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* MomentOfWeakness: Fatally injured, trapped in a Orderly Subjugation Field, and forced to watch a live feed of his LoveInterest being kidnapped by his evil brother, all conspire to force [[spoiler: Nolien's]] hand into accepting a DealWithTheDevil. For context, he had just [[LoveIsAWeakness previously rejected another deal when it was only his life on the line.]]
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* MomentOfWeakness: Fatally injured, trapped in a an Orderly Subjugation Field, and forced to watch a live feed of his LoveInterest being kidnapped by his evil brother, all conspire to force [[spoiler: Nolien's]] hand into accepting a DealWithTheDevil. For context, he had just [[LoveIsAWeakness previously rejected another deal when it was only his life on the line.]]
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*PropertyOfLove: To mitigate the effects of a supernatural SlaveCollar while researching a permanent solution, Ataidar's Royal Ordercraft Security and Compliance team invokes this trope. [[spoiler: Annala would much rather be Eric's (her boyfriend) slave than Nulso's (a creepy older man whose happens to be her mother's Archenemy). Because Order's respect for free will extends to choosing whom to surrender to it, the ROSCT perform a ritual that switches her ownership from Nulso to Eric. Order allows it because Nulso forced the collar on her.]] Following this, they say that the "owner" in this couple still not does legally "own" the other and so PowerPerversionPotential is still illegal.
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*MayflyDecemberRomance: Annala refuses to consider a relationship with Eric because she is immortal and he is not. "I could blink you'll be a rotting corpse". This very thing happened to her aunt, Triste. Despite all kinds of magical aid to prolong his life, Mori just heeled over one day and it drove her insane. [[spoiler: Eric solves this problem by asking Annala's deity, who happens to fancy himself Eric's "bestest friend", to make him immortal like her. He does and RelationshipUpgrade ensues.]]
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** [[spoiler: Kasile, with great effort and hardship, succeeds in slaying the enforcer's golem dragon on her own; not heroic knight necessary.]]
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*ThickerThanWater: When a sapient becomes a monster, they will forget everything about their life as a sapient because their mind has been scrambled by the mutation. However, they will still recognize at least one person and be docile around that person. This person is typically a family member with whom they were extremely close. The Mana Mutation Summit features the bond between siblings, parent-child and uncle-nephew as well.
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*GeekyTurnOn:
**When [[CuteBookworm Annala]] is enchanted to seduce her fellow nerd, her tactics are the minutes of the Mana Mutation Summit and a discussion of them from various religious, social and political perspectives. Eric is quickly won over.
**The Dnnac Ledo public library has a "private reading room" that is implied to be reserved for {{bookworm}}s who get aroused by their studies.
**When [[CuteBookworm Annala]] is enchanted to seduce her fellow nerd, her tactics are the minutes of the Mana Mutation Summit and a discussion of them from various religious, social and political perspectives. Eric is quickly won over.
**The Dnnac Ledo public library has a "private reading room" that is implied to be reserved for {{bookworm}}s who get aroused by their studies.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Kasile gives [[spoiler: Nolien]] a royal dressing down for knowingly setting off Dnnac Ledo's anti-ordercraft alarms, thus endangering the Medical Mana Mutation negioations and potentially starting a war.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Kasile gives [[spoiler: Nolien]] a royal dressing down for knowingly setting off Dnnac Ledo's anti-ordercraft alarms, thus endangering the Medical Mana Mutation negioations negotiations and potentially starting a war.
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*NoodleImplements: When discussing [[spoiler: Tiza and Nolien's]] future wedding, Wiol advises Eric to bring a "a hang glider, forty hardcover books and a great deal of salt" to make sure the ceremony goes smoothly.
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** Nolien uses the "Bonnie" of an OutlawCouple as leverage on her partner to disarm.
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*PutYourGunDownAndStepAway: Here's an inverted version of the trope; Nolien, the hero in this situation, uses the "Bonnie" of an OutlawCouple as leverage on her partner to take off his MageKiller armor. All three of them know that Nolien doesn't want to kill her, but it's not a chance her partner is willing to take. [[spoiler: While Nolien is focused on him, his hostage escapes from his grasp.]]
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*BoundAndGagged: Dosh Heleti uses cuffs and a ball gag to restrain Tiza during the Mana Mutation Summit [[spoiler: which she escapes from and uses to restrain him in turn.]]
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*DamselInDistress:
**Eric has to infiltrate Kasile's castle like some spy to save her from a mindcontrol necklace placed on her by Prince Lunas. Later, during the Mana Mutation Summit, an enforcer taunts her on how often she needs her knights (Eric, Siron, and Culmus) to bail her out of trouble.
**Tiza is captured during the Mana Mutation Summit [[spoiler: but turns the tables on her captor before help can arrive]].
**Nolien uses the "Bonnie" of an OutlawCouple as leverage on her partner to disarm.
**Annala is collared and teleported out of Roalt by Nulso.
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**[[spoiler: Kasile, with great effort and hardship, succeeds in slaying the enforcer's golem dragon on her own; not heroic knight necessary.]]
**[[spoiler: Tiza escapes her captor and then subdues him before Nolien can arrive to save her.]]
** [[spoiler: Nolien's hostage escapes from his grasp using clever thinking and a mana bolt, and reaches the safety of her partner's arms with little more than a scratch.]]
**[[spoiler: Annala tries to escape Nulso but is overpowered by him.]]
**Eric has to infiltrate Kasile's castle like some spy to save her from a mindcontrol necklace placed on her by Prince Lunas. Later, during the Mana Mutation Summit, an enforcer taunts her on how often she needs her knights (Eric, Siron, and Culmus) to bail her out of trouble.
**Tiza is captured during the Mana Mutation Summit [[spoiler: but turns the tables on her captor before help can arrive]].
**Nolien uses the "Bonnie" of an OutlawCouple as leverage on her partner to disarm.
**Annala is collared and teleported out of Roalt by Nulso.
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**[[spoiler: Kasile, with great effort and hardship, succeeds in slaying the enforcer's golem dragon on her own; not heroic knight necessary.]]
**[[spoiler: Tiza escapes her captor and then subdues him before Nolien can arrive to save her.]]
** [[spoiler: Nolien's hostage escapes from his grasp using clever thinking and a mana bolt, and reaches the safety of her partner's arms with little more than a scratch.]]
**[[spoiler: Annala tries to escape Nulso but is overpowered by him.]]
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*LoveIsAWeakness: [[spoiler: Nolien]] has enough stength of will to reject a DealWithTheDevil when it is only his life on the line, but when his LoveInterest is thrown into the mix then his resolve crumbles.
*MomentOfWeakness: Fatally injured, trapped in a Orderly Subjugation Field, and forced to watch a live feed of his LoveInterest being kidnapped by his evil brother, all conspire to force [[spoiler: Nolien's]] hand into accepting a DealWithTheDevil. For context, he had just [[LoveIsAWeakness previously rejected another deal when it was only his life on the line.]]
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*WhatTheHellHero: Kasile gives [[spoiler: Nolien]] a royal dressing down for knowingly setting off Dnnac Ledo's anti-ordercraft alarms, thus endangering the Medical Mana Mutation negioations and potentially starting a war.
*WhatTheHellHero: Kasile gives [[spoiler: Nolien]] a royal dressing down for knowingly setting off Dnnac Ledo's anti-ordercraft alarms, thus endangering the Medical Mana Mutation negioations and potentially starting a war.
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*DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Nolien]] is well aware that accepting Order's help to save himself and his LoveInterest, and thus putting himself in Order's debt, will lead to great anguish in the future, but his MomentOfWeakness leads him to do it.
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*IHaveYourWife: Order twists [[spoiler: Nolien's]] arm into accepting his deal by showing his LoveInterest getting kidnapped.
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*MotiveRant: Nulso Xialin, [[spoiler: currently possessed by Order]], explains why he is invading a village and enslaving its populace while he does so. Ordercrafter are empowered by Law and Stability, so they are supernaturally compelled by their own magic to justify such actions.
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* LossOfIdentity: Mana mutation scrambled Eric's mind and even after recovering from him it he feels like a different person. Kallen consoles him by saying that everyone's identity changes as they grow older, and that his mutation did less to change him fundamentally than he thinks.
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* LossOfIdentity: Mana mutation scrambled Eric's mind and even after recovering from him it he feels like a different person. Kallen consoles him by saying that everyone's identity changes as they grow older, and that his mutation did less to change him fundamentally than he thinks.
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* CosmopolitanCouncil: The Mana Mutation Summit features world leaders from hundreds of countries, "the sum total of the world". Being a FantasyKitchenSink, these are not ethnics but species: humans, orcs, mermaids, dragons, {{Talking Animal}}s, etc. The fact that the only ''elf'' is a only present as an observer is a plot point.
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* CosmopolitanCouncil: The Mana Mutation Summit features world leaders from hundreds of countries, "the sum total of the world". Being a FantasyKitchenSink, these are not ethnics but species: humans, orcs, mermaids, dragons, {{Talking Animal}}s, etc. The fact that the only ''elf'' is a only present as an observer is a plot point.
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** Eric has trouble going full-Grendel because he inevitably losses control over himself to his inner monster. [[spoiler: When realizes that there is no inner monster, he no longer has any trouble.]]
** In a possible future, [[spoiler: Nolien]] is implied to have done this before committing a tragedy.
* SkirtOverSlacks: When going to the reconvened Mana Mutation Summit, Tiza wears a knee-length dress overdress formal slacks to avoid wearing a full gown.
** Eric has trouble going full-Grendel because he inevitably losses control over himself to his inner monster. [[spoiler: When realizes that there is no inner monster, he no longer has any trouble.]]
** In a possible future, [[spoiler: Nolien]] is implied to have done this before committing a tragedy.
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* LossOfIdentity: Mana mutation scrambled Eric's mind and even after recovering from him it he feels like a different person. Kallen consoles him by saying that everyone's identity changes as they grow older, that his mutation did less to change him fundamentally than he thinks.
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* LossOfIdentity: Mana mutation scrambled Eric's mind and even after recovering from him it he feels like a different person. Kallen consoles him by saying that everyone's identity changes as they grow older, and that his mutation did less to change him fundamentally than he thinks.
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* TheBet: Kallen thinks that Tiza has become a ProperLady after spending a couple weeks with the Noble Heleti Family. Eric thinks that's impossible. Thus, she wagers ten Ataidar gold coins that Tiza will wear a dress to second Mana Mutation Summit. [[spoiler: She arrives in SkirtOverSlacks. Kallen's response? "A small dress is still a dress; five gold".]]
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* GirlinessUpgrade: Kallen thinks that Tiza has become a ProperLady after spending a couple weeks with the Noble Heleti Family. Eric thinks that's impossible. Thus, she wagers ten Ataidar gold coins that Tiza will wear a dress to second Mana Mutation Summit. [[spoiler: She arrives in SkirtOverSlacks. Kallen's response? "A small dress is still a dress; five gold".]]
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*CosmopolitanCouncil: The Mana Mutation Summit features world leaders from hundreds of countries, "the sum total of the world". Being a FantasyKitchenSink, these are not ethnics but species: humans, orcs, mermaids, dragons, {{Talking Animal}}s, etc. The fact that the only ''elf'' is a only present as an observer is a plot point.
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* DramaticNecklaceRemoval: Kasile rips off a necklace given to her by Lunas and dashes it on the ground. It was a semi-sentient mind-controlling necklace and ''really'' didn't want to come off so this trope is justified.off. It zapped Eric when he tried to undo the clasp.
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* DramaticNecklaceRemoval: Kasile rips off a necklace given to her by Lunas and dashes it on the ground. It ''really'' didn't want to come off and so this trope is justified.
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* DramaticNecklaceRemoval: Kasile rips off a necklace given to her by Lunas and dashes it on the ground. It was a semi-sentient mind-controlling necklace and ''really'' didn't want to come off and so this trope is justified.
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: Lunas puts Kasile under his control in two steps: 1.) use his innate CharmPerson ability along with MoreThanMindControl to convince her to remove her anti-mind control circlet and put on his mind control necklace. It's designed to persuade her against ever removing it and resist anyone attempting to remove it for her. [[spoiler: Eric has to use a series of {{Armor Piercing Question}}s to make her realize the truth and then she removes it herself.]]
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: Lunas puts Kasile under his control in two steps: 1.) use his innate CharmPerson ability along with MoreThanMindControl to convince her to remove her anti-mind control circlet and put on his mind control necklace. It's designed to persuade her against ever removing it and resist anyone attempting to remove it for her. In this way he can effectively rule Ataidar without marrying her (which he still plans to do as soon as possible). [[spoiler: Eric has to use a series of {{Armor Piercing Question}}s to make her realize the truth and then she removes it herself.]]
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: Lunas puts Kasile under his control in two steps: 1.) use his innate CharmPerson ability to convince her to remove her anti-mind control circlet and put on his mind control necklace. It's designed to persuade her against ever removing it and resist anyone attempting to remove it for her. [[spoiler: Eric has to use a series of {{Armor Piercing Question}}s to make her realize the truth and then she removes it herself.]]
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: Lunas puts Kasile under his control in two steps: 1.) use his innate CharmPerson ability along with MoreThanMindControl to convince her to remove her anti-mind control circlet and put on his mind control necklace. It's designed to persuade her against ever removing it and resist anyone attempting to remove it for her. [[spoiler: Eric has to use a series of {{Armor Piercing Question}}s to make her realize the truth and then she removes it herself.]]
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*MoreThanMindControl: Prince Lunas Latrot proves the adage "the best ordercrafters don't need ordercraft". He can use charisma and personal insight to control others just as well.
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* HiddenElfVillage: The people of Dnnac Ledo have gone to great lengths to keep the location of their village a secret. 99% of them also insist that any mana mutation problem "the temps" have nothing to do with them. [[spoiler: Inviting the Mana Mutation Summt delegates to reconvene there is so tempting that none of them can resist, and instead, they agree to drop whatever greviance they have to go there.]]
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* HiddenElfVillage: The people of Dnnac Ledo have gone to great lengths to keep the location of their village a secret. 99% of them also insist that any mana mutation problem threatening "the temps" have has nothing to do with them. [[spoiler: Inviting the Mana Mutation Summt delegates to reconvene there is so tempting that none of them can resist, and instead, they agree to drop whatever greviance they have to go there.]]
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* HiddenElfVillage: The people of Dnnac Ledo have gone to great lengths to keep the location of their village a secret. 99% of them also insist that any mana mutation problem "the temps" has nothing to do with them. [[spoiler: Inviting the Mana Mutation Summt delegates to reconvene there is so tempting that none of them can resist, and instead, they agree to drop whatever greviance they have to go there.]]
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* HiddenElfVillage: The people of Dnnac Ledo have gone to great lengths to keep the location of their village a secret. 99% of them also insist that any mana mutation problem "the temps" has have nothing to do with them. [[spoiler: Inviting the Mana Mutation Summt delegates to reconvene there is so tempting that none of them can resist, and instead, they agree to drop whatever greviance they have to go there.]]
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''"Mr. Watley, we are going to do our very best to return you to your pre-mutation life, but I don't want you to get your hopes up. You are the
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''Mana Mutation Menace'' is the sequel to ''Literature/LoomingShadow'' and the third book in the Literature/JourneyToChaos series. It follows the fallout of the conclusion of the previous book while continuing to build the ConstructedWorld of Tariatla.
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*MindScrew: Why would a goddess encourage blasphemy against herself so long as the blasphemer does so with a sincere passion? [[note]] She's the goddess of passion, and fire is the element most associated with chaos [[/note]].
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Eric Watley has recovered from mana mutation but a question remains: is he still Eric Watley? He may look human, but a monster's madness lurks behind his eyes. With the upcoming Mana Mutation Summit, the whole world is watching to see if he is the cure they have been waiting for, or one more beast to be slaughtered. The future of Tariatla rests on his shoulders. Can he convince its leaders of his humanity, while at the same time, dodge his growing list of enemies?
The Trickster's Choice attracts much unwanted attention. Lunas of Latrot, the ordercraft prince, schemes to exploit the menace of Mana Mutation for his own purpose. Joining him are a legion of Eric's old foes, from Gruffle the troll and Nulso Xialin to the Gods of Death. All of them seek to do harm to Eric himself, his friends or his world. So much for being a humble mercenary.
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*AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Tiza]] is implied to have whispered a love confession in [[spoiler: Nolien's]] ear just before he is about to be mana mutated.
*TheBet: Kallen thinks that Tiza has become a ProperLady after spending a couple weeks with the Noble Heleti Family. Eric thinks that's impossible. Thus, she wagers ten Ataidar gold coins that Tiza will wear a dress to second Mana Mutation Summit. [[spoiler: She arrives in SkirtOverSlacks. Kallen's response? "A small dress is still a dress; five gold".]]
*BluntMetaphorsTrauma: Annala is such a bookworm that she can use the metaphors from many and diverse cultures ''correctly''. She understands the cultural underpinings for them and uses them in the proper context.
*ButYourWingsAreBeautiful: Kallen dislikes transforming into her true form, a chimera, because she is ashamed of him. When she does a partial transformation to help Eric come to terms with his own mutation, he is fascinated by it instead of horrified.
*DramaticNecklaceRemoval: Kasile rips off a necklace given to her by Lunas and dashes it on the ground. It ''really'' didn't want to come off and so this trope is justified.
*HypnotizeThePrincess: Lunas puts Kasile under his control in two steps: 1.) use his innate CharmPerson ability to convince her to remove her anti-mind control circlet and put on his mind control necklace. It's designed to persuade her against ever removing it and resist anyone attempting to remove it for her. [[spoiler: Eric has to use a series of {{Armor Piercing Question}}s to make her realize the truth and then she removes it herself.]]
*HiddenElfVillage: The people of Dnnac Ledo have gone to great lengths to keep the location of their village a secret. 99% of them also insist that any mana mutation problem "the temps" has nothing to do with them. [[spoiler: Inviting the Mana Mutation Summt delegates to reconvene there is so tempting that none of them can resist, and instead, they agree to drop whatever greviance they have to go there.]]
*LossOfIdentity: Mana mutation scrambled Eric's mind and even after recovering from him it he feels like a different person. Kallen consoles him by saying that everyone's identity changes as they grow older, that his mutation did less to change him fundamentally than he thinks.
*NominalImportance: Averted on two occassions
**Kasile posts two guards outside her castle to prevent Eric from entering at night. Neither one is named and yet they do their job with minimal effort.
**Two of Nunnal's labratory assistants are named and yet they have as much importance as the ones who remain unnamed.
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
**Security Chief Talbot recognizes that Eric doesn't like being locked up but refuses to authorize his release because he has demonstrated himself to be unstable and dangerous. [[spoiler: When Eric demonstrates greater self-control, and the scientists working with him make a five point argument in his favor, he allows Eric to leave.]]
**Lunas invokes this trope at the Mana Mutation Summit by speaking of Medical Mana Mutation's poor success rate and the numerous legitimate programs and objectives the other world leaders could be using Medical Mana Mutation funding for instead. [[spoiler: Annala demonstrates that he's full of shit at the same meeting.]]
*SkirtOverSlacks: When going to the reconvened Mana Mutation Summit, Tiza wears a knee-length dress over dress slacks to avoid wearing a full gown.
*SuperpoweredEvilSide: Immediately after his mutation, Eric believes that he now has a monster lurking in his mind that seeks to wrench control from him and go on a rampage. [[spoiler: He later realizes that there is no grendel side; he was only imagining it in order to distance himself from the mutation.]]
*SuperToughness: Eric is now a grendel, not a human, and so his body is much tougher. He is able to withstand much greater concusive force and extreme cold than he could before.
Eric Watley has recovered from mana mutation but a question remains: is he still Eric Watley? He may look human, but a monster's madness lurks behind his eyes. With the upcoming Mana Mutation Summit, the whole world is watching to see if he is the cure they have been waiting for, or one more beast to be slaughtered. The future of Tariatla rests on his shoulders. Can he convince its leaders of his humanity, while at the same time, dodge his growing list of enemies?
The Trickster's Choice attracts much unwanted attention. Lunas of Latrot, the ordercraft prince, schemes to exploit the menace of Mana Mutation for his own purpose. Joining him are a legion of Eric's old foes, from Gruffle the troll and Nulso Xialin to the Gods of Death. All of them seek to do harm to Eric himself, his friends or his world. So much for being a humble mercenary.
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*AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Tiza]] is implied to have whispered a love confession in [[spoiler: Nolien's]] ear just before he is about to be mana mutated.
*TheBet: Kallen thinks that Tiza has become a ProperLady after spending a couple weeks with the Noble Heleti Family. Eric thinks that's impossible. Thus, she wagers ten Ataidar gold coins that Tiza will wear a dress to second Mana Mutation Summit. [[spoiler: She arrives in SkirtOverSlacks. Kallen's response? "A small dress is still a dress; five gold".]]
*BluntMetaphorsTrauma: Annala is such a bookworm that she can use the metaphors from many and diverse cultures ''correctly''. She understands the cultural underpinings for them and uses them in the proper context.
*ButYourWingsAreBeautiful: Kallen dislikes transforming into her true form, a chimera, because she is ashamed of him. When she does a partial transformation to help Eric come to terms with his own mutation, he is fascinated by it instead of horrified.
*DramaticNecklaceRemoval: Kasile rips off a necklace given to her by Lunas and dashes it on the ground. It ''really'' didn't want to come off and so this trope is justified.
*HypnotizeThePrincess: Lunas puts Kasile under his control in two steps: 1.) use his innate CharmPerson ability to convince her to remove her anti-mind control circlet and put on his mind control necklace. It's designed to persuade her against ever removing it and resist anyone attempting to remove it for her. [[spoiler: Eric has to use a series of {{Armor Piercing Question}}s to make her realize the truth and then she removes it herself.]]
*HiddenElfVillage: The people of Dnnac Ledo have gone to great lengths to keep the location of their village a secret. 99% of them also insist that any mana mutation problem "the temps" has nothing to do with them. [[spoiler: Inviting the Mana Mutation Summt delegates to reconvene there is so tempting that none of them can resist, and instead, they agree to drop whatever greviance they have to go there.]]
*LossOfIdentity: Mana mutation scrambled Eric's mind and even after recovering from him it he feels like a different person. Kallen consoles him by saying that everyone's identity changes as they grow older, that his mutation did less to change him fundamentally than he thinks.
*NominalImportance: Averted on two occassions
**Kasile posts two guards outside her castle to prevent Eric from entering at night. Neither one is named and yet they do their job with minimal effort.
**Two of Nunnal's labratory assistants are named and yet they have as much importance as the ones who remain unnamed.
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
**Security Chief Talbot recognizes that Eric doesn't like being locked up but refuses to authorize his release because he has demonstrated himself to be unstable and dangerous. [[spoiler: When Eric demonstrates greater self-control, and the scientists working with him make a five point argument in his favor, he allows Eric to leave.]]
**Lunas invokes this trope at the Mana Mutation Summit by speaking of Medical Mana Mutation's poor success rate and the numerous legitimate programs and objectives the other world leaders could be using Medical Mana Mutation funding for instead. [[spoiler: Annala demonstrates that he's full of shit at the same meeting.]]
*SkirtOverSlacks: When going to the reconvened Mana Mutation Summit, Tiza wears a knee-length dress over dress slacks to avoid wearing a full gown.
*SuperpoweredEvilSide: Immediately after his mutation, Eric believes that he now has a monster lurking in his mind that seeks to wrench control from him and go on a rampage. [[spoiler: He later realizes that there is no grendel side; he was only imagining it in order to distance himself from the mutation.]]
*SuperToughness: Eric is now a grendel, not a human, and so his body is much tougher. He is able to withstand much greater concusive force and extreme cold than he could before.
