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* [[Abdicate the Throne]]: {{spoiler|At the end, in favor of Ptraci.}} |
* [[Abdicate the Throne]]: {{spoiler|At the end, in favor of Ptraci.}} |
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* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Or to phrase it another way, the Fate After Death for almost every single person who has been mummified in Djelibeybi. As a result of the rather convoluted belief system of the Djelibeybians, no one manages to truly die but neither do they manage to ever pass on. Instead, they remain bound to their bodies, which are then methodically dismantled and placed in tombs ''for all eternity''. |
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Or to phrase it another way, the Fate After Death for almost every single person who has been mummified in Djelibeybi. As a result of the rather convoluted belief system of the Djelibeybians, no one manages to truly die but neither do they manage to ever pass on. Instead, they remain bound to their bodies, which are then methodically dismantled and placed in tombs ''for all eternity''. |
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** Depending on perspective, this happens to Dios as well. |
** Depending on perspective, this happens to Dios as well. |
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* [[Fertile Feet]]: Although it was a later book that was the [[Trope Namer]]. |
* [[Fertile Feet]]: Teppic, when he inherits. Although it was a later book that was the [[Trope Namer]]. |
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* [[Fun with Foreign Languages]]: Djelibeybi (of course) uses hieroglyphs, which Teppic pronounces out loud as "eagle, squiggle" and so on. |
* [[Fun with Foreign Languages]]: Djelibeybi (of course) uses hieroglyphs, which Teppic pronounces out loud as "eagle, squiggle" and so on. |
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** And [[Fridge Brilliance]] for those that realised that when he imagines the hieroglyphs for 'feather mattress' it's a hippo's bottom, a reference to a long-running series of bed adverts in the UK starring a hippo and canary. |
** And [[Fridge Brilliance]] for those that realised that when he imagines the hieroglyphs for 'feather mattress' it's a hippo's bottom, a reference to a long-running series of bed adverts in the UK starring a hippo and canary. |
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* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{spoiler|Dios definitely, to the point he may exist purely because of the loop, not even having been born but just existed. Also the Djel itself. In Teppic's [[Dream Sequence]] Khuft said the river appeared from nowhere...}} |
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{spoiler|Dios definitely, to the point he may exist purely because of the loop, not even having been born but just existed. Also the Djel itself. In Teppic's [[Dream Sequence]] Khuft said the river appeared from nowhere...}} |
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* [[Stepping Stone Sword]]: Teppic uses knives this way, and notes that it's [[Awesome but Impractical]] as you eventually run out of knives, and it can ruin their cutting edges. |
* [[Stepping Stone Sword]]: Teppic uses knives this way, and notes that it's [[Awesome but Impractical]] as you eventually run out of knives, and it can ruin their cutting edges. |
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* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: Played with. Pteppic gets past the sphinx by confusing it and tossing its own riddle back in its face. By the time it realizes something is wrong, he's already running. |
* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: Played with. Pteppic gets past the sphinx by confusing it and tossing its own riddle back in its face. By the time it realizes something is wrong, he's already running. |
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* [[Time Abyss]]: {{spoiler|Dios. 7,000 years old at the beginning of the novel... and at the end of the book he [[Stable Time Loop|is looped back to the beginning of the kingdom.]]}} |
* [[Time Abyss]]: {{spoiler|Dios. 7,000 years old at the beginning of the novel... and at the end of the book he [[Stable Time Loop|is looped back to the beginning of the kingdom.]]}} |
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