Line #16 Literature/TheBannedAndTheBanished


1	''The Banned and the Banished'' is a HeroicFantasy Epic by James Clemens. It fits most of the [[StandardFantasySetting classic fantasy tropes]]. A land under the control of an EvilOverlord, TheProphecy of a hero to free them from his cruel boot, a journey to be undertaken, a band of other heroes to support them, many initially antagonistic towards each other or with their own agendas.
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3	The series runs for five books, each of which is presented as a separate scroll shown to students living a millennium after the events of the books. One of the characters in the story is the narrator, but their identity is not revealed until the finale.
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5	As can be seen from the author's own description – "Born during the 'black age' of Alasea, a young girl will discover an ancient magick and awaken a slumbering evil. With a fist stained in {{blood magic}}ks, she will fight to free her lands from the demonic overlords and release her people from five centuries of darkness." – it's fairly troperific stuff.
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8	!!Provides Examples Of:
9	* EndOfAnAge: This is what we're trying to bring about.
10	* DebutQueue: Surges at the start, but continues via the MagneticHero effect.
11	* {{Hellfire}}: Balefire, used by evil spellcasters, freezes instead of burns.
12	* {{Immortality}}: Quite a few characters have different forms of this and have hung around since the BigBad originally took over 500 years ago.
13	* LovecraftianSuperpower: Most of those "warped" by the BigBad. The least disgusting is a FaceStealer, and one of the more disgusting births (and graphically ''unbirths'') a swarm of spiders.
14	* MagicAIsMagicA: Unless the BigBad gets hold of you and cranks it up to eleven. Doesn't limit the Hero so much, thanks to [[PowerCreepPowerSeep Power Creep]].
15	* MagneticHero: The Wit'ch. Despite the large size of the original group, new heroes or sidekicks are added fairly frequently.
16	* OurElvesAreDifferent: And live in floating sky boats, with magic wind powers.
17	* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Living in symbiosis with Water Dragons and having an old slave-owning culture and Ancient Debt relationship with some [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Pirates]].
18	* PunctuationShaker: Apostrophes are dropped at random into words associated with magic. The hero is considered a Wit'ch rather than a Witch for example.
19	* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Mostly of the Power Creep variety as everyone scales up as TheQuest continues.
20	* TheQuest: Mildly subverted as it seems everyone is on different quests. But TheQuest is still the main point of the tale.
21	* TrueCompanions: More like [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]] than most groups. Plenty of distrust runs through the party and the label of TokenEvilTeammate can be liberally applied, depending on the point in the story or character viewpoint.
22	* UnreliableNarrator: Played with. The civilization which has the scrolls believes them to be lies, in a FromACertainPointOfView kind of way. The narrator himself states he's previously written several unreliable version of the story, but this is the true account.
23	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Two members of the band belong to a race of these. But they're [[ShapeshifterModeLock broken.]]
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Context Literature / TheBannedAndTheBanished