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* DelightfulDragon: Downplayed [[spoiler: at first it seems as if the dragon is the classic DemonicDragon; however despite the rather sadistic way she tormented and hunted down Elodie, it's revealed that originally the dragon was this trope as she never did anything to provoke the humans that first settled on Aurea and the king who killed her children. This act is what lead to her becoming vengeful and murderous to the royal family, demanding the kings three daughters in exchange for the lives of her murdered offspring and [[SinsOfOurFathers three woman from the royal family every generation]] so they would know her pain. However, even despite this, she still drew the line at killing innocents and never sought to take her revenge out on anyone but (who she thought were) the royal family and was enraged when Elodie revealed that they had fooled her and they had actually been sacrificing innocent woman to her for centuries, leading the dragon to bring an end to her vengeance after burning the royal family to the ground and seemingly return to this trope.]]
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* DelightfulDragon: Downplayed [[spoiler: at first it seems as if the dragon is the classic DemonicDragon; however despite the rather sadistic way she tormented and hunted down Elodie, it's revealed that originally the dragon was this trope as she never did anything to provoke the humans that first settled on Aurea and the king who killed her children. This act is what lead to her becoming vengeful and murderous to the royal family, demanding the kings three daughters in exchange for the lives of her murdered offspring and [[SinsOfOurFathers three woman from the royal family every generation]] so they would know her pain. However, even despite this, she still drew the line at killing innocents and never sought to take her revenge out on anyone but (who she thought were) the royal family and was enraged when Elodie revealed that they had fooled her and they had actually been sacrificing innocent woman women to her for centuries, leading the dragon to bring an end to her vengeance after burning the royal family to the ground and seemingly return to this trope.]]
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* DelightfulDragon: Downplayed [[spoiler: at first it seems as if the dragon is the classic DemonicDragon, however despite the rather sadistic way she tormented and hunted down Elodie, it's revealed that originally the dragon was this trope as she never did anything to provoke the humans that first settled on Aurea and the king who killed her children, this act is what lead to her becoming vengeful and murderous to the royal family, demanding the kings three daughters in exchange for the lives of her murdered offspring and [[SinsOfOurFathers three woman from the royal family every generation]] so they would know her pain, however even despite this she still drew the line at killing innocents and never sought to take her revenge out on anyone but (who she thought were) the royal family and was enraged when Elodie revealed that they had fooled her and they had actually been sacrificing innocent woman to her for centuries, leading the dragon to bring an end to her vengeance after burning the royal family to the ground and seemingly return to this trope.]]
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* DelightfulDragon: Downplayed [[spoiler: at first it seems as if the dragon is the classic DemonicDragon, DemonicDragon; however despite the rather sadistic way she tormented and hunted down Elodie, it's revealed that originally the dragon was this trope as she never did anything to provoke the humans that first settled on Aurea and the king who killed her children, this children. This act is what lead to her becoming vengeful and murderous to the royal family, demanding the kings three daughters in exchange for the lives of her murdered offspring and [[SinsOfOurFathers three woman from the royal family every generation]] so they would know her pain, however pain. However, even despite this this, she still drew the line at killing innocents and never sought to take her revenge out on anyone but (who she thought were) the royal family and was enraged when Elodie revealed that they had fooled her and they had actually been sacrificing innocent woman to her for centuries, leading the dragon to bring an end to her vengeance after burning the royal family to the ground and seemingly return to this trope.]]
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The dragon is six-limbed (four legs and two wings), is intelligent, can talk, has gold scales and blood, lives for centuries, and seems to have an inflatable throat sac it uses to breathe fire.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The dragon is six-limbed a sentient creature capable of human speech. She also has six-limbs (four legs and two wings), is intelligent, can talk, has horizontal pupils, retractable claws, gold scales blood and blood, lives for scales, an exceedingly long lifespan lasting centuries, and seems to have an inflatable throat sac it she uses to breathe fire.
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* DelightfulDragon: Downplayed [[spoiler: at first it seems as if the dragon is the classic DemonicDragon, however despite the rather sadistic way she tormented and hunted down Elodie, it's revealed that originally the dragon was this trope as she never did anything to provoke the humans that first settled on Aurea and the king who killed her children, this act is what lead to her becoming vengeful and murderous to the royal family, demanding the kings three daughters in exchange for the lives of her murdered offspring and [[SinsOfThyFather [[SinsOfOurFathers three woman from the royal family every generation]] so they would know her pain, however even despite this she still drew the line at killing innocents and never sought to take her revenge out on anyone but (who she thought were) the royal family and was enraged when Elodie revealed that they had fooled her and they had actually been sacrificing innocent woman to her for centuries, leading the dragon to bring an end to her vengeance after burning the royal family to the ground and seemingly return to this trope.]]
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** At least a few of the former princesses have done this, with Elodie finding a group that just let themselves dehydrate in a cathedral-like cave rather than be burned, and contemplates doing the same herself when the situation looks dire.
** [[spoiler:In contrast to the film, King Roderick and Queen Isabelle calmly take hands and let the dragon incinerate them to atone for all the princesses they've sacrificed. Their son, on the other hand, runs like a coward.]]
** [[spoiler:In contrast to the film, King Roderick and Queen Isabelle calmly take hands and let the dragon incinerate them to atone for all the princesses they've sacrificed. Their son, on the other hand, runs like a coward.]]
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** [[spoiler:In contrast to the film, King Roderick and Queen Isabelle calmlytake hold hands and let the dragon incinerate them to atone for all the princesses they've sacrificed. Their son, on the other hand, runs like a coward.]]
** [[spoiler:In contrast to the film, King Roderick and Queen Isabelle calmly
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* {{Conlang}}: Khaevis Ventvis, the language of dragons, invented by the author's daughter for the book. The book includes appendixes at the end translating it, and part of Elodie's work in the caves is figuring out how to translate the dragons' words.
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* {{Conlang}}: Khaevis Ventvis, the language of dragons, invented by the author's daughter for the book. The book includes appendixes at the end translating it, and part of Elodie's work in the caves is Elodie not only starts figuring it out how to translate but leaves notes on it in the dragons' words.Safe Cave in case any princesses come after her.
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* ShoutOut: The ship Elodie comes in is called Deomelas, after the short story ''Literature/TheOnesThatWalkAwayFromOmelas'', another story about a supposed paradise built on the inhabitants quietly allowing others to suffer. [[spoiler:At the end, a number of Aureans sail away on it, risking an uncertain future away from the utopia of Aurea rather than continue to be part of such a society]].
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* ShoutOut: The ship Elodie comes in is called Deomelas, after the short story ''Literature/TheOnesThatWalkAwayFromOmelas'', ''Literature/TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas'', another story about a supposed paradise built on the inhabitants quietly allowing others to suffer. [[spoiler:At the end, a number of Aureans sail away on it, risking an uncertain future away from the utopia of Aurea rather than continue to be part of such a society]].
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* ThirstyDesert: The duchy of Inophe is a desert province that's also been under a drought for 70 years. Small wonder they're so eager to accept Aurea's gifts of fruits and grains.
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* ThirstyDesert: The duchy of Inophe Inophe, where Elodie is from, is a desert province that's also been under a drought for 70 years. Small wonder they're so eager to accept Aurea's gifts of fruits fruits, grains, and grains. gold could mean the difference between life and death for them.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: With a slice of AdaptationalDumbass, to boot. Lord Bayford [[spoiler:thought the dragon was a metaphor when negotiating Elodie's marriage. It wasn't until they actually threw her in that he realized what he'd given his daughter away for.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: AdaptationalHeroism:
** With a slice of AdaptationalDumbass, to boot. Lord Bayford [[spoiler:thought the dragon was a metaphor when negotiating Elodie's marriage. It wasn't until they actually threw her in that he realized what he'd given his daughter away for.]]]]
** Queen Isabelle is less of a HateSink and doesn't have the classist tendencies she has in the movie. She regrets what she must do for the kingdom and feels bad for the sacrifices, but feels the need to press on since her husband can't. [[spoiler:She also faces death with dignity]].
** With a slice of AdaptationalDumbass, to boot. Lord Bayford [[spoiler:thought the dragon was a metaphor when negotiating Elodie's marriage. It wasn't until they actually threw her in that he realized what he'd given his daughter away for.
** Queen Isabelle is less of a HateSink and doesn't have the classist tendencies she has in the movie. She regrets what she must do for the kingdom and feels bad for the sacrifices, but feels the need to press on since her husband can't. [[spoiler:She also faces death with dignity]].
** In the movie, the sacrifices are three women every generation. Here, it is three sacrifices every year, meaning the kingdom and the dragon have killed at least 2400 people for their crops and prosperity.
* FisherKing: The novelization makes clear what was only implied in the film: the presence of the dragon infuses the land of Aurea with magic, giving them perfect harvests, a lack of any natural disasters, and fabulous wealth. [[spoiler:In fact, they figured out long ago that they ''could'' just poison the dragon with a sacrifice, but have decided it's better to keep the sacrifices up to keep their wealth and prosperity.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: King Roderick is a mental wreck due to growing up sacrificing princesses, often barely being aware of what's happening or breaking down when he sees Elodie or any wedding related stuff. There's also mention of Henry's older brother Jacob, who fled the kingdom when he was 15 to avoid having to sacrifice women. Unfortunately, this means that Henry has been the groom for princesses since he was five, and has grown up cold and hardened because of it.
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** King Roderick is a mental wreck due to growing up sacrificing princesses, often barely being aware of what's happening or breaking down when he sees Elodie or any wedding related stuff. There's also mention of Henry's older brother Jacob, who fled the kingdom when he was 15 to avoid having to sacrifice women. Unfortunately, this means that Henry has been the groom for princesses since he was five, and has grown up cold and hardened because ofit.it.
** Alexandra is a scout for princesses who specializes in fathers that are so duty bound to their kingdoms they'll sacrifice their daughters for it. She was the one who chose Elodie and she emphatically hates her job and herself, but feels it's necessary. [[spoiler:After her daughter convinces her to try and rescue Elodie, she leads Lord Bayford to the mountain. In the end, she and her family leave Aurea despite the end of the sacrifices, as there's too much pain there for her.]]
** King Roderick is a mental wreck due to growing up sacrificing princesses, often barely being aware of what's happening or breaking down when he sees Elodie or any wedding related stuff. There's also mention of Henry's older brother Jacob, who fled the kingdom when he was 15 to avoid having to sacrifice women. Unfortunately, this means that Henry has been the groom for princesses since he was five, and has grown up cold and hardened because of
** Alexandra is a scout for princesses who specializes in fathers that are so duty bound to their kingdoms they'll sacrifice their daughters for it. She was the one who chose Elodie and she emphatically hates her job and herself, but feels it's necessary. [[spoiler:After her daughter convinces her to try and rescue Elodie, she leads Lord Bayford to the mountain. In the end, she and her family leave Aurea despite the end of the sacrifices, as there's too much pain there for her.]]
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* ThatCameOutWrong: Elodie has a habit of thinking too quickly and then saying whatever comes out of her mouth somewhere down her train of thought, like spontaneously mentioning that a man needs to dig latrines for his wife.
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* ShoutOut: The ship Elodie comes in is called Deomelas, after the short story ''Literature/TheOnesThatWalkAwayFromOmelas'', another story about a supposed paradise built on the inhabitants quietly allowing others to suffer. [[spoiler:At the end, a number of Aureans sail away on it, risking an uncertain future away from the utopia of Aurea rather than continue to be part of such a society]].
* ThatCameOutWrong: Elodie has a habit of thinking too quickly and then saying whatever comes out of her mouth somewhere down her train of thought, likespontaneously mentioning that thinking about how a man should build a home for his wife and then saying he needs to dig latrines for his wife.latrines.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Elodie has a habit of thinking too quickly and then saying whatever comes out of her mouth somewhere down her train of thought, like
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* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: The source of Aurea's fabulous wealth is aurum wheat (a single loaf of which provides all the nutrients needed for a single day), sangberries with healing properties, and silver pears.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:At the end, a fair number of Aureans leave for Inophe, no longer willing to be part of a kingdom built on HumanSacrifice.]]
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* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Aurea is happy, prosperous, and peaceful...as long as they give up three women to be brutally murdered by a dragon.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The dragon's strange way of thinking gets more emphasis here. It gives life to the isle, so it demands life in return, and doesn't see why anyone would complain about a reasonable bargain like three people each other. [[spoiler:It's also been killing princesses in the hope of finding the prophesied survivor who will cure her infertility.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The dragon's strange way of thinking gets more emphasis here. It gives life to the isle, so it demands life in return, and doesn't see why anyone would complain about a reasonable bargain like three people each other. [[spoiler:It's year. [[spoiler:She's also been killing princesses in the hope of finding the prophesied survivor who will cure her infertility.]]]]
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The dragon needs the blood of the sacrificed princesses, not just their deaths. At one point, Elodie manages to wedge herself deeply into the rock where the dragon could just burn her to death, but would have no way of retrieving her body to eat.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The dragon needs the blood of the sacrificed princesses, not just their deaths. At one point, Elodie manages to wedge herself deeply into the rock where the dragon could just burn her to death, but would have no way of retrieving her body to eat.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:In contrast to the film, King Roderick and Queen Isabelle calmly take hands and let the dragon incinerate them to atone for all the princesses they've sacrificed. Their son, on the other hand, runs like a coward.]]
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** At least a few of the former princesses have done this, with Elodie finding a group that just let themselves dehydrate in a cathedral-like cave rather than be burned, and contemplates doing the same herself when the situation looks dire.
** [[spoiler:In contrast to the film, King Roderick and Queen Isabelle calmly take hands and let the dragon incinerate them to atone for all the princesses they've sacrificed. Their son, on the other hand, runs like a coward.]]
** At least a few of the former princesses have done this, with Elodie finding a group that just let themselves dehydrate in a cathedral-like cave rather than be burned, and contemplates doing the same herself when the situation looks dire.
** [[spoiler:In contrast to the film, King Roderick and Queen Isabelle calmly take hands and let the dragon incinerate them to atone for all the princesses they've sacrificed. Their son, on the other hand, runs like a coward.]]
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: The sacrifices are tossed to the dragon wearing a diaphanous, GemEncrusted lavender gown. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to the kingdom, this is the color of fertility among dragons.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: King Roderick is a mental wreck due to growing up sacrificing princesses, often barely being aware of what's happening or breaking down when he sees Elodie or any wedding related stuff. There's also mention of Henry's older brother Jacob, who fled the kingdom when he was 15 to avoid having to sacrifice women. Unfortunately, this means that Henry has been the groom for princesses since he was five, and has grown up cold and hardened because of it.
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* PrinceCharmless: Henry puts on a facade of charm, aided by his exceptional beauty and grace. All of that drops once the sacrifice comes into play and he's revealed to be a cold, ruthless human being.
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* PrinceCharmless: Henry puts on a facade of charm, aided by his exceptional beauty and grace. All of that drops once the sacrifice comes into play and he's revealed to be a cold, ruthless human being. Elodie later learns that he's used the same exact lines and tactics (right down to giving them the same necklace while claiming that he [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage fell in love with his bride for herself]], then taking it back to toss to the next one) for every single bride he's ever sacrificed.
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* RegretEatingMe: [[spoiler:Princess Victoria, with her sisters dead and her options running low, drank poison]]
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poison and let the dragon eat her. It killed the dragon and left her daughter infertile, starting the tradition of sacrificed princesses.]]
*RuderAndCruder:RuderAndCruder: By virtue of being an adult book rather than a PG-13 movie. Elodie is not a virgin and is looking forward to her wedding night with Prince Henry, there's a scene where she's stripped naked and painted as preparation for the sacrifice, and the book is freer with profanity like "bitch" and "merde".
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* AdaptationalBadass: Thanks to BloodMagic, this Elodie [[spoiler:gains the ability to transform into a dragon after mixing her blood with Retaza's.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: With a slice of AdaptationalDumbass, to boot. Lord Bayford [[spoiler:thought the dragon was a metaphor when negotiating Elodie's marriage. It wasn't until they actually threw her in that he realized what he'd given his daughter away for.]]
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** In the movie, Victoria is just another one of the many sacrifices through the ages, namely the one who wrote the messages on the walls. In the book, [[spoiler:she was the one who struck the initial bargain. She never intended any princesses to follow her, but accepted the risk as "necessary sacrifices for Aurea", something Elodie curses her for.]]
** In the movie, Prince Henry is the royal most uncomfortable with the sacrifices, apologizing to Elodie before he throws her in [[spoiler:and later refusing to throw Floria down after her.]] In the book, he is the least uncomfortable, showing no remorse over tossing Elodie into the pit and dismissing her as a possible future queen because she's "too spirited", and throwing [[spoiler:Floria]] into the pit himself. His final moments are also changed: [[spoiler:while the movie Henry is genuinely remorseful and accepts his fate to atone for it, the book Henry is clearly faking the whole thing and runs for it.]]
* BloodMagic: Elodie has the ability to see people's memories when she touches their blood, but it's not reliable and only awakens on Aurea. It proves valuable, as the former princesses condemned to the dragon left bloodstains she can learn from. [[spoiler:It's also why the dragon is so determined: her mother prophesied that a princess' blood would cure her infertility and revive the race of dragons, so she's been killing princesses looking for the survivor. In the end, when she and Elodie perform a MutualKill and only survive thanks to the glowworms, the mixing of blood gives Elodie the ability to become a dragon and cures Retaza's infertility.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The dragon's strange way of thinking gets more emphasis here. It gives life to the isle, so it demands life in return, and doesn't see why anyone would complain about a reasonable bargain like three people each other. [[spoiler:It's also been killing princesses in the hope of finding the prophesied survivor who will cure her infertility.]]
* {{Conlang}}: Khaevis Ventvis, the language of dragons, invented by the author's daughter for the book. The book includes appendixes at the end translating it, and part of Elodie's work in the caves is figuring out how to translate the dragons' words.
* ConspicuousConsumption: While Aurea is plenty opulent in the movie, particularly where gold is concerned, Elodie in the book takes special attention to how obscenely Aureans flaunt their fabulous wealth, leaving gold dust on beds, wrapping things in gold paper, giving her opulent feasts and dresses filled with gems. It's later revealed that spoiling the wives is seen as a final grace before the sacrifices, meaning at least part of this is deliberate.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:In contrast to the film, King Roderick and Queen Isabelle calmly take hands and let the dragon incinerate them to atone for all the princesses they've sacrificed. Their son, on the other hand, runs like a coward.]]
* FaceYourFears: Elodie is claustrophobic due to a traumatic incident when she was young. Having to hide in small crevices forces her to face it.
* MonsterIsAMommy: Given a different twist than the movie. [[spoiler:This dragon was not the original dragon that settled Aurea came in conflict with: Victoria's poison killed that one. It's her daughter, who is killing princesses to try and find the one whose blood will cure her and as revenge for her mother's death.]]
* NoNeedForNames: It's clarified that dragons do not have names. [[spoiler:The dragon takes the name "Retaza", or "mother", at the end.]]
* PrinceCharmless: Henry puts on a facade of charm, aided by his exceptional beauty and grace. All of that drops once the sacrifice comes into play and he's revealed to be a cold, ruthless human being.
* RegretEatingMe: [[spoiler:Princess Victoria, with her sisters dead and her options running low, drank poison]]
* RuderAndCruder:
* ThatCameOutWrong: Elodie has a habit of thinking too quickly and then saying whatever comes out of her mouth somewhere down her train of thought, like spontaneously mentioning that a man needs to dig latrines for his wife.
* ThirstyDesert: The duchy of Inophe is a desert province that's also been under a drought for 70 years. Small wonder they're so eager to accept Aurea's gifts of fruits and grains.
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* BarefootCaptives: Elodie [[LosingAShoeInTheStruggle loses her shoes]] falling down the pit and goes barefoot for the rest of the film, which although probably lovely for [[Creator/MillieBobbyBrown her actress]], is [[AgonyOfTheFeet very unpleasant for her]]. She eventually makes foot wraps from her dress, but loses those too.
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* BarefootCaptives: Elodie [[LosingAShoeInTheStruggle loses her shoes]] falling down the pit and goes barefoot for the rest of the film, which although probably lovely for [[Creator/MillieBobbyBrown her actress]], is [[AgonyOfTheFeet very unpleasant for her]]. She eventually makes foot wraps from her dress, but loses those too.
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* DirtForcefield: Completely averted. Elodie is filthy by the climax, including her feet.
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* ExactWords: The Queen gives a speech about how Elodie will join a long line of women who have helped to build the kingdom, a centuries old tradition, and a legacy of honor and duty she will now inherit. All of which is true, but Elodie was led to believe that it would mean being the new princess, not being sacrificed to a dragon.
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* ExactWords: The Queen gives a speech about how Elodie will join a long line of women who have helped to build the kingdom, a centuries old centuries-old tradition, and a legacy of honor and duty she will now inherit. All of which is true, but Elodie was led to believe that it would mean being the new princess, not being sacrificed to a dragon.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:The tradition of HumanSacrifice started with the first king of Aurea, who cravenly accepted the dragon's demands for his daughter's lives to save his own. Lord Bayford, though initially going through with the Royal Family's bargain to gains much-needed funds for his kingdom, ultimately cannot bring himself to do the same, and leads a doomed attempt to rescue Elodie that leads to his own death in her place, though his efforts do ultimately allow Elodie the chance she needs to escape. This leads to Elodie eventually revealing to the Dragon how the Royal Family deceived them both, and the Dragon burning the entire family away, ending their reign that was brought about by a father's sacrifice, and ended by a different one's]].
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** The Dragon's BreathWeapon noticeably resembles a flamethrower, with it being stored in a liquid form within her body and igniting once expelled from her mouth. [[spoiler:This foreshadows that for all the advantages her draconic nature grants her, immunity to her own flames is ''not'' one of them, with her needing to store her fire-spewing substance in a safe form within herself to avoid self-harming. This is ultimate the main contributor to rendering her helpless before Elodie, despite all the damage she'd dealt to her with a sword]].
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/RobinWright's most famous role is arguably that of Princess Buttercup from ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', famously imperiled on her wedding night at the hand of her homicidal fiancé [[TheEvilPrince prince Humperdinck]]; here, she's graduated to the role of the EvilQueen who sends the eponymous damsel to her death with false promises of marriage to her son, the prince.
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* BarefootCaptives: Elodie [[LosingAShoeInTheStruggle loses her shoes]] falling down the pit and goes barefoot for the rest of the film, which although probably [[DoesNotLikeShoes lovely]] for [[Creator/MillieBobbyBrown her actress]], is [[AgonyOfTheFeet very unpleasant for her]]. She eventually makes foot wraps from her dress, but loses those too.
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* BarefootCaptives: Elodie [[LosingAShoeInTheStruggle loses her shoes]] falling down the pit and goes barefoot for the rest of the film, which although probably [[DoesNotLikeShoes lovely]] lovely for [[Creator/MillieBobbyBrown her actress]], is [[AgonyOfTheFeet very unpleasant for her]]. She eventually makes foot wraps from her dress, but loses those too.
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** [[spoiler: The dragon herself, after being tricked by Elodie into wounding herself with her own fire and learning that she had not been killing Zairean princesses, but innocent strangers, tells Elodie to "End it" and calmly expects Elodie to slay her, only for Elodie to instead spare her.]]
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** [[spoiler: The dragon herself, after being tricked by Elodie into wounding herself with her own fire and learning that she had not been killing Zairean Aurean princesses, but innocent strangers, tells Elodie to "End it" and calmly expects Elodie to slay her, only for Elodie to instead spare her.]]
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* HumansAreBastards: It first seems as if the dragon holds this view towards all humans, [[spoiler: however this surprisingly downplayed when it's revealed that when she was referring to Elodie and "You! your kind, your blood" she was really talking about the royal family, who were the ones who killed her children, rather than humanity in general.]]
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* HumansAreBastards: It first seems as if the dragon holds this view towards all humans, [[spoiler: however this surprisingly surprisingly downplayed when it's revealed that when she was referring to Elodie and "You! your kind, your blood" she was really talking about the royal family, who were the ones who killed her children, rather than humanity in general.]]
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** [[spoiler: The dragon herself, after being tricked by Elodie into wounding herself with her own fire and learning that she had not been killing Zairean princesses, but innocent strangers, tells Elodie to "End it" and calmly expects Elodie to slay her, only for Elodie to instead spare her.]]
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* HumansAreBastards: It first seems as if the dragon holds this view towards all humans, [[spoiler: however this surprisingly downplayed when it's revealed that when she was referring to Elodie and "You! your kind, your blood" she was really talking about the royal family, who were the ones who killed her children, rather than humanity in general.]]
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* DelightfulDragon: Downplayed [[spoiler: at first it seems as if the dragon is the classic DemonicDragon, however despite the rather sadistic way she tormented and hunted down Elodie, it's revealed that originally the dragon was this trope as she never did anything to provoke the humans that first settled on Aurea and the king who killed her children, this act is what lead to her becoming vengeful and murderous to the royal family, demanding the kings three daughters in exchange for the lives of her murdered offspring and [[SinsOfThyFather three woman from the royal family every generation]] so they would know her pain, however even despite this she still drew the line at killing innocents and never sought to take her revenge out on anyone but (who she thought were) the royal family and was enraged when Elodie revealed that they had fooled her and they had actually been sacrificing innocent woman to her for centuries, leading the dragon to bring an end to her vengeance after burning the royals family to the ground and seemingly return to this trope.]]
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* DelightfulDragon: Downplayed [[spoiler: at first it seems as if the dragon is the classic DemonicDragon, however despite the rather sadistic way she tormented and hunted down Elodie, it's revealed that originally the dragon was this trope as she never did anything to provoke the humans that first settled on Aurea and the king who killed her children, this act is what lead to her becoming vengeful and murderous to the royal family, demanding the kings three daughters in exchange for the lives of her murdered offspring and [[SinsOfThyFather three woman from the royal family every generation]] so they would know her pain, however even despite this she still drew the line at killing innocents and never sought to take her revenge out on anyone but (who she thought were) the royal family and was enraged when Elodie revealed that they had fooled her and they had actually been sacrificing innocent woman to her for centuries, leading the dragon to bring an end to her vengeance after burning the royals royal family to the ground and seemingly return to this trope.]] ]]
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* DelightfulDragon: Downplayed [[spoiler: at first it seems as if the dragon is the classic DemonicDragon, however despite the rather sadistic way she tormented and hunted down Elodie, it's revealed that originally the dragon was this trope as she never did anything to provoke the humans that first settled on Aurea and the king who killed her children, this act is what lead to her becoming vengeful and murderous to the royal family, demanding the kings three daughters in exchange for the lives of her murdered offspring and [[SinsOfThyFather three woman from the royal family every generation]] so they would know her pain, however even despite this she still drew the line at killing innocents and never sought to take her revenge out on anyone but (who she thought were) the royal family and was enraged when Elodie revealed that they had fooled her and they had actually been sacrificing innocent woman to her for centuries, leading the dragon to bring an end to her vengeance after burning the royals family to the ground and seemingly return to this trope.]]
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* DieHardOnAnX: Die Hard in a dragon's lair.
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* Determinator: Elodie and [[spoiler: the Dragon, the former keeps going despite how many injuries she gets or how hopeless her situation, the latter during the final battle keeps going no matter how many injuries Elodie manages to land on her, with the only injury that brings her down being when Elodie uses her own fire against her.]]
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* Determinator: {{Determinator}}: Elodie and [[spoiler: the Dragon, the former keeps going despite how many injuries she gets or how hopeless her situation, the latter during the final battle keeps going no matter how many injuries Elodie manages to land on her, with the only injury that brings her down being when Elodie uses her own fire against her.]]
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* Determinator: Elodie and [[spoiler: the Dragon, the former keeps going despite how many injuries she gets or how hopeless her situation, the latter during the final battle keeps going no matter how many injuries Elodie manages to land on her, with the only injury that brings her down being when Elodie uses her own fire against her.]]
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* HateSink: Queen Isabelle is a vile class snob who looks down on self-made wealthy people and is willing to sacrifice women to a bloodthirsty dragon.
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* HateSink: Queen Isabelle is a vile class snob who looks down on self-made wealthy people and is willing to sacrifice innocent women to a bloodthirsty dragon.
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** The opening scene sets the king up to be doing this after his men are killed by the dragon, planting his sword in the ground and hopelessly dropping to his knees. [[spoiler: Subverted later when it's revealed the king was an utter coward who was merely begging for his life, and gladly sacrificed his own children in exchange for the dragon sparing him.]]
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** The opening scene sets the king first Aurean King up to be doing this after his men are killed by the dragon, planting his sword in the ground and hopelessly dropping to his knees.knees to apparently accept his impending fate. [[spoiler: Subverted later when it's revealed the king was an utter coward who was merely begging for his life, and gladly sacrificed his own children in exchange for the dragon sparing him.]]
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** The opening scene sets the king up to be doing this after his men are killed by the dragon, planting his sword in the ground and hopelessly dropping to his knees. [[spoiler: Subverted later when it's revealed the king was an utter coward who was merely begging for his life, and gladly sacrificed his own children in exchange for the dragon sparing him.]]
