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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Downplayed. Mount Eskel knows that linder is valuable and makes its economy mining it, but it isn't until Miri comes across it in an economic text that she realizes that it's ''far'' more valuable than they thought and the merchants have been lying to them. When trading season comes, the village makes clear to the merchants that they won't be fleeced anymore and that they'll either give them fair value or lose their business.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Downplayed. Mount Eskel knows that linder is valuable has ''some'' value and makes its economy mining it, but it isn't until Miri comes across it in an economic text that she realizes that it's ''far'' more valuable than they thought and the merchants have been lying to them. fleecing them for years. When trading season comes, the village makes clear to the merchants that they won't be fleeced taken advantage of anymore and that they'll either give their only choices are to pay them fair value fairly or lose their business.the sales entirely.
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** [[spoiler: Britta's father]] pretended that his daughter would pose as a commoner so that she would have a chance at marrying the prince. In ''Palace of Stone'' [[spoiler: the king makes Britta into a commoner, stripping her family of their lands]].
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Downplayed. Britta isn't mean to anyone, but she has a special soft spot for Miri because Miri was the first person to treat her kindly when all the others were shunning her.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Downplayed. Britta isn't mean to anyone, but she has a special soft spot for Miri because Miri was the first person to treat her kindly when all the others were shunning her.
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** [[spoiler: Britta's father]] pretended that made his daughter would pose as a commoner so that she would have a chance at marrying the prince. In ''Palace of Stone'' [[spoiler: the king makes Britta into a commoner, stripping her family of their lands]].
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Downplayed. Brittaisn't mean is generally nice to anyone, everyone anyway, but she has a special soft spot for Miri because Miri was the first person to treat her kindly when all the others were shunning her.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Downplayed. Britta
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: During the final exam, when all the girls are helping each other via quarry speak, Katar trips up on a particularly difficult question. Despite her dislike for Katar (and knowing that Katar is in no danger of failing), Miri decides that it's wrong to selectively exclude one person from the help they'd been giving everyone else and helps her.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: In ''The Forgotten Sisters'' Miri tries to make a strong impression on the girls by imitating her SadistTeacher Olana. She forgets that this impression didn't work on her or her friends, and the "princesses" aren't that impressed, especially when Miri faints from dehydration.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: DidntThinkThisThrough:
** When negotiating with their tutor Olana for better treatment, one of the things the academy students ask for is the dismissal of the Aslandian soldiers, since they only seem to be there to intimidate the students into behaving. Olana asks what will happen if bandits come to the mountain village, so Katar points out that even if they do come, there is nothing valuable in the village except linder blocks too heavy to steal, and the mountain men are strong enough to fend them off. However, none of them realize that bandits could still attack the academy ''itself'', which is a good distance from the village--and they do, when they hear that one of the students will be chosen as the future princess of Danland. They break into the academy unhindered and capture all the girls, intending to find the one chosen as princess and hold her for ransom.
** In ''The ForgottenSisters'' Sisters'', Miri tries to make a strong impression on the girls by imitating her SadistTeacher Olana. She forgets that this impression didn't work on her or her friends, and the "princesses" aren't that impressed, especially when Miri faints from dehydration.
** When negotiating with their tutor Olana for better treatment, one of the things the academy students ask for is the dismissal of the Aslandian soldiers, since they only seem to be there to intimidate the students into behaving. Olana asks what will happen if bandits come to the mountain village, so Katar points out that even if they do come, there is nothing valuable in the village except linder blocks too heavy to steal, and the mountain men are strong enough to fend them off. However, none of them realize that bandits could still attack the academy ''itself'', which is a good distance from the village--and they do, when they hear that one of the students will be chosen as the future princess of Danland. They break into the academy unhindered and capture all the girls, intending to find the one chosen as princess and hold her for ransom.
** In ''The Forgotten
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* ChekhovsGunman: Timon from ''Palace of Stone''. Peder allies with him in an EnemyMine to [[spoiler: rescue Miri and the princesses in ''The Forgotten Sisters''.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: ChekhovsGunman:
** The bandits, when they are first introduced, come across as legendary figures from the past who, we are assured, will never return and whose presence in the story seems to be set dressing rather than plot-relevant. [[spoiler:Then they show up at the end to be the plot's main antagonists.]]
** Timon from ''Palace of Stone''. Peder allies with him in an EnemyMine to [[spoiler: rescue Miri and the princesses in ''The Forgotten Sisters''.]]
** The bandits, when they are first introduced, come across as legendary figures from the past who, we are assured, will never return and whose presence in the story seems to be set dressing rather than plot-relevant. [[spoiler:Then they show up at the end to be the plot's main antagonists.]]
** Timon from ''Palace of Stone''. Peder allies with him in an EnemyMine to [[spoiler: rescue Miri and the princesses in ''The Forgotten Sisters''.]]
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** Literacy, which Miri was learning as a means of snagging the prince, doesn't work for that purpose, but does enable her to improve the economic bargaining position of her people.
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** Literacy, which Miri was learning as a means of snagging the prince, doesn't [[spoiler:doesn't work for that purpose, but but]] does enable her to improve the economic bargaining position of her people.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Quarry-speaking proves to be a vital skill while Miri is at school, as she uses it to help the other girls and they, in turn, use it to help each other.
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* ChekhovsSkill: ChekhovsSkill:
** Quarry-speaking proves to be a vital skill while Miri is at school, as she uses it to help the other girls and they, in turn, use it to help eachother. other: to cheat on their final exam and [[spoiler:to escape the bandits]].
** Literacy, which Miri was learning as a means of snagging the prince, doesn't work for that purpose, but does enable her to improve the economic bargaining position of her people.
** Quarry-speaking proves to be a vital skill while Miri is at school, as she uses it to help the other girls and they, in turn, use it to help each
** Literacy, which Miri was learning as a means of snagging the prince, doesn't work for that purpose, but does enable her to improve the economic bargaining position of her people.
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* ChandlersLaw: Two thirds of the way into the first book the plot seems to be dead-ending into anticlimax: the academic year has finished, the prince has shown up and looks to be a dud, and has even left without choosing a princess, leaving the princess candidates (and the audience) with the prospect of another pointless winter in the academy. [[spoiler:Fortunately the book is saved when a pack of bandits attacks without warning and captures all the girls!]]
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* SoupOfPoverty: Even though the villagers of Mount Eskel are the only miners of linder (a valuable type of stone) in the world, they remain poor because the lowlander traders take advantage of their lack of knowledge to not pay them fairly for their linder. Sometimes they have to water down their gruel to stretch it thin enough to get through the winter. They have a little song about it that goes, "Water in the porridge / And more salt in the gruel / Doesn't make a belly / Full, not a bellyful."
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* SoupOfPoverty: Even though the villagers of Mount Eskel are the only miners of linder (a valuable type of stone) in the world, they remain poor because the lowlander traders take advantage of their lack of knowledge to not pay them fairly for their linder. Sometimes they have to water down their gruel to stretch it thin enough to get through the winter. They have a little song about it that goes, "Water in the porridge / And more salt in the gruel / Doesn't make a belly / Full, not a bellyful."
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* SoupOfPoverty: Even though the villagers of Mount Eskel are the only miners of linder (a valuable type of stone) in the world, they remain poor because the lowlander traders take advantage of their lack of knowledge to not pay them fairly for their linder. Sometimes they have to water down their gruel to stretch it thin enough to get through the winter. They have a little song about it that goes, "Water in the porridge / And more salt in the gruel / Doesn't make a belly / Full, not a bellyful."
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* OverprotectiveDad: Miri's dad is this, never letting her work in the quarry. She thinks it's because he hates her, but Doter reveals that [[spoiler: the quarry killed Miri's mother]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: If Doter had spoken up earlier, or Miri's dad were less close-mouthed, Miri would know [[spoiler: why she has an OverprotectiveDad]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: If Doter had spoken up earlier, or Miri's dad were less close-mouthed, Miri would know [[spoiler: why she has an OverprotectiveDad]].
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