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Previously On and As You Know examples.
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* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: The Rivan King, of course. A sword drawn from stone? Check. Heralded as such by a keystone of creation? Check. Massive numbers of people bowing? Check. [[Big No]] from the girl who realized this means she has to marry you, even though she secetly wants to? Check. Awakening of a God, the God he is destined to duel? Big Goddamned Check.
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Urvon, Taur Urgas, and possibly Torak.
* [[As You Know]]: Happens from time to time, with a fairly egregious example in ''The Seeress of Kell:''
{{quote|'''Garion:''' "All right," he said in a cold voice, "talk — and I think you'd better be very convincing. Who put you up to this?"
'''Grolim:''' "It was Naradas," the Grolim groaned, "archpriest of the temple at Hemil."
'''Garion:''' "The henchman of Zandramas?" Garion demanded. "The one with white eyes?"}}
* [[Babies Ever After]]: For, [[Captain Obvious|with the exception of Sadi the eunuch]] ''everyone''. Even the snake has babies in the end. Even the couples who do not explicitly have children by the end of the story ({{spoiler|Cyradis and Zakath}}, and {{spoiler|Liselle and Kheldar}}) are clearly going to. Apperently, it's the Purpose's way of saying "thank you".
* [[Back from the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Durnik}}.
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* [[The Power of Love]]: Torak isn't able to take over the world because Polgara {{spoiler|loves Durnik}}, and holds on to that while he's trying to bend her will to his.
* [[Pretty Boy]]: Torak ''was'' one, before the whole burning thing. He was often described as "over-pretty".
* [[["Previously On..."]]: Found in some form in both series. Sometimes – especially in the Malloreon – part of the dedicated prologue section recaps events of both series on a general level. In pretty much all the books, though, more specific information is trickled out during the first few chapters with varying degrees of obviousness. Sometimes this exposition is rather well disguised, pretending to be mere context for a character's current thoughts, while other times party members are spouting [[As You Know]] dialogue in a rather out-of-character manner.
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* [[Prophecies Are Always Right]]: [[Deconstructed Trope]]. The reason for the prophecies in the first place is that a pure accident caused the original Purpose of the Universe to be threatened, so it split apart to protect itself. The competing Purposes then each set about to cause a course of events to occur such that their preferred outcome would come to pass. They create prophecies specifically to set out instructions for their pawns to make those things happen -- or more specifically, to give meaning to the events. Moreover, the competing prophecies sometimes describe mutually exclusive outcomes that do not come to pass until they are resolved in a moment of Choice, which can only be made by a mortal.
* [[Prophet Eyes]]: The blind seer that Polgara cures has them. Naradas, Zandramas' [[The Dragon|Dragon]] in ''The Malloreon'' has something similar, but his pupils are visible and his eyes function -- just the rest of his eyes are blank white. Seeing as how he's neither blind or a prophet, the integrity of the trope is maintained.
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