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* SpiritualSuccessor: The Zimiamvian series is loosely related to ''The Worm Ouroboros'' and can be considered a sort of prequel.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: The world is in an eternal cycle of warfare, because [[spoiler:otherwise the Demon princes would get bored.]]
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* DesignatedVillain: Before the book decided to ditch its framing device, the viewpoint character is guided around by a talking martlet, who identifies many of the main characters and pours a ton of adjectival condemnation on the villains. This is before they've done anything. Lessingham dryly concludes that "A fiery politician is my martlet", and resolves to make up his own mind on things. He and the martlet are never referred to again. As it turns out, the villains aren't much different from the heroes and certainly don't deserve titles like "the children of night everlasting". This is an odd example because the author seems to quite like them.
* EsotericHappyEnding: The Demon Lords [[spoiler:have lots of battles and perform heroic deeds to overcome the bad guys. Having done so, they're bored. So the gods recreate the bad guys so that the good guys can have fun beating them again. And so the world isin condemned to an eternal cycle eternity of warfare, warfare because [[spoiler:otherwise otherwise the Demon princes Demons would get bored.]]bored]]. This was because the book is specifically inspired by Nordic myth and legend, retaining the original source morality.
* EsotericHappyEnding: The Demon Lords [[spoiler:have lots of battles and perform heroic deeds to overcome the bad guys. Having done so, they're bored. So the gods recreate the bad guys so that the good guys can have fun beating them again. And so the world is
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* ValuesDissonance: The civilised ("polite") nations - even the Witches - are compared favourably to the "uncivil" Imps. Bearing in mind the time when Eddison lived, the parallel with real-world colonialism is obvious.
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** ValuesDissonance: The civilised ("polite") nations - even the Witches - are compared favourably to the "uncivil" Imps. Bearing in mind the time when Eddison lived, the parallel with real-world colonialism is obvious.
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* EsotericHappyEnding / ValuesDissonance: [[spoiler:The world is in an eternal cycle of warfare, because otherwise the Demon princes would get bored.]]
** The ValuesDissonance also applies to the way the civilised ("polite") nations - even the Witches - are compared favourably to the "uncivil" Imps. Bearing in mind the time when Eddison lived, the parallel with real-world colonialism is obvious.
* HoYay: Possibly Lord Gro and King Gorice. The bath scene certainly comes across as this - it's written from Gro's point of view and describes the King's naked, manly and muscular body in some detail.
** Ditto for the wrastling earlier in the tale between Gorice and Goldry, where the two strip naked and grapple with one another, Greco-Roman style.
** The ValuesDissonance also applies to the way the civilised ("polite") nations - even the Witches - are compared favourably to the "uncivil" Imps. Bearing in mind the time when Eddison lived, the parallel with real-world colonialism is obvious.
* HoYay: Possibly Lord Gro and King Gorice. The bath scene certainly comes across as this - it's written from Gro's point of view and describes the King's naked, manly and muscular body in some detail.
** Ditto for the wrastling earlier in the tale between Gorice and Goldry, where the two strip naked and grapple with one another, Greco-Roman style.
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* EsotericHappyEnding / ValuesDissonance: [[spoiler:The EsotericHappyEnding: The world is in an eternal cycle of warfare, because otherwise [[spoiler:otherwise the Demon princes would get bored.]]
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**The ValuesDissonance also applies to the way the civilised ("polite") nations - even the Witches - are compared favourably to the "uncivil" Imps. Bearing in mind the time when Eddison lived, the parallel with real-world colonialism is obvious.
* HoYay:Possibly Lord Gro and King Gorice. The bath scene certainly comes across as this - it's written from Gro's point of view and describes the King's naked, manly and muscular body in some detail.
** Ditto for the wrastling earlier in the tale between Gorice and Goldry, where the two strip naked and grapple with one another, Greco-Romanstyle.style.
** ValuesDissonance: The civilised ("polite") nations - even the Witches - are compared favourably to the "uncivil" Imps. Bearing in mind the time when Eddison lived, the parallel with real-world colonialism is obvious.
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** Ditto for the wrastling earlier in the tale between Gorice and Goldry, where the two strip naked and grapple with one another, Greco-Roman
** ValuesDissonance: The civilised ("polite") nations - even the Witches - are compared favourably to the "uncivil" Imps. Bearing in mind the time when Eddison lived, the parallel with real-world colonialism is obvious.
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** The ValuesDissonance also applies to the way the civilised ("polite") nations - even the Witches - are compared favourably to the "uncivil" Imps. Bearing in mind the time when Eddison lived, the parallel with real-world colonialism is obvious.
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* HoYay: Possibly Lord Gro and King Gorice. The bath scene certainly comes across as this - it's written from Gro's point of view and describes the King's naked, manly and muscular body in some detail.
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* HoYay: Possibly Lord Gro and King Gorice. The bath scene certainly comes across as this - it's written from Gro's point of view and describes the King's naked, manly and muscular body in some detail.detail.
** Ditto for the wrastling earlier in the tale between Gorice and Goldry, where the two strip naked and grapple with one another, Greco-Roman style.
** Ditto for the wrastling earlier in the tale between Gorice and Goldry, where the two strip naked and grapple with one another, Greco-Roman style.
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* HoYay: Possibly Lord Gro and King Gorice (the bath scene certainly comes across as this).
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* HoYay: Possibly Lord Gro and King Gorice (the Gorice. The bath scene certainly comes across as this).this - it's written from Gro's point of view and describes the King's naked, manly and muscular body in some detail.
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* AcceptableTargets: The Imps are practically the {{Butt Monkey}}s for all other nations of Mercury.
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* AcceptableTargets: The Imps are practically the {{Butt Monkey}}s for all other nations of Mercury.HoYay: Possibly Lord Gro and King Gorice (the bath scene certainly comes across as this).
