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* [[Edutainment Show]]: The series was created by the author to teach his teen daughter about the Spanish Golden Age, with each book being devoted to one aspect of it. In the published books, these are respectively Politics, Religion, the Flanders War, Economics, Theatre, the low-scale [[Forever War]] against the Turks in the Mediterranean and the long time love/hate relationship between Spain and the Republic of Venice.
* [[Eighty Years' War]]
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: In one book, when Alatriste is about to shoot Malatesta, a woman the Italian is living with jumps at the captain — even though her hands are tied behind her back — to save her lover. Whatever else we know about
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Gualterio Malatesta is basically Alatriste without the [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]] part.
* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: This comes up '''a lot'''. A whole chapter in ''The King's Gold'' is devoted to how one convict prepares for his execution, and the serene look on his face as the rope strangling him is tightened.
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* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Lots of them.
* [[Hitman with a Heart]]: Alatriste.
* [[Historical In-Joke]]: ''The Sun over Breda'' has one about how [[wikipedia:The Surrender of Breda|this painting]] was made (and why Alatriste ''does not'' appear on it).<ref>The fourth page of the first book remarks that Alatriste ''is'' in the painting; he's one of the men behind the horse. An [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|"editor's note"]] in ''The Sun Over Breda'' states that the image of Alatriste was evidently removed from the painting at some time after Íñigo last saw it. This seems to have been part of an attempt to make Alatriste an [[Unperson]]; references to him were also deleted from at least one play.</ref>
* [[Homage Shot]]: In the movie, the scene of the surrender of Breda is modelled after Velazquez's famous painting.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Many, many times.
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