History Literature / ProtectorOfTheSmall

* {{Ambadassador}}: Kel's parents, but her mother in particular. Her rescue of royal treasure from pirates raised the Mindelans' stock quite significantly with the Yamanis.

* AnonymousBenefactor: Alanna acts as this for Kel, anonymously sending her practical and high quality gifts such as a bruise balm infused with healing magic, armor and weapon cleaning supplies from the realm's best armory, and saddlebags stocked with camping gear, since she is not allowed to openly mentor the girl. Kel doesn't find out who her mysterious benefactor until after she is knighted and Alanna presents her with a new longsword.

* BadassFamily: The house of Mindelan. Kel's mom is an {{Ambadassador}} and two of her brothers became knights themselves, both veterans of the Immortals War. And even before she goes off to page training, Kel is badass enough to fight a group of boys on her own and try driving off a spidren.

* BullyHunter: Kel during her page days. She eventually persuades her friends to join her, and having several older and bigger boys alongside her eventually smothers Joren's efforts.

** Both Lord Wyldon's position and some of the training practices for pages were put in place ''specifically'' because of Alanna sneaking through eight years as "Alan". Wyldon was given the job of training master to placate conservatives who were outraged that Alanna was allowed to keep her shield. The final, public exams for pages were instituted so no one could claim that a page was illictly allowed through by collusion with the people in charge of training (even though the legalization of girls in knight training made another SweetPollyOliver situation unlikely).

** Prince Roald is far more careful than his father was in how he interacts with his fellow pages, keenly aware of his position and influence. He's careful to rotate the groups he spends his off-time with (though he spends more time with Kel's friends than Joren's) and Kel doesn't blame him for hanging back from her anti-hazing patrols because he doesn't want to look like he's abusing his position as prince and heir. When serving as a knight in the Scanran war, he's frustrated by not being allowed near actual battles.

* EquivalentExchange: Kel is warned against this in her classes on mages, saying that even if they create miraculous feats the energy has to come from somewhere and there's always a price to pay. Jonathan's heroic attempt to hold the land together against magical earthquakes in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' is revealed to have caused a major famine from him exhausting the earth.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Our first meeting with Kel establishes several important things about her: at the age of eleven, she attacks a spidren (a giant spider with a human head) by throwing rocks, in order to save some kittens, and then has a crippling attack of acrophobia.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The Chamber forces [[spoiler:Vinson]] to relive all the abuses he inflicted upon [[spoiler:the women he assaulted or raped. To seal the deal, it forces him to call an audience with the king and confess to his crimes, while making him go through more pain. While he is locked up, it's implied the Chamber will be torturing him for the rest of his life]].

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Alanna is still frosty with Jonathan for succumbing to political pressure and hiring Kel on probation. She feels personal that it felt her struggles and their friendship meant nothing. Jonathan tried to tell her to no avail that he personally agrees with her, but change isn't that easy and not every knight has the gods helping them.
** Same with Kel. While she does eventually come to understand why he did it, she never truly warms up to Jonathan for making her journey to be a knight harder then everyone else and considers her loyalty to be on of obligation.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Although Kel lacks wild magic, she has long had a habit of taking care of abandoned baby animals and strays, from kittens to sparrows to an infant griffin — hence her eventual [[TitleDrop nickname]]. (Daine's proximity at the palace means that many of these animals start gaining intelligence anyway.)

* KarmaHoudini: Garvey passes the Chamber without any ill effects, although he comes out pale and sick from the Ordeal. Some fans speculate that his knight-master, who complimented Kel's jousting skill, got him to stop being such a jerk once he was away from Joren.

* AllPeriodsArePMS: Discussed between Kel and Lalasa when Kel has her first one and finds herself unexpectedly crying. Lalasa points out the different moods that can seize a person, such as her mother getting mean, and Kel notes that her own mother craves sweet things. The weepiness ends up being a routine symptom for Kel, who mentions it in ''Squire'' when she cries over a bad day that she normally wouldn't.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: In ''Lady Knight'', Kel initially thinks that her assignment to build and manage a refugee camp south of the Scanran border is this, with the not-unreasonable thought that she's being kept from the front because she's female. However, this is not the case — she's given the job because Wyldon and Raoul know that she's incredibly responsible and unlikely to go haring off out of boredom, unlike some of her peers.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Fully aware that it's technically treason, Kel still [[spoiler:rides off into enemy territory to rescue her kidnapped refugees.]] ''In the middle of a war.''

* SheWillComeForMe: If you are under her protection and something happens to you, Keladry ''will'' come for you.

** Crown's death happens not for any plot-related reason, but simply because the story had reached the absolute limit of how long sparrows are known to live. She was already leader of the flock when Kel met her.

* ShrinkingViolet: Lalasa, at first.

* TheSquadette: The only female page during her training, the only woman with the King's Own during her years as a squire, and only the second lady knight in recent Tortallan history. (And during the four books, she never serves in combat with Tortall's other lady knight.)

* TheStoic: Kel and her "Yamani face". She uses it to get through the hazing and sexism without visibly blowing a gasket.

*** Related to the above: Kel finds out that Princess Kalasin had wanted to become the first openly-female page, only for the king to talk her out of it. The rules are different for princesses; their first duty is to the realm, usually by making advantageous marriages, and the king had marriages in mind for her with men whose people would object to a queen who was a knight. Jonathan did give Kalasin more freedom with regard to her future marriage than most princesses would get, but in the end, she went along with her father's wishes the way most princesses would.
** When Kel first joins the palace as a page, the majority of the boys make it plain that they don't think she deserves to be there and they don't want her there. Kel manages to make friends and proves herself, but her most fervent detractors don't change their minds and aren't convinced by her efforts, no matter what happens. Sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you work or how much effort you put in, you can't change things.

* TheUnfought: Kel never actually gets to fight Joren one on one. WordOfGod explicitly stated that this is because he felt that to do so would be to accept her status as a page/squire, and he refused to do that.

* WarIsHell: Present in the encounters with bandits that happen during Keladry's page years, but it becomes a major theme in ''Squire'' and ''Lady Knight'' as hostilities with Scanra become a full-fledged war. The descriptions of death and brutality are quite vivid.

* BladeOnAStick: Kel and her mother both use naginata, and are ''quite'' good with them. A later book describes Kel as "that mad woman with the giant pigsticker."

* NaginatasAreFeminine: Keladry is trained in them, and her mother once helped hold off a pirate invasion with one. They're specifically mentioned as a weapon women train with in the Yamani isles, which are based on Japan.

* SplitHair: Raoul demonstrates the sharpness of Kel's [[BladeOnAStick naginata]] to Flynn by placing a feather on the blade. It, of course, cuts the feather in half without any effort. Kel also tests the sharpness of a blade sent by her AnonymousBenefactor with a hair from her head.

** Same with Kel. While does eventually come to understand why he did it, she never truly warms up to Jonathan for making her journey to be a knight harder then everyone else and considers he loyalty to be on of obligation.

* MaybeEverAfter: At the end of ''Lady Knight''. Kel is still attracted to Dom, and the book ends with her excited to see him again, but without saying if they strike up a relationship or not. [[WordOfGod Pierce]] specifically avoided TheyDo with anyone to show that it's possible to have a happy ending without romance. She later [[http://www.tamora-pierce.net/series-extra/tortall-faq/#kelsexuality/ confirmed]] that they don't end up together.

* HardTruthAesop: One of the messages of the series, particularly evident in ''Squire'', is that no single person can really stop the injustice that is ingrained on the societal level. One outstanding female knight and Thayet's new egalitarian military corps has done little to change most people's minds about female soldiers (and the [[SlutShaming assumptions about their morality]]). Kel is forced to accept that she cannot give Lalasa the justice she deserves even though Jon fully agrees that the laws governing the noble treatment of commoners are morally wrong and dangerous besides. Changing laws around traditional societal values takes years if you want to do it without an uprising. Similarly, some people will never "come around" and will even act against their own interests to serve their hardheaded idelogy. None of this makes doing the right thing pointless, but it does mean there are limits to what you can expect to happen.

* HorsingAround: The horses of Tortall have very distinct personalities in general, but special mention goes to Peachblossom, Kel's [[FluffyTheTerrible inappropriately named]], bad-tempered gelding, who decides to be Kel's equine partner [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe because she treated him well]], and because, as he tells Daine she needs to be looked after.

** Theoretically, anyone who undergoes page training and fulfills their term as a squire will undergo the Ordeal and become a knight, unless something happens during the Ordeal. But as Raoul points out in ''Squire'', not all the pages are strong enough or good enough to become knights, and not all are suited for it — and in those cases, the training master discouraging them or sending them home is doing them a favor. He flat out says that if he'd been the training master, he'd never have let Joren become a squire. What happens to [[spoiler:Joren and Vinson]] during their Ordeals suggests that those who fail the Ordeals may not only be squires who weren't strong enough to succeed, at least some of them might have just been awful people.

* TookALevelInKindness: Wyldon is a lot friendlier in ''Lady Knight'' than he was in any of the previous books. Kel eventually realizes that this is in large part due to the fact that he didn't actually enjoy being the training master, he merely felt it was his duty.

* BadassNormal: Kel, the only protagonist in any of Pierce's novels not to have any magical abilities.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: By the mid-point of ''Squire'', [[spoiler:Joren and Vinson are set to become knights. Both have serious grudges against Kel, and the former flat out threatens to kill her. Before either can do anything to her, they undergo their Ordeals- and the Chamber tortures Vinson before letting him go to face the punishment for his crimes, and flat out kills Joren.]]

** Theoretically, anyone who undergoes page training and fulfils their term as a squire will undergo the Ordeal and become a knight, unless something happens during the Ordeal. But as Raoul points out in ''Squire'', not all the pages are strong enough or good enough to become knights, and not all are suited for it — and in those cases, the training master discouraging them or sending them home is doing them a favor. He flat out says that if he'd been the training master, he'd never have let Joren become a squire. What happens to [[spoiler:Joren and Vinson]] during their Ordeals suggests that those who fail the Ordeals may not only be squires who weren't strong enough to succeed, at least some of them might have just been awful people.

** It takes a full decade since Alanna's knighthood for any noble girl to apply for training as a knight herself. The presence of a single legendary hero (strongly Gifted and Goddess-touched) did not make much of a dent in the nobility's attitude towards women knights. Both the dangers involved and the inherent scandal of girls and boys in a mixed environment mean that no noble family is willing to let their girls pursue knighthood until the Mindelans--who had spent years out of Tortall as ambassdors to a country with a completely different cultural view of women and combat. Furthermore, Kel gets some comments from other women that are just as disparaging as the ones she gets from men, because women in patriarchal societies enforce those standards too.

** Theoretically, anyone who undergoes page training and fulfils their term as a squire will undergo the Ordeal and become a knight, unless something happens during the Ordeal. But as Raoul points out in ''Squire'', not all the pages are strong enough or good enough to become knights, and not all are suited for it — and in those cases, the training master discouraging them or sending them home is doing them a favor. He flat out says that if he'd been the training master, he'd never have let Joren get to squire.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: After learning that [[spoiler:Kel rode in to Scanra alone after Wyldon ordered her to abandon the captured refugees]], Raoul tells Wyldon "Mithros forgive you if she does, because I never will."

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Thanks to the numerous cameos from ''Lioness'' and ''Immortals'' characters — a cast list appears in back of ''First Test'', setting a trend for every subsequent Pierce novel.

* AdultFear:
** Lord Raoul says in ''Page'' that Lord Wyldon got a nasty shock after the bandit fight- seven pages, all of them either teens or pre-teens, were sent out on what was meant to be a perfectly safe hunting trip and wound up stumbling into a bandit camp. Worse, they had no adult to command them and they were too far from the main camp for their distress calls to be heard- it's only Kel's quick thinking that stopped them from all getting killed. Wyldon starts training the pages in strategy and tactics after this to make up for it.
** Wyldon also learns in ''Squire'' that one of his students was a serial rapist and the other has committed kidnapping; worse, ''it's all his fault''. He focused all his attention on making training hard for Kel so that she would quit, rather than actually being a training master and scaring the pages straight into behaving like knights. From a reputation standpoint, it makes him look bad that [[spoiler:they both failed their final exam, but that's not what worries him; what does is the realization that he allowed his students to endanger innocent people, including servant girls that didn't have anyone to defend them]]. As he tells Kel with unusual contrition, [[spoiler:those are mistakes he can't allow himself to forget, even if Kel and Vinson's victims forgave him]].

* HardTruthAesop: One of the messages of the series, particularly evident in ''Squire'', is that no single person can really stop the injustice that is ingrained on the societal level. Alanna had been King's Champion for a decade and Thayet founding an egalitarian military force has done little to change most people's minds about female soldiers (and the [[SlutShaming assumptions about their morality]]). Kel is forced to accept that she cannot give Lalasa the justice she deserves even Jon fully agrees that the laws governing the noble treatment of commoners are morally wrong and dangerous besides. Changing laws around traditional societal values takes years if you want to do it without an uprising. Similarly, some people will never "come around" and will even act against their own interests to serve their hardheaded idelogy. None of this makes doing the right thing pointless, but it does mean there are limits to what you can expect to happen.

* HardTruthAesop: One of the messages of the series, particularly evident in ''Squire'', is that no single person can really stop the injustice that is ingrained on the societal level. Alanna had been King's Champion for a decade and Thayet founding an egalitarian military force has done little to change most people's minds about female soldiers (and the [[SlutShaming assumptions about their morality]]). Kel is forced to accept that she cannot give Lalasa the justice she deserves even Jon fully agrees that the laws governing the noble treatment of commoners are morally wrong and dangerous besides. Changing laws around traditional societal values take years if you want to do it without an uprising. Similarly, some people will never "come around" and will even act against their own interests to serve their hardheaded idelogy. None of this makes doing the right thing pointless, but it does mean there are limits to what you can expect to happen.

** Wyldon also learns in ''Squire'' that one of his students was a serial rapist and the other has committed kidnapping; worse, ''it's all his fault''. He focused all his attention on making training hard for Kel so that she would quit, rather than actually being a training master and scaring the pages straight into beating well. From a reputation standpoint, it makes him look bad that [[spoiler:they both failed their final exam, but that's not what worries him; what does is the realization that he allowed his students to endanger innocent people, including servant girls that didn't have anyone to defend thems]]. As he tells Kel with unusual contrition, [[spoiler:those are mistakes he can't allow himself to forget, even if Kel and Vinson's victims forgave him]].

* AdultFear: Lord Raoul says in ''Page'' that Lord Wyldon got a nasty shock after the bandit fight- seven pages, all of them either teens or pre-teens, were sent out on what was meant to be a perfectly safe hunting trip and wound up stumbling into a bandit camp. Worse, they had no adult to command them and they were too far from the main camp for their distress calls to be heard- it's only Kel's quick thinking that stopped them from all getting killed. Wyldon starts training the pages in strategy and tactics after this to make up for it.

* HardTruthAesop: One of the messages of the series, particularly evident in ''Squire'', is that no single person can really stop injustice that is ingrained on the societal level. Alanna having been King's Champion for a decade and Thayet founding an egalitarian military force has done little to change most people's minds about female soldiers (and the [[SlutShaming assumptions about their morality]]). Kel is forced to accept that she cannot give Lalasa the justice she deserves even Jon fully agrees that the laws governing noble treatment of commoners are morally wrong and dangerous besides. Changing laws around traditional societal values takes years if you want to do it without an uprising. Similarly, some people will never "come around" and will even act against their own interests to serve their hardheaded idelogy. None of this makes doing the right thing pointless, but it does mean there are limits to what you can expect to happen.

* MamaBear: Despite never actually having children, Kel fits the mold quite well indeed. ''Do not pick on people close to her.'' There's a reason the quartet of books featuring her are collectively called the "Protector of the Small" series.

** Theoretically, anyone who undergoes page training and fulfils their term as a squire will undergo the Ordeal and become a knight, unless something happens during the Ordeal. But as Raoul points out in ''Squire'', not all the pages are strong enough or good enough to become knights, and not all are suited for it — and in those cases, the training master discouraging them or sending them home is doing them a favour. He flat out says that if he'd been the training master, he'd never have let Joren get to squire.

* ContinuityNod:
** Many of the training practices the pages go through were put in place ''specifically'' because of Alanna sneaking through eight years as "Alan". Through a combination of traditionalist outrage and the Crown wanting to prevent criticism, new policies (such as the end-of-year exams) were instituted for the sake of transparency.
** The lords of fiefs [[Literature/SongOfTheLioness Eldorne, Tirragen, Malven]] and [[Literature/TheImmortals Sinthya]] are ''invited'' to host extremely expensive banquets during the royal progress due to members of those families causing trouble for Tortall in the past.

* BadDreams: The Chamber of the Ordeal routinely sends nightmares to Kel in the first part of ''Lady Knight'' just to make sure she remembers she's supposed to go after Blayce. [[spoiler:They stop after Haven is destroyed and she sets off on her unauthorized mission to rescue the refugees, and she theorizes it's because she's finally on the mission that will either result in Blayce's destruction or her own.]]

* CombatHandFan: The Yamani ''shukusen'', which sport razor-sharp metal struts. They like to play catch with them. And this is why you should never try messing with a Yamani noblewoman. Particularly because they're also trained in self-defense and naginata skills.

* DemotedToExtra: This is invoked and {{justified|Trope}} in the small prologue for ''First Test''. Alanna is eager to mentor the first openly female page in over a century, but Jonathan and Wyldon forbid her from doing so, as the conservatives will just claim that Alanna helped her with magic. [[spoiler:She makes up for it by anonymously sending practical and high-quality gifts like sharpening stones and bruise balm, but she's only able to meet Kel in public after Kel is a squire, and briefly, to keep people from getting suspicious.]]

* SeriesContinuityError: In ''Lady Knight'', Raoul says that no one has ever entered the Chamber of the Ordeal twice. Except that ''Song of the Lioness'' established that kings have to do it too, and presumably there have been quite a few who were knights first.
** It's possible he meant that no one goes in if they aren't going through their Ordeal. You only go in if you ''have'' to go in.

** After [[spoiler: Joren is put on trial for having Lalasa kidnapped]], Kel is outraged that the only punishment he gets is a fine, since his family can easily afford it. She meets with Jonathan and Thayet, points out how wrong that is, and when Jonathan asks what she wants him to do about it, Kel asks him to change the law... only for Jonathan to tell her that while he's been doing his best to change laws like the one in question since he became king, it's not as simple as just ordering it to be changed, because he has to keep ''everyone'' on his side as every group, from nobles to commoners, can take revenge on the crown if angered. He does agree to do his best to change the law, but tells her that it's going to take time and won't be easy.
** In addition, Kel had been looking forward to exercising a bit of noble privilege of her own and challenging Joren to a duel after the trial was over. King Jonathan reminds her that if she wants the laws to apply equally, that she has to mean it, and insists that she swear not to challenge Joren in exchange for the King managing to get the law changed.
** After [[spoiler:Joren dies in the Chamber and Vinson's crimes are revealed, Lord Wyldon retires as the pages' teacher.]] When asked why, he explains that he knows his approach was at least partially responsible, and that it could well be said that the best thing that came out of his tenure was [[spoiler:Kel becoming a knight]], and in that case, he definitely needs to retire, given that he did his utmost to prevent it from occurring.

* TurnInYourBadge: After [[spoiler:Joren dies and Vinson confesses to beating two girls and raping and beating a third]], [[spoiler:Wyldon]] resigns as he feels that his TrainingFromHell and misogynistic means of trying to drive off Kel ended up not teaching the boys right. That said, he does remain a knight and still active in power.

* WaifProphet: Irnai, a little girl who first appears in ''Lady Knight''. She showed up in a Scanran village one day and predicted that the "Protector of the Small" would come with her companions (alluding to the other knights, Fanche, etc) and her "knowing animals". But she can only give fifty-fifty odds that they'll actually beat Blayce.
** In TheStinger, she casually prophecies that Neal's eldest daughter is going to try and become a knight. Neal has yet to actually get married.

* CosmicPlaything: Not as much as Alanna or Daine, but Keladry is given a quest by the Chamber of the Ordeal in ''Squire'', and it sticks with her for ''Lady Knight''. She's not pleased about it.

** Keladry is very soured on Jonathan when he allows Wyldon to put her on probation. When she meets him after [[spoiler:Joren's trial]] and learns that he has to keep a lot of things balanced if he wants to make reforms without his vassals rebelling, she's a little more understanding, but she still seems to dislike him on a personal level.

* OlderAndWiser: King Jonathan is much more experienced and political here than he was during the ''Lioness'' books.

* BullyHunter: Kel during her page days.

* ContinuityNod: The lords of fiefs [[Literature/SongOfTheLioness Eldorne, Tirragen, Malven]] and [[Literature/TheImmortals Sinthya]] are ''invited'' to host extremely expensive banquets during the royal progress due to members of those families causing trouble for Tortall in the past.

* FlayingAlive: Blayce deals with disobedience this way, though Stenmun carries it out. A number of rotting victims hang in cages from the castle walls. Disobedience can be [[spoiler:subverting the pain he's going to put the children through by bringing them poppy when he picks them for his killing devices]].

* TheLancer: Flighty DeadpanSnarker Neal to level-headed [[TheStoic stoic]] Kel.

** In the first book, Neal confronts Kel over her continually fighting Joren and the other bullies. She tells him and their other friends that hazing is plain wrong, and even if one boy limits it to having a newcomer fetch something he forgot, others will happily take the opportunity to physically abuse the younger boys- and because everyone else turns a blind eye, they know they'll get away with it. Knights are supposed to be kind to the weak and powerless, but a knight who grew up knowing that he can push around the weak and powerless and nobody will care won't suddenly decide to stop upon getting his shield- so it has to stop now, and she'll be the one to do it. The others start joining her patrols after that.

** Occasionally, or respect if not actually friendship. In ''Squire'', one conservative knight admits that he was wrong after a jousting match; he wins but Kel acquitted herself well, and this leads him to tell her that the things he'd heard of her were wrong and to wish her luck. In ''Lady Knight'' a convict soldier turns out to be one of the bandits she'd fought as a page, and he compliments her publicly about the battle and is the first to help her out in a fight.

* NonLethalWarfare: Mock battles using non lethal weapons in Kel's Page years.

* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: There's a mundane example in Peachblossom. He's a gelding with a foul temper and generalized misanthropy after having been abused, and Daine has to persuade him to let Kel ride him. Kel is the only person who can do so (he'll kick or bite anyone else) until Tobe, who has horse magic and can communicate with him like Daine does.

* PercussiveTherapy: Kel, after [[spoiler:Vinson confesses to raping two girls and beating them up after his Ordeal]], goes out in the snow to practice archery with a bow she's not adept with. Buri comes to talk to her, and tells her that learning from her mistakes is more productive than beating herself up, Deconstructing the trope.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Wyldon. He's a misogynist and heavily biased but he's also smart enough to know when he's wrong and he's got the backbone to admit it.

* TurnInYourBadge: After [[spoiler:Joren dies and Vinson confesses to raping two girls]], [[spoiler:Wyldon]] resigns as he feels that his TrainingFromHell and misogynistic means of trying to drive off Kel ended up not teaching the boys right. That said, he does remain a knight and still active in power.

* AbuseMistake: Kel goes to the public baths one day to enjoy soaking in the warm water after a session of jousting training with Raoul. Concerned women rush over to assure her that whoever he is, even if he's a noble, he'll be caught and tried and made to pay. She has to explain that she is a squire and those are normal injuries that one gets from combat training.

** Occasionally, or respect if not actually friendship. In ''Squire'', one conservative knight admits that he was wrong after a jousting match; he wins but Kel acquitted herself well, and this leads him to tell her that the things he'd heard of her were wrong and to wish her luck. In ''Lady Knight'' a convict soldier turns out to be one of the bandits she'd fought as a page, and he compliments her publicly about the battle.

* SheWillComeForMe: If you are under her protection and something happens to you, Keladry will come for you.

* StraightForTheCommander: Discussed in ''Squire''. Some of the King's Own favor killing the soldiers first as they're the ones who do most of the fighting. Kel and Dom prefer to kill officers first because they think and lead.

** Theoretically, anyone who undergoes page training and fulfils their term as a squire will undergo the Ordeal and become a knight, unless something happens during the Ordeal. But as Raoul points out in ''Squire'', not all the pages are strong enough or good enough to become knights, and not all are suited for it — and in those cases, the training master discouraging them or sending them home is doing them a favour. He flat out says that if he was the training master, he'd never have let Joren get to squire.

* TookALevelInKindness: Wyldon is a lot friendlier in ''Lady Knight'' than he was in any of the previous books. Kel eventually realizes that this is in large part due to the fact that he didn't actually enjoy being the training master, he merely felt it his duty.