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Sci-fi/fantasy series (2 quartets, 1 trilogy and one series to come) by Australian author Ian Irvine dealing with the "Three Worlds" Santhenar(setting of most the series), Aachan and Tallallame and the four humanoid plus one races living there. Quite gritty and realistic; characters range from flawed to plainly insane. The series is also noted for its seemingly random mix of magic and science, and also large span of events.
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* [[A God Am I]]
* [[Action Survivor]]: With the possible exception of supporting characters like Mendark or [[Cool Old Guy|Xervish Flydd]], most of the characters in the series are scribes or engineers, who tend to [[Indy Ploy]] their way through most situations.
* [[And Man Grew Proud]]: Over and over again.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Ian Irvine appears to take sadistic glee from killing off main characters.
* [[Anti
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Even the most upright characters tend to be morally ambiguous anti-heroes.
* [[Character Development]]: Characters do improve over the course of their series. Nish, particularly, goes from being a slimy little git to something of a [[Badass]].
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* [[Death Seeker]]
* [[Downer Ending]]: The first series had this mildly, the second was horribly depressing. The third series is somewhat nicer but still horribly grim.
* [[The End of the World
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Aachim and Faellem pride. It is noted by many characters that even the most unbiased and open Aachim Malien is not free of overwhelming arrogance.
* [[Half
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Maigraith becomes obsessed with creating a new "race" by mating her (hybrid) child with Karan's ''as a monument to her dead lover''}}
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* [[The Napoleon]]: Cryl-Nish, especially painful as his nickname means ''pipsqueak''.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Jal-Nish}}
* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: They're called "Aachim" here, but ''boy'' are they pricks.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: All the other races, although Yggur(old human) gets this as well.
* [[Schizo
* [[Squick]]: Ian Irvine seems to take sadistic glee in being sadistic towards his characters. {{spoiler|Look at everything he does to Flydd. And Jal-Nish. And Karan. And... well, you get it. }}Sadist.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Wangst]]: Minis, Tiaan and Nish especially. Nish improves a fair bit over the course of the series though.
* [[We Are
* [[What Measure Is a Non
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