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* MuggleBornOfMages: Ceyda finds out in Part 2 that sometimes people can be born without the ability to use magic at all or with great difficulty, which is treated as a disability by the Atrium.

* MilitaryMage: Kesterline's Mages double as both its state police and the closest thing it has to a military, as due to their isolationism and lack of large-scale conflict, a proper standing army doesn't make much sense.

* AfterTheEnd: Kesterline is believed by the general populace to be the last inhabitable place on the planet following a cataclysmic war centuries ago. As Ceyda learns later on, the emphasis here is on ''believed'', as there's plenty of humans elsewhere in the world, Kesterline just happens to be an isolationist nation who strictly controls who knows about the outside world.

* CoolShades: Mages are almost always seen wearing sunglasses. In at least Rembrandt's case, they also serve to hide how his eyes have extra pupils.
* {{Dystopia}}: Kesterline is a deeply misogynistic and classist society where the only people who get any real benefits for the most part are male nobles, and keeps control by making people believe that the outside world is little more than an irradiated wasteland and that only the male and noble-only Mage core can do magic.

* {{Irony}}: Chatelaines are considered a good match for Mages. Rembrandt is the main Mage Ceyda interacts with, and is also the closest thing she has to an ArchEnemy, with no love lost between them.

* VillainHasAPoint: Towcard may be willing to kill Medhi because he's learned too much, but he's also quite correct that Kesterline's social system is built on nothing but lies, even if he breaks it to Medhi in the least kind way.

Ceyda Lucrece is a spirited teenage aristocrat living in the sleepy coastal town of Brickfriar on the island continent [[TheMagocracy Magocracy]] of Kesterline who ends up coming across a talking spellbook named Doc containing extremely powerful magic. Forging an unlikely friendship/quasi-sibling bond, the two end up finding out that Ceyda's world is far wider and dangerous than either could've imagined.

* UnskilledButStrong: Ceyda has pretty powerful magic with Doc in hand apart from her Yore magic, but her lack of skill means that she's at a disadvantage fighting against the more limited but more experienced and properly trained Kesterline Mages.

** Towers are the the only noble core that people of both genders can be, most well known for being the best family men and women, though male Towers get to be doctors and teachers.

* TheMasquerade: As far as most people in Kesterline are concerned, the world outside the continent is an lifeless, magically irradiated hellscape.

* FantasticCasteSystem:
** In Kesterline it breaks down for the most part by class and gender, with nobles having their cores revealed at the age of 14:
*** Male:

*** Female:

*** Mage: The only caste believed capable of using magic, their job is serving as a combination of both police and military. They also have numerous subcores within the main Mage core.
*** Spearhead: Politicians and general leadership positions.
*** Gaslamp: Core with a focus on finances, laws, and writing.

*** Lighthouse: Raise not only their children but the children of others.
*** Chatelaine: More or less quiet but skilled wives.
*** Towers are the the only noble core that people of both genders can be, most well known for being the best family men and women, though male Towers get to be doctors and teachers.
*** Within the working class there are Pillars, who do every job that isn't covered by the Chisels, who serve as craftsmen.

* CompellingVoice: Near the end of Part 1, Ceyda figures out that her unique magical ability is getting people to do whatever she asks. It's subtle enough that she doesn't realize she's been using it for quite some time until she's at Rembrandt and the other Mage's mercy, and because she asks, they do things that they otherwise wouldn't. She learns during her time at the Atrium that this is because her unique magic is related to Yore, the Avatar of Protection. As the existence of a second Yore user would be considered problematic by the people of the Atrium and elsewhere, Ceyda is convinced to keep this ability to herself.

* {{Dystopia}}: Kesterline is a deeply misogynistic and classist society where the only people who get any real benefits for the most part are male nobles, and keeps control by making people believe that the outside world is little more than an irradiated wasteland.

* PubertySuperpower: People generally gain the ability to use magic via personal grimoire at age 14. Kesterline uses social control to convince people that for the most part nobles, and only male nobles of the Mage core at that, can use magic, but the reality is that almost everyone has the potential to use it.

* UnskilledButStrong: Ceyda has pretty powerful magic with Doc in hand apart from her Yore magic, but her lack of skill means that she's at a disadvantage fighting against the more limited but more experienced Kesterline Mages.

* UnskilledButStrong: Ceyda has pretty powerful magic with Doc in hand apart from her Yore magic, but her lack of skill means that she's at a disadvantage fighting the more limited but more experienced Kesterline mages.

* AbusiveParents: When Ceyda proves too troublesome for her parents, they decide the best thing to do is to give her a lobotomy, which causes her to run away near the end of Part 1.

* ReallyGetsAround: The main stereotype regarding Chatelaines apart from them being [[BrainlessBeauty pretty but dumb]] outside of their Core specialties, is that they'll have lots of sex with pretty much anyone.

*** Mage: The only caste believed capable of using magic, their job is serving as a combination of both police and military. They also have numerous subcores within the main Mage core.
*** Spearhead: Politicians and general leadership positions.
*** Gaslamp: Core with a focus on finances, laws, and writing.
** Female:
*** Lighthouse: Raise not only their children but the children of others.
*** Chatelaine: More or less quiet but skilled wives.
** Towers are the the only noble core that people of both genders can be, most well known for being the best family men and women, though male Towers get to be doctors and teachers.
** Within the working class there are Pillars, who do every job that isn't covered by the Chisels, who serve as craftsmen.

* MilitaryMage: Kesterline's Mages double as both its state police and the closest thing it has to a military, as due to their isolationism and lack of large-scale conflict a proper standing army doesn't make much sense.

* {{Irony}} Chatelaines are considered a good match for Mages. Rembrandt is the main Mage Ceyda interacts with, and is also the closest thing she has to an ArchEnemy with no love lost between them.

* CityOnTheWater: The Atrium is a city located at the geographical center of Lystrata in the ocean separating Kesterline from the countries of the eastern continent's westernmost shores.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Interlude 1 takes place from the perspective of Ceyda's brother Medhi as he undergoes training to become a Mage.

* AfterTheEnd: Kesterline is believed by the general populace to be the last inhabitable place on the planet following a cataclysmic war centuries ago. As Ceyda learns later on, the emphasis here is on ''believed'', as there's plenty of humans elsewhere in the world, Kesterline just happens to be an isolationist nation.

Ceyda Lucrece is a spirited teenage aristocrat living in the sleepy coastal town of Brickfriar on the island continent [[TheMagocracy Magocracy]] of Kesterline who ends up coming across a talking spellbook containing extremely powerful magic. Forging an unlikely friendship/quasi-sibling bond, the two end up finding out that Ceyda's world is far wider and dangerous than either could've imagined.

* ConstructedWorld: ''Grimoire's Soul'' begins in Kesterline, the westernmost continent on the world of Lysistrata.

*** Chatelaine: More or less quiet but intelligent wives.

* ReallyGetsAround: The main stereotype regarding Chatelaines apart from them being [[BrainlessBeauty pretty but dumb]] is that they'll have lots of sex with pretty much anyone.

'''Due to the spoiler-ridden nature of this story, there are unmarked spoilers below.'''

''Grimoire's Soul'' is a WebSerialNovel by Peri Akman, author of the ''Literature/WarlocksOfTheSigil'' series, whose first chapter was released on February 10, 2020.

Ceyda Lucrece is a sprited teenage aristocrat living in the sleepy coastal town of Brickfriar on the island continent [[TheMagocracy Magocracy]] of Kesterline who ends up coming across a talking spellbook containing extremely powerful magic. Forging an unlikely friendship/quasi-sibling bond, the two end up finding out that Ceyda's world is far wider and dangerous than either could've imagined.

* GaslampFantasy: Kesterline is on a roughly late 19th Century tech novel, with electric lamps being a new novel invention when the story takes place. This turns out to be the result of Kesterline's isolation from the rest of the world, as the Atrium is roughly on par with 21st Century Earth, and the rest of the world is implied to be similar.

* AfterTheEnd: Kesterline is believed by the general populace to be the last inhabitable place on the planet following a catacysmic war centuries ago. As Ceyda learns later on, the emphasis here is on ''believed'', as there's plenty of humans elsewhere in the world, Kesterline just happens to be an isolationist nation.

* {{Dystopia}}: Kesterline is a deeply misogynistic and classist society where the only people who get any real benefits for the most part are male nobles.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Interlude 1 takes place from the perspective of Ceyda's brother Medhi as he undergoes training to become a mage.

''Grimoire's Soul'' is a WebSerialNovel by Peri Akman, author of the ''Literature/WarlockOfTheSigilSeries'', whose first chapter was released on February 10, 2020.

* AfterTheEnd: Kesterline is believed by the general populace to be the last inhabitable place on the planet following a catacysmic war centuries ago. As Ceyda learns later on, the emphasis here is on ''believed'', as there's plenty of humans elsewhere in the world.

*** Chatelaine:

* NoPrononciationGuide: Ceyda is more properly pronounced as "Jay-da" or "Chay-da", depending on your accent, rather than "Say-da".