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In 2003 an abridged version of ''Song In The Silence'' was released for the YA audience. It has a different cover. A fourth book is planned to be released sometime in 2012.
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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Idai to Akhor. Aral to Vilkas. Will to Aral.
* [[All Trolls Are Different]]: The Trelli, one of the four original races. When the four races were asked to choose between order and chaos, the Trelli chose not to choose and all died. Only their name lives on, in places like the Trollingwood.
* [[Alternate Animal Affection|Alternate Kantri Affection]]: Neck-twining, touching their faceplates together, wrapping their wings around each other. The soulgems set into their foreheads are particularly intimate, with touching them or the faceplating around them being a very rare gesture. Touching one living soulgem to another is seen as a gesture reserved for parent and child, but nonetheless it happens in other instances too.
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Regularly averted. Kantri only mate for reproductive reasons and only feel the ''desire'' to mate about a dozen times in their two thousand year lifetimes. The act itself is painful, and since they mate for life they like to have it happen with a single beloved. Akhor, therefore, is virginal. {{spoiler|as a human he is quickly not, which Lanen is pleased about.}} It applies to humans too; Will was never interested in women [[Single
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Speculated to have happened to the Lost, five thousand years before the trilogy. Normally the soulgems of Kantri are dim; when they're called on in Kin-Summoning rituals they glow with steady inner light and the deceased can speak through a summoner. The soulgems of the Lost flicker with an unsettled gleam, and the Kantri they belonged to cannot be contacted. In ''Redeeming The Lost'', we find {{spoiler|as they are restored that most of them were largely unaware of the passage of time, others had passed in and out of trapped consciousness and had managed to keep hope, while about twenty immediately cried out and [[Self
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: All over the place.
* [[Beta Couple]]: Jamie and Rella
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* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Berys/Malior is one of these, a powerful demon master.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Berys at times. Most notably, late in ''Redeeming The Lost''. Various characters also notice that when he laughs, it's an unsettlingly ''normal'' laugh, not an [[Evil Laugh|evil one]].
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* [[First Person POV]]: Throughout the books. The first one starts with Lanen as an old woman reminiscing about her past, and when the POV changes it's made to seem like others are also telling tales of what happened. Even characters who die by the end of the book are used thus - but spells are cast on some of the human characters to have their thoughts recorded as they think them into books, either to keep track of them or to have records of their accomplishments. Kantri characters, well, after they die it's possible for their soulgems to be used to communicate with the dead and get their stories then.
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Lanen, sometimes Varien
** [[The Lancer]]: Jamie
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* {{spoiler|[[Interspecies Romance]]}}: {{spoiler|Lanen and Akhor}}.
* [[Kill All Humans]]: Some Kantri have this attitude, especially those descended from Kantri that were turned into Lesser Dragons.
* [[Luke, I Might Be Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Jamie reveals to Lanen that he could be her real father. Turns out he's not.}}
* [[Manly Tears]]: At the end of the first book, Lanen comments on how Jamie is the toughest man she's ever known, and yet he's crying because {{spoiler|Varien's song to Lanen was just that beautiful.}}
* [[Mayfly
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Meaningful in the Kantri's language, admittedly. But their names reflect them in ways that would be suspiciously apropos if it wasn't shown by he who became Varien that they change their truenames and usenames to be more appropriate when they feel significantly changed. Idai, whose usename means "she who knows without knowing", is wise. Shikrar's lengthened usename and truename both contain the word for "Teacher", and he taught young Kantri when there were enough about for him to do so. Akhor or Akor is proven to mean "Lord" or "King", and his truename contains "desh", which means "strange".
* [[The Medic]]: Some humans are born with the ability to magically heal others. When this power is particularly strong, these humans are counted as Mages who can also do other things, though this is strongly frowned upon.
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* [[Nice Guy]]: Will in both senses of the word. He's nice... and he's hanging around being a friend to Aral, never saying anything about his crush on her, waiting hungrily for her to get rejected by Vilkas so he can then pounce and "be there for her" and she'll love him. This is treated as hopelessly sweet.
* [[No Man Wants An Amazon]]: The idea comes up in passing. Lanen is consistently described by herself and others as plain, broad-shouldered, and tall, if less muscular than her mother the blacksmith, who she otherwise closely resembles. She doesn't think she's attractive to men except when meeting Marik, who seems very interested in her, but shrugs it off. Of course, her mother had three known serious callers, two of whom seem to have taken instant likings to her, and Lanen herself {{spoiler|ends up with the shapeshifted Akhor}}.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted in a matter-of-fact way.
* [[No Pregger Sex]]: Thoroughly averted, and only seen as unwise when the woman is actively feeling unwell.
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: One of the four original races, the others being humans and the now-extinct trolls. They chose Chaos, and since they and dragons could not live in one world without destroying it, they were given another, with which they were never satisfied.
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* [[Panacea]]: Lansip leaves are a cure for all ills, and the fruits - just called lan fruits - can heal just about anything. Either can reverse aging, the leaves by being concentrated into a liquor, the fruits just by sheer quantity.
* [[Parental Incest]]: When Lanen meets the man who is possibly her father {{spoiler|he really is}} for the first time, Marik is wearing a charm that causes her to crush very obviously on him. He knows who she is and encourages the crush by flirting. She manages to resist the charm later but is still very charmed by him and wishes she could take him to bed. Later she hears his real name, realizes who he is, and... is not disgusted at all, though any attraction then fades.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Jamie was one for Lanen. Will [[Raised
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]
* [PrecisionFStrike: Precision S Strike]: "''Oh, shit.''"
* [[Pregnant Hostage]]: She is the main female lead and not obviously pregnant, but nonetheless this happens in ''The Lesser Kindred''.
* [[Rule of Three]]: Inherent to the 'verse. The human's goddess Shia has three aspects, and at the end of ''Song In The Silence'' Lanen believes she has to {{spoiler|deny her love for Akhor}} three times to save him.
* [[Self
* [[Sharing a Body]]: ''Redeeming The Lost'' {{spoiler|Marik and the Demonlord.}} Portrayed very interestingly in the first-person narration.
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: {{spoiler|Varien and Lanen}} at the start of ''The Lesser Kindred''. Groaned over by Jamie.
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* [[The Unpronounceable]]: Most of the Kantri, with names like Khordeshkhistriakhor - it's established that the written names are only a rough transcription.
* [[Wangst]]: A couple cases in ''Redeeming The Lost'', after the climax. {{spoiler|Varien becomes a dragon again and Lanen wails and carries on as if he was dead, saying her children are fatherless. Vilkas feels betrayed and renounces his friendship with Aral because of her [[Anguished Declaration of Love]], though he knew about her crush before. What's more, she agreed with him that it was a terrible thing to do.}}
* [[We Are
* [[The World Is Just Awesome]]: Lanen spent her early life longing to travel, and when she finally does get to leave home she alternates between being delighted with unfamiliar parts of the world and being dismayed with aspects of travel she never thought about, like lack of bathing facilities. Her account of landing on the Dragon's Isle is an especially vivid case of this.
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* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]]: The ground turns to gold to at least three inches deep wherever the Kantri sleep. They find it pretty but not valuable, and when Lanen cries out in astonishment about how much gold there is in Akhor's chamber, he's stunned that this yellow metal is the "gold" that humans would kill each other over in the old days.
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