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* [[Pure Magic Being]]: The Elohim in the second trilogy are Earthpower incarnate. |
* [[Pure Magic Being]]: The Elohim in the second trilogy are Earthpower incarnate. |
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* [[Purple Prose]]: Author Donaldson loves him some archaic adjectives. Just take this lovely (infamous) piece of English as an example. It doesn't often get worse, but it IS consistently around that level. |
* [[Purple Prose]]: Author Donaldson loves him some archaic adjectives. Just take this lovely (infamous) piece of English as an example. It doesn't often get worse, but it IS consistently around that level. |
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{{quote|And these were only the nearest entrancements. Other sights abounded: grand statues of water; a pool with its surface woven like an arras; shrubs which flowed through a myriad elegant forms; catenulate sequences of marble, draped from nowhere to nowhere; animals that leaped into the air as birds and drifted down again as snow; swept-wing shapes of malachite flying in gracile curves; sunflowers the size of Giants, with imbricated ophite petals. And everywhere rang the music of bells -- cymbals in carillon, chimes wefted into tapestries of tinkling, tones scattered on all sides -- the metal-and-crystal language of Elemesnedene.}} |
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* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Normally all you can see of Lord Foul are his glowing yellow eyes, though it's implied he can take any shape he wants |
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Normally all you can see of Lord Foul are his glowing yellow eyes, though it's implied he can take any shape he wants |
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* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Covenant does it once to save a little girl in his world. |
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Covenant does it once to save a little girl in his world. |
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* [[Time Travel]]: Done in the third chronicles to great effect. |
* [[Time Travel]]: Done in the third chronicles to great effect. |
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* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: The Oath of the Land subverts and plays with the ideal of Thou Shalt Not Kill, and takes it further: |
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: The Oath of the Land subverts and plays with the ideal of Thou Shalt Not Kill, and takes it further: |
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{{quote|Do not hurt when holding is enough |
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Do not wound when hurting is enough |
Do not wound when hurting is enough |
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Do not maim when wounding is enough |
Do not maim when wounding is enough |
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And kill not when maiming is enough |
And kill not when maiming is enough |
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The greatest warrior is he who does not need to kill }} |
The greatest warrior is he who does not need to kill }} |
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* [[Too Happy to Live]]: Pondered by Covenant in ''Lord Foul's Bane''. He believes that he had a lifetime's worth of laughter before he was diagnosed with leprosy. |
* [[Too Happy to Live]]: Pondered by Covenant in ''Lord Foul's Bane''. He believes that he had a lifetime's worth of laughter before he was diagnosed with leprosy. |