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[[Speculative Fiction]] trilogy written by Meridith Ann Pierce in the 1980s.
[[Speculative Fiction]] trilogy written by Meridith Ann Pierce in the 1980s.


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* ''A Gathering of Gargoyles''
* ''A Gathering of Gargoyles''
* ''The Pearl of the Soul of the World''
* ''The Pearl of the Soul of the World''
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=== ''[[The Darkangel Trilogy]]'' provides examples of: ===


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* [[Arc Number]]: 7 and to a lesser extent, 14.
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* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]
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* [[Arc Number]]: 7 and to a lesser extent, 14.{{context}}
* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: Depending on origin, people can be white (''not'' pale beige), black (''not'' dark brown), {{color|#cc5500|copper}}, {{color|gold|amber}}, {{color|blue|blue}}, {{color|green|green}}, {{color|teal|teal}}, or {{color|purple|purple}} (possibly {{color|#E0B0FF|two}} {{color|#8E4585|different}} shades of that last, no less) skin. {{spoiler|They were almost certainly [[Designer Babies|deliberately engineered]] for it.}}
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* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]{{context}}
* [[Ambiguous Innocence]]: The titular Darkangel still has very much the attitudes of a child, despite being chronologically about thirty. Given his [[My Beloved Smother|maker]], this is somewhat justified.
* [[Ambiguous Innocence]]: The titular Darkangel still has very much the attitudes of a child, despite being chronologically about thirty. Given his [[My Beloved Smother|maker]], this is somewhat justified.
* [[Bad Dreams]]: The titular Darkangel is stricken with these as a result of Aeriel's stories. {{spoiler|They continue to haunt him as Irrylath.}}
* [[Bad Dreams]]: The titular Darkangel is stricken with these as a result of Aeriel's stories. {{spoiler|They continue to haunt him as Irrylath.}}
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]]. {{spoiler|Irrylath}} is beautiful (albeit in an eerie, colorless, too-perfect way) as a darkangel, but it's later revealed that that's because {{spoiler|he's still got some fragment of his humanity remaining}}; most darkangels are flat-out creepy and ''not'' pretty at all. The gargoyles are bony, awkwardly proportioned, scabby-looking, and initially unfriendly; once Aeriel befriends them, they're good {{spoiler|even ''before'' the [[Baleful Polymorph]] effect concealing their idealized animal [[Nature Spirit]] true forms is removed}}. While most of the Lorelei's pets and flunkies are hideous (the mudlick, and implied to be the case of the trolls) or at least ''scary'' (the weaselhounds, jackals, and rhuks), {{spoiler|Oriencor herself is beautiful (albeit, once again, in a way that's disturbing and clearly inhuman)}}.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]]
* [[Bedouin Rescue Service]]: {{spoiler|The [[Panthera Awesome|Pendarlon]] leaves Aeriel in the care of a clan of desert-dwellers after rescuing her when she escapes the Darkangel.}}
* [[Bedouin Rescue Service]]
* [[Big Bad]]: The Lorelei.
* [[Big Bad]]: The Lorelei.{{context}}
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Irrylath, type two.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Irrylath, type two.{{context}}
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Eoduin to Aeriel.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Eoduin to Aeriel; what kicks the story off is {{spoiler|darkangel!Irrylath abducting and making a wraith out of her}}.
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]{{context}}
* [[Downer Ending]]: The ending of the last book. {{spoiler|Aeriel is [[Lonely At the Top|set apart from everyone except Erin]] [[Because Destiny Says So]].}}
* [[Downer Ending]]: The ending of the last book. {{spoiler|Aeriel is [[Lonely at the Top|set apart from everyone except Erin]] [[Because Destiny Says So]].}}
* [[Empty Shell]]: Icari's brides, known as wraiths.
* [[Empty Shell]]: Icari's brides, known as wraiths, {{spoiler|are the hollow, bloodless, nearly mindless remnants left of women whose souls have been stolen.}}
* [[Evil Matriarch]]
* [[Evil Matriarch]]{{context}}
* [[Green Eyes]]: Aeriel's eyes are originally described as "fig-green," later as "peridot."
* [[Green Eyes]]: Aeriel's eyes are originally described as "fig-green," later as "peridot."
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Aeriel has platinum-blond hair.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Aeriel has platinum-blond hair.
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* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: Apricoks, produced by a tree on the Bern shore of the Sea-of-Dust.
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: Apricoks, produced by a tree on the Bern shore of the Sea-of-Dust.
* [[Literal Change of Heart]]: {{spoiler|Aeriel gives up her heart to save Irrylath}}.
* [[Literal Change of Heart]]: {{spoiler|Aeriel gives up her heart to save Irrylath}}.
* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Irrylath
* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Irrylath{{context}}
* [[Love Martyr]]: Aeriel starts out as one.
* [[Love Martyr]]: Aeriel starts out as one.
* [[Love Redeems]] / [[Redemption Equals Life]]: {{spoiler|Why it was possible to convert Irrylath from a Darkangel back into a human.}}
* [[Love Redeems]] / [[Redemption Equals Life]]: {{spoiler|Why it was possible to convert Irrylath from a Darkangel back into a human.}}
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]{{context}}
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: Well, except for turning to stone in sunlight. And the fact that it's spelled "[[Phantasy Spelling|duarough]]."
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: Well, except for turning to stone in sunlight. And the fact that it's spelled "[[Phantasy Spelling|duarough]]."
* [[Our Souls Are Different]]
* [[Our Souls Are Different]]{{context}}
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]{{context}}
* [[Parental Incest]]: The Lorelei and her "sons".
* [[Parental Incest]]: The Lorelei and her "sons".
* [[Phantasy Spelling]]: Almost every plot-related noun is spelled "uniquely".
* [[Phantasy Spelling]]: Almost every plot-related noun is spelled "uniquely".
* [[Planetary Romance]]
* [[Planetary Romance]]{{context}}
* [[Prophecies Rhyme All the Time]]
* [[Prophecies Rhyme All the Time]]{{context}}
* [[Sand Is Water]]: Played incredibly straight with the Sea-of-Dust.
* [[Sand Is Water]]: Played incredibly straight with the Sea-of-Dust.
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]: Averted by the wings of Darkangels, which seem to absorb light.
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]: Averted by the wings of Darkangels, which seem to absorb light.
* [[Shotacon]]: The Lorelei raises potential Darkangels ''as her lovers''.
* [[Shotacon]]: The Lorelei raises potential Darkangels ''as her lovers''.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]{{context}}
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Duarough are vulnerable to sunlight.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Duarough are vulnerable to sunlight.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Eoduin
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Eoduin{{context}}
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Irrylath. Big time.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Irrylath. Big time.{{context}}
* [[Walking Wasteland]]: Full Darkangels.
* [[Walking Wasteland]]: Full Darkangels.{{context}}
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: {{spoiler|Irrylath in his}} Darkangel form.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: {{spoiler|Irrylath in his}} Darkangel form.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The eponymous Darkangels, with their dozen black wings.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The eponymous Darkangels, with their dozen black wings.
* [[Woman in White]]: The Lorelei.
* [[Woman in White]]: The Lorelei.{{context}}


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Latest revision as of 16:28, 8 June 2020

Speculative Fiction trilogy written by Meridith Ann Pierce in the 1980s.

Titles in the trilogy:

  • The Darkangel
  • A Gathering of Gargoyles
  • The Pearl of the Soul of the World
Tropes used in The Darkangel Trilogy include:
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