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* ArcherArchetype: Thomas starts out this way -- a haughty loner, unskilled in hand-to-hand combat but lethal at range -- before growing into a capable leader of men.
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* ThisIsReality: In his historical note to ''Harlequin'', Creator/BernardCornwell ruefully wrote that when he started a series set in medieval Europe, he ''thought'' he would be telling tales of chivalry, knights on horseback, and grand set-piece battles. His research found that the more common daily picture of medieval life was sordid, petty, and altogether more human. This is frequently lampshaded InUniverse, by a series of noble characters who object to the "dishonorable" means of making war or settling individual disputes, and are promptly told to shut up and limit their notions of chivalry to the tournament fields.
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* MoneyIsNotPower: Cardinal Bessieres's last words are to promise Thomas money in exchange for sparing his life. Considering everything he has done and ''knows'' he has done to Thomas and his family over the last ten years, the normally clever, scheming Cardinal is grasping the IdiotBall with both hands.
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* PutOnABus: Jeanette is not seen after the end of Vagabond.
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* PutOnABus: Jeanette is not seen after the end of Vagabond.''Vagabond''. A French nobleman mentions to Thomas in ''1356'' that she died of the pestilence.
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* HumansAreBastards: By the end of ''Heretic'', Thomas has seen enough to know that revealing the Holy Grail to the world would cause nothing but strife, madness, and death - not because it is an evil artifact, but because too many people in the world regard it as the ultimate prize. So he follows Abbot Planchard's recommendation [[spoiler:and throws it into the sea.]] Likewise, at the end of ''1356'', Thomas makes good on his vow not to turn St. Peter's sword ''La Malice'' over to his liege lord, but instead [[spoiler:drops it onto a blacksmith's junk pile, intending it to be melted down and recast into something harmless.]]
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* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: Father Ralph, the priest of Hookton and Thomas's father, is also believed to have had possession of a Holy Grail. He has an unassuming clay cup which he uses to give out communion wafers, and which several characters, including Thomas, take one look at and dismiss as rubbish.]] No points for guessing what it REALLY is.
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** [[spoiler: Father Ralph, the priest of Hookton and Thomas's father, is also believed to have had possession of a Holy Grail. He has an unassuming clay cup which he uses to give out communion wafers, and which several characters, including Thomas, take one look at and dismiss as rubbish.]] No points for guessing what it REALLYis.is.
** At the end of ''1356'', [[spoiler:Thomas disposes of ''La Malice'' by leaving it on a pile of discarded weapons, which the local smith plans to melt down and re-forge. It is supposedly the sword of St. Peter, but it looks like rusted-out junk, and Thomas can't even pick it out after he's thrown it on the pile.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Before the Battle of Poitiers in ''1356'', Cardinal Bessieres gifts ''La Malice'' (supposedly the sword of St. Peter) to a Scottish knight and encourages him to kill Thomas with it. The next time Bessieres sees it, Thomas is wielding it. It is also the last thing he sees in his life.
** Cardinal Bessieres also dons a steel helmet when accompanying King Jean's forces to Poitiers; this gives Thomas a credible excuse to "mistake" him for a combatant instead of a priest, and Bessieres is desperately trying to tug off his helmet and reveal his ''biretta'' when ''La Malice'' takes his head off.
** [[spoiler: Father Ralph, the priest of Hookton and Thomas's father, is also believed to have had possession of a Holy Grail. He has an unassuming clay cup which he uses to give out communion wafers, and which several characters, including Thomas, take one look at and dismiss as rubbish.]] No points for guessing what it REALLY
** At the end of ''1356'', [[spoiler:Thomas disposes of ''La Malice'' by leaving it on a pile of discarded weapons, which the local smith plans to melt down and re-forge. It is supposedly the sword of St. Peter, but it looks like rusted-out junk, and Thomas can't even pick it out after he's thrown it on the pile.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Before the Battle of Poitiers in ''1356'', Cardinal Bessieres gifts ''La Malice'' (supposedly the sword of St. Peter) to a Scottish knight and encourages him to kill Thomas with it. The next time Bessieres sees it, Thomas is wielding it. It is also the last thing he sees in his life.
** Cardinal Bessieres also dons a steel helmet when accompanying King Jean's forces to Poitiers; this gives Thomas a credible excuse to "mistake" him for a combatant instead of a priest, and Bessieres is desperately trying to tug off his helmet and reveal his ''biretta'' when ''La Malice'' takes his head off.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Grail and the other holy relics.
** At the end of ''Heretic'', Thomas hurls the Grail - a small clay bowl - across the ground with all his strength, and it doesn't even chip, much less shatter.
** ''La Malice'', supposedly the sword of St. Peter, is rusted, cheap-looking, and certainly looks old enough to date from the 1st Century AD, but it clashes with newer steel blades without chipping and cuts through armor and bone with ease.
** At the end of ''Heretic'', Thomas hurls the Grail - a small clay bowl - across the ground with all his strength, and it doesn't even chip, much less shatter.
** ''La Malice'', supposedly the sword of St. Peter, is rusted, cheap-looking, and certainly looks old enough to date from the 1st Century AD, but it clashes with newer steel blades without chipping and cuts through armor and bone with ease.
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* SmugSnake: Cardinal Bessieres and his flunkies, oh so much. Everyone in medieval Europe fears the Church's censure, but Bessieres fails to consider that Thomas, who has already been excommunicated, has nothing left to lose by killing a priest.
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* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: A rare heroic example in ''1356''. After the Battle of Poitiers, Thomas tells his wife, as a campfire story, how he tracked down and killed the priest who tortured her, and his boss, the corrupt Cardinal Bessieres.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The Lord Douglas guesses this is the reason for the Virgin Knight's right arm being so strong
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** Father Hobbe in ''Harlequin'', who holds his own in a melee with a SimpleStaff, and later serves as an archer at Crécy.
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* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The future Pope Gregory XI pops up briefly as a young student in ''1356''.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Jake and Sam, two of Thomas's archers, [[spoiler: until Jake dies at the end of Heretic.]]
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* PutOnABus: Jeanette is not seen after the end of Vagabond.
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Another Cornwell novel, ''[[Literature/{{Azincourt}} Agincourt]]'', is set in the same continuity but is more of a SpiritualSuccessor than a true sequel. Its protagonist Nick Hook is also an archer, but he's unrelated to the now-famous Thomas.
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Another Cornwell novel, ''[[Literature/{{Azincourt}} Agincourt]]'', ''Literature/{{Azincourt}}'', is set in the same continuity but is more of a SpiritualSuccessor than a true sequel. Its protagonist Nick Hook is also an archer, but he's unrelated to the now-famous Thomas.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: King Edward III, King Jean le Bon, and the Black Prince. The "something" here includes leading men into battle, and stealing Thomas's girlfriend. The Dauphin does his best, but is sadly ineffectual.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: King Edward III, King Jean le Bon, and the Black Prince. The "something" here includes leading men into battle, and stealing Thomas's girlfriend. The Dauphin does his best, but is sadly ineffectual. In the second book, the King of Scotland personally fights a major battle despite sustaining a hideous arrow wound to the face early on.
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