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* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Alphetta Belamy died in a magical accident. Her death set in motion [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Barrison's]] transformation into a lich and is why Petre's chooses penance in his CrystalPrison. A statuette of her is thought to be Belamy's SoulJar, but ends up being more of a beacon for bringing back her father after his destruction.]]
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* LadyOfBlackMagic: Ossertine is a proper, titled Lady who holds etiquette and class in high regard and also studies magic alongside other scholars, like Belamy, in the city.
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* BorrowedWithoutPermission: Belamy’s InsistentTerminology regarding what he’s asking Skate to do, which is taking without permission. He does actually want to return them when he's done, though.
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* BorrowedWithoutPermission: Belamy’s InsistentTerminology regarding what he’s asking Skate to do, which is taking without permission. stealing. He does actually want to return them when he's done, though.though, to Skate's surprise.
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* AlliterativeName: Barrison Belamy, introduced in the first chapter when Skate's [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal bungled burglary backfires]].
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* CoolOldGuy: At 107, Belamy is willing to take in a street orphan and teach her to read and write.
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* BlingOfWar: Belamy received a gift of extravagant red robes from the king after the war. He keeps them locked up in the basement for most of the book.
* TheShutIn: Before breaking into his house and learning his name, Skate notes that Belamy lives alone, never goes anywhere, and rarely has any visitors.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: After moving into Belamy's house, Skate gets some new clothes to replace the tattered rags she'd been wearing before, and she keeps the nicer outfit as her new look.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Haman, the wizard in Boss Marshall's employ, is very knowledgeable and is the only character described as wearing glasses.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: After moving into Belamy's house, Skate gets some new clothes to replace the tattered rags she'd been wearing before, and she keeps the nicer outfit as her new look.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Haman, the wizard in Boss Marshall's employ, is very knowledgeable and is the only character described as wearing glasses.
* SpeechImpediment: Twitch has a p-p-pronounced stutter, but it doesn't get in the way of others understanding him.
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* TimeBomb: A magical version is used to devastating effect near the end of the book. It's one of [[spoiler:Belamy]]'s specialties.
* UnnamedParent: We don't learn Skate's parents' names; they lived in obscurity in the slums of Caribol and died when Skate was veryyoung.young.
* WarHero: Belamy served his kingdom as an officer, earning a commendation from the king and picking up [[RedBaron "The Iron Wind"]] as a nickname in battle. He became disaffected by the war after learning there wasn't much cause for it, and isn't particularly proud of his record.
* UnnamedParent: We don't learn Skate's parents' names; they lived in obscurity in the slums of Caribol and died when Skate was very
* WarHero: Belamy served his kingdom as an officer, earning a commendation from the king and picking up [[RedBaron "The Iron Wind"]] as a nickname in battle. He became disaffected by the war after learning there wasn't much cause for it, and isn't particularly proud of his record.
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:In their fight, Belamy lures Hugo into close range, refusing to strike back or even defend himself, in order trap him for the sake of blowing them both up with the rubies on his robes.]]
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Big Boss Hugo's confrontation with Belamy in the climax mostly consists of the vampire pummeling the lich's body ''hard enough to knock chunks of skin off'', with Belamy not even trying to fight back.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Hugo]], in the final confrontation, has one of these moments when he realizes he's trapped with what amounts to dozens of timebombs.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Hugo]], in the final confrontation, has one of these moments when he realizes he's trapped with what amounts to dozens of timebombs.
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Belamy takes himself out in the end with a set of timed fireballs inside a forcefield to make sure Hugo can't get away. Being a lich, he should have plans to get better, though.]]
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* BlueBlood: Laribel Ossertine is descended from a famous hero KnightInShiningArmor of the past, and considers Belamy's decision to house a common child off the street as misguided at best and dangerous at worst.
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* CityOfAdventure: The port city of Caribol, the seat of a barony, offers dangers and exciting secrets. It's got armed guards, witches and wizards, and dangerous thieves. The whole story takes place in this city, and it's large enough to have specific named districts that locals are familiar with.
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* KingOfThieves: The bosses of the Ink are all under the direction of the Big Boss[[spoiler:, who turns out to be a ruthless vampire with an understandable vendetta against Belamy.]]
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* NiceToTheWaiter: This is one of the guiding rules of the Ink. Being open with gifts to tavern and coffeehouse workers means the Ink is less likely to attract trouble, and the generosity may even engender enough good will for owners to send the Baron's Guard off in the wrong direction in a pinch.
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* OurLichesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Belamy pursued some alternative path to getting to undeath, citing foul magic he wasn't willing to do to get there, but does call himself a lich. The magic keeping him going seems to work the same way.]]
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* ProtectionRacket: The enforcers of the Ink use this as a source of free income, made easier by the fact that the Ink doesn't allow any criminal activity other than its own in Caribol.
* PurposeDrivenImmortality: [[spoiler:Belamy feared that his life would end before he could catch up to Petre, so he paused his pursuit to figure out how to make eternal life work ''without'' doing something horrible in the process. Having caught Petre, he seems to have decided to spend the rest of eternity reading books.]]
* PurposeDrivenImmortality: [[spoiler:Belamy feared that his life would end before he could catch up to Petre, so he paused his pursuit to figure out how to make eternal life work ''without'' doing something horrible in the process. Having caught Petre, he seems to have decided to spend the rest of eternity reading books.]]
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* AddictiveMagic: Skate is warned that using the CrystalBall unsupervised is dangerous because of this, though other magic is not mentioned to have this particular danger.
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* AmplifierArtifact: Skate has to use a golden gyroscope to help her use the CrystalBall, since she has no magical training.
* CrystalBall: Belamy has one, and Skate uses it with Petre's guidance to find Twitch. Using these is considered dangerous, as spying on people is addictive, often causing people to neglect things like eating and sleeping to spend more time looking into the ball.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Hugo was a teenager who tried to flee the horrors of the war while under Belamy's command. Belamy's adherence to military law ends up accidentally getting Hugo turned into a vampire, who later becomes a vicious crime lord, and eventually goes out in a blaze of fire in a fight with Belamy.]]
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* LittleMissConArtist: Skate Skate, a ten-year-old girl, shows proficiency in maintaining a disguise.disguise during a burglary.
* MemoryJar: The red stones that Skate examines in the first chapter turn out to be these, memories of Belamy's that he's stored in physical form. He can share them with people.
* MemoryJar: The red stones that Skate examines in the first chapter turn out to be these, memories of Belamy's that he's stored in physical form. He can share them with people.
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* ThroughTheCeilingStealthily: Skate gets into Ossertine's house through a straw-covered hatch on the ceiling, and manages to get to the library without being found.
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* UnnamedParent: We don't learn Skate's parents' names; they lived and died in obscurity in the slums of Caribol and dies when Skate was very young.
* UnnamedParent: We don't learn Skate's parents' names; they lived and died in obscurity in the slums of Caribol and dies when Skate was very young.
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* CrystalPrison: Petre is trapped inside of a crystal ball filled with blue smoke as a punishment for a murder he committed. [[spoiler: The truth is more complicated; he didn't actually murder Alphetta, but through a combination of his negligence and her recklessness, she ended up dead. He blames - and punishes - himself through Belamy.]]
* DeadlyEuphemism: "Spilling ink" is used by Ink members as a stand-in for spilling blood; Ink members are told that "spilled ink flows both ways," meaning that any blood drawn against a member will be repaid in kind.
* DeadlyEuphemism: "Spilling ink" is used by Ink members as a stand-in for spilling blood; Ink members are told that "spilled ink flows both ways," meaning that any blood drawn against a member will be repaid in kind.
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* SoulJar: [[spoiler:Belamy, as a lich, must have one, and Skate is tasked by the Ink to find and take it for the purposes of pressing the old wizard into the Ink's service. Skate thinks it's a statuette of dancing woman, but after Belamy's destruction, the figurine is revealed to be some sort of pathfinding tool rather than the soul jar itself.]]
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* TattooedCrook: Ink members all get matching tattoos somewhere on their bodies, with Skate getting hers on her back at the age of ''six''.
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* RobbingTheDead: An interesting example, as [[spoiler:(1) Belamy is an ''undead'', and able to thwart the attempt in the first chapter; and (2) Skate didn't know he was not alive when she broke in.]]
* SelfRestraint: [[spoiler:Petre. He mentions that all he would have to do to leave the glass ball is ask Belamy to release him.]]
* StreetUrchin: Skate, Twitch, and others steal and rob as members of the Ink.
* ThievesGuild: The Ink, and though they're the only such group in town, we're told of at least one more (the Claws) who are active elsewhere.
* ThroughTheCeilingStealthily: How Skate gets into Ossertine's house.
* RobbingTheDead: An interesting example, as [[spoiler:(1) Belamy is an ''undead'', and able to thwart the attempt in the first chapter; and (2) Skate didn't know he was not alive when she broke in.]]
* SelfRestraint: [[spoiler:Petre. He mentions that all he would have to do to leave the glass ball is ask Belamy to release him.]]
* StreetUrchin: Skate, Twitch, and others steal and rob as members of the Ink.
* ThievesGuild: The Ink, and though they're the only such group in town, we're told of at least one more (the Claws) who are active elsewhere.
* ThroughTheCeilingStealthily: How Skate gets into Ossertine's house.
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* ActionGirl: The title character certainly counts.
* AfterActionPatchUp: Thanks to a bottle helpfully exhibited by Belamy.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Late in the book, thanks to Kite.
* BlackMarket: Trafficking in stolen and otherwise illegal goods is how the Ink makes its money.
* AfterActionPatchUp: Thanks to a bottle helpfully exhibited by Belamy.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Late in the book, thanks to Kite.
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* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: [[spoiler:The Ink's plans for Belamy bump into the robberies planned by Tillby's crew in the finale.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Skate and Twitch fight dirty, having never received any formal combat training.
* CombatPragmatist: Skate and Twitch fight dirty, having never received any formal combat training.
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* LittleMissConArtist: Skate shows proficiency in maintaining a disguise.
* MobWar: A rival gang, the Claws, have tried to move into Caribol in the past, but the Ink has always shut them out.
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* TheFagin: The Ink as a whole is happy to use children as burglars and pickpockets. Boss Marshall fits the role most nicely on an individual level.
* IdleRich: Other than her occasional visits with Belamy and other magic users, Ossertine doesn’t seem to do much, choosing to while away the days reading books in her impressive library. Belamy also doesn’t appear to have a day job.
* Jerkass: Kite is a violent, selfish, opportunistic bully.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Rattle is a spider bat eyeball.
* PapaWolf: Best not to threaten Skate around Belamy.
* IdleRich: Other than her occasional visits with Belamy and other magic users, Ossertine doesn’t seem to do much, choosing to while away the days reading books in her impressive library. Belamy also doesn’t appear to have a day job.
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Skate the Thief (Book 1 of the Rag and Bone Chronicles) is a young adult fantasy novel written by Jeff Ayers, published in 2020.
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The titular Skate, an orphan in a street gang reminiscent of the Artful Dodger's crew in Oliver Twist, ''Literature/OliverTwist'', bungles a burglary of a reclusive old man, who turns out to be a powerful wizard. He offers her a deal: "borrow" books for him from other libraries in return for room and board - and the chance to learn to read and write.
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->''"A book belongs to everybody, in the end, doesn’t it? The stories, the lessons, the discoveries, they all belong to everyone, when it’s all said and done."''
-->--'''Barrison Belamy''', ''a.k.a "The Iron Wind"''
-->--'''Barrison Belamy''', ''a.k.a "The Iron Wind"''
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* AbusivePrecursors: The elves are long gone; records that exist of their exploits don't paint a pleasant picture of how they treated humans (or each other, for that matter).
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* CoolOldGuy: At 107, Belamy is willing to take in a street orphan and teach her to read and write.
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Skate the Thief (Book 1 of the Rag and Bone Chronicles) is a young adult fantasy novel written by Jeff Ayers, published in 2020.
The titular Skate, an orphan in a street gang reminiscent of the Artful Dodger's crew in Oliver Twist, bungles a burglary of a reclusive old man, who turns out to be a powerful wizard. He offers her a deal: "borrow" books for him from other libraries in return for room and board - and the chance to learn to read and write.
With the gang (called the Ink) breathing down her neck and expecting results, Skate has to navigate new loyalties, old rivalries, strange creatures, and dangerous incursions into unwelcoming libraries. There's also a flying eyeball spider who likes to cook.
The book is getting a sequel in September of 2023, "Skate the Seeker".
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* BookcasePassage: Belamy has one that leads to an alchemy lab in the basement.
The titular Skate, an orphan in a street gang reminiscent of the Artful Dodger's crew in Oliver Twist, bungles a burglary of a reclusive old man, who turns out to be a powerful wizard. He offers her a deal: "borrow" books for him from other libraries in return for room and board - and the chance to learn to read and write.
With the gang (called the Ink) breathing down her neck and expecting results, Skate has to navigate new loyalties, old rivalries, strange creatures, and dangerous incursions into unwelcoming libraries. There's also a flying eyeball spider who likes to cook.
The book is getting a sequel in September of 2023, "Skate the Seeker".
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!! This book provides examples of:
* BookcasePassage: Belamy has one that leads to an alchemy lab in the basement.
