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Crosswicking All Accessible Magic.
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* AllAccessibleMagic: Magic comes from ThePowerOfLanguage and translation, requiring only a multilingual practitioner, the right word-pairs, and some {{silver|HasMysticPowers}} as a medium. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} as [[TheEmpire England's colonial empire]] has a vested interest in controlling magic via restricting education, running magic as an exclusive industry, [[NoBloodForPhlebotinum waging war over silver sources]], and worse.
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%%* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Lovell's]] death at [[spoiler:Robin's hands]].
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* ForegoneConclusion: The narration makes it clear fairly early on that sooner or later, members of the cohort will end up at odds with each other, and the TrueCompanions will fall apart. [[spoiler:They do after returning to Oxford from Canton. ''Spectacularly''.]]
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* ForegoneConclusion: ForegoneConclusion:
** The narration makes it clear fairly early on that sooner or later, members of the cohort will end up at odds with each other, and the TrueCompanions will fall apart. [[spoiler:They do after returning to Oxford from Canton. ''Spectacularly''.]]
** The title itself gives away that the revolution is coming, and it will ''not'' be pretty.
* HeroicSacrifice: Discussed and deconstructed. The difference between being willing to die for a cause and ''wanting'' to die for a cause is explored, and the latter is scorned by Ramy as "taking the easy way out." [[spoiler:In the end, Robin, who has hurled over the DespairEventHorizon, willingly goes to his death to destroy Babel, along with three other rebels. Victoire and another rebel choose to flee and live to fight another day, Victoire in particular on her way to aid slave revolts. The novel never firmly takes a side on who is wrong or right, but shows that, while sometimes sacrifice is necessary, it is not something to be romanticized. Death isn't glorious; it's just death. Same with survival.]]
** The narration makes it clear fairly early on that sooner or later, members of the cohort will end up at odds with each other, and the TrueCompanions will fall apart. [[spoiler:They do after returning to Oxford from Canton. ''Spectacularly''.]]
** The title itself gives away that the revolution is coming, and it will ''not'' be pretty.
* HeroicSacrifice: Discussed and deconstructed. The difference between being willing to die for a cause and ''wanting'' to die for a cause is explored, and the latter is scorned by Ramy as "taking the easy way out." [[spoiler:In the end, Robin, who has hurled over the DespairEventHorizon, willingly goes to his death to destroy Babel, along with three other rebels. Victoire and another rebel choose to flee and live to fight another day, Victoire in particular on her way to aid slave revolts. The novel never firmly takes a side on who is wrong or right, but shows that, while sometimes sacrifice is necessary, it is not something to be romanticized. Death isn't glorious; it's just death. Same with survival.]]
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* OrcusOnHisThrone: silverworking has a 1,000 year history, there is a network of defectors, and other nations (e.g. China) have vast silver reserves. All of these potential rivals collectively sit with their thumbs up their asses while {{TheMainCharactersDoEverything}}
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* OrcusOnHisThrone: silverworking Silverworking has a 1,000 year history, there is a network of defectors, and other nations (e.g. China) have vast silver reserves. All of these potential rivals collectively sit with their thumbs up their asses while {{TheMainCharactersDoEverything}}{{The Main Characters Do Everything}}
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%%* LaResistance: The Hermes Society.
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%%* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: It's called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Necessity of Violence" for a reason.]]
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* ForegoneConclusion: The narration makes it clear fairly early on that sooner or later, members of the cohort will end up at odds with each other, and the TrueCompanions will fall apart. [[spoiler:They do after returning to Oxford from Canton. ''Spectacularly''.]]
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* OrcusOnHisThrone: silverworking has a 1,000 year history, there is a network of defectors, and other nations (e.g. China) have vast silver reserves. All of these potential rivals collectively sit with their thumbs up their asses while {{TheMainCharactersDoEverything}}
