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* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Kevin.
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: Surprisingly subverted. The one dwarf we meet early on is [[The Quiet One]]. When the book finally shows other dwarves, they are excellent craftsmen, and they solve their conflicts through a debate known as a Word Striving. And in one of the more blatant [[Affectionate Parody|parodies]] of post-Tolkien fantasy:
{{quote| She could never have explained rationally why the presence of a Dwarf woman should surprise her so much, why she'd assumed, without ever giving it a moment's thought, that the females among the Dwarves should look like... oh, beardless, stocky equivalents of fighting men like Matt and Brock. After all, she herself didn't much resemble Coll of Taerlindel or Dave Martyniuk. At least on a good day she didn't! Neither did the woman who had come for her. A couple of inches shorter than Matt Sören, she was slim and graceful, with wide-set dark eyes and straight black hair hanging down her back.}}
* [[Our Indians Are Different]]: The Dalrei
* [[Pair the Spares]]: {{spoiler|Kim and Dave, the only two of the five who live to return to our world and don't have any other love interest, seem poised to hook up on literally the last page. The sequel eventually confirms this.}}
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