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** Day, Morveer's apprentice, is blonde and appears sunnily innocent.
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** Caul Shivers, like all Northern Named Men, bears a meaningful nickname. He's named 'Caul' for being born with a caul (part of the amniotic sac) on his head, but 'Shivers' is thanks to falling in a freezing cold river on his first raid and climbing out shivering with cold. He tells people sometimes that it's because his enemies shiver with terror, but this is a lie.
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** Castor Morveer: the castor bean is the source of ricin, a lethal and hard-to-trace poison.
** Castor Morveer: the castor bean is the source of ricin, a lethal and hard-to-trace poison.
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* PoisonAndCureGambit: Used several times by Morveer and Day, sometimes played straight, but other times there was in fact no poison at all; in one of those cases, the "antidote" was actually the real poison, tricking the victim into consuming it themselves.
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* PerfectPoison: the opening scene for master poisoner Castor Morveer shows him showing his apprentice, Day, the most potent poison he knows, "The King of Poisons", a toxin that is both completely undetectable and impossible to build up an immunity against, and should only be used against someone who is protected against all else to keep the secret. However [[spoiler: much to Day's later dismay, the "King of Poisons" is merely a sham concocted by Morveer in case the apprentice betrays him, and is in fact harmless.]]
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As might be imagined, this is a tale of revenge.
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As might be imagined, this is a tale of revenge.
{{revenge}}.
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Unfortunately for him, he fails to ensure that she's actually dead.
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* CharacterDevelopment: in contrast to much of ''TheFirstLaw'', there's a fair amount here, especially for Monza.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Duke Salier's torturers in Visserine, and what they do to [[spoiler:Shivers]].
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* TheButcher: Monza's epithet is "The Butcher of Caprile", because of the bloody sack of that city by her army. [[spoiler: It turns out that she gave explicit orders not to sack the city, which were ignored in her absence while she was reporting to Duke Orzo.]]
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In Styria, a land of warring city-states based rather obviously on Renaissance Italy, mercenary captain Monzarro Murcatto ("Monza") has come close to putting her employer, Duke Orzo, on the throne, which would realize his lifelong dream of supremacy. He's a suspicious man, though, and Monza's success has brought her renown; fearing that she may try to convert that into political power, he has her her and her brother brutally murdered and thrown off the battlements of his fortress.
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In Styria, a land of warring city-states based rather obviously on Renaissance Italy, mercenary captain Monzarro Monzcarro Murcatto ("Monza") has come close to putting her employer, Duke Orzo, on the throne, which would realize his lifelong dream of supremacy. He's a suspicious man, though, and Monza's success has brought her renown; fearing that she may try to convert that into political power, he has her her and her brother brutally murdered and thrown off the battlements of his fortress.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Monza ends up as Duchess of Talins, refuses to become beholden to any faction, and looks like she's going to make a strong but fair ruler with a strong practical streak. Certainly, one better than the standard run of city rulers one's encountered in the rest of the book.]]
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* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Monza and her brother Benno]]
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* ItsPersonal: Duke Orzo killed Monza's beloved brother Benna (as well as almost killing and permanently maiming Monza herself.
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* BookEnds: The book starts and ends with the words "The sunrise was the color of bad blood."
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* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler:Monza confronts Orzo in his fortress of Fontezarmo, where he had her "killed" in the beginning.]]
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''Best Served Cold'' is a 2009 stand-alone novel by Joe Abercrombie, set in the same world as his ''TheFirstLaw''. It's set a few years after events of the trilogy, and a fair number of characters in it were supporting characters in ''TheFirstLaw''.
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''Best Served Cold'' is a 2009 stand-alone LowFantasy novel by Joe Abercrombie, set in the same world as his ''TheFirstLaw''. It's set a few years after events of the trilogy, and a fair number of characters in it were supporting characters in ''TheFirstLaw''.
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* AntiHero: Monza is a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type V]]; all that saves her from being a VillainProtagonist, in the beginning, is that there isn't a good side to cheer for. Sure, Duke Orzo is a villain, but Monza was his enthusiastic tool until he betrayed her, and her motives for revenge are all personal ones; that Orzo betrayed her, broke her body, and killed her beloved brother. [[spoiler:By the end of the book, she's a better person, definitely at least a Type IV.]]
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* AntiHero: Monza is a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type V]]; all that saves her from being a VillainProtagonist, in the beginning, is that there isn't a good side to cheer for. Sure, Duke Orzo is a villain, but Monza was his enthusiastic tool until he betrayed her, and her motives for revenge are all personal ones; that Orzo betrayed her, broke her body, and killed her beloved brother. [[spoiler:By the end of the book, she's a better person, definitely at least a Type IV.]]]]
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* AntiHero: Monza is a Type V; all that saves her from being a VillainProtagonist, in the beginning, is that there isn't a good side to cheer for. Sure, Duke Orzo is a villain, but Monza was his enthusiastic tool until he betrayed her, and her motives for revenge are all personal ones; that Orzo betrayed her, broke her body, and killed her beloved brother. [[spoiler:By the end of the book, she's a better person, definitely at least a Type IV.]]
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* AntiHero: Monza is a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type V; V]]; all that saves her from being a VillainProtagonist, in the beginning, is that there isn't a good side to cheer for. Sure, Duke Orzo is a villain, but Monza was his enthusiastic tool until he betrayed her, and her motives for revenge are all personal ones; that Orzo betrayed her, broke her body, and killed her beloved brother. [[spoiler:By the end of the book, she's a better person, definitely at least a Type IV.]]
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* ActionGirl: Monza. Vitari.
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* ActionGirl: Monza. Vitari.Vitari.
* AntiHero: Monza is a Type V; all that saves her from being a VillainProtagonist, in the beginning, is that there isn't a good side to cheer for. Sure, Duke Orzo is a villain, but Monza was his enthusiastic tool until he betrayed her, and her motives for revenge are all personal ones; that Orzo betrayed her, broke her body, and killed her beloved brother. [[spoiler:By the end of the book, she's a better person, definitely at least a Type IV.]]
* AntiHero: Monza is a Type V; all that saves her from being a VillainProtagonist, in the beginning, is that there isn't a good side to cheer for. Sure, Duke Orzo is a villain, but Monza was his enthusiastic tool until he betrayed her, and her motives for revenge are all personal ones; that Orzo betrayed her, broke her body, and killed her beloved brother. [[spoiler:By the end of the book, she's a better person, definitely at least a Type IV.]]
