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* FatalFlaw: The fierce lust for power that Nushrok, Abazh and Anidag all have is the main reason this fic is headed towards a tragic ending pretty much from the start.
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* ParentalNeglect: For years, Nushrok paid no attention to his daughter, and she deeply resented him for that.
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Abazh]] gains the throne but soon undergoes SanitySlippage, turning the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors into a worse tyranny than before.
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Abazh]] gains the throne but soon undergoes SanitySlippage, turning the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors into a worse tyranny than before. [[spoiler:Several months later, he is assassinated]].
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* AllForNothing: All the manipulations and plotting of [[spoiler:Nushrok, Anidag and Abazh]] achieve nothing, as [[spoiler:all of them are killed in rapid succession and forgotten by almost everyone]].
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* AllForNothing: All the manipulations and plotting of [[spoiler:Nushrok, Anidag and Abazh]] achieve nothing, nothing in the long term, as [[spoiler:all of them are killed in rapid succession and forgotten by almost everyone]].
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* EvilGloating: [[spoiler:Abazh]] can be convincingly polite and friendly but won't hesitate to let [[spoiler:his]] ''true'' feelings off his chest if the enemies are dying or weak.
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* EvilGloating: [[spoiler:Abazh]] can be convincingly polite and friendly but won't hesitate to let [[spoiler:his]] ''true'' feelings off his [[spoiler:his]] chest if the enemies are dying or weak.
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* FalseFriend: Abazh gains Anidag's trust but never intends to put her on the throne. [[spoiler:He spits that into her face while she is dying, poisoned by him; however, he is convinced (and not without reason) that she would have executed him right after gaining the throne]].
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* FalseFriend: FalseFriend:
** Abazh gains Anidag's trust but never intends to put her on the throne. [[spoiler:He spits that into her face while she is dying, poisoned by him; however, he is convinced (and not without reason) that she would have executed him right after gaining thethrone]].throne]].
** [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] pretends to be a friend of Olya and Yalo while really just using them for [[spoiler:her]] own ends. [[spoiler:They never find it out]].
** Abazh gains Anidag's trust but never intends to put her on the throne. [[spoiler:He spits that into her face while she is dying, poisoned by him; however, he is convinced (and not without reason) that she would have executed him right after gaining the
** [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] pretends to be a friend of Olya and Yalo while really just using them for [[spoiler:her]] own ends. [[spoiler:They never find it out]].
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* IncestantAdmirer: Nushrok is absolutely besotted with Anidag, who finds the fact revolting but later exploits it. [[spoiler:And then she poisons him]].
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* IncestantAdmirer: Nushrok is absolutely besotted with Anidag, who finds the fact revolting but later exploits it. [[spoiler:And then she poisons tries to poison him]].
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** Finally, [[spoiler:Abazh]], who has betrayed pretty much everyone, gets broken glass in [[spoiler:his]] food courtesy of [[spoiler:Aksal]]'s agents even after [[spoiler:Aksal herself]] is dead.
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* CultureClash: In the cutthroat world of the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, WideEyedIdealist girls Olya and Yalo look so out of place that [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] considers it possible they might just be crazy.
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* CultureClash: In the cutthroat world of the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, WideEyedIdealist girls Olya and Yalo Yalo, raised (at least in Olya's case) on stories of bravery and self-sacrifice, look so out of place that [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] considers it possible they might just be crazy.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The main characters all die as a result of backstabbing each other. Olya and Yalo survive and get their canonical happy ending, but it feels hollow against all the bleakness, not to mention that their heroics turn out to be orchestrated for the sake of advancing Aunt Aksal's plans]]. The only details that keep the ending from being utterly hopeless are the loving relationship between the narrator and her niece in the FramingDevice story, and the fact that [[spoiler:the ghosts leave the castle]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The main characters all die as a result of backstabbing each other. Olya and Yalo survive and get their canonical happy ending, but it feels hollow against all the bleakness, not to mention that their heroics turn out to be orchestrated for the sake of advancing Aunt Aksal's plans]]. The only details that keep the ending from being utterly hopeless are the loving relationship between the narrator and her niece in the FramingDevice story, and the fact that [[spoiler:the ghosts leave the castle]].castle in the end]].
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* JustTheFirstCitizen: [[spoiler:Abazh]]'s first act as monarch is to declare citizens' rights and call [[spoiler:himself]] nothing but the first citizen. [[spoiler:His]] popularity skyrockets, until thanks to [[spoiler:him]] getting DrunkWithPower and going unhinged, the people's opinion changes dramatically.
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* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Like multiple romance tropes in this fic, this one comes in a messed-up variation. Anidag hates her father and he doesn't intend to act out on his feelings, but she acts just tenderly enough with him to keep him wrapped around her little finger.
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* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Like multiple romance tropes in this fic, this one comes in a messed-up variation. Anidag hates her father and he doesn't intend to act out on his feelings, but she acts just tenderly enough with him to keep him wrapped around her little finger.finger.
* WrittenByTheWinners: After Yagupop the Seventy-Eighth becomes king, he takes care to [[spoiler:blacken Abazh's name as much as possible (not that it's a lot of work)]] and whitewash the circumstances of his own ascension to the throne. As a result, barely anyone knows the real story [[spoiler:behind Abazh's reign]].
* WrittenByTheWinners: After Yagupop the Seventy-Eighth becomes king, he takes care to [[spoiler:blacken Abazh's name as much as possible (not that it's a lot of work)]] and whitewash the circumstances of his own ascension to the throne. As a result, barely anyone knows the real story [[spoiler:behind Abazh's reign]].
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* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Like multiple romance tropes in this fic, this one comes in a messed-up variation. Anidag can't stand her father and he doesn't intend to act out on his feelings, but she acts just tenderly enough with him to keep him wrapped around her little finger.
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* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Like multiple romance tropes in this fic, this one comes in a messed-up variation. Anidag can't stand hates her father and he doesn't intend to act out on his feelings, but she acts just tenderly enough with him to keep him wrapped around her little finger.
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* ShesAllGrownUp: A highly creepy version thereof. Nushrok has been completely uninvolved with raising Anidag, leaving her in the care of nurses and governesses, and one day he is fascinated with a gorgeous and brilliant woman at a royal ball... and only afterwards realizes it's his own daughter.
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* ShesAllGrownUp: A highly creepy version thereof. Nushrok has been completely uninvolved with raising Anidag, leaving her in the care of nurses and governesses, and one day he is fascinated with a gorgeous and brilliant woman at a royal ball... and only afterwards realizes it's his own daughter.daughter.
* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Like multiple romance tropes in this fic, this one comes in a messed-up variation. Anidag can't stand her father and he doesn't intend to act out on his feelings, but she acts just tenderly enough with him to keep him wrapped around her little finger.
* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Like multiple romance tropes in this fic, this one comes in a messed-up variation. Anidag can't stand her father and he doesn't intend to act out on his feelings, but she acts just tenderly enough with him to keep him wrapped around her little finger.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The main characters all die as a result of backstabbing each other. Olya and Yalo survive and get their canonical happy ending, but it feels hollow against all the bleakness, not to mention that their heroics turn out to be orchestrated for the sake of advancing Aunt Aksal's plans]]. The only details that keep the ending from being utterly hopeless are the loving relationship between the narrator and her niece in the FramingDevice story, and the fact that [[spoiler:the ghosts leave the castle]].
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* EvilGloating: [[spoiler:Abazh]] can be convincingly polite and friendly but won't hesitate to let [[spoiler:his]] ''true'' feelings off his chest if the enemies are dying or weak.
** While [[spoiler:Anidag]] is dying, [[spoiler:Abazh]] taunts [[spoiler:her]] about how foolish [[spoiler:she]] is to expect any help from [[spoiler:him]], since [[spoiler:someone who is ready to kill their own father]] is clearly not someone you'd want to trust. [[spoiler:Abazh]] adds that [[spoiler:he deeply hates both her and her father and that he is the one who poisoned her]].
** Later, after [[spoiler:Nushrok]] arrives on the scene, [[spoiler:Abazh]] gleefully reveals that [[spoiler:Anidag tried to poison him]]. This time, though, it causes [[spoiler:Nushrok to muster enough strength]] to try to attack [[spoiler:Abazh]], and had it not been for [[spoiler:Bar]], things could have ended differently.
** While [[spoiler:Anidag]] is dying, [[spoiler:Abazh]] taunts [[spoiler:her]] about how foolish [[spoiler:she]] is to expect any help from [[spoiler:him]], since [[spoiler:someone who is ready to kill their own father]] is clearly not someone you'd want to trust. [[spoiler:Abazh]] adds that [[spoiler:he deeply hates both her and her father and that he is the one who poisoned her]].
** Later, after [[spoiler:Nushrok]] arrives on the scene, [[spoiler:Abazh]] gleefully reveals that [[spoiler:Anidag tried to poison him]]. This time, though, it causes [[spoiler:Nushrok to muster enough strength]] to try to attack [[spoiler:Abazh]], and had it not been for [[spoiler:Bar]], things could have ended differently.
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** [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] is an ardent revolutionary in the book and the film. Here, [[spoiler:she works for Abazh and later conspires with Yagupop's brother]].
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** [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] is an ardent revolutionary in the book and the film.film who hates the nobility. Here, [[spoiler:she works for Abazh and later conspires with Yagupop's brother]].
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* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the book, there is IncestSubtext surrounding Nushrok and Anidag, but their relationship, whether perverted or not, is mutually loving and respectful. In the movie, Anidag plots to kill her father, but there are no implications of incest. Here, Nushrok has one-sided incestuous feelings for his daughter while she plots to kill him.
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* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul:
** In the book, there is IncestSubtext surrounding Nushrok and Anidag, but their relationship, whether perverted or not, is mutually loving and respectful. In the movie, Anidag plots to kill her father, but there are no implications of incest. Here, Nushrok has one-sided incestuous feelings for his daughter while she plots to killhim.him.
** [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] is an ardent revolutionary in the book and the film. Here, [[spoiler:she works for Abazh and later conspires with Yagupop's brother]].
** In the book, there is IncestSubtext surrounding Nushrok and Anidag, but their relationship, whether perverted or not, is mutually loving and respectful. In the movie, Anidag plots to kill her father, but there are no implications of incest. Here, Nushrok has one-sided incestuous feelings for his daughter while she plots to kill
** [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] is an ardent revolutionary in the book and the film. Here, [[spoiler:she works for Abazh and later conspires with Yagupop's brother]].
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* AllForNothing: All the manipulations and plotting of [[spoiler:Nushrok, Anidag and Abazh]] achieve nothing, as [[spoiler:all of them are soon killed and forgotten by almost everyone]].
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* AllForNothing: All the manipulations and plotting of [[spoiler:Nushrok, Anidag and Abazh]] achieve nothing, as [[spoiler:all of them are soon killed in rapid succession and forgotten by almost everyone]].
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* AllForNothing: All the manipulations and plotting of [[spoiler:Nushrok, Anidag and Abazh]] achieve nothing, as [[spoiler:all of them are soon killed and forgotten by almost everyone]].
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* InVinoVeritas:
** Nushrok keeps his interactions with Anidag platonic, so she thinks his [[LongingLook Longing Looks]] could be simply her imagination. Then, after drinking a bit too much after a successful political gambit, he blurts out he loves her.
** After [[spoiler:Aksal]]'s agents get Bar drunk, he [[LooseLips tells them]] about Nushrok's feelings for Anidag, her disgust about them, and his own hatred for Nushrok.
** Nushrok keeps his interactions with Anidag platonic, so she thinks his [[LongingLook Longing Looks]] could be simply her imagination. Then, after drinking a bit too much after a successful political gambit, he blurts out he loves her.
** After [[spoiler:Aksal]]'s agents get Bar drunk, he [[LooseLips tells them]] about Nushrok's feelings for Anidag, her disgust about them, and his own hatred for Nushrok.
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* CourtlyLove: [[EvenEvilHasStandards Incredibly]], a creepy version thereof is present here. Nushrok keeps his interactions with Anidag strictly platonic and respectful, not that it fools anyone as to the nature of his feelings.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Amazingly enough, Nushrok, the BigBad of the film and the book, becomes this. He is [[DamnedByFaintPraise the least treacherous one]] of the lot and the only one who is able to love (even though in an extremely perverted way). [[spoiler:His death is also depicted as a [[AlasPoorVillain tragic]] moment, since he is completely brokenhearted after Anidag's death, correctly realizes that she tried to poison him in good part thanks to Abazh's machinations, and tries to kill Abazh in revenge, only to be killed by Bar who blames everything on him]].
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* FalseFriend: Abazh gains Anidag's trust but never intends to put her on the throne. [[spoiler:He spits that into her face while she is dying, poisoned by him; however, he is convinced (and not without reason) that she would have executed him right after gaining the throne]].
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The main theme of the story [[spoiler:and the main reason for CharactersDroppingLikeFlies]].
** [[spoiler:Anidag]] is fatally poisoned by [[spoiler:Abazh]] after helping with [[spoiler:his]] schemes. As [[spoiler:Abazh]] points out, [[spoiler:how could she expect him to trust her after she tried to poison her own father]]?
** [[spoiler:Bar]], whose murder of [[spoiler:Nushrok]] eliminated [[spoiler:Abazh]]'s last rival, is executed on [[spoiler:Abazh]]'s orders after the latter gains the throne, because, again, ''traitors are untrustworthy''.
** [[spoiler:Aksal]], who poisons [[spoiler:King Yagupop]] to clear the way for [[spoiler:Abazh]], is later killed on [[spoiler:Abazh]]'s orders after conspiring with [[spoiler:Yagupop's brother]], when it becomes clear [[spoiler:Abazh]] is completely unhinged.
** Finally, [[spoiler:Abazh]], who has betrayed pretty much everyone, gets broken glass in his food courtesy of [[spoiler:Aksal]]'s agents even after [[spoiler:Aksal herself]] is dead.
** [[spoiler:Anidag]] is fatally poisoned by [[spoiler:Abazh]] after helping with [[spoiler:his]] schemes. As [[spoiler:Abazh]] points out, [[spoiler:how could she expect him to trust her after she tried to poison her own father]]?
** [[spoiler:Bar]], whose murder of [[spoiler:Nushrok]] eliminated [[spoiler:Abazh]]'s last rival, is executed on [[spoiler:Abazh]]'s orders after the latter gains the throne, because, again, ''traitors are untrustworthy''.
** [[spoiler:Aksal]], who poisons [[spoiler:King Yagupop]] to clear the way for [[spoiler:Abazh]], is later killed on [[spoiler:Abazh]]'s orders after conspiring with [[spoiler:Yagupop's brother]], when it becomes clear [[spoiler:Abazh]] is completely unhinged.
** Finally, [[spoiler:Abazh]], who has betrayed pretty much everyone, gets broken glass in his food courtesy of [[spoiler:Aksal]]'s agents even after [[spoiler:Aksal herself]] is dead.
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* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the book, there is IncestSubtext surrounding Nushrok and Anidag, but their relationship, whether perverted or not, is mutually loving and respectful. In the movie, Anidag plots to kill her father, but there are no implications of incest. Here, Nushrok has one-sided incestuous feelings for his daughter while she plots to kill him.
* CultureClash: In the cutthroat world of the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, WideEyedIdealist girls Olya and Yalo look so out of place that [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] considers it possible they might just be crazy.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film was much more whimsical than the book, but this fic outdoes even the latter. In both book and movie canon, [[spoiler:Nushrok was the only non-backstory casualty and got killed by the heroes]], while here, [[spoiler:Anidag, Nushrok, Yagupop, Bar, Abazh, and Aksal are all murdered by each other or each other's agents by the end]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film was much more whimsical than the book, but this fic outdoes even the latter. In both book and movie canon, [[spoiler:Nushrok was the only non-backstory casualty and got killed by the heroes]], while here, [[spoiler:Anidag, Nushrok, Yagupop, Bar, Abazh, and Aksal are all murdered by each other or each other's agents by the end]].
* JustTheFirstCitizen: [[spoiler:Abazh]]'s first act as monarch is to declare citizens' rights and call [[spoiler:himself]] nothing but the first citizen. [[spoiler:His]] popularity skyrockets, until thanks to [[spoiler:him]] getting DrunkWithPower and going unhinged, the people's opinion changes dramatically.
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Abazh]] gains the throne but soon undergoes SanitySlippage, turningn the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors into a worse tyranny than before.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Abazh]] gains the throne but soon undergoes SanitySlippage, turningn the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors into a worse tyranny than before.
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* OldRetainer: Bar is an old servant of Anidag's and is very fond of her, despite her spoiled and selfish nature.
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] never harms Olya and Yalo and lets them leave, since either they come from a ''very'' distant land or they are TooDumbToLive --in
in both cases, they won't be of any danger to [[spoiler:her or Abazh]]'s plans.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Abazh]] gains the throne but soon undergoes SanitySlippage,turningn turning the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors into a worse tyranny than before.
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] never harms Olya and Yalo and lets them leave, since either they come from a ''very'' distant land or they are TooDumbToLive --
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Abazh]] gains the throne but soon undergoes SanitySlippage,
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''[[https://ficbook.net/readfic/2486192 The Ghosts of the Old Castle]]'' (Призраки старого замка) is a Russian ''Literature/TheKingdomOfCrookedMirrors'' AlternateUniverse fanfic by [[https://ficbook.net/authors/793100 Ископаемая рыба]] and [[https://ficbook.net/authors/870024 Ничья]] (mostly based on the film adaptation).
The two ministers, Nushrok and Abazh, and Nushrok's daughter Anidag, scheme to seize the throne from the weak-willed PuppetKing. Abazh is aided by his mysterious agent, who tells him about two odd girls appearing in the palace with a laughably idiotic plan of a heroic mission, and also about the dark family drama involving Abazh's main enemies: Nushrok has grown to love his daughter in a rather non-fatherly way, and Anidag is absolutely repulsed by it but uses his affection to manipulate him.
!! Tropes featured in the fanfic:
* AdaptationalVillainy: The manipulative spymaster serving Abazh turns out to be [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal, the kindly and helpful cook in the book and the movie]].
* EvilVsEvil: Played with. The three main sides in the conflict are all vicious, deceitful, and power-hungry. However, the narrator (revealed to be [[spoiler:Asyrk, Anidag's former maidservant]]) feels they are not completely monstrous and should be judged by someone impartial, like her niece to whom she's telling the story, and judging by how [[spoiler:the ghosts leave the castle in the end, it looks like [[UnfinishedBusiness they were waiting precisely for that]]]].
* IncestantAdmirer: Nushrok is absolutely besotted with Anidag, who finds the fact revolting but later exploits it. [[spoiler:And then she poisons him]].
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] never harms Olya and Yalo and lets them leave, since either they come from a ''very'' distant land or they are TooDumbToLive -- in
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Abazh]] gains the throne but soon undergoes SanitySlippage, turningn the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors into a worse tyranny than before.
* ShesAllGrownUp: A highly creepy version thereof. Nushrok has been completely uninvolved with raising Anidag, leaving her in the care of nurses and governesses, and one day he is fascinated with a gorgeous and brilliant woman at a royal ball... and only afterwards realizes it's his own daughter.
The two ministers, Nushrok and Abazh, and Nushrok's daughter Anidag, scheme to seize the throne from the weak-willed PuppetKing. Abazh is aided by his mysterious agent, who tells him about two odd girls appearing in the palace with a laughably idiotic plan of a heroic mission, and also about the dark family drama involving Abazh's main enemies: Nushrok has grown to love his daughter in a rather non-fatherly way, and Anidag is absolutely repulsed by it but uses his affection to manipulate him.
!! Tropes featured in the fanfic:
* AdaptationalVillainy: The manipulative spymaster serving Abazh turns out to be [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal, the kindly and helpful cook in the book and the movie]].
* EvilVsEvil: Played with. The three main sides in the conflict are all vicious, deceitful, and power-hungry. However, the narrator (revealed to be [[spoiler:Asyrk, Anidag's former maidservant]]) feels they are not completely monstrous and should be judged by someone impartial, like her niece to whom she's telling the story, and judging by how [[spoiler:the ghosts leave the castle in the end, it looks like [[UnfinishedBusiness they were waiting precisely for that]]]].
* IncestantAdmirer: Nushrok is absolutely besotted with Anidag, who finds the fact revolting but later exploits it. [[spoiler:And then she poisons him]].
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:Aunt Aksal]] never harms Olya and Yalo and lets them leave, since either they come from a ''very'' distant land or they are TooDumbToLive -- in
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Abazh]] gains the throne but soon undergoes SanitySlippage, turningn the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors into a worse tyranny than before.
* ShesAllGrownUp: A highly creepy version thereof. Nushrok has been completely uninvolved with raising Anidag, leaving her in the care of nurses and governesses, and one day he is fascinated with a gorgeous and brilliant woman at a royal ball... and only afterwards realizes it's his own daughter.
