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* NobleTongue: The King, his courtiers, and other highly educated people speak and write mainly in Latin. Farmer Giles and his fellow townsfolk use "the vulgar tongue" -- ie, English.
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* NobleTongue: The King, his courtiers, and other highly educated people speak and write mainly in Latin. Farmer Giles and his fellow townsfolk use "the vulgar tongue" -- ie, i.e., English.
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* ResignedToTheCall: When the King orders him to accompany his knights to find the dragon Giles realizes there aren't any more excuses he can make.
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* ResignedToTheCall: When the King orders him to accompany his knights to find the dragon dragon, Giles realizes there aren't any more excuses he can make.
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* GrailInTheGarbage: After Giles become a celebrity from shooting at the giant, the King sends him a sword as a gift, choosing a plain weapon which is out of fashion. It also happens to be a powerful magical sword meant to fight dragons.
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* NobleTongue: The King, his courtiers, and other highly educated people speak and write mainly in Latin. Farmer Giles and his fellow townsfolk use "the vulgar tongue" -- ie, English.
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* TalkingAnimal: Garm, though the narrator assures us that at the time all dogs could talk, and Chrysophylax
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* TalkingAnimal: Garm, though the narrator assures us that at the time all dogs could talk, and Chrysophylaxtalk. Also Chrysophylax, although as a dragon it's more or less expected of him.
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* DragonsVersusKnights: The story parodies the convention of dragon-slaying knights through Farmer Giles, who gets in possession of a legendary dragon-slaying sword and needs to pose as a knight to slay the dragon that menaces the region.
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* DragonsVersusKnights: The story parodies the convention of dragon-slaying knights through Farmer Giles, who gets in comes into possession of a legendary dragon-slaying sword and needs to pose as a knight to slay the dragon that menaces the region.
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* MonstrousCannibalism: At the end of the story, Chrysophylax returns to his cave and finds that a young dragon occupied it. Chrysophylax kills and devours the other dragon.
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when the story says that the giant was "crushed", it isn't meant to be taken literally
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* AssholeVictim: In the ending Chrysophylax pays a visit to the giant who had given him the erroneous information that had begun his misadventure with Giles. The giant [[SquashedFlat isn't so big]] after he's finished with him.
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* AnachronismStew: The story claims to take place "before [[KingArthur Arthur]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptarchy Seven Kingdoms of the English]]" (which suggests, before c. 500 AD), but Giles wields a blunderbuss (a musket-like gun that wouldn't be invented until several centuries later), and the whole thing feels more like a generic mythic "past" than a specific time period. This is very much intentional.
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* AnachronismStew: The story claims to take place "before [[KingArthur [[Myth/KingArthur Arthur]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptarchy Seven Kingdoms of the English]]" (which suggests, before c. 500 AD), but Giles wields a blunderbuss (a musket-like gun that wouldn't be invented until several centuries later), and the whole thing feels more like a generic mythic "past" than a specific time period. This is very much intentional.
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* BilingualBonus: The blacksmith opines that Hilarius and Felix are "ominous names"--in truth, they mean "cheerful" and "happy" and are anything but ominous.
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* BilingualBonus: The blacksmith opines that Hilarius and Felix are "ominous names"--in truth, they mean "cheerful" and "happy" and are anything but ominous. Unless, of course, the ''dragon'' is the one supposed to be cheerful and happy with the whole deal, which he's probably counting on.
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* TheBlacksmith: 'Sunny Sam', a morose man who always predicts everything will fail and is only happy when his doomsayings come true. Is forced to devise a mail coat for Giles from leftover bits and pieces. His real name is "Fabricius Cunctator", which can be translated as "the Slow Smith".
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* TheBlacksmith: 'Sunny Sam', "Sunny Sam", a morose man who always predicts everything will fail and is only happy when his doomsayings come true. Is He's forced to devise a mail coat for Giles from leftover bits and pieces. His real name is "Fabricius Cunctator", which can be translated as "the Slow Smith".
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* CharacterTitle: Though it's the Vulgar version - Giles' real name is the Latin "[=Æ=]gidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo".
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* CharacterTitle: Though it's the Vulgar version - -- Giles' real name is the Latin "[=Æ=]gidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo".
* DragonsVersusKnights: The story parodies the convention of dragon-slaying knights through Farmer Giles, who gets in possession of a legendary dragon-slaying sword and needs to pose as a knight to slay the dragon that menaces the region.
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* FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither: A lot of younger dragons believe that knights are a myth. The older ones know better, although they admit that they are few and far, and not a danger anymore, which is true since the King and his Knights are pretty useless. The only person who can effectively deal with Chrysophylax the dragon is a fat, red-headed farmer who doesn't like trespassers — even if they are scaly and breathe fire.
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* FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither: A lot of younger dragons believe that knights are a myth. The older ones know better, although they admit that they are few and far, and not a danger anymore, which is true since the King and his Knights are pretty useless. The only person who can effectively deal with Chrysophylax the dragon is a fat, red-headed farmer who doesn't like trespassers — -- even if they are scaly and breathe fire.
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* AssholeVictim: In the ending Chrysophylac pays a visit to the giant who had given him the erroneous information that had begun his misadventure with Giles. The giant [[SquashedFlat isn't so big]] after he's finished with him.
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* AssholeVictim: In the ending Chrysophylac Chrysophylax pays a visit to the giant who had given him the erroneous information that had begun his misadventure with Giles. The giant [[SquashedFlat isn't so big]] after he's finished with him.
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* AssholeVictim: In the ending Chrysophylac pays a visit to the giant who had given him the erroneous information that had begun his misadventure with Giles. The giant [[SquashedFlat isn't so big]] after he's finished with him.
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* NotAlwaysEvil: Eventually both rich dragon and farmer-turned-knight had to agree to a truce. In his bad heart Chrysophylax felt kindness towards Giles, as much as a dragon could feel.
