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''The Witch of Knightcharm'' is a WebSerialNovel being published on the [=KindleVella=] platform. You can read it [[https://www.amazon.com/The-Witch-of-Knightcharm/dp/B0BV2CRWP3 here]].
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* HopeSpot: Shortly before the rookies have to complete the lethal orientation course, the older students seemingly screw up by leaving some phones out, thus theoretically allowing the rookies to steal the phones and call for help. Megumi steals one for Emily, who is relieved to think that she might be able to summon her Knightcharm friends and have them rescue her rather than going to near-certain doom. [[spoiler:The phones are trapped and will blast apart anyone who tries to use them. Emily decides not to make any calls, since she doesn't want her friends to risk themselves for her, but Janet does call for help and is killed.]]
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* HopeSpot: Shortly before the rookies have to complete the lethal orientation course, the older students seemingly screw up by leaving some phones out, thus theoretically allowing the rookies to steal the phones and call for help. Megumi steals one for Emily, who is relieved to think that she might be able to summon her Knightcharm friends and have them rescue her rather than going to near-certain doom. [[spoiler:The phones are trapped and will blast apart anyone who tries to use them. Emily decides not to make any calls, since she doesn't want her friends to risk themselves for her, but Janet Ghebremariam does call for help and is killed.]]
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* NoGearLevel: * Ceranna forbids Emily from using her various crafted items during their special training because she (Ceranna) thinks Emily has been using those tools as crutches and relying on them instead of developing real power. Emily is thus forced to do all her extra training without any of her tools.
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* NoGearLevel: * Ceranna forbids Emily from using her various crafted items during their special training because she (Ceranna) thinks Emily has been using those tools as crutches and relying on them instead of developing real power. Emily is thus forced to do all her extra training without any of her tools.
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* NoGearLevel: * Ceranna forbids Emily from using her various crafted items during their special training because she (Ceranna) thinks Emily has been using those tools as crutches and relying on them instead of developing real power. Emily is thus forced to do all her extra training without any of her tools.
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* AmbiguousSituation: After orientation, Rebecca says they have to get stronger because of 'what's coming' and Lauren warns Rebecca not to tell Emily some secret which Emily failed to notice during the last orientation run. It has not yet been explained what either of them are talking about.
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* HoistOnTheirOwnPetard: In order to win duels, some Scholomance students make themselves learn how to turn their enemies' powers and abilities against them. For instance, when Emily fights Megumi and uses her amulets to generate barriers, Megumi uses her own powers to blast handholds into the barriers and then begins climbing on top of them, using Emily's own barriers as platforms which she can use to gain the high ground and attack Emily from above.
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* HoistOnTheirOwnPetard: HoistByHisOwnPetard: In order to win duels, some Scholomance students make themselves learn how to turn their enemies' powers and abilities against them. For instance, when Emily fights Megumi and uses her amulets to generate barriers, Megumi uses her own powers to blast handholds into the barriers and then begins climbing on top of them, using Emily's own barriers as platforms which she can use to gain the high ground and attack Emily from above.
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* HoistOnTheirOwnPetard: In order to win duels, some Scholomance students make themselves learn how to turn their enemies' powers and abilities against them. For instance, when Emily fights Megumi and uses her amulets to generate barriers, Megumi uses her own powers to blast handholds into the barriers and then begins climbing on top of them, using Emily's own barriers as platforms which she can use to gain the high ground and attack Emily from above.
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* PlayingPossum: This is considered a valid tactic at the Scholomance, and Megumi even uses it during her duel with Emily to win the match.
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* CantCatchUp: Emily and Yawkly note that the Scholomance's system of only giving good supplies to students who are already doing well means that poor students are unable to catch up since they cannot obtain the tools they need to do so.
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* LogicalWeakness: A large part of the [[WizardDuel Wizard Duels]] is figuring out how to identify and then exploit these. For instance, in a fight between Amira (who uses water magic) and the potions expert Bahar, Amira controls the liquid in Bahar's flask and prevents it from draining out of the flasks' spouts so Bahar can't drink her potions and be empowered.
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* BilingualBonus: Usually averted at the Scholomance since everyone is magically compelled to speak and write in Latin. However, the translation spell is disabled on certain missions, allowing students who speak the same language to communicate in a way that others who don't speak that language can't understand. Emily learns this when she sees Rosa and Alejandra speaking Spanish as they return from a mission.
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* ThereAreNoAdults: Emily quickly realizes that there don't seem to be any actual adults in the Scholomance. All the teaching and staff work is done by older students. Megumi tries asking her mentor (also an older student) where the adults are but is rebuffed.
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* ImpliedDeathThreat: A month after orientation, Lauren doesn't outright say she'll kill Emily for failing to progress, but she does indicate that she'll push Emily out the school's front door. Given that nobody has ever come back alive from that, Emily gets the point.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: After the post-orientation TimeSkip, a month has passed but Emily has still been unable to improve her rank. She's then informed that Lauren expects her to get into the next Tier of students within one month or else she'll be [[ImpliedDeathThreat thrown out the front door]].
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* TimeSkip: After orientation concludes, there's one episode focusing on the elites, and the episode after that cuts to about one month later.
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* StealingFromThieves: Emily's self-imposed mission to steal back the artifacts which the Scholomance witches stole in the first place is what motivates her to defect to the Scholomance in the first place.
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* StealingFromThieves: Emily's self-imposed mission to steal back the artifacts which the Scholomance witches stole in the first place is what motivates her to defect to the Scholomance in the first place.beginning of the book.
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* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Episode 25 reveals that the Scholomance elites have superiors of their own, known only as the Board. Nothing else has been revealed about them except that the elites are desperate notto get on its bad side.
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* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Episode 25 reveals that the Scholomance elites have superiors of their own, known only as the Board. Nothing else has been revealed about them except that the elites are desperate notto not to get on its the Board's bad side.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The book as a whole is written in the third-person limited point of view and follows Emily as she makes her way through her various adventures. However, after the orientation arc concludes, Episode 25 changes to Lauren's point of view. To rub the point in, that Episode features Lauren explicitly ordering people not to tell Emily a secret which they all perceive but which Emily herself (and the reader) does not.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The book as a whole is written in the third-person limited point of view and follows Emily as she makes her way through her various adventures. However, after the orientation arc concludes, Episode 25 changes to Lauren's point of view. To rub the point in, that Episode episode features Lauren explicitly ordering people not to tell Emily a secret which they all perceive but which Emily herself (and the reader) does not.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The book as a whole is written in the third-person limited point of view and follows Emily as she makes her way through her various adventures. However, after the orientation arc concludes, Episode 25 changes to Lauren's point of view. To rub the point in, that Episode features Lauren explicitly ordering people not to tell Emily a secret which they all perceive but which Emily herself (and the reader) does not.
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* EvilIsNotWellLit: As per the traditional myths, the Scholomance is a castle-like structure deep underground. The only light sources are wall-mounted torches and a few magical lights, none of which are enough to stop the school from looking dark and gloomy.
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** As per the traditional myths, the Scholomance is a castle-like structure deep underground. The only light sources are wall-mounted torches and a few magical lights, none of which are enough to stop the school from looking dark andgloomy.gloomy.
** Morgan's room is almost completely pitch-black.
** As per the traditional myths, the Scholomance is a castle-like structure deep underground. The only light sources are wall-mounted torches and a few magical lights, none of which are enough to stop the school from looking dark and
** Morgan's room is almost completely pitch-black.
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* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Episode 25 reveals that the Scholomance elites have superiors of their own, known only as the Board. Nothing else has been revealed about them except that the elites are desperate notto get on its bad side.
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* EvilVersusEvil: The SlobsVersusSnobs rivalry between the Medina sisters (a pair of psychotic necromancers) and Lily's clique (a gang of rich, privileged witches who want to TakeOverTheWorld) quickly shaped up to be this. So did the conflict between Lily and the psychotic Luban in the final orientation run.
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* EvilVersusEvil: The SlobsVersusSnobs rivalry between the Medina sisters (a pair of psychotic necromancers) and Lily's clique (a gang of rich, privileged witches who want to TakeOverTheWorld) quickly shaped up to be this. So did the conflict between Lily and the psychotic cackling, blood-soaked Luban in the final orientation run.
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* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: Lily cheats during orientation by taking equipment from older students and also by having the seer Brynne look into the future to see where the death traps will be and then tell Lily how to avoid them. Emily realizes that Lauren at least knows about the equipment, but Lauren doesn't do anything, and Emily realizes that cheaters won't be disqualified unless they're really blatant about it. Emily thus has to beat Lily despite her unfair advantages.
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* DeathTrap: The orientation course is completely full of them.
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* DeathTrap: The Scholomance's orientation course is completely full of them.them, as is the hallway leading up to the Vault.
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* OurMagesAreDifferent: Magicians at the Scholomance (and Knightcharm) include a wide variety of types. The potion-master Bahar, for instance, acts a lot like a chemist, while the protagonist Emily is almost a magic 'programmer' who is skilled at 'seeing' exactly how threads of magic comprise a spell and can precisely weave her own magic to do the things she wants.
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* EvilSorcerer: The entire point of the Scholomance is to produce these.
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* BlackMage: Plenty of witches at the Scholomance fight by racking up damage with powerful spells. Notable examples include the necromancer twins Alejandra and Julia, the water-witch Amira, and the top student Morgan who crushes her opponents with magical shadows.
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* SpikesOfDoom: Emily notes how the Scholomance uses 'spike wards', which are essentially sigils that will blast up spiked patterns of magic to stab into anything which brushes against or touches them. The spikes are able to cut through magic as well, which actually helps Emily when a villain wraps her head in enchanted water and Emily is able to use a spike to pierce through and destroy the enchantment (thus allowing the water to drain away) before she dies of suffocation.
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* SpikesOfDoom: Emily notes how the Scholomance uses 'spike wards', which are essentially sigils that will blast up spiked patterns of magic to stab into anything which brushes against or touches them. The spikes are able to cut through magic as well, which actually helps Emily when a villain wraps her head in enchanted water and Emily is able to use a spike to pierce through and destroy the enchantment (thus allowing the water to drain away) before she dies of suffocation.
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* SpikeTrap: Emily notes how the Scholomance uses 'spike wards', which are essentially sigils that will blast up spiked patterns of magic to stab into anything which brushes against or touches them. The spikes are able to cut through magic as well, which actually helps Emily when a villain wraps her head in enchanted water and Emily is able to use a spike to pierce through and destroy the enchantment (thus allowing the water to drain away) before she dies of suffocation.
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* SpikeTrap: Emily notes how the Scholomance uses 'spike wards', which are essentially sigils that will blast up spiked patterns of magic to stab into anything which brushes against or touches them. The spikes are able to cut through magic as well, which actually helps Emily when a villain wraps her head in enchanted water and Emily is able to use a spike to pierce through and destroy the enchantment (thus allowing the water to drain away) before she dies of suffocation.
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* EvilVersusEvil: The SlobsVersusSnobs rivalry between the Medina sisters (a pair of psychotic necromancers) and Lily's clique (a gang of rich, privileged witches who want to TakeOverTheWorld) quickly shaped up to be this.
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* BladeOnARope: The revamped and finalized orientation course includes blades swinging from ropes and chains which the students have to dodge.
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* SlowAndSteadyWinsTheRace: The vagaries of the orientation race's rules allow for strategies in which students can go quite slowly and still 'win.' The rules state that all students who are first in their heats pass, and after that the remaining students are sorted by time and the fastest ones pass until there are a maximum of thirty-two winners. This means that, if a student can guarantee that she'll win her heat (such as by killing everyone else in her heat), she can move along at a snail's pace and still be guaranteed to pass as long as she finishes at all. It also means that, if so many students get killed or fail to finish in early heats that it's no longer possible for thirty-two students to finish at all, then students in later heats can go as slowly as they please, finish the course, and pass despite having an abysmally slow time.
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* ThisIsNotAFloor: During the 'official' orientation run, the elites change the course to make it harder than in practice. One of the changes is by adding gigantic pits which have been illusioned to look like part of the floor.
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* EvilIsNotWellLit: As per the traditional myths, the Scholomance is a castle-like structure deep underground. The only light sources are wall-mounted torches and a few magical lights, none of which are enough to stop the school from looking dark and gloomy.
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: The Scholomance was reported to have been destroyed by heroic witches and wizards decades before Emily began attending Knightcharm. However, as Emily learns, reports of the school's death were exaggerated. The Scholomance survived and is still causing problems, leading Emily to embark on a quest to undermine it and end it for good.
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Already on Characters I see, my bad.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Gelila Wongel, a new student at Scholomance, claims to be descended from the Empress of the Ethiopian Empire Seble Wongel. This would give her both black and Jewish ancestry. Gelila is also noted to have thick glasses and thus may have a vision disability.
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Cross Wicked.
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* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: The Scholomance runs on this principle. Class rank -- including the leadership positions -- are largely determined by each witch's ability to win [[WizardDuel Wizard Duels]] against other students. The students who can beat everyone else in battle are thus the ones who get to run things.
