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* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: Twice. {{spoiler|Lord Acquitaine dies a slow, lingering death, having executed the duties of his office with great dignity and relatively conscientious, selfless regard; partially because Ehren all but set him up to die so he wouldn't consider threatening Octavian.}} And the second time is more surprising: {{spoiler|the final Vord Queen herself, having shown an increasing fascination with human customs and mockingly called Tavi and Kitai her parents, admits before her certain death that she learned much from humans, that they were stronger than the Vord, and that her battle against them was never personal; she was just trying to do what she was supposed to do as a queen. She also asks if Tavi will make her suffer; he says no.}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: Generally one of these per book. Starting off with Kord, {{spoiler|who tries to kidnap Isana and [[Rape As Drama|rape and enslave her]] after she foils his plans to kill a number of people in the Calderon Valley}}, Brencis, {{spoiler|who constantly bullies Tavi and eventually attempts to murder him after becoming a member of the aristocracy}}, and Lady Antillus, who comes along with the First Aleran ''specifically'' to try to organize Max's death {{spoiler|and cause a little treason along the way}}. But the prize has to go to Lord Kalarus, who {{spoiler|kidnaps a High Lord's daughter and another's wife and makes them his slaves, pulls four illegal legions out of his ass, [[I Have Your Wife|holds a woman's daughter hostage in order to make her obey his orders as his assassin]], creates an underground league of assassins built to systematically execute the Cursors, make treaties with the greatest enemies of Alera for them to help him in his coup, tries to kill Tavi and Max after his son gets whupped by them so his reputation isn't marred by his son being beat by a [[Heroic Bastard]] and a [[Badass Normal|"furyless freak"]], strips the wealth from his nation to make his palace more extravagant, creates a group of [[Elite Mooks|elite soldiers]] by torturing young boys for years until the sensation of pain is ''[[Combat Sadomasochist|orgasmic]]'' to them, and binding himself to the fury of a dormant volcano so if he dies [[Taking You With Me|he can take some of the realm with him]].}} And honestly, that's just the top of the list.
*** Just to make things a bit worse, that girl he holds hostage to make her mother {{spoiler|serve as his spy and assassin}}? He also used the same girl as hostage against a prisoner's good behavior - a High Lady is too powerful to be credibly threatened by soldiers or gargoyles, so instead, if the High Lady made any escape attempt, the little girl would be the gargoyles' primary target. But anyway, that's not the part a bit worse. The part a bit worse is, {{spoiler|the girl is Kalarus's granddaughter through rape}}.
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* [[Evil Is Sexy]]:
** Brencis. When the person who you've kidnapped and are about to rape notices how handsome you are, I believe you fufill this trope (though the mind control collar helped).
** The Vord Queen, considering she looks like a [[Green
* [[Fan Nickname]]: The Vord Queen is HIB-- short for 'Her Imperial Bugginess'. Lady Aquitaine is TEBI-- short for 'That Evil Bitch Invidia.' Ehren is often referred to as "the [[Unusual Euphemism|crowbegotten]] [[Batman]]."
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Gaius (who's basically Dumbledore without the [[Obfuscating Stupidity|facade of eccentric senility]]) and Lord Aquitaine are both solid examples.
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