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* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The trailmen and [[Catfolk|catmen]], nonhuman intelligent races on Darkover, are the subject of racism from the humans.
* [[Fantasy Gun Control]]: The Darkovan Compact forbids any kind of range weapon. It was developed to deal with the destructiveness of laran weaponry, but it covers guns as well.
* [[Faster
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Any Terran on Darkover; Andrew Carr and Jeff Kerwin are examples. ''Thendara House'' is a paired example, with Magda Lorne with the Amazons and Jaelle with the Terrans.
* [[Feudal Future]]
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* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: nearly all those with psychic talent have red hair, which means that the love interests and heroines are almost always redheads.
* [[I Choose to Stay]]: {{spoiler|Magda and Camilla choose to join the [[Hidden Elf Village]] at the end of City of Sorcery.}}
* [[It's Okay If It's You]]: Regis Hastur has a thing for Danilo Syrtis, who is very reluctant due to a major case of homophobia (preferring to maintain their current [[Heterosexual Life Partners|relationship]] ) until {{spoiler|Regis finally manages to get him into bed, after which he does an abrupt 180 and becomes quite possessive; it's implied that Danilo is ONLY interested in Regis to the exclusion of any other [[Single
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: The origin of the strong psychic powers, and also used in ''The World Wreckers.''
* [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It]]: Bard's laran enables him to force a woman to want him sexually (they're not happy about it afterwards), and this is something he cites frequently.
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* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Jeff Kerwin grows up in the Terran Empire with no idea that the blue stone he's always worn is the matrix of his Keeper mother Cleindori; when he finally comes back to Darkover, the Comyn identify him through the matrix.
* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: The ''chieri'', of the Space Elf variety.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: In ''Hawkmistress!'', Romilly's menstruation is a big problem while she's disguised as a boy.
* [[Numbered Homeworld]]: Cottman IV
* [[Patronymic]]: Children take the last name of the higher ranked parent.
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* [[Residual Self Image]]: The form a person takes in the Overworld is based almost completely on the way they picture themselves. It may not even be human in form.
* [[Retcon]]: The author later stated that the FTL accident that sent the colony ship off-course also sent it through time, accounting for the disparity between the long Darkovan history and the much shorter history of the Terran Empire.
* [[Sci
* [[Screw Yourself]]: In ''Two to Conquer'', the protagonist meets up with an identical duplicate of himself. And then, well, [[Squick]].
* [[Sex Slave]]: The riyachiyas in ''Stormqueen.''
* [[Shout
* [[Split Personality]]: Dr. Jason Allison of ''The Planet-Savers'' was raised by Darkovan trailmen before returning to the Terrans to become a cold, xenophobic doctor who entirely repressed his childhood experiences; his "Jay" personality, warmer and more impulsive, has those memories but none of Jason's medical and scientific training.
* [[Straw Misogynist]]: The Terran men as well as the Darkovans, and institutionally as well as individually. (In a galaxy-spanning Terran Empire of three thousand years in the future -- one in which men and women are repeatedly asserted to be equal in every way -- when Jane Smith marries John Doe, she is automatically designated not only with his surname, but with his ''full'' name: not "Smith, Jane", not "Doe, Jane", but "Doe, Mrs. John".)
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