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* [[The Dragon]]: Marafice Eye to Penthero Iss
** {{spoiler|[[Dragon Ascendant]]}}
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Endlords, again.
** [[Humanoid Abomination]]: They're humanoid ''looking'', but it's made plain that they're cosmic forces compressed into this shape.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Cripple]]: The Maimed Men (the raiders who live just north of the Clans) are certainly considered evil by the Clansmen, and they get their name because they disfigure anyone who joins them as a brutal initiation ritual- except for one, [[Meaningful Name|Stillborn]], who was so ugly they decided he was disfigured enough. {{spoiler|When Raif joins them, he's lucky to end up losing nothing worse than part of a finger}}.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Sarga Veys, Penthero Iss, {{spoiler|and Baralis}}
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* [[Grim Up North]]: The books take place in the north part of their world, and the setting is rather grim, but go even further than that and you get to the Great Want, a thoroughly unpleasant arctic [[Eldritch Location]] where time, distance, and direction become confused.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: The Racklanders live on the border between the Clanholds and Sull territory, and at least some of them have actual Sull blood in them. {{spoiler|Ash might be considered one too- she starts out human, but undergoes a mystical ritual to "become" Sull and afterwards begins to gradually take on more Sull traits}}.
* [[It Sucks to Be
* [[Knight Templar]]: Yiselle No-Knife, who wants to turn Raif into a weapon against the Endlords and will do ''anything'' she sees as neccessary to accomplish that.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Not as many as some [[High Fantasy]] series, but in addition to Raif and Ash, there's Raina Blackhail, Bram Cormac, the Dog Lord, Effie Sevrance, Angus Lok, Penthero Iss, Marafice Eye... and those are just the major POV characters!
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* [[Proud Warrior Race]]: The Clansmen and the Sull are both definite examples.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Angus Lok goes on one against {{spoiler|the Crouching Maiden}} after he finds out that she {{spoiler|killed his family}}.
* [[Sealed Evil in
** {{spoiler|Baralis is an example where the evil was sealed by ''another'' evil to leach off his power}}.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Iss, Sarga Veys.
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* [[Villainous Valor]]: Marafice Eye is a very bad man, but he's also very [[Badass]].
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Marafice Eye probably counts in his own POV sections in the later books. Arguably also the Dog Lord, for [[Anti-Villain|a given value of "villain"]].
* [[Villain
* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Iss, as a magic user, is not very impressive, as Sarga Veys is quick to note- but he is clever, and he's got some nasty tricks up his sleeve. See [[Blood Magic]].
* [[What Happened to
* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: The way the succession works in Spire Vanis; the accepted way to become the new Surlord is to off the old one. This is how Iss got the job, but {{spoiler|the fact that he actually ''names'' his own successor- Marafice Eye- does not go over well with the local aristocracy. The fact that Eye is a commoner- Iss himself came of noble, albeit not very significant, blood- just rubs further salt in it}}.
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