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An epic Space Opera by Margaret Weis, not as well known as her other works. The first book was published in 1990, the fourth one in 1993. The series consists of four volumes: The Lost King King's Test King's Sacrifice Ghost LegionBecause the series' covers feature Laser Blades prominently, young readers would be forgiven for confusing this with Star Wars. They wouldn't be far wrong. The series starts about 20 years after a college professor and unlikely revolutionary, Peter Robes, led an uprising against the monarchy; the "Blood," a ruling caste which had been genetically engineered for wisdom, intense charisma and occasional superpowers, were wiped out almost to a man. The lone survivors are a small band of loyalists, the king's nephew, newborn Dion Starfire, whom they managed to escape with, and Warlord Derek Sagan, who helped organize the coup and fought his Star-Crossed Lover Maigrey Morianna to do it. At the beginning of the book, the last of those loyalists, Maigrey's bookish brother Platus, is killed, leaving the now-grown-up Dion to flee with the help of Mendaharin "Tusk" Tusca, halfblood Heroic Bastard son of another of said loyalists. Hunted by now-President Robes and "Citizen-General" Sagan and the People's Republic of Tyranny the new government has become, aided by the rumpled, fatherly General Dixter and enigmatic Not Quite Dead Maigrey, Dion must find a way to come into his birthright and reclaim the throne.And, of course, there's more to the story than what meets the eye...The series had a Spin-Off, MagForce7, chronicling the adventures of a band of mercenary misfits modeled consciously after The Magnificent Seven. |
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Bizarre Alien Biology |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: The Corasians are sapient blobs of plasma that eat Life Energy. |
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Boisterous Bruiser |
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Boisterous Bruiser: Bear Olefsky and all his sons. They're big, loud, friendly giants, and them leaving the room is described as having overturned several chairs and a cousin. |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Dion to Sagan. Sagan, being a Cynical Mentor, Jerkass and Deadpan Snarker with no respect to Dion's royal status whatsoever, treats the king-to-be like shit all the time (even when providing real help), and the thing Dion wants most is to hear him say the trope-naming line. In Ghost Legion, Sagan eventually does just that. |
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Break the Badass |
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Break the Badass: Derek Sagan, one of the most powerful Warlords in the galaxy and probably as badass as a character can get, is scared up to the Heroic BSoD when Abdiel threatens him with the Serpent's Tooth, an exotic weapon causing Fate Worse than Death to whoever as much as gets scratched by it. |
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A Father to His Men |
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A Father to His Men: Both Dixter and Sagan show a great deal of concern for their soldiers, each in his own way. Dixter cares more about saving each individual soldier, Sagan about the big picture and making mens' sacrifice worth it. Notably, both of them inspire immense loyalty from their men in return. |
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Daddy's Girl |
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Daddy's Girl: Maigrey, whose warrior nature made her Proud Warrior Race Guy of a father very happy. |
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Shout-Out Theme Naming |
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Shout-Out Theme Naming: The planet Vangelis is named after a modern Greek composer, best known for the Chariots of Fire theme, whose music the author obviously loves. Dion, one of the three protagonists, is named (in-verse) after an ancient Greek philosopher and politician, disciple of Plato. And Platus, Dion's tutor, is evidently the homage to Plato himself. The character Sparafucile is named (also in-verse) after a character from Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto". Both are paid assassins. Baroness Di Luna's name is taken from another Verdi's opera, "Il trovatore". When Maigrey doesn't feel like revealing her real name, she uses the alias "Major Penthesilea". In Greek mythology, Penthesilea was the queen of Amazons and fought for Trojans in the The Trojan War. She was killed by Achilles and was said to be the only woman he ever loved (he realized it was her he killed only after removing her helmet). A Prophetic Name, too, because, given the amount of Rule of Symbolism and Power of Fate in this book, you may guess what happens. |
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The Dandy |
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The Dandy: Raoul. |
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The High Queen |
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The High Queen: Dion's wife fits this to a tee. |
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Childhood Friend Romance |
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Childhood Friend Romance: Maigrey and Sagan. |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Raoul and the Little One. |
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Fingore |
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Fingore: Part of Dion's initiation into the Blood Royal's sect of Space Catholicism involves levitating a ball of knives above his hands. He manages it for about 10 seconds, which shows to Dagan and Majorie that while he *is* a Blood Royal, he won't be able to use any of their Psychic Powers. He has them regenerated later. |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: A lot of these, actually, Dion and Astarte being the first in row. Technically, all Blood Royal count, though only some of them are "royal" in the sense of being monarchs. (And of the characters listed in the series synopsis, Dixter is the only one who isn't Blood Royal.) |
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Byronic Hero |
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Byronic Hero: Sagan. Thoroughly explored throughout all four books. |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Averted. Going FTL feels like getting schnockered, and the local rotgut is called "Jump-Juice" because of this. |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl |
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As mentioned above, Baroness DiLuna doesn't much like Astarte because she's a girly-girl where an Amazon warrior is expected. |
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Even Evil Has Standards |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Abdiel. |
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Starfish Aliens |
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Starfish Aliens: The Corasians. They are red glowing blobs which feed on raw energy and use Mini-Mecha to get around. Shooting them with lasguns just makes them stronger unless you Reverse the Polarity. |
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Please, Don't Leave Me |
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Please, Don't Leave Me: In the end of Book 4, dying Derek Sagan begs Maigrey who came to him after her death not to leave him. She doesn't. |
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Gentle Giant |
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Gentle Giant: Bear Olefsky, even if his welcoming embraces don't feel so gentle to ordinary people. |
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Kill the Ones You Love |
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Kill the Ones You Love: Sagan had to kill Maigrey in order to rid her of the Fate Worse than Death. |
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The Man Behind the Man |
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The Man Behind the Man: Abdiel. |
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Parental Substitute |
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Parental Substitute: In some way, Sagan and Maigrey to Dion. Lampshaded by *Abdiel* of all people in his speech concerning Freudian Excuses. Platus to Dion is a more straight example. |
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Love Hurts |
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Love Hurts: In every way possible. |
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Authority Equals Asskicking |
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Authority Equals Ass Kicking: The Golden Squadron are the best warriors and space pilots in the universe, period. They are also Blood Royal. All of them. Dion Starfire is a prince and can kick some serious ass when he has to. |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Xris the cyborg, a cynical mercenary who still loves his wife even though he thinks she dumped him when he became a cyborg. |
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Rated M for Manly |
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Rated M for Manly: Derek Sagan fits this trope to a T. |
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The Atoner |
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The Atoner: Sagan in Ghost Legion. |
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Tall, Dark, and Snarky |
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Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Sagan. |
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Bookworm |
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Bookworm: Platus, Maigrey's brother. |
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Troubled Backstory Flashback |
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Troubled Backstory Flashback: For Maigrey, though with her and Sagan being mind-linked it counts for both of them. |
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Beta Couple |
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Beta Couple: Tusk and Nola. |
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The Milky Way Is the Only Way |
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The Milky Way Is the Only Way: Averted. There's a space station in Andromeda named "Hell's Outpost". It's a Wretched Hive, being beyond the Commowealth's control. |
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Ace Pilot |
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Ace Pilot: Tusk. To a lesser extent, Link. |
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Royal Blood |
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Royal Blood: It is actual royal blood that is needed in order to safely operate royal Cool Bloodswords and Cool Ships, which connect to the user the same way. |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: John Dixter. Astarte is fine with being Dion's wife In Name Only, protecting his mistress Kamil (Dion's girlfriend from before the political marriage) from Baroness DeLuna. |
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Nanomachines |
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It creates a mental connection with its user by injecting Nanomachines into the wielder's bloodstream, which not only connect the sword to the user's mind, not only heighten the user's latent telepathy, but steal the body's ATP to fuel the sword with. |
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BadassNormal |
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Badass Normal: Tusk is a great space pilot and a good soldier but compared to the uber-badass Maigrey and Sagan he's just... normal. Likewise, Brother Fideles, especially in the fourth book. All he has is a pope hat and medical training, but he wades into battle without flinching, proposing that he is going to stall the enemy. |
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Heroic Sacrifice |
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Heroic Sacrifice: quite a few over the course of the series, mostly towards Dion. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_6439de78 |
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type |
Author Appeal |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_6627695f |
comment |
Author Appeal: Possibly Weis' series to push the need to embrace God(s) the most (even more so than Dragonlance) it has the worst villain of the first few books be explicitly atheist. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_6627695f |
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type |
Dying Moment of Awesome |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_6682d6e4 |
comment |
Dying Moment of Awesome: Sagan, having activated the space-rotation bomb that would blast the whole planet, thus reaching two goals: destroying the terrible Weapon of Mass Destruction and wiping out his king's enemies together with himself, which action may also be considered a favor to the young king. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_6682d6e4 |
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type |
Meaningful Name |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_6bda9a30 |
comment |
Meaningful Name: Brother Fideles - "Faithful". Lampshaded in-verse. |
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type |
Babies Ever After |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_6d9bc945 |
comment |
Babies Ever After: Out of the main pairings, at least one (Tusk/Nola) definitely has shades of this. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_6d9bc945 |
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type |
Casting Gag |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_6ec4232f |
comment |
Casting Gag: In Ghost Legion, the artist Stephen Youll is said to have made the portraits of Sagan and Maigrey that are now exhibited in the memorial chapel at the Academy. Stephen Youll is a famous artist who has provided book covers for a number of prominent fantasy and science-fiction novels, amongst them the first edition of The Star of the Guardians. That's his work in the page picture. (We're not sure who that is talking to Maigrey.) Not just him. All of Tusk's co-conspirators in the fourth book are named after real friends of Weis's, including her eventual second husband and co-writer. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_6ec4232f |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_70eb0e50 |
type |
Bishounen |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_70eb0e50 |
comment |
Bishounen: Each and every Adonian, Snaga Ohme and Raoul being the most present. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_70eb0e50 |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_71019994 |
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Unwanted Harem |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_71019994 |
comment |
Unwanted Harem: Downplayed, at only 2 members. One of DiLuna's conditions for supporting Dion was that he marry her daughter, Astarte, thus making goddess worship the state religeon. Unfortunately, he's already fallen in love with another girl, Kamil. The plot of book 4 is about DiLuna finding out about this other woman, and being pissed right off about her. Even after Dion tells her that he's never going to even touch Astarte. Kamil and Astarte get along just fine, for their part. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_71019994 |
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Tomboy Princess |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_75898be8 |
comment |
Tomboy Princess: Maigrey was this as a child. Kamil is as well, though Bear Olefsky's domain only includes the planet he lives on. |
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Arranged Marriage |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_80621707 |
comment |
Arranged Marriage: Dion has to enter into one to win his throne. He has just hit Love at First Sight with another woman. |
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| | The Star of the Guardians / int_81ae2774 |
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Evil Matriarch |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_81ae2774 |
comment |
Evil Matriarch: Even though she's not particularly evil, Baroness Di Luna is proud, ambitious, war-loving, can kick any man's ass (Sagan being one of the very few exceptions) and almost openly despises her Girly Girl daughter Astarte, a black sheep in the bunch of Amazons. She'll have to realize, though, that kind and peaceful ones are not necessarily weak and submissive... |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_8411ab92 |
comment |
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Sagan and Maigrey even wear red and blue as their favorite colors respectively. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_8411ab92 |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_86bb7d97 |
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Cultured Badass |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_86bb7d97 |
comment |
Cultured Badass: Sagan and Maigrey both love classical music and are so well-read they can quote Plato and Yeats by heart. Dixter is fond of reading, too. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_86bb7d97 |
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Psychic Powers |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_874176be |
comment |
Psychic Powers: genetically engineered for the Blood Royal. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_874176be |
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Badass Cape |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_88799cf4 |
comment |
Badass Cape: Sagan and later, Maigrey. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_88799cf4 |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_8a4988bb |
type |
Mind Rape |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_8a4988bb |
comment |
Mind Rape: Abdiel. He has heightened his Blood Royal telepathy to horrific extents. It also helps that he doses people with Nanomachines as well. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_8a4988bb |
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Proud Warrior Race Guy |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_8c1ad82f |
comment |
Proud Warrior Race Guy: Bear Olefsky |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_8c1ad82f |
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type |
Apocalypse How |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_91e894b4 |
comment |
Apocalypse How: Invoked. The Space Rotation Bomb in book 3 is feared to cause a Class X, creating a Negative Space Wedgie that could consume the universe. Sagan detonates it at the climax. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_91e894b4 |
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Betty and Veronica |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_94e4c8ab |
comment |
Betty and Veronica: Astarte vs. Kamil. Which is whom is...open for debate. On the male side, Dixter vs. Sagan. The roles are much clearer on this side - Dixter is Betty, Sagan Veronica. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_94e4c8ab |
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type |
The Phoenix |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_952bcf83 |
comment |
The Phoenix: Sagan's personal emblem and the name of his battle ship. Counts as symbolic, too. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_952bcf83 |
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Big Bad |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_970c790a |
comment |
Big Bad: Abdiel. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_970c790a |
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Long-Haired Pretty Boy |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_98ff7254 |
comment |
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Raoul. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_98ff7254 |
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type |
Foreshadowing |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_9d12bbc1 |
comment |
Foreshadowing: Twice, first with Sagan's father and his prophecy about the two that must walk the paths of darkness to reach the light, second with Sagan himself when he continues to see the dream in which he kills Maigrey. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_9d12bbc1 |
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type |
Cynical Mentor |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_9eb229d9 |
comment |
Cynical Mentor: Sagan to Dion. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_9eb229d9 |
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type |
I Am Who? |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_a0cdc32e |
comment |
I Am Who?: Dion Starfire, especially in Book 1. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_a0cdc32e |
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type |
Cool Sword |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_a6275bef |
comment |
Cool Sword: Each Guardian has his/her own Cool Bloodsword. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_a6275bef |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_a7aef9ff |
type |
Obfuscating Stupidity |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_a7aef9ff |
comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: Raoul. He's a "Loti," someone who uses recreational drugs to maintain a constant mellow high. He is also an incredibly talented and creative poisoner. One Batman Cold Open in the Mag Force 7 series has him assassinating a President Evil simply by kissing her hand at a party. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_a7aef9ff |
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type |
Agent Peacock |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_a859f080 |
comment |
Agent Peacock: Raoul, the effeminate, campy pretty-boy. When he's not fussing about his manicure, hair and clothes, he kills people with hundreds of various poisons. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_a859f080 |
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Love at First Sight |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_a8dcb1d7 |
comment |
Love at First Sight: Dion and Kamil. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_a8dcb1d7 |
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type |
Four-Star Badass |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_ac928039 |
comment |
Four-Star Badass: General John Dixter and Derek Sagan, Marshal of the Galactic Democratic Republic. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_ac928039 |
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The Masochism Tango |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_ad1ab367 |
comment |
The Masochism Tango: Oh so much. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_ad1ab367 |
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Heartbroken Badass |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_ad3d8092 |
comment |
Heartbroken Badass: Sagan. He gets his second Heroic BSoD when the love of his life, Maigrey, dies at his hands. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_ad3d8092 |
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Deadpan Snarker |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_ae3d6438 |
comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Hilariously, XJ the computer. Sagan snarks less frequently, but is much better at the deadpan part of it. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_ae3d6438 |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_af3ea0e3 |
type |
Face–Heel Turn |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_af3ea0e3 |
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Face–Heel Turn: Peter Robes and Derek Sagan, both in the backstory. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_af3ea0e3 |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_afd181c7 |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: Xris the Cyborg, leader of Mag Force 7. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_afd181c7 |
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Fate Worse than Death |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_b1346878 |
comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Being struck by the Serpent's Tooth. |
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type |
The Ace |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_b5b4b077 |
comment |
The Ace: Sagan, although there are moments of Broken Ace here and there, especially after Maigrey dies. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_b5b4b077 |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_b7e0c5ff |
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Love Triangle |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_b7e0c5ff |
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Love Triangle: Maigrey loves both John Dixter and Derek Sagan. |
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HollywoodCyborg |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_b8237752 |
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Hollywood Cyborg: Xris, the leader of Mag Force 7. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_b8237752 |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_bb0c0a4d |
type |
Fiery Redhead |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_bb0c0a4d |
comment |
Fiery Redhead: Subverted with Dion who is quite calm and level-headed. Unless you laugh at him while he's got a gun pointed at you, of course... |
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Precision F-Strike |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_bc00493f |
comment |
Precision F-Strike: Tusk. |
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Happily Married |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_bec0417c |
comment |
Happily Married: Tusk and Nola. |
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Mindlink Mates |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_c05de85d |
comment |
Mindlink Mates: Sagan and Maigrey practically define this trope. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_c05de85d |
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type |
Pride |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_c39846a3 |
comment |
Pride: Sagan's Fatal Flaw. And boy, how... |
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type |
Shout-Out |
| | The Star of the Guardians / int_c75df49a |
comment |
Shout-Out: This series can probably boast the vastest amount of literary and music quotes like, ever. Each chapter in every of the four books has an epigraph that is a quote of some sort and relates to the events of the chapter. Characters themselves tend to quote famous literary works and even classical opera. The murder of the royal family by the revolutionary forces resembles very much the execution of the Romanov royal family by Bolsheviks. The space station in Andromeda is named Hells Outpost. |
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No Name Given |
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No Name Given: The Little One. No sex, race or age either. It takes until the spin-off for anyone to even realize what his (its?) species is. |
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Driven to Madness |
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Driven to Madness: The Fate Worse than Death the Serpent's Tooth causes. |
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Afterlife Antechamber |
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Afterlife Antechamber: Maigrey continues to hang around in Ghost Legion after having died in King's Sacrifice. Platus comes to Maigrey right after his death. |
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Vitriolic Best Buds |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Tusk and XJ. |
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You Are Worth Hell |
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You Are Worth Hell: In the epilogue of Ghost Legion, Maigrey and Sagan are offered a choice: to repent and be redeemed in Heaven, or to be punished in Hell. Sagan would not repent, and Maigrey, too, renounces salvation to be with him. Subverted in that they still have a small hope of reaching Heaven after they walk through all the paths of Hell. |
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Battle Couple |
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Battle Couple: Sagan and Maigrey, Tusk and Nola. |
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Rightful King Returns |
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Rightful King Returns: Pretty much the plot of the first three books. |
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Last of His Kind |
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Last of His Kind: Maigrey believes she, Dion and Sagan are the last Blood Royal in the universe. Turns out it is not quite so. |
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Star-Crossed Lovers |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Maigrey and Sagan. First they were Guardians of the King, then he took sides with the revolutionary Republic and she didn't. |
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Sexy Priest |
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Sexy Priest: Sagan is a warrior priest in the Order of Adamant. Brother Fideles is described as being very good-looking. |
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Bastard Bastard |
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Bastard Bastard: Flaim Starfire in Ghost Legion. |
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Wartime Wedding |
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Wartime Wedding: Tusk and Nola. Played for Laughs and a Breather Episode. |
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TheUNFavourite |
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The Un-Favourite: Platus' and Maigrey's father despised his firstborn son for becoming a peace-loving bookworm instead of a badass. As mentioned above, Baroness DiLuna doesn't much like Astarte because she's a girly-girl where an Amazon warrior is expected. |
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Trial by Combat |
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Trial by Combat: Maigrey and Sagan in the first book. |
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Earn Your Happy Ending |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: After their deaths, Sagan and Maigrey have to go through Hell together to earn their happiness in Heaven. |
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Matriarchy |
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Matriarchy: Ceres. Which type of Matriarchy it is veers a bit as the point of view shifts closer to the people involved, starting at Patriarchy Flip/Straw Matriarchy and progressing to Original Matriarchy, with just a hint of Enlightened Matriarchy by the end of the series. |
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Laser Blade |
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Laser Blade: the "bloodsword," which has a number of twists on the formula. It can switch to a shielding function. You control this mentally. It creates a mental connection with its user by injecting Nanomachines into the wielder's bloodstream, which not only connect the sword to the user's mind, not only heighten the user's latent telepathy, but steal the body's ATP to fuel the sword with. If you are not Blood Royal, these nanomachines cause an extremely virulent form of cancer. Death comes in days. If you're lucky. |
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Beware the Nice Ones |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Raoul is stunningly beautiful, very courteous, calm and friendly. He is one of the most skilled poisoners in galaxy. Queen Astarte is kind, gentle and soft-spoken. What she can do, though, when you really piss her off... |
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Lady of War |
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Lady of War: Lady Maigrey is a perfect example. |
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The Star of the Guardians / int_fe48cea2 |
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The Corrupter |
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The Corrupter: Abdiel, so very much. To quote one of his catches: |
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Dark and Troubled Past |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Sagan and Maigrey. And how. As an example, they each tried to kill the other during the Revolution. |
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