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** Torchay as the ''id''
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*** Some North naitani.
** This is also Kallista's original magic, before becoming Godstruck.
* SpiritAdvisor: Bellandra, and to a lesser extent, Kallista's ancestor, Domnia.
* SwordFight: Too many to count.
* TrueCompanions: The Varyl ilian, also including Gweric.
* UnwantedHarem: the Godmarked start out as this for Kallista
*** Some North naitani.
** This is also Kallista's original magic, before becoming Godstruck.
* SpiritAdvisor: Bellandra, and to a lesser extent, Kallista's ancestor, Domnia.
* SwordFight: Too many to count.
* TrueCompanions: The Varyl ilian, also including Gweric.
* UnwantedHarem: the Godmarked start out as this for Kallista
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The first book, ''The Compass Rose'', opens on Kallista and her bodyguard Torchay fighting a losing battle against invading forces. Kallista calls on [[LowestCosmicDenominator [[NotUsingTheZWord The One]] in desperation and is, somewhat surprisingly for her, answered. Now, Kallista is [[TheChosenOne a Godstruck naitan]], the first to live in a thousand years.
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* CorruptChurch: The god worshiped by the rulers of Tibre turns out to be the demon Tchyrizel
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: When Stone begins to recover from the poison in ''The Eternal Rose'', Merinda chops off his head because "he was coming back"]].
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* {{Fanservice}}: In-universe all the men are described as "handsome," "beautiful," "stunning" or some other equally impressive-sounding adjective.
** Also, pretty much each guy is a different bodytype/coloring. Hey, a girl needs her variety.
** Also, pretty much each guy is a different bodytype/coloring. Hey, a girl needs her variety.
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* {{Fanservice}}: In-universe all the men are described as "handsome," "beautiful," "stunning" or some other equally impressive-sounding adjective.
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* MamaBear: We strongly recommend you not mess with the children. Due to the natures of an ilian, and this one in particular, you will have to deal with not one MamaBear, but ''four''
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stone is not evil himself (as demonstrated by his [[WouldntHurtAChild taking steps to avoid harm to non-combatants]] even when he was still in the Tibran military), but he grew up in an evil system and never questioned its values until he was forcibly removed from it. Part of that system is that women are essentially [[SexSlave sex slaves]] - though to be fair, nearly everyone is a slave of some kind, that's what you get when [[spoiler: a demon]] secretly rules the country. But that's supposed to be limited to ''adult'' women. Stone is shocked and horrified when he learns that [[RapeAsBackstory Aisse was raped by a member of the Ruler caste]] [[RiteOfPassage "before her rites"]]. He tries to rationalize it to himself, convince himself that the Ruler "must have had a reason", but ultimately this knowledge is a major part of what convinces him to [[DefectorFromDecadence Defect From Decadence]].
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* MagicVsScience: In a very literal sense. Adara has been predominant in their region for centuries because they have a high population of magic-users. Their military is primarily oriented toward dealing with bandits and pirates. They were ''not'' ready to deal with an invading army of conquest armed with muskets and cannon - which have longer range than military magic-users, and which can be mass-produced (magic-users in the setting must be born).
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* MagicVsScience: MagicVersusScience: In a very literal sense. Adara has been predominant in their region for centuries because they have a high population of magic-users. Their military is primarily oriented toward dealing with bandits and pirates. They were ''not'' ready to deal with an invading army of conquest armed with muskets and cannon - which have longer range than military magic-users, and which can be mass-produced (magic-users in the setting must be born).
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* MagicVsScience: In a very literal sense. Adara has been predominant in their region for centuries because they have a high population of magic-users. Their military is primarily oriented toward dealing with bandits and pirates. They were ''not'' ready to deal with an invading army of conquest armed with muskets and cannon - which have longer range than military magic-users, and which can be mass-produced (magic-users in the setting must be born).
** Adara is running into similar problems in non-military areas as well. One of their economic concerns before the war started was traders returning from foreign countries with reports that their magical goods, which once had a monopoly, are now having to compete with non-magical equivalents. For example, a magically-treated cloak may keep the rain off you better than a chemically-treated one, but the chemically-treated one is ''much'' less expensive and can be mass-produced.
** Adara is running into similar problems in non-military areas as well. One of their economic concerns before the war started was traders returning from foreign countries with reports that their magical goods, which once had a monopoly, are now having to compete with non-magical equivalents. For example, a magically-treated cloak may keep the rain off you better than a chemically-treated one, but the chemically-treated one is ''much'' less expensive and can be mass-produced.
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* PregnantBadass: Kallista spends most of the second half of ''The Compass Rose'' pregnant, but that doesn't stop her from crossing an ocean, infiltrating hostile territory, getting captured, assisting in her own rescue, and killing a ''false god''. {{Badass}} indeed.
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* PregnantBadass: Kallista spends most of the second half of ''The Compass Rose'' pregnant, but that doesn't stop her from crossing an ocean, infiltrating hostile territory, getting captured, assisting in her own rescue, and killing a ''false god''. {{Badass}} indeed.
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** It's stated elsewhere that there is no reason an ilian cannot be entirely male (or female)
* HoYay: Joh and Fox share quite a kiss in ''The Barbed Rose''. They were forced into it, but it's implied that the men of the Varyl ilian sometimes indulge in each other
** It's stated elsewhere that there is no reason an ilian cannot be entirely male (or female)
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** It's stated elsewhere that there is no reason an ilian cannot be entirely male (or female)dies]].
* HoYay: Joh and Fox share quite a kiss in ''The Barbed Rose''. They were forced into it, but it's implied that the men of the Varyl ilian sometimes indulge in each other
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->''One desperate call to the gods...''
->''One blast of extraordinary magic...''
->''One gift of unimaginable power... ''
A trilogy of fantasy books written by Gail Dayton that center around [[MagicGenetics Naitan]] Captain Kallista Varyl. The books, ''The Compass Rose'', ''The Barbed Rose'', and ''The Eternal Rose'' are mostly set in Adara, a matriarchal country populated by both normal humans and [[MagicGenetics naitani]] (Singular: naitan). In Adara, a family unit, called an ilian (Plural: iliani) is formed when a minimum or four and a maximum of twelve people in any combination or ratio of genders marry each other. Each person in an ilian is an ''ilias'' to the others (Plural: iliasti)
The first book, The Compass Rose, opens on Kallista and her bodyguard Torchay fighting a losing battle against invading forces. Kallista calls on [[LowestCosmicDenominator The One]] in desperation and is, somewhat surprisingly for her, answered. Now, Kallista is [[TheChosenOne a Godstruck naitan]], the first to live in a thousand years.
Faced with learning to control this new form of magic, Kallista must also deal with Godstruck mates (by and large men she's never met before) apearing out of the woodwork. Kallista must travel with her new family into Tibre, the invading nation to confront a demon-possesed king.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: '''All''' the female protagonists.
* ActionMom: By the third book, almost all the female protagonists have had kids.
* AscendedExtra: Joh and Viyelle, very minor characters in the first book, come back to become [[spoiler: iliasti]] in the second book.
* BadassFamily: The Varyl ilian. Even without the Godmarked magic, they are all talented warriors.
* BigBad: Zughralithiss.
* BodyguardCrush: Torchay to Kallista.
* CallToAdventure: Kallista's godmarked are compelled to go seek her out if they are not immediately nearby when they receive their mark.
* TheChosenOne: Kallista, and to a lesser extent, her ilian.
* CombatByChampion: The whole Southern judicial system is based on this.
* CorruptChurch: The god worshipped by the rulers of Tibre turns out to be the demon Tchyrizel
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: When Stone begins to recover from the poison in ''The Eternal Rose'', Merinda chops off his head because "he was coming back"]].
* DeadPersonConversation: Kallista has these with Belandra (the last Godstruck naitan), her many-times great-grandmother Domnia, and [[spoiler: her ilias Stone]].
* DeclarationOfProtection: Starts with Torchay and just escalates from there as each ilias is added. The ladies tend to do pretty well by themselves, but the men are definitely a wee bit protective.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: In ''The Eternal Rose'', two fighters literally become lovers when the ActionGirl wins.
* DemonicPossession
* DisabilitySuperPower: Both Fox and Gweric gain these after losing their sight.
* DivineIntervention: It's called being '''God'''struck.
* DualWielding: Torchay weilds a matched set of Heldring blades.
* ElementalPowers: Some North and South naitans have distinct examples (Throwing Lightening and Fire, respectively).
* ExoticExtendedMarriage: The series has a society where the size of a marriage ranges from a ''minimum'' of four to a maximum of twelve.
* {{Fanservice}}: In-universe all the men are described as "handsome," "beautiful," "stunning" or some other equally impressive-sounding adjective.
** Also, pretty much each guy is a different bodytype/coloring. Hey, a girl needs her variety.
* {{Fetish}}: Some of the sex scenes involve a mild case of bondage.
* FinishHim: The master of Obed's old School uses thi.s
* FireForgedFriends: Obed and Torchay.
* FunctionalMagic: Each naitan is born with only one gift. Unless you get Godstruck.
** North magic deals with inanimate objects and weather, i.e. lightening and wind
** East magic is related to healing, growing, and new beginnings
** Southern magic is "of the hearth and home." Some examples are baking bread that lasts longer than normal and ''throwing fire''. Yea, real homey.
*** That would probably count as "hearth".
** West magic deals in "mysteries." It was more or less wiped out in the last hundred years, but it largely seems to deal with death and intangible things like telepathy
* HealingHands: Many East naitans exhibit this, and Kallista develops it after becoming Godstruck.
* HeroicBSOD: Kallista has one when [[spoiler: Stone dies]]
* HoYay: Joh and Fox share quite a kiss in ''The Barbed Rose''. They were forced into it, but it's implied that the men of the Varyl ilian sometimes indulge in each other
** It's stated elsewhere that there is no reason an ilian cannot be entirely male (or female)
* IronLady: Serysta Reinine. Also, General Uskenda
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne
* LadyLand: Adara is a Matriarchal society. All young Adarans serve in the military, but men are rarely promoted as officers. Women are also more likely to be naitani than men.
* LawOfInverseFertility: Played straight doubly so: Kallista has sex once each with Stone and Torchay in a single night in ''The Compass Rose''. Not only does she get pregnant with twins, but each of the two men fathered one of the twins.
** Aisse, infertile because she was raped at a young age, has sex with Fox once and still conceives a child.
* LoveDodecahedron: Just... the Varyl ilian. With eleven adult members [[spoiler: if you choose to include Merinda]] they are a very literal example
* MagicalAbortion: Merinda considers this when she realizes how dangerous life with the Varyl ilian can be.
* MagicGenetics: The way one becomes a naitan. It's supposedly a gender-related trait as more women become naitani than men.
* MamaBear: We strongly recommend you not mess with the children. Due to the natures of an ilian, and this one in particular, you will have to deal with not one MamaBear, but ''four''
* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: Kallista often grumbles about the sensitive pride of men, or their inability to listen.
* MorningSickness: Kallista suffers during ''The Commpass Rose'' and is followed by Merinda in ''The Barbed Rose''
* NoPeriodsPeriod
* OnlyAFleshWound: Torchay gets gutted pretty frequently, but he gets better.
* OrgasmicCombat: Kallista's magic feels really ''really'' good when she calls it from her Godmarked mates. Even in battle.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent
* PapaWolf: See MamaBear above, but instead of four, there are '''six''' [[PapaWolf Papa Wolves]].
* PlayingWithFire: this is the magic of some South naitans.
* {{Polyamory}}: Iliani.
* PregnantBadass: Kallista spends most of the second half of ''The Compass Rose'' pregnant, but that doesn't stop her from crossing an ocean, infiltrating hostile territory, getting captured, assisting in her own rescue, and killing a ''false god''. {{Badass}} indeed.
* PowerTrio:
** Torchay as the ''id''
** Obed as the ''super-ego''
** Kallista as the ''ego''
* ResignedToTheCall: ''Eventually'', Kallista's attitude moves toward this. It gets worse again when [[spoiler: she's selected to be the next Reinine]]
* ScreamingBirth: Averted. Aisse is silent while giving birth to Niona because she knows bandits are nearby.
* ShirtlessScene: Played straight with most of the male characters. Subverted with Obed, who's extremely uncomfortable unless he's completely covered.
* ShockAndAwe: Some North naitani.
** This is also Kallista's original magic, before becoming Godstruck.
* SpiritAdvisor: Bellandra, and to a lesser extent, Kallista's ancestor, Domnia.
* SwordFight: Too many to count.
* TrueCompanions: The Varyl ilian, also including Gweric.
* UnwantedHarem: the Godmarked start out as this for Kallista
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->''One desperate call to the gods...''
->''One blast of extraordinary magic...''
->''One gift of unimaginable power... ''
A trilogy of fantasy books written by Gail Dayton that center around [[MagicGenetics Naitan]] Captain Kallista Varyl. The books, ''The Compass Rose'', ''The Barbed Rose'', and ''The Eternal Rose'' are mostly set in Adara, a matriarchal country populated by both normal humans and [[MagicGenetics naitani]] (Singular: naitan). In Adara, a family unit, called an ilian (Plural: iliani) is formed when a minimum or four and a maximum of twelve people in any combination or ratio of genders marry each other. Each person in an ilian is an ''ilias'' to the others (Plural: iliasti)
The first book, The Compass Rose, opens on Kallista and her bodyguard Torchay fighting a losing battle against invading forces. Kallista calls on [[LowestCosmicDenominator The One]] in desperation and is, somewhat surprisingly for her, answered. Now, Kallista is [[TheChosenOne a Godstruck naitan]], the first to live in a thousand years.
Faced with learning to control this new form of magic, Kallista must also deal with Godstruck mates (by and large men she's never met before) apearing out of the woodwork. Kallista must travel with her new family into Tibre, the invading nation to confront a demon-possesed king.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: '''All''' the female protagonists.
* ActionMom: By the third book, almost all the female protagonists have had kids.
* AscendedExtra: Joh and Viyelle, very minor characters in the first book, come back to become [[spoiler: iliasti]] in the second book.
* BadassFamily: The Varyl ilian. Even without the Godmarked magic, they are all talented warriors.
* BigBad: Zughralithiss.
* BodyguardCrush: Torchay to Kallista.
* CallToAdventure: Kallista's godmarked are compelled to go seek her out if they are not immediately nearby when they receive their mark.
* TheChosenOne: Kallista, and to a lesser extent, her ilian.
* CombatByChampion: The whole Southern judicial system is based on this.
* CorruptChurch: The god worshipped by the rulers of Tibre turns out to be the demon Tchyrizel
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: When Stone begins to recover from the poison in ''The Eternal Rose'', Merinda chops off his head because "he was coming back"]].
* DeadPersonConversation: Kallista has these with Belandra (the last Godstruck naitan), her many-times great-grandmother Domnia, and [[spoiler: her ilias Stone]].
* DeclarationOfProtection: Starts with Torchay and just escalates from there as each ilias is added. The ladies tend to do pretty well by themselves, but the men are definitely a wee bit protective.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: In ''The Eternal Rose'', two fighters literally become lovers when the ActionGirl wins.
* DemonicPossession
* DisabilitySuperPower: Both Fox and Gweric gain these after losing their sight.
* DivineIntervention: It's called being '''God'''struck.
* DualWielding: Torchay weilds a matched set of Heldring blades.
* ElementalPowers: Some North and South naitans have distinct examples (Throwing Lightening and Fire, respectively).
* ExoticExtendedMarriage: The series has a society where the size of a marriage ranges from a ''minimum'' of four to a maximum of twelve.
* {{Fanservice}}: In-universe all the men are described as "handsome," "beautiful," "stunning" or some other equally impressive-sounding adjective.
** Also, pretty much each guy is a different bodytype/coloring. Hey, a girl needs her variety.
* {{Fetish}}: Some of the sex scenes involve a mild case of bondage.
* FinishHim: The master of Obed's old School uses thi.s
* FireForgedFriends: Obed and Torchay.
* FunctionalMagic: Each naitan is born with only one gift. Unless you get Godstruck.
** North magic deals with inanimate objects and weather, i.e. lightening and wind
** East magic is related to healing, growing, and new beginnings
** Southern magic is "of the hearth and home." Some examples are baking bread that lasts longer than normal and ''throwing fire''. Yea, real homey.
*** That would probably count as "hearth".
** West magic deals in "mysteries." It was more or less wiped out in the last hundred years, but it largely seems to deal with death and intangible things like telepathy
* HealingHands: Many East naitans exhibit this, and Kallista develops it after becoming Godstruck.
* HeroicBSOD: Kallista has one when [[spoiler: Stone dies]]
* HoYay: Joh and Fox share quite a kiss in ''The Barbed Rose''. They were forced into it, but it's implied that the men of the Varyl ilian sometimes indulge in each other
** It's stated elsewhere that there is no reason an ilian cannot be entirely male (or female)
* IronLady: Serysta Reinine. Also, General Uskenda
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne
* LadyLand: Adara is a Matriarchal society. All young Adarans serve in the military, but men are rarely promoted as officers. Women are also more likely to be naitani than men.
* LawOfInverseFertility: Played straight doubly so: Kallista has sex once each with Stone and Torchay in a single night in ''The Compass Rose''. Not only does she get pregnant with twins, but each of the two men fathered one of the twins.
** Aisse, infertile because she was raped at a young age, has sex with Fox once and still conceives a child.
* LoveDodecahedron: Just... the Varyl ilian. With eleven adult members [[spoiler: if you choose to include Merinda]] they are a very literal example
* MagicalAbortion: Merinda considers this when she realizes how dangerous life with the Varyl ilian can be.
* MagicGenetics: The way one becomes a naitan. It's supposedly a gender-related trait as more women become naitani than men.
* MamaBear: We strongly recommend you not mess with the children. Due to the natures of an ilian, and this one in particular, you will have to deal with not one MamaBear, but ''four''
* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: Kallista often grumbles about the sensitive pride of men, or their inability to listen.
* MorningSickness: Kallista suffers during ''The Commpass Rose'' and is followed by Merinda in ''The Barbed Rose''
* NoPeriodsPeriod
* OnlyAFleshWound: Torchay gets gutted pretty frequently, but he gets better.
* OrgasmicCombat: Kallista's magic feels really ''really'' good when she calls it from her Godmarked mates. Even in battle.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent
* PapaWolf: See MamaBear above, but instead of four, there are '''six''' [[PapaWolf Papa Wolves]].
* PlayingWithFire: this is the magic of some South naitans.
* {{Polyamory}}: Iliani.
* PregnantBadass: Kallista spends most of the second half of ''The Compass Rose'' pregnant, but that doesn't stop her from crossing an ocean, infiltrating hostile territory, getting captured, assisting in her own rescue, and killing a ''false god''. {{Badass}} indeed.
* PowerTrio:
** Torchay as the ''id''
** Obed as the ''super-ego''
** Kallista as the ''ego''
* ResignedToTheCall: ''Eventually'', Kallista's attitude moves toward this. It gets worse again when [[spoiler: she's selected to be the next Reinine]]
* ScreamingBirth: Averted. Aisse is silent while giving birth to Niona because she knows bandits are nearby.
* ShirtlessScene: Played straight with most of the male characters. Subverted with Obed, who's extremely uncomfortable unless he's completely covered.
* ShockAndAwe: Some North naitani.
** This is also Kallista's original magic, before becoming Godstruck.
* SpiritAdvisor: Bellandra, and to a lesser extent, Kallista's ancestor, Domnia.
* SwordFight: Too many to count.
* TrueCompanions: The Varyl ilian, also including Gweric.
* UnwantedHarem: the Godmarked start out as this for Kallista
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