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** ''Wild Wind''. The [[Grand Finale]] of the series, to be published after the ''[[Reflections of Eterna]]'' cycle is completed. The most recent [[Word of God]] is that it'll be released in two volumes, as well: ''Steel and Fire'' and ''Grizzled Field''.
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* [[Alliterative Family]]: All seven Lightbringers.
* [[All Witches Have Cats]]: Gerika keeps pet lynxes before and after she gains powers, but switches to ordinary cats when she pretends to be a swamp witch while healing Alexander in book five (which is lampshaded). She can also possess her cats and use them as conduits for her power (which probably explains it).
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* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Starting from the third novel, Arcia becomes very much like the England during the the [[Wars of the Roses]]. Ifrana is France (King Joseph is obviously Louis XI), Miria is Spain, Darnian Union is Germany, Er-Atev is generic Muslim world, Tayana is Russia, Frontera is Ukraine, Escota is Scotland, etc. Original Eland from the first duology is Viking Scandinavia.
* [[Fantasy Gun Control]]: Subverted in the Deer duology, where pistols were common among rich nobles, but played straight after the [[Time Skip]]. It was justified in-story by {{spoiler|[[The Church]] discovering a magic that'd make gunpowder explode prematurely, rendering guns useless since they could explode in your hands at any moment}}.
** The Deer duology had not only pistols, but early 17th-century level of tactics in warfare, with the mix of musceteers and pikemen ruling the field.
* [[Feuding Families]]: The Elven Clans of the Swan and of the Silver Moon were left behind in Tarra on purpose by their Lightbringer patrons. However, desperate and believing that the other Clan was guilty, they engaged in a suicidal conflict known as the War of Monsters, where most of the remaining Elves in Tarra died. Eventually, the sides struck an uneasy truce but even two thousand years later, there's still enmity between them (not helped any that most participants in the War are still alive).
* [[Fictionary]]: The universal language in Arcia and neighborhood is (obviously) Arcian, but there are also others, from the Elven and Orcish to Er-Atevian, Mirian, and Darnian after the [[Time Skip]]. Most of them get at least a few words spoken in the text of the novels.
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** Probably the most important prophecy that drives the rest of the series (thanks to containing more [[Arc Words]] than the rest of the book combined) is the one delivered by {{spoiler|old Eric Connac}} in the end of book two after taking Agva Zakta.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Daphne, the ''blankess'' (Cialian prioress) of Miria, is not so much a psycho as a [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]] who likes young girls. Laying her eyes on Raphael's little sister Dariolo, however, was a ''very'' bad idea...
* [[Rearing Horse]]: When René' and Gib kill the {{spoiler|Roigian ambassador to Eland, after René returns [[Back
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Actually, Gerika is 600+ after the [[Time Skip]]. But she looks about the same age as she was during the War of the Deer (late twenties?) thanks to her godlike powers. And since she hides her origins, men (most notably, Alexander) keep falling for her.
* [[Reluctant Ruler]]: {{spoiler|René is crowned Emperor of Arcia in the end of ''Incomparable Right'' but manages to walk out and get himself killed. Alexander becomes a King of Arcia after his brother's death, despite being perfectly fine with remaining a mere general.}}
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* [[Shakespeare in Fiction]]: His [[Expy]] is portrayed rather unfavorably in ''Tower of Fury''.
* [[Signs of the End Times]]
* [[Smug Snake]]: The great majority of villains. Initially, at least some of them were somewhat competent, if not nearly as much as they thought, but in the latter books all of the surviving ones are downright pathetic. Nearly all of the human-level bad guys past the first duology only remain dangerous because the good guys tend to suffer from [[Contractual Genre Blindness]] and fail to treat them as they deserve. Magical ones, well, have magic, which makes them more threatening, but their level of competence is the same.
* [[The Soulless]]: Orcs.
* [[Speak of the Devil]]: The Damned One, the greatest heretic of all times, is only known by this nickname, when, in fact, {{spoiler|he is the same person as St. Erasti Cerna, one of the most revered saints of [[The Church]], Emperor Anhel's most trusted henchman, Lunar King Laren's disciple, and the first True Mage of Tarra}}.
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