The Pendragon Adventure: Difference between revisions

* [[Arc Words]]: "This is the way it was meant to be."

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: Usually when something from one territory is brought to another. {{spoiler|Especially Tak}}. Additionally, {{spoiler|the Flumes themselves may qualify.}}

* [[Assimilation Plot]]: {{spoiler|Saint Dane plans to merge all the territories.}}

* [[Atlantis]]: Both ''The Lost City of Faar'' and ''Black Water'' feature lost cities. Both of these happen to be in their titles.

* [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]]: Part of the author's writing style. "Statement" was Character's adjective reply.

** Also, 'craggy' in the earlier books, if I remember correctly.

* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: See the Arc Words.

* [[Big Applesauce]]: New York is a major location for events.

*** It's a bit less bittersweet in that {{spoiler|there's basically a time reset where the Travelers and Acolytes get sent back to live the lives they would have had if they hadn't been yanked to save the world. Minus their memories of their time as Travelers and each other, of course. Until Press brings back their journals in the very end.}}

* [[Black and White Morality]]: {{spoiler|We find out in ''The Soldiers of Halla'' that Solara, the birth place of the Travelers, was originally a place of balance before Saint Dane started monkeying around with things. Due to the existence of Ravinia, Solara has been split into two separate planes of existence. One represents the positive aspects of mankind and is fueled by the hopes of the Exiles. The other, darker, Solara covers the negative aspects and is being empowered by the evil intents of those who joined Ravinia.}}

** The author can get away with this one. Klee is a proper noun with no English translation. Gar probably means something weird without a good English equivalent, perhaps a mix of "human" and "slave." Many Earth languages don't line up. See [[Tsundere]], a Japanese colloquialism with no good partner in the English language. Rather than translate it, we simply adopt it verbatim.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Spader's "Hobey ho." And in later books, Bobby starts saying: "And so we go."

* [[Cult]]: The cover of ''Raven Rise'' hints at this. Inside the book...oh wow.

* [[Dark World]]: {{spoiler|The dark Solara that Saint Dane momentarily warps Bobby to is a twisted nightmare land with images of destruction flying about in the background and constant lightning flashes.}}

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Loor, Aja, and Kasha. On the male side, there's Siry.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]:

* [[Distant Finale]]

* [[Downer Ending]]: ''The Reality Bug'' and ''The Quillan Games''. Arguably ''Raven Rise'' as well, though mitigated by {{spoiler|the return of the Travelers at the end}}.

** Not to mention that in ''Raven Rise'', Bobby himself says that everything's been leading to the events on Second Earth. Also, {{spoiler|Second Earth is where everything is lost spectacularly at the end of the book.}}

*** In ''The Soldiers of Halla'', it is explained that {{spoiler|in reality Halla should be considered seven worlds, not ten territories. Saint Dane simply targeted Earth and Veelox at multiple turning points, thus dividing it up}}. The trope is still played straight due to {{spoiler|the final battle happening in Third Earth}}.

**** He may have {{spoiler|targeted Earth at multiple points but it was the actions of the Traveler from Veelox that caused Ibara to have a second chance which Saint Dane had to target.}}

* [[Eternal Sexual Freedom]]: Averted. Bobby and Courtney pretend to be siblings in 1937 because otherwise it would raise eyebrows for them to be staying together at the Manhattan Tower Hotel.

* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Quigs can be identified by their yellow eyes. Or, in the case of Ibara's bees, the yellow glow of their firefly-like rear ends.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: A good lot of the plots are of this type.

* [[Fictional Document]]: A good half of each book is made of Bobby's journals.

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: Kasha initially refuses to believe there are other worlds, or that the gars (humans) can be intelligent, even after meeting Bobby.

* [[The Force]]: {{spoiler|Saint Dane's, as well as all the Traveler's powers are derived from Solara. The Travelers get it from the positive energy within Solara, Saint Dane [[The Dark Side|gets his from the negativity of humanity]]. However, both sides must use this power sparingly because it literally depletes Solara.}}

* [[Human Aliens]]: On all the other worlds. Flora and non-human fauna tends to be different from world to world, however.

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Saint Dane's entire philosophy is based on this.

* [[Instrumentality]]: {{spoiler|Solara}}

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Various.

* [[Longing Look]]

* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Veelox's Lifelight.

** Sadly, there's a good bit of this going on in the final book. For example, {{spoiler|in previous books, characters had gone out of their way to acknowledge that they were traveling between territories, not planets. Then, in Soldiers of Halla, this view is revised so that it's clear to everyone that there are seven planets, and that the territories don't matter.}}

* [[Mega Corp]]: Blok on Quillan. They are a monopoly in the most extreme of extremes, since they pretty much own and produce ''everything'' on Quillan, including art.

* [[Merged Reality]]: Arguably what the Turning Points are all about. Bobby wants each Territory to go forth on its own, but Saint Dane ''also'' wants to make (what in his opinion is) a better world through something called The Convergence.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Saint Dane was this in his mind... {{spoiler|until his [[Moral Event Horizon]]}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: In many fanart pictures of Saint Dane, he is drawn as an almost exact replica of [[Final Fantasy VII|Sephiroth]]. That is until he becomes all powerful and all his hair gets burned off. However, the book describes him as old and unattractive in his white-haired and bald stages. In ''The Soldiers of Halla'', with all his new energy, he looks young and handsome and his hair returns, but it's black.

* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Lifelight on Veelox, after the Reality Bug is introduced.