The Acts of Caine: Difference between revisions

''Blade of Tyshalle'' takes place seven years later, reintroducing Hari and Shanna in their later married, unhappy and semi-retired lives (along with the no longer divine Tan'elKoth). This tedium is of course shattered by plots set into action by the corporate leaders of Earth which Hari's friend, Kris Hansen/Deliann Mithondionne tries to avert. This novel turns the moral philosophizing up to 11 or 12, adds questions of identity, resource usage, destiny (or lack thereof) and humanity's drive to exploit and use up everything. It also features the end of the world. Well, kinda. ''Blade of Tyshalle'' is definitely a "deeper" book than its predecessor or sequel.

 

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* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Initially Caine.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Caine after {{spoiler|Shanna's death}}.

** {{spoiler|Talaan}} didn't actually ''expect'' to die, {{spoiler|did she? She just went into a battle against a far superior villain while [[Mauve Shirt|not being a main character]]. Of course, [[Vasquez Always Dies]] and several other tropes on the "you're for it" end of the [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality]] applied, but [[Genre Blind|she didn't know that]]}}.

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Ummm...yeah.

* [[Vancian Magic]]: Thaumaturgists pattern spells into physical items, giving them a limited stock, likely as an intentional nod to the series' [[Dungeons & Dragons]] inspiration.

** Not necessarily. Using one-shot enchanted items for casting isn't so much necessary as much, much easier; but the series abounds with powerful mages throwing around high-end magic without any kind of focus or limit. Of course, to be fair, some of them are/become gods.

* [[Walking Disaster Area]]: Caine.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Eventually, anyone who gives a shit about Overworld asks the Actors this.

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