History Literature / AMagesPower

* EnthrallingSiren: The Rose Forest is home to Venus Fly Traps with a similar ability. Their song creates a bewitching illusion that ensares their victim and dulls their senses. Eric encouters a beautiful wood Nymph playing a harp and is just barely saved from being the plant's next meal.

* TheCutie: Mia is a pretty and sunny girl who likes giving hugs. She's chiper first thing in the morning, when Eric and Nolien are groggy.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Eric lacked confidence in his own abilities and leaned heavily on the spirit of Dengel as a HeroicHost. When they have a falling out, Eric musters the courage to confront him, and once he is victorius, he announces that he doesn't need Dengel anymore. He will face the future on his own strength alone.
-->'''Eric''': "I don't need your power. I don't need your encouragement. I don't need ''you''. Now begone."

* TricksterArchetype: Tasio the Trickster flies in and out of mortal life, bring hope or despair as he fanices. On an average day, he's just a pest.

* YouGoGirl: Tiza thinks she has something to prove because she's in a mercenary guild. To this end she makes everything into a competition and doesn't like Nolien taking a leadership role among the three novices. This confuses her teammates because they don't think she has to prove anything. Two of the five guild captains are female, the other three captains have female lieutenants and the overall guildhead is female as well.

* PinkBoyBlueGirl: The uniforms for the students at the [[MagicSchool Royal Academy of Magical Study]] follow this convention: girls wear long pink dresses hemmed with gold and collars of darker pink while boys wear blue floor length robes outline in silver and dark blue ascots.

* BadassGrandpa: Aaloon is over three thousand years old and he "beat manners" into the NumberTwo mercenary of the Dragon's Lair.

* BadassPrincess: Kasile takes lessons in both martial arts and combat magic. She's not as good as professional soldiers, but she can take care of herself fine.

* RedOniBlueOni: Revas (short tempered, agressive, red fur) and Oito (calm, patient, and blue scales)

* SecurityCling: [[spoiler: After nearly being raped]] Annala clings to Eric's arm because she's rattled and in need of comfort.

** Basilard carries around Advanced Magecraft.

* SurroundedByIdiots: The Black Cloaks criminal gang tries to kidnap Princess Kasile but twice fail in their attempts to do. At that point their leader realizes that he'll have to do it himself because his underlings are useless.
* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Dengel Tymh is a name known all over the world. This is because the world runs on {{magitek}} and he is the one who who codified magic as a practical science instead of a mystical art. His Introduction to Magecraft has been a best seller for over a thousand years.

* WouldntHitAGirl: Despite working with (and for) {{Action Girl}}s Eric has trouble attacking one during the New Scepter Competition's tournament. He overcomes this inhibition when she throws a lightning spell at him.

** Tasio has a plan to make Eric grow a spine. [[spoiler: He incorporates later two into his own.]]

* BadassBoast: Eric shows off his new confidence by throwing out one of these after defeating an academic mage in mercenary style, "leave the battlefield to the professionals, schoolboy."

** Anyone of the Black Cloak rogues could kill him on their own, so he [[spoiler: pretends to be one of them and uses a quick spell combo to disable them when his ruse is discovered.]]

* KilledInSelfDefense: Eric has to fight an orc. In this verse, even the weakest orc is bigger, tougher and stronger than the average human and Eric is a teenager with beginner magic. The only way to protect himself [[spoiler: and Annala, who was Tahart's initial target]] was to put the orc down for good. The in-house advocate for Eric's guild says the self-defense case is so clear that he won't have to stand trial for it.

A Mage's Power is Brian Wilkerson's debut novel and the first story in the ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'' series. The next book is ''Literature/LoomingShadow''.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Stand Stinger Society of Kyraa functions this way. They are the chiefdom's warrior caste and so they are charged with maintaining order. They enforce the decisions of the elders, patrol the desert for monsters and invaders, and ritualized duels. [[spoiler: Tiza becomes an honorary member by winning one such duel.]]