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* NeverLearnedToRead: Comes up by way of CultureClash. It's mentioned in one scene that the protagonist can't read, and it's implied that this is normal for her people, who have a strong OralTradition. She has no idea why her rich city-born companion is embarrassed to have brought the subject up.
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* NeverLearnedToRead: Comes up in ''The Raven Ring'' by way of CultureClash. It's mentioned in one scene that the protagonist can't read, and it's implied that this is normal for her people, who have a strong OralTradition. She has no idea why her rich city-born companion is embarrassed to have brought the subject up.
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* NonActionGuy: Karvonen of ''The Raven Ring'' is in favor of running and hiding as a way to deal with danger. Justified: he's a career ''cutpurse'', and so doesn't want to get caught. It's also one of the things Eleret likes about him-- Daner keeps getting in her way in a battle because he doesn't expect a woman to fight, Karvonen's cowardice lets her fight unhindered.
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* NonActionGuy: Karvonen of ''The Raven Ring'' is in favor of running and hiding as a way to deal with danger. Justified: he's a career ''cutpurse'', and so doesn't want to get caught. It's also one of the things Eleret likes about him-- Daner keeps getting in her way in a battle because he doesn't expect a woman to fight, Karvonen's cowardice lets her fight unhindered.
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* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: The Aurelico family's "Four Professions" in ''The Raven Ring:'' Thieves, spies, forgers, and heroes.
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* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: The Aurelico family's "Four Professions" in ''The Raven Ring:'' Thieves, spies, forgers, and heroes. Practitioners of the "Fourth Profession" usually change their name, as much to prevent their fame affecting the family as vice versa.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Daner (honorable nobleman) and Karvonen (roguish cutpurse from a famous criminal family) for Eleret. However, Daner's noble upbringing and city ideas of honor tend to get in the way both figuratively and literally (a minor RunningGag is that he keeps accidentally blocking Eleret's throwing lines during fights), while Karvonen is more understanding and less prone to assuming they'll do things his way.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Daner (honorable nobleman) and Karvonen (roguish cutpurse from a famous criminal family) for Eleret. However, Daner's noble upbringing and city ideas of honor tend to get in the way both figuratively and literally (a minor RunningGag is that he keeps accidentally blocking Eleret's throwing lines weapons during fights), while Karvonen is more understanding and less prone to assuming they'll do things his way. way (also, he's too ''short'' to block her throws, [[LovableCoward if he's anywhere near the battle in the first place]]).
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* NonActionGuy: Karvonen of ''The Raven Ring'' is in favor of running and hiding as a way to deal with danger. Justified: he's a career ''cutpurse'', and so doesn't want to get caught.
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* NonActionGuy: Karvonen of ''The Raven Ring'' is in favor of running and hiding as a way to deal with danger. Justified: he's a career ''cutpurse'', and so doesn't want to get caught. It's also one of the things Eleret likes about him-- Daner keeps getting in her way in a battle because he doesn't expect a woman to fight, Karvonen's cowardice lets her fight unhindered.
* OnionTears: Attempted by Kayl to hide her crying at a painful memory, only for her son to later tell the inn guests not to order the stew because [[BrickJoke there's too many onions in it]].
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* TarotTroubles: The Lyran version of tarot is used in ''The Raven Ring'', and is what alerts Eleret to the involvement of a Shadow-born in her situation.
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* TarotTroubles: The Lyran version of tarot is used in ''The Raven Ring'', and is what alerts Eleret to the involvement of a Shadow-born in her situation. Both readings are also augmented with magic; the first trying to force ill fortune upon her, the second with a scrying spell to understand which meanings of each card apply to her.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: The Shadow-born are this in ''Shadow Magic'' and ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel''; in ''Daughter of Witches'' and ''The Raven Ring'' they're more of a BiggerBad.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: The Shadow-born are this in ''Shadow Magic'' and ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel''; in ''Daughter of Witches'' and ''The Raven Ring'' they're more of a BiggerBad. Thyssel''
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* ActionGirl: Eleret in ''The Raven Ring''. Most Cilhar women are this.
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* DoWrongRight: Karvonen is professionally offended that the shapeshifter after Eleret's ring is trying to make himself an all-powerful wizard, pointing out that if the shapeshifter actually learned to ''act'' (Eleret and friends keep catching him because he sucks at it), he could be raking it in as a spy.
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* GreenEyes: All Shee (and half-Shee, apparently) have striking, slanted green eyes.
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* [[spoiler: EvilIsNotAToy: The villain of ''The Raven Ring'' thinks the ring will enable him to control one of the Shadow-born. Thankfully, he never gets to try it.]]
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* RetiredBadass: Kayl in ''Caught in Crystal''.
** Subverted in that she did gain weight as a sedate innkeeper, doesn't fit into her old gear, and has to get back in shape before she can kick ass again.
** Subverted in that she did gain weight as a sedate innkeeper, doesn't fit into her old gear, and has to get back in shape before she can kick ass again.
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* RetiredBadass: Kayl in ''Caught in Crystal''.
**Crystal''. Subverted in that she did gain weight as a sedate innkeeper, doesn't fit into her old gear, and has to get back in shape before she can kick ass again.
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* TrustPassword: Subverted hard in ''The Raven Ring''; the villain anticipates one of these and tortures Karvonen into teaching it to him, which he uses to pose as Karvonen and get to Eleret and the ring. [[spoiler: There was no such password. Karvonen instead teaches him the Cilhar for "I'm the shapeshifter."]]
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* TrustPassword: Subverted hard in ''The Raven Ring''; the villain anticipates one of these and tortures Karvonen into teaching it to him, which he uses to pose as Karvonen and get to Eleret and the ring. [[spoiler: There was no such password. Karvonen instead teaches him the Cilhar for "I'm the shapeshifter."]]
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** The prologue of ''Caught in Crystal'' is a historical document being presented to Alethia of ''Shadow Magic'' by a character implied to be the son of Emereck of ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel''.
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** Subverted in that she did gain weight as a sedate innkeeper, doesn't fit into her old gear, and has to get back in shape before she can kick ass again.
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* TrustPasswordTrustPassword: Subverted hard in ''The Raven Ring''; the villain anticipates one of these and tortures Karvonen into teaching it to him, which he uses to pose as Karvonen and get to Eleret and the ring. [[spoiler: There was no such password. Karvonen instead teaches him the Cilhar for "I'm the shapeshifter."]]
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''Lyra'' is a fantasy series written by Creator/PatriciaCWrede, set in a world inhabited by four intelligent races, and menaced by the ancient evils known as the Shadow-born. The series consists of five books: ''Shadow Magic'', ''Daughter of Witches'', ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel'', ''Caught in Crystal'', and ''The Raven Ring''. The books are largely disconnected from each other; they all have different characters, different settings, and in some cases different time periods.
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''Lyra'' is a fantasy series written by Creator/PatriciaCWrede, set in a world inhabited by four intelligent races, and menaced by the ancient evils known as the Shadow-born. The series consists of five books: books:
* ''ShadowMagic'', Magic''
* ''Daughter ofWitches'', Witches''
* ''The Harp of ImachThyssel'', Thyssel''
* ''Caught inCrystal'', and Crystal''
* ''The RavenRing''. Ring''
The books are largely disconnected from each other; they all have different characters, different settings, and in some cases different time periods.
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* ''Daughter of
* ''The Harp of Imach
* ''Caught in
* ''The Raven
The books are largely disconnected from each other; they all have different characters, different settings, and in some cases different time periods.
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''Lyra'' is a fantasy series written by PatriciaCWrede, set in a world inhabited by four intelligent races, and menaced by the ancient evils known as the Shadow-born. The series consists of five books: ''Shadow Magic'', ''Daughter of Witches'', ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel'', ''Caught in Crystal'', and ''The Raven Ring''. The books are largely disconnected from each other; they all have different characters, different settings, and in some cases different time periods.
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''Lyra'' is a fantasy series written by PatriciaCWrede, Creator/PatriciaCWrede, set in a world inhabited by four intelligent races, and menaced by the ancient evils known as the Shadow-born. The series consists of five books: ''Shadow Magic'', ''Daughter of Witches'', ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel'', ''Caught in Crystal'', and ''The Raven Ring''. The books are largely disconnected from each other; they all have different characters, different settings, and in some cases different time periods.
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* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: The Aurelico family's "Four Professions" in ''The Raven Ring:'' Thieves, spies, forgers, and heroes.
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* ThanatosGambit: A minor example with Eleret's mother Tamm, who [[spoiler: deactivated the Raven Ring's magic-suppressing ability to ensure that it would be taken out of the reach of Mobrellan the shapeshifter.]]
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* YourMindMakesItReal: In ''Daughter of Witches'', the death of her parents has left Ranira so terrified of using magic that when she tries, she gives herself psychosomatic burns.
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* CatPeople: The Wyrds.
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* SecondLove: Glyndon to Kayl in ''Caught in Crystal''.
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* NoodleIncident: In ''Caught in Crystal'', Glyndon smiles in a way that Kayl last saw "just before the incident with the Bridden army officer, the mug of ale, and the dead mouse." She hastily interrupts before anything can happen.
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* FindersRulers: [[spoiler: Alethia]] in ''Shadow Magic''.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: The Shadow-born are this in ''Shadow Magic'' and ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel''; in ''Daughter of Witches'' and ''The Raven Ring'' (and possibly ''Caught in Crystal'', whose "black creature" bears a suspicious resemblance) they're more of a BiggerBad.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: The Shadow-born are this in ''Shadow Magic'' and ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel''; in ''Daughter of Witches'' and ''The Raven Ring'' (and possibly ''Caught in Crystal'', whose "black creature" bears a suspicious resemblance) they're more of a BiggerBad.
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* NonActionGuy: Karvonen of ''The Raven Ring'' is in favor of running and hiding as a way to deal with danger.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHeroes: Quite literally in ''Caught in Crystal''; the destructive black creature was safely trapped until Kayl and her companions broke a chip off its imprisoning cube.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHeroes: {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}es: Quite literally in ''Caught in Crystal''; the destructive black creature was safely trapped until Kayl and her companions broke a chip off its imprisoning cube.
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* YourMindMakesItReal: In ''Daughter of Witches'', the death of her parents has left Ranira so terrified of using magic that when she tries, she receives psychosomatic burns.
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''Lyra'' is a fantasy series written by PatriciaCWrede, set in a world inhabited by four intelligent races, and menaced by the ancient evils known as the Shadow-born. The series consists of five books: ''Shadow Magic'', ''Daughter of Witches'', ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel'', ''Caught in Crystal'', and ''The Raven Ring''. The books are largely disconnected from each other; they all have different characters, different settings, and in some cases different time periods.
* ActionGirl: Eleret in ''The Raven Ring''.
* ActionMom: Kayl of ''Caught in Crystal'', once she comes out of retirement.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The end of ''Shadow Magic''.
* BurnTheWitch: Official policy in the Empire of Chaldreth, though High Priest Gadrath in ''Daughter of Witches'' has quietly started spiriting the witches away to serve him instead, burning non-witches in their place if necessary.
* CatPeople: The Wyrds.
* ContinuityNod:
** The events of ''Shadow Magic'' are briefly mentioned in ''Daughter of Witches''.
** The prologue of ''Caught in Crystal'' is a historical document being presented to Alethia of ''Shadow Magic'' by a character implied to be the son of Emereck of ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel''.
** In ''Caught in Crystal'', Kayl is shown a number of magical visions; one of them is a scene from ''Shadow Magic''.
** In ''The Raven Ring'', the titular ring was created by Dara of ''Caught in Crystal''.
* CultureClash: A significant part of ''The Raven Ring'' is Eleret's bafflement with Ciaronese society, and vice versa.
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Twisted Tower in ''Caught in Crystal''.
* FantasticRacism: The Shee, Wyrds, and Neira are suffering increasing hostility from humans in ''Caught in Crystal''; by the time of ''Shadow Magic'' they have withdrawn from human society entirely.
* FishPeople: The Neira.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: How Alethia and Har's parents met in ''Shadow Magic'', though their mother makes clear that it was more drawn-out than that.
-->'''Alethia''': You took care of him and then married him? It sounds like one of Tamsin's songs!
-->'''Isme''': That is probably the way the minstrels will sing of it in a hundred years, but it was not so simple then.
* GreenEyes: All Shee (and half-Shee, apparently) have striking, slanted green eyes.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Alethia and Har of ''Shadow Magic'' are half-Shee; they're not aware of this until they're adults.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: In ''The Raven Ring'', Eleret insists this about Daner. By the end of the book, [[spoiler: it turns out that, no, he isn't.]]
* IKnowYourTrueName: The Sisterhood of Stars works magic through their secret names.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Shadow-born are this in ''Shadow Magic'' and ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel''; in ''Daughter of Witches'' and ''The Raven Ring'' (and possibly ''Caught in Crystal'', whose "black creature" bears a suspicious resemblance) they're more of a BiggerBad.
* MaybeEverAfter: Eleret Salven and [[spoiler:Karvonen Aurelico]] in ''The Raven Ring''.
* MedievalStasis: Based on various dates given, ''Shadow Magic'', ''Daughter of Witches'', and ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel'' take place about 1800 years after ''Caught in Crystal'' and 800 years after ''The Raven Ring''. Despite this, all the books exist at around the same technological level.
* OurElvesAreBetter: The Shee are a mild version of the High Elves type.
* ParentalAbandonment: Multiple characters, but most notably Ranira in ''Daughter of Witches'', who was orphaned when her parents were burned as witches.
* RetiredBadass: Kayl in ''Caught in Crystal''.
* {{Seers}}:
** Ranira in ''Daughter of Witches'' is beginning to develop into this.
** Glyndon of ''Caught in Crystal''; because his powers aren't natural, he has very little control over them, and the visions he sees are mostly possibilities rather than certainties.
* SealedEvilInACan:
** The Shadow-born were sealed in the very early history of the setting, in a conflict known as the Wars of Binding. Unfortunately the stupid and the ambitious keep trying to draw on their power...
** The "black creature" at the heart of the conflict in ''Caught in Crystal'' was locked in a magic crystal cube for hundreds of years.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: The Shadow-born are properly called the Kaldar-maaren, but it's best not to say that name aloud lest they take notice.
* TheTheocracy: The Empire of Chaldreth in ''Daughter of Witches''.
* ThouShaltNotKill: In ''Daughter of Witches'', healer Mist takes this very seriously; she feels enormous shame over having had to do it once before, despite knowing perfectly well the man was a dangerous monster.
* TrustPassword
* ActionGirl: Eleret in ''The Raven Ring''.
* ActionMom: Kayl of ''Caught in Crystal'', once she comes out of retirement.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The end of ''Shadow Magic''.
* BurnTheWitch: Official policy in the Empire of Chaldreth, though High Priest Gadrath in ''Daughter of Witches'' has quietly started spiriting the witches away to serve him instead, burning non-witches in their place if necessary.
* CatPeople: The Wyrds.
* ContinuityNod:
** The events of ''Shadow Magic'' are briefly mentioned in ''Daughter of Witches''.
** The prologue of ''Caught in Crystal'' is a historical document being presented to Alethia of ''Shadow Magic'' by a character implied to be the son of Emereck of ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel''.
** In ''Caught in Crystal'', Kayl is shown a number of magical visions; one of them is a scene from ''Shadow Magic''.
** In ''The Raven Ring'', the titular ring was created by Dara of ''Caught in Crystal''.
* CultureClash: A significant part of ''The Raven Ring'' is Eleret's bafflement with Ciaronese society, and vice versa.
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Twisted Tower in ''Caught in Crystal''.
* FantasticRacism: The Shee, Wyrds, and Neira are suffering increasing hostility from humans in ''Caught in Crystal''; by the time of ''Shadow Magic'' they have withdrawn from human society entirely.
* FishPeople: The Neira.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: How Alethia and Har's parents met in ''Shadow Magic'', though their mother makes clear that it was more drawn-out than that.
-->'''Alethia''': You took care of him and then married him? It sounds like one of Tamsin's songs!
-->'''Isme''': That is probably the way the minstrels will sing of it in a hundred years, but it was not so simple then.
* GreenEyes: All Shee (and half-Shee, apparently) have striking, slanted green eyes.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Alethia and Har of ''Shadow Magic'' are half-Shee; they're not aware of this until they're adults.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: In ''The Raven Ring'', Eleret insists this about Daner. By the end of the book, [[spoiler: it turns out that, no, he isn't.]]
* IKnowYourTrueName: The Sisterhood of Stars works magic through their secret names.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Shadow-born are this in ''Shadow Magic'' and ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel''; in ''Daughter of Witches'' and ''The Raven Ring'' (and possibly ''Caught in Crystal'', whose "black creature" bears a suspicious resemblance) they're more of a BiggerBad.
* MaybeEverAfter: Eleret Salven and [[spoiler:Karvonen Aurelico]] in ''The Raven Ring''.
* MedievalStasis: Based on various dates given, ''Shadow Magic'', ''Daughter of Witches'', and ''The Harp of Imach Thyssel'' take place about 1800 years after ''Caught in Crystal'' and 800 years after ''The Raven Ring''. Despite this, all the books exist at around the same technological level.
* OurElvesAreBetter: The Shee are a mild version of the High Elves type.
* ParentalAbandonment: Multiple characters, but most notably Ranira in ''Daughter of Witches'', who was orphaned when her parents were burned as witches.
* RetiredBadass: Kayl in ''Caught in Crystal''.
* {{Seers}}:
** Ranira in ''Daughter of Witches'' is beginning to develop into this.
** Glyndon of ''Caught in Crystal''; because his powers aren't natural, he has very little control over them, and the visions he sees are mostly possibilities rather than certainties.
* SealedEvilInACan:
** The Shadow-born were sealed in the very early history of the setting, in a conflict known as the Wars of Binding. Unfortunately the stupid and the ambitious keep trying to draw on their power...
** The "black creature" at the heart of the conflict in ''Caught in Crystal'' was locked in a magic crystal cube for hundreds of years.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: The Shadow-born are properly called the Kaldar-maaren, but it's best not to say that name aloud lest they take notice.
* TheTheocracy: The Empire of Chaldreth in ''Daughter of Witches''.
* ThouShaltNotKill: In ''Daughter of Witches'', healer Mist takes this very seriously; she feels enormous shame over having had to do it once before, despite knowing perfectly well the man was a dangerous monster.
* TrustPassword
