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The Pillars of Reality

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The Pillars of Reality	comment	The Pillars of Reality is a series of Fantasy-ish (perhaps Science Fantasy) novels by John Hemry (aka Jack Campbell). They mark a departure from his more normal straight Science Fiction work (such as The Lost Fleet). So far, there are twelve books set in this world — the original series had six books, and a follow-up series called The Legacy Of Dragons had three, and the Empress of the Endless Sea prequel series also has three.The original series consists of: The Dragons of Dorcastle (2014) The Hidden Masters of Marandur (2015) The Assassins of Altis (2015) The Pirates of Pacta Servanda (2016) The Servants of the Storm (2016) The Wrath of the Great Guilds (2016)The sequel series (The Legacy Of Dragons) so far consists of: Daughter of Dragons (2017) Blood of Dragons (2017) Destiny of Dragons (2018)There is also a prequel series (Empress of the Endless Sea) about Mari's ancestor Jules of Landfall consists of: Pirate of the Prophecy (2020) Explorer of the Endless Sea (2020) Fate of the Free Lands (2020)The world (called Dematr) is dominated by two rival Guilds, the Mages and the Mechanics. Each Guild guards its secrets jealously, while insisting that their enemies are frauds and charlatans. Both hold the commons (people who aren't part of either guild) in disdain, and are in turn greatly resented. They exercise strict discipline over their members; joining isn't optional, independent operators are eliminated, and questioning official doctrine results in harsh punishment. The system is beginning to crack, but the Guild leaders are more likely to shoot the messenger than try to fix anything.The story starts off when Mari, a Mechanic, and Alain, a Mage, are thrown together in the aftermath of a bandit attack. They're forced to work together to survive, and from their interaction, they start to learn that a lot of what their Guilds have told them — especially about the other side — is untrue.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_17942015	comment	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: Mari has killed two dragons as of the start of the second book, and the story precedes her wherever she goes.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
The Pillars of Reality / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Magic doesn't work on humans, so technically, all people have this. It's only a very limited protection, however, since the effects of magic aimed elsewhere can still be transmitted to people. For example, heating the air next to a person will burn them.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Pillars of Reality / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Prince Tien is a sadist who is devoid of any empathy or compassion.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Pillars of Reality / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right/ Gone Horribly Wrong: Both in a matter of speaking. Mages were presumably created by the Demeter's geneticists in a bid to stop the Mechanics from taking over the world. It sort of worked for a while, with Mages and Mechanics going for each others throats every time they laid eyes on their enemies. What the geneticists failed to take into account is what might happen if the people who rely on the philosophy that "Nothing is Real" for their powers start to wonder "If nothing is real why should I care what happens to other people?". Thus the Mage guild came to be and an uneasy truce with the Mechanics, with the latter unable to destroy the former, and the former not caring to keep going after the latter. And then Mari was born.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_19d336a4	type	Human Weapon
The Pillars of Reality / int_19d336a4	comment	Human Weapon: Fire Mages are relatively rare, but the most clear cut mages for combat. Lighting Mages are more ideal for an assassination.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
The Pillars of Reality / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: The senior mechanics have been purging dissident mechanics. they've been doing this for generations, contributing to the Lost Technology when major purges happen every 50-100 years.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
The Pillars of Reality / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Alain is able to do fire magic, and considered strong and rare due to the obvious potential for direct combat.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Pillars of Reality / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Mari finds it hard to believe that Asha is just Alain's friend.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
The Pillars of Reality / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: The second book starts with both main characters being sent on suicide missions by their respective guilds. When they realize that's what had happened, they desert.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Pillars of Reality / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: The Mechanic's Guild intercepts and destroys all attempts at communication between their common-born apprentices and their families to make the apprentices think this has happened, and adopt the Guild as a replacement family.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_2b2c66c3	type	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor
The Pillars of Reality / int_2b2c66c3	comment	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Mages, due to having their emotions mostly drummed out of them. This is lampshaded when Alain has an encounter with another former Mage who fled the order as an acolyte and made a new life with the commons.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_2e5ada89	type	Grenade Launcher
The Pillars of Reality / int_2e5ada89	comment	Grenade Launcher: Works great on Dragons.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Pillars of Reality / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Mage's Guild is convinced that Mages under twenty can't cut it, so they send them on impossible missions that could get them killed to reinforce this belief. The Senior Mechanics believed that Mari would one day challenge there authority, so they set out to kill her. You know what happened after they failed? She did exactly that.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_35e3383a	type	Pirate Girl
The Pillars of Reality / int_35e3383a	comment	Pirate Girl: Teenaged mechanic Mari eventually becomes an honorary pirate due to an alliance she forms with some Lovable Rogues who help her capture vessels of the Mechanics Guild. Something similar happened to her ancestor Jules.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_3678fbfa	type	Mad Bomber
The Pillars of Reality / int_3678fbfa	comment	Mad Bomber: Mari's friend Alli builds and maintains munitions for a living. She was most miffed when the Guild reprimanded her for reinventing the bazooka.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
The Pillars of Reality / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Mari. Later, all of the Mechanics who leave the Guild to join her and the New Day, as well as various Mages. One of Queen Sien's advisors is another Mechanic who abandoned the Guild to be with the woman he loved well before the events of the series.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
The Pillars of Reality / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: The abusive Mage Guild bring up Asha with condemnations about how her beauty means she isn’t detached enough to master their teachings.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Pillars of Reality / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Much of the world seems to have medieval-like technology, but the Guild of Mechanics possesses steam trains, rifles, and even radios. They keep the relevant knowledge strictly secret, and it derives from Lost Technology rather than uneven advancement.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Pillars of Reality / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Mari and Alain keep getting sent on life-threatening missions. After a while they work out that their Guilds are deliberately trying to get them killed.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Pillars of Reality / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Storm has been avoided and the Great Guilds destroyed, but the Empire really only lost some soldiers and some islands and otherwise continues to rule, the countries of Dematr are already beginning to compete with one another for power, and it's clear Mari and Alain will never truly know peace.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_454bda24	type	Ancestral Weapon
The Pillars of Reality / int_454bda24	comment	Ancestral Weapon: Most Mechanics Guild guns are old, with rifles commonly being over a hundred years old.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_48e24f	type	Anti-Mutiny
The Pillars of Reality / int_48e24f	comment	Anti-Mutiny: The Librarians are descendants of the starship crew members who refused to support their superiors' abuse of their authority to found the Mechanics Guild and rule over the passengers they were supposed to protect.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
The Pillars of Reality / int_4b9a8e96	comment	The Dragons of Dorcastle There are no dragons, its a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax
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The Pillars of Reality / int_4bf3d8d7	type	Personality Powers
The Pillars of Reality / int_4bf3d8d7	comment	Personality Powers: Summoners powers are based on their personalities. Those who summon Rocs tend to seek freedom, while Dragon Summoners are as nasty as their dragons.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
The Pillars of Reality / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: Some mages may use lighting attacks.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_4e4f42be	type	Love Confession
The Pillars of Reality / int_4e4f42be	comment	Love Confession: At the end of the first book, Mari thinks Alain is about to make such a confession, but he's actually just going explain the prophecy about her. She cuts it short by saying that she already knows (without saying what she knows) and defers the discussion, therefore missing some important information.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
The Pillars of Reality / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: For all of their posturing about being supreme forces miles above each other and the commons, there's isn't much difference between the Great Guilds. Both are absurdly in denial that the other can do anything important, treat the commons like dirt and have trouble adapting in the face of adversity.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_5028baf2	type	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
The Pillars of Reality / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Due to the Mages having a strict policy of Emotion Suppression, Alain has trouble with the concept of being in love. For that matter, he has trouble with the concepts of friendship, gratitude, thanks, and help.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_511728ae	type	Magic Versus Science
The Pillars of Reality / int_511728ae	comment	Magic Versus Science: The Mages and the Mechanics each teach their students that the abilities of the other side don't really exist, saying that it's just tricks, illusions, and sleight-of-hand.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_542b8e66	type	Bad Powers, Bad People
The Pillars of Reality / int_542b8e66	comment	Bad Powers, Bad People: Dragon Summoners are considered little different from their Dragons.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Pillars of Reality / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: In the fourth book, Mage Elder Hiro One of the first Mages to defect to Mari and Alain's army mentions that several decades ago, there was another daughter of Jules line who emerged and apparently tried to act against the Guilds, but she was betrayed and murdered. In the third book Asha tells Alain that there was one Mage Acolyte powerful enough to become a full Mage at 12 and another who did so at sixteen) but both died in mysterious "accidents" after the Mage leaders felt that they were young and inquisitive enough to challenge the elders.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
The Pillars of Reality / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Two of them, Calu and Alli, and Ashara and Dav.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_59673edd	type	Computer Virus
The Pillars of Reality / int_59673edd	comment	Computer Virus: Computers are rare, so viruses (called "contagions") are even rarer. Only a few people even know that such a thing can be done, let alone how to fix it, so when one is discovered, its very existence is perhaps more alarming than what it was actually doing.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Pillars of Reality / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Mari and Alain start out thinking of each other as enemies who have to work together to survive. As they get to know each other, however, they begin to realise that they're only enemies in the first place because each of their respective Guilds are either wrong or lying about the other.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_5ec15a79	type	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
The Pillars of Reality / int_5ec15a79	comment	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Mages were genetically engineered
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The Pillars of Reality / int_60ec7ddd	type	Young and in Charge
The Pillars of Reality / int_60ec7ddd	comment	Young and in Charge: Mari and Alain are only 18 and 17 when the series begins, but are leading the New Dawn in part because they're young enough that they haven't had to ethically compromise themselves for the glory of their guild
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The Pillars of Reality / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
The Pillars of Reality / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: Gradually. The technology possessed by the Mechanics is better when it's older (provided it has been maintained), because newer attempts to duplicate it tend to be inferior. Each succeeding generation has less and less understanding of it. the Library is full of broken technology from the original ships
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The Pillars of Reality / int_612f2a40	type	Hates Their Parent
The Pillars of Reality / int_612f2a40	comment	Hates Their Parent: Mari is resentful about her parents never sending her letters. Until she realizes they staged that. In the prequel books Jules is briefly aided by a man who reveals he is the son of a mechanic who was disowned by his father for failing the Mechanic aptitude tests and is thus eager to contribute to something that will hurt the Guilds.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_625e9470	type	Cooperation Gambit
The Pillars of Reality / int_625e9470	comment	Cooperation Gambit: In the prequels most of the Mechanics view Jules as in an "It" Is Dehumanizing way, and she in turn despises the control they wield but she is willing to accept mechanic weapons and do some of their bidding as long as it combats her against the Empire and the Mages. The Mechanics think Jules is doing this as a way to ensure her safety in the aftermath of the prophecy while Jules feels it's a necessary (and temporary) alliance to weaken her stronger enemies and set into motion the social changes that well eventually help her descendant.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
The Pillars of Reality / int_6383a034	comment	The Mutiny: The Mechanics Guild was founded by crew Mutinying against their orders on the Dementer, the Commons and Mages were passengers In Book 4 Mari's piracy of a Guild ship quickly becomes a mutiny against the guilde
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The Pillars of Reality / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Pillars of Reality / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Multiple surviving minor villains reappear in the Legacy of the Dragons trilogy trying to kill Mari and Alain's daughter, and are sometimes affronted to find out that Mari and Alain never considered them important enough to tell their daughter about and/or have forgotten about themselves due to the slew of enemies they had to fight.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
The Pillars of Reality / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: Mages can summon Rocs to fly on. However, Roc mages are considered unreliable due to them acting as Bond Creatures
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The Pillars of Reality / int_6a4a2085	type	Legally Dead
The Pillars of Reality / int_6a4a2085	comment	Legally Dead: Everyone was ordered to leave Marandur on pain of death by order of Emperor Palan. Thus, anyone still living there is dead in the eyes of the Empire. Anyone who disputes their vital status with the guards surrounding the ruined city is shot until they are no longer able to do so.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_6a974cae	type	Forbidden Friendship
The Pillars of Reality / int_6a974cae	comment	Forbidden Friendship: Members of the Mages' and Mechanics' guilds aren't even supposed to interact with each other, let alone be friends. When Alain (a Mage) and Mari (a Mechanic) have to work together as the sole survivors of a bandit attack, they're both essentially told that they should have left the other to die. As such, the fact that they continue their friendship in secret is decidedly dangerous for them.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
The Pillars of Reality / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: While a lot of the population don't have much more than medieval technology, the Guild of Mechanics has rifles and pistols. The various governments of the world can pay exorbitant fees for a small number of guns, but the Guild ruthlessly suppresses anyone's attempts to make their own. A well stocked guild house may have 20-30 rifles. Having 50 or more is considered crazy. And the ammunition is so rare that it's frequently mentioned that gunners are essentially firing gold coins due to how expensive bullets are.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Master Mechanic Mari is young for her rank, and many people (particularly those senior to her) either forget it or deliberately snub her by pretending to. However, the rules of the Guild allow her to insist on it, even to people she would never get away with correcting on other matters, and she does.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
The Pillars of Reality / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: The Thread between Mari and Alain
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The Pillars of Reality / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The Pillars of Reality / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: The Mages teach their acolytes that nothing is real and that nothing matters. However, even Alain (who starts out pretty indoctrinated) realises that their philosophy has holes. He notes that the senior Mages never seemed to think that failures on the part of their acolytes "didn't matter", for example.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_8204a6ad	type	The Magic Versus Technology War
The Pillars of Reality / int_8204a6ad	comment	The Magic Versus Technology War: The Mages and the Mechanics are the world's dominant powers, one using magic and the other machines. However, it's more a cold war than a direct conflict, with members of each Guild taught that members of the others are just frauds and posers who aren't even worth challenging. A war happened about a generation after landing resulting in the current guild structure
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The Pillars of Reality / int_84bc0fef	type	Love Is a Weakness
The Pillars of Reality / int_84bc0fef	comment	Love Is a Weakness: Mage Guild Wisdom says all emotions are weakness, with mages falling in love being the greatest danger to their powers. The Power of Love actually seems to be increasing Alain's Power
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The Pillars of Reality / int_867f9f5c	type	Alien Non-Interference Clause
The Pillars of Reality / int_867f9f5c	comment	Alien Non-Interference Clause: Earth has one with its less advanced colonies. Earth based corporations use it as an excuse to not give fair value for what they buy from the colonies, as paying the colonies what their goods are worth would involve restricted tech transfers. At one point Earth threatens Dematr over trying to get an illegal technical data transfer when all they asked was how to safely destroy some Earth-made WMDs they were already in possession of.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
The Pillars of Reality / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: The Mechanic's Guild exists to keep outsiders from understanding technology, and to keep anyone, including their own members, from developing new technology. This, combined with the occasional loyalty purges, results in their equipment becoming more crude every generation, as the people who know how to maintain the previous generation die out.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_91e3f284	type	Military Mage
The Pillars of Reality / int_91e3f284	comment	Military Mage: Mages with combat orientated magic like Alain are mercenaries under the control of the guild.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
The Pillars of Reality / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Mari and Alain; even setting aside the fact that each of their respective Guilds consider even speaking to members of the other to be treasonous, their personalities are a case of Emotions vs. Stoicism.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_9a3285c	type	Invisibility
The Pillars of Reality / int_9a3285c	comment	Invisibility: One of the powers that nearly all mages seem to manage.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
The Pillars of Reality / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: In The Pirate of the Prophecy, Jules kills the captain of another pirate ship when first he tries to bribe her into having sex with him (and making him the ancestor of the descendant in the prophecy) and then tries to force himself on her when she says no. An ugly confrontation with the man's crew is averted when Jules reveals that he had a pouch of gems (enough to buy two new ships) that he used to try to bribe her. Gems that the captain had taken from the ships treasury to keep for himself rather than divide them with the rest of the crew. This makes their desire to avenge their captain fizzle out quickly.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_a4ed127f	type	Muggle Power
The Pillars of Reality / int_a4ed127f	comment	Muggle Power: There are a lot of ordinary people who resent the power of the Mages and the Mechanics, and some of them want to do something about it. The first major attempt is attempting to secretly reproduce the technology of Mechanics' rifles.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_a75c8dc9	type	Left-Justified Fantasy Map
The Pillars of Reality / int_a75c8dc9	comment	Left-Justified Fantasy Map: The official map
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The Pillars of Reality / int_ab74122a	type	Wasteland Elder
The Pillars of Reality / int_ab74122a	comment	Wasteland Elder: Professor Wren is the elderly spokesperson of the one bastion of civilization inside the city of Marandur (a heavily guarded university) after the city was quarantined two hundred years ago and everyone else inside long ago descended to barbarism.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_abe166cc	type	Bond Creatures
The Pillars of Reality / int_abe166cc	comment	Bond Creatures: Mages with Rocs absolutely adore them, and create the same Roc over and over again, rather than create different Rocs. The Guild will make the fliers dismiss their Rocs as soon as possible due to their bond making the Roc mages less reliable.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_af05e6d0	type	The Treachery of Images
The Pillars of Reality / int_af05e6d0	comment	The Treachery of Images: It's part of the teachings of the Guild of Mages that everything (and everyone) else is really just an illusion. It might look like the world exists, but to actually believe so is a grave error that must be beaten out of acolytes before they finish their training. It's part of how they do magic; as far as they're concerned, they're just changing an illusion. However, the belief can cause serious problems for people around Mages, because Mages will feel free to treat "mere illusions" however they like.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_af921409	type	Accidental Marriage
The Pillars of Reality / int_af921409	comment	Accidental Marriage: On one side, anyway. Alain doesn't realize that the paperwork that Mari is having him go through is part of a civic wedding ceremony until it's over.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Pillars of Reality / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Alain- "Nothing is Real" (in EVERY SINGLE BOOK. Mari finds it extremely annoying.)
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b1a49012	type	Not That Kind of Mage
The Pillars of Reality / int_b1a49012	comment	Not That Kind of Mage: Most mages seem to have a specialty, while the guild doesn't always make clear to outsiders that not all mages can do all magic. Alain is pretty good at fire, and all mages so far can do invisibility or make holes, but summoning, lightning and message sending are all specialties, with summons being even limited by the summoners personality.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
The Pillars of Reality / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: The mechanics try this a few times as Mari begins forming an army but due to the Living Lie Detector Mages working with her the false defectors are quickly pointed out and captured.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b3f0fc91	type	Track Trouble
The Pillars of Reality / int_b3f0fc91	comment	Track Trouble: In the first book, the train on which Mari and Alain are traveling runs along the top of some coastal cliffs — parts of which turn out to have collapsed. It looks like it could be natural, but it actually deliberate sabotage to get rid of Mari and Alain.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b3f575fb	type	Colony Ship
The Pillars of Reality / int_b3f575fb	comment	Colony Ship: The Demeter is still in orbit, although mostly stripped. It's the reason the Mechanics Guild forbids astronomy
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b4d6aa7d	type	Dungeon Bypass
The Pillars of Reality / int_b4d6aa7d	comment	Dungeon Bypass: When Mari is captured and locked up, Alain breaks into the dungeon by simply walking right through the walls with magic. However, he then lacks the strength to do the same for their escape, leaving him stuck in the dungeon too. He admits that he didn't think it through properly. Fortunately, he does have enough strength to create a hole big enough for Mari to tamper with the lock.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b6287eff	type	Briar Patching
The Pillars of Reality / int_b6287eff	comment	Briar Patching: Prince Tien is removed by his sister by manipulating him into declaring a no-holds-barred duel to the death. The court-raised fop who set the terms of the duel is then promptly taken apart by the hardened veteran.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b69cbee3	type	Thought-Controlled Power
The Pillars of Reality / int_b69cbee3	comment	Thought-Controlled Power: Magic requires the mage to impose their will on the world. It requires the mage to think about what they want while gathering power.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
The Pillars of Reality / int_b89ed08a	comment	Obvious Rule Patch: Shortly after Mari became the first teenage Master of the Mechanics Guild, the Senior Mechanics rewrote the requirements for mastery to include time in service so that nobody will ever be able to do that again.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_b9085a47	type	Summon Magic
The Pillars of Reality / int_b9085a47	comment	Summon Magic: Mages can summon various kinds of magical creature; trolls and dragons, for example. When Alain sees a steam train, he mistakenly assumes that it's a creature somehow "summoned" by the Mechanics by a parallel technique.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_ba8b13ad	type	Catch-22 Dilemma
The Pillars of Reality / int_ba8b13ad	comment	Catch-22 Dilemma: Asha's beauty is a sign that she's not properly detached, but trying to mutilate herself to remove it would prove she wasn't properly detached. Mari is assigned a watchdog from the guild. If she does anything questionable, it will be reported and she'll get in trouble. If she doesn't do anything questionable, the guild assumes that she subverted the watchdog and still gets in trouble for whatever they think she did after doing so. The survivors of Marandur wish to be restored to citizenship in the Empire. To do so, they must present a petition to the Emperor. But as they are not recognized as citizens of the Empire, they have no right to present him with a petition.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
The Pillars of Reality / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Members of the Mages' and Mechanics' guilds have been taught to hold each other in contempt, so after Mari and Alain become the sole survivors of an attack, their initial interactions are full of suspicion and tension. They improve.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
The Pillars of Reality / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: In the Empress of the Endless Sea trilogy, the first supporting character to die is the pirate who'd earlier talked about how he was getting old and thinking about buying a tavern onshore in a few years. That being said, some of his cremates think that idea of retirement was just talk though, and that he'd wanted to die at sea.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_cb1f5db5	type	Feed It a Bomb
The Pillars of Reality / int_cb1f5db5	comment	Feed It a Bomb: In Book 4 works well on dragons - if you don't mind needing to comb bits of dragon brain out of your hair.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_d280a296	type	Teen Genius
The Pillars of Reality / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Alain and Mari start at seventeen and eighteen, which is incredibly young for their proven levels of proficiency in their guilds (to an unprecedented extent in Mari's case). Their youth is a plot point: because they're so young, they still ask questions instead of blindly following guild dogma at all times, which is why their guilds see them as a threat. Their youth is also probably partly responsible for their friendship and eventual relationship - they're young enough for their hormones to have a stronger drawing-together effect on them, especially in Alain's case.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
The Pillars of Reality / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: Mechanic's Guild history bears little resemblance to what actually happened. From a long history of purges reducing their technical level, to a series of civil wars, to the true nature of their guild as Crew on the Demeter At points in the first book Alain examines various historical monuments and compares what they depict to what out-of-town historians claim really happened. He notes that the war memorials of Ringhmon (which tends to win wars because of the logistical difficulties of invading from the opposite side of a desert) have glorified themselves with exaggerated tales of valor, which Dorcastle (where wars involve fighting in the streets) tends to memorialize events in a much more subdued and accurate manner.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
The Pillars of Reality / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Dragons exist as creatures summoned by Mages; in this world, they're non-winged and non-flying, and don't breath fire; their danger just comes from their size and strength. And then there's one of the "dragons" encountered at the end of the first book, which seems to have some odd qualities but turns out to be a Mechanical contraption rather than a Mage summoning.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
The Pillars of Reality / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: The Army of the New Dawn sends in grenadiers on Roc-back and gunmen on horseback to lift the siege of Dorcastle just as the Empire's legions were about to assault the seventh and final line of defense.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_dbea254f	type	ChosenOne
The Pillars of Reality / int_dbea254f	comment	Chosen One: The Daughter of Jules, who is prophesied to break the Great Guilds. Of course, since the prophecy was made during Jules' lifetime, all of her children were raised in obscurity to prevent the Guilds from finding them. Between that and the fact that she died centuries ago, it's impossible to prove or disprove the theory that anyone is a descendant of Jules. The prequel novels reveal that Alain was also a Chosen One, but the mage giving the prophecy bled out before he could finish saying it, so it ended up being forgotten.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_dca6a9d	type	Start My Own
The Pillars of Reality / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: Teenaged Mage Alain and teenaged mechanic Mari start the New Dawn to defy their former guilds and give dissidents from the guilds and unaffiliated commoners a new place to go.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_e04ffce3	type	Lost Colony
The Pillars of Reality / int_e04ffce3	comment	Lost Colony: The world of the series is a space colony which lost contact with Earth due to The Mutiny.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
The Pillars of Reality / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Happens to enemies on multiple occasions. In The Wrath of the Great Guilds, when deciding not to request the execution of the Mechanics Guild leaders from the Emperor's emissary Mari notes:
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The Pillars of Reality / int_e2737113	type	Cult Defector
The Pillars of Reality / int_e2737113	comment	Cult Defector: An interesting case where the "Cults" are the forces that govern the world. Both the Mage and Mechanics Guild (mainly the latter) impress a mindset of superiority and caring for no one outside their Guilds upon the children they forcibly take in (along with plenty of other messed up philosophies for the Mage Guild), and the series begins with Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain beginning to resist that mindset and conditioning, eventually rallying others to do so as well and outright login to war with the Guilds they came from.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Pillars of Reality / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain come from guilds which ban members from even speaking to each other, but quickly fall in love.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_e87dcc7d	type	Emotion Suppression
The Pillars of Reality / int_e87dcc7d	comment	Emotion Suppression: The Mages teach their people to suppress all emotion (and indeed, that everything to which someone might emotionally react is just an irrelevant illusion anyway). Alain starts to lose this when he's forced to interact with someone outside his Guild, though he still remains The Stoic.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Pillars of Reality / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In the sixth book, Camber , advisor to the Emperor notes that When the Mechanics Guild leaders negotiated for refuge inside the Empire, they only thought to get an agreement for their own protection, not the protection of their money, which the Emperor will soon confiscate from them.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_eb0d7317	type	Men of Sherwood
The Pillars of Reality / int_eb0d7317	comment	Men of Sherwood: Mari's allies are competent, but are more of Badass Army due to their size and eventual military nature. Multiple pirate groups in the Empress of the Endless Sea prequel trilogy play this straighter, though. The other other members of Jules's pirate crew are accomplished fighters who have a good survival rate. In The Fate of the Free Lands, the prisoners Jules liberates and works alongside of while she's separated from her crew prove to be reliable, resourceful, and lucky enough to avoid dying at the hands of multiple threats.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_f009b51c	type	The Wrongful Heir to the Throne
The Pillars of Reality / int_f009b51c	comment	The Wrongful Heir to the Throne: Prince Tien of Tiae. He only shows up after his sister does all the work of restoring order in his country, and then not only doesn't thank her for doing so, he claims she's an imposter so he can remove the threat she represents to his rule, which he would never have gotten without her efforts. He's also a sociopath who planned the same sort of casual abuse to the people that started the rebellion that reduced Tiae into anarchy in the first place.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Each Empress of the Endless Sea has Jules hearing the last words of a dying Mage at one point, with some meaning being attached to them. In Pirate of the Prophecy, there's one dying of old age who talks about seeing people as Shadows but seems to acknowledge this long-held view might be wrong when she points out the fallacy between there being a future that can be told and the whole world being an illusion. In Explorer of the Endless Sea she realizes a Mage she's shot is a Death Seeker based on his expression and last words "Happiness is an illusion." In Fate of the Free Lands another Mage mortally wounded by Jules have a vision regarding the birth and destiny of Alain but dies before saying enough of it to give Jules proper context.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_f7b57d62	comment	Enforced Technology Levels: The Guild of Mechanics has a lot of advanced technology, including rifles, radios, trains, and rudimentary computers. However, it is quite insistent that nobody else can have this stuff, which naturally generates a lot of resentment among people who have to live with medieval-ish technology. Part of the plot of the first book deals with a city which tries to defy its enforced technology level. Revealed in books 2 and 3 the guild is working from a series of backup texts designed for the Demeter in case technology was lost, they picked a certain level they felt could be maintained and keep the population under control, but the guild is slowly losing the skills needed to maintain a limited base, and not allowing anyone to read the texts as much of it is forbidden Astronomy is banned by Mechanic's Guild edict because the Demeter is still in orbit and can be found with even a small telescope
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The Pillars of Reality / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Prince Tien sincerely cannot understand that Mari's image is not an act on her part. He does not even consider the possibility that Mari actually loves her husband, Alain, assuming it is merely an act.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: If Alain and Mari get on a train, or even go to a train station, expect things to go horribly wrong. Alain actually becomes frightened of boilers because Mari keeps blowing them up. He comes to believe boilers will inevitably just explode on their own. Alain believes Mechanic vehicles and devices, like trains and boilers, are creatures. When told they're not, he likens them to spell creatures like dragons and trolls which are also not truly alive in a strict sense. He also point out they eat (fuel), they breathe (needing air for fires), do work, can 'die' or get 'injured', and that Mechanics often develop emotional connections towards them.
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The Pillars of Reality / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: Every title is misleading The Dragons of Dorcastle There are no dragons, its a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax The Hidden Masters of Marandur are University Masters literally hidden within a dead city The Assassins of Altis The assassins come to Altis The Pirates of Pacta Servanda Mari's faction are the pirates, and they're relieving the siege of Pacta Servanda, not attacking it or operating out of it. The Wrath of the Great Guilds: Actually completely accurate. Though when facing Mari's superior technology and tactics, it's a lot less impressive than it sounds. It takes them a solid week to overrun a city with a force at least twenty times larger than the defenders, giant dragons and other Mage powers, and a ready supply of explosives and naval weaponry. And in the end, they still lose.
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