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* TheBeard: Allegra Stregazza for her husband Ricciardo.
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* HeroicSeductress: A lot of problems in the first trilogy are solved by having Phèdre find the right person to sleep with. This ranges from seducing an on-the-fence admiral to infiltrating the harem of a horrific dictator.
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* HeroicSeductress: HeroicSeductress:
** A lot of problems in the first trilogy are solved by having Phèdre find the right person to sleep with. This ranges from seducing an on-the-fence admiral to infiltrating the harem of a horrificdictator.dictator.
** Naamah, the first angel to join Elua, slept with the king of Persis to secure Elua's freedom and with strangers in Bhodistan so he could eat. She is the archetypal HeroicSeductress for d'Angelines and the reason that they consider prostitution sacred.
** A lot of problems in the first trilogy are solved by having Phèdre find the right person to sleep with. This ranges from seducing an on-the-fence admiral to infiltrating the harem of a horrific
** Naamah, the first angel to join Elua, slept with the king of Persis to secure Elua's freedom and with strangers in Bhodistan so he could eat. She is the archetypal HeroicSeductress for d'Angelines and the reason that they consider prostitution sacred.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Imriel carries on an affair with red-haired Claudia in ''Scion''.
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* BloodstainedDefloration: In ''Kushiel's Dart'', young prostitute Phèdre's virginity is auctioned off. The top bidder, Childric d'Essoms, half-jokes that he intends to show off the white silk cloth she bled on by making it into a new coat of arms.
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* BrainwashedBride: In ''Kushiel's Mercy'', the ArcVillain casts a MindControl spell across the City of Elua that convinces everybody that Princess Sidonie de la Courcel agreed to marry him, including Sidonie herself. Protagonist Imriel is immunized by an agent of his exiled biological mother, who got wind of the plot and hoped to foil it.
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* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Drustan's tribe are named the Cullach Gorrym, translated in the story as the Black Boar. "Gorrym" is actually Manx for ''blue''; it ''can'' mean "black", but only in terms of ethnicity. The Manx for the ''colour'' black is "doo".
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* TheAlcatraz: The prison island of La Dolorosa in ''Chosen''. With shades of [[Literature/HarryPotter Azkaban]] as well, given the endless, wailing, soul-rending winds.
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* TheAlcatraz: The prison island of La Dolorosa in ''Chosen''. With shades of [[Literature/HarryPotter Azkaban]] as well, given the endless, wailing, soul-rending winds.winds, and likely [[FantasyCounterpartCulture inspired by]] the Venetian island of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poveglia Poveglia]].
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* ThatDidntHappen: The first time Phèdre and Joscelin make love in ''Dart'', they're hiding in a cave, exhausted, scared, and traumatized from fleeing and fighting the Skaldi. Afterwards, it's mutually understood that, for the sake of not complicating things while they're fighting for survival, as well as Joscelin's vow of celibacy, they will pretend that it never happened.
--> '''Phèdre''': We have dreamed this day. Joscelin, we dream still, and tomorrow will wake from it.
--> '''Phèdre''': We have dreamed this day. Joscelin, we dream still, and tomorrow will wake from it.
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Crosswicking from Mystical Cave.
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* MysticalCave: The Temenos is a cavern sacred to [[MotherNature Mother Dia]] that's tended by a reclusive, [[WomenAreWiser all-female]] priestly order. People who enter suffer harrowing visions of the guilt they bear, winning purification and absolution if they survive the ordeal.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Both played straight and averted depending on who the protagonist is. In ''Naamah's Kiss'', Moirin more than once jumps on a man ''who is saying no'' (both times because she's a bit under the influence herself, but still) and compels him to go along with it. However, when Imriel is assaulted by a woman (ironically, of the same people as Moirin) who tries to compel him to respond to her desire, this ''is'' held up as an abomination. The trick is, Moirin comes from Alba. The culture is different in Terre d'Ange, which views rape as ''heresy.''
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Both played straight and averted depending on who the protagonist is. In ''Naamah's Kiss'', Moirin more than once jumps on a man ''who is saying no'' (both times because she's a bit under the influence herself, but still) and compels him to go along with it. However, when Imriel is assaulted by a woman (ironically, of the same people as Moirin) who tries to compel him to respond to her desire, this ''is'' held up as an abomination. The trick is, Moirin comes from Alba. The culture is different in Terre d'Ange, which views rape as ''heresy.'''' (However, she knows this, and it still doesn't stop her, or ever make her consider that her actions might not be okay!)
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* WifeHusbandry: Inverted. Delaunay adopts Phèdre and Alcuin with the plan that he wants them to work as spies/courtesans and believes that the kids see him as a mentor/boss figure. Instead both of them fall in love with him. Alcuin waits until he's free and legal to make his move.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Melisande has multiple chances to kill Phèdre, and always opts to imprison her instead. (Multiple characters question why she went with the "sell her to Skaldia" plan in the first book instead of just killing her.) There are two reasons for this: ''anguisettes'' are so rare that Melisande sees destroying one as a criminal waste, and it would be literal sacrilege to destroy Kushiel's chosen. Melisande is always very careful never to piss off the gods, even when it puts her in more danger from mortal authorities.
* WifeHusbandry: Inverted. Delaunay adopts Phèdre and Alcuin with the plan that he wants them to work as spies/courtesans and believes that the kids see him as a mentor/boss figure. Instead both of them fall in love with him. Alcuin waits until he's free and legal to make his move. Even then, Delaunay--normally a master of reading people--is so oblivious that Phèdre has to outright ''tell'' him Alcuin is in love with him for him to accept Alcuin's advances.
* WifeHusbandry: Inverted. Delaunay adopts Phèdre and Alcuin with the plan that he wants them to work as spies/courtesans and believes that the kids see him as a mentor/boss figure. Instead both of them fall in love with him. Alcuin waits until he's free and legal to make his move. Even then, Delaunay--normally a master of reading people--is so oblivious that Phèdre has to outright ''tell'' him Alcuin is in love with him for him to accept Alcuin's advances.
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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Ysandre, as well as with Drustan, her husband. Both find themselves in this position during ''Dart'' and ''Chosen''.
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* DiamondsInTheBuff: A variant. [[MagnificentBitch Melisande]] contracts Phèdre (a [[HighClassCallGirl courtesan]]) to accompany her as a "pet" to a court function wearing a very see-through gauze gown studded with diamonds, and a collar with a magnificent diamond (and ring for a leash). Phèdre-an experienced courtesan at this point--is still both amazed at the opulence of the outfit, and more than a little mortified at being ''that'' exposed in front of every high-ranking noble of the realm.
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* MedievalStasis: Averted in some aspects, enforced in others. Science and technology barely advance at all from the beginning of the first trilogy to the end of the second; in the third, set approximately a century later, European ships can now cross the Atlantic and medical science has advanced to the point that vaccination has been invented (and is used to prevent [[spoiler:the plague-driven depopulation caused in our history when European diseases were introduced to the Americas]]), but the invention and use of [[FantasyGunControl cannons in warfare]] is explicitly averted by a divinely-mandated destiny.
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Not really a true example of the trope. Ysandre isn't magically more desirable because she's a virgin; it's a political move.
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* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Ysandre is rare among D'Angelines in that she was not allowed to have sex before marriage in case she married a foreigner, and pretty much all other countries around Terre d'Ange require the bride to be a virgin.
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* CheerThemUpWithLaughter: It's stated by the narrative that patrons visit Orchis House, whose adepts are FunPersonified, when they want a night of merriment and a break from the troubles of life.
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** Throughout Imriel's trilogy, the Duc Barquiel L'Envers is deeply mistrustful towards Imriel, to the point of antagonism. But in ''Justice,'' we see Barquiel's hidden depths when he recognizes Imriel's own: [[spoiler: Imriel isn't motivated by power, only b a selfless, sincere love for Sidonie.]]
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** Throughout Imriel's trilogy, the Duc Barquiel L'Envers is deeply mistrustful towards Imriel, to the point of antagonism. But in ''Justice,'' we see Barquiel's hidden depths when he recognizes Imriel's own: [[spoiler: Imriel isn't motivated by power, only b by a selfless, sincere love for Sidonie.Sidonie--- and that's a motivation the Duc can respect.]]
