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Tigana
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Tigana is a 1990 fantasy novel by Guy Gavriel Kay. It takes place in the Peninsula of the Palm, a Fantasy Counterpart Culture for medieval Italy. Two foreign conquerors occupy the Peninsula: Brandin, king of Ygrath, and Alberico of Barbadior. They have carved up the land between them, and hold it in an uneasy balance of power. The main focus of the story is on a group of rebels who seek to liberate the area, but must defeat both tyrants at the same time, lest one overrun the Peninsula. We also see the viewpoint of Brandin, as well as Dianora, a concubine bent on assassinating him.During Brandin's conquest, his son was killed in the province of Tigana. In retaliation, he razed the area flat, and put a curse on it that no one outside Tigana would know of its name or history. He turns out to be a competent ruler, cultured, if arrogant, and likable... but is that enough to erase his prior sins? | |
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Arc Symbol | |
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Arc Symbol: A trialla singing in the night. Astibar blue wine. The riselka. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: In the prologue: | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: The two sorcerer-kings occupying the Peninsula absolutely loathe each other. | |
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Your Head A-Splode | |
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Your Head Asplode: Isolla of Ygrath, following an attempted assassination on Brandin. It's awful. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Sandre deeply regrets having been this to Tomasso, even verging into I Have No Son! out of disapproval of Tomasso's homosexuality. He does get the chance to apologize and tell Tomasso how proud he is right before slipping Tomasso poison in Alberico's dungeon. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Part One is titled "A Blade in the Soul" | |
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Twist Ending | |
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Twist Ending: Of the Snap Ending variety on the very last paragraph. Possibly, anyway, since we never discover which of the three got which fate. Many chapters before, Dianora sees a riselka (a fairy-like creature, something like a banshee). She repeats to herself the old prophecy about the riselka, including the lines "one woman sees a riselka / her path comes clear to her" and "three men see a riselka / one is blessed, one forks [comes to a crossroads in his life], one shall die". At the very end of the book, Sandre, Baerd and Devin are walking to meet Marius when they spot a riselka sitting by the side of the path. While there's clear hints at who should get which (Sandre is an old man, Devin is deciding between several paths for the rest of his life, and Baerd is finally considering a settled life pursuing his passion for architecture), it's left up to the reader what actually happens. | |
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And This Is for... | |
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And This Is for...: "In the name of my sons, I curse you forever." | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black: Brandin. He's a decent guy once you get to know him, and manages to win the hearts of many Palm natives, which Alberico never pulls off. But he also went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that unpersoned an entire country, and the less said about the creation process for the King's Fool, the better. Next to Alberico, though, anyone comes out looking good. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: The book's off-brand Italian peninsula is shaped like a hand or glove (named "the Peninsula of the Palm") while real-life Italy is shaped like a boot. | |
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The Place | |
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The Place: Tigana is the name of one of the nine Provinces of the Palm, the destruction and erasure from history of which kickstarts the narrative and the main character's quest to kill the person who did it. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: One variety of execution is "death wheeling", where the victims have all of their limbs and their back broken and are then left on a wheel to die; if this is done within the hearing of nobility, the victims' severed hands are stuffed in their mouth to stop them from screaming. Alberico is particularly fond of doing this. | |
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Fingore | |
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Fingore: To become a wizard, with power bound to the Peninsula, it is necessary to cut off two of the fingers on your left hand. | |
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Sex Is Liberation | |
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Sex Is Liberation: The relationship between conquered peoples and an "unstable sexuality" is one of the themes of the book; how people rebel when they can't rebel. See Analysis for more. | |
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Good Bad Girl | |
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Good Bad Girl: Alienor is a kind, helpful woman who kisses Alessan and flirts with both Catriana and Devin all within her first scene. | |
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Court Jester | |
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Court Jester: the King's Fool in Brandin's court is magically linked to him, acting out his master's subconscious urges. | |
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Blood Magic | |
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Blood Magic: A limited case. Magicians of the Palm can't fully use their power until they cut off two of their fingers, symbolically linking themselves to the peninsula. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: A particularly upsetting variant. | |
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Hufflepuff House | |
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Hufflepuff House: We get action in seven of the nine provinces, but very little about Corte outside of its historical rivalry with Tigana, and almost nothing in or about Ferraut. | |
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Seasonal Baggage | |
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Seasonal Baggage: There is a seasonal rite about the autumnal killing of Adaon and his spring rebirth. | |
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Bury Your Gays | |
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Bury Your Gays: Tomasso doesn't last very long. Isolla of Ygrath, the lover of Brandin's wife; the latter sent her to assassinate him. | |
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Revenge Myopia | |
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Revenge Myopia: Besides taking his revenge very far, Brandin also doesn't care that his revenge is for the death of someone who was leading an unprovoked invasion of the province of the people who killed him. | |
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Out with a Bang | |
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Out with a Bang: Catriana kills Anghiar of Barbadior after having sex with him, which she does in order to get him alone so she can kill him. | |
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Best Served Cold | |
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Best Served Cold: Dianora. Initially. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Alessan binding Erlein | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The main characters are a small group trying to resist and overthrow both of the tyrants controlling the Peninsula of the Palm. | |
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Airstrip One | |
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Air Strip One: Tigana/Lower Corte. See Please Select New City Name. | |
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Royalty Super Power | |
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Royalty Super Power: The Princes of Tigana can bind wizards to their service. This comes to them via Divine Parentage. | |
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The Greatest Story Never Told | |
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The Greatest Story Never Told: No one will ever know who Dianora really was and her original mission—not even her only surviving family. No one will ever know the true identity of Brandin's Fool. Only one man, Scelto, realizes these truths, and he decides that revealing the truth would help no one, and he keeps them secret for the sake of peace. | |
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Going Native | |
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Going Native: Invoked by Brandin. After abdicating as King of Ygrath and declaring himself King of the Western Palm, Brandin attempts to legitimize his new kingdom by styling himself as "Brandin di Chiara" and letting Dianora attempt the Ring Dive as a way to shore up his political goodwill. | |
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Offstage Villainy | |
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Offstage Villainy: All of Brandin's evil deeds occurred years before the book even starts. We'd never know he was supposed to be evil if those actions didn't have repercussions in the present. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Another GGK hallmark. Both tyrants are dead, the memory of Tigana is restored, and Alessan has reclaimed the title of crown prince and will be Happily Married to Catriana. On the other hand, Baerd will never see Dianora again or even know what happened to her, and Sandre can't get his lost family back. Also, Devin, Baerd, and Sandre see a riselka, heavily implying that one of them will die soon. | |
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Doomed Hometown | |
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Doomed Hometown: Or doomed entire home province, with regards to Tigana. | |
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Alien Sky | |
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Alien Sky: Their world has two moons, Vidomni and Ilarion. The former is white, and the later blue. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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Becoming the Mask: Dianora worries that she's starting to fall for the man she swore to assassinate, Brandin. She's right, and ends up saving his claim to the Peninsula because of it. | |
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Kiss of Distraction | |
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Kiss of Distraction: Exaggerated. Catriana and Devin are stuck in a tight secret passageway, and she has sex with him in an (unsuccessful) attempt to stop him from hearing a conversation in the next room. | |
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Liminal Time | |
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Liminal Time: During the Ember Days, the dead are said to be able to walk in the world of the living. This allows the Night Walkers to fight them. | |
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places | |
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Catriana and Devin in the closet while eavesdropping on Tomasso's plan, with Catriana doing this to distract Devin from hearing what is being said. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: His habit of doing this is what makes Brandin an Anti-Villain rather than a straight-up hero. To use the most notorious example (though others exist), his reaction to his favourite son dying in a war that he himself started is to annihilate the defenders' country so hard that it poisons the entire Peninsula. | |
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The Caligula | |
| Tigana / int_52aa0c4a | comment |
Averted by Alessan. He desperately wants revenge against Brandin for what he did to Tigana. However, he's rational enough to understand that his revenge would be meaningless if it hands the entire Palm over to Alberico. | |
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Bookends | |
| Tigana / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The book begins with Alessan making a wager about whether a famous poet will mourn Sandre's death in verse. It ends with another wager: Sandre betting that Alessan will be crowned King of the Palm within a year. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Brandin is cultured, benevolent, an excellent ruler, and an all-around great guy. However, he'll never be dissuaded from seeking revenge against those who have wronged him, no matter who (or what) it harms (or who actually wronged whom in the first place), and so for the good of the entire Peninsula, he's got to go. | |
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Stupidity-Inducing Attack | |
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Stupidity-Inducing Attack: The Court Fool creation process, providing an Ygrathen king's least favourite enemies with a particularly nasty Fate Worse than Death. As Brandin found out, though, it only works so long as you've got enough magic to sustain it, and once you're out of magic, your revenge is standing close at hand, whole in mind, and very angry. | |
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Eviler than Thou | |
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Eviler than Thou: Brandin is a ruthless conqueror, but he's got redeeming qualities. Alberico...doesn't. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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Pragmatic Villainy: Alberico is cautious and mostly refrains from being too harsh on the people he rules so he can avoid being turned against, though this starts to fall apart as he gets more paranoid following nearly being killed. | |
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Royal Harem | |
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Royal Harem: Brandin has one, called a saishan. One of the concubines, Dianora, is planning to kill Brandin in revenge for what he did to Tigana. | |
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Spanner in the Works | |
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Spanner in the Works: Very early in the book, an assassination attempt by a minor character on Alberico fails by the narrowest of margins, but the victim is permanently weakened by surviving it, and this long-term weakening plays a significant part in his final defeat. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
| Tigana / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Pretty much the incentive for the entire plot. Brandin really loved his son Stevan. So much so that he's willing to go to utterly extreme lengths to avenge him. | |
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Dying as Yourself | |
| Tigana / int_663b22d9 | comment |
Dying as Yourself: After twenty years as Brandin's deformed, mindless fool, Valentin regains his senses just in time to kill his master and be killed in turn. | |
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Canon Welding | |
| Tigana / int_68da6712 | comment |
Canon Welding/Shout-Out: Finavir, or Finvair—as Brandin explicitly points out, spellings vary—is very close to Fionavar. The context in which it's mentioned makes it very easy to believe they're one and the same. | |
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Historical Fantasy | |
| Tigana / int_69e4f7b7 | comment |
Historical Fantasy: The Palm is pretty recognizably Fantasy Italy, though it's not as firmly a historical counterpart as some of Kay's other works. | |
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| Tigana / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| Tigana / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Erlein never passes up an opportunity to needle Alessan and company, but—as Alessan himself admits—he is being held captive, and his people are in great danger from what Alessan plans to do. (And Erlein gets better, anyway.) | |
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Villainous RRoD | |
| Tigana / int_6d8e55b4 | comment |
Villainous RRoD: How Brandin finally falls. Alessan's team lend their magic to Alberico at the final battle. To counter them, Brandin is forced to cancel the spell on Tigana, and ultimately spend all the magic in his body. | |
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I Gave My Word | |
| Tigana / int_6fb5cb83 | comment |
I Gave My Word: | |
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No Ontological Inertia | |
| Tigana / int_704d7e91 | comment |
No Ontological Inertia: A Discussed Trope, as it is an important plot point that drives part of the story. The curse Brandin laid upon Tigana only exists so long as Brandin himself lives, because his power is required to constantly maintain it. Upon his death the curse will end and people will be able to speak of Tigana once more. That is why he is staying in the Palm and prolonging his life through unnatural means: for his vengeance to be complete he needs to outlive everyone who was born in Tigana before it fell. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
| Tigana / int_716c0b1b | comment |
And the Adventure Continues: On the very last page, while riding to Alessan and Catriana's wedding, Devin, Baerd, and Sandre see a riselka. One of them will die, one be blessed, and one face a stark choice. We never learn who gets what fate. | |
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Camp Gay | |
| Tigana / int_722b3319 | comment |
Camp Gay: Tomasso. Except not really, he's actually purposefully playing up the stereotype in order to make people underestimate him. | |
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Big Bad Ensemble | |
| Tigana / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
Big Bad Ensemble: Brandin and Alberico, who are the main antagonists of the novel but also oppose each other. The rebels end up exploiting this by manipulating them into fighting each other, knowing that just overthrowing one will leave the other sole ruler of the Palm. | |
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Suicide by Sea | |
| Tigana / int_7332c94f | comment |
Suicide by Sea: Tonally, the second time Dianora does this is much more this trope than the first time. | |
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1.0 | |
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Tigana / int_7332c94f | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
| Tigana / int_771f6307 | comment |
Brother–Sister Incest: Dianora and Baerd | |
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1.0 | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Tigana / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Brandin gives one about Alberico, though not in Alberico's presence, emphasizing how he hates Alberico for having no love or pride and caring for nothing or no one but himself, as well as only wanting power for its own sake without ever thinking of why or what he will do with it. | |
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Tigana / int_7d89315b | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| Tigana / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality/The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: Alessan is pretty grey Anti-Hero, Brandin is is somewhat darker grey Anti-Villain, and Alberico... is freaking The Caligula. | |
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Tigana / int_8767b1f3 | |
| Tigana / int_87a38662 | type |
Murder-Suicide | |
| Tigana / int_87a38662 | comment |
Murder-Suicide: Seconds after killing his nephew Herado, Taeri kills himself. After killing Anghiar, Catriana throws herself out the window so she cannot be tortured. Defied when Erlein uses his magic to save her. D'Eymon of Ygrath kills Valentin/Rhun after the latter kills Brandin, and then impales himself on his sword. | |
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Parental Favoritism | |
| Tigana / int_88933ad4 | comment |
Parental Favoritism: Brandin loved his younger son Stevan more than his eldest and heir Girald, to an absurd degree. As Isolla of Ygrath puts it... | |
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| Tigana / int_890d778 | type |
Wizards Live Longer | |
| Tigana / int_890d778 | comment |
Wizards Live Longer: Sorcerers are longer lived than ordinary people, though how long isn't specified. Brandin is in his sixties but only looks around half that, and indicates he fully expects to still be alive and hale after another sixty years have passed; we don't get confirmation on how old Alberico is. | |
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The One That Got Away | |
| Tigana / int_8970d739 | comment |
The One That Got Away: Dianora to Baerd. | |
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Glamour Failure | |
| Tigana / int_90984c54 | comment |
Glamour Failure: A close look at the riselka reveals that she very clearly is not human, despite superficial resemblance. | |
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Please Select New City Name | |
| Tigana / int_91b31f6b | comment |
Please Select New City Name: Brandin renaming Tigana to Lower Corte is a major driving force in the plot. He magically erases the name Tigana from the consciousness of anyone who didn't live there when it was Tigana, rendering it impossible to hear or even read, so that it seems the name, and the memory of the city-state, is destined to die with that generation. | |
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Tigana / int_91b31f6b | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
| Tigana / int_94e4c8ab | comment |
Betty and Veronica: Devin's two love interests, Alais and Catriana. | |
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Tigana / int_94e4c8ab | |
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Big Damn Reunion | |
| Tigana / int_95df2bc3 | comment |
Big Damn Reunion: There are times when seems like there might be a moment at the end where Dianora and Baerd would meet again. It's bitterly subverted. | |
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You Remind Me of X | |
| Tigana / int_9718a22a | comment |
You Remind Me of X: The riselka reminds Brandin of Dianora. | |
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Revenge Before Reason | |
| Tigana / int_97d97c28 | comment |
Revenge Before Reason: Brandin. Even his wife thinks he's taken it too far. His quest for revenge for his son Stevan is unending—even though Brandin started the war in which he died, and Stevan, furthermore, was a soldier—not a helpless innocent killed in the crossfire. Up to the very last, when he exhausts his magic entirely, he's most upset about the fact that his revenge will be incomplete. Averted by Alessan. He desperately wants revenge against Brandin for what he did to Tigana. However, he's rational enough to understand that his revenge would be meaningless if it hands the entire Palm over to Alberico. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
| Tigana / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: An internal, self-directed one for Prince Valentin, who at one point during the process of torture, mutilation and mind-crippling enchantment that turns him into Rhun the Fool admits to himself that despite his suffering, he actually understands Brandin's reaction, implying that he himself might have gone to similar extremes had he suffered such grief and loss. | |
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Better to Die than Be Killed | |
| Tigana / int_99298c71 | comment |
Better to Die than Be Killed: Taeri kills himself to avoid being captured and tortured before death by Alberico. Catriana later does the same thing to avoid torture, though she is saved. | |
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| Tigana / int_9bca83eb | type |
Death by Irony | |
| Tigana / int_9bca83eb | comment |
Death by Irony: Alberico has spent twenty years and the entire novel scheming to become Emperor of Barbadior, cursing the current Emperor for refusing to die of old age. The Emperor finally snuffs it only two days after Alberico dies in battle. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Tigana / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: About halfway through the novel, Scelto claims that Camena the poet will be "altered" to eventually become Rhun's successor as Brandin's jester as a form of punishment (for having tried to assassinate Brandin with Isolla's help). This doesn't actually happen, but at the end, it's revealed that Brandin has, in fact, used the Court Fool creation process as a form of punishment before—on Rhun, whose real identity is that of Valentin, Prince of Tigana. | |
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| Tigana / int_a1d4e0a8 | type |
Genocide Backfire | |
| Tigana / int_a1d4e0a8 | comment |
Genocide Backfire: Brandin's magical genocide of the Tiganese eventually results in being killed by Valentin, the Prince of Tigana who he had brainwashed and tortured and his remaining armies scattered and broken. | |
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Tigana / int_a1d4e0a8 | |
| Tigana / int_a3c0d670 | type |
Evil Chancellor | |
| Tigana / int_a3c0d670 | comment |
Evil Chancellor: Damon could be considered one, but only because he opposes Dianora. From the Ygrathan perspective, he's The Good Chancellor. | |
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| Tigana / int_a46ea5c1 | type |
LightFeminineDarkFeminine | |
| Tigana / int_a46ea5c1 | comment |
Light Feminine Dark Feminine: The two goddesses of the Triad, Eanna and her daughter Morian. Eanna is the creator of the stars and the heavens; she names and loves all things in creation. Morian—although no more evil than Eanna—is associated with darker, more dread forces, including transitions, crossroads, death, and the afterlife. | |
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| Tigana / int_a7aef9ff | type |
Obfuscating Stupidity | |
| Tigana / int_a7aef9ff | comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: Sandre and his son Tomasso together planned parallel cases of this for each of them, so they would both be underestimated. Sandre pretends to be a Grumpy Old Man and a drunk. Tomasso is known to be gay and deliberately plays himself up as a stereotypical hedonistic fop to disguise the fact that he's actually highly intelligent and a member of La Résistance. | |
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| Tigana / int_a7b324e | type |
Handicapped Badass | |
| Tigana / int_a7b324e | comment |
Handicapped Badass: Marius, who killed half a dozen would-be assassins while hamstrung. Scalvaia gets an honorary mention for almost killing Alberico with a walking stick, of all things. | |
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| Tigana / int_a8b5a55e | type |
Welcome Episode | |
| Tigana / int_a8b5a55e | comment |
Welcome Episode: The rebel group trying to take down Brandin and Alberico is introduced through Devin accidentally finding out about their actions and getting invited to join. | |
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| Tigana / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Tigana / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Approximately four-fifths of the cast. | |
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| Tigana / int_aef5c283 | type |
Off-into-the-Distance Ending | |
| Tigana / int_aef5c283 | comment |
Off-into-the-Distance Ending: Subverted. At the end, the protagonists ride away around a bend in the road—and then there is one more sentence about what happened to them around the next bend to make the point that just because the story ends here doesn't mean the characters have nothing left to do with their lives. | |
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-0.3 | |
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| Tigana / int_b00115aa | type |
Noble Fugitive | |
| Tigana / int_b00115aa | comment |
Noble Fugitive: Alessan is the Prince (and last heir) of Tigana, who has had to go into hiding after his home was destroyed. He's plotting the death of the person who did it, which has the bonus effect of ending the curse that stops anyone not born there from even recognizing his homeland's name. | |
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| Tigana / int_b0692cd9 | type |
Intro-Only Point of View | |
| Tigana / int_b0692cd9 | comment |
Intro-Only Point of View: The prologue is from the perspective of Saevar the sculptor, Baerd's and Dianora's father, who dies immediately after the events of the prologue years before the story proper starts. | |
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| Tigana / int_b3a332b | type |
Take Away Their Name | |
| Tigana / int_b3a332b | comment |
Take Away Their Name: This is done to a whole region rather than a person. During his conquest of the eastern Peninsula of the Palm, Brandin's son was slayed in a battle in the province of Tigana. Brandin is a sorcerer, and a father who dearly loved his son. In retaliation, he razed the province flat, and put a curse on it that no one who wasn't born in Tigana could remember its name. | |
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| Tigana / int_b42b7e7b | type |
Moral Myopia | |
| Tigana / int_b42b7e7b | comment |
Moral Myopia: Brandin obsessively seeks vengeance for his son's death without stopping to consider that, since said son was the leader of an invading army, the Tiganese may have been right (or at the very least justified) in killing him. Alessan's mother, Pasithea, thinks he should have killed Brandin years ago, giving zero craps about Alberico or the rest of the Palm. | |
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Tigana / int_b42b7e7b | |
| Tigana / int_b53c57d5 | type |
Epigraph | |
| Tigana / int_b53c57d5 | comment |
Epigraph: Two. One from Dante, The Paradiso, and the other from George Seferis, "Stratis the Sailor Describes a Man". | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
| Tigana / int_babc974 | comment |
Sadistic Choice: An unusual example where the villain is forced into making one: In the final battle between Brandin and Alberico, Alessan orders a team of rebel wizards and Night Walkers to lend their power to supporting Alberico, forcing Brandin to choose between saving the lives of his soldiers and preserving his curse upon Tigana when he realizes he does not have enough power to do both. The plan is also something of a Batman Gambit, as it relies on correctly predicting the reactions of both major antagonists. For those interested: Brandin, realizing he will lose the battle if he does not unleash his full power, is forced to empty himself completely to overcome Alberico's boosted defenses, forcing him to end the curse prematurely. Alberico's choices were to accept help from unknown wizards, or retreat to fight another day; his pride wouldn't let him choose the second option, so he gambled with accepting help from strangers. He was too greedy about seizing any help or power offered, just as planned, so when Brandin used all of his power to crush Alberico, that outside boost and help was suddenly withdrawn, causing Alberico's death. If Alberico had withdrawn, he would have easily survived. | |
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| Tigana / int_bbd25056 | type |
Eunuchs Are Evil | |
| Tigana / int_bbd25056 | comment |
Eunuchs Are Evil: Averted with Scelto. | |
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| Tigana / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
| Tigana / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Alessan. Few would argue his cause isn't noble, but he's willing to do some pretty dark things along the way, forcibly binding wizards into his service and manipulating the two Tyrants into outright war with one another being chief among them. | |
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| Tigana / int_bf4a990 | type |
Despotism Justifies the Means | |
| Tigana / int_bf4a990 | comment |
Despotism Justifies the Means: Alberico doesn't care about anything but using his power as a stepping stone to become the Emperor of Barbadior. Brandin calls him out for not caring about anything in the world besides power for its own sake. | |
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Pride | |
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Pride: Pride is a big theme in the book, and the pride of the people of Tigana in particular. See Analysis for more. This Tiganese pride is established very early on, in the prologue, when Valentin talks about it: Both tyrants also suffer from dangerous pride. Brandin is too proud to forgive the Tiganese for killing his son, and Alberico is too proud to cut his losses and sail home without being certain he'll immediately be made emperor. | |
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Let's You and Him Fight | |
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Let's You and Him Fight: The crux of Alessan's plan is to trick Alberico and Brandin into going to war over Senzio. | |
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Sorcerous Overlord | |
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Sorcerous Overlord: Two of them, opposed to each other as well as the people they conquered note though Alberico is in some ways more like an Evil Governor, as he's technically answerable to an off-page Emperor whose throne he'd love to usurp, in direct contrast to Brandin, who was a king in his own right even before coming to the Palm. | |
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Supporting Protagonist | |
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Supporting Protagonist: It would be fair to claim this is more Alessan's story than Devin's. Or Baerd's. Or Dianora's. Or Brandin's. The point is, there are lots of strong candidates for "main character" of this story… and Devin isn't really one of them. | |
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Heteronormative Crusader | |
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Heteronormative Crusader: Upon finding out his son Tomasso had a male lover, Duke Sandre executed the lover and whipped his son for it, and took a while to show any affection for Tomasso again. | |
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Love Letter Lunacy | |
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Love Letter Lunacy: Devin gets a very fragrant, rather forward love letter from Alais's sister Selvena. | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe: Possibly the Night Walkers. On the one hand, they pop up with no foreshadowing whatsoever. On the other, they provide significant Character Development for one member of the heroes' party, as well as showing that there are rather more serious, immediate reasons to restore Tigana than just addressing past grievances. They also reappear at the climax after Sandre and Baerd realize that their ability to share dreams constitutes a form of wizardry. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes Alberico when he claims that the heads of three rival families with rich estates, led by the most Camp Gay guy that ever camped, all got together in a conspiracy to kill him. Especially since everyone involved is conveniently dead (when standard practice is to wring out a confession and then horribly execute) and it gives him the perfect pretext to take their stuff. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Kay explores this motif, having his heroes take several morally dubious choices in their quest. Were they justified by necessity? It's up to the reader. | |
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Un-person | |
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Unperson: Performed on the entire country of Tigana, kicking off the novel's plot. Word of God says that the author was inspired to write the story by the instances of this during the Soviet purges. | |
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Thanatos Gambit | |
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Thanatos Gambit: Sandre's death and subsequent funeral at first appears to be this, with the twist that Sandre is actually Faking the Dead. Later Dianora tries for this by planning to purposefully fail the ring dive and die to destroy Brandin's legitimacy, but backs off at the last minute. Still later, Catriana invokes this trope when she assassinates Anghiar and jumps to what she assumes to be her death. It doesn't take. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: It's a Guy Gavriel Kay novel, after all. Marius of Quileia is mentioned in the first chapter as the matriarchal country's longest-surviving king in some time. He is later revealed to have been a guardian to the young Alessan, and is instrumental in the plot to start a war between Brandin and Alberico. The Night Walkers of Certando seem like a bit of a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, until they reappear at the climax to contribute their power to the final battle between Brandin and Alberico. And of course, there's Rhun the fool, a.k.a. Prince Valentin of Tigana. | |
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Rightful King Returns | |
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Rightful King Returns: Alessan to Tigana, after the victory. For greater impact, the epilogue strongly suggests he will soon be crowned King of the entire Palm, uniting the provinces to protect the Peninsula against future invasions. | |
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Changed My Mind, Kid | |
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Changed My Mind, Kid: After Erlein saves Catriana's life, Alessan deliberately releases Erlein from his magical binding of service. Despite his genuine anger at being dragooned by force into the rebellion, and acting throughout the entire book up 'til then like he wants nothing more than to leave, he ends up staying with the main cast for the final battle anyway. | |
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Sex for Solace | |
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Sex for Solace: Dianora and Baerd's relationship was founded mostly out of their shared grief for the loss of their province, their city, their father, and Naddo. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Herado reports on his family, the Sandreni, to Alberico. | |
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Don't Fear the Reaper | |
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Don't Fear the Reaper: The goddess Morian, associated with transitions and death, is thought of as a figure of peace and guidance—but not before one's time has come. | |
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Pre-Meeting | |
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Pre-Meeting: Devin runs into Rovigo randomly in a bar in the second chapter. Rovigo later turns out to be more involved with the plot, and the Tiganan rebels, than he lets on. | |
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Defied Trope | |
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After killing Anghiar, Catriana throws herself out the window so she cannot be tortured. Defied when Erlein uses his magic to save her. | |
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0% Approval Rating | |
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0% Approval Rating: Nobody seems to approve of Alberico (whereas Brandin is actually quite a good ruler) but they're afraid to say so, with good reason. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Brandin's undoing comes when he finally gives up on his vengeance so he can save the lives of the men fighting for him. Unfortunately, this then leaves him completely vulnerable to a similarly-unbound foe he'd forgotten about. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: Sandre gives poison to his captured son Tomasso, to save him from being tortured and killed by Alberico. | |
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Divine Incest | |
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Divine Incest: The Palm has a three-god pantheon: Adaon and Eanna are consorts and brother and sister. They have a daughter, Morian, who is Adaon's second bride as well. | |
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment | |
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The Night Walkers of Certando seem like a bit of a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, until they reappear at the climax to contribute their power to the final battle between Brandin and Alberico. | |
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Faking the Dead | |
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Faking the Dead: Sandre, at the very start. Catriana later fakes a bridge-dive for propaganda purposes. It’s several layers of foreshadowing. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: How Brandin dies, assassinated by his own court fool—aka, Prince Valentin of Tigana. | |
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