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* HeroesWantRedHeads: He's attracted to red-haired Catriana. Although to be fair, "Everyone Wants Redheads" would be more accurate here, since he's by far not the only person in the novel to be attracted to her.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Makes up half of one with Brandin. Interestingly, though Brandin is the more powerful of the two both personally and politically, Alberico is the more evil and antagonistic.
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* DivineParentage: They say their princes are descended from Adaon.
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* DivineParentage: They say their princes are descended from Adaon.Adaon, by way of Rahal, Adaon's son with Micaela, a mortal woman.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Rahal is the son of Micaela, a mortal woman, and Adaon.
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* WhenSheSmiles:
-->''It was oval, wide at the cheekbones, almost austere. It changed when she laughed though--and for some reason she still knew how to laugh--becoming warm and animated, the unexpected dance in her dark eyes seeming to promise things that went deeper than amusement. Men who had seen her laughing or who had caused her to smile at them would encounter that look again in their dreams, or in the memories that lay on the border of sleep and dream, years after Dianora had gone away.''
-->''It was oval, wide at the cheekbones, almost austere. It changed when she laughed though--and for some reason she still knew how to laugh--becoming warm and animated, the unexpected dance in her dark eyes seeming to promise things that went deeper than amusement. Men who had seen her laughing or who had caused her to smile at them would encounter that look again in their dreams, or in the memories that lay on the border of sleep and dream, years after Dianora had gone away.''
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Devin and Catriana, though {{Downplayed|Trope}}.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Devin and Catriana, though {{Downplayed|Trope}}. At least, Devin perceives it that way. Catriana is not interested.
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* FieryRedhead:
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* FieryRedhead:FieryRedhead
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* {{Determinator}}
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* {{Determinator}}{{Determinator}}/RoaringRampageOfRevenge
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He enslaves Erlein and later has the gall to berate him for not caring enough about Allesan's fight for freedom.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: {{Hypocrite}}:
** He enslaves Erlein and later has the gall to berate him for not caring enough about Allesan's fight for freedom.
** He enslaves Erlein and later has the gall to berate him for not caring enough about Allesan's fight for freedom.
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* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:He realizes how much he loves Catriana as he watches her jump from a window. It very nearly was a BelatedLoveEpiphany.]]
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* LoveEpiphany: LoveConfession: [[spoiler:He has a LoveEpiphany and realizes how much he loves Catriana as he watches her jump from a window. It very nearly was a BelatedLoveEpiphany.]]
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* CampGay: Except [[SubvertedTrope not really]], he's actually [[InvokedTrope purposefully playing up the stereotype]] in order to make people underestimate him.
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* CampGay: Except [[SubvertedTrope not really]], he's actually [[InvokedTrope purposefully playing up the stereotype]] in order to make people underestimate him. He really is gay, but the camp part of feigned.
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* HappilyMarried: For all that he mock-complains about his wife and daughters, he adores them and he has a very happy home life.
* GoodParents: For all that he mock-complains about his wife and daughters, he adores them and he has a very happy home life.
* GoodParents: For all that he mock-complains about his wife and daughters, he adores them and he has a very happy home life.
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* HappilyMarried: For all that he mock-complains about his wife and daughters, he adores them and he has a very happy home life.
* GoodParents:HappilyMarried[=/=]GoodParents: For all that he mock-complains about his wife and daughters, he adores them and he has a very happy home life.
* GoodParents:
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He enslaves Erlein and later has the gall to berate him for not caring enough about Allesan's fight for freedom.
** He hates both of the sorcerer conquerors for bringing war and death to the peninsula, and yet his solution to overthrowing both of them is to instigate a bloody conflict between the two with a neutral country as the chosen battleground.
** He hates both of the sorcerer conquerors for bringing war and death to the peninsula, and yet his solution to overthrowing both of them is to instigate a bloody conflict between the two with a neutral country as the chosen battleground.
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* BerserkButton: The only time we see Brandin come close to really losing his temper is when Dianora impudently jokes that he must have used sorcery to help himself complete a physical challenge.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Outside his ongoing vengeance against Tigana, Brandin is presented as a fair and competent ruler; at one point, the rather over-his-head civil governor of Lower Corte (ne Tigana) has to contact him for help in resolving a potentially disastrous diplomatic issue, and rather than brushing the Governor off or being angry at being bothered, Brandin backs the Governor completely and praises him, clearly aware that [[BenevolentBoss appreciating one's liegemen]] earns much greater loyalty than abusing them.
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* KissOfDistraction: She takes it UpToEleven. Devin and Catriana are [[ClosetShuffle hiding in a closet]], about to overhear an exposition. Catriana desperately doesn't want Devin to hear it. So to distract him, she has sex with him, feigning a TenMinutesInTheCloset scenario. At the time, Devin is ''thoroughly'' distracted… but he has a very good memory and replays the scene later, this time getting the exposition.
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* KissOfDistraction: She takes it UpToEleven. Devin and Catriana are [[ClosetShuffle hiding in a closet]], about to overhear an exposition. Catriana desperately doesn't want Devin to hear it. So to distract him, she has sex with him, feigning a TenMinutesInTheCloset scenario. At the time, Devin is ''thoroughly'' distracted… but he has a very good memory and replays the scene later, this time getting the exposition.
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** HumanMomNonhumanDad: Rahal is the son of Micaela, a mortal woman, and Adaon.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Rahal is the son of Micaela, a mortal woman, and Adaon.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Nobody seems to approve of Alberico but they're afraid to say so. Probably has something to do with his Barbadian death-wheels.
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* HatedByAll: Nobody seems to approve of Alberico but they're afraid to say so. Probably has something to do with his Barbadian death-wheels.
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* ImportantHaircut[=/=]TraumaticHaircut: By Alais, to hide her identity.
-->''[Catriana reaches down and picks up her cut hair]''\\
'''Alais''': Catriana, I'm so sorry.\\
'''Catriana''': ''[shakes her head.]'' Nothing… this is less than nothing. ''[choking up]'' Only vanity. What does it matter? ''[starts crying]''
-->''[Catriana reaches down and picks up her cut hair]''\\
'''Alais''': Catriana, I'm so sorry.\\
'''Catriana''': ''[shakes her head.]'' Nothing… this is less than nothing. ''[choking up]'' Only vanity. What does it matter? ''[starts crying]''
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* TraumaticHaircut: By Alais, to hide her identity.
-->''[Catriana reaches down and picks up her cut hair]''\\
'''Alais''': Catriana, I'm so sorry.\\
'''Catriana''': ''[shakes her head.]'' Nothing… this is less than nothing. ''[choking up]'' Only vanity. What does it matter? ''[starts crying]''
-->''[Catriana reaches down and picks up her cut hair]''\\
'''Alais''': Catriana, I'm so sorry.\\
'''Catriana''': ''[shakes her head.]'' Nothing… this is less than nothing. ''[choking up]'' Only vanity. What does it matter? ''[starts crying]''
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* LoveCannotOvercome: She loves Brandin, and she loves her homeland, which he razed. Both of these absolutely break her heart. Try as she might, she can't make herself ''not'' love Brandin. And she can't bear to turn her back on Tigana either.
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* LoveCannotOvercome: LoveCannotOvercome[=/=]LoveHurts: She loves Brandin, and she loves her homeland, which he razed. Both of these absolutely break her heart. Try as she might, she can't make herself ''not'' love Brandin. And she can't bear to turn her back on Tigana either.
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:Following an attempted assassination on Brandin.]] It's ''awful.''
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!!Anghiar of Barbadior
Emissary in the Governor's Castle at Senzio.
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!!Anghiar of Barbadior
Emissary in the Governor's Castle at Senzio.
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* GrayEyes: Powerful, beautiful, enigmatic and hard to read--Brandin's eyes fit the trope to the T. Alessan also has grey eyes, which creates a parallel between the two of them.
-->''Whose grey eyes were the troubling, unreadable color of the sea under the first cold slanting light of morning in spring or fall.''
-->''Whose grey eyes were the troubling, unreadable color of the sea under the first cold slanting light of morning in spring or fall.''
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: He's attracted to red-haired Catriana. Although to be fair, "Everyone Wants Redheads" would be more accurate here.
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: He's attracted to red-haired Catriana. Although to be fair, "Everyone Wants Redheads" would be more accurate here, since he's by far not the only person in the novel to be attracted to her.
* HyperAwareness: He is extremely perceptive, easily noticing details that most other people overlook.
* HyperAwareness: He is extremely perceptive, easily noticing details that most other people overlook.
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* FightingFromTheInside: After Alessan binds him, he desperately tries to disobey him. At one point, this mental struggle puts such a strain on him that he passes out.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He is justifiably enraged at Alessan for binding him to his will, which essentially turns him into a slave. At the same time, he openly admits to having lived quite comfortably under the rule of two tyrants, so he's really not one to talk about the importance of freedom.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He is justifiably enraged at Alessan for binding him to his will, which essentially turns him into a slave. At the same time, he openly admits to having lived quite comfortably under the rule of two tyrants, so he's really not one to talk about the importance of freedom.
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* SiblingYinYang: With Selvena. Alais is rather quiet and withdrawn, while Selvena is very outgoing and flirtatious.
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* SuicideBySea: [[spoiler:Tonally, the second time is much more this trope than the first is.]]
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* MindRape: Being bound by Alessan
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* MindRape: Being bound by AlessanAlessan is pretty much this. As soon as he bound Erlein, he ordered him to use a spell on himself, which he refused to do for while, breaking down and sobbing, until he did what Alessan asked. Next night, he tried to escape, and it was going well until Alessan ordered him to come back. When he didn't reappear, they went to search for him and they were horrified to see that Erlein literally tied himself to a tree with a rope - all so he couldn't go back. The sight of his ruined hands wasn't pretty...
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* TakingTheBullet: Dianora surprises herself by jumping in front of a crossbow bolt aimed at Brandin... but she yanks a guy she doesn't like along with her. He winds up taking the shot in the shoulder.
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* TakingTheBullet: DrivenToSuicide: After she saves Brandin's life, the conflict between her love of him and her love of Tigana almost destroys her. Then a riselka shows her a vision of herself performing the dangerous Ring Dive, a ritual that was discontinued after the last woman to try it drowned, and Dianora surprises herself by jumping in front of a crossbow bolt aimed at Brandin... but decides it must be her destiny to do the same. [[spoiler: She ends up deciding that the gods don't want her to die, and completing the dive instead.]][[spoiler: Then Brandin dies, and she yanks a guy she doesn't like along with her. He winds up taking goes back into the shot in ocean to finish the shoulder.job.]]
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* TakingTheBullet: Dianora surprises herself by jumping in front of a crossbow bolt aimed at Brandin... but she yanks a guy she doesn't like along with her. He winds up taking the shot in the shoulder.
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*SayMyName: Dianora recollects the time he shouted "Tigana."
-->''A witness, a memory, she saw her younger brother spread his feet then, as if to anchor himself in the ground of the square. She saw his hands clench into fists at his sides. She saw his head go back, lifting towards the sky.\\
And then she heard his cry.\\
He gave them what they demanded of him, he obeyed the command, but not sullenly or diffidently, and not in shame. Rooted in the land of his fathers, standing before the home of his family he looked towards the sun and let a name burst forth from his soul.\\
“Tigana!” he cried that all should hear. All of them, everyone in the square. And again, louder yet: ''“Tigana!”'' And then a third, a last time, at the very summit of his voice, with pride, with love, with a lasting, unredeemed defiance of the heart.\\
“TIGANA!”''
-->''A witness, a memory, she saw her younger brother spread his feet then, as if to anchor himself in the ground of the square. She saw his hands clench into fists at his sides. She saw his head go back, lifting towards the sky.\\
And then she heard his cry.\\
He gave them what they demanded of him, he obeyed the command, but not sullenly or diffidently, and not in shame. Rooted in the land of his fathers, standing before the home of his family he looked towards the sun and let a name burst forth from his soul.\\
“Tigana!” he cried that all should hear. All of them, everyone in the square. And again, louder yet: ''“Tigana!”'' And then a third, a last time, at the very summit of his voice, with pride, with love, with a lasting, unredeemed defiance of the heart.\\
“TIGANA!”''
