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The Riftwar Cycle

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The Riftwar Cycle	comment	Written by Raymond E. Feist, this is one of the longest-running High Fantasy series (thirty books) ever written note compared to powerhouses like Xanth (thirty-four) or Discworld (forty). The Riftwar Cycle encompasses ten sagas (most of which are set up as trilogies) and a collection of short stories, all of which are set in the same universe if in distinct Time Periods. The first volume was published in 1982 and the final novel was published in 2013.Most of the action of the series centers upon The Kingdom of the Isles on the world of Midkemia, which was originally developed by Feist and his friends for an in-house Dungeons & Dragons campaign. However, the novels take place some five centuries before the time when this campaign was set.There are five total rift-wars during the cycle, the namesake Riftwar, followed by the Serpentwar, the Darkwar, the Demonwar and finally the Chaoswar. During each of these wars, Midkemia is threatened by invasion from Another Dimension through portals known as rifts. Though a different enemy is at the heart of each invasion, these are all consequences of the same underlying evil.The books are split into several sub-series, displayed here in chronological order of the world's history: The Riftwar Saga - The First Riftwar. The Kingdom of the Isles must deal with enemies from within and without, including an alien invasion, a mad monarch, a dark-elf uprising and the return of an ancient evil force. Magician - the western Kingdom is invaded by the Tsurani, a pseudo-oriental empire from the planet Kelewan. Divided for Publication into two books in paperback; Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master after the original release. Magician also received an Updated Re-release to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Silverthorn - a princess is accidentally poisoned on her wedding day by the dark forces who seek the death of her fiance. A Darkness at Sethanon - a legendary dark-elf chieftain returns from the dead to lead his people against The Kingdom of the Isles. The Empire Trilogy - co-written with Janny Wurts and set on Kelewan, this series overlaps with the events of The Riftwar Saga. Daughter of the Empire - After the death of her father and brothers, Mara of the Acoma must lead her followers through terror and peril while surviving the ruthless political Game of the Council. Servant of the Empire - After buying a group of Midkemian prisoners-of-war, Mara discovers one of them is a noble, who reveals himself as a great asset in regards to the Game of the Council. Mistress of the Empire - After rising to power, Mara of the Acoma must now face the power of the brotherhood of assassins, the spies of rival houses and the might of the Assembly, who see her as a threat to their power. Legends of the Riftwar - Set during the events of Magician, Feist co-wrote these three books with other authors he was friends with, effectively giving them a chance to "play with his toys". Honored Enemy - During the first Riftwar, a group of Midkemian soldiers and Tsurani form an uneasy alliance to survive a moredhel assault. Co-written with William R. Forstchen. Murder in La Mut - Three mercenaries deal with a conspiracy in a town on the front lines of The First Riftwar. Co-written with Joel Rosenberg. Jimmy the Hand - The titular boy thief gets mixed up in a conflict with a mad nobleman and his pet magician. Co-written with S. M. Stirling. The Riftwar Legacy - set ten years after A Darkness at Sethanon. Krondor: The Betrayal - a dark elf chieftain joins the side of the humans to warn them of a dreaded Big Bad's return. The Novelization for the first Riftwar Video Game, which made its events Canon. Krondor: The Assassins - Another manifestation of the Guild of Death is dealt with. Krondor: Tear of the Gods - The titular artifact is captured by the villains for evil ends and the heroes must retrieve it. The Novelization for the second Riftwar Video Game, which was not nearly as well received as the first. There were another two books planned, Krondor: The Crawler and Krondor: The Dark Mage. Reportedly, they have been put on-hold due to rights issues involving the original games. Jimmy and the Crawler - Explains Jazhara's fate and who the Crawler really was. Released as an eBook and then a physical copy in selected countries. Krondor's Sons - Two books centering upon the adventures of Prince Arutha's sons. Covers a period of time 20-30 years after the end of the First Riftwar. Prince of the Blood - Two spoiled princes become heroes in a foreign land. Received an Updated Re-release for it's 15th anniversary. The King's Buccaneer - The third son of Arutha and some others must deal with a new menace from across the western seas. The Serpentwar Saga - The Second Riftwar. Midkemia is invaded by lizard-men, fleeing a demon invasion of their home-world. Begins nearly 50 years after A Darkness at Sethanon, 20 years after The King's Buccaneer. Shadow of a Dark Queen - A dark queen is gathering armies across the Western Sea. Desperate men of the Kingdom of the Isles are sent on a suicidal mission to confront this evil. Rise of a Merchant Prince - Newly pardoned for his crimes, a young man begins his quest to become a rich trader in the capital city of Krondor. Notable for the central role of high finance. At the time it was refreshing to see an epic fantasy novel try and explain how its society worked aside from all the war and sorcery. How successful it was is subject to debate. Rage of a Demon King - The Emerald Queen's army - and the demonic power behind it - moves upon The Kingdom of the Isles. Shards of a Broken Crown - The Kingdom forces struggle to oust the forces of two nations that now lay siege to the ruins of their capitol. Conclave of Shadows - Set 30 or 50 years after Shards of a Broken Crown (the books are inconsistent on this point but seem to settle on 30 as of Exile's Return.), this book shows us the work that has gone into establishing a group capable of fighting the various dark forces seeking the destruction of Midkemia, through the eyes of one young man who is recruited into the Conclave. Talon of the Silver Hawk - A young barbarian, the last survivor of his destroyed clan, is adopted into The Conclave of Shadows and slowly molded into an agent for their use. King of Foxes - Now in the service of the man responsible for killing his clan, Talon of the Silver Hawk (aka Talwin Hawkins) must play a dangerous game in order to get his revenge and serve the interests of The Conclave of Shadows. Exile's Return - Exiled to a foreign land, Duke Kaspar suddenly finds himself in possession of a device which could spell doom for Midkemia. Darkwar Saga - The Third Riftwar. Details the Conclave of Shadows' efforts to stop an invasion by The Dasati; a race from a parallel plane, ruled by evil and destructive forces. Flight of the Nighthawks - A new evil threatens Midkemia, its web stretching from the deepest criminal underworld all the way up to the highest seats of power in ancient Kesh. Into a Dark Realm - Chaos threatens to overwhelm two worlds as the most dangerous force yet encountered threatens to invade Midkemia, while the most treacherous magician in history - the madman Leso Varen - begins to wreak havoc on the world of Kelewan. Wrath of a Mad God - The Darkwar has fallen upon the worlds of Kelewan and Midkemia; a time of heroes, trials and destruction. Following their mission to the realm of the alien Dasati, Pug and the other members of the Conclave must now find a way to use what they discovered to help save their own people from the Wrath of a Mad God. Demonwar Saga - The Fourth Riftwar, set 10 years after the Darkwar. Details the invasion of Midkemia by a group of war-like world-conquering elves, who may have inadvertently brought the demonic forces they were fleeing with them, as they came to Midkemia. Rides a Dread Legion - The Taredhel (star elves) return to their native homeworld of Midkemia, ready for conquest despite the demonic threat that nips at their heels. At the Gates of Darkness - In the face of the demonic threat and the questions it poses, the Conclave find themselves on a perilous search for some much-needed answers even as their enemy forces them to take action. Chaoswar Saga - The Fifth Riftwar. A Kingdom Besieged - The Empire of Kesh moves to invade The Kingdom of the Isles as The Conclave of Shadows and their allies investigate the disappearance of their spies, discovering that enemies long thought dead have returned. A Crown Imperiled- As The Conclave of Shadows seek the homeland of the Pantathian serpent priests, three Kingdom princes try to slow the Keshian invasion and prevent a new civil war. Magicians End - The climax of the entire saga, in which the threat behind everything the protagonists have faced in finally revealed, while the Kingdom spirals towards civil war. The final adventure of Pug and Tomas.Midkemia, an online MUD based on the series, can be found here.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: This is to be expected in a saga that spans generations, but it's invoked and formalized during the Serpentwar saga: Pug will live to see everyone he loves dead. So anyone can die, except Pug. In Magician's End, Pug does die, but some quick deal-making with the goddess of death lets him save the people he cares about, with the exception of Tomas, who sacrificed himself to stop the same Big Bad Pug did. The only named person to survive through the entire series, start to end, is the elven queen Aglaranna. So not everyone dies... just most of them.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: Amos Trask is fond of this. Luckily, he's a very good storyteller.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_12a22bd8	comment	Katanas Are Just Better: Zigzagged in Talon Of The Silver Hawk. One of Tal's duelling opponents switches to a katana from a traditional longsword when going up against Tal. It's noted that poor katanas are useless against armour and good ones are so expensive only the richest lords can afford them. However, for the purposes of two unarmoured men duelling, it's noted to be razor sharp and a good sign that its user is actually trying to kill Tal. Tal manages to win thanks to Dual Wielding a dirk along with his sword.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Captain Amos Trask - the badass pirate Jack Sparrow only wishes he was.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: A Darkness At Sethanon has two groups of heroes racing the villains to the place where the original Final Battle between The Gods and The Valheru occured. This location is used as the setting of the climax again and again in later books, such as the story of Krondor: The Betrayal and the Serpentwar Saga. It also shows up as the site of a major battle in Magician's End, but not the climax this time.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
The Riftwar Cycle / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: Feist's elves are one race which break down into separate "types". Chief among these are the Eledhel (Wood Elves), Moredhel (Dark Elves), Eldar (High Elves) and most recently, the star elves from another planet - yes, Space Elves. There is also the warlike and almost annihilated Glamredhel (Wild Elves) eventually being assimilated in Elvandar, and the Ocedhel (Lost Elves) of Novindus, who've long since become scattered and absorbed into the human societies there. The other elf race is the Sun Elves, who protect the Peaks of the Quor.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: The Pantathaian Serpentmen tend to screw over a lot of other evil people (Dark Elves, mercenaries, corrupt monarchs) in the enacting of their plans.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Martin Longbow.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
The Riftwar Cycle / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: The original Riftwar trilogy establishes the Valheru as having been a race of badasses par excellence. When the demons, dread, and Dasati are introduced later, their badass-cred is established with the revelation that all defeated the Valheru (or at least fought them to a draw) in their backstory. To be fair, demons are mostly incredibly difficult to kill and it took Tomas, Miranda and Pug working together to kill a demon captain (And they had to send him to the bottom of the ocean after having a fatal wound inflicted just to make sure he died.). The Dread have been around longer then the Valheru, are attempting to destroy all of existence, and it's flat out stated that a Valheru is pretty much the only thing in that plane of the universe capable of forcing the Dread to go all-out. And it's more the Talnoy then the Dasati themselves that are so powerful. And even then, the Talnoy become no more once Pug frees the souls of the gods trapped inside the Talnoy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Riftwar Cycle / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Several of the books (Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire, and Shards of a Broken Crown, at a minimum) use the title in dialog on the last few pages of the book, generally in a summation of recent events.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_192d04d5	type	Mutually Exclusive Magic
The Riftwar Cycle / int_192d04d5	comment	Mutually Exclusive Magic: Magic in Feist's cosmology was originally set between two types of magic; Lesser Path (they get their power from books and artifacts) and Greater Path (they channel magic directly through their bodies). By the time of A Darkness at Sethanon, Pug has determined that magic is magic and that there are no limits, save what the magician imposes on themself. And then there's Nakor, who insists that There Is No Magic at all and what everybody calls magic are just simple tricks anyone can do.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_19e22123	type	Ancient Tomb
The Riftwar Cycle / int_19e22123	comment	Ancient Tomb: The conDoin bury the royal family in one.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1b68e2e2	type	The Chase
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1b68e2e2	comment	The Chase: The entire plot of Honored Enemy, with the moredhel doing the chasing, and the Kingdom and Tsurani soldiers doing the running while doing their best not to kill each other.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1bc0ca82	type	Abandoned Mine
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1bc0ca82	comment	Abandoned Mine: The Mac Mordain Cadal. The dwarves are trying to get it un-abandoned, though.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1c3423d6	comment	The Quest: The centerpiece of most of the plots.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Pug's method of destroying an arena where gladiatorial combats are held in Magician (also seen from Mara's perspective in 'Servant of the Empire). Also how he fights the Big Bad in Wrath of a Mad God''.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Valheru were the epitome of this, being a completely Might Makes Right / Above Good and Evil race of Dragon Lords. Not surprisingly - for a race trying to follow in the Valheru's footsteps - leadership positions among the Moredhel seem to get filled out by virtue of skill in battle and woodcraft and sharpness of mind and tongue as much as by blood. The Demons also work like this, since if one demon kills and eats another, they acquire that demon's strength and memory. Demons tend to literally kill and eat their way up their hierarchy. The Demon King Maarg encouraged this. His rival Dahun managed it more carefully; by controlling who ate who, he was able to guide the paths of evolution his followers took and make sure that some of his servants were powerful, some were smart, some were good at magic- but none developed the right combination of abilities to actually threatedn Dahun's own position.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1d47dc06	type	Alternative Calendar
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1d47dc06	comment	Alternative Calendar: The Midkemian calendar: Has a year that's 200 days long and divided into 11 months, mostly all of different lengths. Starts on Midsummer's Day, the only day in the inter-year buffer month of 'Banapis.' Has one other in-year one-day buffer month in 'Mid-Winter.' Six of the other eleven months are between ten and eighteen days long; the remaining three run for between 37 and 45 days.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1ed272c1	type	Automaton Horses
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1ed272c1	comment	Automaton Horses: Averted with gusto. Horses are often ridden to death, freeze to death and are eaten when the rest of the food supply runs out. They are abandoned when rocky terrain is encountered or it would be impossible to move stealthily,
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Riftwar Cycle / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Too many to mention specifically, so let us just cite most of the protagonists up until the end of The Serpent War.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_204a1207	type	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
The Riftwar Cycle / int_204a1207	comment	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Being caught between worlds can really suck.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_20c6638f	type	Easing into the Adventure
The Riftwar Cycle / int_20c6638f	comment	Easing into the Adventure: Magician takes some time in establishing the world around Crydee before getting to the first major plot point.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Everywhere in varying degrees. A common example is Prince Arutha, repeatedly described as "stern, but fair" and only showing his softer side in private, along with many other authority figures. Occasionally, our heroes resort to torturing captives and executing anyone who presents a threat to security. At the most extreme is the brutal and manipulative conditioning of Talwin Hawkins by the Conclave of Shadows in order to use him as an agent.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Riftwar Cycle / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Prince Arutha, who is a genuinely noble Noble but has always been disposed toward a gloomy demeanor and snarky humor. His mother's pet name for him was "little storm cloud".
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
The Riftwar Cycle / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: The Riftwar Saga was written as a trilogy, but the sheer size of Magician caused the publisher to break it down into two books. Averted with the 10th year anniversary edition. Likewise, The Serpentwar Saga was originally planned as a trilogy, but Feist's desire to spend more time and detail describing one character's journey from Loveable Rogue to Master Trader, resulted in Rise of a Merchant Prince being added into the series.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_23cd5152	comment	Confound Them with Kindness: In Rise of a Merchant Prince, Roo has hired his father to drive his wagon of wine to Krondor, but their relationship has always been stormy due to Dad being an abusive drunk. After a full-throated argument about how much to load the wagon, Roo admits that Dad is right and putting another barrel in will break an axle. Dad's immediately taken aback and has to take a couple seconds to come up with a response, and the argument dies out.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Riftwar Cycle / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Several examples. Tomas becomes a friend to both the Elvish and Dwarven races because of his skill in battle. Drill Sergeant Nasty Bobby De Longville is a mean SOB to new recruits. Become a soldier to his satisfaction, however, and he's your brother for life. The Kingdom Soldiers and Tsurani Soldiers in Honored Enemy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: The entire Jamison line, beginning with boy thief turned noble Jimmy The Hand/Duke James all the way down to his great-great-grandson James Dasher Jamison in the most recent books. All of them are gifted rogues/spies and most are named James or Dash. Averted with Martin conDoin in A Kingdom Besieged. While he is named for his great-great-grandfather Martin "Longbow" conDoin, he is an incompetent archer and more closely resembles his great-great-granduncle Arutha conDoin - both in temperament and his amazing skill with a sword. ...In short, he's a copy of Arutha in all but name. Literally.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_272e80c9	comment	Whatever Mancy: Makes mention of geomancy (manipulation of earth and rock) and necromancy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_27636a1	comment	Hellish Horse: The legendary Dark Elf chieftain Murmandamus had one of these in A Darkness at Sethanon. Indeed, it's on the cover of some editions of the book.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
The Riftwar Cycle / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: In Rage Of A Demon King, Baron Manfred von Darkmoor, it is all but stated, is gay. He survives almost to the last page. Almost.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Guy du Bas Tyra was such a famous and feared general that he once broke the siege of a city simply by flying his personal banner over its walls. The Keshian attackers saw that he was defending the city and withdrew.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_2c136406	comment	Standard Royal Court: The Eastern Kingdom of the Isles, as well as the courts of Kesh are thick with politicking courtiers.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
The Riftwar Cycle / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: Magician ends with one, as one of the heroes is revealed to be a bastard son of the royal line and the eldest male, at a time when the Kingdom is already bleeding from a near civil war. An impending succession crisis over the Earldom of LaMut drives most of the plot in Murder in LaMut. The fact that this issue was resolved in favor of someone who doesn't appear in the book in the much earlier published Magician seriously reduces the quality of the story. Mistress of the Empire also features an argument over the Imperial Seat at the heart of its main plot. Succession Crises in Kesh occur in Prince of the Blood and Flight of the Nighthawks. Magician's End has this as the B-plot.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
The Riftwar Cycle / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: As a young man, Magnus once found his fiancee kissing someone else in a bar, at which point he broke off the engagement. It wasn't until long after her death that he learned that at the time she was simply too drunk to realize that the guy she was kissing wasn't him. In the last book, the girl actually admits she did know who she was kissing, that it was on purpose, that she WAS supposed to have been in a monogamous-couple relationship with Magnus, and that it was just a stupid moment of flightiness, that it didn't really "mean anything" (if deep kissing over a period of a minute can "mean nothing"), and that Magnus "overreacted." She also implied that Magnus actually saw them making out and maybe even reaching second base, not just kissing lightly. So, this really brings Moral Values Dissonance into play. She basically cheated on him as she admitted that they were supposed to have been a monogamous couple, and that he should "just get over [being cuckolded]." Instead, it should have been the "you never asked me out, and we never agreed to be a couple" angle, which would make much more sense that she would still feel open to "playing the field", and put the onus on Magnus for overreacting when it was his fault for being possessive and assuming. But Feist inexplicably chose the former route, making the girl look like a cheating tramp trying to brush off the emotional damage cheating can give, rather than an empowered woman standing up for her right to not be beholden to a particular man just because the man has unilaterally declared her his property. But given how Feist treats his female characters in the latter books, this is not especially surprising.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_2e7d6711	type	Enemy to All Living Things
The Riftwar Cycle / int_2e7d6711	comment	Enemy to All Living Things: Dreads, Dasati, Demons and pretty much anything from the Lower Plains and/or Lower Hells, as their touch literally leeches the life out of things.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
The Riftwar Cycle / int_2ec71371	comment	Kesh Called; They Want Bosania Back: Some political factions in the Keshian Empire wish to reclaim all of the northern provinces that were annexed by the Kingdom (Basically the entire Western Realm). This is despite the fact that by the time of the last attempt by those factions to reclaim them, they hadn't been Keshian for eight generations. More level heads realize that even if they could spare the manpower to make a serious attempt at doing this it would take a century or more to recoup the cost of such a war.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_2fac1b86	type	Flying Dutchman
The Riftwar Cycle / int_2fac1b86	comment	Flying Dutchman: Macros, in one of his origin stories, has a unique take upon the Wandering Jew curse.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3072d47e	type	Awesome Backpack
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3072d47e	comment	Awesome Backpack: Nakor's Rucksack Full of Oranges/Apples. Not only is it a near-endless source of nutritious fruit (and other handy items) but it also doubles as a weapon if he rolls the oranges (or apples) up inside it. The demon with Nakor's memories has this bag too.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Riftwar Cycle / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Despite all of his many flaws and actions, Belasco wanted to kill Sidi/Leso Varen for killing their mother. She was insane, but she was still their mother.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_323f135b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Evil
The Riftwar Cycle / int_323f135b	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Zig-zagged. The direct threat goes up from Magician to its sequels, then goes down again for Krondor's Sons, then follows a similar pattern between the successive series, culminating in the Chaoswar Saga where the Dread plan to eat the universe, kill the gods, and twist time so that none of it ever existed at all.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
The Riftwar Cycle / int_32da91b8	comment	After being one of the most important characters in the first book, and while he had an interesting and complex relationship with Mara, Tecuma of the Anasati is kept Out of Focus in the second book and dies half way in it due to a mixture of old age, sickness and grief over the death of his older son.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_33c99c49	type	Might Makes Right
The Riftwar Cycle / int_33c99c49	comment	Might Makes Right: This is the basis of Valheru morality. If a Valheru wants to do something, the only reason they won't is if someone is strong enough to stop them.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
The Riftwar Cycle / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: Sandreena was raised as one.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
The Riftwar Cycle / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Tomas/Ashen Shugar.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
The Riftwar Cycle / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: Subverted. Several books have Pug receiving messages sent to himself from the future to ensure things turn out correctly. Turns out they're actually being sent from the present by the Trickster God Banath.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Riftwar Cycle / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: It is revealed in A Darkness At Sethanon that Guy Du Bas Tyra's actions in Magician were all part of a plan to get Royally Screwed Up King Rodric off the throne. It's entirely possible that all of the Nameless God's actions through Sidi were one of these to inspire Pug to create the Conclave, so that there would be an organization in place to deal with the real threat.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
The Riftwar Cycle / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: The Bloodwitches and the White, secret societies among the Dasati who don't like where their civilization is headed at all (though they're still pretty ruthless by our standards). The moredhel chieftain Gorath allies himself with humans because it's the only way to stop his savage people from destroying themselves.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_39c443f0	type	DemonLordsAndArchDevils
The Riftwar Cycle / int_39c443f0	comment	Demon Lords And Arch Devils: Appear at various points during those series that feature the Fifth Circle. Maarg, The Dragon Tugor, The Starscream Jakan, and rival King Dahun are the most important. At the end of the series, Child/Miranda appears to plan on returning to the Fifth Circle and setting herself up as one, albeit with the intention of creating a kinder, gentler demon race.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Roald's Heroic Sacrifice in A Darkness At Sethanon.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: Quite a lot of these, including The Lifestone and The Talnoy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3b9a9d4	type	Death's Hourglass
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3b9a9d4	comment	Death's Hourglass: Feist's golden dragons know the exact moment they will die.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Sandreena. A rare justified example, as she was forced into prostitution as a child because of it. Besides her disgust with the way most men look at her now, her relationships with them have ranged from awkward to miserable ever since, with only a single exception. She also isn't taken seriously as a warrior by some members of her order because of her looks.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3bb487aa	type	King Bob the Nth
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3bb487aa	comment	King Bob the Nth: King Rodric The Fourth
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: There are several throughout the series, but the most prominent one is Pug vs the Emerald Fleet. The Emerald Fleet wins and Pug is severely injured and barely survives.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3ea7916d	type	Immortality Immorality
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3ea7916d	comment	Immortality Immorality: There's a lot of evil wizards using necromancy to obtain Eternal Youth/Eternal Life.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3edeeff4	type	Son of a Whore
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3edeeff4	comment	Son of a Whore: Jimmy the Hand is one. As is Billy Goodwin in Shadow of a Dark Queen. Bringing it up is like jamming your thumb on his Berserk Button. Corporal Foster does it on purpose.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_3fba7250	type	Father Neptune
The Riftwar Cycle / int_3fba7250	comment	Father Neptune: Amos Trask; see Badass Boast above for why.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Riftwar Cycle / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Ultimately, this is how the entire series ends. Tomas dies so Ashen-Shugar can fight the Dread for eternity, Pug dies sealing them at the cost of Magnus's life and the lives of hundreds of magicians and clerics but due to a fluke on his part, he is given the choice to return to life, since the Dread will eventually return. He refuses this in favour of Magnus being saved and Magnus survives due to Pug's intervention. Due to what Pug had to do to seal the Dread away, a large amount of damage occurred across Midkemia and thousands of lives were lost, but the Kingdom is at peace with a new King and the world is safe.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
The Riftwar Cycle / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Several examples. Armengar and Sethanon in A Darkness at Sethanon Crydee in The King's Buccaneer Krondor in Rage Of A Demon King
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
The Riftwar Cycle / int_416a2a0d	comment	His companion, the Moredhel Gorath, counters that Torture Always Works if you know what you are doing.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
The Riftwar Cycle / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Nakor's view is that there is no magic, there are only aspects of the universe that we do not understand yet, and that what he does is simply tricks that anybody can learn. This lets him dispense with much of the ritual and effort that magicians use.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Riftwar Cycle / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The Moredhel indulge in this. So did mad mage Leso Varen.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_42846e90	type	Elemental Powers
The Riftwar Cycle / int_42846e90	comment	Elemental Powers: There are Elemental monsters, based on the four classical elements, who can be banished only by contact with the opposing element. Air Elementals, for instance, dissipate if forced to touch the ground. Pug also shows amazing magical command of the elements, summoning all four in mass quantities to destroy an arena and humiliate The Warlord in Magician: Master.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
The Riftwar Cycle / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Leso Varen, his brother Belasco, and the Emerald Queen.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Riftwar Cycle / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: In the Empire Trilogy, because the books are told from Mara's point of view, some of the main characters (both allies and enemies) are killed off screen in a very anticlimatic manner. The biggest examples : After spending the first half of the second book taking a level in badass, Desio of the Minwanabi is killed off screen during the battle following the failed peace talks between Tsuranuanni and Midkemia. After being one of the most important characters in the first book, and while he had an interesting and complex relationship with Mara, Tecuma of the Anasati is kept Out of Focus in the second book and dies half way in it due to a mixture of old age, sickness and grief over the death of his older son. Ichindar, Emperor of Tsuranuanni, friend of Mara and Big Good of the second and third books, is murdered off screen by a random noble.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_43b6fb56	type	Vain Sorceress
The Riftwar Cycle / int_43b6fb56	comment	Vain Sorceress: Jorna/Lady Clovis.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_44058f87	type	Sssssnaketalk
The Riftwar Cycle / int_44058f87	comment	Sssssnake Talk: Used by the Panathians when they try to speak the language of the Kingdom of the Isles.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Riftwar Cycle / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: The Tsurani culture is shown to be built on this in the Empire trilogy. (Also results in plenty of Honor-Related Abuse.)
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
The Riftwar Cycle / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Lysle Rigger to Jimmy The Hand.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_458c7e61	type	Constructed World
The Riftwar Cycle / int_458c7e61	comment	Constructed World: Feist and his friends who made the Role-Playing Game which inspired Midkemia created one of the best.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_45a177f1	type	Touched by Vorlons
The Riftwar Cycle / int_45a177f1	comment	Touched by Vorlons: Tomas and his transformation into a hybrid human/Valheru, complete with a heaping helping of terrorizing megalomania before the elven Spellweavers helped reinforce his self-control. This happens a couple of times later, to other people- the Emerald Queen was trying to become a human/Valheru hybrid, but got eaten and replaced by a demon before she managed it. In the Chaoswar books, a mercenary successfully becomes the emobodiement of another Valheru, Draken-Korin.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_4603ea49	type	Mystical Plague
The Riftwar Cycle / int_4603ea49	comment	Mystical Plague: In The King's Buccaneer, the Overlord of the City of the Serpent River works with some Pantathian serpent priests to kidnap a couple of hundred people from the Kingdom, mostly women and girls. Then they create magical duplicates of the prisoners and infect the duplicates with a magically-created plague that is spread by contact and is almost always fatal. Then they send the prisoners back to the Kingdom, to the Western Realm's capital city of Krondor.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Riftwar Cycle / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: How the Tsurani and Kingdom forces wind up regarding each other.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The Lifestone The Dread, at the end of the series
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Riftwar Cycle / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Arutha goes incognito using the name Arthur. Justified and deliberate, since, as Amos Trask points out, if someone accidentally calls him by his real name, it can be waved away as a mishearing.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_48f7eeb2	type	Heir-In-Law
The Riftwar Cycle / int_48f7eeb2	comment	Heir-In-Law: Two instances. In the Empire Trilogy, Mara is the Unexpected Successor to the leadership of House Acoma, but for political and social reasons, it's expected that she will marry someone and transfer lordship to him. She chooses a well-connected but easy-to-manipulate husband, which works for a while, but his abusiveness and incompetence eventually prompts her to navigate him into a situation where he publicly loses honour and has to kill himself, reverting formal control back to her. Her second marriage does not involve surrendering power, as she is technically regent to her son until he reaches twenty-five, not a ruler in her own right. In the Riftwar Saga, the relationship between Tomas and Queen Aglaranna of the elves is of worry to the latter's people, since they think he might try to make himself king through it. In the end, however, he just becomes her consort, and her child by a previous relationship remains heir.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_49134628	comment	Bringing Back Proof: Mara of the Acoma agrees to carry out the Dustari's vendetta against Tasaio of the Minwanabi, and promises to send them his ancestral sword as proof. As metal is uncommon in the Empire, family swords are precious and closely guarded heirlooms; there's no way she could get it except by his death, which the Dustari understand.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
The Riftwar Cycle / int_4a852458	comment	Ichindar, Emperor of Tsuranuanni, friend of Mara and Big Good of the second and third books, is murdered off screen by a random noble.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_4c0ca7ce	type	Aloof Ally
The Riftwar Cycle / int_4c0ca7ce	comment	Aloof Ally: Marcus in The King's Buccaneer. While willing to put aside his personal arguments with Nicholas for the sake of the people he rules over, he's still reluctant to be anything but civil to his cousin. Also, Sandreena in Rides A Dread Legion. Given her background, it's understandable why she has issues with men in general - never mind that, for the sake of the world, she is asked to work with her ex and the man who sold her as a Sex Slave!
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_4c782fb9	comment	Gods Need Prayer Badly: On the one hand, someone who's in a position to know states that without devotion, gods tend to wither away; on the other hand, a few pages later the same character notes that gods do not die easily, and even when you kill them, they tend not to stay dead.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Riftwar Cycle / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Not surprising considering that the books span a handful of generations - but still surprising in some cases. The most extreme perhaps being Prince Arutha, hero of the Riftwar, Lord of the West and all around badass dying shortly after falling off his horse off-screen a couple chapters into Shadow of a Dark Queen
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_4cccd2a9	type	Mad Oracle
The Riftwar Cycle / int_4cccd2a9	comment	Mad Oracle: Pretty much any sentient being who acted as a host to The Oracle of Aal eventually became this. At least until Pug finds The Oracle a suitable soulless body in A Darkness At Sethanon.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_4d846bbb	type	Bearer of Bad News
The Riftwar Cycle / int_4d846bbb	comment	Bearer of Bad News: Generally, the only time Macros The Black shows up is to deliver a dire warning of something bad that is about to happen.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_521144cf	type	Challenging the Chief
The Riftwar Cycle / int_521144cf	comment	Challenging the Chief: Gorath's backstory includes conquering another tribe and joining it with his own by killing their chieftain in fair combat. This also seems to be how moredhel society works in general.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
The Riftwar Cycle / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Feist's dwarves are the standard issue Tolkien model.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Riftwar Cycle / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: King Rodric.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_52e23ce	comment	Inn Between the Worlds: Honest John's - a bar/inn located in The Hall of Worlds, which links numerous worlds and planes of reality.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Riftwar Cycle / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Magician's End (the final book in the series) ends with a young boy called Pug gathering stranded shellfish after a storm in Crydee, the same way that Magician, the first book, began. It's implied that this Pug is to become a wizard's apprentice, and that he may be reborn for a new cycle on the Wheel.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Duke Kaspar is a cultured gentleman, a gracious host, and will betray an ally or order genocide without batting an eye. It is later revealed that Kaspar was under the influence of dark wizard Leso Varen.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_5380d2f1	type	Painless Death for a Price
The Riftwar Cycle / int_5380d2f1	comment	Painless Death for a Price: Lady Mara's chief spy, Arakasi, makes use of this technique when interrogating a man for vital information to save Mara's life, using drugs that expand the victim's perception of time as Arakasi tortures him. Once the man finally cracks and tells Arakasi everything, he finally gets the quick end of a cut throat, as promised.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
The Riftwar Cycle / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Most of the servants in Kesh play this role towards Erland in Prince of the Blood. Well, for a given value of innocent. The servants know damn well what they are doing (and do it damn well) but since Keshian nobility doesn't have the same taboos regarding public nudity and pre-marital sex that the Kingdom of the Isles nobility do, the innocence comes more from their not understanding why anyone would object to having a dozen nude women (or men) waiting in an honored guest's quarters to help them bathe and ... ahem ... relax before dinner.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_5527dc0c	type	Plot Coupon
The Riftwar Cycle / int_5527dc0c	comment	The Valheru. The ONE exception seen involves a VERY large Plot Coupon and six-book Gambit Roulette (though they're described in-universe as more like Always Chaotic Above Good and Evil. Rather than evil, they have simply a strong "might makes right" mentality).
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
The Riftwar Cycle / int_556a3059	comment	The Empath: Gamina fills this role most of the time, despite being capable of true Telepathy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Riftwar Cycle / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: There are several "black" themed magicians who are good guys. Macros The Black, of course. The Black Robes of The Assembly are, for the most part, decent men loyal to their Empire. Pug, the main protagonist of the series, favors black robes and goes by the title The Black Sorcerer. The Conclave of Shadows, an organization created to counter the ever-present threat of the other dark forces that endanger the world (and so called because they must do their work unseen). Priests of various death gods tend to fall quite firmly into this category. Priests of Lims-Kragma tend to be scary, but benevolent and genuinely concerned with the emotional well-being of the bereaved. The stand-out may be the high priest of Turakamu in the Empire-series, who, behind his demonic mask, is an affable, genuinely decent sort, as well as one of Mara's staunchest supporters in reforming the byzantine, honor-obbsessed Tsurani culture. And then there's Amirantha - a demon-summoner who, while being a bit of a pig and a con-man, isn't quite Evil with a capital E, unlike most demonologists. Combined with Light Is Not Good in the case of the elves and dark elves. A in-universe stereotype exists where humans believe that all of the mordehel are dark-haired and deformed while the eledhel are all fair-haired and beautiful. In truth, there is no such true distinction given that the two elf varieties the same race who've chosen different moral "paths". This is explored in Magician, when Martin Longbow's trainee scout Garret (literally) runs into a young moredhel woman and is surprised by how pretty she was. Martin answers that like the elves they are a fair race but a moredhel woman would cut his heart out as soon as kiss him. Consequently, if encountering someone with pointy ears in a neutral area and not knowing whether they're eledhel or moredhel, appearance would be a bad thing to judge by.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Riftwar Cycle / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Played Straight AND Averted. Played straight with the various culture conflicts, such as those between the humanoid cultures of the Feudal Japan inspired Tsurani and the nomadic barbarian Thuril. Also, The Moredhel (dark elves) hate pretty much everyone who isn't a Moredhel. Averted in that the usual elf/dwarf rivalry is non-existent. Indeed, the two races get along with one another better than they do with most humans.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Riftwar Cycle / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Pretty much every human culture is based on at least one or two real-world societies. The Tsurani are Feudal Japan with a little Aztec religion and Roman Empire in decline. They also borrow a fair bit from M.A.R. Barker's Tekumel, particularly in their Metal-Poor Planet. The Hadati are Scottish Highlanders with a little Buddhist philosophy thrown in. Kesh is basically Ancient Egypt as founded by African tribals, with a crack military unit - The Dog Soldiers - which mixes elements of Roman Imperial Army and the Mamluk slave soldiers. The Quegans are the Roman Empire, dabbling in piracy. The moredhel are basically Native Americans, complete with the tribalism, the animal motifs and the hostile relations with human occupationists invading their lands.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
The Riftwar Cycle / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: Nakor, both during his brief time at Wizarding School Stardock and later as a trainer with the Conclave of Shadows.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Riftwar Cycle / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The entire premise of Honored Enemy. In the midst of a bloody war between the Empire of Tsurannuani and the Kingdom on Kingdom soil, Tsurani and Kingdom soldiers are forced to work together and put aside their differences for a while to survive the pursuit of the dark elves, who are hostile to both sides. Despite many bouts of dangerous tension, bonds of friendship are forged. In Betrayal at Krondor, this is Gorath's initial reason for seeking out Prince Arutha for help. Prince Arutha wouldn't want another moredhel invasion because he's in charge of protecting the Kingdom, and Gorath wouldn't want another moredhel invasion because they've always ended with heavy losses in the past and he's one of the few with the common sense to recognise that fact. Thus, the two work together. Gorath's son took up this cause to protect a man in a black robe, whether it's Pug or Magnus is unclear.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_59a09012	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Riftwar Cycle / int_59a09012	comment	Bitchin Sheeps Clothing: Sylvia Esterbrook.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_59fe174d	type	Devil, but No God
The Riftwar Cycle / int_59fe174d	comment	Devil, but No God: Justified: the God of Good was killed in the Chaos Wars, while the God of Evil remains alive and fairly active, despite being sealed within a prison in another dimension. Played straight and lampshaded somewhat in the later books, where after repeated attacks by demons and Dasati from the lower planes, someone mentions that Angels from the higher planes also exist and wonders why none of them ever show up to help out. Possible Fridge Brilliance. The only reason Midkemians ever interact with the lower planes is to summon or fight off invaders to their own world, not to help out the lower ones. Averted in A Kingdom Beseiged, when a seemingly angelic being is from a higher plane is depicted.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
The Riftwar Cycle / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: A common enough mentality among the moredhel.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Macros The Black. We have no idea how old he really is but he has been fighting evil for a very long time.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_5fb5dad8	type	Royal Blood
The Riftwar Cycle / int_5fb5dad8	comment	Royal Blood: It turns out that Martin Longbow has it.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Riftwar Cycle / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Quite a few between the various sagas. For reference, at the start of the first book, Jimmy the Hand was a toddler (Though he wouldn't appear as a character until a ten-year timeskip made him a teenager). During the second saga, Jimmy the Hand is now Duke James of Krondor, an old man whose grandchildren are young men. At the end of the final book in the series, Duke James of Rillanon, the grandson of Jimmy the Hand, retires from government service due to extreme old age, and his grandson James is a grown man.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
The Riftwar Cycle / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: The oath that Sidi, Amirantha and Belasco made as a child. It's the closest thing to sacred they have and it helps Amirantha deduce that the Big Bad of the Demonwar books has pulled a Grand Theft Me on Belasco.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6115944d	type	Fruit of the Loon
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6115944d	comment	Fruit of the Loon: Nakor and his bottomless bag of oranges. Or apples. It just depends.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6134738	type	Find the Cure!
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6134738	comment	Find the Cure!: The main plot of Silverthorn was a Fetch Quest for a poison cure.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Riftwar Cycle / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Duke Kaspar gets one of these, being the protagonist of Exiles Return and becoming a hero in the later books after having been the Arch-Enemy of the protagonist of Talon of the Silver Hawk and King of Foxes.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_61cd6e2b	type	Color-Coded Wizardry
The Riftwar Cycle / int_61cd6e2b	comment	Color-Coded Wizardry: Pug and Macros, both good universe-saving mages, are known as The Black Sorcerer. And Nakor The Blue Rider. Even if he defies codification. And claims not to be a wizard.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
The Riftwar Cycle / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Arutha and Anita, to everyone's mutual happiness. Although their marriage wasn't exactly arranged. Their parents were planning to arrange their marriage, but the Riftwar broke out before they could make it official. After the war ended, Arutha proposed to Anita on his own initiative.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty Bobby De Longville is a mean SOB to new recruits. Become a soldier to his satisfaction, however, and he's your brother for life.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Even with all the magical and divinely-empowered heroes running about, each series features the heroics of at least a few ordinary mortals. Prince Arutha might be the epitome of this, as he's the hero everyone else is measured against for generations to follow. Jimmy the Hand/Lord James I, as well as his great-great grandson Jim Dasher are definitely this.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6509bb9f	comment	Nonindicative Name: Macros The Black. He is a wizard in the service of good. He favors simple brown monk-style robes. And he is described as being of Caucasian appearance. There is nothing "black" about him in any sense of the word. He pretty much invented the Black Sorcerer myth himself convince people to avoid landing on his island. There is also Nakor The Blue Rider, who is without a horse and is clad in an orange robe when we first encounter him. At the end of Prince of the Blood, the only reward he asks for his part in averting a war between the two most powerful nations in the world is for a blue robe to wear and a black horse to ride, so that he can again be Nakor The Blue Rider.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: King Rodric regains his sanity during his last moments and manages to break free of his madness before he dies.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Pug is described as a bearded man with dark hair going grey. Raymond E. Feist is a bearded man with dark hair going grey. And the picture of Pug on this edition of Magician: Master◊ does look quite a bit like Feist◊.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Tends to vary between being played straight and subverted. In Darkness at Sethanon, Roald goes down holding off moredhel pursuers. During the Serpentwar, Jimmy and Gamina die in the explosion the former triggered to take down the enemy army. In Krondor: The Betrayal, Gorath is killed in his effort to prevent the activation of the Lifestone. Prince Arutha conDoin dying from a broken hip after falling off a horse. Owen Greylock being killed by a freak shot from a still loaded crossbow at his own camp. In Rides a Dread Legion we have Caleb randomly crushed by a collapsed building and Miranda dying of a torn throat after being snuck up on by a random demon. And of course, plenty of characters (including Arutha, of the above examples) die off-panel or just fade into presumed death from old age as the years pass. Played straight in Magician's End with Pug and Tomas who die holding off the Dreadking from entering Midkemia and ultimately sacrifice themselves to ward the Dread away for good.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: Discussed in the novelization of Betrayal at Krondor: James explains to Gorath that this is done to speakers who the audience doesn't like, and being a dark elf Fish out of Water in human civilization, Gorath thinks it's insane.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: A Darkness At Sethannon opens with an ill wind moving around many of the protagonists, giving them a chill even as the Big Bad is making his first move against them.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6a0b03a6	comment	One Last Job: Arutha kept Gardan in the state of "You can retire as soon as the current situation is resolved" for twenty years. Gardan did eventually manage to retire.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: After all the adventures and battles, Arutha dies by breaking his hip falling off his horse.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: Despite covering near two centuries of history, and despite most armies being decidedly non-magic powered, gunpowder will not make an appearance anywhere in the cycle.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6bda9a30	comment	This is particularly jarring when it renders Bek's meaningful Sdrawkcab Name... well... meaningless.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6c0cefcd	type	Pepper Sneeze
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6c0cefcd	comment	Pepper Sneeze: Used in The King's Buccaneer to take down a soul-drinking sorceress. A face full of pepper makes it very hard to focus on spell casting.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: There are a lot of forms of Functional Magic in the series, each with their own rulesets, and a lot of exceptions to each set of rules. Pug and Nakor hold that the reason for all of this is because all the rules are actually in a mage's head.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6c913a7d	type	Chessmaster
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6c913a7d	comment	Chess Master: Quite a few. Duke James in The Serpent War Saga. He basically uses his political pull to allow Rupert Avery to become the richest merchant prince in all the Western Realm in a matter of years... and then blackmails Avery into loaning the government all the money they need to finance The Serpent War, on the grounds that his wealth won't be worth much if the Kingdom falls. The Upright Man, leader of The Mockers (Krondor's Thieves' Guild), in Silverthorn. He winds up negotiating a circular deal for his help in stopping the assassins targeting Prince Arutha. The deal ends with both parties being able to save face, both parties getting everything they wanted and - best of all - not spending one gold piece in concessions. Macros the Black, especially with Pug and Thomas, though ironically he himself is the biggest pawn of all. Guy de Bas Tyra with his plot to usurp the throne from Rodric, though it failed.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: The eventual fate of most of the heroes of the first Riftwar, as most of them are dead before the second Riftwar starts.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: The mother of Bethany of Carse has ambitions for her daughter; wanting her to marry Hal and become the next Duchess of Crydee. After Hal becomes Duke of Crydee though he uses his position as their liege lord to allow Martin and Bethany to marry. While Bethany's mother isn't exactly thrilled with the subject, it has been suggested that, due to Martin being appointed as the Prince of Krondor (the second-highest noble title in the Kingdom of the Isles), she'll mellow out.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6e23669f	type	Antagonistic Offspring
The Riftwar Cycle / int_6e23669f	comment	Antagonistic Offspring: Draken-Korin to Ashen-Shugar.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: Many of the threats Feist's protagonists deal with come from this.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_6fbe7285	comment	Walk into Mordor: Arutha and Company do this in Silverthorn (walking into the one valley they can find the titular plant, which is guarded by moredhel) and A Darkness at Sethanon (walking into the moredhel-dominated Northlands). Pug leading an expedition into the Dasati realm.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_70489c17	type	Superman Stays Out of Gotham
The Riftwar Cycle / int_70489c17	comment	Superman Stays Out of Gotham: After Arutha dies, Pug tries to avoid getting tangled in mundane political crises and the Decadent Court, because his job is defending Midkemia from otherdimensional evils, not settling the latest Succession Crisis. When he does get involved, it's decisive; mortal princes and armies are in no position to argue with a sorcerer of his caliber.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: The clash between Kevin from the Medieval European Fantasy world of Midkemia and Mara's Honor Before Reason Far East counterpart culture is a major theme of Servant of the Empire; as Mara adopts Kevin's view of honor over the course of the book, the stage is set for the major conflict in the sequel.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Riftwar Cycle / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: Magnus meets a boy named Philip on the Crydee shores while he's trying to get some crabs for dinner. His friends and family all call him Pug though and after learning a bit about him, Magnus offers to make him his apprentice.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Riftwar Cycle / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Queen Aglaranna - a purely spiritual leader of the elves in the books - gets a bit... closer to the action in the graphic novels.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_746704c9	type	Divided for Publication
The Riftwar Cycle / int_746704c9	comment	Divided for Publication: Some paperback editions of Magician are split into two parts, with Apprentice and Master volumes.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_766de4dc	type	To Absent Friends
The Riftwar Cycle / int_766de4dc	comment	To Absent Friends: At the end of Betrayal, the main characters have a toast in honour of Gorath's Heroic Sacrifice. The survivors of Calis' Desperate Men have a drink in honor of their fallen comrades.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
The Riftwar Cycle / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: There's a very fine line between Elvish History and Human Legend.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_78da8795	type	Dowry Dilemma
The Riftwar Cycle / int_78da8795	comment	Dowry Dilemma: In the Daughter of the Empire trilogy, Mara of the Acoma very nearly inverts this trope. She has quite a substantial dowry, but her estate's suffered such a huge military loss that the problem is finding an adequate protector who A) isn't an enemy and B) is willing to shoulder the burden of protecting the estate without gaining control. Mara decides to Take a Third Option.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Riftwar Cycle / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Jimmy The Hand/Duke James. In both senses of the phrase, as he is a Son of a Whore and a Magnificent Bastard.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
The Riftwar Cycle / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: Powerful magicians have this.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
The Riftwar Cycle / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Talon of the Silver Hawk's cover identity in noble circles is Baronet Talwin Hawkins of Silverlake, who has title but little else due to the fact that Silverlake is a barely inhabited swamp.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_7b047cb2	type	Legendary Weapon
The Riftwar Cycle / int_7b047cb2	comment	Legendary Weapon: The Hammer of Tholin is an ancient weapon that belonged to the last king of the dwarves, believed to be lost to the ages. The lore attached to it is so strong that its recovery allows Dolgan to become the first king of the dwarves since its loss. It's lost in Magician's End, along with Dolgin.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_7b5c69c8	type	Dirty Old Woman
The Riftwar Cycle / int_7b5c69c8	comment	Dirty Old Woman: Upon encountering a young man who reminds her of her late husband, an elderly Princess Carline orders her guards that if he is ever seen near her granddaughters, he should be executed... or brought to her chambers.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_7c0056d4	type	Fanservice with a Smile
The Riftwar Cycle / int_7c0056d4	comment	Fanservice with a Smile: The various scenes of Erland and his servants in Prince of the Blood
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
The Riftwar Cycle / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The end result of Pug's dealing with the Big Bad of Wrath of a Mad God. To be exact he Tore the MOON out of orbit and smashed it into the planet. Even the * god* who was watching was impressed with that one.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_7e02bded	type	Fetch Quest
The Riftwar Cycle / int_7e02bded	comment	Fetch Quest: Betrayal at Krondor was full of these. Also, Silverthorn. So was Krondor: Tear of the Gods. In both the computer game and the novelization.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_7e716d9f	type	Expansion Pack World
The Riftwar Cycle / int_7e716d9f	comment	Expansion Pack World: Averted, in that while Feist does seem to "add on" to the map a little more with each book, he is generally good about referring to the other regions earlier on, so that it seems more like we are traveling the globe rather than having new lands dropped in front of us.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Carline, first towards Pug, then towards Laurie.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_7f115959	comment	Mother Makes You King: At the end of Mistress of the Empire, Mara puts her son Justin on the throne by marrying him to the daughter of the late Emperor, making him the next Emperor.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
The Riftwar Cycle / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: The plot of the unfinished Riftwar Legacy series. Who is the Crawler? How does Jazhara die? Will we ever find out? Well, considering that William, who had a relationship with Jazhara, said that he will never love again as a result of her death, indicates that she was Stuffed in the Fridge.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_80cd1f62	comment	God of Evil: Nalar. The Dasati Dark God looks like this at first, but ultimately turns out to be a particularly nasty form of Eldritch Abomination called, appropriately enough, a Dread.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_81a61a4a	type	Discontinuity Nod
The Riftwar Cycle / int_81a61a4a	comment	Discontinuity Nod: Later books do this at least twice toward Rise of A Merchant Prince, generally regarded as the most disposable entry in all the Riftwar books. Tal Hawkins happens to come upon the memoirs of Rupert Avery, give it a quick read, and declares it to be boring and absurd, clearly written by a self-absorbed egomaniac whose life and career was surely not as interesting as he wants others to think.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
The Riftwar Cycle / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: Queg considers itself the last true remnant of the Keshian Empire. Subverted in that Kesh is still doing just fine; it just lost control of some outer provinces (including Queg) when a civil war a few centuries earlier forced the recall of their garrisons.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8272ed55	type	Hive Queen
The Riftwar Cycle / int_8272ed55	comment	Hive Queen: The ant-like cho'ja race of Kelewan live in hives and are ruled by queens.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_82a51bc7	type	Bad Moon Rising
The Riftwar Cycle / int_82a51bc7	comment	Bad Moon Rising: Used and Averted in Silverthorn. The book opens with the Big Bad consulting the signs - a group of red stars - and being told now is the time to strike against the one who will defeat him. When his assassination attempts fail, he says that the stars weren't PRECISELY lined up just yet and next year shall be the time for their attack.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_831164fe	type	Signature Style
The Riftwar Cycle / int_831164fe	comment	Signature Style: Feist likes the words "alien" and especially "quietly." A sizable proportion of all chapters begin with "(Character) sat quietly". In fact, the first paragraph of every chapter in the cycle is a single simple declarative sentence, always structured "Subject verbed." The longest of these is six words.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Human/Valheru hybrid Tomas and elf queen Aglaranna.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_86331fae	type	The Anti-God
The Riftwar Cycle / int_86331fae	comment	The Anti-God: This is the ultimate nature of the Dread, as revealed in Magician's End.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Riftwar Cycle / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Amos Trask has the best ones.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_86c9b9b9	type	Badass Decay
The Riftwar Cycle / int_86c9b9b9	comment	Badass Decay: The Western Realm gradually undergoes this from the Serpent War onwards after Arutha's death. Somewhat justified due to the frequent wars and somewhat unstable nature over the events of the series, as well as a lack of competent (Or possibly just dedicated - Arutha was the last Prince of Krondor to see the West as his realm rather than just a post to mark time holding until ascending to the throne) people ruling it. Discussed In-Universe when Arutha the son of Jimmy the Hand mentions that his father, the man he was named after, and other legendary leaders from the previous generation could have overcome a challenge he was facing, whereas he felt that he and other mere mortals couldn't do it.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Riftwar Cycle / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Some forms of magic resemble this, such as Gamina's telepathy, which her adopted father Pug is able to emulate to some degree with his magic.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Riftwar Cycle / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Dread, nightmarish inscrutable creatures from the Void that are so horrible even Demon Lords run scared from them. Oh, and they're all manifestations of the ultimate Big Bad.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_890d778	type	Wizards Live Longer
The Riftwar Cycle / int_890d778	comment	Wizards Live Longer: Most magicians, for one reason or another, seem to be capable of Immortality. The good ones just seem to manage it and the bad ones seek out the bad ways of doing it. It's more like being a magic user of significant power will slow down your aging considerably, but won't make you immortal and you can still be killed. The good guys are content with this, mostly. The bad guys aren't, and use various unethical means to try and get the real deal. Justified in the case of the good guys, since the gods need them to protect Midkemia and you can't do that with a typical human lifespan.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Riftwar Cycle / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Macros The Black, who has returned from the dead (or dimensions so remote he might as well be dead) at least once per Riftwar. Pug technically counts, since he was at death's door and there's no reason he should have survived. As of A Kingdom Besieged, it looks like Nakor and Miranda have found a way to bring themselves back. Subverted in that the next two books make it plain that the gods just grabbed a likely pair of demons and implanted their memories into them; Child and Belog aren't the actual Miranda and Nakor, which disturbs them, Pug, and Magnus greatly.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
The Riftwar Cycle / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: The Black Slayers - near unstoppable undead warriors, created when one kills an assassin who is sworn to the service of The Guild of Death.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
The Riftwar Cycle / int_8c1ad82f	comment	The moredhel chieftain Gorath allies himself with humans because it's the only way to stop his savage people from destroying themselves.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8d12bb8d	type	Doomsday Device
The Riftwar Cycle / int_8d12bb8d	comment	In Krondor: The Betrayal, Gorath is killed in his effort to prevent the activation of the Lifestone.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8d630561	type	Simultaneous Arcs
The Riftwar Cycle / int_8d630561	comment	Simultaneous Arcs: Most of the books have these, usually alternating between the mortal protagonists and whatever Pug is doing at the time.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8e7835b3	type	Wunza Plot
The Riftwar Cycle / int_8e7835b3	comment	Wunza Plot: "I'm goodhearted and honest." "I'm goodhearted and sneaky." Together, They Fight Evil!
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_8f3033c	type	Using You All Along
The Riftwar Cycle / int_8f3033c	comment	Using You All Along: When Armengar is besieged by a vast army of Moredhel, led by the legendary Moredhel leader Murmandamus, the good guys make the most of the city's defenses to make the death toll of the moredhel invaders truly staggering, including blowing up the whole city when the army finally does break through the walls. Turns out Murmandamus (who was, unknown to the moredhel he was commanding, a Pantathian in disguise) was gathering up all that escaping life force for power to access the Lifestone in Sethanon, and it didn't matter to him in the slightest if the dead soldiers were Moredhel or Kingdom.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_903e9dc9	type	Regent for Life
The Riftwar Cycle / int_903e9dc9	comment	Regent for Life: Between her own scheming to remove her husband from power, her first child being murdered and her second child claiming another throne, Mara of the Acoma ends up as Regent of her house from the age of 19 until her third and final child reaches 25 (By which point Mara herself was in her fifties).
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
The Riftwar Cycle / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The cho'ja have some variation on this. The will of the queen is all, but the other cho'ja have some independence and identity. The queen began life independent, but merged with some sort of greater consciousness in maturity. They speak to one another using vocal language, but that language somehow doesn't need to be physically heard to be part of the hive memory. The Dread also operate on this principle. All of the Dread are actually manifestions of a single entity.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9107b72	type	Circles of Hell
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9107b72	comment	Circles of Hell: Feist's cosmology is based on numerous planes, with the planes underneath ours ruled by increasingly evil and alien forces. It's suggested by one character that there may be an infinite number of such planes stacked above and below, but mortals don't know of them because it's impossible for beings of any given universe to perceive or interact with anything more than seven levels removed.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Riftwar Cycle / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Several of them are shown in Wrath of a Mad God: the fourth abyssal plane, where a Dreadlord entered the multiverse from the Void, was reduced to a fine powder to power its ascent to the third; most planets and stars were shattered into rubble to power the ascent to the second plane. The second plane isn't shown, but most intelligent life on one planet of the first plane is exterminated to power the ascent to the plane containing Midkemia. Stopping that ascent involves turning one planet into an expanding vapor cloud.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
The Riftwar Cycle / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone / Un-person: The ultimate goal of the harshest sentence for traitors to the Empress of Kesh is to ensure that their soul be forever alone, forgotten even by The Gods. To that end, the traitor's name is erased from the written records and forbidden to any child of noble birth. They are personally Excommunicated by the high priest of the chief god of the Keshian faith and denied entry into their afterlife. After this is done, any time someone must speak of a person who underwent this punishment, they do so indirectly, by referring to the person in question as "One Whose Name Has Been Forgotten" or "One Who Betrayed His Country".
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_94bd514c	type	Planet England
The Riftwar Cycle / int_94bd514c	comment	Planet England: Averted, in that while the world was named (Midkemia), the continent upon which most of the early stories took place was not named until later.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_95afab6	type	Black Cloak
The Riftwar Cycle / int_95afab6	comment	Black Cloak: Averted, since two of the main heroes use the title "The Black Sorcerer" but play off people's expectations to protect their privacy. Also averted in the Tsurani magicians (Great Ones), whose uniform is a black robe.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Riftwar Cycle / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Pug outlived his firstborn son, his adopted daughter, his son-in-law, his grandson, and one of his great-grandsons. Most of these were casualties of the Serpentwar, the last was simple wizardly longevity.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Riftwar Cycle / int_970c790a	comment	Zaltais of Eternal Despair, a being summoned by the ultimate Big Bad from the 7th Circle of Hell/dreamt up by the ultimate Big Bad looks like an angel made of light.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Riftwar Cycle / int_978a82e6	comment	The Demonwar Saga lowers the overall threat level down slightly, with a Big Bad Duumvirate of Belasco (Leso Varen's equally evil brother) and the demon lord Dahun, but with hints that there's something so horrible out there that both are running scared.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9818b2ac	type	WanderingJew
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9818b2ac	comment	Wandering Jew: Macros The Black's father might have been him. He was probably lying about that, though. To a degree, Macros himself seems to be similarly cursed.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Riftwar Cycle / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: The entire series is the final stages of one set up by the Gods of Midkemia to save one Valheru from the destruction of the Chaos Wars, throw him at the Dread, and create a magician with the power, ability, and will to seal both of them of them outside of time.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_98ce21fe	type	Long-Running Book Series
The Riftwar Cycle / int_98ce21fe	comment	Long-Running Book Series
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
The Riftwar Cycle / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: After Pug's Heroic Sacrifice at the end of Magician's End, his role as Midkemia's most powerful guardian transfers to Magnus.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Prince Arutha faces off against the Big Bad in A Darkness at Sethanon, due to a prophecy that says the Lord of the West must be defeated before said Big Bad can lead his people to victory. It's worth noting that Lord of the West is not an official title of the Prince of Krondor, although it could easily be understood to apply to him, since Krondor is the seat of The Western Realm of the Kingdom of the Isles. Also, since prophecies are difficult to interpret, sometimes being fulfilled multiple times under different circumstances, and especially since "Murmandamus" was a fake who deliberately invoked the prophecy just so he could raise an army, this might not even have applied to him at all. (Didn't stop him from pulling it off, though...)
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Averted thrice in Silverthorn when Pug and his companions are captured on Kelewan. The torture inflicted on Pug causes him to break through the mental barrier that prevented him from using Lesser Path magic. By torturing Pug, his captors actually enabled his freedom and he leveled up in power at the same time.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Standard practice of dealing with Nighthawks after the Riftwar, where they displayed the bothersome habit of coming back stronger only minutes after being killed. Though they never demonstrated this power since, Nighthawk bodies and lairs are still thoroughly torched whenever possible. Also, the battle magic of the priests of Prandur, the fire god. Such a priest sets a wing of Krondor's palace ablaze while confronting a magical shadow slayer in Krondor: the Assassins. He was nice enough to save it as a last resort though.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In A Darkness at Sethanon, Fannon tells Martin that his oath renouncing his claim to the throne on behalf of his heirs won't mean squat if some faction of the Congress of Lords wants a descendent of his on the throne at some point down the line. In the last chapter of the last book, Martin's great-great-grandson Hal becomes King.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9d90e013	type	Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9d90e013	comment	Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing: The Returning seems to qualify. The affected Moredhel hears the "Call of Elvandar" and over a span of years, culminating in a single, sudden switch, converts to an Eledhel. The conversion involves a full-scale Loss of Identity, complete with taking on a different name. Their previous self is explicitly said to be considered dead by all involved. Barring the Moredhel, who view the Returning as the result of magical manipulation and corruption of the mind, this potentially questionable aspect of the eledhel is never explored in-story.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Heaps upon heaps, as befits such a wide-spanning series. The Empire Series constantly gives nods to Pug's story in Magician without him ever getting directly involved. The events in Empire are in turn mentioned in passing in Honoured Enemy. There's also, in the epilogue, a subtle tie-in to the Great Uprising in Darkness at Sethanon. In Exile's Return, a being who is a shadow of the slain Goddess of Good on Midkemia, calls herself Hildy - after appearing as Hilda in Krondor: Tear of the Gods. Another example is Gorath's backstory. Towards the end of Darkness at Sethanon - written years before Gorath's character was first conceived for the story of Betrayal at Krondor - there's a short passage in which an unnamed moredhel chieftain comes looking for Murmandamus during the battle at Sethanon. Upon hearing that Murmandamus has disappeared from the battlefield, the chieftain bitterly concludes that the leader has betrayed them and is the first to order his clan to retreat, an example others soon follow. Guess what we later learn about Goraths actions in that battle... Also in Betrayal at Krondor, it is mentioned that the reason that that Makala could pull off their scheme without The Assembly of Magicians on Kelewan noticing was due to The Assembly being distracted by Mara's actions in Mistress of the Empire.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9e1eef4c	type	Always Lawful Good
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9e1eef4c	comment	Always Lawful Good: Played straight with the eledhel. Why is unclear, especially since only nurture separates them from being like their more war-like counterparts, the Moredhel. While a Moredhel can Return and become Eledhel, the reverse does not happen. Ever. Though never explored in the books, the magic of the Spellweavers is likely responsible for both phenomena.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: The Black Slayers. You thought the assassin was bad before? Imagine him as a zombie who can't be killed by anything short of holy magic or a lot of fire. Or having his heart cut out while downed before he rises again. Consider Baru's CMoA.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9f0a1d18	type	Bored with Insanity
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9f0a1d18	comment	Bored with Insanity: Nakor notes you can only be insane for so long and that he has owned his artifact for a very long time... Usually a foolish, fun-loving gambler, his light moods are broken up by amazing moments of insight. This was later explained as being a side-effect, due to his owning an artifact of the dead God of Knowledge, which can reveal any knowledge at all at the cost of the owner's sanity. And then it all made sense... And Nakor may have been indirectly been putting everyone on since he was unknowingly an avatar for the god of trickery.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_9f5e99a7	type	DistressedDamsel
The Riftwar Cycle / int_9f5e99a7	comment	Distressed Damsel: Princess Anita, who serves little purpose in Magician and Silverthorn apart from being rescued/saved.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: The end of Magician. Also the ending for Magician's End. A variant comes in Servant of the Empire, when Mara's loyalty finally earns her the title of Servant of the Empire. It's absolutely a coronation, bringing her into the Imperial family.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a122bf2f	type	Blind Seer
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a122bf2f	comment	Divination: Blind Seer Rogen and The Oracle of Aal.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Soldier-demons from Dahun's realm. Justified because Dahun controls the evolution of his minions to make sure the ones who are powerful don't have brains, and the ones who are intelligent aren't very powerful.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Miranda coerced Pug into trying to destroy the Emerald Queen's fleet and it almost got him killed.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Guy Du Bas Tyra in Magician and Nirome in ''Prince of the Blood.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Macros tells a couple of mutually exclusive backstories for himself.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Occured a few times in the computer games and graphic novel adaptation. Pug is described in the novels as having dark brown hair with a full beard and he usually dresses in black robes. In Betrayal at Krondor, he is portrayed by an actor who is clean-shaven with blond hair and a white robe. Also from Betrayal at Krondor - the curly blond-haired Locklear is played by an actor with chestnut-brown hair in a pageboy cut. In the graphic novels, Aglaranna's reddish-gold hair becomes a stark scarlet. In the graphic novels the Moredhel (Dark Elves), described in the novels as being virtually indistinguishable from Eldhel (Regular Elves) are depicted as Dungeons & Dragons style dark elves a.k.a. Drow. Which would create a plothole if the graphic novels ever got far enough into the story.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: It is never given a name, but Macros The Black melds Prince Arutha's rapier with an amulet of protection he was given, making the sword powerful enough to cut through magical shields.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a74e8ba4	type	Thieves' Guild
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a74e8ba4	comment	Thieves' Guild: The Mockers of Krondor are one of the best in all High Fantasy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Nakor, who alternatively plays at being a fool and a gambler who "knows some tricks", is actually a fairly powerful, if unorthodox, magician. And by "fairly powerful", we mean "one of the top ten most powerful magicians in The Multiverse."
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
The Riftwar Cycle / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: The Moredhel chieftain Gorath - he's striving to save his people from self-destruction - which, since it implies being less hostile to their neighbours, is something they're generally not happy to hear.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_aaff69d0	type	Unexpected Successor
The Riftwar Cycle / int_aaff69d0	comment	Unexpected Successor: Several examples. As the second son of a minor Duke, Arutha conDoin wasn't really next in line for becoming Prince of Krondor, the capital city of the Western Kingdom, second in power only to the king himself. But then the war happened. The only reason he doesn't eventually become king himself after his elder brother's children don't survive to adulthood is because he gives up his claim to the throne in favor of his sons on the grounds that the kingdom would be ill-served by a king who was likely to die of old age within a few years. In Betrayal at Krondor, this is part of Gorath's backstory. A Speaker's Peace ends in a bloodbath. While a moredhel would need a few centuries and lots of experience behind their belt before expecting to become chieftain, the near-massacre of his clan - including the former chieftain, his father - thrusts the leadership on Gorath... at the age of twelve. In A Kingdom Besieged, Duke Henry of Crydee dies suddenly, leaving his eldest son Hal (who is currently halfway around the world, at university) as the new Duke and his middle son Martin (who is the highest ranking nobleman left in Crydee following an invasion) as the Warden of the West - commander of all the armed forces in the area. At the end of that saga, Hal ends up as King after a civil war.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_ab7b9269	type	You All Meet in an Inn
The Riftwar Cycle / int_ab7b9269	comment	You All Meet in an Inn: Nearly half the party is recruited this way in Silverthorn. A year later in A Darkness At Sethanon, the separated heroes rejoin at the same inn.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Riftwar Cycle / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Most of Feist's chapters have a one-word heading, describing the focus of the chapter. (i.e. 1. Slave, 2. Estate)
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_ad459d78	type	Write Back to the Future
The Riftwar Cycle / int_ad459d78	comment	Write Back to the Future: Pug receives messages through a magic box, which he believes were written by his future self, giving him advice on what actions he must take at certain times. Then it turns out that all those notes were actually written by Kalkin, god of tricksters.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Riftwar Cycle / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Roo, and to a lesser extent Kitty. Both from the Serpentwar saga.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
The Riftwar Cycle / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: The Assembly of Magicians on Kelewan. Later, Pug's academy at Stardock and the school on Sorcerer's Island.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b00a7c5e	type	Robe and Wizard Hat
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b00a7c5e	comment	Robe and Wizard Hat: Most of Feist's magicians do favor robes, though only Kulgan is said to have a special wizarding hat. Patrus in Krondor the Betrayal has a floppier hat - anyone who didn't know he was a wizard might think he just wandered out of his house in his sleepwear. Magnus has to crawl through a hole in a wall in Flight of the Nighthawks, and wishes that Pug had not established that magicians should wear robes.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b0cd3349	comment	Possible Fridge Brilliance. The only reason Midkemians ever interact with the lower planes is to summon or fight off invaders to their own world, not to help out the lower ones.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b1346878	comment	The final fate of traitors in the nation of Kesh probably qualifies, even though it does involve physical death... eventually. What makes it a true Fate Worse than Death is that the sentence is also meant to destroy your soul, as you are Excommunicated and denied entry into the Keshian afterlife. What is more, your name is forbidden to any noble children for the rest of time and any reference to you in public record is replaced with "a traitor", in the hopes that your soul will be forgotten by the gods and lost to oblivion. This almost takes the edge off the slow execution, which will leave you begging for a quick death by the time they are through with you. In brief, it involves several days of public humiliation, starvation and exposure before being castrated then thrown, bound and bleeding, into a crocodile filled swamp. Suffice it to say, after this sentence is declared once in Prince of the Blood, the other traitors were glad to be let off with the option of Seppuku or maybe, if the Empress was feeling merciful in their particular case, exile.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b13a123	type	Fade to Black
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b13a123	comment	The later books are also more sexualized. Feist's earlier books Fade to Black whenever there is a sex scene. Compare that to later books where the relative decadence of Keshian nobility is flaunted (Prince Of The Blood), one villainess forces her female servants into threesomes with her and her male lovers (Rise Of A Merchant Prince) and one character freely admits to summoning a succubus for entertainment purposes (Rides A Dread Legion).
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b1b865f7	type	Royal Rapier
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b1b865f7	comment	Royal Rapier: The rapier is Arutha's preferred weapon and his sons take after him in favoring it over other swords. In fact, after Arutha becomes Prince rapiers becomes so fashionable among the nobility of Krondor that for 20 years afterward the rapier is known as a "Krondorian pig-sticker" by those who favor heavier blades.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b214c6e1	type	Tunnel Network
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b214c6e1	comment	Tunnel Network: The city of Krondor has an Absurdly-Spacious Sewer belowground that is known as the "Thieves' Highway" because the Mockers (the resident Thieves' Guild) uses them to get around and move smuggled and stolen goods. Castle Krondor, where the Prince of Krondor lives, has its own network of tunnels as well, some of which have been forgotten over time.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Repeatedly, often without any explanation, regarding the nature of the metaverse and the layers of reality. The system seems to be set up differently every series. Also, established facts are often changed, such as Macros's backstory, Ralan Bek's nature or the source of Nakor's powers with a simple "I lied to you before but here's the real story" Hand Wave. This is particularly jarring when it renders Bek's meaningful Sdrawkcab Name... well... meaningless. However, all of this confusion over the cosmology pales to the royal stink some fans made when Lord Erik Von Darkmoor said that he regretted never having married and had children... despite having married girl-thief Kitty in Rage of a Demon King. To Feist's credit, he did explain it on his website and confirmed that it would be explained/corrected in future printings of the book. To his _dis_credit, that explanation couldn't hold as much water as a paper thong, and his reprinting basically just removed any mention of it what-so-ever. The idea that they never "really got married" (even though they DID in a TEMPLE blessed by a PRIEST) is bollocks. The idea that they just got divorced offscreen with no indication anything was wrong is the classic "oh crap, I screwed up but I better make up some cock-and-bull story to sell the gullibles about how I really meant it" that George Lucas tries to throw people. The same book in which the above happened also had a major retcon in regards to the events of the Empire trilogy. In that series, every member of the Minwanabi family was killed or committed suicide due to an oath to the Red God having become impossible to fulfill. Mara of the Acoma broke tradition by taking control of the Minwanabi lands and servants, and due to destroying the Minwanabi her house would rise to the position of Great House. By the end of the series, Mara's son ise emperor, her daughter is heir to the Acoma, and the old Acoma estates have been given to a loyal retainer to start his own house: House Lujan. However, in the darkwar saga, it is instead stated that the Minwanabi became vassals to the Acoma, and are somehow still around and a Great House. The Acoma estates are considered imperial property that no one has lived in since Mara's son ascended to the throne. The emperor is considered part of House Acoma (despite the Empire trilogy making a major point of Mara's son no longer being a member of that house due to rising to the throne), with no mention of Kasuma. Since these are all such major retcons that they essentially break the story of the third book in the empire trilogy, Feist later tried to reconcile them through explanations on his blog. House Lujan died out quickly after it was established, its lands returning to the imperial family. Mara restored House Minwanabi, presumably through its old retainers, and gave back their old lands. What happened to Kasuma and House Acoma is still left unresolved though. A more minor example from the same book is the fact that the emperor of Kelewan appoints someone to the position of Warlord, a position that was renamed and reduced in power during the Empire Trilogy. Considering how many times we've had to revise our understanding of just one universe in our history, it's reasonable that anyone in a magical metaverse is going to have theories and incomplete understanding at best... it just never happens in fantasy stories for some reason. And Macros? He just loves telling wild tales and seeing who bites. Post-Darkwar, the cosmology largely seems to have stabilized; as laid out in Magician's End, it's basically a more detailed version of what we got in that series, rather than a retcon. Magician's End also makes a point that the cosmology is so complicated no human mind can wrap around it in any accuracy, leaving it easily open to say previous understandings were just wrong. At several points starting with Exile's Return, Pug and company imply that the _Riftwar_ (not the "Great Uprising" that followed it) was part of the plot of the Pantathians to free the Dragon Lords from their imprisonment, yet that makes no sense. The Riftwar was due to politics on the Tsurani homeworld and nothing was mentioned of any Pantathian interference or plots to encourage the invasion until Exile's Return. It also makes no sense how the Pantathians could have influenced Tsurani politics from across time and space, as there was no contact with the Tsurani until the Riftwar. This just reeks of colossal retcon. Later on, they imply that Nalar influenced the Tsurani to invade in order to further his plans of chaos, but this retcon of a retcon still just doesn't fit. Officially done in the revised edition of Prince of the Blood, partly because the author disliked the "mystery" aspect of the original book. The book's main reveals are now known far in advance, a number of references to later-written books are added, an entirely new character and player in the political scene is added to the plot, the climax is dramatically changed to involve a combat siege on the Empress's quarters, and Ghuda now insists on receiving a much smaller reward. And yet, the revised edition still doesn't fix the Torum Sie / Toren Sie error.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: The Kingdom of the Isles is a typical patriarchal monarchy. Also, the plot of Prince of the Blood centers upon fears of the Empire of Kesh becoming matriarchal.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: Pug finishes the Dark War by dropping a moon on the Big Bad.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Nakor the Blue Rider's prior visit to Novindus
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b8ab7dc4	type	Treacherous Advisor
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b8ab7dc4	comment	Treacherous Advisor: Guy du Bas Tyra in Magician.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: Murmandamus, the Overlord of the City of Serpent River, and the Dasati TeKarana.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: King Rodric
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Most people in identifiable cultures have appropriate names. People from the western sphere have English names, Rodezians have Spanish names, Bas-Tyrans have French names and so on. The Royals, however....
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b9e8ad28	type	The Multiverse
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b9e8ad28	comment	The Multiverse: Feist's universe is made up of an extensive cosmology.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_b9e90c0a	type	Vertebrate with Extra Limbs
The Riftwar Cycle / int_b9e90c0a	comment	Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: The Tsurani have six-legged pack animals, similar to cows. In fact, pretty much all life native to Kelewan is six-limbed. The Tsurani aren't native; neither are their dogs.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Riftwar Cycle / int_bc74ef27	comment	As is Billy Goodwin in Shadow of a Dark Queen. Bringing it up is like jamming your thumb on his Berserk Button. Corporal Foster does it on purpose.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_bd188274	type	Description in the Mirror
The Riftwar Cycle / int_bd188274	comment	Description in the Mirror: Used at length in Shadow of a Dark Queen to describe Erik von Darkmoor, complete with comments on his demeanor and public image.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
The Riftwar Cycle / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Mara of the Acoma's victory in Mistress of the Empire. She offers to surrender to her enemies, the Assembly of Magicians, and allow them to take power over the Empire. But to do so, they'll have to take power over the Empire and rule it, which they don't want to do. They instead agree to submit to Imperial authority, losing their extralegal status.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_bf8f7ed4	type	Spell Construction
The Riftwar Cycle / int_bf8f7ed4	comment	Spell Construction: Averted, as the more powerful magicians seem to be capable of performing magic through sheer force of will - no fancy rituals, tools or words needed.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_c2c9748c	type	Standard Fantasy Setting
The Riftwar Cycle / int_c2c9748c	comment	Standard Fantasy Setting: The Kingdom of the Isles a fairly standard medieval Western European land, with elf and dwarf monarchies on their far borders.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_c378ba5f	type	Sealed Evil in a Duel
The Riftwar Cycle / int_c378ba5f	comment	Sealed Evil in a Duel: Pug traps the Dreadking in a duel with Ashen-Shugar at the end of Magician's End.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_c50e2725	type	Telepathy
The Riftwar Cycle / int_c50e2725	comment	Mentalism: Gamina and her Tele Pathy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
The Riftwar Cycle / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: Gamina, adopted daughter of Pug, is a natural born telepath. Other beings, like the Oracle of Aal, also communicate through some form of Mind Speech.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_c7575bab	comment	Averted in that the usual elf/dwarf rivalry is non-existent. Indeed, the two races get along with one another better than they do with most humans.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: The Tsurani practice this, with defeated warriors killing themselves rather than face the indignity of being captured or enslaved on the battlefield. They may also, if shamed, beg for the right to kill themselves. The heads of Keshian noble families are allowed to do this if they aided but did not actively mastermind a treasonous plot against the Empress. Their families and servants are also allowed to go into exile with whatever they can carry off.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_c8b7a847	type	Bring News Back
The Riftwar Cycle / int_c8b7a847	comment	Bring News Back: The goal of the protagonists in Shadow Of A Dark Queen.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: A Tsurani specialty. Assassinating a political opponent is seen as an acceptable, even admirable method of defeating them, so long as one cannot be proven to be responsible. An extreme example takes place during the election of a new Warlord in Servant of the Empire: political horse-trading in the form of who is seen talking to who by day, urban warfare with black-clad soldiers by night. In the Kingdom of the Isles, the eastern court in Rillanon is seen as this by the western nobles. (The eastern nobles, in turn, see the western kingdom as a bunch of rural bumpkins.)
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: This gets oh-so-much worse compared to the various retcons. Feist's books are fun and great fantasy reads, but he has even admitted he never goes back and re-reads his own work, and boy does it show! To wit: The title "Seignur" is introduced in Krondor, the Betrayal as some fancy, formal word for "Squire" and then never, ever used again. This title was used in the video game, but since it is so out-of-place and never referenced in any other book, it would have been better to just leave it as Squire James and Squire Locklear (or at least "Baron" or something we've seen and heard in other books). Lucas (the innkeeper) mentions to James in Assassins that Talia is all he has left "with her brothers dead in the war", yet in Silverthorn we meet Lucas's sons (AFTER the war) when they leap over the bar to help Arutha and Jimmy catch their first nighthawk (where they plant the ambush in the Rainbow Parrot). They catch the nighthawk who turns out to be a Black Slayer and almost kills Arutha in the palace. But Lucas's sons are alive and well there. Unless they died in "The Great Uprising" of Murmandamus, this makes no sense. But if the latter were true, Lucas wouldn't have said "died in the war" (which everyone would take to mean the "Riftwar"). Also, the likelihood of two young veterans from Krondor being involved in, much less put into harm's way, during Murmandamus's attack (which came through Highcastle and attacked the Sethanon garrison) is minimal. William is described at having a passionate affair with a "Jezharra", yet in Tear of the Gods she is introduced as "Jazhara". William talks about a very strong broken-hearted romance with Jazhara, culminating in her untimely death. Yet, in Tear of the Gods, while William is described as having a puppy-dog-like infatuation with Jazhara when he was a young teenager in Stardock, William's ACTUAL tragic romance is with Talia. Also, Jazhara is both very much alive and very much at a friendly understanding with William (as in neither seem interesting in re-pursuing a romantic relationship) by the end of the book. Jazhara is described as dying roughly around 2-4 years after Tear of the Gods, so it is possible something blossomed, albeit being very out-of-character for the two, and then she dies off-screen, but this seems unlikely. This might have been resolved by the short story "Jimmy and the Crawler" made as a plot-hole filler later, but it still doesn't explain why Talia is never mentioned as William's lost love story. The Pantathians are stated and even shown to have a hatred for humankind from birth, yet later we meet an entire subclan of Pantathians who harbor no ill will towards humans, and state that only the priesthood had antipathy to humans. But, does this mean that the priesthood are a separate race with separate genes that inflict their newborns with hatred for human kind? That seems unlikely. As Caleb and Talon travel to Krondor from Sorcerer's Isle, Caleb explains to Talon that there is peace in the west. He mentions that the daughter of King Ryan is to be wed to the nephew of the Emp RESS of Kesh. This is despite the fact that we know Diigai has become emperor after Lakeesha's death, based on the events in Prince of the Blood. We further know from the events in Flight of the Nighthawks that Diigai is still the emperor then, many years after the events in this book. Thus, Kesh cannot have an Empress, because the ruler is Diigai, a man. It's possible that, as in some Imperial rulerships in real life, the wife of the ruling Emperor is called "Empress", but this doesn't really shake out well here, because talking about the "nephew of the Empress of Kesh" implies the Empress is the important anchor point in the relationship. Wouldn't he normally say "the nephew of the emperOR of Kesh" if the emperor was the one in charge? Instead, he identifies the empress, giving the solid impression that Kesh is ruled by a woman, which we know from the timeline is incorrect, as when Lakeesha's reign ended, Diigai, her son-in-law, took power, passing on to Sezioti, his grandson. Kaspar is described to have a son in Talon of the Silver Hawk, yet we later see he is childless in King of Foxes. This may have been a simple misconception on Talon's part, as he indicates this was a simple guess based on the boy and Kaspar's likeness. However, Talon is repeatedly shown to not only have a very well-trained eye, but to be a master at human nature. As for this boy, he is never shown again, nor mentioned again. He is never seen at the citadel, or as part of Kaspar's retinue. He simply vanishes, despite Talon having marked him as Duke Kaspar's son, and thus as someone notable in appearance and manner. In later editions of the book, this missing son apparently has been excised in editing. Talon is described as having very little affection for Svetlana, the Princess of Salmater, when he is forced to assassinate her on Duke Kaspar's orders. He has misgivings, but he describes her as vicious and without scruples in her own way. He is never described as being infatuated or in love with her. Yet, in Exile's Return, he describes her assassination as haunting his dreams and as carrying a very profound regret. Where did these strong feelings come from, for a man who never seemed to have that many regrets at the time of the action? Kaspar suddenly has a daughter in Flight of the Nighthawks, when he describes himself as having no siblings when comparing his own experiences to the two Keshian princes vying for the throne. He also states that his daughter "Natalia" also was an only child. This is quite a contradiction to the Conclave series, where Natalia is Kaspar's sister. In Realm, she again assumes her rightful place as his sister. Again with Kaspar in Wrath of a Mad God: During his sojurn with the sun elves on the Peaks of the Quor, he is described as never having had any but the most cursory contact with any elves (specifically stated to be limited to an envoy at Sorcerer's Isle and even then he only had a fleeting glance). Yet, in Exile's Return, Kaspar himself visited Elvandar with Pug, and he met with both Aglaranna and Tomas! He had the most direct contact with the elves as possible! He met with their leaders, participated in a major battle when Varen attacked Elvandar, and aided in the recovery. This is as shocking a contradiction as him losing a sister and gaining a daughter! It's even more strange as he then proceeds to speak with fairly intimate knowledge on how Aglaranna fairly treats with other Elven nations (such as the sea elves in Novindus) who aren't under her direct reign. He could have learned through Pug, but he speaks as if one who has actually met Aglaranna and has seen how she deals with her fellow elves firsthand (as he actually did in Exile's return, which would make sense except for the contradiction in the proceeding paragraph). This is made even more stark when he tells Jim Dasher to introduce him to Tomas, saying he only knows him by reputation. Reputation? The two of them fought side-by-side in Exile! Kaspar has not only met Tomas before, but they talked, and were very friendly by the end of their time together. In Wrath, the Duke of Crydee is described as being "Lester", but a few chapters later, the Duke of Crydee is referred to as "Henry" and then "Harry". Presumably "Harry" is a nickname for "Henry", but "Duke Lester" changing to "Lord Henry"? This was in even the same book! Laromendis, the Star Elf is portrayed as being a known member of the Circle of Light, as a suspected member of the Circle of Light, as one of the prominent members, or as an adjunct, all at different points in the story. Which was he? He was originally portrayed as one of the leaders, hence why he wasn't executed along with the rest of the Circle, but then he is portrayed as a minor member or as a peripheral member, and later in Imperiled, as only a SUSPECTED member. Gulomendis is sometimes stated to have also been in the circle, but other times said to not have been. In Legion, Sandreena is attacked by the Black Caps, knocked unconscious and then beaten and thrown off a cliff. There is never any indication or sign or thought that she was sexually assaulted. Yet in Besieged, she states that the black caps attacked her, raped her, and left her for dead, which is a major contradiction. This is a woman supersensitive to her anatomy and gender, and all the inequalities it entails in her universe. If she had realized she had been raped in Legion, she would have brought it up and launched into a tirade-monologue about the evils of all men. And if she didn't know she was raped then, how does she know now? And to just casually throw rape around like it's some kind of minor insult or an afterthought, is in itself a pretty insulting and offensive way to write a novel. Talon's son is introduced as "Tyrone Hawkins", even though we were previously introduced to him in Realm as "Laughter in His Eyes", or "Laff" for short. Now, with a nickname like that, it would be little wonder he would want to change it, but there is never any indication given that this took place. There is also no indication at all that he underwent his tribe's traditional re-naming ceremony (like how Keililapauna became Talon of the Silver Hawk), nor is there any indication he was raised with Orosini principles at all. His name is just suddenly different with no explanation given. In fact, he tells Hal directly "My father gave me this name" which contradicts Orosini tradition for a name change, where the new name is given by the Gods (or by the person himself). Arkan is introduced as Gorath's son despite Gorath telling James that all of his sons were killed during the plot of Betrayal, and that he left no family (aside from Cullich, whom we meet later) behind. It is also never mentioned during Betrayal, when Gorath met with Liallin, that the two are brother and sister-in-law, or that Liallin's sister, Clothild, was Gorath's wife. In Imperiled, Jim Dasher describes himself as "never having been in love" before Fredericka, completely forgetting that he was head over heels mad in love with Feist's misogynistic symbol extraordinaire, Michelle back in the Darkwar series. Could be that Jim just didn't WANT to remember, but the way it was phrased doesn't seem like that ever happened, especially considering how important it was to Jim at the time. One would think Jim would have at least remembered it with some measure of exasperation or humiliation. And of course, the obvious Isle of the Snakes fiasco, where Pug goes and meets T'kaa and interacts with the remaining Pantathians, only to have it switch to Magnus going to the Isle of Snakes later in the same book, and then back again in the last book! Feist has admitted to the editing error.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_cbaa9102	comment	Signature Headgear: By the time of the Serpentwar, Amos Trask's hat is known throughout the Bitter Sea. Prince Nicholas wears it as part of his admiral's uniform, and to paraphrase the books, nobody made sport of that hat.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Riftwar Cycle / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God: Feist's official website has an FAQ section, answering several common continuity questions.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_cc6c8784	type	Author Catchphrase
The Riftwar Cycle / int_cc6c8784	comment	Author Catch Phrase: Every chapter in every novel begins with a one-sentence paragraph, many as simple as "the noun verbed" (or, rarely, "charactername verbed").
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_cd86f11f	type	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child
The Riftwar Cycle / int_cd86f11f	comment	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child: Defied. In her attempt to block her enemy Tasaio from becoming the Warlord, with the power to finish off his vendetta against her, Mara's machinations result in the magicians forcing Tasaio to kill himself. Though she didn't intend for this outcome, it suited her aims. Mara offers to adopt Tasaio's children and care for them, rather than let them die in the purge of their house. However, their father would rather kill them just to spite her.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_cf1e5580	type	Wizard Beard
The Riftwar Cycle / int_cf1e5580	comment	Wizard Beard: Played straight, averted AND subverted in Magician. Pug's teacher Kulgan is pretty much the stereotypical fat, bearded, pipe-smoking wizard. Tsurani Great Ones forgo beards, as the culture disapproves of free men sporting facial hair. Only male slaves - who are not allowed small sharp blades for obvious reasons - have beards. Pug, who lives on Kelewan as a slave before his magical talents are discovered, keeps his beard upon becoming a Great One, despite the cultural taboos against it.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
The Riftwar Cycle / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The early books where the main villains are dark elves and snakemen are surprisingly light compared to the later novels where soul-drinking mages and demons are the main antagonists. The later books are also more sexualized. Feist's earlier books Fade to Black whenever there is a sex scene. Compare that to later books where the relative decadence of Keshian nobility is flaunted (Prince Of The Blood), one villainess forces her female servants into threesomes with her and her male lovers (Rise Of A Merchant Prince) and one character freely admits to summoning a succubus for entertainment purposes (Rides A Dread Legion).
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Guy Du Bas Tyra, who plots regicide and treason, nearly causing a civil war... all in the name of saving his kingdom from a Royally Screwed Up King. Also, Duke Kaspar, who is quite an honorable and likeable villain before reforming and having a Heelâ€“Face Turn in Exiles Return
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d1c229c6	type	Sword and Sorcerer
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d1c229c6	comment	Sword and Sorcerer: Pug and Tomas, during the rare occasions they team in battle together. To a lesser degree, Kulgan and Meecham. And Miranda and the mercenary Boldar Blood. And Gorath and Owyn. And Amirantha and Brandos.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d303e45e	type	Citadel City
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d303e45e	comment	Citadel City: Armengar, heavily fortified to withstand goblin and moredhel.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d39771a4	type	Long Bus Trip
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d39771a4	comment	Long Bus Trip: Given that the cycle spans over two centuries by now, it's expected for characters to be Put on the Bus now and then, and occasionally die off-screen as time goes on. But the most extreme example is Owyn Belefote, who is introduced as a central Betrayal at Krondor character, accepted as part of the canon in the novelisation, and then disappears, with barely even a mention in the two sequels to the novelisation. Despite becoming a magician of some power at the end of the Betrayal, he allegedly abandoned the path of magic, went home, reconciled with his father and lived a normal life. Interestingly, that is the exact opposite of what Owyn does in the game. In the game he is rewarded for his service to the crown with a full scholarship to Stardock (Which incidentally ensures that he will be spending the next several years around Pug so that he can ensure that the boy doesn't accidentally mention the Lifestone). He is not seen or mentioned in the next game. So basically he got put on a different bus.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Many of Feist's villains are revealed to be The Pawn of a greater evil and to have suffered just as much as the heroes. More frequently, they are revealed as not so different from the heroes. The best example are probably the Moredhel. In Darkness at Sethanon, a Pantathian disguises himself as their legendary leader Murmandamus come back from the dead in order to raise an army - which he leads against the Kingdom, deliberately causing massive casualties on both sides, as he is actually feeding off the escaped life force to power himself up. Kaspar is another example, while he is a pretty lousy person, he was a pawn of Leso Varen's and it's never fully made clear how many of the horrible things Kaspar does or has happen he did willingly or if Leso manipulated him into doing them. He spends much of Exile's Return doubting himself and questioning himself and how little he really knows as well as all of his failings as a person and a ruler.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Nakor The Blue Rider. Who is still Nakor The Blue Rider when he is wearing orange and doesn't have a horse.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: The Proud Warrior Race Honor Before Reason Decadent Court of the Tsurani elite tends to generate these; the generations-old feud between the Acoma and the Minwanabi is at the core of the Empire trilogy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Macros The Black.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: What Erik, Roo and the "desperate men" went through.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d780b394	type	Mythopoeia
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d780b394	comment	Mythopoeia: Feist's universe is one of the most complex in all of High Fantasy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Feist's dragons are, for the most part, dumb beasts. The one exception is golden dragons, who are capable of amazing magical feats and shape-shifting. Any dragon that lives long enough may eventually shed its skin and become a golden dragon.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: Used by one of the major baddies; a necromancer named Leso Varen Also used by Feist's demons on those they wish to play with AFTER killing them.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
The Riftwar Cycle / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: The Armies of the West, platoons of Tsurani and Keshian soldiers and magicians from both The Stardock Academy and The Assembly on Kelewan in A Darkness At Sethanon.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_da03a529	type	Bait-and-Switch Boss
The Riftwar Cycle / int_da03a529	comment	The Pantathians remain the main antagonists for the next several books, though they ally with the Emerald Queen during the Serpentwar Saga. But it's a case of Bait-and-Switch Boss when the demon lord Jakan kills and replaces the Emerald Queen, and the Pantathians get largely wiped out midway through that series.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_da76b18	type	Hijacked by Ganon
The Riftwar Cycle / int_da76b18	comment	Hijacked by Ganon: Though they may not be the ultimate Big Bads, in A Kingdom Besieged it's revealed that the Pantathians and the Valheru, who were believed dealt with, are still quite alive and may have masterminded the war between the Kingdom of the Isles and Kesh.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
The Riftwar Cycle / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: A number of good characters smoke pipes in the various Midkemian novels. In the entire empire trilogy, the only person to smoke is Tasaio, incredibly dangerous and aroused by death and pain; he smokes a narcotic opium/coca expy.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Riftwar Cycle / int_dae5c997	comment	Hal's brother Martin had one as well. It was something of an unspoken arrangement that Lady Bethany of Carse was to marry Martin's brother Hal so that she'd become Duchess of Crydee one day. Hal and Bethany are Like Brother and Sister though, and Martin and Bethany are in love with one another, which is obvious to pretty much everyone but the two of them. Ty Hawkins even points out that having a wife and a brother that love another is a problem waiting to happen. But when the father of Hal and Martin dies Hal becomes the new Duke of Crydee. He then, in his position as their liege lord, gives Martin and Bethany permission to marry.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Riftwar Cycle / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Much of the series from Rage of a Demon King on operates under the assumption that the Nameless One is the ultimate Big Bad directly or indirectly behind most everything Pug has faced. Magician's End reveals he was only responsible for Zaltais and the actions of Leso Varen/Sidi. The actual Big Bad was the Dread all along.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Riftwar Cycle / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Most conDoins before Prince Patrick, the Empress of Kesh during Prince of the Blood, Kaspar after the events of the Dark War, Pug, Tomas, Lord James, in fact, it's just easier to say that any character with authority from Roldem or the Kingdom of the Isles is one of these, outside of Prince Patrick. The Tsurani have their emperor, Ichindar, and Mara of the Acoma who becomes the Mistress of the Empire after Ichindar's death.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_dd95a27b	type	I Never Told You My Name
The Riftwar Cycle / int_dd95a27b	comment	I Never Told You My Name: Played with. Erik von Darkmoor is approached by a friendly man, whom he has never met, but who calls him Erik. When the man switches to calling him "von Darkmoor" instead, Erik's squadmates stick a knife in his back. When Erik asks how they knew this man was up to no good, the squadmate says that the man might have overheard "Erik" somewhere, but everyone was under strict orders not to use the name "von Darkmoor". This might have changed in later versions to the traitor calling the Captain "Calis" and Erik internally monologues that everyone was forbidden to call the Captain by name (which makes more sense, especially since De Loungeville screams "VON DARKMOOR" every other chance he gets).
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Riftwar Cycle / int_de9047ac	comment	The Chaoswar Saga, true to its name, has a Gambit Pileup like you wouldn't believe going on, but finally clears up for good the identity of the Big Bad of the entire 'verse. It's not the Nameless One, who may not have actually been behind anything recently. Rather its the Dread, the race of horrors to which the Dasati Dark God belonged and lesser members of which had shown up at various points across the series, now revealed to all be manifestations of a single, nearly omnipotent entity which is essentially the antithesis of life, now threatening to devour the entire universe. It/they has already started eating Hell, which is why Dahun was trying to get away from there as well.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e453ef50	comment	Crystal Ball: Pug accidentally triggers one as a preteen, prompting him to be taken as an apprentice by the local court magician.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e45ce099	comment	The Wise Prince: Prince Arutha of Krondor. A darker and grittier version is the moredhel chieftain Gorath, whose chosen purpose in life is to protect his people and who flinches at nothing to save them from those seeking to manipulate them as well as from themselves and their own murderous self-destructive ways.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Magnus does this to Pug in A Crown Imperiled, due to what he perceives as unnecessary sacrifices. He resolves to continue helping Pug, but he's still not happy about it.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Durine, Kethol and Pirojil, in Murder in La Mut are straight transplants of the characters with the same names from co-author Joel Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame series.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Ashen-Shugar may have been the only Valheru with a smidgen of wisdom, common sense, and responsibility, but don't make the mistake of assuming he didn't joyfully do all those things the other Valheru did just because his colour scheme is white and gold. Zaltais of Eternal Despair, a being summoned by the ultimate Big Bad from the 7th Circle of Hell/dreamt up by the ultimate Big Bad looks like an angel made of light.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
The Riftwar Cycle / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Everyone knows that the Keshian Intelligence Service does not exist.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Pug, upon completing his training as a Black Robe, is given a new secret name as well as a new name to be called by; Milamber. We are not told his secret name but we are told that it means, in the ancient Tsurani tongue, means "one who stands between worlds".
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e8d46c29	comment	Backstory: There's a lot of it, especially in the most recent books.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
The Riftwar Cycle / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Valheru, as the ultimate agents of chaos, aren't exactly without morality, but from a human perspective are still little more than extremely arrogant, warlike demigods with a strong vein of Might Makes Right thrown in for good measure. The Blue-and-Orange Morality of the Valheru comes in handy, though, in Magician's End. The Sven'ga-ri are magical beings that produce a profound sense of bliss in anyone who approaches them, convincing them that they are a Cosmic Keystone. They're actually a beacon for the Dread, allowing them/it to zero in on a specific point in space-time. Even knowing that, no human, elf, dwarf, or even Pantathian could bring themselves to destroy such wondrous beings. Ashen-Shugar has no such compunctions- if they're a threat to his world, they go, end of story. Their destruction disorients the Dread and greatly hinders its attempt to consume Midkemia. The center of the Pantathians' lives is the worship and service of the Valheru Alma-Lodaka. Anyone who isn't devoted to her - which means almost every non-Pantathian - is either a tool to be used or an enemy to be destroyed. The Dread just want peace. Peace meaning the complete unmaking of everything, returning the universe to its pre-creation state of absolute nothingness. Valko of the Dasati has his own encounter with a blue and orange morality in Into a Dark Realm. "Good" and "evil" are so far outside his frame of reference that the words are meaningless to him, and he struggles to understand the concepts associated with them.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The insectoid cho-ja literally cannot break their agreements, but they can still work to subvert them. One of their queens makes a Heroic Sacrifice by remaining silent in the face of a magician's orders; she wasn't breaking any deal, because he was free to come and take the prisoner he wanted, but he misconstrues it as defiance and kills her, as she intended him to do — which releases all the cho-ja from their agreement.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Riftwar Cycle / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Pug may not be completely immortal but he has been cursed with the certainty that he will outlive every single person he has ever loved.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_eaa8a7d8	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!
The Riftwar Cycle / int_eaa8a7d8	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Tsurani Great Ones are literally outside the law. The only people who can override their whims are a larger group of Great Ones, or possibly the Emperor, at least until Mara forces the Assembly to confront the ramifications of this.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
The Riftwar Cycle / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Roo has his moments in Rise of a Merchant Prince. Tim Jacoby is definitely a major jerkass. Prince Patrick. The Regent Lord of the Taredhel.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Riftwar Cycle / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Amirantha and both his older brothers, Belasco and Leso Varen.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
The Riftwar Cycle / int_eba911fd	comment	Then in Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon, Murmandamus, the dark elf warlord takes the throne but he's actually a fake, being manipulated by the remnant of the Valheru and the Pantathians who still worship them.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Calis earnt Robert de Loungville and Erik von Darkmoor's. Erik later ends up earning this from the Crimson Eagles.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f50b1e05	type	Shoo the Dog
The Riftwar Cycle / int_f50b1e05	comment	Shoo the Dog: In Honored Enemy, the elf Tinuva "shoos" his friend Gregory of Natal to keep him from accompanying him on a suicide mission - though, owing to the pressing time, Gregory's stubborness and Tinuva's Moredhel origins, it's less "shoo the dog" and more "slash the dog with a dagger and threaten to permanently defang it unless it wisens up and leaves right now".
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Delekhan used this to claim that Murmandamus was still alive and being held prisoner in Sethanon (No Moredhel saw him fall, and the body left behind after Arutha killed him was Pantathian, not Elven). To prevent this from happening a second time, Pug created an illusion of Delekhan rescuing Murmandamus only for both of them to be killed in front of a sizable portion of the Moredhel army, thus ensuring that there are plenty of witnesses to state that both of them were definitely dead.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f55e0154	comment	True Neutral: In-Universe, members of the Order of Dala, Shield of the Weak, are supposed to support the weaker side in any conflict. In practice, this usually means they support the side of good. There are exceptions: for example, when a group of mercenaries decide to massacre the death cultists who hired them, Sandreena first helps the cultists' slaves/sacrificial victims escape, then awakens the cultists just before the mercenaries attack to make it more of a fair fight.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Riftwar Cycle / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Most of Feist's non-immortal protagonists.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: In The King's Buccaneer after the sack of Crydee. "A childâ€™s doll fashioned of rags and straw sat upright against a portion of intact brick wall, as if silently observing the insanity."
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Mercenary Roald gets one in A Darkness at Sethanon, volunteering to stay behind and hold off the scouts perusing him and his companions.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f8173bd9	type	Medieval European Fantasy
The Riftwar Cycle / int_f8173bd9	comment	Medieval European Fantasy: The Kingdom of the Isles.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: The ending of A Crown Imperiled. Draken-Korin has returned, Pug, Magnus, Miranda and Nakor are supposedly dead and civil war is about to happen in the Kingdom of the Isles.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f9636192	comment	Prophecies Are Always Right: From some sources, yes. The ones involving the return of the dark elf hero Murmandamus, not so much.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f97a063c	comment	Pointed out in Honored Enemy. Near the end of the book some of the Tsurani and Midkemian soldiers exchange daggers as token of friendship. While a Tsurani dagger is a curiousity to a Midkemian, a war trophy and a reminder of what happened at best, the metal that goes into a single Midkemian dagger is worth a fortune on the Metal-Poor Planet Kelewan.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Arutha and his allies do this at the start of A Darkness At Sethanon in order to confuse the Dark Elves.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_f9f2c33	comment	It eventually becomes such a Running Gag that Prince Arutha over-promotes James to Duke of Rillanon (the King's seat of power) just to see the expression on James' face when he finds out he's been given something better than Duke of Krondor. It's even funnier when James eventually DOES become Duke of Krondor... just after Arutha dies.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Abbot Graves, the thief-girl Kat and Jimmy the Hand's long lost half-brother Lysle Rigger all made the transition from the Betrayal at Krondor game into the non-game based books. Also, Boldar Blood is a character from Feist's first ever short story.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Pug's the sweetest guy in the world, but he will explode you from halfway around it if you give him reason to. Also Mara... although she is, perhaps, only "nice" by Tsurani standards.
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_fd752bc3	comment	All Trolls Are Different: Feist's are described as short, broad humanoids who walk on all fours, looking like "some comic parody of an ape, their bodies covered by thick grey hide".
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The Riftwar Cycle / int_fdb6b8ad	comment	The Magnificent: Nakor the Blue Rider! Who is always Nakor The Blue Rider, even if he is wearing orange robes and doesn't have a horse.
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The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Circles of Hell / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Citadel City / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Colony Drop / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Confound Them with Kindness / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Conveniently an Orphan / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Cosmic Keystone / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Court Mage / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Covert Group with Mundane Front / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Crazy Is Cool / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Crystal Ball / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Cultured Badass / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Cut Lex Luthor a Check / int_e692c8a7
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Dead Man Walking / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Death by Falling Over / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Death's Hourglass / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Description in the Mirror / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Divided for Publication / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Do You Want to Haggle? / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Dowry Dilemma / int_e692c8a7
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Dragon Rider / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Drill Sergeant Nasty / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Drunken Master / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Eccentric Mentor / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Elf Works / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Enemy Civil War / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Every Episode Ending / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Everybody Hates Hades / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Evil Tower of Ominousness / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Expecting Someone Taller / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Fashionable Asymmetry / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Father Neptune / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Find the Cure! / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Fire Keeps It Dead / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Five-Aces Cheater / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Flower from the Mountaintop / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Fourth-Date Marriage / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Friendship-Straining Competition / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Functional Magic / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Gallows Humor / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	God's Hands Are Tied / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Gold and White Are Divine / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Gold–Silver–Copper Standard / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Great Big Library of Everything / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Grim Up North / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Harbinger of Impending Doom / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Heir-In-Law / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Hellish Horse / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Heroic Bastard / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	High Fantasy / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Hive Queen / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Hollywood Acid / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Honor-Related Abuse / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Honorable Warrior's Death / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Hufflepuff House / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	I Call It "Vera" / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Impromptu Fortress / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Inferred Survival / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Inn Between the Worlds / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Insect Queen / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Ironic Nickname / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Just One Second Out of Sync / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Katanas Are Just Better / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Kill It with Water / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Ladder Tipping / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Left Hanging / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Legally Dead / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Legendary Weapon / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Lizard Folk / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Long-Running Book Series / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mad Oracle / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mage Tower / int_e692c8a7
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Magical Society / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mary Suetopia / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Master Swordsman / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mayâ€“December Romance / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Medieval European Fantasy / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Merlin Sickness / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Metal-Poor Planet / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Modest Royalty / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Monster Lord / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Most Definitely Not Accompanying Us / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mother Makes You King / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Multi-Armed and Dangerous / int_e692c8a7
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mum Looks Like a Sister / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mundane Solution / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Murder, Inc. / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Must Not Die a Virgin / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mutually Exclusive Magic / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	My Significance Sense Is Tingling / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mystical Plague / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Mythopoeia / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	No Dead Body Poops / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	No-Sell / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	No Woman's Land / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Noose Necktie / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Nose Art / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Occupiers Out of Our Country / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Our Elves Are Different / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Our Liches Are Different / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Outdoor Bath Peeping / int_e692c8a7
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Painless Death for a Price / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Pepper Sneeze / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Planet England / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Portal Network / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Produce Pelting / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Put on a Bus / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Rags to Riches / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Recruited from the Gutter / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Rejection Ritual / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Reptiles Are Abhorrent / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Retirony / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Robe and Wizard Hat / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Rōnin / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Royal Bastard / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Royal Rapier / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Run for the Border / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Sacrificial Planet / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers! / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Sealed Evil in a Duel / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	See You in Hell / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Self-Made Myth / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Self-Poisoning Gambit / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Servant Race / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Shocking Moments / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Shoo the Dog / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Snowballing Threat / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Son of a Whore / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Soul Jar / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Space Elves / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Spare to the Throne / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Spell Construction / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Standard Fantasy Setting / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Standard Royal Court / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Start to Corpse / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Stop Drowning and Stand Up / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Suddenly Suitable Suitor / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Supporting Leader / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Sword Cane / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Sympathy for the Devil / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Tagalong Kid / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Technicolor Blade / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Adjectival Man / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Anti-God / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Archmage / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Chase / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Dark Times / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Farmer and the Viper / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Legions of Hell / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Man They Couldn't Hang / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Wise Prince / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	There Should Be a Law / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	There Was a Door / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	They Call Him "Sword" / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	To Absent Friends / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Too Cool to Live / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Torture Always Works / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Tough Leader FaÃ§ade / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Translator Microbes / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Treasure Map / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Two-Part Trilogy / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Uncertified Expert / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Under City / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Unexpected Successor / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Urban Warfare / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Void Between the Worlds / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Widowed at the Wedding / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Wizard Beard / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Wizarding School / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Wizards Live Longer / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	World Sundering / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	World's Best Warrior / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Worst Aid / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Write Back to the Future / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	You Are Who You Eat / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Blade Lock / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Flying Dutchman / int_e2b86487
The Riftwar Cycle	hasFeature	Regent for Life / int_e2b86487

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