Belgariad: Difference between revisions
King Incognito and Master Actor examples. Partially copied from my own edits on TVTropes.
(An Odd Place to Sleep example. Partially copied from my own edit on TVTropes. The previous IP edit was also done by me; I somehow got logged out mid-edit.) |
(King Incognito and Master Actor examples. Partially copied from my own edits on TVTropes.) |
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* [[The Jester]]: Beldin's role and one of his disguises.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: How Asharak/Chamdar [[You Killed My Father|killed Garion's parents]], [[Ironic Death|and thus]], how Garion kills Chamdar. And in ''Belgarath the Sorcerer'', Belsambar suggests throwing burning pitch into the Angarak cities.
* [[King Incognito]]: All the main characters do their best to maintain anonymity whenever they're traveling, which is pretty much always.
** For the first half of ''Pawn of Prophecy'', the real identities of almost all members of the party are unknown Garion. Of course, Garion stays incognito from himself for three-and-a-half books.
** In ''King of the Murgos'', the party attempts to hide their identities from Urgit, his family members, and the seneschalk while they're staying at the palace.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Silk, Relg, Liselle, Sadi and at times, Beldin. All Nadrak women.
* [[Knight in Shining Armour]]: Mandorallen, oh so very much.
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Liselle, Sadi once he loses the worst of his [[Smug Snake]] tendencies, and even Anheg are all ''very'' good at getting what they want and making you think it was your own idea. Asharak, Nachak, Harakan and Naradas are villainous examples.
* [[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast]]: You ''will'' lose track of how often this is invoked.
* [[Master Actor]]: As a spy, Silk has developed multiple personas for the purpose of [[King Incognito|getting around anonymously]]. Really only two of them are seen in the series as Silk likes them the best: Radek of Boktor and Ambar of Kotu, both of them merchants.
* [[Master Poisoner]]: Sadi of Nyissa in ''The Malloreon''. In fact, most Nyissans.
{{quote|Garion: Sadi could poison one person at a banquet with a thousand guests.}}
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* [[Narrative Profanity Filter]]: Eddings uses this a great deal, most notably with Beldin. Only missed in a couple instances, but in referring to female dogs. Usually played for entertainment purposes. The descriptions of (and reactions to) people swearing can be as or more entertaining than the swearing itself.
{{quote|'''Garion:''' (in response to Ce'Nedra) "Why dear, I didn't even think you knew what half of those words meant!"}}
* [[Nay Theist]]: At the age of nine, Belsambar, after being forced to witness [[Human Sacrifice|a religious ritual]] involving his parents, rejected not just Torak but all the gods.
* [[No Loves Intersect]]: Yep, no love triangles here. Except for one (Mandorallen and two minor characters), and Garion cleans that up quite handily. Technically, Silk's [[Unrequited Love]] for Queen Porenn would also count, except he basically gets over it in ''The Malloreon''. Literally everyone gets married to their ideal counterpart in the end with no serious griping from anybody else. Justified in that the Purpose that guides the Child of Light likes to reward the people working in its favor (even the small roles, such as the Darine prophet's daughter) by giving them extremely happy marriages. [[Earn Your Happy Ending|Possibly as an apology for the stuff it puts them through in the process.]]
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Silk gets several, including but not limited to: interfering with a ploy of Bethra's involving the Nadrak ambassdor, causing her to attempt to have him killed; being smuggled out of Cthol Murgos by a Thullish lady of high station, possibly for reasons related to the also-never-clearly-explained incident which led to the death of the Murgo crown prince; and fleeing Tol Honeth "posing as an acrobat in a travelling circus, and about one jump ahead of the police".
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