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6	[[quoteright:295:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a_game_of_universe.jpg]]
7	Eric Nylund's Cyberpunkish novel about a mage assassin with multiple personalities.
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10	!!Tropes used:
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12	* CelestialDeadline: The contract with the devil has a loophole: One year before it runs out, 13 heroes can be recruited to find the holy grail. If they find it before the contract runs out, the contract is nullified.
13	%%* CyberPunk
14	* DealWithTheDevil: Erybus plot to get out of one form the major kickoff for the loophole quest to fetch the Grail, and thus the main plot of the book.
15	%%* DeflectorShields
16	* ExactWords: [[spoiler:Germain's quest was to retrieve the Grail and give it to Erybus. There's nothing saying that he couldn't take it back immediately after.]]
17	* FasterThanLightTravel: They use some odd system where they can travel faster than light but relativity still applies.
18	%%* FreudianExcuse
19	* GenreMashup: The book is best described as an Arthurian Post-Cyberpunk High Fantasy Space Opera.
20	* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler:Setebos, the AI who runs the Grail Angel and has mysterious powers turns out to be a neutral angel using his powers to help Germain win the Grail quest.]].
21	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Are the other personalities magically created or is Germain nuts?
22	%%* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
23	* {{Magitek}}: The universe generally seems to accept magic as a scientific, physical fact, and many aspects of the ships run off of it, from the "protective circles" to Germain's mnemonics. The general attitude towards it is "figure it out later, use it now".
24	* MeaningfulName: Morning Star (Lucifer)
25	%%* Mega Corp: Morning Star, again. Umbra Corp also qualifies.
26	%%* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Germain's seven second trip. ]]
27	* MurderInc: Umbra Corp, which started out as a means of allowing revolutions to take place on oppressed planets, but these days run on a series of [[YouAreNumberSix identity-less assassins]] who kill people for money.
28	* PublicDomainArtifact: The Holy Grail is the primary motivator of the story and Germain's quest. Notably, in-universe the Grail also acts as this, since its various forms over the ages have made it into many other legends.
29	* RaceAgainstTheClock: The Grail Champions have a single year to find the Grail before the demons suck them down to hell.
30	%%* ResetButton
31	* ReligionIsMagic: The mantras and faith of Sister Olivia and the Burning Cross have a definite magical effect upon the universe.
32	* RippleEffectProofMemory: Averted, [[spoiler:Germain has no idea history is being altered]].
33	%%* SharingABody
34	* StarfishAliens: One alien is a hive of beetles.
35	%%* TheSyndicate: Umbra Corp.
36	%%* TheWormThatWalks
37	* TimeMaster: [[spoiler: Setebos.]] To a lesser extent, Germain's absorbed consciousness of his master has the ability to rewind time seven seconds.
38	%%* ToHellAndBack
39	* VancianMagic: Of an interesting sort. Muses, as they're called, spend YEARS learning everything possible about a single subset of physics so that they can cast it in very specific ways as spells. [[PsychicPowers Psychologists]] tend to view it as mysticism veiling a perfectly rationale explanation for all of their bizarre powers, but the book never really says one way or another.

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