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The Orphan's Tales

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The Orphan's Tales	comment	A mysterious orphaned girl lives by herself in the garden of a Middle Eastern-esque palace, shunned by the nobility and considered a witch due to the black birthmarks around her eyes. A boy, son of the Sultan, manages to find out her secret: in the marks are written stories, which the girl agrees to narrate. Thus begins the Framing Device to The Orphan's Tales, a fantasy book in two volumes (In the Night Garden and The Cities of Coin and Spice) by Catherynne M. Valente. What follows is a complex plot that, heavily inspired by several fairy tales and the Arabian Nights, includes most of the tropes related to those stories and subverts, deconstructs or lampshades most of them along the way.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_1191a33e	type	This Was His True Form
The Orphan's Tales / int_1191a33e	comment	This Was Her True Form: When Leander kills a random goose, she turns into her true form — a young maiden that was shapeshifted shortly after birth.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_1242b9d4	type	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal
The Orphan's Tales / int_1242b9d4	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: Aukon fell in love with a mortal girl and took her without her consent. He additionally changed her shape for these of a cow and put her in the sky to keep her all for himself. Subverted since he was finally punished for this by his sister Aukai.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_12982918	type	Same-Sex Triplets
The Orphan's Tales / int_12982918	comment	Same-Sex Triplets: The Sorella, three daughters with oracular powers granted by the Stars. Knife mentions early in her tale that daughters always come in threes to her tribe of horse-people, and that her sister's names were Quiver and Sheath. (But her daughter, Aerie, is a single birth.) It turns out that this is because the Sorella's tribe eventually becomes Knife's tribe.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_12acfd9	type	ConflictingLoyalties
The Orphan's Tales / int_12acfd9	comment	Conflicting Loyalties: Cveti, who is put forward as a candidate for the Papacy of Al-a-Nur, in the city's desperate hour. As a member of the Tower of Hermaphrodites, publicly admitting to their gender would be a heartbreaking renunciation of their faith. But as a loving subject of the city, denying the Papacy could doom Al-a-Nur. In the end, Cveti comes out as female, and ascends to the Papacy, but she holds fast to the tenets and sacraments of the Hermaphrodites as she can. Sigrid the Netweaver is torn at the end of "The Book of the Sea." On the one hand, her long-lost love from her childhood, and the prospect of returning to her old home. On the other hand, the very Saint she's idolized for so long, and the prospect of sailing beside her. She goes with St. Sigrid, and "glows like a new bride" when she boards the Maidenhead.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_14fbe67f	type	Godiva Hair
The Orphan's Tales / int_14fbe67f	comment	Godiva Hair: Giota wears nothing but a dress made of her hair. This was normal for her and her sisters, as their entire bodies were held to be sacred, and thus they couldn't find holier cloths than their own hair.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_16a21271	type	Walking Wasteland
The Orphan's Tales / int_16a21271	comment	Walking Wasteland: The Basilisk has the power to turn anything it looks at into stone— in the case of this particular one, into red sandstone. This power can be counteracted with weasel-skin. After a Despair Event Horizon, the Basilisk sets to work staring the fields of Ajanabh to death.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_174c358e	type	Star Power
The Orphan's Tales / int_174c358e	comment	Star Power: The Stars, again. Their magic is powerful but also drawn from their very essence, so that as time goes by, the Stars collectively grow weaker and weaker, and hide themselves away more often.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Orphan's Tales / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Many of the storytellers are revealed to have left out certain details, changed things, and been biased in their storytelling. Perhaps the most egregious case is Sigrid the Netweaver, who neglects to mention that she was originally a POLAR BEAR in the story she tells.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
The Orphan's Tales / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Many times, over and over again. The Stars' power is greatly waned in the world; the Sorella foresee that their death shall mean the end of their tribe's current way of life, and eventual decline and eradication; Oluwakim is ready to hunt the griffin into extinction, and end the war between them and the Arimaspians once and for all. His daughter then slays him, declaring the start of a new dynasty where griffins shall live unmolested by the giants. There are no less than three explanations offered for the decline and "death" of Ajanabh. These are, the farmland was farmed to exhaustion after centuries (bo-ring), that a basilisk blighted the fields, and that their Mint (a Lamia who was kept imprisoned there and forced to cough out coin after coin) was discontinued. Then again, possibly Subverted, as it appears Ajanabh enjoys (at least briefly) a second life of art and creation run rampant after the majority abandons the city.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_1bca196d	type	Reluctant Warrior
The Orphan's Tales / int_1bca196d	comment	Reluctant Warrior: Beast/the Leucrotta. In fact, when Leander just asks for his skin nicely, he agrees, much to the consternation of the Marsh King.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
The Orphan's Tales / int_1c3423d6	comment	The Quest: Deconstructed all over the place. Most adventures don't go as planned, and the actual travel is depicted as being extremely boring.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Orphan's Tales / int_1d2400e9	comment	Envy: Magadin's stepsisters are jealous of their mother's love for her. So they conspire to sell her to a wizard.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Orphan's Tales / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Like an updated version of the Arabian Nights, the four books are framed by the story of a prince, the sultan's son, who seeks out an outcast, mysterious girl in the garden. She tells him the stories from dusk until dawn, and always promises, at the end of one book, that the next book shall be even more wonderful. This framing device deconstructs or subverts many of the tropes of the story of Scheherezade. Instead of a crowned Sultan who is set in his ways, the boy is young and very impressionable. Instead of taking place in a plush palace bedroom, the tales are told in a garden — beautiful, but not hospitable. And instead of telling tales to delay her death, by telling the tales, the girl accelerates whatever terrible fate is waiting for her.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Orphan's Tales / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The Gaselli are the most prominent example.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_2588feac	comment	Winged Humanoid: The Hsien.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_258a59e9	type	Our Centaurs Are Different
The Orphan's Tales / int_258a59e9	comment	Our Centaurs Are Different: Their hearts are divided into eight parts, and once they ruled the Eight Kingdoms.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_2630ef75	type	Emergency Transformation
The Orphan's Tales / int_2630ef75	comment	Emergency Transformation: Happened to Aerie and other people from her tribe.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
The Orphan's Tales / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: Starlight is really the blood of the sky and can be used to perform some kinds of magic, like ShapeShifting.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
The Orphan's Tales / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: The Manikarnika, and especially Diamond, who is mentioned the most often, and always in terms of absolute purity and loveliness. It really stands out, considering that the books rip to shreds every other trope associated with Incorruptible Pure Pureness — like unicorns and golden-haired princesses.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Orphan's Tales / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: The girl's parents are so ashamed of her mark that they leave her to raise herself in the Garden.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The Orphan's Tales / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: The Black Papess.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Orphan's Tales / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Oluwakim
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The Orphan's Tales / int_325a15f1	type	Rags to Royalty
The Orphan's Tales / int_325a15f1	comment	Rags to Royalty: Ismail wasn't a peasant exactly, but he was the son of a backwater country baron.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
The Orphan's Tales / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Sleeve is a very small, but also very patient spider.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Orphan's Tales / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Folio, who is at least a very eccentric one.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
The Orphan's Tales / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: Leander's mother is burned at the stake for committing witchcraft.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_3587b71c	type	Wonder Child
The Orphan's Tales / int_3587b71c	comment	Wonder Child: Immacolata’s parents wanted a child, so her father gathered tea leaves (one of which was saturated with Zmeya’s light) and placed them inside a shoe. Thus Immacolata was born. Her father proposed this idea to her mother; she pointed out "This isn't the usual way of getting children," but he observed that the ways of the world are wondrous and strange.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
The Orphan's Tales / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: There are many romantic pairs in the books, but Eshkol the satyr and Shroud the selkie are the most noteworthy. Star-Crossed Lovers whose story recurs in "The Book of the Sea" and again in "The Book of the Scald." They are even mentioned in the epilogue, in a way that strongly suggests they found a way to be happy after all.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_38424ebb	type	Genie in a Bottle
The Orphan's Tales / int_38424ebb	comment	Genie in a Bottle: What happened to many genies before and what many of them still fear.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
The Orphan's Tales / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: A human girl who was so beautiful that she caught the eye of Aukon, the Bull-Star. He finally took her without her consent and changed her into a cow to keep her for himself. All her children seem to inherit the same curse: Huldras are often objects of affection of these who care nothing about their willingness.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_3c694b06	type	Cryptically Unhelpful Answer
The Orphan's Tales / int_3c694b06	comment	Cryptically Unhelpful Answer/ Non-Answer: Found in the epilogue. Sorrow asks Aerie why she didn't come to Sorrow sooner, why did she leave Sorrow alone to suffer in the Garden? The closest Aerie gets to answering is "The world is wide, and the raising of children is a delicate matter." Helpful stuff.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Orphan's Tales / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Giota for Quri and Jin.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Orphan's Tales / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Citizens of Shadukiam towards Idyll. He gives them the Rose Dome, one of city’s most beautiful buildings, and they not only don't pay him but also impale him and leave him to die.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_404caf13	type	Unicorn
The Orphan's Tales / int_404caf13	comment	Unicorn: We meet one in "The Book of the Scald," but this unicorn is not of the gentle peace and sanctity variety. Its tale is called "A Tale of Harm," to give you an idea.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
The Orphan's Tales / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: The Yi possess the bodies of the dead, but the bodies that they use inevitably end up decaying and becoming unusable. There is also a necromancer who learns this art from the Man Dressed in the Moon. Because he isn't Yi bodies he inhabits don't decay the same way bodies inhabited by Yi do.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_420e223e	type	Girl in the Tower
The Orphan's Tales / int_420e223e	comment	Girl in the Tower: Subverted. Magadin isn't actually a damsel, nor is she trapped.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
The Orphan's Tales / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Omir Doulios.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
The Orphan's Tales / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: The Girl, who has read and memorized the stories on her eyelids. She tells the stories to the Boy.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_4510b368	type	Ambiguous Gender
The Orphan's Tales / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: In Al-a-Nur, the dedicates of the Tower of Hermaphrodites all dress identically, covering their bodies in such a way as to leave their genders entirely ambiguous. This is part of their religion: they find the sacred in perfect balance between opposites. However, this can cause problems... see Conflicting Loyalties, below.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_45567321	type	Fantastic Ghetto
The Orphan's Tales / int_45567321	comment	Fantastic Ghetto: Magical beings and other non-humans in Shadukiam live in separated areas, outside of the Rose Dome. Djinn had their own crowded quarter, before they moved to Kash. Yi are forced to wear special clothes to distinguish them from normal people. Giota, an oracle who knows the answer to every question, chose to reside in the shadow of Basilica, where only the despised appear, to guide them.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_4668be6f	type	Distinguishing Mark
The Orphan's Tales / int_4668be6f	comment	Distinguishing Mark: The Girl's dark markings around her eyes, which have led the court to fear and ostracize her.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_47f524ff	type	Fantastic Religious Weirdness
The Orphan's Tales / int_47f524ff	comment	Fantastic Religious Weirdness: Seen a couple of times in Al-a-Nur. A candidate for Papess is torn because their faith, as one of the Tower of the Hermaphrodites, demands that they keep their physical sex concealed. Also, Leander's story finally ends with him entering the Tower of Patricides, whose members must be male and, well, patricides.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
The Orphan's Tales / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: The Ash Queen. Played with in that normal for her is possessing a spark of flame like other djinn.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_4cccd2a9	type	Mad Oracle
The Orphan's Tales / int_4cccd2a9	comment	Mad Oracle: Subverted with Giota. She pretends to be mad to scare off wealthy hypocrites and make space for those desperate enough (thus really in need) to seek her advice.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_4e2ccd24	type	North Is Cold, South Is Hot
The Orphan's Tales / int_4e2ccd24	comment	North Is Cold, South Is Hot: Muireann (north, bordering the sea, and frigid) and Ajanabh (warm, southerly, and brimming with spice and color) are the most obvious example.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Orphan's Tales / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Leander's story almost entirely revolves around him attempting to bring back to life Aerie, who he foolishly killed. Later, it shifts to being about avenging Knife and Aerie, who have been wronged by his father. The Sirens in book four are also atoners. They used to sing happily on their rocky island, but they didn't realize that their beautiful voices drew sailors to founder and drown on their shores. After they discover this, they leave their island, vow to never sing again, and become dancer/calligraphers.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_5171abed	type	Loads and Loads of Races
The Orphan's Tales / int_5171abed	comment	Loads and Loads of Races: There are humans, to start with. There are animals such as hedgehogs, goldfish, cormorants, polar bears, and herons, which talk and have their own societies. Then there are Stars, djinni (made from Star-fire), the Yi, and the Hsien, for races that come from the heavens. Races that come from the sea include Magyrs, mermaids (a brief mention), Lamia, and selkies. On earth there are Arimaspians and other cyclops, giants, Griffins, dragons, centaurs, Monopods, Cynocepheli, huldras, harpies, manticores, Gaselli, satyrs, kappas, and there are references to more.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_5360c039	type	Karmic Transformation
The Orphan's Tales / int_5360c039	comment	Karmic Transformation: A whole city, which becomes the city of Marrow. Also after you die, you are given a form, which is connected to who you were during your life.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Orphan's Tales / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The Leucrotta is actually a fairly nice guy, if you don't try to fight him. Even then, he'd mostly kill you because that's his role in the story, not because he actually dislikes you.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Orphan's Tales / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Several instances, including the Leucrotta and the harpies, and some might argue that Zmeya herself counts. But the clearest instance is in the faiths of the Tower of Patricides and the Tower of the Dead. Both faiths dedicate themselves to spiritual understanding, knowledge, and ritual, and live in harmony with the more "conventional" Towers such as the Tower of Life and the Tower of Sun and Moon.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Orphan's Tales / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Between humans and almost every magical being, especially Stars. Also how the Oluwa feel about the Griffin and vice-versa — heck, Oluwakim feels this way towards humans, believing them to be a far inferior race to Arimaspians.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Orphan's Tales / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Monopods have a few things in common with Jews — for example, the main Monopod in the story is named Chayim, and his beloved is Tova, they look back with longing towards a lost homeland, and they are hated and despised by other Shaduki even though the Monopods form an important part of the Shaduki economy, they're blamed for poisoned wells and blighted crops — much like real-life Jews, in medieval history.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
The Orphan's Tales / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Hind and Hadil appear to be this, but as the story progresses it becomes much more complicated as to whether or not being the "responsible" girl is actually a good thing to be.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
The Orphan's Tales / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: The girl herself, as indicated in the series title, but there are a surprisingly high number of orphans throughout the story by all sorts of Parental Abandonment - including Scald, Knife, Captain Tommy, Seven, Oubliette, Snow, etc. etc. Stars, Djinn, and manticores, by their unusual creation myths, could all be considered orphaned races, contradictory as that sounds.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Orphan's Tales / int_64edb99c	comment	Always Save the Girl: Eyvind sets out to defy all his country's laws and traditions to be with the girl he loves. He even changes his species. In the end he estranges himself for decades from everyone he knew and loved in the hopes of being reunited with her.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
The Orphan's Tales / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: The Pra-Iti of Marrow. Their name derives from the Sanskrit term translated as "hungry ghosts". A hunger-demon consumed an entire city, turning the people into Pra-Iti. They're solid enough to take living children prisoners. Even when the whole city is waste, they're compelled to act out what was so important to them in life: feeding the city's Mint.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_66b32e36	type	Belly Mouth
The Orphan's Tales / int_66b32e36	comment	Belly Mouth: Giota.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Orphan's Tales / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Most notably the Mare herself, but motherless children are a common occurrence in this story, whether because their mother is dead, disappeared, or just emotionally unavailable.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_673ce90d	type	Refused by the Call
The Orphan's Tales / int_673ce90d	comment	Refused by the Call: When we meet Sigrid the Netweaver, she's a tippling nobody mending nets at the docks and taking pity on a poor waif. But a lifetime ago, in Al-a-Nur, she was sure that she was the prophesied orphan destined to rescue St. Sigrid. After years of searching, the realization that she had never had such a destiny utterly broke her.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Orphan's Tales / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Lantern towards Aerie.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Orphan's Tales / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The girl is really Sorrow, daughter of two dead stars. The child Lantern took under his wings turned out to be the real daughter of the people Aerie left Sorrow with. Sigrid the Netweaver is actually Ulla, the bear that Eyvind was in love with. Knife is Leander's mother, and Aerie is his half-sister.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Orphan's Tales / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Sorrow's mother hoped to avert this for her, giving her that name so that the rest of her life would balance it in joy. Other names include Solace (Sorrow's counterpart), Knife (part of a Proud Warrior Race), Hour (originally a clock), Seven (the seventh son of a seventh son), Snow (a girl who lost all color), Scald (a djinn born of magic flame), Dinarzad (Queen Scheherazade's sister in Arabian Nights) etc. Oubliette is a name for a trap from which no one can escape, and Oubliette develops an obsession with escaping and freedom. The name Sleeve may seem an odd one for a spider, but it might be an updated version of "sleave," an antiquated word (found in Shakespeare) that refers to silk that is prepared for weaving. The name of the city of Al-a-Nur sounds like the Arabic words "Allah" and "Noor," meaning "God" and "Light."
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The Orphan's Tales / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Orphan's Tales / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The story ends with Aerie, Lantern, Solace, Scald, and Sleeve showing up to embrace Sorrow as her family. The prince is sad, as he thinks his role in the story is over... until Sorrow reaches out to him, asking him to join her on her future adventures, and he follows her with great joy.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Orphan's Tales / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Zmeya and the Sorella. Zmeya asserts that this is the case for the Stars, who even if they can see their whole destiny on earth unspooling before them, are powerless to stop it, just as they cannot change their course in the heavens.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7404b889	type	Two Siblings In One
The Orphan's Tales / int_7404b889	comment	Three Siblings In One: Giota was born one of the oracular Sorella: Pangiota, Legiota, and Magiota. Before Legiota and Magiota died, they fed Pangiota their energy so that she could be the three of them in one, the single Giota.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_74440b13	type	Our Genies Are Different
The Orphan's Tales / int_74440b13	comment	Our Genies Are Different: Genies can grant wishes, but are restricted by law to ones granted by Kashkash, their god. They also only live for about fifteen years at the most, and when they die their fires will go out. They also need fire to grant wishes.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Orphan's Tales / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Several phrases recur in particular books, others appear throughout the stories. For example, "A hole is just empty space." "I [verbed]. Who would not have [verbed]?" "Ajanabh was only lately dead — the wake still raged on." "In my younger days I was a [insert improbable creature here]."
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The Orphan's Tales / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
The Orphan's Tales / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The city of Marrow. It also stands out as the only place with an English name. Marrow is not a designation, it's a description.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Orphan's Tales / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Quri and Jin. Justified, since this is the only way their species will survive.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
The Orphan's Tales / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: A great deal of the monsters and humanoid races in the books is based on something that Earth scholars once believed (mostly classical and medieval.) Firebirds, manticores, and fox-women are only the most well-known.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
The Orphan's Tales / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: The entire Tower of Patricides is based around this, although they view it as a very serious religious ritual. In a more villainous example, Ismail kills his father. Leander also kills his father and later joins the Tower of Patricides.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
The Orphan's Tales / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: During their time in Marrow Oubliette and Seven become very close and even sleep in the same bed, but don’t show anything besides brotherly/sisterly devotion to each other. It’s subverted much later when Seven starts to develop more romantic interest in Oubliette. It makes her want to leave him behind and go find Zmeya.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
The Orphan's Tales / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: As is typical for a Catherynne M. Valente book. Just to begin - just staying within "The Book of the Steppe"... that firebird that the Harpoon-Star was hunting? The gold-and-jasper belt that King Ismail fitted around his wife, Helia? The one feather that Lantern gives away? They will all make important re-appearances within that book.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
The Orphan's Tales / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: Not present through the entire text, but at points within the story the same event will be told by different, and conflicting, points of view.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7d93efb	type	Stellar Name
The Orphan's Tales / int_7d93efb	comment	Stellar Name: Technically, although they're more like titles: all of the Stars (more properly, constellations) are known by the shapes that they form (Serpent, Harpoon, Twin, Weaver), and their personal names are more private.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7dbd52b8	type	Light Is Good
The Orphan's Tales / int_7dbd52b8	comment	The name of the city of Al-a-Nur sounds like the Arabic words "Allah" and "Noor," meaning "God" and "Light."
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7e3b6bb6	type	Stages of Monster Grief
The Orphan's Tales / int_7e3b6bb6	comment	Stages of Monster Grief: Magadin. She goes through despair, because of what she has been turned into, continues with quiet resignation and at the end fully embraces her new nature.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7e676cdf	type	Engagement Challenge
The Orphan's Tales / int_7e676cdf	comment	Engagement Challenge: By longstanding tradition of his country, Ismail can only marry a woman who perfectly fits a gold-and-jasper belt. He thinks the tradition is stupid, but also realizes he won't be king without meeting the condition.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7f152e56	type	Our Mermaids Are Different
The Orphan's Tales / int_7f152e56	comment	Our Mermaids Are Different: Indeed, they're big, burly, poisonous, and will drink you under the table. And called magyrs. There are technically mermaids as well, but they aren't nearly as interesting. There are also Lamia, whose tops are three-breasted women with blue skin, and whose bottoms are immense sea serpents. They are always female, live at the ocean floor (and have little lights in their hair, like anglerfish), and appear to be functionally immortal.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_7f16e7a4	type	Shapeshifting Lover
The Orphan's Tales / int_7f16e7a4	comment	Shapeshifting Lover: Shroud, although Eshkol only knows him as a human, and not as a seal. Zmeya acts out the tale of Melusine, becoming the Raja's wife only on the condition that he leave her and her children one night of the month to herself.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Orphan's Tales / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Dinarzad is engaged and by the end married to a stranger.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Orphan's Tales / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Shroud, a selkie, and Eshkol, a satyr. There's also Seven, an ordinary human, and Oubliette, a huldra. And there are possible others, ambiguously phrased.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_879c23d5	type	Celestial Body
The Orphan's Tales / int_879c23d5	comment	Celestial Body: The Stars. First, they were lights in the sky. Most of them chose to come down to earth, but still claim to their homes in the firmament. On Earth they take various forms, some humanoid, some not, but most of them have a blazing white look to them, and when cut, they bleed powerful liquid magic.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
The Orphan's Tales / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Hind and Hadil.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
The Orphan's Tales / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: Knife. Years and years of living alone as a witch hasn't bred it out of her — she still remembers each detail of her tribe's customs and history, and is just as deadly as ever.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_8f9ebe06	type	Chained by Fashion
The Orphan's Tales / int_8f9ebe06	comment	Chained by Fashion: The Black Papess wears the chains that were used to bind her previous incarnation in death/torture.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
The Orphan's Tales / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The Kingdom of Mice.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Orphan's Tales / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Indrajit and the Vaharaasind get some.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_9381f239	type	Clockwork Creature
The Orphan's Tales / int_9381f239	comment	Clockwork Creature: Hour resides in the city of Ajanabh, the creation of semi-mad scientist Folio. Originally Hour was a fancy clock, shaped like a rooster, but Folio kept fiddling with the device, adding more parts and a voice, and Hour began to ask questions. Now Folio considers her to be a clockwork daughter.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_96804de5	type	Born in the Saddle
The Orphan's Tales / int_96804de5	comment	Born in the Saddle: Knife's tribe, a Proud Warrior Race who live in such harmony with their horses that they even picture God as a powerful mare (other people talking about the Mare refer to her as the "Sky.")
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The Orphan's Tales / int_985d6d7f	type	Master of Illusion
The Orphan's Tales / int_985d6d7f	comment	Master of Illusion: Ragnhild. The people of Shadukiam would not follow her to war, terrified of Al-a-Nur and its secret powers, and so her entire army of monsters and killers is an illusion she conjured up on the hope that Al-a-Nur would give up without a fight.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_99390db0	type	Saintly Church
The Orphan's Tales / int_99390db0	comment	Saintly Church: The twelve towers of the Dreaming City, Al-a-Nur, each serve as the center of a religious cult, with a Papess holding them all in balance. The people in the city don't compete with one another to see which is "Right" or prove dominance, but each respects their neighbor's path as another way to the truth, and the members abide by their vocations with love and devotion.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_99a7aa94	type	Seven Deadly Sins
The Orphan's Tales / int_99a7aa94	comment	Seven Deadly Sins: Greed: It is what led city of Shadukiam to its doom more than one time. Lust: For power, from Indrajit, through the previous king of Eight Kingdoms to Ismail. Gluttony: Golod, and by extension Shadukiam. Envy: Magadin's stepsisters are jealous of their mother's love for her. So they conspire to sell her to a wizard.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_9a3285c	type	Invisibility
The Orphan's Tales / int_9a3285c	comment	Invisibility: Ostraya, the Princess of the Country of Glass, is afflicted with this condition. There is a huge bit of Fridge Logic implicit — she acquired her invisibility by being caught outside during a rain of glass shards, and she says that as a result, her body is made of glass. But the narrative treats her as if she is perfectly invisible, when simple common sense deduces that glass in the shape of a young woman would still be quite visible, by reflecting light and distorting the images of what's behind her.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
The Orphan's Tales / int_9dfd7154	comment	This also explains, in the frame story, Dinarzad's change of heart after having heard only a fraction of the Book of the Sea — and maybe why she is so invested in the story of the Black Papess, when she actually never heard any of the story of the Black Papess.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_9fae4f5c	type	OurGriffinsAreDifferent
The Orphan's Tales / int_9fae4f5c	comment	Our Griffins Are Different: The size of elephants, often vivid in coloration. Their preferred diet is horses, their preferred material for their nests is gold, and their enemies are the Arimaspians.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_a0bb0b37	type	Knight Templar Big Brother
The Orphan's Tales / int_a0bb0b37	comment	Knight Templar Big Brother: Laakea.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
The Orphan's Tales / int_a2484b0e	comment	The Beautiful Elite: Wealthy residents of the city of Shadukiam. The setting alone should give you an idea: They live in the most beautiful city in the world, pieced together by djinn-magic, crowned by diamond spires and a magnificent dome covered in roses that never wilt. The crowning achievement of their lives is eating anything dainty, rare, and unhealthy, especially food derived from jewels. Look away from the Rose Dome, however, and you'll find crowded slums teeming with Fantastic Racism, corpse-defiling evil spirits, and a long history of corruption, greed, and betrayal, which finally catches up with the beautiful city.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Orphan's Tales / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Huldra, 1/3 a cow, 1/3 a tree and 1/3 a girl.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Orphan's Tales / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Taglio castrated himself as a way to worship the Heifer-Star.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_a627a930	type	Gender Is No Object
The Orphan's Tales / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: Taken to an extreme position with the Tower of the Hermaphrodites. Their members present to the whole world (and one another) as androgynes, so anyone will be accepted as an acolyte... as long as they have disguised their gender from the moment they entered the city. Averted with the Holy Seat of Al-a-Nur. They can only accept a Papess, someone who is publicly female.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_a6be3ad5	type	Rule of Seven
The Orphan's Tales / int_a6be3ad5	comment	Rule of Seven: Seven Stars made up the Marnikarnika, which became seven stars in the heavens (implied to be the Pleiades). According to the vague Star religion, if seven sons are born to a couple, then this is a gift from the Stars and the seventh son must be returned to them — exposed on a hill to die.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_a7e85c0a	type	Sliding Scale of Unavoidable vs. Unforgivable
The Orphan's Tales / int_a7e85c0a	comment	Sliding Scale of Unavoidable vs. Unforgivable: Leander's father, a wicked king, sums up the issue when Leander says that he wants to be a better king:
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The Orphan's Tales / int_aaf863b	type	Edible Theme Naming
The Orphan's Tales / int_aaf863b	comment	Edible Theme Naming: The Magyr we meet is named Grog (a type of rum served at sea) and her sister is named Tack (hard biscuits, eaten — you guessed it — at sea.)
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ab0a1453	type	Prematurely Grey-Haired
The Orphan's Tales / int_ab0a1453	comment	Prematurely Grey-Haired: Snow becomes an exaggerated example. Originally black-haired and dark-skinned, after the death of her parents in snowy Muireann, the stress of life as a poor orphan bleaches the color out of her until she's the same color as the snow.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_abe166cc	type	Bond Creatures
The Orphan's Tales / int_abe166cc	comment	Bond Creatures: Discussed, but not seen in The Book of the Sea. In the Tower of Life in Al-a-Nur, dedicates bond their lives to an animal, and they live together, hunt together, and die together.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ad5283e1	type	Robot Girl
The Orphan's Tales / int_ad5283e1	comment	Robot Girl: Hour
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Orphan's Tales / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Kappas love their cucumbers.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_af19229b	type	Plant Person
The Orphan's Tales / int_af19229b	comment	Plant Person: Ravhija and later her seedling Ravhi. She lives in, and is connected to, a tree, but her body is compared frequently to pumpkin (which grows on a vine).
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The Orphan's Tales / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Orphan's Tales / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Leander wants an adventure when he sneaks out of the palace. He comes to regret it. The idea is also expressed in this trope:
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The Orphan's Tales / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
The Orphan's Tales / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Lampshaded and subverted. Magadin makes a point of saying that her stepmother was wonderful. Her stepsisters, though... well, they were certainly wicked enough to sell her out to Omir.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
The Orphan's Tales / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: The Hive Mind of the Kingdom of the Mice have nothing on their collective mind except for devouring the world and reducing it to dust, dust, dust!
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The Orphan's Tales / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
The Orphan's Tales / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: The enormous Echeneis, so large it can swallow entire masted ships without noticing. It's described as having baleen, so it's a kind of Monster Whale.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_b349a835	type	Soiled City on a Hill
The Orphan's Tales / int_b349a835	comment	Soiled City on a Hill: Shadukiam. Its citizens care about nothing besides money (their very religion seems to be centred around it) and they finally meet a rather karmic end.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
The Orphan's Tales / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: When you change form, you body adjusts to this change. Played with in Aerie's case. She keeps a human mind inside a goose body, but thinks in inhuman categories, like nest and eggs instead of home and children.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Orphan's Tales / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: The Yi regularly kill sentient beings of every race or species, and see no reason why anyone would be upset at the sight of their loved ones' dead bodies walking around, possessed by a monster and decomposing. On the other hand, if one of their own is killed, they will tear the killer to shreds where he stands.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
The Orphan's Tales / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: Seven and Oubliette.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Orphan's Tales / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Characters have names with Middle Eastern, Scandinavian, Indian, African, Japanese, Eastern European, Greek, English and many other influences. Bonus points need to be given to Ragnhild and St. Sigrid, two women from Middle Eastern inspired cultures who have Scandinavian-sounding names.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ba907fe2	type	Entitled to Have You
The Orphan's Tales / int_ba907fe2	comment	Entitled to Have You: This is Cariaco the Hedgehog's feeling towards Oubliette. He thinks that since he was such a good and playful golden ball, he's entitled to marry her.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
The Orphan's Tales / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: The good ship Maidenhead, a red ship whose very boards are infused with the magic and love of a Star. Crewed entirely by women, and monstrous women at that. Her mast bears sweet oranges for all the crew, and her red sails are feared the world over as omens of piracy!
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The Orphan's Tales / int_bb0b2739	type	Nested Story
The Orphan's Tales / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: At points in the book, the story is as much as seven layers deep.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
The Orphan's Tales / int_bbcdd673	comment	There are also Lamia, whose tops are three-breasted women with blue skin, and whose bottoms are immense sea serpents. They are always female, live at the ocean floor (and have little lights in their hair, like anglerfish), and appear to be functionally immortal.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_be009544	type	Holy City
The Orphan's Tales / int_be009544	comment	Holy City: Al-a-Nur, the seat of the Twelve Towers. Eleven religions are held in balance by the rule of a Papess.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
The Orphan's Tales / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Recurs frequently. Sigrid's life story has become the subject of traveling show, opera, and a religion (Sigrid herself is not very pleased when she finds out.) Kashkash is said to be the first genie who ever lived, and feared by both his own kind and humans, even many years after his death. Turns out to be invoked by Kashkash himself. He was neither the first nor the most powerful.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_c00802ea	type	Remembered I Could Fly
The Orphan's Tales / int_c00802ea	comment	Remembered I Could Fly: It takes Grog the Magyr a too-close scrape with death to remember that she has sacs of exceptionally potent venom under her breasts, and then put them to good use. She lampshades it by saying how forgetful she is.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
The Orphan's Tales / int_c2e295cd	comment	Curse: Golod, He Who Swallows, is an embodiment of hunger and devours the city of Marrow, where they had boasted that they "ate all things" and prized nothing but money, food, and riches. Subverted interestingly, in that Golod himself claims that he isn't some kind of cosmic punishment, but that he only set to devouring Marrow-That-Was because it seemed interesting and delicious.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
The Orphan's Tales / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: No Star has ever killed another Star, according to the Harpoon-Star. He can't bring himself to even Mercy Kill his sisters' handmaidens, when they beg him for death.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_c59d9a4b	type	Half-Breed Discrimination
The Orphan's Tales / int_c59d9a4b	comment	Half-Breed Discrimination: Genie/human couples are strictly forbidden. Children from such unions, if discovered, are burned alive and then have their ashes thrown into the sea.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Orphan's Tales / int_c6538cc6	comment	The Dulcinea Effect: Applies to Zmeya, to an extent (people who hear her tale tend to grow obsessed by it), but more pertinently, applied to the tales themselves. To name one example, Scald is ready to abandon her entire race and protect the city of Ajanabh at all costs, just after spending a night listening to Ajanabh residents tell their stories. Seems to be a deliberate pattern, but the girl only says, "The tales have a great magic in them." This also explains, in the frame story, Dinarzad's change of heart after having heard only a fraction of the Book of the Sea — and maybe why she is so invested in the story of the Black Papess, when she actually never heard any of the story of the Black Papess.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Orphan's Tales / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Attempted with Seven. The "gods" didn't care or even knew.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Orphan's Tales / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Zmeya and Itto are the girl's parents. Knife is Leander's mother
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The Orphan's Tales / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
The Orphan's Tales / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Idyll
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ca2608c5	type	Wicked Weasel
The Orphan's Tales / int_ca2608c5	comment	Wicked Weasel: At least if you ask a basilisk.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Orphan's Tales / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: More than a few characters, as is standard practice in a fairy tale. Most interesting, though, the boy's name is never revealed. The girl appears to be going the same way until the very end.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_cc436d11	type	Fauns and Satyrs
The Orphan's Tales / int_cc436d11	comment	Fauns and Satyrs: Eshkol and her kinsmen. They are divided into families based on which tree they will turn into after their death.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_cd54b574	type	Switched at Birth
The Orphan's Tales / int_cd54b574	comment	Switched at Birth: Sorrow is left in Solace's place. Solace is given to Lantern to raise.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
The Orphan's Tales / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Interestingly, even if some characters, like Zmeya, claim You Can't Fight Fate, the book as a whole seems to teach us that if you really want and try hard enough you may find your own path to follow.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_cf7b362	type	Horror Hunger
The Orphan's Tales / int_cf7b362	comment	Horror Hunger / Hungry Menace: A lord named Maciej becomes filled with an insatiable hunger, which drives his lands to ruin and can only be (briefly) sated by eating his wife's body. His hunger is reincarnated in Golod, a demonic creature that lays waste to an entire city.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_d0309fad	type	Religion is Magic
The Orphan's Tales / int_d0309fad	comment	Religion is Magic: Invoked, but never actually seen. The Papess of the city tells Ragnhild that if she harms a single dedicate of Al-a-Nur, that the heavens themselves will open and utterly destroy Ragnhild and all her troops. But things never end up coming to that extremity.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_d19dc823	type	The Gods Must Be Lazy
The Orphan's Tales / int_d19dc823	comment	The Gods Must Be Lazy: Some characters wonder, where is Mare, when her children left alone are spending time killing and torturing each other.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_d247a7c3	type	Beauty to Beast
The Orphan's Tales / int_d247a7c3	comment	Beauty to Beast: Magadin, and the Wizard's other victims, have been turned into monsters over the course of their confinement, although she retains her pretty face, at least. But after Knife sets her free, she learns to love her monstrousness. The subjects of Marrow were turned from ordinary humans (although ones altering themselves with plastic surgery in bizarre ways) into Pra-Iti, ungainly and ugly beings with hideous long necks and stomachs of diamond.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_d57dfae4	comment	Eyes Do Not Belong There/Eyeless Face: One of the Giota triplets has no eyes on her face, but instead has them on her stomach. To round out the trifecta, one of her sisters has ears on her stomach rather than her head, and the last sister has her mouth on her stomach.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_d5ac9158	comment	Harping on About Harpies: Harpies in this world are vocational mourners, and devote themselves to smelling and inspecting putrefying bodies so they can prepare proper laments for the dead one's life. And they resemble women with the heads of hoopoe birds. That may be a pun.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_d780b394	comment	Mythopoeia: SF Revu's review of In the Night Garden phrases it well: "Valente... has sown the seeds of an entire mythos, all her own." There's a Creation Myth and godlike Stars and explanations for the source of magic, but it's a humanist world — there are no primal gods of good and evil, just sapient beings making choices by their own lights.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Any goldfish can become one by jumping over a dam. However, its immature phase will look exactly like a young maiden — until they mature fully. Flying over the same dam will cause said dragon to revert back to being a goldfish.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
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The Orphan's Tales / int_d9764d48	type	Dangerous 16th Birthday
The Orphan's Tales / int_d9764d48	comment	Dangerous 16th Birthday: Sigrid is kidnapped by pirates when she is sixteen. It's lampshaded as "the age at which such catastrophes of serendipity occur."
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The Orphan's Tales / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: In Book Four, The Basilisk accidentally kills his dearest friend, Ulissa, and is so heartbroken that he sets his Walking Wasteland powers to work on the fields of Ajanabh, and finally looks at his own reflection. In Book One, the handmaidens of the Snake-Star beg for death after their temple is sacked. They've suffered rape, their goddess is gone, their temple is destroyed, they have nothing left to live for.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ddb124b3	comment	Cast Herd: The number of named characters is humongous, but fortunately they are divided up by appearances in four books. Mostly.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Quri and Jin are the last of the griffins, as they have been hunted to extinction by the cyclops, until their eggs hatch.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_e545350f	comment	Lust: For power, from Indrajit, through the previous king of Eight Kingdoms to Ismail.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Orphan's Tales / int_e563bf09	comment	Indeed, they're big, burly, poisonous, and will drink you under the table. And called magyrs. There are technically mermaids as well, but they aren't nearly as interesting. There are also Lamia, whose tops are three-breasted women with blue skin, and whose bottoms are immense sea serpents. They are always female, live at the ocean floor (and have little lights in their hair, like anglerfish), and appear to be functionally immortal.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Orphan's Tales / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Shroud and Eshkol. They happily spend seven years together, but Shroud's instinct finally pushes him to leave his satyr lover and return to the sea. When he realizes they could have built a house on the shore and live there together, he spends several years looking for her to no effect. Unfortunately, during this time Eshkol remains imprisoned in a stomach of sea monster with the rest of her crew. The ending of the second novel suggests they finally reunite and live happily ever after. Most literally, Eyvind and his beloved she-bear, Ulla, seek to marry at the time that a Star is murdered. As their whole culture is based around the Stars, this is a period of great mourning, including a prohibition on all marriages.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
The Orphan's Tales / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: In Al-a-Nur, the new Papess takes on a new name with her office, just like the Pope in our world. Furthermore, all the dedicates of the Tower of St. Sigrid name themselves "St. Sigrid," with distinguishing titles. The woman who narrates most of "The Book of the Sea" is "Sigrid of the Ways," though on this page we also refer to her as "Sigrid the Netweaver." Late in the book, we learn her birth name was Ulla.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_e8dda3a2	type	Neglectful Precursors
The Orphan's Tales / int_e8dda3a2	comment	Neglectful Precursors: The Stars both resent and love the Mare that made them, and some of them are very bitter that they're apparently accidental by-products of cosmic creation and that the Mare doesn't care at all about their well-being. A step downward, the first Djinn were created by Star-fire touching the world — so the Djinn know that they're accidental by-products. They don't much like this either. Subverted with the Hsien, who also know that they're accidental by-products of the Moon's life cycle, but are totally fine with that, and love the Moon as their mother, while living their own lives.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Almost all of the Stars, and a few other elemental forces. The Yi. They can’t understand why people may be terrified by seeing of their dead loved ones, walking amongst them again. They seem to be offended by the law that forces them to wear distinguishing clothes. The Gaselli. There's nothing wrong with eating people but it is an abomination to eat sheep or goats, because they look after the sheep and goats.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: Seven.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Dinarzad loses her Jerkass status entirely by the second book.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
The Orphan's Tales / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: The Marnikarnika, and Diamond foremost among them. All that they wanted was to prove that humans and Stars could live in harmony and peace. And for their trust they were murdered in their beds. This might be justified in that the Marnikarnika never once speak for themselves, it is only their myth that spreads, and we hear their tale from a Star that mourns them — neither an unbiased source.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_f1d2c779	comment	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Zmeya. A king who is about to kill her and her fellow priestesses can't help but notice her flawless pale skin, dark hair with green hints, and large black eyes. She is so beautiful that he not only doesn't kill her, but he takes her as his wife, that day, and with the conditions she sets.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: A straight example in the case of Immaculota's parents. She is born as a Wonder Child. Lantern the firebird is another example. He wants nothing more than a little chick of his own to love— unfortunately, as a firebird, his life cycle is symbiotic with the Ixora tree. Later, he gains an adoptive human daughter, Solace.
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The Orphan's Tales / int_fd68019a	comment	Our Sirens Are Different: Unwittingly enthralling, the three siren sisters sing for pure joy of it, and have no idea the effect their singing has on sailors — which is, the sailors hear the voices of the women that they love best, and almost always jump overboard to be with "her." When the sirens do learn what their songs have wrought, they vow to be silent forever. Also, they are birds from the waist up and human women from the waist down.
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