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The Paladin

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Paladin is a 1988 stand-alone Low Fantasy novel by C. J. Cherryh, better known for her science fiction. In a land resembling medieval China in some ways and similar-period Japan in others, young pig-keeper Taizu shows up at the door of legendary, exiled swordsman Master Saukendar, seeking martial training so that she can exact revenge on those who killed her family. Saukendar has turned down every hopeful who's ascended his mountain to disturb his exile, but Taizu is determined to be the exception.Saukendar isn't all he's cracked up to be, and yet he is; a lot of the story is about the inner man, Shoka, versus the outer legend, Saukendar. The story is largely told from his perspective, and we watch as Taizu changes him just as much as he changes her.Written in the same year as the final volume of the Morgaine Cycle, Exile's Gate, The Paladin has a very similar feel. It takes the same Asian, Samurai-influenced aspects seen in Vanye and applies them to a more Asian world and (unusually for a Cherryh viewpoint character) a more mature man, inverting the age and experience dynamic of the Morgaine series but not so much the emotional one.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Despite the similar name, it has no relations whatsoever to the trope The Paladin, nor to army hero in Have Gun – Will Travel. Also have zero relations to the Videogame Paladins.
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 Amazon Chaser: Taizu's mentor, Shoka.
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 Archer Archetype: As befits a samurai, Shoka is a highly skilled bowman as well as a sword-master, a skill that proves useful for hunting in his exile. When Taizu shows up on his mountain, she's already skilled with a bow, since bows are weapons permitted to peasants. Her bow is crude and self-made, but her technique is not. Shoka's calm, strategic view of battle fits the trope quite well, and he teaches Taizu to view combat that way too.
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 Action Girl: Taizu, and played quite realistically; she's acknowledged as physically incredibly capable — the best student Shoka could ever hope for — yet he drives home to her again and again how much size, strength and reach count against her, how all someone has to be to be a danger is taller, stronger and half as skilled.
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