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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.

 

* [[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.

{{quote| "Here is your soul mate. I hope you like him."}}

* [[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.

** [[The Hero]]: Lanen, sometimes Varien

** [[The Lancer]]: Jamie

* {{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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.