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** One Canim ritualist, Master Marok, uses this to take the wind out of the sails of one of his less-honorable colleagues. After Tavi has to kill two Canim in self defense, the ritualist says that a blood price must be paid for them--and Marok undercuts him by asking if he even knows their names, when he clearly doesn't.

* [[Death by Childbirth]]: ...sort of. {{spoiler|Tavi is brought up believing that his mother was Isana's sister and that she died giving birth to him. While Isana's sister ''did'' die when Tavi was born, it was not in childbirth since she was not his mother; Isana was. Her sister died from blood loss from an arrow wound she took when they were attacked shortly before Tavi's birth, which was not properly treated since she was focused on helping Isana deliver Tavi, making her death an example of the trope by proxy.}}

* [[Death Equals Redemption]]: Amara mourns "the man he became" after {{spoiler|Gaius Attis is skewered by his wife and spends his remaining days calmly leading the Alerans and planning for his death.}}

* [[Defiant to the End]]: When {{spoiler|Invidia}} has Amara and Bernard at swordpoint, but seems willing to talk for at least a little while, Amara [[Get It Over With|tells her to quit stalling]] and explains that she is just pitiful and pathetic, whose actions have no justification or excuse. When {{spoiler|Invidia}} increduously asks Amara who she thinks she is to talk like that, Amara points out that she is somebody who is willing to give her own life in the service to others, while {{spoiler|Invidia}} is naught but a traitor and coward that will get neither sympathy or last minute forgiveness from her.