The Night Angel Trilogy: Difference between revisions

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** Vi {{spoiler|She's considered the most Talented woman to come to the Chantry in 100 years. She also opens a dam, with her bare hands and powerful magical ability.}}

* [[Badass Creed]]: "Life is Empty. Life is Meaningless. When we take a life, we take nothing of value."

* [[Balancing ~~Deaths~~ Books]]: Sure comes back to bite {{spoiler|Kylar}} in the ass.

* [[Balancing Death's Books]]: Sure comes back to bite {{spoiler|Kylar}} in the ass.

* [[Berserk Button]]: At times, Vi can get extremely sensitive about people touching her hair. At one point she {{spoiler|turned two thugs into barely recognizable piles of meaty pulp with her ''hands'', in a blind rage, just because they threatened her hair. She was suitably horrified that she was able to do such a thing afterward.}} This is in stark contrast to her numbness and apathy to much more intimate forms of contact.

** Hu Gibbet, at times, when people say that Durzo Blint is the better wetboy.

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* [[Demonic Possession]]: At the end, {{spoiler|Elene}} accepts this deliberately, and is then able prevent the entity from leaving again for long enough to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] which kills them both.

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Rat. {{spoiler|To be fair, he never considered raping boys until he was told to by Neph.}}

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me]]

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|Kylar has to kill the love of his life. Dorian is forced to do a number of terrible things and embrace the perverse vir in order to ultimately, tear it out and lose his sanity.}}

** {{spoiler|Logan. His childhood love has boinked just about every boy their age, his family is slaughtered, his best friends were a spy for the underworld and one of the boys boinking his childhood love, his mentor was really a spy for a group of mages, he is forced to become prince against his will and enter a loveless marriage, his wife is murdered in front of them DURING their wedding night, and he is forced to leap into what is basically Hell Itself to survive. And that was just the first book... Justified since he ends up having the one truly happy ending (reunited with his wife and best friend, and destined to be a good King)}}

* [[Either or Prophecy]]: A lot of Dorian's prophecies seem to be like this - he sees possibilities rather than facts, and people have to decide how they react.

* [[Either/Or Prophecy]]: A lot of Dorian's prophecies seem to be like this - he sees possibilities rather than facts, and people have to decide how they react.

* [[Faking the Dead]]: At the start of the second book, Kylar takes a job where he does this to aid his client's political ambitions. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, his client actually kills him instead of pretending to do so. Kylar comes back from the dead, of course, but the price for it is Jarl's death}}

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Ceura seems to draw on (but not be identical to) medieval Japan, though with the standard medieval European setting as a base. Likewise with Ymmur and the Mongols, and Khalidor and parts of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Middle East.

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* [[In Vino Veritas]]: Hu Gibbet supposedly {{spoiler|confesses genuine affection for Vi}} with a drunken "bitches ain't shit" combined with something of a [[Full Name Ultimatum]]. The actual verity of this is left ambiguous.

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Elene. It goes at odd's with Kylar's job as necessary evil incarnate.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Although most people would call them assassins, the people who work for the [[Thieves Guild|Sa'Kagé]] in that capacity insist that the local term, "wetboy", be used instead. Unlike regular assassins, wetboys use magic.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Although most people would call them assassins, the people who work for the [[Thieves' Guild|Sa'Kagé]] in that capacity insist that the local term, "wetboy", be used instead. Unlike regular assassins, wetboys use magic.

* [[Interrupted Intimacy]]: Though not as comical as the trope can be, {{spoiler|when Logan and Jenine's consummation of their abrupt marriage is interrupted by Khalidorian troops.}}

* [[Invisibility Flicker]]: A voluntary example; this is Kylar's modus operandi for scaring people as Judgment.

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* [[Morality Pet]]: Ulyssandra has an 'effect' on psychotic Vi.

* [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]]: Logan's {{spoiler|initial}} reaction to hearing that {{spoiler|Serah, the woman he was in love with since childhood, had sex with his best friend. Along with pretty much everyone else.}}

* [[My Master Right or Wrong]]: General [[Honor Before Reason|Brant Agon]], in working for bad king Gunder. {{spoiler|Until he kills him, anyway}}. Long Live the King indeed.

* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: General [[Honor Before Reason|Brant Agon]], in working for bad king Gunder. {{spoiler|Until he kills him, anyway}}. Long Live the King indeed.

* [[Named Weapons]]: Curoch, the Sword of Power, and Iures, the Staff of Law. The former has (or looks like a sword which has) a prominent place in one particular culture as Ceur'caelestos, the Blade of Heaven, while Iures spends most of the plot {{spoiler|disguised as a sword called Retribution.}} It's implied that they may both have had other names and guises through the ages, too.

* [[Near Death Experience]]: When Kylar dies, he gets presented with two doorways - one goes to whatever comes after death, while another goes back to the world. If he selects the latter (and he does), he can never change his mind.

* [[Near-Death Experience]]: When Kylar dies, he gets presented with two doorways - one goes to whatever comes after death, while another goes back to the world. If he selects the latter (and he does), he can never change his mind.

* [[Never Gets Drunk]]: Uses 3a types in Durzo Blint and Kylar Stern. When weilding the Black Ka'Kari, they are given an inhuman immunity to all forms of poison and toxin, to include alcohol. Even after four full sacs of wine Kylar wasn't the least bit buzzed, and Durzo would spend ungodly hours at the bar to feel the least bit plastared.

** When Kylar, as Azoth, "meets" Durzo for the first time, he's scrounging for coins beneath the floor of a bar. An assassin approaches to kill Durzo, saying to just let it happen since he says that Durzo has drunk several pints while he watched from the shadows. Durzo replies that he's had ''even more'' before the assassin even showed up! Leads to a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] from Blint upon the assassins once the leader decides to bring in his friends.

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* [[Royal Blood]]: Respect for royal blood is why the Duke Gyre (who'd have made a good king) didn't claim the throne. The lack of royal blood is also why Lantano Garuwashi feels such a need to prove himself despite already being a brilliant warlord and duelist - according to his culture, commoners can never achieve true greatness.

* [[Rule of Three]]: Lessons at The Chantry are taught in threes, supposedly for ease of recall.

* [[Self Made Orphan]]: One of the first tasks that the Godking gives to his sons is to murder their mother.

* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: One of the first tasks that the Godking gives to his sons is to murder their mother.

* [[Sequel Escalation]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Durzo.

{{quote| So first you kill a King and now you're going after a Goddess? If you don't figure out a way to kill continents next, you're going to have to retire.}}

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* [[Succession Crisis]]: The question of who gets to be king of Cenaria is important to the plot, and infighting between possible claimants hampers the fight against the invaders.

* [[Talking Weapon]]: The black ka'kiri, although more than just a weapon, fits this. (The two important ''actual'' swords don't seem very chatty.)

* [[Thieves Guild]]: The Sa'Kagé, who supposedly control all crime in their area. In Cenaria, the main setting, the Sa'Kagé is extremely powerful, often more so that the king - they could be considered the city's real rulers. In other places, the local Sa'Kagé may be little more than a few street thugs.

* [[Thieves' Guild]]: The Sa'Kagé, who supposedly control all crime in their area. In Cenaria, the main setting, the Sa'Kagé is extremely powerful, often more so that the king - they could be considered the city's real rulers. In other places, the local Sa'Kagé may be little more than a few street thugs.

* [[To Be Lawful or Good]]: Logan has to decide the fate of Kylar after he kills a really bad person, really bad ''Noble'' person, and is caught. He decides to {{spoiler|sentence Kylar to death for Law, and send a wetboy to spring him from jail for Good (Kylar stays in jail)}}. Kylar actually understood this trope in advance, and knew what the consequences would be.

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: The Wolf puts Kylar more at ease with {{spoiler|killing Khali while possessing Elene}} by showing him what Cenaria will become because of it, {{spoiler|a beautiful, flower-covered city of productive, happy people.}}

* [[Wham Line]]: ''The Way of Shadows'' has one ''massive'' one for Kylar when he confronts Durzo at the end: " {{spoiler|Rat didn't mutilate Doll Girl. I did.}}" The trope was actually [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] by Durzo: {{spoiler|he lied so that Kylar would be mad enough to kill him and thereby fully bond the ka'kari}}.

* [[Wham! Line]]: ''The Way of Shadows'' has one ''massive'' one for Kylar when he confronts Durzo at the end: " {{spoiler|Rat didn't mutilate Doll Girl. I did.}}" The trope was actually [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] by Durzo: {{spoiler|he lied so that Kylar would be mad enough to kill him and thereby fully bond the ka'kari}}.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Dorian is fairly normal until his vir comes into play. Then you may want to find the bunker.

* [[Women in Refrigerators]]: An awful lot of female characters are raped or killed (often grusomely), and then there's the prostitute fixation mentioned above.

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