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* ElectricTorture: In ''Shadowland'', anyone not part of the upper class is made to a collar that shocks them if they talk, to prevent anyone from plotting a rebellion.

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* ElectricTorture: In ''Shadowland'', anyone not part of the upper class is made to wear a collar that shocks them if they talk, to prevent anyone from plotting a rebellion.
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* GaiasLament: In Coal [[spoiler:which is really Kolkata several hundred years into the future]], the seas have retreated, the rain has stopped, and the air is brown with pollution. The city if surrounded by miles and miles of uninhabitable wasteland where rebels are left to die.

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* GaiasLament: In Coal [[spoiler:which is really Kolkata several hundred years into the future]], the seas have retreated, the rain has stopped, and the air is brown with pollution. The city if is surrounded by miles and miles of uninhabitable wasteland where rebels are left to die.
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* GaiasLament: In Coal [[spoiler:which is really Kolkata several hundred years into the future]], the seas have retreated, the rain has stopped, and the air is brown with pollution.

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* GaiasLament: In Coal [[spoiler:which is really Kolkata several hundred years into the future]], the seas have retreated, the rain has stopped, and the air is brown with pollution. The city if surrounded by miles and miles of uninhabitable wasteland where rebels are left to die.
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* GaiasLament: In Coal [[spoiler:which is really Kolkata several hundred years into the future]], the seas have retreated, the rain has stopped, and the air is brown with pollution.


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* YouAreNumberSix: In Coal, most people are known by serial numbers, like M-4372. Elites like Dr. S are allowed to have an initial, but only the rebels are known by actual names.

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* AntiMagic: In Coal, giant towers emit radiation that disrupts any attempts at using magic and causes excruciating headaches for the magician.

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* AntiMagic: In Coal, giant towers contain jammers, which emit radiation that disrupts any attempts at using magic and causes excruciating headaches for the magician.



* ElectricTorture: In ''Shadowland'', prisoners at the Rehabitationals are made to wear collars that shock them if they talk, to prevent them from plotting an escape or rebellion.

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* ElectricTorture: In ''Shadowland'', prisoners at anyone not part of the Rehabitationals are upper class is made to wear collars a collar that shock shocks them if they talk, to prevent them anyone from plotting an escape or a rebellion.



* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: In ''Shadowland'', Anand and Nisha go into the magicians' hideout and are immediately hit by a charm that causes exhaustion and despair. Anand, who is much more strongly affected than Nisha, falls to his knees. Nisha shakes his shoulder, then slaps him in the face, which weakens the charm's effects enough that he can keep walking.



* MagicMirror: In ''The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming'', the titular handheld mirror serves as a PortalToThePast to the Moghul era. The villain, Kasim, is an attempted usurper who was sent forward in time by a palace magician, and he searches the palace ruins for the mirror so he can travel back to one hundred years after he was sent forward, by which point the palace magician will be dead and his spells will have partially worn off, so he can assassinate the nawab, rule Bengal, and eventually take over the world.

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* MagicMirror: In ''The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming'', the titular handheld mirror serves as a PortalToThePast portal to the Moghul era. The villain, Kasim, is an attempted usurper who was sent forward in other places, time by a palace magician, and he searches the palace ruins for the mirror so he can travel back to one hundred years after he was sent forward, by which point the palace magician will be dead and his spells will have partially worn off, so he can assassinate the nawab, rule Bengal, and eventually take over the world.periods, or even dimensions.


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* LaResistance: In the city of Coal, magic has been banned, and magical items are destroyed by machines that extract all the magic and convert it into electricity. Magicians live in scattered groups in the slums, occasionally attempting to break into the domes and destroy the technology that prevents them from using magic.
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* AntiMagic: In Coal, giant towers emit radiation that disrupts any attempts at using magic and causes excruciating headaches for the magician.


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* UrbanSegregation: In Coal, the rich live in luxurious apartments in glittering bio-domes with virtual weather, while the poor live in polluted slums full of ruined buildings where the air quality is so bad that they have to wear breathing masks. Anand is reminded of life in Kolkata, where the rich throw lavish parties while the poor wait outside to eat leftovers out of the trash, but here it's even worse because the poor don't have access to the rich people's trash.
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* AgonyBeam: In ''Shadowland'', police officers in the city of Coal carry blue tubes as weapons that have no physical effects, but cause their victims to collapse in pain.


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* ElectricTorture: In ''Shadowland'', prisoners at the Rehabitationals are made to wear collars that shock them if they talk, to prevent them from plotting an escape or rebellion.

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