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* HumansAreBastards: The Arameri and the New Lights, at least.
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* HybridAllAlong: [[spoiler:Oree finds out partway through ''The Broken Kingdoms'' that she's a demon, explaining her WrongContextMagic. This poses her a bit of difficulty, given that the gods exterminated most demons for their ImmortalBreaker blood and another DivineConflict is looming.]]
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Nahadoth and Yeine, [[spoiler:Shiny and Oree]], Madding and Oree.
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* AsceticAesthetic: One rare sign that Relad -- who spends most of his time in a hedonistic stupor, expecting to die as soon as his sister claims the throne -- has HiddenDepths is his private quarters, which are austere and functional, with a [[TheBigBoard strategic world map]] inlaid in the floor.
* AsceticAesthetic: One rare sign that Relad -- who spends most of his time in a hedonistic stupor, expecting to die as soon as his sister claims the throne -- has HiddenDepths is his private quarters, which are austere and functional, with a [[TheBigBoard strategic world map]] inlaid in the floor.
* BestHerToBedHer: The Darre tribe is a matriarchal society where a woman must beat a male fighter in a wrestling match to come of age. Usually the family picks out kind of a wimpy guy, but heirs like Yeine have to beat a genuine warrior. If the woman wins, she rapes him. If the man wins, he rapes her.
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* BestHerToBedHer: The Darre tribe is a matriarchal society where a woman must beat a male fighter in a wrestling match to come of age. Usually the family picks out kind of a wimpy guy, but heirs like Yeine have to beat a genuine warrior. If the woman wins, she rapes him. If the man wins, he rapes her.
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* UncannyValley: Sieh, per WordOfGod
--> I focused on depicting the quintessential creepiness of him — the ancient soul that is always visible through his child’s eyes, the calculating adult mind which uses the wiles of a child to conceal its true complexity. But it’s hard to keep “creepy” from edging into “repulsive”. Sieh exists in a perpetual UncannyValley state; he looks and acts like something that he isn’t. Something we’re supposed to feel affection toward, not fear.
--> I focused on depicting the quintessential creepiness of him — the ancient soul that is always visible through his child’s eyes, the calculating adult mind which uses the wiles of a child to conceal its true complexity. But it’s hard to keep “creepy” from edging into “repulsive”. Sieh exists in a perpetual UncannyValley state; he looks and acts like something that he isn’t. Something we’re supposed to feel affection toward, not fear.
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* HighClassCannibal: The [[TheEmpire Arameri Dynasty]] rule the world with the power of [[CapturedSuperEntity four enslaved gods]] and enjoy whatever hedonistic pleasures they want in the palace of Sky. Some of them revived the old tribal practice of cannibalism, more or less ForTheEvulz.
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* IncestIsRelative: The Three are [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] who do it [[LoveTriangle three ways]]; in fact, it's implied that [[spoiler:[[MurderTheHypotenuse Itempas killed Enefa primarily out of jealousy]]]].
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* BabyAsPayment: Yeine learns that, before she was born, her mother traded her to the [[PhysicalGod Enefadeh gods]] in exchange for [[spoiler:curing Yeine's father's fatal illness]]. Rather than claim Yeine outright, they used her to [[spoiler:incubate the dead {{Top God}}dess Enefa's soul]].
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* SternSunWorshippers: The Itempan Church. Justified since Itempas is the god of order and light.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Also in book one, the Arameri have rankings of how close to the family you are; the most distant relatives (from the main family) are servants. Many of those lower rankings are gotten through being born of an unapproved union, like infidelity or relations with someone not Amn. So all of the mixed race people in Sky the Palace are servants except for Yeine.
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* MixedAncestry:
** In book one, Yeine is half Amn and half Darre, though she looks mostly Darre and thinks of herself as Darre. Also, T'vril, who is half Amn and half Ken.
** Also in book one, the Arameri have rankings of how close to the family you are; the most distant relatives (from the main family) are servants. Many of those lower rankings are gotten through being born of an unapproved union, like infidelity or relations with someone not Amn. So all of the mixed race people in Sky the Palace are servants except for Yeine.
** In book two, [[spoiler:Oree and Dateh who are descendants of demons, the children of Gods (specifically the Three) and mortals]].
** In book three, [[spoiler: Shahar and Deka, who are one-eighth god from great-grandpa Ahad, and Glee, Itempas and Oree's slightly-more-than-half godly daughter]].
** In book one, Yeine is half Amn and half Darre, though she looks mostly Darre and thinks of herself as Darre. Also, T'vril, who is half Amn and half Ken.
** Also in book one, the Arameri have rankings of how close to the family you are; the most distant relatives (from the main family) are servants. Many of those lower rankings are gotten through being born of an unapproved union, like infidelity or relations with someone not Amn. So all of the mixed race people in Sky the Palace are servants except for Yeine.
** In book two, [[spoiler:Oree and Dateh who are descendants of demons, the children of Gods (specifically the Three) and mortals]].
** In book three, [[spoiler: Shahar and Deka, who are one-eighth god from great-grandpa Ahad, and Glee, Itempas and Oree's slightly-more-than-half godly daughter]].
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** Yeine realizes ahead of time that her grandmother has essentially set her up to be raped during her rite of passage by choosing the strongest warrior she can find, so she [[spoiler: smuggles a knife in]] and [[spoiler: murders him while he's raping her]]. [[ValuesDissonance The Darre consider this deed to be a horrific example of this trope]], and have a hard time deciding whether to make Yeine their leader or execute her.
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** Yeine realizes ahead of time that her grandmother has essentially set her up to be raped during her rite of passage by choosing the strongest warrior she can find, so she [[spoiler: smuggles a knife in]] and [[spoiler: murders him while he's raping her]]. [[ValuesDissonance [[DeliberateValuesDissonance The Darre consider this deed to be a horrific example of this trope]], and have a hard time deciding whether to make Yeine their leader or execute her.
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** Yeine realizes ahead of time that her grandmother has essentially set her up to be raped during her rite of passage by choosing the strongest warrior she can find, so she [[spoiler: smuggles a knife in]] and [[spoiler: murders him while he's raping her]]. [[ValuesDissonance The Darre consider this deed to be a horrific example of this trope]], and have a hard time deciding whether to make Yeine their leader or execute her.
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* RapeAndRevenge: How Yeine's rite of passage works out. The Darre are horrified by what they consider DisproportionateRetribution and [[spoiler: the death of a valuable man]].
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* SexAsRiteOfPassage: In Darre. Or rather, fighting off a rapist as rite of passage.
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* SexAsRiteOfPassage: In Darre. Or rather, fighting off a rapist as rite raping someone or being being raped - publicly - depending on the outcome of passage.a ritual wrestling match.
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* HenotheisticSociety: The Arameri Empire is [[PhysicalReligion sponsored by]] and exclusively worships Itempas, the GodOfOrder and Light, after a DivineConflict where he murdered his sister, enslaved his brother Nahadoth, and recalled the lesser godlings from the planet. After the first book ends his monopoly, cults of Nahadoth return to open worship and godlings start attracting adherents.
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!![[SimilarlyNamedWorks You may be looking for]] the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', by Creator/ChristopherPaolini.
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* DivineInfernalFamily: The three creator Gods [[GodOfOrder Nahadoth]], [[GodOfChaos Itempas]], and Enefa are siblings born of the PrimordialChaos. They're all of decidedly grey morality, but after Itempas' coup against the others, the state religion of the Arameri Empire portrayed him as the ultimate good and Nahadoth as evil.
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!![[SimilarlyNamedWorks You may be looking for]] the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', by Creator/ChristopherPaolini.
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* GloomyGray: {{Discussed|Trope}} when [[spoiler:[[DeityOfHumanOrigin Yeine]]]] [[ThePowerOfCreation creates]] an offshore castle. She makes it uniform grey at first, but adds colours and plants when someone drily asks if she wants the inhabitants DrivenToSuicide.
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->There were three gods once... the god of day, the god of night, and the goddess of twilight and dawn. Or light and darkness and the shades between. Or order, chaos, and balance. None of that is important because one of them died, the other might as well have, and the last is the only one who matters anymore.
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The ''Inheritance Trilogy'' is a series of books by Creator/NKJemisin (website [[http://www.nkjemisin.com/ here]]) about a world where gods walk the earth alongside mortals (though, in general, not voluntarily). ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' and ''The Broken Kingdoms''; both came out in 2010, and the third and final book, ''The Kingdom of Gods,'' came out in 2011.
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The ''Inheritance Trilogy'' is a series of books by Creator/NKJemisin (website [[http://www.nkjemisin.com/ here]]) about a world where gods walk the earth alongside mortals (though, in general, not voluntarily). ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' and ''The Broken Kingdoms''; both came out in 2010, and the third and final book, ''The Kingdom of Gods,'' came out in 2011.
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* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: Yeine is seriously attracted to Nahadoth, even though he's so powerful that he routinely kills his mortal lovers by mistake.
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* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: Yeine is seriously attracted to Nahadoth, even though he's so powerful that he routinely kills his mortal lovers by mistake. (Or on purpose, if they're Arameri and they're foolish enough to tell him to do whatever he likes.)
* DisproportionateRetribution: When Yeine tries to stop Menchey and their allies from declaring war on Darr, one of the councillors tries to hit her. Nahadoth shields her, and the guy starts turning into black diamond when his hand hits the shield--and then when his friends try to cut his arm off to stop the diamond spreading, it jumps to ''them'', too. Yeine, horrified, tries to tell herself that he had it coming for trying to hit her, but can't really convince herself, and wonders if it might have been better if she ''hadn't'' asked Nahadoth not to kill anybody.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When Yeine tries to stop Menchey and their allies from declaring war on Darr, one of the councillors tries to hit her. Nahadoth shields her, and the guy starts turning into black diamond when his hand hits the shield--and then when his friends try to cut his arm off to stop the diamond spreading, it jumps to ''them'', too. Yeine, horrified, tries to tell herself that he had it coming for trying to hit her, but can't really convince herself, and wonders if it might have been better if she ''hadn't'' asked Nahadoth not to kill anybody.
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* BiTheWay: Nahadoth and Itempas were lovers with each other along with Enefah.
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* NighttimeTransformation: Nahadoth reverts to his true form at night, while during the day he is bound to mortal form.
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* AboveTheGods: The Maelstrom, the PrimordialChaos that created the three [[TopGod top gods]] and even them combined can't get close to it. Though it's ambiguous whether the Maelstrom is sentient or not.
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* GodIsNeutral: The Three Gods who sustain the universe behave according to their divine affinities rather than any human morality, showing both said affinity's positive and negative traits.
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* GreenEyes: A major plot point in book one -- Yeine, Enefa, and Sieh's "faded" green eyes.
** Also big in book three.
** Also big in book three.
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** If you can consider a {{Trickster}} and an AnthropomorphicPersonification of chaos to be "good", then Sieh and Nahadoth have their moments throughout the series.
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* SuffrageAndPoliticalLiberation: Eino is a teenage boy advocating for political rights and financial independence for men in the Darre {{Matriarchy}} while trying to avoid an ArrangedMarriage.
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* AlternatePersonalityPunishment: ThePunishment for the god Nahadoth was to be bound in mortal form and MadeASlave. At night, he's a HumanoidAbomination, but by day, he's a human with no memory of his divine self. [[spoiler:When Nahadoth is released, he [[LiteralSplitPersonality grants the human a body]] and sets him free.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Hado]]:''' All the people who feared the god did ''not'' fear the man. They quickly learned they could do things to the man that the god would not tolerate. So the man lived his life in increments, born with every dawn, dying with every sunset. Hating every moment of it. For two. Thousand. Years.
-->'''[[spoiler:Hado]]:''' All the people who feared the god did ''not'' fear the man. They quickly learned they could do things to the man that the god would not tolerate. So the man lived his life in increments, born with every dawn, dying with every sunset. Hating every moment of it. For two. Thousand. Years.
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* LanguageOfMagic: The language of the Gods is one -- for the Gods themselves, it's just an extension of their RealityWarping power, but mortals can learn the language to draw on a trickle of divine magic. However, it's so complex that any human who tried to ''speak'' a spell would probably die by MagicMisfire, so they mostly access it in GeometricMagic form by "scrivening" spells.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: All the gods and godlings who aren't {{Time Abyss}}es.Abyss}}es, since they were rendered sterile after Enefa's death two thousand years before the trilogy begins. [[spoiler:When Yeine assumes Enefa's power, new godlings start to come into the picture.]]
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