History Literature / Hurog

The death of his father brings about many changes, among them the fact that he inherits Oreg, who he thought was just a ghost. Oreg is actually an immortal being, [[SapientShip ''made'']] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild into castle Hurog]] so that the man who did it (Oreg's own father) would not need any other servants. Things are further complicated by the fact that two noblemen ask Ward to deliver a slave, who had fled to Hurog. Ward will do no such thing, stating that "There are no slaves in Hurog", and flees the place, with his CuteMute sister Ciarra, Oreg, the slave, and two loyal men of the castle staff in tow.

* AmazonianBeauty[=/=]BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Averted}}. [[ActionGirl Tisala]] has [[LadyLooksLikeADude a distinctively masculine face]] that is CoveredWithScars from years of fighting. Ward also notes that she's not "[[WaifFu slim-fragile]]" like most tall women, instead having a broad, "square build" that is [[MusclesAreMeaningful lean and heavily-muscled]], " ...stronger, I [Ward] darsay, than many men."

* BigBad: Jakoven

* AFateWorseThanDeath: It turns out that [[spoiler: the family's castle was built using magic that involved doing this to a child.]]
** Also, being eaten by basilisk is considered so. It swallows its prey whole, alive and fully conscious but paralyzed and slowly digests it.

** Half the cast have a dragon ancestor several generations back. ([[spoiler:Dragons can assume human form.]])

* HauntedCastle: See above.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Hurog means "Dragon". [[spoiler: It turns out the family has dragon blood - dragons can take human form.]]

* CourtMage: Ward's father kept one of those.

* DumbMuscle: Ward pretends to be this.

* FasterThanTheyLook: Ward is assumed to be slow, because of his huge size. He's actually quite fast.

* FriendlyGhost: Oreg, the family slave/ghost.

* NiceToTheWaiter: One of the more obvious signs that Ward is not like his father is the way he treats Oreg.

* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: Ward is confronted with the fact that a runaway slave has hidden in his castle. He is asked to return the slave to Ladislaw, a noble he dislikes, because Ladislaw bought the slave from someone who didn't actually own her, and will get in big (maybe lethal) trouble if he doesn't give her back. Ward states that "There are no slaves in Hurog", and therefore, the slave is not a slave, and he won't deliver her to the noble. His uncle later asks him whether he made this decision out of principle, or whether he would have decided differently if he didn't dislike Ladislaw. Ward himself isn't quite sure about his reasons.

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* AmazonianBeauty/BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Averted}}. [[ActionGirl Tisala]] has [[LadyLooksLikeADude a distinctively masculine face]] that is CoveredWithScars from years of fighting. Ward also notes that she's not "[[WaifFu slim-fragile]]" like most tall women, instead having a broad, "square build" that is [[MusclesAreMeaningful lean and heavily-muscled]], " ...stronger, I [Ward] darsay, than many men."

* EvilTaintedThePlace: Castle Hurog is stained by the evil magic that turned the place into a PoweredByAForsakenChild building. This is implied to be the reason why an unusual high number of people don't survive their childhood there, turn mad, or have other things wrong with them. Ciarra, for example, was born mute, with no physical reason to be found. [[spoiler: She gets better once the place is de-cursed and she goes to live somewhere else.]]

* PietaPlagarism: Beckram carries [[spoiler: Erdrick]]'s body before the king before asking for a position in his military.

''Hurog '', is a series of two books, ''Dragon Bones'' and ''Dragon Blood'', written by Creator/PatriciaBriggs. It is mainly about Ward, who [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretended to be stupid]] ever since his father gave him a beating that would almost have killed him. At the start of the novel, his father died, and Ward has problems to convince everyone that he is fully capable of inheriting and managing the estate.

'''Hurog ''', is a series of two books, ''Dragon Bones'' and ''Dragon Blood'', written by Creator/PatriciaBriggs. It is mainly about Ward, who [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretended to be stupid]] ever since his father gave him a beating that would almost have killed him. At the start of the novel, his father died, and Ward has problems to convince everyone that he is fully capable of inheriting and managing the estate.

* AmazonianBeauty/BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Averted}}. [[ActionGirl Tisala]] has [[LadyLooksLikeADude a distinctively masculine face]] that is CoveredWithScars from years of fighting. Ward also notes that she's not "[[WaifFu slim-fragile]]" like most tall women, instead having a broad, "square build" that is [[MusclesAreMeaningful lean and heavily-muscled]], "[[BadAss ...stronger, I [Ward] darsay, than many men.]]"

The death of his father brings about many changes, among them the fact that he inherits Oreg, who he thought was just a ghost. Oreg is actually an immortal being, ''made'' [[PoweredByAForsakenChild into castle Hurog]] so that the man who did it (Oreg's own father) would not need any other servants. Things are further complicated by the fact that two noblemen ask Ward to deliver a slave, who had fled to Hurog. Ward will do no such thing, stating that "There are no slaves in Hurog", and flees the place, with his CuteMute sister Ciarra, Oreg, the slave, and two loyal men of the castle staff in tow.

* ATasteOfTheLash: Oreg has a flashback to being whipped after laying a curse on one of his old masters. His powerful magic makes the damage real, at least until he can get enough of a grip to heal himself again.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: It turns out that [[spoiler: the family's castle was built using magic that involved doing this to a child.]]

* NiceToTheWaiter: One of the more obvious signs that Ward is not like his father is the way he treats Oreg.
* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: Brought up and discussed. The heroes come to the conclusion that rape is rape, regardless of any accidental "enjoyment".

* HalfHumanHybrid: Half the cast have a dragon ancestor several generations back. ([[spoiler:Dragons can assume human form.]])

* LadyLooksLikeADude: Tisala, who has [[StrongFamilyResemblance her father's]] homely, masculine features, including a [[RomanNose huge hawklike nose]], small, close-set eyes, a long, angular face, a heavy brow ridge and jaw, and a wide, thin-lipped mouth.

* NaiveAnimalLover: Ward is thought (partly due to his ObfuscatingStupidity) by other characters to be this with regard to a very vicious horse, but in fact is really a FriendToAllLivingThings, as he knows his way around horses and the horse in question is actually not so much aggressive as ruined by his violent father. The horse actually ''killed'' his father, but Ward decides to keep it and give it a cutesy name.