Rose of the Prophet: Difference between revisions

* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Mathew decides after Khardan saves his life that even if his life isn't worth living for himself, he'll live to pledge it to Khardan's.

* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: At once point when Mathew snaps in his frustration at how much he misses his home he goes off at Zohra for constantly pronouncing his name "Mat-hew". While attempting to calm and console him she tries pronouncing it "Matchew", which touches him and when he calms down he apologizes to her.

'''Zohra:''' Of course. I knew I was saying it right, Mat-hew. It was you who were not hearing it right. }}

* [[Jerkass]]: Meelusk the fisherman, a miserable, shrivelled, selfish old bastard who is described as being so low that even the followers of Benario the Thief God spit on him in contempt.

** {{spoiler|He eventually realises how badly he fell into this trope, how much trouble he caused and how even his successes were largely due to others and redeems himself with a truly ''brilliant'' [[Thanatos Gambit]] [[Heroic Sacrifice]] that ''defeats Kaug the Efreet'' and single-handedly turns the war in the heavens against Quar.}}

* [[Threat Backfire]]: Khardan walks right into this one when, during a fight between his people and Zohra's, he calls off one of his men attacking her to take her himself:

'''Zohra:''' Oh, won't he? ''(slashes his leg with her dagger)'' }}

* [[Tomboy Princess]]: Zohra; her character introduction notes that her father indulged her and let her run wild in his grief over her mother's death and by the time he tried to reign her in it was far too late. (The one time he threatened to beat her she snatched the stick from his hand and threatened to beat ''him'' instead!)