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In order, the books are:
* ''The Serpent''
* ''The Dragon''
* ''Atlan''
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* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Cija, initially.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]
* [[Camp Gay]]: In ''The Serpent'', Cija encounters Lel, an effeminate boy who describes himself as "wishing [he] had been born a girl." [[Trans Equals Gay|Before the reader can assume that Gaskell included an impressively early example of a transsexual character in a fantasy novel, Lel appears as the catamite to a decadent aristocrat from a court full of "woman-hating men."]]
* [[Classical
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Cija grew up without a father, but she eventually finds him. The results are not heartwarming.
* [[Damsel in Distress]] and [[The Ingenue]]: Cija absolutely fits the definition (see [[One-Gender Race]] below).
* [[Gratuitous Rape]]: Every now and then.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: General Zerd. His daughter Seka is three-fourths human.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Possibly averted in ''Atlan'', in which Cija's son Nal wanders off in the middle of an earthquake.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Zerd was born by a reptile mother to a human father. Zerd's marriage to Cija also counts, despite the lack of actual romance in their relationship.
** In ''The City'', Cija wanders into a grove inhabited by apes, where she becomes a bull ape's paramour. He goes so far as to [[Half-Human Hybrid|impregnate her]], which she strangely welcomes.
** When Cija finds her father in a temple, she notices that he has married an alligator.
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