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* MeaningfulName: A man with the name of [[Literature/ChildeRolandToTheDarkTowerCame Childe]], in a quest to climb a [[Franchise/TheDarkTower Dark Tower]]? Who would [[spoiler:do anything to beat the tower, including ''dying multiple times, in a loop'', and sacrifice his friends]]?
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* MeaningfulName: A man with the name of [[Literature/ChildeRolandToTheDarkTowerCame [[Literature/ChildeRowland Childe]], in a quest to climb a [[Franchise/TheDarkTower Dark Tower]]? Who would [[spoiler:do anything to beat the tower, including ''dying multiple times, in a loop'', and sacrifice his friends]]?
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** Childe's name is likely a ShoutOut to "Literature/ChildeRolandToTheDarkTowerCame", the poem that ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series was based upon. Also doubles as a MeaningfulName.
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** Childe's name is likely a ShoutOut to "Literature/ChildeRolandToTheDarkTowerCame", Literature/ChildeRowland of ''Literature/ChildeRolandToTheDarkTowerCame'', the poem that ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series was based upon. Also doubles as a MeaningfulName.upon.
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Celestine allows Doctor Trintignant to augment her so she can enter the Spire one more time and convince her ex-husband to leave. She succeeds, but there's no place for him as a FullConversionCyborg back home and it's implied he's returning to the Spire at the end of the story.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Celestine allows Doctor Trintignant to augment her so she can enter the Spire one more time and convince her ex-husband to leave. She succeeds, but there's no place for him as a FullConversionCyborg back home and it's implied he's returning to the Spire at the end of the story.story, even though he suspects there's no great secret to be discovered at the top of the Spire anyway.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Celestine allows Doctor Trintignant to augment her so she can enter the Spire one more time and convince her ex-husband to leave. She succeeds, but there's no place for him as a FullConversionCyborg back home and it's implied he's returning to the Spire at the end of the story.]]
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* SchmuckBait: Near the end, it's speculated that this might be the ultimate purpose of the tower. It lures in intelligent beings with its tests, forcing them to adapt their minds and bodies to pass its increasingly esoteric tests. Then, when they finally get to the top [[spoiler:they're "harvested" by the tower, like some kind of alien Venus Fly Trap.]]
* SelfDestructingSecurity: Why the characters don't just cut open the tower from orbit: they suspect it might destroy its own secrets in such a scenario.
* SelfDestructingSecurity: Why the characters don't just cut open the tower from orbit: they suspect it might destroy its own secrets in such a scenario.
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* SchmuckBait: Near [[spoiler:Near the end, it's speculated end Richard speculates that this might be the ultimate purpose of the tower.Blood Spire. It lures in intelligent beings with its tests, forcing them to adapt their minds and bodies to pass its increasingly esoteric tests. Then, when they finally get to the top [[spoiler:they're top, they're "harvested" by the tower, Spire like some kind of alien Venus Fly Trap.]]
* SelfDestructingSecurity: Why the characters don't just cut open thetower Blood Spire from orbit: they suspect it might destroy its own secrets in such a scenario.
* SelfDestructingSecurity: Why the characters don't just cut open the
