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*SeizaSquirm: Kallen Selios, arrogant mana mutation field agent, demonstrates HiddenDepths in this fashion. She has to take part in a formal tea ceremony with the lightning goddess, Ligol, while in this position. Failure to do so is punished by lightning strike. She passes effortlessly, while her {{sidekick}}, Emily, is less naturally composed.
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*TwentyBearAsses: The only reason that Eric meets Kallen in Mambi during ''Looming Shadow'' is that she's collecting one hundred monsters for mana mutation research. The drop rate for the elemental ice energy that she needs is frustratingly low.
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* WorldOfCardboardhSpeech: Tiza has suffered amensia for years before the series began. It causes her confusion about her past and identity. Then she meets Haburt, who she's subconsciously terrified of but she refuses to admit to it. When he makes his move and recreates a crucial momment from her past, she admits to this fear and steps forward confidently to overcome it. [[spoiler: Then he sheds light on her past and tells her the identity of her parents.]]
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* WorldOfCardboardhSpeech: WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Tiza has suffered amensia for years before the series began. It causes her confusion about her past and identity. Then she meets Haburt, who she's subconsciously terrified of but she refuses to admit to it. When he makes his move and recreates a crucial momment from her past, she admits to this fear and steps forward confidently to overcome it. [[spoiler: Then he sheds light on her past and tells her the identity of her parents.]]
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*WorldOfCardboardhSpeech: Tiza has suffered amensia for years before the series began. It causes her confusion about her past and identity. Then she meets Haburt, who she's subconsciously terrified of but she refuses to admit to it. When he makes his move and recreates a crucial momment from her past, she admits to this fear and steps forward confidently to overcome it. [[spoiler: Then he sheds light on her past and tells her the identity of her parents.]]
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* UndeadTaxExemption: Vaya is an ArtificialHuman created by a fugitive in hiding. Thus, when [[spoiler: Professor Haburt]] wants to adopt her, he has to make up a cover story about finding her on the street because she was abandoned by her parents due to the country's regular food shortages. There's no Ceihan paperwork to support this but the scenarnio is plausible enough for Ataidaran paperwork to bre created. [[spoiler: Since she's a clone of his real daughter, he also has to change her name as well as her hair and eye color so no one suspects a link between them.]]
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*SurpassedTheTeacher: In ''A Mage's Power'', Eric is taught magecraft by Basilard Bladi and Dengel Tymh. Then he has a falling out with the later and spends ''Looming Shadow'' attempting to fulfill this trope so he can smear Dengel's fame. As his brush with the trope WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity demonstrates, he still has a ways to go before he can say "I am a better mage than Dengel".
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*WasOnceAMan: There are all manner of creepy, dangerous, and/or scary monsters roaming Tariatla, and a good many of them used to be sapient. Perfectly civil and friendly, until they were mana mutated. During ''Literature/LoomingShadow'', Kallen encounters a monster and is about to kill it, when she realizes that it hasn't transforming yet, and that its threatening roars were actually screams of pain.
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*InspirationallyDisadvantaged: One of the reasons Dengel is looked upon so favorably by humans is that he became a powerful mage despite possessing a magical disorder called Low Mana Inhibition, which makes controlling mana substantially harder. Eric, who knows him to be an arrogant jerkass, is not at all inspired.
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*ImAHumanitarian: A DownplayedTrope. [[spoiler: Eric asks if he can eat another human but since he is technically a grendel at that point (albeit one in human form) it's technically not cannibalism. However, he still identifies as a human (at first) and so the idea repluses him.]]
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*RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler: After meeting "Grey Dengel", which is a ghost of the real Dengel representing his scholarly aspect, Eric begins to admire Dengel once more. He still doesn't like the real Dengel but after learning more about him, he also doesn't hate him. It is "Grey Dengel" who becomes his new role model.]]
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*EnlightenmentSuperpower:
**In Chaotic Philosophy there exists levels of enlightenment. The first of which is plain old magecraft which can be learned out of a book by anyone that can read, or anyone with a teacher.
**Any mortal spirit can become a Razor Spirit with "spritual forging", which is basically long periods of meditation based on an ideal. This grants certain abilities and can make ones that the user already possesses stronger.
**A vision quest inside Dengel's Cehian Lair grants Eric great wisdom and understanding about the immediate underlayer of reality and the true nature of magic
**In Chaotic Philosophy there exists levels of enlightenment. The first of which is plain old magecraft which can be learned out of a book by anyone that can read, or anyone with a teacher.
**Any mortal spirit can become a Razor Spirit with "spritual forging", which is basically long periods of meditation based on an ideal. This grants certain abilities and can make ones that the user already possesses stronger.
**A vision quest inside Dengel's Cehian Lair grants Eric great wisdom and understanding about the immediate underlayer of reality and the true nature of magic
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*MotiveRant: The Crimson Killer explains his justifications for his actions to Eric. He's waiting for Eric's teammates to show so can arrange an exchange of Eric for the sword [=BloodDrinker=]. He's just killing time.
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*EvilPlan: There's a case of PlayingWithATrope. While there are a couple of evil sorcerer type villains looking for {{revenge}}, [[{{pride}} prestige]], or [[ForScience forbidden knowledge]], the central villain scheme belongs to Shadow Dengel. He's basically Eric's ImaginaryFriend and his plan is to push Eric into despair over the fact that Eric will never escape the real Dengel's legacy. Working against this "plan" is Eric's motivation throughout the book.
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**[[spoiler: Eric shanks a reaper and steals one of his abilities. What does he say after that?]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MegaMan Now I've got your power!]]
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**Eric asks Tasio for DivineIntervention. Tasio replies, "[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration What makes you I'm either inclined or capable to terminate this encounter?]]" He even creates a Starfleet uniform for himself.
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The next book in the series is ''Mana Mutation Menace''.
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*FinalBossPreview: Eric confronts Nulos Xialin, TheHeavy of this book, shortly after he returns to Roalt. He gets his ass handed to him in about ten seconds. He has to be rescued by Tasio.
* TheQuest: Team Four is hired to travel to the island nation of Ceiha to investigate a castle that may or may not be Dengel's final lair. If it is, then they are to raid it for things that are magically, historically or economically valuable.
*RageAgainstTheMentor: The overarching plot is Eric raging against Dengel and the immense shadow he casts over all mages, himself included, because he literally wrote the book on magecraft but was a horrible person.
* TheQuest: Team Four is hired to travel to the island nation of Ceiha to investigate a castle that may or may not be Dengel's final lair. If it is, then they are to raid it for things that are magically, historically or economically valuable.
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Eric returns to Tariatla but his reputation has preceeded him. He is hailed as Dengel's Vessel and The Trickster's Choice. These titles will not allow him to live as a humble mercenary. They attract dangerous attention. A shadow looms over Eric, and will stop at nothingn to snuff him out.
''Looming Shadow'' is the sequel to ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]'' and the second book in the ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'' series.
! Looming Shadow contains the following tropes:
*DoomMagnet: Anyone that becomes Tasio's "bestest friend" becomes one of these because he likes playing with/pranking them.
*TheQuest: Team Four is hired to travel to the island nation of Ceiha to investigate a castle that may or may not be Dengel's final lair.
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Henry Pupil looks like he's eight years old but he's much older. ''How'' old is not specified but he was old enough to speak with Dengel when Dengel was Eric's age; two thousand years at minimum.
*TheScapeGoat: If you are The Trickster's Choice then you are blamed for disaster in the area, because it's believed that The Trickster made them happen to you. Whether or not this is the truth is irrelevant.
*ShoutOut:
**When some chaosists make noise about him walking Annala home, Eric pretends that he's escorting [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest the Golden Cicacada on her journey to fetch holy scriptures.]]
**Eric claims that sailors are a [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} suspicous and cowardly lot]].
*TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Eric notes this sort of change in Kasile. When she was a princess she affected a cutesy and friendly persona. Now that she is TheHighQueen she is cold and regal. When in private with him, she drops the act.
*YourMakeUpIsRunning: After her tearful reuinon with Eric, Kasile's make up is a mess. Eric has a laugh at her expense.
''Looming Shadow'' is the sequel to ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]'' and the second book in the ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'' series.
! Looming Shadow contains the following tropes:
*DoomMagnet: Anyone that becomes Tasio's "bestest friend" becomes one of these because he likes playing with/pranking them.
*TheQuest: Team Four is hired to travel to the island nation of Ceiha to investigate a castle that may or may not be Dengel's final lair.
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Henry Pupil looks like he's eight years old but he's much older. ''How'' old is not specified but he was old enough to speak with Dengel when Dengel was Eric's age; two thousand years at minimum.
*TheScapeGoat: If you are The Trickster's Choice then you are blamed for disaster in the area, because it's believed that The Trickster made them happen to you. Whether or not this is the truth is irrelevant.
*ShoutOut:
**When some chaosists make noise about him walking Annala home, Eric pretends that he's escorting [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest the Golden Cicacada on her journey to fetch holy scriptures.]]
**Eric claims that sailors are a [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} suspicous and cowardly lot]].
*TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Eric notes this sort of change in Kasile. When she was a princess she affected a cutesy and friendly persona. Now that she is TheHighQueen she is cold and regal. When in private with him, she drops the act.
*YourMakeUpIsRunning: After her tearful reuinon with Eric, Kasile's make up is a mess. Eric has a laugh at her expense.
