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* [[TheHero The Heroine]]: She's the central character and main good guy of the entire saga.


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* HeroProtagonist: She's the central character and main good guy of the entire saga.
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* BladeOnAStick: Her glaive, [[ICallItVera Devilslayer]].
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* OverprotectiveDad: Certainly veers into it at times. Part of his own character development is coming to terms with when his daughters need him and when it's better to let go.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Discussed in ''Fire in the Blood''. While some tieflings have [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation weird skin tones that don't occur naturally in humans]], Fari (and Havi, by extension) has tawny-golden skin that would be unusual but not impossible on a human. She and Dahl briefly speculate as to the exact combination of ethnicities in her heritage that could have produced it when trying to trace her family tree. [[spoiler: Vaasan, as it turns out, mixed with a few others]].
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* HornyDevils: Downplayed. He's not an incubus so it's not actually part of his powers, but he's extremely handsome, knows it, and is perfectly willing to use his sex-appeal to keep people off-balance. Notably, he's ''very'' flirty with Farideh, but is much more reserved and businesslike with Havilar, as he knows he's not her type and trying to seduce her wouldn't get him very far.

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* HornyDevils: HotAsHell: Downplayed. He's not an incubus so it's not actually part of his powers, but he's extremely handsome, knows it, and is perfectly willing to use his sex-appeal to keep people off-balance. Notably, he's ''very'' flirty with Farideh, but is much more reserved and businesslike with Havilar, as he knows he's not her type and trying to seduce her wouldn't get him very far.
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* AdultFear:
** The books hint at just how utterly terrifying it is for both daughters of a single father to up and vanish for seven years.
** Farideh's situation in general is this for him. Your daughter has made a bargain with a manipulative, sociopathic entity who means her no good and you have ''no way'' of helping her, compounded with the fear that he'll corrupt her and you'll have to fight (and potentially kill) her. ''Ouch''.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Downplayed. Fari's hair is mostly black, but with some purple undertones.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Downplayed. Fari's hair is mostly black, but with some purple undertones.

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* BaldOfEvil: Keeps her head shaved, and she's very much a devil in the classic mold.
* BaldWomen: No hair on her head, though this is because she keeps it shaved; when she goes without for too long, the fuzz that starts growing in is [[WhiteHairBlackHeart silver]].

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* BaldOfEvil: Keeps her head shaved, and she's very much a devil in the classic mold. \n* BaldWomen: No hair on her head, though this is because she keeps it shaved; when When she goes without shaving for too long, the fuzz hair that starts growing grows in is [[WhiteHairBlackHeart silver]]. silver]].

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* MirrorCharacter: Openly, Havilar is the daughter who most resembles him, but his tendency to brood and internal conflict over his place in the world and his relationships with other characters are much closer to Farideh than either of them realizes. [[spoiler: They also share a tendency to fall for charismatic but selfish and manipulative men]].



* NotSoDifferent: Openly, Havilar is the daughter who most resembles him, but his tendency to brood and internal conflict over his place in the world and his relationships with other characters are much closer to Farideh than either of them realizes. [[spoiler: They also share a tendency to fall for charismatic but selfish and manipulative men]].



* DealWithTheDevil: Makes one with Sairche. He actually manages pretty well with it, probably by virtue of being NotSoDifferent from a devil himself.

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* DealWithTheDevil: Makes one with Sairche. He actually manages pretty well with it, probably by virtue of being NotSoDifferent not that different from a devil himself.

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* CombatTeleportation: One of her most commonly-used spells is a form of short-range teleportation that she typically uses to quickly maneuver around a battlefield.


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* TeleportSpam: One of her most commonly-used spells is a form of short-range teleport that lets her quickly maneuver across a battlefield.
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* CombatTeleportation: One of her most commonly-used spells is a form of short-range teleportation that she typically uses to quickly maneuver around a battlefield.


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* TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed; Fari was always a badass with her magic, but her skills as a physical fighter noticeably increase across the series.
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* CuteMonsterGirl: Genderflipped; he's a cute monster ''guy''.

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* CuteMonsterGirl: Genderflipped; he's a cute monster ''guy''. ''guy'', being depicted as looking essentially like a very handsome young man who happens to have devilish features like red skin, horns, and leathery wings.
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* CreepyBlueEyes: Rhand is a thoroughly villainous wizard with unusually bright, piercing blue eyes that are described as quite unsettling.
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* BadassNormal: Well, 'normal' for a tiefling, anyway. She doesn't have any supernatural abilities [[spoiler: until her own Chosen of Asmodeus nature kicks in, anyway]] but she's still ready, willing and able to kick all kinds of ass.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: On first meeting Havi, one is likely to take her for a flighty, somewhat immature, not-that-bright teenager. Then the glaive comes out, and you'll probably find yourself wondering how you ended up in a hospital bed so fast.


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* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler: After becoming a Chosen of Asmodeus. Downplayed in that the powers she gets from it aren't of that much use in direct combat, which irritates her to no end]].
* {{Familiar}}: [[spoiler: As a Chosen of Asmodeus, she gains the power to summon imp familiars]].
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* HateSink: If the rest of his entry didn't clue you in, everything about this guy adds up to make him utterly and completely despicable.


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* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Downplayed. [[spoiler: He's definitely got power, but not nearly as much as he'd like people to think, and he goes down pretty quickly once he loses his hold on Farideh]].
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Downplayed. Fari's hair is mostly black, but with some purple undertones.

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* InTheHood: She tends to wear a long, hooded cloak in public, especially in area where tieflings are uncommon and subject to FantasticRacism and she'd rather people don't spot her horns or eyes.



* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Her heterochromia is treated as this my many characters, though to all indication it's just a normal physical feature. Her warlock brand, on the other hand...

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* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Her heterochromia is treated as this my many characters, though to all indication it's just a normal physical feature. Her warlock brand, on the other hand... hand, is the genuine article.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Discussed in ''Fire in the Blood''. While some tieflings have [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation weird skin tones that don't occur naturally in humans]], Fari (and Havi, by extension) has tawny-golden skin that would be unusual but not impossible on a human. She and Dahl briefly speculate as to the exact combination of ethnicities in her heritage that could have produced it when trying to trace her family tree. [[spoiler: Vaasan, as it turns out, mixed with a few others]].

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* LadyOfBlackMagic: Borderline example. As a warlock, her magic is highly focused on destruction and offense, and in addition she's rather too reserved for BlackMagicianGirl but not mature or regal enough to fully be this.

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* LadyOfBlackMagic: Borderline example. As a warlock, her magic is highly focused on destruction and offense, and in addition she's rather too reserved for BlackMagicianGirl but not mature or regal enough to fully be this. Post time-skip she falls here more squarely.
* MagicWand: She channels her warlock powers through a rod designed for that purpose; initially, she uses one Lorcan gave her, but after realizing that she (and Havilar, by extension) could be tracked by the presence of a Hells-forged artifact she destroys it. Dahl gets her another (mortal-made, this time) rod as a peace offering and she uses this one for the remainder of the series.



* [[SquishyWizard Squishy Warlock]]: She's not ''terribly'' squishy (she usually wears armor and carries a sword) but physical combat is ''not'' where her skills lie and she's very much aware of it. She gets somewhat better across the series, though swordplay still isn't her forte.

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* [[SquishyWizard Squishy Warlock]]: Downplayed. She's not ''terribly'' squishy (she usually wears armor and carries a sword) but physical combat is ''not'' where her skills lie and she's very much aware of it. She gets somewhat better across the series, though swordplay still isn't her forte.
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* HeroesPreferSwords: When she has to fight physically, rather than with her magic, her preferred weapon is the short sword.
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* FinalBoss: He's the climactic villain of the saga.
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* LightIsNotGod: He's associated with bright light and the color gold and these manifest in both his wardrobe and his magic, but he's a brutal conqueror.

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* BaldOfEvil: A ruthless tyrant who keeps his head shaved.



* EvilIsHammy: He has a tendency to give flowery, melodramatic speeches proclaiming his greatness and the inevitable doom of his enemies at a drop of a hat.



* AGodAmI: Whether he's actually a god or not, ''he'' certainly believes it and will happily proclaim his divinity at length.



* GodInHumanForm: What he claims to be. The truth is somewhat more ambiguous; his magical powers, while impressive for a mortal, are less than what an avatar would be expected to wield, and nobody's quite sure what's going on with him.

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* GodInHumanForm: What he claims to be. The truth is somewhat more ambiguous; his magical powers, while impressive for a mortal, are less than what an avatar would be expected to wield, and nobody's quite sure what's going on with him. The most likely conclusion the characters come to is that he's an avatar but not a very powerful one, due to Gilgeam's last avatar having been killed and since then he's gone a long time without much worship.


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* LargeAndInCharge: He's a physically large and imposing man who towers over followers and enemies alike.
* LightIsNotGod: He's associated with bright light and the color gold and these manifest in both his wardrobe and his magic, but he's a brutal conqueror.

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* AlienBlood: When he bleeds, it's tar black.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: As befits a devil, he's bright red.



* CrazyJealousGuy: Whenever Farideh is in the same room as any other similarly-aged male, but ''especially'' Dahl.

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* CrazyJealousGuy: Whenever Farideh is in the same room as any other similarly-aged male, but ''especially'' Dahl. He doesn't just extend it to romantic partners, either, but anyone else who might have comparable or greater influence on Fari; he and Mehen ''despise'' each other.



* CuteMonsterGirl: Genderflipped; he's a cute monster ''guy''.



* DomesticAbuse: His relationship with Farideh always had shades of this. [[spoiler: Becomes a lot more obvious when they briefly hook up in ''Fire in the Blood''.]]

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* {{Deuteragonist}}: Explicitly described as such by WordOfGod; he's the secondary protagonist of the series, and his personal journey parallels and intertwines with Farideh's.
* DomesticAbuse: His relationship with Farideh always had shades of this.this, with him being a ruthless, manipulative and controlling patron to her. [[spoiler: Becomes a lot more obvious when they briefly hook up in ''Fire in the Blood''.]]]]
* FatalFlaw: Selfishness. The fact that other people have feelings worth respecting just rarely ''occurs'' to Lorcan, and with the few people whose wellbeing he does care about, he still defaults to assuming he knows best and has no problem manipulating or deceiving them 'for their own good'. As a corollary, he often reads selfish or cynical motivations into other people's actions [[EvilCannotComprehendGood even when they're not there and he should know better]].



* HalfHumanHybrid: As a cambion, he's half-devil, half-mortal.

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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Outside of Farideh herself (whose feelings on the matter are... complicated) nobody in the main cast much cares for him and they'd almost all love to see him gone, by force if necessary - but, well, sometimes he ''does'' come in handy, so they'll grit their teeth and tolerate him.
* HalfHumanHybrid: As a cambion, he's half-devil, half-mortal. [[spoiler: Well, slightly less than half mortal; his father was a tiefling]].



* HornyDevils: Downplayed. He's not an incubus so it's not actually part of his powers, but he's extremely handsome, knows it, and is perfectly willing to use his sex-appeal to keep people off-balance.

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* HornyDevils: Downplayed. He's not an incubus so it's not actually part of his powers, but he's extremely handsome, knows it, and is perfectly willing to use his sex-appeal to keep people off-balance. Notably, he's ''very'' flirty with Farideh, but is much more reserved and businesslike with Havilar, as he knows he's not her type and trying to seduce her wouldn't get him very far.
* HotBlooded: Downplayed. He's definitely inherited his erinyes mother's temper, but he's disciplined enough that he (usually) keeps a good lid on it.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: In ''The Devil You Know'' he finds out that his biological father was Caisys the Vicelord, one of the Toril Thirteen. He's decidedly disquieted by the revelation]].



* NormalFishInATinyPond: At first, he seems overwhelmingly powerful. Then we see what his home life is like...

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* NormalFishInATinyPond: At first, he seems overwhelmingly powerful. powerful to both Farideh and the reader. Then we see what his home life is like...like...
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Among other devils he tends to act the part of a lazy court dandy, but he's much cleverer than he lets on.
* PainfulTransformation: Downplayed. Shifting to his human form doesn't hurt ''that'' much, but it's still uncomfortable enough he prefers to avoid doing it when he doesn't have to.



* SharpDressedMan: He's a snappy dresser, as devils go; one of his biggest complaints about living in [[BloodyBowelsOfHell Malbolge]] is that the decaying, organic environment keeps ruining his outfits.



* SociopathicHero: Well, he ''is'' a devil. He does have the odd twinge of empathy or conscience, but it mostly annoys him more than anything.
* TokenEvilTeammate: On those occasions he's present in the flesh.

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* SociopathicHero: Well, he ''is'' a devil. He does have the odd twinge of empathy or conscience, but it mostly annoys him more than anything.anything, and though he's not too bad by devil standards, he's easily the worst person among the main cast.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He doesn't really resemble his mother at all, but he definitely gets his looks from his father [[spoiler: Caisys]]. He also looks enough like Sairche that Farideh is able to deduce the nature of their relationship almost immediately after meeting her.
* TokenEvilTeammate: On those occasions he's present in the flesh.flesh, he serves as this for Farideh and her companions.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can shift to a human form as a disguise, though he doesn't like to because the transformation is rather unpleasant to go through.
* WillNotTellALie: Lorcan ''never'' lies outright, but you still have to be careful with him because he can still deceive you by [[ExactWords shading the truth in creative ways without telling outright falsehoods]]. This is a trait of devils in general, but even Sairche will grudgingly admit Lorcan is good at it.

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* {{Determinator}}: Farideh ''never'' gives up once she's set her sights on something. It's a trait she shares with her adopted father, Mehen [[spoiler: and her biological ancestor Bryseis Kakistos]].



* FatalFlaw: Farideh's biggest flaw - one ''also'' shared with Mehen [[spoiler: and Bryseis]] and which tends to lead her into problems (and making deals with devils) is her need to take ''too much'' responsibility for things and think she's the one who needs to solve every problem.



* InterspeciesRomance: She's a tiefling, but her two main love interests [[spoiler: Lorcan and Dahl]] are [[spoiler: a cambion and a human, respectively]].

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* InterspeciesRomance: She's a tiefling, but her two main love interests [[spoiler: Lorcan and Dahl]] are [[spoiler: a cambion and a human, respectively]]. She ultimately ends up with [[spoiler: the latter]].
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* BlingOfWar: After taking her mother's job as commander of the ''pradixikai'', she wastes no time in loading herself down with Invadiah's gaudiest armor and jewelry, which Lorcan lampshades.

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* BlingOfWar: After taking her mother's job as commander of the ''pradixikai'', she wastes no time in loading herself down with Invadiah's gaudiest armor and jewelry, which Lorcan lampshades.lampshades (though he also notes she's got enough restraint to not be as flashy as she ''could'' have been.
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* DomesticAbuser: His relationship with Farideh always had shades of this. [[spoiler: Becomes a lot more obvious when they briefly hook up in ''Fire in the Blood''.]]

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* BadassGrandpa: Old enough to have an adult daughter, but he can still hold his own.

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* BadassGrandpa: Old enough to have an adult daughter, but he can still hold his own.


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* CoolOldGuy: Old enough to have an adult daughter, but he can still hold his own.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Havi seldom acts it, but she's at least as smart as her sister; she just rarely has the patience or the interest to sit still long enough to do much that doesn't involve her glaive. Garago complains in ''The Devil You Know'' that she had the raw potential to be a wizard, but lacked any sort of interest.
* ButtDialingMordor: Havi butt-dials the Nine Hells trying to get an imp and gets Lorcan instead, thereby setting the whole plot in motion.


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* InSeriesNickname: "Havi".

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