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* [[Asexuality]]: Paks just isn't interested, she's even asked at one point if she prefers women (she doesn't), having rejected the advances of men in her cohort, and she maintains her disinterest through the whole story.
* [[Call That a Formation]]: Averted. Almost everyone major group does formation fighting, with some exceptions.
* [[Can't Argue
** Averted in that Paks spends at least half the third book arguing with elves, and does so without needing to enter [[Screw You, Elves]] territory. She even analyzes why she ''can'':
{{quote| '''Paksenarrion:''' (thought balloon) Humans need not, Paks saw, worship their immortality, their cool wisdom, their knowledge of the taig, their ability to repattern mortal perceptions. In brief mortal lives humans met challenges no elf could meet, learned strategies no elf could master, chose evil or good more direct and dangerous than elf could perceive. Humans were shaped for conflict, as elves for harmony; each needed the other's balance of wisdom, but must cleave to its own nature. It was easy for an immortal to counsel patience, withdrawal until a danger passed... She took courage, therefore, and felt less the Lady's weight of age and experience. That experience was elven, and not all to her purpose. {{spoiler|Kieri Phelan}} himself was but half-elven; his right to kingship came with his mortal blood. And as she found herself regarding the Lady with less awe, but no less respect, the Lady met her eyes with dawning amazement.}}
*** Though ''Kings of the North'' dives into "played straight" territory with the [[Screw You, Elves]]: {{spoiler|The Lady of Ladysforest refuses to help Kieri co-rule Lyonya as is her duty, tries to prevent one of the Kings Squires (Arian) from marrying Kieri by insulting Arian in front of Arian's father and an assembled court of elves, THEN gets herself trapped underground due to her rude behavior to the gnomes and tries to blame it on Arian. Kieri, Dorrin Verrakai, Arian and a dragon all call the Lady out on this, Dorrin especially: "High rank never excuses wrong behavior".}}
** The Lady of the Ladysforest, the High Queen of the elven race, later confirms the accuracy of these observations.
{{quote| '''The Lady:''' We singers of the world, who shrink from disharmony, may choose silence instead of noise, and not always rightly.}}
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* [[Legend Fades to Myth]]: Gird is considered to be either a saint or a god in ''The Deed Of Paksenarrion''; then the author went back and wrote the Legacy of Gird books to show what really happened.
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* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]
* [[No Sense of Humor]]: Gnomes are absolute [[Lawful Neutral]] with [[No Sense of Humor]], believing that only they know and follow the true laws laid down at creation by the High Lord.
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