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World of the Five Gods

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World of the Five Gods	comment	Three loosely linked novels and twelve tightly-connected self-published works by Lois McMaster Bujold set in a reasonably historically accurate counterpart to medieval Europe, with a pantheon of five gods (the Father, Mother, Daughter, Son, and Bastard) — fairly activist gods, but ones who are incapable of acting directly on the physical world, requiring them to work through willing humans.In publication order:
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World of the Five Gods / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
World of the Five Gods / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: Arhys. Strictly speaking he was dead to begin with, but the Jokonans made very sure he would not get up again once he stopped moving.
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World of the Five Gods / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
World of the Five Gods / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Somewhere in the timeskip between Penric's Fox and Penric's Mission, Penric was recruited as a physician for the Mother's Order. There, Penric ran into a bad combination: sorcerous power, physician's knowledge, and a complete inability to say no. The Order higher-ups threw their very worst cases at him, the ones even beyond Desdemona's skill, for years, until Penric hit a breaking point. He's better now, but when Nikys suggests Penric take up being a physician again, he tells her calmly and deliberately that he would rather die.
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World of the Five Gods / int_1456c9df	type	Foul Medicine
World of the Five Gods / int_1456c9df	comment	Foul Medicine: An injured Ingrey receives two spoonfuls of an utterly vile-tasting syrup made of "willow bark and poppy, wine spirits, and a few other useful things" He almost spits it out, but he soon is feeling no pain at all.
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World of the Five Gods / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
World of the Five Gods / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: Baron Wegae kin Pikepool is not just blind without them, but is still rapturous about being able to see with his glasses, years after first being fitted with them.
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World of the Five Gods / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
World of the Five Gods / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Ista self-consciously muses over this after Arhys saves her from raiders; the daydream is squashed when her identity is revealed to him and set on fire when she meets his wife.
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World of the Five Gods / int_15800db3	type	All Are Equal in Death
World of the Five Gods / int_15800db3	comment	All Are Equal in Death: Almost every soul is picked up by one of the gods at their death, regardless of status or faith, and which god is shown in a miracle at their funeral. This is explored in the third book, where certain souls are shown to be impossible for the gods to pick up, and the trouble is about how to make them pickable again. The Assassins of Thasalon and Knot of Shadows feature characters that the gods actively refuse to accept, sundering them.
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World of the Five Gods / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
World of the Five Gods / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: At the end of Masquerade in Lodi, Penric mentions that despite it being the Bastard's Day, he hasn't been dunked in the canal at all yet. Chio proceeds to fix this.
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World of the Five Gods / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
World of the Five Gods / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Arhys to his father, the Chancellor dy Lutez, until the man's death. Notable in that Arhys never actually met his father, and thus spent his entire childhood waiting for the day when his father would summon him to court so that he could make him proud.
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World of the Five Gods / int_17942015	type	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
World of the Five Gods / int_17942015	comment	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: Adelis loves to tweak Penric about how much damage he did to the pirates.
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World of the Five Gods / int_192d04d5	type	Mutually Exclusive Magic
World of the Five Gods / int_192d04d5	comment	Mutually Exclusive Magic: Subverted; Penric, a sorcerer, learns shamanic magic as well, despite having a demon instead of a spirit animal. It still costs blood, though, and even more than it would a shaman.
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World of the Five Gods / int_1a237409	type	Order Versus Chaos
World of the Five Gods / int_1a237409	comment	Order Versus Chaos: They're opposed, but it's an unusually polite and amicable conflict since the god of chaos, the Bastard, is part of the family, just as interested in maintaining the balance as anyone else, and willing to play nice as necessary. Though this conflict is played more seriously when it comes to the opposition between the gods, who are order personified (and as said above, even the chaotic trickster-god of the pantheon maintains a form of balance) ; and the demons, who are manifestation of a destructive and all-devouring chaos. When Ista sees where demons come from in Paladin of Souls, she realizes that the gods must fight a constant battle to not have the world being engulfed by their Chaotic Evil dimension.
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World of the Five Gods / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
World of the Five Gods / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Bujold refrains from any enthusiastic descriptions of her heroes, but: Wherever they go, men sworn to the Daughter's Order are generally looked well upon (and giggled over a lot), what with being gallant defenders of womankind, among other things. In The Curse of Chalion, after the Ibran contingent's heroic cross-country ride to bring the groom to Iselle, "they were collecting Chalionese ladies rather as spilled honey collected ants..." Arhys is able to make a world-weary middle-aged woman in the middle of traumatic circumstances suddenly rediscover her sexuality through his mere proximity.
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World of the Five Gods / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
World of the Five Gods / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Arhys died in the fight where the sorceress was killed, but Cattilara took the demon and shoved his soul back into his body.
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World of the Five Gods / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
World of the Five Gods / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Ferda and Foix dy Gura. Foix is promoted to a more regular secondary cast role in Paladin, while Ferda disappears for most of the book.
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World of the Five Gods / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
World of the Five Gods / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: The Old Wealdings used to practice Human Sacrifice as a way to speed their prayers to the gods. These sacrifices were willing, moved by desperation to make sure the gods heard their kinfolk's prayers when the gods took up the sacrifice's soul upon death. As the Darthacans invaded the Weald centuries ago, the Weald quickly ran out of willing sacrifices and started killing criminals and prisoners of war instead, and never stopped to think what kind of prayers these unwilling sacrifices must be taking up to the gods with them. No wonder the Five turned their backs on the Old Weald.
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World of the Five Gods / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
World of the Five Gods / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Hallow King was meant to be one, a paragon of the old Wealdings. In the centuries since the Darthacans broke the Old Weald, the Hallow Kingship became a mere political office. Mostly because Horseriver had at least half the magical power of the kingship with him down through the centuries, and none of the kings since then had any idea there was anything to it nor how to use it.
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World of the Five Gods / int_210c27c4	type	Quickly-Demoted Leader
World of the Five Gods / int_210c27c4	comment	Quickly-Demoted Leader: Paladin of Souls is actually Ista's second Call to Adventure. The first time—before the events of the series—she sort of accidentally murdered a guy and went crazy, leaving it to her daughter to sort things out.
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World of the Five Gods / int_214c0753	type	Angry Guard Dog
World of the Five Gods / int_214c0753	comment	Angry Guard Dog: The Xarre estate is protected by (among other things) a large number of mastiffs. Penric manages to use the Weirding Voice on them to get past.
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World of the Five Gods / int_21ac3809	type	Ancient Grome
World of the Five Gods / int_21ac3809	comment	Present day Cedonia is the Byzantine Empire, while the Old Cedonian Empire represents the Roman Empire (with some features of Ancient Greece). Capital city of Thasalon is Thessaloniki.
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World of the Five Gods / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
World of the Five Gods / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Ingrey is determinedly cynical, prompting some teasing from Ijada.
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World of the Five Gods / int_22793d67	type	Terrifying Pet Store Rat
World of the Five Gods / int_22793d67	comment	Terrifying Pet Store Rat: Demon Daughter contains an In-Universe example. Ilpo, a ten-year-old boy, catches a rat and attempts to use it to scare Otta, a six-year-old girl. But the rat he caught was a cute, friendly juvenile rat, and instead of being scared of it Otta wants to keep it as a pet.
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World of the Five Gods / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
World of the Five Gods / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In addition to the merchant's diary, there are a quite a few. Chekhov's Gift: Dondo probably did not intend to save the life of Iselle's betrothed when he gave her an extravagant strand of pearls. Cazaril carries both Chekhov's Tumor and Chekhov's Scars. Chekhov's Army: The Order of the Daughter. Who knew a bunch of hardened soldiers sworn to the service of the Goddess of Virginity could help the maiden princess defend herself from unwanted suitors? Chekhov's Skill: Iselle and Betriz are scolded by their guardians for their unladylike habit of riding horses like they're on fire; but when everyone believes them irretrievably besieged by Martou dy Jironal's forces, they just tear off into the night with one escort, into friendly hands and a perfect strategic stronghold before anyone even realizes they're gone. The crow that Cazaril feeds towards the beginning of Curse gets fired twice: first by flying to Cazaril to disprove an accusation against him, and then by providing the sacrifice needed for Cazaril to pray for a death miracle.
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World of the Five Gods / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
World of the Five Gods / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: In Knot of Shadows, a four-year-old boy went missing two weeks ago. He was caught in the sewers and drowned.
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World of the Five Gods / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
World of the Five Gods / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: Shamans pay for their Weirding Voice with this. Ingrey has a Wound That Will Not Heal, and Horseriver coughs up blood afterwards. Penric, as a sorcerer using shamanic magic, gets a major nosebleed for even a minor geas on a dog; giving several commands to a human causes him to cough up at least a cup of blood. He's found that trying to use sorcery to heal it just causes more problems later, and it's better to just pay the blood price up front.
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World of the Five Gods / int_27ebe639	type	Prince Charming
World of the Five Gods / int_27ebe639	comment	Prince Charming: The role Cazaril desired for Royse Bergon to play to save Iselle from the eponymous curse. It didn't quite work out as he intended, but it worked out exactly the way the Five Gods intended.
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World of the Five Gods / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
World of the Five Gods / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Arvol dy Lutez is this to his son Arhys, having abandoned him and his mother outright to attend upon Roya Ias at his court as Chancellor (among much else).
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World of the Five Gods / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
World of the Five Gods / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: As is mentioned repeatedly in the story, Temple Square has five sides, one for each of the gods.
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World of the Five Gods / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
World of the Five Gods / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: In The Curse of Chalion, Ias and dy Lutez both died in the backstory, although they were both probably bisexual. Umegat's partner also was killed trying to escape Quadrene lands. (Probably.) Umegat himself survives, though.
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World of the Five Gods / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
World of the Five Gods / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Other demons are terrified of Desdemona, because of how deep and dense she is.
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World of the Five Gods / int_2b9e3fb0	type	Give Me a Sign
World of the Five Gods / int_2b9e3fb0	comment	Give Me a Sign: One of them generally will, though you may regret asking.
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World of the Five Gods / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
World of the Five Gods / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: In the backstory of Knot of Shadows. Therneas framed Kyem Soudei of theft from the Customs House, leading to his suicide.
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World of the Five Gods / int_2f2f58f2	type	Hedge Mage
World of the Five Gods / int_2f2f58f2	comment	Hedge Mage: The Penric stories use the terms "hedge shaman" for shamans not part of the Royal Order of shamans and "hedge sorcerer" for sorcerers not trained by and belonging to the Temple. Hedge shamans are often tolerated by the local Temple authorities. Hedge sorcerers, on the other hand, are hunted down as being dangerous to both others and themselves, either to bring them under the auspices of the Temple or to destroy their demons and thus make them ex-sorcerers.
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World of the Five Gods / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
World of the Five Gods / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Ingrey's "defilement" grants some wicked cool abilities like Compelling Voice, superhuman strength and a general air of being angsty and tortured — the downside is, as the last known living shaman, he will be sundered from the gods when he dies. Penric and the Shaman shows that not only is there a new college of shamans, it's implied that at least one of them is Ingrey's descendant.
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World of the Five Gods / int_337ef720	type	Ghostly Animals
World of the Five Gods / int_337ef720	comment	Ghostly Animals: The stories The Hallowed Hunt and "Penric and the Shaman" have ghost animals. These spirits of dead animals do not exist independently of the shamans and spirit-warriors who have taken them up, however, except at the very end when the shaman or spirit-warrior dies. At that point the animal spirit needs to be separated from the human ghost, or else both are Barred from the Afterlife.
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World of the Five Gods / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
World of the Five Gods / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: Penric's Mission, and presumably part of the Cedonian plan in The Prisoner of Limnos.
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World of the Five Gods / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
World of the Five Gods / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Halber stomps on Wegae's glasses.
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World of the Five Gods / int_34f590c9	type	Off on a Technicality
World of the Five Gods / int_34f590c9	comment	Off on a Technicality: Cazaril isn't arrested for death magic because it turns out only unsuccessful attempts are illegal.note The whole part about successful and genuine attempts leaving the perp alive is not something the temple has ever dealt with. Plus the law is mainly there to curb people trying to fake it with poisons and other mundane methods.
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World of the Five Gods / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
World of the Five Gods / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Horseriver. He almost succeeded in his revenge on the Gods, except that his chosen shaman was his heir as Hallow King, and severing Ingrey's link to Ijada (which he initially put in place) was what drew her and the five divine representatives to Bloodfield/Holytree. Oswin and Hallana argue about going to Easthome after receiving prophetic dreams, with him refusing to let her go. Finally, she sends him off on his own. He realizes, fairly quickly, that without him to stop her, she'll be along just behind him.
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World of the Five Gods / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
World of the Five Gods / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: "Dratsab" originated on the Bujold mailing list as a way to avoid overzealous content filters; Learned Hallana uses it as a curse.
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World of the Five Gods / int_371854f1	type	Chekhov's Army
World of the Five Gods / int_371854f1	comment	Chekhov's Army: The Order of the Daughter. Who knew a bunch of hardened soldiers sworn to the service of the Goddess of Virginity could help the maiden princess defend herself from unwanted suitors?
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World of the Five Gods / int_371aec84	type	Chekhov's Gift
World of the Five Gods / int_371aec84	comment	Chekhov's Gift: Dondo probably did not intend to save the life of Iselle's betrothed when he gave her an extravagant strand of pearls.
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World of the Five Gods / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
World of the Five Gods / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: This is one benefit of being a shaman, as Ingrey discovers when he stops a raging ice bear with nothing but a firm verbal command. Horseriver — being a bit more powerful and a lot more experienced — can employ even more complicated tricks, overlapping with Jedi Mind Tricks and Mind Control. Once he works with Inglis, Penric picks up this skill as well.
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World of the Five Gods / int_39b7a7cd	type	Amazon Chaser
World of the Five Gods / int_39b7a7cd	comment	Amazon Chaser: Ingrey waxes almost poetic about Ijada's tall, statuesque form, and her ability to bash would-be rapists' heads in.
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World of the Five Gods / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
World of the Five Gods / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Cazaril attempts to hold a gate long enough for Iselle and Bergon to get away; ultimately, he is able to hold it long enough for dy Jironal to arrive and be taunted into giving Cazaril his third death, allowing the Daughter's miracle to proceed.
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World of the Five Gods / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
World of the Five Gods / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: In Mira's Last Dance, the courtesan Mira's secret method for leaving a client thoroughly satisfied without needing to remove any of her own clothing. Silk scarves are involved, but we don't get much more detail than that. Penric learns the full details off-screen, but subsequently refuses to discuss them, citing the courtesan equivalent of patient confidentiality (although possibly the real reason is that he's too embarrassed to talk about it).
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World of the Five Gods / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
World of the Five Gods / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: If the gods bequeath a supernatural gift on you, even if it looks good on paper, it's going to make your life very uncomfortable/painful.
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World of the Five Gods / int_3fc53c38	type	Socially Unacceptable Collection
World of the Five Gods / int_3fc53c38	comment	Socially Unacceptable Collection: The physician Rojeras collects tumors, and asks permission to collect Cazaril's tumor after his death. Cazaril is both horrified and curious, and Rojeras explains that he keeps the tumors in jars of wine spirits to study. "I know it sounds gruesome, but I keep hopingâ€¦ if only I learn enough, someday I will understand, someday I will be able to find some way to keep these things from killing people."
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World of the Five Gods / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
World of the Five Gods / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: A subtle one, but technically the Son of Autumn saved Ijada from Boleso's assault. As she fought Boleso off, she prayed to her father's patron god — the god of the hunt, and war. She tried to run, but could not. When she turned, she found the hilt of Boleso's war hammer under her hand...
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World of the Five Gods / int_408e7b93	type	Bump into Confrontation
World of the Five Gods / int_408e7b93	comment	Bump into Confrontation: Two such incidents play important roles in The Curse of Chalion. In the backstory, Ser dy Naoza "the celebrated duelist" claims the "only son of a provincial wool merchant" jostled him in the street and demands satisfaction, with "the usual result". The young man's father later resorts to death magic against dy Naoza in order to avenge his son's death, which both introduces the concept of death magic to the reader, and also plants the idea of it in Cazaril's head. Later, another high-born bravo, Ser dy Joal (one of Dondo's men) attempts to stage such a confrontation against Cazaril, with the clear intent of "accidentally" killing Cazaril in a simple duel "to first blood". Dy Joal is quickly reminded that the royesse's apparently mild-mannered secretary-tutor is both an experienced soldier and has muscles hardened by months pulling an oar on a Roknari galley. The would-be duelist-assassin is given a painful and humiliating (though not fatal) lesson right then and there.
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World of the Five Gods / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
World of the Five Gods / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: A rare example of this in Bujold's works, with Ingrey freeing the spirits of the Weald warriors trapped for four hundred years, but unable to free Wencel's or the other innocent souls from Horseriver before he achieves dissolution, and he's unable to help his own father's ghost pass on to the gods, though he does free his spirit animal.
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World of the Five Gods / int_41acc7e	type	A Hell of a Time
World of the Five Gods / int_41acc7e	comment	A Hell of a Time: It's implied that if you're claimed by the Bastard for a lifetime of service to his church, you get this. If you're, say, a gluttonous, cowardly, would-be rapist on the other hand...
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World of the Five Gods / int_4435aa66	type	Attractive Bent-Gender
World of the Five Gods / int_4435aa66	comment	Attractive Bent-Gender: Penric, in disguise as Mira in Mira's Last Dance, attracts several male admirers. It doesn't hurt that he has Mira's knowledge via Desdemona. It's also thoroughly established that he was already quite attractive to begin with.
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World of the Five Gods / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
World of the Five Gods / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Horseriver's plans tend toward this, as do those of the Gods. He knows the Gods will take every opportunity to foil him, so he has plans to work around whatever impediment they throw at him. We see several of his backup plans, such as the stag in his stables.
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World of the Five Gods / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
World of the Five Gods / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: Ista's vaca-ahem pilgrimage in Paladin of Souls was taken under the alias of a minor noblewoman to avoid the entourage deemed fitting for a dowager royina, and the sister of a ruling provincar.
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World of the Five Gods / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
World of the Five Gods / int_454b2f2b	comment	Secretly Dying: Cazaril after his death magic is prevented from Balancing Death's Books properly. He gets better, thanks to some more divine intervention at the end.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
World of the Five Gods / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Adelis's view of Alixtra. Penric describes it as the "mildly insane respect of a military man for an enemy who had almost succeeded in finishing him".
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World of the Five Gods / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
World of the Five Gods / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Methani and Tronio threaten to castrate Alixtra's son and sell him as a slave if she doesn't do what they tell her to.
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World of the Five Gods / int_47b152f9	type	Sexy Soaked Shirt
World of the Five Gods / int_47b152f9	comment	Sexy Soaked Shirt: A historical version of Underwear Swimsuit. To cope with the summer heat, Iselle, Betriz, and Cazaril go swimming in a sheltered pool. To maintain modesty, the girls wear linen shifts and Cazaril wears a linen shirt and trews, but wet, clinging linen doesn't actually leave much to the imagination. Cazaril realizes he's recovering from his trauma when he starts getting aroused at the view.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
World of the Five Gods / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: A possible fate if one's soul is sundered from the gods (either by choice or by other supernatural cause) and cannot be claimed by one in a reasonable time. This also happens immediately to any soul placed in the Bastard's Hell, an extremely rare event.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4a6b3288	type	Liminal Time
World of the Five Gods / int_4a6b3288	comment	Liminal Time: In the period between the death of Hallow King and the election of his successor, the Hallow King's ancient powers fall back to their original wielder, the Earl of Horseriver, who wishes to use this moment to spite the gods and finally achieve dissolution after involuntarily body snatching his descendants for four hundred years.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4b12d2a2	type	Barefoot Captives
World of the Five Gods / int_4b12d2a2	comment	Barefoot Captives: When Ista surrenders herself to the Jokonans they remove her sandals to humiliate her: "You will walk barefoot and bareheaded into the presence of the August Mother, as befitting a lesser woman and a Quintarian heretic." As an aversion, they leave Illvin his boots, driving home his inability to protect Ista.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
World of the Five Gods / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: Discussed in The Assassins of Thasalon - people are concerned that Bosha will falsely confess to murder, if he realizes who actually committed the murder.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4ccdcfce	type	Heroic Fatigue
World of the Five Gods / int_4ccdcfce	comment	Heroic Fatigue: Poor Cazaril!
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World of the Five Gods / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
World of the Five Gods / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: In Penric and the Shaman, Desdemona tells Penric that a Weald shaman once attempted to seduce Penric's predecessor using his weirding voice. His voice failed to work on the sorceress. Though, incidentally, his seduction succeeded.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4d737c6e	type	Dramatic Spine Injury
World of the Five Gods / int_4d737c6e	comment	Dramatic Spine Injury: In Penric's Fox, Penric ends his desperate fight against Baron Halber by doing a flip, laying his hand against Halber's lower back, and breaking Halber's spine with his sorcery.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4dd42a04	type	Self-Surgery
World of the Five Gods / int_4dd42a04	comment	Self-Surgery: Pen and Des get to try this when Penric is tossed in a bottle dungeon with a broken skull and has to trepan himself.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
World of the Five Gods / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: 16 year old Iselle's bid to establish effective power gains extra traction from her youth, her beauty, the timely commencement of Spring, and the fact that all three are the domain of the Daughter. Many of her subjects took it as a sign of divine favor from the Lady; incidentally, they were correct.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
World of the Five Gods / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In Paladin of Souls, Ista throws one at Arhys that applies both in-universe and to the reader:
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World of the Five Gods / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
World of the Five Gods / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Curse has no magic in it other than direct effects of the Gods: death miracles, prophetic dreams, miracles of protection, the titular curse, and two petty saints.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4f4e43cc	type	Always Second Best
World of the Five Gods / int_4f4e43cc	comment	Always Second Best: Illvin to Arhys. Illvin doesn't mind though, since his half-brother has a bad case of "Well Done, Son" Guy towards his dead father; Illvin's father was always there for him during his childhood.
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World of the Five Gods / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
World of the Five Gods / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Dondo dy Jironal makes his big brother look good.
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World of the Five Gods / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
World of the Five Gods / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The revealed form of Horseriver, which is only humanlike in outline, has the marks of every death he has died, and the screaming faces of all the imprisoned spirits cycling around his skull.
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World of the Five Gods / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
World of the Five Gods / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: Demons answer to the Bastard, who is like the House of Hufflepuff when it comes to taking up souls. He takes almost anyone not covered by the other four gods and is the patron of homosexuals, bastards, and all things out of season; His worshippers regard him as necessary to hold the world in balance between total stasis and total destruction. Demons are not inherently malicious, but they are creatures of disorder and their abilities reflect it. This is acknowledged in Chalion, but mostly means that possession of (or by) a demon puts you under the temple's purview. You're allowed to keep it if you display the right temperament to keep it under control and not abuse its powers. The Roknari, on the other hand, consider the Bastard to be the the equivalent of Satan, and the Quintarian religion heresy. They cut off the thumbs, tongue and genitalia of people thought to worship him.
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World of the Five Gods / int_51e55a43	type	Divineâ€“Infernal Family
World of the Five Gods / int_51e55a43	comment	Divineâ€“Infernal Family: Quadrenes feel that the Bastard is an evil demon, but acknowledge that he is a son of the Mother, the Goddess of Summer. (Quintarians consider him more of an Odd Job God to be propitiated rather than sought, as he is still lord of demons and Hell.)
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World of the Five Gods / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
World of the Five Gods / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: Averted due to having rather active gods. Very few "divines" are actively corrupt, and they are generally weeded out promptly.
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World of the Five Gods / int_553d8a44	type	King on His Deathbed
World of the Five Gods / int_553d8a44	comment	King on His Deathbed:The Hallow King, whose imminent death drives the plot, as Earl Horseriver takes advantage of the brief interregnum before Prince Biast takes the crown, to take back the full power of the Weald and finally achieve a permanent death and dissolution.
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World of the Five Gods / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
World of the Five Gods / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: Between Cazaril and Ista. They understand each other perfectly well. It's Ista's ladies in waiting who think they're babbling nonsense. In general, between any two people touched by the gods. Cazaril remarks on this a few times: that the only person who can really understand a living saint "talking shop" is another such.
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World of the Five Gods / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
World of the Five Gods / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Apparently a minor hazard of becoming a priest of the Bastard. Which becomes a major hazard when dealing with the Roknari, as both homosexuality and worship of the Bastard are forbidden among them and the punishments for both start with cutting off your thumbs.
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World of the Five Gods / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
World of the Five Gods / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: The Father's colors are black and grey, but he's the god of fatherhood, leadership, and justice.
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World of the Five Gods / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
World of the Five Gods / int_57d43e40	comment	They are fantasy Norsemen in a time where the Norse had a reputation as pirates, reavers... and merchants. Jokol is present in the Weald as a prince and representative of his people (and also to recruit a divine to perform his wedding back home), so while he and his crew may be talked about as pirates, it would be counterproductive to actually engage in any piracy.
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World of the Five Gods / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
World of the Five Gods / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: The Bastard. He even exults in His chosen railing against Him because it means they're thinking about the crappy situation they're in where even a god needs their help. And because it amuses Him.
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World of the Five Gods / int_58e83efd	type	Disease by Any Other Name
World of the Five Gods / int_58e83efd	comment	Disease by Any Other Name: After a wolf-spirit sends the hero into a kind of metaphysical seizure, Hallana — a sorceress/physician acolyte — comments, "I have seen the falling sickness, and that was not it."
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World of the Five Gods / int_5abd41e	type	Sliding Scale of Divine Intervention
World of the Five Gods / int_5abd41e	comment	Sliding Scale of Divine Intervention: As the name suggests, the gods in the World of the Five Gods are active and important parts of the stories, and even frequently characters in the books, almost making the series a 4 ("God Walks Among Us"). The specific theology of the World of the Five Gods does push the setting more towards being a 3 ("God Works In Mysterious Ways"): A point made throughout the series (and a basic tenet of Quintarian theology) is that the gods' ability to affect the world of matter is fundamentally limited, and that human free will—the power of "the lowest slave" to "exclude them from his heart"—is a profound limitation on the power of even the gods. Nonetheless, the reality of the gods—and the reality that they take an active role in human affairs—are (within the setting) basically beyond question; multiple characters directly interact with various of the Five Gods, and the whole series is more about theology than it is anything else.
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World of the Five Gods / int_5be919ae	type	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario
World of the Five Gods / int_5be919ae	comment	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Penric and Nikys appear headed for romance after Penric's Mission, but her discomfort over how easily he becomes Mira in Mira's Last Dance throws this into disarray. They sort it out by the end of Prisoner of Limnos.
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World of the Five Gods / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
World of the Five Gods / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Earl Wencel kin Horseriver has been unwillingly stealing his heirs' bodies for four hundred years.
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World of the Five Gods / int_5f168ae3	type	I Kiss Your Foot
World of the Five Gods / int_5f168ae3	comment	I Kiss Your Foot: Formal greetings in Chalion involve kissing the back of a person's hands, greeting one's superior (or someone you're grateful to see) involves kissing the feet too.
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World of the Five Gods / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
World of the Five Gods / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: Dowager Royina Ista isn't young anymore, but she's still a good-looking woman. When she kisses Lord Arhys hard, directly on the lips, and he doesn't react at all, it tells Ista her suspicions about him were correct.
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World of the Five Gods / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
World of the Five Gods / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: The final third of Penric's Mission, all of Mira's Last Dance, and the final part of Prisoner of Limnos.
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World of the Five Gods / int_608b26d	type	Uniqueness Decay
World of the Five Gods / int_608b26d	comment	Uniqueness Decay: Hallana was a unique physician-sorcerer in Hunt; by Penric's time, one of the primary responsibilities of sorcerers is to make their demons better able to assist with medicine.
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World of the Five Gods / int_609eb275	type	Satan Is Good
World of the Five Gods / int_609eb275	comment	Satan Is Good: Well, the Bastard is more akin to Loki. He may have a rude sense of humor and assist in the occasional (justifiable) murder-suicide, but his church runs orphanages and is largely responsible for the enlightened views of homosexuality that most of Chalion's world has. In the competing Quadrene theology, the fifth god is conventionally evil, and all those "out of season" things in his domain are damnable sins (e.g. illegitimate children, homosexuality, demonic possession, etc).
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World of the Five Gods / int_6159beb1	type	It Tastes Like Feet
World of the Five Gods / int_6159beb1	comment	It Tastes Like Feet: Iroki describes Tronio's demon as tasting like a gangrenous limb.
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World of the Five Gods / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
World of the Five Gods / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Alixtra's son is held as a hostage to keep her obedient.
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World of the Five Gods / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
World of the Five Gods / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Iselle and Bergon. As a bonus, it's actually self-arranged, sight unseen, completely for very important political reasons.
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World of the Five Gods / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
World of the Five Gods / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba: On perceiving Ingrey's wolf-spirit through her demon, Learned Hallana says, â€œIf thatâ€™s a wolfâ€™s soul, Iâ€™m the queen of Darthaca.â€� Later on, Ijada gives Ingrey her opinion of Earl Horseriver's horse-spirit: â€œTo quote Learned Hallana, if thatâ€™s a stallion, Iâ€™m the queen of Darthaca.â€�
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World of the Five Gods / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
World of the Five Gods / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: When they die, most people are taken up by one of the gods, but some hang around for one reason or another, gradually fading away. One of the side effects of sainthood, and possessing a demon, is the ability to see them.
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World of the Five Gods / int_658854ee	type	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
World of the Five Gods / int_658854ee	comment	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In Mira's Last Dance Adelis cuts off a suggestion that he wear his sister's clothes again as a disguise with, "I'm a soldier, not an actor."
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World of the Five Gods / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
World of the Five Gods / int_66479d0	comment	Arhys' sundered soul is saved when The Father of Winter makes Ista his living door into heaven.
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World of the Five Gods / int_6787588e	type	The Pardon
World of the Five Gods / int_6787588e	comment	The Pardon: The Bastard pardons Alixtra for her assassinations; the Cedonian regents are not particularly impressed with the idea, but also don't want to overtly annoy the White God, so she is exiled to Orbas.
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World of the Five Gods / int_67edaf78	type	Gargle Blaster
World of the Five Gods / int_67edaf78	comment	Gargle Blaster: Jokol's men serve Ingrey a drink that is drunk in one gulp from a tiny glass and tastes like "pine needles."
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World of the Five Gods / int_683bb900	type	Last Disrespects
World of the Five Gods / int_683bb900	comment	Last Disrespects: Royina Sara wears festival garb to Dondo's funeral, and nobody dares call her on it.
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World of the Five Gods / int_6a1cbf28	type	Rebellious Princess
World of the Five Gods / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Rebellious Princess: Ista switches this up a bit by abandoning upper-class female expectations nearly a generation after her royal husband dies (and a couple of years after her daughter takes the throne). Rusticate in a peaceful manor? No, too many bad memories. Go to the capital and either play politics or bond with the grandkids? Even worse memories, pass. Declare a vocation for the least reputable deity in the pantheon and ride into a war zone to hunt demons? Coolness!
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World of the Five Gods / int_6a79a4a4	type	MacGuffin Delivery Service
World of the Five Gods / int_6a79a4a4	comment	MacGuffin Delivery Service: The titular mission in Penric's Mission is delivering a letter that the villain knows is coming because it's in response to a forged letter sent by him or someone in his employ.
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World of the Five Gods / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
World of the Five Gods / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: Roya Orico is both obese and sickly, frequently with food stains on his clothing. In fact he is diabetic and the disease is only held off by the menagerie. He is a peripheral force for good at best and his moral weakness puts major characters in peril.
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World of the Five Gods / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
World of the Five Gods / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Jokol Skullsplitter, but it doesn't mean what you'd think.
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World of the Five Gods / int_6c87dbef	type	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
World of the Five Gods / int_6c87dbef	comment	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: When Penric wakes up with some morning desire, he's about to "take matters in hand" when his female demon pipes up, interested to see what the experience is like from the other side. He decides he'd rather be frustrated for now.
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World of the Five Gods / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
World of the Five Gods / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Kyem Soudei after he was accused of theft from the Customs House, possibly to protect his family from having their property seized if he was convicted.
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World of the Five Gods / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
World of the Five Gods / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Justified at the end of Masquerade in Lodi, due to Penric's fatigue. After Tempting Fate by saying he hasn't been dunked in the canal yet, Chio asks him to hand her his mask, turns him to stand with his back to the canal, and yet he's still surprised when she pushes him in.
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World of the Five Gods / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
World of the Five Gods / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: In The Curse of Chalion, Royesse (Princess) Iselle arranges her own marriage — for rather urgent political reasons — to the crown prince of a neighboring kingdom whom she's never seen, pausing briefly to collect the rumor that he is "well-favored" (which she cynically says people will say about any prince who isn't a perfect fright), before returning to more important practical considerations. When she finally meets him, they've practically already bonded over their shared love and admiration for the main character, Iselle's heroic secretary, and by the morning after the wedding, he observes that they look like a couple madly in love.
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World of the Five Gods / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
World of the Five Gods / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: The culmination of Penric's work for the Mother's Order in Martensbridge (where Penric was constantly pushed to his uttermost limits and saw many, many patients die) was when he attempted suicide in a manner that his demon couldn't circumvent. Desdemona did manage to circumvent it, narrowly.
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World of the Five Gods / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
World of the Five Gods / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Much of the reason Penric is able to get so much assistance from Desdemona is that he treats "her" like a person, with thoughts and feelings of her own, not merely a dangerous, if useful, tool. He is the first of Desdemona's many riders to even give her a name.
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World of the Five Gods / int_74dec4b3	type	In One Ear, Out The Other
World of the Five Gods / int_74dec4b3	comment	In One Ear, Out The Other: In Paladin of Souls Illvin says of Cattilara "Lovely girl, adores Arhys, but I'd swear that if she held up a lighted candle beside one pretty ear, I could blow it out through the other".
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World of the Five Gods / int_75bbe725	type	Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi
World of the Five Gods / int_75bbe725	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi: Played fairly straight in Penric and the Shaman, where a shaman attempted to use the weirding voice to seduce Ruchia. Bearing a demon made her immune, but she ended up sleeping with him anyway.
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World of the Five Gods / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
World of the Five Gods / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: In the backstory, Hallana and Oswin spent every moment together arguing theology, right up until they married each other — and apparently carried on thereafter.
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World of the Five Gods / int_77bc8a56	type	Unable to Support a Wife
World of the Five Gods / int_77bc8a56	comment	Unable to Support a Wife: Cazaril pleads this at one point.
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World of the Five Gods / int_77c9a628	type	Your Soul Is Mine!
World of the Five Gods / int_77c9a628	comment	As for the general trope details: If you lose yours, you die. They can be damaged and destroyed, but they can also be borrowed from without too much harm. Mind, body, and soul are all distinct but interconnected, such that memory and even wounds can go with them. Ghosts are damaged souls or those of people who willingly turned from the gods — not just disbelievers, but from active hatred. More than one soul can inhabit a body, but bad things tend to happen.
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World of the Five Gods / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
World of the Five Gods / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: In the original poem's sense. After Cazaril realizes the extent of the gods' manipulations, he wonders how many men they sent on the road to help Teidez as he was sent to help Iselle, and who never made it. In Paladin, the Bastard confirms to Ista that the Son of Autumn sent many, but all failed. A prayer to the Bastard calls this trope explicitly, with indication that it's divinely inspired at the time:
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World of the Five Gods / int_7e851477	type	Balancing Death's Books
World of the Five Gods / int_7e851477	comment	Balancing Death's Books: Death magic. Basically it's just a prayer to Bastard to kill someone. If Bastard decides that the intended victim indeed deserves death, he'll send his demon to take the victim's life—and the demon will also take the life of the petitioner.
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World of the Five Gods / int_7eb09e49	type	The Four Gods
World of the Five Gods / int_7eb09e49	comment	The Four Gods: Not specifically the Chinese ones—they are a Father, Mother, Son, and Daughter—but similar in some respects, for instance in ruling the four seasons. Quintarians also believe in a fifth god, the Bastard, for "all things out of season."
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World of the Five Gods / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
World of the Five Gods / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If Bosha had just done what Tanar had told him to do and left with Alixtra and Kittio, then the entire group would have been well away from the party by the time Methani's body was discovered. (Of course, then Pen wouldn't have met Tronio while trying to rescue Bosha, so it's possible that Bosha's decision was nudged by the Bastard.)
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World of the Five Gods / int_808b6d16	type	Sdrawkcab Name
World of the Five Gods / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: Rina and Otta name Otta's demon "Atto" because Penric had said that it would become "like a mirror" to Otta.
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World of the Five Gods / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
World of the Five Gods / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: "What makes the Hallow Kingship hallowed?" Ingrey finally finds the answer in the end: "Faith - keeping it." Horseriver's ultimate failure was denying his soldiers to the Gods, failing in his responsibility to those who had fallen in his name.
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World of the Five Gods / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
World of the Five Gods / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Joen of Jokona who has a powerful demon under her thumb. And Dowager Royina Ista who eats that demon, sending it back to the Bastard's Hell.
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World of the Five Gods / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
World of the Five Gods / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Joen is well into Type 2, with Mind Control possibly even pushing her to Hive Queen status.
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World of the Five Gods / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
World of the Five Gods / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: Cedonia - an in-universe equivalent of the Byzantine Empire, with a Deadly Decadent Court and a lot of independent former provinces like Orbas.
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World of the Five Gods / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
World of the Five Gods / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Quintarian faith, while its theology is different and well-developed, fills the cultural role of the medieval Catholic Church. The Quadrene religion is closely related to Quintarianism but disagrees on a few very significant points, making it somewhat parallel the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam. (Politically, it specifically parallels the medieval conflicts between Christianity and Islam in Spain.)
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World of the Five Gods / int_842426f3	type	Grande Dame
World of the Five Gods / int_842426f3	comment	Grande Dame: The Princess-Archdivine of Martensbridge combines secular and spiritual authority in her district.
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World of the Five Gods / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
World of the Five Gods / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Cazaril comes home fresh from the galley rowbanks at the beginning of The Curse of Chalion. And it had been so bad that after being freed, at first he starts weeping at the slightest cause. Yet his protecting of a fellow rower plays an important part in ending the curse.
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World of the Five Gods / int_84fe7b3a	type	Revival Loophole
World of the Five Gods / int_84fe7b3a	comment	Revival Loophole: This is Ias and dy Lutez's plan for breaking the curse. Arguably, this could have worked, as willingly dying three times would've given dy Lutez the right mindset to work as a conduit for gods. Unfortunately, he panicked after the first time and was unwilling to continue. Ias and Ista forced him into a second attempt, but he didn't revive, and Ista didn't (or couldn't) call upon the Mother for a miracle.
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World of the Five Gods / int_85c5db50	type	In Love with Your Carnage
World of the Five Gods / int_85c5db50	comment	In Love with Your Carnage: Ingrey's lieutenant, Gesca, suggests this is the reason Ingrey finds Ijada attractive.
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World of the Five Gods / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
World of the Five Gods / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "Welcome to [my gates]. I am the Mouth of Hell." Bonus points for being literally true.
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World of the Five Gods / int_889cfd0c	type	Make the Dog Testify
World of the Five Gods / int_889cfd0c	comment	Make the Dog Testify: A sacred crow is used to determine the truthfulness of a charge against Cazaril, by letting the Gods use it as a conduit. The crow, which Cazaril had fed and tried to teach to say his name, flew straight to him.
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World of the Five Gods / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
World of the Five Gods / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The overall timeline of the books doesn't correspond to publication order, and within the Penric series, several stories have been inserted into the timeline. In-universe timeline order would be Hunt, the Penric stories (with Penric's Fox and Masquerade in Lodi placed after Penric and the Shaman), then Curse and Paladin. However, each individual book generally takes place in order.
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World of the Five Gods / int_8cb66c2f	type	Who Murdered the Asshole
World of the Five Gods / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: There is no lack of suspects when Minister Methani is murdered.
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World of the Five Gods / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
World of the Five Gods / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Fafa the ice bear isn't killed, but:
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World of the Five Gods / int_8e3f54c	type	Spare to the Throne
World of the Five Gods / int_8e3f54c	comment	Spare to the Throne: Shows up peripherally, as the eldest and youngest sons of the Hallow King have already died. Succession politics aren't central to the plot, but they are a crucial detail.
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World of the Five Gods / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
World of the Five Gods / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Death magic is not only forbidden by law; if successful it results in the death of both the target and the perpetrator. Technically, it's only attempting death magic which is a crime — it's essentially attempted murder. If you succeed, the theology of Chalion rules that you have been granted a literal miracle of justice by The Bastard, one of the Gods. But you're still dead, and your corpse still needs to be burnt before sunset in case something else takes possession of it. Unless you're Cazaril, that is, who is deeply uncomfortable with the implications of his survival. Sorcery is dangerous mostly due to the very thin line between possessing a demon and demonic possession; also, lethal cancer is a common side-effect of utilizing demonic powers without sufficient understanding. For sorcerers, directly killing another human with sorcery will cause your demon to be reclaimed by the Bastard. Penric meets two sorcerers who attempt it: one tries and fails to kill Penric and gets lectured for it, and the other has been set up as a one-shot assassin who kills with her demon then is given another one. Possessing a spirit-animal gives one great physical strength and speed. Taking one of the "great beasts" gives one many supernatural powers, comparable to sorcery, but can drive the bearer mad, and will leave them sundered from the gods at their death — unless another shaman is available to exorcize their soul.
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World of the Five Gods / int_8f57d5eb	type	Another Man's Terror
World of the Five Gods / int_8f57d5eb	comment	Another Man's Terror: In Curse of Chalion, Cazaril prays for a death magic miracle. If it succeeds, it will kill both himself and his target. After he completes the ritual, he hallucinates that he is his victim, who chokes to death on his own tongue.
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World of the Five Gods / int_8fe0659e	type	Infection Scene
World of the Five Gods / int_8fe0659e	comment	Infection Scene: In The Physicians of Vilnoc, Penric is bitten by a horsefly that carries the disease he's trying to treat. This gives him the insight he needs to resolve the outbreak while also infecting him.
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World of the Five Gods / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
World of the Five Gods / int_90c018ac	comment	In Paladin, the primary way of removing demons was to give the demon to a strong-willed divine who was about to die. By the Penric stories, demon-eating saints are fairly common, with three different ones showing up so far. This may be justified by the Roknari killing off saints of the Bastard and destroying knowledge about sorcery.
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World of the Five Gods / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
World of the Five Gods / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The slavers on Cazaril's ship suffered particularly Gorn-tastic deaths.
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World of the Five Gods / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
World of the Five Gods / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: Umegat's assistant Daris is an elderly little man who is missing his thumbs and tongue. The missing tongue means that he can't speak, but he does make various mouthed hums, welcoming noises, and other sounds.
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World of the Five Gods / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
World of the Five Gods / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: A Magnificent Bastardly subversion of this originates the enmity between Cazaril and Dondo.
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World of the Five Gods / int_95f2d65e	type	DefrostingIceKing
World of the Five Gods / int_95f2d65e	comment	Defrosting Ice King: dy Sanda spends most of Curse of Chalion suspecting Cazaril's planning on stealing his job and lecturing Teidez on proper behavior (in the hopes of making him a better man). It takes until Cazaril sincerely warns him about the underhanded tactics of the court for him to ease up. Before long, he's saving Cazaril's skin from false charges and even helping prank Dondo. Sadly, it also gets him swiftly killed by Dondo's lackeys.
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World of the Five Gods / int_966f0c70	type	Enchanted Forest
World of the Five Gods / int_966f0c70	comment	Enchanted Forest: In the Wounded Woods, in the Weald, everyone who sleeps in their bounds has mad, vivid nightmares that send them racing away in terror. It's the cursed site of a horrible massacre of thousands of spirit warriors who still haunt the place, centuries later.
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World of the Five Gods / int_968f633c	type	Flip Personality
World of the Five Gods / int_968f633c	comment	Flip Personality: Demons. Those with second sight can see who is in control of a body.
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World of the Five Gods / int_977ddbc	type	The Upper Crass
World of the Five Gods / int_977ddbc	comment	The Upper Crass: The Castillar dy Zavar lives in a castle rustic and dilapidated enough that the bandits who have just taken it over can pass as dy Zavar, and his followers to Cazaril, Royse Bergon, and their party until the ghosts warn Cazaril that it's a trap.
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World of the Five Gods / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
World of the Five Gods / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Downplayed. Earl Horseriver comments offhandedly that Ingrey's Wolfcliff ancestors also shared his penchant for being stoic and rather curt — or as Horseriver put it, his "singular surliness." And Horseriver would know. He almost certainly knew Ingrey's ancestors personally.
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World of the Five Gods / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
World of the Five Gods / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Halber's motivation in Penric and the Fox. He can't get back what he's lost, but he wants to get revenge on everybody who took it from him, even though there's no way it can end well for him.
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World of the Five Gods / int_9b7de69c	type	False Friend
World of the Five Gods / int_9b7de69c	comment	False Friend: Clee in Penric's Demon, who helps his elder brother kidnap Penric in order to murder him and steal Desdemona. Velka in Penric's Mission, whose job was to confirm that Penric was the "Adriac spy" coming in reply to the Forged Message.
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World of the Five Gods / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
World of the Five Gods / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: A theme of the Penric novellas. Most sorcerers treat their demon as a thing or dangerous animal. Penric gives his a name and treats her respectfully, and she has reciprocated by becoming his friend. He's trying to spread the word and enact change, but it's difficult — many people assume his demon has made him Brainwashed and Crazy. The Assassins of Thasalon makes it clear that the Bastard agrees with Penric.
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World of the Five Gods / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
World of the Five Gods / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Penric and the Shaman, Des complains about the cold Martensbridge winter and talks about the warmth and beauty of Cedonia. Penric's Mission, the next story written, takes place in Cedonia.
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World of the Five Gods / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
World of the Five Gods / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: As Penric and Oswyl leave Martensbridge early in Penric and the Shaman, they pass by the remains of Castle Martenden, which was heavily damaged at the end of Penric's Demon. A brief discussion of what has occurred after the end of the earlier story follows. Penric's Demon includes short nods to previous books including: Penric wondering "where" a demon resides in him and wondering if he can feel it like a stomachache (referencing Caz's tumor demon in Curse); and a mention of the Hallow King's secretive royal shamans (implying Ingrey and Ijada managed to bring the shamans back after Hunt). This last is later confirmed in Penric and the Shaman.
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World of the Five Gods / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
World of the Five Gods / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: More death magic. With the twist that it's actually a miracle when properly done. Only trying death magic is illegal, for good reasons.
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World of the Five Gods / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
World of the Five Gods / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: It's Cattilara's main character trait.
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World of the Five Gods / int_9ea58038	type	Kill the Host Body
World of the Five Gods / int_9ea58038	comment	Kill the Host Body: A purely villainous example in Penric's Fox, when the sorceress Learned Magal is murdered. Her killer wanted vengeance against her demon for actions taken by its previous host, the now-dead Learned Svedra.
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World of the Five Gods / int_9ffbadef	type	Fantastic Naming Convention
World of the Five Gods / int_9ffbadef	comment	Fantastic Naming Convention: Chalionese noble names are "dy Place", where Place is the area that they are from and/or the area they are nobility over, whether a town or fort or some other location. The possibility of ennobling someone comes up in Paladin and the suggested "noble name" comes from their home town. Wealdean noble names are referred to as 'kin names', where someone of a suitably high rank is referred to as 'kin Clan' for whichever clan they are associated with. By Penric's era, names like 'kin Jurald' are possible where somebody from outside the Weald married the heiress of a kin rank. Traditional Wealdean kin names are of the form "animal+geographical feature" like "Horseriver" or "Wolfcliff" or "Badgerbank". This reflects the animal souls that the old Wealdean spirit-warriors would have transferred into them by a shaman.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
World of the Five Gods / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: Ingrey becoming the hallow king for one night.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a12a5322	type	That Old-Time Prescription
World of the Five Gods / int_a12a5322	comment	That Old-Time Prescription: Ingrey was given a pain-reliving medication made from poppies (among other things).
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World of the Five Gods / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
World of the Five Gods / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Cazaril, after his plan to get Iselle to marry out of the Curse results in Bergon marrying into it. As it turns out though, it was part of the Gods' plan to end the curse, as it turned his sacrifice to save Bergon on the galley into a laying down his life for the house of Chalion, so his death miracle against Dondo was the second time and being stabbed by Martou became the requisite third time.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
World of the Five Gods / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: Attempted on Adelis at the beginning of The Assassins of Thasalon, but thwarted by Penric and Desdemona. There were earlier ones that he didn't tell Penric and Nikys about, so as not to worry them.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
World of the Five Gods / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: At the beginning of Penric's Mission a character is blinded by having boiling vinegar poured into his eyes. Fortunately only his eyelids and cornea are burned, and Penric is able to repair the damage with a great deal of "Uphill" magic.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
World of the Five Gods / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Martou dy Jironal, as a result of the curse. Roya Orico, knowing he was cursed to be a terrible ruler, handed the reins over to dy Jironal in hopes of circumventing his fate... but the curse is smarter than that, and perverted dy Jironal's ambition into corruption, making Orico's decision a case of terrible misrule in itself.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
World of the Five Gods / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: There's a few different versions of the Bastard's origin floating around. It's not clear whether the Mother had sex with a demon (or how voluntary said act was) or if he is more of a magical construct they created together.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a45ca6ee	type	Fantasy Counterpart Map
World of the Five Gods / int_a45ca6ee	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Map: The setting's map resembles Europe rotated 180 degrees. Cultures in the world accordingly are Fantasy Counterpart Cultures to the European cultures they are positioned as.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
World of the Five Gods / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: The climax includes Ingrey, in his temporary role as The Hallow King, aiding the ghosts of over four thousand Weald spirit warriors in removing their spirit animals and letting them pass on into the gods' hands. A little later he does the same for his late father, though his spirit had faded too much for the gods to take him up.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
World of the Five Gods / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The eponymous Curse of Chalion can only be drawn back by the gods through the will of a man who would lay down his life three times for the House of Chalion. Referenced, subverted, and played straight in Paladin of Souls. The second time Ista tells her story (to dy Cabon), she says "Perhaps some third occasion shall release me." The third time, however, doesn't; it's the fourth, where she's finally, fully honest with herself, that does. However, the first was in the previous book, so the final one is the third in this particular book.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a75c8dc9	type	Left-Justified Fantasy Map
World of the Five Gods / int_a75c8dc9	comment	Left-Justified Fantasy Map: Right-justified, in this case, because it's a map of Europe rotated 180 degrees.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
World of the Five Gods / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The fate of the heirs of Horseriver.
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World of the Five Gods / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
World of the Five Gods / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Jokol.
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World of the Five Gods / int_aa517da5	type	Forged Message
World of the Five Gods / int_aa517da5	comment	Forged Message: A key part of the plot for Penric's Mission. Penric is delivering a reply to a forged message, allegedly from General Arisaydia to the Duke of Adria. The reply, which is legitimate, is used as evidence of the loyal Arisaydia's treason.
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World of the Five Gods / int_aa7dc8ce	type	Luke Nounverber
World of the Five Gods / int_aa7dc8ce	comment	Luke Nounverber: Jokol Skullsplitter. Weald kin names are generally of the form Animallandscape; examples include Wolfcliff, Horseriver, Badgerbank, and Lynxlake.
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World of the Five Gods / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
World of the Five Gods / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: One that takes several novellas to manifest: One of Desdemona's previous hosts, Mira, was a courtesan. Her skills are essential in Mira's Last Dance.
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World of the Five Gods / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
World of the Five Gods / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: As Penric and Iroki are trying to figure out how to track down and arrest Tronio, he arrives with (among others) a petty saint of the Father who is able to discern if people are lying. Des comments that he's like a chicken that brought its own pot and onions.
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World of the Five Gods / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
World of the Five Gods / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Cazaril's initial reaction to the job offer of Secretary-Tutor to Royesse Iselle. The Provincara's response to that is to dryly note that a fortress under siege is almost exactly what her granddaughter is going to be. Cazaril has this response, to greater or lesser degrees, to a lot of requests that are laid on him; Ista remarks that his admitted fear of them makes him wiser than those who either aren't smart enough to know just how far out of their depth they are, or are too proud to admit it.
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World of the Five Gods / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars Are Forever
World of the Five Gods / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars Are Forever: Adelis ends up with scars across his upper face and disconcerting red irises after Penric successfully heals his eyes. In the end he figures he can make it work with his reputation as a military commander.
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World of the Five Gods / int_ae2b8366	type	Possessing a Dead Body
World of the Five Gods / int_ae2b8366	comment	Possessing a Dead Body: The main story of Knot of Shadows is triggered when a dead body suddenly awakes, because the person was killed by death magic and a sundered ghost took up residence. Which leads to a search for the other body, since there are always two corpses after death magic.
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World of the Five Gods / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
World of the Five Gods / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Ijada has symbolic dreams of the Wounded Wood and what is needed for its healing. Oswin, Hallana, and Lewko have dreams of the five people that need to accompany Ijada; upon meeting Biast for the first time, Oswin recognizes him from the dream.
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World of the Five Gods / int_af9d7ec7	type	PiratesWhoDontDoAnything
World of the Five Gods / int_af9d7ec7	comment	Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Jokol and his men are frequently subject to speculation that they are pirates. If they in fact are, they are the kind that go around singing, drinking and... that's about it. They are fantasy Norsemen in a time where the Norse had a reputation as pirates, reavers... and merchants. Jokol is present in the Weald as a prince and representative of his people (and also to recruit a divine to perform his wedding back home), so while he and his crew may be talked about as pirates, it would be counterproductive to actually engage in any piracy.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
World of the Five Gods / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: A recurring theme in the context of praying to the gods for an outcome.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
World of the Five Gods / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: In The Assassins of Thasalon. A sorcerer killing with their demon's powers causes the Bastard to reclaim the demon...but it doesn't mean the sorcerer can't be given another demon. Alixtra is used as a disposable assassin, recharged with even-more disposable demons. The Bastard makes his displeasure known, not to Alixtra, but to those who used her.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
World of the Five Gods / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: In Demon Daughter Penric and Nikys learn that their marriage is one because Desdemona has been using uphill magic to stop Penric's aging process. He asks Nikys if Desdemona should let him age naturally and she says no.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b2c0ecb3	type	ArchNemesis
World of the Five Gods / int_b2c0ecb3	comment	Paladin of Souls: Ista sees the youngest child of her Arch-Nemesis and describes her as having the characteristics of "those children born to a woman late in life" â€”- very clearly talking about Down Syndrome.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
World of the Five Gods / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: Chalion uses Agnatic-Cognatic Succession. Attempts to provide an heir for Orico are significant in the backstory, up to and including having the dy Jironal brothers attempt to impregnate Royina Sara. Martou was courteous, at least; Dondo enjoyed humiliating her.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
World of the Five Gods / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: Cazaril starts getting these watching Betriz swim around in a Sexy Soaked Shirt, which is why he tends to sit with his lower half underwater. It's a sign of his starting to recover from his trauma, both physically and mentally.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b4fb00f6	type	Mistaken for Pedophile
World of the Five Gods / int_b4fb00f6	comment	Mistaken for Pedophile: Cazaril's whip scars from his time as a galley slave cause this to happen to him, as whipping is the standard punishment for pedophiles in Chalion.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
World of the Five Gods / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: Ijada's extremely practical response when Ingrey offers to let her escape. Ingrey thinks she can escape into the woods and to her kin; Ijada thinks it likely she'll just end up eaten by a bear.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
World of the Five Gods / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: The driving force behind Earl Horseriver's big plan. He's unspeakably pissed off at the gods turning their backs on the Wealdings long ago.
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World of the Five Gods / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
World of the Five Gods / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: The magical version — see title for The Curse of Chalion.
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World of the Five Gods / int_bbd25056	type	Eunuchs Are Evil
World of the Five Gods / int_bbd25056	comment	Eunuchs Are Evil: Master Bosha is very clearly not a nice person, and carries multiple poisoned weapons at all times. However, he's working for Adelis's intended, so once he confirms who Penric and Nikys are, he's on their side. Minister Methani, on the other hand, is so thoroughly evil that none of the Gods will take him up when he dies.
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World of the Five Gods / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
World of the Five Gods / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Foix dy Gura is far less simple than he looks.
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World of the Five Gods / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
World of the Five Gods / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: Cazaril intends to use what time he has left to secure the safety of "his ladies" and the political stability of the kingdom. Arhys waltzes into the enemy camp — well-outnumbered and expecting to die — gambling that his temporary immunity to injury will break their ranks and allow him to kill the enemy sorcerers.
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World of the Five Gods / int_bd65fb3d	type	Sparing Them the Dirty Work
World of the Five Gods / int_bd65fb3d	comment	Sparing Them the Dirty Work: In The Curse of Challion, Princess Iselle is betrothed against her will to Dondo. As he's a womanizer, attempted rapist, and a murderer who had attempted to kill Iselle's tutor and had successfully killed her brother's tutor, this would certainly be a fate worse than death. Her friend and handmaiden Betriz conspires to assassinate him, seeing it as the only way to save Iselle and asks Cazaril to teach her how to use a knife to do so, but he convinces her to hold off and attempts death magic himself (actually a 'death miracle', in which one trades their life to The Bastard, a god, to right some wrong via good old smiting), trying to both save Iselle and stop Betriz from having to dirty her hands. It works, though not in the normal way. Dondo does die via Death Magic and Betriz doesn't kill him, but inexplicably Cazaril doesn't die either. Instead, the demon's and Dondo's souls are both trapped in Cazaril's body (along with his soul, of course) in the form of a tumor by a second miracle granted to Iselle by the Daughter. Later, when Cazaril is stabbed in the tumor, the demon and Dondo are released and the soul of the person who stabbed him is also taken up, leaving Cazaril alive.
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World of the Five Gods / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
World of the Five Gods / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Cazaril feels this way about himself and Betriz. She, on the other hand, doesn't care about his premature aging, missing fingers, horrible scars or the fact that he's almost twice her age — but she does make him shave off his beard.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
World of the Five Gods / int_c2e295cd	comment	Curse: Important, but generally referred to as a "geas," another way of saying "magically compelled."
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World of the Five Gods / int_c2e3f1b4	type	Affluent Ascetic
World of the Five Gods / int_c2e3f1b4	comment	Affluent Ascetic: Downplayed. Therneas in Knot of Shadows lives a comfortable life and has a large fortune in stolen gold hidden under his floor. Potentially justified in that living at the level he could afford would have called attention to his theft.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
World of the Five Gods / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Bosha, albino and fifth of five sons, was castrated to push him into the bureaucracy as the most likely way for him to be useful to the family. All four of his brothers died in a civil war, leaving his father to regret having his heir be incapable of having children.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
World of the Five Gods / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Technically Cazaril is Royesse Iselle's tutor and he is very erudite. He's also a dirty fighter and will stop at nothing to help "his ladies", supernatural curses, supernatural tumors and evil chancellors be damned.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c44c564e	type	Turn to Religion
World of the Five Gods / int_c44c564e	comment	Turn to Religion: In Penric's Demon, Penric comes face-to-face with the Bastard, embodied in the Saint of Idau. Penric prays to the Bastard to spare Desdemona, and realizes that he will never be able to pray by mere rote again. By the next story, Penric and the Shaman, Penric is now Learned Penric, a full-braid divine.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c578f42	type	The Last Thing You Ever See
World of the Five Gods / int_c578f42	comment	The Last Thing You Ever See: Very much averted, as Caz informs someone stupid enough to threaten him that if he wanted them dead, they'd never see it coming.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c5835f29	type	Ghostly Goals
World of the Five Gods / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: In the backstory for Penric and the Fox, Wegae's aunt haunted the staircase she was killed on until her husband was arrested for her murder. In The Assassins of Thasalon, Methani's ghost wants to lead people to his body and show them his wounds, in hopes of his murderer being caught.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
World of the Five Gods / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Iselle's escape from Martou's forces at Valenda. The story quickly becomes the stuff of legend in Chalion, but we only get to hear a few brief descriptions of it after the fact.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
World of the Five Gods / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: There has been only one Earl Horseriver, and his house's descent from the old Hallow Kings is not a coincidence.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
World of the Five Gods / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: On their way to Orbas in Mira's Last Dance, Penric, Adelis and Nikys stop in a town in time to observe the double funeral of two young lovers from feuding families.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c92cf19a	type	Undead Child
World of the Five Gods / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: Four-year-old Agno's ghost possesses Vissa's body after the child drowns.
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World of the Five Gods / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
World of the Five Gods / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Cedonia is this world's version of the Byzantine court, with all the intrigue that implies.
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World of the Five Gods / int_cabd513c	type	Jedi Mind Trick
World of the Five Gods / int_cabd513c	comment	Jedi Mind Trick: Penric goes all out on the imperial courier at the end of The Prisoner of Limnos, at the cost of about a cup of blood coughed up afterwards.
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World of the Five Gods / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
World of the Five Gods / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: In Penric's Mission, an enemy sorcerer tries to make his demon give Penric a heart attack, knowing that Penric's death will drag the sorcerer's demon to the Bastard's hell but leave him alive. It fails, and Penric gives him a very stern lecture about treating his demon more respectfully.
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World of the Five Gods / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
World of the Five Gods / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Ista was labeled insane for years — turns out she was just truthfully recounting the visions the gods were sending to her.
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World of the Five Gods / int_d0309fad	type	Religion is Magic
World of the Five Gods / int_d0309fad	comment	Religion is Magic: Especially if one of the gods takes an interest in you. Also, death magic actually consists of praying to the Bastard to help you commit a murder-suicide.
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World of the Five Gods / int_d07900bc	type	"Not Wearing Pants" Dream
World of the Five Gods / int_d07900bc	comment	"Not Wearing Pants" Dream: Learned Oswin contrasts his wife having god-sent dreams with his own.
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World of the Five Gods / int_d07ab81c	type	Religion Is Right
World of the Five Gods / int_d07ab81c	comment	Religion Is Right: For the most part, though it isn't done in an anvilicious way: the church isn't completely immune to corruption, and The Hallowed Hunt presents a character with very legitimate reasons to hate the gods. As a rule, faiths in the world are right but incomplete thanks to the limitations of both gods and humans (to act and to understand, respectively): The Quadrenes exclude the Bastard, but the gods do acknowledge Him as one of them in visions. Otherwise the Quadrenes are mostly right. It was a Quintarian kingdom that conquered the Wealdings and converted them by the sword, failing to understand that the Weald's shamans practiced different ways to seek the same gods, and the gods could and would respond. And the Old Wealdings clearly didn't understand as much about the nature of souls and communication with the gods as the other faiths do, resorting to sacrifice — even human sacrifice — in a way that the other faiths have clearly found unnecessary if not outright horrifying. Their methods do work, they're just kind of scary.
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World of the Five Gods / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
World of the Five Gods / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: Part of the motivation of all the Five Gods. They regard every human soul, "Great Souled" or not, as precious, and spend much effort to get a saint, sorcerer, or shaman in the right place to help sundered souls pass on.
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World of the Five Gods / int_d782bd52	type	Equivalent Exchange
World of the Five Gods / int_d782bd52	comment	Equivalent Exchange: Demons are creatures of chaos and disorder. Their powers can be used for constructive purposes, but this creates a "debt" that has to be paid by creating an equal amount of chaos. Fortunately, killing fleas, rats and other vermin counts; but unscrupulous sorcerers can injure humans and destroy villages if they want to discharge chaos more efficiently.
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World of the Five Gods / int_d8463201	type	Quieting the Unquiet Dead
World of the Five Gods / int_d8463201	comment	Quieting the Unquiet Dead: One of the most important duties of the clergy is to help direct the spirits of the dead to the correct god. This is because after someone dies their spirit has only a short amount of time to get to its god before it is "sundered" and doomed to slowly fade away. This is considered to be literally a Fate Worse than Death.
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World of the Five Gods / int_d9d8fd35	type	Battle Butler
World of the Five Gods / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: Lady Tanar's secretary/bodyguard Surakos Bosha definitely qualifies.
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World of the Five Gods / int_dae815bb	type	A Glass in the Hand
World of the Five Gods / int_dae815bb	comment	A Glass in the Hand: Cazaril does the snapped-pencil version (with a quill pen, since pencils have yet to be invented in Chalion) when Betriz mentions that Dondo dy Jironal has been paying her unwelcome attentions.
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World of the Five Gods / int_db2727e0	type	The Book Cipher
World of the Five Gods / int_db2727e0	comment	The Book Cipher: Used in The Curse of Chalion when Cazaril and Iselle need to communicate privately over long distances. This requires printed books—and we see Penric inventing magically produced printing plates in his, chronologically earlier, series.
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World of the Five Gods / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
World of the Five Gods / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The "blue witch" plague that Penric fights in ''The Physicians of Vilnoc" has a set of symptoms almost identical to bubonic plague. At one point it is suspected that the plague vector is fleas off of infected rats, just as bubonic plague is spread. Turns out that the vector is in fact biting flies, which was hinted at early on when it was learned that the plague generally only strikes in the summer.
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World of the Five Gods / int_dc955e66	type	Inspired by…
World of the Five Gods / int_dc955e66	comment	Inspired byâ€¦: Word of God says that Chalion was inspired by the history of Spain during the Reconquista period, specifically Isabella of Castile (Iselle dy Chalion) and Ferdinand of Aragon (Bergon dy Ibra). If you're familiar with the history of the period, this inspiration shows: most of the major characters and many of the events have real-life counterparts — including some events you'd think couldn't possibly have parallels.
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World of the Five Gods / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
World of the Five Gods / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: As nearly every major character is a noble or high-ranking priest, most of the good guys of each book count as this in some capacity, often to each other. Cazaril was set to be one for Iselle as her tutor and secretary, and became one of the highest ones in Chalion as her chancellor, responding to Ista's pilgrimage plans with a full purse, the dy Gura brothers, and a note wishing her well. Most of the villains are defined by something having made them quite unreasonable, if only on a particular matter — Earl Horseriver was as decent a lord as you could ask for, when you weren't in the way of his plans.
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World of the Five Gods / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
World of the Five Gods / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: While telling Penric the family history in Prisoner of Limnos, Nikys mentions her half-brother Ikos, who becomes important later.
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World of the Five Gods / int_de143e97	type	Psychic Nosebleed
World of the Five Gods / int_de143e97	comment	Psychic Nosebleed: Justified - shamanism is Blood Magic, and when Penric uses it, he gets a nosebleed.
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World of the Five Gods / int_de86b894	type	Continuity Drift
World of the Five Gods / int_de86b894	comment	Continuity Drift: In Curse of Chalion, when a character is killed via death magic, the sacred animals not signing them for any god is surprising (previously it had been established that someone killed by the Bastard's death magic was, pretty much by definition, taken up by the Bastard). In Knot of Shadows, it's stated that generally the only people killed by death magic are those who would be sundered due to being horrible people.
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World of the Five Gods / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
World of the Five Gods / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Used when Ingrey starts falling for Ijada. For the female readers, it doubles as an excuse to describe her pretty medieval dresses.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e1311c40	type	Romancing the Widow
World of the Five Gods / int_e1311c40	comment	Romancing the Widow: Penric and Nikys are headed toward a relationship at the end of Penric's Mission. They agree to start that relationship at the end of Prisoner of Limnos.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e16202	comment	Pilgrimage: Discussed in Paladin Of Souls. Ista sets out on a pilgrimage as a way to escape the constraints of her home (gratitude), with her companions assuming it was for supplication (for a grandson). However, the real (and partly denied) goal for Ista was for forgiveness (atonement) for an old failure, but once she managed to forgive herself she found her true role (divination) and it turned into a pilgrimage of service.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Many characters are referred to by last name; some go by nicknames based on them (Caz from dy Cazaril, Palli from dy Palliar). Caz especially prefers to go by his family name as his older brother mercilessly mocked his given name when they were children, so he much prefers not using it.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e294a0be	comment	Our Souls Are Different: Everything about magic is based on something to do with the soul. Living beings are one of the only points where the spirit and material realms cross over at all, and so are the only vessel through which spiritual forces (AKA, magic) can manifest in the material world. Thus divine miracles must come through a willing soul; sorcery is the product of demon possession; and the Wealding shamans bonded animal souls to human to grant strange powers from the mix. As for the general trope details: If you lose yours, you die. They can be damaged and destroyed, but they can also be borrowed from without too much harm. Mind, body, and soul are all distinct but interconnected, such that memory and even wounds can go with them. Ghosts are damaged souls or those of people who willingly turned from the gods — not just disbelievers, but from active hatred. More than one soul can inhabit a body, but bad things tend to happen.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e2ef7c20	comment	No Man of Woman Born: The conditions of raising the curse in The Curse of Chalion are quite specific: a man must lay down his life three times for the House of Chalion. Actually dying is apparently not required until the third death; it's sufficient to be willing to die. Cazaril's first is when he is beaten nearly to death, and the second is when he is granted a death miracle, something that under ordinary circumstances would result in his death as well as the death of his target.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e33e4e8	type	That Was the Last Entry
World of the Five Gods / int_e33e4e8	comment	That Was the Last Entry: Cazaril finds an encrypted diary belonging to a man who practiced death magic. The encryption is easy, but tedious, to crack, so when he finds himself wanting to practice death magic in turn, he realizes that he only actually has to read the last entry of the diary to figure out what worked...
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World of the Five Gods / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
World of the Five Gods / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: Penric, as Mira, in Mira's Last Dance.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e54326a2	comment	Though this conflict is played more seriously when it comes to the opposition between the gods, who are order personified (and as said above, even the chaotic trickster-god of the pantheon maintains a form of balance) ; and the demons, who are manifestation of a destructive and all-devouring chaos. When Ista sees where demons come from in Paladin of Souls, she realizes that the gods must fight a constant battle to not have the world being engulfed by their Chaotic Evil dimension.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Played with. The Bastard's associated color is white, and he's the lord of demons and god of disasters, who people tend to try to appease rather than worship. However, his role is to rein in and control demons so they don't hurt humans, and he's also the god of unexpected blessings. Further, most of his "disasters" are either plans to eventually better humanity's lot, or desperate measures to control the damage caused by the other gods' meddling. Paladin of Souls suggests that the Bastard maintains the balance between order and chaos, keeping the world between frozen stasis and destruction.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e563bf09	comment	Cazaril is host to two miracles. The Bastard granted his prayer for a Death Miracle, and the Lady of Spring restrained the demon which should have flown away with his soul and Dondo's.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e7f9c214	comment	The animal spirits bound to spirit warriors and shamans cannot be removed at all except by the host's death. A further complication is that the soul of the dead host is Barred from the Afterlife unless another shaman releases the animal spirit from the ghost.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
World of the Five Gods / int_e851b5	comment	The Plan: Horseriver makes many plans in his attempts to spite the Gods.
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World of the Five Gods / int_e9154c4f	comment	Naming Ceremony: Penric performs a naming ceremony when giving a name to a sorcerer's demon. Kyrato thinks he's insane, but Alixtra provides the name she would have given her son if he'd been born a girl.
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World of the Five Gods / int_ea0f58c0	type	God's Hands Are Tied
World of the Five Gods / int_ea0f58c0	comment	God's Hands Are Tied: The reason why Deus ex Machina aren't flying around everywhere. Explained in-story that a person who manages to open themselves to the Five Gods is an empty vessel, having surrendered their will completely. Harder than it seems, and not nearly a comfortable thing — see the notes for Blessed with Suck above.
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World of the Five Gods / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
World of the Five Gods / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Centuries of byzantine political plotting actually all boiled down to Horseriver trying to die.
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World of the Five Gods / int_eb8e12d6	comment	Rules Lawyer: Learned Oswin is a medieval fantasy counterpart to a modern lawyer or barrister. He is often somewhat sardonically called a "most perfect servant of the Father," but all who know him respect his scholarly ability. Ingrey is infuriated when Oswin asks if Ingrey could be forced to remove Ijada's spirit animal after her hypothetical execution. When Ingrey implies he would resist (violently), Oswin points out to the judges that her execution would also include her eternal soul's sundering from the gods, a heinous sin if carried out. It is only after the fact that Ingrey realizes this is a powerful argument against executing her.
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World of the Five Gods / int_edf68f1a	comment	Flash Forward: Cazaril has a flash of insight as to how the curse will continue if he doesn't lift it, which is more or less what happened to Isabella and Ferdinand in the real world.
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World of the Five Gods / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
World of the Five Gods / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The contents of Cazaril's saddlebags are "a change of clothes, a small fortune, theology, and arguable treason".
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World of the Five Gods / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Penric uses his demon's magic to make printer's plates. Later, he uses the Weirding Voice to get his toddler to go to sleep.
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World of the Five Gods / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: A lot of characters. Cazaril is especially notable because the solution for the curse, requiring a man "willing to lay down his life three times for the House of Chalion," means he literally had to practice dying through multiple Near Death Experiences so his soul would be open enough for the gods to recover the power of the curse from the world.
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World of the Five Gods / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Boleso tries it on Ijada just before the beginning of the novel, which not coincidentally opens with Ingrey going to collect Boleso's body.
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World of the Five Gods / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Inverted in the story of the Bastard's origin. His father was a powerful, murderous demon that consumed the soul of a completely unselfish human, and promptly had a conscience forced upon him. Cue My God, What Have I Done? followed by Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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World of the Five Gods / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: People expressing surprise when they learn that Penric has given his demon a name. Jokes about what inspiration the Bastard governs, which apparently includes dirty songs. Desdemona's running tally of vermin she's exterminated to feed her need to produce chaos. Verges on Black Humor in Penric's Mission, as she moves up from lice and bedbugs to rats and at least one diseased cat to fuel all of Penric's "uphill" magic. People never believing Penric when he tells them how old he is.
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World of the Five Gods / int_fa4cfe0e	comment	Translation Punctuation: Dialogue that is spoken in Roknari is bracketed with tildes instead of quotation marks:
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World of the Five Gods / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: dy Jironal gets a very brief one when Cazaril looks for him in his chancellory office, patting one of his couriers on the shoulder and encouraging him to do his best when the man reports winter snows making travel difficult.
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