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The story concerns a glassworker slave named Tirzah, forced into slavery because of her father's debts. She's tasked with helping building the eponymous Threshold, a pyramid made partially with huge glass panels. She meets a Magus named Boaz, hiding behind a Magi exterior a little too well. The Magi base a religion and magic power around the One, the number of all creation. And Threshold is being built to allow them to tap into the power of Creation and [[ImmotalitySeeker become immortal]].
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The story concerns a glassworker slave named Tirzah, forced into slavery because of her father's debts. She's tasked with helping building the eponymous Threshold, a pyramid made partially with huge glass panels. She meets a Magus named Boaz, hiding behind a Magi exterior a little too well. The Magi base a religion and magic power around the One, the number of all creation. And Threshold is being built to allow them to tap into the power of Creation and [[ImmotalitySeeker [[ImmortalitySeeker become immortal]].
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The story concerns a glassworker slave named Tirzah, forced into slavery because of her father's debts. She's tasked with helping building the eponymous Threshold, a pyramid made partially with huge glass panels. She meets a Magus named Boaz, hiding behind a Magi exterior a little too well. The Magi base a religion and magic power around the One, the number of all creation. And Threshold is being built to allow them to tap into the power of Creation and [[AGodAmI [[ImmotalitySeeker become immortal]].
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''Threshold'' is a fantasy novel written by Sara Douglass in 1997, and one of the prequels to ''Literature/TheDarkglassMountainTrilogy''.
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* DeadGuyJunior: Sort of. [[spoiler: Boaz names his and Tirzah's daugher Ysgrave, which was Tirzah's name before she became a slave.]] Tirzah was also named after [[spoiler: Boaz's mother.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: One of Nzame's powers is to lock his victims into horror and despair via MindRape.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Everyone has to struggle hard to get their happiness, [[spoiler: especially Boaz, who has to rewrite an ancient spell on the fly and call out to Tirzah to free him on a special night.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Everyone has to struggle hard to get their happiness, [[spoiler: especially Boaz, who has to rewrite an ancient spell on the fly and call out to Tirzah to free him on a special night.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Boaz's status as a JerkAss is cemented when he destroys Tirzah's masterwork creation simply to spite her. [[spoiler: He gets better.]]
** [[spoiler: Nzame's]] power turns people into [[HumanoidAbomination stone abominations.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Anyone [[spoiler: Nzame's]] power touches is turned into a stone soldier. Magi are further [[BlessedWithSuck "blessed"]] by [[spoiler: being turned to shrieking glass creatures.]]
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* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler: Nzame's]] soldiers are NighInvulnerable. However, they are also so heavy they are incapable of getting up if they are knocked over. This makes them fairly easy to dispatch.
** [[spoiler: Nzame himself]] is unable to leave his pyramid. This makes him easy to approach and deal with once the Cantomancers are ready for [[spoiler: him.]]
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** [[spoiler: Nzame himself]] is unable to leave his pyramid. This makes him easy to approach and deal with once the Cantomancers are ready for [[spoiler: him.]]
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* EldritchLocation: Threshold is a completely unnatural location.
** [[spoiler: The Vale is an Eldritch world not meant to connect to the human world.]]
** [[spoiler: The Vale is an Eldritch world not meant to connect to the human world.]]
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* NatureVsTechnology: Elementals, which use magic by communing with spirits, versus Magi, who impose power and order on the world with patterns.
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* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Neuf]][[spoiler:Neuf]].
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: Nzame, a being from the Vale.]]
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: Nzame, a being from the Vale.]]
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* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler: Darkglass Mountain, as Threshold becomes known, ends up holding much more evil than just Nzame.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: Magus Boaz, Chad-Nezzar.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Magus Boaz, Chad-Nezzar.Chad-Nezzar.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Boaz. [[spoiler: His jerkiness is a defense mechanism created to hide his Cantomancer power from other Magi.]]
* JerkassGod: [[spoiler: Nzame. Subverted, as he is simply a demon pretending to be The One. [[Literature/TheDarkglassMountainTrilogy Not that The One is so kind either.]]]]
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Boaz. [[spoiler: His jerkiness is a defense mechanism created to hide his Cantomancer power from other Magi.]]
* JerkassGod: [[spoiler: Nzame. Subverted, as he is simply a demon pretending to be The One. [[Literature/TheDarkglassMountainTrilogy Not that The One is so kind either.]]]]
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Zigzagged. Tirzah is raped by her slaveholder at the beginning of the book, and she does not carry much resentment for it. However, other characters are incensed when the Magi rape women for their own spiritual enlightenment.
* SecretArt: Elementals andCartomancers.Cantomancers.
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* InfantImmortality: Brutally averted. One of the first things Tirzah sees after arriving in Gesholme is a newborn baby having its head splattered against a wall.
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* MissedMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Boaz enters Threshold entirely on his own, and we never get to see him fight Nzame.]]
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* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:Yaqob stabs Boaz in the stomach for the things he did to Tirzah.]]
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Threshold lets the Magi tap into the Vale... only it [[spoiler:summons a demon that starts [[TakenForGranite turning everything to stone]].]]
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* BadPowersBadPeople: All of the Magi.
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* MagicalGesture: The swirling colors required to [[spoiler:speak to the Soulenai]].
* {{Precursors}}: Soulenai.
* {{Precursors}}: Soulenai.
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DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Neuf]]
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DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Neuf]]
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* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Neuf]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Boaz, after he finally starts to see just how evil Threshold has become.]]
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