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* [[Abusive Parents]] - Her father neglected her and Thom after his wife had [[Death Byby Childbirth|died giving birth]] to the twins.

* [[Better Asas Friends]] - {{spoiler|With Jonathan}}. They both marry other people.

* [[The Champion]] -"King's Champion" is the position given to the best knight in the realm. Post-Lioness Rampant, Alanna has held this position as Tortall's first female Champion.

* [[Cosmic Plaything]] - For the Mother Goddess. She doesn't mind as the missions are for Tortall's good.

* [[God Was My Co -Pilot]]

* [[Happily Adopted]] - Myles adopted her in the third book.

* [[Never Mess Withwith Granny]] - As of the end of ''Daughter of the Lioness''.

* [[Redheaded Hero|Redheaded Heroine]]ine

* [[Self -Proclaimed Knight]] - In the first half she pretends to be a boy so that she can train for knighthood.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] - In ''Lioness Rampant''. Jon doesn't recognize her in a dress.

* [[Snarky Non -Human Sidekick]] - Faithful.

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] - As a ten-year old she starts dressing as a boy in order to train for knighthood.

* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]] - Killed a bazhir shaman and so has to replace him.

* [[The Paragon]] - In ''The Woman Who Rides Like a Man'' according to Bazhir law she must be the tribe's shaman until she trains a new one to replace her or someone kills her and takes her place so Alanna selects three Gifted children of the tribe, Ishak, Kara, and Kourrem, and begins to train them in magic.

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]

* [[Lonely Atat the Top]]

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] - He's called out on his shenanigans multiple times. It never seems to stick. {{spoiler|With tragic results.}}

* [[Better Asas Friends]] - with {{spoiler|Alanna}}

* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]

* [[The Good King]] - He wanted to be this since the beginning as at the end of the first book he says that people will think twice before they take on a prince-or a king-who can defeat demonds.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]] - Towards Alanna when she first started her training.

* [[Ascended Extra]] - In ''Squire'' he becomes Kel's mentor and one of the most important characters in the book.

* [[Four -Star Badass]]

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]] - With Buri.

* [[One -Man Army]] - Takes down a giant all by himself.

* [[December DecemberDecember–December Romance]] - With Eleni Cooper. They become [[Happily Married]].

* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}

* [[Evil Plan]] - First a subtle usurpation by bumbing off those ahead of them. This covers the first half of the quartet. Then in the final book he {{spoiler|[[Came Back Wrong]]}} and tried to destroy the place instead.

* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]

{{quote| As for later, I don’t think of him as evil so much as I think of him as apocalyptically crazy. {{spoiler|8 months buried alive would do that to a person, I think. He had no guarantee that he’d be resurrected}}, and even when he was, he felt his people could have made it happen sooner. He decided to punish everyone involved in his trial {{spoiler|and death}} and if the world was destroyed with them, he really didn’t care. Like I said, nuts. He was always self-centered. This just took it to the extreme. He’d have to acknowledge his wants and desires were evil, and he never did.}}

* [[One -Man Army]]

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Magic]]

* [[Pimped -Out Dress]] - In one notable story Thayet utterly ruined a very expensive pink tissue dress when she went to the aid of the Queen's Riders in the middle of a dinner party. She didn't consider it a loss.

* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]] - Which disappointed Alana because ''cute'' was the best she could hope for.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]] - And how. Not only does she found the Queen's riders, she's its first leader.

* [[WorldsWorld's Most Beautiful Woman]] - Hailed as the "most beautiful woman in the world."

* [[Badass Princess]] - She was first seen holding a crossbow like she knew how to use it.

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]] - With Raoul.

* [[Animal Talk]] - Played with: Daine can talk to all animals because of her magic, and all the animals could talk to each other with relative ease, but it is implied that each species has its own distinct dialect.

* {{spoiler|[[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]]}} - An unusual subversion example: The gods offer a choice between this and remaining human, but Daine chooses the latter.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] - And how! Besides this being part of her back story when she was literally [[Raised Byby Wolves]], just look what she does if she 'loses her temper.'

* [[Carnivore Confusion]] - Because of her [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]], Daine knows what it's like for game animals to be hunted and killed, which turns her off from eating them as a human. Before she started to learn about her magic, she grew up eating meat like anybody else, and continued to hunt and eat meat for a long time after discovering it — she says at one point that she doesn't see why this would surprise anybody, since animals kill and eat each other all the time, and it's not as if she kills for sport or uses her magic to lure prey towards her. This changes, however, after a bad experience or two when she herself is pursued in animal form by hunters — game meat becomes Nausea Fuel for her, and she can't stand to eat it anymore, having felt what the animal went through. She doesn't object to it in principle or try to stop other people; she just literally can't stomach it herself. It's mentioned that she gets by okay with domesticated meat by never bonding mentally with any farm animals, and how she feels about fish or insects isn't mentioned.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]] - Justified: Daine's magic allows her to communicate with animals, i.e. explain to them that [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|she isn't a cold-blooded killer,]] heal them, and animals gravitate to her because of this.

* [[Full -Frontal Assault]] - {{spoiler|how she kills Ozorne, armed with only her badger claw}}

* {{spoiler|[[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]}}

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] - Lands a fatal hit on a fast-moving spidren ''in the dark''--even—even Alanna is impressed. Later explicitly named as part of her magical ability, {{spoiler|inherited from her father, the Hunt God.}}

* [[Nature Hero|Nature Heroine]]ine

* [[Not Good Withwith People]] - Type 1.

* [[Raised Byby Wolves]] - Literally, but only for a little while after her mother died.

* [[Semi -Divine]] - She's the daughter of a minor god (of the hunt) and a mortal woman (who becomes a minor goddess when she dies).

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] - The most powerful mage in Tortal is almost the most ''vain'' mage in Tortal, and kinda lazy.

* [[Older Sidekick]]

* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] - Hawk shape only, although not a true shapeshift, as the hawk shape he takes is too large and black to be a real hawk. He won't try other shapes since the first one already gives him migraines; he needs incredible amounts of power and the ability to control and hang onto it.

* [[Badass Normal]] - although in ''Wild Magic'' Daine can see she has a touch of wild magic herself, and her Gift specializes in hiding things. Compared to Numair and Daine, though, she is quite normal.

* [[Nature Hero|Nature Heroine]]ine

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]

* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname|Only Known By Her Nickname]]

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]] - If anyone's a [[Mary Sue]] in this series, it's Kitten.

* [[A God Am I]] - This is his [[Evil Plan]]; to displace the worship of the gods by his citizens with worship of ''himself''. The other gods, most prominently the Graveyard Hag, are not amused.

* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]

* [[ItsIt's All About Me]]

* [[Sorcerous Overlord]]

* [[The Missus and Thethe Ex]] - Played with: Daine and Numair aren't in a relationship--[[She Is Not My Girlfriend|they aren't even aware]] [[Like Brother and Sister|of their feelings yet]]--but—but Varice showing up makes things awkward, and Daine gets jealous.

* [[Badass Normal]] - The whole point of her character according to [[Word of God]] and the final book. She has no powers ''at all' but still kicks ass and leads others.

* [[Blade Onon a Stick]] - Her preferred weapon.

* [[Buxom Is Better]] - Inverted, Kel was not happy in the least bit when she started growing breasts.

* [[Huge Schoolgirl]] - A running gag.

* [[Knight in Shining Armor]] - Her dream is to be this.

* [[Mama Bear]] - Despite not actually being a mom she is this for Haven.

** [[Parental Substitute]] - to her sidekick, Tobe, whom she more or less adopts.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] - Done deliberately to remind everyone she's a girl.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] - Out of everyone, Kel wants Wyldon's approval. {{spoiler|She gets it, eventually.}}

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]] - With heights.

* [[Four -Star Badass]]: A general who much prefers fighting at the border and protecting people than living at the capital training kids. Kel realizes this in Lady Knight.

* [[Nice to Thethe Waiter]]

* [[In -Series Nickname]]: Neal refers to him as 'The Stump' because he's stocky and stubborn.

* [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen]] - His attitude at first, though it gradually changes as Kel proves herself more worthy than most men.

* [[Stern Teacher]]: To pages. He's famous among them for his rule that if a page is late to the year-end ceremony, even if its just a minute, they have to repeat the entire four years of page trainning. His reason is "Tardiness in knights causes fatalities."

* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Kel is his favorite target though The Stump (Wyldon) had the first honor.

* [[The Lancer]] - To Kel. He's comical and snarky and doesn't take anything seriously.

* [[In Love Withwith Love]] - Discussed by his friends after seeing him fall in love time after time with the same type of women. {{spoiler|ultimately [[Happily Married]].}}

* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] - Not a major level, but as she served under Kel she became more confident, and on one occasion held off a squire - a "strong, brawny fighter". In ''Squire'', Kel is told that she teaches the self-defense Kel taught her to other girls in the city.

* [[Bow and Sword Inin Accord]] - he primarily uses the sword, but is more than capable with a bow as well.

* [[The Lancer]] - to Raoul in a similar vain to Neal/Kel.

* [[Non -Idle Rich]] - Member of the noble house of Masbolle (related to Queenscove, Neal's family) but serves in the King's Own.

* [[Officer and Aa Gentleman]]

* [[Up to Eleven]]: Kel had a small schoolgirl crush on Neal early on. Then she met his cousin who is actually described (more or less) as "Neal but better." That was the end of the first crush.

* [[Anti -Hero]] - Aly is a bit of a [[Jerkass]]. She starts the series as a spoiled rich girl who views war and spy work as fun. She enjoys stringing boys along. She gets better, though she still retains some [[Jerkass]] traits. See [[Magnificent Bitch]].

* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: For Kyprioth who engineered her abduction and enslavement. Unlike the rest of her family, she gives him as much grief as he does her.

* [[Dead Guy, Junior]] - Both herself and her kids, in roundabout ways.

* [[Guile Hero]]: Unlike her mom, she's not much good in a fight. Her speciality is manipulations and [[Plan|plansplan]]s.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Nawat the crow-man.

'''Kyprioth'''

* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?|What Measure is a NonGod]] - It's pointed out several times in the series that he sees humans, Aly included, as pets at best and pawns at worst.

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: He was after Aly early in book 1. She didn't reciporcate until book 2.

* [[Raised Byby Wolves|Raised By Crows]]: Justified because he is one and gets along pretty well with humans.

* [[Single -Target Sexuality]] - Alysexual

* [[Royally Screwed -Up]]: Insanity sort of [[In the Blood|runs in the family]].

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Complete with a [[Death Glare]]. Her eyes are pale blue. When she gets pissed people say she has spooky Ghost Eyes.

* {{spoiler|[[Took a Level Inin Jerkass]]}}: In the third book. [[Lampshade Hanging|There seems to be a pattern forming]].

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: As Kora will freely admit, she's just a simple hedgewitch -- buthedgewitch—but she's perfectly capable of using what power she ''does'' have to, say, [[Truth Serums|force you walk into a Kennel and confess to murdering your own child]]. And ''never remember'' that it was her who did it.

* [[TranssexualTransgender]]: Sex-reassignment surgery doesn't exist in-universe, so she could also count as a [[Drag Queen]]. Beka refers to her as "him", since it may have been confusing for the reader had Pierce switched mid-novel from calling Okha 'he' to 'she'. Alternatively, Beka may not have had a full understanding that just because Okha is ''physically'' male, she should not actually be referred to as male.

* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Averted. {{spoiler|Well, now we know what happened when Numair used that Word of Power...}}