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* BalefulPolymorph:
** In ''A College of Magics'', people who cross [[spoiler:Menary Paganell]] have a tendency to wind up as animals.
** In ''A Scholar of Magics'', [[spoiler:turning people into animals is the function of the secret weapon being developed by the Agincourt Project]].


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* ForcedTransformation:
** In ''A College of Magics'', people who cross [[spoiler:Menary Paganell]] have a tendency to wind up as animals.
** In ''A Scholar of Magics'', [[spoiler:turning people into animals is the function of the secret weapon being developed by the Agincourt Project]].
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* TheLostWoods: The hero gets lost in them in ''A Scholar of Magics''.

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* ConditionalPowers: The power a wizard gains in his or her RiteOfPassage will be immediately lost if he or she ever tells anybody what happened during it.

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* ConditionalPowers: The power a wizard gains in his or her RiteOfPassage will be immediately lost if he or she ever tells anybody what happened during it. ''A College of Magics'' includes a scene where a witch who has acted in a manner unbecoming is stripped of her powers by being forced to publicly recount the events of her vigil.
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* InspirationNod: Part of the plot of ''A Scholar of Magics'' is inspired by the 17th-century masque ''Theatre/{{Comus}}'', written for the 1st Earl of Bridgewater. A fictional contemporary Earl of Bridgewater is a significant character in the novel.
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* EvilBlonde: Menary Paganell in ''A College of Magics''.
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* SchoolgirlRival: Menary Paganell in ''A College of Magics''.
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A HistoricalFantasy series by CarolineStevermer, set in the early years of a twentieth century not quite like our own. In particular, magic is a rare but accepted part of life, and those with the talent are educated in schools such as Glasscastle University (for men) in England and Greenlaw College (for women) in France.

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A HistoricalFantasy series by CarolineStevermer, Creator/CarolineStevermer, set in the early years of a twentieth century not quite like our own. In particular, magic is a rare but accepted part of life, and those with the talent are educated in schools such as Glasscastle University (for men) in England and Greenlaw College (for women) in France.
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* CannotCrossRunningWater

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* CannotCrossRunningWaterCannotCrossRunningWater: Witches and wizards become ill on when travelling on water, oceans included.
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* HedgeMaze: The King of Aravill's country residence has one that was designed and constructed by a wizard, and can become a trap where a person who goes in can't find their way out until the maze's owner lets them.
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* AlmostKiss: Jane and Lambert at the end of ''A Scholar of Magics''.

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* AlmostKiss: Jane and Lambert at the end of in ''A Scholar of Magics''.
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* AlmostKiss: Jane and Lambert at the end of ''A Scholar of Magics''.

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''A College of Magics'' (1994) follows Faris Nallaneen's education at Greenlaw and her subsequent return to her {{Ruritania}}n homeland to take her expected place in society (if her sinister uncle doesn't kill her first) and an unexpected responsibility left her by her grandmother.

''A Scholar of Magics'' (2004) is a direct sequel, set in and around Glasscastle. Jane Brailsford of Greenlaw travels to Glasscastle, ostensibly to visit her brother and also to deliver a message from her friend and former schoolmate Faris to the scholar Nicholas Fell. Intrigue surrounds a secret government project being conducted at the university, and Glasscastle itself is threatened.

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''A College of Magics'' (1994) follows Faris Nallaneen's education at Greenlaw and her subsequent return to her {{Ruritania}}n homeland to take her expected place in society (if her sinister uncle doesn't kill her first) and an unexpected responsibility left her by her grandmother.

grandmother. She is accompanied and assisted by Jane Brailsford, schoolmate and friend, and Tyrian, a bodyguard hired by her uncle whose loyalties are not initially clear.

''A Scholar of Magics'' (2004) is a direct sequel, set in and around Glasscastle. Jane Brailsford of Greenlaw travels to Glasscastle, ostensibly to visit her brother and also to deliver a message from her friend and former schoolmate Faris to the scholar Nicholas Fell.Fell, Faris's colleague in her new duty. Intrigue surrounds a secret government project being conducted at the university, and Glasscastle itself is threatened.



* SideBet: At one point in ''A College of Magics'', after the latest of several assassination attempts, two of Faris's friends make a side bet on how much longer her bodyguard Tyrian is going to be able to stay on his feet before he ''has'' to get some sleep. Tyrian makes a point of staying up just long enough that they both lose.

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* SideBet: At one point in ''A College of Magics'', after the latest of several assassination attempts, two of Faris's friends make a side bet on how much longer her bodyguard Tyrian is going to be able to stay on his feet before he ''has'' to get some sleep. Tyrian makes a point of staying up just long enough that they both lose.

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