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The Tombs of Atuan

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The Tombs of Atuan (1971) is the second book of Earthsea.The book focuses on Tenar, a girl born in the Kargish empire, who is taken while still a child to be Arha, the high priestess to the "Nameless Ones" at the Tombs of Atuan.
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Playing Sick
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Playing Sick: Played for Drama when Manan tells the story about how Tenar's mother pretended that baby Tenar had smallpox to try to stop them from taking her daughter away, because disease could make her ineligible. The mother painted pox onto Tenar's skin with berry juice. It would have worked if the fear of contagion had kept everyone from looking too closely, but Kossil was brave enough to look closely and see through it.
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Hero Antagonist
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Hero Antagonist: Ged to Tenar in The Tombs of Atuan.
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Religion of Evil
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Religion of Evil: Arha's Nameless Ones are some terrible, ancient, Eldritch Abominations. Even most people who live in the compound avoid them as much a possible because they creep people out.
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The Place
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The Place: The Tombs of Atuan.
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Primal Fear
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Primal Fear: Arha interprets the primal fear of the dark as some sort of inborn reverence of the Nameless Ones.
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Forced Sleep
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Forced Sleep: In the labyrinth, Ged uses his magic to hold the Nameless Ones asleep, for a time.
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Fat and Skinny
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Fat and Skinny: Of the other two major priestesses, Thar is "thin and rigid" and Kossil is "heavy, swaying."
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Defrosting Ice Queen
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Arha/Tenar fits this trope very much, although there is a subversion in that the protagonist, Ged, who plays the role of dashing adventurer in the novel, does not "defrost" her through sex as often happens, but rather helps her develop a sense of morality and reconnect with her buried humanity.
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HighPriestess
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High Priestess: There are three High Priestesses at the Place of the Tombs of Atuan, one for each temple. Kossil is the High Priestess of the Godking; Thar is the High Priestess of the Twin Gods; Arha is the High Priestess of the Nameless Ones. Arha is the highest, "the One Priestess of the Tombs of Atuan, highest of all high priestesses of the Kargad Lands, one whom not even the Godking himself might command."
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I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
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I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Penthe receives punishment for skipping class and hopping over a wall with Arha. Arha, being a High Priestess, is not punished at all.
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Holy Ground
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Holy Ground: The Labyrinth is regarded as holy ground for the Nameless Ones. When Arha enters it, she feels very close to them. Given their Eldritch Abomination nature, over the course of the story we find out this is rather more literal that initially thought.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly
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Gods Need Prayer Badly: Played With. Without prayer, the Nameless Ones won't vanish, but it does make them stronger.
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Reincarnation
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Reincarnation: The Kargads believe in everyone is reincarnated, but that only Arha is reincarnated again and again as herself.
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Vertical Power Play
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Vertical Power Play: Arha is going to speak to her prisoner, who she increasingly cares for, but with whom she is trying to maintain a mask of danger and indifference. She makes a point to bring a stool so that she can be above him while they speak.
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Implied Love Interest
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Implied Love Interest: Ged and Tenar are the two main characters. They save each other. They clearly care about each other. Ged's declaration, "I have trusted you from the first time I saw your face, for one moment in the cave beneath the Tombs, beautiful in darkness," is reminiscent of Love at First Sight. And that's as far as it goes. It's set during Ged's Celibate Hero days. Decades later, during Tehanu, they actually get together.
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Big Eater
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Big Eater: Penthe is plump when she is introduced and continues to gain weight because of her enormous appetite.
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Stern Teacher
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Stern Teacher: Thar is stern and taciturn, but Arha respects her.
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Deuteragonist
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Deuteragonist: Ged's character development is secondary to Tenar's in The Tombs of Atuan, after being the main character in the first book.
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Eldritch Abomination
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Eldritch Abomination: The "Nameless Ones" are entities that the wizards refer to as the dark powers of the Earth, which are the focus of the oldest religion of the Kargad lands.
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Circle of Standing Stones
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Circle of Standing Stones: The eponymous Tombs of Atuan are standing stones.
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Villain Protagonist
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Villain Protagonist: Arha is the protagonist of the story, and she's initially bent on destroying invaders to her tomb in the harshest manner possible.
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Powers That Be
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Powers That Be: The Nameless Ones. Their actual existence is up for debate until the point where Ged pisses them off and they retaliate by trying to collapse the great labyrinth around him and Tenar.
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Mr. Exposition
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Mr. Exposition: Early in The Tombs of Atuan, Manan and Arha play this role.
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A Match Made in Stockholm
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A Match Made in Stockholm: Arha and Ged first meet when he comes to rob her temple, and she imprisons him in the labyrinth and starves him for days. But last time she killed someone she had trauma-dreams about it afterwards, so she doesn't want to do that again. And once they start talking, Arha is so lonely that it really strikes a chord with her. Before too long, she's willing to fast in order to smuggle her own food to him. The she sides with him and is ready to help him escape, and leave with him.
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God-Emperor
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God-Emperor: In the Kargad lands, the (apparently mortal) Godking is worshipped as a deity. By the time of the story, this has severely pissed off the Nameless Ones.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Kossil, High Priestess of the Godking, is the main representative of the Godking, ruler of The Empire of Atuan, in the book.
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Guilt-Induced Nightmare
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Guilt-Induced Nightmare: After sentencing condemned prisons to a slow death by lack of food and water in the name of Human Sacrifice, Arha is sick for several days, has nightmares, and wakes up screaming "They aren’t dead yet! They are still dying!"
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Authority in Name Only
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Authority in Name Only: While Arha is technically the top priestess, in truth Atuan as a government has left her little more than a powerless figurehead to concentrate power in that of the Godking; she's little more than a glorified security guard for the Tombs. The Godking has so neutered Arha's power that Kossil is the effective leader, as the voice of the state itself.
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Power of Trust
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Power of Trust: The final thing that makes Tener side with Ged is him entrusting her with his name, and his half of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe.
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Eunuchs Are Evil
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Eunuchs Are Evil: Inverted Trope. Manan, Arha's eunuch servent and Parental Substitute, is the kindest, most loyal character at the Tombs.
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Faint in Shock
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Faint in Shock: Upon emerging from the labyrinth for the first time, Arha faints, not quite in shock but from the intensity of the experience.
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Curse
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Curse:
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Human Sacrifice
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Human Sacrifice: The Kargad kings neglect the Nameless Onces in most regards, except for sending prisoners to be sacrificed. Letting Arha do their execution for them is convenient.
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Ban on Magic
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Ban on Magic: Kargs are magically uninclined and take a skeptical view of the western world's magical abilities.
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PowerOfFriendship
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Power of Friendship: The Ring of Erreth-Akbe is rejoined by way of the friends we made along the way.
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Affectionate Nickname
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Affectionate Nickname: Manan calls Arha "little one" and "little honeycomb." When Ged calls Arha "little one" too, it strikes a chord with her.
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Meaningful Rename
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Meaningful Rename: The rite turning Tenar into the priestess involves taking away her name when she's six and she's "eaten". Near the end, with some influence from Ged, she takes back her name Tenar.
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The Maze
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The Maze: The labyrinth in the tombs of Atuan.
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Dark Is Evil
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Dark Is Evil: A candle is allowed in the Labyrinth, but not in the Undertomb — the most sacred part.
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Somebody Named "Nobody"
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Somebody Named "Nobody": The Nameless Ones are too ancient and too Eldritch to be named. Accordingly, their priestess likewise has no name and is called "Arha," meaning "the Eaten One."
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Legacy of the Chosen
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Legacy of the Chosen: The selection processes for the One Priestess is styled after that of the Dalai Lama.
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