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* TheHermit: The wizard who Valder meets and enchants his sword lives all by himself.
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* SolitarySorceress: The wizard is a hermit who retired to work on his magic living in a hut within a great forest. Valder notes this has left him with [[NoSocialSkills poor interpersonal skills]] after so long alone.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: Part of Wirikidor's enchantment.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: Part of Wirikidor's enchantment.enchantment will keep its owner, Valder, alive indefinitely, but he continues to age. [[spoiler:The wizard who made it was also old to begin with, and later appears again over a century on looking just the same.]]
* TheArchmage: The wizard who made the sword is among the most powerful, since he cast multiple spells that few others can break.
* TheArchmage: The wizard who made the sword is among the most powerful, since he cast multiple spells that few others can break.
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* LogicalWeakness: Valder rescues Iridith from a couple street thugs. Despite her power as a wizard, the pair took her by surprise, having prevented her reaching her components for magic with a knife to her throat. Valder distracts them enough that she can, burning one to a crisp with a spell.
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* BagOfHolding: [[spoiler:Iridith]] gives Valder an enchanted bottomless bag to hold his sword inside so people won't notice (he's got to carry it everywhere [[ClingyMacGuffin due to its enchantments]]).
* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler:Iridith gives Valder eternal youth with a spell in the book's finale to solve issues he has with his enchanted sword. She also has it herself.]]
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* ImmortalityInducer: The protagonist is a scout granted this by a magic sword. He believes he "cannot be defeated until he has killed 100 men", and puts his sword down and retires long before reaching that number. He doesn't find out the truth for... quite a long time. He cannot ''die'' until he has killed a hundred men.
** It's worse than that, as the sword has to be taken up by someone else next who will be compelled to kill him, leaving them with the requirement of having to kill 99 men (the enchantment of the blade specifically making it uninterested in women and non-humans), and so on as it loses one off the count each time.
** It's worse than that, as the sword has to be taken up by someone else next who will be compelled to kill him, leaving them with the requirement of having to kill 99 men (the enchantment of the blade specifically making it uninterested in women and non-humans), and so on as it loses one off the count each time.
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* ImmortalityInducer: The protagonist is a scout granted this by a magic sword. He believes he "cannot be defeated until he has killed 100 men", and puts his sword down and retires long before reaching that number. He doesn't find out the truth for... quite a long time. He cannot ''die'' until he has killed a hundred men.
** It's worse than that, asmen. Worse, the sword has to be taken up by someone else next who will be compelled to kill him, leaving them with the requirement of having to kill 99 men (the enchantment of the blade specifically making it uninterested in women and non-humans), and so on as it loses one off the count each time.
** It's worse than that, as
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* SolitarySorceress: The wizard is a hermit who retired to work on his magic living in a hut within a great forest. Valder notes this has left him with [[NoSocialSkills poor interpersonal skills]] after so long alone.
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* RobeAndWizardHat: The wizard has both of these, which Valder notes mentally are old-fashioned items.
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* BloodMagic: The Sanguinary Deception, the spell the wizard casts to make him and Valder [[FakingTheDead appear dead]], requires a bit of blood from them both.
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* FakingTheDead: The wizard casts a spell which he calls The Sanguinary Deception on him and Valder. It makes them look like dead and gory corpses. It works, as the northerners after Valder buy the ruse and leave.
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* NoNameGiven: The wizard doesn't give his name to Valder, who never asks it.
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* FantasticNuke: At one point a seer Valder talks to about getting Wirikidor disenchanted explains that, in the unlikely event that he found a wizard powerful and willing enough to even try it, the resulting magical backlash would kill everyone in a broad radius around the sword, with the ''best'' case scenario resulting in 33 fatalities.
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* ExactWords: Valder's sword is enchanted to keep him from being killed and to fight for Valder when unsheathed so it can kill any man, and will do so 100 times. Any ''man'' being a human (or partially so) male. And it will fight brilliantly until it has killed ''one'' man, after which it won't fight on its own until sheathed and unsheathed. Because it's enchanted to kill, it ''wants'' to kill, meaning when unsheathed Valder has to stop it from trying to kill men he doesn't want killed. Because it's meant to fight for Valder, it will rejoin him no matter how he tries to get away from it, arranging events around itself to get back to him (sometimes dramatically so). Finally, because it's meant to preserve his life it'll keep him from dying until it reaches 100 men, upon which the next person to touch it will be compelled to kill ''him'' and start the cycle over--"keep him from dying" meaning it won't stop any of the numerous horrible things that might happen to someone from happening to him, they just won't kill him, ''and'' he can't [[AgeWithoutYouth die of old age]] or [[FateWorseThanDeath an incurable terminal illness or massive wound]]. At least it's basically indestructible?
* FantasticNuke: At one point a seer Valder talks to about getting Wirikidor disenchanted explains that, in the unlikely event that he found a wizard powerful and willing enough to eventry it, give it a shot, the resulting magical backlash would kill everyone in a broad radius around the sword, with the ''best'' case scenario resulting in 33 fatalities.
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* TheMagicGoesAway: According to General Gor, the gods shut themselves away after sealing away the demons and ending the Great War. While Gor makes it clear this doesn't mean all magic vanishes, he does say magic might not work the same - at least, the theurgy and demonology branches of magic, which deal with gods and demons, respectively.
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* TheMagicGoesAway: According to General Gor, the gods shut themselves away after sealing away the demons and ending the Great War. While Gor makes it clear this doesn't mean all magic vanishes, he does say magic might not work the same - at least, the theurgy and demonology branches of magic, which deal with gods and demons, respectively. After this point in history, no one but theurges or demonologists may communicate directly with gods or demons.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Valder has ''absolutely'' no interest in adventure whatsoever and would happily stay an innkeeper for the rest of life. Unfortunately, one of his army colleagues recognized him and spread the word, so adventurers keep turning up trying to recruit "Valder of the Magic Sword", only to end up sadly disappointed.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Valder has ''absolutely'' no '''no''' interest in adventure whatsoever and would happily stay an innkeeper for the rest of life. Unfortunately, one of his army colleagues recognized him and spread the word, so adventurers keep turning up trying to recruit "Valder of the Magic Sword", only to end up sadly disappointed.
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* FlyingSword: Wirikidor does everything a flying sword does except leave Valder's hand. It fights entirely by itself and will pull itself towards prospective victims unless he restrains it.
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* FlyingSword: FlyingWeapon: Wirikidor does everything a flying sword does except leave Valder's hand. It fights entirely by itself and will pull itself towards prospective victims unless he restrains it.
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* WeaponofXSlaying: The "X" being adult male humans or HalfHumanHybrids. When confronted by a half-demon it seems perplexed for a bit before finding the right spot.
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* WeaponofXSlaying: WeaponOfXSlaying: The "X" being adult male humans or HalfHumanHybrids. When confronted by a half-demon it seems perplexed for a bit before finding the right spot.
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* FlyingSword: Wirikidor does everything a flying sword does except leave Valder's hand. It fights entirely by itself and will pull itself towards prospective victims unless he restrains it.
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* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Wirikidor's got these, masterfully defending its owner with superhuman speed and manipulating its opponent for a killing stroke--and then loses all its power after the stroke is struck.
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''The Misenchanted Sword'', first of the ''Literature/TheLegendsOfEthshar'' fantasy novels by Creator/LawrenceWattEvans, details Valder's misadventures as he struggles to adapt his life around the power of his sword Wirikidor's enchantment...and the desires of those who want to take advantage of those powers.
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* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, Valder realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts is by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can unsheath it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time he's forced to do so. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* OpenSecret: OstentatiousSecret: After a theft attempt, Valder realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. an OpenSecret. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts is by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he ''he'' can unsheath it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time he's forced to do so. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.immortality, though.)
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* FantasticNuke: At one point a seer Valder talks to about getting Wirikidor disenchanted explains that, in the unlikely event that he found a wizard powerful and willing enough to even try it, the resulting magical backlash would kill everyone in a broad radius around the sword, with the ''best'' case scenario resulting in 33 fatalities.
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* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, Valder realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can unsheath it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time he's forced to do so. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, Valder realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts is by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can unsheath it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time he's forced to do so. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* ClingyMacGuffin: Wirikidor refuses to be separated from Valder in both the literal sense (when unsheathed it sticks to his body until he kills someone) and the metaphorical sense, manipulating people and events to be brought back to Valder if necessary.
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* ClingyMacGuffin: Wirikidor refuses to be separated from Valder in both the literal sense (when unsheathed it sticks to his body until he kills someone) and the metaphorical sense, manipulating people and events to be brought back to Valder if necessary.taken away.
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* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, he realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can unsheath it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time he does. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, he Valder realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can unsheath it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time he does.he's forced to do so. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* ReluctantWarrior: Valder joined the army out of a sense of loyalty to Ethshar, and chose to become a scout so that he could keep his fighting and killing to a minimum. Being forced by his superiors to become an assassin made him absolutely miserable, and he was more than happy to hang up his sword when the War was over.
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* ReluctantWarrior: Valder joined the army out of a sense of loyalty to Ethshar, and chose to become a scout so that he could keep his fighting and killing to a minimum. Being forced by his superiors to become an assassin made him absolutely miserable, and he was more than happy to hang up his sword when the Great War was over.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Valder learns that Wirikidor will turn on him after he kills roughly 100 people. By the time he's finished as an assassin, he [[OhCrap realizes]] that he's hit 80. Fortunately the War ends soon after.
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* ClingyMacGuffin: The sword.
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* ClingyMacGuffin: The sword.Wirikidor refuses to be separated from Valder in both the literal sense (when unsheathed it sticks to his body until he kills someone) and the metaphorical sense, manipulating people and events to be brought back to Valder if necessary.
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* ImmortalityInducer: The protagonist is a cowardly scout granted this by a magic sword. He believes he "cannot be defeated until he has killed 100 men", and puts his sword down and retires long before reaching that number. He doesn't find out the truth for... quite a long time. He cannot ''die'' until he has killed a hundred men.
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* ImmortalityInducer: The protagonist is a cowardly scout granted this by a magic sword. He believes he "cannot be defeated until he has killed 100 men", and puts his sword down and retires long before reaching that number. He doesn't find out the truth for... quite a long time. He cannot ''die'' until he has killed a hundred men.
* MadeOfIndestructium: Wirikidor is virtually impossible to destroy or disenchant, which is good because doing so would kill Valder on the spot. Oh, and also [[FantasticNuke everyone else in a broad radius]].
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* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, he realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can draw it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time he has to draw it. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, he realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can draw unsheath it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time he has to draw it.does. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* ReluctantWarrior: Valder joined the army out of a sense of loyalty to Ethshar, and chose to become a scout so that he could keep his fighting and killing to a minimum. Being forced by his superiors to become an assassin made him absolutely miserable, and he was more than happy to hang up his sword when the War was over.
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* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, he realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can draw it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time ''he'' has to draw it. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, he realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can draw it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time ''he'' he has to draw it. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* NeverForgottenSkill: Averted. Valder was never any great shakes as a fighter to begin with, and after over a decade without practice the only reason he survives a fight with two thieves is due to Wirikidor's power, a solid bluff, and not being able to die of blood loss. By the time he hits his sixties, he's absolutely hopeless fighting by himself.
* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, he realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can draw it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time ''he'' has to draw it. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
* OpenSecret: After a theft attempt, he realizes that his identity as Valder of the Magic Sword is this. He decides the best way to discourage more thefts by openly displaying Wirikidor, explaining to anyone who asks that yes, it ''is'' a magical sword, but only he can draw it (offering a hefty cash prize if someone tries and succeeds) and that someone ''must'' die every time ''he'' has to draw it. This works quite well. (He leaves out the part about immortality.)
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Valder has ''absolutely'' no interest in adventure whatsoever and would happily stay an innkeeper for the rest of life. Unfortunately, one of his army colleagues recognized him and adventurers keep turning up trying to recruit "Valder of the Magic Sword", only to end up sadly disappointed.
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler:When Valder questions whether he'd be considered worthy of eternal youth and immortality, Irideth points out that leaving a dangerous weapon like Wirikidor in the hands of someone who refuses to use it--who in fact refuses to let its presence impact his life any more than he has to--could save potentially thousands of lives.]]
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* OurGodsAreGreater: Apparently they are all {{Actual Pacifist}}s. They break their oath once, to seal the demons and kill those who summoned them.
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* ImperfectRitual: The titular sword [[spoiler: was not made an EvilWeapon out of malice, but because the wizard was in a hurry and mistook a brass ring for gold.]]
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* ScrewTheRulesTheyBrokeThemFirst: When the Northern Empire violates the customs of war by summoning an all-out demon attack, the gods break their own rule of non-intervention to remove the demons and wipe out the empire that summoned them.
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* DrawSwordDrawBlood: The eponymous sword literally ''cannot'' be resheathed until it's used to kill someone.
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** It's worse than that, as the sword has to be taken up by someone else next who will be compelled to kill him, leaving them with the requirement of having to kill 99 men (the enchantment of the blade specifically making it uninterested in women and non-humans), and so on as it loses one off the count each time.
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''The Misenchanted Sword'', first of the ''Literature/TheLegendsOfEthshar'' fantasy novels by Creator/LawrenceWattEvans, details Valder's misadventures as he struggles to adapt his life around the power of his sword Wirikidor's enchantment...and the desires of those who want to take advantage of those powers.
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''The Misenchanted Sword'', first of the {{Ethshar}} fantasy novels by LawrenceWattEvans, details Valder's misadventures as he struggles to adapt his life around the power of his sword Wirikidor's enchantment...and the desires of those who want to take advantage of those powers.
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''The Misenchanted Sword'', first of the {{Ethshar}} fantasy novels by LawrenceWattEvans, Creator/LawrenceWattEvans, details Valder's misadventures as he struggles to adapt his life around the power of his sword Wirikidor's enchantment...and the desires of those who want to take advantage of those powers.
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* ForeverWar: The Great War has lasted centuries by the start of the novel. Entire generations of soldiers have lived and died without ever setting foot in their nation's homeland.
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* {{Immortality}}: The protagonist is a cowardly scout granted this by a magic sword. He believes he "cannot be defeated until he has killed 100 men", and puts his sword down and retires long before reaching that number. He doesn't find out the truth for... quite a long time. He cannot ''die'' until he has killed a hundred men.
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* {{Immortality}}: ImmortalityInducer: The protagonist is a cowardly scout granted this by a magic sword. He believes he "cannot be defeated until he has killed 100 men", and puts his sword down and retires long before reaching that number. He doesn't find out the truth for... quite a long time. He cannot ''die'' until he has killed a hundred men.
