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* [[Primal Fear (trope)|Primal Fear]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] and [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] with the underground-dwelling Ulgo people, who have a fear of ''non-enclosed'' spaces.
* [[Professional Killer]]: {{spoiler|Brill}} and the rest of the Daghashi, and Issus, a Nyissan poisoner and assassin. Silk, Liselle, and the other members of Drasnian intelligence have this as one of their skill sets.
* [[Prolonged Prologue]]: The entiriety of ''Guardians of the West'' is basically just a long, 450 page setup before the meat-and-potatoes of ''the Malloreon''. Even within the book itself, the first half is mostly about Garion's relatively ordinary everyday life before the plot starts to happen.
* [[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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