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* HeroicSacrifice: Twice [[spoiler: Civet]] gives up her life to allow the others time to flee, and [[spoiler: Thorn]] sacrifices his soul to repair Baldy's Cauldron.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Twice Twice: [[spoiler: Civet]] gives up her life to allow the others time to flee, and [[spoiler: Thorn]] sacrifices his soul to repair Baldy's Cauldron.



* PowerSource: Civet used up all her magic powers to wreak havoc on the Inland Sea and River Glen. There's a whole BigLippedAlligatorMoment where she puts on a magic tiara and starts spouting prophecies, with the motivation behind it being to recharge her depleted magical powers.

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* PowerSource: Civet used up all her magic powers to wreak havoc on the Inland Sea and River Glen. There's a whole BigLippedAlligatorMoment fiasco where she puts on a magic tiara and starts spouting prophecies, with the motivation behind it being to recharge her depleted magical powers.



* TailorMadePrison: The island where the Nameless One and Snowgoose were imprisoned was stripped of all mirrors and other reflective objects to prevent him from gaining any identity, and the magic barrier around the island negated all magic within it and prevented anything and everything from leaving once it entered. Everything, that is, except for clay, in order to prevent the beach from building up too high. Thorn realizes this when he throws a pebble in frustration and it passes the barrier.
* TortureTechnician: A cheerful and hairy man who believes one should always do one's job well. He's hurt by being called a torturer and prefers the term "facilitator".

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* TailorMadePrison: The island where the Nameless One and Snowgoose were imprisoned was stripped of all mirrors and other reflective objects to prevent him from gaining any identity, and the magic barrier around the island negated all magic within it and prevented anything and everything from leaving once it entered. Everything, that is, except for clay, in order to prevent the beach from building up too high. Thorn realizes this when he throws a pebble in frustration frustration, and it passes the barrier.
* TortureTechnician: A cheerful and hairy man who believes one should always do one's job well. He's hurt by being called a torturer and prefers the term "facilitator"."facilitator."

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* MagicCauldron: Fixing one of these is central to the plot.
* NonHumanSidekick: Snowgoose, the Nameless One's huge white dog.

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* MagicCauldron: Fixing one of these is central to Baldy's Bowl, which they stole from King Sambar in the plot.
* NonHumanSidekick: Snowgoose,
previous book, has the Nameless One's huge white dog. power to boil away entire oceans, and hence is the most efficient way to restore the displaced Inland Sea. Unfortunately, the cauldron was cracked in the escape attempt; much of the book revolves around finding a way to fix it.



* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Civet]] sacrifices herself to let the others escape, saying that her debt is paid.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Nameless One, who is sealed in a patch of skin on an enchanted island.

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Civet]] sacrifices herself to let the others escape, saying that her debt is paid.
paid, which [[spoiler:Shimmer]] later agrees to.
* SealedEvilInACan: The RightHandAttackDog: Snowgoose, the Nameless One, who One's familiar, is sealed in a patch of skin on an enchanted island.huge red-eyed white dog.



* TailorMadePrison: The island where the Nameless One and his RightHandAttackDog were imprisoned was stripped of all mirrors and other reflective objects to prevent him from gaining any identity, and the magic barrier around the island negated all magic within it and prevented anything and everything from leaving once it entered. Everything, that is, except for clay, in order to prevent the beach from building up too high. Thorn realizes this when he throws a pebble in frustration and it passes the barrier.

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* TailorMadePrison: The island where the Nameless One and his RightHandAttackDog Snowgoose were imprisoned was stripped of all mirrors and other reflective objects to prevent him from gaining any identity, and the magic barrier around the island negated all magic within it and prevented anything and everything from leaving once it entered. Everything, that is, except for clay, in order to prevent the beach from building up too high. Thorn realizes this when he throws a pebble in frustration and it passes the barrier.
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* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: There is a very old tiara set with a pearl that causes the wearer to become possessed by the spirit of a long-dead sorceress. They manage to destroy the pearl by submerging in in wine. Wine is acidic and will dissolve a pearl, but a) not that fast and b) not intensely magical ones, which you'd think would have some kind of protection on them.

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* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: There is a very old tiara set with a pearl that causes the wearer to become possessed by the spirit of a long-dead sorceress. They manage to destroy the pearl by submerging in it in wine. Wine is acidic and will dissolve a pearl, but a) not that fast and b) not you'd think intensely magical ones, which you'd think ones would have some kind of protection on them.
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''Literature/DragonCauldron'' is the penultimate book of the ''Literature/DragonSeries'' by LaurenceYep. It was first published in 1991 and is a direct sequel to the earlier books, ''Literature/DragonOfTheLostSea'' and ''Literature/DragonSteel''. After ''Dragon Cauldron'', the events in the ''Dragon Series'' are tied up in the final installation, ''Literature/DragonWar''.

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''Literature/DragonCauldron'' is the penultimate book of the ''Literature/DragonSeries'' by LaurenceYep.Creator/LaurenceYep. It was first published in 1991 and is a direct sequel to the earlier books, ''Literature/DragonOfTheLostSea'' and ''Literature/DragonSteel''. After ''Dragon Cauldron'', the events in the ''Dragon Series'' are tied up in the final installation, ''Literature/DragonWar''.



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* TheUnfavourite: Thorn slips down to this spot after the incident with the tiara.

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* TheUnfavourite: Thorn slips down to this spot after the incident with the tiara.tiara.
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* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: There is a tiara set with a pearl that causes the wearer to become possessed by the spirit of a long-dead sorceress. The heroes manage to free someone trapped by it by splashing it with wine. Wine is acidic and will dissolve a pearl, but a) not that fast and b) not intensely magical ones, which you'd think would have some kind of protection on them.
** Possibly justified as this troper remembers that tiara being described as ''incredibly'' old, and they didn't splash [[spoiler: Civet with the wine so much as they held her face down in it repeatedly and let her up only for air until it was gone.]]

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* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: There is a very old tiara set with a pearl that causes the wearer to become possessed by the spirit of a long-dead sorceress. The heroes They manage to free someone trapped destroy the pearl by it by splashing it with submerging in in wine. Wine is acidic and will dissolve a pearl, but a) not that fast and b) not intensely magical ones, which you'd think would have some kind of protection on them.
** Possibly justified as this troper remembers that tiara being described as ''incredibly'' old, and they didn't splash [[spoiler: Civet with the wine so much as they held her face down in it repeatedly and let her up only for air until it was gone.]]
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** Possibly justified as this troper remembers that tiara being described as ''incredibly'' old, and they didn't splash [[spoiler: Civet with the wine so much as they held her face down in it repeatedly and let her up only for air until it was gone.]]
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* NoSell: The Boneless King can cast spells that flight and other magic impossible.

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* NoSell: The Boneless King can cast spells that make flight and other magic impossible.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[Spoiler:Civet]] sacrifices herself to let the others escape, saying that her debt is paid.

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[Spoiler:Civet]] [[spoiler:Civet]] sacrifices herself to let the others escape, saying that her debt is paid.

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