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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Hrathen.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Hrathen. Hrathen will lie, cheat, steal, and kill to make Arelon convert to Shu-Dereth...because if they don't convert fast enough, the Fjordell Empire will do it by force, and he's seen how brutal that can be. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, Wyrn never planned on converting Arelon, and just wants to genocide it to prevent the rebirth of Elantris once and for all.]]
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: Played straight, averted, and subverted.
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: Played straight, averted, and subverted. Raoden is fond of using this gambit to convince other Elantrian factions to join his side, returning initial cruelty with kindness. However, he recognizes that it won't work with everyone, so he sometimes uses it as part of a greater gambit (giving Shaor's men uncooked grain in the hope that they'll turn on her for help cooking it) or doesn't bother at all ([[spoiler:going straight for the kill with the Dakhor men when they try to negotiate, because he knows they're lying to make Elantris let its guard down]]).
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* ServantRace: The Seons are magical spirits appearing as balls of light, who bind to certain humans and serve them. That said, the seon Ien objects to terms like servant or slave: to a Seon, there is no such think as rank, only those they love.
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* ServantRace: The Seons are magical spirits appearing as balls of light, who bind to certain humans and serve them. That said, the seon Ien objects to terms like servant or slave: to a Seon, there is no such think thing as rank, only those they love.
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* MentalShutdown: Hoed are Elantrians who have been driven into catatonia by the accumulated pain of their unhealing wounds. [[spoiler:Zig-zagged at the end when TheMagicComesBack and heals them.]]
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* BlessedWithSuck: In pre-Reod days, Raoden's strong connection to the Dor would have made him an extraordinarily powerful Elantrian. Post-Reod, it just means he's the target of the Dor's failed attempts to escape, and is regularly wracked with pain as it tries to force its way out through him. [[spoiler:This ends when Elantris is fixed.]]
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* {{Cult}}: "The Mysteries."
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* {{Cult}}: "The Jeskeri Mysteries."" Spun off from the main religion of Jesker, but abandoned its teachings of the Dor in favor of HumanSacrifice and BloodMagic.
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* EarnYourHappyEndingDyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Hrathen]] gets one. Driven by sheer willpower, he gets back up and uses his very last moments to hunt down and kill [[spoiler: Dilaf]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:New Elantris is left in ruins after the Dakhor attack, Arelon and Teod swear themselves to Fjordell, and Raoden himself is rendered Hoed from pain. At the last moment, however, Raoden is able to fight through the pain and fix Elantris, restoring it to its former glory, healing its people, and saving Arelon and Teod from genocide.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:New Elantris is left in ruins after the Dakhor attack, Arelon and Teod swear themselves to Fjordell, and Raoden himself is rendered Hoed from pain. At the last moment, however, Raoden is able to fight through the pain and fix Elantris, restoring it to its former glory, healing its people, and saving Arelon and Teod from genocide.]]
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Hrathen]] gets one. Driven by sheer willpower, he gets back up and uses his very last moments to hunt down and kill [[spoiler: Dilaf]].
* TheEmpire: Fjordell.
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** Elantrians' fate post-Reod.
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** Elantrians' fate post-Reod. They cannot die so every injury feels as new as the moment they got it, and eventually they will go catatonic from pain as their wounds pile up.
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* InsultFriendlyFire: When Raoden describes [[spoiler:Shaor's men worshipping her]], he refers to it as a "primitive" religion. Galladon takes offense to this, as Duladel's own religion of Jesker is considered "primitive" by the Shu churches, and Raoden corrects it to "simplistic".
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* ReligionOfEvil: Shu-Dereth is considered one by many. Hrathen, of course, thinks that it's [[LawfulNeutral perfectly]] [[TheSpock logical]], [[spoiler:even after he agrees that its current leader is evil]].
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* ReligionOfEvil: Shu-Dereth is considered one by many. many, as its the state religion of an expansionist empire who uses its precepts of "unity under one nation" as justification for conquest. Hrathen, of course, thinks that it's [[LawfulNeutral perfectly]] perfectly [[TheSpock logical]], [[spoiler:even after he agrees that its current leader is evil]].
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Dilaf.]]
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Dilaf.]] [[spoiler:Dilaf]] starts as a KnightTemplar only too happy to massacre heretics, especially Elantrians, and only gets worse.
* BackgroundMagicField: The Dor, which different groups access in different ways, both for good and ill.
* BackgroundMagicField: The Dor, which different groups access in different ways, both for good and ill.
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* TheForce: The Dor, which different groups access in different ways, but has no known direct [[TheDarkSide darker counterpart]] force.
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** Hrathen, ironically considering he is a priest.
** Karata, especially compared to the other gang leaders.
** Karata, especially compared to the other gang leaders.
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** Hrathen, ironically considering he is a priest.
priest. He is working to convert the entire country to Shu-Dereth and is happy to lie, manipulate, and even kill to see it done, and gets the idea to pin all their hate on the Elantrians. However, he's doing it to avoid Fjordell forcefully subjugating them.
** Karata, especially compared to the other gang leaders. She's not shy about threatening broken limb and agonizing pain on those that cross her and is the first to attack Raoden's gang. She's also the first to come around and join them after Raoden does her a favor, [[spoiler:and has been secretly sheltering the children of Elantris]].
** Karata, especially compared to the other gang leaders. She's not shy about threatening broken limb and agonizing pain on those that cross her and is the first to attack Raoden's gang. She's also the first to come around and join them after Raoden does her a favor, [[spoiler:and has been secretly sheltering the children of Elantris]].
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* NonHumanSidekick: The Seons. [[spoiler:[[WordOfGod Also]] [[EvilCounterpart Skaze]].]]
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* NonHumanSidekick: The Seons. Seons, glowing balls of light that can communicate with other Seons and wish to serve. [[spoiler:[[WordOfGod Also]] [[EvilCounterpart Skaze]].Skaze]], but they're only playing the part because they have to.]]
* OldMaid: In Teod, most women are at least engaged by 18 if not married already, but Sarene is 25 and had no offers until she met Raoden, due to her often blunt and forceful personality.
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* RuleOfThree: The story alternates between the perspectives of the three main characters, Raoden to Sarene to Hrathen and back to Raoden. Only for it to fall apart completely (mixing up the order and including perspectives from other minor characters) towards the end during the 'Sanderson Avalanche' as various plotlines reach fruition .
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* RuleOfThree: The story alternates between the perspectives of the three main characters, Raoden to Sarene to Hrathen and back to Raoden. Only for it to fall apart completely (mixing up the order and including perspectives from other minor characters) towards the end during the 'Sanderson Avalanche' as various plotlines reach fruition .fruition.
* ServantRace: The Seons are magical spirits appearing as balls of light, who bind to certain humans and serve them. That said, the seon Ien objects to terms like servant or slave: to a Seon, there is no such think as rank, only those they love.
* ServantRace: The Seons are magical spirits appearing as balls of light, who bind to certain humans and serve them. That said, the seon Ien objects to terms like servant or slave: to a Seon, there is no such think as rank, only those they love.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Adien, son of Kiin, appears to be this. He's never stated to be autistic, but he constantly repeats [[GoodWithNumbers strings of numbers]], and is socially completely withdrawn. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}}. He's actually an Elantrian, and a Hoed at that, for whom the numbers are his MadnessMantra. His family has [[WhatHappenedToMommy disguised his condition as this trope]].]] [[spoiler: DoubleSubverted. After Raoden reconnects Elantris to the Dor, Adien becomes properly conscious, but maintains that the peculiarities of his mind are still present, and his head for numbers is vital to saving Sarene and Teod.]]
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** Where it not for the enhancement he received at Dakhor, [[spoiler: Hrathen wouldn't have been able to survive his injury to kill Dilaf, the Dakhor's gradget. Even better, the enhanced arm itself is what he uses to kill him with, and Dilaf's actions were what caused Hrathern to lose faith in Shu-Dereth in the first place.]]
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** Where it not for the enhancement he received at Dakhor, [[spoiler: Hrathen wouldn't have been able to survive his injury to kill Dilaf, the Dakhor's gradget. Even better, the enhanced arm itself is what he uses to kill him with, and Dilaf's actions were what caused Hrathern Hrathen to lose faith in Shu-Dereth in the first place.]]
* HollywoodAutism: Adien, son of Kiin, appears to be this. He's never stated to be autistic, but he constantly repeats [[GoodWithNumbers strings of numbers]], and is socially completely withdrawn. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}}. He's actually an Elantrian, and a Hoed at that, for whom the numbers are his MadnessMantra. His family has [[WhatHappenedToMommy disguised his condition as this trope]].]] [[spoiler: DoubleSubverted. After Raoden reconnects Elantris to the Dor, Adien becomes properly conscious, but maintains that the peculiarities of his mind are still present, and his head for numbers is vital to saving Sarene and Teod.]]
* HollywoodAutism: Adien, son of Kiin, appears to be this. He's never stated to be autistic, but he constantly repeats [[GoodWithNumbers strings of numbers]], and is socially completely withdrawn. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}}. He's actually an Elantrian, and a Hoed at that, for whom the numbers are his MadnessMantra. His family has [[WhatHappenedToMommy disguised his condition as this trope]].]] [[spoiler: DoubleSubverted. After Raoden reconnects Elantris to the Dor, Adien becomes properly conscious, but maintains that the peculiarities of his mind are still present, and his head for numbers is vital to saving Sarene and Teod.]]
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* MamaBear: It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Karata]] is one of these, and her attempts to escape Elantris are actually trying to see her daughter one last time. [[spoiler:In fact, her whole gang is this or PapaWolf: they've taken the children of Elantris to keep them safe and fed, and their desire to protect them is what's keeping them all sane.]]
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sarene's very good at this. [[spoiler:So is Dilaf.]]
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Raoden figures out early on that [[spoiler:Aanden]] can't be as insane as he acts, and he's too well-organized and thoughtful for the show he puts on. [[spoiler:Exposing his ruse before his court leads to him reclaiming his true name of Taan and joining Raoden.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sarene's very good atthis.this, although she's helped by Iadon's utter disregard for women. [[spoiler:So is Dilaf.]]
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* SymbolFace: {{Exaggerated|Trope}} with the seons -- small {{Spark Fair|y}}ies with a central [[RunicMagic magic rune]] making the whole body technically a symbol. Although they don't derive any unique abilities from the rune other than an innate knowledge of its meaning, the seons are [[PiecesOfGod fragments]] of one of the gods that fuels the magic system, and there is one seon in existence per rune in the LanguageOfMagic.
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* HollywoodSatanism: The [[spoiler: Jindo Mysteries]] turn out to be this, in practice. The brief glimpse we get is of a powerful nobleman standing naked before an altar, disemboweling a young woman and writing demands in her blood while his followers watch, clothed in dark robes.
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* HollywoodSatanism: The [[spoiler: Jindo Jeskeri Mysteries]] turn out to be this, in practice. The brief glimpse we get is of a powerful nobleman standing naked before an altar, disemboweling a young woman and writing demands in her blood while his followers watch, clothed in dark robes.
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* SwitchingPOV: The book rotates its point of view character every chapter from Raoden to Serene to Hrathen. [[spoiler: This is abandoned in the third act and viewpoints begin switching within chapters and to other characters.
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* SwitchingPOV: The book rotates its point of view character every chapter from Raoden to Serene to Hrathen. [[spoiler: This is abandoned in the third act and viewpoints begin switching within chapters and to other characters.]]
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* SwitchingPOV: The book rotates its point of view character every chapter from Raoden to Serene to Hrathen. [[spoiler: This is abandoned in the third act and viewpoints begin switching within chapters and to [[NonPOVProtagonist other characters]]]].
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Not to be confused with the Hyundai Elantra. The HeavyMetal band Music/{{Elantris}} is named after the novel.
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* TeleportersVisualizationClause: {{Downplayed}}. Anyone who knows the teleportation spell can do it with only a direction and a distance, but there's no protection against [[TeleFrag jumping into a wall]]. Raoden can only jump to a different city because someone memorized the distance.
