Soldier of the Mist: Difference between revisions

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The Greek place names are translated to close English equivalents (Athens="Thought"), including an ancient [[I Thought It Meant|translation error]], with the city of [[This Is Sparta|"Rope"]] in "The Silent Country".

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Latro has one, a fellow mercenary from Africa {{spoiler|named Seven Lions. He eventually becomes king in his homeland, which Latro visits in ''Soldier of Sidon''}}

* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: "Latro" means [[Meaningful Name|"soldier"]], and is not his real name {{spoiler|which is Lucius.}}

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: A [[Gene Wolfe]] staple.

* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: The climax of ''Soldier of Arete'' depends on a plan that requires Latro to achieve certain things at certain times over the course of several days. Knowing that he doesn't always read his journal every day, let alone any particular part of it, Latro doesn't describe the plan in his journal, instead only noting that he's confided in one of his friends, who will bring him up to speed every morning. Result: the readers are in the dark until it comes to the description of the plan being carried out.

* [[What You See Is What You Get]]: Latro can see gods. He gets to see a lot of gods.

* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: [[Latro/WMG|existed before this page, somehow.]]