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Alphabetizing.
* TheMultiverse: The story reveals alternate universes exist, and are nearly infinite in number. However only two others are actually shown: one is a sci fi style universe with an interstellar empire, the other a fantasy world. It's explained the universes you can visit must have features in common.
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* TheMultiverse: The story reveals alternate universes exist, and are nearly infinite in number. However only two others are actually shown: one is a sci fi style universe with an interstellar empire, the other a fantasy world. It's explained the universes you can visit must have features in common.
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Actually, on second thought...
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* FailureHeroine: The reason (or rather, ''[[RapeAsDrama a]]'' [[DisposableWoman reason]]) some people ''loathe'' the first book.
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* BoringFailureHero: The reason (or rather, ''[[RapeAsDrama a]]'' [[DisposableWoman reason]]) some people really, really hate the first book.
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* FailureHeroine: The reason (or rather, ''[[RapeAsDrama a]]'' [[DisposableWoman reason]]) some people ''loathe'' the first book.
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* GenreMashup: As author Creator/LawrenceWattEvans said, the series is a combination of HighFantasy, SpaceOpera and {{Horror}}. It starts in our world, when some Americans were contacted by people from alternate HighFantasy and SpaceOpera, then are drawn into a battle against an enemy who's threatening them both. {{Horror}} tinges this constantly as well, since the protagonist's loved ones are raped/murdered, he's made a slave with many others on a fringe planet (where the women are raped), the enemy has made corpses into horrifying undead servants and makes terrible monsters too.
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* GenreMashup: As author Creator/LawrenceWattEvans said, the series is a combination of HighFantasy, SpaceOpera and {{Horror}}. It starts in our world, when some Americans were contacted by people from alternate HighFantasy and SpaceOpera, then SpaceOpera universes, who are drawn into a battle against an enemy who's threatening them both. {{Horror}} tinges this constantly as well, since the protagonist's loved ones are raped/murdered, he's made a slave with many others on a fringe planet (where the women are raped), the enemy has made corpses into many horrifying undead servants and makes terrible monsters too.
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* FantasticAesop: Bringing your dead loved ones back from the dead won't work-they'll just be a {{soulless shell}}. So better make your peace with it.
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* FantasticAesop: Bringing your dead loved ones back from the dead won't work-they'll just be a {{soulless shell}}. So better make your peace with it.
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* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Shadow has no discernible motive beyond "conquer everything and make it a hellhole", judging by what most of Faerie became.
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* GenreMashup: As author Creator/LawrenceWattEvans said, the series is a combination of HighFantasy, SpaceOpera and {{Horror}}. It starts in our world, when some Americans were contacted by people from alternate HighFantasy and SpaceOpera, then are drawn into a battle against an enemy who's threatening them both. {{Horror}} tinges this constantly as well, since the protagonist's loved ones are raped/murdered, he's made a slave with many others on a fringe planet (where the women are raped), the enemy has made corpses into horrifying undead servants and makes terrible monsters too.
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* ArtificialHuman: The simulacra, people created by magic from samples of hair or blood from previous natural ones. Shadow used them to impersonate people in the Galactic Empire as spies. It is implied that the originals [[KillAndReplace have been murdered]]. The simulacra seem just like normal humans, except they're completely obedient to their creator/master-the only thing that upsets them is the idea of not having one, or failing in a mission.
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* ArtificialHuman: The simulacra, people created by magic from with samples of hair or blood from previous natural ones. Shadow used them to impersonate people in the Galactic Empire as spies. It is implied that the originals [[KillAndReplace have been murdered]]. The simulacra seem just like normal humans, except they're completely obedient to their creator/master-the only thing that upsets them is the idea of not having one, or failing in a mission.
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* MakerOfMonsters: Shadow has made a number of monstrous beasts as servants.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Shadow isn't an EldritchAbomination, like most people seem to think. Instead, she's human, just an ordinary middle-aged woman in appearance.]]
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The previous trope doesn't fit-this does.
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* AllJustADream: One character is convinced the events of the story are a dream, and suffers a mental breakdown as a result since it becomes a full on psychological delusion.
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* IRejectYourReality: One character is convinced the events of the story are a dream, and suffers a mental breakdown as a result since it becomes a full on psychological delusion. Nothing he experiences nor anyone says will change his mind about this.
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* BenevolentMageRuler: [[spoiler: Pel]] becomes one for the world of Faerie.
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* BenevolentMageRuler: [[spoiler: Pel]] Pel]], a good man, becomes one for after gaining magic in the world of Faerie. Faerie.
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* RapeAsDrama: After she's bought as a slave, Amy finds out her new owner only wants one thing, and thus she's immediately raped by him. This continues repeatedly until she's liberated. Prossie mentions she was also raped by her owner. Pel's wife and daughter were also raped, then murdered.
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* SlaveLiberation: Some of the new slaves revolt to free themselves while on the fringe planet they were sent to, and the Empire liberates the rest.
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* EvilSorcerer: Shadow solely uses magic to create monsters, raise the dead as zombie servants/soldiers, murder people and control their minds.
* {{Necromancer}}: Shadow raises corpses to use as zombie servants/soldiers who are called "fetches".
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* SorcerousOverlord: Shadow is one for Faerie, ruling with a cruel hand for centuries by great magic.
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* SorcerousOverlord: Shadow is one for Faerie, ruling with a cruel hand for centuries by great magic.and hands down the greatest magic user still around.
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* EvilOverlord: Shadow, the mysterious ruler of Faerie (aside from small areas that are still free), whose rule is marked by people in terror, incredibly harsh punishments for minor offenses, creating monsters for use against enemies and a desire for world (then eventually interdimensional) domination.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: [[spoiler:Shadow]] turns out to be a woman. She's a ruthless overlord who rules with despotic cruelty and wishes to conquer everything she can.
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* LadyOfBlackMagic: [[spoiler: Shadow]] turns out to be one, though she isn't so elegant as the usual portrayal, looking like an ordinary middle-aged woman.
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* LadyOfBlackMagic: [[spoiler: Shadow]] turns out to be one, though she isn't so elegant as the usual portrayal, looking like an ordinary middle-aged woman. woman, but still the most powerful magic user in the series, capable of creating huge monsters plus ruling an entire world by herself.
* LastOfHisKind: Shadow turns out to be the last matrix wizard (having killed all the others).
* LastOfHisKind: Shadow turns out to be the last matrix wizard (having killed all the others).
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* SorcerousOverlord: Shadow is one for Faerie, ruling with a cruel hand for centuries.
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* {{Mutants}}: Psychics, despite being highly useful, are viewed as mutants whom most people distrust as a result of their powers. However, they're not actually mutants-they're all descended from one woman, so even if she did have some mutation, for the rest it's a hereditary trait.
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* ScienceFantasy: Watt-Evans describes the trilogy as this, since it has both a sci-fi and fantasy parallel universe interacting with ours.
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* TheArchmage: Shadow is the last of these, a matrix wizard, having killed all the others. Pel is taught how to be one as well later.
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* StockholmSyndrome: Amy wonders whether the "wife" of her owner Walter, who it turns out is also a slave, suffers from this, since she helps him. After determining this isn't the case, she covers up the fact the woman's a slave so she's punished with Walter later.
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* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Faerie magic and Galactic Imperial tech both don't work outside their respective universes, necessitating indirect measures for action there.
