has been impersonating Rielle and Audric's friend for three years. Not only did the angel do so well enough to fool them, but Ludivine's immediate relatives too.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6ec1393a	type	Mission Creep
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6ec1393a	comment	Mission Creep: At the start of Furyborn, Eliana's main mission is rescuing her mother. By the end, it's to come into her own as the Sun Queen and work towards taking out the Undying Empire.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6edd96b8	type	Making a Splash
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6edd96b8	comment	Making a Splash: Waterworkers are people who can manipulate water.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: Multiple worlds exist beyond the Deep. One world in particular, Hosterah, was where the cruciata came from. Eliana glimpses a couple other worlds during her trips into the Deep with the Prophet.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6f5c80fc	type	Worst Wedding Ever
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6f5c80fc	comment	Worst Wedding Ever: Soon after his coronation, Audric and Rielle host a huge wedding. Everything seems to be going perfectly, and Rielle can't imagine being any happier. Then Corien takes over Ludivine's mind and reveals to the whole assembly that their former king (Audric's father) died by Rielle's hand. The wedding quickly devolves into chaos, coming to a head when Audric takes Rielle aside to question her about all the lies she's told or been forced to keep.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_6fd620fd	type	Anti-Human Alliance
The Empirium Trilogy / int_6fd620fd	comment	Anti-Human Alliance: Angels hate humans due to them claiming land that they felt was rightfully theirs. Corien stoked those particular flames until most of his brethren banded together in order to kill them off, starting the Angelic Wars. During Rielle's time, the angels' anger shifted to hating humans because the Saints tricked them into an endless void that stripped them of their physicality.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7098892d	type	Weapon-Based Characterization
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7098892d	comment	Weapon-Based Characterization: Each element is closely associated with a particular weapon or armory: windsingers have arrows, firebrands have shields, earthshakers use staffs, etc. Most elementals tend to create their castings in the shape of those weapons, though alternative castings aren't unheard of. Eliana favors knives and daggers for her bounty hunting work, something she picked up from her mother.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7160b097	type	Dawn of an Era
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7160b097	comment	Dawn of an Era: The Fall of the Blood Queen stifled the empirium, rendering all elementals powerless and interrupting the hold any angels had on the human bodies they possessed. This would eventually usher in the reign of Corien the Undying Empire and his army of angels. In the new timeline, an alliance is made between wraiths and the now powerless humans, something that had never happened in Avitas' history before.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
The Empirium Trilogy / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: At age five, Rielle killed her mother inadvertently. This turned her once loving father against her to the point of being emotionally and verbally abusive. He and her mentor, Taliesin, essentially ignore her wants and desires under the guise of keeping her safe, both her from the public and the public from her. They force her to keep her powers suppressed and hidden from everyone including her best friends, one of whom is a prince. This blows up in all of their faces (in more ways than one) when she saves the prince from assassins but winds up killing innocents in the process. The King has her then undergo a series of grueling trials in order to determine if she's the menace her father keeps telling her that she is. The last trial she ends up doing has her essentially relive the night her mother died. At first, it seems to go well until Corien takes over various soldier's minds, turning the vicinity into a veritable bloodbath, during which she watches her other best friend get thrown off a cliff. Then it turns out that this friend actually died years ago and the person she's been talking to since the beginning of this whole affair is actually an angel, a being that humans have feared and hated for centuries. And all of that is only the beginning.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Eliana doesn't want to be the long awaited Sun Queen and all that that entails. However, she does want to end the Undying Empire for good and if embracing her powers is the only way to do it, then she will.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_730c2e3	type	Void Between the Worlds
The Empirium Trilogy / int_730c2e3	comment	Void Between the Worlds: The Deep is an empty pocket of darkness made out of raw empirium. It exists between the world of Avitas and all other worlds. Only the truly powerful can enter it and keep their physicality, something even the angels couldn't achieve.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
The Empirium Trilogy / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: On two different occasions, Corien either forces his target to commit suicide (Garver Randell) or urges them to follow through on the suicide they were already contemplating (Queen Genoveve).
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Empirium Trilogy / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Eliana and Simon's relationship starts out antagonistic for multiple reasons and more or less stays that way even as they both fall for each other.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_769f241d	type	Magical Sensory Effect
The Empirium Trilogy / int_769f241d	comment	Magical Sensory Effect: Each type of elemental magic has its own distinct scent: firebrand magic smells like smoke, windsinger magic smells like alpine, etc.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
The Empirium Trilogy / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: When she was five, Rielle killed her mother by accident. Over a dozen years later, she ends up killing her father during the chaos of the fire trial massacre.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7836c43	type	Casting a Shadow
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7836c43	comment	Casting a Shadow: Shadowcasters are people who can manipulate shadows.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: In Kingsbane, Rielle starts out the book with many dissenters who accuse her of being the Blood Queen and finishes the book mindlessly killing guards on her way to joining the angels, effectively proving them right in their eyes. In Eliana's case, the mission to travel back in time to stop Rielle wasn't as easy as Simon had thought, and the consequences of her brief appearance in Old Celdaria changed several people and past events for the worse. Then Simon reveals that he's been working for the Undying Empire this whole time (sort of) and is bringing her and Remy to Elysium, Corien's homestead.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7913eb6f	type	Healing Hands
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7913eb6f	comment	Healing Hands: After gaining better control of her powers, Eliana obtains the ability to heal wounds and past scars. In order to help Simon better access his latent marque magic, Eliana heals some of his physical scars since doing so requires direct contact with the empirium. With some research and practice, Rielle is able to heal the scar Ludivine developed thanks to the blightblade.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: Instead of helping Eliana and the rest of Red Crown escape from Jubilee, Simon is actually bringing her to an Empire ship. Most of Red Crown is slaughtered in the ambush and Eliana and Remy are taken prisoner. This turns out to have been planned by the Prophet, seeing it as the only way to safely transport Eliana to where they're stationed without drawing Corien's undue attention.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7bf14666	type	And Now for Someone Completely Different
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7bf14666	comment	And Now for Someone Completely Different: Starting with Kingsbane, Corien, Simon, Navi, Ludivine, Jessamyn, Harkan, Audric and Taliesin get one or more chapters from their perspective, though not all of them appear in the same book.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Rielle accidentally killed her mother, has had to endure verbal abuse for years after said death turned her father jaded, and was forced to hide who she is from everybody. When her powers are revealed, everybody imposes their own views as to how she should act and behave. The public slowly turns against her, believing her to be the dreaded Blood Queen when her attempts to use her powers constructively prove fatal (at least at first). Corien showing everyone that she was behind the King of Celdaria's death and Audric's father ends up being the final nail in the coffin; Audric, in the heat of moment, accuses Rielle of being the very monster they've feared, leading a brokenhearted Rielle to join Corien. By the Third Age, all of humanity loathe Rielle for siding with the angels and closing off the empirium to human use, for doing so allowed the Undying Empire to rise up without any opposition.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7ed7b58c	type	Sentient Cosmic Force
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7ed7b58c	comment	Sentient Cosmic Force: The empirium is a magical force that everything in Avitas is made out of. The ability to tap into it is what gives humans their powers. The Queens of Prophecy can hear and even request help from the empirium, especially as their connection to it grows stronger.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Kingsbane... Eliana goes back in time in an attempt to convince Rielle to reject Corien's offer of allyship. Not only does Eliana fail, her presence in Old Celdaria changed things for the worse in future-Ventera. After being shown the truth behind his father's death, Audric confronts Rielle about her lies. Their argument ends with Audric saying that she probably is the Blood Queen that everyone fears her to be. This turns out to be the tipping point for Rielle, who flees Baingarde to find Corien.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_7ffca8c4	type	Immortality Begins at Twenty
The Empirium Trilogy / int_7ffca8c4	comment	Immortality Begins at Twenty: The completely immortal angels all look like they're in their early twenties regardless of how long they've actually been alive.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Empirium Trilogy / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The prologue of Furyborn shows Blood Queen Rielle giving birth to Eliana and facing down Corien, an encounter that leads to Simon and the newborn princess being thrust into the future and the empirium being smothered. The narrative then jumps back two years ago to a time before Rielle's powers were even widely known. The rest of her story shows how she turned into the Blood Queen. Subverted in that the exact events depicted in this prologue don't come to pass thanks to Eliana's interference.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Empirium Trilogy / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: The royal house of Courverie and the noble house of Sauvillier have planned the marriage of Audric and Ludivine since each of their childhoods. Audric and Ludivine have known each other since birth and are close friends and cousins, but neither of them are particularly eager to get married; Audric is in love with Rielle and Ludivine doesn't want to come between them. The engagement eventually breaks down and Audric ends up marrying Rielle.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8186d60d	type	Not Growing Up Sucks
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8186d60d	comment	Not Growing Up Sucks: When Ludivine reveals herself to be an angel possessing the previous Ludivine's body, it's noted that her perpetual existence as a teenager is an awful thing, and one that will get harder and harder to explain as the years go by.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_81f909f2	type	Dishing Out Dirt
The Empirium Trilogy / int_81f909f2	comment	Dishing Out Dirt: Earthshakers are people who can manipulate the earth.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_82e8cfeb	type	The Power of the Sun
The Empirium Trilogy / int_82e8cfeb	comment	The Power of the Sun: Sunspinners are people who can manipulate sunlight.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Saint Katell was in love with Aryava who was angels' leader at the time. Historians consider their relationship to be a contributing factor in the ending to the Angelic Wars. Rielle develops a love-hate relationship with the angel Corien. She both fears him but finds his offers of worship too appealing to deny.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: Some of the epigraphs at the start of each chapter are taken from an In-Universe historical or academic book. These excerpts are used as a way to expand upon the world of Avitas without disrupting the overall pacing.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_86c2950b	type	Murder by Suicide
The Empirium Trilogy / int_86c2950b	comment	Murder by Suicide: Furyborn's prologue shows Simon's father, Garver, being psychically forced into suicide by Corien shortly after Rielle gives birth to her and Audric's daughter.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The Undying Empire is a totalitarian regime led by a genocidal angel who allows his soldiers to rape and murder humans whenever they want. Red Crown is a rebel organization that partakes in some distasteful practices, such as using child soldiers and killing innocents, but it does so all for the sake of putting an end to the Empire. It's easy to see which of the two has the moral high ground.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_87a42873	type	Ancient Order of Protectors
The Empirium Trilogy / int_87a42873	comment	Ancient Order of Protectors: The Obex are a longstanding organization that protects, maintains, and studies the Gate. They aren't loyal to any particular kingdom or country, just the Saint's legacy.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The Empirium Trilogy / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: While she wants to take down the Empire, Eliana isn't exactly keen about being one of the prophesied Queens. She initially refuses to learn how to use her unleashed powers and she hates being revered. She does eventually come to terms with her situation but still dislikes being referred to as the Sun Queen.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_87e2b631	type	Two Girls and a Guy
The Empirium Trilogy / int_87e2b631	comment	Two Girls and a Guy: Rielle, Ludivine and Audric are a trio of friends that have known each other since childhood. Rielle is the headstrong, determined heroine, Ludivine her more gentle and snarky best friend, and Audric their quiet bookworm. Rielle developed feelings for Audric- which he reciprocates- but since Audric's already engaged to Ludivine, they don't act on their feelings (at least, not at first).
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
The Empirium Trilogy / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Corien loathes being called by his previous name, Kalmaroth. He views that version of himself as an embarrassing failure and would love to forget that he was forced into the Deep like the rest of his brethren.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Empirium Trilogy / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: The Sun Queen is stated to be a human girl who has access to all seven elements. She will be the one to save the world from the Blood Queen, another human girl with the same or similiar powers who is destined to destroy the world. When Rielle reveals that she can control fire as well as earth and air, people wonder which of the two queens she might be. Eliana was born with a healing power, later understood to be the power of the Sun Queen that had been lying dormant within her since birth.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_89833fc6	type	Accidental Time Travel
The Empirium Trilogy / int_89833fc6	comment	Accidental Time Travel: Simon uses his marque magic to create a portal to Borsvall per Queen Rielle's last request to hide the newborn princess among the Borsvall people. However, Rielle's final act of magic changed his spell from jumping space to jumping time, which thrust both him and the princess 1,000 years into the future.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8a1bb4eb	type	Conlang
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8a1bb4eb	comment	Conlang: There are several languages mentioned throughout the series: Celdarian, Old Celdarian, Borsvallic, common, Lissar (one of the angelic languages), and so on.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: The more malicious angels have the ability to take over a human's mind and damage it beyond repair. Simon experienced this at the hands of both the Prophet and Corien, each for different reasons.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Ilmaire is a gentle, even-tempered scholar while his twin sister, Ingrid, is a hotheaded warrior.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8b1a664	type	Kill All Humans
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8b1a664	comment	Kill All Humans: A lot of angels see all humans as an invasive species that's trying to take over their homeland. They attempted to wipe humanity out as a result of this ideology.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8b682bd5	type	The Magic Comes Back
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8b682bd5	comment	The Magic Comes Back: In Lightbringer, Rielle states during her last conversation to Evyline that her stifling of the empirium won't last forever. She knows that, at some point in the future, something will happen that'll reawaken the empirium and give back everyone's access to their magic.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Each book begins with a prologue that shows what happened to Simon after being separated from the newborn princess. The first book in particular starts with Queen Rielle's last moments before jumping back two years. The rest of Rielle's story shows what she was like before she became the Blood Queen and how that happened. There is a 1,020 year time difference between Rielle and Eliana's plotlines, with most chapters alternating between these two eras.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Most of Zahra's dialogue in Furyborn and Kingsbane is to explain to Eliana about the ways of the Old World. This is helpful, not just for Eliana (who thought the stories of the Old World were mere legend) but also for the reader since much of the information she imparts helps flesh out the world.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8ed601a6	type	Two-Part Trilogy
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8ed601a6	comment	Two-Part Trilogy: While the series was always intended to be three parts, Furyborn has a more definitive ending despite the fact that there's obviously still a lot more story to tell. It's plot mainly concerns itself with Rielle participating in the Sun Queen trials and Eliana discovering her powers and heritage, giving both of them more conclusive arcs. By comparison, Kingsbane ends on a cliffhanger that Lightbringer directly picks up.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Empirium Trilogy / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Double subverted with Audric and Ludivine: they were a pair of engaged cousins at the beginning of the series, the engagement having been arranged by their parents as part of a political agreement. However, Audric is in love with Rielle and while Ludivine does love him, her feelings aren't romantic in nature. That said, Ludivine states in Kingsbane that she'd have no issue partaking in a threesome with Audric and Rielle, something that Audric agrees with.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_906ed7b4	type	Apocalypse Maiden
The Empirium Trilogy / int_906ed7b4	comment	Apocalypse Maiden: Blood Queen Rielle was able to break the Gate, bringing the angels back and effectively restarting the Angelic Wars. She was also responsible for ending the age of elementals, as her last powerful act of magic stifled any connection to the empirium elementals once had. This allowed Corien and his followers to grow strong without much resistance, ushering in the age of the Undying Empire and human oppression.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_908ad334	type	Time Master
The Empirium Trilogy / int_908ad334	comment	Time Master: Marques have the unique power of creating portals that can transport someone into the past or future. This, as well as their mastery over distance, is one of the reasons they were hunted down by both angels and humans during the First Age.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_91b5521d	type	Complete Immortality
The Empirium Trilogy / int_91b5521d	comment	Complete Immortality: It's impossible for an angel to die of old age, disease, wounds, poison, etc. The only way to successfully kill an angel is by severing their connection to the empirium, something that only the Queens of Prophecy can accomplish.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Empirium Trilogy / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The Undying Emperor hopes to bring about a Class 3a apocalypse, specifically restoring the angels to their former glory by stitching their consciousnesses to a human body while wiping out all the rest. It's later suggested that not even other worlds are safe from his wrath.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
The Empirium Trilogy / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: Once Eliana convinces Rielle to kill Corien, she and Remy disappear, since the circumstances that brought them to the past no longer happened.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
The Empirium Trilogy / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: In an effort to stop Corien from harming the Celdarian King or her father, Rielle lets loose a burst of raw power. It winds up fatally wounding her father in the process, Armand dying in Rielle's arms shortly thereafter.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
The Empirium Trilogy / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The main gist of the Prophet's plan is to use Simon's time traveling magic to go back into the past and have Eliana convince Rielle to kill Corien. This would nip the Undying Empire in the bud, as well as all the other horrific plans Corien would enact during the Third Age.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_962badd5	type	Repression Never Ends Well
The Empirium Trilogy / int_962badd5	comment	Repression Never Ends Well: Ever since she was five, Rielle was forced to hide her powers and (to some extent) her person from the world. As the years passed, she began to believe her father's continual reminders that she's a monster/killer/dangerous/etc. and eventually stopped fighting him for her freedom. This has the unintended side effect of making her powers more volatile, culminating in one particular burst of raw power that winds up killing, not just Rielle's father, but the King of Celdaria as well.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_96433323	type	Ailment-Induced Cruelty
The Empirium Trilogy / int_96433323	comment	Ailment-Induced Cruelty: The bedridden King of Borsvall treats his son horribly, calling him weak, ineffectual, and unworthy of the throne. However, considering he was possessed by an angel at the time, its ambiguous how much of the King's verbal abuse was coming from him and how much of it was from the angel.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Empirium Trilogy / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Corien harbors a deep hatred for humanity, especially for the Saints due to their deception cutting off his kin's physicality. He uses Rielle's own fears and desires to seduce her to his side, that way he can have the most powerful being aid him in his quest for vengeance. He puts himself at the top of a new rule and, after Rielle's death, makes it so that humanity will live in constant fear and paranoia if they don't join in his regime or obedient adoration if they do. Despite living centuries apart, both Rielle and Eliana are forced to fight against him in their own ways.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Empirium Trilogy / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: In Queen of the Blazing Throne, Corien states that he and Obritsa are both motivated by the love they each have for their people.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_9853e107	type	Elective Mute
The Empirium Trilogy / int_9853e107	comment	Elective Mute: Remy stops speaking after escaping Orline and seemingly leaving Harkan to his death. It takes Navi several tries of gentle coaxing before he speaks again.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Empirium Trilogy / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The point-of-view character for Queen of the Blazing Throne is Obritsa, a somewhat minor character from the main series. The novella fleshes out Obritsa's backstory and motives, even showing some scenes that happened in Kingsbane from her perspective.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Empirium Trilogy / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: There are several hints given throughout the series as to the Prophet's true identity before the reveal. One of the earliest is the voice that urges Simon to make a portal: it's described as sounding feminine and familiar to him. Since Simon had already met Ludivine before that point, it's little wonder that he can recognize the voice. When Zahra first feels Simon's presence, she remarks that his mind is so scarred that she can't read it. This is because his mind was broken years ago by the Prophet in order to make it more difficult for the incredibly powerful Corien to read.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
The Empirium Trilogy / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: The main solution given to ending the Undying Empire for good is to kill its leader, Corien, before he could create it. In order to achieve this, Simon needs to bring back Eliana to the Second Age so she can try to talk Rielle into finishing off Corien.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_9ebee577	type	Anaphora
The Empirium Trilogy / int_9ebee577	comment	Anaphora: A couple of Eliana's chapters in Lightbringer repeat the phrase "When Eliana awoke..." to accentuate the repetitive nature of her mind-speak induced dreams-turned-nightmares at the hands of Corien.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
The Empirium Trilogy / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: The series features two female leads who have to deal with the unrealistic expectations forced upon them by their friends, family, and peers. Most of the characters- both named and not- are woman or girls, many of whom can dish out punishment as good as or better than their male counterparts. There's also no such thing as homophobia (there's a lot of queer characters, some of whom are married) and skin-color based racism is likewise nonexistent (brown-skinned characters pop up everywhere and several of them are in positions of leadership).
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Rielle's storyline is about how she started out as the long awaited and much beloved Sun Queen to the long feared and widely hated Blood Queen.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a19135a6	type	Mind Control
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a19135a6	comment	Mind Control: An angel can easily take control over anyone weaker than them, even after becoming a wraith. The only beings that they can't control are the cruciata, due to said creatures possessing wildly different minds.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Corien knows that many people would balk at killing a child even if that child was trying to kill them. It's for this reason that he's been stealing elemental children to use them as soldiers, so he can weaponize this ideology and give some of his army an advantage on the battlefield.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Marques are beings that are half-human and half-angel. They're born with wings, but because of the prosecution against them, their wings are usually cut off.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Rielle's parents were loving and kind before her mother's death, which led to her father becoming abusive. Eliana's parents also cared for her deeply and did what they could to keep her and Remy safe despite the harsh environment around them.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: In Furyborn, Eliana can jump 100 feet off of one dock onto another and only feel a bit of pain. This invulnerability is what earned her the nickname the "Dread of Orline". This trait goes away once she's fully unlocked her powers. Remy suggests her super fast healing ability was because her powers were healing her since they had no other outlet. In Lightbringer, Rielle acquires bad burns while opening the Gate. By that point, she's so in tune with the empirirum that she's able to heal said burns with a mere thought.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Eliana holds her mother-turned-crawler in her arms as she plunges a knife into her mother's neck. Rielle cradles her father and sings him a lullaby while he dies. Zahra holds Harkan to the best of her abilities as he dies.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a6be3ad5	type	Rule of Seven
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a6be3ad5	comment	Rule of Seven: There are seven elements, each one being associated with a specific Saint, prayer, temple, and so on.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a858bec5	type	Banging for Help
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a858bec5	comment	Banging for Help: After being captured by Fidelia, Eliana wakes up to find herself in one of their cells. When she remembers how she got there, she launches herself at her cell's door and begins throwing her shoulders against it, calling for someone to answer her.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_a96c2803	type	Space Master
The Empirium Trilogy / int_a96c2803	comment	Space Master: Marques have the ability to teleport by crafting a ring out of threads of space. These threads are connected to a specific location and stepping through the ring of threads will immediately transport anyone from one location to the next.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Empirium Trilogy / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Furyborn makes it clear from the get go that Rielle will become the Blood Queen. This makes her struggles during the Sun Queen trials all the more tragic; she's desperate to believe that she's a savoir but the audience knows that she will eventually reject her own humanity and join the angels.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ab7a377	type	Trial by Ordeal
The Empirium Trilogy / int_ab7a377	comment	Trial by Ordeal: In order to determine whether Rielle is the Blood or Sun Queen, the King of Celdaria has Rielle undergo seven trials, one for each element. If she can control her powers and prove her virtuousness, then she will be declared the Sun Queen. If she can't, either the trials will kill her off or she'll be executed. The first trial she undergoes sees her abruptly thrown onto a mountain where she has to use earthshaker powers in order to survive an avalanche.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
The Empirium Trilogy / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: Life isn't easy for children regardless of time period: if you're an elemental child living in the Second Age, you could be kidnapped and forced to become a soldier for a despotic angel. If you live in the Third Age, you could be forced to become a killer for your own survival and that of your family's (assuming you haven't been made an orphan).
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Empirium Trilogy / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The titles of each novel are named after the most recent members of House Courverie: Furyborn is named after Eliana, Kingsbane after Rielle, and Lightbringer after Audric.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ae2b8366	type	Possessing a Dead Body
The Empirium Trilogy / int_ae2b8366	comment	Possessing a Dead Body: The real Ludivine died of a fever when she was sixteen; the Ludivine present in the series is actually an angel who possessed Ludivine's body shortly after the real Ludivine's death, and has been controlling said body for the three years since then.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Empirium Trilogy / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Rielle wanted to become the long awaited Sun Queen, hero to country and crown. However, her overwhelming amount of power attracted Corien, who saw her as a way to return his brethren to their former glory. He dredges up her deepest fears (such as her ability to easily cause destruction, what everyone will think of her once they find out, if they'll turn against her, etc.) in order to further distance Rielle from her loved ones. When these fears seem to be proven true, she ditches Audric, Ludivine, and everyone else to find Corien.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Rielle's father was once a loving parent before his wife's unintentional death at the hands of Rielle. After this event, he began to treat Rielle incredibly coldly, either by not showing her any affection or ignoring her entirely. Throughout her childhood, he constantly told her that she's a murderer and dangerous. Whenever a storm came through, he would bring her to the lower parts of the castle before forcing her to drink a sedative. Rielle believes that her father would keep her locked in a room for the rest of her life if he could get away with it, something that her mentor doesn't deny.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Upon entering the Deep, the angels were stripped of their bodies. All of their senses became muted and many of them became far less powerful than they were before. Possessing a body doesn't help: no matter how much they eat, drink, or have sex, they can never get complete fulfillment or satisfaction from these activities.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: Corien is an exceptionally strong angel who holds a deep hatred for humanity's Saints, mainly due to a deception that led to him and his fellow angels being ripped of their physicality. This hatred extends to all of humankind, and he has taken it upon himself to kill every last one of them.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: Each chapter begins with a quote of some kind. The quotes usually tie into the content of the chapter in some way, some more obvious than others.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: Corien offers himself as a devout worshiper of Rielle. He promises that he won't look at her or her powers in horror unlike her fellow humans. Rielle ultimately finds the temptation of using her incredible powers as she wishes too appealing to deny. This, in addition to being called a monster by Audric, is what pushes Rielle into joining Corien.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b6203862	comment	Interquel: The events of Queen of the Blazing Throne run concurrent with what happens in Kingsbane. Some scenes from the later book are even shown through Obritsa's perspective.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The last page or so of Lightbringer's last chapter includes brief snippets as to what other characters are doing while Rielle ascends to become one with the empirium: the Gate is sealed, Ilmaire's stopped running away from his responsibilities and now rules Borsvall alongside his new husband, Obritsa spares the lives of the magisters who aided Corien in the abduction of elemental children, Kamayin ponders how her people will move on now that the war is over, and Audric cradles his newborn daughter as he watches the bright light given off from Rielle's ascension.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b807624a	type	And Show It to You
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b807624a	comment	And Show It to You: One of the stories about Queen Rielle that survived the centuries is how she ripped out her own husband's heart. Indeed, Rielle was about to get ready to go for the kill before Eliana stopped her.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b994e8cb	type	Understanding Boyfriend
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b994e8cb	comment	Understanding Boyfriend: Ever since learning that Rielle might be one of the Queens of Prophecy, Audric repeatedly assures her that he still loves her. He defends her against naysayers, even when her reputation as the Blood Queen slowly grows stronger. The main moment when he has doubts is right after learning she killed her father (albeit accidentally) and lied about it, and he quickly regrets calling her a monster when she flees Baingarde. When he sees her again, she's visibly pregnant and briefly wonders if the child is Corien's, but Audric swiftly brushes the thought aside, vowing to love the child regardless.note (He is the father, but he didn't know that at the time.)
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Empirium Trilogy / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Characters with fantastical names such as Ludivine, Obritsa, Harkan and Corien, live in the same world as characters who're named Simon and Remy.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
The Empirium Trilogy / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: A lot about Rielle and Eliana- both their personal journeys and their personalities- mirror one another. Aside from them both being subjects of a prophecy and sharing incredible powers, they're also both young woman who have to deal with other people's expectations of how they should use those powers, what their roles should be, how they should behave, etc.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
The Empirium Trilogy / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: During Eliana's airing of her grievances against Astavar to Navi, she mentions that the Empire's soldiers raped Ventera's civilians, killed the royal family, then burned down agricultural lands and libraries.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Empirium Trilogy / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: In Lightbringer, after getting fed up with Eliana's continued rebellion, Corien makes her choose between saving her brother or saving her still-alive father from a fatal fall. He makes it clear that she can't use her powers to save them both for he'll kill them if she tries. He doesn't let her dwell on this choice either, ordering the both of them to be let loose soon after explaining all of this. Eliana immediately saves Remy.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_bb9e2f4a	type	Horseback Heroism
The Empirium Trilogy / int_bb9e2f4a	comment	Horseback Heroism: During the annual horse race, Rielle sees a horseless Audric about to be attacked by assassins from an enemy country. Without a second thought, she rides to where he is and uses her powers to stop them before they can kill him.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Empirium Trilogy / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: After Corien shows Audric and everyone attending his wedding a vision of what happened to his father, Audric takes Rielle aside to confront her about the lies she's told. Ludivine keeps trying to redirect the conversation to other matters, but Audric- someone who isn't prone to swearing- essentially tells her to shut the fuck up.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
The Empirium Trilogy / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Towards the end of her life, Queen Rielle was slowly falling apart, both physically and mentally. The strain of keeping herself together eventually became too much, leading her to become one with the empirium in massive flash of bright light. This happens in both timelines. However, in the new timeline, Rielle has more control over how her death will affect elementals and any other beings that rely on a connection to the empirium.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_bd5e9702	type	His Name Is...
The Empirium Trilogy / int_bd5e9702	comment	His Name Is...: During one of his mind-speak conversations with Rielle, Corien is about to reveal the name of the angel that took over Ludivine's body. Rielle cuts him off before he can, saying that that information isn't his to tell.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Empirium Trilogy / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: While she's never bought into the Empire's ideology, Eliana is more willing to aid the Empire than take it down. Much of that has to do with her desire to keep her family safe from the Empire's nonexistent mercy. After teaming up with the Wolf, seeing Crown's Hollow, and finding out she's the Sun Queen, she starts to move away from being an anti-hero to a more classical hero.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_c07adb60	type	Unwanted Rescue
The Empirium Trilogy / int_c07adb60	comment	Unwanted Rescue: After the Queen of Celdaria tumbles off a balcony and dies, Rielle manages to resurrect her. Upon being revived, Queen Genoveve weeps, wishing she had been left for dead so she could see her recently deceased husband again.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
The Empirium Trilogy / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: Each chapter is named after its featured character. The main books are titled after the nicknames of the last of House Courverie: Eliana the "Furyborn" Child, Rielle the "Kingsbane", and Audric the "Lightbringer".
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_c2c9748c	type	Standard Fantasy Setting
The Empirium Trilogy / int_c2c9748c	comment	Standard Fantasy Setting: The setting of the Second Age includes seven kingdoms, all of whom are headed by kings, queens, or some combination thereof. Technology is limited to swords, arrows, shields and what not for regular humans and those plus one element for anyone who can tap into the empirium.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_c59d9a4b	type	Half-Breed Discrimination
The Empirium Trilogy / int_c59d9a4b	comment	Half-Breed Discrimination: Marques were hunted down by both angels and humans, both because of their half-breed status and their unique powers of traveling through time and space.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
The Empirium Trilogy / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Kingsbane ends with the escort mission failing, Red Crown members being killed right and left, and Simon revealing himself to be an agent for the Empire. Eliana and Remy are at his mercy and all three are on their way to the Emperor.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
The Empirium Trilogy / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: Mind-speak is an ability unique to angels and wraiths. It allows them to read and communicate through the minds of other angels, wraiths, and humans.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The Empirium Trilogy / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: In Kingsbane, after Eliana is abducted by Harkan, Remy insists on helping Simon find her. Simon mentions a plan, but he doesn't say what the plan is. Whatever it was succeeds for not only does Simon find Eliana, he manages to get her to use her powers in a constructive way for the first time. Later in that same novel, Eliana and a few members of Red Crown discuss potential ways in which they can defeat the Undying Empire. The one plan that gets any detail is Simon's suggestion of going back in time to convince Rielle to kill the Undying Emperor back when he was just known as Corien. When they attempt to enact this plan, though, it fails right out of the gate because Rielle believes Eliana to be an illusion by Corien, leading her to attack Eliana.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
The Empirium Trilogy / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: The trilogy follows the lives of Rielle and Eliana as they come to grips with their powers and the expectations that come with them. Rielle's story is about her rise as the Sun Queen and the events that caused her to turn into the Blood Queen. Eliana's story is about her learning the truth behind her powers and heritage, all while trying to figure out how to bring the Undying Empire to its knees. Their stories eventually intersect towards the end of the trilogy when Eliana travels back in time to talk Rielle into killing Corien.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ce6487aa	type	Misery Builds Character
The Empirium Trilogy / int_ce6487aa	comment	Misery Builds Character: One of the reasons the Prophet gives Eliana as to why they let Corien mentally torture her for months on end was so Eliana could be "reborn" into a being capable of taking down her mother.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_cfd3e8f3	type	Save This Person, Save the World
The Empirium Trilogy / int_cfd3e8f3	comment	Save This Person, Save the World: Since Eliana is the one person who can access the empirium, Simon does everything in his power to keep her alive, if not safe, and assist her as best as he can.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The Empirium Trilogy / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Eliana was raised by loving parents, but had to watch as the Undying Empire overtook her hometown and forced her father to spend more time at war than at home. She was taught how to be a bounty hunter by her mother and continues her work after Rozen was permanently injured. Eliana hates what she does, but can't see any other alternative to both earning money and keeping her family safe from the Empire's merciless tyranny. Furthermore, her unique healing ability scares her, separating her from those she loves most. In order to keep from being overwhelmed by all of this, she thinks of herself as an unfeeling monster who wears a mask of gentleness. It takes becoming friends with the kind but firm Navi and falling in love with Simon before she opens up and allows herself to be vulnerable.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
The Empirium Trilogy / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Averted twice in Kingsbane. The first chapter opens with Rielle lamenting the fact that Sun Queen status doesn't lessen her menstrual cramps. Later on in that same novel, Eliana experiences the cramps that come with it for the first time (her healing ability made it so she never experienced period cramps until then).
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
The Empirium Trilogy / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The titles of each novel are one word made out of two: the first is Furyborn, the second Kingsbane, and the third Lightbringer.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d30cc292	type	Swirly Energy Thingy
The Empirium Trilogy / int_d30cc292	comment	Swirly Energy Thingy: While the Prophet is masking Eliana's doings from Corien, Eliana takes the time to open up a hole in the sky above Elysium. Dubbed Ostia by Elysium's citizens, the hole is a direct entrance into the Deep and casts a purplish hue over the city.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Empirium Trilogy / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Eliana goes to an angelic commander to negotiate a deal with the information she gathered about a nearby Red Crown hangout for her family's safety. The next morning, Red Crown ambushes the facility that Eliana went to, killing every prisoner they can find. Simon informs Eliana that the ambush they originally planned would've been to rescue those very same prisoners, but Red Crown can't let anyone who's seen Eliana live. Simon forces her to listen as each prisoner is killed in the background while he explains this.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
The Empirium Trilogy / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: Queen Rielle was the most powerful elemental in existence; not only could she use her powers without the need of a casting, she could manipulate all seven elements, heal all wounds, and even resurrect the dead. However, she could also kill anyone with a single flick of the wrist, and she ruthlessly murdered her own husband by ripping his heart out.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Corien was Kalmaroth before being banished to the Deep along with his kin. After escaping, he renamed himself to Corien and began building an empire with him placed at the top. By the Third Age, he's mainly referred to as the Undying Emperor by all humans and most, if not all, of his underlings. The being that contacts Eliana during her imprisonment in Elysium states that they have many names before giving her their more well known moniker: the Prophet.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: The Prophet has been manipulating events behind the scenes for years. She was the one who orchestrated Simon becoming Corien's right hand man, Eliana being captured by Corien who would use mind-speak to break her, and that Eliana's metaphorical rebirth would allow Simon to become powerful enough to create a portal to the past. This would enable Eliana to confront Rielle and hopefully bring about an end to Corien and his Undying Empire before it could even begin.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d66c4f39	comment	Matricide: Part of Rielle's backstory includes her unwittingly killing her mother. After Eliana's own mother becomes a literal monster, she kills Rozen to put her out of her misery.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: Unable to withstand the constant pain of keeping her body together, Queen Rielle's last act of magic wound up suppressing everyone's contact with the empirium, turning elementals and marques into powerless humans.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Remy's age and the subsequent age gap between him and Eliana changes a couple times throughout the series. The first flashback into Eliana's past we get in Furyborn says she made her first kill when she was twelve and Remy was five, which means they're seven years apart in age. However, another flashback in that same novel explains Eliana was ten when their father disappeared and the text states Remy was an infant- a baby, in other words- when that happened, which would make the age gap about ten years.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_da512040	comment	Fantasy Contraception: Maidsright herbs are a type of medicinal plant that acts as a form of birth control. Ludivine takes Rielle to a physician to obtain some after Rielle and Audric get caught in the middle of foreplay. Before the start of the series, Eliana took some medicine that made it so she would never become pregnant.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: In Lightbringer, the Prophet essentially shrugs off Eliana's concerns about how tampering with the past will affect the present by saying "someone smarter than me said it'll be fine, don't worry about it."
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: King Bastien and his wife, Queen Genoveve, are the ultimate authority in Celdaria and neither of them abuse their positions. Even after learning about Rielle's incredible powers- and that her deceit regarding those powers put their son in danger- King Bastien asks Rielle various questions related to her powers and why she kept them secret. When he decrees that she'll be undergoing trials to test her abilities, its made clear that he doesn't really want to make that call, but he can't ignore what she's done.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: By the time Queen Rielle joins the angels, she's pregnant with Eliana and she doesn't let her pregnancy get in the way of aiding Corien with his resurrection plan.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ddc4f035	comment	Heroic Second Wind: In Furyborn, Eliana is exhausted, hungry and stressed during the fight with the Empire fleet. After being forced to end her own mother's life, she becomes so upset that she starts a raging storm without even realizing that that's what she's doing. The storm takes down most of the fleet and it confirms to Simon that she's the Sun Queen that he's been searching for.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_df1a0454	comment	Fantasy Pantheon: The seven Saints were elementals that were each exceptionally gifted with a particular element. They created the Gate and were the ones that put an end to the Angelic Wars. Temples dedicated to each Saint were built and prayers related to each saint's particular magic are commonplace. (There are also many references to God, but it's unclear if this God is the same as or similar to the Christian God/Jesus Christ.)
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: There are several languages mentioned throughout the series with many characters stated to be speaking a specific one: one character may be speaking Celdarian at first before switching to Common, for instance. Everything the characters say, regardless of which language they're speaking, is completely legible to the reader, though there are a few words from an In-Universe language(s) written out wholesale.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Eliana is the last member of House Courverie, and both she and Simon are the last of the Old World Celdarians during the Third Age.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_e43130c1	comment	Interrupted Intimacy: During Furyborn, Rielle and Audric are about to go all the way when Ludivine's father walks in on them.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_e44a1a70	type	Bounty Hunter
The Empirium Trilogy / int_e44a1a70	comment	Bounty Hunter: Eliana and Remy's mother, Rozen, used to be a bounty hunter for the Undying Empire until an injury forced her to retire. Eliana continued her mother's work in order to support what's left of her family, as well as keep them safe from the Empire's brutality. Harkan became a bounty hunter because he didn't want Eliana to work on her own.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: Fidelia is a group of angel worshipers who aid the Undying Empire in their various experiments. They're the ones behind the abduction of countless women and girls.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
The Empirium Trilogy / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: Chapter 37 of Lightbringer is dedicated to a conversation between Eliana and the Prophet. For the most part, it's just the Prophet explaining their plan to Eliana and, by extension, the audience: why they had Simon pretend to be loyal to Corien and his Empire, why they let Eliana be tortured for months on end by Corien, what they want Eliana to do now and how Simon figures into it, etc.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Corien renamed himself after he escaped the Gate. He hates his original name (Kalmaroth) seeing it as an indelible reminder of his failure to win the Angelic Wars. The angel that possessed Ludivine insists on being referred to by Ludivine's name, in part to separate herself from her angelic kin and in part because she truly believes herself to have become Ludivine.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_e6d4b4e6	type	Society of Immortals
The Empirium Trilogy / int_e6d4b4e6	comment	Society of Immortals: Angels are a race of immortals who existed long before humans did.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_e92841f	type	Talking the Monster to Death
The Empirium Trilogy / int_e92841f	comment	Talking the Monster to Death: The plan to take down Corien and thus the Undying Empire includes going back in time and convincing Blood Queen Rielle to kill him. The first time Eliana and Simon try this, Rielle believes Eliana is an illusion conjured by Corien. The second time, Eliana has a better understanding of the pain and heartbreak that Rielle is going through, having experienced some of it herself. The empathetic conversation that Eliana has with Rielle convinces her to kill Corien.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_eea93c96	type	Blow You Away
The Empirium Trilogy / int_eea93c96	comment	Blow You Away: Windsingers are people who can manipulate air.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_eee89c8f	type	Species Loyalty
The Empirium Trilogy / int_eee89c8f	comment	Species Loyalty: Both humans and angels look down on those that sympathize with the other, to the point that marques are their only mutual enemy.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Several characters gave their weapons names. Audric's casting is named Illumenor and Eliana has a dagger and knife named Arabeth and Whistler, among others.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_eff7d17	comment	Mysterious Backer: The leader of Red Crown is known only as the Prophet. Everything else about them is an enigma, a mystery they fully intend to keep.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
The Empirium Trilogy / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Since Eliana and Remy's father have been missing for years, Eliana becomes Remy's sole caretaker after their mother becomes a crawler and Eliana is forced to kill her.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: When one of the crawlers attacking Eliana turns out to be her mother, Eliana kills them, knowing that it's far too late to save them.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_f4edd0ac	comment	In Mysterious Ways: In the beginning of Furyborn, Taliesin says the empirium "works in mysterious ways" as a way to dismiss Rielle's concerns that all the recently strange natural phenomenons are signs that the prophesied Queen's are going to appear soon.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: In Furyborn, Harkan volunteers to make a last stand against the Empire's soldiers as a means of distraction, a move that is suicidal at best. As Eliana rides away, she hears Harkan cry out but doesn't look back to see if he was shot. Both she and Remy believe him to be dead. A few chapters into Kingsbane, a battered and dirty but still very much alive Harkan turns up at the Astavari castle where Eliana and Remy are staying.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The Angelic Wars were a series of battles between humans and angels during the First Age. Since these battles happened centuries ago, we hear a lot about them, but never see them happen.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_f8173bd9	comment	Medieval European Fantasy: The setting of the Second Age includes kingdoms ruled by some form of monarchy, swords and their various accoutrements for weapons, and most people- if not everyone- seem to be heavily religious.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: Corien the Undying Emperor has spent a lot of time thinking about Rielle and his love of her. It gets to the point where he can't focus on anything else besides reuniting with his lost love, up to and including his main goal of resurrecting his kind and destroying humanity.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Harkan is set up from the beginning of Furyborn as a close friend and lover to Eliana. Once Simon enters the picture, it becomes very clear that Eliana will pair up with Simon at some point. Harkan seems to die, something that Eliana mourns over. As a means of distraction, she verbally and physically spars, letting the both of them become closer. Shortly after Harkan reappears in Kingsbane, he abducts Eliana in order to force her to travel with him to Astavar. This betrayal turns Eliana against Harkan almost completely, effectively ending their relationship. They remain civil to one another, and Eliana still feels some residual love for him, but whatever romance she and Harkan once shared becomes a thing of the past.
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The Empirium Trilogy / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the Prophet's mind, the deaths of thousands of people pale in comparison to bringing an end to Corien and, by extension, the Undying Empire.
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The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	I Am a Monster / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Immortality Begins at Twenty / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Impartial Purpose-Driven Faction / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	In Mysterious Ways / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Infodump / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Inspiration for the Work / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Interquel / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Interrupted Intimacy / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Kill All Humans / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Kissing Cousins / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Liar Revealed / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Literature of the 2020s / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Little Miss Badass / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Love Makes You Crazy / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Love-Obstructing Parents / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Magic A Is Magic A / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Magical Sensory Effect / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Making a Splash / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Mark of the Supernatural / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Matricide / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Medieval European Fantasy / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Misery Builds Character / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Mission Creep / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Murder by Suicide / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Mysterious Backer / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Named Weapons / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	No Periods, Period / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Not Growing Up Sucks / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Omnicidal Maniac / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	One Person, One Power / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Our Ghosts Are Different / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Patricide / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Plot Parallel / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Possessing a Dead Body / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Power Crutch / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Pregnant Badass / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Psychic-Assisted Suicide / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Rape, Pillage, and Burn / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Religion of Evil / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Repression Never Ends Well / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Ret-Gone / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Romantic False Lead / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Save This Person, Save the World / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Screaming Birth / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Sentient Cosmic Force / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Society of Immortals / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Space Master / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Special Person, Normal Name / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Species Loyalty / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Standard Fantasy Setting / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Stern Teacher / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Swirly Energy Thingy / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Talking the Monster to Death / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Teacher/Student Romance / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	The Magic Comes Back / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	The Magic Goes Away / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	The Power of the Sun / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Their First Time / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Time Master / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Time Travel Tales / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Trial by Ordeal / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Two Girls and a Guy / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Two-Part Trilogy / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Understanding Boyfriend / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Unspoken Plan Guarantee / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Unstable Powered Woman / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Unwanted Rescue / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Void Between the Worlds / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Weapon-Based Characterization / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Wild Child / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Worst Wedding Ever / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Wouldn't Hurt a Child / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	You Monster! / int_9988ccac
The Empirium Trilogy	hasFeature	Young Adult Literature / int_9988ccac

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