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* WeakButSkilled: While very strong ''for her size'', Sasha is not a particularly tall woman, and physically outmatched by most of her opponents. Her superior svaalverd technique more than evens out the odds in swordfights, but she's at a severe disadvantage in unarmed brawls, which she therefore tries to avoid.
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* WeakButSkilled: While very strong ''for her size'', Sasha is not a particularly tall woman, and physically outmatched by most of her opponents. Her superior svaalverd technique more than evens out the odds in swordfights, but she's at a severe disadvantage in unarmed brawls, which she therefore tries to avoid.avoid.
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Although the series is best classed as fantasy there is only one definitely supernatural element, with all others being at most MaybeMagicMaybeMundane, and one non-human race, the [[OurElvesAreBetter [[OurElvesAreDifferent very elf-like]] serrin.
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* OurElvesAreBetter: The serrinim are an elf-like race that highly [[TheSpock values learning and reason]]. Fantasy [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcans]], essentially. They are apparently related closely enough to Humans for the two species to interbreed.
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* OurElvesAreBetter: OurElvesAreDifferent: The serrinim are an elf-like race that highly [[TheSpock values learning and reason]]. Fantasy [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcans]], essentially. They are apparently related closely enough to Humans for the two species to interbreed.
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* OurElvesAreBetter: The serrinim are an elf-like race that highly [[TheSpock values learning and reason]]. Fantasy [[StarTrek [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcans]], essentially. They are apparently related closely enough to Humans for the two species to interbreed.
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* BadassBookworm: The Nasi-Keth, a sect devoted to learning and spreading Serrin teachings - including multiple languages, philosophy, medicine, science, and civil engineering, but also armed and unarmed combat.
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* PrincessClassic: Sofy starts out as this. She gets more world-weary and assertive over time, but never loses her positive outlook.
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* ShoutOut: What do you name your handsome swashbuckling archer? Why, [[Creator/ErrolFlynn Errollyn]], of course.
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* PrincessClassic: Sofy starts out as this. She gets more world-weary and assertive over time, but never loses her positive outlook.
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* RebelliousPrincess: Sasha qualifies, especially in the first book; even though she's technically renounced her titles, she's still related to the ruling royal family. [[spoiler:Once she gets involved in a literal rebellion, she gets exiled by her father, however.]]
* TheSnarkKnight: Damon is a relatively mild example.
* TheSnarkKnight: Damon is a relatively mild example.
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* DeathSeeker: Jaryd, after [[spoiler:his brother's death]]. He does get somewhat better over time.
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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Kiel, except that the PsychicLink shared by all serrin makes him extremely empathic to them, just not to humans. This makes him creepier, if anything.]]
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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Kiel, except that the PsychicLink shared by all serrin makes him extremely empathic to them, just not to humans. This makes him creepier, if anything.]]]]
* WeakButSkilled: While very strong ''for her size'', Sasha is not a particularly tall woman, and physically outmatched by most of her opponents. Her superior svaalverd technique more than evens out the odds in swordfights, but she's at a severe disadvantage in unarmed brawls, which she therefore tries to avoid.
* WeakButSkilled: While very strong ''for her size'', Sasha is not a particularly tall woman, and physically outmatched by most of her opponents. Her superior svaalverd technique more than evens out the odds in swordfights, but she's at a severe disadvantage in unarmed brawls, which she therefore tries to avoid.
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* YNot: Averted ridiculously often, Lenays love their 'y's. A good number of Lenay names are common English names with a y replacing a vowel.
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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Kiel, except that the PsychicLink shared by all serrin makes him extremely empathic to them, just not to humans. This makes him creepier, if anything.]]
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* TheObiWan: Kessligh[[spoiler:, though he's crippled rather than killed.]]
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''A Trial of Blood and Steel'' is a fantasy quadrilogy by Joel Shepherd, consisting of ''Sasha'', ''Petrodor'', ''Tracato'' and ''Haven''. The series starts in the small village of Baerlyn highland nation of Lenayin with [[RebelliousPrincess former princess]] [[ActionGirl Sashandra Lenayin]] training in swordwork under [[MasterSwordsman Kessligh Cronenverdt]]. Her sparring against the other villagers is interrupted by the arrival of her brother Prince Damon with a company of soldiers. A lord of a neighbouring province has been slain by another lord and the King has dispatched Damon to clear up the conflict before it spirals out of control. Things are, of course, more than they seem and from there the series spirals into a web of politics, religion and war that takes the cast across the continent.
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''A Trial of Blood and Steel'' is a fantasy quadrilogy by Joel Shepherd, Creator/JoelShepherd, consisting of ''Sasha'', ''Petrodor'', ''Tracato'' and ''Haven''. The series starts in the small village of Baerlyn highland nation of Lenayin with [[RebelliousPrincess former princess]] [[ActionGirl Sashandra Lenayin]] training in swordwork under [[MasterSwordsman Kessligh Cronenverdt]]. Her sparring against the other villagers is interrupted by the arrival of her brother Prince Damon with a company of soldiers. A lord of a neighbouring province has been slain by another lord and the King has dispatched Damon to clear up the conflict before it spirals out of control. Things are, of course, more than they seem and from there the series spirals into a web of politics, religion and war that takes the cast across the continent.
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* AlphaBitch: Princess Alythia, pre-CharacterDevelopment.
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* BadassArmy: The Steels of the Saalshen Bacosh. Think Roman Legions with heavier armour and nightmarish siege weapons. In one of their first appearances they deal out a CurbstompBattle to an army three times their size that picked the terrain and had time to set up. The Army of Lenayin is the closest to an equal they have.
* BarbarianHero: In Lenayin, Sasha is comparatively well educated and cosmopolitan. By the end of the series even she has thought of herself as a barbarian warlord.
* BarbarianHero: In Lenayin, Sasha is comparatively well educated and cosmopolitan. By the end of the series even she has thought of herself as a barbarian warlord.
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* FantasticFightingStyle: Svaalverd, a style of swordfighting invented by the serrin and focussing on balance and leverage. There's also an unarmed equivalent, but it's rarely mentioned.
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* ProudWarriorRace: Lenays all the way, as well as their neighbours and nemeses the Cherrovan.
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* ActionGirl: Sasha and pretty much every female serrin seen.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Disproportionately so but not entirely. They're mostly out of touch rather than malevolent. The Civid Sein believe it anyway.
* DirtyCommunists: The Civid Sein in ''Tracato'' are this mixed with the French Revolution.
* DirtyCommunists: The Civid Sein in ''Tracato'' are this mixed with the French Revolution.
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* TheObiWan: Kessligh[[spoiler:, though he's crippled rather than killed.]]
* MasterSwordsman: Kessligh is probably the single best swordfighter in the series [[spoiler:until he's crippled at the end of ''Petrodor'' and Sasha takes his place]]. Rhillian is the best among the serrin, and Jaryd is in the running for best non-svaalverd fighter.
* MasterSwordsman: Kessligh is probably the single best swordfighter in the series [[spoiler:until he's crippled at the end of ''Petrodor'' and Sasha takes his place]]. Rhillian is the best among the serrin, and Jaryd is in the running for best non-svaalverd fighter.
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''A Trial of Blood and Steel'' is a fantasy quadrilogy by Joel Shepherd, consisting of ''Sasha'', ''Petrodor'', ''Tracato'' and ''Haven''. The series starts in the small village of Baerlyn highland nation of Lenayin with [[RebelliousPrincess former princess princess]] [[ActionGirl Sashandra Lenayin Lenayin]] training in swordwork under the master swordsman [[MasterSwordsman Kessligh Cronenverdt.Cronenverdt]]. Her sparring against the other villagers is interrupted by the arrival of her brother Prince Damon with a company of soldiers. A lord of a neighbouring province has been slain by another lord and the King has dispatched Damon to clear up the conflict before it spirals out of control. Things are, of course, more than they seem and from there the series spirals into a web of politics, religion and war that takes the cast across the continent.
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* ArcWords: Variations on "Would you be the first in a thousand years?" referencing the length of time [[ApeShallNeverKillApe since one serrin has murdered another]].
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* GreatOffscreenWar: Between Lenayin and its northern neighbour Cherrovan, and the reason for Kessligh coming to Lenayin from his native Torovan. Losses were so high at all levels that he was able to go from a foreign footsoldier to [[FourStarBadass Lenay Commander of Armies]].
* PsychicLink: [[spoiler:The serrin did something a thousand years ago that gave almost all of them a limited version of this. As a result they have had no violent internal conflict since.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Kiel, except that the PsychicLink shared by all serrin makes him extremely empathic to them, just not to humans. This makes him creepier, if anything.]]
* PsychicLink: [[spoiler:The serrin did something a thousand years ago that gave almost all of them a limited version of this. As a result they have had no violent internal conflict since.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Kiel, except that the PsychicLink shared by all serrin makes him extremely empathic to them, just not to humans. This makes him creepier, if anything.]]
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''A Trial of Blood and Steel'' is a fantasy quadrilogy by Joel Shepherd, consisting of ''Sasha'', ''Petrodor'', ''Tracato'' and ''Haven''. The series starts in the small village of Baerlyn highland nation of Lenayin with former princess Sashandra Lenayin training in swordwork under the master swordsman Kessligh Cronenverdt. Her sparring against the other villagers is interrupted by the arrival of her brother Prince Damon with a company of soldiers. A lord of a neighbouring province has been slain by another lord and the King has dispatched Damon to clear up the conflict before it spirals out of control. Things are, of course, more than they seem and from there the series spirals into a web of politics, religion and war that takes the cast across the continent.
Although the series is best classed as fantasy there is only one definitely supernatural element, with all others being at most MaybeMagicMaybeMundane, and one non-human race, the [[OurElvesAreBetter very elf-like]] serrin.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Serrin steel swords are much more lethal than ordinary weapons, and additionally much more durable.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Mostly averted. Lenays have shades of Scotland about them; being referred to as 'highlanders' and their accent as a 'brogue', and the Lisan Empire is probably China but we never see enough of it to be sure. The Kazeri are very Mongolian, though.
Although the series is best classed as fantasy there is only one definitely supernatural element, with all others being at most MaybeMagicMaybeMundane, and one non-human race, the [[OurElvesAreBetter very elf-like]] serrin.
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!! This series provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Serrin steel swords are much more lethal than ordinary weapons, and additionally much more durable.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Mostly averted. Lenays have shades of Scotland about them; being referred to as 'highlanders' and their accent as a 'brogue', and the Lisan Empire is probably China but we never see enough of it to be sure. The Kazeri are very Mongolian, though.
