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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Lots. Especially the Dominic Flandry stories; Flandry succeeds, but [[Cartwright Curse|loses any woman he truly loves]], feels guilt at hurting the feelings of the others, and in one story is troubled by the contrast between several honest, decent rebels, who are ''at best'' going to be locked up for the rest of their lives, and the decadent, despicable Emperor. The prequel novel had a back-cover blurb which summed up:
{{quote|Though through this and his succeeding adventures he will struggle gloriously and win (usually) mighty victories, Dominic Flandry is essentially a tragic figure: a man who knows too much, who knows that battle, scheme, and even betray as he will, in the end it will mean nothing. For with the relentlessness of physical law the Long Night approaches. The Terran Empire is dying...}}
* [[Blue And Orange Morality]]: Aycharach actually does have a cause beyond his own amusement which is not revealed until ''Knight of Ghosts and Shadows.'' However while it is [[Downplayed Trope|vaguely comprehensible]] to a human, it hardly seems worth the suffering he is willing to cause for it.
* [[Blue Blood]]: There are a lot of titled characters in the Flandry stories. He's an aristocrat himself.
* [[Canon Welding]]: The Nicholas van Rijn stories and Dominic Flandry stories weren't, originally, part of the same universe. But a bit of prodding by fans, and he wrote some bridging so that now they are.
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