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* [[Due to The Dead]]: Orual goes to the mountain with Bardia to find Istra's body and give it a proper burial. {{spoiler|Turns out she's not really dead.}}
* [[Emotions vs. Stoicism]]: The Fox's character arc, to an extent. He gets bonus points for being a literal Stoic philosopher.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The king of Glome is, perhaps understandably, simply the King to everyone, save for at the very beginning when he is introduced by his given name, Trom. Similarly, the elder priest of Ungit is simply the Priest.
* [[External Retcon]]: Orual writes her book to set the record straight after hearing a priest's false story about Psyche. Eventually, {{spoiler|Orual retcons her own story when she comes to realize her true motivations were selfish.}} (Of course, [[Till We Have Faces]] functions as this in real life as well.)
* [[The Faceless]]: Orual in her mask.
* [[Fairest of Them All]]: Aphrodite's jealousy of Psyche.
* [[Green
* [[Groin Attack]]: A young soldier, Tarin, flirts with Orual's sister Redival, so the King has him made into a eunuch.
** Doubles as [[Disproportionate Retribution]], unless perhaps you're prepared to argue for [[Values Dissonance]].
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** To be fair, he believed that ''every'' human emotion -- absent divine grace -- [[Humans Are Bastards|inevitably becomes twisted and evil]]. It's a consequence of the Fall. Love is stronger, so its effects are greater. (He says elsewhere, "[Love] is a stronger angel, and therefore, when it falls, a fiercer devil.")
* [[Marriage to A God]]: Istra is offered to the god of the Grey Mountain/the Shadowbrute as a bride. {{spoiler|Turns out he really ''does'' marry her}}.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: It's kept ambiguous whether the mysterious events attributed to the Gods actually ''are'' divine in nature. {{spoiler|Up until the moment that Orual sees the God of the Mountain with her own eyes.}}
* [[Mid Battle Tea Break]]: Orual comments how occasionally, in the heat of battle, she would befriend an enemy soldier for a few brief seconds before killing him.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Orual, to Istra.
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* [[Self Serving Memory]]: Pretty much the entire first part of the book.
* [[Smite Me Oh Mighty Smiter]]: Ditto.
* [[Star
* [[Title Drop]]: "How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"
* [[The Unfavourite]]: Redival. Both the Fox and Orual are content to ignore her in favor of Istra. Even the King, who has no love for any of his daughters, seems to like her the least after she is caught with a young soldier. Orual's realization of this serves as the first chink in her [[Self Serving Memory]].
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