History Literature / GrimoiresSoul

* BloodyMurder: Harper's specialty is in blood magic, which she uses to easily dispatch the Kesterline mages holding her hostage due to Sebastian choosing to leave her alone, but can also be used to heal.

* BrainInAJar: As Ceyda travels by boat to the Atrium, she meets a woman named Oksana whose brain was placed in a jar after they got hit by an automobile and their skull shattered upon hitting the ground. She's implied to be using either her old body with some added cybernetics or an artificial one puppeteered by the brain.

* CityOnTheWater: The Atrium is a city located at the geographical center of Lystrata that floats in the ocean separating Kesterline from the countries of the eastern continent's westernmost shores, and serves as a hub for the rich and powerful of Lystrata.

* BloodyMurder: Harper's specialty is in blood magic, which she uses to easily dispatch the Kesterline mages holding her hostage due to Sebastian choosing to leave her alone.

* DeathIsCheap: In the Atrium ressurection spells are common enough that someone getting killed in a fight is considered roughly as bad as getting seriously cut up in a bar fight as long as the spell's done in time, they don't have issues with time magic working on them, and it doesn't happen to someone "important".

* UnSorcerer: Ceyda finds out in Part 2 that sometimes people can be born without the ability to use magic at all or with great difficulty, [[MuggleBornOfMages even when their parents are both magic users]], which is treated as a disability by the Atrium, hence the existence of the DMU or Dysfunctional Magic Unit.

Ceyda Lucrece is a spirited teenage aristocrat living in the sleepy coastal town of Bricketfriar 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.

* RankUp: Between their last meeting, Rembrandt gets a promotion that allows him to learn about the outside world.

* Magitek: One form [[SpellBook grimoires]] can take is a computer tablet just as capable of casting spells as anything else.

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

* DoubleStandard: While in an Atrium nightclub, Ceyda notes the hypocrisy of the Kesterline Mages picking up women to provocatively dance and have sex with when back in Kesterline she'd get slut shamed for even imagining doing the same, [[YourCheatingHeart especially when some of the Mages happen to be married while she's single.]]

* DoubleStandard: While in an Atrium nightclub, Ceyda notes the hypocrisy of the Kesterline Mages picking up woman to provocatively dance and have sex with when back in Kesterline she'd get slut shamed for even imagining doing the same, especially when some of the Mages happen to be married while she's single.

* {{Familiar}}: Familiars can be formed by someone bonding their soul with an existing animal, or creating one outright. They can also speak with one another telepathically. Upon learning this, Ceyda decides she wants a dragon familiar.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Ceyda is more properly pronounced as "Jay-da" or "Chay-da", depending on your accent, rather than "Say-da" or "Kay-da".
* NonIndicativeName: While the term "grimoire" would imply a book, they can come in all sorts of shapes, from books and scrolls, to even bones and technological items like tablets.

* 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, hence the existence of the DMU or Dysfunctional Magic Unit.

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

* DeathIsCheap: In the Atrium revival spells are common enough that someone getting killed in a fight is considered roughly as bad getting seriously cut up in a bar fight as long as the spell's done in time.

* {{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.

* {{Synchronization}}: Due to Ceyda and Reiner's magical bond, any damage suffered by one will be suffered by the other.

* 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, due to how dangerous the ability to compel anyone to do what you say is, Ceyda is convinced to keep this ability to herself.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ceyda has dark skin and curly hair, but no defined race as we'd understand it.

* TranslationConvention: The only language that is spoken in Kesterline is Lystratan, which for our benefit is translated as English. When Ceyda ends up at the Atrium and has to deal with many other languages, they are also translated as English.

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.

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

* TranslationConvention: The only language that is spoken in Kesterline is Lystratan, which for our benefit is translated as English.