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{{quote|''There's something broken inside your skull, [Tavi]. You do all your thinking sideways.''|'''Antillar "Max" Maximus''', '''''Princeps' Fury'''''}}
Magical Roman Legionnaires straight out of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' versus the [[
Yeah, it is about as awesome as it sounds.
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Standing with Tavi are his uncle Bernard (an Earth- and Woodcrafter), his aunt Isana (a very powerful Watercrafter), the young Cursor Amara (a Windcrafter) and the half-wit slave [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Fade]], along with the other friends and allies he makes (and one of Tavi's greatest skills is his ability to make allies, especially out of enemies: something lampshaded in the fifth book) as he is swept up in the battles to save Alera.
The novels in this series are:
# ''[[Furies of Calderon]]'' (October 5, 2004)
# ''[[Academ's Fury]]'' (July 5, 2005)
# ''[[Cursor's Fury]]'' (December 5, 2006)
# ''[[Captain's Fury]]'' (December 4, 2007)
# ''[[Princeps' Fury]]'' (December 2, 2008)
# ''[[First Lord's Fury]]'' (November 24, 2009)
A [[Codex Alera/Characters|character sheet]] is now available.
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* [[Above the Influence]]: When Bernard [[Rescue Romance|saves Amara from the frozen, flooding Rillwater river]] she leans in to kiss him, but he pulls away since she is cold and hurting, and it would be taking advantage to move forward.
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Metalcrafters have the ability to sharpen and harden the swords they are using, so they can easily slice through concrete, armor and even ''other swords''.
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* [[Annoying Arrows]]: Averted, arrows are just as much a threat to flesh as the more powerful fury attacks. The Vord generally shrug them off, [[Justified Trope|but they also shrug off fury attacks because of their armored hides]].
* [[Appease the Volcano God]]: Inverted. Kalarus {{spoiler|deliberately provokes the Great Fury Kalus into being as angry as possible in order to take as many Alerans with him as possible when he is finally killed.}}
* [[Appropriated
** The Knights Pisces. The Knights Pisces are dubbed such when Tavi notes they're the "fish" (barely competent recruits) of the Knights available. After [[Took a Level
** The Battlecrows, from the same book, sort of. Instead of taking their name from an insult, they take it from the burnt and blackened standard that Tavi carries into battle after it's struck by lightning.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Tavi listed off his exploits and pointed out that he {{spoiler|killed Sarl}}, held off a massive army that vastly outclassed his own, ''beat'' said massive army, and... [[Smart People Play Chess|beat Nasaug at ludus]].
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* [[Chrome Champion]]: The First Lord goes to battle. {{spoiler|''First Lord's Fury'' has Araris Valerian doing the same.}}
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Invidia, so much so that nearly ''every'' character that has extensive dealings with her tries to take her sudden but inevitable betrayal into account. When she tries to turn on {{spoiler|the Vord Queen, the queen}} is not even upset and sees no reason to punish her for it, since that is just what Invidia ''does''.
* [[Click. "Hello."]]: The sword equivalent. Navaris and her team corner Tavi in his office, intending to kill him... and then Max, Crasus and Arraris show up behind them, drawing their swords.
* [[Colonel Badass]]: There is not a rank of "colonel" in the Legions, but some [[The Captain|captains]], especially <s>Tavi</s> Rufus Scipio, fit this trope pretty well.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]:
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* [[Peeling Potatoes]]: Tavi pisses off an officer and ends up measuring latrines in ''Cursor's Fury''.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: All the High Lords, and ''especially'' the house of Gaius. A single High Lord is said to be equal to an entire cohort of Knights, and Gaius was able to influence weather on a ''continental'' scale.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: A rare fantasy [[Averted Trope|aversion]]. Although there are five different races, each one is shown to have its cowards and its heroes, individuals noble and villainous. The Canim and the Marat may be [[Proud Warrior Race
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Princeps Gaius Septimus. In the first book, he is mentioned briefly and it almost seems like a bit of scene-setting: this is why there is a succession crisis and scheming noblemen, and the monsters in the storm are so dangerous the only safe place is a tomb fit for a prince, and that is all we know about him until halfway through the second book. However, Septimus gets developed as a major character later.
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Lady Aquitaine gives Isana an impassioned (for her, anyway) speech about how she can be trusted to honor loyalty, oppose violence and protect the people she has sworn to protect. Not because she feels some sort of moral duty to do so, but because she knows that that is how she gains loyal servants, preserves Alera as a prosperous whole and sways others to her cause.
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'''Kitai:''' That could prove interesting. }}
** In ''Cursor's Fury'', Odiana actually implies that she ''wants'' to have a discipline collar put on her by Aldrick, but ''only'' Aldrick. This is played for tragedy, not humor; in the first book she reveals that she used to be a slave, used for sex, and her watercrafter abilities let her feel the emotions of her attackers, which is what broke her. Notably, [[Even Evil Has Standards|Aldrick will not do it,]] possibly because, in the final book, we learn that he was one of the men who ''saved'' her from said slaver.
* [[Took a Level
** Tavi takes one in every time skip between books, but perhaps the most noticeable is Ehren, who goes from being a wimpy kid obsessed with his studies in the second book to a [[Badass]] [[Anti-Hero]] (of sorts) in the third to all that and a brilliant [[Chessmaster]] in the fifth.
** Centurion Schultz, who starts as a [[New Meat|fish]] in ''Cursor's Fury'' and is a [[Sergeant Rock|Centurion]] by ''Captain's Fury'', mirroring the First Aleran's transformation into one of the most elite armies on Alera.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Fantasy Literature]]
[[Category:Sword and Sandal]]
▲[[Category:Codex Alera]]
[[Category:Literature]]
[[Category:Literature of the 2000s]]
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