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* [[Bad Moon Rising]]: Well, technically it's a planet, but the Red Star definitely counts.
* [[Bad Moon Rising]]: Well, technically it's a planet, but the Red Star definitely counts.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The Dragonriders place a lot of stock in studying past records to find information. They also have their own primitive astronomical observatory and a collection of maps as well as being able to make fairly advanced weather analysis.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The Dragonriders place a lot of stock in studying past records to find information. They also have their own primitive astronomical observatory and a collection of maps as well as being able to make fairly advanced weather analysis.
**F'lar is quite intelligent and is able to make a workable defense plan from studying faulty and difficult records.
* [[Best Served Cold]]: Lessa was ready to wait ten years disguised as a menial servant to take revenge on the man who slew her entire family. During this time she turned Ruatha, one of the wealthiest Holds, into a complete ruin through simple sabotage and slight [[Psychic Powers|telepathic]] emotional adjustments, and manipulated [[Guile Hero|F’lar]] into a duel with Fax to make him pay. She was only ten years old when this started.
* [[Best Served Cold]]: Lessa was ready to wait ten years disguised as a menial servant to take revenge on the man who slew her entire family. During this time she turned Ruatha, one of the wealthiest Holds, into a complete ruin through simple sabotage and slight [[Psychic Powers|telepathic]] emotional adjustments, and manipulated [[Guile Hero|F’lar]] into a duel with Fax to make him pay. She was only ten years old when this started.
* [[Blind Jump]]: Going ''between'' without a destination firmly in mind will cause the dragon and its passenger(s) to never emerge, which is fatal. Poorly imagining one's destination can result in a [[Tele Frag]]. Conversely, imagining aspects of one's destination ''too well'' can result in accidental [[Time Travel]]. This is all covered in the extensive training given to young dragonriders, with the grisly examples of those who didn't pay attention in the past serving to drive the lessons home.
* [[Blind Jump]]: Going ''between'' without a destination firmly in mind will cause the dragon and its passenger(s) to never emerge, which is fatal. Poorly imagining one's destination can result in a [[Tele Frag]]. Conversely, imagining aspects of one's destination ''too well'' can result in accidental [[Time Travel]]. This is all covered in the extensive training given to young dragonriders, with the grisly examples of those who didn't pay attention in the past serving to drive the lessons home.
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* [[Medieval Stasis]]: For about two thousand years, Pern was medieval with very little structural/social change. Justified by the fact that most of the colonists' technology was lost or worn out after two hundred years, and the whole "Thread trying to eat everything organic" situation made them more concerned about ''surviving'' rather than technological advancement. When this incentive is removed after ''All the Weyrs of Pern'', they begin to reclaim their lost technology with the help of the records and instruction provided by AIVAS.
* [[Medieval Stasis]]: For about two thousand years, Pern was medieval with very little structural/social change. Justified by the fact that most of the colonists' technology was lost or worn out after two hundred years, and the whole "Thread trying to eat everything organic" situation made them more concerned about ''surviving'' rather than technological advancement. When this incentive is removed after ''All the Weyrs of Pern'', they begin to reclaim their lost technology with the help of the records and instruction provided by AIVAS.
** Also justified because Pern was settled by [[Space Amish]] who wanted to get away from technology and develop a more agrarian society, though they didn't want to decay quite as far, hard or fast as they did.
** Also justified because Pern was settled by [[Space Amish]] who wanted to get away from technology and develop a more agrarian society, though they didn't want to decay quite as far, hard or fast as they did.
**Also justified that almost all of their technical skill went into civil defense which was not needed between Thread season. And Thread was not an intelligent enemy but predictable like weather which put less encouragement on innovation and more on discipline.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Sometimes administered to badly injured Thread victims, by means of a lethal dose of "fellis", an herbal sedative.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Sometimes administered to badly injured Thread victims, by means of a lethal dose of "fellis", an herbal sedative.
* [[Mission Control]]: A wyer is the dispatch center for it's dragons. Sometimes the Wehrwoman will have to send reserves to match a new threat if it comes while one group is out.
* [[Multiple-Tailed Beast]]: Pernese dragons have forked tails.
* [[Multiple-Tailed Beast]]: Pernese dragons have forked tails.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Lessa
* [[The Napoleon]]: Lessa
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: In ''The Masterharper of Pern'' Robinton is noted to have the ability to speak to (and hear) dragons, leading to his mother actually hoping that he would be Searched by a Weyr in order to get him out of their troubled home. Unfortunately no queens were laying when Robinton was of the optimal age to Impress a dragon.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: In ''The Masterharper of Pern'' Robinton is noted to have the ability to speak to (and hear) dragons, leading to his mother actually hoping that he would be Searched by a Weyr in order to get him out of their troubled home. Unfortunately no queens were laying when Robinton was of the optimal age to Impress a dragon.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Dragons? Gaze up in awe and go "whoa, cool!" Fire lizards? Gather round and [[Squee]] over the pretties. Watch-whers? Chained to a wall as barely tolerated "watchdogs". Although they are shown as capable of friendship and loyalty, and their distant kinship to dragons is mentioned from book one, it is not until the [[Prequel|prequels]] that their origin is revealed -- partially failed experiments in creating a second type of dragon.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Dragons? Gaze up in awe and go "whoa, cool!" Fire lizards? Gather round and [[Squee]] over the pretties. Watch-whers? Chained to a wall as barely tolerated "watchdogs". Although they are shown as capable of friendship and loyalty, and their distant kinship to dragons is mentioned from book one, it is not until the [[Prequel|prequels]] that their origin is revealed -- partially failed experiments in creating a second type of dragon.
* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]: Lessa.
* [[You Already Changed the Past]]: There are no [[Temporal Paradox|Temporal Paradoxes]] in this universe. If you use [[Time Travel]] to go backwards, you had already been there and [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|had done what you did]]. In fact, several characters use this type of foreknowledge specifically to plan their trips, setting up a [[Stable Time Loop]].
* [[You Already Changed the Past]]: There are no [[Temporal Paradox|Temporal Paradoxes]] in this universe. If you use [[Time Travel]] to go backwards, you had already been there and [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|had done what you did]]. In fact, several characters use this type of foreknowledge specifically to plan their trips, setting up a [[Stable Time Loop]].


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