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The ''Chronicles of Chaos'' is a fantasy trilogy by [[John C. Wright]]. Five children in a orphanage-cum-school slowly discover their own heritage and the nature of the beings imprisoning them.
=== Works: ===
* ''Orphans of Chaos''
* ''Fugitives of Chaos''
* ''Titans of Chaos''
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* [[Action Film Quiet Drama Scene]]▼
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▲* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]
* [[Alien Geometries]]: Has an unusual take on the 4th dimension.
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* [[As You Know]]: Subverted; "Headmaster Boggin" begins one of these, but is quickly stopped. Double subverted later, when you find out his [[Magnificent Bastard|reason]].
* [[Author Appeal]]: The curricula that the orphans are taught are taken directly from Wright's alma mater, St. John's College.
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Artemis, the Maenads.
* [[Back
* [[Bad Dreams]]
* [[Being Watched]]
* [[Blackmail]]
* [[Blue Eyes]]
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Explicitly invoked; Mrs. Wren asks Vanity and Amelia to pray for her, because God will hear the prayers of the "young and sweet" better than hers.
* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]
* [[Close
* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]
* [[Conversational Troping]]
* [[Cool Ship]]. Which, as it turns out can be:
** [[Cool Boat]]
** [[Cool Starship]] (This one takes some aftermarket modifications....)
* [[Crack Pairing]]: Lord Mavors/Mrs. Wren
* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: Features Grendel, [[Greek Mythology|Greek gods]], and figures from [[Nursery Rhyme|nursery rhymes]] -- among others.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Amelia is a bit to ladylike to qualify as a [[
* [[Determinator]]: Telegonus.
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]
* [[Due to
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Invoked as an insult.
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: Part of the backstory, and connected to why the orphans are in the school.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|Grendel}} may have drowned hundreds of sailors and drunk their blood, but damnit, he's ''never'' molested a woman outside of wedlock. He's got the skull of a preacher in his shed to officiate, too...
* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: Amelia muses that every conspirator should know Morse code, as it makes things simpler.
* [[Exact
* [[Famed in Story]]
* [[Feed the Mole]]
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Victor, when the situation requires logical, careful planning. Amelia is his Lancer.
** [[The Lancer]]: Amelia, who tends to take the lead during battles.
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* [[Genius Loci]]
* [[Gilded Cage]]: The orphanage.
* [[Girl
* [[Go
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Well, not happiness, but {{spoiler|Miss Daw, who as a siren is also a POW, admires and is loyal to Queen Hera.}}
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Every character.
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: [[Sue Donym|"Terrance Miles"]] wears punk gear and conceals knives and throwing stars among the zippers and chains on his clothes.
* [[Home, Sweet Home]]
* [[I Have Many Names]]
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: In ''Fugitives'', this briefly happens to Amelia.
* [[I Know Your True Name]]: Done by one of the villains late in the trilogy.
* [[In
* [[Insubstantial Ingredients]]
* [[Jerkass Gods]]: Ingeniously examined. In this universe, moral laws have definite weight, which is why every supernatural species is leery of breaking them. Olympians, however, can define and change morality and destiny, which means they don't have to pay heed to them. At all.
* [[King Incognito]]
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[Language of Magic]]
* [[Laser
* [[Last of His Kind]]
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]
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* [[Love Triangle]]: Amelia, Victor and Colin.
* [[Made a Slave]]: The music teacher, Miss Daw, claims to Amelia that she is a POW. {{spoiler|as a Siren, she is also a Uranian and has the same powers as Amelia.}}
* [[Magic
* [[Malicious Slander]]
* [[Mama Bear]]: Echidna.
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* [[Not Quite Dead]]
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]
* [[One
* [[Order Versus Chaos]] The {{spoiler|Olympians}} vs the {{spoiler|Uranians.}}
* [[Orphanage of Fear]]: Though there's an unusual amount of education going on in this one.
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* [[Physical God]]: Lots of them, including some mythological gods.
* [[The Power of Rock]]
* [[The Power of Trust]]
* [[Power Nullifier]]
* [[The
* [[The Promise]]
* [[Promotion to Parent]]
* [[Restraining Bolt]]
* [[Running Gag]]: Quentin's "The true name of the first Salmon." It later becomes a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when he uses said name {{spoiler|to turn a group of Maenads into fish.}}
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* [[Secret Legacy]]
* [[Secret Test of Character]]
* [[Shout
** Also notable is one point in the second book when the Orphans need to get past a locked, magically trapped door and Quentin uses one of the incantations Gandalf used on the Moria-Gate. Nothing happens.
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** Also per [[Word of God]], the series is a [[Perspective Flip]] of [[Chronicles of Amber]], with the Olympians mapping out to the various Amberite factions.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Concerning the gangs trip to Mars: "astronomers can figure out what year the scene takes place, because I established the orbital positions needed for a Hohmann transfer orbit".
* [[Show Some Leg]]
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: Don't tell a boy to put you down when you're both being held aloft by aerial spirits.
* [[So Proud of You]]
* [[Spank the Cutie]]: Amelia runs into this.
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* [[Speak of the Devil]]
* [[Spock Speak]]: Victor and Dr Fell, being {{spoiler|robotic.}} This makes their pre-battle banter somewhat...odd.
* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: Amelia has a slight tendency towards this, at least at first.
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Boggin's conversation with {{spoiler|Centurion Infantophage}} is loaded with these.
* [[The Stoic]]: Victor and Quentin both behave like this most of the time.
* [[Succession Crisis]]: Part of the reason the orphans have been in the school so long is {{spoiler|there is dispute over who should take the throne of Olympus now that Zeus is dead.}}
* [[Sympathy for
* [[Talking Animal]]: Lelaps the hound.
* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]
* [[Take a Third Option]]
* [[Take That]]: Amelia's musing after reading [[Ulysses]] on how Joyce should have sued his publisher for all the typographical errors. Probably a general [[Take That]] to [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]].
** Also done to Kant, whose books are the only ones in the library that don't give off any [[
* [[Tap
* [[They Have the Scent]]
* [[Through His Stomach]]
* [[Trickster Archetype]]
* [[True Love Is Exceptional]]: Mulciber attempts to bribe Amelia by offering her her True Love on a platter.
* [[Used to Be
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[We Need a Distraction]]: This is Colin's default job.
* [[What You Are in
* [[The Wild Hunt]]
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[[Category:Fantasy Literature]]
[[Category:Chronicles
[[Category:Literature]]
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