The Squire's Tales: Difference between revisions

* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Usually by dint of being [[Too Dumb to Live]]; all of the main female characters avert this, except Guinevere. Occasionally a [[Decoy Damsel]], such as the case of Lyonesse.

* [[Epic Fail]]: The cover synopsis (not by Morris) for ''Legend of the King'' pulled one of these in the grammar department. The villains were suddenly made out to be the heroes thanks to the epic grammar failure of Houghton Mifflin:

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Morgause

* [[The Fair Folk]]: Active in all the books, in both helpful (Ganscotter, Robin), antagonistic (Morgause), and neutral (Morgan) flavors. Terence, Gawain, Arthur, and various others all have Faery blood.

** And another rather amusing example in the same book, when Acoriondes is translating Alexander's conversation with his uncle. The running commentary goes something like "Alexander is saying many very vulgar words... even more... I don't think that one is even possible..." This is used very frequently in this book, given that various characters speak Greek, Latin, English, and French.

** From ''The Lioness and Her Knight'':

* [[Nature Spirit]]: Dinadan makes friends with one.

* [[Neutral Female]]: Lampshaded and mocked, along with the [[Distressed Damsel]].

** Rhience, in ''The Lioness and Her Knight''. He says himself he makes a much better fool than a knight.

* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: [[Lampshaded]] in Gerald Morris' novel ''The Ballad of Sir Dinadan'':

** Spoofed further when Dinadan talks to a holy hermit who wants to write an allegorical adventure story, the villain of which is "Stultus," being Latin for fool. Then the two dismiss that as too obvious and call him "Sutluts" instead. So much better. When "Tramtris" comes in and begs Dinadan not to reveal his name, Dinadan says "Don't worry. If anyone asks, I'll say you're Sir Sutluts."

* [[Secret Relationship]]: Terrence and Elaine, for ''seven books.''

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: ''Literally'' between Kai and Connoire.

* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Terence is an expert at this. It comes from having a lot of faery blood - Robin and occasionally Ariel do it too.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]