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* DropTheHammer: Knights Terra often wield giant hammers as their weapons, using their earthcafted strength to swing them with crushing force.

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** One of the more overt examples is [[spoiler:Gaius Sextus unleashing Mount Kalus on the city of Kalare, which is described in a manner reminisicent of how Mount Vesuvius is thought to have destroyed the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii]].
** Finally, each of Alera's recurring foes (minus the Vord, who are intentionally written as an OutsideContextProblem) can be seen as a loose analogue to recurring foes of Western Rome. As an example, the Canim represent the "more techonologically advanced" recurring foes of Rome, such as the Persians and Carthagians, with the latter being made particularly blatant in how the Narashan Canim's invasion of the Amaranth Vale provides [[FantasyConflictCounterpart a loose parallel to the Punic Wars]]. Meanwhile, the Marat and Icemen each represent different versions of the "horde of hostile barbarians" Rome often fought border conflicts with, with the Marat being more coded to resemble the ancient Germanic peoples while the Icemen are analogues to the Caledonian peoples of ancient Britannia.
** The Vord represent what the Romans were to their enemies. When Carthage, with its colorful mercenary armies wearing a variety of arms and armor from all over Africa and the Mediterranean, faced legions in standard, regulated and somewhat subdued equipment,they must have seemed like a faceless mass. When Caesar surrounded the Gauls at Alesia by building a double encirclement of walls,they must have seemed like an implacable hivemind. When 40-50,000 were annihilated in a single day at Carrhae, the Romans just replenished their ranks and washed over Carthage destroying it completely. Without killing Rome's "queen" - that is, the city itself - they would always come back, a faceless enemy that felt no fear and had no "honor" the way the Celts, Gauls and Germans saw it, that destroyed and consumed everything in its path. And the Vord's rationale is a twisted mirror of Rome's: bringing "civilization" so far as they considered it

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** One of the more overt examples is [[spoiler:Gaius Sextus unleashing Mount Kalus on the city of Kalare, which is described in a manner reminisicent reminiscient of how Mount Vesuvius is thought to have destroyed the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii]].
** Finally, each of Alera's recurring foes (minus the Vord, who are intentionally written as an OutsideContextProblem) can be seen as a loose analogue to recurring foes of Western Rome. As an example, the Canim represent the "more techonologically technologically advanced" recurring foes of Rome, such as the Persians and Carthagians, with the latter being made particularly blatant in how the Narashan Canim's invasion of the Amaranth Vale provides [[FantasyConflictCounterpart a loose parallel to the Punic Wars]]. Meanwhile, the Marat and Icemen each represent different versions of the "horde of hostile barbarians" Rome often fought border conflicts with, with the Marat being more coded to resemble the ancient Germanic peoples while the Icemen are analogues to the Caledonian peoples of ancient Britannia.
** The Vord represent what the Romans were to their enemies. When Carthage, with its colorful mercenary armies wearing a variety of arms and armor from all over Africa and the Mediterranean, faced legions in standard, regulated and somewhat subdued equipment,they equipment, they must have seemed like a faceless mass. When Caesar surrounded the Gauls at Alesia by building a double encirclement of walls,they walls, they must have seemed like an implacable hivemind. When 40-50,000 were annihilated in a single day at Carrhae, the Romans just replenished their ranks and washed over Carthage destroying it completely. Without killing Rome's "queen" - that is, the city itself - they would always come back, a faceless enemy that felt no fear and had no "honor" the way the Celts, Gauls and Germans saw it, that destroyed and consumed everything in its path. And the Vord's rationale is a twisted mirror of Rome's: bringing "civilization" so far as they considered itit
** Arnos' Senatorial Guard Legion receive severe casualties against the Canim wielding large, inwardly-curved swords against them that are capable of cutting through the legionaries' shields and then piercing their helmets, while Tavi's legion is somewhat alleviated because their helmets' designs are more recent. This references Roman legionaries' galea helmets being reinforced with metal bands around their skull to help protect their heads after previous battles against the Dacians saw their shields cut through and their helmets pierced by the Dacians' falx swords.

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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Fidelias is aware of this, [[InvokedTrope which is why he feels safe reporting failure to Lord Aquitaine]]. He is too valuable a tool to be thrown away carelessly, so he knows that he will not be killed until his failures outnumber his sucesses. [[spoiler:This also keeps him alive when Tavi discovers that Valiar Marcus is really the traitor Fidelias, though Tavi needs to be convinced that he does still need him.]]

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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Fidelias is aware of this, [[InvokedTrope which is why he feels safe reporting failure to Lord Aquitaine]]. He is too valuable a tool to be thrown away carelessly, so he knows that he will not be killed until his failures outnumber his sucesses.successes. [[spoiler:This also keeps him alive when Tavi discovers that Valiar Marcus is really the traitor Fidelias, though Tavi needs to be convinced that he does still need him.]]



* ExtranormalInstitute: The Academy is a school for teenaged youths in a world where everyone has magic abilities, so between math and history classes, there are also classes on magical theory and actual training on how to use magic.

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* ExtranormalInstitute: The Academy is a school for teenaged teenage youths in a world where everyone has magic abilities, so between math and history classes, there are also classes on magical theory and actual training on how to use magic.



* KansasCityShuffle: Tavi figures out that the best way of combatting an enemy who can read minds is to make sure nobody but him knows all of what is going on, so he uses plans that rely on complicated sets of sealed orders issued to many different people. [[spoiler:And in return, they do not tell him about the fact that they are sending backup when he meets said mind-reading foe.]]

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* KansasCityShuffle: Tavi figures out that the best way of combatting combating an enemy who can read minds is to make sure nobody but him knows all of what is going on, so he uses plans that rely on complicated sets of sealed orders issued to many different people. [[spoiler:And in return, they do not tell him about the fact that they are sending backup when he meets said mind-reading foe.]]


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* NatureVersusTechnology: Plant[=/=]Wood and Metal are treated as opposing elements.
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Too fantastical and implausible.


* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** As powerful as the High Lords and Ladies are, [[OneManArmy with the ability to destroy small armies on their own when they unleash their furycrafting]], they are not invincible. At the end of the day, they're still ''humans'', [[GlassCannon and so are remarkably fragile for all of their might]]. Indeed, the most common way they end up being killed is by sneak attacks or being surprised in combat. High Lady Aquitaine Invidia is nearly killed in ''Academ's Fury'' when several Vord sneak up on her, and in ''Captain's Fury'' she is [[spoiler:near-fatally wounded by a poisoned balest bolt shot by Fidelias, and only saved by the Vord Queen]].
** The Canim ritualists practice a particularly devastating form of BloodMagic that lets them perform a wide variety of spells, such as creating clouds of toxic acid, summoning storms, and even calling down [[BoltOfDivineRetribution veritable]] ''[[BoltOfDivineRetribution walls]]'' [[BoltOfDivineRetribution of lightning]]. However, they suffer the LogicalWeakness of being limited by how much blood there is to spare for the spell in question. As a specific ecxample, it's mentioned that it cost ''millions'' of ritualists their own lives to create the massive windstorm the Canean fleet needed to propel their refugee fleet from Canea to Alera in ''Cursor's Fury''.
** The Vord often specialize themselves to resemble the foes that they're facing in battle. As such, when they're [[spoiler:facing the Canim in Canea, they're typically designed to be huge, well over nine feet tall on average. However, this resulted in the ''croach'' having to be grown extra-thick to make sure that they wouldn't break through it by just walking. As such, while the Canean ''croach'' still can't support the weight of a Cane, it can easily support the weight of an Aleran, since Alerans are far lighter than the Canim are]].
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* ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler:Kitai]] is shaky on the details of her pregnancy, as she and the father [[InterspeciesRomance aren't ''quite'' the same species]].

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* ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler:Kitai]] is shaky on the details of her pregnancy, as she and the father [[InterspeciesRomance aren't ''quite'' aren't]] ''[[InterspeciesRomance quite]]'' [[InterspeciesRomance the same species]].

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