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...Maybe we should start from the beginning.
The intelligent and measured Kendra Sorenson and her [[Sibling Yin
[[It Got Worse|And then everything goes to Hell.]]
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** In the fifth book, the Singing Sisters use river trolls as guardians for their lair.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: The Society of The Evening Star
* [[Anti
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Grandpa and Grandma Sorenson have been working with magical creatures for decades; you do ''not'' mess with them. Grandma Ruth is the more obviously bad-ass one, but Grandpa Stan's no slouch either.
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* [[Big Good]]: The Sphinx, leader of the Knights of the Dawn. {{spoiler|Don't you believe it for one. Damn. ''Second.''}}
** The Fairy Queen sometimes qualifies, at least in her benevolent moods.
* [[Bishonen]]: In book 5, ''Bracken.'' Tall, willowy, and with tons of [[White
* [[Bigger On the Inside]]: The knapsack in Book 4.
* [[Brown Note]]: Dragons are so awesome, most people get mesmerized just by ''looking'' at them. {{spoiler|Raxtus}} is an exception, but he self-identifies as "lame."
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* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: All of them. In ''Rise of The Evening Star'' it's {{spoiler|Errol getting mauled to death by the Guardian for the 'sands of sancity'. Vanessa drops him on purpose when he gets too heavy. In ''Grip of the Shadow Plague'' (which is significantly darker) it's several violent deaths in search of the artifact in the Lost Mesa, and then Lena's crushing death at the end}}. That's only a few examples! All the deaths are gory or sad.
* {{spoiler|Curb Stomp Battle: At the end of book 5: Seth to Graulas and Kendra to Gorgorg}}
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: It sure seems like Dark ''Is'' Evil at first--it's the creatures like trolls and imps who are all [[What Measure Is a Non
** {{spoiler|As of Book 5, there are no such things as "neutral" demons. Poor Seth...}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Lots of people, Seth, Kendra and {{spoiler|Warren}} come to mind.
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: The end of ''Rise of the Evening Star'' looks pretty happy. [[The Mole]] is under captivity, the [[Big Good]]'s on top of things, [[Everybody Lives]], and one of the magical artifacts has been recovered. {{spoiler|And then you find out: The Sphinx is nowhere ''near'' what he appears...}}
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|The end of Book 5. Three demons? Seriously?}}
** {{spoiler|Earlier, in book 2, we have the scene with the revenant, which may be viewed as even more awesome than the demon-killing in Book 5, considering that Seth had no special powers at the time and far less experience with the magical world.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Some of the Eternals are just plain fed up with immortality.}}
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* [[Empty Shell]]: What happens to victims of the revenant, and to those who use the Oculus unprepared.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|The Sphinx quickly starts working with the Knights once Graulas and Nagi Luna take control of things.}}
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Sphinx.
* [[The Fair Folk]]
* [[Fantastic Nature Reserve]]
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* Infinity +1 Sword: The Vasilis Sword
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: {{spoiler|Raxtus chomps Gavin/Navarog clean in half in Book 4.}}
* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?|Have You Tried Not Being A Fairy Dragon]]: Raxtus. Poor guy.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: After being [[The Mole]], {{spoiler|Vanessa decides to become a bona fide good guy.}} It's also a [[Mistreatment Induced Betrayal]], because {{spoiler|she feels as if the Sphinx abandoned her.}}
** {{spoiler|The Sphinx also pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]] after Graulus takes control of the Society.}}
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* [[The Masquerade]]: To most people, magical creatures look like ordinary things; they have a built-in [[Weirdness Censor]]. Magic milk, as well as Kendra's fairy-sight, can see through it.
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: {{spoiler|A number of them at the start of Book 5. Vincent stands out especially.}}
* [[Mayfly
* [[The Mole]]: Great gravy! {{spoiler|The Sphinx}} is the most prominent example, but the first major one is {{spoiler|Vanessa}}, and {{spoiler|Gavin, AKA Navarog}}, shows his [[True Colors]] at either the worst or best possible time.
* [[The Monolith]]: There's a reason the Australian preserve is called Obsidian Waste--it's because of the huge obsidian monolith where the Translocator is kept.
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* [[Noble Demon]]: {{spoiler|Graulas. He makes Seth into a shadow charmer in ''Dragon Sanctuary.'' Unfortunately for Seth, he finds out in the next book that it was mere circumstances that truly kept Graulas' innately evil nature in check, not any genuine desire to restrain himself.}}
* [[Not So Different]]: {{spoiler|Seth and the Sphinx: Both shadow charmers. The Sphinx, however, has a bad case of hubris.}}
* [[One
** Despite the fact that Kendra thinks the astrids look neither male nor female, they {{spoiler|all turn into big buff men in book 5, so they technically qualify.}}
* [[One
** The cat/lynx/panther in Book 2 does this ''8 times''.
** Tanu's growth potion.
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* [[Scaled Up]]: {{spoiler|Gavin/Navarog}}
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Quite surprisingly averted by Newel and Doren in book five. They stick around for the last battle, fight bravely, and, though their accomplishments are those of secondary characters, fight bravely and survive. Before the final battle, they do mention they know they are going to their probable deaths and would have ditched long ago if not for some pesky nobility that snuck into their characters. Yet they still come out with some great wingers even during all this--and while some of it is to help keep spirits up and the like, some of it is just them. Their battle cry is "for Frito-Lay" after all...
* [[Sibling Yin
* [[Sleep Mode Size]]: Olloch the Glutton from the Fablehaven series. To contain him, he was shrunk into a tiny stone statue of himself. If you feed him, he awakens, starts eating anything in his path, and grows at an incredible rate. He only reverts to statue form if he eats the person who fed him (though apparently he doesn't shrink again). At the beginning of the second book, Seth gets tricked into feeding Olloch, who eventually catches up with him and swallows him. Fortunately, at the time he gets eaten, Seth is wearing an impenetrable cocoon, so Olloch reverts to statue form and Seth passes through the digestive system and escapes with his life.
* [[Spanner in The Works]]: {{spoiler|The Sphinx}} had an unstoppable plan, with every contingency planned, against which the heroes were powerless - except that they never anticipated that Seth would inadvertently {{spoiler|free the demon Graulas}}, causing them to lose control of the plan.
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* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: {{spoiler|Seth throws Vasilis to kill Nagi Luna. Possibly [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that the sword seems to have a life of its own, and it ''told'' Seth to throw it.}}
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]
* [[Well
* [[White
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|Some of the Eternals haven't dealt with immortality very well at all.}}
* [[The Woobie]]: Raxtus from Book 4 is one of these in-universe; Kendra's initial reaction toward him after first hearing his story is a strong desire to hug him.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: [[Word of God]] admits that his real-life little brother is impetuous in the same way Seth is, and while they're not ''exactly'' the same person, they're very close.
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