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* FantasyContraception: Magical Elixir of the Moon, which women apparently drink after every intercourse. It tastes terrible but seems to be highly effective.
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* AltarDiplomacy: By the end of ''Earth's End'', North agrees to surrender, as long as Aldrik marries their Chieftain's daughter.
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* ChekhovsGun: In book 2, a dagger that Daniel buys in Crossroads to wear hidden on the leg, turns out to be very useful a few days later [[spoiler:in the fight against the Northerners]].
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** In book 2, a dagger that Daniel buys in Crossroads to wear hidden on the leg, turns out to be very useful a few days later [[spoiler:in the fight against theNortherners]].Northerners]].
** And a dagger Vhalla buys on the same day, with Daniel's help, finds its use in book 3.
** In book 2, a dagger that Daniel buys in Crossroads to wear hidden on the leg, turns out to be very useful a few days later [[spoiler:in the fight against the
** And a dagger Vhalla buys on the same day, with Daniel's help, finds its use in book 3.
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* LoveTriangle: Vhalla, Sareem and Aldrik. Vhalla, Aldrik and Baldair. Vhalla, Sareem and Roan. Overlaps with MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle.
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* LoveTriangle: Vhalla, Sareem and Aldrik. Vhalla, Aldrik and Baldair. Vhalla, Sareem and Roan. Later Vhalla, Aldrik and Daniel. Overlaps with MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle.
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* TheEmpire: Vhalla starts out as a loyal citizen of the Solaris Empire but slowly begins to realize that most of the things she has been taught are lies and its war against the North is fueled by the Emperor's greed and his ambitions.
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* WarIsHell: Or at least that's how Aldrik perceives the war against the North.
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* HoldYourHippogriffs: Daniel says that head major Jax is "a few pieces shy of a whole Carcivi board". Carcivi being a board game mentioned a few times in the series.
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* InterruptedSuicide: In his BackStory young Aldrik tried to kill himself by cutting his veins but his servants burst into his room just in time.
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* ChekhovsGun: In book 2, a dagger that Daniel buys in Crossroads to wear hidden on the leg, turns out to be very useful a few days later [[spoiler:in the fight against the Northerners]].
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* GodOfLight: Mother Sun is one of the the most important gods of the Solaris Empire and is associated with the sun, daylight and fire -- as well as the royal family, who have sun as their symbol.
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* WizardingSchool: The Tower, a part of the palace in Solaris, where the young sorcerers live, study and share all chores. When a child Awakens their powers, they can either join the Tower or be Eradicated (have their powers removed).
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* WizardingSchool: The Tower, a part of the palace in Solaris, where the young sorcerers live, study and share all chores. When a child Awakens their powers, they can either join the Tower or be Eradicated (have their powers removed).
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* MeaningfulName: "Solaris", which is both the name of the royal family and the whole Empire. Their symbol is the sun and their ancestors justified their conquests with the need to spread faith in Mother Sun.
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* NightAndDayDuo: Mother Sun and Father Moon, the main gods of the Empire, believed to be a pair of lovers.
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* NightAndDayDuo: Mother Sun and Father Moon, the main gods of the Empire, believed to be a pair of lovers. Overlaps with SolarAndLunar.
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* SolarAndLunar: The two main gods of the Solaris pantheon, Mother Sun and Father Moon.
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* GodOfLight: Mother Sun, one of the two main gods in the Solaris Empire.
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* GodOfLight: Mother Sun, one of the two main gods in the Solaris Empire.
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* SurvivorGuilt: Vhalla, when she realizes [[spoiler: Sareem]] is dead because of her.
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* SolarAndLunar: The two main gods of the Solaris pantheon, Mother Sun and Father Moon.
* SurvivorGuilt: Vhalla, when she realizes [[spoiler: Sareem]] is dead because of her. And in book two, even stronger, after [[spoiler: Larel's]] death.
* SurvivorGuilt: Vhalla, when she realizes [[spoiler: Sareem]] is dead because of her. And in book two, even stronger, after [[spoiler: Larel's]] death.
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* CuteBookworm: Vhalla, at least at the beginning. Shy, innocent, basically brought up in a library (as a librarian's apprentice) and very well-read (if she slacks on her duties, it's only to hide in a corner and read).
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* FictionalAgeOfMajority: In the Solaris Empire, the coming-of-age ceremony is at the age of fifteen.
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* ImportantHaircut: At the end of the book, Vhalla cuts her long, frizzy and difficult to tame hair with a razor. This marks her transition from a library girl to a sorcerer and a soldier.
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* ImportantHaircut: At the end of the book, book one, Vhalla cuts her long, frizzy and difficult to tame hair with a razor. This marks her transition from a library girl to a sorcerer and a soldier.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Daniel and Craig, two nice prison guards, who treat Vhalla very well and often exchange jokes.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Daniel and Craig, two nice prison guards, who treat Vhalla very well and often exchange jokes. In book two, they turn out to be accomplished soldiers from Prince Baldair's personal guard.
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* MundaneUtility: The sorcerers' Tower is lit not by candles and torches (as the rest of the palace) but by flames in glass bulbs, presumably created by Firebearers.
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* MundaneUtility: The sorcerers' Tower is lit not by candles and torches (as the rest of the palace) but by flames in glass bulbs, presumably created by Firebearers. And at one point Larel uses heat from her hands to straighten Vhalla's hair to make it look nicer.
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* GuiltInducedNightmare: Vhalla has (inadvertently) caused her friend Sareem's death. After finding his heavily mutilated body, she is plagued by nightmares in which he accuses her of killing him (which is actually not true, she just wasn't there with him when the city was attacked).
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* GenderIsNoObject: True among sorcerers, which means that while the Empire's army consists of men, the Black Legion of sorcerers has a female major.
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* GenderIsNoObject: True among sorcerers, which means that while the Empire's army consists mostly of men, the Black Legion of sorcerers has a female major.
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* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Vhalla's Awakening comes at the moment when she is pushed from the palace spire. She has to recover for a week.
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** Vhalla's Awakening comes at the moment when she is pushed from the palace spire. She has to recover for aweek.week.
** Larel was just five when her Firebearer powers Manifested for the first time. She burnt a man who [[AttemptedRape tried to rape]] her, as well as her abusive parents and their house. Since Firebearers are immune to fire, she was found sitting among ashes.
** Vhalla's Awakening comes at the moment when she is pushed from the palace spire. She has to recover for a
** Larel was just five when her Firebearer powers Manifested for the first time. She burnt a man who [[AttemptedRape tried to rape]] her, as well as her abusive parents and their house. Since Firebearers are immune to fire, she was found sitting among ashes.
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* ImmuneToFire: Firebearers are immune to fire and heat.
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* InnocentMeansNaive: Vhalla is accused of it by prince Aldrik. He claims that her "transparent innocence" and lack of knowledge has made it easy for him to manipulate her. On the other hand, thanks to their relationship, Aldrik also changes for the better.
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* AnachronismStew: The world is ostensibly medieval, with very strictly enforced class system, a ruling family with almost absolute power, swords and bows (and magic) as main weapons, horses as main means of transport, torches and candles as the main source of light, as well as parchment instead of paper and no printing press. And yet the palace has running water, hot and cold (there is a mention of aqueducts but they would not be enough to bring water to higher levels of the palace), there is a well-known fashion designer Chater with his own store and branded boxes for his wares, Vhalla's maternal grandparents worked at a post office and the servants' dining room looks like a modern-day canteen, complete with trays and a window to bring dirty plates to. And Vhalla, a lowly apprentice, has her own room.
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Aldrik is very tall, while Vhalla mentions several times that she is shorter than most people she knows, with the exception of 12-year-old Cadance.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: While the sorcerers are the only ones in the Empire who wear black and they are shunned by the general public, they are just people -- Groundbreakers make good healers and Firebearers often work as smiths or jewellers.
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* DeathByChildbirth: In BackStory, Aldrik's mother died soon after giving birth to him.
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* KangarooCourt: Senator Egmund intends Vhalla's trial to be this. Fortunately for her, he is thwarted.
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* MageBornOfMuggles: Vhalla's parents are ordinary commoners without any magical powers. The Minister of Sorcery claims that it is normal, that the magical power is not inherited, so MuggleBornOfMages also happens.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Baldair, the golden prince, has blond hair and is very cheerful, jovial and friendly -- and contrary to his brother, beloved by the people of the Empire.
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''Air Awakens'' is a series of five YoungAdult fantasy novels by Elise Kova, self-published by the author in 2015.
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Eighteen-year-old Vhalla Yarl is a modest library apprentice in the Imperial Library of Solaris, the capital of the Solaris Empire. She lives a quiet and boring life with other library apprentices and her only passion is reading. And then, one night she happens to save the life of the mysterious crown prince Aldrik -- and learns that she is in fact a sorcerer. This brings a huge change in her life.
The books in the series include:
* ''Air Awakens''
* ''Fire Falling''
* ''Earth's End''
* ''Water's Wrath''
* ''Crystal Crowned''
!!The series gives examples of the following tropes:
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All book titles in the series.
* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: When tending to Vhalla's wounds, prince Baldair pours something stinging over the deepest one. You should never pour alcohol (or compatible, we don't know what it was) ''into'' a wound, only clean water should be used for that.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Vhalla is not very feminine, likes wearing leggings and a tunic, never makes up and has trouble with her frizzy hair. Following the makeover at the hands of servants, not to mention a tailor-made dress, she turns out to be stunning.
* BlowYouAway: Vhalla's powers of the air include conjuring a tornado.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Royal family of Solaris dresses in white and gold, blue is the color of the South, red of the West and purple of the East. And only sorcerers wear black.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Sareem, due to the fact that he comes from a mixed family, his father is from the West (typically, dark skin, eyes and hair) and his mother is from the South (fair skin and hair, blue eyes).
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: The Northerners make a huge mistake when they decide to torture Vhalla instead of simply killing her and Aldrik.
* ElementalPowers: Firebearers, Waterwalkers, Groundbreakers and Windwalkers have the corresponding elemental Affinities (fire, water, earth, air).
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Roan is ready to give up her beloved Sareem because she believes he would be happy with Vhalla.
* ImportantHaircut: At the end of the book, Vhalla cuts her long, frizzy and difficult to tame hair with a razor. This marks her transition from a library girl to a sorcerer and a soldier.
* LastOfHisKind: The last Windwalker, kept imprisoned in Norin dungeons all his life.
* LoveTriangle: Vhalla, Sareem and Aldrik. Vhalla, Aldrik and Baldair. Vhalla, Sareem and Roan. Overlaps with MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle.
* MageBornOfMuggles: Vhalla's parents are ordinary commoners without any magical powers. The Minister of Sorcery claims that it is normal, that the magical power is not inherited, so MuggleBornOfMages also happens.
* MarriageBeforeRomance: Vhalla is told by older, more experienced women that marriages usually work like that.
* MilitaryMage: A whole Black Legion of them in the Solaris army.
* NightAndDayDuo: Mother Sun and Father Moon, the main gods of the Empire, believed to be a pair of lovers.
* ParentalSubstitute: Vhalla is just 11 when she leaves her father and starts living in the palace. From that moment on, the staff of the Imperial Library becomes her family, with Master Mohned as a father figure.
* PlayingWithFire: Firebearers can control fire and [[RequiredSecondaryPowers cannot feel the heat or get burnt]].
* ReallyGetsAround: Prince Baldair, also known as Heartbreaker Prince. He often invites commoner women to his chambers to dine, wine and bed them. But as he claims, they are all willing.
* {{Sadist}}: The Northern archer who claims that death without pain is no fun and tortures Vhalla.
* SiblingYinYang: Aldrik and Baldair. A dark-haired and dark-eyed sorcerer, secretive and often nasty to people, and a blond-haired, blue-eyed warrior, open, direct and loved by the people.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Aldrik to Vhalla, especially the moment he throws her down from the spire.
* SmugSnake: Egmun, Head of the Senate, who is constantly scheming against Aldrik and Vhalla.
* SurvivorGuilt: Vhalla, when she realizes [[spoiler: Sareem]] is dead because of her.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Aldrik, the silver-tongued prince. Handsome in a bit eerie way, he is very intelligent and a very powerful sorcerer but he often treats people with contempt or hides compliments within insults (and insults within compliments). For Vhalla at least, he's also TallDarkAndHandsome.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Daniel and Craig, two nice prison guards, who treat Vhalla very well and often exchange jokes.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Vhalla's Awakening comes at the moment when she is pushed from the palace spire. She has to recover for a week.
* WarriorPrince: Both Aldrik and Baldair fight in the war. Out of the two, Baldair fits the trope better, as he is a strong, muscular warrior trained in swordfighting, while Aldrik usually uses his fire magic.
* WarIsHell: Or at least that's how Aldrik perceives the war against the North.
* WizardingSchool: The Tower, a part of the palace in Solaris, where the young sorcerers live, study and share all chores. When a child Awakens their powers, they can either join the Tower or be Eradicated (have their powers removed).
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Eighteen-year-old Vhalla Yarl is a modest library apprentice in the Imperial Library of Solaris, the capital of the Solaris Empire. She lives a quiet and boring life with other library apprentices and her only passion is reading. And then, one night she happens to save the life of the mysterious crown prince Aldrik -- and learns that she is in fact a sorcerer. This brings a huge change in her life.
The books in the series include:
* ''Air Awakens''
* ''Fire Falling''
* ''Earth's End''
* ''Water's Wrath''
* ''Crystal Crowned''
!!The series gives examples of the following tropes:
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All book titles in the series.
* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: When tending to Vhalla's wounds, prince Baldair pours something stinging over the deepest one. You should never pour alcohol (or compatible, we don't know what it was) ''into'' a wound, only clean water should be used for that.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Vhalla is not very feminine, likes wearing leggings and a tunic, never makes up and has trouble with her frizzy hair. Following the makeover at the hands of servants, not to mention a tailor-made dress, she turns out to be stunning.
* BlowYouAway: Vhalla's powers of the air include conjuring a tornado.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Royal family of Solaris dresses in white and gold, blue is the color of the South, red of the West and purple of the East. And only sorcerers wear black.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Sareem, due to the fact that he comes from a mixed family, his father is from the West (typically, dark skin, eyes and hair) and his mother is from the South (fair skin and hair, blue eyes).
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: The Northerners make a huge mistake when they decide to torture Vhalla instead of simply killing her and Aldrik.
* ElementalPowers: Firebearers, Waterwalkers, Groundbreakers and Windwalkers have the corresponding elemental Affinities (fire, water, earth, air).
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Roan is ready to give up her beloved Sareem because she believes he would be happy with Vhalla.
* ImportantHaircut: At the end of the book, Vhalla cuts her long, frizzy and difficult to tame hair with a razor. This marks her transition from a library girl to a sorcerer and a soldier.
* LastOfHisKind: The last Windwalker, kept imprisoned in Norin dungeons all his life.
* LoveTriangle: Vhalla, Sareem and Aldrik. Vhalla, Aldrik and Baldair. Vhalla, Sareem and Roan. Overlaps with MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle.
* MageBornOfMuggles: Vhalla's parents are ordinary commoners without any magical powers. The Minister of Sorcery claims that it is normal, that the magical power is not inherited, so MuggleBornOfMages also happens.
* MarriageBeforeRomance: Vhalla is told by older, more experienced women that marriages usually work like that.
* MilitaryMage: A whole Black Legion of them in the Solaris army.
* NightAndDayDuo: Mother Sun and Father Moon, the main gods of the Empire, believed to be a pair of lovers.
* ParentalSubstitute: Vhalla is just 11 when she leaves her father and starts living in the palace. From that moment on, the staff of the Imperial Library becomes her family, with Master Mohned as a father figure.
* PlayingWithFire: Firebearers can control fire and [[RequiredSecondaryPowers cannot feel the heat or get burnt]].
* ReallyGetsAround: Prince Baldair, also known as Heartbreaker Prince. He often invites commoner women to his chambers to dine, wine and bed them. But as he claims, they are all willing.
* {{Sadist}}: The Northern archer who claims that death without pain is no fun and tortures Vhalla.
* SiblingYinYang: Aldrik and Baldair. A dark-haired and dark-eyed sorcerer, secretive and often nasty to people, and a blond-haired, blue-eyed warrior, open, direct and loved by the people.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Aldrik to Vhalla, especially the moment he throws her down from the spire.
* SmugSnake: Egmun, Head of the Senate, who is constantly scheming against Aldrik and Vhalla.
* SurvivorGuilt: Vhalla, when she realizes [[spoiler: Sareem]] is dead because of her.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Aldrik, the silver-tongued prince. Handsome in a bit eerie way, he is very intelligent and a very powerful sorcerer but he often treats people with contempt or hides compliments within insults (and insults within compliments). For Vhalla at least, he's also TallDarkAndHandsome.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Daniel and Craig, two nice prison guards, who treat Vhalla very well and often exchange jokes.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Vhalla's Awakening comes at the moment when she is pushed from the palace spire. She has to recover for a week.
* WarriorPrince: Both Aldrik and Baldair fight in the war. Out of the two, Baldair fits the trope better, as he is a strong, muscular warrior trained in swordfighting, while Aldrik usually uses his fire magic.
* WarIsHell: Or at least that's how Aldrik perceives the war against the North.
* WizardingSchool: The Tower, a part of the palace in Solaris, where the young sorcerers live, study and share all chores. When a child Awakens their powers, they can either join the Tower or be Eradicated (have their powers removed).
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