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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Selene Aramona is noted as "weird" by pretty much everyone, with the only dispute being between those who find it adorable and those who think she is insufferably insolent. Her most salient personality traits are a peculiar speech pattern where she feels the need to outline the reasoning behind her every action, no matter how trivial, and her deliberate disregard of social conventions and hierarchical relations of a late Feudal society (or rather, her deliberate ''regard'' of them insofar as they help her get through the day without upsetting people she likes); all of which may place her somewhere on the [[UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} autistic spectrum]] -- not that anyone in the setting actually knows the term. She also seems to be asexual (though not aromantic, for her infatuation with Alva is well-documented), as she tells Mellith in ''Heralds Pursuit'' that she has never experienced sexual arousal in anyone's proximity, even Roque's, and treats [[spoiler:the loss of her virginity to King Heinrich as just a cumbersome marital obligation]].
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* TrilogyCreep: The main problem of the series, which was originally planned as a duology, but expanded into five books of roughly the same length (''[=RoR=]'', ''FWTW'', ''[=FoV=]'', ''WB'', ''[=HotB=]'') after Kamsha started actually writing them. The first three were published within two years. The next one was split in three volumes, which took just as long. The last book was initially split in four volumes, spread out over five years, then the last volume of ''that'' went on a four-year hiatus, reemerging as a six-parter (?) itself -- read: the final bit of the final part of ''Heart of the Beast'' is now ''alone'' about as long as everything that came before ''Heart''. It is a [[ExponentialPlotDelay fractal series]]! What started off as a brief detour from the ''Literature/ArciaChronicles'', took 15+ years and 15+ volumes to complete.
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* TrilogyCreep: The main problem of the series, which was originally planned as a duology, but expanded into five books of roughly the same length (''[=RoR=]'', ''FWTW'', ''[=FoV=]'', ''WB'', ''[=HotB=]'') after Kamsha started actually writing them. The first three were published within two years. The next one was split in three volumes, which took just as long. The last book was initially split in four volumes, spread out over five years, then the last volume of ''that'' went on a four-year hiatus, reemerging as a six-parter (?) five-parter itself -- read: the final bit of the final part of ''Heart of the Beast'' is now ''alone'' was ''on its own'' about as long as everything that came before ''Heart''. It And the series is not done budding, either, with the final volume of ''Sunrise'' spun off into its own trilogy in 2021 -- it's a [[ExponentialPlotDelay fractal series]]! What started off as a brief detour from the ''Literature/ArciaChronicles'', took 15+ years and 15+ volumes to complete.series]]!
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* CrazyAwesome: Alva has, among other things, formed a squadron of kamikaze mountain goats to blow up the gates of an impregnable mountain fortress.
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* CrazyAwesome: CrazyIsCool: Alva has, among other things, formed a squadron of kamikaze mountain goats to blow up the gates of an impregnable mountain fortress.
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* BrokenBase: While Richard was not ''intended'' to be TheWoobie, he kind of came off as this, especially in the first books, which gained him a lot of fans. It's up for debate whether it's a case of DracoInLeatherPants or just people [[RageAgainstTheAuthor not]] [[WriterCopOut buying]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter the lack of logic in characterisation]]... and boy, a heated debate it is!
* TheChrisCarterEffect: Many plot knots and riddles of first, second and third books are still unresolved or explained very poorly (such as Suza-Muza's mystery).
* CrazyAwesome: Alva has, among other things, formed a squadron of kamikaze mountain goats to blow up the gates of an impregnable mountain fortress.
* CreatorsPet: Inverted big time with Richard, who seems to be more of a [[CreatorBacklash Creator's Favorite Punching Bag]].
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Towards the end of ''Sunset'', the author really goes out of her way to make us believe she had Alva KilledOffForReal, to the point where characters who know about what happened spend the entirety of ''Midnight'' mourning him. Still, given how important Alva still was to the MythArc of the series, and that they've NeverFoundTheBody, the suspicion remained until [[spoiler:''Sunrise'', where Alva shows up once again no worse for wear, except for a mild case of amnesia]].
* NightmareFuel:
** Whenever the Revenants appear, especially Scilla and her HellishHorse.
** The [[spoiler:destruction of Nador. Holy motherbleeping ''cow''. Reading the last part of ''Poison'' is like watching the scariest DisasterMovie ever made]].
* {{Sequelitis}}: Many see the series as suffering from an epic case of this. Usually it's Kamsha's PanderingToTheBase (or at least that part of the base that flatters her, see BrokenBase) that is seen as the main cause of this.
* StoicWoobie: Robert Epine endures a nasty TraumaCongaLine throughout the series, from losing everything but his life and title in Oakdell's rebellion, through his BestFriend turning out to be a power-hungry bastard, who raped the woman Robert loved--unrequitedly!--at the time, [[spoiler:his sister, Queen Catherine, being murdered on his watch by a youth he mistakenly trusted, to his second love Marianne giving her life to save his without him learning about it for months]]... the list just goes on and on. But even though Robert finally begins to crack under the pressure in ''Blue Gaze of Death'', becoming plagued with weird mystical visions (he is, after all, the only Elemental Lord in the series whose position and heritage is completely unambiguous), he never stops trying to fulfill his duties when needed. Most characters by that point recognize that, however, and, for once in his life, treat him with care.
* TrilogyCreep: The main problem of the series, which was originally planned as a duology, but expanded into five books of roughly the same length (''[=RoR=]'', ''FWTW'', ''[=FoV=]'', ''WB'', ''[=HotB=]'') after Kamsha started actually writing them. The first three were published within two years. The next one was split in three volumes, which took just as long. The last book was initially split in four volumes, spread out over five years, then the last volume of ''that'' went on a four-year hiatus, reemerging as a six-parter (?) itself -- read: the final bit of the final part of ''Heart of the Beast'' is now ''alone'' about as long as everything that came before ''Heart''. It is a [[ExponentialPlotDelay fractal series]]! What started off as a brief detour from the ''Literature/ArciaChronicles'', took 15+ years and 15+ volumes to complete.
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* TheChrisCarterEffect: Many plot knots and riddles of first, second and third books are still unresolved or explained very poorly (such as Suza-Muza's mystery).
* CrazyAwesome: Alva has, among other things, formed a squadron of kamikaze mountain goats to blow up the gates of an impregnable mountain fortress.
* CreatorsPet: Inverted big time with Richard, who seems to be more of a [[CreatorBacklash Creator's Favorite Punching Bag]].
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Towards the end of ''Sunset'', the author really goes out of her way to make us believe she had Alva KilledOffForReal, to the point where characters who know about what happened spend the entirety of ''Midnight'' mourning him. Still, given how important Alva still was to the MythArc of the series, and that they've NeverFoundTheBody, the suspicion remained until [[spoiler:''Sunrise'', where Alva shows up once again no worse for wear, except for a mild case of amnesia]].
* NightmareFuel:
** Whenever the Revenants appear, especially Scilla and her HellishHorse.
** The [[spoiler:destruction of Nador. Holy motherbleeping ''cow''. Reading the last part of ''Poison'' is like watching the scariest DisasterMovie ever made]].
* {{Sequelitis}}: Many see the series as suffering from an epic case of this. Usually it's Kamsha's PanderingToTheBase (or at least that part of the base that flatters her, see BrokenBase) that is seen as the main cause of this.
* StoicWoobie: Robert Epine endures a nasty TraumaCongaLine throughout the series, from losing everything but his life and title in Oakdell's rebellion, through his BestFriend turning out to be a power-hungry bastard, who raped the woman Robert loved--unrequitedly!--at the time, [[spoiler:his sister, Queen Catherine, being murdered on his watch by a youth he mistakenly trusted, to his second love Marianne giving her life to save his without him learning about it for months]]... the list just goes on and on. But even though Robert finally begins to crack under the pressure in ''Blue Gaze of Death'', becoming plagued with weird mystical visions (he is, after all, the only Elemental Lord in the series whose position and heritage is completely unambiguous), he never stops trying to fulfill his duties when needed. Most characters by that point recognize that, however, and, for once in his life, treat him with care.
* TrilogyCreep: The main problem of the series, which was originally planned as a duology, but expanded into five books of roughly the same length (''[=RoR=]'', ''FWTW'', ''[=FoV=]'', ''WB'', ''[=HotB=]'') after Kamsha started actually writing them. The first three were published within two years. The next one was split in three volumes, which took just as long. The last book was initially split in four volumes, spread out over five years, then the last volume of ''that'' went on a four-year hiatus, reemerging as a six-parter (?) itself -- read: the final bit of the final part of ''Heart of the Beast'' is now ''alone'' about as long as everything that came before ''Heart''. It is a [[ExponentialPlotDelay fractal series]]! What started off as a brief detour from the ''Literature/ArciaChronicles'', took 15+ years and 15+ volumes to complete.
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