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* MacGuffinLocation: The series is named after the Scholomance because almost every conflict in the story takes place at or is somehow related to the school. Usually both.
** In the first half of the third book, El, Aadhya, and Liesel are trying to get back into the Scholomance so [[spoiler:El can kill Patience and lay Orion's soul to rest]]. When they finally get inside the school, [[spoiler:they don't find Patience, but rather a living Orion, who has started to lose control of his maw-mouth half]].
** In the second-to-last chapter of the series as a whole, [[spoiler:El and her allies again try to get inside the Scholomance, this time to stop the enclave war]].
** In the first half of the third book, El, Aadhya, and Liesel are trying to get back into the Scholomance so [[spoiler:El can kill Patience and lay Orion's soul to rest]]. When they finally get inside the school, [[spoiler:they don't find Patience, but rather a living Orion, who has started to lose control of his maw-mouth half]].
** In the second-to-last chapter of the series as a whole, [[spoiler:El and her allies again try to get inside the Scholomance, this time to stop the enclave war]].
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* LineageComesFromTheFather: Played with. While El's strong moral character comes from her mother, the person she physically resembles the most is her father. [[spoiler:In addition, most of her motivations and desires are inherited from Arjun, who had dreamed of restoring the Golden Enclaves since he was a child. El is the literal embodiment of that dream, thanks to Arjun voicing it to the universe in hopes of making it a reality]].
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* LineageComesFromTheFather: Played with. While El's strong moral character comes from her mother, the person she physically resembles the most is her father. [[spoiler:In addition, most of her motivations and desires are inherited from Arjun, who had dreamed of restoring the Golden Enclaves since he was a child. El is the literal embodiment of that dream, thanks to Arjun voicing it to the universe in hopes of making it a reality]].reality, and the universe granting his wish by allowing his daughter to be conceived and gifted with the power to build the Golden Enclaves in his place. The payment it took in return was Arjun's life, which he freely gave to save El and her mother from Patience on the day of his graduation from the Scholomance]].
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* {{Foil}}: As the deuteragonist, Orion is El's main foil. El is a female incanter with a perpetually surly disposition who comes from relative poverty and is [[spoiler:supposedly]] destined to be the worst EvilSorceress in living memory. Orion is a mal-slaying MagicKnight who is from the equivalent of wizard aristocracy and is idolized as a hero. People are put off by El at first, but when they get to know her, find that underneath her pathological rudeness, she's actually a kind and selfless person who genuinely empathizes with others. At the same time, people flock to Orion, but are eventually put off by how strange he actually is. [[spoiler:Even their conceptions directly contrast one another: both were born as the result of their respective parents' earnest desire to bring positive change to the magical world. But whereas El's parents offered themselves to the universe as payment for that change and received El as their gift, Orion's parents sacrificed others, including Orion himself, to get the LivingWeapon they wanted, under the justification that it was ForTheGreaterGood]].
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: She admits to El in the second book that she's come to believe their friendship is the universe's way of giving her a sister, after her actual sister was killed before she had the chance to live herself.
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* LikeASisterToMe: She admits to El in the second book that she's come to believe their friendship is the universe's way of giving her a sister, after her actual sister was killed before she had the chance to live herself.
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* HopelessWithTech: Having grown up in a commune in Wales, she's not good with modern technology. Her friends have to teach her how to use a cell phone in the third book, and while she gets a hang of calling and texting, anything beyond that requires outside help.
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* LikeASisterToMe: She admits to El in the second book that she's come to believe their friendship is the universe's way of giving her a sister, after her actual sister was killed before she had the chance to live herself.
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* LoserProtagonist: Played with. As an indie kid with barely any friends or resources, is perpetually rude, is seemingly incompetent at magic and has the ominous air of a maleficer around her, El is technically a loser by the standards of the school. The truth of the matter is she could easily pull herself up into being the most ''popular'' student of the school if she wanted to, but is so prone to self-sabotage and BelievingTheirOwnLies that she's been subconsciously preventing herself from making the final leap. It's only after befriending Orion that she begins to overcome these flaws and fulfill her real potential as a wizard.
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* HeroicSeductress: [[spoiler:She seduces El with the intent of giving her even more reasons not to go full world destroying maleficer after Orion's presumed death. El is a little indignant when this comes out but, given that she ''doesn'' want to destroy the world, agrees that the plan was a good idea on Liesel's part, at least in concept.]]
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* HeroicSeductress: [[spoiler:She seduces El with the intent of giving her even more reasons not to go full world destroying maleficer after Orion's presumed death. El is a little indignant when this comes out but, given that she ''doesn'' ''doesn't'' want to run mad and destroy the world, agrees that the plan was a good idea on Liesel's part, at least in concept.]]
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* HeroicSeductress: [[spoiler:She seduces El with the intent of giving her even more reasons not to go full world destroying maleficer after Orion's presumed death. El is a little indignant when this comes out but agrees that the plan was a good idea on Liesel's part.]]
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* HeroicSeductress: [[spoiler:She seduces El with the intent of giving her even more reasons not to go full world destroying maleficer after Orion's presumed death. El is a little indignant when this comes out but but, given that she ''doesn'' want to destroy the world, agrees that the plan was a good idea on Liesel's part.part, at least in concept.]]
