This fantasy trilogy (''Moongather'', ''Moonscatter'', and ''Changer's Moon'') by Creator/JoClayton, far removed from the [[StandardFantasySetting standard model]], was published in the early to mid 1980s.

It was followed by the ''Dancer'' trilogy, in which Serroi also featured.

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!!Provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Serroi, and ''meien'' in general.
* AdiposeRex: Subverted with Domnor Hern Heslin: While he's often dismissed as a tubby, ineffectually good-natured doofus, he's less outright fat than stocky and well-padded, and is surprisingly [[StoutStrength strong]] and [[{{Acrofatic}} agile]]. He's also neither [[BewareTheNiceOnes ineffectual]] nor a [[ObfuscatingStupidity doofus]].
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Subverted; Serroi's green skin (she's a [[{{Mutants}} mutant]]) is a dead give-away unless she takes pains to hide it. (There ''are'' other green-skinned people; however, Serroi, not being [[LizardFolk scaly]], would never be mistaken for a silkar.)
* AmazonBrigade: The Biserica, although ''meien'' usually just travel in pairs.
* BigBeautifulMan: Hern's sweet face and beautiful hazel eyes are mentioned more than once.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: If it wasn't obvious enough that chinin are dogs (or such a close analogue that someone from our world would automatically consider them "dogs") in ''Moongather'', they're explicitly identified as such in ''Changer's Moon''.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Averted. [[spoiler:[[MagicalAbortion The Biserica equivalent of a morning-after pill]] is nasty stuff.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: [[spoiler:Tayyan's [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled suicide]]]] in ''Moongather''.
* EquivalentExchange: At the end of ''Changer's Moon''[[spoiler:, Serroi [[{{Transflormation}} turns Ser Noris into a tree]]. But because of his power, she [[HeroicSacrifice turns into one herself]] (and isn't restored until several generations later)]].
* EvilSorcerer: The Nearga-Nor, especially [[BigBad Ser Noris]].
* FeministFantasy, to at least some degree.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Floarin, although she's pretty much a puppet.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: Tuli and Teras; subverted when Teras hits a growth spurt.
* HighFantasy: Kind of.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Macain are monotremes resembling ornithopod dinosaurs. Rambuts are somewhere between a zebra and an antelope. And a vinat is a moose with porcupine quills.
* KickTheDog: Ser Noris pulls an almost literal example in ''Moongather''. If by "kick" you mean [[spoiler:"drain out the life force—[[PoweredByAForsakenChild using a little girl as a conduit]]—then transform what's left into demons,"]] that is. And if by "dog" you mean [[spoiler:"entire litter of puppies, followed by the rest of the menagerie,"]] that is.
* LittleMissBadass: Serroi is a MagicKnight who's been training as a soldier since she was thirteen. She's about four and a half feet tall, and at the age of twenty-seven to thirty, doesn't have to put much effort into passing for twelve.
* LoveHurts: And ''how''.
* LowFantasy: Kind of.
* LittleMissBadass: Serroi, at the beginning of ''Moongather'', is [[OlderThanTheyLook twenty-seven years old and can pass for a preteen without much effort]]. You do ''not'' want to mess with her.
* MagicKnight: Serroi is quite the fighter, but also has quite impressive [[HealingHands healing]] and [[NatureHero nature-magic]] powers.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Serroi is tiny and baby-faced enough to pass herself off as a preadolescent. She's twenty-seven in ''Moongather'', thirty or thereabouts by ''Changer's Moon''.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They vary incredibly widely in size, seem to be lighter than air, and communicate by changing the colors of their transparent bodies.
* RapeAsDrama: Happens to [[spoiler:Tuli]] in ''Moonscatter'' and [[spoiler:Julia]] in ''Changer's Moon''.
* RebelliousPrincess: Tuli, although it's more accurate to call her the daughter of a minor noble.
* ShoutOut: To the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' series, in ''Changer's Moon''.
* StandardFantasySetting: Averted.
* StoutStrength: Short, pudgy Hern is [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething surprisingly effective]] in a fight.
* {{Transflormation}}: [[spoiler:''Changer's Moon'' ends with Serroi and Ser Noris both transformed into trees.]]
* {{Tykebomb}}: In ''Changer's Moon'', the Followers of the Flame are doing their best to turn Dris Gradin into one.
* WaifFu: Serroi is well under five feet tall and lightly built, but [[LittleMissBadass can kick some serious ass]]. Justified by her [[WeakButSkilled extensive combat training]] and by a tendency to [[FragileSpeedster outmaneuver her opponents]] rather than overpowering them.
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