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* [[Happily Married]]: Eighteen years after their escapades in the first book, which caused many a Squee, {{spoiler|Sabriel and Touchstone}} are shown to be very satisfied together, while not verging into [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|mushy territory.]]
* [[Hellish Horse]]: Hedge has one. It is [[Incendiary Exponent|on fire]].
* [[The
* [[Heroic Bastard]]: Touchstone.
* [[Heroic Lineage]]: All the Charter Bloodlines, especially the Abhorsens.
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** The Clayr take lovers from among the wider population of the Old Kingdom, but they don't wed or stay together; the men go back to their lives. It's possible that boys born to the Clayr are much less likely to have the Sight than girls, and un-Sighted boys are sent to live with their fathers. Though this seems like something Lirael would have noticed.
** Or they use their powers to pick a time when they will fall pregnant with a child which will be gifted, in the same way that Lirael's mother did.
* [[
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Even if your guns work, don't bother with headshots. You have to destroy the entire body. And that's just the [[Mooks|Dead Hands]]; the "Shadow Hands" don't even have proper physical bodies. Also, lesser undead have a hard time with running water, unless their bridge is made from earth taken from a grave.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: The Clayr are magical clairvoyants.
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* [[Sealed Evil in A Teddy Bear|Sealed Chaos In A Teddy Bear]]: {{spoiler|Mogget}}.
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: The Clayr ''live'' on these. They initiate new members into their ranks when they See themselves initiating her! Although presumably, their powers awake shortly after. And they do occasionally hand out jobs which haven't been forecast.
* [[Semi
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Mogget, since he's basically an enslaved {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abomination]] of godlike power}} and does not appreciate the magic compelling him to always help the Abhorsens. Being [[Deadpan Snarker|completely]] [[Cats Are Mean|insufferable]] is his only way around it.
* [[Shout
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Mogget toes -- or paws -- the line between this and [[Hidden Agenda Villain]].
* [[The Soulsaver]]: Part of the Abhorsen's job description.
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* [[They Do]]: Sabriel and Touchstone
* [[This Is Sparta]]: "Dig faster, for I...must...be...whole...again!"
* [[Top
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|In the novella, Nick}} fights an ancient Free Magic elemental and an army of evil shadow government agents with basically whatever's handy. {{spoiler|[[Word of God]] says that this story was intended to be something of a joke: Nick looks like a Badass by normal standards, but he faints during his failed attempt to poison the elemental, only to have Lirael (still a novice Abhorsen-in-Waiting) swoop in and defeat the creature with nothing but a thistle.}}
* [[Two
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|The Dog bends the rules when it suits her, and it suited her to bring back Nick.}}
* [[Unstuck in Time]]: The Clayr live like this. See [[Mad Oracle]].
* [[Weakened By the Light]]: Lesser Dead creatures aren't so keen on traveling by day.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: the "blue-hatted, blue-scarved" refugees the Ancelstierran government constantly screws over.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The prologue to Abhorsen is an account of {{spoiler|the brutal assassination of Sabriel and Touchstone on foreign ground, using modern weaponry. They received very little screen time in ''Lirael'' and are only revealed to have survived a third of the way through ''Abhorsen'' (and the attack still killed all but one of the royal escort),}} making it especially shocking, particularly if reading the trilogy start to finish. {{spoiler|Their deaths are even more convincing due to a subtle perspective shift in the narration which falls just short of lying to the reader's face.}}
** That prologue was included as a teaser at the end of some editions of ''Lirael'', which may increase the shock value even further.
* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: Sabriel's father, Sabriel herself, and even Lirael's mother, sort of.
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