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* AmbiguousGender: The [[DontFearTheReaper Black God]] pushes his hood back and shows Beka his face in a sign of favor. She can't remember the details while writing about it, but she says the god could have been a woman, and continues calling him "he" because he didn't correct her.
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1.) Doesn't describe a setup for an unrealistic outcome. 2.) Character reaction.
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** The climax of ''Bloodhound'' involves a knife-fight in an AbsurdlySpaciousSewer. [[spoiler:It takes a tremendous effort on the part of the healers to make sure Beka and Pearl don't die of massive infection.]]
** At the end of ''Mastiff'' the King and Queen announce the coming end of Tortallan slavery as a legal practice, [[spoiler: having heard their young son's tales of the horrors of slavery and realized how the rebel faction that kidnapped him was only able to do so using slave money and slave caravans]]. Instead of being immediately able to take this as a good, Beka worries about how people will react. It's a big industry, well ingrained in Tortallan society and without any kind of popular abolitionist movement to counter it. ''Literature/TortallASpysGuide'' has a timeline mentioning that for the rest of King Roger's reign, and all of King Gareth's after it, the Crown struggled against subjects who didn't want to give up the practice; in ''Literature/TheNumairChronicles'' Ozorne points to the Tortallan civil war as the reason why he wouldn't free Carthak's slaves if he became Emperor.
** The climax of ''Bloodhound'' involves a knife-fight in an AbsurdlySpaciousSewer. [[spoiler:It takes a tremendous effort on the part of the healers to make sure Beka and Pearl don't die of massive infection.]]
** At the end of ''Mastiff'' the King and Queen announce the coming end of Tortallan slavery as a legal practice, [[spoiler: having heard their young son's tales of the horrors of slavery and realized how the rebel faction that kidnapped him was only able to do so using slave money and slave caravans]]. Instead of being immediately able to take this as a good, Beka worries about how people will react. It's a big industry, well ingrained in Tortallan society and without any kind of popular abolitionist movement to counter it. ''Literature/TortallASpysGuide'' has a timeline mentioning that for the rest of King Roger's reign, and all of King Gareth's after it, the Crown struggled against subjects who didn't want to give up the practice; in ''Literature/TheNumairChronicles'' Ozorne points to the Tortallan civil war as the reason why he wouldn't free Carthak's slaves if he became Emperor.
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* ChildProdigy: Prince Gareth in ''Mastiff'' is far more articulate and intelligent than Beka thinks a four year old should be. He can already read and write and think about some ramifications of the future. Of course, as the ''heir to the throne'' he's been the beneficiary of a degree of attention, favor, and tutelage that Beka, who grew up in grinding poverty, is completely unfamiliar with, plus the circumstances in which she encounters him have put him in a very serious state of mind.
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* ChildProdigy: Prince Gareth in ''Mastiff'' is far more articulate and intelligent than Beka thinks a four year old should be. He can already read and write and think about some ramifications of the future. Of course, as the ''heir to the throne'' he's been the beneficiary of a degree of attention, favor, and tutelage that Beka, who grew up in grinding poverty, is completely unfamiliar with, plus the circumstances in which she encounters him have put him in a [[TroubledChild very serious state of mind.mind]], but he does say that his tutors claim he scares them.
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** At the end of ''Mastiff'' the King and Queen announce the coming end of Tortallan slavery as a legal practice, [[spoiler: having heard their young son's tales of the horrors of slavery and realized how much the rebel faction used slave routes]]. Instead of being immediately able to take this as a good, Beka worries about how people will react. It's a big industry, well ingrained in Tortallan society and without any kind of popular abolitionist movement to counter it. ''Literature/TortallASpysGuide'' has a timeline mentioning that for the rest of King Roger's reign, and all of King Gareth's after it, the Crown struggled against subjects who didn't want to give up the practice; in ''Literature/TheNumairChronicles'' Ozorne points to the Tortallan civil war as the reason why he wouldn't free Carthak's slaves if he had the power to.
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** At the end of ''Mastiff'' the King and Queen announce the coming end of Tortallan slavery as a legal practice, [[spoiler: having heard their young son's tales of the horrors of slavery and realized how much the rebel faction used that kidnapped him was only able to do so using slave routes]].money and slave caravans]]. Instead of being immediately able to take this as a good, Beka worries about how people will react. It's a big industry, well ingrained in Tortallan society and without any kind of popular abolitionist movement to counter it. ''Literature/TortallASpysGuide'' has a timeline mentioning that for the rest of King Roger's reign, and all of King Gareth's after it, the Crown struggled against subjects who didn't want to give up the practice; in ''Literature/TheNumairChronicles'' Ozorne points to the Tortallan civil war as the reason why he wouldn't free Carthak's slaves if he had the power to.became Emperor.
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* CosmicPlaything: Unlike others in the series, Beka doesn't mind serving the Black God of Death, since he values the souls of the dead far more than the other gods seem to value the souls of the ''living''. She doesn't like the idea of any other gods being aware of and meddling with her though, and once lists examples of the chosen of the gods who met very sticky ends.
* CounterfeitCash: They're called "coles" in Tortall slang. Due to the threat they present to the economy, colesmiths (counterfeiters) are given serious punishment. Usually they show up in isolation. The main problem of ''Bloodhound'' is that a flood of coles has suddenly appeared, unbalancing the local economy.
* CounterfeitCash: They're called "coles" in Tortall slang. Due to the threat they present to the economy, colesmiths (counterfeiters) are given serious punishment. Usually they show up in isolation. The main problem of ''Bloodhound'' is that a flood of coles has suddenly appeared, unbalancing the local economy.
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* CosmicPlaything: Unlike others in the series, Beka doesn't mind serving the Black God of Death, since he values the souls of the dead far more than the other gods seem to value the souls of the ''living''.''living'', and doesn't ask things of her so much as approve of the things she already wants to do. She doesn't like the idea of any other gods being aware of and meddling with her though, and once lists examples of the chosen of the gods who met very sticky ends.
* CounterfeitCash: They're called "coles" in Tortall slang. Due to the threat they present to the economy, colesmiths (counterfeiters) are given serious punishment. Usually they show up inisolation. isolation, made in small batches by few people. The main problem of ''Bloodhound'' is that a flood ''flood'' of coles has suddenly appeared, appeared being minted en masse, unbalancing the local economy.
* CounterfeitCash: They're called "coles" in Tortall slang. Due to the threat they present to the economy, colesmiths (counterfeiters) are given serious punishment. Usually they show up in
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* DarkerAndEdgier: This series is less [[BlackAndWhiteMorality clearcut in morality]] than previous ones and portrays a much tougher, grittier, and dirtier world than the one occupied by people like Alanna.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: This series is less The [[Literature/SongOfTheLioness earliest Tortall novels]] were very [[BlackAndWhiteMorality clearcut in morality]] than previous ones morality]], and portrays those that followed became more complex and uncertain. Beka, as a commoner who lives and works in the lower city, lives in a much tougher, grittier, and dirtier world than any of the one occupied by people like Alanna.others, including Arram in the later-written ''[[Literature/TheNumairChronicles Tempests and Slaughter]]''.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Happens in all three books.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Happens in The villains of all three books.books tend to this.
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** The entire series is about [[LovableRogue George Cooper's]] ancestor -- a stalwart police officer.
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** The entire series is about [[LovableRogue George Cooper's]] ancestor -- a stalwart police officer.officer, though one that's flexible enough that, given his own honorable tendencies, they probably would have got on all right.
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** King Roger is not an evil bastard like [[Literature/SongOfTheLioness that other Roger]], and he's also a redhead. The TallDarkAndHandsome gene hadn't yet entered the Conté line.
* GenreShift: Not from fantasy, of course, but the setting changes drastically from the royal/noble circles occupied by Alanna, Daine, Kel, and Aly; this is the first time we really see how commoners in Tortall live day-to-day.[[note]]Daine technically is a commoner, but her wild magic means she is in the king's inner circle.[[/note]] Being about a young police officer, the series also naturally takes a crime novel format, as well as being written in first person.
* GenreShift: Not from fantasy, of course, but the setting changes drastically from the royal/noble circles occupied by Alanna, Daine, Kel, and Aly; this is the first time we really see how commoners in Tortall live day-to-day.[[note]]Daine technically is a commoner, but her wild magic means she is in the king's inner circle.[[/note]] Being about a young police officer, the series also naturally takes a crime novel format, as well as being written in first person.
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** Some of the royals here have the same names as royals and royal cousins in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness''. King Roger is not an evil evil, calculating bastard like [[Literature/SongOfTheLioness that other Roger]], Roger, and he's also a redhead. The TallDarkAndHandsome gene hadn't yet entered the Conté line.
line. Prince Gareth... well, he's four and ''might'' grow up to be something like the future Gareths (Reserved training master Gareth the Elder, or scholarly Gareth the Younger), but he seems to have a harder edge suggested in ''Literature/TortallASpysGuide''. And Prince Baird isn't a dry-witted self-effacing Healer [[spoiler: but complicit in a plot to kill Gareth and Roger and take the throne himself]].
* GenreShift: Not from fantasy, of course, but the setting changes drastically from the royal/noble circles occupied by Alanna, Daine, Kel, and Aly; this is the first time we really see how commoners in Tortall live day-to-day.[[note]]Daine technically is a commoner, but her wild magicmeans she is puts her in the king's inner circle.[[/note]] Being about a young police officer, the series also naturally takes a crime novel format, as well as being written in first person.
* GenreShift: Not from fantasy, of course, but the setting changes drastically from the royal/noble circles occupied by Alanna, Daine, Kel, and Aly; this is the first time we really see how commoners in Tortall live day-to-day.[[note]]Daine technically is a commoner, but her wild magic
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* ItGetsEasier: Touched on in ''Bloodhound'' where Beka overhears cage Dog Shales telling a coworker that she's started hitting her child since taking the job.
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* ItGetsEasier: Touched on in ''Bloodhound'' where Beka overhears cage Dog Shales telling a coworker that she's started hitting her child since taking the job.becoming a torturer.
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* KarmaHoudini: Nomalla in ''Mastiff''. She eventually helped the protagonists escape, but she isn't punished at all for her prior role in the attempted coup, and she's clearly only sorry that her father's actions have ruined their house and that [[spoiler:the prince]] was so horribly abused -- she never shows regret or upset over all the damage the plot caused and everyone else it hurt. Beka objects, but her protests are overruled. Her only punishment is to be [[ReassignedToAntarctica relocated to the Scanran border]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Nomalla in ''Mastiff''. She eventually helped ''Mastiff'' is either this or the protagonists escape, but she isn't punished at all for inverse, depending. The degree of her prior role complicity in the attempted coup, coup isn't known, though she wasn't aware that [[spoiler: Prince Gareth had been abducted and she's clearly only MadeASlave]]. When Beka and company are captured she helps them to escape, turning on her house at basically ''the'' last moment before loyal armies arrive and attack the castle. The rest of Nomalla's family is executed as traitors. Nomalla is sorry that her father's actions have ruined their house and that [[spoiler:the prince]] was so horribly abused -- she never shows regret abused, and believes it's a matter of honor for her to turn, but she's also haughty and arrogant and doesn't say anything one way or upset over all another about the other damage the plot caused coup causes. Nomalla does not get a reward for [[spoiler: helping to rescue the prince]], or rather, she gets to keep her life and everyone else it hurt. Beka objects, but her protests are overruled. Her only punishment is to be [[ReassignedToAntarctica relocated to the Scanran border]].border]] where Gershom believes that she'll earn redemption.
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* BuffySpeak: The use of slang is much heavier than the other Tortall series; presumably it all went out of fashion by the present time. (That, or the nobility, who have been the focus of most of the previous books, don't use as much slang.)
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* BuffySpeak: The use of slang is much heavier than the other Tortall series; presumably it all went out of fashion by the present time. (That, or the nobility, who have been the focus of most of the previous books, don't use as much slang.slang; George does say 'cove' sometimes in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness''.)
* ChildProdigy: Prince Gareth in ''Mastiff'' is far more articulate and intelligent than Beka thinks a four year old should be. He can already read and write and think about some ramifications of the future. Of course, as the ''heir to the throne'' he's been the beneficiary of a degree of attention, favor, and tutelage that Beka, who grew up in grinding poverty, is completely unfamiliar with, plus the circumstances in which she encounters him have put him in a very serious state of mind.
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** At the end of ''Mastiff'' the King and Queen announce the coming end of Tortallan slavery as a legal practice, [[spoiler: having heard their young son's tales of the horrors of slavery and realized how much the rebel faction used slave routes]]. Instead of being immediately able to take this as a good, Beka worries about how people will react. It's a big industry, well ingrained in Tortallan society and without any kind of popular abolitionist movement. ''Literature/TortallASpysGuide'' has a timeline mentioning that for the rest of King Roger's reign, and all of King Gareth's after it, the Crown struggled against subjects who didn't want to give up the practice.
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** At the end of ''Mastiff'' the King and Queen announce the coming end of Tortallan slavery as a legal practice, [[spoiler: having heard their young son's tales of the horrors of slavery and realized how much the rebel faction used slave routes]]. Instead of being immediately able to take this as a good, Beka worries about how people will react. It's a big industry, well ingrained in Tortallan society and without any kind of popular abolitionist movement. movement to counter it. ''Literature/TortallASpysGuide'' has a timeline mentioning that for the rest of King Roger's reign, and all of King Gareth's after it, the Crown struggled against subjects who didn't want to give up the practice.practice; in ''Literature/TheNumairChronicles'' Ozorne points to the Tortallan civil war as the reason why he wouldn't free Carthak's slaves if he had the power to.
