History Literature / ChildrenOfTheNameless

* MissFanservice: Subverted; Miss Highwater is ''implied'' to be disgustingly sexy (she says she first designed her body when she was young, and thus it was mostly intended to appeal to hormonal boys), but her appearance is never described in any detail whatsoever. In the last scene, she's implied to be naked, but only from the extremely embarrassed reactions of the priests.

* HornyDevils: PlayedWith. Miss Highwater is never explicitly called a succubus, but is one in all but name. Her contract with Davriel even stipulates that she gets his soul if she ever manages to seduce him. Hilariously, he summoned her because he'd heard of how good she was at using ExactWords in her contracts, and wanted someone that good to handle his paperwork for him.

* AmbiguousEnding: Did [[spoiler: Tacenda Ignite a latent Planeswalker Spark]]? Did [[spoiler: the Entity of the Bog ''give'' her Planeswalking abilities]]? Or did [[spoiler: she simply AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence within Innistrad]]? It's left unclear, and WordOfGod is that this was intentional since [[spoiler: he only had permission from WotC to make ''one'' Planeswalker]].

''Children of the Nameless'' is a ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' novella set on Innistrad, written by ''Creator/BrandonSanderson'', and available for free download on the ''Magic'' website.

* SiblingYinYang: Tacenda and Willia each got half the Bog's power, giving them complementary gifts and curses: Willia is inhumanly strong and powerful while the sun is up, but becomes completely blind while it's down, while Tacenda can see clearly in the dark and perform MagicMusic, but is blind while the sun is up.

* PowerParasite: Davriel's only innate power (without tapping the Entity, at least), is the ability to steal magical tricks from other people. It's not permanent: He can hold a power for anywhere from a few weeks to a few months without using it, if he does it will be gone in a few days (or after a couple of uses).

** Before the start of the story, the angels who most humans worshiped all went violently insane, dealing hefty damage to faith and religion. The Nameless Angel is the exception, and her religion is still gaining followers. [[spoiler:But she wasn't actually an exception--her followers chained her up in the basement when she went insane, and eventually forced an old demon hunter to execute her. Part of what caused Willia's StartOfDarkness was finding out that her religion had murdered her god]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:Tacenda seemingly speaks to the angel's soul (even though angels aren't supposed to have souls), which is calm and kind and gives her the advice she needs to save everyone]].

''Children of the Nameless'' is a ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' novella, written by ''Creator/BrandonSanderson'', and available for free download on the ''Magic'' website.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Bog is... strange. It raises the local villagers like cattle and takes their souls when they die, but [[spoiler:the souls live on as part of it, which is as good an afterlife as they can hope for]]. The person who killed the town, [[spoiler:Willia, was seemingly corrupted by the power of the Bog in her head, but the power of the Bog in Tacenda's head is calm and gives Tacenda everything she needs in the end]].

* LightIsNotGood: Before the start of the story, the angels who most humans worshiped all went violently insane, dealing hefty damage to faith and religion. The Nameless Angel is the exception, and her religion is still gaining followers. [[spoiler:But she wasn't actually an exception--her followers chained her up in the basement when she went insane, and eventually forced an old demon hunter to execute her. Part of what caused Willia's StartOfDarkness was finding out that her religion had murdered her god]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:Tacenda seemingly speaks to the angel's soul (even though angels aren't supposed to have souls), which is calm and kind and gives her the advice she needs to save everyone]].

* AmbiguouslyGay: Davriel completely ignores all of Miss Highwater's attempts to seduce him. In fact, their contract is that she gets his soul if she can successfully seduce him, and he never makes a contract that has any chance of coming back to bite him.

* EmbarrassingFirstName: Miss Highwater's True Name is "Voluptia." Davriel says it sounds like something a twelve year-old boy would come up with. She retorts that she was only a few days old when she came up with it.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Early in the book, Davriel uses a minor spell that lets him coat surfaces in ink. Every time his arsenal of stolen spells is enumerated thereafter, the inkspell is mentioned and dismissed as useless to the problem at hand. Until at the climax of the book, he remembers that Willa is ''terrified'' of the dark, and uses the spell to coat her eyes in ink, blinding her.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: Davriel has an entire ''mansion'' of demon's who all have contracts for his soul. It goes to whichever one manages to fulfill their contracts stipends first (Brerig has to solve a riddle, Crunchgnar has to make sure Davriel lives to sixty-five without dying, ect.). Luckily for Davriel, he's ''very'' good at [[ExactWords wording the contracts]] in such a way to make that impossible.

* ChekovsGun: [[spoiler: Early in the book, Davriel uses a minor spell that lets him coat surfaces in ink. Every time his arsenal of stolen spells is enumerated thereafter, the inkspell is mentioned and dismissed as useless to the problem at hand. Until at the climax of the book, he remembers that Willa is ''terrified'' of the dark, and uses the spell to coat her eyes in ink, blinding her.]]

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Willia was responsible for the death of her and Tacenda's parents, though she claims it was accidental. Everyone after that, however, wasn't]].

* AmbiguousEnding: Did [[spoiler: Tacenda Ignite a laten Planeswalker Spark]]? Did [[spoiler: the Entity of the Bog ''give'' her Planeswalking abilities]]? Or did [[spoiler: she simply AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence within Innistrad]]? It's left unclear, and WordOfGod is that this was intentional since [[spoiler: he only had permission from WotC to make ''one'' Planeswalker]].
* TheCorrupter: The Entity within Davriel constantly tries to get Davriel to use its power to become a MultiversalConqueror. He mostly ignores it. [[spoiler: Willia, on the other hand...]]

** According to Davriel, demon's lack souls, so once they're dead, they're simply ''gone''. [[spoiler: Brerig and Crunchgnar suffer this fate]].

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