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* JediMindTrick: The Coercive metafunction allows people to control others in many ways, but there's a scene in the second book (written 1982) which is probably a deliberate shout-out with the way that the mind-whammied targets repeat what they're told.
--> Felice's coercive power settled without trace over the will of the majordomo. "We will pay our respects to the High Faculty of the Guild, such as may be up and about, before retiring. Coming as we do from doleful Finiah, we have need of fraternal support and sympathy. You will be glad to conduct us into headquarters personally."
--> "I will be glad," the man repeated mechanically, "to conduct you into headquarters personally."
--> Felice's coercive power settled without trace over the will of the majordomo. "We will pay our respects to the High Faculty of the Guild, such as may be up and about, before retiring. Coming as we do from doleful Finiah, we have need of fraternal support and sympathy. You will be glad to conduct us into headquarters personally."
--> "I will be glad," the man repeated mechanically, "to conduct you into headquarters personally."
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This is not artistic license, there are no anatomically modern humans native to the time the story is set. All the humans are time travelers from our future.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Anatomically modern humans didn't exist until, at the very earliest, 3.5 million years after the story is set.
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* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Orme and Marc Remillard, for each other. Lawrence Mallory was killed in a post-Rebellion accident which also took away Elizabeth's metafaculties, while Cyndia Muldowney was instinctively and lethally struck down by Marc after sterilizing him (cutting off Mental Man at the source) at the height of passion during the Rebellion (and his subsequent relationship with Patricia Castellane was strictly FriendsWithBenefits). The two discuss what they are to each other while the Grand Tourney duel between Minanonn and Medor was ongoing, and Elizabeth finally confesses to Marc during the climactic confrontation at Castle Gateway towards the end of ''The Adversary''.]]
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* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Orme and Marc Remillard, for each other. Lawrence Mallory was killed in a post-Rebellion accident which also took away Elizabeth's metafaculties, while Cyndia Muldowney was instinctively and lethally struck down by Marc after sterilizing him (cutting off Mental Man at the source) at the height of passion during the Rebellion (and his subsequent relationship with Patricia Castellane was strictly FriendsWithBenefits). The two discuss what they are to each other while the Grand Tourney duel between Minanonn and Medor was ongoing, and Elizabeth finally confesses confesses[=/=]opens up to Marc during the climactic confrontation at Castle Gateway towards the end of ''The Adversary''.Adversary''; this is what convinces Marc to finally let go of Mental Man and send his children through the time gate, back to the Galactic Milieu.]]
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: In the aftermath of [[spoiler:Aiken's subsumption of Mercy and Nodonn's metapsychic complexuses, he begins to exhibit chimerism while in the throes of subsumption-induced metapsychic dysfunction / onset of madness, to the point of shapeshifting into a three-headed hermaphrodite chimera with GagBoobs and a GagPenis.]]
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: In the aftermath of [[spoiler:Aiken's subsumption of Mercy and Nodonn's metapsychic complexuses, he begins to exhibit chimerism while in the throes of subsumption-induced metapsychic dysfunction / onset of madness, to the point of shapeshifting into a three-headed hermaphrodite chimera with GagBoobs boobs and a GagPenis.]]
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* AuthorAvatar: WordOfGod identifies Claude as this; he carries her family's original Polish surname (''Majewski'').
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Iron is deadly poisonous to full-blooded Tanu and Firvulag. And since the exotics are all but stated to eventually become TheFairFolk of humanity's collecti e unconscious, it is implied that this weakness gave rise to the trope of ColdIron.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Iron is deadly poisonous to full-blooded Tanu and Firvulag. And since the exotics are all but stated to eventually become TheFairFolk of humanity's collecti e collective unconscious, it is implied that this weakness gave rise to the trope of ColdIron.
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* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Orme and Marc Remillard, for each other. Lawrence Mallory was killed in a post-Rebellion accident which also took away Elizabeth's metafaculties, while Cyndia Muldowney was instinctively and lethally struck down by Marc after sterilizing him (cutting off Mental Man at the source) at the height of passion during the Rebellion. The two discuss what they are to each other while the Grand Tourney duel between Minanonn and Medor was ongoing, and Elizabeth finally confesses to Marc during the climactic confrontation at Castle Gateway towards the end of ''The Adversary''.]]
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* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Orme and Marc Remillard, for each other. Lawrence Mallory was killed in a post-Rebellion accident which also took away Elizabeth's metafaculties, while Cyndia Muldowney was instinctively and lethally struck down by Marc after sterilizing him (cutting off Mental Man at the source) at the height of passion during the Rebellion.Rebellion (and his subsequent relationship with Patricia Castellane was strictly FriendsWithBenefits). The two discuss what they are to each other while the Grand Tourney duel between Minanonn and Medor was ongoing, and Elizabeth finally confesses to Marc during the climactic confrontation at Castle Gateway towards the end of ''The Adversary''.]]
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* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:You'll GoOutWithABang and your mind will be subsumed, before the same thing is done to your [[MurderTheHypotenuse mate]]. Which is what Aiken does to Mercy and then to Nodonn at the climax of ''The Nonborn King''.]]
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* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:You'll GoOutWithABang go OutWithABang and your mind will be subsumed, before the same thing is done to your [[MurderTheHypotenuse mate]]. Which is what Aiken does to Mercy and then to Nodonn at the climax of ''The Nonborn King''.]]
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* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:You'll GoOutWithABang and your mind will be subsumed, before the same thing is done to your [[MurderTheHypotenuse mate]]. Which is what Aiken does to Mercy and then to Nodonn at the climax of ''The Nonborn King''.]]
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* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:You'll GoOutWithABang and your mind will be subsumed, before the same is done to your [[MurderTheHypotenuse mate]]. Which is what Aiken does to Mercy and then to Nodonn at the climax of ''The Nonborn King''.]]
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* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Orme and Marc Remillard, for each other. Lawrence Orme was killed in a post-Rebellion accident which also took away Elizabeth's metafaculties, while Cyndia Muldowney was instinctively and lethally struck down by Marc after sterilizing him (cutting off Mental Man at the source) at the height of passion during the Rebellion. The two discuss what they are to each other while the Grand Tourney duel between Minanonn and Medor was ongoing, and Elizabeth finally confesses to Marc during the climactic confrontation at Castle Gateway towards the end of ''The Adversary''.]]
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* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Orme and Marc Remillard, for each other. Lawrence Orme Mallory was killed in a post-Rebellion accident which also took away Elizabeth's metafaculties, while Cyndia Muldowney was instinctively and lethally struck down by Marc after sterilizing him (cutting off Mental Man at the source) at the height of passion during the Rebellion. The two discuss what they are to each other while the Grand Tourney duel between Minanonn and Medor was ongoing, and Elizabeth finally confesses to Marc during the climactic confrontation at Castle Gateway towards the end of ''The Adversary''.]]
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* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Orme and Marc Remillard, for each other. Lawrence Orme was killed in a post-Rebellion accident which also took away Elizabeth's metafaculties, while Cyndia Muldowney was instinctively and lethally struck down by Marc after sterilizing him (cutting off Mental Man at the source) at the height of passion during the Rebellion. The two discuss these what they are to each other while the Grand Tourney duel between Minanonn and Medor was ongoing, and Elizabeth finally confesses to Marc during the climactic confrontation at Castle Gateway towards the end of ''The Adversary''.]]
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* TwinTelepathy: Kuhal Earthshaker and Fian Skybreaker are Tanu twins who appear to share one mind through telepathy. When Fian dies, Kuhal lapses back into latency and has to learn to be a whole person. [[spoiler:Which he does in Skin with Cloud Remillard, who he eventually marries.]]
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* TwinTelepathy: Kuhal Earthshaker and Fian Skybreaker are Tanu twins who appear to share one mind through telepathy. When Fian dies, Kuhal lapses back into latency and has to learn to be a whole person. [[spoiler:Which he does in Skin with Cloud Remillard, who he becomes his soulmate and eventually marries.marries him.]]
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: In the aftermath of [[spoiler:Aiken's subsumption of Mercy and Nodonn's metapsychic complexuses, he begins to exhibit chimerism while in the throes of subsumption-induced metapsychic dysfunction / onset of madness, to the point of shapeshifting into a three-headed hermaphrodite chimera with GagBoobs and a GagPenis.]]
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: anatomically modern humans didn't exist until, at the very earliest, 3.5 million years after the story is set.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Marc and Elizabeth, although [[spoiler:Marc comes back as Atoning Unifex in the Literature/GalacticMilieu trilogy, and it is revealed that Elizabeth died.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Marc and Elizabeth, although [[spoiler:Marc comes back as Atoning Unifex in the Literature/GalacticMilieu trilogy, and it is revealed that Elizabeth died.]]
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: anatomically Anatomically modern humans didn't exist until, at the very earliest, 3.5 million years after the story is set.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Marc andElizabeth, although [[spoiler:Marc Elizabeth [[spoiler:move on from the Pliocene to nurture the Duat galaxy at the end of ''The Adversary''. However, Marc comes back as Atoning Unifex in the Literature/GalacticMilieu trilogy, and it is revealed that Elizabeth eventually died.]]
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: So, who are the good guys?
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: So, who Neither the Tanu or the Firvulag are the presented as particularly good guys?
or evil: the Tanu enslave humans, and the Firvulag are at war with the Tanu and not presented especially sympathetically either. Most of the humans in the series also commit a range of... less than moral actions.
* HalfHumanHybrid: There are a lot of Tanu-human hybrid children in the Pliocene. Justified by the sentient ship having been told to find the most compatible planet for the exotics' exile.
* HalfHumanHybrid: There are a lot of Tanu-human hybrid children in the Pliocene. Justified by the sentient ship having been told to find the most compatible planet for the exotics' exile.
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* NoManOfWomanBorn: The Nonborn King.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Many of the the Ocala rebels have undergone rejuvenation, so they look thirty or forty but are really a few decades older. Owen Blanchard, the oldest of the Rebels, is about a hundred and forty and looks to be a normal old man. Marc is also self-rejuvenating; he looks fairly young but is actually about seventy at the time of the series.
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* NoManOfWomanBorn: The Nonborn King.
King was generated from a test tube.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Many ofthe the Ocala rebels have undergone rejuvenation, so they look thirty or forty but are really a few decades older. Owen Blanchard, the oldest of the Rebels, is about a hundred and forty and looks to be a normal old man. Marc is also self-rejuvenating; he looks fairly young but is actually about seventy at the time of the series.
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* MyOwnGrandpa: [[spoiler:See the second point under StableTimeLoop below for a species-wide example.]]
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* BroughtDownToNormal: Elizabeth after her accident in the Milieu. [[spoiler: Her power is then restored by the trauma of passing through the time-gate.]]
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* VaginaDentata: The Firvulag.Do not attempt to rape a Firvulag woman. It will end badly for you.
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* StableTimeLoop: The ''Theory of the Persistence of Temporal Event Nodes'', a corollary of the Milieu's dynamic-field theory formalized by [[spoiler:Alexis Manion]], ensures that alternate timelines or temporal paradoxes wouldn't exist, such that that travel into the past will always yield this trope. Two examples:
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* StableTimeLoop: The ''Theory of the Persistence of Temporal Event Nodes'', a corollary of the Milieu's dynamic-field theory formalized by [[spoiler:Alexis Manion]], ensures that alternate timelines or temporal paradoxes wouldn't exist, such that that travel into the past will always yield this trope. Two examples:
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* StableTimeLoop: The ''Theory of the Persistence of Temporal Event Nodes'', a corollary of the Milieu's dynamic-field theory formalized by [[spoiler:Alexis Manion]], ensures that alternate timelines or temporal paradoxes wouldn't exist, such that that travel into the past will always yield this trope. Two examples:
