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* BloodBrothers: A way to invoke certain Traditional paths. Andie does it with Sir George in ''One Good Knight'' to fend off the RescueRomance that the Tradition is pushing on them, claiming that the Tradition never allows BrotherSisterIncest except in cases where the siblings don't recognize each other.
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* TheBigBadWolf: The process of making a regular wolf bigger and smarter, and likely badder than it already was, is mentioned in Chapter 3:
--> A big, healthy, single wolf had probably been driven out of his pack for aggression. Maybe cub-killing. Granny had told her about one such beast that had eventually required a Champion to come kill it, [...] Granny wouldn't tell her ''why'', but she claimed such beasts attracted a malignant magic towards themselves that made them bigger, faster and, above all, much more smarter than ordinary creatures.
--> A big, healthy, single wolf had probably been driven out of his pack for aggression. Maybe cub-killing. Granny had told her about one such beast that had eventually required a Champion to come kill it, [...] Granny wouldn't tell her ''why'', but she claimed such beasts attracted a malignant magic towards themselves that made them bigger, faster and, above all, much more smarter than ordinary creatures.
* SacredHospitality: A Traditional force, with Traditional loopholes. Offering a guest a meal that does not include bread or salt means that you have not technically broken bread or shared salt with him, so that guest is not bound by the laws of hospitality.
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* SacredHospitality: A Traditional force, with Traditional loopholes. Offering a guest a meal that does not include bread or salt means that you have not technically broken bread or shared salt with him, so that guest is not bound by the laws of hospitality.
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* SacredHospitality: SavageWolves: The process of creating [[TheBigBadWolf a big bad wolf]] is mentioned in Chapter 3:
--> ATraditional force, with Traditional loopholes. Offering a guest a meal big, healthy, single wolf had probably been driven out of his pack for aggression. Maybe cub-killing. Granny had told her about one such beast that does not include bread or salt means had eventually required a Champion to come kill it, [...] Granny wouldn't tell her ''why'', but she claimed such beasts attracted a malignant magic towards themselves that you have not technically broken bread or shared salt with him, so that guest is not bound by the laws of hospitality.made them bigger, faster and, above all, much more smarter than ordinary creatures.
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** The "All Forests Are One" spell, which may be a reference to [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1076535-all-forests-are-one-they-are-all-echoes-of-the Charles de Lint's Spiritwalk]].
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** The "All Forests Are One" spell, which may be a reference to [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1076535-all-forests-are-one-they-are-all-echoes-of-the Charles de Lint's Spiritwalk]].Creator/CharlesDeLint's ''Literature/{{Spiritwalk}}'':
---> All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.
---> All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.
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* BrickJoke: From ''The Sleeping Beauty'', the usual Heroic classification of birds is described as "good to eat," "not good to eat," and "singing while I have a hangover, kill it with a rock." Then, when the Bird is talking with Rosa and Lily about how it's quite rare for Heroes of Drachenthal (who are mighty of thew, small of brain, and not kind at all) to take good advice and they tend to try to kill helpful birds by throwing rocks. Then the Bird notes, "Of course, the fact that we can only get their attention when they have hangovers might contribute to that."
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* BrickJoke: From ''The Sleeping Beauty'', the usual Heroic classification of birds is described as "good to eat," "not good to eat," and "singing while I have a hangover, kill it with a rock." Then, when Later, the Bird is talking with Rosa and Lily about how it's quite rare for mentions that Heroes of Drachenthal (who are mighty of thew, small of brain, and not kind at all) are more likely to take good advice and throw rocks at them than listen to their advice... probably because they tend to try to kill helpful birds by throwing rocks. Then the Bird notes, "Of course, the fact that we can only get their attention by singing when they have hangovers might contribute to that."hangovers.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Step-parents, particularly stepmothers, will become wicked due to the Tradition unless they are very careful to avert it.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Step-parents, Stepparents, particularly stepmothers, will become wicked due to the Tradition unless they are very careful to avert it.
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* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: Unicorns produce a range of healing items. Hair from a dead unicorn prevents illness, hair from a live unicorn not only protects from illness but from evil magic as well. Unicorn horn neutralizes poison, unicorn tears heal mental disorders, and unicorn blood cures diseases and injuries. Having it being freely offered by the unicorn (as opposed to it being harvested by force) drastically increases the potentcy.
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* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: Unicorns produce a range of healing items. Hair from a dead unicorn prevents illness, hair from a live unicorn not only protects from illness but from evil magic as well. Unicorn horn neutralizes poison, unicorn tears heal mental disorders, and unicorn blood cures diseases and injuries. Having it being freely offered by the unicorn (as opposed to it being harvested taken by force) drastically increases the potentcy.potency.
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* AlienSky: The aforesaid{{Erotic Dream}}s also feature "a silver sky with three azure moons."
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* AlienSky: The aforesaid{{Erotic Dream}}s aforementioned erotic dreams also feature "a silver sky with three azure moons."
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The women being held prisoner by the Efreet in ''Fortune's Fool'' aren't exactly looking forward to being assaulted, but they are confused by the Efreet's complete lack of interest. The Efreet is a fire spirit and not ''remotely'' attracted to mortal women, but it's trapped in a Traditional role that would normally be occupied by a creature that ''would'' ravish them.
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The women being held prisoner by the Efreet in ''Fortune's Fool'' aren't exactly looking forward to being assaulted, but they are confused by the Efreet's complete their captor's lack of interest. The Efreet is a fire spirit and not ''remotely'' attracted to mortal women, but it's trapped it happens to be stuck in a Traditional role that would normally be occupied by reserved for a creature that ''would'' ravish them.
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* ExactWords: The typical CurseEscapeClause tends to depend on this.
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* ExactWords: ExactWords:
** The typical CurseEscapeClause tends to depend onthis. this.
** Sasha uses this when discussing his love for Katya, carefully avoiding any vows of eternal love or promises of unwavering devotion that the Tradition would inevitably force him to break. Sure enough, [[spoiler:later on he has to negotiate with the Queen of the Copper Mountain, who tries to seduce him, and it's implied that had he not been careful with his words earlier, he would have been compelled to give in.]]
** The typical CurseEscapeClause tends to depend on
** Sasha uses this when discussing his love for Katya, carefully avoiding any vows of eternal love or promises of unwavering devotion that the Tradition would inevitably force him to break. Sure enough, [[spoiler:later on he has to negotiate with the Queen of the Copper Mountain, who tries to seduce him, and it's implied that had he not been careful with his words earlier, he would have been compelled to give in.]]
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* WickedWitch: A common Traditional role, especially in Godmother Elena's kingdoms. However, the trope is played with all over the place -- in the first book alone, Elena meets a sorceress who turns out to be more of a DarkMagicalGirl, enjoying the aesthetic trappings of the role without any real evil intent. She teams up with Elena to [[BreakTheHaughty teach a lesson to a selfish prince and failed Quester]] without placing him in any real danger. Elena herself also briefly takes on this role in order to redirect a Ladderlocks story onto a less dangerous Traditional path.
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* AlienSea: ''The Fairy Godmother'': Elena and Alexander's {{Erotic Dream}}s take place on a "shore of purple sand by an amethyst sea" under an AlienSky.
* AlienSky: Elena and Alexander's {{Erotic Dream}}s take place on a seashore in shades of purple, under "a silver sky with three azure moons."
* AlienSky: Elena and Alexander's {{Erotic Dream}}s take place on a seashore in shades of purple, under "a silver sky with three azure moons."
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* AlienSea: ''The Fairy Godmother'': Elena and Alexander's shared {{Erotic Dream}}s take place on a "shore of purple sand by an amethyst sea" under an AlienSky.
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* AlienSky:Elena and Alexander's {{Erotic The aforesaid{{Erotic Dream}}s take place on a seashore in shades of purple, under also feature "a silver sky with three azure moons."
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The women being held prisoner by the Efreet in ''Fortune's Fool'' aren't exactly looking forward to being ravished, but they are confused by the Efreet's apparent lack of interest. The Efreet, as a fire spirit, isn't ''remotely'' attracted to mortal women, but it's trapped in a Traditional path that would normally be occupied by a creature that ''would'' ravish them.
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The women being held prisoner by the Efreet in ''Fortune's Fool'' aren't exactly looking forward to being ravished, assaulted, but they are confused by the Efreet's apparent complete lack of interest. The Efreet, as Efreet is a fire spirit, isn't spirit and not ''remotely'' attracted to mortal women, but it's trapped in a Traditional path role that would normally be occupied by a creature that ''would'' ravish them.
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* CinderellaPlot: Discussed several times. Even for a world where "The Tradition" makes fairy tale stories come to pass whenever the circumstances kind of resemble one, there are a ''lot'' of Cinderellas --It's an InUniverse Stock Plot! Despite being fairly innocuous compared to many of the tales that come up, not all of them turn out well. Three examples actually show up during the time covered by the novels:
** The plot of "The Fairy Godmother" kicks off due to a failed Cinderella: Elena has the abusive step-family, the work ethic, and the beauty; but she's in her twenties and the prince is only 6! Fortunately, the vortex of Traditional power that is trying to make this work has other uses: It can be refined and redirected to give Elena the magical oomph to function as a Godmother.
** Godmother Aleksia, "The Snow Queen," checks in passing on a Cinderella bubbling away in Copenhagen. She has no intention of intervening, since she judges that the girl will make a good match for the prince, --she claims that if the girl was any sweeter, she'd be sickening-- and that the King and Queen won't mind having a daughter-in-law who was raised a commoner.
** The plot of "The Fairy Godmother" kicks off due to a failed Cinderella: Elena has the abusive step-family, the work ethic, and the beauty; but she's in her twenties and the prince is only 6! Fortunately, the vortex of Traditional power that is trying to make this work has other uses: It can be refined and redirected to give Elena the magical oomph to function as a Godmother.
** Godmother Aleksia, "The Snow Queen," checks in passing on a Cinderella bubbling away in Copenhagen. She has no intention of intervening, since she judges that the girl will make a good match for the prince, --she claims that if the girl was any sweeter, she'd be sickening-- and that the King and Queen won't mind having a daughter-in-law who was raised a commoner.
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* CinderellaPlot: Discussed several times. Even for a world where "The Tradition" the Tradition makes fairy tale stories come to pass whenever the circumstances kind of resemble one, there are a ''lot'' of Cinderellas --It's -- it's an InUniverse Stock Plot! Despite being fairly innocuous compared to many of the tales that come up, not all of them turn out well. Three examples actually show up during the time covered by the novels:
** The plot of "The Fairy Godmother" kicks off due to a failed Cinderella: Elena has the abusive step-family, the work ethic, and the beauty; but she'sin her twenties twenty-one and the prince is only 6! six! Fortunately, the vortex of Traditional power that is trying to make this work has other uses: It collected around her can be refined and redirected to give Elena the magical oomph to function as a Godmother.
** Godmother Aleksia, "The Snow Queen," checks in passing on a Cinderella bubbling away in Copenhagen. She has no intention of intervening, since she judges that the girl will make a good match for theprince, --she prince -- she claims that if the girl was any sweeter, she'd be sickening-- sickening -- and that the King and Queen won't mind having a daughter-in-law who was raised a commoner.
** The plot of "The Fairy Godmother" kicks off due to a failed Cinderella: Elena has the abusive step-family, the work ethic, and the beauty; but she's
** Godmother Aleksia, "The Snow Queen," checks in passing on a Cinderella bubbling away in Copenhagen. She has no intention of intervening, since she judges that the girl will make a good match for the
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* CostumePorn: At least once a book, Lackey indulges her [[AuthorAppeal love of fashion]]. Godmother Elena's formal clothes get a detailed and loving description in the very first book, but so do Godmother Bella's brightly-colored, almost-cartoonish outfits.
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* CostumePorn: At least once a book, Lackey indulges her [[AuthorAppeal love of fashion]]. Godmother Elena's formal clothes get a detailed and loving description in the very first book, but so do Godmother Bella's brightly-colored, motley, almost-cartoonish outfits.
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* TheTragicRose: Girls with the name "Rose" or similar are likely to find themselves on a poignant or even horrific Traditional path.
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* TheTragicRose: Girls with the name "Rose" or similar are likely to find themselves on a poignant or even horrific Traditional path.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Subverted, unlike most Lackey works -- some creatures are inherently magical, but otherwise working magic is less a matter of having an inborn Gift and more of being in the right circumstances.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Subverted, unlike most Lackey works -- some creatures are inherently magical, but otherwise working magic is less a matter of having an inborn Gift and more of being in the right circumstances.
