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* FeudalFuture: Thousands of years into the future; the largest human power is an empire similar to both the Aztecs and the Byzantine Empire; with a succession crisis, a constantly-scheming aristocracy, and an ambassador who is trying to avoid her country being assimilated.
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* ClonesArePeopleToo: Cloning is not an uncommon means of reproduction, though Teixcalaanli law requires entrants and citizens to have a genome at least 90% unique for identification reasons. The emperor’s primary heir is a “ninety-percent clone”.
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* ClonesArePeopleToo: Cloning is not an uncommon means of reproduction, though Teixcalaanli law requires entrants and citizens to have a genome at least 90% 10% unique for identification reasons. The emperor’s primary heir is a “ninety-percent clone”.
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* DismemberingTheBody: The Teixcalaanli find the Lsel custom of cremating their dead and eating the ashes to be somewhat... disturbing. They prefer to pump the body full of preservatives.
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* BackAlleyDoctor: Mahit gets her [[spoiler:imago removed and Yskandr's imago installed at one of these]].
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** In ''A Desolation Called Peace'', the sequel, Three Seagrass makes a comment on the concept of democracy, finding it ridiculous.
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** In ''A Desolation Called Peace'', ''Literature/ADesolationCalledPeace'', the sequel, Three Seagrass makes a comment on the concept of democracy, finding it ridiculous.
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** In ''A desolation called peace'', Three Seagrass makes a comment on the concept of democracy, finding it ridiculous.
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** In ''A desolation called peace'', Desolation Called Peace'', the sequel, Three Seagrass makes a comment on the concept of democracy, finding it ridiculous.
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* HegemonicEmpire: Teixcalaan is an empire in many meanings of the term, militarily economically and culturally. Several client states are mentioned and even Lsel station uses Teixcalaan days despite it being completely out of sync with the star system they occupy.
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* MindHive: Imago implants start out like this, with the imago acting like a sepparate personality that can be consulted, but after a while it develops into a blend of the two personalities. [[spoiler:Mahit's unusual situation results in her having three minds in her head at once; Mahit Dzmare, Yskandr from 15 years ago and Yskandr from three months ago]].
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* MindHive: Imago implants start out like this, with the imago acting like a sepparate separate personality that can be consulted, but after a while it develops into a blend of the two personalities. [[spoiler:Mahit's unusual situation results in her having three minds in her head at once; Mahit Dzmare, Yskandr from 15 years ago and Yskandr from three months ago]].
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* NobleBigot: Teixcalaanlitzlim are this at best. Even those like Three Seagrass, who are genuinly interested in other cultures, were still raised to view them as something inferior to Teixcalaan. Mahit struggles with wether or not Three Seagrass likes her for who she is or for being "exotic."
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* NobleBigot: Teixcalaanlitzlim are this at best. Even those like Three Seagrass, who are genuinly genuinely interested in other cultures, were still raised to view them as something inferior to Teixcalaan. Mahit struggles with wether whether or not Three Seagrass likes her for who she is or for being "exotic."
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* BlatantLies: When Twelve Azalea warns Mahit that her predecessor's body was "full of metal", she tries to dismiss it as probably being a pacemaker or similar medical implant, despite knowing it's an illegal Imago machine.
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* SpaceSector: Space both within and beyond the Teixcalaanli Empire is divided into named sectors. Each sector is large enough to contain many star systems, potentially accessible through a jumpgate PortalNetwork. In particular, the protagonist is from a SpaceStation colony in the Bardzravand Sector, which is struggling to maintain its independence from Teixcalaan.
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* SternSunWorshippers: The Teixcalaanlitzlim worship the sun and incorporate solar iconography, but their society have elements of a surveillance state and their attitude towards foreigners is always assimilation by conquest.
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* HumanSubspecies: Downplayed. Teixcalaanlitzlim and Lsel stationers are both called humans, but there are subtle diferences between them. Namely, stationers are on average a fair bit taller, due to growing up in lower gravity.
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* MindHive: Imago implants start out like this, with the imago acting like a sepparate personality that can be consulted, but after a while it develops into a blend of the two personalities. [[spoiler:Mahit's unusual situation results in her having three minds in her head at once; Mahit Dzmare, Yskandr from 15 years ago and Yskandr from three months ago]].
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* HumanAliens: The denizens of both Lsel and Teixcalaan and its territories are called humans, with the only difference being some minor divergent evolution (Stationers, for instance, are notably taller than Teixcalaanlitzlim). This is presumably due to both being a LostColony, though it's ambiguous where humans came from in this universe; Teixcalaan knows its history all the way back to the middle-ages, with no indication that they had space-travel earlier.
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* TheXenophile: Three Seagrass admits that she "likes aliens." Downplayed in this case, since the "aliens" are really just humans with a different culture and some slight divergent evolution.
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* SheIsTheKing: Teixcalaan uses the title Emperor regardless of gender, as seen in emperors Twelve Solar-Flare and [[spoiler:Nineteen Adze]].
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''A Memory Called Empire'' is a sci-fi political murder mystery written by Arkady Martine and published by Tor in 2019. The sequel, ''A Desolation Called Peace'', was published in 2021.
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''A Memory Called Empire'' is a sci-fi political murder mystery written by Arkady Martine and published by Tor in 2019. The sequel, ''A Desolation Called Peace'', ''Literature/ADesolationCalledPeace'', was published in 2021.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The Teixcalatzlan call outsiders barbarians, in the sense of being foreigners and uncivilized, but they practice blood sacrifice, something most modern cultures consider barbaric in the modern sense of the word.
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** The Teixcalatzlan call outsiders barbarians, in the sense of being foreigners and uncivilized, but they practice blood sacrifice, something most modern cultures consider barbaric in the modern sense of theword.word.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Darj Tarats [[spoiler:played Yskandr, Lsel and Teixcalaan like a fiddle, using Yskandr and Lsel as bait in order to pull Teixcalaan into a war they cannot win]].
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''A Memory Called Empire'' is a sci-fi political murder mystery written by Arkady Martine and published by Tor in 2019.
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''A Memory Called Empire'' is a sci-fi political murder mystery written by Arkady Martine and published by Tor in 2019.
2019. The sequel, ''A Desolation Called Peace'', was published in 2021.
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