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* IllGirl: Eff is this for a while after fighting off rheumatic fever.
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* DoomMagnet: Eff thinks she's this, among other things, thanks to her extended family's abuse. Her family tells her that it's nonsense
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* DoomMagnet: Eff thinks she's this, among other things, thanks to her extended family's abuse. Her family tells her that it's nonsensenonsense.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** If you are an adult bullying a child who has loving parents and siblings, they will show no sympathy when the child hits a RageBreakingPoint, especially when it's supposed to be a happy occasion.
** Rennie admits this to Eff [[spoiler:in a private moment after Eff calls her out for disrupting Diane's big wedding day and leaving Eff to take the usual scapegoating. She didn't mean to run away with Brant; it was that the idea of Rationalism was romantic and full of freedom. Rennie also knew that her parents wouldn't be pleased that she got pregnant out of wedlock and didn't consider that the scandal would overwhelm the happiness about Diane's wedding. It's also lonely on the frontier]].
** If you are an adult bullying a child who has loving parents and siblings, they will show no sympathy when the child hits a RageBreakingPoint, especially when it's supposed to be a happy occasion.
** Rennie admits this to Eff [[spoiler:in a private moment after Eff calls her out for disrupting Diane's big wedding day and leaving Eff to take the usual scapegoating. She didn't mean to run away with Brant; it was that the idea of Rationalism was romantic and full of freedom. Rennie also knew that her parents wouldn't be pleased that she got pregnant out of wedlock and didn't consider that the scandal would overwhelm the happiness about Diane's wedding. It's also lonely on the frontier]].
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* DoomMagnet: Eff thinks she's this, among other things, thanks to her extended family's abuse.
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* DoomMagnet: Eff thinks she's this, among other things, thanks to her extended family's abuse. Her family tells her that it's nonsense
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* EvilUncle: Earn, Eff's uncle who tried to [[WouldHurtAChild convince Eff's parents to murder Eff as a baby]] due to her being the thirteenth child. Earn then spends the next five years abusing Eff and encouraging his children to bully her. It's capped off with Earn trying to have Eff arrested at the age of ''five''. Luckily, the Rothmers move West, [[ppoiler: at least until the wedding]].
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* EvilUncle: Earn, Eff's uncle who tried to [[WouldHurtAChild convince Eff's parents to murder Eff as a baby]] due to her being the thirteenth child. Earn then spends the next five years abusing Eff and encouraging his children to bully her. It's capped off with Earn trying to have Eff arrested at the age of ''five''. Luckily, the Rothmers move West, [[ppoiler: [[spoiler: at least until the wedding]].wedding]]. When Eff finally hits her RageBreakingPoint, [[spoiler:her family has NoSympathy for Uncle Earn, telling him he deserved it for bullying a child]].
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* GoodParents: Daniel and Sara Rothmer, who refuse to treat Eff poorly despite her being a thirteenth child.
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* GoodParents: Daniel and Sara Rothmer, who refuse to treat Eff poorly despite her being a thirteenth child. When Earn keeps trying, they tell him to shut up.
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* EvilUncle: Earn, Eff's uncle who tried to [[WouldHurtAChild convince Eff's parents to murder Eff as a baby]] due to her being the thirteenth child. Earn then spends the next five years abusing Eff and encouraging his children to bully her. It's capped off with Earn trying to have Eff arrested at the age of ''five''. Luckily, the Rothmers move West, [[Spoiler: at least until the wedding]].
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* EvilUncle: Earn, Eff's uncle who tried to [[WouldHurtAChild convince Eff's parents to murder Eff as a baby]] due to her being the thirteenth child. Earn then spends the next five years abusing Eff and encouraging his children to bully her. It's capped off with Earn trying to have Eff arrested at the age of ''five''. Luckily, the Rothmers move West, [[Spoiler: [[ppoiler: at least until the wedding]].
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* RealityEnsues: If you are an adult bullying a child who has loving parents and siblings, they will show no sympathy when the child hits a RageBreakingPoint, especially when it's supposed to be a happy occasion.
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* FreudianTrio: Eff, Lan, and William are ego, id and superego, respectively.
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* PowerTrio: Eff, Lan, and William are ego, id and superego, respectively.
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* TheAce: Invoke in-universe by people that assume Lan is one thanks to his birth order.
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. The adults are the people Eff, Lan and William go to with concerns for good reason.
* AgeCut: Happens a few times with Eff going through a few years in just a paragraph and then resuming the narrative.
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. The adults are the people Eff, Lan and William go to with concerns for good reason.
* AgeCut: Happens a few times with Eff going through a few years in just a paragraph and then resuming the narrative.
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* TheAce: Invoke Invoked in-universe by people that who assume Lan is one one, thanks to his birth order.
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. The adults are the people Eff,Lan Lan, and William go to with concerns -- for good reason.
* AgeCut: Happens a fewtimes times, with Eff going through a few years in just a paragraph and then resuming the narrative.
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. The adults are the people Eff,
* AgeCut: Happens a few
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* AlternateHistory: The nineteenth-century American frontier with magic, dragons and wooly mammoths.
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* AlternateHistory: The nineteenth-century American frontier frontier, with magic, dragons and wooly woolly mammoths.
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* ApologizesALot: Eff, as a result of the bullying she received as a kid, tends to assume everything is her fault resulting in this trope.
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* ApologizesALot: Eff, as a result of the bullying she received as a kid, tends to assume everything is her fault resulting in this trope. fault.
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* AsYouKnow: Eff starts the book by talking about how everyone knows seventh sons are special.
* AudienceMurmurs: How the Rationalists crowd in Oak River showed its approval of Eff being willing to go out without protection spells.
* AudienceMurmurs: How the Rationalists crowd in Oak River showed its approval of Eff being willing to go out without protection spells.
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* AsYouKnow: Eff starts the book by talking about mentioning how everyone knows seventh sons are special.
* AudienceMurmurs: How the Rationalistscrowd in Oak River showed its their approval of Eff being willing to go out without protection spells.
* AudienceMurmurs: How the Rationalists
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* BornLucky: Professor Rothmer and Lan are both considered to be this, being a seventh son and a double seventh respectively.
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* BornLucky: Professor Rothmer and Lan are both considered to be this, being a seventh son and a double seventh double-seventh son, respectively.
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* BullyingTheDragon: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins spend the first five years of Eff's life bullying her, ''even while'' they believe she's a TykeBomb who should have been [[OffingTheOffspring killed at birth]] and is doomed to becoming a BigBad in the future.
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* BullyingTheDragon: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins spend the first five years of Eff's life bullying her, ''even while'' they believe she's a TykeBomb who should have been [[OffingTheOffspring killed at birth]] and is doomed to becoming become a BigBad in the future.
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* ChildProdigy: Lan is treated as one, being a double seventh child, to the extent that his grandfather hires him a special tutor.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Examined. Eff treated as a monster by her extended family for the first five years of her life, despite never doing anything to deserve it. Years later, when she catches herself wondering whether her sister's possible death would change her status as an [[ThirteenIsUnlucky unlucky thirteenth]], her first reaction is to believe that her aunts and uncles were right about her all along.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Examined. Eff treated as a monster by her extended family for the first five years of her life, despite never doing anything to deserve it. Years later, when she catches herself wondering whether her sister's possible death would change her status as an [[ThirteenIsUnlucky unlucky thirteenth]], her first reaction is to believe that her aunts and uncles were right about her all along.
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* ChildProdigy: Lan is treated as one, being a double seventh double-seventh child, to the extent that his grandfather hires him a special tutor.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Examined. Eff is treated as a monster by her extended family for the first five years of her life, despite never doing anything to deserve it. Years later, when she catches herself wondering whether her sister's possible death would change her status as an [[ThirteenIsUnlucky unlucky thirteenth]], her first reaction is to believe that her aunts and uncles were right about her all along.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Examined. Eff is treated as a monster by her extended family for the first five years of her life, despite never doing anything to deserve it. Years later, when she catches herself wondering whether her sister's possible death would change her status as an [[ThirteenIsUnlucky unlucky thirteenth]], her first reaction is to believe that her aunts and uncles were right about her all along.
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* ContainmentField: The Great Barrier Spell is this writ large.
* CoolTeacher: Miss Ochiba, the magic teacher. She offers lessons in non-Avrupan style magic, treats Eff no differently upon finding out Eff is a thirteenth child, and can [[spoiler: stop a young mammoth in it's tracks]]. Eff breaks down crying when Miss Ochiba is fired.
* CubCuesProtectiveParent: In-universe, Wash's sites it as his rule of thumb when in the settlement territory.
* CoolTeacher: Miss Ochiba, the magic teacher. She offers lessons in non-Avrupan style magic, treats Eff no differently upon finding out Eff is a thirteenth child, and can [[spoiler: stop a young mammoth in it's tracks]]. Eff breaks down crying when Miss Ochiba is fired.
* CubCuesProtectiveParent: In-universe, Wash's sites it as his rule of thumb when in the settlement territory.
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* ContainmentField: The Great Barrier Spell is this this, writ large.
* CoolTeacher: MissOchiba, Ochiba the magic teacher. She offers lessons in non-Avrupan style non-Avrupan-style magic, treats Eff no differently upon finding out Eff she is a thirteenth child, and can [[spoiler: stop a young mammoth in it's its tracks]]. Eff breaks down crying when Miss Ochiba is fired.
* CubCuesProtectiveParent: In-universe,Wash's sites Wash cites it as his rule of thumb when in the settlement territory.
* CoolTeacher: Miss
* CubCuesProtectiveParent: In-universe,
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* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:The mirror beetles.]] The first two parts of their lifestyle seems perfectly normal, however the adults are [[spoiler: drawn to sources of magic where they use it to trigger their last transformation into the mirrored beetle.]]
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* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:The mirror beetles.]] The first two parts of their lifestyle seems perfectly normal, however normal. However, the adults are [[spoiler: drawn to sources of magic magic, where they use it to trigger their last transformation into the mirrored beetle.]]
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* EthnicMagician: Miss Ochiba and Wash, who use Aphrikan (aka African) conjure magic rather than the Avrupan (aka European) magic of almost everyone else.
* EvilUncle: Earn, Eff's uncle that tried to [[WouldHurtAChild convince Eff's parents to murder Eff as a baby]] due to her being the 13th child. Earn then spends the next five years abusing Eff, and encouraging his children to bully her. It's capped off with Earn trying to have Eff arrested at the age of ''five''. Luckily the Rothmer's move East, [[Spoiler: al least until the wedding]].
* EvilUncle: Earn, Eff's uncle that tried to [[WouldHurtAChild convince Eff's parents to murder Eff as a baby]] due to her being the 13th child. Earn then spends the next five years abusing Eff, and encouraging his children to bully her. It's capped off with Earn trying to have Eff arrested at the age of ''five''. Luckily the Rothmer's move East, [[Spoiler: al least until the wedding]].
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* EthnicMagician: Miss Ochiba and Wash, who use Aphrikan (aka (a.k.a. African) conjure magic rather than the Avrupan (aka (a.k.a. European) magic of almost everyone else.
* EvilUncle: Earn, Eff's unclethat who tried to [[WouldHurtAChild convince Eff's parents to murder Eff as a baby]] due to her being the 13th thirteenth child. Earn then spends the next five years abusing Eff, Eff and encouraging his children to bully her. It's capped off with Earn trying to have Eff arrested at the age of ''five''. Luckily Luckily, the Rothmer's Rothmers move East, West, [[Spoiler: al at least until the wedding]].
* EvilUncle: Earn, Eff's uncle
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* FamilyDisunion: Diane's wedding goes well... At first. Then Earn gets drunk and decides to [[BullyingADragon take it out on Eff]].
* FantasticTimeManagement: Quick-drying spells, speed-travel spells and more.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Played with. As the setting is an AU Earth, the lands and cultures are pretty much the same, but they all have different names. Columbia is America, Aphrika is Africa, Avrupa is Europe, Ashia is Asia and Cathay is China, among others.
* FlatEarthAtheist: The Rationalists, to some extent, though instead of not believing in something that's there, they decide to go without it (meaning going about their lives on the frontier without the use of magic to protect them.)
* FantasticTimeManagement: Quick-drying spells, speed-travel spells and more.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Played with. As the setting is an AU Earth, the lands and cultures are pretty much the same, but they all have different names. Columbia is America, Aphrika is Africa, Avrupa is Europe, Ashia is Asia and Cathay is China, among others.
* FlatEarthAtheist: The Rationalists, to some extent, though instead of not believing in something that's there, they decide to go without it (meaning going about their lives on the frontier without the use of magic to protect them.)
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* FamilyDisunion: Diane's wedding goes well... At at first. Then Earn gets drunk and decides to [[BullyingADragon take it out on Eff]].
* FantasticTimeManagement: Quick-drying spells, speed-travelspells spells, and more.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Played with. As the setting is anAU alternate-universe Earth, the lands and cultures are pretty much the same, but they all have different names. Columbia is America, Aphrika is Africa, Avrupa is Europe, Ashia is Asia and Cathay is China, among others.
* FlatEarthAtheist: The Rationalists, to some extent, though instead of not believing in something that's there, they decide to go without it (meaning going about their lives on the frontier without the use of magic to protectthem.)them).
* FantasticTimeManagement: Quick-drying spells, speed-travel
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Played with. As the setting is an
* FlatEarthAtheist: The Rationalists, to some extent, though instead of not believing in something that's there, they decide to go without it (meaning going about their lives on the frontier without the use of magic to protect
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* GoodParents: Daniel and Sara Rothmer who refuse to treat Eff poorly despite her being a 13th child.
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* GoodParents: Daniel and Sara Rothmer Rothmer, who refuse to treat Eff poorly despite her being a 13th thirteenth child.
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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The Settlement Office, particularly under Mr Harrison.
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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The Settlement Office, particularly under Mr Mr. Harrison.
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* HeroicSafeMode: Caused by Professor Rothmer with a magic-dampening spell after Eff's argument with Earn
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* HeroicSafeMode: Caused by Professor Rothmer with a magic-dampening spell after Eff's argument with EarnEarn.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ben Franklin was a double-seventh son in this world. He and Thomas Jefferson, also a double-seven (Something neither was in our world -- they were a tenth and an only son, respectively), created the Great Barrier Spell to keep the United States of Columbia safe from western wildlife.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ben Franklin was a double-seventh son in this world. He and Thomas Jefferson, also a double-seven (Something (something neither was in our world -- they were a tenth and an only son, respectively), created the Great Barrier Spell to keep the United States of Columbia safe from western Western wildlife.
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* IneptMage: Eff, after the incident with Uncle Earn. While she knows the theory behind different spells, and can do the set up, when she tries to actually cast them things tend to [[FantasticFireworks go wrong]].
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eff with Wash and Prof Jeffries.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Columbia is America, Gaul is France, Cathay is China, etc.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Brant about a successful Rationalist settlement opening up the rest of the West to settlement.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eff with Wash and Prof Jeffries.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Columbia is America, Gaul is France, Cathay is China, etc.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Brant about a successful Rationalist settlement opening up the rest of the West to settlement.
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* IneptMage: Eff, after the incident with Uncle Earn. While she knows the theory behind different spells, spells and can do the set up, setup, when she tries to actually cast them them, things tend to [[FantasticFireworks go wrong]].
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eff with Wash andProf Professor Jeffries.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Columbia is America, Gaul is France, Cathay is China,etc.
and so on.
* JustThinkOfThePotential:Brant Brant, about a successful Rationalist settlement opening up the rest of the West to settlement.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eff with Wash and
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Columbia is America, Gaul is France, Cathay is China,
* JustThinkOfThePotential:
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* LastFertileRegion: Oak River, due to it's [[spoiler: lack of magic.]]
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* LastFertileRegion: Oak River, due to it's its [[spoiler: lack of magic.]]
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* MamaBear: Mrs. Rothmer, who refuses to let Earn insult Eff, and makes sure to tell him off for [[spoiler: calling on the police to arrest a ''five year old''.]]
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* MamaBear: Mrs. Rothmer, who refuses to let Earn insult Eff, and makes sure to tell him off for [[spoiler: calling on the police to arrest a ''five year old''.''5-year-old''.]]
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* MissingMom: William's mother is an invalid, never shows up in story, and is implied to be unable to have any role in William's raising
* MugglesDoItBetter: Rationalist engineers. Also Brant on the [=McNeil=] Expedition
* MugglesDoItBetter: Rationalist engineers. Also Brant on the [=McNeil=] Expedition
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* MissingMom: William's mother is an invalid, never shows up in the story, and is implied to be unable to have any no role in William's raising
rearing her son.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Rationalist engineers. Also Brant on the [=McNeil=]ExpeditionExpedition.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Rationalist engineers. Also Brant on the [=McNeil=]
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Played with. Jefferson and Franklin did leave behind their notes for the Great Barrier Spell, but since Franklin was self-taught and Jefferson tended to assume that everyone was as well read as he was, nobody can make any sense out of them.
* NumerologicalMotif: 7 and 13.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Mr Harrison, to the point where Washington [[spoiler: got enough complaints to fire him]] at the end of the series.
* NumerologicalMotif: 7 and 13.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Mr Harrison, to the point where Washington [[spoiler: got enough complaints to fire him]] at the end of the series.
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Played with. Jefferson and Franklin did leave behind their notes for the Great Barrier Spell, but since Franklin was self-taught and Jefferson tended to assume that everyone was as well read well-read as he was, nobody can make any sense out of them.
* NumerologicalMotif:7 Seven and 13.
thirteen.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat:Mr Mr. Harrison, to the point where Washington [[spoiler: got enough complaints to fire him]] at the end of the series.
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: Eff, who's the twin of a MagicalSeventhSon
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: Eff, who's the twin of a MagicalSeventhSon MagicalSeventhSon.
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* PowerTrio: Eff, Lan and William are ego, id and superego, respectively.
* TheProfessor: Several, Eff's father being the main example,
* TheProfessor: Several, Eff's father being the main example,
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* PowerTrio: Eff, Lan Lan, and William are ego, id and superego, respectively.
* TheProfessor: Several, with Eff's father being the main example,
* TheProfessor: Several, with Eff's father being the main example,
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Eff's parents and mentors. Her parents refuse to believe that she is bad luck, case in point, and do all they can to assure her that she is loved and wanted. [[spoiler:When Rennie elopes, her parents are disappointed but her father makes sure to visit Rennie after she has a baby and makes sure she's all right.]] Meanwhile her teachers see all her potential and do their best to encourage it.
* ScrewDestiny: Not Eff's response, as she's internalized her [[BuffySpeak thirteenth-ness]], but the people she reveals her DarkSecret too have a tendency to respond this way. For example, Miss Ochiba [[spoiler: responds by teaching Eff about numerology in other cultures where 13 is not considered unlucky.]]
* SettlingTheFrontier: It's a story about UsefulNotes/ManifestDestiny and people [[QuestToTheWest heading west]].
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Eff puts her hair up and starts wearing longer skirts while William and Lan are back East going to college. When they get back, [[ShipTease William has this response]].
* ShotgunWedding: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Rennie ran off with a Rationalist]] because of this; [[spoiler:she was sleeping with him and found out she was pregnant. Rather than being forced to confess to her family, whose reaction might have been different, she ran off]].
* SilverHasMysticPowers: As does sulfur, and other minerals and metals.
* SlaveLiberation: How Miss Ochiba's parents met; Miss Ochiba's father purchased slaves for a type 2 liberation, and Miss Ochiba's mother was one of them.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Wash has a Southern drawl and, like many other black men, fought for the North in the Secession War.
* ScrewDestiny: Not Eff's response, as she's internalized her [[BuffySpeak thirteenth-ness]], but the people she reveals her DarkSecret too have a tendency to respond this way. For example, Miss Ochiba [[spoiler: responds by teaching Eff about numerology in other cultures where 13 is not considered unlucky.]]
* SettlingTheFrontier: It's a story about UsefulNotes/ManifestDestiny and people [[QuestToTheWest heading west]].
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Eff puts her hair up and starts wearing longer skirts while William and Lan are back East going to college. When they get back, [[ShipTease William has this response]].
* ShotgunWedding: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Rennie ran off with a Rationalist]] because of this; [[spoiler:she was sleeping with him and found out she was pregnant. Rather than being forced to confess to her family, whose reaction might have been different, she ran off]].
* SilverHasMysticPowers: As does sulfur, and other minerals and metals.
* SlaveLiberation: How Miss Ochiba's parents met; Miss Ochiba's father purchased slaves for a type 2 liberation, and Miss Ochiba's mother was one of them.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Wash has a Southern drawl and, like many other black men, fought for the North in the Secession War.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Eff's parents and mentors. Her parents refuse to believe that she is bad luck, case in point, luck and do all they can to assure her that she is loved and wanted. [[spoiler:When Rennie elopes, her parents are disappointed disappointed, but her father makes sure to visit Rennie after she has a baby and makes sure check that she's all right.]] Meanwhile Meanwhile, her teachers see all her potential and do their best to encourage it.
* ScrewDestiny: Not Eff's response, as she's internalized her [[BuffySpeak thirteenth-ness]], but the people she reveals her DarkSecret too have a tendency to respond this way. For example, Miss Ochiba [[spoiler: responds by teaching Eff about numerology in othercultures cultures, where 13 the number thirteen is not considered unlucky.]]
* SettlingTheFrontier:It's a The story about features UsefulNotes/ManifestDestiny and people [[QuestToTheWest heading west]].
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Eff puts her hair up and starts wearing longer skirtswhile when William and Lan are back East going to at college. When they get back, [[ShipTease William has this response]].
* ShotgunWedding: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Rennie ran off with a Rationalist]] becauseof this; [[spoiler:she was sleeping with him and found out she was pregnant. Rather than being forced to confess to her family, whose reaction might have been different, she ran off]].
* SilverHasMysticPowers: As doessulfur, sulfur and other minerals and metals.
* SlaveLiberation: How Miss Ochiba's parentsmet; met. Miss Ochiba's father purchased slaves for a type 2 two liberation, and Miss Ochiba's mother was one of them.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Wash has a Southerndrawl and, drawl, and like many other black men, fought for the North in the Secession War.
* ScrewDestiny: Not Eff's response, as she's internalized her [[BuffySpeak thirteenth-ness]], but the people she reveals her DarkSecret too have a tendency to respond this way. For example, Miss Ochiba [[spoiler: responds by teaching Eff about numerology in other
* SettlingTheFrontier:
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Eff puts her hair up and starts wearing longer skirts
* ShotgunWedding: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Rennie ran off with a Rationalist]] because
* SilverHasMysticPowers: As does
* SlaveLiberation: How Miss Ochiba's parents
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Wash has a Southern
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* SternTeacher: Miss Ochiba. On the first day of school, she explains that she wants silence as soon as the bell rings. She enforces this on the first day with magic, taking away all sound, including people shifting, the sound of chalk, [[IntangibleTheft people talking]]...
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* SternTeacher: Miss Ochiba. On the first day of school, she explains that she wants silence as soon as the bell rings. She enforces this on the first day with magic, by magically taking away all sound, including people shifting, shifting in their seats, the sound scraping of chalk, [[IntangibleTheft people talking]]...
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* SynchronizedSwarming: Swarming weasels.
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* SynchronizedSwarming: Swarming weasels.Weasels.
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** Mr. Harrison, who insists on traveling beyond the barrier in an unsuitable buggy, tries to convince the people he's traveling with to use magic on Rationalist land, and spends the time he's in the Rationalist settlement insulting everyone until they kick him out.
** Uncle Earn, who believes that Eff is a future BigBad who should have been killed at birth... And handles this by [[BullyingADragon bullying her]].
* TwinDesynch: Happens a bit after Eff spent a year bedridden
* TwinTelepathy: Averted, as Eff and Lan explicitly do not have twin telepathy, however William later invokes this trope to "explain" why Eff knows that there's trouble where Lan is.
* UnequalRites: Avrupan mages are called magicians while Aphrican mages are conjurefolk and leaders Hijero-Cathayan covens are called adepts.
** Uncle Earn, who believes that Eff is a future BigBad who should have been killed at birth... And handles this by [[BullyingADragon bullying her]].
* TwinDesynch: Happens a bit after Eff spent a year bedridden
* TwinTelepathy: Averted, as Eff and Lan explicitly do not have twin telepathy, however William later invokes this trope to "explain" why Eff knows that there's trouble where Lan is.
* UnequalRites: Avrupan mages are called magicians while Aphrican mages are conjurefolk and leaders Hijero-Cathayan covens are called adepts.
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** Mr. Harrison, who insists on traveling beyond the barrier in an unsuitable buggy, tries to convince the people he's traveling with to use magic on Rationalist land, and he spends the time he's in the Rationalist settlement insulting everyone until they kick him out.
** Uncle Earn, who believes that Eff is a future BigBad who should have been killed at birth...And and handles this by [[BullyingADragon bullying her]].
* TwinDesynch: Happens a bit after Eff spent a yearbedridden
bedridden.
* TwinTelepathy: Averted, as Eff and Lan explicitly do not have twintelepathy, however telepathy. However, William later invokes this trope to "explain" why Eff knows that there's trouble where Lan is.
* UnequalRites: Avrupan mages are calledmagicians magicians, while Aphrican Aphrikan mages are called conjurefolk and leaders of Hijero-Cathayan covens are called adepts.
** Uncle Earn, who believes that Eff is a future BigBad who should have been killed at birth...
* TwinDesynch: Happens a bit after Eff spent a year
* TwinTelepathy: Averted, as Eff and Lan explicitly do not have twin
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* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: You know what they say about [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh sons, double seventh sons]] and [[ThirteenIsUnlucky thirteenth children]].
* YoungestChildWins: Subverted. Lan is supposed to be the great magician of the family, but [[spoiler:Eff]] is the one that saves the day
* YoungestChildWins: Subverted. Lan is supposed to be the great magician of the family, but [[spoiler:Eff]] is the one that saves the day
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* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: You know what they say about [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh sons, double seventh sons]] double-seventh sons]], and [[ThirteenIsUnlucky thirteenth children]].
* YoungestChildWins: Subverted. Lan is supposed to be the great magician of the family, but [[spoiler:Eff]] is the one that saves thedayday.
* YoungestChildWins: Subverted. Lan is supposed to be the great magician of the family, but [[spoiler:Eff]] is the one that saves the
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* BreakTheCutie: Eff's extended family **tries** to do this to her the first five years of Eff's life. [[QuestToTheWest It's part of what convinces the Rothmer parents to move west.]]
* BullyingTheDragon: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins spend the first five years of Eff's life bullying her, *even while* they believe she's a TykeBomb who should have been [[OffingTheOffspring killed at birth]] and is doomed to becoming a BigBad in the future.
* BullyingTheDragon: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins spend the first five years of Eff's life bullying her, *even while* they believe she's a TykeBomb who should have been [[OffingTheOffspring killed at birth]] and is doomed to becoming a BigBad in the future.
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* BreakTheCutie: Eff's extended family **tries** ''tries'' to do this to her the first five years of Eff's life. [[QuestToTheWest [[GoodParents It's part of what convinces the Rothmer parents parents]] [[QuestToTheWest to move west.]]
* BullyingTheDragon: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins spend the first five years of Eff's life bullying her,*even while* ''even while'' they believe she's a TykeBomb who should have been [[OffingTheOffspring killed at birth]] and is doomed to becoming a BigBad in the future.
* BullyingTheDragon: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins spend the first five years of Eff's life bullying her,
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%%* MagicalNegro: Played with in both Miss Ochiba and Wash.%%How?
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* SettlingTheFrontier: It's a story about UsefulNotes/ManifestDestiny and people [[QuestToTheWest heading west]].
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Eff puts her hair up and starts wearing longer skirts while William and Lan are back East going to college. When they get back, [[ShipTease William has this response]].
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* WideEyedIdealist: Professor Rothmer considers Brant to be this to some extent.%%How?
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* WideEyedIdealist: Professor Rothmer considers Brant to be this to some extent.%%How?
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Book one of the Literature/FrontierMagic series by Creator/PatriciaCWrede. It's set in an AlternateUniverse where magic is a normal part of life for the settlers on the Columbian (their version of America) frontier.
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Book one of theLiterature/FrontierMagic ''Literature/FrontierMagic'' series by Creator/PatriciaCWrede. It's set in an AlternateUniverse where magic is a normal part of life for the settlers on the Columbian (their version of America) frontier.
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Book one of the
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* AgeCut: Happens a few times with Eff going through a few years in just a paragraph and then resuming the narrative
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins.
* AlternateHistory: Nineteenth century American frontier with magic, dragons and wooly mammoths
* AlternateUniverse
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Thirteenth children, according to Eff's aunts and uncles
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Jeweled minks, silverhoofs and other wildlife from the Plains
* AncientArtifact: The wooden pendent seems like this
* ApologizesALot: Eff
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins.
* AlternateHistory: Nineteenth century American frontier with magic, dragons and wooly mammoths
* AlternateUniverse
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Thirteenth children, according to Eff's aunts and uncles
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Jeweled minks, silverhoofs and other wildlife from the Plains
* AncientArtifact: The wooden pendent seems like this
* ApologizesALot: Eff
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* AgeCut: Happens a few times with Eff going through a few years in just a paragraph and then resuming the narrative
*narrative.
%%* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins.
* AlternateHistory:Nineteenth century The nineteenth-century American frontier with magic, dragons and wooly mammoths
*mammoths.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Thirteenth children, according to Eff's aunts anduncles
*uncles.
%%* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Jeweled minks, silverhoofs and other wildlife from thePlains
*Plains.%%Technicolor how?
%%* AncientArtifact: The woodenpendent pendant seems like this
*this.
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* AlternateHistory:
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* AudienceMurmurs: How the Rationalists crowd in Oak River showed its approval of Eff being willing to go out without protection spells
* BadassLongcoat: Seemingly a requirement for living west of the Great Barrier Spell
* BadPowersBadPeople: Eff's aunts and uncles seem to think this is at play
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Eff spent years being sure that she was going to go bad one day
* BadassLongcoat: Seemingly a requirement for living west of the Great Barrier Spell
* BadPowersBadPeople: Eff's aunts and uncles seem to think this is at play
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Eff spent years being sure that she was going to go bad one day
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* AudienceMurmurs: How the Rationalists crowd in Oak River showed its approval of Eff being willing to go out without protection spells
spells.
* BadassLongcoat: Seemingly a requirement for living west of the Great BarrierSpell
*Spell.
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play.%%That what is at play?
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Eff spent years being sure that she was going to go bad onedayday.
* BadassLongcoat: Seemingly a requirement for living west of the Great Barrier
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Rennie is this for a long time
* BreakTheCutie: The first five years of Eff's life.
* BugCatching
* BullyingTheDragon: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins spent the first five years of Eff's life bullying her
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Rennie is this for a long time
* BreakTheCutie: The first five years of Eff's life.
* BugCatching
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* ConflictKiller: Lan's double-seven status
* TheConscience: Eff is this for Lan sometimes.
* ContainmentField: The Great Barrier Spell is this writ large
* CoolTeacher: Miss Ochiba and Wash, to a lesser extent
* CryingLittleKid: Poor Eff
* CubCuesProtectiveParent: Wash's rule of thumb when in the settlement territory
* DeterminedHomesteader
* DeterminedHomesteadersWife
* TheConscience: Eff is this for Lan sometimes.
* ContainmentField: The Great Barrier Spell is this writ large
* CoolTeacher: Miss Ochiba and Wash, to a lesser extent
* CryingLittleKid: Poor Eff
* CubCuesProtectiveParent: Wash's rule of thumb when in the settlement territory
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* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:The grubs, beetles and mirror bugs]]
* EnfantTerrible: Another thing the extended Rothmer family suspected Eff of having been
* EthnicMagician: Miss Ochiba and Wash, who use Aphrikan (aka African) conjure magic rather than the Avrupan (aka European) magic of almost everyone else
* EvilUncle: Earn
* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:The grubs, beetles and mirror bugs]]
* EnfantTerrible: Another thing the extended Rothmer family suspected Eff of having been
* EthnicMagician: Miss Ochiba and Wash, who use Aphrikan (aka African) conjure magic rather than the Avrupan (aka European) magic of almost everyone else
* EvilUncle: Earn
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* FantasticTimeManagement: Quick-drying spells, speed-travel spells and more
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Professor Graham
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Played with. As the setting is an AU Earth, the lands and cultures are pretty much the same, but they all have different names.
** Columbia is America, Aphrika is Africa, Avrupa is Europe, Ashia is Asia, Cathay is China, among others
* FeatheredFiend: Terrorbirds
* FantasticTimeManagement: Quick-drying spells, speed-travel spells and more
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Professor Graham
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Played with. As the setting is an AU Earth, the lands and cultures are pretty much the same, but they all have different names.
** Columbia is America, Aphrika is Africa, Avrupa is Europe, Ashia is Asia, Cathay is China, among others
* FeatheredFiend: Terrorbirds
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* HermeticMagic: Avrupan magic
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* HigherEducationIsForWomen: According to settlers, at least
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ben Franklin was a double-seventh son in this world. He and Thomas Jefferson, also a double-seven (Something neither was in our world - they were a tenth and an only son, respectively), created the Great Barrier Spell to keep the United States of Columbia safe from western wildlife.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Eff
* IllGirl: Eff is this for a while after fighting off rheumatic fever
* IneptMage: Eff, after the incident with Uncle Earn
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eff and Wash, also Eff and Prof Jeffries.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Columbia is America, Gaul is France, etc.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ben Franklin was a double-seventh son in this world. He and Thomas Jefferson, also a double-seven (Something neither was in our world - they were a tenth and an only son, respectively), created the Great Barrier Spell to keep the United States of Columbia safe from western wildlife.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Eff
* IllGirl: Eff is this for a while after fighting off rheumatic fever
* IneptMage: Eff, after the incident with Uncle Earn
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eff and Wash, also Eff and Prof Jeffries.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Columbia is America, Gaul is France, etc.
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* HigherEducationIsForWomen: According to settlers, at least
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ben Franklin was a double-seventh son in this world. He and Thomas Jefferson, also a double-seven (Something neither was in our world- -- they were a tenth and an only son, respectively), created the Great Barrier Spell to keep the United States of Columbia safe from western wildlife.
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Earn.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Effand Wash, also Eff with Wash and Prof Jeffries.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Columbia is America, Gaul is France, Cathay is China, etc.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ben Franklin was a double-seventh son in this world. He and Thomas Jefferson, also a double-seven (Something neither was in our world
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* KickingAssInAllHerFinery
* KidsAreCruel: Eff's cousins torment her as a child.
* LadyOfAdventure: Eff
* LamarckWasRight: Seventh and double-seventh sons are an odd case of this
* LastFertileRegion: Oak River
* LectureAsExposition
* TheLoad: Mr Harrison, even before he's named in the book
* MaamShock
* MagicAIsMagicA: Just like magic B and magic C
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet
* MagicalNegro: Played with in both Miss Ochiba and Wash
* KidsAreCruel: Eff's cousins torment her as a child.
* LadyOfAdventure: Eff
* LamarckWasRight: Seventh and double-seventh sons are an odd case of this
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* MaamShock
* MagicAIsMagicA: Just like magic B and magic C
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet
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* SupernaturalSensitivity: Aphrikan world-sensing
* SynchronizedSwarming: Swarming weasels
* TerminallyDependentSociety: The Rationalists believe society is too dependent on magic
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: The Rothmer women are in charge of laundry and mending clothes
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Why Eff's extended family dislikes her.
* TooDumbToLive: Mr Harrison, Uncle Earn
* TroubledChild
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Aphrikan world-sensing
* SynchronizedSwarming: Swarming weasels
* TerminallyDependentSociety: The Rationalists believe society is too dependent on magic
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: The Rothmer women are in charge of laundry and mending clothes
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Why Eff's extended family dislikes her.
* TooDumbToLive: Mr Harrison, Uncle Earn
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* UnlikelyHero
* UnstoppableRage: Eff fears this is what her magic will become
* WalkingTechbane
* TheWatcher: Wash functions as this for a little while.
* {{Whatevermancy}}
* WickedWeasel: Swarming Weasels
* WideEyedIdealist: Professor Rothmer considers Brant to be this to some extent
* WildMagic: What Aphrikan magic uses
* UnlikelyHero
* UnstoppableRage: Eff fears this is what her magic will become
* WalkingTechbane
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* {{Whatevermancy}}
* WickedWeasel: Swarming Weasels
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* WonderChild: Lan, as a double-seventh son
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX
* YoungestChildWins: Subverted. Lan is supposed to be the great magician of the family, but [[spoiler:Eff]] is the one that saves the day
* WonderChild: Lan, as a double-seventh son
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX
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Book one of the Literature/FrontierMagic series by Creator/PatriciaCWrede. It's set in an AlternateUniverse where magic is a normal part of life for the settlers on the Columbian (their version of America) frontier.
Eff Rothmer was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh son of a seventh son]]. This means he's [[TheChosenOne supposed to possess amazing talent]] -- and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild.
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!! This book provides examples of:
* TheAce: Lan
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. The adults are the people Eff, Lan and William go to with concerns for good reason.
* AgeCut: Happens a few times with Eff going through a few years in just a paragraph and then resuming the narrative
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins.
* AlternateHistory: Nineteenth century American frontier with magic, dragons and wooly mammoths
* AlternateUniverse
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Thirteenth children, according to Eff's aunts and uncles
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Jeweled minks, silverhoofs and other wildlife from the Plains
* AncientArtifact: The wooden pendent seems like this
* ApologizesALot: Eff
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Professor Rothmer thinks Eff's aborted attempt to blow up her uncle was a fluke, even though he's presumably seen stranger things from his students.
* AsYouKnow: Eff starts the book by talking about how everyone knows seventh sons are special.
* AudienceMurmurs: How the Rationalists crowd in Oak River showed its approval of Eff being willing to go out without protection spells
* BadassLongcoat: Seemingly a requirement for living west of the Great Barrier Spell
* BadPowersBadPeople: Eff's aunts and uncles seem to think this is at play
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Eff spent years being sure that she was going to go bad one day
* BerserkButton: Don't pick on Eff when Lan is around. Or any of her other siblings, for that matter.
* BigDamnHeroes
* BoardingSchool: Lan and William go off to one in the East.
* BornLucky: Professor Rothmer and Lan
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Rennie is this for a long time
* BreakTheCutie: The first five years of Eff's life.
* BugCatching
* BullyingTheDragon: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins spent the first five years of Eff's life bullying her
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Poor Eff can't even get away with things she didn't do!
* CharacterWitness: William serves as this for Eff
* ChildProdigy: Lan
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Examined. Eff treated as a monster by her extended family for the first five years of her life, despite never doing anything to deserve it. Years later, when she catches herself wondering whether her sister's possible death would change her status as an [[ThirteenIsUnlucky unlucky thirteenth]], her first reaction is to believe that her aunts and uncles were right about her all along.
* CloseKnitCommunity: Mill City, as they are assured as soon as they arrive.
* ConflictKiller: Lan's double-seven status
* TheConscience: Eff is this for Lan sometimes.
* ContainmentField: The Great Barrier Spell is this writ large
* CoolTeacher: Miss Ochiba and Wash, to a lesser extent
* CryingLittleKid: Poor Eff
* CubCuesProtectiveParent: Wash's rule of thumb when in the settlement territory
* DeterminedHomesteader
* DeterminedHomesteadersWife
* DontSplitUsUp: An unusual example, as it was only for the month or so that the family stayed in their old hometown, but Lan insists that he and Eff stay together so he can protect her.
* DoomMagnet: Eff thinks she's this, among other things, thanks to her extended family's abuse.
* {{Elopement}}: [[spoiler:Rennie and Brant]]
* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:The grubs, beetles and mirror bugs]]
* EnfantTerrible: Another thing the extended Rothmer family suspected Eff of having been
* EthnicMagician: Miss Ochiba and Wash, who use Aphrikan (aka African) conjure magic rather than the Avrupan (aka European) magic of almost everyone else
* EvilUncle: Earn
* {{Expospeak}}: The professors do this occasionally. William and Lan get in on it too, after they go East for school.
* FamilyDisunion
* FantasticTimeManagement: Quick-drying spells, speed-travel spells and more
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Professor Graham
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Played with. As the setting is an AU Earth, the lands and cultures are pretty much the same, but they all have different names.
** Columbia is America, Aphrika is [[CaptainObvious Africa]], Avrupa is Europe, Ashia is Asia, Cathay is China, among others
* FeatheredFiend: Terrorbirds
* FlatEarthAtheist: The Rationalists, to some extent, though instead of not believing in something that's there, they decide to go without it (meaning going about their lives on the frontier without the use of magic to protect them.)
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Lan and Eff, respectively
* FreeRangeChildren
* FriendlyRivalry: Lan and William have one going when they come back from boarding school.
* FunctionalMagic
* FundraiserCarnival
* GentlemanAdventurer: Wash is an interesting variant of this, as is Dr McNeil.
* GoodParents: Daniel and Sara Rothmer
* GuiltComplex: Eff
* HarmfulToMinors: The extended Rothmer family.
* HannibalLecture: Uncle Earn tries to give one to Eff. It doesn't end well.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: The Settlement Office, particularly under Mr Harrison.
* HeldBackInSchool: Eff after having rheumatic fever.
* HereThereBeDragons
* HermeticMagic: Avrupan magic
* HeroicSafeMode: Caused by Professor Rothmer with a magic-dampening spell after Eff's argument with Earn
* HigherEducationIsForWomen: According to settlers, at least
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ben Franklin was a double-seventh son in this world. He and Thomas Jefferson, also a double-seven (Something neither was in our world - they were a tenth and an only son, respectively), created the Great Barrier Spell to keep the United States of Columbia safe from western wildlife.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Eff
* IllGirl: Eff is this for a while after fighting off rheumatic fever
* IneptMage: Eff, after the incident with Uncle Earn
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eff and Wash, also Eff and Prof Jeffries.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Columbia is America, Gaul is France, etc.
* IvyLeague
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Brant about a successful Rationalist settlement opening up the rest of the West to settlement.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery
* KidsAreCruel: Eff's cousins torment her as a child.
* LadyOfAdventure: Eff
* LamarckWasRight: Seventh and double-seventh sons are an odd case of this
* LastFertileRegion: Oak River
* LectureAsExposition
* TheLoad: Mr Harrison, even before he's named in the book
* MaamShock
* MagicAIsMagicA: Just like magic B and magic C
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet
* MagicalNegro: Played with in both Miss Ochiba and Wash
* MagicalSeventhSon: Lan. It isn't until the third book that people realize that Eff, as the seventh ''daughter'' of a seventh son, also applies.
* MagicTool: Wash's pendant
* MagicVersusScience: Averted. Magic is treated as a science.
* MamaBear: Mrs Rothmer
* MassivelyNumberedSiblings: Eff has seven brothers and six sisters. Her father has six brothers and several sisters.
* AMinorKidtroduction
* MissingMom: William's mother is an invalid, never shows up in story, and is implied to be unable to have any role in William's raising
* MRSDegree
* MugglesDoItBetter: Rationalist engineers. Also Brant on the McNeil Expedition
* MySecretPregnancy
* {{Neet}}: Rennie
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Played with. Jefferson and Franklin did leave behind their notes for the Great Barrier Spell, but since Franklin was self-taught and Jefferson tended to assume that everyone was as well read as he was, nobody can make any sense out of them.
* NumerologicalMotif: 7 and 13
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Mr Harrison
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They produce steam.
* OvershadowedByAwesome
* ParentsKnowTheirChildren: Daniel and Sara Rothmer do, at least. Professor Graham, however, does not.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Lan and Eff
* PowerIncontinence
* PowerLimiter:
* PowerTrio: Eff, Lan and William are ego, id and superego, respectively.
* PrimAndProperBun: Miss Ochiba
* TheProfessor: Several, Eff's father being the main example
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Eff's parents and mentors
* ScrewDestiny: Not Eff's response, but everyone else's
* SettlingTheFrontier
* SheIsAllGrownUp
* TheSheriff
* ShutUpHannibal: Eff to Uncle Earn
* SilverHasMysticPowers: As does sulfur, and other minerals and metals.
* SkipOfInnocence
* SlaveLiberation: How Miss Ochiba's parents met.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Wash has a Southern drawl and, like many other black men, fought for the North in the Secession War.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Allie is this for Rennie's plan to [[spoiler:run away with Brant]]
* SternTeacher
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Aphrikan world-sensing
* SynchronizedSwarming: Swarming weasels
* TerminallyDependentSociety: The Rationalists believe society is too dependent on magic
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: The Rothmer women are in charge of laundry and mending clothes
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Why Eff's extended family dislikes her.
* TooDumbToLive: Mr Harrison, Uncle Earn
* TroubledChild
* TwinDesynch: Happens a bit after Eff spent a year bedridden
* TwinTelepathy: Averted, later invoked by William
* UnableToSupportAWife
* UnequalRites: Avrupan mages are called magicians while Aphrican mages are conjurefolk and leaders Hijero-Cathayan covens are called adepts.
* TheUnfavorite
* UnlikelyHero
* UnstoppableRage: Eff fears this is what her magic will become
* WalkingTechbane
* TheWatcher: Wash functions as this for a little while.
* {{Whatevermancy}}
* WickedWeasel: Swarming Weasels
* WideEyedIdealist: Professor Rothmer considers Brant to be this to some extent
* WildMagic: What Aphrikan magic uses
* TheWildWest
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: Double-seven powers
* WonderChild: Lan, as a double-seventh son
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX
* YoungestChildWins: Subverted. Lan is supposed to be the great magician of the family, but [[spoiler:Eff]] is the one that saves the day
Eff Rothmer was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh son of a seventh son]]. This means he's [[TheChosenOne supposed to possess amazing talent]] -- and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild.
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!! This book provides examples of:
* TheAce: Lan
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. The adults are the people Eff, Lan and William go to with concerns for good reason.
* AgeCut: Happens a few times with Eff going through a few years in just a paragraph and then resuming the narrative
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins.
* AlternateHistory: Nineteenth century American frontier with magic, dragons and wooly mammoths
* AlternateUniverse
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Thirteenth children, according to Eff's aunts and uncles
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Jeweled minks, silverhoofs and other wildlife from the Plains
* AncientArtifact: The wooden pendent seems like this
* ApologizesALot: Eff
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Professor Rothmer thinks Eff's aborted attempt to blow up her uncle was a fluke, even though he's presumably seen stranger things from his students.
* AsYouKnow: Eff starts the book by talking about how everyone knows seventh sons are special.
* AudienceMurmurs: How the Rationalists crowd in Oak River showed its approval of Eff being willing to go out without protection spells
* BadassLongcoat: Seemingly a requirement for living west of the Great Barrier Spell
* BadPowersBadPeople: Eff's aunts and uncles seem to think this is at play
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Eff spent years being sure that she was going to go bad one day
* BerserkButton: Don't pick on Eff when Lan is around. Or any of her other siblings, for that matter.
* BigDamnHeroes
* BoardingSchool: Lan and William go off to one in the East.
* BornLucky: Professor Rothmer and Lan
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Rennie is this for a long time
* BreakTheCutie: The first five years of Eff's life.
* BugCatching
* BullyingTheDragon: Eff's aunts, uncles and cousins spent the first five years of Eff's life bullying her
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Poor Eff can't even get away with things she didn't do!
* CharacterWitness: William serves as this for Eff
* ChildProdigy: Lan
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Examined. Eff treated as a monster by her extended family for the first five years of her life, despite never doing anything to deserve it. Years later, when she catches herself wondering whether her sister's possible death would change her status as an [[ThirteenIsUnlucky unlucky thirteenth]], her first reaction is to believe that her aunts and uncles were right about her all along.
* CloseKnitCommunity: Mill City, as they are assured as soon as they arrive.
* ConflictKiller: Lan's double-seven status
* TheConscience: Eff is this for Lan sometimes.
* ContainmentField: The Great Barrier Spell is this writ large
* CoolTeacher: Miss Ochiba and Wash, to a lesser extent
* CryingLittleKid: Poor Eff
* CubCuesProtectiveParent: Wash's rule of thumb when in the settlement territory
* DeterminedHomesteader
* DeterminedHomesteadersWife
* DontSplitUsUp: An unusual example, as it was only for the month or so that the family stayed in their old hometown, but Lan insists that he and Eff stay together so he can protect her.
* DoomMagnet: Eff thinks she's this, among other things, thanks to her extended family's abuse.
* {{Elopement}}: [[spoiler:Rennie and Brant]]
* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:The grubs, beetles and mirror bugs]]
* EnfantTerrible: Another thing the extended Rothmer family suspected Eff of having been
* EthnicMagician: Miss Ochiba and Wash, who use Aphrikan (aka African) conjure magic rather than the Avrupan (aka European) magic of almost everyone else
* EvilUncle: Earn
* {{Expospeak}}: The professors do this occasionally. William and Lan get in on it too, after they go East for school.
* FamilyDisunion
* FantasticTimeManagement: Quick-drying spells, speed-travel spells and more
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Professor Graham
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Played with. As the setting is an AU Earth, the lands and cultures are pretty much the same, but they all have different names.
** Columbia is America, Aphrika is [[CaptainObvious Africa]], Avrupa is Europe, Ashia is Asia, Cathay is China, among others
* FeatheredFiend: Terrorbirds
* FlatEarthAtheist: The Rationalists, to some extent, though instead of not believing in something that's there, they decide to go without it (meaning going about their lives on the frontier without the use of magic to protect them.)
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Lan and Eff, respectively
* FreeRangeChildren
* FriendlyRivalry: Lan and William have one going when they come back from boarding school.
* FunctionalMagic
* FundraiserCarnival
* GentlemanAdventurer: Wash is an interesting variant of this, as is Dr McNeil.
* GoodParents: Daniel and Sara Rothmer
* GuiltComplex: Eff
* HarmfulToMinors: The extended Rothmer family.
* HannibalLecture: Uncle Earn tries to give one to Eff. It doesn't end well.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: The Settlement Office, particularly under Mr Harrison.
* HeldBackInSchool: Eff after having rheumatic fever.
* HereThereBeDragons
* HermeticMagic: Avrupan magic
* HeroicSafeMode: Caused by Professor Rothmer with a magic-dampening spell after Eff's argument with Earn
* HigherEducationIsForWomen: According to settlers, at least
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ben Franklin was a double-seventh son in this world. He and Thomas Jefferson, also a double-seven (Something neither was in our world - they were a tenth and an only son, respectively), created the Great Barrier Spell to keep the United States of Columbia safe from western wildlife.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Eff
* IllGirl: Eff is this for a while after fighting off rheumatic fever
* IneptMage: Eff, after the incident with Uncle Earn
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eff and Wash, also Eff and Prof Jeffries.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Columbia is America, Gaul is France, etc.
* IvyLeague
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Brant about a successful Rationalist settlement opening up the rest of the West to settlement.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery
* KidsAreCruel: Eff's cousins torment her as a child.
* LadyOfAdventure: Eff
* LamarckWasRight: Seventh and double-seventh sons are an odd case of this
* LastFertileRegion: Oak River
* LectureAsExposition
* TheLoad: Mr Harrison, even before he's named in the book
* MaamShock
* MagicAIsMagicA: Just like magic B and magic C
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet
* MagicalNegro: Played with in both Miss Ochiba and Wash
* MagicalSeventhSon: Lan. It isn't until the third book that people realize that Eff, as the seventh ''daughter'' of a seventh son, also applies.
* MagicTool: Wash's pendant
* MagicVersusScience: Averted. Magic is treated as a science.
* MamaBear: Mrs Rothmer
* MassivelyNumberedSiblings: Eff has seven brothers and six sisters. Her father has six brothers and several sisters.
* AMinorKidtroduction
* MissingMom: William's mother is an invalid, never shows up in story, and is implied to be unable to have any role in William's raising
* MRSDegree
* MugglesDoItBetter: Rationalist engineers. Also Brant on the McNeil Expedition
* MySecretPregnancy
* {{Neet}}: Rennie
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Played with. Jefferson and Franklin did leave behind their notes for the Great Barrier Spell, but since Franklin was self-taught and Jefferson tended to assume that everyone was as well read as he was, nobody can make any sense out of them.
* NumerologicalMotif: 7 and 13
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Mr Harrison
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They produce steam.
* OvershadowedByAwesome
* ParentsKnowTheirChildren: Daniel and Sara Rothmer do, at least. Professor Graham, however, does not.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Lan and Eff
* PowerIncontinence
* PowerLimiter:
* PowerTrio: Eff, Lan and William are ego, id and superego, respectively.
* PrimAndProperBun: Miss Ochiba
* TheProfessor: Several, Eff's father being the main example
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Eff's parents and mentors
* ScrewDestiny: Not Eff's response, but everyone else's
* SettlingTheFrontier
* SheIsAllGrownUp
* TheSheriff
* ShutUpHannibal: Eff to Uncle Earn
* SilverHasMysticPowers: As does sulfur, and other minerals and metals.
* SkipOfInnocence
* SlaveLiberation: How Miss Ochiba's parents met.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Wash has a Southern drawl and, like many other black men, fought for the North in the Secession War.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Allie is this for Rennie's plan to [[spoiler:run away with Brant]]
* SternTeacher
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Aphrikan world-sensing
* SynchronizedSwarming: Swarming weasels
* TerminallyDependentSociety: The Rationalists believe society is too dependent on magic
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: The Rothmer women are in charge of laundry and mending clothes
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Why Eff's extended family dislikes her.
* TooDumbToLive: Mr Harrison, Uncle Earn
* TroubledChild
* TwinDesynch: Happens a bit after Eff spent a year bedridden
* TwinTelepathy: Averted, later invoked by William
* UnableToSupportAWife
* UnequalRites: Avrupan mages are called magicians while Aphrican mages are conjurefolk and leaders Hijero-Cathayan covens are called adepts.
* TheUnfavorite
* UnlikelyHero
* UnstoppableRage: Eff fears this is what her magic will become
* WalkingTechbane
* TheWatcher: Wash functions as this for a little while.
* {{Whatevermancy}}
* WickedWeasel: Swarming Weasels
* WideEyedIdealist: Professor Rothmer considers Brant to be this to some extent
* WildMagic: What Aphrikan magic uses
* TheWildWest
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: Double-seven powers
* WonderChild: Lan, as a double-seventh son
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX
* YoungestChildWins: Subverted. Lan is supposed to be the great magician of the family, but [[spoiler:Eff]] is the one that saves the day