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Books in the series:

* ''SpellCrash''

 

* {{spoiler|1=[[A God Am I]]: Occurs near the end of SpellCrash}}

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Played with by Fenris. When we first see him, he's in the guise of a normal dog on a leash. His true form is about the size of a draft horse.

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Atropos places a "Cassandra curse" on Ravirn so no one will believe him about her plans

* [[Chaotic Neutral]]: Eris. Being the goddess of chaos, her entire reason for existence is to spread chaos and strife throughout the multiverse. Despite that, she is one of the very few gods Ravirn counts among his friends.

* [[Flaming Hair]]: Tisiphone. Yes, including her pubic hair.

* [[Fridge Horror]]: Dairn is pushed into the faerie rings in the first book by Ravirn, and {{spoiler|comes back in the third book as the host for Nemesis}}. It's later revealed that {{spoiler|Zeus engineered Nemesis' hunt for Ravirn}} by manipulating the faerie rings so that they spat him out near {{spoiler|Tartarus}}, but he did so in response to the damage to Necessity caused in the second book, which means that the soonest {{spoiler|Zeus}} could have gotten Dairn out is after Ravirn's expedition to Hades in that book. And between the first and second books, there's a [[Fate Worse Than Death|nine-month]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|time]] [[And I Must Scream|skip]].

* [[Greek Mythology]]

* [[Hellish Pupils]]: Descendants of the Fates like Ravirn and Cerice have slitted, cat-like pupils. Eris, Goddess of Discord, has eyes filled with swirling Primal Chaos.

* {{spoiler|1=[[Norse Mythology]]: In MythOS}}

* [[Oh My Gods]]: "Chaos and discord!" is used as an invective, as are "Sweet Necessity" and "Powers and Incarnations".

* [[Magitek]]: All advanced electronics used by wizards can use some level of magic, and often transform into some sort of magical being (pixies, goblins, trolls so far).

* [[Morality Pet]]: In a way, Ravirn to Persephone. It is stated that if not for her trust of Ravirn, she would act arbitrarily destructively in order to prevent Hades from gaining control of her again, even if it requires destroying the multiverse. {{spoiler|To aid Ravirn, she sends him the source to several viruses designed to completely destroy the computer systems of the four poles and Necessity, and it's implied that releasing these is the least she would do.}}

* [[Playful Hacker]]: Ravirn fits this to a tee.

* [[Portal Network]]: One of several methods to travel between dimensions is the fairy ring network. Not to mention the "Fury Gates" used by the, well, Furies.

** As of MythOS, Ravirn gains two new ones: [[Silent Snarker|Laginn]] {{spoiler|Tyr's hand}}, and {{spoiler|[[Big Badass Wolf|Fenris]]}}

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Subverted. It's very much the case in some of the myths that form the source material; some of Ravirn's adventures involve breaking the status quo, as in {{spoiler|freeing Persephone from Hades and removing the sword from Fenris' jaw}}. It's even lampshaded in a threat from Ravirn to Lachesis: that the Raven has already wreaked several major and lasting changes to the Greek multiverse, and he is quite possibly capable of taking down Fate forever.

* [[Take That]]: In Webmage, it is revealed that Eris, the Goddess of Discord uses a Mac, while the houses of Fate all apparently use Windows. Though later, she seems to use some kind of virtual machine program to allow Ravirn to {{spoiler|code Orion, the spell meant to ruin Puppeteer}} using an interface more familiar to him.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]: {{spoiler|When Ravirn has the name Raven bestowed upon him, all of his trickster traits come to the foreground. After all, Raven is a minor chaos power. It even affects his behavior and judgement, making him less cautious.}}

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Sharra: "While you and Cerice were playing slot-in-the-RAM..."

 

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