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* OurLichesAreDifferent: The Great Ones of the Specks can survive beyond their physical death by fusing with a kaembra, a sacred "ancestor-tree". Thanks to this fusion, the Great One becomes one with the tree, can use its powers beyond the grave, and can "survive" in the spirit world. However, in return, if the Great One uses too much of the tree's power, the tree will demand in return to be fed not to die - which can result in a ManEatingPlant situation f the undead Speck wishes to keep on living...
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* ManEatingPlant: ''Corpse'' eating plant, [[spoiler:although, of course, sometimes they make the corpses themselves...]]

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* ManEatingPlant: ''Corpse'' eating plant, [[spoiler:although, The kaembras can become this when too much of course, sometimes they make their magic is used - the corpses themselves...]]trees need to 'feed' to replenish their power, and if a living being, human or not, happens to pass too close to the plant...
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* BigEater: All Great Ones are this, since magic is most commonly found in various foods (fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, the meat of animals) and the most usual way to replenish one's magic in Specks culture is to eat massive amounts of magic-fueled food. It also helps that casting spells or curses also causes a tremendous hunger for the magic-user, which can become very painful if they do not have something to eat fast.

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* BigEater: All Great Ones are this, since this,since they obtain their magic is most commonly found in various from certain types foods (fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, the meat of animals) and the most usual way have to eat enormous quantities of it to replenish one's magic in Specks culture is to eat massive amounts of magic-fueled food. their magic. It also helps that casting that, due to their spells or curses also causes relying on a tremendous hunger for the magic-user, which can become CastFromCalories logic, Great Ones always feel very painful if hungry after using their magic. However, in a twist, the Great Ones are only hungry for magic-containing food - they do not have something to eat fast.out of pure gluttony, or just to satiate their hunger, meaning if they gorge on non-magic food, they'll still be left hungry and disappointed.
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%%* TheDutifulSon: A variation runs between Nevare and his female cousin Epiny.

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%%* * TheDutifulSon: A variation runs between What Nevare desperately tries to be despite the entire world being against him. Even after being infected with magic, becoming obese, and finding himself an agent and sympathizer of the Specks, he still tries to be a good and loyal Gernian, obeying the traditions of the Gernian faith and to make a carreer in the military, as he was always trained to do. No matter how much the odds are against him, he still tries to follow the path his female cousin Epiny.society, raising and father set out for him, and it will take him [[spoiler: almost being lynched by his own people to understand he should maybe take a different lifepath.]] Subverted in-universe, as Nevare's family is convinced he actually made himself obese on purpose to avoid the military duties that were expecting him. His father, especially, perceives the bizarre circumstances and strange curses surrounding his son as personal attempts at defying his authority and escaping his control, despite Nevare doing the very opposite and trying as hard as he can to please him. [[spoiler: Understanding that his father is a bitter and abusive control-freak is a needed step for Nevare to become his own person.]]



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%%* FakingTheDead* FakingTheDead: What [[spoiler: Nevare is forced to do at the end of the second book, since he has been framed for crimes ranging from murder to necrophilia. His only way to survive a death penalty, or an execution by a mob, is to make everyone believe through magic that he died, while he hides in the forests far away from civilization.]]



%%* MightyWhitey: Deconstructed in Gernia's colonization of the Plainspeople and the Specks.

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%%* * MightyWhitey: Deconstructed in Gernia's colonization of the Plainspeople and the Specks.Specks. Nevare, being raised as a "true" Gernian (itself heavily based on the European colonies of early America), truly believes at the beginning of the series that the Gernian way of life, civilization and society are far superior to those of the "native" of the lands they are colonizing, and that they are helping them progress towards a better life. One of the threads of the series is how Nevare comes to understand the culture of the colonized, while opening his eyes to the numerous flaws and crimes of Gernians themselves.



%%* ThePlague

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%%* ThePlague* ThePlague: This is the main threat and danger the Specks pose to the Gernian, as they have found a way to unleash a dreadful, deadly and highly contagious disease the Gernians simply call the "Speck Plague". Gernians have a hard time understanding how it work and how to cure it, though many doctors and scientists hope they are getting closer to the truth each day... [[spoiler: As it turns out, the plague is actually a magic spell rather than any actual bioweapon.]]



%%* SpiritWorld: Nevare and Dewara's spirit journey, later [[spoiler:the location of Tree Woman's afterlife.]]

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%%* * SpiritWorld: The spirit world is one of the main locations of the series. Deware trains Nevare in his youth to go there, in hope that he will be able to fight and Dewara's kill his archenemesis, the Tree Woman. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler: Nevare gets ensnared by the Tree Woman, and turned into his unwilling agent in the material world.]] Afterward, Nevare travels several other times to the spirit journey, later [[spoiler:the location world, that apparently all magic users can access and which doubles as a form of Tree Woman's afterlife.]]afterlife since the ghosts of the deceased can stay there.

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