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**Malahi asks for confirmation of Lydia's description of the crown shelters. [[spoiler: Malahi is very aware that Lydia is the healer that saved Killian and is jealous.]]
**Malahi asks for confirmation of Lydia's description of the crown shelters. [[spoiler: Malahi is very aware that Lydia is the healer that saved Killian and is jealous.]]
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* DramaticIrony: Teriana is convinced that Lydia betrayed her and all the Maarin. Lydia spends essentially the entirety of her book the moment she realizes that the worship of the Six has reached the wrong ears trying to warn Teriana and moves to attempting to ingratiate herself to Cassius to constantly attempting to return to Celendor to rescue Teriana. It's only the reveal that Teriana no longer is in Celendor that stops Lydia's attempts to return home.
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* DramaticIrony: Teriana is convinced that Lydia betrayed her and all the Maarin. Lydia [[spoiler:Lydia spends essentially the entirety of her book from the moment she realizes that the worship of the Six has reached the wrong ears trying to warn warn/rescue Teriana and moves is quite willing to attempting to ingratiate sacrifice herself to Cassius to constantly attempting to return to Celendor to rescue Teriana.do so. It's only the reveal that Teriana no longer is in Celendor that stops Lydia's attempts to return home.]]
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* DramaticIrony: Teriana is convinced that Lydia betrayed her and all the Maarin. Lydia spends essentially the entirety of her book the moment she realizes that the worship of the Six has reached the wrong ears trying to warn Teriana and moves to attempting to ingratiate herself to Cassius to constantly attempting to return to Celandor Celendor to rescue Teriana. It's only the reveal that Teriana no longer is in Celandor Celendor that stops Lydia's attempts to return home.
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* StreetUrchin: Finn and the orphaned children who live with him in the sewers.
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* TheCorrupter: The Seventh god, also known as the Corruptor.
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* TheElitesJumpShip: When the Derin cross the wall and invade Mudamora, most of aristocrats flee the capital Mudaire by ships, leaving the common people to suffer and starve. Made worse by the fact that at night Mudaire's skies are filled with deimos, a kind of demonic flying horses, which kill anyone who is out in the open and also make fleeing Mudaire on foot impossible.
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* ActionGirl: Teriana is physically very fit, climbs the rigging easily, can land a good punch if needed -- and mentions off-handedly that she has killed some people.
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** Teriana is physically very fit, climbs the rigging easily, can land a good punch if needed -- and mentions off-handedly that she has killed somepeople.people.
** All of Malahi's bodyguards are good fighters or at least brawlers and they do not shy from a fight.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Upon arriving in Mudamora, Lydia is wearing only a bathing gown and has to walk quite a long distance upon rough land on bare feet. And then her foot falls through a sewer grate and she also hurts her ankle.
** Teriana is physically very fit, climbs the rigging easily, can land a good punch if needed -- and mentions off-handedly that she has killed some
** All of Malahi's bodyguards are good fighters or at least brawlers and they do not shy from a fight.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Upon arriving in Mudamora, Lydia is wearing only a bathing gown and has to walk quite a long distance upon rough land on bare feet. And then her foot falls through a sewer grate and she also hurts her ankle.
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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Marcus and Teriana. Also, non-romantically, Teriana towards some of legionnaires, like her bodyguards Quintus and Miki.
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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Marcus ApronMatron: Lady Calorian. As a widowed wife of the previous High Lord Calorian she should not even enter the council chamber and Teriana. Also, non-romantically, Teriana towards some of legionnaires, like yet she walks in, shoos her bodyguards Quintus eldest son (the current High Lord) from his chair and Miki.then calmly proceeds to order all gathered aristocrats (including the Princess) around. When Killian dares to suggest she should evacuate, she just arches her eyebrows. She is also probably the only ReasonableAuthorityFigure around.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Most of High Lords of Mudamora (with the notable exception of [[LadyOfWar High Lady Dareena Falorn]] are cowardly and care nothing about the plight of common people--and at the first sight of trouble flee beleaguered Mudamora, basically content to let people starve and die. Special mention should go to Helene Torrington, who is ''proud'' that she was able to buy an expensive ring from a desperate girl for a few pieces of silver.
* AscendedExtra: Teriana's friend Lydia, who appeared in the first few chapters of ''Dark Shores'', becomes TheProtagonist of ''Dark Skies''.
* AssholeVictim: King Serrick is a bad ruler, bad army leader and a despicable character overall, which means that nobody would mourn his death [[spoiler: and yet Lydia and Killian save him]].
* TheAtoner: Killian feels that he has failed the people of Mudaire when he let the Derin army cross the wall. That is why he goes down into sewers to feed the children living there.
--> ...half of his motivation for being down in these sewers was selfish--he needed tangible proof that he was doing something. That he needed to atone for bringing this suffering down upon them.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Most of High Lords of Mudamora (with the notable exception of [[LadyOfWar High Lady Dareena Falorn]] are cowardly and care nothing about the plight of common people--and at the first sight of trouble flee beleaguered Mudamora, basically content to let people starve and die. Special mention should go to Helene Torrington, who is ''proud'' that she was able to buy an expensive ring from a desperate girl for a few pieces of silver.
* AscendedExtra: Teriana's friend Lydia, who appeared in the first few chapters of ''Dark Shores'', becomes TheProtagonist of ''Dark Skies''.
* AssholeVictim: King Serrick is a bad ruler, bad army leader and a despicable character overall, which means that nobody would mourn his death [[spoiler: and yet Lydia and Killian save him]].
* TheAtoner: Killian feels that he has failed the people of Mudaire when he let the Derin army cross the wall. That is why he goes down into sewers to feed the children living there.
--> ...half of his motivation for being down in these sewers was selfish--he needed tangible proof that he was doing something. That he needed to atone for bringing this suffering down upon them.
* BigDamnHeroes: Dareena Falorn and her soldiers arriving at the last moment to save [[spoiler: Killian and his troops at the ford]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing:
** [[spoiler: Malahi]] who seems a nice, caring person but in reality manipulates everyone around to further her goals and when her first plan fails, is ready to even [[spoiler: send Lydia to kill her father]]. It's open to debate whether she really believes it's necessary for the higher good or just wants personal power.
** Hacken Calorian. He does feed the starving civillians in Mudamora but he does it to further his political agenda, he can be very charming if he wants to, but anyone who comes in closer contact with him realizes he's a {{Jerkass}}.
* BlindWithoutEm: Without her glasses, everything Lydia sees is blurry and she squints a lot.
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** [[spoiler: Malahi]] who seems a nice, caring person but in reality manipulates everyone around to further her goals and when her first plan fails, is ready to even [[spoiler: send Lydia to kill her father]]. It's open to debate whether she really believes it's necessary for the higher good or just wants personal power.
** Hacken Calorian. He does feed the starving civillians in Mudamora but he does it to further his political agenda, he can be very charming if he wants to, but anyone who comes in closer contact with him realizes he's a {{Jerkass}}.
* BlindWithoutEm: Without her glasses, everything Lydia sees is blurry and she squints a lot.
* BraidsOfAction: Young women who form princess Malahi's guard usually wear their hair long and braided, although some cut it short and the giantess Bercola shaves her head.
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** Small ornaments that Teriana wears in her braids turn out to be very important [[spoiler: after she's kidnapped.]]]]
** High Lord Torrington is the only one who drinks wine during the council meeting although he quickly puts his goblet away and makes a face. A few chapters later [[spoiler: he turns out to be infected with blight]].
** Small ornaments that Teriana wears in her braids turn out to be very important [[spoiler: after she's kidnapped.
** High Lord Torrington is the only one who drinks wine during the council meeting although he quickly puts his goblet away and makes a face. A few chapters later [[spoiler: he turns out to be infected with blight]].
* DisappointedInYou: Killian's father, when he hears about his son's failure to hold the wall.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The Domitius family is mostly filled with hatred. Gaius hates his brother Marcus for not dying (which would bury their DarkSecret forever), Marcus hates his brother and father for not even acknowledging his existence, and Marcus's sister Cordelia cares about him but hates her father and Gaius for forcing Marcus to join the legions.
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** The Domitius family is mostly filled with hatred. Gaius hates his brother Marcus for not dying (which would bury their DarkSecret forever), Marcus hates his brother and father for not even acknowledging his existence, and Marcus's sister Cordelia cares about him but hates her father and Gaius for forcing Marcus to join thelegions.legions.
** King Serrick and his daugher Malahi. He hates her because of their DarkSecret and would love to see her dead, while she is plotting to have him deposed and take the crown.
** The Domitius family is mostly filled with hatred. Gaius hates his brother Marcus for not dying (which would bury their DarkSecret forever), Marcus hates his brother and father for not even acknowledging his existence, and Marcus's sister Cordelia cares about him but hates her father and Gaius for forcing Marcus to join the
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* EmpathyDollShot: When riding through desolate countryside, Killian takes a shortcut through an abandoned farm and sees a doll propped against a post--and immediately starts thinking about its owner, whether the girl is safe somewhere in the south with her family or maybe starving and scared in Mudaire.
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* FoodGod: Yara, goddess of the earth and everything that grows from it. Particularly worshipped by the peaceful farmers of Katamarca.
* TheFundamentalist: Great Master Quindor of Hegeria's temple, so blinded by his belief that individuals marked by gods are born to serve that he sees no problem in basically buying Marked from other nations as slaves.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: The Seventh god, the Corruptor. Gods of Reath usually do not interfere directly and only act through their chosen. And while Derin's queen Rufina is marked by the Seventh, Lucius Cassius might be acting independently. Or not.
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* GuileHero: Lydia. She is not very strong, wears glasses and is certainly not trained in fighting but she often solves problems by quick thinking [[spoiler: like blinding a deimos with table cloth and liquor and then setting it on fire]].
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* HeroicAmbidexterity: When Killian is shot in the right shoulder, he simply switches sword hands, and he is often seen fighting with two blades.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: One of things that Killian gets thanks to his mark. He does not need to aim, he releases an arrow and knows it will hit the target and he does it at distances that would be impossible for other archers.
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* {{Jerkass}}: High Lord Hacken Calorian, Killian's oldest brother. Very handsome, rich and powerful, he is also greedy, full of contempt, does not care a whit about common people and often makes life miserable for Killian. Also, at one point he simply steps on the body of a girl who died while protecting his life (well, his and Malahi's) because he cannot be bothered to go around (or maybe he just does not care).
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* LadyOfWar: High Lady Dareena Falorn, marked by WarGod Tremon, an accomplished warrior, military leader and politician.
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* MurderArsonAndJaywalking: Grand Master Quindor at one point accuses Killian of "loitering about drinking, gambling, and... eating cake!"
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: How Malahi tries to persuade Lydia to go and [[spoiler: kill king Serrick]].
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: How Malahi tries to persuade Lydia to go and [[spoiler: kill king Serrick]].
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* OffingTheOffspring: Malahi believes her father Serrick wants to kill her to bury their DarkSecret.
* OffWithHisHead: Basically, the surest way to kill a corrupted is to cut its head, as the life they have stolen from others allows them to heal even fatal injuries, like being spiked with arrows. Slicing the spine or crashing the skull also works in some cases.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Even though giants are traditional enemies of Mudamora, they decide to help them fight Derin.
--> '''A giant''': You are our favorite to cross swords with, and we would not care to see you fall to another foe when we have long wished for you to fall to us.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Killian's friend Bercola is a foot taller than most people, has white hair, white eyebrows and colorless eyes. She talks loudly and when she pushes Killian to get him moving, she almost topples him. From what we learn in ''Dark Skies'', giants live on the Island of Eoten, worship Gespurn, god of elements, and like fighting.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: People infected by the blight surrounding Mudaire have gray skin and black veins. They do not speak, and feel no pain or emotions apart from rage and desire to attack anyone who is not similarly afflicted. On the one hand they are TechnicallyLivingZombie but on the other Grand Master Quindor claims that there is no life left in them.
* OffWithHisHead: Basically, the surest way to kill a corrupted is to cut its head, as the life they have stolen from others allows them to heal even fatal injuries, like being spiked with arrows. Slicing the spine or crashing the skull also works in some cases.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Even though giants are traditional enemies of Mudamora, they decide to help them fight Derin.
--> '''A giant''': You are our favorite to cross swords with, and we would not care to see you fall to another foe when we have long wished for you to fall to us.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Killian's friend Bercola is a foot taller than most people, has white hair, white eyebrows and colorless eyes. She talks loudly and when she pushes Killian to get him moving, she almost topples him. From what we learn in ''Dark Skies'', giants live on the Island of Eoten, worship Gespurn, god of elements, and like fighting.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: People infected by the blight surrounding Mudaire have gray skin and black veins. They do not speak, and feel no pain or emotions apart from rage and desire to attack anyone who is not similarly afflicted. On the one hand they are TechnicallyLivingZombie but on the other Grand Master Quindor claims that there is no life left in them.
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* SiblingRivalry: Hacken and Killian Calorian, the oldest and the youngest brother respectively. Hacken is a consummate politician, destined to be the next High Lord, while Killian is the warrior, just like their father--and even though Hacken is the oldest, he still envies Killian their father's attention. And then he goes on to make Killian's life really miserable, while all the time claiming he is doing it for Mudamora.
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* SmallStepsHero: Malahi believes that Killian and Lydia are like that, looking after orphans in Mudaire's sewers, while they should be helping soldiers fight and protect Mudaire from Derin's army.
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* DiseaseByAnyOtherName: The fits that plague Marcus are clearly asthma attacks, triggered either by something in the environment (which is why Servius cleans Marcus's horse so thoroughly before riding into Celendor) or emotions.
* DisneyDeath:The blurb As of the sequel strongly suggests that [[spoiler: Lydia]] ''Dark Skies'', Lydia is not as dead as [[spoiler: Marcus]] believes.
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* NoWomansLand: Celendor Empire, where women have no rights and are treated as property of their men (first fathers, later brothers or husbands). And since most marriages among the patricians are arranged, their feelings are usually not taken into consideration.
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* GodOfEvil: The Seventh god, the Corruptor, who is actively trying to undermine [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly faith in the other Six gods]] and TakeOverTheWorld.
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* ReligionOfEvil: That is how the cult of the Seventh god is perceived by other people of Dark Shores.
* ReligionOfEvil: That is how the cult of the Seventh god is perceived by other people of Dark Shores.
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* HealingHands: People marked by Hegeria (goddess of the body) gain the ability to see what is wrong with another person's body and heal diseases and injuries. However, the price of healing can be steep -- [[spoiler: Arinoquian healer Caradoc ages rapidly after being forced to heal Marcus]].
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* HealerGod: Hegeria, goddess of the body and souls, who gives her marked the ability to heal diseases and injuries.
* HealingHands: People marked by Hegeria (goddess of the body) gain the ability to see what is wrong with another person's body and heal diseases and injuries. However, the [[CastFromHitpoints price ofhealing healing]] can be steep -- [[spoiler: Arinoquian healer Caradoc ages rapidly after being forced to heal Marcus]].
* HealingHands: People marked by Hegeria (goddess of the body) gain the ability to see what is wrong with another person's body and heal diseases and injuries. However, the [[CastFromHitpoints price of
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* ElementalMotifs: The Maarin are connected to water, or more precisely, the oceans. They are a sea-faring nation worshipping the sea goddess Madoria, they prefer to be buried at the sea and their eyes change colour within the range of sea colours.
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Marcus is a hardened legion commander but instead of resorting to violence, he prefers creative solutions to his problems, because in reality he does not like hurting civilians, especially kids.
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Marcus is a hardened legion commander but instead of resorting to violence, he prefers creative solutions to his problems, because in reality he does not like hurting civilians, especially kids.kids.
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* UrbanSegregation: Celendor is divided into the harbor district, which is poor, smelly and full of cramped tenement houses, the Hill, inhabited by the rich (the best families have their houses on the top, facing the sea), and between them there is the Forum and other public buildings, which would qualify as "normal" part.
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* TouchOfDeath: The Seventh god grants its chosen (or the corrupted, as most people call them) the ability to steal another person's life force through touch, which also makes them very hard to kill (as they manage to accumulate hundreds of years of life through this).
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* TheWomenAreSafeWithUs: The main goal of the legions is to subdue a province as efficiently as possible, make the people see the benefits of joining the Empire and get them to pay taxes. Raping the populace would not be conductive to that. Fortunately for the legionnaires, there are also prostitutes.
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Gods on Reath need their faithful to have any powers. And since Celendor is [[UsefulNotes/Atheism atheist]] and has laws punishing "paganism" with death, gods have disappeared from the East.
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Gods on Reath need their faithful to have any powers. And since Celendor is [[UsefulNotes/Atheism [[UsefulNotes/{{Atheism}} atheist]] and has laws punishing "paganism" with death, gods have disappeared from the East.
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* ActionGirl: [[TheProtagonist Teriana]] is physically very fit, climbs the rigging easily, can land a good punch if needed -- and mentions off-handedly that she has killed some people.
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* Tsundere: Teriana towards Marcus, for most of the book. Other legionnaires, especially her bodyguards, bring out her nice side.
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[[caption-width-right:284:Dark Shores]]
''Literature/DarkShores'' is [[Main/YoungAdultLiterature young adult]] fantasy series written by Canadian author Creator/DanielleLJensen.
Teriana comes from the seafaring nation of the Maarin, who are the only ones able to cross the Endless Seas dividing the world of Reath into two parts, ignorant of one another. Marcus is the commander of the 37th Legion of the Celendrial Empire, famous for the fact that they never retreat. They should have nothing in common, yet they are brought together by a power-hungry politician who knows exactly how to threaten or blackmail them to do his bidding. And so Teriana agrees to lead Marcus and his legionnaires to the legendary Dark Shores to conquer the land for the Empire -- while she is secretly plotting their downfall.
The series consists so far of one novel:
* ''Dark Shores'' (2019)
!!The series gives examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: [[TheProtagonist Teriana]] is physically very fit, climbs the rigging easily, can land a good punch if needed -- and mentions off-handedly that she has killed some people.
* AltarDiplomacy: Lucius Cassius agrees to marry Senator Valerius's foster daughter in exchange for political favors. It is heavily hinted that most marriages among the patricians of Celendrial are like this.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Marcus and Teriana. Also, non-romantically, Teriana towards some of legionnaires, like her bodyguards Quintus and Miki.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Marcus and Teriana, with her being more belligerent.
* {{Blackmail}}: A weapon [[CorruptPolitician Lucius Cassius]] is very capable of using.
* BloodMagic: To communicate with Magnius, [[TheProtagonist Marcus]] needs to spill his blood into Magnius's mouth.
* BornUnderTheSail: The Maarin people. While their homeland is an archipelago, most of them spend most of their lives on their ships, which are also their homes. And they are the best sailors of the world.
* BurialAtSea: The Maarin practice giving the bodies of their dead back to the sea.
* ChildSoldiers: Each family in Celendor Empire has to send their second son to the legions at the age of seven. At the age of twelve they leave the training camp on their first campaign.
* ChekhovsGun: Small ornaments that Teriana wears in her braids turn out to be very important [[spoiler: after she's kidnapped.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Inflicted on the captured Maarin by Lucius Cassius and his [[TortureTechnician questioner]].
* CorruptPolitician: Lucius Cassius is an epitome of this, he uses blackmail, favors and fortune (acquired through shady means) to rise to the position of consul.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Marcus spent the last 12 years in Celendor's legions and is haunted by the things he has done and seen (including the infamous Chersome campaign).
* DarkSecret: What Lucius Cassius uses to make Marcus follow his orders (and, as Marcus muses at one point, not only him).
* DeadpanSnarker: Teriana's bodyguard Quintus.
* DirtyOldWoman: Teriana's aunt Yedda. She really likes making legionnaires on her ship uncomfortable by looking at their exercises and whistling at them.
* DivineConflict: At one point the sea goddess Madoria and the air god Gespurn get into fight over Teriana's ship. But that's nothing compared to the conflict between the Six gods of the West and the Seventh, the Corruptor.
* DyingAlone: Marcus is very grateful to Teriana, who comforted his dying men in the medics' tent. She thinks it was nothing but he explains to her that her very presence was important.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Domitius family is mostly filled with hatred. Gaius hates his brother Marcus for not dying (which would bury their DarkSecret forever), Marcus hates his brother and father for not even acknowledging his existence, and Marcus's sister Cordelia cares about him but hates her father and Gaius for forcing Marcus to join the legions.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: As the author herself claims, Celendor is based on the Roman Empire, with its military expansion, legions, political system, inferior role of women and even names and clothing. There's one huge difference, though. While the Roman Empire was polytheist and would accept deities from various cultures, Celendor is militantly atheist.
* FateWorseThanDeath: While the Maarin people would not mind being tortured and dying for their secret, having their bodies buried underground is something that fills them with terror, as it would stop their souls from passing on.
* GenderIsNoObject: Generally true in the Western part of Reath, where women work, fight and rule alongside men. {{Subverted}} in the East, where women are property of their men (fathers, brothers, husbands).
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Gods on Reath need their faithful to have any powers. And since Celendor is [[UsefulNotes/Atheism atheist]] and has laws punishing "paganism" with death, gods have disappeared from the East.
* GreenAroundTheGills: Some legionnaires on board of Teriana's ship (that is, until she goes to help them).
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Teriana is constantly reminded that neither she is totally good and moral nor Marcus totally evil. And even Cassius's son Titus, while he certainly has his own agenda, seems to be quite reasonable and has some redeeming qualities.
* HegemonicEmpire: The Celendrial Empire. First and foremost, it's very efficient in everything -- laws, taxes, logistics, military. And it does not oppress anybody, as long as they obey the laws, pay the taxes, send their second sons to the legions and give up religion. However, under [[CorruptPolitician Cassius's]] leadership as consul, it might as well become TheEmpire.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Marcus constantly thinks (and says at one point) that Teriana deserves someone better than him.
* KeepingSecretsSucks: Maarin people have one mandate: "East must not meet West", which means keeping the two halves of the world ignorant of each other. And that may mean withstanding ColdBloodedTorture.
* LordOfTheOcean: Or in this case, Lady -- the goddess Madoria that the Maarin worship.
* ManlyGay: Teriana's bodyguards Quintus and Miki, who are tough legionnaires -- and Quintus is also a trained and accomplished assassin. This does not stop Teriana from calling them "lovebirds".
* MoodRingEyes: The Maarin have eyes that ripple like the sea and change color (within the range of possible sea colors) along with their mood. Teriana closes her eyes at one point so that Marcus would not see how she feels.
* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: How the people of Celendor Empire view "pagans" (those who believe in gods).
* PirateGirl: The Cel often call Teriana a pirate, although ''Quincense'' is a merchant vessel.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teriana's mother is a Triumvir, which is the closest that the Maarin have to royalty, and she is a captain of a merchant vessel, constantly travelling around the world. The same goes for other nations of the West: daughter of Gamdeshi Sultan is the commander of her father's army and Empress Ereni of Arinoquia is a capable warrior and leader of her people.
* RunawayBride: Teriana's friend Lydia is really unhappy with her ArrangedMarriage and would love to run away -- and Teriana would love to help her but is forbidden by her mother.
* ScarsAreForever: At one point a group of legionnaires and Teriana are sitting around a campfire, discussing their scars. And then along comes Marcus, who has a scar on his face, left by an arrow that almost killed him.
* SeaMonster: ''Quincense'''s guardian, [[SemiDivine Magnius]], is a huge sea serpent.
* SecretKeeper: The Maarin, concerning the existence of East and West and paths that allow them to cross the Endless Seas.
* SemiDivine: ''Quincense'''s guardian Magnius is a scion of the sea goddess Madoria, which gives him several supernatural abilities.
* SicklyChildGrewUpStrong: While Marcus in certain circumstances still has fits that plagued his childhood, he is also the commander of his own legion and an accomplished fighter.
* StoryboardBody: Each legionnaire has two tattoos -- his legion's number on the breast and his personal identification number on the back, used to identify deserters and the fallen.
* {{Telepathy}}: Magnius communicates with the Maarin (and other people) by speaking in their minds and sometimes showing visions of events.
* Teleportation: Xenthier stems allow instant travel over large distances, but they are one-directional only.
* TheWomenAreSafeWithUs: The main goal of the legions is to subdue a province as efficiently as possible, make the people see the benefits of joining the Empire and get them to pay taxes. Raping the populace would not be conductive to that. Fortunately for the legionnaires, there are also prostitutes.
* TilMurderDoUsPart: Lucius Cassius forces [[spoiler: Marcus]] to kill his future wife -- the planned marriage was [[AltarDiplomacy arranged for political reasons]] anyway and he dislikes his bride's independent thinking.
* TortureIsIneffective: On all Maarin except Teriana, as they enter a kind of trance that allows them to completely tune out pain.
* TortureTechnician: A masked questioner Lucius Cassius employs to force the captured Maarin to speak. Marcus finally stops the man, hits him and orders him to leave.
* TranslationWithAnAgenda: On Dark Shores, Teriana sometimes redacts her translations for Marcus. However, as Marcus learns new languages very quickly, this soon leads to BilingualBackfire.
* Tsundere: Teriana towards Marcus, for most of the book. Other legionnaires, especially her bodyguards, bring out her nice side.
* WouldHurtAChild: Urcon's people have been taking children from people who could not afford to pay taxes [[spoiler: and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild killing them]] to gain power]].
* WouldntHitAGirl: Servius, one of Marcus's officers and friends, would never ever allow a girl or a woman to get hurt in his presence, because he grew up in a family with six sisters.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Marcus is a hardened legion commander but instead of resorting to violence, he prefers creative solutions to his problems, because in reality he does not like hurting civilians, especially kids.
[[caption-width-right:284:Dark Shores]]
''Literature/DarkShores'' is [[Main/YoungAdultLiterature young adult]] fantasy series written by Canadian author Creator/DanielleLJensen.
Teriana comes from the seafaring nation of the Maarin, who are the only ones able to cross the Endless Seas dividing the world of Reath into two parts, ignorant of one another. Marcus is the commander of the 37th Legion of the Celendrial Empire, famous for the fact that they never retreat. They should have nothing in common, yet they are brought together by a power-hungry politician who knows exactly how to threaten or blackmail them to do his bidding. And so Teriana agrees to lead Marcus and his legionnaires to the legendary Dark Shores to conquer the land for the Empire -- while she is secretly plotting their downfall.
The series consists so far of one novel:
* ''Dark Shores'' (2019)
!!The series gives examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: [[TheProtagonist Teriana]] is physically very fit, climbs the rigging easily, can land a good punch if needed -- and mentions off-handedly that she has killed some people.
* AltarDiplomacy: Lucius Cassius agrees to marry Senator Valerius's foster daughter in exchange for political favors. It is heavily hinted that most marriages among the patricians of Celendrial are like this.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Marcus and Teriana. Also, non-romantically, Teriana towards some of legionnaires, like her bodyguards Quintus and Miki.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Marcus and Teriana, with her being more belligerent.
* {{Blackmail}}: A weapon [[CorruptPolitician Lucius Cassius]] is very capable of using.
* BloodMagic: To communicate with Magnius, [[TheProtagonist Marcus]] needs to spill his blood into Magnius's mouth.
* BornUnderTheSail: The Maarin people. While their homeland is an archipelago, most of them spend most of their lives on their ships, which are also their homes. And they are the best sailors of the world.
* BurialAtSea: The Maarin practice giving the bodies of their dead back to the sea.
* ChildSoldiers: Each family in Celendor Empire has to send their second son to the legions at the age of seven. At the age of twelve they leave the training camp on their first campaign.
* ChekhovsGun: Small ornaments that Teriana wears in her braids turn out to be very important [[spoiler: after she's kidnapped.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Inflicted on the captured Maarin by Lucius Cassius and his [[TortureTechnician questioner]].
* CorruptPolitician: Lucius Cassius is an epitome of this, he uses blackmail, favors and fortune (acquired through shady means) to rise to the position of consul.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Marcus spent the last 12 years in Celendor's legions and is haunted by the things he has done and seen (including the infamous Chersome campaign).
* DarkSecret: What Lucius Cassius uses to make Marcus follow his orders (and, as Marcus muses at one point, not only him).
* DeadpanSnarker: Teriana's bodyguard Quintus.
* DirtyOldWoman: Teriana's aunt Yedda. She really likes making legionnaires on her ship uncomfortable by looking at their exercises and whistling at them.
* DivineConflict: At one point the sea goddess Madoria and the air god Gespurn get into fight over Teriana's ship. But that's nothing compared to the conflict between the Six gods of the West and the Seventh, the Corruptor.
* DyingAlone: Marcus is very grateful to Teriana, who comforted his dying men in the medics' tent. She thinks it was nothing but he explains to her that her very presence was important.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Domitius family is mostly filled with hatred. Gaius hates his brother Marcus for not dying (which would bury their DarkSecret forever), Marcus hates his brother and father for not even acknowledging his existence, and Marcus's sister Cordelia cares about him but hates her father and Gaius for forcing Marcus to join the legions.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: As the author herself claims, Celendor is based on the Roman Empire, with its military expansion, legions, political system, inferior role of women and even names and clothing. There's one huge difference, though. While the Roman Empire was polytheist and would accept deities from various cultures, Celendor is militantly atheist.
* FateWorseThanDeath: While the Maarin people would not mind being tortured and dying for their secret, having their bodies buried underground is something that fills them with terror, as it would stop their souls from passing on.
* GenderIsNoObject: Generally true in the Western part of Reath, where women work, fight and rule alongside men. {{Subverted}} in the East, where women are property of their men (fathers, brothers, husbands).
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Gods on Reath need their faithful to have any powers. And since Celendor is [[UsefulNotes/Atheism atheist]] and has laws punishing "paganism" with death, gods have disappeared from the East.
* GreenAroundTheGills: Some legionnaires on board of Teriana's ship (that is, until she goes to help them).
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Teriana is constantly reminded that neither she is totally good and moral nor Marcus totally evil. And even Cassius's son Titus, while he certainly has his own agenda, seems to be quite reasonable and has some redeeming qualities.
* HegemonicEmpire: The Celendrial Empire. First and foremost, it's very efficient in everything -- laws, taxes, logistics, military. And it does not oppress anybody, as long as they obey the laws, pay the taxes, send their second sons to the legions and give up religion. However, under [[CorruptPolitician Cassius's]] leadership as consul, it might as well become TheEmpire.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Marcus constantly thinks (and says at one point) that Teriana deserves someone better than him.
* KeepingSecretsSucks: Maarin people have one mandate: "East must not meet West", which means keeping the two halves of the world ignorant of each other. And that may mean withstanding ColdBloodedTorture.
* LordOfTheOcean: Or in this case, Lady -- the goddess Madoria that the Maarin worship.
* ManlyGay: Teriana's bodyguards Quintus and Miki, who are tough legionnaires -- and Quintus is also a trained and accomplished assassin. This does not stop Teriana from calling them "lovebirds".
* MoodRingEyes: The Maarin have eyes that ripple like the sea and change color (within the range of possible sea colors) along with their mood. Teriana closes her eyes at one point so that Marcus would not see how she feels.
* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: How the people of Celendor Empire view "pagans" (those who believe in gods).
* PirateGirl: The Cel often call Teriana a pirate, although ''Quincense'' is a merchant vessel.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Teriana's mother is a Triumvir, which is the closest that the Maarin have to royalty, and she is a captain of a merchant vessel, constantly travelling around the world. The same goes for other nations of the West: daughter of Gamdeshi Sultan is the commander of her father's army and Empress Ereni of Arinoquia is a capable warrior and leader of her people.
* RunawayBride: Teriana's friend Lydia is really unhappy with her ArrangedMarriage and would love to run away -- and Teriana would love to help her but is forbidden by her mother.
* ScarsAreForever: At one point a group of legionnaires and Teriana are sitting around a campfire, discussing their scars. And then along comes Marcus, who has a scar on his face, left by an arrow that almost killed him.
* SeaMonster: ''Quincense'''s guardian, [[SemiDivine Magnius]], is a huge sea serpent.
* SecretKeeper: The Maarin, concerning the existence of East and West and paths that allow them to cross the Endless Seas.
* SemiDivine: ''Quincense'''s guardian Magnius is a scion of the sea goddess Madoria, which gives him several supernatural abilities.
* SicklyChildGrewUpStrong: While Marcus in certain circumstances still has fits that plagued his childhood, he is also the commander of his own legion and an accomplished fighter.
* StoryboardBody: Each legionnaire has two tattoos -- his legion's number on the breast and his personal identification number on the back, used to identify deserters and the fallen.
* {{Telepathy}}: Magnius communicates with the Maarin (and other people) by speaking in their minds and sometimes showing visions of events.
* Teleportation: Xenthier stems allow instant travel over large distances, but they are one-directional only.
* TheWomenAreSafeWithUs: The main goal of the legions is to subdue a province as efficiently as possible, make the people see the benefits of joining the Empire and get them to pay taxes. Raping the populace would not be conductive to that. Fortunately for the legionnaires, there are also prostitutes.
* TilMurderDoUsPart: Lucius Cassius forces [[spoiler: Marcus]] to kill his future wife -- the planned marriage was [[AltarDiplomacy arranged for political reasons]] anyway and he dislikes his bride's independent thinking.
* TortureIsIneffective: On all Maarin except Teriana, as they enter a kind of trance that allows them to completely tune out pain.
* TortureTechnician: A masked questioner Lucius Cassius employs to force the captured Maarin to speak. Marcus finally stops the man, hits him and orders him to leave.
* TranslationWithAnAgenda: On Dark Shores, Teriana sometimes redacts her translations for Marcus. However, as Marcus learns new languages very quickly, this soon leads to BilingualBackfire.
* Tsundere: Teriana towards Marcus, for most of the book. Other legionnaires, especially her bodyguards, bring out her nice side.
* WouldHurtAChild: Urcon's people have been taking children from people who could not afford to pay taxes [[spoiler: and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild killing them]] to gain power]].
* WouldntHitAGirl: Servius, one of Marcus's officers and friends, would never ever allow a girl or a woman to get hurt in his presence, because he grew up in a family with six sisters.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Marcus is a hardened legion commander but instead of resorting to violence, he prefers creative solutions to his problems, because in reality he does not like hurting civilians, especially kids.
