Books of Pellinor: Difference between revisions

* [[Combat Medic]]: Hem and Saliman.

* [[Cultured Warrior]]: Most Bards, especially Cadvan.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Cadvan; the more unpleasant Bards often cast it up to him. {{spoiler|As a young man, he once called up a Revenant, an evil spirit, just to show off in front of his rival Dernhil and his lover Ceredin. He lost control; Ceredin was killed and Dernhil injured.}}

* [[Death Glare]]: Maerad is often described "glowering" at someone. Before she comes into her powers, her glares have the literal effect of, if not death, illness or accidents.

* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Sharma, who cast off his Truename to become immortal.

* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: Cadvan and Indik, Maerad's swordmaster, at the Battle of Innail. {{spoiler|Both survive.}}

* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Subversion: Maerad and Dharin were in love—or, at least, there was some strong subtext in that direction. Maerad knew he was her cousin, but Dharin didn't.

* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: The books are supposedly translations of ''The Riddle of Treesong'', a fantasy epic from the nonexistent Earth land Edil-Amarandh.

** Ardina and Ardhor.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Well, the word '"Sharmat" is a old colloquial word meaning "demon", "dirtbag", "wicked person". The [[Big Bad]] is named ''Sharma''. [[Sarcasm Mode|Two plus two does not equal five]].

* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: To a certain degree.

** [[The Dung Ages]]: There are the Bards, the humanistic and benevolent rulers who govern a free and peaceful society...but there are also plague, corruption, famine, [[Jerkass]] mayors, sacked villages and general ignorance. And probably dung.

* [[There Is Only One Bed]]: This happens to Maerad and Cadvan in an inn just outside Innail, as they had to disguise themselves as husband and wife. Cadvan takes the couch.

* [[The Unfettered]]: Maerad, increasingly, towards the end of ''The Singing''. It frightens everyone, including her.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: {{spoiler|Sharma to Maerad. She almost accepts, believing that her power could turn the world into paradise, but the memory of Cadvan, Hem and all her other friends snaps her rapidly back to her senses. Awesomeness ensues.}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Maerad gets this from Cadvan to agonizing levels in "The Riddle" after {{spoiler|losing control of her powers and killing a Bard for accusing them of being Hulls.}}

* [[Wizarding School]]: Young Bards are trained in the Bard Schools scattered across Edil-Amarandh.

* [[Wizards Live Longer]] Bards live for at least three hundred years or so.

 

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