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* ActionGirl: Andrea being the prime example.
* AnachronicOrder: The story follows three timelines. The first was five years ago, during the revolution that dethroned Irene, the second being three years ago when Mordred [[spoiler:strikes the deal with Arageth]] and finally the present day.
* AnimalMotifs: [[CaptainObvious Ravens.]]

* BadassFamily: Mordred, Andrea, Kyris, and [[spoiler: Alchezar]].

* [[spoiler: BrokenPedestal]]: [[spoiler: Mordred's reason for accepting Arageth's deal is to punish those responsible for his mother's dethronement. He's shocked to the core to learn that his mother didn't actually give a shit about him.]]
* [[spoiler: ChildSoldier]]: [[spoiler: Cana Steinstrife and all the other DesignerBabies created by the Steinstrifes. They were raised purely to fight, discouraged from having emotional attachments to anything, and ConditionedToAcceptHorror. They kill as soon as they reach ten years old. This training was what made Andrea TheAce that she is now.]]

* CrapsackWorld
* [[spoiler: DealWithTheDevil]]: [[spoiler: The Accursed are created this way. Arageth chooses those who are so drowned in their desire for power that they are willing to abandon their humanity.]]

* DeathByOriginStory: Queen Irene and [[spoiler: the real "Andrea."]]

* [[spoiler: DesignerBabies]]: [[spoiler: Andrea/Cana and the Red Knights, having been created on the Queen's behest to battle Arageth.]]

* ForceAndFinesse: Mordred is Force, while Andrea is Finesse.
* GoodAllAlong: Mordred, for a certain value of good. [[spoiler: Alchezar too.]]

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Mordred is this to Andrea [[spoiler: as the original "Andrea" was to Cana.]]
* LovableCoward: Lionel Frost.
* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather]]:[[spoiler: Prime Inquisitor Alchezar is Mordred's dad.]]
* [[spoiler: MadGod]]:[[spoiler: Arageth is trying to exterminate mankind to pave the way for summoning the [[SealedEvilInACan Creator]], who used to rule over Earth millions of years ago.]]

* NotBloodSiblings: Mordred and Andrea.
* OfficialCouple: Mordred and Andrea at the end of the first book.

* RescueRomance: Irene and [[spoiler: Alchezar, albeit actually one-sided]].
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Mordred.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Arageth's main power and MO.

* {{Yandere}}: Andrea.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: [[spoiler: Andrea]] gives [[spoiler: Mordred]] one after [[spoiler: he tells her she's nothing but a pawn to him to [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies persuade her to leave him]].]]

* CryCute: Andrea at the end of the first book when making up with Mordred.

* SpotOfTea: There's never too much tea for Mordred. On the other hand, he loathes [[DoesNotLikeSpam coffee]].

* [[spoiler: {{Cuckold}}]]: [[spoiler: Alchezar genuinely loved the Queen. The Queen repaid him by sleeping with Petrel.]]

-->''"What ails humanity is itself. You can cure that."''

* EldritchAbomination: [[BigBad Arageth.]] [[spoiler: And, to a greater extent, [[BiggerBad The Creator]], who's still [[SealedEvilInACan slumbering in his prison in the Underworld.]]]]

"Quislings," "fools," "cowards"--most of society dismisses the Hounds as being mere prisoners being punished to do grunt work for the new government, but what they actually do is more complicated and dangerous. As Hounds, they are being sent to the outskirts of Ultor to hunt down the vicious, man-eating monsters called the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Accursed]] currently terrorizing the land, while silencing [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade witnesses]] in order to uphold the illusion of peace for the ignorant civilians. However, due to their lack of training, [[RedShirt Hounds]] are often killed in action-- which the Inquisition is fully aware of, and which is what they actually intended.

* HumanityIsInfectious: After spending time with her first-ever friend [[spoiler: "Andrea"]], Cana begins to learn how to feel human emotions, including love. [[spoiler: It can be said that "Andrea" saved her from the emotionless wreck that she was and made her the genuinely kind and cheerful Andrea von Eule.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The Accursed can [[[ParanoiaFuel mix in with normal humans]] in broad daylight and think rationally--and they also have {{Eldritch Superpower}}s and a lust for human flesh. The only telltale sign is their ability to regenerate (but you can't just go ripping people's limbs off to test your theories), so the Hounds could only fight when the Accursed actually demonstrates his powers.

* RescueRomance: Irene and [[spoiler: Alchezar, albeit actually one-sided]].

* NomDeMom: Mordred and Kyris uses "von Eule," her mother's family name [[spoiler: instead of Svalrik and Petrel, their fathers' respective names.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Steinstrifes. There are hundreds of them even excluding [[spoiler: the {{ChildSoldier}}s they engineered]]. They are also downright bonkers. All of them.

* [[spoiler: Cuckold]]: [[spoiler: Alchezar genuinely loved the Queen. The Queen repaid him by sleeping with Petrel.]]

* BadassAdorable: Andrea, when she's not in {{Yandere}} mode. She's beautiful, cheerful and kind to her fellow Hounds, but [[BerserkButton do not insult Mordred or imply he's dead already if you prefer to keep your head intact]].

* [[spoiler: DesignerBabies]]: [[spoiler: Andrea/Cana and the Red Knights, having been created on the Queen's behest to battle Arageth.]]

* [[spoiler: ArtificialHuman]]: [[spoiler: Andrea/Cana and the Red Knights, having been created on the Queen's behest to battle Arageth.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Steinstrifes. There are hundreds of them even excluding [[spoiler: the ArtificialHuman [[ChildSoldier Child Soldiers they engineered]]. They are also downright bonkers. All of them.

* [[spoiler: ChildSoldier]]: [[spoiler: Cana Steinstrife and all the other [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans]] created by the Steinstrifes. They were raised purely to fight, discouraged from having emotional attachments to anything, and ConditionedToAcceptHorror. They kill as soon as they reach ten years old. This training was what made Andrea TheAce that she is now.]]

* MadScientist: Eudoxia Steinstrife. She was the one who thought up the whole [[spoiler: [[ArtificialHuman Red Knight]] project]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Inquisition. [[spoiler: Also, Irene, seeing as she was willing to sanction mass human experimentation to perfect the recipe for her ArtificialHuman army.]]

* [[spoiler: ChildSoldier]]: [[spoiler: Cana Steinstrife and all the other [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans]] created by the Steinstrifes.]]

* ConLang: Two rudimentary ones.

* EldritchAbomination: [[BigBad Arageth.]]

* MadScientist: Eudoxia Steinstrife. She was the one who thought up the whole [[spoiler: [[ArtificialHuman Red Knight]] project.

* [[spoiler: ArtificialHuman]]: [[spoiler: Andrea, having been created with a hundred others on the Queen's behest to battle Arageth.]]
* BadassAdorable: Andrea, when she's not in {{Yandere}} mode. She's cheerful and kind to her fellow Hounds, but [[BerserkButton do not insult Mordred or imply he's dead already if you prefer to keep your head intact]].

* GoodAllAlong: Mordred, for a certain value of good.

!!Tropes ''The Book of Ravens'' might contain if the author actually gets to write it

* BadassAdorable: Andrea, when she's not in {{Yandere}} mode. She's cheerful and kind to her fellow Hounds, but [[BerserkButton do not insult Mordred or imply he's dead already]] if you prefer to keep your head intact.

!!Tropes ''The Book of Ravens''might contain if the author actually gets to write it

* AnachronicOrder: The story follows three timelines. The first was five years ago, during the revolution that dethroned Irene, the second being three years ago when Mordred [[spoiler:strikes the deal with Arageth]] and finally the present day.

However, this all changes when [[{{Yandere}} Andrea]], the Queen's adopted daughter and one of the Hounds, in the course of investigating the royal family's disappearance, finds her adoptive brother [[SociopathicHero Mordred]]--now for some turned into one of the Accursed, but one less focused on eating humans and more about hunting down the [[TheManBehindTheMonsters mastermind behind the monsters plaguing Ultor: Arageth]].

* [[spoiler: BrokenPedestal]: [[spoiler: Mordred's reason for accepting Arageth's deal is to punish those responsible for his mother's dethronement. He's shocked to the core to learn that his mother didn't actually give a shit about him.]]

* [[spoiler: BrokenPedestal]: [[spoiler:Mordred's reason for accepting Arageth's deal is to punish those responsible for his mother's dethronement. He's shocked to the core to learn that his mother didn't actually give a shit about him.]]

* [[spoiler: BrokenPedestal]: [[Mordred's reason for accepting Arageth's deal is to punish those responsible for his mother's dethronement. He's shocked to the core to learn that his mother didn't actually give a shit about him.]]