Lyonesse: Difference between revisions

* [[Magic Feather]]: The boy Dhrun is given a talisman to avert fear, which in fact means that whenever he feels afraid, he misinterprets the emotion as anger and is able to be brave. The talisman eventually gets broken and replaced with a regular stone, but it continues to work until he realizes the replacement.

* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: ''Lyonesse'' has a style similar to classic Arthurian romance, full of deliberate anachronisms.

* [[Suddenly Always Knew That]]: Aillas never comes across as someone particularly interested or skilled in swordsmanship. In ''The Green Pearl'', however, he encounters an infamous bandit leader from a very martial culture who considers himself virtually peerless with a blade in hand. Out of nowhere, Aillas hands him a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] without breaking a sweat. A few chapters later, a bystander comments that he's a "demon with a sword."

* [[Tailor-Made Prison]]: In ''Suldrun's Garden'', Aillas is lowered into an Oubliette ("a bell-shaped cell fourteen feet in diameter and seventy feet underground"). Taking months, he constructs a ladder from the bones of the previous occupants, and escapes.