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** Actually it's ''[[I Just Want to Be Normal]]'' [[Everyone Is a Super|in this world]].
* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: Preferred manner of keeping his opponents off balance. He wins a duel against one of the most dangerous swordsmen in Alera with just six words.
* {{spoiler|[[Like Father, Like Son]]: ''Lots'' of comparisons are made to Septimus, though Tavi is smarter than his dad thanks to a good twenty years of [[Badass Normal|Badass Normality]].}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Two! meaningful names {{spoiler|Gaius Octavian meaning both the son of Septimus and is the proper name of [[Emperor Augustus]]}}
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: He eventually gains the title {{spoiler|Gaius Tavarus Magnus; "Tavarus Magnus" is roughly equivalent to "Lord Wolverine the Great."}}
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* [[Hot Amazon]]
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: [[Running Gag|She wanted a horse.]]
* [[Non -POV Protagonist]]
* [[The Lancer]]: Again, to Tavi.
* [[Phantom Thief]]: In ''Academ's Fury''. {{spoiler|It's good practice for assisting with a jailbreak, and comes in handy again when they need to smuggle Varg out.}}
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* [[Enemy Mine]]: With Gaius and the Vord. He's the first High Lord to stand with Gaius, and calls out Rhodes for being an obstructive idiot, because he knows that the priority is for Alera to survive - and at the same time, he can give a boost to his position.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: He wanted to take down Lord Rhodes and Lord Kalarus, power hungry manipulators who were behind his friend's death. He ended up becoming just like them.
* {{spoiler|[[Out -Gambitted]]}}: Shown in the last book. {{spoiler|Gaius adopts him as Tavi's ''younger'' brother and leaves Ehren at his disposal. That way, Alera has a competent protector until the real heir gets back and one of Tavi's closest friends is close enough to Attis to arrange his death if and when he seems disinclined to get out of Tavi's way.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]: Amara actually ''cries'' when he dies, since he'd been trying so hard to save everyone during his last few weeks.}}
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: No, really! {{spoiler|Far from being behind Septimus's death, he was angry at Sextus's [["Failure to Save" Murder]] and decided that since he couldn't even protect his own son, someone else had to take over protecting the country.}}
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** WHO WILL DRINK WITH ME?
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Gives Tavi the [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful Nickname]] Tavar.
* [[The Not -Secret]]: Apparently, Canim have a sense of smell strong enough to identify family relations. This means that he doesn't need to be told who Tavi's {{spoiler|mother and grandfather}} are. In fact, [[You Didn't Ask|Varg knew two books before Tavi did]]. This also creates some [[Fridge Brilliance]] when one thinks about the scene where they met - Tavi was bluffing, pretending to be {{spoiler|what he ''actually was''}}.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]
* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: He taught Tavi to play ''ludus''.
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* {{spoiler|[[Load-Bearing Boss]]: set himself up as this on purpose as insurance when it looked like he was going to be defeated.}}
* [[Orcus On His Throne]]: In ''Captain's Fury''- {{spoiler|Justified because Bernard and Amara crippled him at the end of ''Cursor's Fury''- he was quite an active villain before that}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Out -Gambitted]]}}: {{spoiler|So, you set up a volcano to [[Load-Bearing Boss|explode when you're killed]] and cover a few hundred square miles around it with a surveillance network set to detect the furies of the one guy who can stop you? Too bad he takes a cue from his grandson and just ''walks'' in, not using any magic until he's too close for you to prevent him from taking control of the volcano away from you.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Shoot the Dog]]: Forces Gaius to do this.}}
 
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* [[Meat Moss]]: The Croach is the equivalent to the Zerg's creep.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]
* [[Surprisingly -Sudden Death]]
* [[The Virus]]: Vord Takers basically turn their victims into zombies.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: Although, oddly enough, without [[Hollywood Tactics]].
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