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* NeutralityBacklash: Several groups try to sit out the war as neutral parties. They inevitably get destroyed by one side or the other, whether it's Mishra ransacking Terisia City or Urza subjugating the Sardian dwarves and driving them to the brink of extinction.
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* DeathActivatedSuperpower: [[spoiler:Urza's Spark ignites as the Sylex blast obliterates him, turning him into a planeswalker.]]
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* NotEnoughToBury: [[spoiler:Urza and Mishra are atomized from being at ground zero of the Sylex blast.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Gix first tries to open the Koilos portal from the Phyrexian side, the portal is unstable, and he's forced to hastily withdraw his arm before it can close on him. When Urza unleashes the Sylex blast, Gix doesn't have time to make sure the portal is fully stable before the blast's aftereffects start bringing the caves down around him. He dives through the unstable portal, and it closes on him as he's partway through, taking off his arm.
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* RoboticReveal: At the climax of the novel, Urza uses his newly awakened magical powers to set Mishra on fire. Mishra's skin melts and sloughs away, revealing the Phyrexian machinery underneath.
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* HatedByAll: When he first arrives in the city of Kroog, Urza is rejected by all the guilds for not being religious enough. After marrying the city's princess Kayla bin-Kroog and producing [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=992 healing amulets]] they do an abrupt about-face and declare him "a fine fellow, even for an Argivian".
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** When he first arrives in the city of Kroog, Urza is rejected by all the guilds for not being religious enough. After marrying the city's princess Kayla bin-Kroog and producing [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=992 healing amulets]] they do an abrupt about-face and declare him "a fine fellow, even for anArgivian".Argivian".
** The Fallaji despise Ashnod despite her being Mishra's right-hand woman, both because she's a woman in a position of power within a staunchly patriarchal society, and because she's a MadScientist who turns people into horrifying techno-zombies.
** When he first arrives in the city of Kroog, Urza is rejected by all the guilds for not being religious enough. After marrying the city's princess Kayla bin-Kroog and producing [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=992 healing amulets]] they do an abrupt about-face and declare him "a fine fellow, even for an
** The Fallaji despise Ashnod despite her being Mishra's right-hand woman, both because she's a woman in a position of power within a staunchly patriarchal society, and because she's a MadScientist who turns people into horrifying techno-zombies.
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* StayInTheKitchen: The Fallaji have a staunchly patriarchal society. Mishra's warlords have nothing but disdain for Ashnod because she is a woman placed in a position of power, and they actively conspire against her to get her taken down a peg.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Rusko of all people is the one who initially comes up with the idea of weaponizing Urza's ornithopters (they have no offensive power of their own, but as Rusko realizes, they ''can'' be used for DeathFromAbove bomb drops). This allows the warlord to make a pre-emptive strike on the Fallaji, setting into motion everything that follows.
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** Rusko of all people is the one who initially comes up with the idea of weaponizing Urza's ornithopters (they have no offensive power of their own, but as Rusko realizes, they ''can'' be used for DeathFromAbove bomb drops). This allows the warlord to make a pre-emptive strike on the Fallaji, setting into motion everything thatfollows.follows.
** When Harbin crashes his ornithopter on Argoth, the elf Gwenna watches him in secret. She's obliged to kill him should he attempt to wound the land, but instead she covertly helps him gather the materials he needs to repair his craft so he can leave. This act of kindness ends up dooming Argoth, as Harbin's reports of a lush island with plenty of natural resources to exploit brings the war to Argoth's shores.
** Rusko of all people is the one who initially comes up with the idea of weaponizing Urza's ornithopters (they have no offensive power of their own, but as Rusko realizes, they ''can'' be used for DeathFromAbove bomb drops). This allows the warlord to make a pre-emptive strike on the Fallaji, setting into motion everything that
** When Harbin crashes his ornithopter on Argoth, the elf Gwenna watches him in secret. She's obliged to kill him should he attempt to wound the land, but instead she covertly helps him gather the materials he needs to repair his craft so he can leave. This act of kindness ends up dooming Argoth, as Harbin's reports of a lush island with plenty of natural resources to exploit brings the war to Argoth's shores.
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* ElectricTorture: When Tawnos is captured by the Fallaji, Ashnod tortures him by wiring him to a device that can send painful electric currents through his body at the flick of a switch.
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* MeleeATrois: Once the fighting moves to Argoth, the war becomes a three-way struggle between Urza and Mishra's forces, who both want to plunder Argoth's natural resources, and the denizens of Argoth, who want to kick both these invading armies off their island.
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* FatBastard: Mishra grows fatter and fatter as he slips further into being a tyrannical EvilOverlord.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: When Ashnod interrogates Tawnos, she brings guards who can't speak Argivian so she can discuss the war with Tawnos without fear of being understood, and slip him the tools he needs to effect his own escape without arousing suspicion. Unfortunately for her, the guards have an excellent memory: while they don't ''understand'' what she said, they remember every word of it and can recite it almost flawlessly, revealing to Mishra that she had a hand in Tawnos's escape.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Quite a few of the secondary characters go unnamed and are only referred to by their titles. The warlord of Kroog, the two qadirs, the seneschal, the three captains of the guard (who at least get qualifiers to distinguish them from one another)...
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* EvilRedhead: The Fallaji have an in-universe stereotype about redhaired women being evil or cursed. Ashnod, with her fiery red hair and her willingness to do horrific things in the name of science, does little to discourage such stereotypes.
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* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: At one point, Ashnod and Tawnos bond over the fact that their intelligence makes it difficult for people who aren't as smart as they are to understand or relate to them.
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* ArtificialZombie: Ashnod's transmogrants are essentially living people that have been transformed into blue-skinned zombie soldiers through the power of twisted science.
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* TheButcher: Mishra becomes known as the Butcher of Kroog after his dragon engines burn the city to the ground.
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* AgonyBeam: Ashnod's staff fires waves of energy which disrupt the target's nervous system, wracking them with pain. At higher intensities, it can kill outright.
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* SayingTooMuch: Ashnod invites Tawnos to her quarters for a midnight rendezvous during the second peace conference. As they get drunk and discuss their respective masters, she unwittingly refers to Mishra's engine''s'', plural, nearly giving away the fact that he now has more than one dragon engine. Soon afterward, her careless words make Tawnos realize that Mishra is enacting a scheme to steal Urza's Mightstone at that very moment, and that Kayla is complicit in it.
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* DragonTamer: For reasons he can't explain, the dragon engines become docile in Mishra's presence and obey his commands, spoken or otherwise.
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* AntiVillain: Ashnod. She does some nasty things, but she does try to justify them with some semblance of morality (claiming that she "saved" prisoners of Urza's forces who were slated for execution by turning them into [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159110 Transmogrants]] and only torturing Tawnos because her torture is far less worse than the Fallaji's) and leaves Mishra when it's clear that he's gone completely overboard. She's also the one character to contribute the most to stopping (or at least slowing) the Phyrexians.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: The dragon engines are impressive and destructive beasts, but when Mishra travels to Phyrexia to get some more, he discovers that they are nowhere near the top of the food chain. There are much bigger, nastier things roaming the biomechanical jungle, things which the dragon engines rightly fear.
* AntiVillain: Ashnod. She does some nasty things, but she does try to justify them with some semblance of morality (claiming that she "saved" prisoners of Urza's forces who were slated for execution by turning them into [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159110 Transmogrants]] and only torturing Tawnos because her torture is far less worse than the Fallaji's) and leaves Mishra when it's clear that he's gone completely overboard. She's also the one character to contribute the most to stopping (or at least slowing) the Phyrexians.
* AntiVillain: Ashnod. She does some nasty things, but she does try to justify them with some semblance of morality (claiming that she "saved" prisoners of Urza's forces who were slated for execution by turning them into [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159110 Transmogrants]] and only torturing Tawnos because her torture is far less worse than the Fallaji's) and leaves Mishra when it's clear that he's gone completely overboard. She's also the one character to contribute the most to stopping (or at least slowing) the Phyrexians.
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* AggressiveNegotiations: The warlord invites representatives of Argive, Korlis, and the Fallaji to a peace summit in neutral territory. Unbeknownst to everyone but his closest advisors, the summit is a pretext to lure the Fallaji's leaders into one place so he can bomb them all to kingdom come using a squadron of Urza's ornithopters. It doesn't quite go as planned, as he wasn't expecting the Fallaji to have a robotic dragon or to catch a terminal case of dagger-in-the-chest, but it does put the Fallaji on the backfoot for a bit.
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* AboveTheInfluence: One night, a frustrated and grieving Kayla summons Tawnos to her chambers, gets herself drunk before he arrives, and attempts to seduce him. Tawnos, good-natured soul that he is, refuses her overtures but offers a sympathetic ear so she can vent about how Urza has become even more distant since her father died. He then gives Kayla some advice which helps her rekindle the spark of her relationship with Urza.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Urza threw his hat in the ring for Kayla's hand, not because he thought she was pretty (which he did), but because her dowry included several rare Thran tomes which he could use to further his research. Once the marriage was consummated, he went straight to work on studying the tomes, treating his wife mostly as an afterthought.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Urza threw his hat initially had no interest in the ring EngagementChallenge for Kayla's Kayla bin-Kroog's hand, not because he thought she thinking it was pretty (which stupid. He changed his mind once he did), but because saw that her dowry included several a rare Thran tomes which tome that he could use to further his research. Once he won the marriage was consummated, competition and consummated the marriage, he went straight set to work on studying the tomes, tome, treating his wife mostly new bride almost as an afterthought.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Urza threw his hat in the ring for Kayla's hand, not because he thought she was pretty (which he did), but because her dowry included several rare Thran tomes which he could use to further his research. Once the marriage was consummated, he went straight to work on studying the tomes, treating his wife mostly as an afterthought.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Urza was very protective of his younger brother Mishra when they were children. Sadly, this protectiveness didn't last as they grew older.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Urza punched his brother in a fit of anger while they were first arguing over possession of the stones. Urza regretted his actions immediately and tried to apologize, but the damage was done.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:Gix hightails it back to Phyrexia once the sylex goes off.]]
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** The Brotherhood of Gix replace body parts with machines [[spoiler: and seemingly convince Mishra to do the same.]]
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* HopelessWar: The war lasts for decades and devastates the land as the brothers plunder every available resource to fuel their armies of increasingly deadly war machines. Everyone who tries to sit out the war or remain neutral gets destroyed by one side or the other, and everyone involved is exhausted toward the end of it. [[spoiler:When the war finally ends, it does so with an explosion that devastates most of the world, and whose aftereffects will be felt for millennia to come.]]
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mishra, who by this point in his life carries a magical stone that can suck energy out of things and has visited another plane of existence that he first saw at his dreams, dismisses reports of the Teresian scholars' magic as superstitious hogwash.
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* TyopOnTheCover: While the German edition of the book has the correct title on the cover (''Bruderkrieg''), on the spine of the book it's misspelled "Bruberkrieg".
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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: At the start of the war, the dragon engines are Mishra's super weapons, capable of destroying entire cities. The card Dragon Engine meanwhile is completely unremarkable.
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* BaldWoman: Hurkyl is described this way, although it's noted that she grows her hair out long again while at Terisia city because she is away from the lice-infested underground seaside school of Lat-Nam.
