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* FeministFantasy: It doesn't hit you too hard over the head with it, but the world appears to be fairly egalitarian as to gender. We see many women in what would traditionally be considered male roles in our world.
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* ThePowerOfBlood: Blood is used to add power to spells. Isyllt nicks the base of her thumb for this purpose, noting that it's more practical (if less dramatic) than cutting the palm of the hand.
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* SoulJar: Ghosts and spirits can be bound ("vinculated") in diamonds in this setting. Lesser stones, such as rubies, can only be used to store spells or raw power.
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* EntropyAndChaosMagic: Isyllt, in addition to necromancy, is an entropomancer. This enables her to make inanimate objects age and corrode rapidly, invoke cold, etc. Using this talent is implied to be unpleasant for the wielder however.
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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Has no relation]] to the 2019 Lovecraft-inspired game ''VideoGame/TheSinkingCity''.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Isyllt got her job done but is injured in duty and loses the use of most of a hand, and Asheris is free of his bindings after years of servitude, but Zhirin is dead and the city lives up it's to its name with a whole lot of people joining her.]]
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* {{Magitech}}: Magic reaches fairly high levels of sophistication in this world, including such things as magical hydro power.
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* AscensionToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Zhirin dies, but joins with the river, and the Nakh states that her voice can be heard through it.]]
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* AscensionToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Zhirin dies, but joins with the river, and the Nakh states that her voice can be heard through it.]]
* Bittersweet Ending: [[spoiler: Isyllt got her hob done but is injured in duty and loses the use of most of a hand and Asheris is free of his bindings after years, but Zhirin is dead and the city lives up it's name and a whole lot of people died.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: In short order, Zhirin lost her mentor, her mother, and then her life over the span of a few days at best.]]
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* {{Necromancer}}: the protagonist, Isyllt, is of this profession. She can call, trap, and banish ghosts, reanimate the dead for short periods, experience the final memories of the dead, make inanimate objects age and corrode rapidly, invoke cold, and other related talents.
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''The Drowning City'', a 2009 novel by AmandaDownum, is book 1 of ''Literature/TheNecromancerChronicles'', though the books are reasonably stand-alone. It's a LowFantasy novel in an Asian-inspired setting.
Isyllt Iskaldur, a necromancer, arrives in the city of Symir, the Drowning City, on a secret mission to encourage revolt. Symir is the capital of Sivahra, once an independent nation but now conquered and part of the Assari Empire. The ambitious, expansion-minded Empire may be looking to expand further, and Isyllt's home of Selafai is worried. If they can forment enough chaos in Symir, the Assari will be kept too busy to consider further conquest.
The sequel, ''Literature/TheBonePalace'', is set three years later but is not set in Symir; only Isyllt crosses over between the two books.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* BigDamPlot: There's a dam. It matters. Any more would be too much of a spoiler.
* ChekhovsVolcano: Mount Haroun.
* CityOfCanals: Symir (it's not called the "Drowning City" for nothing).
* DemonicPossession: though in this case it's a jinn, not a demon, and it is trapped inside its human host and bound to obey with powerful magical bindings. There's also a case of a human child possessed by the spirit of a dead person that must be exorcised.
* TheEmpire: the Assari Empire.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Indonesia, and South-East Asia in general. The author spent some time in Indonesia.
* LaResistance: the Jade Tigers are the sympathetic resistance to Assari rule, while the Dai Tranh are the darker side.
* {{Magitech}}: Magic reaches fairly high levels of sophistication in this world, including such things as magical hydro power.
* LowFantasy: While part of the high-level plot involves international politics, the fate of the world as we know it does not hang in the balance.
* {{Necromancer}}: the protagonist, Isyllt, is of this profession. She can call, trap, and banish ghosts, reanimate the dead for short periods, experience the final memories of the dead, make inanimate objects age and corrode rapidly, invoke cold, and other related talents.
* RebelLeader: Jabbor Lhun, leader of the Jade Tigers.
* RestrainingBolt: the magical seals that the jinn in human form wears, that bind him to serve his master.
* {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s: the Dai Tranh, whose motives (freedom for Sivahra and expulsion of their conquerers) are noble, but their methods , especially their "If you're not with us, you're against us" sentiment and consequent willingness to kill their own people in pursuit of their goals, are abhorrent.
* WomanInWhite: Isyllt, at the masked festival. White clearly has the Asian association with death in this culture, and several characters comment on it. She also appears in the grey of mourning later on.
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''The Drowning City'', a 2009 novel by AmandaDownum, is book 1 of ''Literature/TheNecromancerChronicles'', though the books are reasonably stand-alone. It's a LowFantasy novel in an Asian-inspired setting.
Isyllt Iskaldur, a necromancer, arrives in the city of Symir, the Drowning City, on a secret mission to encourage revolt. Symir is the capital of Sivahra, once an independent nation but now conquered and part of the Assari Empire. The ambitious, expansion-minded Empire may be looking to expand further, and Isyllt's home of Selafai is worried. If they can forment enough chaos in Symir, the Assari will be kept too busy to consider further conquest.
The sequel, ''Literature/TheBonePalace'', is set three years later but is not set in Symir; only Isyllt crosses over between the two books.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* BigDamPlot: There's a dam. It matters. Any more would be too much of a spoiler.
* ChekhovsVolcano: Mount Haroun.
* CityOfCanals: Symir (it's not called the "Drowning City" for nothing).
* DemonicPossession: though in this case it's a jinn, not a demon, and it is trapped inside its human host and bound to obey with powerful magical bindings. There's also a case of a human child possessed by the spirit of a dead person that must be exorcised.
* TheEmpire: the Assari Empire.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Indonesia, and South-East Asia in general. The author spent some time in Indonesia.
* LaResistance: the Jade Tigers are the sympathetic resistance to Assari rule, while the Dai Tranh are the darker side.
* {{Magitech}}: Magic reaches fairly high levels of sophistication in this world, including such things as magical hydro power.
* LowFantasy: While part of the high-level plot involves international politics, the fate of the world as we know it does not hang in the balance.
* {{Necromancer}}: the protagonist, Isyllt, is of this profession. She can call, trap, and banish ghosts, reanimate the dead for short periods, experience the final memories of the dead, make inanimate objects age and corrode rapidly, invoke cold, and other related talents.
* RebelLeader: Jabbor Lhun, leader of the Jade Tigers.
* RestrainingBolt: the magical seals that the jinn in human form wears, that bind him to serve his master.
* {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s: the Dai Tranh, whose motives (freedom for Sivahra and expulsion of their conquerers) are noble, but their methods , especially their "If you're not with us, you're against us" sentiment and consequent willingness to kill their own people in pursuit of their goals, are abhorrent.
* WomanInWhite: Isyllt, at the masked festival. White clearly has the Asian association with death in this culture, and several characters comment on it. She also appears in the grey of mourning later on.
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