Line #39 DarthWiki/DawnOfFire


1	A 210,000 word fantasy {{Doorstopper}} featuring three main books:
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3	The Scavengers: The Emperor is dead, leaving no heir. The Council gives all of the Aenar knights an opportunity - anyone who brings back the Amulet of Khuul from his tomb in Arinbjorn will become the next Emperor. [[HeroicWannabe Ralan]] accepts the challenge, liking the idea of glory and heroism. But after his wife Faervel convinces him to bring an educated scholar with him, he asks at the Guild of Scholars if any of the scholars are willing. A professor, shocked at the enormity of the challenge, suggests that Ralan try and find the mysterious N - a travelling but very intelligent scholar who has never been seen, but has carried out many studies and whose findings are priceless to the guild. When Ralan tracks him down, N (or Ninsaar) is impressed by the knight's efforts and agrees to help him. Adventure and HoYay ensues.
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5	Hunting To Kill: Khuul has escaped, and a [[HoYay mourning]] Ninsaar and a [[LovingAShadow 'lovestruck']] Eriswen hunt him down. Meanwhile [[TheBigGuy Ulfgar]], [[ActionGirl Seregnis]], and [[TheMedic Faervel]] deal with threats of war from the Nord King, who sees Eldrar as a threat to the independence of Arinbjorn.
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7	Dawn of Fire: There are dragons, and closing a rift to {{Hell}} is involved. Eldrar, realizing that the prophecies he depended upon were wrong, he [[DrivenToSuicide snaps and throws himself off a cliff]], leaving the other Dragon-Lords to piece together a falling-apart world.
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10	!!Dawn Of Fire contains examples of:
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12	* ActionGirl: Seregnis, Alette and Taerel are very much this. Faervel is a much milder example.
13	* ATasteOfTheLash: Ninsaar received 20 lashes for assassination.
14	* TheBigGuy: Ulfgar and Arinbjorn.
15	* BookEnds: 'A King looks over his kingdom'.
16	* DeadpanSnarker: Ninsaar. Taerel also has her moments.
17	* DemonicPossession: Khuul's fate, thanks to overexposure to the Rift.
18	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Eriswen almost dies in Ninsaar's arms, but gets better.
19	* DrivenToSuicide: Eldrar.
20	* DrowningMySorrows: Ninsaar starts to do this after Ralan's death.
21	* FateWorseThanDeath: Being condemned to wander the Forest of Lost Travellers forever, slowly starting to lose your mind until you are filled with constant fear at demons only you can see, unable to think about anything else, or escape.
22	* GentlemanThief: Ninsaar.
23	* GodIsGood: Ninsaar has a conversation with the Divine Father, and discovers that he's quite a nice guy and only wants what's best for everyone.
24	* HappilyAdopted: Calien, first by Baralindis and Gilrin, then by Faervel. Even though she is initially led to believe that Faervel is her birth mother, she figures it out herself.
25	* HappilyMarried: Ralan and Faervel and Baralindis and Gilrin.
26	* HeroicSacrifice: Ninsaar sacrifices his death to save the world, and Andasreth sacrifices herself to save Elenyr.
27	* HeroicSuicide: While not technically suicide, Khuul walks into the Forest of Lost Travellers (a FateWorseThanDeath) after seeing that his DemonicPossession will lead to him hurting everyone against his will.
28	* HeroicWannabe: Ralan has shades of this, but he gets better over the course of the story.
29	* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Faervel, 'I'm not usually a certain woman, but I'm quite certain that death would not lay her hands on my child'.
30	* TheLoad: Ninsaar considers Eriswen to be this at first.
31	* LonersAreFreaks: Eriswen's parents try to justify her mental illness this way: 'She didn't get out much. Never played with other children. Ended up funny because of it, I guess.'
32	* LovingAShadow: Eriswen convinces herself that she's in love with Ninsaar because she thinks it makes her 'normal'.
33	* MasterOfIllusion: A rare heroic example with Ninsaar.
34	* TheOphelia: Eriswen is a very mild form of this.
35	* PrettyBoy: Ninsaar. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Ralan, 'You're prettier than my wife'.
36	** Eldrar may also apply.
37	** And Ralan.
38	* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Nords.
39	* SubordinateExcuse: Thorvil is Ulfgar's right-hand-man simply because he has a massive crush on him.
40	* TakeCareOfTheKids: When Ralan dies, he tells his wife to read a letter he wrote before leaving. It tells her about a child he left with a couple because he was so ashamed of her 'origins', and so unprepared for a child. He then begs her to look after the child, because he wants at least his family to go on.

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