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== Heroes of the Lance ==

 

* [[Dumb Muscle]]

* [[Happily Married]]

* [[Love Makes You Dumb]]: In this case brotherly, not romantic, love.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: His name is meant to sound like "caring man".

* {{spoiler|[[God in Human Form]]}}: {{spoiler|He's actually Paladine, the primary god of good.}}

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]

* [[Magic Misfire]]

* {{spoiler|[[Obfuscating Stupidity]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}

* [[The Messiah]]

* [[Out of Focus]]: Her character arc is more or less completed in the first book, after which she has less importance to the storyline.

* [[Stellar Name]]

* [[Badass Princess]]

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: The Betty

* [[Character Development]]

* [[Fallen Princess]]: After running away from home to chase after Tanis.

* [[Four-Star Badass]]

* [[Hidden Depths]]

* [[Jeanne D'Archetype]]

* [[Magnetic Hero]]: She inspires thousands to join the Whitestone Army.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]

* {{spoiler|[[Victorious Childhood Friend]]}}

* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman]]

 

* [[Bodyguard Crush]]

* [[Out of Focus]]: The same as Goldmoon above.

* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]

* [[Hurting Hero]]

* [[Impoverished Patrician]]

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]

* [[The Ladys Favor|The Lady's Favor]]: Alhana Starbreeze's Starjewel.

 

* [[The Archer]]

* [[Child by Rape]]

* [[Cool Sword]]: Wyrmslayer, a sword which once belonged Kith-Kanan.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]

* [[Dark Action Girl]]

* [[The Dragon]]

* [[Dragon Rider]]: With her blue dragon mount, Khellendros, aka Skie.

* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}: In the backstory.

* [[Gender Neutral Writing]]: Employed briefly to help disguise her identity.

* [[The Heavy]]

* [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]]: To Tanis, though she's less psycho than "Power-hungry Ex Girlfriend".

* [[The Strategist]]: As he emphasizes in his introduction, it was ''his'' strategy that allowed the Dragon Highlords to conquer as much land as they did, before the Dragonlance was remade.

* [[Tin Tyrant]]

 

=== Fewmaster Toede ===

* [[Dirty Coward]]

* [[Immortal Life Is Cheap]]: He can be killed, but will keep coming back no matter what. He gets killed multiple times in the novel ''Lord Toede''.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Toady".

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: He commissioned a thirty-seven-volume biography of his life in which he claimed to be "the love child of Queen Takhisis, after Her Dark Majesty fell head over heels in love with Toede's father, a hobgoblin of enormous good looks and manly prowess, traits that he would pass on to his son," and that he was named after Takhisis's "uncle", "Toede Highgod".

* [[Starter Villain]]

'''Alignment:''' [[Lawful Evil]] }}

 

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: He's the son of human warlord Ariakas and the goddess Zeboim.

* [[Noble Demon]]: In complete contrast to his father Ariakan is presented as a much more sympathetic and, yes noble figure. He's still fully dedicated to conquering the world mind you.

'''Alignment:''' [[Lawful Evil]] }}

 

* [[Bad Boss]]

* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: His mace, Nightbringer.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Though as the other tropes listed for him indicate, he's only a hero in the most arguable sense.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

 

* [[Blue Blood]]

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Deconstructed

* [[Love Martyr]]

* [[Bastard Understudy]]

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]

* [[Deceptive Disciple]]

 

=== Elistan ===

 

* [[Black Knight]]

* [[Enemy to All Living Things]]

* [[Enigmatic Minion]]

* [[Fallen Hero]]: Big time.

* [[The Undead]]

* [[Was Once a Man]]

 

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: He tries to lure souls that are passing on through the Gate of Souls to him by promising them that he will give them the power to take care of any unfinished business they had on Krynn. Any soul who accepts usually finds themselves turned into an undead creature in his service, or trapped in his domain in the Abyss.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Majere, who preaches faith in High God's plans for cosmic order. In contrast, Chemosh preaches that existence is chaotic and meaningless.

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: He encourages his followers to preach that there is no afterlife, and that the only way to survive death is to become an undead creature.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: He was holding it for a while during the Dark Disciple Trilogy when {{spoiler|he was grieving over the "death" of Mina when he sees her "spirit", but he does not even bother to check and see if the "spirit" is real or not. It takes his [[The Brute|brute]] Death Knight subordinate to point out to him that since he is the God of Death, he should be able to tell if Mina's spirit is real or not, once he realizes that Mina's spirit is just an illusion made by two Wizards, he is not amused. Even so in the end he ends up becoming stubborn and pushing her away. Nuitari even lampshades this.}}

* [[Dirty Coward]]: He is a coward at heart.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Shinare.

* [[Greed]]

* [[Satan]]: He is not the head evil deity, but his motif of corrupting mortals through [[Faustian Pacts]] and he can manifest as the stereotypical appearance of Satan (red guy with horns and a tail) as one of his Aspects.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Mishakal.

* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: His Bronze Tower.

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Envy is his domain.

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: He is by far the least social evil deity. He mostly keeps to himself and is said to suffer from a madness only deities can have.

* [[Evil Matriarch]]

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Paladine.

* [[God of Evil]]

* [[Lust]]

* [[Chaotic Evil]]: obviously

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]

* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: Three guesses what side he's on, the first two don't count.

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: His ultimate goal.

 

* [[Background Magic Field]]: Mystics draw their magic from the power of all life(and can even use it to make unlife in the form of undead if they are trained in Necromancy).

* [[Functional Magic]]: Of the Force Magic variety(It is drawn from all living things and their own soul).

* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: Mystics in the SAGA system made up spells on the fly. So, like Sorcerers, they could be very creative with what spheres of Mysticism they knew.

* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]: The Black Robes like to specialize in the schools of Necromancy and Enchantment, which deal with [[The Undead]] and mind-control respectively.

* [[Blessed with Suck]]: The Test of High Sorcery often makes the Wizard pay a steep price.

* [[Color-Coded Wizardry]]: There are White, Red, and Black Robes. White represents Good, Red represents Neutral, and Black represents Evil.

* [[Fictionary]]: The language of magic is based off of Indonesian's grammatical structure. However, most of the actual words are just gibberish.

=== Civilized Humans ===

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: They are often prejudiced toward non-humans.

* [[Humans Are Flawed]]

* [[Humans Are White]]: Averted; most of the northern ethnic groups have dark skin. Most of the main characters of the novels ''are'' white, though.

* [[Elves Versus Dwarves]]

* [[Evil Counterpart Race]]: The dark dwarves.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]

* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: Hill and mountain dwarves play this trope straight. Dark dwarves, on the other hand, take the dwarven stereotypes and twist them to evil.

* [[Enslaved Elves]]: The green dragon Cyan Bloodbane tries to enslave the Silvanesti, but the Companions drive him off. But then the Silvanesti and Qualinesti basically enslave their own kin, the Kagonesti.

* [[Evil Counterpart Race]]: The Mahkwahb are the evil counterparts to the Dargonesti sea elves.

* [[Fragile Speedster]]

* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: All of the elf races are reclusive to some degree, but the Silvanesti are the worst.

** [[Elite Mook]]: Hobgoblins.

** [[Giant Mook]]: Bugbears.

 

=== Gnomes ===

 

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