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During the war, the mages of Eld killed Sariel, the ''E'tani'' (mate) of Rainier vel'En Daris, a Tairen Soul(Fey who have the ability to [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|transform]] into [[Our Dragons Are Different|Tairen]]), and the Feyreisen(Fey King). Rain, being quite put out over the death of his girlfriend, promptly went insane and decided to [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|scorch all life from the face of the world]]. After slaughtering millions in a mad blood frenzy, he was finally detained by the rest of the Fey. By this time, the Mage Wars had ended, with the Eld withdrawing and seemingly disappearing. Rain was brought back to the Fey homeland, the Fading Lands, and kept in quiet seclusion as his madness raged.

1,000 years later, Rain, feeling much more calm after a centuries long cool-off, emerges from solitude and uses the immensely powerful Eye of Truth to try to deduce how to help the dying Tairen, and is sent to Celieria, the capital of the human kingdom, with a vague image of a woman with red hair and green eyes.

In Celieria, Ellysetta Baristani, the 24-year old adopted daughter of a woodcarver, is [[Christmas Cake|nearing the end of her years of marriage-eligibility]], and finds herself being forced into a betrothal with the butcher's son Den Brodson. When it is learned that the Tairen Soul is coming to Celieria, Ellie's younger twin sisters ask her to accompany them to the ceremony. Unexpectedly, during the ceremony, Rain appears and claims Ellysetta as his ''Shei'tani'', his one-and-only, soulmated [[Mindlink Mates|mindlinked]] true love.

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* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Annoura, Jiarine Montevero, Kelissande Minset, every single Feraz female, etc.

* [[Altar the Speed]]: {{spoiler|Rain and Ellysetta in the first two books. They're literally betrothed within days of meeting each other, and married within three weeks. Rain originally wanted to be married within ''three days.''}}

* [[~~Always Chaotic~~ Evil]]: Rain believes that the Eld are this. {{spoiler|Subverted when Gaelen calls him out on this belief, saying that the Eld are not born evil but rather corrupted by society under the mages. Also subverted by the dahl'reisen.}} Played entirely straight with the Mharog, who are an entire race of [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]].

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Rain believes that the Eld are this. {{spoiler|Subverted when Gaelen calls him out on this belief, saying that the Eld are not born evil but rather corrupted by society under the mages. Also subverted by the dahl'reisen.}} Played entirely straight with the Mharog, who are an entire race of [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]].

* [[Ambition Is Evil]]

* [[Anatomically-Impossible Sex]]: In several instances, characters have nonstop sex for several hours on end.

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* [[Christmas Cake]]: Ellysetta at the beginning of the first book.

* [[Convicted by Public Opinion]]: Bel.

* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: Fanir, an Elf who guides Elysetta turns out to be the son of one of the millions of good people Rain killed. He gets to forgive Rain in his dads place.

** Elysetta meeting Rain in the first place is a rather silly coincidence.

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: Azrahn, the soul magic. So dangerous and forbidden among Fey that one use is enough for instant banishment from the Fading Lands ''for life.''

* [[Dark Lord]]: Gaelen's official title. However, he [[Anti-Villain|isn't exactly what you'd expect from a Dark Lord]]. From a more traditional Dark Lord, see [[Evil Overlord|Vadim Maur]] and [[God of Evil|Seledorn]].

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Gaelen. In the last book, Rain also explicitly mentions that Ellysetta has a deadpan sense of humor.

** The Feraz witch, when taking magically powerful male prisoners in payment for Chemaz, mentions that she will return them in no time when Maur grumbles about wanting to use those men for breeding purposes. She obviously never mentions the condition they will be returned in, but she does rattle a bag of Chemaz. Turns out that its made from their bones.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Fey tend to enact this whenever any slight is given to their mates. Rain in particular is prone to this.

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* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Annoura.

* [[Good Hurts Evil]]: Love hurts the Mharog. The presence of dahl'reisen and especially Mharog cause pain to empathetic Fey women.

* [[Good Is Dumb]]: Rain feels that the Eld are building strength, and goes to tell the mortals in Cilleria that. All he has for prooof is....nothing. He is astounded when they don't just believe his gut instinct.

** The Ruling Body of the Fey is so against using the forbidden soul magic, Azhran, that they refuse to use it even if doing so spells imminent destruction for the Fey and Tairen, and instant and success for the Eld.

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: {{spoiler|What Vadim Maur plans to do to Ellysetta.}}

* [[Gray Eyes]]: Vadim Maur, Melliandra.

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* [[Million Mook March]]: The Army of Darkness.

* [[Mindlink Mates]]: Rain and Ellysetta, along with all other Fey Truemates.

* [[Mind Rape]]: Fey ''Shei'dalins'' are known for doing this. Ellysetta is extremely uneasy around them because of this. {{spoiler|Ironically, Ellysetta later becomes a ''Shei'dalin'' herself. ''And'' performs a [[Mind Rape]].}}

** The Mharog are much, much worse. They exude an aura of evil and malice so pervasively that just standing near them is unbearably painful for empathetic Fey women, and the slightest contact with their flesh would instantly kill Ellysetta.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: It's better not to think too much about the Scorching of the World. It leaving Rain up there with the greatest mass murderers who ever existed...

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* [[Nausea Fuel]]: See [[Fan Disservice]].

* [[The Nicknamer]]: Kieran, both to people he likes and dislikes. Lorelle, for example, he calls, "little Fey'cha."(Fey'cha being the Feyan term for "knife.") After seeing Den Brodsen go [[Stalker with a Crush]] on Ellysetta, he calls him "sausage" at every opportunity.

* [[Not So Stoic]]: Gaelen has his moments too, despite being a thousand years old man.

** Elysetta is hysterical for most of the story.

** Rain is constantly annoyed with humans for wanting things like logical proof. he is also often crying over his difficult past.

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* [[The Unfettered]]: Many. Galad Hawksheart is willing to let anything happen - if only by proxy and manipulation - to make sure prophecies play out in the way they're supposed to, but he doesn't indulge or spare himself the slightest bit either. While Gaelen is able to feel all those things, he is fettered neither by Fey honor nor mercy, moral qualms or his own wellbeing in protecting the fading lands. Vadim Maur is a [[Complete Monster]] and to become ruler of the world he's afraid of neither pain, nor powerful foes nor eldritch beings and he knows no pity.

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]

* [[UST]]: Ho boy, is this ever taken to the utmost extreme between Rain and Ellysetta.

* [[Vain Sorceress]]: Mages of Eld, both male and female.

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Tairen Soul are Fey who have the ability to assume a Tairen form.