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* [[The Apprentice]]: Mwita to Aro. Onyesonwu becomes an apprentice later as well, after considerable struggle.
* [[The Apprentice]]: Mwita to Aro. Onyesonwu becomes an apprentice later as well, after considerable struggle.
* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: As it turns out, the man who is trying to destroy Onyesonwu is her father, Daib.
* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: As it turns out, the man who is trying to destroy Onyesonwu is her father, Daib.
* [[Bigger On the Inside]]: The House of the Osugbo
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The House of the Osugbo
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Implied. Onyesonwu and Mwita have ties because {{spoiler|her father was Mwita's master for a time}}, but they are not actually brother and sister.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Implied. Onyesonwu and Mwita have ties because {{spoiler|her father was Mwita's master for a time}}, but they are not actually brother and sister.
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* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: Mwita and Onyesonwu bond through their shared experience as Ewu, and later also genuinely fall in love.
* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: Mwita and Onyesonwu bond through their shared experience as Ewu, and later also genuinely fall in love.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Onyesonwu believes herself to be the Ewu sorceress who will end the war between Nuru and Okeke.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Onyesonwu believes herself to be the Ewu sorceress who will end the war between Nuru and Okeke.
* [[Cursed With Awesome]]: Ewu are spit on by Okeke and Nuru, but they get awesome magic.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Ewu are spit on by Okeke and Nuru, but they get awesome magic.
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: The Eleventh Year Rite (aka female circumcision) is this both in and out of canon: Onyesonwu's mother is horrified when she discovers what her daughter has done (the practice having been banned in her home village), for instance, whereas it's common practice in Jwahir. Indeed, Onyesonwu subjected herself to it in order to fit in, and by doing so she gains a set of [[True Companions]] in Binta, Diti and Luyu.
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: The Eleventh Year Rite (aka female circumcision) is this both in and out of canon: Onyesonwu's mother is horrified when she discovers what her daughter has done (the practice having been banned in her home village), for instance, whereas it's common practice in Jwahir. Indeed, Onyesonwu subjected herself to it in order to fit in, and by doing so she gains a set of [[True Companions]] in Binta, Diti and Luyu.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: a lighter-skinned tribe repressing a darker-skinned one through rape, murder, and enslavement? Even before it's revealed this takes place in {{spoiler|Sudan}}, the parallels are fairly easy to see.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: a lighter-skinned tribe repressing a darker-skinned one through rape, murder, and enslavement? Even before it's revealed this takes place in {{spoiler|Sudan}}, the parallels are fairly easy to see.
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* [[Good Parents]]: Onyesonwu's mother was actually an excellent mother, in spite of the pressures from the world to treat her Ewu child badly. Her stepfather also applies, especially for not only loving an Ewu child, but one that wasn't even his.
* [[Good Parents]]: Onyesonwu's mother was actually an excellent mother, in spite of the pressures from the world to treat her Ewu child badly. Her stepfather also applies, especially for not only loving an Ewu child, but one that wasn't even his.
* [[Halfbreed]]: The Ewu, being born from the union of Okeke and Nuru people. Looking surprisingly like neither tribe, the Ewu are sand-colored, skin and hair, with light eyes, like albino Africans.
* [[Halfbreed]]: The Ewu, being born from the union of Okeke and Nuru people. Looking surprisingly like neither tribe, the Ewu are sand-colored, skin and hair, with light eyes, like albino Africans.
* [[In Love With Love]]: Diti and Fanasi's marriage was rocky from the start as neither of them really had an understanding of what being married actually meant.
* [[In Love with Love]]: Diti and Fanasi's marriage was rocky from the start as neither of them really had an understanding of what being married actually meant.
* [[Jerkass]]: Most of the residents of Jwahir qualify for this, with their hatred of Ewu children and their passivity toward their fellow Okeke getting slaughtered by the Nuru. Aro starts out as possibly the most Jerk Ass resident of Jwahir, but after {{spoiler|he accepts Onyesonwu as a student}} he shifts to being closer to being a [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]].
* [[Jerkass]]: Most of the residents of Jwahir qualify for this, with their hatred of Ewu children and their passivity toward their fellow Okeke getting slaughtered by the Nuru. Aro starts out as possibly the most Jerk Ass resident of Jwahir, but after {{spoiler|he accepts Onyesonwu as a student}} he shifts to being closer to being a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]].
* [[Kill'Em All]]: The Nuru's belief about the Okeke.
* [[Kill'Em All]]: The Nuru's belief about the Okeke.
* [[Living Legend]]: Onyesonwu gains quite the reputation as a sorceress before she travels very far from home.
* [[Living Legend]]: Onyesonwu gains quite the reputation as a sorceress before she travels very far from home.
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* [[The Quest]]: Onyesonwu and Mwita set out to find and defeat Daib. Her friends all come along. Subverted in that it quickly becomes clear they have no idea what they're doing.
* [[The Quest]]: Onyesonwu and Mwita set out to find and defeat Daib. Her friends all come along. Subverted in that it quickly becomes clear they have no idea what they're doing.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The party questing west to defeat Daib. {{spoiler|Subverted in that traveling together drives them apart rather than pull them together.}}
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The party questing west to defeat Daib. {{spoiler|Subverted in that traveling together drives them apart rather than pull them together.}}
* [[Rape As Backstory]]: Onyesonwu's mother. {{spoiler|Binta also reveals that her father raped her.}}
* [[Rape as Backstory]]: Onyesonwu's mother. {{spoiler|Binta also reveals that her father raped her.}}
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]: What happened to Onyesonwu's mother village.
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]: What happened to Onyesonwu's mother village.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Luyu had already had sex with several boys by her Eleventh Year Rite. {{spoiler|This continues after the curse of the knife is lifted. One of the men she beds is Diti's husband Fanasi.}}
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Luyu had already had sex with several boys by her Eleventh Year Rite. {{spoiler|This continues after the curse of the knife is lifted. One of the men she beds is Diti's husband Fanasi.}}
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