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* AllAccessibleMagic: In theory, scrivening requires only knowledge of the [[LanguageOfMagic divine language]]. In practice, that language is so incredibly complex and prone to horrific {{Magic Misfire}}s from any error that scrivening is a rare, highly trained, and strictly regulated profession.
* AllThereInTheManual: Want to know about Itempas and Shahar's son? Check the author's blog.
* AllThereInTheManual: Want to know about Itempas and Shahar's son? Check the author's blog.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Want to know about Itempas and Shahar's son? Check the author's blog.
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--> I focused on depicting the quintessential creepiness of him — the ancient soul that is always visible through his child’s eyes, the calculating adult mind which uses the wiles of a child to conceal its true complexity. But it’s hard to keep “creepy” from edging into “repulsive”. Sieh exists in a perpetual UncannyValley state; he looks and acts like something that he isn’t. Something we’re supposed to feel affection toward, not fear.
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** ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'': TheEmpire's scrivener's lab is packed with esoteric experimental apparatus, RunicMagic supplies, and plenty of specimen cages, foreshadowing his [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals overall disregard for life]].
** ''The Kingdom of Gods'': In contrast, Deka's personal lab is stuffed with nothing but literature and writing supplies, as he's [[TheArchmage such a phenomenal scrivener]] that he's reinventing the divine LanguageOfMagic.
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* DivineInfernalFamily: The three creator Gods [[GodOfOrder Nahadoth]], [[GodOfChaos Itempas]], and Enefa are siblings born of the PrimordialChaos. They're all of decidedly grey morality, but after Itempas' coup against the others, the state religion of the Arameri Empire portrayed him as the ultimate good and Nahadoth as evil.
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* DivineInfernalFamily: The three creator Gods [[GodOfChaos Nahadoth]], [[GodOfOrder Nahadoth]], [[GodOfChaos Itempas]], and Enefa are siblings born of the PrimordialChaos. They're all of decidedly grey morality, but after Itempas' coup against the others, the state religion of the Arameri Empire portrayed him as the ultimate good and Nahadoth as evil.
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* DivineIncest: The three creator gods--Itempas, Enefa, and Nahadoth--are siblings and also in a polyamorous relationship. Their various children also have sexual relationships with each other as well as with their parents. Human societies shown in the novels have an incest taboo but concede that it doesn't apply to the gods who walk among them.
