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* The Fortress series, [[High Fantasy]] centered on the friendship between Tristen, a reborn ancient king and Cefwyn, the current ruler of his lands.
Stand-alone works include:
* [[The Paladin (novel)|The Paladin]] -- [[Low Fantasy]] martial-arts story set in essentially medieval China, in which pig-girl Taizu turns up on exiled swordsmaster Saukendar's doorstep to learn the skills she needs for revenge.
* ''The Goblin Mirror'' -- Fantasy in what's more or less medieval Hungary. [[Our Goblins Are Different|There are '''two''' kinds of beings that humans refer to as goblins]], and one of them seems to be more like [[The Fair Folk]]. They don't much like being lumped together with the other breed. Also, [[All Trolls Are Different|trolls seem to be something like]] [[Genius Loci]], and Krukczy, the one that's seen most -- big and shaggy, with a tail described as ratlike -- is quite benevolent. [[Evil-Detecting Dog|The dog likes him.]]
* A fantasy trilogy set in pre-Christian Russia, starting with ''Rusalka''. [[Slavic Mythology|The rusalka is the spirit of a girl who drowned.]] She'll be more dangerous if her death was suicide than if it was an accident, and most malevolent of all if she was a murder victim. The title character was murdered by a young man she loved. Uh-oh. See also Be Careful What You Wish For below.
Her works display examples of:
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* [[Boarding Party]] - The power-armoured marines of ''Rimrunners'', and other armed groups boarding stations and taking control in the [[Alliance Union]] series.
* [[Bond Creatures]] - the night horses in her ''Rider'' series.
* [[Came Back Wrong]] - Tristen. Mauryl wanted a [[Badass]], but got someone with the mind of a child. Even after he [[Took a Level In Badass]], he's still a [[Friend to All Living Things]] [[Cloudcuckoolander]] trying to figure out [[How Do I Shot Web?]] instead of a ruthless [[Magic Knight]]
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] - Tristen, because as mentioned above, he Came Back Wrong. Cefwyn thought he might be the [[Reincarnation]] of a king known for his gentle, scholarly nature ... and then Cefwyn's life was in danger and Tristen rode to the rescue, unarmed and virtually unarmored, got his hands on a sword, and started killing. And killing. ''And'' killing.
{{quote|Among those motley horsemen, from the dead or the living, Tristen had found a blade and wielded it, shieldless, turning the red mare with his knees this way and that, the blade swinging dark and deadly in the light, as enemies went down.... a dark and terrible force cutting into the enemy's ranks.... The arm was unerring, hewing down men, no move wasted.}}
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] / [[Corrupt Church]] - The state religion in the Fortress series.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]] - What Tristen was called back to fight. {{spoiler|And probably Tristen himself is a [[Humanoid Abomination]], although a very nice one.}}
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* [[Long Running Book Series]] - the ''Foreigner'' series. Also the [[Alliance Union]] universe, if "stories in the same '[[Verse]] by the same author" counts as a "series".
* [[Of the People]] - ''Faded Sun''
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] - A lot of people accuse Tristen of this, and even his best friend gets paranoid about it on
* [[Our Elves Are Better]] - She uses several varieties. Wood Elves are common. Tristen is a subversion: he's a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who spends a lot of time needing help and advice from the older and wiser humans around him, as opposed to giving them advice, and while he does give advice, it's not condemnation of human culture and so on but practical stuff like [[Serious Business|'Remember to close the windows.']]
* [[Owl Be Damned]] - Owl in the Fortress series, especially in the beginning.
** Kavi Chernevog in the ''Rusalka'' trilogy also associates with an owl he calls only "Owl" ... and then, after taking a liking to Pyetr, starts calling '''him''' "Owl."
* [[Physical God]] - Tristen, pretty much.
* [[Power of Friendship]] - Averted in the Foreigner series, or even inverted, since Bren will generally pay for feeling that way. Invoked in the Fortress series, where Cefwyn is told that about the only option he has for dealing with a [[Physical God]] who was probably brought back in order to overthrow him is to get Tristen to like him too much to want to. It works.
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