Age of the Five: Difference between revisions

The Five have chosen five humans as their representatives in the world. These five people are called the White and granted extraordinary powers by the gods. Auraya, the main character, is the last of the Five to be chosen. She tries to get adjusted to her new position, starting as a diplomat. During the series she discovers her innate magic is stronger than it was thought to be and goes forth unearthing secrets that have been resting for a very long time.

 

 

* [[The Ageless]]: The majority of the Wilds. The most extreme example is {{spoiler|The Gull - the oldest of the Wilds, who has the physical body of a prepubescent child.}}

* [[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp]]: The author renames everything to the point of needing a glossary in the back of each book. She justifies this in an interview by saying that coming across the word 'sheep' during a fantasy novel can kinda spoil things.

* [[Cessation of Existence]]: What everyone believes happens with the Dreamweavers when they die, since they do not worship gods. It is revealed that {{spoiler|the gods have no power over the souls of the dead or knowledge of what (if anything) comes after. They claim that they do so that they would always have worshippers to serve them.}}

* [[Conflicting Loyalty]]: Auraya is torn between her duties as a White and her loyalty to the Siyee.

* [[Divine Date]]: Auraya and {{spoiler|Chaia}}

* [[First Girl Wins]]: Auraya ends up with Leiard.

* [[Functional Magic]]: spells are cast using a kind of background magic, that can be depleted from a certain place for some time.

* [[God Guise]]: The Pentadrian faith is thought to be the high priests taking advantage of people, since everybody knows there are only five true gods and these are the Five. It is revealed that {{spoiler|any human with sufficient magical ability could become a god and they are not special or worthy of worship}}

** It is further revealed that {{spoiler|the Pentadrian gods are actually the Circlian gods in disguise}}, making this a double example.

* [[The Heretic]]: Ellareen believes {{spoiler|Auraya}} to be this.

* [[Immortality Begins At Twenty]]: Both played straight and subverted. Most of the White and the Wilds are grown-ups when they stop aging, but {{spoiler|the Gull}} is only a child. (Also Emerahl's innate ability is to change her age.)

* [[Jerkass Gods]]: {{spoiler|Both sets of gods in fact being as they are actually one and the same. They set up the entire war as a game to keep themselves amused.}}

* [[Memory Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Mirar}} deliberately forgot everything about {{spoiler|his}} identity in order to survive.

* [[Never Grew Up]]: {{spoiler|The Gull}} who is the oldest of the Wilds, but appears to be a child.