Codex Alera: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''There's something broken inside your skull, [Tavi]. You do all your thinking sideways.''|'''Antillar "Max" Maximus''', '''''Princeps' Fury'''''}}

Yeah, it is about as awesome as it sounds.

* [[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 Appelation]]:

** 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]].

* [[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''.

* [[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]]:

'''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.

** 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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