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* MirrorCharacter: Quist lampshades it for Carys, as they both betrayed their respective sides, only to use their own tactics against them.



* NotSoDifferent: Quist lampshades it for Carys, as they both betrayed their respective sides, only to use their own tactics against them.
** Another cruel one at the end of ''Margrave'': [[spoiler:"That was the way I felt about the Margrave."]]
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* MonsterSobStory: When Kest made the Margrave, the other Makers hesitated on outright killing it, but hypocritically judged it as subhuman and evil and locked it and Kest down in Maar. With Kest's death it lost the only person that ever cared about it, and the Makers promptly abandoned it with the rest of the planet when they fled.
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* HouseOfBrokenMirrors: The Castle of [[MadGod Halen]] has a basement full of mirrors the Watch took down.
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* BackgroundHalo: Provided by the moons in ''Margrave''.

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* BackgroundHalo: Provided by the moons in ''Margrave''. Also a nice call-back to the last book's title.

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* BackgroundHalo: Provided by the ring of the moons in ''Margrave''.

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* BackgroundHalo: Provided by the ring of the moons in ''Margrave''.''Margrave''.
--> Slowly she came to see that Agramon had risen, and all the sisters with her, and that as Galen climbed to an outcrop of rock, he paused there, framed by the coronet of moons.
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* BluntYes:
** In response to the demand that Alberic assault Maar:
--> '''Alberic''': How the hell am I supposed to storm a building with no windows, no door, no gates, and that you can only see if you squint at it sideways[?...] You want a miracle.\\
'''Galen''': Yes.
** In response to the demand that Alberic prevent the Watch from ''re''taking Maar:
--> '''Alberic''': And I suppose now you expect my boys and girls to gallantly hold off tens of thousands while you nobly sacrifice yourselves to martyrdom.\\
'''Galen''': That's the idea.
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* GoThroughMe: Raffi pulls this is ''Margrave'', only to be shoved unceremoniously aside.

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* GoThroughMe: Raffi pulls tries to pull this is ''Margrave'', only to be ''Margrave''. Subverted when he is simply shoved unceremoniously aside.
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* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Oddly enough, given the religious undertones that should ensure the converging of the characters' philosophies, with Galen (Optimist), Carys (Cynic), Raffi (Realist) and the Sekoi (Apathetic).
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* CrisisOfFaith: Both Galen and Raffi end up having to work through their own in ''Margrave'', Galen's induced by the slow accretion of all the oppression and pain in his life and losing Solon in the previous book, and Raffi's induced by the BigBad telling him the Makers are just a GodGuise for ordinary humans. They both have a (more nuanced) faith back by the end.
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** Exploited by the Sekoi with the "something... unusual" at the centre of the Hoard. It's [[spoiler:Kest's corpse]], brought from wherever it was left to be a part of their ransom. They are not ultimately intending to trade on human lust for gold but on human death culture.

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** Exploited by the Sekoi with the "something... unusual" at the centre of the Hoard. It's [[spoiler:Kest's corpse]], brought from wherever it was left to be a part of their ransom. They are not ultimately intending to trade on human lust for gold but on human death culture.culture, on the assumption that performing the proper rites to the dead is ''so'' important to humans it can meaningfully sweeten the pot compared to literal tons of gold.
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* AffectionateNickname: The Sekoi gets in the habit of calling Raffi "small keeper".
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The Margrave gets a very poignant death and the most respectful funeral the Order can give.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Margrave genuinely loved Kest, and is heartbroken upon encountering his tomb.

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