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* TheRainman: Friendly in ''Best Served Cold'' and ''Red Country''. There were 37 letters in that sentence.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The Midderland court is portrayed like this, with some criminal levels of indifference and sometimes stupidity among its nobles.
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** Stour Nightfall and Luther Broad are contrasting versions of this trope in the ''Age of Madness'' trilogy. Nightfall revels in it, never skipping an opportunity to increase his reputation as a dangerous killer. Broad, on the other hand, spends nearly every viewpoint chapter wishing that he wasn't this, but fighting it less and less as the story goes on.
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** Stour Nightfall and Luther Gunnar Broad are contrasting versions of this trope in the ''Age of Madness'' trilogy. Nightfall revels in it, never skipping an opportunity to increase his reputation as a dangerous killer. Broad, on the other hand, spends nearly every viewpoint chapter wishing that he wasn't this, but fighting it less and less as the story goes on.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The Union's chief ranged weapon is referred to as a "flatbow", which given further mentions of cranking to reload and bolts as ammunition, seems to indicate that it is the in-universe term for a crossbow.
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* CentralTheme: What makes people do good things, and what makes them do bad things? Can anyone really hope to [[KnightInSourArmor be good in an evil world]], or should just you just [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids give up on it and focus on looking after number one]]? Can someone be a good person, even a heroic one, in some situations and a bad person in others?
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Not to be confused with Creator/IsaacAsimov's ShortStory, "Literature/FirstLaw", which is about robots.
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* AuthorityInNameOnly: As first [[spoiler: Jezal]] and then his son Orso find out, being the King of the Union carries astonishingly little practical power. Since the country is so precariously balanced between competing forces, it's usually political suicide for the King to actually take an active stand on anything. [[spoiler: And of course he'd better not even ''think'' about disobeying Bayaz.]]
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** Devil-blooded Ferro swears that she'll kill both Emperor Uthman and the Prophet Khalul as vengeance for her enslavement. Thirty years later, Gurkhul is in chaos after Uthman was allegedly slane by a devil and whether Khalul has survived the same fate is unclear.
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** Devil-blooded Ferro swears that she'll kill both Emperor Uthman and the Prophet Khalul as vengeance for her enslavement. Thirty years later, Gurkhul is in chaos after Uthman was allegedly slane slain by a devil and whether Khalul has survived the same fate is unclear.
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* DepravedHomosexual: King Jappo of Styria deliberately cultivates this image. It bothers (the heavily implied to be deeply closeted) Leo dan Brock quite a bit.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Of the six novels published so far, Bayaz is still on top]].
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** [[spoiler: Lord Isher]] is the source of pretty much all the bloodshed in ''The Trouble with Peace,'' but is the only high ranking conspirator to escape capture.
** [[spoiler: Lord Isher]] is the source of pretty much all the bloodshed in ''The Trouble with Peace,'' but is the only high ranking conspirator to escape capture.
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* TheCavalry: Both sides in the primary battle of ''The Trouble with Peace'' begin with a notable regiment missing, knowing the Battle will be determined by whose reinforcements show up first. [[spoiler: It winds up being literal, with Orso's cavalry arriving in the nick of time, while Rikke never leaves the North.]]
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* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: The society of the North theoretically has Thralls on the bottom, then Khals, then Named Men, with the Chief on top. That said, don't expect to see any characters who are thralls or Khals.
** Generally averted elsewhere. The Union in particular tends to have a split between noble and commoner as an important part of its characters narrative.
** Generally averted elsewhere. The Union in particular tends to have a split between noble and commoner as an important part of its characters narrative.
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** Stout Nightfall and Luther Broad are contrasting versions of this trope in the ''Age of Madness'' trilogy. Nightfall revels in it, never skipping an opportunity to increase his reputation as a dangerous killer. Broad, on the other hand, spends nearly every viewpoint chapter wishing that he wasn't this, but fighting it less and less as the story goes on.
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* PowerIncontinence: An unusually literal example in Rikke. She has the Long Eye and sees cryptic visions of the future. These visions come without warning, and usually cause her to empty her bowels. [[spoiler: Some witchcraft in ''The Trouble with Peace'' cures her incontinence at the price of some FacialHorror.]]
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* EyeScream: This is the centerpiece of Shivers' arc in ''Best Served Cold.''. Later, the same thing happens to his boss, [[spoiler: Rikke]], who at least gets to keep their eye, sightless and disfigured.
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** Rikke forces the Long Eye open at the climax of her arc in ''A Little Hatred.''. The Long Eye does not appreciate being manipulated so and has begun to kill her by the start of ''The Trouble with Peace.'' This is the result. [[spoiler: On the bright side, visions don't make her shit herself anymore.]]
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** All the (surviving) viewpoint characters of the original trilogy treat [[spoiler: Bayaz]] this way.
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** Yoru Sulfur has a brief fight six or seven Burners in ''The Trouble with Peace.'' Most of them are dead before they even know what's happening.
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* PlotArmor: Largely averted, but viewpoint characters rarely go down before the ending of any given book. For example, readers can guess that the assassins sent against viewpoint character [[spoiler: King]] Orso in the middle of ''The Trouble with Peace'' aren't going to succeed.
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* BombThrowingAnarchist: The Burners in ''The Age of Madness'' trilogy are reactionaries looking to return to a pre-industrial economy by any means necessary. Scenes of their victories are invariably grisly.
