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* TheArcher
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* [[spoiler: DeathBySex]]

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!The Five as a Whole

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Paul
** TheLancer: Kevin
** TheSmartGuy: Kimberley
** TheBigGuy: Dave
** TheChick: Jennifer
* HiddenDepths: All five of these characters have new sides that are eventually seen.

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* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Paul
** TheLancer: Kevin
** TheSmartGuy: Kimberley
** TheBigGuy: Dave
** TheChick: Jennifer
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* AnAxeToGrind: Specifically because it does not need exhaustive training. He turns out really proficient.
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* SignatureMove: The "Revor's Kill", which involves standing down the enemy and letting your blade slice into them.

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* SignatureMove: The "Revor's Kill", which involves standing facing down a stampeding swift of eltor (a native Fionavar animal much like deer or antelope) and killing the enemy and letting lead eltor with a single thrown knife at precisely the point where its body will collapse at your blade slice into them.
feet, thus causing the rest of the swift to split apart from the fallen buck and race harmlessly past you on either side.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He almost beats Ailell at ta'bac, which is the Fionavar version of chess, which is the reason the king likes him so much.
* TheStoic: So much that people find him unsettling and withdrawn. [[spoiler: It's actually related to his status as a Twiceborn.]]

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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He almost beats Ailell at ta'bac, which is the Fionavar ta'bael, Fionavar's version of chess, which is the reason the king likes him so much.
* TheStoic: So much that people find him unsettling and withdrawn. [[spoiler: It's actually initially related to his trauma from losing his fiancee; later, it's an aspect of his status as a Twiceborn.the Twiceborn, the servant of Mornir.]]



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%%* TroubledButCute* TroubledButCute: He has a brief fling with a tavern girl in Book One, and while he leaves her in tears when she realizes he took no joy in the encounter at all, she remembers him fondly enough that she immediately tries for a repeat performance when she sees him again in Book Two. [[spoiler: Tragically, she makes the mistake of getting between him and a very dangerous secondary villain in the act, and saves Paul's life at the cost of her own.]]
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** The whole incident is something of a ''BigLippedAlligatorMoment'', given that there's no signs of previous attraction and it never comes up again. One wonders if it was inserted to throw off questions about [[HoYay Loren and Matt's relationship]].

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** The whole incident is something of a ''BigLippedAlligatorMoment'', BigLippedAlligatorMoment, given that there's no signs of previous attraction and it never comes up again. One wonders if it was inserted to throw off questions about [[HoYay Loren and Matt's relationship]].
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** The whole incident is something of a ''BigLippedAlligatorMoment'', given that there's no signs of previous attraction and it never comes up again. One wonders if it was inserted to throw off questions about [[HoYay Loren and Matt's relationship]].
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* ManInWhite: Explicitly to mock the good guys.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: [[spoiler: She's a reincarnation of Guinevere.]]
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** This is subverted personality-wise however, as they're both [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Queens]] with [[DeadpanSnarker mocking senses of humour]] and [[TheFettered strong senses of responsibility.]] The main difference is he's the [[TheStoic stoic]], KuuDere type of ice queen where Jaelle is more of an aggressive, fiery TsunDere.

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** This is subverted personality-wise however, as they're both [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Queens]] with [[DeadpanSnarker mocking senses of humour]] and [[TheFettered strong senses of responsibility.]] The main difference is he's the [[TheStoic stoic]], KuuDere SugarAndIcePersonality type of ice queen where Jaelle is more of an aggressive, fiery TsunDere.



* OppositesAttract: [[spoiler: She and Paul are both the physical representations of the Mother-Goddess and All-Father Archetypes, so of course they are going to.]] Also the whole {{Kuudere}}[=/=]{{Tsundere}} thing.

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* OppositesAttract: [[spoiler: She and Paul are both the physical representations of the Mother-Goddess and All-Father Archetypes, so of course they are going to.]] Also the whole {{Kuudere}}[=/=]{{Tsundere}} SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]{{Tsundere}} thing.
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%%* {{Kuudere}}: Of course, pretty much all the people who have seen his dere side are dead by the end of book two...


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%%* SugarAndIcePersonality: Of course, pretty much all the people who have seen his sweet side are dead by the end of book two...
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* {{Expy}}: In his Silmarillion days [[TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]] was known as Thu the Wolflord.

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* {{Expy}}: In his Silmarillion ''[[Literature/TheSilmarillion Silmarillion]]'' days [[TheLordOfTheRings [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Sauron]] was known as Thu the Wolflord.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming: [[spoiler:Getting reunited with his father.]]
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* FatalFlaw: His blinding hatred of all things Light and the temper that goes with it tend to ruin his plans or cause him other problems; he picks up the VillainBall most when he's angry about something.

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* LockedIntoStrangeness: Her hair turns white after [[spoiler: Ysanne sacrifices her soul for her.]]



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%%* SmartPeoplePlayChess* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He almost beats Ailell at ta'bac, which is the Fionavar version of chess, which is the reason the king likes him so much.



* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulu: Maugrim can take any form, but [[RedRightHand he can't hide his missing hand]]. [[spoiler: After he's finished raping her in the forms of men she loves, she disdainfully tells him "every one of them had two hands". This makes him so angry he decides she needs to be tortured more instead of just killing her, which means Kim is able to rescue her and she lives to have a happy ending and give birth to Darien, Maugrim's undoing.]] Nice one, Jen.

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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulu: DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Maugrim can take any form, but [[RedRightHand he can't hide his missing hand]]. [[spoiler: After he's finished raping her in the forms of men she loves, she disdainfully tells him "every one of them had two hands". This makes him so angry he decides she needs to be tortured more instead of just killing her, which means Kim is able to rescue her and she lives to have a happy ending and give birth to Darien, Maugrim's undoing.]] Nice one, Jen.


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* MeaningfulName: Jennifer is [[spoiler: the Anglicized form of Guinevere, who she happens to be.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Literally, after [[spoiler: she is captured by Maugrim]], although luckily [[spoiler: Kim is able to rescue her before her sense of self is totally destroyed.]]
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulu: Maugrim can take any form, but [[RedRightHand he can't hide his missing hand]]. [[spoiler: After he's finished raping her in the forms of men she loves, she disdainfully tells him "every one of them had two hands". This makes him so angry he decides she needs to be tortured more instead of just killing her, which means Kim is able to rescue her and she lives to have a happy ending and give birth to Darien, Maugrim's undoing.]] Nice one, Jen.
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* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: She has some mild magical powers at the beginning of the first book, which results in her dreaming about the mountain in which Rakoth Maugrim is imprisoned.
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** This is subverted personality-wise however, as they're both [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Queens]] with [[DeadpanSnarker mocking senses of humour]] and [[TheFettered strong senses of responsibility.]] The main difference is he's the [[TheStoic stoic]], KuuDere type of ice queen where Jaelle is more of an aggressive, fiery TsunDere.

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