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* [[Bastard Bastard]]: Mordred.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Many.
** Subverted with {{spoiler|Dinadan and Brangienne}}, who have the belligerence and the emotional connection, but apparently not the sexual attraction part of the trope. They end up concluding that while they could never marry anyone else, they'd just as soon not marry each other either.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: ''The Squire's Quest'' ends with Morgause's plot being thwarted, but this book has a much higher body count than the previous volumes (of characters we wouldn't have expected to die), and Tieresias has foretold the fall of the kingdom at Mordred and Morgause's hands. To anyone who knows the legend, this if of course a [[Foregone Conclusion]], but it's incredibly heartbreaking.
** And ''The Legend of the King'' ends the whole series on a [[Tear Jerker|heartbreakingly bittersweet note]].
* [[Celibate Hero]]: Sir Dinadan.
* [[Character Development]]: For lots of the less well-known characters such as Gaheris, Dinadan, and Luneta. Also what rescues Lancelot and Guinevere from the [[Rescued
* [[Chaste Hero]]: Beaufils come by it naturally; Galahad tortures himself in his effort to remain so.
* [[Chivalric Romance]]: Deconstructed hilariously through the character of Piers in ''Parsifal's Page.''
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* [[Hope Spot]]: About halfway through ''Legend of the King'', Arthur and Lancelot forgive each other, Morgause is killed, her plots exposed and her spells broken. There's also one when Lancelot arrives at the last battle with reinforcements. Neither changes the ending.
* [[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]: Terence.
* [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: After Sir Gawain accidentally kills a man's wife, the man falls to his knees and begs Gawain to kill him. Gawain doesn't, instead forcing him to go to Arthur's court.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] / [[Purity Personified]]: Beaufils. Amazingly, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|this is not annoying]]. Galahad ''wants'' to be this, but tries too hard and verges into [[Knight Templar]] territory in his effort to remove all sources of temptation.
* [[It's What I Do]]: Word for word by Terence in ''The Squire's Quest.'' Also a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] / [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Heartwarming]].
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: In the final book, Gaheris says "If it's to be done, then let it be done, and 'twere well it were done quickly." Lynet asks him what that means, and he replies "I don't know. It just sounded dour and cryptic. It's not my fault; I'm Scottish." He is paraphrasing a line from ''[[Macbeth]]''.
* [[Narnia Time]]: Faery is like this.
* [[Narrative Profanity Filter]]: Used a lot. For instance, in ''The Squire's Quest'', "Kai... uttered a series of short, very blunt words. Terence sympathized with him. He didn't use those particular words himself, but had to admit that sometimes they felt right."
** 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'':
{{quote|"I'm [[Sarcasm Mode|shocked, utterly shocked]]," Rhience said. "Aghast, no less. I would never have imagined that a gently born young lady like you would have even known such words, let alone utter them! And all strung together like that, too!" }}
* [[Nature Spirit]]: Dinadan makes friends with one.
* [[Neutral Female]]: Lampshaded and mocked, along with the [[Damsel in Distress]].
* [[No Hero to His Valet]]: Averted by Gawain and some of the other knights, but holds true for others, especially Gareth and Tristram (not because they're mean, but because they are absolute morons).
* [[No Sense of Direction]]: Sir Gareth. One of his brothers comments that he "needs a trail of breadcrumbs to find his own chamber pot".
* [[Open Secret]]: In ''The Ballad of Sir Dinadan''. Tristram and Isolde have the world's least secret love affair—literally everyone but Isolde's husband knows, and he at least suspects. This is mostly because Tristram has been riding about the country telling everyone in great detail about the vow of silence he has taken and how he can never even say his true love Isolde's name.
** The trope also applies to Lancelot and Guinevere's affair in the ''The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady'', though in this case it's treated more seriously due to the effect it has on Arthur and the court.
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Dinadan and Brangienne
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: In ''Legend of the King''. Morgause's plotting doesn't help.
* [[Rescued
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Sarah and Ariel in ''The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight.''
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Arthur, as well as various others throughout the series. Parsifal becomes one when he gets married.
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* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Terence crossdresses to help rescue Sir Gawain from a dungeon.
* [[World Half Empty]]: At the end of ''Legend of the King'', but it's not entirely hopeless.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Upheld by most of the heroic characters, but also played with. In one book, Sir Gawain finds out that Gaheris informed a potential (male) opponent that he would "never raise a sword against the skirts of womanhood." The other guy showed up in a skirt, and poor Gaheris let him win. Gawain is very disgusted with him.
** Also averted by Kai, which [[Never Live It Down|comes back to bite him]]. A lot.
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Other way around; time passes more slowly in Faery than in the regular world. In ''The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady'' Terence and Gawain come back to find that ''seven years'' have passed and everyone thinks they're dead.
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