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| 3 | Written by Creator/RaymondEFeist, this is one of the longest-running High Fantasy series (thirty books) ever written [[note]]compared to powerhouses like ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' (thirty-four) or ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' (forty)[[/note]]. ''The Riftwar Cycle'' encompasses ten sagas (most of which are set up as trilogies) and a collection of short stories, all of which are set in the same universe if in distinct Time Periods. The first volume was published in 1982 and the final novel was published in 2013. |
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| 5 | Most of the action of the series centers upon [[TheFederation The Kingdom of the Isles]] on the world of Midkemia, which was originally developed by Feist and his friends for an in-house ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign. However, the novels take place some five centuries before the time when this campaign was set. |
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| 7 | There are five total rift-wars during the cycle, the namesake Riftwar, followed by the Serpentwar, the Darkwar, the Demonwar and finally the Chaoswar. During each of these wars, Midkemia is threatened by invasion from AnotherDimension through portals known as rifts. Though a different enemy is at the heart of each invasion, these are all consequences of the same underlying evil. |
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| 9 | The books are split into several sub-series, displayed here in chronological order of the world's history: |
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| 11 | * The Riftwar Saga - The First Riftwar. The Kingdom of the Isles must deal with enemies from within and without, including an alien invasion, a mad monarch, a dark-elf uprising and the return of an ancient evil force. |
| 12 | ** ''Magician'' - the western Kingdom is invaded by the Tsurani, [[FantasyCounterpartCulture a pseudo-oriental empire]] from the planet Kelewan. DividedForPublication into two books in paperback; ''Magician: Apprentice'' and ''Magician: Master'' after the original release. Magician also received an UpdatedRerelease to celebrate its 10th anniversary. |
| 13 | ** ''Silverthorn'' - a princess is accidentally poisoned on her wedding day by the dark forces who seek the death of her fiance. |
| 14 | ** ''A Darkness at Sethanon'' - a legendary dark-elf chieftain returns from the dead to lead his people against The Kingdom of the Isles. |
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| 16 | * The Empire Trilogy - co-written with Creator/JannyWurts and set on Kelewan, this series overlaps with the events of ''The Riftwar Saga''. |
| 17 | ** ''Daughter of the Empire'' - After the death of her father and brothers, Mara of the Acoma must lead her followers through terror and peril while surviving the ruthless political Game of the Council. |
| 18 | ** ''Servant of the Empire'' - After buying a group of Midkemian prisoners-of-war, Mara discovers one of them is a noble, who reveals himself as a great asset in regards to the Game of the Council. |
| 19 | ** ''Mistress of the Empire'' - After rising to power, Mara of the Acoma must now face the power of the brotherhood of assassins, the spies of rival houses and the might of the Assembly, who see her as a threat to their power. |
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| 21 | * Legends of the Riftwar - Set during the events of Magician, Feist co-wrote these three books with other authors he was friends with, effectively giving them a chance to "play with his toys". |
| 22 | ** ''Honored Enemy'' - During the first Riftwar, a group of Midkemian soldiers and Tsurani form an uneasy alliance to survive a moredhel assault. Co-written with Creator/WilliamRForstchen. |
| 23 | ** ''Murder in La Mut'' - Three mercenaries deal with a conspiracy in a town on the front lines of The First Riftwar. Co-written with Creator/JoelRosenberg. |
| 24 | ** ''Jimmy the Hand'' - The titular boy thief gets mixed up in a conflict with a mad nobleman and his pet magician. Co-written with Creator/SMStirling. |
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| 26 | * The Riftwar Legacy - set ten years after ''A Darkness at Sethanon''. |
| 27 | ** ''Krondor: The Betrayal'' - a dark elf chieftain joins the side of the humans to warn them of a dreaded BigBad's return. The {{Novelization}} for the first ''Riftwar'' [[VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor Video Game]], which made its events {{Canon}}. |
| 28 | ** ''Krondor: The Assassins'' - Another manifestation of the Guild of Death is dealt with. |
| 29 | ** ''Krondor: Tear of the Gods'' - The titular artifact is captured by the villains for evil ends and the heroes must retrieve it. The {{Novelization}} for the second ''Riftwar'' [[VideoGame/ReturnToKrondor Video Game]], which was not nearly as well received as the first. |
| 30 | ** There were another two books planned, ''Krondor: The Crawler'' and ''Krondor: The Dark Mage''. [[http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/krondor-books Reportedly]], they have been put on-hold due to rights issues involving the original games. |
| 31 | ** ''Jimmy and the Crawler'' - Explains Jazhara's fate and who the Crawler really was. Released as an eBook and then a physical copy in selected countries. |
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| 33 | * Krondor's Sons - Two books centering upon the adventures of Prince Arutha's sons. Covers a period of time 20-30 years after the end of the First Riftwar. |
| 34 | ** ''Prince of the Blood'' - Two spoiled princes become heroes in a foreign land. Received an UpdatedRerelease for it's 15th anniversary. |
| 35 | ** ''The King's Buccaneer'' - The third son of Arutha and some others must deal with a new menace from across the western seas. |
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| 37 | * The Serpentwar Saga - The Second Riftwar. Midkemia is invaded by lizard-men, fleeing a demon invasion of their home-world. Begins nearly 50 years after ''A Darkness at Sethanon'', 20 years after ''The King's Buccaneer''. |
| 38 | ** ''Shadow of a Dark Queen'' - A dark queen is gathering armies across the Western Sea. Desperate men of the Kingdom of the Isles are sent on a suicidal mission to confront this evil. |
| 39 | ** ''Rise of a Merchant Prince'' - Newly pardoned for his crimes, a young man begins his quest to become a rich trader in the capital city of Krondor. Notable for the central role of high finance. |
| 40 | *** At the time it was refreshing to see an epic fantasy novel try and explain [[LowerDeckEpisode how its society worked aside from all the war and sorcery]]. How successful it was is subject to debate. |
| 41 | ** ''Rage of a Demon King'' - The Emerald Queen's army - and the demonic power behind it - moves upon The Kingdom of the Isles. |
| 42 | ** ''Shards of a Broken Crown'' - The Kingdom forces struggle to oust the forces of two nations that now lay siege to the ruins of their capitol. |
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| 44 | * Conclave of Shadows - Set 30 or 50 years after ''Shards of a Broken Crown'' (the books are inconsistent on this point but seem to settle on 30 as of Exile's Return.), this book shows us the work that has gone into establishing a group capable of fighting the various dark forces seeking the destruction of Midkemia, through the eyes of one young man who is recruited into the Conclave. |
| 45 | ** ''Talon of the Silver Hawk'' - A young barbarian, the last survivor of his destroyed clan, is adopted into The Conclave of Shadows and slowly molded into an agent for their use. |
| 46 | ** ''King of Foxes'' - Now in the service of the man responsible for killing his clan, Talon of the Silver Hawk (aka Talwin Hawkins) must play a dangerous game in order to get his revenge and serve the interests of The Conclave of Shadows. |
| 47 | ** ''Exile's Return'' - Exiled to a foreign land, Duke Kaspar suddenly finds himself in possession of a device which could spell doom for Midkemia. |
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| 49 | * Darkwar Saga - The Third Riftwar. Details the Conclave of Shadows' efforts to stop an invasion by The Dasati; a race from a parallel plane, ruled by evil and destructive forces. |
| 50 | ** ''Flight of the Nighthawks'' - A new evil threatens Midkemia, its web stretching from the deepest criminal underworld all the way up to the highest seats of power in ancient Kesh. |
| 51 | ** ''Into a Dark Realm'' - Chaos threatens to overwhelm two worlds as the most dangerous force yet encountered threatens to invade Midkemia, while the most treacherous magician in history - the madman Leso Varen - begins to wreak havoc on the world of Kelewan. |
| 52 | ** ''Wrath of a Mad God'' - The Darkwar has fallen upon the worlds of Kelewan and Midkemia; a time of heroes, trials and destruction. Following their mission to the realm of the alien Dasati, Pug and the other members of the Conclave must now find a way to use what they discovered to help save their own people from the Wrath of a Mad God. |
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| 54 | * Demonwar Saga - The Fourth Riftwar, set 10 years after the Darkwar. Details the invasion of Midkemia by a group of war-like world-conquering elves, who may have inadvertently brought the demonic forces they were fleeing with them, as they came to Midkemia. |
| 55 | ** ''Rides a Dread Legion'' - The Taredhel (star elves) return to their native homeworld of Midkemia, ready for conquest despite the demonic threat that nips at their heels. |
| 56 | ** ''At the Gates of Darkness'' - In the face of the demonic threat and the questions it poses, the Conclave find themselves on a perilous search for some much-needed answers even as their enemy forces them to take action. |
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| 58 | * Chaoswar Saga - The Fifth Riftwar. |
| 59 | ** ''A Kingdom Besieged'' - The Empire of Kesh moves to invade The Kingdom of the Isles as The Conclave of Shadows and their allies investigate the disappearance of their spies, discovering that enemies long thought dead have returned. |
| 60 | ** ''A Crown Imperiled''- As The Conclave of Shadows seek the homeland of the Pantathian serpent priests, three Kingdom princes try to slow the Keshian invasion and prevent a new civil war. |
| 61 | ** ''Magicians End'' - The climax of the entire saga, in which the threat behind everything the protagonists have faced in finally revealed, while the Kingdom spirals towards civil war. The final adventure of Pug and Tomas. |
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| 63 | ''Midkemia'', an online {{MUD}} based on the series, can be found [[http://www.midkemiaonline.com here]]. |
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| 66 | !!Provides Examples Of: |
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| 70 | [[folder: A-K]] |
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| 72 | * AbandonedMine: The Mac Mordain Cadal. |
| 73 | ** The dwarves are trying to get it un-abandoned, though. |
| 74 | * AbusivePrecursors: The Valheru. Borderline godlike powers. Created the Elves, the Pantathians, and other intelligent species as servant races. Had MightMakesRight as their one and only moral principle. |
| 75 | * ActionGirl: Several examples. |
| 76 | ** Bree from ''A Darkness At Sethanon''. |
| 77 | ** Sister Sandreena, The Knight Adamant of Dala. |
| 78 | ** Lady Bethany in ''A Kingdom Besieged''. She saves two of the male protagonists from a wyvern. |
| 79 | ** Carline during the Tsurani siege of Crydee in ''Magician: Apprentice''. |
| 80 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Magnus meets a boy named Philip on the Crydee shores while he's trying to get some crabs for dinner. His friends and family all call him Pug though and after learning a bit about him, Magnus offers to make him his apprentice.]] |
| 81 | * AdaptationalBadass: Queen Aglaranna - a purely spiritual leader of the elves in the books - gets a bit... closer to the action in the graphic novels. |
| 82 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Occured a few times in the computer games and graphic novel adaptation. |
| 83 | ** Pug is described in the novels as having dark brown hair with a full beard and he usually dresses in black robes. In ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'', he is portrayed by an actor who is clean-shaven with blond hair and a white robe. |
| 84 | ** Also from ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'' - the curly blond-haired Locklear is played by an actor with chestnut-brown hair in a pageboy cut. |
| 85 | ** In the graphic novels, Aglaranna's reddish-gold hair becomes a stark scarlet. |
| 86 | ** In the graphic novels the Moredhel (Dark Elves), described in the novels as being virtually indistinguishable from Eldhel (Regular Elves) are depicted as ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' style dark elves a.k.a. Drow. |
| 87 | *** Which would create a plothole if the graphic novels ever got far enough into the story. |
| 88 | * {{Adventure}} |
| 89 | * AerithAndBob: Most people in identifiable cultures have appropriate names. People from the western sphere have English names, Rodezians have Spanish names, Bas-Tyrans have French names and so on. The Royals, however.... |
| 90 | * AffablyEvil: Duke Kaspar is a cultured gentleman, a gracious host, and will betray an ally or order genocide without batting an eye. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that Kaspar was under the influence of dark wizard Leso Varen.]] |
| 91 | * TheAgeless: Powerful magicians have this. |
| 92 | * AllMythsAreTrue: There's a very fine line between Elvish History and Human Legend. |
| 93 | * AloofAlly: Marcus in ''The King's Buccaneer''. While willing to put aside his personal arguments with Nicholas for the sake of the people he rules over, he's still reluctant to be anything but civil to his cousin. |
| 94 | ** Also, Sandreena in ''Rides A Dread Legion''. Given her background, it's understandable why she has issues with men in general - never mind that, for the sake of the world, she is asked to work with her ex and the man who sold her as a SexSlave! |
| 95 | * AllTrollsAreDifferent: Feist's are described as short, broad humanoids who walk on all fours, looking like "some comic parody of an ape, their bodies covered by thick grey hide". |
| 96 | * AlternativeCalendar: [[http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/encyclopedia/riftwar-cycle/midkemian-calendar The Midkemian calendar]]: |
| 97 | ** Has a year that's 200 days long and divided into 11 months, mostly all of different lengths. |
| 98 | ** Starts on Midsummer's Day, the only day in the inter-year buffer month of 'Banapis.' |
| 99 | ** Has one other in-year one-day buffer month in 'Mid-Winter.' |
| 100 | ** Six of the other eleven months are between ten and eighteen days long; the remaining three run for between 37 and 45 days. |
| 101 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: |
| 102 | ** An interesting variant are the Moredhel (a.k.a. dark elves) who literally ''have'' to be evil. If one stops being evil, he stops being a Moredhel. Indeed, all Feist's elves are of one race, though separated by distance, culture and - in the case of the dark elves - moral alignment. The moredhel are also an interesting variant in that they defy the "drow" dark elf conventions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Dark Elves look just like regular elves to humans... at least, until they can look into their eyes and see the violent hatred of all that is different. |
| 103 | *** Concerning the Moredhel, it's worth noting that later books play with this trope a little. The dark elves remain violent people, who love to kill and torture anyone who's not a Moredhel. But Gorath in ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'' is a proof that at least a minority of them can negociate with humans (instead of killing them on sight). And ''Honored Enemy'' allows the reader to hear a little more about their point of view. It turns out that they're perfectly able to feel love and friendship for each other and, in their view, humans are invaders who took their lands and forced them to live in the north. |
| 104 | ** Played straight with the Dasati, but justified - they're from a lower level of reality, which is a lot harsher and evil-aligned than ours to begin with. And then there's the fact that nearly the entire race have been corrupted by one of the [[BigBad BigBads]] to become its perfect minions. |
| 105 | ** Anything from the levels of reality below the Dasati level almost certainly counts too, though that's largely a case of such beings being too alien to coexist peacefully with anything from the mortal world. Literally, as demons and other extra-planar creatures wither grass by stepping on it, so corrupting is their influence on the plane of Midkemia. |
| 106 | *** The Valheru. The ONE exception seen involves a VERY large PlotCoupon and six-book GambitRoulette (though they're described in-universe as more like Always Chaotic AboveGoodAndEvil. Rather than evil, they have simply a strong "might makes right" mentality). |
| 107 | *** And the Pantathians, justified because one of the Valheru created them and genetically hardwired them to be her absolutely loyal servants. [[spoiler:Subverted in the Chaoswar books; a community of peaceful Pantathians is introduced. It turns out that not ''all'' of their race get the hardwired-Valheru-servant gene; those who do are drafted into their priest caste, and the rest aren't that different from anyone else]]. |
| 108 | ** The Dread are worst of all; even the demons are less evil than they are. [[spoiler: That would be because there's really only one Dread that manifests avatars of varying strength as needed. The core consciousness of the Dread is basically the personified idea of entropy and oblivion]]. |
| 109 | * AlwaysLawfulGood: Played straight with the eledhel. Why is unclear, especially since only nurture separates them from being like their more war-like counterparts, the Moredhel. While a Moredhel can Return and become Eledhel, the reverse does not happen. Ever. Though never explored in the books, the magic of the Spellweavers is likely responsible for both phenomena. |
| 110 | * AncientTomb: The conDoin bury the royal family in one. |
| 111 | * AnotherDimension: Many of the threats Feist's protagonists deal with come from this. |
| 112 | * TheAntiGod: [[spoiler: This is the ultimate nature of the Dread, as revealed in ''Magician's End''.]] |
| 113 | * AntiVillain: Guy Du Bas Tyra, who plots regicide and treason, nearly causing a civil war... all in the name of saving his kingdom from a RoyallyScrewedUp King. |
| 114 | ** Also, Duke Kaspar, who is quite an honorable and likeable villain before [[spoiler: reforming and having a HeelFaceTurn in ''Exiles Return'']] |
| 115 | * AntagonisticOffspring: Draken-Korin to Ashen-Shugar. |
| 116 | * AnyoneCanDie: This is to be expected in a saga that spans generations, but it's invoked and formalized during the Serpentwar saga: Pug will live to see everyone he loves dead. So anyone can die, except Pug. [[spoiler: In ''Magician's End'', Pug ''does'' die, but some quick deal-making with the goddess of death lets him save the people he cares about, with the exception of Tomas, who sacrificed himself to stop the same BigBad Pug did]]. |
| 117 | ** The only named person to survive through the entire series, start to end, is the elven queen Aglaranna. So not *everyone* dies... just most of them. |
| 118 | * ApocalypseHow: Several of them are shown in ''Wrath of a Mad God'': the fourth abyssal plane, where a Dreadlord entered the multiverse from the Void, was [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 reduced to a fine powder]] to power its ascent to the third; most planets and stars [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 were shattered into rubble]] to power the ascent to the second plane. The second plane isn't shown, but [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class2}} most intelligent life on one planet]] of the first plane [[BloodMagic is exterminated]] to power the ascent to the plane containing Midkemia. Stopping that ascent involves turning one planet into an [[ApocalypseHow/{{ClassX}} expanding]] [[ColonyDrop vapor]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom cloud]]. |
| 119 | * TheArtfulDodger: Young Jimmy the Hand is very much this at the time he runs into Prince Arutha and helps him evade the people trying to capture him. Several of his descendants share the trait. |
| 120 | * ArtifactOfDoom: Quite a lot of these, including The Lifestone and The Talnoy. |
| 121 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: |
| 122 | ** The [[AbusivePrecursors Valheru]] were the epitome of this, being a completely MightMakesRight / AboveGoodAndEvil race of Dragon Lords. |
| 123 | ---> '''Draken Korin:''' We are. We do. What more is there? |
| 124 | ** Not surprisingly - for a race trying to follow in the Valheru's footsteps - leadership positions among the Moredhel seem to get filled out by virtue of skill in battle and woodcraft and sharpness of mind and tongue as much as by blood. |
| 125 | ** The Demons also work like this, since if one demon kills and eats another, they acquire that demon's strength and memory. Demons tend to literally kill and eat their way up their hierarchy. The Demon King Maarg encouraged this. His rival Dahun managed it more carefully; by controlling who ate who, he was able to guide the paths of evolution his followers took and make sure that some of his servants were powerful, some were smart, some were good at magic- but none developed the right combination of abilities to actually threatedn Dahun's own position. |
| 126 | * AuthorAvatar: Pug is described as a bearded man with dark hair going grey. Raymond E. Feist is a bearded man with dark hair going grey. |
| 127 | ** And the picture of Pug on [[http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n6126.jpg this edition of Magician: Master]] does look quite a bit [[http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/mar00/feist.jpg like Feist]]. |
| 128 | * AuthorCatchPhrase: Every chapter in every novel begins with a one-sentence paragraph, many as simple as "the noun verbed" (or, rarely, "charactername verbed"). |
| 129 | * AutomatonHorses: Averted with gusto. Horses are often ridden to death, freeze to death and are eaten when the rest of the food supply runs out. They are abandoned when rocky terrain is encountered or it would be impossible to move stealthily, |
| 130 | * AwesomeBackpack: Nakor's Rucksack Full of Oranges/Apples. Not only is it a near-endless source of nutritious fruit (and other handy items) but it also doubles as a weapon if he rolls the oranges (or apples) up inside it. [[spoiler: The demon with Nakor's memories has this bag too.]] |
| 131 | * AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: |
| 132 | ** The end of ''Magician''. |
| 133 | ** [[spoiler: Also the ending for ''Magician's End''.]] |
| 134 | ** A variant comes in ''Servant of the Empire'', when Mara's loyalty finally earns her the title of [[TitleDrop Servant of the Empire]]. It's absolutely a coronation, bringing her into the Imperial family. |
| 135 | * BabiesEverAfter: The eventual fate of most of the heroes of the first Riftwar, as most of them are dead before the second Riftwar starts. |
| 136 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Macros The Black]], who has returned from the dead (or dimensions so remote he might as well be dead) at least once per Riftwar. |
| 137 | ** Pug technically counts, since he was at death's door and there's no reason he should have survived. |
| 138 | ** As of ''A Kingdom Besieged'', it looks like [[spoiler: Nakor and Miranda have found a way to bring themselves back. Subverted in that the next two books make it plain that the gods just grabbed a likely pair of demons and implanted their memories into them; Child and Belog aren't the ''actual'' Miranda and Nakor, which disturbs them, Pug, and Magnus greatly.]] |
| 139 | * {{Backstory}}: There's a lot of it, especially in the most recent books. |
| 140 | * BadassBoast: Amos Trask has the best ones. |
| 141 | --> '''Amos Trask:''' ''I'm Captain Trenchard! The Dagger of the Sea! I've sailed the Straits of Darkness on Midwinter's Day! My ship's the Raptor and I've taken her into the Seven Lower Hells, drunk ale with Kahooli and sailed home again! My mother was a sea dragon, my father was lightning and I dance a sailor's jig on my victim's skulls! I fought with the war god and kissed death herself. Men tremble at my shadow and women swoon at my name and no one lives who can call me liar!'' |
| 142 | * BadassDecay: The Western Realm gradually undergoes this from the Serpent War onwards after Arutha's death. Somewhat justified due to the frequent wars and somewhat unstable nature over the events of the series, as well as a lack of competent (Or possibly just dedicated - Arutha was the last Prince of Krondor to see the West as ''his'' realm rather than just a post to mark time holding until ascending to the throne) people ruling it. Discussed InUniverse when Arutha the son of Jimmy the Hand mentions that his father, the man he was named after, and other legendary leaders from the previous generation could have overcome a challenge he was facing, whereas he felt that he and other mere mortals couldn't do it. |
| 143 | * BadassNormal: Even with all the magical and divinely-empowered heroes running about, each series features the heroics of at least a few ordinary mortals. Prince Arutha might be the epitome of this, as he's the hero everyone else is measured against for generations to follow. |
| 144 | ** Jimmy the Hand/Lord James I, as well as his great-great grandson Jim Dasher are definitely this. |
| 145 | * BadMoonRising: Used and Averted in ''Silverthorn''. The book opens with the BigBad consulting the signs - a group of red stars - and being told now is the time to strike against the one who will defeat him. When his assassination attempts fail, he says that the stars weren't PRECISELY lined up just yet and next year shall be the time for their attack. |
| 146 | * BagOfHolding: Nakor's Sack of Infinite Oranges (or apples). |
| 147 | * BatmanGambit: It is revealed in ''A Darkness At Sethanon'' that [[spoiler: Guy Du Bas Tyra's actions in ''Magician'' were all part of a plan to get RoyallyScrewedUp King Rodric off the throne.]] |
| 148 | ** It's entirely possible that all of the Nameless God's actions through Sidi were one of these to inspire Pug to create the Conclave, so that there would be an organization in place to deal with the real threat. |
| 149 | * BearerOfBadNews: Generally, the only time Macros The Black shows up is to deliver a dire warning of something bad that is about to happen. |
| 150 | * BerserkButton: Do not engage in the following behavior: |
| 151 | ** Threaten Arutha's wife or sons. |
| 152 | ** Remind Billy Goodwin that his mother was a whore. |
| 153 | ** Rape his foster sister in front of Erik von Darkmoor. |
| 154 | ** Pug uses his clout to forestall Kesh's attempted conquest of Krondor in a moment of the Kingdom's weakness. Prince Patrick taunts the retreating Keshians by telling them that Pug is his personal weapon and they'd better clear out before he turns that weapon upon them. Pug is a little miffed by this implication. |
| 155 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Pug's the sweetest guy in the world, but he ''will'' explode you from halfway around it if you give him reason to. |
| 156 | ** Also Mara... although she is, perhaps, only "nice" by Tsurani standards. |
| 157 | * BigBad: Escalating serially: |
| 158 | ** ''Magician'' doesn't really have one, actually; the Kingdom vs. Tsurani conflict is more between {{Worthy Opponent}}s on a national scale than anything. The Tsurani Warlord is probably the closest thing to one. |
| 159 | ** Then in ''Silverthorn'' and ''A Darkness at Sethanon'', [[DarkMessiah Murmandamus]], the dark elf warlord takes the throne [[spoiler: but he's actually a fake, being manipulated by the remnant of the Valheru and the Pantathians who still worship them]]. |
| 160 | ** The [[spoiler: Pantathians]] remain the main antagonists for the next several books, though they ally with the Emerald Queen during the Serpentwar Saga. [[spoiler: But it's a case of BaitAndSwitchBoss when the demon lord Jakan kills and replaces the Emerald Queen, and the Pantathians get largely wiped out midway through that series]]. |
| 161 | ** However, ''Rage of a Demon King'' reveals that [[spoiler:Nalar]] the Nameless One, the local GodOfEvil, is the GreaterScopeVillain indirectly behind everything. |
| 162 | ** The ''Conclave of Shadows'' trilogy spends most of its run dealing with [[EvilSorcerer Leso Varen]], a servant of the Nameless One, as BigBad, with Duke Kaspar as TheDragon until he does a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 163 | ** The Darkwar Saga moves away from the Nameless One by giving him competition in the GodOfEvil deparment, namely the [[EldritchAbomination Dark God of the Dasati]], who is the ultimate villain of that trilogy but is rather permanently defeated [[spoiler: by means of having a moon dropped on him]] at the end. |
| 164 | ** The Demonwar Saga lowers the overall threat level down slightly, with a BigBadDuumvirate of Belasco (Leso Varen's equally evil brother) and the demon lord Dahun, but with hints that there's something so horrible out there that both are running scared. |
| 165 | ** The Chaoswar Saga, true to its name, has a GambitPileup like you wouldn't believe going on, but finally clears up for good the identity of the BigBad of the entire 'verse. [[spoiler: It's not the Nameless One, who may not have actually been behind ''anything'' recently. Rather its the Dread, the race of horrors to which the Dasati Dark God belonged and lesser members of which had shown up at various points across the series, now revealed to all be manifestations of a single, nearly omnipotent entity which is essentially the antithesis of life, now threatening to devour the entire universe. It/they has already started eating Hell, which is why Dahun was trying to get away from there as well]]. |
| 166 | * BitchinSheepsClothing: Sylvia Esterbrook. |
| 167 | * BittersweetEnding: Ultimately, this is how the entire series ends. [[spoiler: Tomas dies so Ashen-Shugar can fight the Dread for eternity, Pug dies sealing them at the cost of Magnus's life and the lives of hundreds of magicians and clerics but due to a fluke on his part, he is given the choice to return to life, since the Dread will eventually return. He refuses this in favour of Magnus being saved and Magnus survives due to Pug's intervention. Due to what Pug had to do to seal the Dread away, a large amount of damage occurred across Midkemia and thousands of lives were lost, but the Kingdom is at peace with a new King and the world is safe.]] |
| 168 | * BlackCloak: Averted, since two of the main heroes use the title "The Black Sorcerer" but play off people's expectations to protect their privacy. |
| 169 | ** Also averted in the Tsurani magicians (Great Ones), whose uniform is a black robe. |
| 170 | * BlindSeer: Rogen in ''Silverthorn''. |
| 171 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: |
| 172 | ** The Valheru, as the ultimate agents of chaos, aren't exactly without morality, but from a human perspective are still little more than extremely arrogant, warlike demigods with a strong vein of MightMakesRight thrown in for good measure. The BlueAndOrangeMorality of the Valheru comes in handy, though, in ''Magician's End''. [[spoiler: The Sven'ga-ri are magical beings that produce a profound sense of bliss in anyone who approaches them, convincing them that they are a CosmicKeystone. They're actually a beacon for the Dread, allowing them/it to zero in on a specific point in space-time. Even knowing that, no human, elf, dwarf, or even Pantathian could bring themselves to destroy such wondrous beings. Ashen-Shugar has no such compunctions- if they're a threat to his world, they go, end of story. Their destruction disorients the Dread and greatly hinders its attempt to consume Midkemia]]. |
| 173 | ** The center of the Pantathians' lives is the worship and service of the Valheru Alma-Lodaka. Anyone who isn't devoted to her - which means almost every non-Pantathian - is either a tool to be used or an enemy to be destroyed. |
| 174 | ** The Dread [[spoiler: just want peace. Peace meaning the complete unmaking of everything, returning the universe to its pre-creation state of absolute nothingness]]. |
| 175 | ** Valko of the Dasati has his own encounter with a blue and orange morality in ''Into a Dark Realm''. [[spoiler:"Good" and "evil" are so far outside his frame of reference that the words are meaningless to him, and he struggles to understand the concepts associated with them.]] |
| 176 | * BoisterousBruiser: Captain Amos Trask - the badass pirate Jack Sparrow only wishes he was. |
| 177 | * BookEnds: ''Magician's End'' (the final book in the series) ends with [[spoiler: a young boy called Pug gathering stranded shellfish after a storm in Crydee, the same way that ''Magician'', the first book, began. It's implied that this Pug is to become a wizard's apprentice, and that he may be [[{{Reincarnation}}Pug reborn for a new cycle on the Wheel.]]]] |
| 178 | * BoredWithInsanity: Nakor notes you can only be insane for so long and that he has owned his artifact for a very long time... |
| 179 | ** Usually a foolish, fun-loving gambler, his light moods are broken up by amazing moments of insight. This was later explained as being a side-effect, due to his owning an artifact [[spoiler:of the dead God of Knowledge, which can reveal any knowledge at all at the cost of the owner's sanity]]. And then it all made sense... |
| 180 | *** And Nakor may have been indirectly been putting everyone on since [[spoiler: he was unknowingly an avatar for the god of trickery.]] |
| 181 | * BreakThemByTalking: Mara of the Acoma's victory in ''Mistress of the Empire''. She offers to surrender to her enemies, [[spoiler: the Assembly of Magicians, and allow them to take power over the Empire. But to do so, they'll have to take power over the Empire and rule it, which they don't want to do. They instead agree to submit to Imperial authority, losing their extralegal status.]] |
| 182 | * BringingBackProof: Mara of the Acoma agrees to carry out the Dustari's vendetta against [[spoiler:Tasaio of the Minwanabi]], and promises to send them his ancestral sword as proof. As metal is uncommon in the Empire, family swords are precious and closely guarded heirlooms; there's no way she could get it except by his death, which the Dustari understand. |
| 183 | * BringNewsBack: The goal of the protagonists in ''Shadow Of A Dark Queen''. |
| 184 | * BuryYourGays: In ''Rage Of A Demon King'', [[spoiler: Baron Manfred von Darkmoor, it is all but stated, is gay. He survives almost to the last page. Almost.]] |
| 185 | * CainAndAbel: Amirantha and both his older brothers, [[spoiler: Belasco and Leso Varen.]] |
| 186 | * TheCaligula: King Rodric. |
| 187 | * CallBack: As one might expect in a saga so long running, there are several examples of this. |
| 188 | ** In one scene in ''Rage Of A Demon King'', when Duke James finds himself lying in wait together with several soldiers and a good chance to die sometime during the next hour, he tells them the story of [[VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor how he first met his long-lost half-brother - a reference to the events of Betrayal At Krondor]]. |
| 189 | ** In the Author's Preferred Edition of ''Prince Of The Blood'', when the Empress of Kesh makes reference to the unfailing loyalty of her assassins, Earl James makes a dry remark regarding an adventure where he fought a corrupt group of said assassins, referring to the events of ''Krondor: The Assassins''. |
| 190 | ** A brief reference is made to a tavern called "Captain Trenchard's" - apparently named in honor of reformed pirate captain Amos Trask. |
| 191 | * CallingTheOldManOut: Magnus does this to Pug in A Crown Imperiled, due to what he perceives as unnecessary sacrifices. He resolves to continue helping Pug, but he's still not happy about it. |
| 192 | * CanonImmigrant: Abbot Graves, the thief-girl Kat and Jimmy the Hand's [[LongLostRelative long lost half-brother]] Lysle Rigger all made the transition from the ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'' game into the non-game based books. |
| 193 | ** Also, Boldar Blood is a character from [[http://www.tonews.com/thread/1078207/alt/books/raymondfeist/what_ever_happend_to_boldar_blood.html Feist's first ever short story.]] |
| 194 | * TheCavalry: The Armies of the West, platoons of Tsurani and Keshian soldiers and magicians from both The Stardock Academy and The Assembly on Kelewan in ''A Darkness At Sethanon''. |
| 195 | * CerebusSyndrome: The early books where the main villains are dark elves and snakemen are surprisingly light compared to the later novels where soul-drinking mages and demons are the main antagonists. |
| 196 | ** The later books are also more sexualized. Feist's earlier books FadeToBlack whenever there is a sex scene. Compare that to later books where the relative decadence of Keshian nobility is flaunted (''Prince Of The Blood''), one villainess forces her female servants into threesomes with her and her male lovers (''Rise Of A Merchant Prince'') and one character freely admits to summoning a succubus for entertainment purposes (''Rides A Dread Legion''). |
| 197 | * ChallengingTheChief: Gorath's backstory includes conquering another tribe and joining it with his own by killing their chieftain in fair combat. This also seems to be how moredhel society works in general. |
| 198 | * TheChase: The entire plot of ''Honored Enemy'', with the moredhel doing the chasing, and the Kingdom and Tsurani soldiers doing the running while doing their best not to kill each other. |
| 199 | * ChessMaster: Quite a few. |
| 200 | ** Duke James in ''The Serpent War Saga''. He basically uses his political pull to [[spoiler: allow Rupert Avery to become the richest merchant prince in all the Western Realm in a matter of years... and then blackmails Avery into loaning the government all the money they need to finance The Serpent War, on the grounds that his wealth won't be worth much if the Kingdom falls.]] |
| 201 | ** The Upright Man, leader of The Mockers (Krondor's ThievesGuild), in ''Silverthorn''. He winds up negotiating a circular deal for his help in stopping the assassins targeting Prince Arutha. The deal ends with both parties being able to save face, both parties getting everything they wanted and - best of all - not spending one gold piece in concessions. |
| 202 | ** Macros the Black, especially with Pug and Thomas, though ironically he himself is the biggest pawn of all. |
| 203 | ** Guy de Bas Tyra with his plot to usurp the throne from Rodric, though it failed. |
| 204 | * CitadelCity: Armengar, heavily fortified to withstand goblin and moredhel. |
| 205 | * CirclesOfHell: Feist's cosmology is based on numerous planes, with the planes underneath ours ruled by increasingly evil and alien forces. |
| 206 | ** It's suggested by one character that there may be an infinite number of such planes stacked above and below, but mortals don't know of them because it's impossible for beings of any given universe to perceive or interact with anything more than seven levels removed. |
| 207 | * CloudCuckoolander: Nakor The Blue Rider. Who is still Nakor The Blue Rider when he is wearing orange and doesn't have a horse. |
| 208 | * ColdBloodedTorture: The Moredhel indulge in this. So did mad mage Leso Varen. |
| 209 | * ColonyDrop: Pug finishes the Dark War by [[spoiler: dropping a moon on the BigBad.]] |
| 210 | * ColorCodedWizardry: |
| 211 | ** Pug and Macros, both good universe-saving mages, are known as ''The Black Sorcerer''. |
| 212 | ** And Nakor The Blue Rider. Even if he defies codification. And claims not to be a wizard. |
| 213 | * ConfoundThemWithKindness: In ''Rise of a Merchant Prince'', Roo has hired his father to drive his wagon of wine to Krondor, but their relationship has always been stormy due to Dad being [[AbusiveParents an abusive drunk]]. After a full-throated argument about how much to load the wagon, Roo admits that Dad is right and putting another barrel in will break an axle. Dad's immediately taken aback and has to take a couple seconds to come up with a response, and the argument dies out. |
| 214 | * ContinuityNod: Heaps upon heaps, as befits such a wide-spanning series. |
| 215 | ** The Empire Series constantly gives nods to Pug's story in Magician without him ever getting directly involved. |
| 216 | ** The events in Empire are in turn mentioned in passing in ''Honoured Enemy''. There's also, in the epilogue, a subtle tie-in to the Great Uprising in ''Darkness at Sethanon''. |
| 217 | ** In ''Exile's Return'', a being who is a shadow of the slain Goddess of Good on Midkemia, calls herself Hildy - after appearing as Hilda in ''Krondor: Tear of the Gods''. |
| 218 | ** Another example is Gorath's backstory. Towards the end of ''Darkness at Sethanon'' - written years before Gorath's character was first conceived for the story of ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'' - there's a short passage in which an unnamed moredhel chieftain comes looking for Murmandamus during the battle at Sethanon. Upon hearing that Murmandamus has disappeared from the battlefield, the chieftain bitterly concludes that the leader has betrayed them and is the first to order his clan to retreat, an example others soon follow. Guess what we later learn about Goraths actions in that battle... |
| 219 | ** Also in ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'', it is mentioned that the reason that that [[spoiler:Makala]] could pull off their scheme without The Assembly of Magicians on Kelewan noticing was due to The Assembly being distracted by Mara's actions in ''Mistress of the Empire''. |
| 220 | * CoolSword: It is never given a name, but Macros The Black melds Prince Arutha's rapier with an [[ProtectiveCharm amulet of protection]] he was given, making the sword powerful enough to cut through magical shields. |
| 221 | * ConstructedWorld: Feist and his friends who made the RolePlayingGame which inspired Midkemia created one of the best. |
| 222 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Nakor, who alternatively plays at being a fool and a gambler who "knows some tricks", is actually a fairly powerful, if unorthodox, magician. |
| 223 | ** And by "fairly powerful", we mean "one of the top ten most powerful magicians in TheMultiverse." |
| 224 | * CrystalBall: Pug accidentally triggers one as a preteen, prompting him to be taken as an apprentice by the local court magician. |
| 225 | * CultureClash: The clash between Kevin from the MedievalEuropeanFantasy world of Midkemia and Mara's HonorBeforeReason FarEast counterpart culture is a major theme of ''Servant of the Empire''; as Mara adopts Kevin's view of honor over the course of the book, the stage is set for the major conflict in the sequel. |
| 226 | * CurbStompBattle: There are several throughout the series, but the most prominent one is Pug vs the Emerald Fleet. The Emerald Fleet wins and Pug is severely injured and barely survives. |
| 227 | * DarkestHour: [[spoiler: The ending of A Crown Imperiled. Draken-Korin has returned, Pug, Magnus, Miranda and Nakor are supposedly dead and civil war is about to happen in the Kingdom of the Isles.]] |
| 228 | * DarkIsNotEvil: There are several "black" themed magicians who are good guys. |
| 229 | ** Macros The Black, of course. |
| 230 | ** The Black Robes of The Assembly are, for the most part, decent men loyal to their Empire. |
| 231 | ** Pug, the main protagonist of the series, favors black robes and goes by the title ''The Black Sorcerer''. |
| 232 | ** The Conclave of Shadows, an organization created to counter the ever-present threat of the ''other'' dark forces that endanger the world (and so called because they must do their work unseen). |
| 233 | ** Priests of various death gods tend to fall quite firmly into this category. Priests of Lims-Kragma tend to be scary, but benevolent and genuinely concerned with the emotional well-being of the bereaved. The stand-out may be the high priest of Turakamu in the ''Empire''-series, who, behind his demonic mask, is an affable, genuinely decent sort, as well as one of Mara's staunchest supporters in reforming the byzantine, honor-obbsessed Tsurani culture. |
| 234 | ** And then there's Amirantha - a demon-summoner who, while being a bit of a pig and a con-man, isn't quite Evil with a capital E, unlike most demonologists. |
| 235 | ** Combined with LightIsNotGood in the case of the elves and dark elves. A in-universe stereotype exists where humans believe that all of the mordehel are dark-haired and deformed while the eledhel are all fair-haired and beautiful. In truth, there is no such true distinction given that the two elf varieties the same race who've chosen different moral "paths". |
| 236 | *** This is explored in ''Magician'', when Martin Longbow's trainee scout Garret (literally) runs into a young moredhel woman and is surprised by how pretty she was. Martin answers that like the elves they are a fair race but a moredhel woman would cut his heart out as soon as kiss him. Consequently, if encountering someone with pointy ears in a neutral area and not knowing whether they're eledhel or moredhel, appearance would be a bad thing to judge by. |
| 237 | * DecadentCourt: |
| 238 | ** A Tsurani specialty. Assassinating a political opponent is seen as an acceptable, even admirable method of defeating them, so long as one cannot be proven to be responsible. An extreme example takes place during the election of a new Warlord in ''Servant of the Empire'': political horse-trading in the form of who is seen talking to who by day, urban warfare with black-clad soldiers by night. |
| 239 | ** In the Kingdom of the Isles, the eastern court in Rillanon is seen as this by the western nobles. (The eastern nobles, in turn, see the western kingdom as a bunch of rural bumpkins.) |
| 240 | * DeadpanSnarker: Roo, and to a lesser extent Kitty. Both from the Serpentwar saga. |
| 241 | * DeathByFallingOver: After all the adventures and battles, [[spoiler:Arutha]] dies by breaking his hip falling off his horse. |
| 242 | * DeathFromAbove: Pug's method of destroying an arena where gladiatorial combats are held in ''Magician'' (also seen from Mara's perspective in 'Servant of the Empire''). Also how he fights the BigBad in ''Wrath of a Mad God''. |
| 243 | * DeathsHourglass: Feist's golden dragons know the exact moment they will die. |
| 244 | * DefectorFromDecadence: The Bloodwitches and the White, secret societies among the Dasati who don't like where their civilization is headed at all (though they're still pretty ruthless by our standards). |
| 245 | ** The moredhel chieftain Gorath allies himself with humans because it's the only way to stop his [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy savage]] people from destroying themselves. |
| 246 | * DemonLordsAndArchDevils: Appear at various points during those series that feature the Fifth Circle. Maarg, TheDragon Tugor, TheStarscream Jakan, and rival King Dahun are the most important. [[spoiler: At the end of the series, Child/Miranda appears to plan on returning to the Fifth Circle and setting herself up as one, albeit with the intention of creating a kinder, gentler demon race]]. |
| 247 | * DescriptionInTheMirror: Used at length in ''Shadow of a Dark Queen'' to describe Erik von Darkmoor, complete with comments on his demeanor and public image. |
| 248 | * Determinator: Baru the Hadati Warrior in ''Silverthorn'', who manages to survive being hounded by dark elves along with the rest of the party and then [[spoiler: wins a brutal duel to the death against Murmandamus's warchief Murad before being cut down by a renegade dark elf. Yet he managed to survive all that and was called the toughest human they'd ever seen by the healers of Elvandar.]] |
| 249 | * DevilButNoGod: [[JustifiedTrope Justified:]] the God of Good was killed in the Chaos Wars, while the God of Evil remains alive and fairly active, despite being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed within a prison in another dimension]]. |
| 250 | ** Played straight and lampshaded somewhat in the later books, where after repeated attacks by demons and Dasati from the lower planes, someone mentions that Angels from the higher planes also exist and wonders why none of them ever show up to help out. |
| 251 | *** Possible FridgeBrilliance. The only reason Midkemians ever interact with the lower planes is to summon or fight off invaders to their own world, not to help out the lower ones. |
| 252 | ** Averted in ''A Kingdom Beseiged'', when a seemingly angelic being is from a higher plane is depicted. |
| 253 | * DirtyOldWoman: Upon encountering a young man who reminds her of her late husband, an elderly Princess Carline orders her guards that if he is ever seen near her granddaughters, he should be executed... or brought to her chambers. |
| 254 | * DisabilitySuperpower: Gamina is mute (at first), but her telepathic abilities make up for that. Then there's BlindSeer Rogen. |
| 255 | * DiscontinuityNod: Later books do this at least twice toward ''Rise of A Merchant Prince'', generally regarded as the most disposable entry in all the Riftwar books. Tal Hawkins happens to come upon the memoirs of Rupert Avery, give it a quick read, and declares it to be boring and absurd, clearly written by a self-absorbed egomaniac whose life and career was surely not as interesting as he wants others to think. |
| 256 | * DistressedDamsel: Princess Anita, who serves little purpose in ''Magician'' and ''Silverthorn'' apart from being rescued/saved. |
| 257 | * DividedForPublication: Some paperback editions of ''Magician'' are split into two parts, with ''Apprentice'' and ''Master'' volumes. |
| 258 | * DoomedHometown: Several examples. |
| 259 | ** Armengar and Sethanon in ''A Darkness at Sethanon'' |
| 260 | ** Crydee in ''The King's Buccaneer'' |
| 261 | ** Krondor in ''Rage Of A Demon King'' |
| 262 | * DoorStopper: The hardcover edition of ''Magician'', which is more of a tome than a book. |
| 263 | * DowryDilemma: In the Daughter of the Empire trilogy, Mara of the Acoma very nearly inverts this trope. She has quite a substantial dowry, but her estate's suffered such a huge military loss that the problem is finding an adequate protector who A) isn't an enemy and B) is willing to shoulder the burden of protecting the estate without gaining control. Mara decides to TakeAThirdOption. |
| 264 | * TheDreaded: Guy du Bas Tyra was such a famous and feared general that he once broke the siege of a city simply by flying his personal banner over its walls. The Keshian attackers saw that he was defending the city and withdrew. |
| 265 | * DrillSergeantNasty: Bobby De Longville in ''The Serpentwar Saga''. |
| 266 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the ''Empire Trilogy'', because the books are told from Mara's point of view, some of the main characters (both allies and enemies) are killed off screen in a very anticlimatic manner. The biggest examples : |
| 267 | ** After spending the first half of the second book [[TookALevelInBadass taking a level in badass]], [[spoiler:Desio of the Minwanabi is killed off screen during the battle following the failed peace talks between Tsuranuanni and Midkemia]]. |
| 268 | ** After being one of the most important characters in the first book, and while he had an interesting and complex relationship with Mara, [[spoiler:Tecuma of the Anasati]] is kept OutOfFocus in the second book and [[spoiler:dies half way in it due to a mixture of old age, sickness and grief over the death of his older son]]. |
| 269 | ** [[spoiler:Ichindar, Emperor of Tsuranuanni, friend of Mara and BigGood of the second and third books]], is murdered off screen by a random noble. |
| 270 | * DumbMuscle: Soldier-demons from Dahun's realm. Justified because Dahun controls the evolution of his minions to make sure the ones who are powerful don't have brains, and the ones who are intelligent aren't very powerful. |
| 271 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: Tends to vary between being played straight and subverted. |
| 272 | ** In ''Darkness at Sethanon'', [[spoiler: Roald]] goes down [[YouShallNotPass holding off]] moredhel pursuers. |
| 273 | ** During the ''Serpentwar'', [[spoiler: Jimmy and Gamina]] die in the explosion the former triggered to take down the enemy army. |
| 274 | ** In ''Krondor: The Betrayal'', [[spoiler: Gorath]] is killed in his effort to prevent the activation of the [[DoomsdayDevice Lifestone]]. |
| 275 | ** [[spoiler: [[TheWisePrince Prince]] Arutha conDoin dying from a broken hip after falling off a horse.]] |
| 276 | ** [[spoiler: Owen Greylock]] being killed by a freak shot from a still loaded crossbow at his own camp. |
| 277 | ** In ''Rides a Dread Legion'' we have [[spoiler: Caleb]] randomly crushed by a collapsed building and [[spoiler: Miranda]] dying of a torn throat after being snuck up on by a random demon. |
| 278 | ** And of course, plenty of characters (including [[spoiler: Arutha]], of the above examples) die off-panel or just fade into presumed death from old age as the years pass. |
| 279 | ** Played straight in ''Magician's End'' with [[spoiler: Pug and Tomas]] who die holding off [[spoiler:the Dreadking from entering Midkemia and ultimately sacrifice themselves to ward the Dread away for good]]. |
| 280 | * DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:King Rodric]] regains his sanity during his last moments and manages to break free of his madness before he dies. |
| 281 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: Most of Feist's non-immortal protagonists. |
| 282 | * EarthShatteringKaboom: The end result of Pug's dealing with the BigBad of ''Wrath of a Mad God''. |
| 283 | ** To be exact he [[spoiler: Tore the MOON out of orbit and smashed it into the planet. Even the * god* who was watching was impressed with that one.]] |
| 284 | * EasingIntoTheAdventure: ''Magician'' takes some time in establishing the world around Crydee before getting to the first major plot point. |
| 285 | * EldritchAbomination: The Dread, nightmarish inscrutable creatures from the Void that are so horrible even ''Demon Lords'' run scared from them. [[spoiler: Oh, and they're all manifestations of the ultimate BigBad]]. |
| 286 | * ElementalPowers: There are Elemental monsters, based on the four classical elements, who can be banished only by contact with the opposing element. Air Elementals, for instance, dissipate if forced to touch the ground. |
| 287 | ** Pug also shows amazing magical command of the elements, summoning all four in mass quantities to destroy an arena and humiliate The Warlord in ''Magician: Master''. |
| 288 | * EliteMooks: The Black Slayers. You thought the assassin was bad before? Imagine him as a zombie who can't be killed by anything short of holy magic or a lot of fire. Or having his heart cut out while downed before he rises again. Consider Baru's [=CMoA=]. |
| 289 | * ElvesVsDwarves: Completely averted, in that the two races get along better with each other than with humans. |
| 290 | ** Played straight with the Taredhel, a conquest-bound elf subrace who regard dwarves with the traditional contempt. And while they regard all other races with contempt to a certain extent, dwarves are the one race they haven't been able to conquer. |
| 291 | * EnemyMine: The entire premise of ''Honored Enemy''. In the midst of a bloody war between the Empire of Tsurannuani and the Kingdom on Kingdom soil, Tsurani and Kingdom soldiers are forced to work together and put aside their differences for a while to survive the pursuit of the dark elves, who are hostile to both sides. Despite many bouts of dangerous tension, bonds of friendship are forged. |
| 292 | ** In ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'', this is Gorath's initial reason for seeking out Prince Arutha for help. Prince Arutha wouldn't want another moredhel invasion because he's in charge of protecting the Kingdom, and Gorath wouldn't want another moredhel invasion because they've always ended with heavy losses in the past and he's one of the few with the common sense to recognise that fact. Thus, the two work together. |
| 293 | ** Gorath's son took up this cause to protect a man in a black robe, whether it's Pug or Magnus is unclear. |
| 294 | * TheEmpath: Gamina fills this role most of the time, despite being capable of true {{Telepathy}}. |
| 295 | * EmpathyDollShot: In ''The King's Buccaneer'' after the sack of Crydee. "A child’s doll fashioned of rags and straw sat upright against a portion of intact brick wall, as if silently observing the insanity." |
| 296 | * {{Expy}}: Durine, Kethol and Pirojil, in ''Murder in La Mut'' are straight transplants of the characters with the same names from co-author Creator/JoelRosenberg's ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'' series. |
| 297 | * EnemyToAllLivingThings: Dreads, Dasati, Demons and pretty much anything from the Lower Plains and/or Lower Hells, as their touch literally leeches the life out of things. |
| 298 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite all of his many flaws and actions, Belasco wanted to kill Sidi/Leso Varen for killing their mother. She was insane, but she was still their mother. |
| 299 | * EvilChancellor: Guy Du Bas Tyra in ''Magician'' and [[spoiler: Nirome in ''Prince of the Blood]]. |
| 300 | * EvilOverlord: Murmandamus, the Overlord of the City of Serpent River, and the Dasati [=TeKarana=]. |
| 301 | * EvilSorcerer: Leso Varen, [[spoiler: his brother]] Belasco, and the Emerald Queen. |
| 302 | * EvilTowerOfOminousness: The castle on the Sorcerer's Isle has one. |
| 303 | * EvilVersusEvil: The Pantathaian Serpentmen tend to screw over a lot of other evil people (Dark Elves, mercenaries, corrupt monarchs) in the enacting of their plans. |
| 304 | * ExactWords: The insectoid cho-ja literally cannot break their agreements, but they can still work to subvert them. [[spoiler: One of their queens makes a HeroicSacrifice by remaining silent in the face of a magician's orders; she wasn't breaking any deal, because he was free to come and take the prisoner he wanted, but he misconstrues it as defiance and kills her, as she intended him to do -- which releases all the cho-ja from their agreement.]] |
| 305 | --> '''Queen''': We have kept to the terms of the treaty, as our kind must. If they, as humans, act in error, ''then the error is theirs, as are the consequences''. |
| 306 | * ExpansionPackWorld: Averted, in that while Feist does seem to "add on" to the map a little more with each book, he is generally good about referring to the other regions earlier on, so that it seems more like we are traveling the globe rather than having new lands dropped in front of us. |
| 307 | * FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Arutha and his allies do this at the start of ''A Darkness At Sethanon'' in order to confuse the Dark Elves.]] |
| 308 | * FanserviceWithASmile: The various scenes of Erland and his servants in ''Prince of the Blood'' |
| 309 | * FantasticRacism: Played Straight AND Averted. |
| 310 | ** Played straight with the various culture conflicts, such as those between the humanoid cultures of the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Feudal Japan inspired Tsurani]] and the nomadic barbarian Thuril. Also, The Moredhel (dark elves) hate pretty much everyone who isn't a Moredhel. |
| 311 | ** Averted in that the usual [[ElvesVsDwarves elf/dwarf rivalry]] is non-existent. Indeed, the two races get along with one another better than they do with most humans. |
| 312 | * FantasyCounterpartCulture: Pretty much every human culture is based on at least one or two real-world societies. |
| 313 | ** The Tsurani are Feudal Japan with a little Aztec religion and Roman Empire in decline. They also borrow a fair bit from M.A.R. Barker's [[TabletopGame/EmpireOfThePetalThrone Tekumel]], particularly in their MetalPoorPlanet. |
| 314 | ** The Hadati are Scottish Highlanders with a little Buddhist philosophy thrown in. |
| 315 | ** Kesh is basically Ancient Egypt as founded by African tribals, with a crack military unit - The Dog Soldiers - which mixes elements of Roman Imperial Army and the Mamluk slave soldiers. |
| 316 | ** The Quegans are the Roman Empire, dabbling in piracy. |
| 317 | ** The moredhel are basically Native Americans, complete with the tribalism, the animal motifs and the hostile relations with human occupationists invading their lands. |
| 318 | * FantasyGunControl: Despite covering near two centuries of history, and despite most armies being decidedly non-magic powered, gunpowder will not make an appearance anywhere in the cycle. |
| 319 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Several examples. |
| 320 | ** During the Serpent War, Pug is allowed a choice between death and [[spoiler: life with the curse that everyone he has ever loved will die before him.]] He later regrets choosing the option that let him cheat death for a time. |
| 321 | ** The Returning, from the point of view of the moredhel. |
| 322 | ** The final fate of traitors in the nation of Kesh probably qualifies, even though it does involve physical death... eventually. What makes it a true FateWorseThanDeath is that the sentence is also meant to destroy your soul, as you are Excommunicated and denied entry into the Keshian afterlife. What is more, your name is forbidden to any noble children for the rest of time and any reference to you in public record is replaced with "a traitor", in the hopes that your soul will be forgotten by the gods and lost to oblivion. |
| 323 | *** This almost takes the edge off the slow execution, which will leave you begging for a quick death by the time they are through with you. In brief, it involves several days of public humiliation, starvation and exposure before being castrated then thrown, bound and bleeding, into a crocodile filled swamp. Suffice it to say, after this sentence is declared once in ''Prince of the Blood'', the other traitors were glad to be let off with the option of {{Seppuku}} or maybe, if the Empress was feeling merciful in their particular case, exile. |
| 324 | * FatherNeptune: Amos Trask; see BadassBoast above for why. |
| 325 | * FetchQuest: ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'' was full of these. Also, ''Silverthorn''. |
| 326 | ** So was ''Krondor: Tear of the Gods''. In both the computer game and the novelization. |
| 327 | * FeudingFamilies: The ProudWarriorRace HonorBeforeReason DecadentCourt of the Tsurani elite tends to generate these; the generations-old feud between the Acoma and the Minwanabi is at the core of the ''Empire'' trilogy. |
| 328 | * FindTheCure: The main plot of ''Silverthorn'' was a FetchQuest for a poison cure. |
| 329 | * FireForgedFriends: Several examples. |
| 330 | ** Tomas becomes a friend to both the Elvish and Dwarven races because of his skill in battle. |
| 331 | ** DrillSergeantNasty Bobby De Longville is a mean SOB to new recruits. Become a soldier to his satisfaction, however, and he's your brother for life. |
| 332 | ** The Kingdom Soldiers and Tsurani Soldiers in ''Honored Enemy''. |
| 333 | * FlowerFromTheMountaintop: ''Silverthorn'' is literally based around the hunt for a rare plant in the mountains. |
| 334 | * FlyingDutchman: Macros, in one of his origin stories, has a unique take upon the WanderingJew curse. |
| 335 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''A Darkness at Sethanon'', Fannon tells Martin that his oath renouncing his claim to the throne on behalf of his heirs won't mean squat if some faction of the Congress of Lords wants a descendent of his on the throne at some point down the line. [[spoiler:In the last chapter of the last book, Martin's great-great-grandson Hal becomes King.]] |
| 336 | * FriendlyEnemy: A common enough mentality among the moredhel. |
| 337 | --> '''Gorath''': ''A friend may betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.'' |
| 338 | * FruitOfTheLoon: Nakor and his bottomless bag of oranges. Or apples. It just depends. |
| 339 | * FunctionalMagic: Most of the categories are covered at some point in the series. |
| 340 | ** ''Inherent Gift'': Some innate ability is required to use magic. |
| 341 | ** ''Rule Magic'': Magic, regardless of type, does seem to follow some basic rules and codified spells are taught, though it is possible for mages to create their own. |
| 342 | ** ''Theurgy'': The divine magic used by priests. |
| 343 | ** ''Alchemy'': The life-lengthening potion Nakor gives to Erik Von Darkmoor. |
| 344 | ** ''Force Magic'': Feist's Greater Path |
| 345 | ** ''Device Magic'': Feist's Lesser Path |
| 346 | ** ''Divination'': BlindSeer Rogen and The Oracle of Aal. |
| 347 | ** ''Necromancy'': Used by BigBad Leso Varen and the Panathians |
| 348 | ** ''Transmutation'': Referred to in one story, regarding a thief called The Grey Cat who was changed into his namesake after foolishly breaking into a magican's tower. |
| 349 | ** ''Mentalism'': Gamina and her TelePathy. |
| 350 | ** ''Wild Magic'': William con Doin and his ability to talk to animals. |
| 351 | ** ''Summoning Magic'': Demonology, as practiced by Amirantha. |
| 352 | ** ''White Magic'': Healing magic and banishment spells are common to the priests of various good gods like Sung (goddess of healing and purity) and Dala, The Shield of the Weak. |
| 353 | ** ''Black Magic'': Anything dealing with death or demons. |
| 354 | * GambitRoulette: The entire ''series'' is the final stages of one set up by [[spoiler:the Gods of Midkemia]] to [[spoiler:save one Valheru from the destruction of the Chaos Wars, throw him at the Dread, and create a magician with the power, ability, and will to seal both of them of them outside of time.]] |
| 355 | * GenerationXerox: The entire Jamison line, beginning with boy thief turned noble Jimmy The Hand/Duke James all the way down to his great-great-grandson James Dasher Jamison in the most recent books. All of them are gifted rogues/spies and most are named James or Dash. |
| 356 | ** Averted with Martin conDoin in ''A Kingdom Besieged''. While he is named for his great-great-grandfather Martin "Longbow" conDoin, he is an incompetent archer and more closely resembles his great-great-granduncle Arutha conDoin - both in temperament and his amazing skill with a sword. |
| 357 | *** ...In short, he's a copy of Arutha in all but name. Literally. |
| 358 | * GodOfEvil: Nalar. The Dasati Dark God looks like this at first, but ultimately turns out to be [[spoiler: a particularly nasty form of EldritchAbomination called, appropriately enough, a Dread]]. |
| 359 | * GodsNeedPrayerBadly: On the one hand, someone who's in a position to know states that without devotion, gods tend to wither away; on the other hand, a few pages later the same character notes that gods do not die easily, and even when you kill them, they tend not to stay dead. |
| 360 | * GoodIsNotNice: Everywhere in varying degrees. A common example is Prince Arutha, repeatedly described as "stern, but fair" and only showing his softer side in private, along with many other authority figures. Occasionally, our heroes resort to torturing captives and executing anyone who presents a threat to security. At the most extreme is the brutal and manipulative conditioning of Talwin Hawkins by the Conclave of Shadows in order to use him as an agent. |
| 361 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: A number of good characters smoke pipes in the various Midkemian novels. In the entire empire trilogy, the only person to smoke is Tasaio, incredibly dangerous and aroused by death and pain; he smokes a narcotic opium/coca expy. |
| 362 | * HeelFaceBrainwashing: The Returning seems to qualify. The affected Moredhel hears the "Call of Elvandar" and over a span of years, culminating in a single, sudden switch, converts to an Eledhel. The conversion involves a full-scale LossOfIdentity, complete with taking on a different name. Their previous self is explicitly said to be considered dead by all involved. Barring the Moredhel, who view the Returning as the result of magical manipulation and corruption of the mind, this potentially questionable aspect of the eledhel is never explored in-story. |
| 363 | * HeelFaceTurn: Duke Kaspar gets one of these, being the protagonist of ''Exiles Return'' and becoming a hero in the later books after having been the ArchEnemy of the protagonist of ''Talon of the Silver Hawk'' and ''King of Foxes''. |
| 364 | * HellishHorse: The legendary Dark Elf chieftain Murmandamus had one of these in ''A Darkness at Sethanon''. Indeed, [[http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/book-covers/by-title/a-darkness-at-sethanon it's on the cover of some editions of the book.]] |
| 365 | * HeirClubForMen: The Kingdom of the Isles is a typical patriarchal monarchy. Also, the plot of ''Prince of the Blood'' centers upon fears of the Empire of Kesh becoming matriarchal. |
| 366 | * HeirInLaw: Two instances. |
| 367 | ** In the ''Empire Trilogy'', Mara is the UnexpectedSuccessor to the leadership of House Acoma, but for political and social reasons, it's expected that she will marry someone and transfer lordship to him. She chooses a well-connected but easy-to-manipulate husband, which works for a while, but his abusiveness and incompetence eventually prompts her to navigate him into a situation where he publicly loses honour and has to [[{{Seppuku}} kill himself]], reverting formal control back to her. Her second marriage does not involve surrendering power, as she is technically regent to her son until he reaches twenty-five, not a ruler in her own right. |
| 368 | ** In the ''Riftwar Saga'', the relationship between Tomas and Queen Aglaranna of the elves is of worry to the latter's people, since they think he might try to make himself king through it. In the end, however, he just becomes her consort, and her child by a previous relationship remains heir. |
| 369 | * HeroicBastard: Jimmy The Hand/Duke James. In both senses of the phrase, as he is a SonOfAWhore and a MagnificentBastard. |
| 370 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Roald in ''A Darkness At Sethanon''. Gorath in ''Betrayal'', Pug and Tomas in ''Magician's End''.]] |
| 371 | * HijackedByGanon: Though they may not be the ultimate Big Bads, in ''A Kingdom Besieged'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: the Pantathians and the Valheru]], who were believed dealt with, are still quite alive and may have [[spoiler: masterminded the war between the Kingdom of the Isles and Kesh]]. |
| 372 | * HiveMind: The cho'ja have some variation on this. The will of the queen is all, but the other cho'ja have some independence and identity. The queen began life independent, but merged with some sort of greater consciousness in maturity. They speak to one another using vocal language, but that language somehow doesn't need to be physically heard to be part of the hive memory. |
| 373 | ** [[spoiler: The Dread also operate on this principle. All of the Dread are actually manifestions of a single entity]]. |
| 374 | * HiveQueen: The ant-like cho'ja race of Kelewan live in hives and are ruled by queens. |
| 375 | * HonorBeforeReason: The Tsurani culture is shown to be built on this in the Empire trilogy. (Also results in plenty of HonorRelatedAbuse.) |
| 376 | * HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Being caught between worlds can ''really suck.'' |
| 377 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Most of Feist's chapters have a one-word heading, describing the focus of the chapter. (i.e. ''1. Slave'', ''2. Estate'') |
| 378 | * IHaveManyNames: Macros The Black. |
| 379 | * ImmortalityImmorality: There's a lot of evil wizards using [[{{Necromancer}} necromancy]] to obtain Eternal Youth/Eternal Life. |
| 380 | * ImpoverishedPatrician: Talon of the Silver Hawk's cover identity in noble circles is Baronet Talwin Hawkins of Silverlake, who has title but little else due to the fact that Silverlake is a barely inhabited swamp. |
| 381 | * INeverToldYouMyName: Late in ''Shadow of a Dark Queen'', Erik is talking to a local mercenary who recently joined Calis's company under questionable circumstances. During the conversation, the man refers to Erik by his surname of "von Darkmoor", and also refers to the Captain by name. It's enough to mark the man as a spy, and [[TheBigGuy Erik's squadmate Biggo]] [[NeckSnap kills him on the spot]]. |
| 382 | -->'''Biggo:''' I'm pretty sure no one's called you 'von Darkmoor' since we met up with this lot, but I damn well know no one's called the Captain by name since then. |
| 383 | * InnBetweenTheWorlds: Honest John's - a bar/inn located in The Hall of Worlds, which links numerous worlds and planes of reality. |
| 384 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: Most of the servants in Kesh play this role towards Erland in ''Prince of the Blood''. |
| 385 | ** Well, for a given value of innocent. The servants know damn well what they are doing (and do it damn well) but since Keshian nobility doesn't have the same taboos regarding public nudity and pre-marital sex that the Kingdom of the Isles nobility do, the innocence comes more from their not understanding why anyone would object to having a dozen nude women (or men) waiting in an honored guest's quarters to help them bathe and ... ahem ... ''relax'' before dinner. |
| 386 | * InterspeciesRomance: Human/Valheru hybrid Tomas and elf queen Aglaranna. |
| 387 | * JerkAss: Roo has his moments in ''Rise of a Merchant Prince''. Tim Jacoby is definitely a major jerkass. |
| 388 | ** Prince Patrick. |
| 389 | ** The Regent Lord of the Taredhel. |
| 390 | * [[MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack Kesh Called; They Want Bosania Back]]: Some political factions in the Keshian Empire wish to reclaim all of the northern provinces that were annexed by the Kingdom (Basically the entire Western Realm). This is despite the fact that by the time of the last attempt by those factions to reclaim them, they hadn't been Keshian for ''eight generations''. More level heads realize that even if they could spare the manpower to make a serious attempt at doing this it would take a century or more to recoup the cost of such a war. |
| 391 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: Zigzagged in ''Talon Of The Silver Hawk''. One of Tal's duelling opponents switches to a katana from a traditional longsword when going up against Tal. It's noted that poor katanas are useless against armour and good ones are [[CrackIsCheaper so expensive]] [[AwesomeButImpractical only the richest lords can afford them]]. However, for the purposes of two unarmoured men duelling, it's noted to be razor sharp and a good sign that its user is actually trying to kill Tal. Tal manages to win thanks to DualWielding a dirk along with his sword. |
| 392 | * KillItWithFire: Standard practice of dealing with Nighthawks after the Riftwar, where they displayed the bothersome habit of coming back stronger only minutes after being killed. Though they never demonstrated this power since, Nighthawk bodies and lairs are still thoroughly torched whenever possible. |
| 393 | ** Also, the battle magic of the priests of Prandur, the fire god. Such a priest sets a wing of Krondor's palace ablaze while confronting a magical shadow slayer in ''Krondor: the Assassins''. He was nice enough to save it as a last resort though. |
| 394 | * KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: Defied. [[spoiler:In her attempt to block her enemy Tasaio from becoming the Warlord, with the power to finish off his vendetta against her, Mara's machinations result in the magicians forcing Tasaio to kill himself. Though she didn't ''intend'' for this outcome, it suited her aims. Mara offers to adopt Tasaio's children and care for them, rather than let them die in the purge of their house. However, [[OffingTheOffspring their father would rather kill them]] just to spite her]]. |
| 395 | * KingBobTheNth: King Rodric The Fourth |
| 396 | * KnightInSourArmor: Prince Arutha, who is a genuinely noble Noble but has always been disposed toward a gloomy demeanor and snarky humor. His mother's pet name for him was "little storm cloud". |
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| 399 | [[folder: L-Z]] |
| 400 | * LastStand: Mercenary Roald gets one in ''A Darkness at Sethanon'', volunteering to stay behind and hold off the scouts perusing him and his companions. |
| 401 | * LeftHanging: The plot of the unfinished ''Riftwar Legacy'' series. Who is the Crawler? How does [[spoiler:Jazhara]] die? Will we ever find out? |
| 402 | ** [[spoiler: Well, considering that William, who had a relationship with Jazhara, said that he will never love again as a result of her death, indicates that she was StuffedInTheFridge.]] |
| 403 | * LegendaryWeapon: The Hammer of Tholin is an ancient weapon that belonged to the last king of the dwarves, believed to be lost to the ages. The lore attached to it is so strong that its recovery allows [[spoiler: Dolgan]] to become the first king of the dwarves since its loss. [[spoiler: It's lost in ''Magician's End'', along with Dolgin.]] |
| 404 | * LightIsNotGood: Ashen-Shugar may have been the only Valheru with a smidgen of wisdom, common sense, and responsibility, but don't make the mistake of assuming he didn't joyfully do all those things the other Valheru did just because his colour scheme is white and gold. |
| 405 | ** Zaltais of Eternal Despair, a being summoned by the ultimate BigBad from the 7th Circle of Hell/dreamt up by the ultimate BigBad looks like an angel made of light. |
| 406 | * LongBusTrip: Given that the cycle spans over two centuries by now, it's expected for characters to be PutOnTheBus now and then, and occasionally [[BusCrash die off-screen]] as time goes on. But the most extreme example is Owyn Belefote, who is introduced as a central ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'' character, accepted as part of the canon in the novelisation, and then disappears, with barely even a mention in the two sequels to the novelisation. Despite becoming a magician of some power at the end of the ''Betrayal'', he allegedly abandoned the path of magic, went home, reconciled with his father and lived a normal life. |
| 407 | ** Interestingly, that is the exact opposite of what Owyn does in the game. In the game he is rewarded for his service to the crown with a full scholarship to Stardock (Which incidentally ensures that he will be spending the next several years around Pug so that he can ensure that the boy doesn't accidentally mention the Lifestone). He is not seen or mentioned in the next game. So basically he got put on a different bus. |
| 408 | * LongLostRelative: Lysle Rigger to Jimmy The Hand. |
| 409 | * LongRunningBookSeries |
| 410 | * LoveableRogue: Jimmy The Hand is pretty much the embodiment. |
| 411 | * MadOracle: Pretty much any sentient being who acted as a host to The Oracle of Aal eventually became this. At least until Pug finds The Oracle a suitable soulless body in ''A Darkness At Sethanon''. |
| 412 | * MagicAIsMagicA: There are a ''lot'' of forms of FunctionalMagic in the series, each with their own rulesets, and a lot of exceptions to each set of rules. Pug and Nakor hold that the reason for all of this is because all the rules are actually in a mage's head. |
| 413 | * TheMagnificent: Nakor the Blue Rider! Who is always Nakor The Blue Rider, even if he is wearing orange robes and doesn't have a horse. |
| 414 | * MassTeleportation: The history of the planet Kelewan as told to Milamber includes an incident where the planet faced annihilation by a wandering star. The mages of Kelewan created a huge rift that pulled Kelewan and its sun into another place, thus avoiding the Stranger star. Hundreds of years later, after the Stranger had passed, another great rift-spell returned the planet and its star to their old place in the Universe. |
| 415 | * MeaningfulRename: Pug, upon completing his training as a Black Robe, is given a new secret name as well as a new name to be called by; Milamber. We are not told his secret name but we are told that it means, in the ancient Tsurani tongue, means "one who stands between worlds". |
| 416 | * MedievalEuropeanFantasy: The Kingdom of the Isles. |
| 417 | * MetalPoorPlanet: The series gets started when magicians from metal-poor Kelewan develop a way to create rifts leading to other worlds. Scouts report that the world of Midkemia has unimaginable wealth in metal just lying around; a Midkemian viewing a magical recording of the events recognizes the "wealth" as being trash heaps and slag piles. |
| 418 | * MightMakesRight: This is the basis of Valheru morality. If a Valheru wants to do something, the only reason they won't is if someone is strong enough to stop them. |
| 419 | * MistakenForCheating: As a young man, Magnus once found his fiancee kissing someone else in a bar, at which point he broke off the engagement. It wasn't until long after her death that he learned that at the time she was simply too drunk to realize that the guy she was kissing wasn't him. |
| 420 | ** In the last book, the girl actually admits she did know who she was kissing, that it was on purpose, that she WAS supposed to have been in a monogamous-couple relationship with Magnus, and that it was just a stupid moment of flightiness, that it didn't really "mean anything" (if deep kissing over a period of a minute can "mean nothing"), and that Magnus "overreacted." She also implied that Magnus actually saw them making out and maybe even reaching second base, not just kissing lightly. So, this really brings MoralValuesDissonance into play. She basically cheated on him as she admitted that they were supposed to have been a monogamous couple, and that he should "just get over [being cuckolded]." Instead, it should have been the "you never asked me out, and we never agreed to be a couple" angle, which would make much more sense that she would still feel open to "playing the field", and put the onus on Magnus for overreacting when it was his fault for being possessive and assuming. But Feist inexplicably chose the former route, making the girl look like a cheating tramp trying to brush off the emotional damage cheating can give, rather than an empowered woman standing up for her right to not be beholden to a particular man just because the man has unilaterally declared her his property. But given how Feist treats his female characters in the latter books, this is not especially surprising. |
| 421 | * MotherMakesYouKing: At the end of Mistress of the Empire, [[spoiler: Mara puts her son Justin on the throne by marrying him to the daughter of the late Emperor, making him the next Emperor.]] |
| 422 | * MultipleChoicePast: Macros tells a couple of mutually exclusive backstories for himself. |
| 423 | * TheMultiverse: Feist's universe is made up of an extensive cosmology. |
| 424 | * MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Magic in Feist's cosmology was originally set between two types of magic; Lesser Path (they get their power from books and artifacts) and Greater Path (they channel magic directly through their bodies). By the time of ''A Darkness at Sethanon'', Pug has determined that magic is magic and that there are no limits, save what the magician imposes on themself. |
| 425 | ** And then there's Nakor, who insists that There Is No Magic at all and what everybody calls magic are just simple tricks anyone can do. |
| 426 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Miranda coerced Pug into trying to destroy the Emerald Queen's fleet and it almost got him killed. |
| 427 | * MysticalPlague: In ''The King's Buccaneer'', the Overlord of the City of the Serpent River works with some Pantathian serpent priests to kidnap a couple of hundred people from the Kingdom, mostly women and girls. Then they create magical duplicates of the prisoners and infect the duplicates with a magically-created plague that is spread by contact and is almost always fatal. Then they send the prisoners back to the Kingdom, to the Western Realm's capital city of Krondor. |
| 428 | * {{Mythopoeia}}: Feist's universe is one of the most complex in all of HighFantasy. |
| 429 | * NeverFoundTheBody: Delekhan used this to claim that Murmandamus was still alive and being held prisoner in Sethanon (No Moredhel saw him fall, and the body left behind after Arutha killed him was Pantathian, not Elven). To prevent this from happening a second time, Pug created an illusion of Delekhan rescuing Murmandamus only for both of them to be killed in front of a sizable portion of the Moredhel army, thus ensuring that there are plenty of witnesses to state that both of them were definitely dead. |
| 430 | * NonindicativeName: Macros The Black. He is a wizard in the service of good. He favors simple brown monk-style robes. And he is described as being of Caucasian appearance. There is nothing "black" about him in any sense of the word. He pretty much invented the Black Sorcerer myth himself convince people to avoid landing on his island. |
| 431 | ** There is also Nakor The Blue Rider, who is without a horse and is clad in an orange robe when we first encounter him. At the end of ''Prince of the Blood'', the only reward he asks for his part in averting a war between the two most powerful nations in the world is for a blue robe to wear and a black horse to ride, so that he can again be Nakor The Blue Rider. |
| 432 | * NoodleImplements: Nakor the Blue Rider's prior visit to Novindus |
| 433 | --> '''Nakor''': It's a long story having to do with a trick that didn't work the way I thought it would, some temple relics I thought were abandoned, and a secret priesthood with no sense of humor. |
| 434 | * OneLastJob: Arutha kept Gardan in the state of "You can retire as soon as the current situation is resolved" for ''twenty years''. Gardan ''did'' eventually manage to retire. |
| 435 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Prince Arutha faces off against the BigBad in ''A Darkness at Sethanon'', due to a prophecy that says the Lord of the West must be defeated before said BigBad can lead his people to victory. |
| 436 | ** It's worth noting that ''Lord of the West'' is not an official title of the Prince of Krondor, although it could easily be understood to apply to him, since Krondor is the seat of The Western Realm of the Kingdom of the Isles. Also, since prophecies are difficult to interpret, sometimes being fulfilled multiple times under different circumstances, and ''especially'' since [[spoiler: "Murmandamus" was a fake who deliberately invoked the prophecy just so he could raise an army,]] this might not even have applied to him at all. (Didn't stop him from pulling it off, though...) |
| 437 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Feist's dragons are, for the most part, dumb beasts. The one exception is golden dragons, who are capable of amazing magical feats and shape-shifting. Any dragon that lives long enough may eventually shed its skin and become a golden dragon. |
| 438 | * OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Feist's dwarves are the standard issue Tolkien model. |
| 439 | * OurElvesAreDifferent: Feist's elves are one race which break down into separate "types". Chief among these are the Eledhel (Wood Elves), Moredhel (Dark Elves), Eldar (High Elves) and most recently, the star elves from another planet - yes, Space Elves. There is also the warlike and almost annihilated Glamredhel (Wild Elves) eventually being assimilated in Elvandar, and the Ocedhel (Lost Elves) of Novindus, who've long since become scattered and absorbed into the human societies there. The other elf race is the Sun Elves, who protect the Peaks of the Quor. |
| 440 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Black Slayers - near unstoppable undead warriors, created when one kills an assassin who is sworn to the service of The Guild of Death. |
| 441 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: Pug outlived his firstborn son, his adopted daughter, his son-in-law, his grandson, and one of his ''great''-grandsons. Most of these were casualties of the Serpentwar, the last was simple wizardly longevity. |
| 442 | * PainlessDeathForAPrice: Lady Mara's chief spy, Arakasi, makes use of this technique when interrogating a man for vital information to save Mara's life, using drugs that expand the victim's perception of time as Arakasi tortures him. Once the man finally cracks and tells Arakasi everything, he finally gets the quick end of a cut throat, as promised. |
| 443 | --> '''Arakasi:''' But your life is no longer a bargaining point. What has yet to be determined is the manner of your death. |
| 444 | * PaperThinDisguise: Arutha goes incognito using the name ''Arthur''. Justified and deliberate, since, as Amos Trask points out, if someone accidentally calls him by his real name, it can be waved away as a mishearing. |
| 445 | * ParentalMarriageVeto: The mother of Bethany of Carse has ambitions for her daughter; wanting her to marry Hal and become the next Duchess of Crydee. [[spoiler: After Hal becomes Duke of Crydee though he uses his position as their liege lord to allow Martin and Bethany to marry. While Bethany's mother isn't exactly thrilled with the subject, it has been suggested that, due to Martin being appointed as the Prince of Krondor (the second-highest noble title in the Kingdom of the Isles), she'll mellow out.]] |
| 446 | * PepperSneeze: Used in ''The King's Buccaneer'' to take down a soul-drinking sorceress. A face full of pepper makes it very hard to focus on spell casting. |
| 447 | * PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Arutha and Anita, to everyone's mutual happiness. |
| 448 | ** Although their marriage wasn't exactly arranged. Their parents were planning to arrange their marriage, but the Riftwar broke out before they could make it official. After the war ended, Arutha proposed to Anita on his own initiative. |
| 449 | * PlanetEngland: Averted, in that while the world was named (Midkemia), the continent upon which most of the early stories took place was not named until later. |
| 450 | * PrintLongRunners: ''The Riftwar Cycle'' has averaged nearly one book a year over the better part of three decades. |
| 451 | * ProducePelting: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the novelization of ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'': James explains to Gorath that this is done to speakers who the audience doesn't like, and being a dark elf FishOutOfWater in human civilization, Gorath thinks it's insane. |
| 452 | * PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: From ''some'' sources, yes. The ones involving the return of the dark elf hero Murmandamus, not so much. |
| 453 | * PsychicPowers: Some forms of magic resemble this, such as Gamina's telepathy, which her adopted father Pug is able to emulate to some degree with his magic. |
| 454 | * TheQuest: The centerpiece of most of the plots. |
| 455 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Macros The Black. We have no idea how old he really is but he has been fighting evil for a very long time. |
| 456 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Most conDoins before Prince Patrick, the Empress of Kesh during ''Prince of the Blood'', Kaspar after the events of the Dark War, Pug, Tomas, Lord James, in fact, it's just easier to say that any character with authority from Roldem or the Kingdom of the Isles is one of these, outside of Prince Patrick. |
| 457 | ** The Tsurani have their emperor, Ichindar, and Mara of the Acoma [[spoiler:who becomes the Mistress of the Empire after Ichindar's death]]. |
| 458 | * RedHerring: Much of the series from ''Rage of a Demon King'' on operates under the assumption that the Nameless One is the ultimate BigBad directly or indirectly behind most everything Pug has faced. [[spoiler: ''Magician's End'' reveals he was only responsible for Zaltais and the actions of Leso Varen/Sidi. The actual BigBad was the Dread all along]]. |
| 459 | * RegentForLife: Between her own scheming to remove her husband from power, her first child being murdered and her second child claiming another throne, Mara of the Acoma ends up as Regent of her house from the age of 19 until her third and final child reaches 25 (By which point Mara herself was in her fifties). |
| 460 | * {{Retcon}}: Repeatedly, often without any explanation, regarding the nature of the metaverse and the layers of reality. The system seems to be set up differently every series. Also, established facts are often changed, such as Macros's backstory, [[spoiler: Ralan Bek's nature]] or [[spoiler: the source of Nakor's powers]] with a simple "I lied to you before but here's the real story" HandWave. |
| 461 | ** This is particularly jarring when it renders [[spoiler: Bek]]'s [[MeaningfulName meaningful]] SdrawkcabName... well... meaningless. |
| 462 | ** However, all of this confusion over the cosmology pales to the royal stink some fans made when [[spoiler: Lord Erik Von Darkmoor said that he regretted never having married and had children... despite having married girl-thief Kitty in ''Rage of a Demon King'']]. |
| 463 | *** To Feist's credit, [[http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/faq/6070/wrath-of-a-mad-god-errors-and-inconsistencies-and-why he did explain it on his website]] and confirmed that it would be explained/corrected in future printings of the book. |
| 464 | *** To his _dis_credit, that explanation couldn't hold as much water as a paper thong, and his reprinting basically just removed any mention of it what-so-ever. The idea that they never "really got married" (even though they DID in a TEMPLE blessed by a PRIEST) is bollocks. The idea that they just got divorced offscreen with no indication anything was wrong is the classic "oh crap, I screwed up but I better make up some cock-and-bull story to sell the gullibles about how I really meant it" that George Lucas tries to throw people. |
| 465 | ** The same book in which the above happened also had a major retcon in regards to the events of the Empire trilogy. In that series, every member of the Minwanabi family was killed or committed suicide due to an oath to the Red God having become impossible to fulfill. Mara of the Acoma broke tradition by taking control of the Minwanabi lands and servants, and due to destroying the Minwanabi her house would rise to the position of Great House. By the end of the series, Mara's son ise emperor, her daughter is heir to the Acoma, and the old Acoma estates have been given to a loyal retainer to start his own house: House Lujan. However, in the darkwar saga, it is instead stated that the Minwanabi became '''vassals''' to the Acoma, and are somehow still around and a Great House. The Acoma estates are considered imperial property that no one has lived in since Mara's son ascended to the throne. The emperor is considered part of House Acoma (despite the Empire trilogy making a major point of Mara's son no longer being a member of that house due to rising to the throne), with no mention of Kasuma. Since these are all such major retcons that they essentially break the story of the third book in the empire trilogy, Feist later tried to reconcile them through explanations on his blog. [[ShaggyDogStory House Lujan died out quickly after it was established, its lands returning to the imperial family.]] [[ResetButton Mara restored House Minwanabi, presumably through its old retainers, and gave back their old lands.]] [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What happened to Kasuma and House Acoma is still left unresolved though]]. |
| 466 | ** A more minor example from the same book is the fact that the emperor of Kelewan appoints someone to the position of Warlord, a position that was renamed and reduced in power during the Empire Trilogy. |
| 467 | ** Considering how many times we've had to revise our understanding of just ''one'' universe in our history, it's reasonable that anyone in a magical metaverse is going to have theories and incomplete understanding at best... it just never happens in fantasy stories for some reason. And Macros? He just loves telling wild tales and seeing who bites. |
| 468 | ** Post-''Darkwar'', the cosmology largely seems to have stabilized; as laid out in ''Magician's End'', it's basically a more detailed version of what we got in that series, rather than a retcon. ''Magician's End'' also makes a point that the cosmology is so complicated no human mind can wrap around it in any accuracy, leaving it easily open to say previous understandings were just wrong. |
| 469 | ** At several points starting with Exile's Return, Pug and company imply that the _Riftwar_ (not the "Great Uprising" that followed it) was part of the plot of the Pantathians to free the Dragon Lords from their imprisonment, yet that makes no sense. The Riftwar was due to politics on the Tsurani homeworld and nothing was mentioned of any Pantathian interference or plots to encourage the invasion until Exile's Return. It also makes no sense how the Pantathians could have influenced Tsurani politics from across time and space, as there was no contact with the Tsurani until the Riftwar. This just reeks of colossal retcon. Later on, they imply that Nalar influenced the Tsurani to invade in order to further his plans of chaos, but this retcon of a retcon still just doesn't fit. |
| 470 | ** Officially done in the revised edition of ''Prince of the Blood'', partly because the author disliked the "mystery" aspect of the original book. The book's main reveals are now known far in advance, a number of references to later-written books are added, an entirely new character and player in the political scene is added to the plot, the climax is dramatically changed to involve a combat siege on the Empress's quarters, and Ghuda now insists on receiving a ''much'' smaller reward. And yet, the revised edition still doesn't fix the Torum Sie / Toren Sie error. |
| 471 | * RetGone / UnPerson: The ultimate goal of the harshest sentence for traitors to the Empress of Kesh is to ensure that their soul be forever alone, forgotten even by The Gods. To that end, the traitor's name is erased from the written records and forbidden to any child of noble birth. They are personally Excommunicated by the high priest of the chief god of the Keshian faith and denied entry into their afterlife. After this is done, any time someone must speak of a person who underwent this punishment, they do so indirectly, by referring to the person in question as "One Whose Name Has Been Forgotten" or "One Who Betrayed His Country". |
| 472 | * RobeAndWizardHat: Most of Feist's magicians do favor robes, though only Kulgan is said to have a special wizarding hat. Patrus in ''Krondor the Betrayal'' has a floppier hat - anyone who didn't know he was a wizard might think he just wandered out of his house in his sleepwear. Magnus has to crawl through a hole in a wall in ''Flight of the Nighthawks'', and wishes that Pug had not established that magicians should wear robes. |
| 473 | * RoyalBlood: It turns out that [[spoiler: Martin Longbow]] has it. |
| 474 | * RoyalRapier: The rapier is Arutha's preferred weapon and his sons take after him in favoring it over other swords. In fact, after Arutha becomes Prince rapiers becomes so fashionable among the nobility of Krondor that for 20 years afterward the rapier is known as a "Krondorian pig-sticker" by those who favor heavier blades. |
| 475 | * RoyallyScrewedUp: King Rodric |
| 476 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Too many to mention specifically, so let us just cite most of the protagonists up until the end of The Serpent War. |
| 477 | * RunningGag: Jimmy The Hand's constant reply whenever he is asked for a reward in ''Silverthorn'' - "You could make me Duke of Krondor". |
| 478 | ** It eventually becomes such a RunningGag that Prince Arutha over-promotes James to Duke of Rillanon (the King's seat of power) just to see the expression on James' face when he finds out he's been given something better than Duke of Krondor. |
| 479 | *** It's even funnier when [[spoiler: James eventually DOES become Duke of Krondor... just after Arutha dies.]] |
| 480 | ** Amos Trask's constant complaint to Prince Arutha: "You take all the fun out of life!" |
| 481 | *** Which was also James' response to being made Duke of Rillanon; "Amos Trask is right about you, you know. You DO take all the fun out of life." |
| 482 | *** And Amos Trask made the same accusation about Arutha's son Nicolas. |
| 483 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Tsurani Great Ones are literally outside the law. The only people who can override their whims are a larger group of Great Ones, or ''possibly'' the Emperor, at least until Mara forces the Assembly to confront the ramifications of this. |
| 484 | * SealedEvilInACan: The Lifestone |
| 485 | ** [[spoiler: The Dread, at the end of the series]] |
| 486 | * SealedEvilInADuel: Pug traps [[spoiler: the Dreadking]] in a duel with [[spoiler: Ashen-Shugar]] at the end of ''Magician's End''. |
| 487 | * SecondHandStorytelling: Amos Trask is fond of this. Luckily, he's a very good storyteller. |
| 488 | * {{Seppuku}}: The Tsurani practice this, with defeated warriors killing themselves rather than face the indignity of being captured or enslaved on the battlefield. They may also, if shamed, beg for the right to kill themselves. |
| 489 | ** The heads of Keshian noble families are allowed to do this if they aided but did not actively mastermind a treasonous plot against the Empress. Their families and servants are also allowed to go into exile with whatever they can carry off. |
| 490 | * SeriesContinuityError: This gets oh-so-much worse compared to the various retcons. Feist's books are fun and great fantasy reads, but he has even admitted he never goes back and re-reads his own work, and boy does it show! To wit: |
| 491 | ** The title "Seignur" is introduced in Krondor, the Betrayal as some fancy, formal word for "Squire" and then never, ever used again. This title was used in the video game, but since it is so out-of-place and never referenced in any other book, it would have been better to just leave it as Squire James and Squire Locklear (or at least "Baron" or something we've seen and heard in other books). |
| 492 | ** Lucas (the innkeeper) mentions to James in Assassins that Talia is all he has left "with her brothers dead in the war", yet in Silverthorn we meet Lucas's sons (AFTER the war) when they leap over the bar to help Arutha and Jimmy catch their first nighthawk (where they plant the ambush in the Rainbow Parrot). They catch the nighthawk who turns out to be a Black Slayer and almost kills Arutha in the palace. But Lucas's sons are alive and well there. Unless they died in "The Great Uprising" of Murmandamus, this makes no sense. But if the latter were true, Lucas wouldn't have said "died in the war" (which everyone would take to mean the "Riftwar"). Also, the likelihood of two young veterans from Krondor being involved in, much less put into harm's way, during Murmandamus's attack (which came through Highcastle and attacked the Sethanon garrison) is minimal. |
| 493 | ** William is described at having a passionate affair with a "Jezharra", yet in Tear of the Gods she is introduced as "Jazhara". |
| 494 | ** William talks about a very strong broken-hearted romance with Jazhara, culminating in her untimely death. Yet, in Tear of the Gods, while William is described as having a puppy-dog-like infatuation with Jazhara when he was a young teenager in Stardock, William's ACTUAL tragic romance is with Talia. Also, Jazhara is both very much alive and very much at a friendly understanding with William (as in neither seem interesting in re-pursuing a romantic relationship) by the end of the book. Jazhara is described as dying roughly around 2-4 years after Tear of the Gods, so it is possible something blossomed, albeit being very out-of-character for the two, and then she dies off-screen, but this seems unlikely. This might have been resolved by the short story "Jimmy and the Crawler" made as a plot-hole filler later, but it still doesn't explain why Talia is never mentioned as William's lost love story. |
| 495 | ** The Pantathians are stated and even shown to have a hatred for humankind from birth, yet later we meet an entire subclan of Pantathians who harbor no ill will towards humans, and state that only the priesthood had antipathy to humans. But, does this mean that the priesthood are a separate race with separate genes that inflict their newborns with hatred for human kind? That seems unlikely. |
| 496 | ** As Caleb and Talon travel to Krondor from Sorcerer's Isle, Caleb explains to Talon that there is peace in the west. He mentions that the daughter of King Ryan is to be wed to the nephew of the EmpRESS of Kesh. This is despite the fact that we know Diigai has become emperor after Lakeesha's death, based on the events in Prince of the Blood. We further know from the events in Flight of the Nighthawks that Diigai is still the emperor then, many years after the events in this book. Thus, Kesh cannot have an Empress, because the ruler is Diigai, a man. It's possible that, as in some Imperial rulerships in real life, the wife of the ruling Emperor is called "Empress", but this doesn't really shake out well here, because talking about the "nephew of the Empress of Kesh" implies the Empress is the important anchor point in the relationship. Wouldn't he normally say "the nephew of the emperOR of Kesh" if the emperor was the one in charge? Instead, he identifies the empress, giving the solid impression that Kesh is ruled by a woman, which we know from the timeline is incorrect, as when Lakeesha's reign ended, Diigai, her son-in-law, took power, passing on to Sezioti, his grandson. |
| 497 | ** Kaspar is described to have a son in ''Talon of the Silver Hawk'', yet we later see he is childless in ''King of Foxes''. This may have been a simple misconception on Talon's part, as he indicates this was a simple guess based on the boy and Kaspar's likeness. However, Talon is repeatedly shown to not only have a very well-trained eye, but to be a master at human nature. As for this boy, he is never shown again, nor mentioned again. He is never seen at the citadel, or as part of Kaspar's retinue. He simply vanishes, despite Talon having marked him as Duke Kaspar's son, and thus as someone notable in appearance and manner. In later editions of the book, this missing son apparently has been excised in editing. |
| 498 | ** Talon is described as having very little affection for Svetlana, the Princess of Salmater, when he is forced to assassinate her on Duke Kaspar's orders. He has misgivings, but he describes her as vicious and without scruples in her own way. He is never described as being infatuated or in love with her. Yet, in Exile's Return, he describes her assassination as haunting his dreams and as carrying a very profound regret. Where did these strong feelings come from, for a man who never seemed to have that many regrets at the time of the action? |
| 499 | ** Kaspar suddenly has a daughter in Flight of the Nighthawks, when he describes himself as having no siblings when comparing his own experiences to the two Keshian princes vying for the throne. He also states that his daughter "Natalia" also was an only child. This is quite a contradiction to the Conclave series, where Natalia is Kaspar's sister. In Realm, she again assumes her rightful place as his sister. |
| 500 | ** Again with Kaspar in Wrath of a Mad God: During his sojurn with the sun elves on the Peaks of the Quor, he is described as never having had any but the most cursory contact with any elves (specifically stated to be limited to an envoy at Sorcerer's Isle and even then he only had a fleeting glance). Yet, in Exile's Return, Kaspar himself visited Elvandar with Pug, and he met with both Aglaranna and Tomas! He had the most direct contact with the elves as possible! He met with their leaders, participated in a major battle when Varen attacked Elvandar, and aided in the recovery. This is as shocking a contradiction as him losing a sister and gaining a daughter! It's even more strange as he then proceeds to speak with fairly intimate knowledge on how Aglaranna fairly treats with other Elven nations (such as the sea elves in Novindus) who aren't under her direct reign. He could have learned through Pug, but he speaks as if one who has actually met Aglaranna and has seen how she deals with her fellow elves firsthand (as he actually did in Exile's return, which would make sense except for the contradiction in the proceeding paragraph). This is made even more stark when he tells Jim Dasher to introduce him to Tomas, saying he only knows him by reputation. Reputation? The two of them fought side-by-side in Exile! Kaspar has not only met Tomas before, but they talked, and were very friendly by the end of their time together. |
| 501 | ** In Wrath, the Duke of Crydee is described as being "Lester", but a few chapters later, the Duke of Crydee is referred to as "Henry" and then "Harry". Presumably "Harry" is a nickname for "Henry", but "Duke Lester" changing to "Lord Henry"? This was in even the same book! |
| 502 | ** Laromendis, the Star Elf is portrayed as being a known member of the Circle of Light, as a suspected member of the Circle of Light, as one of the prominent members, or as an adjunct, all at different points in the story. Which was he? He was originally portrayed as one of the leaders, hence why he wasn't executed along with the rest of the Circle, but then he is portrayed as a minor member or as a peripheral member, and later in Imperiled, as only a SUSPECTED member. Gulomendis is sometimes stated to have also been in the circle, but other times said to not have been. |
| 503 | ** In Legion, Sandreena is attacked by the Black Caps, knocked unconscious and then beaten and thrown off a cliff. There is never any indication or sign or thought that she was sexually assaulted. Yet in Besieged, she states that the black caps attacked her, raped her, and left her for dead, which is a major contradiction. This is a woman supersensitive to her anatomy and gender, and all the inequalities it entails in her universe. If she had realized she had been raped in Legion, she would have brought it up and launched into a tirade-monologue about the evils of all men. And if she didn't know she was raped then, how does she know now? And to just casually throw rape around like it's some kind of minor insult or an afterthought, is in itself a pretty insulting and offensive way to write a novel. |
| 504 | ** Talon's son is introduced as "Tyrone Hawkins", even though we were previously introduced to him in Realm as "Laughter in His Eyes", or "Laff" for short. Now, with a nickname like that, it would be little wonder he would want to change it, but there is never any indication given that this took place. There is also no indication at all that he underwent his tribe's traditional re-naming ceremony (like how Keililapauna became Talon of the Silver Hawk), nor is there any indication he was raised with Orosini principles at all. His name is just suddenly different with no explanation given. In fact, he tells Hal directly "My father gave me this name" which contradicts Orosini tradition for a name change, where the new name is given by the Gods (or by the person himself). |
| 505 | ** Arkan is introduced as Gorath's son despite Gorath telling James that all of his sons were killed during the plot of Betrayal, and that he left no family (aside from Cullich, whom we meet later) behind. It is also never mentioned during Betrayal, when Gorath met with Liallin, that the two are brother and sister-in-law, or that Liallin's sister, Clothild, was Gorath's wife. |
| 506 | ** In Imperiled, Jim Dasher describes himself as "never having been in love" before Fredericka, completely forgetting that he was head over heels mad in love with Feist's misogynistic symbol extraordinaire, Michelle back in the Darkwar series. Could be that Jim just didn't WANT to remember, but the way it was phrased doesn't seem like that ever happened, especially considering how important it was to Jim at the time. One would think Jim would have at least remembered it with some measure of exasperation or humiliation. |
| 507 | ** And of course, the obvious Isle of the Snakes fiasco, where Pug goes and meets T'kaa and interacts with the remaining Pantathians, only to have it switch to Magnus going to the Isle of Snakes later in the same book, and then back again in the last book! Feist has admitted to the editing error. |
| 508 | * SexSlave: Sandreena was raised as one. |
| 509 | * ShamefulStrip: In ''The King’s Buccaneer'', Abigail and Margaret are captured at sea by slavers and stripped naked in front of the crew to see what value they’d bring on the block. |
| 510 | * ShooTheDog: In ''Honored Enemy'', the elf Tinuva "shoos" his friend Gregory of Natal to keep him from accompanying him on a suicide mission - though, owing to the pressing time, Gregory's stubborness and Tinuva's Moredhel origins, it's less "shoo the dog" and more "slash the dog with a dagger and threaten to permanently defang it unless it wisens up and leaves ''right now''". |
| 511 | * SignatureHeadgear: By the time of the Serpentwar, Amos Trask's hat is known throughout the Bitter Sea. Prince Nicholas wears it as part of his admiral's uniform, and to paraphrase the books, ''nobody'' made sport of that hat. |
| 512 | * SignatureStyle: Feist likes the words "alien" and especially "quietly." A sizable proportion of all chapters begin with "(Character) sat quietly". |
| 513 | ** In fact, the first paragraph of every chapter in the cycle is a single simple declarative sentence, always structured "Subject verbed." The longest of these is six words. |
| 514 | * SimultaneousArcs: Most of the books have these, usually alternating between the mortal protagonists and whatever Pug is doing at the time. |
| 515 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: Sandreena. A rare justified example, as she was forced into prostitution as a child because of it. Besides her disgust with the way most men look at her now, her relationships with them have ranged from awkward to miserable ever since, with only a single exception. She also isn't taken seriously as a warrior by some members of her order because of her looks. |
| 516 | * SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: The oath that Sidi, Amirantha and Belasco made as a child. It's the closest thing to sacred they have and it helps Amirantha deduce that the BigBad of the Demonwar books has pulled a GrandTheftMe on Belasco. |
| 517 | * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Zig-zagged. The direct threat goes up from ''Magician'' to its sequels, then goes down again for ''Krondor's Sons'', then follows a similar pattern between the successive series, culminating in the Chaoswar Saga where [[spoiler: the Dread plan to eat the universe, kill the gods, and twist time so that none of it ever existed at all]]. |
| 518 | * SonOfAWhore: Jimmy the Hand is one. |
| 519 | ** As is Billy Goodwin in ''Shadow of a Dark Queen''. Bringing it up is like jamming your thumb on his BerserkButton. Corporal Foster does it on purpose. |
| 520 | * SoulJar: Used by one of the major baddies; a necromancer named [[spoiler: Leso Varen]] |
| 521 | ** Also used by Feist's demons on those they wish to play with AFTER killing them. |
| 522 | * SpellConstruction: Averted, as the more powerful magicians seem to be capable of performing magic through sheer force of will - no fancy rituals, tools or words needed. |
| 523 | * SplitPersonality: Tomas/Ashen Shugar. |
| 524 | * SssssnakeTalk: Used by the Panathians when they try to speak the language of the Kingdom of the Isles. |
| 525 | * AStormIsComing: ''A Darkness At Sethannon'' opens with an ill wind moving around many of the protagonists, giving them a chill even as the BigBad is making his first move against them. |
| 526 | * StableTimeLoop: Subverted. Several books have Pug receiving messages sent to himself from the future to ensure things turn out correctly. Turns out [[spoiler: they're actually being sent from the present by the TricksterGod Banath]]. |
| 527 | * StandardFantasySetting: The Kingdom of the Isles a fairly standard medieval Western European land, with elf and dwarf monarchies on their far borders. |
| 528 | * StandardRoyalCourt: The Eastern Kingdom of the Isles, as well as the courts of Kesh are thick with politicking courtiers. |
| 529 | * SuccessionCrisis: ''Magician'' ends with one, as one of the heroes is revealed to be a bastard son of the royal line and the eldest male, at a time when the Kingdom is already bleeding from a near civil war. |
| 530 | ** An impending succession crisis over the Earldom of [=LaMut=] drives most of the plot in ''Murder in [=LaMut=]''. [[spoiler:The fact that this issue was resolved in favor of someone who doesn't appear in the book in the much earlier published ''Magician'' seriously reduces the quality of the story.]] |
| 531 | ** ''Mistress of the Empire'' also features an argument over the Imperial Seat at the heart of its main plot. |
| 532 | ** Succession Crises in Kesh occur in ''Prince of the Blood'' and ''Flight of the Nighthawks''. |
| 533 | ** ''Magician's End'' has this as the B-plot. |
| 534 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Not surprising considering that the books span a handful of generations - but still surprising in some cases. The most extreme perhaps being [[spoiler: Prince Arutha, hero of the Riftwar, Lord of the West and all around badass dying shortly after falling off his horse off-screen a couple chapters into ''Shadow of a Dark Queen'']] |
| 535 | * SuddenlySuitableSuitor: Hal of Crydee falls in love with a Roldemish princess, but realizes that a minor duke whose domain is on the opposite side of the continent from Roldem has little to offer her father in the way of a political alliance (Especially once he learns that Crydee has been occupied by a foreign power while he was out). [[spoiler:Then he ends up as King of the Isles after a short civil war.]] |
| 536 | ** Hal's brother Martin had one as well. It was something of an unspoken arrangement that [[ActionGirl Lady Bethany of Carse]] was to [[ArrangedMarriage marry Martin's brother Hal]] so that she'd become Duchess of Crydee one day. Hal and Bethany are LikeBrotherAndSister though, and Martin and Bethany are in love with one another, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt which is obvious to pretty much everyone but the two of them]]. Ty Hawkins even points out that having a wife and a brother that love another is a problem waiting to happen. [[spoiler: But when the father of Hal and Martin dies Hal becomes the new Duke of Crydee. He then, in his position as their liege lord, gives Martin and Bethany permission to marry.]] |
| 537 | * SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Nakor's view is that there is no magic, there are only aspects of the universe that we do not understand yet, and that what he does is simply tricks that anybody can learn. This lets him dispense with much of the ritual and effort that magicians use. |
| 538 | * SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: After Arutha dies, Pug tries to avoid getting tangled in mundane political crises and the DecadentCourt, because his job is defending Midkemia from otherdimensional evils, not settling the latest SuccessionCrisis. When he does get involved, it's decisive; [[StoryBreakerPower mortal princes and armies are in no position to argue with a sorcerer of his caliber]]. |
| 539 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Everyone knows that the Keshian Intelligence Service does not exist. |
| 540 | * SwordAndSorcerer: Pug and Tomas, during the rare occasions they team in battle together. |
| 541 | ** To a lesser degree, Kulgan and Meecham. And Miranda and the mercenary Boldar Blood. And Gorath and Owyn. And Amirantha and Brandos. |
| 542 | * SympathyForTheDevil: Many of Feist's villains are revealed to be ThePawn of a greater evil and to have suffered just as much as the heroes. More frequently, they are revealed as not so different from the heroes. |
| 543 | ** The best example are probably the Moredhel. In ''Darkness at Sethanon'', a Pantathian disguises himself as their legendary leader Murmandamus come back from the dead in order to raise an army - which he leads against the Kingdom, deliberately causing massive casualties on both sides, as he is actually feeding off the escaped life force to power himself up. |
| 544 | ** Kaspar is another example, while he is a pretty lousy person, he was a pawn of Leso Varen's and it's never fully made clear how many of the horrible things Kaspar does or has happen he did willingly or if Leso manipulated him into doing them. He spends much of Exile's Return doubting himself and questioning himself and how little he really knows as well as all of his failings as a person and a ruler. |
| 545 | * TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler: After Pug's HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Magician's End'', his role as Midkemia's most powerful guardian transfers to Magnus.]] |
| 546 | * {{Telepathy}}: Gamina, adopted daughter of Pug, is a natural born telepath. Other beings, like the Oracle of Aal, also communicate through some form of Mind Speech. |
| 547 | * ThievesGuild: The Mockers of Krondor are one of the best in all HighFantasy. |
| 548 | * TimeSkip: Quite a few between the various sagas. For reference, at the start of the first book, Jimmy the Hand was a toddler (Though he wouldn't appear as a character until a ten-year timeskip made him a teenager). During the second saga, Jimmy the Hand is now Duke James of Krondor, an old man whose grandchildren are young men. At the end of the final book in the series, Duke James of Rillanon, the grandson of Jimmy the Hand, retires from government service due to extreme old age, and ''his'' grandson James is a grown man. |
| 549 | * TitleDrop: Several of the books (''Daughter of the Empire'', ''Servant of the Empire'', ''Mistress of the Empire'', and ''Shards of a Broken Crown'', at a minimum) use the title in dialog on the last few pages of the book, generally in a summation of recent events. |
| 550 | * ToAbsentFriends: At the end of ''Betrayal'', the main characters have a toast in honour of [[spoiler:Gorath's HeroicSacrifice]]. |
| 551 | ** The survivors of Calis' Desperate Men have a drink in honor of their fallen comrades. |
| 552 | * TookALevelInBadass: Pug was a helpless apprentice wizard until it was discovered that the problem wasn't with him, but his teachers were doing it wrong. Practically overnight (okay, through 4 years of training) he becomes powerful enough to take on the entire Empire and quickly became the most powerful magician in the series. |
| 553 | ** This is what Robert de Loungville intended to have happen to the "desperate men.", he succeeded. |
| 554 | * TortureAlwaysWorks: Played straight, Lampshaded and subverted in various books. |
| 555 | ** Played straight in ''Flight of the Nighthawks'', when the heroes torture an assassin-guild member for information on their secret base. Even then, it takes several days and they only get the information after tricking him into thinking of the location with a telepath present. |
| 556 | ** Lampshaded in ''Krondor, The Betrayal'', ex-thief James notes that information gained through torture is unreliable, as the innocent will agree to anything to stop the pain and the guilty are generally strong-willed enough to resist anything you can do to them while leaving them capable of speech. |
| 557 | *** His companion, the Moredhel Gorath, counters that TortureAlwaysWorks if you know what you are doing. |
| 558 | ** Averted in ''Silverthorn'', when the heroes attempts to torture a would-be assassin for information lead to the creation of a Black Slayer. |
| 559 | ** Averted again in ''Silverthorn'', when the heroes attempt to torture another assassin and he scoffs at their efforts, saying that whatever they do to him is nothing compared to what The Guild of Death and the power behind it will do to him if he talks. |
| 560 | ** Averted thrice in ''Silverthorn'' when Pug and his companions are captured on Kelewan. The torture inflicted on Pug causes him to break through the mental barrier that prevented him from using Lesser Path magic. By torturing Pug, his captors actually enabled his freedom and he [[TookALevelInBadass leveled up]] in power at the same time. |
| 561 | * TouchedByVorlons: Tomas and his transformation into a hybrid human/Valheru, complete with [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity a heaping helping of terrorizing megalomania]] before the elven Spellweavers helped reinforce his self-control. This happens a couple of times later, to other people- the Emerald Queen was ''trying'' to become a human/Valheru hybrid, but got eaten and replaced by a demon before she managed it. In the ''Chaoswar'' books, a mercenary successfully becomes the emobodiement of another Valheru, Draken-Korin. |
| 562 | * TrainingFromHell: What Erik, Roo and the "desperate men" went through. |
| 563 | * TreacherousAdvisor: Guy du Bas Tyra in ''Magician''. |
| 564 | * TricksterMentor: Nakor, both during his brief time at WizardingSchool Stardock and later as a trainer with the Conclave of Shadows. |
| 565 | * TrilogyCreep: ''The Riftwar Saga'' was written as a trilogy, but the sheer size of ''Magician'' caused the publisher to break it down into two books. |
| 566 | ** Averted with the 10th year anniversary edition. |
| 567 | ** Likewise, ''The Serpentwar Saga'' was originally planned as a trilogy, but Feist's desire to spend more time and detail describing one character's journey from LoveableRogue to Master Trader, resulted in ''Rise of a Merchant Prince'' being added into the series. |
| 568 | * {{Tsundere}}: [[WellExcuseMePrincess Carline]], first towards Pug, then towards Laurie. |
| 569 | * TrueNeutral: InUniverse, members of the Order of Dala, Shield of the Weak, are supposed to support the weaker side in any conflict. In practice, this usually means they support the side of good. There are exceptions: for example, when a group of mercenaries decide to massacre the death cultists who hired them, Sandreena first helps the cultists' slaves/sacrificial victims escape, then awakens the cultists just before the mercenaries attack to make it more of a fair fight. |
| 570 | * TunnelNetwork: The city of Krondor has an AbsurdlySpaciousSewer belowground that is known as the "Thieves' Highway" because the Mockers (the resident ThievesGuild) uses them to get around and move smuggled and stolen goods. Castle Krondor, where the Prince of Krondor lives, has its own network of tunnels as well, some of which have been forgotten over time. |
| 571 | * TwilightOfTheGods: The immensely powerful, universe-conquering, godlike Valheru who originally ruled Midkemia were defeated in a major battle, leaving the remaining races behind to carve out an existence without their powers. |
| 572 | * UndyingLoyalty: Calis earnt Robert de Loungville and Erik von Darkmoor's. Erik later ends up earning this from the Crimson Eagles. |
| 573 | * UnexpectedSuccessor: Several examples. |
| 574 | ** As the second son of a minor Duke, Arutha conDoin wasn't really next in line for becoming Prince of Krondor, the capital city of the Western Kingdom, second in power only to the king himself. But then the war happened. The only reason he doesn't eventually become king himself after his elder brother's children don't survive to adulthood is because he gives up his claim to the throne in favor of his sons on the grounds that the kingdom would be ill-served by a king who was likely to die of old age within a few years. |
| 575 | ** In ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'', this is part of Gorath's backstory. A Speaker's Peace ends in a bloodbath. While a moredhel would need a few centuries and lots of experience behind their belt before expecting to become chieftain, the near-massacre of his clan - including the former chieftain, his father - thrusts the leadership on Gorath... at the age of ''twelve''. |
| 576 | ** In ''A Kingdom Besieged'', [[spoiler: Duke Henry of Crydee dies suddenly, leaving his eldest son Hal (who is currently halfway around the world, at university) as the new Duke and his middle son Martin (who is the highest ranking nobleman left in Crydee following an invasion) as the Warden of the West - commander of all the armed forces in the area. At the end of that saga, Hal ends up as King after a civil war.]] |
| 577 | * UsingYouAllAlong: When Armengar is besieged by a vast army of Moredhel, led by the legendary Moredhel leader Murmandamus, the good guys make the most of the city's defenses to make the death toll of the moredhel invaders truly staggering, including ''blowing up the whole city'' when the army finally does break through the walls. Turns out Murmandamus (who was, unknown to the moredhel he was commanding, a Pantathian in disguise) was gathering up all that escaping life force for power to access the Lifestone in Sethanon, and it didn't matter to him in the slightest if the dead soldiers were Moredhel or Kingdom. |
| 578 | * VainSorceress: Jorna/Lady Clovis. |
| 579 | * VariantChess: The Tsurani have a game called 'shah', which is exactly the same as the Midkemian game 'chess'. [[spoiler:It's an early hint that the two worlds have a relatively recent shared history.]] |
| 580 | * VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: The Tsurani have six-legged pack animals, similar to cows. In fact, pretty much ''all'' life native to Kelewan is six-limbed. [[spoiler: The Tsurani aren't native; neither are their dogs.]] |
| 581 | * VestigialEmpire: Queg considers itself the last [[NoTrueScotsman true]] remnant of the Keshian Empire. Subverted in that Kesh is still doing just fine; it just lost control of some outer provinces (including Queg) when a civil war a few centuries earlier forced the recall of their garrisons. |
| 582 | * WalkIntoMordor: Arutha and Company do this in ''Silverthorn'' (walking into the one valley they can find the titular plant, which is guarded by moredhel) and ''A Darkness at Sethanon'' (walking into the moredhel-dominated Northlands). |
| 583 | ** Pug leading an expedition into the Dasati realm. |
| 584 | * WanderingJew: Macros The Black's father might have been him. [[MultipleChoicePast He was probably lying about that, though]]. |
| 585 | ** To a degree, Macros himself seems to be similarly cursed. |
| 586 | * WarriorPoet: The Moredhel chieftain Gorath - he's striving to save his people from self-destruction - which, since it implies being less hostile to their neighbours, is something they're generally not happy to hear. |
| 587 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Martin Longbow. |
| 588 | * WhateverMancy: Makes mention of geomancy (manipulation of earth and rock) and necromancy. |
| 589 | * WhereItAllBegan: ''A Darkness At Sethanon'' has two groups of heroes racing the villains to the place where [[spoiler: the original Final Battle between The Gods and The Valheru occured.]] This location is used as the setting of the climax again and again in later books, such as the story of ''Krondor: The Betrayal'' and the ''Serpentwar Saga''. It also shows up as the site of a major battle in ''Magician's End'', but ''not'' the climax this time. |
| 590 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Pug may not be completely immortal but he has been cursed with the certainty that he will outlive every single person he has ever loved. |
| 591 | * TheWisePrince: Prince Arutha of Krondor. |
| 592 | ** A darker and grittier version is the moredhel chieftain Gorath, whose chosen purpose in life is to protect his people and who flinches at nothing to save them from those seeking to manipulate them as well as from themselves and their own murderous self-destructive ways. |
| 593 | * WizardBeard: Played straight, averted AND subverted in ''Magician''. |
| 594 | ** Pug's teacher Kulgan is pretty much the stereotypical fat, bearded, pipe-smoking wizard. |
| 595 | ** Tsurani Great Ones forgo beards, as the culture disapproves of free men sporting facial hair. Only male slaves - who are not allowed small sharp blades for obvious reasons - have beards. |
| 596 | ** Pug, who lives on Kelewan as a slave before his magical talents are discovered, keeps his beard upon becoming a Great One, despite the cultural taboos against it. |
| 597 | * WizardsLiveLonger: Most magicians, for one reason or another, seem to be capable of {{Immortality}}. The good ones just seem to manage it and the bad ones [[ImmortalityImmorality seek out the bad ways of doing it.]] |
| 598 | ** It's more like being a magic user of significant power will slow down your aging considerably, but won't make you immortal and you can still be killed. The good guys are content with this, mostly. The bad guys aren't, and use various unethical means to try and get the real deal. |
| 599 | ** Justified in the case of the good guys, since the gods need them to protect Midkemia and you can't do that with a typical human lifespan. |
| 600 | * WizardingSchool: The Assembly of Magicians on Kelewan. Later, Pug's academy at Stardock and the school on Sorcerer's Island. |
| 601 | * WordOfGod: [[http://www.crydee.com/ Feist's official website]] has an FAQ section, answering several common continuity questions. |
| 602 | * TheWorfEffect: The original ''Riftwar'' trilogy establishes the Valheru as having been a race of badasses ''par excellence''. When the demons, dread, and Dasati are introduced later, ''their'' badass-cred is established with the revelation that all defeated the Valheru (or at least fought them to a draw) in their backstory. |
| 603 | ** To be fair, demons are mostly incredibly difficult to kill and it took Tomas, Miranda and Pug working together to kill a demon captain (And they had to send him to the bottom of the ocean after having a fatal wound inflicted just to make sure he died.). The Dread have been around longer then the Valheru, [[spoiler: are attempting to destroy all of existence]], and it's flat out stated that a Valheru is pretty much the ''only'' thing in that plane of the universe capable of forcing the Dread to go all-out. And it's more the Talnoy then the Dasati themselves that are so powerful. [[spoiler: And even then, the Talnoy become no more once Pug frees the souls of the gods trapped inside the Talnoy.]] |
| 604 | * WorthlessYellowRocks: The first Riftwar was started after the Tsurani discovered that Midkemia was rich in metals that their home-world lacked. Indeed, silver is so rare on Kelewan that the silver coins used to pay for one meal in a tavern in Midkemia would be worth enough on Kelewan to support a noble family for one year. |
| 605 | ** Conversely, gems are so common upon Kelewan that the ''modest'' amount one lord gives his son as he journeys to Midkemia are worth enough for two young men to retire in comfort on Midkemia. Then again, gems see a lot more use on Midkemia than in our world. VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor states that you see as many rubies as coins when doing any major business in the Kingdom. |
| 606 | ** Pointed out in ''Honored Enemy''. Near the end of the book some of the Tsurani and Midkemian soldiers exchange daggers as token of friendship. While a Tsurani dagger is a curiousity to a Midkemian, a war trophy and a reminder of what happened at best, the metal that goes into a single Midkemian dagger is worth a fortune on the MetalPoorPlanet Kelewan. |
| 607 | * WorthyOpponent: How the Tsurani and Kingdom forces wind up regarding each other. |
| 608 | * WriteBackToTheFuture: Pug receives messages through a magic box, which he believes were written by his future self, giving him advice on what actions he must take at certain times. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that all those notes were actually written by Kalkin, god of tricksters.]] |
| 609 | * WunzaPlot: [[http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/feist.shtml "I'm goodhearted and honest." "I'm goodhearted and sneaky."]] Together, They Fight Evil! |
| 610 | * YouAllMeetInAnInn: Nearly half the party is recruited this way in ''Silverthorn''. A year later in ''A Darkness At Sethanon'', the separated heroes rejoin at the same inn. |
| 611 | * YouShallNotPass: Roald's HeroicSacrifice in ''A Darkness At Sethanon''. |
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