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* [[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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* [[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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* [[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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