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* MagikarpPower: As implied by the title, Tobas spends most of the novel with only one spell. However, after getting his hands on a spellbook, he turns out to have a good talent for magic and quickly self-trains into an impressive wizard.
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* PlayingWithFire: Thrindle's Combustion ignites anything that could theoretically catch on fire no matter how wet it is or what weather conditions are like, and makes a [[HavingABlast fiery explosion explosion]] when cast upon an existing fire.
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* PlayingWithFire: Thrindle's Combustion ignites anything that could theoretically catch on fire no matter how wet it is or what weather conditions are like.like, and makes a fiery explosion when cast upon an existing fire.
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* IncompletelyTrained: Roggit had misgivings about Tobas's apprenticeship (apparently he knew Tobas lied about his age all along and took him in out of pity before having second thoughts), and was a very reluctant teacher. As such Tobas barely had his athame made and one spell learned before the old man kicked it.
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* IncompletelyTrained: Roggit had misgivings about Tobas's apprenticeship (apparently he knew or suspected Tobas lied about his age all along and took him in out of pity before having second thoughts), and was a very reluctant teacher. As such Tobas barely had his athame made and one spell learned before the old man kicked it.
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* IChooseToStay: Peren decides to stay in Dwomor, where he has a wife and a position with the kingdom, rather than return to Ethshar, where he was regarded as a freak.
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* IChooseToStay: Peren the White decides to stay in Dwomor, where he has a wife and a position with the kingdom, rather than return to Ethshar, where he was his albinism led to him being regarded as a freak.
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* HeroicAlbino: Peren The White.
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At least I THINK he was executed. I'm running on memory here because I lost my copy of the book.
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* AntiMagic: A spell that causes this brought down Derithon's castle.
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* AntiMagic: A spell that causes this brought down Derithon's castle. FridgeLogic is applied when the implications of the spell (which completely and permanently destroys ALL magic in a wide area) in a world that runs heavily on magic are considered- it's treated as a weapon of mass destruction, permanently banned, and the wizard who invented it was executed.
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* IncompletelyTrained: Roggit had misgivings about Tobas's apprenticeship, and was a very reluctant teacher. As such Tobas barely had his athame made and one spell learned before the old man kicked it.
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* IncompletelyTrained: Roggit had misgivings about Tobas's apprenticeship, apprenticeship (apparently he knew Tobas lied about his age all along and took him in out of pity before having second thoughts), and was a very reluctant teacher. As such Tobas barely had his athame made and one spell learned before the old man kicked it.
* StandardHeroReward: The heroes who managed to slay the dragon would be entitled to the hand of one of the kingdom's (many) princesses and a share of its wealth. Tobas tries to just claim the wealth on the grounds that he'd married Karanissa already, but is told that the money is attached to the princess as a dowry[[note]]earlier in the book one of the other wannabe adventurers had explained that the small kingdoms that used to make up Old Ethshar have more princesses than they know what to do with to the point that they practically have to ''give'' them away, and when Tobas diplomatically attempts to plead that the king's daughters are all so beautiful that he can't decide which one he wants, the king recklessly tells him to MarryThemAll[[/note]]. Fortunately Karanissa is pragmatic enough that she [[{{Polyamory}} doesn't mind sharing Tobas]].
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* TimeAbyss: Karanissa, magicially young and beautiful, learns she's been stuck in her magical castle for four hundred and fifty-nine years. She's not happy.
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* TimeAbyss: Karanissa, magicially magically young and beautiful, learns she's been stuck in her magical castle for four hundred and fifty-nine years.years (she'd completely lost track of time and thought it had been only a couple of years at most, if that). She's not happy.
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Destiny gives Tobas a few good hard kicks.
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It seemed he had no choice but to go out and seek his destiny, but what kind of wizard could be be with only one spell?
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It seemed he Tobas had no choice but to go out and seek his destiny, but what kind of wizard could be he be with only one spell?
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* ChekhovsGun: Tobas learns the hard way that Thrindle's Combustion makes a huge explosion when cast upon a burning fire. [[spoiler:But the fire-breathing dragon he casts it on later in the book gets it even worse.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Tobas learns the hard way that Thrindle's Combustion makes a huge explosion when cast upon a burning fire. [[spoiler:But the fire-breathing dragon he casts it on later in the book [[YourHeadAsplode gets it even worse.worse]].]]
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* MilitaryMage: Derithon and Karanissa during the Great War.
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''With A Single Spell'', second of the ''Literature/TheLegendsOfEthshar'' fantasy novels by Creator/LawrenceWattEvans, chronicles the beginning adventures of Tobas of Telven.
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''With A Single Spell'', second of the ''Literature/TheLegendsOfEthshar'' fantasy novels by Creator/LawrenceWattEvans, chronicles the beginning early adventures of Tobas of Telven.
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** Averted. The isolated location of Derithon's fallen flying castle has kept it pretty safe from looters, but time and what animals can get to it are starting to have an effect on all but the innermost chambers.
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** Averted. The isolated location of Derithon's fallen flying castle has kept it pretty safe from looters, but time and what animals can get to it are starting to have an effect on affected all but the innermost chambers.
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Tobas, son of a pirate, spent the first fifteen years of his life certain that he'd inherit his father's money, start a little business, and get by without having to do any hard work.
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Tobas, son of a pirate, spent the first fifteen years of his life certain that he'd inherit his father's money, start a little business, and get by without having to do any hard work.
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* HavingABlast: Casting Thrindle's combustion on fire makes an explosion.
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* HavingABlast: Casting Thrindle's combustion Combustion on a fire makes an explosion.
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* FromBadToWorse: Not only does Tobas's master die before he can teach him another spell, but Tobas's injudicious use of that spell then proceeds to destroy everything he could possibly have inherited.
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* FromBadToWorse: Not only does Tobas's master die before he can teach him another more than one spell, but Tobas's injudicious use of that spell then proceeds to destroy everything he could possibly have inherited.
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Left in his master's hut, Tobas decided to try and teach himself magic...
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Left in with his his master's hut, hut and all the wonders within, Tobas decided to try and teach himself magic...
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* RescueRomance: Accidental (at first) on Tobas's part, since he didn't know the tapestry he swiped was a PortalPicture, but he does figure a way to get himself and Karanissa out.
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* TalkingInYourDreams: Tobas finds a spell that lets him do this.
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After over a year of learning about wizardry itself, and practicing Thrindle's Combustion until he could practically do it in his sleep, Roggit was satisfied enough with Tobas's progress that he promised to teach him a second spell...
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After over a year of learning about wizardry itself, and practicing Thrindle's Combustion over and over until he could practically do it in his sleep, without thinking, Roggit was finally satisfied enough with Tobas's progress that he promised to teach him a second spell...
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After a year of learning about wizardry itself, and practicing Thrindle's Combustion until he could practically do it in his sleep, Roggit was satisfied enough with Tobas's progress that he promised to teach him a second spell...
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After over a year of learning about wizardry itself, and practicing Thrindle's Combustion until he could practically do it in his sleep, Roggit was satisfied enough with Tobas's progress that he promised to teach him a second spell...
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''With A Single Spell'', second of the ''Literature/TheLegendsOfEthshar'' fantasy novels by Creator/LawrenceWattEvans, chronicles the beginning adventures of Tobas of Telven.
Tobas, son of a pirate, spent the first fifteen years of his life certain that he'd inherit his father's money, start a little business, and get by without having to do any hard work.
...and then his father sank at sea, with all his money on his ship.
Kicked out of his cousins' home, he managed to convince the local wizard to take him on as an apprentice.
After a year of learning about wizardry itself, and practicing Thrindle's Combustion until he could practically do it in his sleep, Roggit was satisfied enough with Tobas's progress that he promised to teach him a second spell...
...and then proceeded to die in his sleep.
Left in his master's hut, Tobas decided to try and teach himself magic...
...and accidentally burned the place down.
It seemed he had no choice but to go out and seek his destiny, but what kind of wizard could be be with only one spell?
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AntiMagic: A spell that causes this brought down Derithon's castle.
* TheApprentice: Tobas manages to barely convince the elderly, half-senile, half-blind wizard Roggit that he's twelve rather than fifteen so he can become this.
* ArrangedMarriage: Part of the reward for ridding Dwomor of its dragon. In fact, getting rid of surplus princesses was the whole point of the enterprise. Tobas ends up with Alorria as a result.
* ArtificialMeat: Derithon and Karanissa's private castle is supplied by a number of magical plants that create all kinds of improbable foods. The beef plant {{Squick}}s Tobas right out.
* ArtInitiatesLife: By creating a PortalPicture to a place that doesn't exist in the void, Derithon created a private castle from nothing.
* BornUnlucky: Tobas thinks this about himself at first.
* BrilliantButLazy: Tobas expected to coast along on his father's money, until it sank into the ocean with him. Then he expected to learn wizardry and spend an easy life casting a few spells now and then, until his master died. When he gets his hands on Derithon's abandoned spellbook, though, he turns out to be a very talented wizard indeed.
* ChekhovsGun: Tobas learns the hard way that Thrindle's Combustion makes a huge explosion when cast upon a burning fire. [[spoiler:But the fire-breathing dragon he casts it on later in the book gets it even worse.]]
* FourthDateMarriage: Tobas and Karanissa have known each other for all of three months when they marry. Granted, it was three months spent exclusively in a single castle with no company but each other.
* FromBadToWorse: Not only does Tobas's master die before he can teach him another spell, but Tobas's injudicious use of that spell then proceeds to destroy everything he could possibly have inherited.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: A miscast spell brings spriggans into the world, and the little creatures spend the next few books irritating people all over Eshthar.
* HavingABlast: Casting Thrindle's combustion on fire makes an explosion.
* HeroicAlbino: Peren The White.
* HeroStoleMyBike: Tobas has to steal someone's boat, but makes up for it five years later, with interest.
* IChooseToStay: Peren decides to stay in Dwomor, where he has a wife and a position with the kingdom, rather than return to Ethshar, where he was regarded as a freak.
* IncompletelyTrained: Roggit had misgivings about Tobas's apprenticeship, and was a very reluctant teacher. As such Tobas barely had his athame made and one spell learned before the old man kicked it.
* MagicalSociety: As Tobas discovers to his dismay, wizards guard their spells very jealously and while they may trade spells among each other, they refuse to simply give them away. Nor will they take on a seventeen-year old apprentice.
* OminousFloatingCastle: The only ominous thing about Derithon's castle is that something made it fall.
* PlayingWithFire: Thrindle's Combustion ignites anything that could theoretically catch on fire no matter how wet it is or what weather conditions are like.
* {{Polyamory}}: Tobas ends up taking two wives.
* PortalPicture: A spell can make these to send a person from one place to another, with the caveat that if either location changes in appearance from the picture as painted, it can't be visited until it's restored.
* RagnarokProofing:
** Averted. The isolated location of Derithon's fallen flying castle has kept it pretty safe from looters, but time and what animals can get to it are starting to have an effect on all but the innermost chambers.
** His castle in the void is much better off, since it has a person and several beings looking after it. The gardens ''are'' starting to fail after four hundred-odd years without someone who can maintain them, however.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Two members of Tobas's dragon-hunting party decide this upon meeting and escaping from the dragon.
* SelfMadeMan: Circumstances force Tobas to teach himself magic with the help of an abandoned spellbook.
* ShrugTake: Tobas worries briefly about a wizard's reaction to learning that he was apprenticed at fifteen rather than twelve, but it turns out to be basically this.
* TimeAbyss: Karanissa, magicially young and beautiful, learns she's been stuck in her magical castle for four hundred and fifty-nine years. She's not happy.
Tobas, son of a pirate, spent the first fifteen years of his life certain that he'd inherit his father's money, start a little business, and get by without having to do any hard work.
...and then his father sank at sea, with all his money on his ship.
Kicked out of his cousins' home, he managed to convince the local wizard to take him on as an apprentice.
After a year of learning about wizardry itself, and practicing Thrindle's Combustion until he could practically do it in his sleep, Roggit was satisfied enough with Tobas's progress that he promised to teach him a second spell...
...and then proceeded to die in his sleep.
Left in his master's hut, Tobas decided to try and teach himself magic...
...and accidentally burned the place down.
It seemed he had no choice but to go out and seek his destiny, but what kind of wizard could be be with only one spell?
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AntiMagic: A spell that causes this brought down Derithon's castle.
* TheApprentice: Tobas manages to barely convince the elderly, half-senile, half-blind wizard Roggit that he's twelve rather than fifteen so he can become this.
* ArrangedMarriage: Part of the reward for ridding Dwomor of its dragon. In fact, getting rid of surplus princesses was the whole point of the enterprise. Tobas ends up with Alorria as a result.
* ArtificialMeat: Derithon and Karanissa's private castle is supplied by a number of magical plants that create all kinds of improbable foods. The beef plant {{Squick}}s Tobas right out.
* ArtInitiatesLife: By creating a PortalPicture to a place that doesn't exist in the void, Derithon created a private castle from nothing.
* BornUnlucky: Tobas thinks this about himself at first.
* BrilliantButLazy: Tobas expected to coast along on his father's money, until it sank into the ocean with him. Then he expected to learn wizardry and spend an easy life casting a few spells now and then, until his master died. When he gets his hands on Derithon's abandoned spellbook, though, he turns out to be a very talented wizard indeed.
* ChekhovsGun: Tobas learns the hard way that Thrindle's Combustion makes a huge explosion when cast upon a burning fire. [[spoiler:But the fire-breathing dragon he casts it on later in the book gets it even worse.]]
* FourthDateMarriage: Tobas and Karanissa have known each other for all of three months when they marry. Granted, it was three months spent exclusively in a single castle with no company but each other.
* FromBadToWorse: Not only does Tobas's master die before he can teach him another spell, but Tobas's injudicious use of that spell then proceeds to destroy everything he could possibly have inherited.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: A miscast spell brings spriggans into the world, and the little creatures spend the next few books irritating people all over Eshthar.
* HavingABlast: Casting Thrindle's combustion on fire makes an explosion.
* HeroicAlbino: Peren The White.
* HeroStoleMyBike: Tobas has to steal someone's boat, but makes up for it five years later, with interest.
* IChooseToStay: Peren decides to stay in Dwomor, where he has a wife and a position with the kingdom, rather than return to Ethshar, where he was regarded as a freak.
* IncompletelyTrained: Roggit had misgivings about Tobas's apprenticeship, and was a very reluctant teacher. As such Tobas barely had his athame made and one spell learned before the old man kicked it.
* MagicalSociety: As Tobas discovers to his dismay, wizards guard their spells very jealously and while they may trade spells among each other, they refuse to simply give them away. Nor will they take on a seventeen-year old apprentice.
* OminousFloatingCastle: The only ominous thing about Derithon's castle is that something made it fall.
* PlayingWithFire: Thrindle's Combustion ignites anything that could theoretically catch on fire no matter how wet it is or what weather conditions are like.
* {{Polyamory}}: Tobas ends up taking two wives.
* PortalPicture: A spell can make these to send a person from one place to another, with the caveat that if either location changes in appearance from the picture as painted, it can't be visited until it's restored.
* RagnarokProofing:
** Averted. The isolated location of Derithon's fallen flying castle has kept it pretty safe from looters, but time and what animals can get to it are starting to have an effect on all but the innermost chambers.
** His castle in the void is much better off, since it has a person and several beings looking after it. The gardens ''are'' starting to fail after four hundred-odd years without someone who can maintain them, however.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Two members of Tobas's dragon-hunting party decide this upon meeting and escaping from the dragon.
* SelfMadeMan: Circumstances force Tobas to teach himself magic with the help of an abandoned spellbook.
* ShrugTake: Tobas worries briefly about a wizard's reaction to learning that he was apprenticed at fifteen rather than twelve, but it turns out to be basically this.
* TimeAbyss: Karanissa, magicially young and beautiful, learns she's been stuck in her magical castle for four hundred and fifty-nine years. She's not happy.
