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* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Ben initially starts setting fires to test his trainee firefighters and prove to the Kugisko councils that they need his firefighters. Setting fires was wrong, but he was actually exactly right — Kugisko is about 95% wood, and fires can break out at any time.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Ben initially starts setting fires to test his trainee firefighters and prove to the Kugisko councils that they need his firefighters. Setting fires was wrong, but he was actually exactly right that firefighters are essential — Kugisko is about 95% wood, and fires can break out at any time.]]
* MercyKill: At the end of ''Cold Fire'' [[spoiler: Ben has been caught and tried as an arsonist, and is sentenced as is typical for arsonists - to be burned at the stake at the site of his greatest crime. The wood and pyre are even set up to make it as slow and agonizing as possible, not allowing the condemned to suffocate on smoke. This may be a KarmicDeath but it's also a very cruel method of execution and Daja starts to tear up as she remembers Ben's original, noble intentions. Before Ben can start to scream Daja, Frostpine, Olennika, and even Jory each independently stoke the fire with magic to intensify it and kill him faster. Between them all, the pyre goes up in a blazing flash and Ben is instantly and more mercifully killed.]]
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Of course, [[spoiler:by using Daja's gloves, Ben allows investigating mages to trace him by tracing Daja's magic. Which means that he gets caught since the mages know that Daja isn't setting the fires. Daja also catches up to him and uses the gloves to create impromptu handcuffs.]]
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Of course, [[spoiler:by using Daja's gloves, Ben allows investigating mages to trace him by tracing Daja's magic. Which means that he gets caught since the mages know Heluda Salt immediately knows that Daja isn't setting the fires. Daja also catches up to him and uses the gloves to create impromptu handcuffs.]]
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: In ''Shatterglass'', the serial killer turns out to be [[spoiler:one of the Hindu Untouchable/Dalit {{Expy}} characters who have been constantly on the outskirts of the protagonists' radar, cleaning, being abused, and biding their time.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: When Briar and Daja imagine Tris having to handle their recalcitrant students they picture her resorting to violence. In fact she's mellowed out considerably since Circle of Magic and is much quicker to see other peoples' points of view, though she still has a temper and is something of a TricksterMentor to ''her'' reluctant, older student.
* TookALevelInKindness: When Briar and Daja imagine Tris having to handle their recalcitrant students they picture her resorting to violence. In fact she's mellowed out considerably since Circle of Magic and is much quicker to see other peoples' points of view, though she still has a temper and is something of a TricksterMentor to ''her'' reluctant, older student.
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** In ''Cold Fire'' Daja assumes the arsonist is ObviouslyEvil and that this evil shines on their face, making it inevitable that they will be caught. [[spoiler: Really he's Ben, who she likes and admires and finds greatly sympathetic at the time.]]
**In ''Shatterglass'', the serial killer turns out to be [[spoiler:one of the Hindu Untouchable/Dalit {{Expy}} characters who have been constantly on the outskirts of the protagonists' radar, cleaning, being abused, and biding their time.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: When Briar and Daja imagine Tris having to handle their recalcitrant students they picture her resorting to violence. In fact she's mellowed out considerably since Circle of Magic and is much quicker to see other peoples' points of view, though she still has a temper and is something of a TricksterMentor to ''her'' reluctant, older student. She's also immediately and intensively compassionate to Glaki as an orphaned little girl, uprooting her whole situation to take care of her.
** In ''Cold Fire'' Daja assumes the arsonist is ObviouslyEvil and that this evil shines on their face, making it inevitable that they will be caught. [[spoiler: Really he's Ben, who she likes and admires and finds greatly sympathetic at the time.]]
**In ''Shatterglass'', the serial killer turns out to be [[spoiler:one of the Hindu Untouchable/Dalit {{Expy}} characters who have been constantly on the outskirts of the protagonists' radar, cleaning, being abused, and biding their time.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: When Briar and Daja imagine Tris having to handle their recalcitrant students they picture her resorting to violence. In fact she's mellowed out considerably since Circle of Magic and is much quicker to see other peoples' points of view, though she still has a temper and is something of a TricksterMentor to ''her'' reluctant, older student. She's also immediately and intensively compassionate to Glaki as an orphaned little girl, uprooting her whole situation to take care of her.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: In ''Cold Fire'', [[spoiler:Ben Ladradun initially sets his fires to convince the city officials that firefighters are necessary. At first, he was always careful to only set fires to abandoned structures or at times when no one was inside, but when he unintentionally kills a homeless woman in one, he realizes he ''likes'' the feeling and that people are listening more closely to boot.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: In ''Cold Fire'', [[spoiler:Ben Ladradun initially sets his fires to convince the city officials that firefighters are necessary. At first, The first fire he set was to one of his family's warehouses at a point when it was vacant. After that for a time he's always careful to only set fires to abandoned structures structures, or at times when no one was inside, but when he unintentionally kills a homeless woman who'd sheltered in one, he realizes he ''likes'' the feeling of power it gives him and that people are listening more closely to boot.]]
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* DeusExMachina: In ''Shatterglass'' we never get any explanation for why Keth was able to make globes that predicted the Ghost's killings. Given that glass is commonly used in scrying, his ability to make Chime is similarly unexplained, and there are no explanations for why some characters can scry and others can't; it's likely just magic. As all this happens after his accident, it's another example of LightningCanDoAnything.
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* DeusExMachina: In ''Shatterglass'' we never get any explanation for why Keth was able to make globes that predicted the Ghost's killings. Given that glass is commonly used in scrying, his ability to make Chime is similarly unexplained, and there are no explanations for why some characters can scry and others can't; can't, it's likely just magic. As all this happens after his accident, it's another example of LightningCanDoAnything.
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* DisposableSexWorker: Institutionalized in Tharios. Yakedesi are entertainers in the pleasure district of Khapik, and while only a few engage in sex work all of them carry the stigma of it. Crimes against them are considered ''okozou'', a term meaning "no real people involved". When a SerialKiller starts targeting yakedesi women, the First Class don't care about the deaths themselves, but the fact that they're being left in public places and sullying the purity of ''actual'' people. All of the non-Tharian characters are incensed at this, and even Tharian mage Dema comes to hate it after actually getting to know the yakedesi. [[spoiler:At the end, Dema decides to stay in 5th District specifically to reform it and hopefully avert this trope in future.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: The prathmuni of Tharios are quite literally treated like garbage, forced to live in slums and do the dirtiest work for no pay, and are not even considered people. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Shatterglass'', the prathmuni have to go into hiding to avoid being massacred after it's discovered that the serial killer is prathmuni, at which point the city realizes just how badly it needs someone to do the dirty work they refuse to. They're left desperately negotiating with the prathmuni representatives, who refuse to come back without better working conditions and compensation.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: The prathmuni of Tharios are quite literally treated like garbage, forced to live in slums and do the dirtiest work for no pay, and are not even considered people. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Shatterglass'', the prathmuni have to go into hiding to avoid being massacred after it's discovered that the serial killer is prathmuni, at which point the city realizes just how badly it needs someone to do the dirty work they refuse to. They're left desperately negotiating with the prathmuni representatives, who refuse to come back without better working conditions and compensation.]]
* FantasticCasteSystem: Tharios runs on a strict caste system, running from the First Class (the most wealthy and "pure" Tharians who can order other Tharians to do their bidding), to the Fifth Class (considered barely people, yakedesi entertainers among them). And then there's the prathmuni, who are untouchables outside the caste system and not considered people at all.
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** Pasco's siblings, cousins, parents, and adult relatives are forever shaking their heads at his flibbertigibbet ways.
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** Pasco's siblings, cousins, parents, and adult relatives are forever shaking their heads at his flibbertigibbet ways. When they learn he has dance magic, his father tells him to learn proper "harrier magic" instead, not getting that it doesn't work that way.
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* MauveShirt: ''Magic Steps'' has [[spoiler:Wulfric Snaptrap, an irascible but likable harrier-mage who Sandry helps to investigate the Rokat murders. He's abruptly killed when they enter the latest crime scene.]]
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* MauveShirt: ''Magic Steps'' has [[spoiler:Wulfric Snaptrap, an irascible but likable harrier-mage who whom Sandry helps to investigate the Rokat murders. He's abruptly killed when they enter the latest crime scene.]]
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* DeusExMachina: In ''Shatterglass'' we never get any explanation for why Keth was able to make globes that predicted the Ghost's killings. Given that glass is commonly used in scrying, his ability to make Chime is similarly unexplained, and there are no explanations for why some characters can scry and others can't, it's likely just magic.
** As all this happens after his accident, it's another example of LightningCanDoAnything.
** As all this happens after his accident, it's another example of LightningCanDoAnything.
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* DeusExMachina: In ''Shatterglass'' we never get any explanation for why Keth was able to make globes that predicted the Ghost's killings. Given that glass is commonly used in scrying, his ability to make Chime is similarly unexplained, and there are no explanations for why some characters can scry and others can't, can't; it's likely just magic.
**magic. As all this happens after his accident, it's another example of LightningCanDoAnything.
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* DemocracyIsBad: Tharios, at least in Tris's opinion. The Assembly is corrupt and spends a lot of time blaming things on each other; up until that point, Tris had only experienced monarchies with RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething. However, the Assembly doesn't do a whole lot to contradict her opinion either.
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* DemocracyIsBad: Tharios, at least in Tris's opinion. The Assembly is corrupt and spends a lot of time blaming things on each other; up until that point, Tris had only experienced monarchies with RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething. RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething like Sandry's great uncle Duke Vedris of Emelan. However, the Assembly doesn't do a whole lot to contradict her Tris's opinion either.
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''The Circle Opens'' is the second series in Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}''. It follows the four young mages as they take on their first apprentices, owing to the rule that says the mage who discovers another mage's talent is responsible for educating them, at least until they find a teacher with the same talent who can take over.
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''The Circle Opens'' is the second series in Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}''. It follows the four young mages as they take on their first apprentices, owing to the rule that says the mage who discovers another mage's talent gift is responsible for educating them, at least until they find a teacher with the same talent who can take over.
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* ''Cold Fire'': Daja's discovery that the twin daughters of her Namornese hosts have magic (one cooking, the other woodworking) takes second place to a hunt for a grudge-holding arsonist in the city of Kugisko.
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* ''Cold Fire'': Daja's discovery that the twin daughters of her Namornese hosts have ambient magic (one cooking, the other woodworking) takes second place to a hunt for a grudge-holding arsonist in the city of Kugisko.
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* ''Shatterglass'': In the strictly class-divided city-state of Tharios, Tris, always the prickly one, has to teach a glass-and-lightning mage to control his powers in order to catch a serial killer.
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* ''Shatterglass'': In the strictly class-divided city-state of Tharios, Tris, always the prickly one, has to teach a glass-and-lightning mage to control his conflicting powers in order to catch a serial killer.
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''The Circle Opens'' is the second series in Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}''. It follows the four young mages as they take their first apprentices, owing to the rule that says the mage who discovers another mage's talent is responsible for educating them, at least until they find a teacher with the same talent who can take them on.
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''The Circle Opens'' is the second series in Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}''. It follows the four young mages as they take on their first apprentices, owing to the rule that says the mage who discovers another mage's talent is responsible for educating them, at least until they find a teacher with the same talent who can take them on.over.
