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* CompellingVoice: On her journey to find Dumery, Teneria encounters Adar, a warlock who's being Called to Aldagmor and barely able to resist. She decides to try and help him get away and discovers that her powers can ameliorate the effects of The Calling. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she succumbs to exhaustion before Adar can fly them far enough away from Aldagmor and he ends up succumbing to the call while she's unconscious]].
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* CompellingVoice: On her journey to find Dumery, Teneria encounters Adar, a warlock who's being Called to Aldagmor and barely able to resist. She As this is essentially a matter of life and death, she decides to try and help him get away and in the process discovers that her powers can ameliorate the effects of The Calling. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she succumbs to exhaustion before Adar can fly them far enough away from Aldagmor and he ends up succumbing to the call while she's unconscious]].
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* UnusualHiringPractises: When Dumery is trying to be taken on as a magician's apprentice, most branches of magic do a practical test of his aptitude in one way or another -- except sorcery, where he's just asked "a variety of peculiar questions, mostly dealing with numbers and unlikely hypothetical situations."
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* UnusualHiringPractises: UnusualHiringPractices: When Dumery is trying to be taken on as a magician's apprentice, most branches of magic do a practical test of his aptitude in one way or another -- except sorcery, where he's just asked "a variety of peculiar questions, mostly dealing with numbers and unlikely hypothetical situations."
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* UnusualHiringPractises: When Dumery is trying to be taken on as a magician's apprentice, most branches of magic do a practical test of his aptitude in one way or another -- except sorcery, where he's just asked "a variety of peculiar questions, mostly dealing with numbers and unlikely hypothetical situations."
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Well, I am getting my brain irradiated, so maybe all these typos I keep making will finally stop.
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* CompellingVoice: On her journey to find Dumery, Teneria encounters Adar, a warlock who's being Called to Aldagmor and barely able to resist. She decides to try and help him get away and discovers that her powers can ameliorate the effects of The Calling. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she succumbs to exhaustion before Adar can fly them far enough away from Aldagmor and he ends up succumbing to the call while she's unconscious]].
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* FantasticRacism: The inn at Aldagmor's refusal at admit Adar looks like this at first, but there are only so many times you can have warlocks bursting through your windows or walls to get to the Source before you put your foot down.
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* FantasticRacism: The inn at Aldagmor's refusal at to admit Adar looks like this at first, but there are only so many times you can have warlocks bursting through your windows or walls to get to the Source before you put your foot down.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Teneria (almost eighteen) and Adar the warlock (mid-thirties) strike one up after she saves him from The Calling.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Teneria (almost eighteen) and Adar the warlock (mid-thirties) strike one up after she saves him from The Calling.Calling and decides to help him escape it. [[spoiler:In later novels, she's mentioned as being regretful about not being able to help him get away even years later]].
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* ShootTheMessenger: Thetheran was just the guy who told Dumery that he was incompatible with magic without being responsible in any way. Nevertheless, Dumery cultivates a heave resentment against him.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Thetheran was just the guy who told Dumery that he was incompatible with magic without being responsible in any way. Nevertheless, Dumery cultivates a heave heavy resentment against him.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Dumery starts out wanting to be a dragon-hunter so he can make wizards grovel at his feet. After [[spoiler:discovering the dragon farm and its cruel practices]], his priorities change to [[spoiler:driving them out of business]] and...having wizards grovel at his feet. Well, it's an improvement.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Dumery starts out wanting to be a dragon-hunter so he can make wizards grovel at his feet. After [[spoiler:discovering the dragon farm and its cruel practices]], his priorities change to [[spoiler:driving them out of business]] business with a non-lethal dragon farm]] and...having wizards grovel at his feet. Well, it's an improvement.
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** [[spoiler:After she loses Adar, Teneria finally finds Dumery only to have him escape and get her into trouble at the dragon farm, and realizes she's close enough to the Warlock Stone that she can hear The Calling, Teneria decides she is ''done'' and heads home.]]
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** [[spoiler:After she loses Adar, Teneria finally finds Dumery only to have him escape and get her into trouble at with the family who runs the dragon farm, and then realizes she's close enough to the Warlock Stone that she can hear The Calling, Calling in spite of not being a warlock. At this point, Teneria decides she is ''done'' and heads home.]]
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: [[spoiler:Even though Teneria gives up chasing after Dumery, she's still permitted to graduate to journeyman, since he turned up safe and sound and claiming her magic had gotten him home. Her master knows Dumery's lying about that, but eh...]]
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: [[spoiler:Even though Teneria gives up chasing after Dumery, she's still permitted to graduate to journeyman, since he turned up safe and sound and claiming her magic had gotten him home. Her master knows ''knows'' Dumery's lying about that, but eh...eh, whatever.]]
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* UltimateJobSecurity: Kensher can be rude to the wizards he sells to all he wants because they need dragon's blood for their spells, [[spoiler:and he's got the only dragon farm in The World.]]
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* UltimateJobSecurity: Kensher can charge exorbitant prices and be rude to the wizards he sells to all he wants because they need dragon's blood for their spells, [[spoiler:and he's got the only dragon farm in The World.]]
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Alas, Dumery's dreams were shattered when Thetheran the wizard told him he no capacity for wizardry whatsoever, and further investigation showed that he had no talent for ''any'' of the various magics of The World.
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Alas, Dumery's dreams were shattered when Thetheran the wizard told him he possessed no capacity for wizardry whatsoever, and further investigation showed that he had no talent for ''any'' of the various magics of The World.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** You can be plucky and clever and determined, and still not get what you want.
** If you go on a journey without preparing first, you're going to end up miserable.
** You can be plucky and clever and determined, and still not get what you want.
** If you go on a journey without preparing first, you're going to end up miserable.
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* RealityEnsues:
** You can be plucky and clever and determined, and still not get what you want.
** If you go on a journey without preparing first, you're going to end up miserable.
** You can be plucky and clever and determined, and still not get what you want.
** If you go on a journey without preparing first, you're going to end up miserable.
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* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Thanks to her mental contact with Adar, Teneria hears what The Calling sounds like and becomes sensitive to it as demonstrated later.
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* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: AMindIsATerribleThingToRead:
** During the Charm Person incident mentioned below, Teneria was able to read every bit of her target's fear and confusion.
** Thanks to her mental contact with Adar, Teneria hears what The Calling sounds like and becomes sensitive to it as demonstrated later.
** During the Charm Person incident mentioned below, Teneria was able to read every bit of her target's fear and confusion.
** Thanks to her mental contact with Adar, Teneria hears what The Calling sounds like and becomes sensitive to it as demonstrated later.
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* SuperEmpowering: Get too close to the Warlock Stone and you'll almost certainly turn into a warlock and get Called immediately.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: [[spoiler:Even though Teneria gives up chasing after Dumery, she's still permitted to graduate to journeyman, since he turned up safe and sound and claiming her magic had gotten him home. Her master knows Dumery's lying about that, but eh...]]
* SweetAndSourGrapes: [[spoiler:Even though Teneria gives up chasing after Dumery, she's still permitted to graduate to journeyman, since he turned up safe and sound and claiming her magic had gotten him home. Her master knows Dumery's lying about that, but eh...]]
* SuperEmpowering: Get too close to the Warlock Stone and you'll almost certainly turn into a warlock and get Called immediately.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: [[spoiler:Even though Teneria gives up chasing after Dumery, she's still permitted to graduate to journeyman, since he turned up safe and sound and claiming her magic had gotten him home. Her master knows Dumery's lying about that, but eh...]]
* SweetAndSourGrapes: [[spoiler:Even though Teneria gives up chasing after Dumery, she's still permitted to graduate to journeyman, since he turned up safe and sound and claiming her magic had gotten him home. Her master knows Dumery's lying about that, but eh...]]
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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Dumery thanks Kensher's family for saving him from dying in the wilderness and taking care of him by trying to blackmail them into letting him become an apprentice and attempting to steal dragons from them after they refuse to sell him any.]]
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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Dumery thanks Kensher's family for saving him from dying in the wilderness and taking care of him by trying to blackmail them into letting him become an apprentice and attempting to steal dragons from them after they refuse to sell him any.]]
* YoungestChildWins: [[spoiler:His three older siblings will get his father's ships, money and house, and Dumery...eventually lays the groundwork for a business whose profits will dwarf all those things.]]
* YoungestChildWins: [[spoiler:His three older siblings will get his father's ships, money and house, and Dumery...eventually lays the groundwork for a business whose profits will dwarf all those things.]]
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* CharmPerson: As a youth Teneria used her powers to sway a stingy candy-seller into giving her credit...and whammied him so hard he gave every kid he saw free candy for the next sixnight. MyGodWhatHaveIDone ensued.
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* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:When Aldagon learns the truth about the dragon farm, she's outraged and very nearly destroys it, only holding off because she's aware that the wizards they supply would retaliate. Dumery suggests they start their own cruelty-free dragon farm and drive them out of business instead and she accepts.]]
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* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:When Aldagon learns the truth about the dragon farm, she's outraged and very nearly destroys it, only holding off because she's aware that the wizards they supply would retaliate. Dumery suggests they start their own cruelty-free dragon farm and to drive them out of business instead and she accepts.]]
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* ContinuityNod: [[Literature/TheMisenchantedSword Valder]] briefly appears in his capacity as an innkeeper.
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** After Teneria learns that her powers can keep her Adar from succumbing to The Calling, she immediately breaks off her pursuit of Dumery so the two of them can try to get far enough away from Aldagmor for Adar to resist it on his own before she passes out from exhaustion. [[spoiler:They don't make it.]]
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* AnArmAndaLeg: [[spoiler:Kinner, Kensher's father, lost an arm when he got careless with one of the dragons.]]
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* SitcomArchNemesis: Dumery hates Thetheran and sometimes thinks he might have told everyone of Wizard Street to reject him as an apprentice. For his part, Thetheran just sees Dumery as a runaway brat whose parents keep nagging him when he's trying to work.
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* {[Determinator}]: Dumery's strongest trait is that when he sets his mind to something he does '''not''' let it go. Deconstructed somewhat in that his determination tends to inconvenience everyone around him. [[spoiler:And running into Aldagon was dumb luck as much as anything.]]
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''The Blood of a Dragon'', fourth of the ''Literature/TheLegendsOfEthshar'' fantasy novels by Creator/LawrenceWattEvans, chronicles the first appearances of Dumery of Shiphaven and Teneria of Fishertown.
Dumery, fourth child of the sixth-richest man in Ethshar of the Spices, had nothing left to inherit, so he and his father agreed that he ought to seek an apprenticeship--but the last thing Doran expected was that Dumery would ask to be apprenticed to a wizard.
Alas, Dumery's dreams were shattered when Thetheran the wizard told him he no capacity for wizardry whatsoever, and further investigation showed that he had no talent for ''any'' of the various magics of The World.
Wandering around the city, trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life, Dumery happened upon the sight of Thetheran resentfully spending a massive amount of gold to buy dragon's blood from a man who treated him with incredible disrespect, and came to a realization: If ''he'' became a dragon-hunter all those haughty wizards who'd rejected him would be ''begging'' for the precious resource.
So he asked the dragon-hunter, Kensher, to take him on as an apprentice...
...and was bluntly rejected.
Dumery didn't let that stop him, and impulsively decided on the spot to follow Kensher in the hopes of finding some way to change his mind, no matter how far he had to go.
Back home, Dumery's worried parents consulted a witch, who agreed to send her apprentice to find the boy.
Said apprentice, Teneria, ended up running into trouble of her own...
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Dumery nearly gets himself killed chasing after Kensher, only to learn that he's got eleven kids, each of whom has a better claim to an apprenticeship at the dragon farm than Dumery ever could.]]
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Thanks to her mental contact with Adar, Teneria hears what The Calling sounds like and becomes sensitive to it as demonstrated later.
* AnArmAndaLeg: [[spoiler:Kinner, Kensher's father, lost an arm when he got careless with one of the dragons.]]
* AntiHero: Unlike other Ethshar protagonists, Dumery is a reckless, stubborn brat, but he does still have a decent heart.
* TheApprentice:
** Dumery wanted to be an apprentice to a magician, but had no talent.
** [[spoiler:He also tries to be an apprentice dragon farmer, but gets turned down flat. Several times.]]
** Teneria is an apprentice witch, and finding Dumery is her ticket to becoming a journeyman.
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:Aldagon thinks the dragon farm is still being run by the military, though she doesn't understand why they seem to be raising dragons only to kill them. When Dumery tells it's privately-run, for profit, and the young dragons are being killed just for their blood, she's furious.]]
* BlackmailBackfire: [[spoiler:Dumery tries to get Kensher to take him on as an apprentice by threatening to reveal the existence and location of the dragon farm to the wizards. Kensher points out that 1) any wizard who actually ''cared'' where their dragon blood came from could just use a scrying spell to find out, and 2) he and his family had just saved Dumery from dying in the mountains--[[ImpliedDeathThreat a fate which might still be on the table if he doesn't watch it]]]].
* BloodMagic: Dragon's blood is a powerful and vital component to many wizards' spells.
* CallToAgriculture: [[spoiler:A very odd sort of agriculture, but the dragon farm started as a military project during the Great War, and is currently run by the descendants of the man who refused to disband it after the War ended.]]
* CharmPerson: As a youth Teneria used her powers to sway a stingy candy-seller into giving her credit...and whammied him so hard he gave every kid he saw free candy for the next sixnight. MyGodWhatHaveIDone ensued.
* ComfortingComforter: [[spoiler:When Teneria eventually passes out, Adar manages to put her cloak over her before succumbing to The Calling.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Teneria. [[WordOfGod LWE]] regards her as the ''real'' hero of the book.
* DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife: Dumery, at first.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Dumery constantly gets into trouble because of this.
* DragonRider: [[spoiler:Aldagon takes Dumery back to Eshthar by air.]]
* {[Determinator}]: Dumery's strongest trait is that when he sets his mind to something he does '''not''' let it go. Deconstructed somewhat in that his determination tends to inconvenience everyone around him. [[spoiler:And running into Aldagon was dumb luck as much as anything.]]
* EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler:Aldagon's true name is "Yellowbelly", the name given to her by her masters in the military before she became sapient and the one she first recognized as her own. She's understandably reluctant to tell Dumery this.]]
* FantasticRacism: The inn at Aldagmor's refusal at admit Adar looks like this at first, but there are only so many times you can have warlocks bursting through your windows or walls to get to the Source before you put your foot down.
* GiftedlyBad: Thetheran notes that Dumery isn't just bad at magic, but magic ''actively refuses'' to be used by him.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Teneria (almost eighteen) and Adar the warlock (mid-thirties) strike one up after she saves him from The Calling.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:After all the trouble he puts everyone though, Dumery still gets what he wants (with a bit of a delay)]].
* NecessaryEvil: [[spoiler:Kensher and his family are decent, hard-working people, who cripple baby dragons's wings and slaughter them before they get old enough to become sapient. From their point of view it's a perfectly natural thing they've been doing for hundreds of years.]]
* NonHumanSidekick: A spriggan tries to be this for Dumery (who rejects him), and eventually teams up with Teneria instead.
* RealityEnsues:
** You can be plucky and clever and determined, and still not get what you want.
** If you go on a journey without preparing first, you're going to end up miserable.
* ResistTheBeast: Teneria uses her powers to help Adar resist The Calling. [[spoiler:Too bad she has to sleep ''sometime''.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Dumery starts out wanting to be a dragon-hunter so he can make wizards grovel at his feet. After [[spoiler:discovering the dragon farm and its cruel practices]], his priorities change to [[spoiler:driving them out of business]] and...having wizards grovel at his feet. Well, it's an improvement.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** After Teneria learns that her powers can keep her Adar from succumbing to The Calling, she immediately breaks off her pursuit of Dumery so the two of them can try to get far enough away from Aldagmor for Adar to resist it on his own before she passes out from exhaustion. [[spoiler:They don't make it.]]
** [[spoiler:After she loses Adar, finally finds Dumery only to have him escape and get her into trouble at the dragon farm, and realizes she's close enough to the Warlock Stone that she can hear The Calling, Teneria decides she is ''done'' and heads home.]]
* SuperEmpowering: Get too close to the Warlock Stone and you'll almost certainly turn into a warlock and get Called immediately.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: [[spoiler:Even though Teneria gives up chasing after Dumery, she's still permitted to graduate to journeyman, since he turned up safe and sound and claiming her magic had gotten him home. Her master knows Dumery's lying about that, but eh...]]
* SitcomArchNemesis: Dumery hates Thetheran and sometimes thinks he might have told everyone of Wizard Street to reject him as an apprentice. For his part, Thetheran just sees Dumery as a runaway brat whose parents keep nagging him when he's trying to work.
* SpoiledBrat: From his point of view, Dumery just asks for things and people tell him he's one of these. Perhaps because he he asks for ridiculous things, and won't take "no" for an answer?
* StartMyOwn: [[spoiler:After getting firmly rejected by Kensher, Dumery decides to start a dragon farm of his own with Aldagon's help.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:When Aldagon learns the truth about the dragon farm, she's outraged and very nearly destroys it, only holding off because she's aware that the wizards they supply would retaliate. Dumery suggests they start their own cruelty-free dragon farm and drive them out of business instead and she accepts.]]
* TalkingInYourDreams: Dumery's parents pay Thetheran to contact him this way twice. Of course, he's the ''last'' person Dumery wants to see.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Kensher can be rude to the wizards he sells to all he wants because they need dragon's blood for their spells, [[spoiler:and he's got the only dragon farm in The World.]]
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Dumery thanks Kensher's family for saving him from dying in the wilderness and taking care of him by trying to blackmail them into letting him become an apprentice and attempting to steal dragons from them after they refuse to sell him any.]]
Dumery, fourth child of the sixth-richest man in Ethshar of the Spices, had nothing left to inherit, so he and his father agreed that he ought to seek an apprenticeship--but the last thing Doran expected was that Dumery would ask to be apprenticed to a wizard.
Alas, Dumery's dreams were shattered when Thetheran the wizard told him he no capacity for wizardry whatsoever, and further investigation showed that he had no talent for ''any'' of the various magics of The World.
Wandering around the city, trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life, Dumery happened upon the sight of Thetheran resentfully spending a massive amount of gold to buy dragon's blood from a man who treated him with incredible disrespect, and came to a realization: If ''he'' became a dragon-hunter all those haughty wizards who'd rejected him would be ''begging'' for the precious resource.
So he asked the dragon-hunter, Kensher, to take him on as an apprentice...
...and was bluntly rejected.
Dumery didn't let that stop him, and impulsively decided on the spot to follow Kensher in the hopes of finding some way to change his mind, no matter how far he had to go.
Back home, Dumery's worried parents consulted a witch, who agreed to send her apprentice to find the boy.
Said apprentice, Teneria, ended up running into trouble of her own...
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Dumery nearly gets himself killed chasing after Kensher, only to learn that he's got eleven kids, each of whom has a better claim to an apprenticeship at the dragon farm than Dumery ever could.]]
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Thanks to her mental contact with Adar, Teneria hears what The Calling sounds like and becomes sensitive to it as demonstrated later.
* AnArmAndaLeg: [[spoiler:Kinner, Kensher's father, lost an arm when he got careless with one of the dragons.]]
* AntiHero: Unlike other Ethshar protagonists, Dumery is a reckless, stubborn brat, but he does still have a decent heart.
* TheApprentice:
** Dumery wanted to be an apprentice to a magician, but had no talent.
** [[spoiler:He also tries to be an apprentice dragon farmer, but gets turned down flat. Several times.]]
** Teneria is an apprentice witch, and finding Dumery is her ticket to becoming a journeyman.
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:Aldagon thinks the dragon farm is still being run by the military, though she doesn't understand why they seem to be raising dragons only to kill them. When Dumery tells it's privately-run, for profit, and the young dragons are being killed just for their blood, she's furious.]]
* BlackmailBackfire: [[spoiler:Dumery tries to get Kensher to take him on as an apprentice by threatening to reveal the existence and location of the dragon farm to the wizards. Kensher points out that 1) any wizard who actually ''cared'' where their dragon blood came from could just use a scrying spell to find out, and 2) he and his family had just saved Dumery from dying in the mountains--[[ImpliedDeathThreat a fate which might still be on the table if he doesn't watch it]]]].
* BloodMagic: Dragon's blood is a powerful and vital component to many wizards' spells.
* CallToAgriculture: [[spoiler:A very odd sort of agriculture, but the dragon farm started as a military project during the Great War, and is currently run by the descendants of the man who refused to disband it after the War ended.]]
* CharmPerson: As a youth Teneria used her powers to sway a stingy candy-seller into giving her credit...and whammied him so hard he gave every kid he saw free candy for the next sixnight. MyGodWhatHaveIDone ensued.
* ComfortingComforter: [[spoiler:When Teneria eventually passes out, Adar manages to put her cloak over her before succumbing to The Calling.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Teneria. [[WordOfGod LWE]] regards her as the ''real'' hero of the book.
* DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife: Dumery, at first.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Dumery constantly gets into trouble because of this.
* DragonRider: [[spoiler:Aldagon takes Dumery back to Eshthar by air.]]
* {[Determinator}]: Dumery's strongest trait is that when he sets his mind to something he does '''not''' let it go. Deconstructed somewhat in that his determination tends to inconvenience everyone around him. [[spoiler:And running into Aldagon was dumb luck as much as anything.]]
* EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler:Aldagon's true name is "Yellowbelly", the name given to her by her masters in the military before she became sapient and the one she first recognized as her own. She's understandably reluctant to tell Dumery this.]]
* FantasticRacism: The inn at Aldagmor's refusal at admit Adar looks like this at first, but there are only so many times you can have warlocks bursting through your windows or walls to get to the Source before you put your foot down.
* GiftedlyBad: Thetheran notes that Dumery isn't just bad at magic, but magic ''actively refuses'' to be used by him.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Teneria (almost eighteen) and Adar the warlock (mid-thirties) strike one up after she saves him from The Calling.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:After all the trouble he puts everyone though, Dumery still gets what he wants (with a bit of a delay)]].
* NecessaryEvil: [[spoiler:Kensher and his family are decent, hard-working people, who cripple baby dragons's wings and slaughter them before they get old enough to become sapient. From their point of view it's a perfectly natural thing they've been doing for hundreds of years.]]
* NonHumanSidekick: A spriggan tries to be this for Dumery (who rejects him), and eventually teams up with Teneria instead.
* RealityEnsues:
** You can be plucky and clever and determined, and still not get what you want.
** If you go on a journey without preparing first, you're going to end up miserable.
* ResistTheBeast: Teneria uses her powers to help Adar resist The Calling. [[spoiler:Too bad she has to sleep ''sometime''.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Dumery starts out wanting to be a dragon-hunter so he can make wizards grovel at his feet. After [[spoiler:discovering the dragon farm and its cruel practices]], his priorities change to [[spoiler:driving them out of business]] and...having wizards grovel at his feet. Well, it's an improvement.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** After Teneria learns that her powers can keep her Adar from succumbing to The Calling, she immediately breaks off her pursuit of Dumery so the two of them can try to get far enough away from Aldagmor for Adar to resist it on his own before she passes out from exhaustion. [[spoiler:They don't make it.]]
** [[spoiler:After she loses Adar, finally finds Dumery only to have him escape and get her into trouble at the dragon farm, and realizes she's close enough to the Warlock Stone that she can hear The Calling, Teneria decides she is ''done'' and heads home.]]
* SuperEmpowering: Get too close to the Warlock Stone and you'll almost certainly turn into a warlock and get Called immediately.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: [[spoiler:Even though Teneria gives up chasing after Dumery, she's still permitted to graduate to journeyman, since he turned up safe and sound and claiming her magic had gotten him home. Her master knows Dumery's lying about that, but eh...]]
* SitcomArchNemesis: Dumery hates Thetheran and sometimes thinks he might have told everyone of Wizard Street to reject him as an apprentice. For his part, Thetheran just sees Dumery as a runaway brat whose parents keep nagging him when he's trying to work.
* SpoiledBrat: From his point of view, Dumery just asks for things and people tell him he's one of these. Perhaps because he he asks for ridiculous things, and won't take "no" for an answer?
* StartMyOwn: [[spoiler:After getting firmly rejected by Kensher, Dumery decides to start a dragon farm of his own with Aldagon's help.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:When Aldagon learns the truth about the dragon farm, she's outraged and very nearly destroys it, only holding off because she's aware that the wizards they supply would retaliate. Dumery suggests they start their own cruelty-free dragon farm and drive them out of business instead and she accepts.]]
* TalkingInYourDreams: Dumery's parents pay Thetheran to contact him this way twice. Of course, he's the ''last'' person Dumery wants to see.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Kensher can be rude to the wizards he sells to all he wants because they need dragon's blood for their spells, [[spoiler:and he's got the only dragon farm in The World.]]
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Dumery thanks Kensher's family for saving him from dying in the wilderness and taking care of him by trying to blackmail them into letting him become an apprentice and attempting to steal dragons from them after they refuse to sell him any.]]
