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*[[Foreshadowing]]: Some plot points are anticipated by earlier episodes in the story.
**In Berwyn's first scene he is watching a group of students play Transformations - a poetic game which often involves imagining yourself as the forms you invoke in your lines. He ends up {{Spoiler|mastering Tuatha Dé Danann poetry indirectly, through his transformation ability}}.
**Cerwyn Quirt {{Spoiler|restores Ceridwen's note from ashes despite not being supposed to}}, invoking the idea of "one must not violate the laws of nature/entropy" long before {{Spoiler|this turns out to be the motive behind Dian Mac Cécht's filicide}}.
*[[Friend to All Living Things]]: Gwydion ap Cleddyf. His mentor Tarquin Snake, [[Inverted Trope|however]], is a friend to all ''non-living'' things: fire, metals, ancient organic compounds and others.
*[[Geas]]: Dian Mac Cécht must let his hair down during surgery and never cut it.
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*[[Wizarding School]]: Combined with an education in culture and history of the land.
*[[Write Who You Know]]: Eoin Mac Cárthaigh is based on the real Dr. Eoin Mac Cárthaigh from Trinity College, Dublin, who Anna met while studying there.
*[[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Gwydion's friends try to dig up some dirt on {{Spoiler|Tarquin Snake}} to expose him as the villain he appears to be. They are wrong on all counts.
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