The Darkangel Trilogy

Speculative Fiction trilogy written by Meridith Ann Pierce in the 1980s.

Titles in the trilogy:
 * The Darkangel
 * A Gathering of Gargoyles
 * The Pearl of the Soul of the World


 * Arc Number: 7 and to a lesser extent, 14.
 * Amazing Technicolor Population
 * Amazing Technicolor Wildlife
 * Ambiguous Innocence: The titular Darkangel still has very much the attitudes of a child, despite being chronologically about thirty. Given his maker, this is somewhat justified.
 * Bad Dreams: The titular Darkangel is stricken with these as a result of Aeriel's stories.
 * Beauty Equals Goodness: Played with
 * Bedouin Rescue Service
 * Big Bad: The Lorelei.
 * Blue Eyes: Irrylath, type two.
 * Dead Little Sister: Eoduin to Aeriel.
 * Diabolus Ex Machina
 * Downer Ending: The ending of the last book.
 * Empty Shell: Icari's brides, known as wraiths.
 * Evil Matriarch
 * Green Eyes: Aeriel's eyes are originally described as "fig-green," later as "peridot."
 * Hair of Gold: Aeriel has platinum-blond hair.
 * Hammerspace: Aeriel's velvet bag from the first book.
 * How Do You Like Them Apples?: Apricoks, produced by a tree on the Bern shore of the Sea-of-Dust.
 * Literal Change of Heart:.
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Irrylath
 * Love Martyr: Aeriel starts out as one.
 * Love Redeems / Redemption Equals Life:
 * Our Dragons Are Different
 * Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Well, except for turning to stone in sunlight. And the fact that it's spelled "duarough."
 * Our Souls Are Different
 * Our Vampires Are Different
 * Parental Incest: The Lorelei and her "sons".
 * Phantasy Spelling: Almost every plot-related noun is spelled "uniquely".
 * Planetary Romance
 * Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
 * Sand Is Water: Played incredibly straight with the Sea-of-Dust.
 * Shiny Midnight Black: Averted by the wings of Darkangels, which seem to absorb light.
 * Shotacon: The Lorelei raises potential Darkangels as her lovers.
 * Stockholm Syndrome
 * Taken for Granite: Duarough are vulnerable to sunlight.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Eoduin
 * Troubled but Cute: Irrylath. Big time.
 * Walking Wasteland: Full Darkangels.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy:  Darkangel form.
 * Winged Humanoid: The eponymous Darkangels, with their dozen black wings.
 * Woman in White: The Lorelei.