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The Silerian Trilogy
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A trilogy of fantasy novels by Laura Resnick, also known as The Chronicles of Sirkara (another name for the series' titular land). It is set on the island of Sileria, a land which has long been ruled by foreign invaders. After many centuries, the struggle for freedom at long last begins under a savior called the Firebringer. Yet the Silerians are almost as dangerous to each other as their foreign oppressors...The first book, In Legend Born, was released in 1998. The second, In Fire Forged, followed in 2003, split into two parts: The White Dragon and The Destroyer Goddess. Another book in the same world, called Arena, was promised initially, but fell through as the result of a contract dispute between Resnick and the publisher. However, she released a short story which is set in the books' universe and featuring one character from the books in the collection Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues, entitled "Friendship". | |
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Supernatural Gold Eyes | |
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Supernatural Gold Eyes: People who have gold eyes (and often, though not always, red hair) are gifted by the goddess Dar, gaining fire magic as Guardians. Mirabar is a main character with them who's also a redhead. We later meet Cheylan, a gold-eyed man too. The waterlords though have been hunting down and murdering them for years to prevent powerful enemies with opposing magic, so few are left. Both Mirabar and Cheylan end up having children who will rule a free Sileria in the future. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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Dirty Coward: Koroll thinks of Borall contemptuously as showing "all the courage of a spring lamb" when he kills himself rather than suffer the consequences of Elelar gleaning state secrets from him. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Elelar's rape by Borell after he finds out she's been spying on him. | |
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Slave Liberation | |
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Slave Liberation: The rebels under Josarian free the slaves in Valdani brothels, not so much out of anti-slavery sentiment as to hurt their morale (which it does, badly). Even so, the slaves are sent home. However, Elelar sadly wonders if anything except disgrace and poverty is waiting for them there. The Alizar diamond mines also hold many Silerian men who were just rounded up by the Valdani to work there. Even the convicts are often sentenced for very petty crimes and all work in awful conditions where many die, so they're not much different. Josarian also leads their liberation as the rebels take Alizar. | |
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Suicide Is Shameful | |
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Suicide Is Shameful: Suicide is anathema to Silerians. When some Silerian men are imprisoned, they find it ludicrous that the Valdani took steps to prevent them from hanging themselves. | |
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The Order | |
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The Order: The Guardians, magic users who control fire and speak with the dead, in service of their goddess. Also the Sisterhood, who are somewhat like nuns and care for the sick or injured at Sanctuaries. | |
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Playing with Fire | |
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Playing with Fire: The Guardians' ability is controlling fire, along with Calling the dead. | |
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Heroic Suicide | |
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Heroic Suicide: Tashinar kills herself to stop Kiloran torturing vital information from her that would endanger the rebels. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: The Valdani punish Silerian rebels with death by torture-slowly being disemboweled. Later the Silerians use it on traitors also. | |
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One | |
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Josarian, after becoming the Firebringer, is betrayed by his closest relative and then eaten alive by a monster. Also, his soul cannot move to the afterlife until the monster's maker is killed. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Tansen and Josarian, after fighting the Valdani together. Also blood brothers. | |
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Raised by Grandparents | |
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Elalar's parents died when she was little. After that, she was raised by her grandfather. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Tansen's father was killed in his childhood during a blood feud with another clan. His maternal grandfather then served as something of a father substitute for him. Unfortunately, the old man later was tortured and killed by Valdani soldiers. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Mirabar's parents apparently abandoned her, given the superstition about her kind, but she doesn't remember them so it's unclear what happened. Elalar's parents died when she was little. After that, she was raised by her grandfather. | |
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False Flag Operation | |
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False Flag Operation: Tansen and his men pretend to be assassins, leaving shir at the scenes of attacks against waterlords which implicate others, setting them against each other. | |
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Benevolent Mage Ruler | |
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Benevolent Mage Ruler: The fire mage Yarhdans used to be this for Sileria. Elalar's son is prophesied to be the next one, with both fire and water magic, uniting the Guardians and water lords. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The Alliance is explicitly this, while the Honored Society resists the Valdani for selfish reasons, with the shallaheen rebels also qualifying. Things get fractious when they attempt to resist the Valdani together, and even worse after they leave. | |
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Sex Slave | |
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Sex Slave: The Valdani soldiers' brothels use captured women from the Moorlands. Most are said to not survive more than a year. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
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Took a Level in Kindness: Ronall slowly goes from being an abusive, lecherous drunk to becoming a hero. | |
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Child of Two Worlds | |
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Child of Two Worlds: Ronall is the son of a Valdan man and Silerian woman. Valdans have ruled Sileria for centuries, with violent antagonism between most members of both peoples. He gets prejudice from both sides as a result. Elelar and Mirabir both conceive children who are intended to be this. Their children will both have fire and water magic, healing an ancient rift between both types of magic users. | |
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Because Destiny Says So | |
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Because Destiny Says So: The whole plot of the trilogy is built on this trope. Josarian will drive out the Valdani as the Chosen One-because destiny says so. Elelar will give birth to the new Yarhdan (king)-because destiny says so. Mirabar's daughter will be his Guardian-because destiny says so. Etc., etc... | |
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Nay-Theist | |
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Nay-Theist: The Society in regards to Dar. Although they acknowledge she exists, none of them worship Her. | |
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Mystical Pregnancy | |
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Mystical Pregnancy: Elelar goes from conception into full-term pregnancy over just a few days or weeks at most. It's an explicitly supernatural event caused by their goddess, though she still gets pregnant through normal sex. | |
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Elemental Powers | |
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Elemental Powers: The Guardians have the ability to control fire, and the water lords... Well, the name kind of says it all. | |
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Screaming Birth | |
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Screaming Birth: Elelar has one. Justified since it was a supernatural event that involved lava flowing out of her womb. Ouch. | |
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Always Chaotic Evil | |
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Always Chaotic Evil: It's believed that people such as Mirabar, with red hair and/or golden eyes, are demons. However this turns out to be a lie spread by the water lords-it's actually a sign they're especially blessed by their goddess. | |
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Cessation of Existence | |
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Cessation of Existence: Discussed by Tansen and Josarian. The latter thinks the Otherworld might not really exist, and that spirits whom the Guardians call up could be just illusions. Josarian denies this though, and Tansen later concedes. This is the fate of anyone taken by the White Dragon too. | |
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Honey Trap | |
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Honey Trap: Elelar's espionage work is done almost entirely through seducing powerful men, then getting useful information from their loose lips after she becomes their mistress. | |
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Gender-Restricted Ability | |
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Gender-Restricted Ability: Before the conception of Baran and Mirabar's daughter, we only hear of male water magic users. There is a reason they're named "waterlords" after all. No "waterladies" appear or are mentioned. | |
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Elemental Weapon | |
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Elemental Weapon: The shir, wavy-edged daggers waterlords craft from pure water for their assassins. All are bitterly cold and burn to the touch of anyone aside from the waterlord or the assassin who receives it, except for an assassin's killer. Wounds from the shir also burn and harm worse than ordinary weapons, requiring longer healing (waterlords can heal them however). | |
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Et Tu, Brute? | |
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Et Tu, Brute?: Josarian is completely devastated when he finds out that he was sold out by his cousin, whom he was close as a brother to. | |
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Dual Wielding | |
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Dual Wielding: Tansen wields two swords, and the difficulties with this are explicitly stated. Those who do it need special training-he recounts seeing a Valdan noble cutting himself apart trying to once. | |
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Elective Monarchy | |
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Elective Monarchy: The Yarhdans, Sileria's rulers in the old days, were chosen by the Council of Guardians. | |
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The Empire | |
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The Empire: The Valdani Empire, which strongly resembles Rome. An expansionist power, they are trying their level best to conquer everyone around them. Though the story itself focuses on Sileria, an occupied island country to their south, wars they wage against larger neighbors are also important in the background. One Valdan character thinks about how they desire to conquer the world, which he wants a part of. However, it's heavily implied they have taken on more than they're capable of by the end, and may go down in defeat on the mainland. | |
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Doorstopper | |
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Doorstopper: The first book (In Fire Forged) was over seven hundred pages, the second (The White Dragon) was over six hundred fifty pages, with the last (The Destroyer Goddess) being comparatively shorter at just under five hundred pages (hardback edition). | |
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture | |
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Sileria has many similarities to Sicily-feuding clans, powerful crime syndicates which extort and murder people, plus a succession of foreign rulers. Valdania meanwhile has a resemblance to the Roman Empire, and it also has the same geographic relation of mainland Italy to Sicily, plus it's religion may be a vague Christian counterpart-it apparently involves "the Three" with a "sign of the Three" and believers say "Three into one!" On the other hand, its priests sacrifice goats. The Moorlands mirror Scotland or Ireland somewhat, with the description of its people, the moors obviously and having a clan-based society. Kinto, however, does not appear to have a counterpart, though it has vague similarities with some East Asian nations (e.g. the Palace of Heaven evokes China perhaps, plus it's language terms seem distantly Japanese). | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: Ronall is a terrible husband to Elelar, beating or raping her multiple times when he's not cheating with other women. Unsurprisingly, she prefers he do that and ignore her most of the time. | |
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Femme Fatale Spy | |
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Femme Fatale Spy: Elelar is a straight example, and surprisingly effective, gaining state secrets from the head of the Valdani administration in Sileria through seducing him to become his mistress. She's glamorous, an aristocrat and very beautiful. He's also not the only or first man she's used her wiles on. Pillow talk is enough to be told all kinds of things, often in passing. | |
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The Casanova | |
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The Casanova: Zimran is a shameless womanizer who continually seduces, beds and abandons numerous women (much to his cousin Jondalar's disapproval). | |
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Suicidal Pacifism | |
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Suicidal Pacifism: The Beyar-Olvari, who are an extremely fragile, peaceful species and can't even bear the mention of violent acts, let alone do any themselves, manifest this. It seems this is their inherent nature, so they can't change that. Rather than fight, some manage to survive by hiding underground from the encroaching humans. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Kiloran's one redeeming quality seems to be the fact he cares about his son, swearing revenge on Tansen after he kills him. | |
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I See Dead People | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_6459cc02 | comment |
I See Dead People: All of the Guardians have this ability, and it's the main thing they're known for besides their fire magic. | |
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Spirit Advisor | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_6492f4ca | comment |
Spirit Advisor: The Beckoner for Mirabar, an odd spirit who only she can see, advises her about what must be done to help the Firebringer, though she's very frustrated with him giving her only cryptic verbage that is difficult dicephering. | |
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The Syndicate | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_6552b710 | comment |
The Syndicate: The Honored Society is a fantasy version, where water wizards extort tribute from most people by controlling their water supplies, cutting it off if they refuse. Additionally, they have assassins who will kill whoever displeases them, but can also be hired to get revenge on others' behalf, though it's extremely costly to do. They're divided into competing factions under individual water lords with their own territories. While banned by the foreign Valdani who rule Silerian, they can't really be stamped out given their absolute control of the water supplies. After the Valdani leave, they move to rule openly over the entire island. | |
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Crushing the Populace | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_675a56a0 | comment |
Crushing the Populace: The Valdani resort to this when the rebellion is growing, massacring entire villages which support rebels in hopes of suppressing them. It doesn't work, only inciting further rebellion. They later withdraw. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: Borall, after hearing that Elelar's appeal is going to be heard in Valda, kills himself knowing it will be revealed how much information Elalar got from him unwittingly. Alcinar drowned herself after Zarien was born, due to apparent trauma from being raped. | |
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Making a Splash | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_6edd96b8 | comment |
Making a Splash: The waterlords, whose magic lets them control this, with the most powerful of them able to make an entire river fold back on itself and starve a city dry. | |
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Heroic Seductress | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_7133e180 | comment |
Heroic Seductress: Elelar seduces many powerful men in order to get useful information which helps the Alliance. | |
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Murder, Inc. | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_72217e12 | comment |
Murder, Inc.: Along with their main extortion rackets, waterlords' assassins can be hired to kill people for a high price (usually they just take out enemies of the waterlord they serve). | |
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Dark Fantasy | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_7243f3cb | comment |
Dark Fantasy: A people as occupied with killing each other as winning liberty, versus a brutal empire which rules them, fairly ruthless "heroes" leading them, and evil wizards who extort others for the simple use of water. The chosen one dies at the end of the first book, and once the empire leaves, the newly free country falls into civil war. | |
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Unequal Rites | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_7958175 | comment |
Unequal Rites: The Guardians (fire mages) and waterlords (water mages) are old, deadly enemies. As you'd expect, the latter is more powerful. However, by the end of the series people who have both abilities appear. | |
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Belief Makes You Stupid | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_79b5677 | comment |
Belief Makes You Stupid: Zigzagged. The zanareen are religious fanatics whose members seek to prove how they're the Firebringer by fasting, prayer and eventually throwing themselves into a live volcano. The rest of the religious characters are smart and level-headed however. Even the zanareen belief this is what the Firebringer can survive is true, they're just wrong about it being any of them. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Elelar gives one to Borell after he rapes her when she's found out as a spy, revealing how much information he unwittingly gave her and all her true hatred of him. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: Ronall, Elelar's husband, is a hopeless drunk and drug addict. He only sobers up when imprisoned by the Valdani, and the withdrawal was apparently quite hard on him. The very first thing he does after being released is go get drunk once again. | |
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Vestigial Empire | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_81c72ad5 | comment |
Vestigial Empire: The Kintish Kingdoms, which once ruled Sileria. In the past they were far more powerful, but have become overshadowed by the Valdani recently. The Valdani eventually invade them. | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_85cefc44 | comment |
Sympathetic Adulterer: Mirabar cheats on Baran with Tansan, though since he's dying and they only married to ally their factions, it's portrayed as okay. He might not have minded anyway. | |
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The Chosen One | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_89631688 | comment |
The Chosen One: Josarian, the Firebringer. Armian was believed to be this, but turned out not to be, and he didn't want to throw himself into a volcano to prove it as required. Ronall, of all people, is the sea king, prophesied as the sea folk's monarch and consort to their goddess. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Zarien is killed by a dragonfish, but revived with the goddess Sharifar's power. | |
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Civil War | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_8976acda | comment |
Civil War: After the Valdani leave, Sileria's factions devolve into a power struggle between the Alliance and shallaheen versus the various water lords. | |
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Category Traitor | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_8cb01d0e | comment |
Category Traitor: Betraying your own people is viewed as the worst thing any Silerian can do, and they punish it with death by slow torture. | |
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Questionable Consent | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_9400b3b5 | comment |
Questionable Consent: Elelar is initially willing to have sex with Cheylan, but he shows no signs of taking "no" as an answer later. | |
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One-Night-Stand Pregnancy | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_95614e0e | comment |
One-Night-Stand Pregnancy: Elelar gets pregnant as a result of one spontaneous tryst, after having thought that she was barren for years. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_95c2a9dd | comment |
Outliving One's Offspring: Ronall loses his unborn child with Jalilar when she's killed. He laments that it's probably the only child he'd ever have. | |
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Big Bad | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Kiloran, one of the water lords who rules his domain with an iron fist, soon becomes this. He tries to seize control over the entire country, starting with one port city, and is the main antagonist to the heroes in the latter two books. | |
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Occupiers Out of Our Country | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_98a79aed | comment |
Occupiers Out of Our Country: This is the Silerians' motive for rebelling, to get rid of their foreign Valdani overlords. | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_99404851 | comment |
Ladykiller in Love: Zimran, The Casanova, falls hard for Elelar, who is very similar to him in terms of her sexual habits (yet with different motives). He wants to be committed with her, unlike all the previous women he'd been with. Zimran even fantasizes about Elelar having his baby, while before he avoided paternity like the plague, and abandoned one women he apparently got pregnant who begged him to marry her. | |
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Persecution Flip | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_9d94dcfd | comment |
Persecution Flip: The Valdani oppressed the Silerians for centuries while ruling Sileria, up to massacring entire villages. Once they withdraw, Valdani who remain behind there are then massacred in turn by Silerians. | |
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Always Lawful Good | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_9e1eef4c | comment |
Always Lawful Good: The Beyah-Olvari are all benevolent pacifists who live peacefully together, so much that they can't even bear people acting angrily in their presence. | |
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No Pregger Sex | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_a8b68a9c | comment |
No Pregger Sex: Averted as Mirabar sleeps with Tansen while she's pregnant. It's fairly early in her pregnancy though, so she isn't uncomfortable. | |
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Final Solution | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_a969c74a | comment |
Final Solution: After the Valdan rule of Sileria ends, many Silerians begin killing the Silerian-born Valdani in massacres as for the atrocities which the Valdani committed before, explicitly wishing to slaughter or drive out them all. | |
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Foreign Ruling Class | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_ab2ffd70 | comment |
Foreign Ruling Class: The Valdani were this for Sileria over centuries before the events of the books. Before that, it was the Kents, which they replaced. The Kents in turn displaced the Moorlanders, the first foreign rulers of Sileria. | |
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Perfect Pacifist People | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_acbd5c12 | comment |
Perfect Pacifist People: The Beyah-Olvari are naturally pacifists, and live in perfect harmony (albeit hiding underground) together. | |
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Bath Suicide | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_ae3c0b6 | comment |
Bath Suicide: Borall slits his wrists in the bath rather than be punished for inadvertently giving state secrets to rebels. | |
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Marital Rape License | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_b1c8e04e | comment |
Marital Rape License: Ronall using this is (mostly) why Elelar hates him, though he regrets it later. | |
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Feudal Overlord | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_b343fa47 | comment |
Feudal Overlord: Sileria has suffered through a series of these, starting with the Moorlanders, then the Kints, and finally the Valdani. It's the impetus for the rebellion, to finally be rid of them. Unfortunately then the water lords try to take their place... | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_ba6cf869 | comment |
Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The Valdani start using terror tactics as the rebellion increases, leading to many entire villages being destroyed and the inhabitants slaughtered by the end. They also did this to Tansen's village before while hunting Armian. Later, Silerians take revenge on the Valdani left in the country with the same means. | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_bb0c0a4d | comment |
Fiery Redhead: Mirabar is a redhead with a hot temper, though she mellows over time. | |
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Child by Rape | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_bb7ae292 | comment |
Child by Rape: Zarien turns out to be one due to Kiloran's rape of his mother. | |
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Water Is Womanly | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_be38c5d3 | comment |
Water Is Womanly: Inverted. In contrast to common association of water with femininity, water magic users are only male, being named "waterlords". However, it later gets played straight as Mirabar's daughter is prophesied to be the first female water magic user. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_bf1255fa | comment |
Really Gets Around: Zimran and Elelar both frequently have sex with people. In Zimran's case, it's simply for pleasure. Elelar though only seduces powerful men to gain useful information, taking no enjoyment from it. | |
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Despotism Justifies the Means | |
| The Silerian Trilogy / int_bf4a990 | comment |
Despotism Justifies the Means: Kiloran has no apparent goal beyond becoming the tyrant of Sileria, using increasingly harsh methods to achieve that end. | |
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Seers | |
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Seers: Mirabar is given prophecies of the future through her spirit advisor the Beckoner. | |
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Sorcerous Overlord | |
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Sorcerous Overlord: Water wizard Kiloran wants to be this for all of Sileria. He takes over one of its cities to begin once the Valdani depart the country. | |
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Half-Breed Discrimination | |
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Half-Breed Discrimination: Ronall is the son of a Valdan man and Silerian woman. As he laments, Silerians view him as a Valdan, even though he's lived in Sileria all of his life. Valdani, meanwhile, view him as a Silerian. Both dislike him for his heritage. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The Honored Society, a play on the “Men of Honor” name the Mafia uses for themselves, and they are even worse. They're “honored” by people because otherwise they'll remove your water and leave you to die of thirst. | |
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Necromancer | |
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Necromancer: Guardians have the ability to call up spirits from the Otherworld on people's behalf. Doing so requires having something personal of theirs, and it can be difficult to reach some. Not all spirits are able to be called either, with some just never making it there. This doubles as pyromancy, since the spirits appear in the flames of a fire. | |
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We ARE Struggling Together | |
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We ARE Struggling Together: It is explicitly stated that one reason Sileria has been ruled by foreigners for so long stems from them fighting each other constantly, and when they finally do manage some unity, this only lasts long enough to win their independence before it falls apart with civil war breaking out. | |
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The Magocracy | |
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The Magocracy: The water lords essentially rule Sileria in part due to their control over its water supplies. Even the old official rulers have to give them tribute or they'll cut it off. Once the Valdani leave, their goal is absolute rule of the island. | |
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Death by Childbirth | |
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Death by Childbirth: Calidar, Josarian's wife, died while giving birth to their baby (who died in the process as well). He mourns them throughout the first book and it's part of his motivation for leading a rebellion, with nothing to lose now. | |
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Feuding Families | |
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Feuding Families: Sileria has been torn apart by clan warfare for most of its history, with it explicitly being stated as the major reason they stayed unable to unite against their foreign rulers. Later this is used to the rebels' advantage, by having a blood feud sworn against the Valdani as if they were just another Silerian clan. | |
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Fantasy Contraception | |
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Fantasy Contraception: In spite of how much unprotected sex she has, Elelar never gets pregnant and concludes she's infertile. She's happy with this, because she never slept with a man whom she'd wanted to have a child by. However, it turns out she's been kept from conceiving by Dar, her people's goddess, as she's destined to bear the next Yarhdan, so having children with other men presumably was an obstacle to that. After she meets and is seduced by the man destined to father the Yarhdan, Elelar gets pregnant at once. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Mirabar is a fierce young woman with a hot temper who fights using her fire magic. | |
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Surprise Pregnancy | |
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Surprise Pregnancy: Elelar, who though she was barren, gets unexpectedly pregnant, to her astonishment. | |
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Superpowerful Genetics | |
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Superpowerful Genetics: The ability to do magic is often (though not always) inherited. Several magic user characters have either a parent or grandparent with the same ability. | |
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Pregnant Badass | |
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Pregnant Badass: Mirabar isn't slowed down as a fighter even when heavily pregnant (it's helped by the fact she does this with magic). In fact, she even gets stronger, since her unborn baby daughter starts helping her with magic she's inherited that Mirabar lacks. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: Josarian, the Firebringer, is prophesied to at last free Sileria. At first he leads the struggle and seems well on his way to doing this. Then he's betrayed and murdered as part of a deal to get the Valdani out, and revenge for killing Kiloran's son. Tanses takes up his role in the next books and serves as the main protagonist. | |
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Blood Oath | |
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Blood Oath: Shallaheen bind themselves through ritually cutting open their palms. This can be for adoption, marriages, or vowing revenge. | |
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The Clan | |
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The Clan: Silerian society is divided into these, with many swearing vendettas and fighting each other over many generations, to the point of them being nearly wiped out in some cases. | |
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Assassin Outclassin' | |
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Assassin Outclassin': Kiloran sends several assassins to kill Tansen, who easily kills them all as he's gained superior training in swordfighting since leaving Sileria ten years before. | |
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Emissary from the Divine | |
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Emissary from the Divine: Mirabar is one of the Silerian goddess Dar, prophesying the Firebringer, then the next Yarhdan, who her own daughter will aid. | |
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Divide and Conquer | |
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Divide and Conquer: Tansen uses this tactic when fighting the Society, setting various waterlords against each other with false flag attacks. | |
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Family Honor | |
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Family Honor: This is taken very seriously by Silerians, resulting in many vendettas. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: One of the rebels, Amitan, has Tansen end his life when he's dying slowly of a stomach wound, sparing him a long death in agony over several days. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Josarian and his wife very much wanted to have children. They had great difficulty though, and then she died while giving birth along with their child. Elelar, who thought she was barren, gets pregnant unexpectedly having sex just once with a man. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Kiloran seems genuinely baffled that Baran harbors such a grudge against him over abducting and raping his wife. | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Ronall constantly cheats on Elelar with random women, and is an abusive drunk. Elelar also sleeps with many other men, though only to gain information for La Résistance and is mostly portrayed sympathetically as she's stuck with him as her husband. | |
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