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Liaden Universe

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Liaden Universe	comment	The Liaden Universe books by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller feature the creation and later exploits of Clan Korval, a prominent family on the planet of Liad. They are best known for the founders of the clan being the ones who rescued their ancestors from a Planet Eater species that destroyed their previous universe (as well as their unit of money being named after one of them). Being pilots are very important to them. They also own, or are owned by, a sentient Tree.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Korval novels, in timeline order: The Great Migration Duology Crystal Soldier Crystal Dragon Balance of Trade (based on/containing a novella of the same title) Trade Secret Local Custom Scout's Progress Mouse and Dragon Conflict of Honors Agent of Change Sequence Agent of Change Carpe Diem Plan B I Dare Fledgling Saltation Ghost Ship Dragon Ship Necessity's Child Dragon in Exile Alliance of Equals The Gathering Edge NeogenesisCrystal Soldier and Crystal Dragon make up the Great Migration Duology (a series prequel set centuries before the other novels), in which a genetically engineered soldier, a genetically engineered Manchurian Agent, a sentient tree, and a schoolboy trader help a population escape into a new universe.Balance of Trade and Trade Secret are another prequel duology, sequence, set in the long gap between the migration and the following Agent of Change sequence, introducing the first Terran Master Trader. It has nothing to do with Clan Korval directly (although there's a cameo appearance by one of Miri's ancestors, and Trade Secret in particular foreshadows developments in later novels).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Local Custom, Scout's Progress, Mouse and Dragon, and Conflict of Honors begin to introduce the Korval characters who will be at the center of subsequent novels, in small-scale adventures where the stakes are personal (but not unimportant).Agent of Change, Carpe Diem, Plan B and I Dare make up the Agent of Change Sequence, in which the descendants of the prequels realize that there's an enemy within their home planet and band together to defeat it. This was the first published sequence, with everything else either a prequel or a sequel.Fledgling and Saltation introduces Theo Waitley, whose story overlaps with and continues the Agent of Change sequence. The first two books were posted in draft form to the authors' website as they were written, in return for donations to support the project. They were then picked up by Baen, and sequels commissioned.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Ghost Ship is a sequel to both I Dare and Saltation, bringing Theo together with the Korval characters from the Agent of Change sequence. Afterward, they go their separate ways again, with Theo's story continuing in Dragon Ship, and Korval's in Necessity's Child and Dragon in Exile.The authors have written many short stories and novellas taking place in the Liaden Universe as well, published as yearly chapbooks sold by mail-order and more recently available online. There have been a number of collections over the years, varying in form and degree of completeness; all but the most recent are now available in the Liaden Universe Constellation collections released by the novels' current publisher.
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Liaden Universe / int_131ca891	type	Literal Surveillance Bug
Liaden Universe / int_131ca891	comment	Literal Surveillance Bug: In Fledgling, Win Ton catches an insect-like device spying on the Delgado party (though it is referred to as a "spying device" as the parties discussing it apparently do not use the colloquialism "bug").
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Liaden Universe / int_137b63cb	type	Space Trucker
Liaden Universe / int_137b63cb	comment	Space Trucker: Some of the courier pilots; in I Dare there's a scene where Cheever and Pat Rin have breakfast in an eatery that serves mainly pilots, and the food is stereotypical truck-stop fare complete with Hash House Lingo that causes Pat Rin to doubt his grasp of the Terran language. In fact, pilots (or at least most of the ones encountered in the books) are usually presented as a combination of long-haul trucker, Top Gun fighter jock, samurai, and gunslinger.
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Liaden Universe / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Liaden Universe / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: Some Liadens, considering non-Liadens to be subhuman, refer to Terrans as "it". Specific examples include the antagonist in Conflict of Honors, who even does it to his own Dragon, and the antagonist in Carpe Diem.
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Liaden Universe / int_17942015	type	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
Liaden Universe / int_17942015	comment	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: Jethri Gobelyn develops a legend among Liadens for having jumped off the edge of a space station, and is repeatedly asked to tell the tale. He doesn't think it's so amazing; he was just a veteran space brat who knew where the zero-gee zones were.
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Liaden Universe / int_185f3995	type	Memetic Badass
Liaden Universe / int_185f3995	comment	Memetic Badass: In-Universe, Jethri in Balance of Trade picks up this reputation after escaping pursuers through a zero-gee zone. He's space-born, so he doesn't see it as anything particularly unusual, but the Liaden stationers are used to thinking in terms of gravity and two dimensions, and his move becomes a legend among the Liadens he's met (except the Scouts, but even they're impressed).
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Liaden Universe / int_19c24cb7	type	Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom
Liaden Universe / int_19c24cb7	comment	Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom: The Department of the Interior, a secret Liad-supremacist terrorist conspiracy, is named for the department of the US government in charge of looking after national parks.
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Liaden Universe / int_1ae71783	type	Happy Fun Ball
Liaden Universe / int_1ae71783	comment	Happy Fun Ball: Bowli ball. Literally.
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Liaden Universe / int_1b36b313	type	Mandatory Motherhood
Liaden Universe / int_1b36b313	comment	Mandatory Motherhood: Under the Liaden clan system, everyone has to produce a biological heir, but raising the child yourself (as a single parent) seems to be optional/left to relatives/nannies/boarding school a lot.
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Liaden Universe / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
Liaden Universe / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: As a result of their brainwashing, Agents of Change will unblinkingly do terrible things to people — including themselves — if it will serve the Department's Plan.
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Liaden Universe / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Liaden Universe / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Averted in Conflict of Honors, when Priscilla misunderstands Shan's warning that he will have no murderers on board after she was forced to take a life in self-defense. Poor communication nearly kills in Scout's Progress, as Daav's reluctance to reveal to Aelianna precisely who he was led her to return to her house alone where her abusive brother locked her in the sleeplearner.
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Liaden Universe / int_1c45d4d7	type	Our Nudity Is Different
Liaden Universe / int_1c45d4d7	comment	Our Nudity Is Different: Liadens consider the face to be a private area; showing it in public is unavoidable, but touching it or drawing attention to it is impolite, as is looking too long at another person's. (Wearing a mask counts as drawing attention, in the same class as wearing decorative make-up.) The Liaden language has a lot of emphasis on hand gestures and other body language to convey the information that Terrans use facial expression for; showing any facial expression in public is another impoliteness. Touching another person's face is an extremely intimate act; there are several instances in the series of Liadens being surprised by how quickly Terrans escalate to kissing, which a Liaden couple wouldn't even consider before they were married (and possibly not even after).
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Liaden Universe / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Liaden Universe / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Er Thom and Daav, Pat Rin and Cheever
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Liaden Universe / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Liaden Universe / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: The Great Migration duology is set in a society with an underclass of artificial servants, with barcodes on their arms and no human rights. Artificial humans also make up a significant proportion of their armed forces. And then there are the aelantaza, a clan of genetically-engineered assassins. In the Balance of Trade duology, the Tomas clan, and Jethri Gobelyn, are clones with some added genetic tinkering.
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Liaden Universe / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Liaden Universe / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Surebleak, up through I Dare (though this is starting to change as of that book and Ghost Ship).
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Liaden Universe / int_22e5329e	type	Ordinary High-School Student
Liaden Universe / int_22e5329e	comment	Ordinary High-School Student: Theo Waitley from Fledgling, in spades.
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Liaden Universe / int_241dac3a	type	Wise Old Turtle
Liaden Universe / int_241dac3a	comment	Wise Old Turtle: The Clutch Turtles are an alien race who resemble anthropomorphic turtles, who live a long time and are given to deep thoughts. The one who gets the most page time, The Edger, is nearly nine hundred years old — and considered young and reckless by the standards of his people.
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Liaden Universe / int_25c08ba2	type	Operator Incompatibility
Liaden Universe / int_25c08ba2	comment	Operator Incompatibility: Val Con trying to fly a Yxtrang ship.
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Liaden Universe / int_2823fd4d	type	Oddly Common Rarity
Liaden Universe / int_2823fd4d	comment	Oddly Common Rarity: To some extent these are explained by Korval's Weirdness Magnet nature, but… True lifemating is so rare that many Liadens think it's just a romantic myth or a metaphor — and it's happened five times in Clan Korval in the last two generations. Attributed to the meddling of Jelaza Kazone. After the first few books, the Lost Technology of the previous universe goes from almost-unheard-of to practically lurking around every corner.
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Liaden Universe / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Liaden Universe / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Any child born of a temporary marriage is pre-assigned to the family of one parent or the other, and the other parent has no part in the raising of the child. Also, Daav eventually becomes a Disappeared Dad after Aelliana dies (and again, to his new family, after Plan B necessitates his return to Korval). It's implied that something bad/iffy happened with Er Thom after Anne's death as well.
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Liaden Universe / int_2ae247a4	type	Auto-Doc
Liaden Universe / int_2ae247a4	comment	Autodoc: Common in the "present-day" time period of the Agent of Change and Fledgling cycles; less so in the prequels' eras. As a collector of old technology, Uncle possesses more advanced Old Tech versions of autodocs, as does the Old Tech ship Bechimo. In Balance of Trade, one of Jethri's relatives relates how an Old Tech autodoc saved his life, and the scouts find one in a cargo of Old Tech contraband. (These units may subsequently have been reverse-engineered into the 'docs ships carry in Shan and Val Con's day.) In the Great Migration duology, Cantra's ship Spiral Dance is unusual for having an illicit Sheriekas-tech autodoc unit aboard.
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Liaden Universe / int_2dc5cce0	type	Whip Sword
Liaden Universe / int_2dc5cce0	comment	Whip Sword: The "shib", a weapon wielded by Jela in Crystal Soldier. It can take a person's arm off, and he wears it as part of his belt when he's not using it.
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Liaden Universe / int_2e39af52	type	Girlish Pigtails
Liaden Universe / int_2e39af52	comment	Girlish Pigtails: In a flashback in Agent of Change, twelve-year-old Miri has pigtails. (As an adult, she has an Action Braid.)
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Liaden Universe / int_307d41e7	type	¡Three Amigos!
Liaden Universe / int_307d41e7	comment	¡Three Amigos!: Pat Rin, Cheever, and Natesa. An adult Gunslinger version of the trope.
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Liaden Universe / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
Liaden Universe / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Many of them. Some get explained in later books; others languish. Saltation: What is a banthawing? How does it teach bad habits?
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Liaden Universe / int_348c7ded	type	Sword Cane
Liaden Universe / int_348c7ded	comment	Sword Cane: Professor Kiladi, Gallowglass Chair of Cultural Genetics at the University of Delgado, doesn't have a mere sword cane, he has a sword concealed in his professorial staff of office. It has not been established whether this is his own improvement or whether the staff of office was made like that in the first place. (The latter is not out of the question, considering that the Gallowglass Foundation was set up to support cultural genetics research and education following a series of incidents in which a nationalist organisation attempted to shut down a line of research they disapproved of using methods up to and including assassination.)
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Liaden Universe / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
Liaden Universe / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: Most of the characters, including Jeeves, the robot butler.
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Liaden Universe / int_34ee71e3	type	Purple Eyes
Liaden Universe / int_34ee71e3	comment	Purple Eyes: Er Thom yos'Galan has violet eyes, as does his daughter Nova.
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Liaden Universe / int_35ab4cec	type	You Watch Too Much X
Liaden Universe / int_35ab4cec	comment	You Watch Too Much X: In Balance of Trade, Miandra says that some of her sister's stranger ideas about Terrans come from reading too many adventure stories.
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Liaden Universe / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
Liaden Universe / int_35e077	comment	Fourth Date Marriage: Anthora and Ren Zel get engaged after they've met exactly twice. The second meeting does end up with Ren Zel spending the night at Anthora's place (and apparently they don't spend much of it sleeping), but even he's bemused by how quickly things develop. Anthora often seems vague, but when she's made up her mind, she doesn't hang about. It helps that, being "wizards," Anthora and Ren Zel's contact ends with each of them knowing literally everything about the other. Once that's happened, why beat around the bush? Val Con and Miri, technically. In the eyes of the Clutch turtles, anyway, due to Val Con giving her a knife. They decide to let it stand by the end of the book.
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Liaden Universe / int_37d2818	type	Title In
Liaden Universe / int_37d2818	comment	Title In: In some of the books, each chapter begins with a heading stating where the first scene of the chapter is set, such as "Jelaza Kazone, Surebleak".
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Liaden Universe / int_3aead6c9	type	Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer
Liaden Universe / int_3aead6c9	comment	Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer: The Agents who repeatedly attempt to capture both Val Con and Anthora.
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Liaden Universe / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Liaden Universe / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Scouts do this a lot.
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Liaden Universe / int_3f11ef74	type	ParentalSubstitute
Liaden Universe / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: In the Jethri books, Jethri's mentor Master Trader ven'Deelin also becomes the mother he never had. Luken is Pat Rin's official foster father, so some degree of this would be expected, but it's notable that they habitually refer to or address one another as "father" and "son" without using any qualifiers. Ghost Ship shows this extending to the next generation, with Pat Rin's offspring addressing Luken as "grandfather" (to the confusion of an outsider who had gathered, as is technically true, that Luken has no grandchildren). Inverted in Fledgling, where Theo's counselor tells her that it is "antisocial" to refer to Professor Jen Sar Kiladi as "father". In the culture of Delgado, minors do not normally learn who their father is until their gigneri renders them officially adults.
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Liaden Universe / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Liaden Universe / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Tor An's homeworld is destroyed at the beginning of Crystal Dragon, sending him on a quest for explanations that gets him tangled up in the rest of the plot.
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Liaden Universe / int_410f55a2	type	Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas
Liaden Universe / int_410f55a2	comment	Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas: In Saltation, Theo catches a fragment of a conversation being held using hand signals:
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Liaden Universe / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
Liaden Universe / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: The Department of the Interior's agents have all undergone a long and painful brainwashing process that conditions them to unquestioningly accept the Department's goals and their assigned role as an expendable cog in the big machine.
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Liaden Universe / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Liaden Universe / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: AIs seem to be considered somewhat chancy because it is difficult to know what a machine might do without human intervention. Bechimo's creators were well cognizant of the possibility that their creation might possibly go mad (hence the inclusion of emergency backup personalities that could overwrite the primary personality in the event of a mental breakdown). However, some of them (such as Jeeves and, eventually, Bechimo) are legally recognized as sentient and sapient people in their own right. Another consideration is that AIs complicated enough to qualify as people can't be left to run on programming alone, but must be socialized just like biological people; Jeeves, who got a proper upbringing, is happy and very self-assured, but Bechimo, whom unforeseen circumstances forced out into the world before his education was complete, has a tendency to act like a needy, willful, and self-centered child. Admiral Bunter, launched at the end of Dragon Ship with no socialization at all, is even worse.
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Liaden Universe / int_42153b0f	type	Cloning Gambit
Liaden Universe / int_42153b0f	comment	Cloning Gambit: Hinted and eventually explicitly shown (in Dragon in Exile) to be the source of the Uncle's longevity; he has an Old Tech device with which he can produce a new body for himself whenever the old one is dying.
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Liaden Universe / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
Liaden Universe / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Uncle, to most other characters. Professor Jen Sar Kiladi, to Kamele and Theo.
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Liaden Universe / int_4280d1fd	type	Spock Speak
Liaden Universe / int_4280d1fd	comment	Spock Speak: Liadens speak in very polite and frequently roundabout form. This is in part because the stories often draw inspiration from Edwardian romances, and partly because Liadens are a culture where the slightest insult might provoke a lethal duel, depending on the temperament of the one insulted. It also frequently serves as a Translation Convention to give readers a sense of the formalized structure of the Liaden, especially High Liaden, tongue.
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Liaden Universe / int_431e9b2d	type	Crystal Weapon
Liaden Universe / int_431e9b2d	comment	Crystal Weapon: Val Con has a crystal knife made on an alien world by the Knife Clan of Middle River, which is nearly indestructible and has an Absurdly Sharp Blade. The Knife Clan is said to grow the blades in caves over a period of decades, with considerable care and attention required for them to come out with the required characteristics.
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Liaden Universe / int_439e50f7	type	What Have We Ear?
Liaden Universe / int_439e50f7	comment	What Have We Ear?: Lute does this to Moonhawk in the course of a magic lesson in "The Wine of Memory".
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Liaden Universe / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Liaden Universe / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Clan Korval's countermeasures against the Department of the Interior after Plan B kicks off, especially during I Dare. The conflict escalates with dizzying intensity, each agency acting to counter the other, until it culminates in Clan Korval obliterating several cubic miles of city to destroy dangerous Lost Technology doomsday weapons. Uncle lives to play Xanatos's game, especially in the books beginning with Saltation, though we aren't privy to most of the moves. In Dragon Ship, he comes to realize that Xanatos Chess is riskier than he had expected when some of the pieces are Korval—and the only thing he can do is try to play faster.
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Liaden Universe / int_44a893af	type	Humans Through Alien Eyes
Liaden Universe / int_44a893af	comment	Humans Through Alien Eyes: The Clutch Turtles are perpetually bemused by the strange behaviors and values of the "hasty" humans, and often misinterpret social cues (as in the Accidental Marriage entry just above). It is only when they begin to perceive that Val Con and Miri are in trouble that one of them starts to develop a remarkable level of empathy for the way humans think in order to figure out how best to help them.
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Liaden Universe / int_46bcebfd	type	Starship Luxurious
Liaden Universe / int_46bcebfd	comment	Starship Luxurious: On several occasions, the novels have contrasted Terran ships (small, utilitarian) with Liaden ships (huge, luxurious) as a way of drawing attention to just how rich Liaden traders are. (Though there are exceptions in both directions; the Liaden trade vessel Daxflan in Conflict of Honors is relatively small and utilitarian, and no preparation for the point-of-view character's later experience of the Dutiful Passage, while the Terran spaceliner in Fledgling is pretty swish.)
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Liaden Universe / int_46d3f869	type	Family Business
Liaden Universe / int_46d3f869	comment	Family Business: Many Liaden families, especially those whose surnames have the dea' prefix, have a family business or profession that they specialise in. dea'Gauss is lawyers and accountants; dea'San is taxis; dea'Judan is shopkeepers. How a given family copes with a child who has no proficiency for the family trade varies considerably. On the Terran side, it's not uncommon for individual spaceships to be run as a family small business. The protagonist's family in Balance of Trade is one example.
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Liaden Universe / int_4849f1d	type	Coincidence Magnet
Liaden Universe / int_4849f1d	comment	It is actually hard to decide whether Coincidence Magnet or Weirdness Magnet is more apt, since from the point of view of Clan Korval there is nothing supernatural about the Lost Technology, aliens, or psychic powers they keep encountering. But the mundanes who frequently get caught up in events and swept along in Korval's wake would have different opinions…
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Liaden Universe / int_485d09ab	type	Creator In-Joke
Liaden Universe / int_485d09ab	comment	Creator In-Joke: Timonium, the series' version of unobtanium, is named after a town in Maryland near where the authors lived when they created the series.
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Liaden Universe / int_4a9c731e	type	When Trees Attack
Liaden Universe / int_4a9c731e	comment	When Trees Attack: Jelaza Kazone, who managed to be the last survivor of a Planet Eater's attack. Is also not averse to scaring the heck out of someone it doesn't want marrying into the family. In Dragon in Exile, the Tree takes an active hand (or branch) in dissuading a group of tourists who mistakenly believe they had bought the right to tour Korval's inner gardens.
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Liaden Universe / int_4ac77ae7	type	Mind over Manners
Liaden Universe / int_4ac77ae7	comment	Mind over Manners: Healers.
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Liaden Universe / int_4b5817c1	type	Truth Serums
Liaden Universe / int_4b5817c1	comment	Truth Serums: Pimmadrene, seen in action in the trial scene at the climax of Conflict of Honors. Unlike many fictional truth serums, it doesn't cause the subject to volunteer information; on the contrary, the dramatic tension comes from the fact that the subject will answer precisely the questions they are asked, and the potential for this to give misleading results if the questioner doesn't think of the right questions.
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Liaden Universe / int_4ba29ebb	type	Lost Him in a Card Game
Liaden Universe / int_4ba29ebb	comment	Lost Him in a Card Game: Played with in Plan B, with a character who's fallen so low that not only did his last master stake him in a wager, the bet was that the loser had to keep him.
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Liaden Universe / int_4c2e7c11	type	Staff of Authority
Liaden Universe / int_4c2e7c11	comment	Staff of Authority: Each department chair at the University of Delgado has a staff of office. At least one of them has a concealed sword built into it.
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Liaden Universe / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Liaden Universe / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: In "Changeling", the protagonist and one of his colleagues are attacked in a pool hall, and make use of balls, cues, and stools as weapons.
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Liaden Universe / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Liaden Universe / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In Crystal Soldier, chronologically the first book:
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Liaden Universe / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Liaden Universe / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: The Clutch Turtles are gentle giants given to deep thoughts, but if you manage to get them angry you'll regret it. Jason Carmody is a boisterous bruiser (though he pulls off "gruff, mean, scarred and withdrawn warrior" pretty well, right down to pretending to berserk.)
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Liaden Universe / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
Liaden Universe / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: Shan and Priscilla are the reincarnations of Lute and Moonhawk (who get covered more in short stories).
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Liaden Universe / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Liaden Universe / int_50f66629	comment	On the individual level, being Crazy-Prepared is presented as a way of life for pilots in general (who in the Liaden universe tend to be a sort of combination of long-haul trucker, Top Gun fighter jock, samurai, and gunslinger) and Scouts especially. Examples include the firing range scene in I Dare where Pat Rin and Cheever McFarland unpack enough weapons between them to fill a table (including a number of hold-out weapons), or a large part of the "Standard rules" that are stated to "apply" to pilots in Saltation. Even those who spend time around pilots without actually being one themselves can pick up on this. In Dragon Ship, Kamele applies the lesson she learned from watching Kiladi teach Theo how a pilot packs when she herself needs to pack to make the trip to Surebleak. As a result, she is able to abandon unnecessary possessions on board her cruise ship when she needs to escape the Department of the Interior agents who plan to abduct her—everything irreplaceable was already on her person.
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Liaden Universe / int_52b9a5ad	type	No Pronunciation Guide
Liaden Universe / int_52b9a5ad	comment	No Pronunciation Guide: Although there are occasional hints, such as Zhena Trelu's one and only attempt to pronounce Val Con's full name. The authors have promised a pronunciation guide for the web site, but when they'll have enough time to compile it in between writing the actual series is anyone's guess.
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Liaden Universe / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Liaden Universe / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: In Fledgling, Theo Waitley and Win Ton confess to Kamele that they have been indulging in risky activity. They mean to explain that they have been playing the physically hazardous sport of Bowli ball with other pilots, but their nervous stammering and lack of specific details at first lead Kamele to quite another conclusion.
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Liaden Universe / int_539179db	type	Synchronization
Liaden Universe / int_539179db	comment	Synchronization, which presumably kills Er Thom after Anne's murder, and injures Miri along with Val Con. (Did not happen to Daav, though.)
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Liaden Universe / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Liaden Universe / int_562abd51	comment	To the other denizens of the university on Delgado, Professor Jen Sar Kiladi seems to be a harmless albeit somewhat (all right, very) eccentric academic. But surprise—he's actually ex-Delm Korval Daav yos'Phelium, and he knows how to get dangerous very quickly at need.
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Liaden Universe / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
Liaden Universe / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: According to the authors' FAQ, having a child has nothing to do with who you prefer to boink on your own time, and everyone should be assumed to be bisexual. That said, bisexuality is rarely seen, except for Dagmar, Priscilla, and Lina (two of whom aren't Liaden) in Conflict Of Honors, and the lover of the patient from "This House".
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Liaden Universe / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Liaden Universe / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: Any trained psychic would know it's impossible to leave a parcel inside your mind for another person to retrieve telepathically at their convenience. Miri has no training, and doesn't know it's impossible, so she does it. Later in Carpe Diem, Shan does several equally impossible things during an astral excursion, and makes the same excuse... but the narration explicitly notes at one point that he knows perfectly well that what he's attempting is impossible (and is desperate enough to try anyway, whereupon it works). There are hints that there's more to Shan and his abilities than he realizes.
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Liaden Universe / int_58e008c	type	Sharing a Body
Liaden Universe / int_58e008c	comment	Sharing a Body: What happened to Aelliana and Daav after she was murdered instead.
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Liaden Universe / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Liaden Universe / int_590eb583	comment	In Scout's Progress, Aelianna Caylon, despite being acknowledged as the foremost mathematical mind on Liad and the indirect saviour of many starship pilots, is The Unfavourite of her mother's children, and has been a target of her brother's abuse ever since they were children, when they overheard a conversation in which Aelianna was recommended to their mother over her brother as the best candidate for being her heir. Her brother was chosen instead, but has abused the position by taking out his resentment on Aelianna ever since; their mother refuses to recognize the situation.
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Liaden Universe / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Liaden Universe / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: A secret organization that has infiltrated the government at the highest levels (despite using a government-style name, it is not clear that it was ever a subsidiary of the government per se) is against any non-Liadens and half-Liadens.
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Liaden Universe / int_5a57bdaa	type	Lucky Seven
Liaden Universe / int_5a57bdaa	comment	Lucky Seven: In The Gathering Edge, Chernak and Stost are dubbed "the lucky ones" by one of the people attending their birth because they were born on the seventh minute of the seventh hour of the seventh day, seven seconds apart.
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Liaden Universe / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
Liaden Universe / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: Starship pilots are taught a hand-signal language used to communicate in situations where verbal communication is difficult. They also use it to carry on private conversations under the noses of non-pilots.
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Liaden Universe / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Liaden Universe / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: In the prologue of I Dare, a man visited at night by two people who have employed him for a shady endeavor worries about his grandson being disturbed, and they reassure him that they did not wake the boy when they came in. In fact, they murdered the boy in his sleep, and proceed to kill his grandfather as well.
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Liaden Universe / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Liaden Universe / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Thanks to the Old Tech Uncle collects, he and Dulsey (and perhaps a small number of their staff) may be the only remaining human survivors of the old universe from the Crystal duology, hundreds of years prior to the present day. There's also some reincarnating wizards and a small family of meddling tree-things.
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Liaden Universe / int_5c8e0224	type	Turtle Power
Liaden Universe / int_5c8e0224	comment	Turtle Power: Even the Yxtrang don't mess with the Clutch, and the leader of the Juntavas finds out first-hand why.
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Liaden Universe / int_5d162996	type	Extended Disarming
Liaden Universe / int_5d162996	comment	Extended Disarming: Val Con disarming himself on board the Clutch Ship in Agent of Change. Pat Rin and Cheever McFarland laying out their weapons at a firing range in I Dare. Disarming an Agent of Change near the end of I Dare.
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Liaden Universe / int_5d7cfc66	type	The Jeeves
Liaden Universe / int_5d7cfc66	comment	The Jeeves: Who else but Jeeves the eponymous robotic Battle Butler, a rehabilitated decommissioned war machine who it turns out actually adopted his name and manner specifically from certain ancient novels (after having suffered at the hands of a character who is entirely coincidentally named Roderick Spode).
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Liaden Universe / int_5dbf364d	type	WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied
Liaden Universe / int_5dbf364d	comment	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: In Crystal Dragon, the assassin Veralt pauses before killing Cantra to inform her that it was him who killed her mother. "She died as she had lived — a fool, and begging me not to harm you." He intends this to show her how thoroughly she's beaten, but only succeeds in pushing her Relative Button and giving her a Heroic Second Wind.
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Liaden Universe / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Liaden Universe / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: So many. There's a high proportion of them in Clan Korval, which actively selects for piloting ability (though even so it contains some so-so pilots, and even the occasional one such as Lady Kareen with no aptitude at all). The Liaden Scouts also train skilled pilots, for a particular skill set focussed on small, fast, and highly-maneuvrable ships. "To fly like a Scout" is a proverb, though whether it's a compliment or an insult depends on the person saying it.
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Liaden Universe / int_5e90d898	type	Prequel in the Lost Age
Liaden Universe / int_5e90d898	comment	Prequel in the Lost Age: The Great Migration Duology.
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Liaden Universe / int_5ee2f7cc	type	My Secret Pregnancy
Liaden Universe / int_5ee2f7cc	comment	Anne treats Er Thom as this, having decided to have a Secret Pregnancy and not mention it to him.
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Liaden Universe / int_5f45ab38	type	Space Jews
Liaden Universe / int_5f45ab38	comment	Space Jews: The kompani, introduced in Necessity's Child and the short story "Eleutherios", are a band of secretive travelers who keep to themselves, have mystical powers, tell fortunes with decks of cards, have extremely good technological artificing skills, and disdain/steal from most outsiders. The authors have acknowledged that they're inspired by the Romani.
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Liaden Universe / int_5fb5be92	type	Spot of Tea
Liaden Universe / int_5fb5be92	comment	Spot of Tea: Liadens usually drink tea, while Terrans prefer coffee.
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Liaden Universe / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
Liaden Universe / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Each new culture presented in the series has its own slang, as well as non-slang words in common usage and honorifics. Some of these derive from English or other present languages (such as "onagrata", Delgado's term for a contract-husband-cum-concubine; Word of God states it was derived from persona non grata, assuming that if there was such thing as a "non grata" person, there must be the "grata" kind as well); others' origins are less clear. There are also plenty of borrowed words from other languages as well, particularly Liaden (especially for concepts that do not have a simple translation into English, such as melant'i). There are also some corruptions of modern-day English words, such as "handwich" for sandwich.
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Liaden Universe / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
Liaden Universe / int_6114a875	comment	Clan Korval's countermeasures against the Department of the Interior after Plan B kicks off, especially during I Dare. The conflict escalates with dizzying intensity, each agency acting to counter the other, until it culminates in Clan Korval obliterating several cubic miles of city to destroy dangerous Lost Technology doomsday weapons.
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Liaden Universe / int_61459062	type	Perception Filter
Liaden Universe / int_61459062	comment	Perception Filter: Scouts (and Agents of Change) are taught to stand perfectly still in such a way as to be almost impossible for ordinary people to spot. In Dragon Ship, Theo panics the psi-sensitives at a business she visits by starting to imitate Daav's way of disappearing in this manner. Also in Dragon Ship, Kamele Waitley is tipped off to the Department of the Interior's agents in time to escape their plan to abduct her because Daav in his Kiladi persona had taught her how to notice people doing that. In Alliance of Equals, Shan does this as part of an effort to allow Padi to trade without the other party being intimidated by having the Master Trader there with her. Also in Alliance of Equals, Padi does this to hide when agents come to kidnap her. Partially subverted in that the agents deduce that she might be doing exactly that, and find her by physically searching the room.
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Liaden Universe / int_61a35c24	type	Improbable Piloting Skills
Liaden Universe / int_61a35c24	comment	Improbable Piloting Skills: Though given the emphasis on piloting, studying, ship owning, and breeding for pilot-fast reflexes in the books (and the Artificial Human breeding stock (from the Great Migration duology) that founded the clan), it might be slightly less improbable to expect the members of Korval to do what they do. As shown in Fledgling, pilot-fast reflexes are a genetic feature of the Korval line; only one known born-in-clan member (Kareen) does not seem to have any vestige of piloting talent. Pat Rin, who was psychically influenced by Kareen into failing his piloting tests, finds his piloting talent later in life.
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Liaden Universe / int_61d94b59	type	Unusually Uninteresting Name
Liaden Universe / int_61d94b59	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Name: The Department of the Interior.
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Liaden Universe / int_6448ac10	type	Did You Get a New Haircut?
Liaden Universe / int_6448ac10	comment	Did You Get a New Haircut?: When Aelliana returns to the family home at the beginning of Mouse and Dragon, so altered that none of her relatives recognize her at first, her sister is so stunned that all she can think to say is "you've done something with your hair". (She has, in fact, had an Expository Hair Style Change, but of the changes it's perhaps the least significant in itself.)
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Liaden Universe / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
Liaden Universe / int_6492f4ca	comment	Spirit Advisor: Moonhawk for Priscilla in Conflict of Honors; Moonhawk and Lute for Priscilla in "Moonphase"; Lute for Shan in Plan B (and Moonhawk for Shan in I Dare)
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Liaden Universe / int_67711aa	type	Company Town
Liaden Universe / int_67711aa	comment	Company Town: Surebleak was a company planet, until the company left; then it became a Dying Town. Things are starting to change, though.
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Liaden Universe / int_6991bb9	type	Oracular Urchin
Liaden Universe / int_6991bb9	comment	Oracular Urchin: Anthora
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Liaden Universe / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
Liaden Universe / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Unfazed Everywoman: Kamele Waitley, who over the course of knowing Professor Jen Sar Kiladi goes from being a naive, cloistered ivory-tower academic (Fledgling, Saltation) to setting out to "rescue" Kiladi from Clan Korval but ending up rescuing herself from the machinations of the Department of the Interior instead (Ghost Ship, Dragon Ship).
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Liaden Universe / int_6ad19559	type	Wine Is Classy
Liaden Universe / int_6ad19559	comment	Wine Is Classy: Shan walks around with a glass of red wine all the time. Does he even drink from it? In addition to the "usual" red and white wines, Liadens also have canary wine and blue wine (Misravot). This seems to be used as an establishing detail to help show how different the universe is from our own.
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Liaden Universe / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Liaden Universe / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Everything, to Liadens, is serious business. Special notice goes to professional status, though; Pilots and Traders, among other professions, are usually capitalized and consider professional brotherhood to be almost as important as clan loyalty, something which even extends to Terrans in the same profession.
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Liaden Universe / int_6febad04	type	Sibling Seniority Squabble
Liaden Universe / int_6febad04	comment	Sibling Seniority Squabble: In The Gathering Edge, Chernak is older than Stost by all of seven seconds. They don't squabble about it, though; in fact, Stost has got in the habit of regarding Chernak as his wise elder sister and following her lead in everything, even though they went through training and active service side-by-side and he knows everything she does.
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Liaden Universe / int_70351b6c	type	No Medication for Me
Liaden Universe / int_70351b6c	comment	No Medication for Me: Bell, in the short story "Phoenix", has serious manic-depressive issues that he manages using various non-medical coping strategies because the available medical treatment also completely suppresses his (extraordinary) gift for painting. In Fledgling, Kamele's decision not to medicate Theo out of her "clumsiness" was made after carefully researching the potential side-effects of the pharmaceuticals in question and finding them to be considerable.
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Liaden Universe / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Liaden Universe / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Even leaving aside alien aliens such as the Clutch Turtles, the trope is used often within the books due to the number of different human cultures in the galaxy (Terran, Liaden, Yxtrang, lost colony worlds), as well as the fact that pilots are a culture unto themselves and Scouts are a subculture unto themselves (so much so that the flexible mindset required in a Scout leads to alienation from the rest of hidebound Liaden culture). Culture shock is generally a given.
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Liaden Universe / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Liaden Universe / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: the last page of the Agent of Change sequence It took several years, and a couple of spin-off novels to introduce the new character, but the adventure did continue with Ghost Ship.
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Liaden Universe / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Liaden Universe / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: In Scout's Progress, Daav yos'Phelium, Delm Korval and one of the most powerful people on the entire planet Liad, works as a lowly starship mechanic at Binjali's shipyard to get away from the pressures of rule.
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Liaden Universe / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
Liaden Universe / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: Among the supporting cast, a new dea'Gauss is introduced at the end of I Dare, following old Mr dea'Gauss's retirement.
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Liaden Universe / int_792e11ec	type	Dance Battler
Liaden Universe / int_792e11ec	comment	Dance Battler: In the earlier books, L'apeleka is a dance and fighting discipline Val Con learned from the Clutch Turtles. In the later books, menfri'at, taught in some places as strictly dance, is both a dance and a self-defense discipline for pilots.
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Liaden Universe / int_7976e429	type	2-D Space
Liaden Universe / int_7976e429	comment	2-D Space: Humorously, Liadens on space stations tend to think that way. In Balance of Trade, however, space-born Jethri doesn't - so when he leaps off the edge of a space station deck into a zero-gravity zone, the Liaden toughs chasing him are thunderstruck and Jeth becomes an in-universe Memetic Badass overnight. The Scout who finds him isn't quite so amazed, but compliments him on a well-executed escape.
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Liaden Universe / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
Liaden Universe / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: Trade. Guess what it's used for.
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Liaden Universe / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Liaden Universe / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: In Scout's Progress, Aelianna Caylon, despite being acknowledged as the foremost mathematical mind on Liad and the indirect saviour of many starship pilots, is The Unfavourite of her mother's children, and has been a target of her brother's abuse ever since they were children, when they overheard a conversation in which Aelianna was recommended to their mother over her brother as the best candidate for being her heir. Her brother was chosen instead, but has abused the position by taking out his resentment on Aelianna ever since; their mother refuses to recognize the situation. Kareen yos'Phelium thinks of herself as the unfavorite, having lost her mother's preference to her younger brother when she proved to have no aptitude for piloting, considered an essential attribute in a leader of Korval. It's not clear, however, how much that's an accurate assessment of her mother's feelings; Kareen and Daav's childhood has only been glimpsed in flashbacks, and their mother has never been a viewpoint character, so her actions are open to a number of more or less charitable interpretations.
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Liaden Universe / int_7d22b5bb	type	Getting High on Their Own Supply
Liaden Universe / int_7d22b5bb	comment	Getting High on Their Own Supply: The Big Bad in Conflict of Honors is involved in a variety of shady dealings, including drug smuggling. He gets hooked on one of the drugs he's running, which affects his judgment and contributes to his downfall.
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Liaden Universe / int_7ee93bc9	type	Some Call Me "Tim"
Liaden Universe / int_7ee93bc9	comment	Some Call Me "Tim": One of the main characters in the series is... (deep breath), "Eleventh Shell Fifth Hatched Knife Clan of Middle River's Spring Spawn of Farmer Greentrees of the Spearmakers Den: The Edger." And that's the short form of his name, "used by the Clans of Men on those things called visas." His human and Liaden friends just call him "Edger".
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Liaden Universe / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Liaden Universe / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Standard practice for Liadens. Marriages are arranged by the head of the clan, for the good of the clan, and the amount of input the person getting married has into the choice of spouse varies considerably. (Also, Liaden marriages are generally for fixed terms, the standard being "one year, or until there's a baby". Unfortunate daughters of poverty-stricken clans can spend their entire lives going from one arranged marriage to another to keep their clan afloat.)
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Liaden Universe / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Liaden Universe / int_80b57bec	comment	Super Soldier: the Yxtrang, Jela
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Liaden Universe / int_83364794	type	Asteroid Miners
Liaden Universe / int_83364794	comment	Asteroid Miners: Terence O'Grady, in Agent of Change, was an asteroid miner. Surebleak was abandoned by its corporate founders after new deposits of timonium were found in an asteroid belt where they could be mined more cheaply than on Surebleak.
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Liaden Universe / int_84df9a79	type	Second-Face Smoke
Liaden Universe / int_84df9a79	comment	Second Face Smoke: Boss Moran tries this on Pat Rin during their confrontation, before using the lit cigar to underline his explanation of how it would be a Shame If Something Happened to Pat Rin's more flammable possessions.
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Liaden Universe / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
Liaden Universe / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: Cantra yos'Phelium's oft-quoted-from logbook.
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Liaden Universe / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Liaden Universe / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: A few instances. In "Moonphase", Lute and Moonhawk tell Priscilla that the Sintian church has done everything it can to keep their reincarnations apart ever since the last time they were reincarnated together (covered in "Where the Goddess Sends" and related stories)—implying that there might be serious repercussions for the church now that Priscilla and Shan have finally gotten back together. Certainly the church has some Balance coming to it after the way it kicked Priscilla out and declared her dead. As yet, however, there's been no sign that any Balance toward Sintia is forthcoming.
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Liaden Universe / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Liaden Universe / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: The Korval motto, "I Dare".
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Liaden Universe / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Liaden Universe / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers
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Liaden Universe / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Liaden Universe / int_8878f3be	comment	The Yxtrang — a culture / human subspecies entirely composed of Badass Army, for whom conquest is a way of life — leave the Clutch strictly alone. In I Dare we find out why.
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Liaden Universe / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Liaden Universe / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Aelliana's mother favors her baby boy and shows Parental Obliviousness to the other kids, which is why she doesn't notice that her baby boy is abusing the hell out of Aelliana.
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Liaden Universe / int_892c6fdc	type	Space Elves
Liaden Universe / int_892c6fdc	comment	Space Elves: The Liaden are more or less the space version of Better Elves — petite, physically attractive, technologically advanced, and inclined to look down on anybody who isn't them. Although to call them this is as much as an oversimplification as it is in most other cases, it does merit special mention for being lampshaded in the second book.
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Liaden Universe / int_8a83cabc	type	Captured on Purpose
Liaden Universe / int_8a83cabc	comment	Captured on Purpose: Agent of Change begins with the sentence "The man who was not Terrence O'Grady had come quietly." It shortly turns out that being exposed as an imposter and captured is all part of the plan, as it gets him inside a security perimeter so he can achieve his actual goal, after which he swiftly makes good his escape.
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Liaden Universe / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Liaden Universe / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: Beautiful
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Liaden Universe / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Liaden Universe / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Liadens sometimes do this, though not for the reason you'd expect. They use whatever name or title they're using to make it clear what melant'i they're operating under. When the Delm of Korval says "the Delm of Korval speaks," it means that right now, he is not your beloved brother, lover, or anything else; he's the guy who has to make decisions for the clan (in this case, this is a form of Royal "We"). In a lighter example, when talking to Theo, her father tells her that while sometimes, "Professor Kiladi" needs to be trotted out on formal occasions, he asks her not to invoke "him" too often. When speaking the High Liaden tongue, Liaden often refer to themselves in the third person as "one," instead of "I". This is part of the shorthand used to represent the stilted cadences of High Liaden for people who read in English.
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Liaden Universe / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
Liaden Universe / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Granddaughter: Miri Tiazan and Miri Robertson. The first time Robertson sees her grandmother's portrait, it takes her a moment to realise it isn't a mirror.
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Liaden Universe / int_8f350291	type	Secret-Identity Identity
Liaden Universe / int_8f350291	comment	Secret Identity Identity:
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Liaden Universe / int_8f764e60	type	Magnetic Plot Device
Liaden Universe / int_8f764e60	comment	Magnetic Plot Device: It is frequently said throughout the course of the series that "the Luck" moves strangely about Clan Korval—hence the clan is one great big Coincidence Magnet. It is never explained why exactly this is so, but everyone who believes in "the Luck" seems to regard it as an immutable fact of life. Also, it is shown to be every bit as genetically heritable as the famed Clan Korval piloting ability, regardless of whether its inheritor is officially in the clan or not.
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Liaden Universe / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Liaden Universe / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Clutch names describe your personality/resume as well as your actual name. They can take hours to recite in their full form.
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Liaden Universe / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
Liaden Universe / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: Many of the books end with either real cliffhangers with the characters in danger, or the authors piquing readers' interest in some other way... then the book ends. Sometimes several books can go by between their introduction and resolution. The series has been this way from the very start—the first-written book, Agent of Change, ended with Val Con and Miri trapped in a crippled space ship, in orbit around an uncharted planet... and then the authors wrote Conflict of Honors, a backstory novel about entirely different characters, before revisiting the cliffhanger in Carpe Diem.
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Liaden Universe / int_90c018ac	type	JustifiedTrope
Liaden Universe / int_90c018ac	comment	True lifemating is so rare that many Liadens think it's just a romantic myth or a metaphor — and it's happened five times in Clan Korval in the last two generations. Attributed to the meddling of Jelaza Kazone.
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Liaden Universe / int_92ac1ba0	type	Alternative Number System
Liaden Universe / int_92ac1ba0	comment	Alternative Number System: It's not explicitly stated that the Liadens have a base-12 numbering system, but they do use multiples of twelve in many applications, including timekeeping (12 days in a week), units of currency (they have several named units, each worth 12 times the one before), and the number they count up to when they're being patient with someone.
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Liaden Universe / int_93f27743	type	Metafictional Title
Liaden Universe / int_93f27743	comment	Metafictional Title: In the novella "Degrees of Separation", the protagonist figures out how to deal with his Evil Uncle after being inspired by the events of a play titled Degrees of Separation.
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Liaden Universe / int_95428daa	type	Rite of Passage
Liaden Universe / int_95428daa	comment	Rite of Passage: There are many of these from many cultures mentioned in the books. Examples: Fledgling features the "gigneri" from Delgado, in which a minor loses her virginity and learns who her father is at the same time. An older variation on the gigneri separates these two events, and is used to give Theo the freedom to pursue piloting lessons without forcing her to have sex. The permanent silver earring Daav wears in one ear is part of the marriage ritual on a primitive planet where Daav spent time as a Scout. Obtaining a pilot's license seems to be an informal rite of passage for Clan Korval.
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Liaden Universe / int_959cb9aa	type	One Degree of Separation
Liaden Universe / int_959cb9aa	comment	One Degree of Separation: As a result of the Korval clan's Coincidence Magnet nature, many non-Korval characters find their paths crossing Korval's repeatedly in improbable ways. It sometimes seems as if every minor character in the entire universe is related to Korval in ways that just haven't been revealed yet. On a related note, it appears that almost every bad thing that happens to Clan Korval in any of the books or stories set more recently than the Balance of Trade series can be laid at the feet of the shadowy Department of the Interior.
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Liaden Universe / int_96f6335d	type	Bodyguard Crush
Liaden Universe / int_96f6335d	comment	Bodyguard Crush: Pat Rin and Natesa. Ends with Natesa asking to be released from her contract. Pat Rin is devastated, until she explains that she's not leaving, she just wants to continue on her own terms — which, unlike the terms she's just been released from, allow for the two of them to act on their feelings.
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Liaden Universe / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Liaden Universe / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Theo Waitley is born and raised on a university planet with an obsession with "Safety," but she's half-Korval by birth. Fate almost immediately rams her into a piloting role almost against her will.
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Liaden Universe / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Liaden Universe / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Aware of the Department of the Interior's machinations, Liaden's Scouts hatch a cunning plan: they will destroy the DoI from within by feeding Val Con yos'Phelium to it without giving him any forewarning or preparation, counting on his line's Weirdness Magnet nature to throw a monkeywrench into its schemes.
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Liaden Universe / int_994ec498	type	Sidenote Full Story
Liaden Universe / int_994ec498	comment	Sidenote Full Story: In Carpe Diem, one of the main characters is driven through the city of Solcintra by a snarky cab driver who caught the imagination of fans and prompted many to write in asking for more about her. The novella Skyblaze gives the cab driver a name, Vertu dea'San, and tells what happened to her during after the climactic battle that occurred in Solcintra a few novels later. In Scout's Progress, one of the chapter heading quotes is a message home by a pilot, one of Daav's ancestors, giving a brief account of a stopover at space station where he was overcharged for emergency repairs. "The Space at Tinsori Light" is the story of that pilot, and reveals that there was something much more sinister going on at the space station than the brief account would indicate.
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Liaden Universe / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Liaden Universe / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Kamele Waitley in Dragon Ship, when she rises above her naive ivory-tower absorption in her researches to realize she is being stalked—and takes effective and unexpected action to get away. In Dragon in Exile, Kamele learns to shoot, and ends up taking down a mobster who has the poor sense to attack the shooting range where she is competing in a match. Will Theo even recognize her when and if she finally returns to Surebleak?
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Liaden Universe / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Liaden Universe / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: In the series as a whole, Kareen yos'Phelium is a rarely-seen supporting character with whom the main characters tend not to get along (with, it has to be said, some justification). The short story "Daughter of Dragons" gives her a solo adventure and a more sympathetic viewpoint.
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Liaden Universe / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
Liaden Universe / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Meicha and Miandra Maarilex, in Balance of Trade, dress identically, move in coordination, and exchange Twin Banter; people have trouble telling them apart, and their uncle refers to them as "Meichamiandra" (though their grandmother always knows which is which, especially when one is in trouble). It being a setting with psychic powers, they also have a touch of Twin Telepathy. They become more distinct as the novel progresses.
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Liaden Universe / int_9d29321a	type	Can't Argue with Elves
Liaden Universe / int_9d29321a	comment	Can't Argue with Elves: The books (particularly Conflict of Honors) are replete with examples of Liadens who treat humans with absolute disdain, referring to them as "it" and cheating them blind at any opportunity. This mindset also fuels the villainous Department of the Interior's plans for Liad's ascendance (under their rule, of course) and the rest of the galaxy's enslavement.
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Liaden Universe / int_9dbb9688	type	Fantastic Honorifics
Liaden Universe / int_9dbb9688	comment	Fantastic Honorifics: Bentrill, where much of Carpe Diem is set, uses "zhena" for women, "zamir" for men, and "zama" for children. ("Zama" is only used once in the novel, and the narration doesn't specify the gender of the child in question.)
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Liaden Universe / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Liaden Universe / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Mr dea'Gauss has personally been serving Clan Korval since before the current head of the clan was born; his ancestors have served in the same role since the day Clan Korval was founded.
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Liaden Universe / int_9fdbf310	type	Which Me?
Liaden Universe / int_9fdbf310	comment	Which Me?: In Plan B, Shan has a vision-conversation with Lute, who is connected to him in some complicated and as-yet unclarified way that involves reincarnation; Lute does things with first- and second-person pronouns that they were never intended to do.
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Liaden Universe / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
Liaden Universe / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: the passing of Korval's Ring.
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Liaden Universe / int_a11ee4de	type	Blind Jump
Liaden Universe / int_a11ee4de	comment	Blind Jump: Hyperspace travel requires careful calculations to avoid navigation hazards such as stars, but there is a move colloquially called the "Smuggler's Ace", which is a blind hyperspace jump a short distance (generally from somewhere within a solar system to somewhere within the same solar system) — just enough to shake a pursuer or avoid being pinned down in a firefight, while minimizing the risks of jumping blind.
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Liaden Universe / int_a2e4af42	type	Time for Plan B
Liaden Universe / int_a2e4af42	comment	Time for Plan B: Clan Korval's emergency "clan is under attack, everyone bug out, get weapons, and maintain radio silence" plan is officially named "Plan B". (Word of God is that "Plan B" was a working draft term for the real name of the plan, intended to be replaced in the edit process when they could come up with suitable Liaden nomenclature, but it somehow stuck.) It's pretty telling that Clan Korval has had this plan in reserve pretty much since they landed on the home planet. Plan B went on to also be the title of a novel showing the Clan acting on the Plan. Word of God is that the title of the book was actually decided upon for them by fans during the long gap between their publisher rejecting further books in the series after the third (in which the name "Plan B" was first mentioned) and the authors learning they had an unexpected Internet fan movement. Fans kept asking them when Plan B was coming out, and they chose to take advantage of the name recognition when they found a publisher for future books in the series.
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Liaden Universe / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Liaden Universe / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: The short story "Lord of the Dance" was written as a look ahead at what life on Surebleak might be like after the five-book "Agent of Change sequence," but before any such novels were even on the drawing board to be written. When the authors actually sat down to plot the later novels out, they realized that various necessary plot elements, including certain characters leaving Surebleak for extended periods at particular points, meant that there was literally no time in which the story as written could actually have taken place. Hence, it has been relegated to non-canon (though certain elements, such as the reason Pat Rin couldn't pass any of his piloting tests, were incorporated into other canonical tales).
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Liaden Universe / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
Liaden Universe / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	...And That Little Girl Was Me: Near the end of Balance of Trade, Jethri's cousin Grig tells him a story about an expedition that encountered a cache of the Old Technology, and a young and inexperienced member of the expedition who was luckier than he deserved to be. The boy is, of course, Grig himself, as is revealed when Grig lapses into first-person at the end.
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Liaden Universe / int_a4e9a09e	type	Dude, Where's My Reward?
Liaden Universe / int_a4e9a09e	comment	Dude, Where's My Reward?: The reward for saving the planet is to get unceremoniously booted off the planet forever. This actually works out well for Korval, who had grown tired of the responsibility of looking out for an ungrateful planet for several hundred years, and had somewhere else to go, but some of the other Liadens who helped out, and received the same "reward", are less fortunate.
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Liaden Universe / int_a5f1568d	type	Dirty Mind-Reading
Liaden Universe / int_a5f1568d	comment	Dirty Mind-Reading: In I Dare, there is a remarkable carpet called the Sinner's Rug; it comes from a world where adjudged sinners are required to make and display carpets depicting their sin, and this particular example of the type depicts a group of people performing a variety of imaginative sex acts. In the short story "Persistence", it's revealed that the maker of the carpet was an unlicensed telepath, and the rug represents not what she did herself but what she overheard before she was caught.
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Liaden Universe / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Liaden Universe / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: The mysterious Uncle. His personal name, Yuri, is used a handful of times in the entire series by those closest to him; the rest of the time, and to everyone else, he's just "the Uncle". (His original surname, if he ever had one, has never been revealed.)
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Liaden Universe / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Liaden Universe / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The Clutch Turtles aren't really morons per se, so much as they appear to be large, slow, and fairly naive regarding human culture. But those who get on their bad side discover, very briefly, the error of their ways. Their space drive could be considered a metaphor for the Turtles themselves: normally slow, quirky, and meandering, it can move very quickly and directly if the Turtles see sufficient need. The Yxtrang — a culture / human subspecies entirely composed of Badass Army, for whom conquest is a way of life — leave the Clutch strictly alone. In I Dare we find out why. To the other denizens of the university on Delgado, Professor Jen Sar Kiladi seems to be a harmless albeit somewhat (all right, very) eccentric academic. But surprise—he's actually ex-Delm Korval Daav yos'Phelium, and he knows how to get dangerous very quickly at need.
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Liaden Universe / int_acb01a17	type	Nothing Up My Sleeve
Liaden Universe / int_acb01a17	comment	Nothing Up My Sleeve: Pat Rin's pistol
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Liaden Universe / int_ad0439be	type	The Gambler
Liaden Universe / int_ad0439be	comment	The Gambler: Pat Rin.
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Liaden Universe / int_ad331757	type	Emergency Authority
Liaden Universe / int_ad331757	comment	Emergency Authority: During the Migration, Cantra's employment contract as Captain grants her absolute authority in an emergency that threatens the safety of the passengers. In the event, this clause is not needed during the Migration — but it does get invoked centuries later when one of her descendants (who has inherited all her rights and responsibilities as Captain, according to a clause originally intended only to keep things going if Cantra died before the Migration was over) discovers a threat to the safety of Liad, the planet populated by the passengers' descendants.
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Liaden Universe / int_af921409	type	Accidental Marriage
Liaden Universe / int_af921409	comment	Accidental Marriage: Val Con giving Miri a knife = married (in the eyes of the Clutch, whose culture and tradition revolve around knives).
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Liaden Universe / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Liaden Universe / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Kareen towards Pat Rin (not necessarily consciously, but enough for the family to decide to have him fostered against her will).
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Liaden Universe / int_b13bb418	type	Alien Among Us
Liaden Universe / int_b13bb418	comment	Alien Among Us: Inverted in Carpe Diem, when Val Con and Miri crash-land on a 1940s-equivalent human world and try to blend in until they can work out how to be rescued.
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Liaden Universe / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
Liaden Universe / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: Apparently, the only way to get ahead on Surebleak is to kill the old boss.
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Liaden Universe / int_b39b84ee	type	Fiery Coverup
Liaden Universe / int_b39b84ee	comment	Fiery Coverup: In the prologue to I Dare, agents of the Department cover up a just-concluded operation by burning down a building with all the evidence of their presence (including the corpses of the locals they'd worked with) inside.
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Liaden Universe / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Liaden Universe / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Kareen towards Pat Rin.
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Liaden Universe / int_b922a720	type	Standard Time Units
Liaden Universe / int_b922a720	comment	Standard Time Units: Interstellar commerce is governed by the Standard Calendar, consisting of Standard Years, Standard Months, Standard Days, Standard Hours, and Standard Minutes. It's not said who set the standard, nor what it's based on, but it has a suspiciously high degree of congruency with the local calendar of Liad.
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Liaden Universe / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Liaden Universe / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: Just about every ship ever mentioned in the series—after all, "Korval is ships." Special mention goes to the Dutiful Passage, Korval's flagship; Ride the Luck, the ship Aelianna Caylon wins in a game of chance; and Bechimo, the old-tech starship with a mind of its own from Saltation and Ghost Ship.
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Liaden Universe / int_bbb44d94	type	Cast from Calories
Liaden Universe / int_bbb44d94	comment	Cast from Calories: How it works for wizards. For minor everyday workings it doesn't have any obvious effect, but a working of any significant size will leave a wizard ravenously hungry, and there are at least two examples of a wizard visibly losing weight after a major working. (One is in Conflict of Honors, and is followed by Priscilla looking in the mirror and reflecting that she looks like she's the survivor of a famine.)
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Liaden Universe / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Liaden Universe / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: See Coincidence Magnet entry above.
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Liaden Universe / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Liaden Universe / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: most everyone once they end up with their life mate.
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Liaden Universe / int_becf7306	type	Dead Sidekick
Liaden Universe / int_becf7306	comment	Pat Rin goes on one against Boss Deacon after the accidental murder of his dead little gardener.
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Liaden Universe / int_bf5fc089	type	Tarot Motifs
Liaden Universe / int_bf5fc089	comment	Tarot Motifs: In "Moon's Honor", each chapter is headed with the name of one of the Major Arcana and a brief description of what it signifies.
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Liaden Universe / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Liaden Universe / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The three sisters in "Veil of the Dancer".
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Liaden Universe / int_c05de85d	type	Mindlink Mates
Liaden Universe / int_c05de85d	comment	And true lifemating can often lead to the nondeceased soon following the deceased party into death (Er Thom & Anne) or else the deceased taking up residence in the nondeceased's head (Daav & Aelianna). Not that this stops Daav from re-marrying elsewhere, with Aelianna's enthusiastic encouragement.
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Liaden Universe / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Liaden Universe / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son: Fairly common in the clans and clan-like family structures that predominate in the settings: people cast out of clans are not simply disowned, they are ceremonially declared dead (and sometimes more than ceremonially). Characters to have this happen to them include Priscilla Mendoza, Ren Zel dea'Judan, and Ran Eld Caylon.
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Liaden Universe / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Liaden Universe / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: The dramliz and especially the clutch turtles.
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Liaden Universe / int_c3743565	type	Time Dissonance
Liaden Universe / int_c3743565	comment	Time Dissonance: Turtles are very long-lived, and don't believe in rushing things. In one short story, the Knife Clan makes a knife for their first human customer, using their usual technique, then finds that in the (to them) short time this takes their customer has died of old age.
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Liaden Universe / int_c48a0fe6	type	Actually, That's My Assistant
Liaden Universe / int_c48a0fe6	comment	Actually, That's My Assistant: In Plan B, newly-recruited Proud Warrior Race Guy Nelirikk assumes that the Big Guy Jason Carmody is his new commanding officer, and dismisses Miri Robertson as an assistant of some kind, when it's actually the other way around. Happens several times in I Dare after Boss Conrad sets up on Surebleak, where his physically-imposing bodyguard better fits local preconceptions of what a leader looks like.
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Liaden Universe / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
Liaden Universe / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: The Dramliz and healers have this, as do lifemates. Sometimes they may have more trouble not listening to people's inner thoughts (as with Anthora and Theo in Ghost Ship). It's noted, though, that in most cases, this means being able to gain an impression of the other person's emotions and the shape of their thoughts, but not "hearing" their thoughts in verbal form the way telepathy is often depicted. The ability to hold mental conversations using actual words is something lifemates might develop in time; otherwise it's extremely rare.
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Liaden Universe / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Liaden Universe / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Many places, people, and things are named for elements of other works. A few examples: LaDemeter is the premier gunsmith of the age. In Fledgling, an academic is accused of falsifying her sources, and the forensic literature workgroup charged with investigating her work does so using a venerable technique known as the Antonio Smith Method. The Gallowglass Chair is named for a historical practitioner of cultural genetics. Pat Rin's Surebleak nom de guerre, Conrad, comes from Roger Zelazny's "...And Call Me Conrad". In Crystal Dragon, Moreta's Flight was a hyperspace jump of unusual duration. Also, a late scholar was ser'Dinther, who'd tried to prove parallel universes with a cat, poison gas, and a box. The rust-colored elderly norbear Hevelin was named in honor of Rusty Hevelin, a respected elder of the SF fandom community (who has since passed away).
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Liaden Universe / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Liaden Universe / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: In Carpe Diem, a section in which Val Con's family wonder where he is and worry that he might be in trouble ends with Shan confidently stating that "Wherever Val Con is at this moment, he has the best of everything possible". Cut to Val Con and Miri, marooned and almost out of food.
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Liaden Universe / int_c83a6950	type	Sleep Learning
Liaden Universe / int_c83a6950	comment	Sleep Learning: In the prequel Balance of Trade, Jethri's lessons in the Liaden language are supplemented with "tapes that played while he slept". (In the main sequence, several centuries later, there is a wide-spread method called "sleep learning", but it is based on neural induction technology that works by implanting information into otherwise unused neurons, not the "sleeping with a tape recorder" idea that this trope is mainly about.)
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Liaden Universe / int_cad57f30	type	The Nameless
Liaden Universe / int_cad57f30	comment	The Nameless: Rool Tiazan's lifemate, who is featured in Crystal Dragon with brief appearances and mentions in other novels, defected from a school of sorceresses who go their entire lives without names (being born and raised within the school so that this can be ensured). Being equipped with telepathy and other powers helps smooth over the potential social awkwardnesses. The school teaches that being nameless is a strength, rendering a person immune to I Know Your True Name types of magic, but it's suggested that it also somehow weakens their individuality and makes them susceptible to being dominated by the school's masters. Some of the other defectors went on to find names for themselves (Moonhawk being the most prominent), but Rool Tiazan's lady never does, and is referred to throughout the series only by description.
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Liaden Universe / int_cbd5e41a	type	Vehicular Turnabout
Liaden Universe / int_cbd5e41a	comment	Vehicular Turnabout: Val Con, Shan, and Beautiful stealing the Yxtrang aircraft and using them in the defense against the Yxtrang invasion in Plan B.
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Liaden Universe / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Liaden Universe / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Plan B went on to also be the title of a novel showing the Clan acting on the Plan. Word of God is that the title of the book was actually decided upon for them by fans during the long gap between their publisher rejecting further books in the series after the third (in which the name "Plan B" was first mentioned) and the authors learning they had an unexpected Internet fan movement. Fans kept asking them when Plan B was coming out, and they chose to take advantage of the name recognition when they found a publisher for future books in the series.
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Liaden Universe / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Liaden Universe / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Pat Rin goes on one against Boss Deacon after the accidental murder of his dead little gardener. The young Natesa also goes on one after the death of her father in "Veil of the Dancer".
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Liaden Universe / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Liaden Universe / int_d02a0c91	comment	There Are No Coincidences: The Department of the Interior and its agents have a tendency to see conspiracy and collusion in everything Korval does, when actually it's just coincidence (or "the Luck") 99 times out of 100. (To be fair, though, Clan Korval is such a huge Coincidence Magnet that the things that happen to them by coincidence would stretch the credulity even of someone who wasn't as incorrigibly paranoid as the Department.)
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Liaden Universe / int_d09eafbc	type	Floating Head Syndrome
Liaden Universe / int_d09eafbc	comment	Floating Head Syndrome: The covers for the Meisha Merlin and Ace editions.
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Liaden Universe / int_d1e3ca2b	type	True Love is Exceptional
Liaden Universe / int_d1e3ca2b	comment	True Love Is Exceptional
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Liaden Universe / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Liaden Universe / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Stealing the aircraft from the Yxtrang. In fact, this trope is Clan Korval's very way of life, as expressed most fully in the clan motto of "I Dare".
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Liaden Universe / int_d46bae01	type	Tarot Troubles
Liaden Universe / int_d46bae01	comment	Tarot Troubles: "Moon's Honor" also has a scene in the fourth chapter featuring an actual tarot deck, which makes use of the common confusion about the meaning of the Death card. (The male lead thinks it signifies a literal death, and is greatly disturbed; the female lead knows it more accurately as "the change card", and is not so worried.) In Necessity's Child, the female lead is learning to do readings with a tarot-like deck of cards particular to her native culture. Some of the individual cards are recognisable from their descriptions as variants of actual tarot cards (for instance, the card called The Burning House is a version of the tarot card called The Tower).
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Liaden Universe / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Borrill, Zhena Trelu's "dog" on Vandar, doesn't look anything like a "dog" as Val Con or Miri know them, but is called a dog by the narrative (and Val Con theorizes that it fills the same ecological/cultural niche on that world). Borrill is only described in the most general of terms, but he has head ridges and is never pet, he just his ears pulled, suggesting he isn't a dog we know either. The local "cows" are likewise said to be weird. The primitive humans, OTOH, are pretty much standard.
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Liaden Universe / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Uncle, at least from other characters' perspectives. The Department of the Interior's analysts and Commanders of Agents imagine Val Con as some kind of chessmaster, when in reality Korval is simply a huge Coincidence Magnet. (Though that doesn't mean Val Con can't also be a chessmaster...) Daav has an excellent reputation for always getting his way. At one point he convinces Kamele to take Theo on a trip because it will be good for Theo—and convinces Theo to go on the trip to humor her mother. Jelaza Kazone may be the greatest chessmaster of them all. Certainly, it has played the longest game (or, at least, second longest—the Uncle is one of few beings in the Liaden Universe who can claim to have been an adult when the Tree was only a seedling), can foretell the future, and has a knack for getting its way. In a subplot woven through Dragon Ship, Dragon in Exile, and Alliance of Equals, the Tree even forces the Uncle to take part in its design, by the simple expedient of giving Daav a pair of unripe seed pods before he undertakes a dangerous mission. Much as it rankles, the Uncle knows he dares not bet against "Korval's meddling Tree" insofar as it can foretell the future.
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Liaden Universe / int_d6743235	comment	Pheromones: The aelantaza are genetically-engineered assassins whose enhancements include the ability to emit pheromones that make people more trusting and likely to accept their cover story.
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Liaden Universe / int_d86210c	comment	Have You Come to Gloat?: After Bar Jan chel'Gaibin is seriously injured in a duel he forces on Jethri, Jethri visits him and chel'Gaibin asks if he's come to gloat. Jethri hasn't; the local (Terran) authorities have asked him to act as a translator, as the only Liaden-speaking Terran on port, to ensure that language barriers don't prevent chel'Gaibin receiving fair treatment.
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Liaden Universe / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Shan and Priscilla, consecutive captains of the Cool Ship Dutiful Passage.
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Liaden Universe / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: Jeeves, Trealla Fantrol's robot butler, is powered by a retired military AI and is also in responsible for House Security. (Not to mention taking control of the entire planet's security net in the event of a Captain's Emergency.) After Korval migrates to Surebleak, leaving Trealla Fantrol behind, Jeeves is officially reassigned as the clan's head of security full-time.
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Liaden Universe / int_da8c447e	comment	Unobtainium: Timonium.
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Liaden Universe / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Miri especially, but most of them have badass moments.
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Liaden Universe / int_dae815bb	comment	A Glass in the Hand: In Conflict of Honors, Shan does this when he thinks Priscilla might be dead.
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Liaden Universe / int_db126a0b	comment	World Tree: Jelaza Kazone, the gigantic tree that literally lies at the foundation of clan Korval's family tree, and which in modern times is about a quarter of a mile high. The name - Jela's Fulfillment - is a remembrance of the promise that Jela's partner made to him that she would protect the tree - a promise that is considered (according to Val Con, the current head of the family) to have led directly to the colonization of the planet, since she needed a safe place for the Tree. It is an intelligent being (although most outsiders don't seem to be aware of this), and is considered a member of the family.
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Liaden Universe / int_db8a9d51	comment	Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Ranging from automatic tools (such as Lytaxin's robot taxis and cleaning bots in Agent of Change) through to Automatic Intelligences complex enough to recognised as actual people with human rights (Jeeves, Tocohl, Bechimo). The Defense Pods seen in Plan B and Ghost Ship are harder to place, but definitely toward the automatic end: within their parameters they're capable of very complex problem-solving, but they're at a loss to handle any situation they haven't been specifically programmed for.
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Liaden Universe / int_e04ffce3	comment	Lost Colony: The planet Miri and Val Con wind up on in Carpe Diem. Well, not so much lost as technologically regressed and out of contact with the wider galaxy. It's implied to be one of a handful that are known of and occasionally monitored to see if they are culturally mature enough to handle reintegration into the wider galaxy. A short story later revealed that Val Con, Miri, and an Agent of the Department of the Interior unintentionally accelerated that process.
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Liaden Universe / int_e070ebe6	comment	Manchurian Agent: In the old universe, the aelantaza were a group of genetically-engineered assassin-spies who had the ability to act in deep cover, using a Memory Gambit to submerge themselves in an innocent persona. Cantra was born and raised aelantaza before her family were killed, and her use of the ability in the rescue of Master dea'Syl forms a large part of Crystal Dragon. The ability to submerge oneself in an assumed persona also shows up to some extent in her descendants, particularly Daav with his double life as Jen Sar Kiladi (and probably also plays a role in Val Con's missions as an Agent of Change). In Alliance of Equals, it is revealed that the Tanjalyre Institute also made the transition to the new universe where it continues to produce aelantaza.
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Liaden Universe / int_e0a077fa	comment	Miss Kitty: Miss Audrey is a brothel owner in the Space Western equivalent of a frontier town. She's a canny businesswoman, and closer to being a respected community leader than the guys who are officially in charge. She even runs a school out of one of the back rooms.
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Liaden Universe / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
Liaden Universe / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: One of the properties of the knives made by the Middle River Clan.
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Liaden Universe / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: When characters are speaking in foreign languages, the discussions are commonly translated into English (save for foreign words such as melant'i that don't have simple translations). However, the English translations still maintain a particular flavor of the language. (For example, conversations in formal "High Liaden" are rendered in somewhat stilted passive-voice, often with the speaker referring to himself in the third person (as "one").)
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Liaden Universe / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: A basic building block of Liaden society.
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Liaden Universe / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Liaden Universe / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Er Thom and Anne's (sorta) Interspecies Romance, or at least interplanetary, doesn't go over well with his mother.
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Liaden Universe / int_e5c64f3f	type	Shame If Something Happened
Liaden Universe / int_e5c64f3f	comment	Shame If Something Happened: Shortly after Pat Rin sets up shop on Surebleak, a group of men with guns show up to discuss the necessity of insurance against accidents such as, for instance, valuable stock catching fire, or employees falling down and breaking something important.
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Liaden Universe / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
Liaden Universe / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: In The Gathering Edge, an unreliable piece of equipment has a handwritten notice on the wall next to it warning that hitting it won't make it work any better.
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Liaden Universe / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue and Orange Morality: The Liaden abide by a strict, voluminous honor code that governs all aspects of their life and can seem cryptic and impenetrable to outsiders. Prominent features of this code include the concepts of Balance, which holds that any action (whether harmful or beneficial) must be met with an equivalent response, and melant'i, which crosses "face"-like social status with separation of multiple roles held by a single person. This code also incorporates different dialects of the Liaden tongue (which are spoken in different social situations) and bows of varying depth and associated gestures that convey relationships. On Liad, a social faux pas can have lethal consequences. In fact, most planets and cultures in the Liaden Universe have their own cultural mores and honor codes that visiting characters find strange (and vice versa). One of the themes of the series is the difficulty outsiders can have in dealing with "local custom."
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Liaden Universe / int_ea262717	type	Remittance Man
Liaden Universe / int_ea262717	comment	Remittance Man: Vel Ter jo'Bern, a minor character in Dragon in Exile is a Black Sheep who travels about drinking, gambling and having a good time, supported by an allowance from his family on the condition he stays away from the homeworld and anybody the family would be embarrassed for him to meet.
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Liaden Universe / int_ecf510f4	comment	Puberty Superpower: It is said that psychic powers tend to manifest during the teen years, although there are exceptions (the occasion on which it is said is the discovery that three-year-old Shan is already manifesting).
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Liaden Universe / int_eed678bf	comment	Deep Cover Agent: Val Con's role in the Department of the Interior.
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Liaden Universe / int_f09b6509	comment	Last Episode, New Character: Theo Waitley was introduced in the final chapter of what was thought at the time to be the final book of the series.
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Liaden Universe / int_f25c2178	comment	Storyboard Body: All the Yxtrang
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Liaden Universe / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
Liaden Universe / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: Quin's "date" with Villy in Dragon in Exile turns out to be to help him with his schoolwork, but up until the reveal is discussed in terms that make it sound a lot like they're getting together for sexytimes.
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Liaden Universe / int_f38a4690	type	Legacy of Service
Liaden Universe / int_f38a4690	comment	Legacy of Service: The family firm of dea'Gauss have served as attorneys to Clan Korval through many generations. One of the prequels reveals that it was a dea'Gauss who did the paperwork for the founding of the Clan, centuries ago, and Korval has had them on retainer ever since.
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Liaden Universe / int_f50c4557	type	Viewer-Friendly Interface
Liaden Universe / int_f50c4557	comment	Reader-Friendly Interface: Carpe Diem appears to offer a textbook example when the classified file Nova was "downloading" appeared at reading speed on the screen, then "The image on the screen shivered, broke apart, and went blank" when someone noticed the unauthorized access. (But given all the ways of creating anti-copy-and-paste DRM in vogue even today, may possibly be a Justified Trope.)
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Liaden Universe / int_f5241839	comment	Braids of Action: Ex-soldier action girl Miri has very long hair which she wears in a single braid (which she wraps around her head if she's expecting to be doing something where it might get in the way).
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Liaden Universe / int_f6972f9d	comment	The Mourning After: Liaden lifemate marriages do not provide for divorce nor allow remarriage, even after a spouse's death. And true lifemating can often lead to the nondeceased soon following the deceased party into death (Er Thom & Anne) or else the deceased taking up residence in the nondeceased's head (Daav & Aelianna). Not that this stops Daav from re-marrying elsewhere, with Aelianna's enthusiastic encouragement.
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Liaden Universe / int_f6b5441c	comment	Right in Front of Me: In Saltation, one of Theo's co-workers at the Howsenda Hugglelans turns out after she's known him for quite some time, and occasionally poked fun at him, to be the son of the owner, doing an employee's-viewpoint work experience placement. Theo is somewhat taken aback by the revelation, though not nearly as much as the irate customer who provokes the revelation by demanding to see the owner and threatening to have both of them fired.
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Liaden Universe / int_f6ef4ff9	comment	Break-In Threat: Early in Agent of Change, when Miri still doesn't trust Val Con, he leaves breakfast and coffee in her locked bedroom while she sleeps. In context, it's less a threat than a warning — if she doesn't trust his intentions, she will need to take stronger precautions than just locking the door — and a reassurance that although he could kill her at any time, he isn't going to.
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Liaden Universe / int_f7057d51	type	Matriarchy
Liaden Universe / int_f7057d51	comment	Matriarchy: Several, generally classic Patriarch Flips. Delgado, the one seen in most detail, is one such. Women hold all the authority while men are treated as Glorified Sperm Donors.
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Liaden Universe / int_f8ecb0a1	comment	Glorified Sperm Donor: Anne treats Er Thom as this, having decided to have a Secret Pregnancy and not mention it to him. In Fledgling, the planet Delgado is revealed to have a very matriarchal culture, in which women may choose to have offspring without the men getting a say in it. When Kamele Waitley chooses to have a child (Theo) by Professor Jen Sar Kiladi, she gets more than she bargained for.
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Liaden Universe / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Liaden Universe / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: Discussed in "Wise Child". It's been tried, but has always resulted in the uploaded mind breaking down and dying due to an electronic neural architecture being too different from the neural architecture of a living brain. The Uncle seems to have ways around that, as his organization uses this technology to interrogate a captured assailant.
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Liaden Universe / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: The story is set up in such a way that elements in early stories or novels can sometimes appear unexpectedly in later ones. In Crystal Dragon, Cantra sends her starship off on a decoy mission, with an offspring of Jelaza Kazone at the controls, to draw the enemy's attention away from her exodus fleet of starships. Half a dozen books later, in the final chapter of Dragon Ship, that ship found its way into the new universe, with the same tree still at the helm. Plan B has a single-book use of the structure: Very early in the book is a scene where a character far from the action learns what is going on and starts pondering what to do about it; then there is not so much as a hint of him until he shows up on the final page.
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Liaden Universe	hasFeature	One True Love / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Operator Incompatibility / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Our Nudity Is Different / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Pheromones / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Prequel in the Lost Age / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Remittance Man / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Resolved Noodle Incident / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Roguish Romani / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Secret-Identity Identity / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Sidenote Full Story / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Sleep Learning / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Some Call Me "Tim" / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Space Elves / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Space Sector / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Spirit Advisor / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Spock Speak / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Staff of Authority / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Starship Luxurious / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	The Cabin Boy / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	The Mourning After / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	There Are No Coincidences / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Time for Plan B / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Turtle Power / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Un-Canceled / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Unfazed Everyman / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Vehicular Turnabout / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Walking Armory / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Who Dares? / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Wine Is Classy / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Wise Old Turtle / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	World Tree / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Write What You Know / int_53ebf3bb
Liaden Universe	hasFeature	Xanatos Speed Chess / int_53ebf3bb

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