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* ExactWords: Jill uses the exact wording of her agreement with Costanza to [[spoiler:both foil his plans and kill the evil sorcerer O'Malley, who serves the alien enemy and wants to let it into the planes of reality.]]
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* LoopholeAbuse: Costanza was blocked from using his new fortress when an opposing magician cast a protective spell over the fortress and the valley where it was located. The spell said that no man could enter the valley or harm its inhabitants so long as one born in the valley lives. So Costanza raises an army of magickally brainwashed women and orders Jill to lead it in conquering the valley. After doing exactly that, she [[spoiler:turns the tables on him when one of her women births a child within the valley borders, thus renewing the protective spell.]]
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* TooKinkyToTorture: One of the jewels that Mac Walters has to retrieve is held by a demon named Balthazar, who lives on a primitive parallel-Earth whose culture gives him full rein for his twin vices of sadism and masochism. Mac hasn't got a whole lot of time to get the jewel, so he kidnaps and tries to torture Balthazar - and finds that normal forms of torture are useless with someone who ''enjoys'' pain, the worse the better. Subverted when Mac does find a way to torture Balthazar: he forces the demon to breathe the fumes from a plant[[note]]implied to be that world's version of marijuana[[/note]] which gives a strong 'high' and neutralizes pain sensations -- and is ''also'' addictive. Balthazar gives in very quickly.
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The series consists of four books: ''When the Changewinds Blow'', ''Riders of the Winds'', ''War of the Maelstrom'', and ''Changewinds''.
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The series consists of four three books: ''When the Changewinds Blow'', ''Riders of the Winds'', and ''War of the Maelstrom'', and Maelstrom''. The completed trilogy was also published in an omnibus version titled ''Changewinds''.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When first introduced, Asmodeus Mogart is a silly, weak, incompetent drunkard. Put an Eye of Baal in his hand, though...
* EldritchAbomination: The "alien enemy" that dwell ''between'' the various demon-created planes of reality are a species of Lovecraftian horrors that seek endlessly to break into reality and conquer it.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: To obtain the last power jewel needed to save her entire world, Jill [=McCullough=] has to lead an army of women to a secluded valley full of pacifistic settlers and kill them all, every man, woman, and child. She does exactly that.
* EldritchAbomination: The "alien enemy" that dwell ''between'' the various demon-created planes of reality are a species of Lovecraftian horrors that seek endlessly to break into reality and conquer it.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: To obtain the last power jewel needed to save her entire world, Jill [=McCullough=] has to lead an army of women to a secluded valley full of pacifistic settlers and kill them all, every man, woman, and child. She does exactly that.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: When Mogart creates the Eye of Baal and gains access to its power, he lets loose his previously-hidden megalomania and transforms from a frail drunk of a creature to a ''demon'', straight out of humanity's worst nightmares.
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* TheAlcatraz: The Warden Diamond is a solar system with four habitable planets infested by a microrganism that kills anyone who tries to leave, making for one huge, seemingly inescapable prison colony.
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* TheAlcatraz: The Warden Diamond is a solar system with four habitable planets infested by a microrganism micro-organism that kills anyone who tries to leave, making for one huge, seemingly inescapable prison colony.
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* CavalryBetrayal: ''Lilith: A Snake in the Grass'' features the sudden arrival of troops supposed to aid the witches in their attack on the protagonist's enemy, only for both defenders and cavalry to turn on the witches, the protagonist realizing he'd been an UnwittingPawn in a plan to get rid of the witches.
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* CavalryBetrayal: ''Lilith: A Snake in the Grass'' features the sudden arrival of troops supposed to aid the witches in their attack on the protagonist's enemy, only for both defenders and cavalry to turn on the witches, witches. At that point, the protagonist realizing he'd realizes [[spoiler:he'd been an UnwittingPawn in a plan to get rid of the witches.witches]].
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each book in the quartet is titled using the pattern of ''[Mythical Monster]: A [X] in/at/by the [Y]''.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each book of the four planets is named after a different mythical figure (Lilith, Cerberus, Charon, and Medusa), and as the series progresses, the main character's understanding of the threat gets clearer. To indicate this, each volume has the planet's name as the first word, followed by a phrase indicating the level of threat that the main character ''thinks'' he's dealing with. When he starts on Lilith, he thinks it's merely "a snake in the quartet is titled using grass". On Cerberus, he realizes the pattern of ''[Mythical Monster]: A [X] in/at/by threat is quite serious: "a wolf in the [Y]''.fold". And so on.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolanguage}}: The EccentricArtist Boday always [[ThirdPersonPerson refers to herself in the third person]], and uses expressions like "Moonstones and little fishes" in place of swear words.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolanguage}}: The EccentricArtist Boday always [[ThirdPersonPerson refers to herself in the third person]], and uses expressions like "Moonstones and little fishes" in place of swear curse words.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each book in the quarter is titled using the pattern of ''[Mythical Monster]: A [X] in/at/by the [Y]''.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each book in the quarter is titled using the pattern of ''[Plural X] of the [Y]''.
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The series consists of four books: ''When the Changewinds Blow'', ''Riders of the Winds'', ''War of the Maelstrom'', and ''Changewinds''.
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The series consists of four books: ''Lilith: A Snake in the Grass'', ''Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold'', ''Charon: A Dragon at the Gate'', and ''Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail''.
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* GenderBenderAngst: The main character has his brain pattern imprinted on four prisoners, each being sent to a different planet in the Warden Diamond PenalColony. One of the prisoners is female. Fortunately for the protagonist, this particular iteration of him is going to a planet that has the strange property of switching the minds of two people when they sleep with each other (in the literal sense). He jumps at the first opportunity to get himself back into a male body, and never looks back -- even though this inevitably blows his cover.
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The series consists of three books: ''The Labyrinth of Dreams'', ''The Shadow Dancers'', and ''The Maze in the Mirror''.
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The series consists of three books: ''The Demons at Rainbow Bridge'', ''The Run to Chaos Keep'', and ''The Ninety Trillion Fausts''.
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The series consists of four books: ''Lords of the Middle Dark'', ''Pirates of the Thunder'', ''Warriors of the Storm'', and ''Masks of the Martyrs''.
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The series consists of three books: ''The Cybernetic Walrus'', ''The March Hare Network'', and ''The Hot-Wired Dodo''.
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* MileLongShip: The ''Thunder'', the base ship for the small band of rebels who oppose Master System, is a former colony ship that's fourteen kilometers long.
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* VichyEarth: The Master is a supercomputer that was built with the order to keep humanity safe. It calculates the best to do this is to scatter the human race throughout the stars so that destruction of any one planet won't kill everyone, but keep the humans on each individual planet confined to ethnically partitioned zones with no technology beyond subsistence farming, to prevent them from warring with each other. The result is an enforced Vichy Galaxy.
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* VichyEarth: The Master System is a supercomputer that was built with the order to keep humanity safe. It calculates the best to do this is to scatter the human race throughout the stars so that destruction of any one planet won't kill everyone, but keep the humans on each individual planet confined to ethnically partitioned zones with no technology beyond subsistence farming, to prevent them from warring with each other. The result is an enforced Vichy Galaxy.
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Today Chalker is most famous (indeed notorious) for the sheer amount of AuthorAppeal packed into his works, exceeded perhaps only by Creator/PiersAnthony in this regard. Chalker probably struggled with body dysmorphia, which wasn’t well understood or diagnosed in his lifetime. A typical character in a Chalker book can expect to undergo ''at least'' one ForcedTransformation and/or GenderBender. (And, seeing as it ''is'' a Chalker book, quite lucky if [[BodyHorror that's]] the [[MisterSeahorse worst thing]] that [[AndIMustScream happens]] to them.) His characters were often [[BrainWashing brainwashed]] or [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody had their personality altered thanks to the body they were given.]]
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Today Chalker is most famous (indeed notorious) for the sheer amount of AuthorAppeal packed into his works, exceeded perhaps only by Creator/PiersAnthony in this regard. Chalker probably struggled with body dysmorphia, which wasn’t well understood or diagnosed in his lifetime. A typical character in a Chalker book can expect to undergo ''at least'' one ForcedTransformation and/or GenderBender. (And, seeing as it ''is'' a Chalker book, quite lucky if [[BodyHorror that's]] the [[MisterSeahorse worst thing]] that [[AndIMustScream happens]] to them.) His characters were often [[BrainWashing brainwashed]] or had their personality altered [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody had their personality altered thanks to the body they were given.]]
