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* AndThatWouldBeWrong: Imshael points out that his ability to [[MagicMusic distract an entire camp of Dalish elves]] by whistling is useful for getting out of trouble "[[PowerPerversionPotential or watching ladies undress]]," then quickly walks that last one back.
-->'''Imshael''': Not that I ever would. Because that would be wrong.
-->'''Imshael''': Not that I ever would. Because that would be wrong.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Felassan has a witty retort to everything.
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* SpottingTheThread: Thanks to her bard training, Briala is a master at picking up on little details and what they mean when talking to people. Thanks to this, late in the novel she begins to realize that [[spoiler:wherever Felassan comes from, he is nothing like the conventional Dalish and may not even be Dalish at all--because he never stops to acknowledge statues of the Elven gods, unlike every other elf in Clan Virnehn.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:What Imshael inflicts on the Dalish Clan.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:What Imshael [[spoiler:Imshael inflicts horrible deaths on all of the Dalish Clan.elves in Clan Virnehn, with one elf being flayed alive, another being turned into a pincushion of arrows, and one boiled from the inside out as just a few examples.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Although he quickly recovers himself from it, even the racist and battle-hardened Gaspard is sickened by the sight of the [[spoiler:slaughtered Dalish clan]] that Imshael leaves behind, thinking that not even elves deserve such cruel fates.
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* InsistentTerminology: "''Choice. Spirit.''" [[spoiler:This is later exploited to foil Imshael's disguise of possessing Mhiris.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Celene and Briala.
* InterspeciesRomance: Celene and Briala.
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* InsistentTerminology: "''Choice. Spirit.''" Every time someone calls Imshael a demon, he cannot help but correct them that he is a "choice spirit" instead. [[spoiler:This is later exploited to foil Imshael's disguise of possessing Mhiris.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Celene, a human, and Briala, an elf; this is given mean-spirited focus in the novel by Gaspard insinuating that Celeneand Briala.is engaging in bestiality by having an elven lover, [[FantasticRacism as he pays academics to suggest elves are no better than beasts.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Celene, a human, and Briala, an elf; this is given mean-spirited focus in the novel by Gaspard insinuating that Celene
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* KnowYourVines: Felassan uses a certain kind of flower to make a metaphor on the nature of life springing up in the aftermath of violence... only to realize the plant he's carrying is itchweed, which has no symbolic significance.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Much of the beginning of the book is dedicated to showcasing the soporific and stressful nature of Celene's position, who often spends nights poring over reports and documents.
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** Celene is trained as a bard and has some enchanted rings which give her an edge in combat.
** Gaspard is an exceptionally skilled Chevalier. [[spoiler:Subverted in the epilogue, when Gaspard tells Michel that the wound he received during their duel will likely mean that his fighting days are over.]]
** Celene is trained as a bard and has some enchanted rings which give her an edge in combat.
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* BoomerangBigot: Michel is very bigoted against elves. It quickly turns out that this is an attempt to mask the fact that his mother was one.
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** Celene is trained as a bard and has some enchanted rings which give her an edge in combat.
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** Celene is trained as a bard and has some enchanted rings which give her an edge in combat.
** Gaspard is an exceptionally skilled Chevalier. [[spoiler:Subverted in the epilogue, when Gaspard tells Michel that the wound he received during their duel will likely mean that his fighting days are over.]]
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* TheEmpire: The ancient Elven empire was this, even practicing slavery with a rigid caste system and keeping lower-class elves in conditions similar to those of the city elves of the current day.
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* TheEmpire: DisappointingHeritageReveal: Briala grows disillusioned with the urban life and the passivity of her fellow city elves in the face of their mistreatment by humans. Under the influence (but against the intentions) of her Dalish mentor Felassan, she comes to idolize the life of the Dalish clans (elves who refused to submit to the humans and roam the wilderness as nomads), and seeks contact with them in the first half of the book. What she discovers, however, is that the Dalish are a xenophobic and myopically traditionalist bunch who don't want to have anything to do with their city brethren in general and with her in particular.
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* PrankPunishment: When Empress Celene's bodyguard Michel is challenged to a duel by her rival-for-the-throne Duke Gaspard in front of the entire court, she manages to defuse the situation by reminding Gaspard that the challenged may choose the dueling weapon (a choice Michel immediately defers to her) and decreeing that the duel will be fought with the plumes on their hats. Because in Orlais, the plumes are a symbol of the chevalier warrior class, this both humiliates Gaspard (who prides himself in his chevalier status) as punishment for openly, if indirectly challenging the Empress, and transforms the duel from a potential lethal incident to a source of amusement for the entire court. To his credit, Gaspard takes it in stride and duels Michel to the best of his ability, though the book never reveals who "won".
