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* TheCaligula: Sartori. Randomly burning down places where enemies could be hiding is the sane part.
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* CrazyPrepared: In a sense, most of the maestros qualifies for this. They tend keep a high number of protection spells up the all-time.
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* CrazyAwesome: The maestros. Gentle admits to himself that they are at best not completely here and at worst psychotic arsonists. Doesn't stop them from being dangerously efficient mind you.
* CrazyPrepared: In a sense, most of the maestros qualifies for this. They tend keep a high number of protection spells up the all-time.
* CrazyPrepared: In a sense, most of the maestros qualifies for this. They tend keep a high number of protection spells up the all-time.
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* DoomMagnet: Gentle. Seriously, every places he wanders gets reduced to ashes.
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* MadeOfIron: Dowd. Alright, he's not exactly human to begin with, but he shrugs off enough that others around him wonder how could anyone take that much punishment.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Quaisoir, special case here as she managed to bring that up herself by an abuse of drugs. Well, being married to Sartori didn't help either.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Quaisoir, special case here as she managed to bring that up herself by an abuse of drugs. Well, being married to Sartori didn't help either.
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* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Big time, it's the reason why Pie works as an assassin and a whore when we first meet him. [[spoiler: Namely, 200 years prior to the events of the book, Sartori wanted to forget his disastrous action, including the existence of Pie. To Pie's question about what he should do now, Sartori plainly answered whore or assassin. It meant "whatever you want", but Pie, as a slave, followed exactly what he said]].
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* UndyingLoyalty: It could hardly be called anything else when you stay true to your master for 700 years of living, and even in death.
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* CelibateEccentricGenius: Dowd plays with that trope. He's been celibate for over two hundred years, is definitely eccentric, and sees himself as a genius actor. Others not so much.
* EroticEating: One of the most literal example ever. Judith discovers a book were two lovers eat eachother in what she considers a terrific fashion. She laters enjoys it herself.
* IHaveManyNames: Gentle is also known as John Furie Zacharias, [[spoiler: the Reconciler]], [[spoiler: Sartori]], and many other names.
* TheHermit: Many maestros are kind of forced into this way of life to avoid retribution from the autarch. Somewhat downplayed with Tick Raw who, albeit being a maestro and therefore supposed to be hunted down, lives in the middle of a city thanks to the fact that he scares the living shit out of the authority, who pretends he doesn't exist.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Interesting example here as it goes both ways, once Gentle [[spoiler: takes the role of the messiah he acts as the all-loving one and, well, Jesus Christ himself. But fighting Sartori along the way makes him dangerously close to the Antechrist at times. Sartori goes exactly the other way around, making you wonder who is the messiah and who is the bad guy in the first place]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Interesting example here as it goes both ways, once Gentle [[spoiler: takes the role of the messiah he acts as the all-loving one and, well, Jesus Christ himself. But fighting Sartori along the way makes him dangerously close to the Antechrist at times. Sartori goes exactly the other way around, making you wonder who is the messiah and who is the bad guy in the first place]]
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* IHaveManyNames: Gentle is also known as John Furie Zacharias, [[spoiler: the Reconciler]], [[spoiler: Sartori]], and many other names.
* InfantImmortality: Averted several times.
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* KnightTemplar: Suprinsingly averted most of the time. Despite having tons of power (well, he is God after all), we rarely see Hapexamendios using them. They may have been used to drive off the Godesses at one point, but it's unclear how exactly he managed to do that. There is one moment near the end of the book where a character who could fit this role is met. And that's about it.
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* AstralProjection: Used a lot by Maestros, and a key part to achieve a full reconciliation.
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* BigBad: Sartori? Hapexamendios? None of them? It's played with until the end. [spoiler: Hapexamendios is the one]
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* BigBad: Sartori? Hapexamendios? None of them? It's played with until the end. [spoiler: [[spoiler: Hapexamendios is the one]one]]
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* Gendercide: It is rumored that there were Godesses spread across the Imajica once, but they were all wiped out by Hapexamendios.
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* Gendercide: {{Gendercide}}: It is rumored that there were Godesses spread across the Imajica once, but they were all wiped out by Hapexamendios.
* HappilyMarried: Gentle and Pie. They don't stay together for long tough.
* HauntedHouse: The 28 Gamut Street, but only for Gentle. It's unclear if it's just Little Ease playing with him or if there is really something haunting him.
* HauntedHouse: The 28 Gamut Street, but only for Gentle. It's unclear if it's just Little Ease playing with him or if there is really something haunting him.
* Herald: The murder attempt on Judith pushes pretty much every major protagonist in the book to go on a journey.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: God allmighty]] manages to fry himself with his own fireball.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: God allmighty]] manages to fry himself with his own fireball.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [spoiler: God allmighty] manages to fry himself with his own fireball.
* KungFuJesus: [[spoiler: Gentle]] takes the mantle of the messiah, spreading love everywhere. Doesn't stop from throwing people out of the window tough.
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* PrisonEpisode: In the third dominion, when searching for Athanasius, Gentle and Pie end up stuck in a prison surrounded by not-that-friendly water
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* PrisonEpisode: In the third dominion, when searching for Athanasius, Gentle and Pie end up stuck in a prison surrounded by not-that-friendly waterwater.
* QuestForIdentity: One of the major idea in the book. It's the reason why Gentle starts travelling trough the dominions, why Judiths wants to go after him. [[spoiler: And later, for Judith and Sartori, find out if they are just empty clones or more than that]].
* QuestForIdentity: One of the major idea in the book. It's the reason why Gentle starts travelling trough the dominions, why Judiths wants to go after him. [[spoiler: And later, for Judith and Sartori, find out if they are just empty clones or more than that]].
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* UnintentionalBackupPlan: Well, Sartori forgetting everything wasn't exactly in the plan of [spoiler: God]. He still somehow manages to get trough with in the great scheme of things.
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* UnintentionalBackupPlan: Well, Sartori forgetting everything wasn't exactly in the plan of [spoiler: God].[[spoiler: God]]. He still somehow manages to get trough with in the great scheme of things.
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: The child under your protection]] is abducted, raped, and murdered.
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* AGodAmI: Sartori certainly was prone to this for a time. [[spoiler: That is, until he met his father]].
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Sartori. Mass murderer, sadist, power-drunk. But in the end, all he wanted was to find a purpose in his own life.]]
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* AllLovingHero: In the last third of the book, Gentle, Well he was pretty nice to begin with, but he's really ready to love anybody in the universe even if you tried to kill him several times over after [[spoiler: he recovers his memories]].
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* AllLovingHero: In the last third of the book, Gentle, Well he was pretty nice to begin with, but he's really ready to love anybody in the universe even if you tried to kill him several times over after [[spoiler: he recovers his memories]].over.
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** GroinAttack: How Judith wakes [[spoiler:Gentle]] from Trance.
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** OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler:Dowds]] primary weapon is an insect swarm that tends to do just that.
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** OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler:Dowds]] Dowds primary weapon is an insect swarm that tends to do just that.
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* AncientConspiracy: The Tabula Rasa, who are trying to prevent the Reconciliation of the Dominions.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Hapexamendios, or is he really?]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: You'd think he's just a minor character with no power or relevance whatsoever, but [[spoiler: Clem fulfills this role twice!]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: You'd think he's just a minor character with no power or relevance whatsoever, but [[spoiler: Clem fulfills this role twice!]]twice!]].
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* CollectibleCardGame: The book itself spawned it's own. With artworks by no one else than CliveBarker himself.
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* CreepyChild: Huzzah is be ugly enough that Gentle is startled at first. It's subverted later as she reveals herself to be helpful and as cute (character-wise) as possible.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Dowd is a good servant, albeit snarky. [[spoiler: But don't treat him too bad, once loose he's really dangerous. He permanently injures several major character of the book and outright kills another one]].
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* TheDogBitesBack: Dowd is a good servant, albeit snarky. [[spoiler: But don't treat him too bad, once he gets loose he's really dangerous. He permanently injures several major character of the book and outright kills another one]].he takes every careful step to exact revenge.
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* EldritchAbomination: The creatures inhabitating the In Ovo. Also [[spoiler: Hapexamendios]]
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* EldritchAbomination: The creatures inhabitating the In Ovo. Also [[spoiler: Hapexamendios]]
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* EvilCounterpart: Played straight: [[spoiler: Sartori to Gentle]].
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* EvilCounterpart: Played straight: [[spoiler: Sartori to Gentle]].straight at first, it then gets subverted the hell and back.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: The autarch. [[spoiler: he's a clone of gentle that no one even knew he existed at first. He ends up as the ruthless ruler in three of the five dominions]].
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: The autarch. [[spoiler: he's a clone of gentle that no No one even knew he existed at first. He ends up as the ruthless ruler in three of the five dominions]].dominions. [[spoiler: It helps that he's Sartori]]
* Gendercide: It is rumored that there were Godesses spread across the Imajica once, but they were all wiped out by Hapexamendios.
* GlassCannon: Gentle once he gets the pneuma. He's able to lay waste in epic proportions but on the other side you can just hit him with a stick and he's out.
* Gendercide: It is rumored that there were Godesses spread across the Imajica once, but they were all wiped out by Hapexamendios.
* GlassCannon: Gentle once he gets the pneuma. He's able to lay waste in epic proportions but on the other side you can just hit him with a stick and he's out.
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* GuardianAngel: Pie seems to fulfill this role for gentle at first (he's not very good at it sadly), later, [[spoiler: it's Clem and Tay who fulfill this role]].
* GroinAttack: It's a world of over-powered mages and creatures sure, but kicking one's groin can still be safely considered one of the best attack.
* GuardianAngel: Pie seems to fulfill this role for gentle at first (he's not very good at it sadly), later, [[spoiler: it's Clem and Tay who fulfill this role]].
* GuardianAngel: Pie seems to fulfill this role for gentle at first (he's not very good at it sadly), later, [[spoiler: it's Clem and Tay who fulfill this role]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [spoiler: God allmighty] manages to fry himself with his own fireball.
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* [[spoiler: AmnesiacHero: Gentle, by his own request.]]
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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler: Yes the Imajica is finally one again, yes Gentle finally finds Pie and they reunite for eternity. But countless lives where lost in the process, and cleaning up the mess in the first dominion (and in the others too) will take ages]].
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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]]: BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yes the Imajica is finally one again, yes Gentle finally finds Pie and they reunite for eternity. But countless lives where lost in the process, and cleaning up the mess in the first dominion (and in the others too) will take ages]].
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* BoringButPractical: The pneuma. Attack, defense, blowing up walls... Despite being in worlds where dominions have mastered thousands of spells, Gentle is fine with just one.
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* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler: What Sartori thinks near the end of the book]]
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* Determinator: Judith, Gentle, the godesses count probably too.
* DevotedToYou: When Judith meets Oscar, she almost instantly falls into this trope [[spoiler: She has been created to be like that toward the Godolphin Family]]
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* Determinator: {{Determinator}}: Judith, Gentle, the godesses count probably too.
* DevotedToYou: When Judith meets Oscar, she almost instantly falls into thistrope trope. [[spoiler: She has been created to be like that toward the Godolphin Family]]Family]].
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Gentle doesn't even try to understand what Judith is doing in his room, so long she's naked.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Dowd is a good servant. But don't treat him too bad, once loose he's really dangerous. He permanently injures several major character of the book and outright kills another one]].
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Gentle doesn't even try to understand what Judith is doing in his room, so as long as she's naked.
* TheDogBitesBack:[[spoiler: Dowd is a good servant. servant, albeit snarky. [[spoiler: But don't treat him too bad, once loose he's really dangerous. He permanently injures several major character of the book and outright kills another one]].
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** Judith instantly falling in love with Oscar Godolphin is an obvious hint that something is definitely off with her.
** More subtly, Tick Raw's reaction when seeing Gentle. The acute reader will remark that Tick isn't so much upset by Gentle's lack of manners, but rather because he was expecting another personnality.
** Judith instantly falling in love with Oscar Godolphin is an obvious hint that something is definitely off with her.
** More subtly, Tick Raw's reaction when seeing Gentle. The acute reader will remark that Tick isn't so much upset by Gentle's lack of manners, but rather because he was expecting another personnality.
* FromBadToWorse: "Let's make the reconciliation happen". Hard enough when a lot of people are actively trying to avoid just that. Then it becomes "Let's make the reconciliation happen [[spoiler: before the Autarch turns the whole fifth dominion into a wreck]]". And then it still gets worse: [[spoiler: Maybe the reconciliation itself is going to obliterate all the dominions]].
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Kind of happened a first time when the fifth dominion lost it's connection to the others. [[spoiler: could also happen to ALL the dominions if the reconciliation is completed... Although no one really know what's going to happen next]].
* TookALevelInBadass: The major charcaters with no special power at first. They start quite weak but end up able to wreak havoc on a daily basis or induce world-changing actions.
* UnstoppableRage: Played with, Gentle launches a pneuma shortly after [[spoiler: the death of Huzzah]], but immediately regrets it. But the pneuma itself, fueled by his fury starts wreaking havoc in the city.
* TookALevelInBadass: The major charcaters with no special power at first. They start quite weak but end up able to wreak havoc on a daily basis or induce world-changing actions.
* UnstoppableRage: Played with, Gentle launches a pneuma shortly after [[spoiler: the death of Huzzah]], but immediately regrets it. But the pneuma itself, fueled by his fury starts wreaking havoc in the city.
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* UnstoppableRage: Played with, Gentle launches a pneuma shortly after [[spoiler: the death of Huzzah]], but immediately regrets it. But the pneuma itself, fueled by his fury startswreaking havoc in rampaging trough the city.
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* UnstoppableRage: Played with, Gentle launches a pneuma shortly after [[spoiler: the death of Huzzah]], but immediately regrets it. But the pneuma itself, fueled by his fury starts
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: ALL of them. But most prominently [[spoiler: Huzzah]]
* FanService: The way female protagonists are described during sex falls under this trope.
* FateWorseThanDeath: You'd think dying puts an end to most of your problems right? Not when your spirit wanders aimlessly for all eternity. It's one of the plot points that something stops souls from having peace.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: ALL of them. But most prominently [[spoiler: Huzzah]]
* FanService: The way female protagonists are described during sex falls under this trope.
* FateWorseThanDeath: You'd think dying puts an end to most of your problems right? Not when your spirit wanders aimlessly for all eternity. It's one of the plot points that something stops souls from having peace.
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* EnemyMine: kind of, [[spoiler: between Gentle and Athanasius. The later tried to kill the former. But they are both ready to set aside their differences to prepare the reconciliation]].
* TheEpic: Several adventures to complete one big quest that will change the whole universe? Check. Lots of different characters who go trough their own trials? Check. [[spoiler: meet God? Check. Kill him? Check that too]].
* EvilCounterpart: Played straight: [[spoiler: Sartori to Gentle]].
* EnemyMine: kind of, [[spoiler: between Gentle and Athanasius. The later tried to kill the former. But they are both ready to set aside their differences to prepare the reconciliation]].
* TheEpic: Several adventures to complete one big quest that will change the whole universe? Check. Lots of different characters who go trough their own trials? Check. [[spoiler: meet God? Check. Kill him? Check that too]].
* EvilCounterpart: Played straight: [[spoiler: Sartori to Gentle]].
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Dowd is a good servant. But don't treat him too bad, once loose he's really dangerous. He permanently injures several major character of the book and outright kills another one]].
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* DrugsAreBad: Apart from inducing strange hallucinations and sex with random people, creauchee doesn't seem to bring much good.
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* DeadpanSnarker: It's easier to list who actually isn't. All the major protagonists fall into this trope at times.
* DeathOfPersonality: Shattering events tend to do that to characters. [[spoiler: Namely erasing your own memory for Gentle, and the other way around, when absolutely all the memories of his previous lives come back]].
* DesignatedAcceptableTargets: Chances are that once you learn that the [[spoiler: eurethmecs feed on innocence (usually in a similar form of reaping young girls, just worse)]], you won't give a shit about them anymore.
* Determinator: Judith, Gentle, the godesses count probably too.
* DeathOfPersonality: Shattering events tend to do that to characters. [[spoiler: Namely erasing your own memory for Gentle, and the other way around, when absolutely all the memories of his previous lives come back]].
* DesignatedAcceptableTargets: Chances are that once you learn that the [[spoiler: eurethmecs feed on innocence (usually in a similar form of reaping young girls, just worse)]], you won't give a shit about them anymore.
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* AbusiveParents: A subtle one, but [[spoiler: Gentle to Judith definitely qualifies]].
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* CombatPragmatist: Pie uses everything at disposal to ensure the safety of the people in his party.
* CosmicEntity: God of course.
* CrazyPrepared: In a sense, most of the maestros qualifies for this. They tend keep a high number of protection spells up the all-time.
* CreepyChild: Huzzah is be ugly enough that Gentle is startled at first. It's subverted later as she reveals herself to be helpful and as cute (character-wise) as possible.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The Autarch. Good luck tricking him.
* CombatPragmatist: Pie uses everything at disposal to ensure the safety of the people in his party.
* CosmicEntity: God of course.
* CrazyPrepared: In a sense, most of the maestros qualifies for this. They tend keep a high number of protection spells up the all-time.
* CreepyChild: Huzzah is be ugly enough that Gentle is startled at first. It's subverted later as she reveals herself to be helpful and as cute (character-wise) as possible.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The Autarch. Good luck tricking him.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Eurethmecs, despite traveling trough worlds with hundreds of species, no one seems to fully understand these.
* BodyHorror: This being Creator/CliveBarker, it shouldn't come as a surprise. And once Gentle
* BoringButPractical: The pneuma. Attack, defense, blowing up walls... Despite being in worlds where dominions have mastered thousands of spells, Gentle is fine with just one.
* BreakTheCutie: Seems to
* BreathWeapon: The pneuma.
* CatchPhrase: It's a circle.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The blue stone]].
* ChekhovsGunman: You'd think he's just a minor character with no power or relevance whatsoever, but [[spoiler: Clem fulfills this role twice!]]
* ClearMyName: [[spoiler: Gentle, once he remembers his past]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The blue stone]].
* ChekhovsGunman: You'd think he's just a minor character with no power or relevance whatsoever, but [[spoiler: Clem fulfills this role twice!]]
* ClearMyName: [[spoiler: Gentle, once he remembers his past]]
* CivilWar: And how! Mid-way trough the book, things get really messy.
* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler: What Sartori thinks near the end of the book]]
* FreudianExcuse: The Autarch, [[spoiler: being the clone of Gentle, he struggles to find a place in the world that's not taken by his "brother". Unfortunately, this tends to make him TheAntagonist]].
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* God: Hapexamendios.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Gentle, once he learns how Judith and Sartori where born]].
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* ShiningCity: Yzordderrex is rumored to be this. And later [[spoiler: It's the MegaCity of the first empire that seems to be this. Seems is the important word here]].
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* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Pie knows something about Gentle, but despite the latter's efforts, he never breaks Pie open. [[Spoiler: Actually subverted, Pie would love to tell him everything, but due to the magic he used to make Gentle forget his past, every time he talks Gentle loses consciousness]].
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* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Pie knows something about Gentle, but despite the latter's efforts, he never breaks Pie open. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Actually subverted, Pie would love to tell him everything, but due to the magic he used to make Gentle forget his past, every time he talks Gentle loses consciousness]].
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Kind of happened a first time when the fifth dominion lost it's connection to the others. [[spoler: could also happen to ALL the dominions if the reconciliation is completed... Although no one really know what's going to happen next]].
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* AllLovingHero: In the last third of the book, Gentle, Well he was pretty nice to begin with, but he's really ready to love anybody in the universe even if you tried to kill him several times over after [[spoiler: he recovers his memories]].
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* TheAntagonist: Sartori to Gentle [[spoiler: it later gets subverted the hell and back]]
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* TheAntagonist: Sartori to Gentle [[spoiler: it later gets subverted the hell and back]]back]].
* TheAntichrist: Hinted at [[spoiler: the baby of Sartori and Judith looks like that, but it's subverted when it's a nice little girl who comes to the world]]
* TheAntichrist: Hinted at [[spoiler: the baby of Sartori and Judith looks like that, but it's subverted when it's a nice little girl who comes to the world]]
* AttractiveBentGender: Pie looks like what you would consider beautiful, be it a men, a women, your mother...
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Many character fall under this trope but most prominently Pie. He's nice, good looking for everyone, but if pissed off you're as good as dead.
* BigBad: [[Spoiler: Hapexamendios, or is he really?]]
* BiggerIsBetter: The first dominion is rumored to be one enormous city. [[spoiler: It is, and it's actually the body of God himself]]
* BiTheWay: Played with, Pie has sex with men and women alike. But he's not exactly human to begin with so he probably doesn't get the difference.
* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler: Yes the Imajica is finally one again, yes Gentle finally finds Pie and they reunite for eternity. But countless lives where lost in the process, and cleaning up the mess in the first dominion (and in the others too) will take ages]].
** Also, [[spoiler: the last discussion between Gentle and Judith, he created her because he loved her, and due to amnesia every 10 years on both sides, they met, loved, and left every time. In the end, when both know that fact, Judith admits that there's nothing left between them, and they won't ever see each other again]]
* BigBad: [[Spoiler: Hapexamendios, or is he really?]]
* BiggerIsBetter: The first dominion is rumored to be one enormous city. [[spoiler: It is, and it's actually the body of God himself]]
* BiTheWay: Played with, Pie has sex with men and women alike. But he's not exactly human to begin with so he probably doesn't get the difference.
* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler: Yes the Imajica is finally one again, yes Gentle finally finds Pie and they reunite for eternity. But countless lives where lost in the process, and cleaning up the mess in the first dominion (and in the others too) will take ages]].
** Also, [[spoiler: the last discussion between Gentle and Judith, he created her because he loved her, and due to amnesia every 10 years on both sides, they met, loved, and left every time. In the end, when both know that fact, Judith admits that there's nothing left between them, and they won't ever see each other again]]
* DevotedToYou: When Judith meets Oscar, she almost instantly falls into this trope [[spoiler: She has been created to be like that toward the Godolphin Family]]
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* GodIsEvilGod: Hapexamendios.
* GodIsEvil: Played with, until the end it's unclear what he really wants.
* GodIsEvil: Played with, until the end it's unclear what he really wants.
* Jesus: In universe he tried to achieve the reconciliation but failed.
* SurvivedTheBeginning: The plot gets really started with a failed assassination attempt on Judith.
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* YouMonster: Sartori gets that remark often. And in an interesting example, gentle himself, once he [[Spoiler: takes the role of the Messiah]], seems to be seen like that by Judith.
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* YouMonster: Sartori gets that remark often. And in an interesting example, gentle himself, once he [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: takes the role of the Messiah]], seems to be seen like that by Judith.
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Follow John Furie Zacharias, alias Gentle, who undertakes a pilgrimage trough the dominions to find out who he is.
Warning, this story involves psychology, drugs, lots of (strange) sex, gore and god himself. But hey! It's Creator/CliveBarker.
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** Also, Facing your own failures. [[spoiler: Or in this case, not be able to and rather wipe your own memories]]
* AGodAmI: Sartori certainly was prone to this for a time [[spoiler: That is, until he met his father]]
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memories]].
* AGodAmI: Sartori certainly was prone to this for atime time. [[spoiler: That is, until he met his father]]father]].
* AGodAmI: Sartori certainly was prone to this for a
* AnatomyAgony: Then again, it's Creator/CliveBarker, what do you expect?
** EyeScream: [[spoiler: Quaisoir gets her eyes ripped of by Dowd]]
** GroinAttack: How Judith wakes [[spoiler:Gentle]] from Trance.
** GuttedLikeAFish: How [[spoiler:Oscar Godolphin]] ends up.
** OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler:Dowds]] primary weapon is an insect swarm that tends to do just that.
* AncientArtifact: Several, but the most prominent is the blue stone Judith gets.
** EyeScream: [[spoiler: Quaisoir gets her eyes ripped of by Dowd]]
** GroinAttack: How Judith wakes [[spoiler:Gentle]] from Trance.
** GuttedLikeAFish: How [[spoiler:Oscar Godolphin]] ends up.
** OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler:Dowds]] primary weapon is an insect swarm that tends to do just that.
* AncientArtifact: Several, but the most prominent is the blue stone Judith gets.
* AndIMustScream: Celestine is trapped in a mummified body for hundreds of years.
* TheAntagonist: Sartori to Gentle [[spoiler: it later gets subverted the hell and back]]
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* AnyoneCanDieAnyoneCanDie: wouldn't be Creator/CliveBarker without some characters you like suffering a gruesome death.
* ArtImitatesArt: Gentle is talented enough to create perfect copies of famous paintings. [[spoiler: No wonder it's that easy for him, he managed to create a copy of him and Judith as well]]. [[spoiler: It gets subverted at the end, when after 700 years of existence, Gentle starts to work on his own true piece of art : A cartography of the reunited Imajica]].
* ArtImitatesArt: Gentle is talented enough to create perfect copies of famous paintings. [[spoiler: No wonder it's that easy for him, he managed to create a copy of him and Judith as well]]. [[spoiler: It gets subverted at the end, when after 700 years of existence, Gentle starts to work on his own true piece of art : A cartography of the reunited Imajica]].
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* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Pie knows something about Gentle, but despite the latter's efforts, he never breaks Pie open. [[Spoiler: Actually subverted, Pie would love to tell him everything, but due to the magic he used to make Gentle forget his past, every time he talks Gentle loses consciousness]].
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* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: [[spoiler: Gentle]] doesn't want to kill his [[spoiler: other self]]. It doesn't work out.
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* DramaticSitDown: [[spoiler: Once Sartori finally understands that he was created to fulfill the reconciliation, he sits down in the middle of the circle, puts the stone back in place and takes the place of Gentle he just wounded. Precisely with the intent to stop the Reconciliation. ItMakesSenseInContext]].
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* GuardianAngel: Pie seems to fulfill this role for gentle at first (he's not very good at it sadly), later, [[spoiler: it's Clem and Tay who fulfill this role]].
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* PapaWolf: Hurting Huzzah when Gentle is near isn't exactly a good idea.
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Kind of happened a first time when the fifth dominion lost it's connection to the others. [[spoler: could also happen to ALL the dominions if the reconciliation is completed... Although no one really know what's going to happen next]].
* UnstoppableRage: Played with, Gentle launches a pneuma shortly after [[spoiler: the death of Huzzah]], but immediately regrets it. But the pneuma itself, fueled by his fury starts wreaking havoc in the city.
* VillainousBreakdown: Sartori, the last tier of the story is a non-stop Breakdown from him.
* YouMonster: Sartori gets that remark often. And in an interesting example, gentle himself, once he [[Spoiler: takes the role of the Messiah]], seems to be seen like that by Judith.
* UnstoppableRage: Played with, Gentle launches a pneuma shortly after [[spoiler: the death of Huzzah]], but immediately regrets it. But the pneuma itself, fueled by his fury starts wreaking havoc in the city.
* VillainousBreakdown: Sartori, the last tier of the story is a non-stop Breakdown from him.
* YouMonster: Sartori gets that remark often. And in an interesting example, gentle himself, once he [[Spoiler: takes the role of the Messiah]], seems to be seen like that by Judith.
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* A God Am I: Sartori certainly was prone to this for a time [[spoiler: That is, until he met his father]]
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** Also, Facing your own failures. [[spoiler: Or in this case, not be able to and rather wipe your own memories]]
*A God Am I: AGodAmI: Sartori certainly was prone to this for a time [[spoiler: That is, until he met his father]]father]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Sartori. Mass murderer, sadist, power-drunk. But in the end, all he wanted was to find a purpose in his own life.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Sartori. Mass murderer, sadist, power-drunk. But in the end, all he wanted was to find a purpose in his own life.]]
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* BarredFromTheAfterlife: For some reason, The souls of the dead are aimlessly wandering among the dominions. They shouldn't.
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* LikeAGodToMe: Sartori was this to Lucius [[spoiler: And he still is, tough Lucius now calls himself Chicka Jackeen]]
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* PrisonEpisode: In the third dominion, when searching for Athanasius, Gentle and Pie end up stuck in a prison surrounded by not-that-friendly water
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: The child under your protection]] is abducted, raped, and murdered.
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* HeroicBSOD: Gentle. A couple of minor ones early on, then Little Ease gets its hooks into him...
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* [[spoiler: AmnesiacHero: Gentle, by his own request.]]
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Written by Creator/CliveBarker, '''''Imajica''''' is the tale about the five dominions that make up the system of the Imajica. Earth is the fifth and is separated from the other four four, which are unlike our own.
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Written by CliveBarker, Creator/CliveBarker, '''''Imajica''''' is the tale about the five dominions that make up the system of the Imajica. Earth is the fifth and is separated from the other four which are unlike our own.
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Written by CliveBarker, Imajica '''''Imajica''''' is the tale about the five dominions that make up the system of the Imajica. Earth is the fifth and is separated from the other four which are unlike our own.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Gentle]]
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Gentle]]Gentle]]. Also, [[spoiler: Pie]].
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** The Forth Dominion has a greenish gold sky during the day and it takes on a purple hue at night.
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** The Forth Fourth Dominion has a greenish gold sky during the day and it takes on a purple hue at night.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish - Sort of; these creatures are from other worlds. Some of them speak their own language, but many of them speak English, sometimes with an accent.
* AlternateUniverse - The other four Dominions.
* AncientConspiracy - The Tabula Rasa, who are trying to prevent the Reconciliation of the Dominions.
* AnotherDimension - Again, the other Dominions.
* {{Antihero}} - Gentle is a womanizer, hedonist and a copycat artist.
* AlternateUniverse - The other four Dominions.
* AncientConspiracy - The Tabula Rasa, who are trying to prevent the Reconciliation of the Dominions.
* AnotherDimension - Again, the other Dominions.
* {{Antihero}} - Gentle is a womanizer, hedonist and a copycat artist.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish - AliensSpeakingEnglish: Sort of; these creatures are from other worlds. Some of them speak their own language, but many of them speak English, sometimes with an accent.
*AlternateUniverse - AlternateUniverse: The other four Dominions.
*AncientConspiracy - AncientConspiracy: The Tabula Rasa, who are trying to prevent the Reconciliation of the Dominions.
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* BackFromTheDead - [[spoiler: Estabrook, and Dowd several times. Both of them end up dead again later on.]]
* CainAndAbel - Charlie Estabrook and Oscar Godolphin.
* CainAndAbel - Charlie Estabrook and Oscar Godolphin.
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* BackFromTheDead - BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Estabrook, and Dowd several times. Both of them end up dead again later on.]]
*CainAndAbel - CainAndAbel: Charlie Estabrook and Oscar Godolphin.
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* CloningBlues - CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Judith is the clone of Quaisoir and the Autarch is the clone of Gentle.]]
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* DieOrFly - This is how Gentle discovers his powers, known as the pneuma.
* {{Doorstopper}} - With the appendix included, it clocks in at about 900 pages.
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* DieOrFly - DieOrFly: This is how Gentle discovers his powers, known as the pneuma.
*{{Doorstopper}} - {{Doorstopper}}: With the appendix included, it clocks in at about 900 pages.pages.
* TheFogOfAges: Gentle and Judith can only remember the last ten years. [[spoiler: Subverted with Gentle, who asked Pie to make him that way.]]
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* TheFogOfAges: Gentle and Judith can only remember the last ten years. [[spoiler: Subverted with Gentle, who asked Pie to make him that way.]]
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* IHaveManyNames - Gentle is also known as John Furie Zacharias, [[spoiler: the Reconciler]], [[spoiler: Sartori]], and many other names.
* InfantImmortality - Averted several times.
* MoralityPet - If it weren't for Quaisoir, and later Judith, the Autarch believes he probably would have been an even worse tyrant.
* IHaveManyNames - Gentle is also known as John Furie Zacharias, [[spoiler: the Reconciler]], [[spoiler: Sartori]], and many other names.
* InfantImmortality - Averted several times.
* MoralityPet - If it weren't for Quaisoir, and later Judith, the Autarch believes he probably would have been an even worse tyrant.
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* TheFogOfAges - Gentle and Judith can only remember the last ten years. [[spoiler: Subverted with Gentle, who asked Pie to make him that way.]]
* IHaveManyNames -IHaveManyNames: Gentle is also known as John Furie Zacharias, [[spoiler: the Reconciler]], [[spoiler: Sartori]], and many other names.
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Tropes found in Imajica:
* AlienSky:
** The Fifth Dominion is Earth.
** The Forth Dominion has a greenish gold sky during the day and it takes on a purple hue at night.
** The Third Dominion has BinarySuns.
** The Second Dominion has a comet for a sun.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish - Sort of; these creatures are from other worlds. Some of them speak their own language, but many of them speak English, sometimes with an accent.
* AlternateUniverse - The other four Dominions.
* AncientConspiracy - The Tabula Rasa, who are trying to prevent the Reconciliation of the Dominions.
* AnotherDimension - Again, the other Dominions.
* {{Antihero}} - Gentle is a womanizer, hedonist and a copycat artist.
* AnyoneCanDie
* BackFromTheDead - [[spoiler: Estabrook, and Dowd several times. Both of them end up dead again later on.]]
* CainAndAbel - Charlie Estabrook and Oscar Godolphin.
** Later on [[spoiler: Gentle and the Autarch Sartori.]]
* CloningBlues - [[spoiler: Judith is the clone of Quaisoir and the Autarch is the clone of Gentle.]]
* TheChosenOne
* DarkFantasy
* DawnOfAnEra
* DieOrFly - This is how Gentle discovers his powers, known as the pneuma.
* {{Doorstopper}} - With the appendix included, it clocks in at about 900 pages.
* GodIsEvil
* TheFogOfAges - Gentle and Judith can only remember the last ten years. [[spoiler: Subverted with Gentle, who asked Pie to make him that way.]]
* IHaveManyNames - Gentle is also known as John Furie Zacharias, [[spoiler: the Reconciler]], [[spoiler: Sartori]], and many other names.
* InfantImmortality - Averted several times.
* MoralityPet - If it weren't for Quaisoir, and later Judith, the Autarch believes he probably would have been an even worse tyrant.
* NumberedHomeworld
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - [[spoiler: Gentle]]
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* AlienSky:
** The Fifth Dominion is Earth.
** The Forth Dominion has a greenish gold sky during the day and it takes on a purple hue at night.
** The Third Dominion has BinarySuns.
** The Second Dominion has a comet for a sun.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish - Sort of; these creatures are from other worlds. Some of them speak their own language, but many of them speak English, sometimes with an accent.
* AlternateUniverse - The other four Dominions.
* AncientConspiracy - The Tabula Rasa, who are trying to prevent the Reconciliation of the Dominions.
* AnotherDimension - Again, the other Dominions.
* {{Antihero}} - Gentle is a womanizer, hedonist and a copycat artist.
* AnyoneCanDie
* BackFromTheDead - [[spoiler: Estabrook, and Dowd several times. Both of them end up dead again later on.]]
* CainAndAbel - Charlie Estabrook and Oscar Godolphin.
** Later on [[spoiler: Gentle and the Autarch Sartori.]]
* CloningBlues - [[spoiler: Judith is the clone of Quaisoir and the Autarch is the clone of Gentle.]]
* TheChosenOne
* DarkFantasy
* DawnOfAnEra
* DieOrFly - This is how Gentle discovers his powers, known as the pneuma.
* {{Doorstopper}} - With the appendix included, it clocks in at about 900 pages.
* GodIsEvil
* TheFogOfAges - Gentle and Judith can only remember the last ten years. [[spoiler: Subverted with Gentle, who asked Pie to make him that way.]]
* IHaveManyNames - Gentle is also known as John Furie Zacharias, [[spoiler: the Reconciler]], [[spoiler: Sartori]], and many other names.
* InfantImmortality - Averted several times.
* MoralityPet - If it weren't for Quaisoir, and later Judith, the Autarch believes he probably would have been an even worse tyrant.
* NumberedHomeworld
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - [[spoiler: Gentle]]
