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* [[Mutilation Interrogation]]: [[Inverted]] in ''The High King's Tomb''. Spencer does this to an evil henchman who had ''already'' lost one hand. To top it off, [[It's Personal|this same henchman had driven the interrogator's brother to suicide]] by blaming him for an incident that made their sadistic master cut off ''both'' his hands. |
* [[Mutilation Interrogation]]: [[Inverted]] in ''The High King's Tomb''. Spencer does this to an evil henchman who had ''already'' lost one hand. To top it off, [[It's Personal|this same henchman had driven the interrogator's brother to suicide]] by blaming him for an incident that made their sadistic master cut off ''both'' his hands. |
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Mornhavon the Black. |
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Mornhavon the Black. |
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* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: Karrigan's father is the chief of a merchant clan and among other things he has been |
* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: Karrigan's father is the chief of a merchant clan and among other things he has been known to work at the loading docks beside his underlings. |
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* [[Not Using the Z Word]]: See [[Our Elves Are Better]]. |
* [[Not Using the Z Word]]: See [[Our Elves Are Better]]. |
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* [[Our Elves Are Better]] / [[The Fair Folk]]: The Elt or Eletians, [[Not Using the Z Word|elves in all but name]]. They're incredibly arrogant and very conscious of how much innate magic they have compared to humans. On occasion, though, [[Screw You, Elves|the human characters will call them on it]] -- and on how unhelpful they can be when the fate of the world is at stake. The trope is also subverted when {{spoiler|the villain of the first book is an Eletian gone bad}}. |
* [[Our Elves Are Better]] / [[The Fair Folk]]: The Elt or Eletians, [[Not Using the Z Word|elves in all but name]]. They're incredibly arrogant and very conscious of how much innate magic they have compared to humans. On occasion, though, [[Screw You, Elves|the human characters will call them on it]] -- and on how unhelpful they can be when the fate of the world is at stake. The trope is also subverted when {{spoiler|the villain of the first book is an Eletian gone bad}}. |
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