The Republic of Thieves: Difference between revisions

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* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Between Locke and Sabetha.

* [[Black Comedy]]

* [[Blood on the Debate Floor]]: ~~The~~ Konseil members get into fisticuffs with each other and the police.

* [[Blood on the Debate Floor]]: In a climactic moment of political unrespectability, the Konseil members get into fisticuffs with each other and the police.

* [[Conspicuous Consumption]]: Locke and Sabetha's election budgets are so huge that they can easily afford themselves luxuries. Sabetha was even ordered to spend every single crown, and so she appears at the election party in an extremely fancy gown she bought with the money left over. The gown is an election expense because the embroidery will make the gown hopelessly outdated the very next day.

* [[Corrupt Politician]]

* [[Corrupt Politician]]: Locke and Sabetha do their best to spread corruption around, but Lovaris in particular counts. {{spoiler|His price for quitting his own party immediately after the election results were announced was 25.000 crowns worth of gems.}}

* [[Election Night]]

* [[Every Man Has His Price]]: Locke and Sabetha bribe a good portion of Karthain's civil servants as well as other suitably placed people to cause trouble to the opposing party.

* [[Fictional Political Party]]: Kartain has the Deep Roots Party and the Black Iris Party. They have no known policy differences even on a rhetorical level, and after the election the bondsmagi always quietly mind-control the successfully elected politicians anyway.

* [[Flashback]]

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* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]

* [[I Know Your True Name]]: The bondsmagi can mind-control anyone whose true name they know. They don't know Locke's.

** The people of Karthain have the custom of hiding their given names. However, the bondsmagi can go far with just a partial true name, which a surname counts as.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Routinely applied by the bondsmagi.

* [[The Magocracy]]: The true political situation in Karthain.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Locke and Sabetha bribe various bureaucrats to cause trouble to the opposing party.

* [[Ravens and Crows]]: {{spoiler|When the Falconer returns from his catatonia in the epilogue and gains back his powers, the second thing he does is to possess a flock of crows and send them to peck to death Patience, his mother.}}

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Locke and Sabetha's chosen tactic for winning the election.

* [[Sleazy Politician]]: What Locke and Sabetha strive to expose and/or frame every opposing side politician as.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Aurin, the son of the emperor, and Amadine, the queen of thieves, in the titular play.