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Xanth

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Xanth	comment	What do you get when you take a rather witty (and long-running) American author, create a Fictional Counterpart of the entire state of Florida, give everyone in it magical powers (or "talents") to make a Magic Kingdom, if you will (...geddit?), fill it with various deconstructive parodies of fantasy tropes and top it all off with literally hundreds of reader-submitted puns?In a nutshell... you get Xanth.The Xanth series by Piers Anthony takes place in a small Florida-shaped realm of a dimension other than Earth. In Xanth, magic is real, with its own physical laws, often based on reader-submitted (and credited) puns. Billions, and billions of puns. For example — Pineapples are explosive (aka pineapple fragmentation grenade). Cherries (cherry bombs) are smaller, but still dangerous. Tulips (two lips) will kiss you if you get too close. Boot rear is a fizzy soda that, when drunk, causes you to feel a swift kick to your bottom. And beware the Catastrophe — a plaque with the back half of a cat stuck into it (a cat-ass-trophy).Yes, you're allowed to groan after reading some of those.One important rule for Xanth is that every single native-born Xanth human has a unique "talent" — a magical quirk that only they can do. This can be anything from changing their hair color, to being able to talk to certain animals, to being able to "enhance" whatever is in front of you temporarily (whether that is to "enhance" someone's muscles, "enhance" a car's engine, etc.), to being able to rewind time or warp reality in their nearby vicinity. Talents are unique to the person who has them — no two talents are the same, but some are so similar that they are more or less identical; "turn stuff blue" versus "turn stuff azure", for example.The first book, A Spell for Chameleon, was written in 1977, and the series continues to this day (with #41 releasing in 2017 and more just waiting for publication), recently entering its 2nd trilogy. In typical Piers Anthony fashion, he declared the first trilogy over after the 27th book (3 Cubed, or 3^3, is 27) Cube Route. Xanth has even inspired a "fan book", a novel-length work of collaborative fiction that Piers Anthony has mentioned positively in his official newsletter.
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Xanth / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Xanth / int_1439161f	comment	Panties on a woman will Freak Out any male who sees them, even if the only thing they know is that they're supposed to wear clothes.
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Xanth / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
Xanth / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: Mostly subverted. If you drink from a "love" spring, you will be compelled to summon the stork with with the next compatible mate you see. That wouldn't be too bad in itself, except that next compatible mate means "whatever creature happens to be in front of you". Centaurs, for example, were the result of the first explorers of Xanth leading their horses to drink, the magic of the spring made it work. More traditional love potions, which cause love instead of lust, also exist, but are less common. As revealed in Zombie Lover, the love springs do have standards — if one of the people involved is underage, the springs induce parental love in the adult partner instead.
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Xanth / int_14dfb81	type	Power Creep, Power Seep
Xanth / int_14dfb81	comment	Power Creep, Power Seep: Originally, magicians were rare enough that the Council had to accept the Evil Magician as King: they didn't have a choice not when Bink's talent was determined to remain a secret. Time-travel confirms that there tended to be two or three magicians at most at any given time, and they often kept the competition for the crown down by eliminating the competition. However, after Bink's meeting with the demon XaNTH, it ensured that all of Bink's descendants would have magician-level talents. Since then, other magicians have come out of the woodwork like a centaur whose talent would likely never have been noticed if it wasn't needed to rescue Trent and people involved with the family like Irene have gained power-ups. Quite a lot of people that are not acknowledged as magicians in the later books have talents that in previous eras would have qualified them not just as magicians, but as the most dangerous and powerful type of magician, those who could control the magic of other people and artifacts, multiplying their power like the creator of the Deathstone and Bink. Some of the newer Magicians/Sorceresses, like Irene and Vadne, didn't receive power-ups, but rather had their status re-evaluated, then upgraded.
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Xanth / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
Xanth / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Most of the women in this series. Mela Merwoman gets an entire book dedicated to her search for a new husband (her first husband had been killed by a dragon a few years before). Gender-flipped with Xavier, who's a single man seeking a good woman (despite what his mother believes; she doesn't realize that he wants a permanent wife and not just some fling). He finds one in Zora Zombie.
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Xanth / int_1bb67d34	type	Transflormation
Xanth / int_1bb67d34	comment	Transflormation: Eventually becomes Trent's go-to Forced Transformation. One of the major examples is Justin Tree, who becomes a fixture of the North Village for seventy-six years (Trent finally turns him back at his request, after his adventure with Breanna in Zombie Lover).
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Xanth / int_1c21e3fb	type	The Place
Xanth / int_1c21e3fb	comment	The Place: The series is named Xanth, which is also the setting. Also an example of One-Word Title.
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Xanth / int_1c45d4d7	type	Our Nudity Is Different
Xanth / int_1c45d4d7	comment	Our Nudity Is Different: A man seeing a woman wearing only a bra and panties is more erotic than if she were naked.
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Xanth / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Xanth / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Bink in Night Mare, who battles the Punic leader Hasbinbad one-on-one after angrily informing him of his personal reasons for fighting: "One of those Kings you had eliminated by the Horseman was my son." Hasbinbad is surprised but now very understanding of his motive.
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Xanth / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Xanth / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: Most of his heroes are this. Trick one into giving his word not to oppose you and he will just watch as you commit atrocities. Piers Anthony believes it's right to be Lawful Stupid, as he explains in his Author's Notes. Cheiron, at least, points out that oaths sworn under duress are not binding, which differs from some other Piers Anthony works.
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Xanth / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Xanth / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Over the course of the series, the Fourth Wall slowly deteriorates; by the fourteenth book, it's pretty much dissipated completely, probably so that Piers can use more Visual Puns...
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Xanth / int_1f48abcd	type	Skeleton Key
Xanth / int_1f48abcd	comment	Skeleton Key: Discussed in Heaven Cent, and played with in a big way — it's not a literal skeleton key that's needed, but a musical key played on Grace'l (a female skeleton)'s extra rib, that triggers the path to where Electra and the incomplete Heaven Cent are resting.
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Xanth / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Xanth / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: Were-creatures, demons, certain crossbreeds (like nagas, who go from human to snake and have an in-between form as well, or merfolk, some of whom can switch from having a tail to having legs, or even Smash Ogre, an ogre/human who learns to switch between his two aspects), and Prince Dolph are notorious for this.
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Xanth / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Xanth / int_1fc8335e	comment	He made a Deal With A Demon for the talent of Time Travel, which he used to Retcon away events that made other people more interesting so that he looked better in comparison. (For example, when he met a man with a Laser-Guided Amnesia talent, who met somebody who suggested erasing Princess Ida's knowledge of her own "it only works for people who don't know about it" talent, the Dastard RetConned that meeting.) Obviously, a better use of the Dastard's talent would be to cause these people to be interesting in the first second first place, so that they're indebted to him and tell other people about him and stuff like that.
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Xanth / int_20779065	type	Marry Them All
Xanth / int_20779065	comment	Marry Them All: Nine-year-old Dolph initially wants to in Heaven Cent, as he falls for Princess Nada Naga, but is required to marry Electra due to a curse that will kill her unless she marries the prince who kissed her awake. His mother won't let him marry both, giving him until he's sixteen (though this is later changed so he has to decide before Electra turns sixteen, which is sooner, as her curse will kill her on her sixteenth birthday unless abated) to work it out. This decree that a man can only have one wife causes complications for Good Magician Humfrey later, since he's gone to Hell to rescue his third wife Rose but won't be allowed to be married to both she and his current wife, the Gorgon, when he returns. He winds up working out a deal with Demon X(A/N)th, wherein all four and a half of his wives (including MareAnn, his first love) who've ended up in Hell, plus the Gorgon, work out a rotating schedule in which they each spend a month with him before switching for the next, therefore giving him only one wife at a time.
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Xanth / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
Xanth / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: In Crewel Lye, Jordan and Threnody swap bodies temporarily and gain a greater understanding of what the other deals with. Threnody, after experiencing a male sex drive, is amazed that men can keep their lust under control at all.
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Xanth / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Xanth / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The first book goes into quite a bit of detail, generally via Trent, about how fragile human existence in Xanth is. The third and seventh books, as well as the sixth, go into more detail about what happens when there aren't Deus ex Machina popping up all over the place, and the book focusing on Magician Humfrey is about how much work went into creating the sort-of stability that Bink grew up in.
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Xanth / int_23cc7485	type	I Want Grandkids
Xanth / int_23cc7485	comment	I Want Grandkids: The witch Xanthippe claims this in Dragon on a Pedestal, stating that her son Xavier spends all his time flying around on his hippogryph Xap, and feels that a wife and child will help him settle down. She ultimately gets her wish, but not as she expected when she said it (he marries Zora Zombie instead of Queen Irene, and their human-zombie crossbreed son Xeth plays a major role in Zombie Lover).
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Xanth / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Xanth / int_245cb69d	comment	Changing of the Guard: Save for the first four books (with Bink as the star of the first two, and his son Dor as the star of the next two), no two volumes in a row have the same main character. (Main characters can certainly repeat, they just take breaks between the books they feature in.)
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Xanth / int_258a59e9	type	Our Centaurs Are Different
Xanth / int_258a59e9	comment	Our Centaurs Are Different: They're a race of scholars and researchers who consider magic to be an obscenity. Fully justified in that they are well aware of the crossbreeding effect of life in Xanth, and know their entire race is originally descended from soldiers and Mundane mares. This has led them to strive to better the mind and to outright loathe magic.
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Xanth / int_2905fbec	type	Your Magic's No Good Here
Xanth / int_2905fbec	comment	Your Magic's No Good Here: Isle of View introduces Jenny Elf from ElfQuest's World of Two Moons. When she arrives on Xanth, her telepathy no longer seems to work. But she develops another ability never shown in her home environment; singing daydreams and trapping the unaware within them.
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Xanth / int_2906b25f	type	Dispel Magic
Xanth / int_2906b25f	comment	Dispel Magic: Magician Grey Murphy can cancel out any magic, but only one target at a time (and can actually make magic stronger by leaning hard on his null effect, then removing it).
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Xanth / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Xanth / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Considering their frequency, Great Red Spot of Puns might be more accurate. As the series progresses, an increasing number are reader submitted (and credited in an afterword).
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Xanth / int_29bd6ffc	type	Warning Mistaken for Threat
Xanth / int_29bd6ffc	comment	Warning Mistaken for Threat: In Ogre, Ogre, Smash Ogre tries to warn Tandy to stop when she's getting too close to a carnivorous tangle tree. Unfortunately, when he reaches out to pull her back, she thinks he's attacking her, so she runs away from him directly into the waiting tentacles of the tree.
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Xanth / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Xanth / int_2a44899	comment	Bink appears to be one of these at the beginning of the first book. He later learns that he does have a talent, one that's extremely powerful, but nobody can figure out what it is — and, as far as the law is concerned, if he can't demonstrate it, it's the same as not having one and he'll be exiled anyway. Eventually, someone figures out exactly what his talent is: he cannot be harmed by magic. Furthermore, because the talent itself is magic, it has to protect him from itself, too — which means keeping itself secret so that other people don't try to hurt him using non-magical means. As a result, it only acts via Contrived Coincidence; it winds up blowing its cover when Bink ends up in so much danger that the coincidences needed to save him become so contrived that they couldn't possibly have happened naturally.
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Xanth / int_2c9ef8f7	type	Combo Platter Powers
Xanth / int_2c9ef8f7	comment	Combo Platter Powers: Some hybrids, especially hybrids of human stock, inherit some form of their non-human parents' abilities plus a magic talent. One example is Esk Ogre (ogre/human father, nymph/human mother). Along with his magic talent of "the protest"note When he shouts "NO" at someone, with purpose, they are magically compelled to immediately stop whatever they are doing on the spot., he can summon ogre-level strength when angry enough. The winged centaurs share the magical ability to make things — including themselves — temporarily lighter, allowing their massive centaur bodies to take flight. This is despite all the winged centaurs thus far having different origins.note The first we see had a centaur mother and hippogriff father, her eventual mate had a centaur father and winged horse mother, they had a son together, and the rest so far have been humans voluntarily transformed by Magician Trent, to make a go of a winged centaur species.
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Xanth / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Xanth / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: There've been a few in Xanth's history, since only a Magician can become King. Cases include: When Xanth's first King, King Merlin (Magician of Knowledge), died, there were three Magicians who could take the throne. One, his son Jonathan (AKA the Zombie Master) wasn't interested, so Magicians Roogna (Magician of Adapting Living Magic) and Murphey (Magician Who Makes Things Go Wrong) had to compete against one another for the kingship; Roogna won and married Merlin's daughter Taplin. When King Rune (Magician of Evocation) died, the only known option was Jonathan, who was a zombie by then, and reluctantly became Xanth's sixth king, reigning for a hundred years until abdicating in disgust at the job. When the tenth King Gromden was dying, he required Magician Yin and Magician Yang (actually two personalities of the same man) to compete against one another to succeed him. Yang won and became the eleventh King, Magician of Invokable Spells. King Ebnez (Magician of Adapting Inanimate Magic), the sixteenth King, died with no true Magicians to succeed him, but declared Humfrey's talent of finding information to be Magician-level and named him as his successor. Humfrey's successor, King Aeolus (Magician of Storms) died with three living Magicians (and Jonathan the Zombie) to succeed him, but Bink's talent wasn't publicly known to be Magician-level, Humfrey didn't want the job back, Jonathan was hanging out around Castle Roogna (which had only just been rediscovered, and nobody really knew about him at the time), and the only other option had tried to seize the throne from Aeolus earlier in life. Still, he was a Magician, and so Trent (Magician of Transformation) was Offered the Crown and became one of Xanth's best kings. During the Nextwave (or Fourteenth Wave) invasion of 1067, their ally the Horseman managed to nullify King Trent, trapping his mind in the Gourd realm. Consequently, Dor (Magician of Inanimate Communication) took the throne, and after he was nullified in the same manner, was succeeded by each of Xanth's other Magicians in turn: Jonathan, Humfrey, Bink, Arnolde Centaur (Magician of the Magic Aisle), Iris (Sorceress of Illusion), and Irene (Sorceress of Plant-Growing). Irene names a non-Magician, her mother-in-law Chameleon, as her successor, and Chameleon names Mare Imbri as the tenth King of the chain, with Imbri finally defeating the Horseman and freeing her predecessors. Afterward, Trent retakes the throne, but only until he can abdicate and pass it to Dor.
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Xanth / int_2d834a85	type	Un-Sorcerer
Xanth / int_2d834a85	comment	Un-Sorcerer: Bink appears to be one of these at the beginning of the first book. He later learns that he does have a talent, one that's extremely powerful, but nobody can figure out what it is — and, as far as the law is concerned, if he can't demonstrate it, it's the same as not having one and he'll be exiled anyway. Eventually, someone figures out exactly what his talent is: he cannot be harmed by magic. Furthermore, because the talent itself is magic, it has to protect him from itself, too — which means keeping itself secret so that other people don't try to hurt him using non-magical means. As a result, it only acts via Contrived Coincidence; it winds up blowing its cover when Bink ends up in so much danger that the coincidences needed to save him become so contrived that they couldn't possibly have happened naturally. Aside from Bink, anyone from Mundania who ends up living in Xanth is effectively one of these.
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Xanth / int_2f41cac1	type	Our Werebeasts Are Different
Xanth / int_2f41cac1	comment	Our Werebeasts Are Different: Werebeasts of various kinds exist in Xanth, usually born from a human mother and a non-human father (the other way around results in a straight hybrid, such as a centaur or harpy), who can go from human to animal or vice-versa at will. Known examples include a were-horse in Night Mare and a were-dragon in The Dastard. Though never referred to as one, Smash Ogre is technically a were-ogre (born to an ogre father and a human mother who was a really good actress, playing an ogre in one performance and really getting into her part, especially after Crunch found her). By the end of Ogre, Ogre, he learns to accept that he is both human and ogre and thus how to change between forms by focusing on one side or the other.
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Xanth / int_2f92b9da	type	Watching the Reflection Undress
Xanth / int_2f92b9da	comment	Watching the Reflection Undress: In Demons Don't Dream, Nada Naga insists to Dug that he must not try to see her naked. When she changes in one scene, he attempts to sneak a peek at her anyway with his belt buckle, and the "computer game" that he's playing to connect him to the world of Xanth ends up booting him out because of it.
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Xanth / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Xanth / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Well, the definition of "evil" is stretched a bit for Trent, but he notes that even during his rebellion, he would never intentionally transform someone in a way that would kill them. (e.g. turning them into fish while they are still on land — this didn't stop the rumor mill from claiming he did, though.)
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Xanth / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Xanth / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Xanthippe the witch tries to set up her son Xavier with Irene, Queen of Xanth, in Dragon on a Pedestal, despite knowing that Irene is married (they met because Irene is looking for her daughter). Xavier isn't interested, explaining later that he's looking for a permanent relationship and not just picking a woman offhandedly. Xanthippe also wants Xavier's hippogryph friend Xap to breed with Chem Centaur. The two do indeed fall in love on their own, resulting in a daughter, Chex Centaur, who is one of the first winged centaurs (and one of the few naturally born in that way).
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Xanth / int_3496b29a	type	Heart Is an Awesome Power
Xanth / int_3496b29a	comment	Heart Is an Awesome Power: Several supposedly weak talents, when used with a clever mind, are downright deadly. Take Dor, for example. His talent is making inanimate objects talk, and he doesn't consider it very powerful compared to, say, Trent, who can transform any living creature into any other. However, it's considered a Magician-level talent.note A person with a sufficiently powerful talent is called a Magician, and there are only a few in every generation. Why? Well, inanimate objects remember everything, which means that, if he so chooses, Dor can know anything about anybody by questioning their possessions. Similarly, his granddaughter Eve can tell anything about any inanimate object, including living beings that it's encountered. Dor and Irene's daughter Ivy's talent is enhancement. That is, her presence makes others' magical talents (or other attributes) more powerful. But once she figures out how to focus it, her talent becomes "Rewrite reality according to Ivy's will". For example, her friend Hugo is borderline mentally disabled, but when Ivy's around he becomes a genius, simply because Ivy believes he is smart. Chlorine's talent is making water poisonous, which she doesn't like very much. Her companion observes that she could just as easily purify water by turning it poisonous to kill off harmful organisms, then turning it back to normal. Another, minor character has a literal "spot on the wall" talent of making... spots on the wall, but can use it for creating detailed images and accurate maps.
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Xanth / int_34a592b6	type	Unicorns Prefer Virgins
Xanth / int_34a592b6	comment	Unicorns Prefer Virgins: Mare Ann can summon any kind of horse she wants, and when she still had her "innocence" this included unicorns. She broke up with the Magician Humphrey because she wanted to keep that ability, but after her death she went to Hell, lost her innocence, and therefore lost the ability to summon them anyway.
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Xanth / int_34e05535	type	Rummage Fail
Xanth / int_34e05535	comment	Rummage Fail: Good Magician Humfrey during the climactic battle in The Source of Magic. A few of the vials he opens are useful in combat, but most of them contain random and completely worthless items like spoiled yogurt, a poncho, a pack of cough drops... During the events of Night Mare, Bink uses some of Humfrey's vials to defend himself against the Mundane Nextwavers, but doesn't know what's in them. One turns out to hold a bean sandwich that Humfrey was saving for his lunch.
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Xanth / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Xanth / int_352151a3	comment	Recursive Reality: Princess Ida of Faun And Games has a baseball-sized moon orbiting her, which has another Princess Ida with her own moon, and so on. Which eventually returns to Xanth itself. So Xanth is ultimately orbiting itself. It's one big Escher reality.
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Xanth / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
Xanth / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Characters fall in love and marry shockingly quickly — and Word of God asserts that these marriages are always happy and never end in divorce. (That's magic for you.)
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Xanth / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Xanth / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Lampshaded with Smash Ogre, with Tandy saying she and the other girls don't find him scary at all.
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Xanth / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Xanth / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The series started out somewhere in the middle, and steadily got more and more idealistic. It started out with a lawful, good borderline Physical God in a Death World/Crapsack World, averaging out somewhere in the middle, and moved towards Mary Sue types in a world where happy endings were a law of nature.
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Xanth / int_375bb8f2	type	Good Is Dumb
Xanth / int_375bb8f2	comment	Good Is Dumb: The Dastard, the genius villain who carefully calculates his every move, turns good upon getting his soul back. His talent is to have stupid ideas, making him an idiot. He made a Deal With A Demon for the talent of Time Travel, which he used to Retcon away events that made other people more interesting so that he looked better in comparison. (For example, when he met a man with a Laser-Guided Amnesia talent, who met somebody who suggested erasing Princess Ida's knowledge of her own "it only works for people who don't know about it" talent, the Dastard RetConned that meeting.) Obviously, a better use of the Dastard's talent would be to cause these people to be interesting in the first second first place, so that they're indebted to him and tell other people about him and stuff like that. On the one hand, Bink releasing the demon X(A/N)th is called this in-story. Of course, since this results in all of his descendants having magician-level talents instead of carrying Chameleon's mutation among with more and more benefits over time, it seems to be one of Anthony's occasional Aesops about why the Power of Trust is awesome and Lawful Stupid isn't necessarily.
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Xanth / int_3767e049	type	PowerOfLove
Xanth / int_3767e049	comment	All the zombies have slurred speech, the degree of this varies depending on their physical state. Zora is restored by the Power of Love to an almost-normal state in which she looks like a beautiful woman... but she still speaks with a slight slurring, giving away the fact that she is undead nonetheless.
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Xanth / int_396d046e	type	Fun with Homophones
Xanth / int_396d046e	comment	Fun with Homophones: Spelling bees can spell things accurately, but the person has to specify which word they mean. Otherwise, the user ends up trying to write something like "My tale is done" and gets "My tail is dun", as Dor learned in Centaur Aisle.
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Xanth / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Xanth / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: Princess Ida could be considered this, although her talent is a passive one: She can make any stated idea come true, but only if the idea comes from someone who doesn't know about her talent.
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Xanth / int_3bc22d58	type	Art Initiates Life
Xanth / int_3bc22d58	comment	Art Initiates Life: Neytron, the eighth King of Xanth, could bring paintings to life. He used this talent to create women for himself, furnishings for Castle Roogna, and food for the populace in lean times.
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Xanth / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Xanth / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Bink's talent is immunity to harm by magic, including indirect harmnote an ogre throwing rocks, an illusion hiding a pit, or the death of a companion or loved one, which would injure him emotionally. As there is very little in Xanth that is not in some way magical, the talent becomes "he can only be harmed by completely mundane things". Thus, it further protects him by disguising its own existence, making is seem he avoids harm through clumsiness, luck, or freak accidents, so that this weak point in his magic will not harm him, which would technically be harm by (a failure of) magic!. The price of this is that it constantly makes him the Butt-Monkey of any situation- humiliation does not count as injury, as he has a humble and resilient personality. Minor scrapes and bruises apparently do not count, either. However, due to how subtle it is, Trent regards Bink's talent as extremely dangerous to anyone who is or may become a threat to Bink. In the first book, the senile and ill King who insisted Bink be exiled to Mundania (where there is no magic and therefore his talent could not protect him) sickened and died, allowing Trent (who was Bink's friend, knew about his talent, and was no threat to Bink) to assume the throne. This allowed Trent to decree that Bink could stay in Xanth, made Bink a member of the Royal Court so that making an enemy of Bink also meant that King Trent would be your enemy, and allowed Bink to be with Chameleon, whom he'd fallen in love with. All these events happening just by coincidence? Perhaps, but Trent had seen very well how Bink's talent used coincidence and happenstance to Bink's benefit, and therefore knew it could end up being very bad for anyone that Bink's talent came to regard as a threat. A number of characters have talents that could qualify as this. The title character of The Dastard, for example, had the amazing talent of coming up with bad ideas. He ended up selling his soul for a better talent, but since the idea to do so came to him when he had his original talent, it was of course itself a bad idea. Then there's beings like the Gorgon, who must cover her face or turn anyone who sees her into stone. Absent Mindedness has also appeared as a Talent. And Dishonesty. And Bad Luck. And Making Mistakes. And Mispronunciation. And having nobody ever get your name right. And being able to make any wish and get half of what you wanted. Doesn't sound so bad, right? You'd settle for half a fortune (or just wish for two of them). Well, it sucks if your first wish was to be a Wit. Bink's wife, Chameleon's, talent is that her physical beauty and intelligence go through a high/low monthly cycle, but cycle in opposite directions, so that she's a beautiful dolt (subject to being taken advantage of by the village louts) on one end and a genius hag no one can stand to be around on the other. Esk Ogre has to deal with disadvantages gained from his half-human parents: He has occasional bouts of ill-tempered stupidity (his half-ogre dad) and empty-headed vapidity (his half-nymph mother).
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Xanth / int_3e4cb2cc	type	Weird Weather
Xanth / int_3e4cb2cc	comment	Weird Weather: It experiences Madness Storms near the source of the realm's magic. These usually result in the temporary enhancement or derangement of existing magic and perceptions, but stronger storms can cause temporary World of Chaos conditions in the area as the line between hallucination, illusion, and reality blurs.
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Xanth / int_3e80f488	type	Glowing Flora
Xanth / int_3e80f488	comment	Glowing Flora: In The Source Of Magic, sunflower blossoms are tiny glowing suns. They give off light equal to daylight that's capable of blinding others. When a sunflower goes to seed, the light fades.
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Xanth / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Xanth / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: More than a few over the course of the series. In Heaven Cent, Grace'l Ossein is a kindly skeleton who messes up a bad dream that was meant to torment a troll who'd acted un-trollish, saving a human child instead of letting his fellow trolls eat her, and is put on trial for it. The trial is really an excuse to test whether her actions were caused by laziness, carelessness or confusion; since she constantly acted nice and proved herself a good person during the trial, she's found guilty of being "too nice" to work in nightmares and is "punished" by being permanently barred from that job, instead being transferred to only work in good dreams. And since there's little call for animated skeletons in such, she's placed on leave in Xanth until such time as they need her for one, allowing her to reunite with her love Marrow Bones. Roxanne Roc's trial in Roc and a Hard Place is one, and ends with her being "punished" with functional immortality and a lifetime of caring for the Simurgh's chick.
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Xanth / int_401089da	type	Offstage Villainy
Xanth / int_401089da	comment	Offstage Villainy: "Evil" Magician Trent did many bad things as a young man, before the start of the series, but he has already reformed by the time of the first book (and some of it was Malicious Slander).
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Xanth / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
Xanth / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: The Sea Hag's talent, in a nutshell. But she can only do it after her current body dies, so she typically picks out a new host and spirits them away before killing her current body so she can take over theirs. Also, they have to willingly let her take over.
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Xanth / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
Xanth / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: Lampshaded. Being a Main Character of a Xanth novel ensures that one will eventually get a happy ending, because that's how magic works.
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Xanth / int_4143f84f	type	Leg Focus
Xanth / int_4143f84f	comment	Leg Focus: Irene is repeatedly stated to have some of the most beautiful legs in the land (even without magical enhancement).
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Xanth / int_420a8323	type	Smart Ball
Xanth / int_420a8323	comment	Smart Ball: The Eye-Queue vines literally have this effect, making even the dumbest characters, such as barbarians and ogres, smarter. (Although with the exception of special, magically enhanced ones, the increased intelligence is only an illusion.)
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Xanth / int_4280d1fd	type	Spock Speak
Xanth / int_4280d1fd	comment	Spock Speak: Centaurs, who are much more educated than your average human peasant.
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Xanth / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Xanth / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: In the fourth book, Irene is given a fur garment, with a silver lining sewn in.
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Xanth / int_47541a7f	type	Skirts and Ladders
Xanth / int_47541a7f	comment	Skirts and Ladders: Not exactly ladders, but don't wear a skirt if you're planning to use the invisible bridge to cross the Gap Chasm. Unless you want to risk someone walking below looking up and finding out what color your panties are.
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Xanth / int_478ae179	type	And Now You Must Marry Me
Xanth / int_478ae179	comment	And Now You Must Marry Me: As revealed in Question Quest, after Muerte A. Fid became the twelfth King of Xanth, he tried to force Rose Pax Bliss to marry him, "to secure his seeming legitimacy", since she was the granddaughter of the late King Yang. She managed to escape instead, and was protected (and kept from aging) by Castle Roogna, until Humfrey found her and, after getting his degree in magic from the Demon's University of Magic, took her as his third wife.
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Xanth / int_4830326a	type	Give Me a Sword
Xanth / int_4830326a	comment	Give Me a Sword: In Centaur Aisle, King Omen demands a sword to fight his Evil Uncle; this is shot down because on one hand, the sword is magical giving him an unfair advantage, and on the other hand, if the magic is not used, the king is wounded and so his uncle has an unfair advantage.
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Xanth / int_48432572	type	HollywoodChameleon
Xanth / int_48432572	comment	Hollywood Chameleon: Xanthian chameleons can camouflage themselves by appearing to be different species.
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Xanth / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Xanth / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Volev vpeak with a livp (Voles speak with a lisp). They, however, hear othersss asss having hissssing accsentsss.
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Xanth / int_4a9c731e	type	When Trees Attack
Xanth / int_4a9c731e	comment	When Trees Attack: The carnivorous Tangle Trees, which attack and eat people.
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Xanth / int_4ba29ebb	type	Lost Him in a Card Game
Xanth / int_4ba29ebb	comment	Lost Him in a Card Game: Dug makes a bet with his friend Edsel that the latter won't be able to find a game that Dug would be interested in, with the stakes being Ed's motorcycle and Dug's girlfriend Pia. When Dug tells Pia about the bet, she is fine with it, and hints that she wouldn't mind becoming Edsel's girlfriend. Dug finds himself really getting into the Companions of Xanth computer game, and ends up losing the bet. At that point, he doesn't care about losing, and by the completion of the game, he has fallen for Kim, the other person that was competing in the game.
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Xanth / int_4c6205c5	type	New Technology Is Evil
Xanth / int_4c6205c5	comment	New Technology Is Evil: After the writer got annoyed by automated spell-checkers and a PC crash destroyed an entire novel, the evil Com-Pewter appeared in Xanth. (Amusingly, he famously switched to Linux after the crash.)
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Xanth / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
Xanth / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: Hypnosis, reality warping, scrying, shapeshifting, control over your own clothing. If you can't think of any use for those, you haven't been reading the books closely enough. Then there are talents like undressing women with your eyes or making people bare. Barring an attack by evil garments, it's very unlikely these talents will get much legitimate use. Millie the Maid's canonical magic talent is "Sex Appeal". After she's restored, Queen Iris pops an illusion of a French maid outfit on her.
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Xanth / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Xanth / int_4dbd3706	comment	This is how Grey Murphy's talent of nullifying magic manifests in Man from Mundania. At first, no one realizes it's his talent; they think it's coincidence or his inherent skepticism about magic somehow pulling a reverse-Clap Your Hands If You Believe.
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Xanth / int_50434c6e	type	Pun-Based Creature
Xanth / int_50434c6e	comment	Pun-Based Creature: The Night Mare, among many others.
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Xanth / int_5321053	type	In the Doldrums
Xanth / int_5321053	comment	In the Doldrums: The Neverglades. An infinite expanse of featureless marsh that traps people within it for all eternity unless you can overcome the spell in some way.
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Xanth / int_539bb70d	type	Cosmic Chess Game
Xanth / int_539bb70d	comment	Cosmic Chess Game: The World Demons are always playing one of these, with the winner gaining status or territory from the loser.
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Xanth / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Xanth / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Stanley Steamer is a literal dragon, the strongest, toughest, and most formidable dragon in all of Xanth. No creature in its right mind messes with him. He's also completely loyal to Ivy, and basically turns into a large, affectionate puppy dog around her. Any friend of Ivy's is a friend of his. Anyone Ivy doesn't like...well, if you're lucky Ivy will be able to stop him from killing you.
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Xanth / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
Xanth / int_54321e11	comment	Mr. Anthony's views on sexuality (it's not bad, and it springs into our minds a lot sooner than 18 or even 16 years old) and nudity ("Some time we'll have to discuss why the sight of a naked woman as God made her should be considered to harm a child, but that's another issue") appear as a subtext in nearly every book. Even "worse" with the nonhuman characters, who, almost as a rule, have little or no nudity taboo. A further writer on board thing deals with how his centaurs reject magic as obscene. In The Source of Magic, this is then directly compared to humans rejecting nudity and bodily functions as obscene.
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Xanth / int_54d6f53f	type	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
Xanth / int_54d6f53f	comment	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Becka's 'talent', the awareness she was given by Humfrey.
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Xanth / int_54ec2f0c	type	Not Completely Useless
Xanth / int_54ec2f0c	comment	Not Completely Useless: Lacuna has a magic talent that allows her to alter printed text, or make printed words appear. It's not very useful in most cases, except the occasional prank at a wedding ceremony, but then she has a run-in with the evil Com-Pewter, who can alter local reality with the words printed on his screen. She gives him a Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing by making "I will be good instead of evil. Save and compile." appear on his screen. Spot-on-the-wall talents are magical abilities so minimal as to be useless. One character actually gets the ability to make a spot on the wall — and then realizes that a whole bunch of little spots together are pixels.
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Xanth / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Xanth / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Inverted with King Aeolus' law that banished all humans lacking magical talents from Xanth and required them to publicly demonstrate it (though in the case of one man whose talent was changing the color of his urine, they accepted an affidavit instead). Zombies are one of the most disliked species in Xanth by people; Dragon on a Pedestal and Zombie Lover both have a character learning to appreciate them as part of the plot. Dragon on a Pedestal notes that Iris "was not too partial to centaurs", but changed her opinion after Arnolde Centaur, during his time as king in Night Mare, declared Irene's talent made her a full Sorceress. The centaurs of Centaur Isle have no tolerance for other centaurs who manifest talents, or for crossbreeds other than their own kind, refusing to allow Chex, a winged centaur, onto their island simply because of her species, and even talking about such relations is discouraged, regardless of the speaker's species. The northern centaurs are only a little better, and don't accept Chex either; her mother Chem also ceases to be welcome there after bearing a child to a non-centaur. Even their own family members will reject centaurs who display magic or breed with non-centaurs — both Chet and Chem Centaur are effectively disowned by their mother for breeding outside their race (even if it was because of a love spring in Chet's case).
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Xanth / int_57c25438	type	Green Thumb
Xanth / int_57c25438	comment	Green Thumb: Irene's talent is making plants grow at hyper speed.
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Xanth / int_58075ef2	type	Stumbling in the New Form
Xanth / int_58075ef2	comment	Stumbling in the New Form: Dolph is a Magician whose talent is that he can transform into any living creature, but he's aware that when he does transform he has to be careful. If he becomes a winged creature he can't fly as well as due to little practice, if he becomes a four legged creature he stumbles and often tries to use front legs as hands/arms.
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Xanth / int_5890b975	type	One Person, One Power
Xanth / int_5890b975	comment	One Person, One Power: Everyone in Xanth has a single magical talent, though some of them are far more useful than others.
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Xanth / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Xanth / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: It happens off-screen in Night Mare, but Mare Imbri follows the trail of then-King Bink and Hasbinbad, leader of the Punic Nextwavers and discovers that their sword fight ended when Hasbinbad fell to his death in the Gap Chasm.
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Xanth / int_5cbb2384	type	G-Rated Sex
Xanth / int_5cbb2384	comment	G-Rated Sex: "Summoning the Stork" is actually just hugging and kissing, naked, until the "..." appears. In two books, it's mentioned that it's more than this. In The Color of Her Panties, when Gwenny Goblin, Che Centaur and Jenny Elf figure out the Adult Conspiracy, they mention that other contact is required, though they don't specify. In Xone of Contention, Chlorine and Nimby summon the stork the mundane way, and mention that it's the same, only slightly messier. Storks at the dispatch literally get a ... on their receivers. Fauns and nymphs annoy the hell out of them, because they still receive the signal, but it just comes through as .. and is a waste of everyone's valuable time.
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Xanth / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Xanth / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: In Dragon on a Pedestal, a goblin chief intends to put a harpy man through one of these to justify his execution for romancing his daughter. The trial doesn't even have a prosecution or defense to begin with, consisting only of judge and jury, and it's only when the protagonists kick up a fuss that he grudgingly allows for lawyers.
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Xanth / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
Xanth / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Com Pewter is a sentient computer who likes to do this in its games, at first.
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Xanth / int_632390db	type	Obliviously Superpowered
Xanth / int_632390db	comment	Obliviously Superpowered: With a setting that runs on One Person, One Power, a character being unaware of their magic Talent crops up in several books. A Spell For Chameleon is about Bink going on a quest to discover why seemingly he is the only person in Xanth without any kind of Talent. It turns out that he is a Reality Warper with a Talent that passively protects him from any magical harm. If he's in danger of dying, his Talent will create a Deus ex Machina to save him, which had been happening all throughout the book and his life. Centaur Aisle introduces Arnolde, a centaur who has recently discovered that magic seems to be leaking past the borders of Xanth into Mundania. What he actually found is his Talent, which creates a narrow corridor in front and behind him where magic continues to work outside of Xanth. Grey Murphy in Man From Mundania is a Flat-Earth Atheist that refuses to believe in magic even after arriving in Xanth. It's not helped by the fact that magic stops working around him. Truthfully, Grey has a Talent — he projects an Anti-Magic field around him. This is because he's the son of the Magician Murphy and Neo-Sorceress Vadne, two criminals who escaped from the Brain Coral during the Time of No Magic. The two fled to Mundania together, but not before indulging in a bit of "stork summoning", conceiving Grey.
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Xanth / int_63557923	type	Death World
Xanth / int_63557923	comment	Death World: Xanth, especially in the early books. Multiple varieties of carnivorous trees and a multitude of other reasons not to wander off the enchanted paths. And if anything goes wrong with those enchantments...
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Xanth / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Xanth / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: A truly epic subversion in Bink. Despite having a godlike talent with a very intelligent mind of its own, combining Plot Armor with Gambit Roulette and Xanatos Speed Chess, Bink spent years unaware he had a talent, forced to learn to survive without one in Xanth, which was much more of a Death World in the early books. Thus, he was forced to develop the skill set of a Badass Normal and learned empathy for the disadvantaged, gaining the Power of Friendship. Since Lawful Stupid carries certain advantages in Xanth and Magnificent Bastard status has them everywhere, he can essentially have his cake and eat it too, allowing him to sway even the Demon XaNTH. The Badass Normal skill set his talent forced him to develop paid off when the demon reversed his talent, causing it to seek Bink's destruction: the Badass Normal ability to protect himself from magic it forced him to develop was powerful enough to defend himself against that very same talent, which also goes to show the extremely long game played by Bink's talent. It should be noted that Bink's plot armor is actually justified in-universe!
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Xanth / int_65e33518	type	Lethal Harmless Powers
Xanth / int_65e33518	comment	Lethal Harmless Powers: In Night Mare, The Horseman has the relatively useless talent of connecting someone's line of sight to a different location. Unfortunately, Mare Imbri teaches him about the gourds, and The Horseman starts using his talent to connect peoples' line of sight to a gourd peephole, trapping their consciousness in the Dream Realm.
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Xanth / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Xanth / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Many people have accused Piers Anthony of enjoying having his younger female characters end up naked more than would be considered healthy. Lampshaded: The Adult Conspiracy is a magical censorship spell that prevents anyone under 18 from hearing curse words, seeing panties (nudity is still fine, however), or generally figuring out anything about sexuality. Added after a reviewer complained about nudity and sexuality in Xanth. Two to the Fifth takes this and just runs with it — the hero gets a 12 year old girl princess chasing after him, so he tries to let her down easy. Mistake! She's a sorceress, so she artificially ages herself long enough to force him into a love spring and er, seduce him before the artificial age magic wears off. Love springs have the side effect of forcing the two people affected by it to mate, and making it guaranteed to work. This leaves him stuck in love with her, just in time for the stork to deliver their new child... oh, and the Adult Conspiracy makes an appearance as well, a few hours too late — his new "wife" forgets all the details right after the age magic wears off.
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Xanth / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
Xanth / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: The Xanth novels are written by one of the Muses of Greek myth, and a certain writer has been sneaking copies of them to Mundania.
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Xanth / int_6b146924	type	Species Surname
Xanth / int_6b146924	comment	Species Surname: Most non-humans. Tend to be Alliterative Names as well (e.g. Che Centaur, Glory Goblin).
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Xanth / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Xanth / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Many, and they're usually a Punny Name as well. For example, there's Evil Magician Murphy, whose talent is making things go wrong.
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Xanth / int_6d5ab39e	type	Fractured Fairy Tale
Xanth / int_6d5ab39e	comment	Fractured Fairy Tale: That evil dragon? He's actually a nice guy who breathes steam and is trying to keep you from falling to your doom. The damsel in distress? Only staying captured cause she's hoping to attract a nice prince to marry her. The "evil magician"? He's a nice guy, just happens to be from the opposite political party from the current king.
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Xanth / int_6f32887b	type	WelcomeToTheRealWorld
Xanth / int_6f32887b	comment	Welcome to the Real World: Mundania, the world outside of Xanth in which magic does not exist, is supposed to be the same place that the reader lives in. Characters sometimes travel between Mundania and Xanth. (The nature of the border between Xanth and Mundania is complicated, but you can get there by entering just about any peninsula in Mundania.)
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Xanth / int_6f81817b	type	Grows on Trees
Xanth / int_6f81817b	comment	Grows on Trees: Fur pelts grow on fur trees. As a consequence, the fur is naturally green.
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Xanth / int_70377a97	type	Transforming Conforming
Xanth / int_70377a97	comment	Transforming Conforming: Dolph, the son of Dor and Irene, is a Magician who can transform into any other living creature. However, he also has the limitations that come with whatever creature he chooses. If he becomes a dog, his eyesight is poor. When he was an adolescent, when he transformed he would also be an adolescent version of whatever creature he chose. This put him at a distinct disadvantage if he was fighting an adult version of that creature. Also, if he transformed into a creature like a fire-breathing, flying dragon he wouldn't be as good at fighting as the real thing, since in his new form he lacked experience in flying, using his flame offensively, etc.
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Xanth / int_70ed9079	type	Creepy Centipedes
Xanth / int_70ed9079	comment	Creepy Centipedes: The dreaded nickelpedes. They have 500 legs and their bite can gouge out a slice of flesh the size of a U.S. nickel coin, hence the name. There are also dimepedes, which are smaller but twice as vicious, and quarterpedes, which gouge out two bits of flesh with every pinch. Taken to the extreme with the dollarpedes, slow moving creatures that have lost most of their power over time. Subverted with the harmless pennypedes.
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Xanth / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Xanth / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: This is essentially how Bink's talent works — no matter how you try to use magic against him, bizarre circumstances will prevent him from being hurt.
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Xanth / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Xanth / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: In the eighth book, there's Jordan, who not only blundered into a journey being promised as a prophesied hero. The whole thing was an Evil Plan by Magician Ying-yang to bring Threnody to him to marry so he could become king. This brings Xanth into its Dark Age for four hundred years, until Trent shows up.
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Xanth / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Xanth / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Trent. His designation as the "Evil Magician" in the first book proves to be largely untrue. He never used his talent in a way that killed or physically harmed anyone and some of his transformations were even done with the well-being of the one transformed in mind. (For example, when he changed Cynthia Centaur, his decision to give her wings wasn't made out of malice, but because he didn't want her to join the centaurs, as he knew how critical and judgmental they could be.) It's later explained that he was largely only ever called "Evil" because he was opposed to the rightful King of Xanth. In A Spell for Chameleon he admits that he was at least untrustworthy, but his traits were exaggerated. His stay in Mundania cures him of a lot of his faults.
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Xanth / int_75402a71	type	Shapeshifting Seducer
Xanth / int_75402a71	comment	Shapeshifting Seducer: This is why the Demoness Metria is Ms. Fanservice. To some degree, Iris, although in her case it's all illusion. She can still look however you want.
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Xanth / int_78418ebb	type	Super-Empowering
Xanth / int_78418ebb	comment	Super-Empowering: Ivy's ability can selectively supercharge people's properties, including their magical talents. Her husband Grey can do the same thing by canceling out magical properties, when they're turned back on the built-up energy causes their talents to come back by multiple times. And the Demon X(A/N)th can do this both at will (as he did to Breanna of the Black Wave) and by simply existing, as he is the source of magic that saturates Xanth and causes people to develop their own magic. This is the weakest level of Ivy's Talent. At higher levels, it can also act as a Care-Bear Stare (why Stanley didn't just kill her despite being rejuvenated to a baby) and approach Reality Warping.
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Xanth / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
Xanth / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: Metria's son Ted and Nada and Vore's daughter Monica. But no one knows for how long.
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Xanth / int_7a7ec1e8	type	Violence is the Only Option
Xanth / int_7a7ec1e8	comment	Violence is the Only Option: Notably and almost universally averted throughout the series, beginning with the first book, in which the villain, Trent, turns out to have lots of redeeming qualities and is essentially convinced to become the Big Good. Occasional exceptions include Castle Roogna and Night Mare.
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Xanth / int_81241767	type	Smelly Skunk
Xanth / int_81241767	comment	Smelly Skunk: An actual skunk doesn't appear in Night Mare, but the trope is referenced when Bink uses Humphrey's book of Words of Power, and one of the words in question — "SKONK!" — produces a cloud of horrible odor that makes everyone caught in it start gagging.
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Xanth / int_82d1f93f	type	MagiTek
Xanth / int_82d1f93f	comment	Magitek: Magical Items tend to react in very specific, predictable ways, on which civilization in Xanth has come to depend. For example, in lieu of hospitals, Xanthians keep a few healing potions in their homes.
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Xanth / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Xanth / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: All over the place! This is how most of the Half-Human Hybrids come about. When you drink from a Love Spring, you immediately fall in love with the next creature of the opposite sex you lay eyes on. When a man and his mare unwittingly get a drink from the same spring, well, the result is a Centaur. These actually come in several varieties, some cause actual romantic bonds but most just cause immediate mating with guaranteed pregnancy.
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Xanth / int_84f15fc4	type	Sapient Steed
Xanth / int_84f15fc4	comment	Sapient Steed: Any Night Mare who gives a person a ride, as seen in Ogre, Ogre. Mare Imbrium extensively serves as one to Chameleon and others in Night Mare. The Day Horse in Night Mare, who seems to be a normal Mundane horse but is very intelligent to Imbri. He turns out to be their enemy the Horseman, a werehorse from Xanth. Demon X(A/N)th in Yon Ill Wind, a dragon with the head of a donkey that a girl named Chlorine rides.
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Xanth / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Xanth / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: Quite a bit, actually. Lots of the puns in Xanth are likely to go over the primary audiences' head. Some of the somewhat adult situations (characters losing clothing etc.) are shrugged off by the characters, since they're too young to realize the connotations. Having said that, there's a huge amount of Childhood Bonus — lots of these books are much more of a Guilty Pleasure than they appear at first glance. Mr. Anthony definitely knows his target audience.
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Xanth / int_86eea0e5	type	World of Pun
Xanth / int_86eea0e5	comment	World of Pun: There's been a steady increase in puns throughout the series. The first two books had only a handful of puns. After that, Piers Anthony started making the series more comedic, and adding more puns as part of the process. Then he started accepting reader-submitted puns and it and got completely out of control. Naturally, a great many Xanth fans were thrilled by this opportunity to actually be a part of their favorite series, even if only in a small way, so the puns flooded in ever-greater numbers, to the point that Anthony frequently has several books' worth of pun backlog.
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Xanth / int_86f27af6	type	Bait-and-Switch Tyrant
Xanth / int_86f27af6	comment	Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: "Evil Magician Trent" who, when he becomes the only known possible choice for king, proves himself such a capable ruler he becomes known as "Good King Trent".
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Xanth / int_8712e4c9	type	Story-Breaker Power
Xanth / int_8712e4c9	comment	Every human (born in Xanth) has a special, unique talent, and people with particularly powerful magical talents are Magicians and are able to serve as king (or Sorceress, the female equivalent). There are weak but useful abilities, for example determining the direction of anything (including 'Source of Magic'), or speak any language. The relatively few useless talents are called 'Spot on the Wall' talents. Magician levels are Illusion (at a range, that you can see through, that encompass all five senses), the ability to turn anyone but yourself into any other living creature, the ability to turn yourself into any other living creature, making things true by agreeing with them (only barely avoiding Story-Breaker Power status by the fact that the thing agreed with has to come from someone unaware of her talent), knowing damn near everything, enhancement (of anything, without apparent limit, and including "enhancement" of negative traits), nullification of magic (no matter how powerful), and being immune to magical harm.
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Xanth / int_875f008a	type	Psychometry
Xanth / int_875f008a	comment	Psychometry: This is the magical talent of Gromden, the tenth King of Xanth, which he demonstrates to Jordan in Crewel Lye.
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Xanth / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Xanth / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The greater demons, such as X(A/N)th: the second book goes into some detail, as does Swell Foop.
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Xanth / int_880ce607	type	Vanity Is Feminine
Xanth / int_880ce607	comment	Vanity Is Feminine: Becoming vain is often seen as a positive sign of female growth. Of course, there are downsides....
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Xanth / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Xanth / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: One character is aware she was meant to be a protagonist (she was bumped to make room for Jenny Elf) and spends most of her own novel trying to become a Main Character and gain Plot Immunity.
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Xanth / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Xanth / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: They're much closer to the Voodoo "magically reanimated slave" version than the Night of the Living Dead (1968) "flesh eating aggressive horde" version. Created by and (theoretically) under the control of the (not evil) Zombie Master Jonathan, they are sentient and retain memories of their lives, though they are typically dull witted due to brain rot. They can retain their magical talents, like Zora's ability to age others. And they have the supernatural ability to always have more flesh to rot away, no matter how much they have already lost. In the seventh book, however, it's "revealed" that if you show a Zombie love and affection, the decaying process begins to reverse, until they look like people who have been dead a couple of minutes instead of several years — nearly indistinguishable from a living human.
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Xanth / int_8c30c2ac	type	Rewriting Reality
Xanth / int_8c30c2ac	comment	Rewriting Reality: Com-Pewter's shtick is that anything he types becomes real.
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Xanth / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Xanth / int_8e5c862	comment	Ancient Conspiracy: The Adult Conspiracy (to keep interesting stuff away from children). The Adult Conspiracy is taken so seriously that children who manage to break it gain incredible power — The Color of Her Panties has a whole miniplot before the main plot even starts where the main character has to drag her brother to a magic spring to make him forget how to swear, because it's a colony of goblins. She has to remove those words from his mind because he's a child and that sort of thing being repeated to the other goblin children will make them the worst generation ever, and since their goal is to improve the goblins as a species, he has to be stopped. In Xanth, as in South Park, curse words really do invoke curses; saying them can do things like set the roof of your house on fire. So swearing is Serious Business.
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Xanth / int_8fac4a3a	type	Superpower Lottery
Xanth / int_8fac4a3a	comment	Bink even (without trying to) makes winning the Superpower Lottery a hereditary trait; he impressed the above-mentioned omnipotent demon, who decided that all of the character's descendants would also be Magicians/Sorceresses. The demon never told him about this reward, though.
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Xanth / int_902ff525	type	Sdrawkcab Alias
Xanth / int_902ff525	comment	Sdrawkcab Alias: During Heaven Cent, Dolph (in the form of a dragonfly) needs an alias, quickly, while attending the wedding of Chex Centaur and Cheiron Centaur. He comes up with "Phlod Firefly", a mostly backwards version of his own name that he uses in games with his sister, and briefly recalls similar names that were used by or to refer to other people in these games.
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Xanth / int_905a9ca0	type	Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration
Xanth / int_905a9ca0	comment	Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration: Type III. The zombies continually rot, but they always have more flesh to shed. Some can even be restored to near-normality and hardly rot at all (becoming Type II).
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Xanth / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Xanth / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: This is invoked by the "adult conspiracy" where children are deliberately not told about sex, swearing, and other family-unfriendly things.
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Xanth / int_94b81c55	type	Spin-Offspring
Xanth / int_94b81c55	comment	Spin-Offspring: The first Xanth books starred Bink. Most of the next few starred Bink's son, Dor. After that it was Dor's daughter, Ivy, then his son, Dolph. A few involved Good Magician Humfrey's line, but that wasn't shown until after the fact.
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Xanth / int_952bcf83	type	The Phoenix
Xanth / int_952bcf83	comment	The Phoenix: The legendary Simurgh — a giant bird who lives on Mount Parnassus. She has seen the universe remade three times and lived through it. There are other types of phoenix too, such as the kind Bink is temporarily turned into late in A Spell For Chameleon.
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Xanth / int_952e4e06	type	Utility Magic
Xanth / int_952e4e06	comment	Utility Magic: A lot of the magic has mundane purposes. For example, the Gorgon's face, when exposed, can turn people to stone. However, after her marriage to Humfrey, she mainly uses its stiffening effects on a certain type of food to create Gorgon-zola cheese.
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Xanth / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Xanth / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Good Magician Humfrey and his wife the Gorgon were modeled after Lester and Judy Lynn del Rey; after Judy Lynn died and Anthony left Del Rey Books, the Magician and his family disappeared from Xanth for a while (starting in book 10 and returning in book 14) because Anthony felt awkward writing them. Jenny Elf was named after a fan of Xanth who was struck by a car and fell into a coma. After her mother wrote to Piers Anthony about her and he wrote back, his letter was read to the comatose Jenny... and she awoke. The character of Jenny Elf was subsequently worked into the series.
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Xanth / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Xanth / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: In book 39, it's revealed that Jenny Elf and Jeremy Werewolf have had a second child (their firstborn, son Jerry Welf — and no, that's not a typo — was introduced in book 29), a daughter named Jone. She's introduced by means of Jenny visiting her grave, revealing that she died in an accident. It's later revealed that Astrid, a basilisk/cockatrice who was introduced in book 38 and changed to human form in book 39, inherited Jone's soul when it was dropped by the night mare who was carrying it to the afterlife, and rolled into the burrow where Astrid was asleep, entering her body. The end result was that Astrid inherited Jone's destiny of saving Xanth.
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Xanth / int_965a0be2	type	Butt Biter
Xanth / int_965a0be2	comment	Butt Biter: During Heaven Cent, Prince Dolph and Marrow Bones enter the cave of Draco Dragon, and discover that it includes an underwater tunnel that's home to a swarm of piranha. Later, when a group of goblins try to rob Draco's nest of the jewel collection he's amassed, Marrow throws it into the water. A trio of goblins hop in after the jewels... and promptly re-emerge, each with a fish chomped onto his rear.
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Xanth / int_98591d23	type	Speech Impediment
Xanth / int_98591d23	comment	Speech Impediment: All the zombies have slurred speech, the degree of this varies depending on their physical state. Zora is restored by the Power of Love to an almost-normal state in which she looks like a beautiful woman... but she still speaks with a slight slurring, giving away the fact that she is undead nonetheless. Metria has one in which she has a hard time using the right word at first until someone questions her on it, leading to her rattling off a string of words that eventually results in what she really meant. This, along with her multiple personality disorder, is apparently a result of her being stepped on by a sphinx when she was new.
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Xanth / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Xanth / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Just about everything the Good Magician Humfrey does counts as this. He is the Magician of Information, after all.
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Xanth / int_98ce21fe	type	Long-Running Book Series
Xanth / int_98ce21fe	comment	Long-Running Book Series: 41 books in 39 years, with another three completed but not yet published as of 2018, with #45 is in development. And he has no intention of stopping.
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Xanth / int_9a1fe522	type	Attractive Zombie
Xanth / int_9a1fe522	comment	Attractive Zombie: Zora gradually becomes this due to Xavier giving her The Power of Love.
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Xanth / int_9a8c7632	type	Dumb Is Good
Xanth / int_9a8c7632	comment	Dumb Is Good: While there are a number of smart "good guys" in the Xanth novels, they're also almost all kind of snotty about it. For example, even the nicest of the centaurs (who are, as a race, intellectuals) is generally an unrepentant Grammar Nazi.
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Xanth / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
Xanth / int_9c88cfb	comment	Mermaid Problem: Just how do mermaids summon the stork anyway? The same way everyone else does.
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Xanth / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
Xanth / int_9ce377f1	comment	Cure Your Gays: With a pun-made-literal straightjacket.
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Xanth / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Xanth / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: Except for the opening and ending chapters, Crewel Lye and Question Quest. The former tells the story of Jordan the Barbarian and how he met Threnody, and the latter covers the life of Good Magician Humfrey.
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Xanth / int_9dadfaee	type	Fetish
Xanth / int_9dadfaee	comment	Fetish: Rhythm enjoys being spanked. So much so to put subliminal messages into her boyfriend's mind to make him bring it up.
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Xanth / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
Xanth / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: "Coloured" people, Immigrants from Earth circa the civil rights movement, whose kids (due to the rule of pun) grew up with every skintone under the sun.
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Xanth / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Xanth / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Jordan had a revelation along these lines when he realized he'd been the Unwitting Pawn, bringing about Xanth's dark age.
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Xanth / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Xanth / int_a2cbad1	comment	Most of the Half Human Hybrids don't wear clothing, and as a whole, nudity isn't treated as a big deal in the setting. Lampshaded by a woman who chose to become a Centaur to live with her beau: She's still getting used to the whole "no shirt" thing, but she's doing her best to fit in — with the Centaurs, that is. Most of the main female characters end up naked at least once in any given book, with little emotion given to it other than annoyance.
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Xanth / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Xanth / int_a2dd3c5	comment	My Death Is Just the Beginning: In a strange example, Bink's magical talent, which is that he can't be harmed by magic, appears to twice deliberately have Bink end up in places where there is no magic, not even itself. At first it seems like this is obvious, because without magic his talent wins, until you remember his magic keeps itself secret so he won't be harmed by other means, which means that his talent includes itself among the magic that cannot harm him. And in both cases, without magic, he's in mortal danger. So it was all a plan of his talent, to set things up so that he returned to magic safely, and much better off. That's right, an inanimate magical talent erased itself twice, secure in the knowledge it had set things up so Bink would end up back somewhere magical so it could exist again.
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Xanth / int_a45ca6ee	type	Fantasy Counterpart Map
Xanth / int_a45ca6ee	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Map: The titular Magical Land is the size and shape of a mirrored version of Florida. Given that the series takes place in a World of Pun, the center of Xanthian civilization exists roughly in the same place as Walt Disney World... or in other words, The Magic Kingdom.
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Xanth / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Xanth / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Jordan the Barbarian has regeneration as his magical talent, allowing him to recover from anything (anything) up to and including death... so long as his body parts are fairly close to each other. However, after being reunited with himself at the end of a 400-year period of being sliced up and scattered, he did need a lot of food to fully recover.
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Xanth / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Xanth / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: More like Rule of Punny. The only rule that really matters in Xanth.
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Xanth / int_a82c5152	type	Contractual Immortality
Xanth / int_a82c5152	comment	Contractual Immortality: Lampshaded In-Universe. Being a Main Character of a Xanth novel ensures that one will eventually get a happy ending, because that's how magic works.
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Xanth / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Xanth / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Anyone who got turned into a tree or plant by Trent. Although subverted with Justin Tree, who'd been turned to a tree when Trent tried to seize the throne by force. By the time Trent came back to Xanth, Justin had grown to enjoy being a tree and didn't want to change back (he later changed his mind, though, and Trent did change him back).
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Xanth / int_a91f07ee	type	"No Peeking!" Request
Xanth / int_a91f07ee	comment	"No Peeking!" Request: In Demons Don't Dream, Princess Nada Naga uses her Voluntary Shapeshifting powers to turn into a snake to cross a river while maintaining her clothes dry, but she has to order Dug to turn around both times she shifts since Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing. She actually makes a big deal to impress on him that as a Princess in her culture, being seen naked by him would cause her great shame to the point she'd consider herself Defiled Forever. It still doesn't stop Dug from trying to sneak a peak with the reflection on his belt buckle, which gets him kicked out of the game temporarily.
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Xanth / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Xanth / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Grundy the Golem is easy to dismiss, being a six-inch high smart-ass with a tendency to insult everyone around him. However, he's also highly intelligent, very good at thinking on his feet, and his ability to talk to any living creature means he can gather information very quickly. He's demonstrated several times that while insects, birds, and small animals are pretty insignificant when taken alone, get a few million of them together and motivated and they become a force to be reckoned with.
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Xanth / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Xanth / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: In Dragon on a Pedestal, Xap Hippogryff drinks from a love spring, but is apparently unaffected. It's explained by the fact that love springs force the drinker to fall in love with the first creature of the opposite gender they see... and the first female he saw was Chem Centaur, whom he was already in love with at that point. In Heaven Cent, Electra is woken by Prince Dolph and, due to the magic on her, falls in love with him and must marry him or die. In Isle of View, Dolph initially plans to marry her in order to save her life, then divorce her and marry Nada Naga, whom he's loved since before he met Electra. As part of this plan, the morning after their wedding, Electra takes a potion to rid her of her magic-induced love for Dolph. It doesn't work, because the magic-induced love has already faded and been replaced with natural love in the four years they've known one another. Fortunately, Dolph has also developed natural love for her by this point, and they stay married. This is how Grey Murphy's talent of nullifying magic manifests in Man from Mundania. At first, no one realizes it's his talent; they think it's coincidence or his inherent skepticism about magic somehow pulling a reverse-Clap Your Hands If You Believe.
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Xanth / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
Xanth / int_ac9cac61	comment	Scare 'Em Straight: As revealed in Ogre, Ogre, this is the purpose of the Night Mares, who deliver bad dreams that show "the consequence of evil, a timely warning that all thinking creatures require". Trojan the Night Stallion himself explains that they are a guard against spiritual degradation, the inherent corruption of the soul caused by evil.
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Xanth / int_ad03437f	type	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome
Xanth / int_ad03437f	comment	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: The early books depicted a Xanth that was a Death World outside of the 'safe' areas, and a humanity that was doomed to descend into mindless hybrid animals without periodic invasions of the genocidal or looting and raping varieties. Of course, this was no match for Bink's talent. When an Eldritch Abomination and sending him outside of Xanth, where theoretically his talent shouldn't have been able to send all those Deus ex Machina to protect him couldn't pose a challenge either, it's no wonder Anthony gave up the pretense that there was some possibility characters could lose as the ripple effect of Bink's effect on Xanth spread.
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Xanth / int_aecaa9ac	type	Monster in the Moat
Xanth / int_aecaa9ac	comment	Monster in the Moat: The moat at Castle Roogna contains moat-monsters which generally sound like sea-serpents or something similar. Good Magician Humfrey's castle sometimes has a moat-monster, but not always, and what kind of monster it is changes frequently.
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Xanth / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Xanth / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: In Ogre, Ogre, Blyght Brassie introduces herself, but almost immediately, the Siren accidentally calls her "Blythe" instead. She decides she likes the new name better and goes by Blythe from then on. In Golem in the Gears, Grundy Golem meets Stacey Steamer, the female Gap Dragon (and mate of Stanley Steamer), but accidentally calls her Stella instead. She angrily corrects him, but then decides she likes the new name better, and goes by Stella from then on.
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Xanth / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Xanth / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Several, but Demoness Metria stands out even among the others — and she knows it.
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Xanth / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Xanth / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: Lacuna is permitted to retcon her own life, provided she can do it before the statue of limitations runs out (that's not a typo, by the way). The "Adult Conspiracy" isn't entirely consistent with some of the earlier books. Geis of the Gargoyle was written specifically because so much that had been laid down wasn't consistent with earlier/later books and it all needed straightening out. Dragon on a Pedestal retcons some of the swearing from Castle Roogna into transcription errors on the Muses' part (namely, Dor saying "Hell" in the book when he really said "Well").
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Xanth / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
Xanth / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: How Bink's magic talent seems to manifest itself to observers.
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Xanth / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
Xanth / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Particularly in evidence with Trent's transformational magic, which causes anyone hit with it to obtain the nature and instincts of the new form along with the physical attributes. Also (especially) Chameleon, whose cyclic changes of form carry her personality along for the ride.
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Xanth / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Xanth / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: A variant — Piers Anthony includes a chapter's long Author's Note after the end of every novel he writes, in which he talks about whatever was on his mind while he was writing the novel. If he doesn't people accuse him of being dead.
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Xanth / int_b6064061	type	Power of Trust
Xanth / int_b6064061	comment	Power of Trust: Trent giving Bink and Chameleon his sword as he slept in the first book convinced them that he wasn't evil. In the same way, Bink released Xanth because it was the right thing to do, hoping that the demon wouldn't just leave and destroy Xanth's way of life. X(A/N)th does return because of this, and blesses Bink's descendants with magician-level talents, changing Xanth forever.
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Xanth / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Xanth / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: In Heaven Cent, Dolph becomes engaged to two girls: Nada, who he loves, and Electra, who loves him. Both girls have external reasons why they need to marry him, and Dolph decides to maintain both betrothals until they can come up with a solution; the tangle is resolved two books later in Isle of View.
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Xanth / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Xanth / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Irene, having a plant based talent, has green as her main color. Her hair is green (specifically black with magically made green tints). Her clothes are green (even her panties, seen when her skirt once flares up), and when the centaurs give her fur garments it's hinted to be green (as it's the natural color for fur trees).
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Xanth / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
Xanth / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: Muerte A. Fid, the twelfth King and Magician of Alchemy, is said to be by far the worst King that Xanth ever had (and he was bad from the very beginning — the stork had to hold its nose while delivering him). Yin-yang, the eleventh King who created invokable spells, was said to be pretty bad himself, but his dormant good side kept him well above Fid's level. Aeolus, the eighteenth King and Magician of Storms/Storm King, was also pretty bad, but more of a spoiled self-centered brat than actively malicious (and some of this was due to his not having his soul in him at all times). Four years into his reign, he instituted a law that required every human to show a magical talent or be banished, which kicked off the plot of the first book (Bink's quest to prove he had a talent).
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Xanth / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Xanth / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Take Dor, for example. His talent is making inanimate objects talk, and he doesn't consider it very powerful compared to, say, Trent, who can transform any living creature into any other. However, it's considered a Magician-level talent.note A person with a sufficiently powerful talent is called a Magician, and there are only a few in every generation. Why? Well, inanimate objects remember everything, which means that, if he so chooses, Dor can know anything about anybody by questioning their possessions. Similarly, his granddaughter Eve can tell anything about any inanimate object, including living beings that it's encountered.
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Xanth / int_b9983090	type	The Transmogrifier
Xanth / int_b9983090	comment	The Transmogrifier: Trent has the Talent of transforming people reversibly, which he can use for benevolent or harmful purposes. Most prominently, he has a habit of turning his enemies into trees — not fish, as the Malicious Slander claims.
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Xanth / int_b9e90c0a	type	Vertebrate with Extra Limbs
Xanth / int_b9e90c0a	comment	Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: Pretty much any mammalian species with wings, including winged centaurs (who have four legs, two arms and two wings) and winged goblins. There are also dragons, which tend to have a minimum of four legs plus wings. The Gap Dragons take things up a notch by having six legs and vestigial wings.
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Xanth / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
Xanth / int_bbcdd673	comment	One-Gender Race: Male harpies are extremely rare (and were in fact extinct for the longest time); female harpies reproduce by mating with males of other species, which always produces female offspring.
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Xanth / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Xanth / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Chester Centaur — although all centaurs are scholars as well as pretty big and strong, Chester is particularly aggressive. Smash the Ogre becomes this in Ogre, Ogre when he gets infected by the Eye Queue, adding its curse of intelligence to his natural strength.
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Xanth / int_c1832fcb	type	Feet of Clay
Xanth / int_c1832fcb	comment	Feet of Clay: Literally in Crewel Lye — Jordan is affected by a Taken for Granite spell, but his talent of self-healing causes it to wear off over time. For the last stages, his feet are still made of stone.
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Xanth / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
Xanth / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: At least some goblins have names that seem odd by human standards (and elf standards, and centaur standards). When Moron, Idiot and Imbecile (and Stupid, who is mentioned only) are introduced in Isle of View, Jenny Elf doesn't realize they're being called by their names until Che Centaur explains it, and once she understands, she comments that "Goblins have funny names!"
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Xanth / int_c267c2b4	type	Cataclysm Backstory
Xanth / int_c267c2b4	comment	A bit of ancient Xanthian lore recounted in book 16 reveals the reason why this isn't even more rampant. An ancient war devastated Xanth and created the elemental regions after a pair of rivals pushed this trope to its Logical Extreme: one with the talent to amplify his voice created literal curse words and founded the curse fiends, while the other gamed the talent of shaping water into full blown Weather Manipulation and Elemental Powers. In the end the curse fiends were victorious, and placed a curse on talent expansion, limiting them to only Exact Words manipulation.
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Xanth / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
Xanth / int_c2e295cd	comment	Curse: Repeatedly. The Curse Fiends (or Curse Friends, as they prefer to be called) are humans with the magic talent of cursing, which can devastate whole regions if powerful enough. Numerous times throughout the series, the characters must figure out how to overcome or avoid a curse.
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Xanth / int_c3182167	type	Golem
Xanth / int_c3182167	comment	Golem: A species in Xanth. The first one seen is Grundy the Golem, who debuts in The Source of Magic and was created from wood, rag, string and clay by Good Magician Humfrey; he was later made flesh by the actions of the Demon X(A/N)th, and is a recurring character. Roc and a Hard Place identifies Nero, the ninth King of Xanth, as having the power of bringing golems to life; under his command, they planted a much larger orchard around Castle Roogna to prevent future food shortages. Xone of Contention introduces Robota, a metal golem created by Com Pewter, designed to help him learn about weather.
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Xanth / int_c3f6e68	type	Dem Bones
Xanth / int_c3f6e68	comment	Dem Bones: Living skeletons were created to reside in the Gourd, performing in bad dreams. A handful have emerged into the physical realm of Xanth, including Marrow Bones and his eventual wife Grace'l Ossein. Skeletons are also capable of reproduction both in and out of the gourd; the male skeleton, in a process known as "knocking her up", kicks the female skeleton in the rear so she falls apart, then assembles baby skeletons from her smaller bones (per the nature of skeletons, the bones used in reproduction apparently grow back afterward). This is how Marrow and Grace'l's children, Picka Bone and Joy'nt, came into being.
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Xanth / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
Xanth / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: Oddly averted, if not outright defied. Due to the magic of Xanth, virtually any two creatures can breed together as long as they can make the parts fit (and if they don't fit, you can always get an accommodation spell). So while beings tend to be attracted to their own species, there is very little stigma with Interspecies Romance. Lots of Mix-and-Match Critters and Half-Human Hybrids originate this way, especially with the prevalence of Love Springs. Centaurs, for example, came about when a man and his mare both drank from the same spring.
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Xanth / int_c4773b0a	type	Opposites Theme Naming
Xanth / int_c4773b0a	comment	Opposites Theme Naming: Prince Dolph's daughters, the princesses Dawn and Eve (named for opposite times of the day).
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Xanth / int_c53d32bb	type	Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress
Xanth / int_c53d32bb	comment	Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress: Che Centaur and his family can remove the weight from things for a short period of time, but they cannot remove inertia, and at one point he warns a female not to bounce off the walls since it will still hurt.
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Xanth / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Xanth / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: In A Roc and a Hard Place, Roxanne Roc is brought to trial under the charges of "obscenity against a minor". She's bewildered as to how this could have happened, as she has dedicated her life to hatching the egg of the Simurgh, the oldest and wisest creature in all of Xanth. (As it turns out, she'd uttered an extremely mild epithet, when she thought the egg was about to be broken due to a set of circumstances beyond her control, and the as-yet-to-hatch chick was sentient enough to have heard it.) After much agonizing and handwringing, a jury finds her guilty by one vote. As it turns out, the entire thing was a Secret Test of Character over To Be Lawful or Good where the Demon X(A/N)th had bet with the Demon V(E/N)us that no jury would ever find Roxanne guilty. The Simurgh then "punishes" Roxanne with functional immortality.
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Xanth / int_c6aca700	type	Jury of the Damned
Xanth / int_c6aca700	comment	Jury of the Damned: Prince Dolph has to protect the skeleton Grace'l Ossein from one of these in Heaven Cent, though it's less a jury of the damned and more a jury of characters met earlier in the book.
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Xanth / int_c78c0896	type	Big Friendly Dog
Xanth / int_c78c0896	comment	Big Friendly Dog: Stanley Steamer is the most powerful and dangerous dragon in Xanth, but this trope applies with him and Princess Ivy, who raised him back to adulthood after he had an accident with water from the Fountain of Youth. They're best friends, and Stanley will do anything for her. It's well known that any friend of Ivy's is a friend of Stanley's. It's also well known that the opposite is true as well...
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Xanth / int_c8552b9a	type	Elemental Plane
Xanth / int_c8552b9a	comment	Elemental Plane: The Five Forbidden Regions: the void, the region of water, the region of fire, the region of earth, and the region of air. Each region is filled with terrain and weather that represent it: the region of water, for example, contains a lot of lakes and it rains often. The story of how they were created is given in book 16.
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Xanth / int_c85adb75	type	Semantic Superpower
Xanth / int_c85adb75	comment	Semantic Superpower: Many of the best magical talents allow for quite a bit of rules lawyering. At one point Ivy uses her magic talent of enhancement to enhance the empty space between molecules in a solid wall, making a hole in it. A bit of ancient Xanthian lore recounted in book 16 reveals the reason why this isn't even more rampant. An ancient war devastated Xanth and created the elemental regions after a pair of rivals pushed this trope to its Logical Extreme: one with the talent to amplify his voice created literal curse words and founded the curse fiends, while the other gamed the talent of shaping water into full blown Weather Manipulation and Elemental Powers. In the end the curse fiends were victorious, and placed a curse on talent expansion, limiting them to only Exact Words manipulation.
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Xanth / int_ca72702e	type	Hammered into the Ground
Xanth / int_ca72702e	comment	Hammered into the Ground: In Ogre Ogre, the ogres have a fighting technique called "the nail", which consists of repeatedly pounding your opponent on the head until he is driven into the ground.
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Xanth / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
Xanth / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is the King: The King of Xanth is defined as its ruler (at least among the human inhabitants) while The Queen of Xanth is defined as the King's spouse. Turns out, they never explicitly defined the King as being male, that had just been assumed to be the case for centuries due to the requirement that the office (which is not hereditary) has to go to a Magician. Since females with powerful magic were called Sorceresses, it was believed that they didn't qualify. Until somebody pointed out that a Sorceress is defined as a female Magician, and thus is also a Magician. Which not only paved the way for this trope, but for its inversion: a female King of Xanth's spouse is a male Queen. Not that it necessarily would have been impossible to just change the rule, but in the book where they figured this out, they had to replace the king regularly and quickly until they could defeat the villain who kept putting the kings into enchanted sleep, some of the most qualified successors were female, and this way was less headache. Prior to this, the third King (Rana, Sorceress of Creation) and fourteenth King (Elona, Sorceress of Longevity) had also been female, but the records of this had been lost. It was rediscovered in Roc and a Hard Place. King Dor retired in favor of his daughter Ivy, who became King about 1107 (after Air Apparent and before Two to the Fifth), making her Xanth's first long-term female King in almost two hundred years (it's not known exactly when Elona's reign ended, but her successor King Warren took the throne in 909).
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Xanth / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
Xanth / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: Karia Centaur, first featured in Cube Route, hates puns because of how her name is one (pronounced "Carry-a", and causing her to get "carried away" whenever spoken) and tends to let out a disgusted "Ugh!" whenever she encounters one of Xanth's magical puns.
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Xanth / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Xanth / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In Castle Roogna, a ring claims to be magical, a wishing ring. When Dor makes a wish on it, it answers, "I'm working on it." Every wish made on it comes true through outside factors — except that every wish made on it does come true, and it never claimed that it could pull off instantaneous wish granting. note This is consistent with the operation of the talents of both Bink — self-protection through making things go right, only later in the series does he gain a level of control over this talent to allow it to work on a chosen target — and Murphy — making things go wrong, with self-protection as a side effect; unlike Bink, Murphy learned early on how to direct his talent's target — which work through coincidences.
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Xanth / int_cc436d11	type	Fauns and Satyrs
Xanth / int_cc436d11	comment	Fauns and Satyrs: Fauns love chasing nymphs and simulating summoning the stork with them. Since it's not a legitimate summons, the storks don't answer and in fact find it highly annoying.
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Xanth / int_cc6f4612	type	Beyond the Impossible
Xanth / int_cc6f4612	comment	The "immune to magical harm" talent hides itself as well, so that people don't wise up and try to hurt him by mundane means either. Not there are very many entirely mundane means available; Xanth is so thoroughly infused with magic that even the simplest objects are probably at least a little bit magical. The talent also stops indirect magical harm in its protections, so something like magically hiding the edge of a cliff from him and trying to get him to fall off wouldn't work either. It's even theorized in-universe that when the omnipotent demon that's the source of all magic in Xanth left, shutting all the magic down, the talent made him come back very shortly afterward, as removing magic and leaving nothing but nonmagical danger could be considered indirect magical harm. That's right, it's so powerful that it can even affect its own omnipotent source.
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Xanth / int_cce399	type	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
Xanth / int_cce399	comment	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: No matter how obscure or specialized a main character's talent is, you can bet they'll get a chance to use it to save the day — justified in that many of the tales begin with someone getting an Answer to their Question from Humfrey, who gets rid of the annoying morons — er, enables the querent to discover their own answer by sending them on a quest they are perfect for. Humfrey's three challenges that you have to pass to enter his castle have a variation on this. They almost always require the use of your talent, but in an indirect way that you have to really think about to come up with — no simple Point A to Point B here.
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Xanth / int_ccffaa84	type	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand
Xanth / int_ccffaa84	comment	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: Trent with Bink and Chameleon in A Spell For Chameleon.
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Xanth / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Xanth / int_cf1b706e	comment	Grey Murphy in Man From Mundania is a Flat-Earth Atheist that refuses to believe in magic even after arriving in Xanth. It's not helped by the fact that magic stops working around him. Truthfully, Grey has a Talent — he projects an Anti-Magic field around him. This is because he's the son of the Magician Murphy and Neo-Sorceress Vadne, two criminals who escaped from the Brain Coral during the Time of No Magic. The two fled to Mundania together, but not before indulging in a bit of "stork summoning", conceiving Grey.
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Xanth / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Xanth / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: The Gorgon's power. Also caused by one of Magician Yin-Yang's spells, which turned Jordan the Barbarian to stone (fortunately, his Healing Factor fixed it within a day or so).
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Xanth / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Xanth / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The series is named Xanth, which is also the setting, making it an example of The Place.
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Xanth / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Xanth / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded: The Adult Conspiracy is a magical censorship spell that prevents anyone under 18 from hearing curse words, seeing panties (nudity is still fine, however), or generally figuring out anything about sexuality. Added after a reviewer complained about nudity and sexuality in Xanth.
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Xanth / int_d4055b8b	type	Square-Cube Law
Xanth / int_d4055b8b	comment	Square-Cube Law: Played straight and averted at the same time. Many of the creatures in Xanth are huge, but it's magic that makes it possible. In the first book, Trent deduces from the size of a giant's footprints that the giant must be at least sixty feet tall. He observes that in Mundania, where there is no magic, such a size would not be possible.
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Xanth / int_d5b84171	type	PowerOfFriendship
Xanth / int_d5b84171	comment	Power of Friendship: Practically weaponized by Bink. Saves his life at the end of the first book, among other examples.
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Xanth / int_d65defec	type	Cumulonemesis
Xanth / int_d65defec	comment	Cumulonemesis: King Cumulo Fracto Nimbus is a sentient storm who first appeared in book 4, Centaur Aisle, and has appeared a number of times since then, usually as an obstacle for the main characters to overcome. He was eventually revealed to be a demon who stayed dematerialized a little too long, and lost the ability to retake solid form. Now he's stuck in the shape of a thunderstorm-cloud and drifts here and there with the wind, looking for people and events to rain on and ruin.
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Xanth / int_d705d771	type	Exposed Extraterrestrials
Xanth / int_d705d771	comment	Exposed Extraterrestrials: Centaurs take pride in being nude, they see it as having Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions and generally confirming their superiority to the rest of the world. One character has to take on this attitude after having gone through a transformation in order to be with her Centaur boyfriend, with limited success.
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Xanth / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
Xanth / int_d7639dba	comment	Bink's talent is immunity to harm by magic, including indirect harmnote an ogre throwing rocks, an illusion hiding a pit, or the death of a companion or loved one, which would injure him emotionally. As there is very little in Xanth that is not in some way magical, the talent becomes "he can only be harmed by completely mundane things". Thus, it further protects him by disguising its own existence, making is seem he avoids harm through clumsiness, luck, or freak accidents, so that this weak point in his magic will not harm him, which would technically be harm by (a failure of) magic!. The price of this is that it constantly makes him the Butt-Monkey of any situation- humiliation does not count as injury, as he has a humble and resilient personality. Minor scrapes and bruises apparently do not count, either. However, due to how subtle it is, Trent regards Bink's talent as extremely dangerous to anyone who is or may become a threat to Bink. In the first book, the senile and ill King who insisted Bink be exiled to Mundania (where there is no magic and therefore his talent could not protect him) sickened and died, allowing Trent (who was Bink's friend, knew about his talent, and was no threat to Bink) to assume the throne. This allowed Trent to decree that Bink could stay in Xanth, made Bink a member of the Royal Court so that making an enemy of Bink also meant that King Trent would be your enemy, and allowed Bink to be with Chameleon, whom he'd fallen in love with. All these events happening just by coincidence? Perhaps, but Trent had seen very well how Bink's talent used coincidence and happenstance to Bink's benefit, and therefore knew it could end up being very bad for anyone that Bink's talent came to regard as a threat.
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Xanth / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
Xanth / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: During the events of Xone of Contention, Grey and the golem Robota travel back in time to the events of A Spell for Chameleon, where they learn that Aeolus keeps his soul in a soular cell that was created centuries before by Magician Yin/Yang, which prevents the user's aging and death as long as it's occupied (but cannot undo aging that occurred before the soul was stored). Since Aeolus' magic resides with his soul, he only removes his soul from the cell when he needs to use it, claiming he does not need his soul for day-to-day living and that he feigns senility in order to avoid mundane tasks. Eventually, the last time he removes his soul from the soular cell, he dies of old age before he can put it back.
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Xanth / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
Xanth / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: Bink causes this in the book The Source of Magic when he allows the aforementioned source — the Demon X(A/N)th — to leave. He also causes it to return by getting the demon to come back. While the magic was gone, though, most of Xanth suffered weird aftereffects and many people were distraught to find their talents unusable. This is referred to as "The Time of No Magic". It's later explained in The Dastard that the magic was never really gone: each of the World Demons have their own magic ambiance, and thus when the Demon X(A/N)th left, the magic he'd left behind was not eliminated outright, but merely suppressed by the ambiance of the Demon E(A/R)th's own magic from his neighboring realm. When X(A/N)th returned, so did his ambiance, allowing the Xanthian magic to return to full strength.
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Xanth / int_d9b4cc7f	type	Abdicate the Throne
Xanth / int_d9b4cc7f	comment	Abdicate the Throne: At least some of Xanth's Kings abdicated after a time, including Jonathan (sixth; felt the job had gotten too rotten), Humfrey (seventeenth; only kept the job until he could find a successor and go back to seeking out knowledge), Trent (nineteenth; retired after the Nextwave crisis) and Dor (twentieth; retired around age 64 in favor of his daughter). Night Mare features a whole chain of Kings who are explicitly king pro tempore (because of an evil sorcerer who was somehow able to target and take out whomever was king at the time).
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Xanth / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Xanth / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: Almost every non-human female is considered vastly more attractive than her male counterpart. Except for Ogres. Ogre women are ugly. They prefer it that way; they work at being ugly the way human women work at being beautiful. An average ogress can "curdle milk with half a glance"; a Curse Fiend imitating one proved able to curdle water. They're just as hideous and almost as strong as the male ogres. Harpies are a partial aversion, and also take pride in their ugliness and go out of their way to make themselves disgusting; young harpies, however, are capable of being beautiful and seductive (especially if they're trying to get a human man to mate with them). The only male harpies we see are handsome. For goblins this was actually justified, as the women were cursed to prefer nasty, ugly men, which after generations bred those traits into the species for the male goblins. And the curse was lifted during the "time of no magic", so there are a few male harpies and handsome goblin men now. Technically, Chameleon. Well, two-thirds of the time, anyway. Her cycle is not a talent, but a magical mutation (for example, note Wynne's resemblance to nymphs, both physically and psychologically).
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Xanth / int_dc167d72	type	Knowledge Broker
Xanth / int_dc167d72	comment	Knowledge Broker: Good Magician Humfrey. He'll give you the answer to any one question, for the price of one year's indentured servitude or a really good return favour.
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Xanth / int_dc1a6b76	type	Reality Is Out to Lunch
Xanth / int_dc1a6b76	comment	Reality Is Out to Lunch: The Region of Madness
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Xanth / int_dc2c2968	type	Superpowerful Genetics
Xanth / int_dc2c2968	comment	Superpowerful Genetics: Magician-level parents led to children with Magician caliber powers. Due to a blessing, Bink's direct descendants will develop Magician-level powers needed to be king.
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Xanth / int_dd3272bb	type	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
Xanth / int_dd3272bb	comment	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Referred to in-story as "Spot-On-The-Wall talents". However, a lame talent used efficiently and with intelligence often is just as useful as a Magician-level talent.
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Xanth / int_de86b894	type	Continuity Drift
Xanth / int_de86b894	comment	Continuity Drift: In the second book, Chameleon is pregnant. In later books, babies in Xanth are brought by the stork. (However, Crewel Lye notes that Irene got very fat in the months before Dolph was dropped off, and the weight vanished when he arrived, reflecting physical signs of pregnancy while still having a stork do the delivery.)
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Xanth / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Xanth / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Female characters are always evaluated by how attractive the male characters find them.
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Xanth / int_e0d20ea6	type	Intentionally Awkward Title
Xanth / int_e0d20ea6	comment	Intentionally Awkward Title: The Color of Her Panties, which he used as a bit of foreshadowing in an earlier book. Isle of View has Anthony warning about the possible awkwardness of saying it out loud to strangers in the Author's Note.
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Xanth / int_e294a0be	type	Our Souls Are Different
Xanth / int_e294a0be	comment	Our Souls Are Different: Souls can be removed, divided or traded with some ease in Xanth. If a mortal gives up part of their soul, the rest of what they have can regenerate; having only a partial soul weakens their magic. Demons are effectively souls rather than physical bodies, and as such tend to lack morality, but can gain souls or half souls via getting married or other means. However, if they have a mortal child, they can easily lose that soul to the child unless they take precautions. Souls or half souls can be lost to beings of the Gourd in payment (and are usually quickly handed in to the Night Stallion for storage so as not to dull their effectiveness in dreams), as seen in Ogre, Ogre, in which Tandy Nymph gets a lien on her soul from a Night Mare, which gets called in the next time she enters a Gourd; Smash wagers his own to get it back. Later, Chem Centaur, Tandy Nymph and Smash Ogre all trade half their souls to Night Mares in order to receive rides out of the Void region, and by shoving a demon into the gourd, his full soul is traded for Smash and Tandy's previously traded half souls, which are returned to them. (Demon Fiant's soul is noted as having been given to the Night Stallion for storage in Night Mare.) Xone of Contention reveals that Aeolus the Storm King had discovered and used a Soular Cell, which he could store his soul in and thus prevent himself from aging as long as it was in storage.
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Xanth / int_e36da329	type	Care-Bear Stare
Xanth / int_e36da329	comment	This is the weakest level of Ivy's Talent. At higher levels, it can also act as a Care-Bear Stare (why Stanley didn't just kill her despite being rejuvenated to a baby) and approach Reality Warping.
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Xanth / int_e6fa475c	type	Offered the Crown
Xanth / int_e6fa475c	comment	Humfrey's successor, King Aeolus (Magician of Storms) died with three living Magicians (and Jonathan the Zombie) to succeed him, but Bink's talent wasn't publicly known to be Magician-level, Humfrey didn't want the job back, Jonathan was hanging out around Castle Roogna (which had only just been rediscovered, and nobody really knew about him at the time), and the only other option had tried to seize the throne from Aeolus earlier in life. Still, he was a Magician, and so Trent (Magician of Transformation) was Offered the Crown and became one of Xanth's best kings.
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Xanth / int_e791e16b	type	Weapons-Grade Vocabulary
Xanth / int_e791e16b	comment	Weapons-Grade Vocabulary: Since Xanth runs on puns, curse words function as actual curses. Part of the reason the Adult Conspiracy (To Keep Interesting Things From Children) exists is that children knowing these words actually makes them dangerous. Dealing with a goblin child who's learned the forbidden words makes up a major part of the plot in The Color of Her Panties.
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Xanth / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Xanth / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: When the "Colored People" accidentally arrived in Xanth they were specifically treated as equals, and several pages are spent talking about this. (They're still called "colored people" — but now those colors include blue, green, red, yellow, pink, etc., etc...) Mr. Anthony's views on sexuality (it's not bad, and it springs into our minds a lot sooner than 18 or even 16 years old) and nudity ("Some time we'll have to discuss why the sight of a naked woman as God made her should be considered to harm a child, but that's another issue") appear as a subtext in nearly every book. Even "worse" with the nonhuman characters, who, almost as a rule, have little or no nudity taboo. A further writer on board thing deals with how his centaurs reject magic as obscene. In The Source of Magic, this is then directly compared to humans rejecting nudity and bodily functions as obscene.
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Xanth / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Xanth / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Centaurs view reproduction as natural, but someone possessing a magical talent is deeply obscene (they only barely tolerate it in humans because they see humans as a "lesser species"); ditto for crossbreeding and mentioning their non-centaur heritage. The greater demons, such as X(A/N)th: explaining the concept that cooperation produces the best results over time to him is important in one of the earlier books, and he eventually adopts that strategy. Ogres take pride in their stupidity, and view intelligence as a shameful stigma. Smash Ogre becomes an outcast after he's afflicted by the Eye Queue Vine and becomes smart, and seeks help ridding himself of it so he can go back to his old life (though he eventually accepts it as part of his human heritage).
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Xanth / int_ea8168f	type	Crossover Cosmology
Xanth / int_ea8168f	comment	Crossover Cosmology: Lots of mythology references, including some silly ones — for example, Summoning the Stork, which is literally how babies are made in Xanth: after a certain ritual, the Storks fly in a baby to the new parents.
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Xanth / int_eaaf461f	type	National Geographic Nudity
Xanth / int_eaaf461f	comment	National Geographic Nudity: Mermaids are nudists, as are pretty much any Half Human Hybrids as a rule. In one novel the heroine — a Mermaid who turns human — spends a significant amount of time in the book naked before she gets any clothing. The most intelligent race, Centaurs, go topless except for utility and mate in the open, on the grounds that natural functions are, well, natural.
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Xanth / int_ead7e2d6	type	Kaleidoscope Hair
Xanth / int_ead7e2d6	comment	Kaleidoscope Hair: One established possible talent is changing your hair color.
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Xanth / int_eb275537	type	I'm Not Hungry
Xanth / int_eb275537	comment	I'm Not Hungry: In A Spell For Chameleon, Bink and Fanchon turn down Magician Trent's offers for accommodations in general. Then he gives them cake and wine anyway, just to screw with their heads.
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Xanth / int_eb5ab60f	type	Slow Transformation
Xanth / int_eb5ab60f	comment	Slow Transformation: Threnody, introduced in Crewel Lye, has this as her talent as a result of her demon heritage. She can change shape, size and density, but only one at a time, and it takes a while for each, even after her eventual husband figures out how to speed up the process somewhat.
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Xanth / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
Xanth / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: Jenny Elf is not native to Xanth, she's actually an elf from the world of ElfQuest. Good Magician Humfrey is aware of other worlds, as demonstrated in Question Quest, when he references characters from Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality and Apprentice Adept series. During the events of Cube Route, the protagonists actually cross into Phaze (from Apprentice Adept) to find a Xanthian dragon who had previously crossed over and whose aid was vital to their quest.
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Xanth / int_eb8e12d6	type	Rules Lawyer
Xanth / int_eb8e12d6	comment	Many of the best magical talents allow for quite a bit of rules lawyering. At one point Ivy uses her magic talent of enhancement to enhance the empty space between molecules in a solid wall, making a hole in it.
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Xanth / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
Xanth / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: A recurring theme is women who need to be "tamed" (or at least seriously need to grow up).
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Xanth / int_ed581814	type	Dismembering the Body
Xanth / int_ed581814	comment	Dismembering the Body: In the book "Crewel Lye", Threnody does this to Jordan's body to ensure Magician Yang that he won't pull himself together. She did make sure to know where each piece was, so she could gather all of them once it was safe.
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Xanth / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Xanth / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: In every book, at least one character will go to Good Magician Humfrey's castle, where they must win through three challenges in order to be able to ask him a question. (Which they must then pay for with some sort of significant service; the Good Magician's time ain't cheap.) This pattern was maintained even during a period of time when Humfrey had mysteriously vanished from Xanth, with Grey Murphy taking up the job of living in Humfrey's castle and searching through his research materials to find answers until Humfrey finally returned.
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Xanth / int_f1356f5e	type	Speaks Fluent Animal
Xanth / int_f1356f5e	comment	Speaks Fluent Animal: Grundy, whose talent is translating the speech of any living being. He also speaks fluent plant.
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Xanth / int_f1a36f8e	type	Delivery Stork
Xanth / int_f1a36f8e	comment	Delivery Stork: How new babies enter Xanth, though "summoning the stork" is still required (earlier books have it as G-Rated Sex, but the "G" part steadily erodes over time). This only applies to humanoids, though — animals (including thinking ones, like centaurs) go through the pregnancy-and-birth routine. Xanth's worst king, Muerte A. Fid, was such a bad egg that there's an in-universe rumor the storks made a basilisk deliver him instead.
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Xanth / int_f234ed63	type	Food Coma
Xanth / int_f234ed63	comment	Food Coma: Referenced by Smash Ogre, during a story where his intelligence was greatly enhanced by an Eye Queue vine. At one point, he found himself in an unfamiliar area, where there were many things that ogres love to eat. Due to his new intellect, this made him suspicious, and he reflected that if he was still a dumb ogre his instinct would have been to eat all he could, at which point he'd like get drowsy and fall asleep. He decided to not eat anything and stay hungry and alert until he could figure out what was going on.
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Xanth / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Xanth / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun / Stealth Pun: The series thrives on these, however, they are mostly submitted by young readers, which Mr. Anthony thanks at the end of every book at the end of his author notes (which takes an entire chapter).
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Xanth / int_f2e13990	type	AintNoRule
Xanth / int_f2e13990	comment	The King of Xanth is defined as its ruler (at least among the human inhabitants) while The Queen of Xanth is defined as the King's spouse. Turns out, they never explicitly defined the King as being male, that had just been assumed to be the case for centuries due to the requirement that the office (which is not hereditary) has to go to a Magician. Since females with powerful magic were called Sorceresses, it was believed that they didn't qualify. Until somebody pointed out that a Sorceress is defined as a female Magician, and thus is also a Magician.
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Xanth / int_f4061d83	type	Capital Letters Are Magic
Xanth / int_f4061d83	comment	No matter how obscure or specialized a main character's talent is, you can bet they'll get a chance to use it to save the day — justified in that many of the tales begin with someone getting an Answer to their Question from Humfrey, who gets rid of the annoying morons — er, enables the querent to discover their own answer by sending them on a quest they are perfect for.
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Xanth / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
Xanth / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: Trent got this in the Back Story before A Spell For Chameleon.
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Xanth / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Xanth / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In A Spell For Chameleon. Trent's willingness to trust Bink with his sword while he sleeps convinces Bink and Chameleon that he is not really evil; an untrustworthy man would not have trusted them in turn.
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Xanth / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Xanth / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The Baldwin family pets are Woofer (a dog), Tweeter (a parakeet) and Midrange (a cat), who are all named after different types of loudspeakers.
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Xanth	hasFeature	Lost Him in a Card Game / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Mage Born of Muggles / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Magic Compass / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Magic Enhancement / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Magic Feather / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Magic Music / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Magical Flutist / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Magical Land / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Make the Dog Testify / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Man in the Iron Mask / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Marry Them All / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Marshmallow Hell / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Master of Illusion / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Master of One Magic / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Mayflyâ€“December Romance / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Mechanical Lifeforms / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Mermaid Problem / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Metamorphosis / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Mirror-Cracking Ugly / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	"Miss X" Pun / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Mistaken for Servant / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Mix-and-Match Critters / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Monogender Monsters / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Monster in the Moat / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Moving Buildings / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Muggle Born of Mages / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Muggle with a Degree in Magic / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Muggles / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Muggles Do It Better / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Mundane Object Amazement / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Musical Theme Naming / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Names Given to Computers / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Necromancer / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Never Accepted in His Hometown / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	No Immortal Inertia / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	No Loves Intersect / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	No MacGuffin, No Winner / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	No Object Permanence / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	"No Peeking!" Request / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	No Saving Throw / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	No-Sell / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Nobody's That Dumb / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Non-Human Undead / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Obliviously Superpowered / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Offered the Crown / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Official Fan-Submitted Content / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Ominous Floating Castle / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Omniglot / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Omniscient Morality License / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	One Degree of Separation / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	One-Gender Race / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	One Person, One Power / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Only You Can Repopulate My Race / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Opposites Theme Naming / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Our Centaurs Are Different / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Our Giants Are Bigger / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Our Goblins Are Different / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Our Manticores Are Spinier / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Our Ogres Are Hungrier / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Our Sirens Are Different / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Our Souls Are Different / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Our Zombies Are Different / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Parasitic Immortality / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Pegasus / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Phlebotinum Muncher / int_5999b1ec
PiersAnthony	seeAlso	Xanth
Xanth	hasFeature	Pink Girl, Blue Boy / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Placebotinum Effect / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Planet of Dunce Caps / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Please Put Some Clothes On / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Plot Armor / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Plot Tailored to the Party / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Portal Picture / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Power of the Void / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Power Perversion Potential / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Pregnant Badass / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Principles Zealot / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Prisoner's Dilemma / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Projectile Spell / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Promotion, Not Punishment / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Proud Scholar Race / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Public Domain Artifact / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Pun-Based Creature / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Punctuation Shaker / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Quest for a Wish / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Randomly Gifted / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Reading Ahead in the Script / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Redemption Demotion / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Resistant to Magic / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Revive Kills Zombie / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Ride the Rainbow / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Ridiculously Average Guy / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Rouge Angles of Satin / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Royalty Super Power / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Runs on Ignorance / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Same-Sex Triplets / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	San Dimas Time / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Scenery Censor / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Semantic Superpower / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Sex as Rite-of-Passage / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Shaped Like Itself / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Shapeshifting Seducer / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	She Is the King / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Show Some Leg / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Single Tear / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Sirens Are Mermaids / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Skeptic No Longer / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Skirts and Ladders / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Slap-Slap-Kiss / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Living Toys / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Slow Transformation / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Smelly Skunk / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Snake People / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Snakes Are Sexy / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Snarky Inanimate Object / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Solid Clouds / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Sound-Effect Bleep / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Spare to the Throne / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Speaks Fluent Animal / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Species Surname / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Spin-Offspring / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Stay on the Path / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Stumbling in the New Form / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Summon Everyman Hero / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Super-Empowering / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Superpower Russian Roulette / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Superpowerful Genetics / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Sweet and Sour Grapes / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Swiss-Army Superpower / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Swiss-Army Tears / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Sworn Brothers / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Symbol Swearing / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	TV Genius / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Temporal Theme Naming / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Thanks for the Mammary / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Call Put Me on Hold / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Generic Guy / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Hecate Sisters / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Jinx / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Magic Goes Away / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Necrocracy / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Nondescript / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Phoenix / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Sky Is an Ocean / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The So-Called Coward / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Soulless / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Three Trials / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	The Transmogrifier / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	There Are No Coincidences / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Third Law of Gender-Bending / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	This Is Not a Floor / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Threshold Guardians / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Throwing Your Sword Always Works / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Tomes of Prophecy and Fate / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Touched by Vorlons / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Transflormation / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Transforming Conforming / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Translator Microbes / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Tribute to Fido / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Tricked-Out Gloves / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Tricking the Shapeshifter / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	True-Breeding Hybrid / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	True Love is Exceptional / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Un-Sorcerer / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Undeath Always Ends / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Unfocused During Intimacy / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Unicorn / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Unicorns Prefer Virgins / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Unluckily Lucky / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Utility Magic / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Vanity Is Feminine / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Variable-Length Chain / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Veganopia / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Wacky Wayside Tribe / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Warning Mistaken for Threat / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Watching the Reflection Undress / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Wax On, Wax Off / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Weapons-Grade Vocabulary / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Weird Weather / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	When Trees Attack / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Winds of Destiny, Change! / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Wizard Duel / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Wonder Twin Powers / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	World Shapes / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	You Just Ruined the Shot / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Your Magic's No Good Here / int_5999b1ec
xanth	sameAs	Xanth
Xanth	hasFeature	Godiva Hair / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Happily Ever After / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	It's the Journey That Counts / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Menstrual Menace / int_5999b1ec
Xanth	hasFeature	Perspective Magic / int_5999b1ec

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