Inheritance Trilogy: Difference between revisions

** In book three, {{spoiler|Sieh, Deka and Shahar become a second version of the Three, and set out to create their own universe}}.

* [[Barbarian Tribe]]: Subverted. The Amn ''consider'' the races of the High North continent to be this, even though the High Northers were forcibly civilized centuries before. Turns out the Amn themselves used to be {{spoiler|cannibals}}.

* [[Bi the Way]]

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Kingdom of Gods.

* [[Blood Magic]]: Demon blood kills gods. Big in the backstory and book two.

* [[Brick Joke]]: At the ending of ''Broken Kingdoms'', {{spoiler|Oree imagines that, when Itempas comes back to her and their daughter, he'll have learned enough manners to wipe his feet and hang up his coat.}} At the very, ''very'', end of ''Kingdom of the Gods'', a hundred years later, {{spoiler|Itempas ''has'', indeed, learned some manners.}}

** In a human, subtle, and squicky example, Relad enjoys sexual romps with women who look like his twin sister.

** Shahar and Deka's father, Remina, is their mother Remath's half-brother.

* [[Creation Myth]]

* [[Did the Earth Move For You Too]]: When {{spoiler|Yeine and Nahadoth}} do it, ''their passion engulfs the entire universe.''

** Yeine and the Enefadeh.

** Oree and Shiny.

** Sieh and the Arameri twins.

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Oree.

* [[Divine Date]]: Everywhere.

* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]: Sky the palace.

* [[Descend From a Higher Plane of Existence]] / [[God in Human Form]] / [[Emergent Human]] / Humanity Ensues: The Enefadeh, Itempas, Sieh.

* [[Downer Ending]]: The Broken Kingdoms.

* [[Down in The Dumps]]: With a god named Dump.

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Come ''on,'' everyone except Oree, even the readers, knew that {{spoiler|'Shiny' was really Itempas.}}

* [[God Is Flawed]]: And the Three made humans in their images, so [[Humans Are Flawed]], too!

{{quote| “You knew he had been overthrown, Serymn. You’ve seen many gods take mortal form. Why did it never occur to you that your own god might be among them?”}}

* [[Going Native]]: {{spoiler|Kurue, who turns against her fellow Enefadeh}} in hopes of winning Itempas' favor.

** Naha/Hado/Ahad/Beloved (who also has one name that Glee gave him which he never shared with anyone).

* [[Immortality]]: Nahadoth and Itempas are Type I; it's implied that they ''can'' be [[Killed Off for Real]], but doing so would end the universe. The Enefadeh are somewhere between Types II and III. Enefa herself {{spoiler|is Type IV.}}

* [[Inner Monologue]]: The three books are first-person pieces. The first is narrated by Yeine, the second by Oree, the third by Sieh.

* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]

* [[The Mafia]]

* [[Man of Steel Woman of Kleenex]]: An issue for Nahadoth and Yeine, as well as Madding and Oree.

** Oree and Madding

** Oree and Tempa

* [[Sex Slave]]: Hado and Sieh in book one.

* [[Sexual Karma]]: Yeine and {{spoiler|the rest of the Three}} get ''heavy'' doses of this, it seems. Though, to be fair, {{spoiler|when the people in charge of karma are the ones in the relationship}}, [[Justified Trope|it kind of makes sense]].

* {{spoiler|[[Someone to Remember Him By]]}}: {{spoiler|At the end of ''The Broken Kingdoms'' it turns out that Oree's been telling her story to Itempas's unborn daughter, concieved after their one night of passion.}}

* [[Storming the Castle]]: Maskers in Sky.

* [[The Time of Myths]]: Potentially, the whole trilogy.

* [[Time Skip]]: Ten years between book one and two, and a century between two and three.

* [[World Tree]]

* [[Yandere]]: Itempas. He murdered Enefa and then started a huge war and imprisoned Nahadoth in human flesh...because Nahadoth paid more attention to Enefa then to him for a little bit. And then there's {{spoiler|Deka in the third book, who basically invented/discovered a new kind of magic, inked it on his own body, and is quite willing to rearrange the universe just so he can have Sieh. And Deka is Arameri, and even though they're not as powerful as they were by the third book they are still very strong and scarily brutal.}}

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