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The ''Chronicles of Chaos'' is a fantasy trilogy by [[John C Wright]]. Five children in a orphanage-cum-school slowly discover their own heritage and the nature of the beings imprisoning them.
The ''Chronicles of Chaos'' is a fantasy trilogy by [[John C. Wright]]. Five children in a orphanage-cum-school slowly discover their own heritage and the nature of the beings imprisoning them.


=== Works: ===
=== Works: ===
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* [[As You Know]]: Subverted; "Headmaster Boggin" begins one of these, but is quickly stopped. Double subverted later, when you find out his [[Magnificent Bastard|reason]].
* [[As You Know]]: Subverted; "Headmaster Boggin" begins one of these, but is quickly stopped. Double subverted later, when you find out his [[Magnificent Bastard|reason]].
* [[Author Appeal]]: The curricula that the orphans are taught are taken directly from Wright's alma mater, St. John's College.
* [[Author Appeal]]: The curricula that the orphans are taught are taken directly from Wright's alma mater, St. John's College.
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|The Amazons.]]
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Amazons.]]
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Artemis, the Maenads.
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Artemis, the Maenads.
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Because of [[Mutually Exclusive Magic]], by several means.
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Because of [[Mutually Exclusive Magic]], by several means.
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* [[Determinator]]: Telegonus.
* [[Determinator]]: Telegonus.
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]
* [[Due to The Dead]]
* [[Due to the Dead]]
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Invoked as an insult.
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Invoked as an insult.
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: Part of the backstory, and connected to why the orphans are in the school.
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: Part of the backstory, and connected to why the orphans are in the school.
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* [[Hidden Depths]]: Every character.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Every character.
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: [[Sue Donym|"Terrance Miles"]] wears punk gear and conceals knives and throwing stars among the zippers and chains on his clothes.
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: [[Sue Donym|"Terrance Miles"]] wears punk gear and conceals knives and throwing stars among the zippers and chains on his clothes.
* [[Home Sweet Home]]
* [[Home, Sweet Home]]
* [[I Have Many Names]]
* [[I Have Many Names]]
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: In ''Fugitives'', this briefly happens to Amelia.
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: In ''Fugitives'', this briefly happens to Amelia.
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* [[Love Triangle]]: Amelia, Victor and Colin.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Amelia, Victor and Colin.
* [[Made a Slave]]: The music teacher, Miss Daw, claims to Amelia that she is a POW. {{spoiler|as a Siren, she is also a Uranian and has the same powers as Amelia.}}
* [[Made a Slave]]: The music teacher, Miss Daw, claims to Amelia that she is a POW. {{spoiler|as a Siren, she is also a Uranian and has the same powers as Amelia.}}
* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: And Magic B is Magic B, and Magic C is Magic C... they get up to F.
* [[Magic a Is Magic A]]: And Magic B is Magic B, and Magic C is Magic C... they get up to F.
* [[Malicious Slander]]
* [[Malicious Slander]]
* [[Mama Bear]]: Echidna.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Echidna.
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* [[Secret Legacy]]
* [[Secret Legacy]]
* [[Secret Test of Character]]
* [[Secret Test of Character]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many. There is banter mangling together the [[Lord of the Rings]] and [[Richard Wagner|Wagner's Ring Cycle.]] When Amelia and Victor are talking on {{spoiler|the ''Queen Elizabeth 2''}}, about what a young man wants, she rattles off something very similar to the "Roc's Egg" monologue from [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (Literature)|Glory Road]]''.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many. There is banter mangling together the [[Lord of the Rings]] and [[Richard Wagner|Wagner's Ring Cycle.]] When Amelia and Victor are talking on {{spoiler|the ''Queen Elizabeth 2''}}, about what a young man wants, she rattles off something very similar to the "Roc's Egg" monologue from [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (novel)|Glory Road]]''.
** Also notable is one point in the second book when the Orphans need to get past a locked, magically trapped door and Quentin uses one of the incantations Gandalf used on the Moria-Gate. Nothing happens.
** Also notable is one point in the second book when the Orphans need to get past a locked, magically trapped door and Quentin uses one of the incantations Gandalf used on the Moria-Gate. Nothing happens.
{{quote| ''Quentin:'' That would have worked if these had been dwarf doors.}}
{{quote| ''Quentin:'' That would have worked if these had been dwarf doors.}}
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* [[The Stoic]]: Victor and Quentin both behave like this most of the time.
* [[The Stoic]]: Victor and Quentin both behave like this most of the time.
* [[Succession Crisis]]: Part of the reason the orphans have been in the school so long is {{spoiler|there is dispute over who should take the throne of Olympus now that Zeus is dead.}}
* [[Succession Crisis]]: Part of the reason the orphans have been in the school so long is {{spoiler|there is dispute over who should take the throne of Olympus now that Zeus is dead.}}
* [[Sympathy for The Devil]]: Amelia toward Glum.
* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: Amelia toward Glum.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Lelaps the hound.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Lelaps the hound.
* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]
* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]
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* [[Take That]]: Amelia's musing after reading [[Ulysses]] on how Joyce should have sued his publisher for all the typographical errors. Probably a general [[Take That]] to [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]].
* [[Take That]]: Amelia's musing after reading [[Ulysses]] on how Joyce should have sued his publisher for all the typographical errors. Probably a general [[Take That]] to [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]].
** Also done to Kant, whose books are the only ones in the library that don't give off any [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience|usefulness-light]] when Amelia looks at them with her higher senses.
** Also done to Kant, whose books are the only ones in the library that don't give off any [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience|usefulness-light]] when Amelia looks at them with her higher senses.
* [[Tap On the Head]]: Amelia tried to do this to Headmaster Boggin, but failed, probably because she didn't really want to cave his head in.
* [[Tap on the Head]]: Amelia tried to do this to Headmaster Boggin, but failed, probably because she didn't really want to cave his head in.
* [[They Have the Scent]]
* [[They Have the Scent]]
* [[Through His Stomach]]
* [[Through His Stomach]]
* [[Trickster Archetype]]
* [[Trickster Archetype]]
* [[True Love Is Exceptional]]: Mulciber attempts to bribe Amelia by offering her her True Love on a platter.
* [[True Love Is Exceptional]]: Mulciber attempts to bribe Amelia by offering her her True Love on a platter.
* [[Used to Be A Sweet Kid]]
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[We Need a Distraction]]: This is Colin's default job.
* [[We Need a Distraction]]: This is Colin's default job.
* [[What You Are in The Dark]]
* [[What You Are in the Dark]]
* [[The Wild Hunt]]
* [[The Wild Hunt]]


Revision as of 13:21, 9 April 2014

The Chronicles of Chaos is a fantasy trilogy by John C. Wright. Five children in a orphanage-cum-school slowly discover their own heritage and the nature of the beings imprisoning them.

Works:

  • Orphans of Chaos
  • Fugitives of Chaos
  • Titans of Chaos

Tropes featured

  Quentin: That would have worked if these had been dwarf doors.

  Amelia: Headmaster Boggin v. dangerous! Flies! Curses! Bends Space! Spanks!

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