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* BearsAreBadNews: One of Hircine's minions rides "bearback," [[JustForPun if you will.]]

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* BearsAreBadNews: One of Hircine's minions rides "bearback," [[JustForPun if you will.]]
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* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: The higher lords of Umbriel have such rarefied palates that they consume only liquors alchemically distilled from [[SoulEating the souls of the city's victims]].
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Vuhon is strikingly indifferent to the monstrous cost of life needed to emancipate himself from Clavicus Vile and gain his freedom. He has nothing against the rest of the world ([[CrusadingWidower unlike Sul]]) and he's even willing to bargain with non-Umbrielians, but he cares about utterly nothing but himself, his city and his pride.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Vuhon is strikingly indifferent to the monstrous cost of life needed to emancipate himself from Clavicus Vile and gain his freedom. He has nothing against the rest of the world ([[CrusadingWidower ([[CrusadingWidow unlike Sul]]) and he's even willing to bargain with non-Umbrielians, but he cares about utterly nothing but himself, his city and his pride.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Slyr is traitorous and manipulative with a case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder a mile long, but she's sniveling and pathetic enough to garner audience sympathy when she's forced to become Annaïg's servant. When she's finally dragged off for "questioning" (and never seen again), Annaïg still feels horrible for having let this happen to her.]]
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* FailureHero: [[spoiler:Attrebus is like this when he's attempting heroics on his own. Attrebus has a HeroicBSOD when he's forced to reconcile with the fact he's not the hero he thinks he is, as when the Imperial Court isn't playing things behind the scenes, Attrebus finds his entire garrison massacred, himself nearly traded to a Khajiit by his traitorous companion, and surviving all of this through nothing but dumb luck and the timely intervention of others.]]


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* ItsAllAboutMe: Vuhon is strikingly indifferent to the monstrous cost of life needed to emancipate himself from Clavicus Vile and gain his freedom. He has nothing against the rest of the world ([[CrusadingWidower unlike Sul]]) and he's even willing to bargain with non-Umbrielians, but he cares about utterly nothing but himself, his city and his pride.
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moved to YMMV subpage as it's a subjective, Just For Fun wick


* XMeetsY: Basically ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' meets ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', in book form.
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* BadAss: Sul, in spades. Later revealed [[spoiler:to be a HeartbrokenBadAss... and yeah, she's dead.]]
** Sometimes appears to border on [[JerkSue Jerk Stu]], primarily because his SuperWeight is a robust 2 when few other characters earn even a tenuous 1, although there is plot justification for his abilities.

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The Obi Wan has been merged with Mentor Archetype. Misuse and zero context examples will be cut.


* TheMentor: Sul, as a mentor to Attrebus. Also Wert to Glim.



* TheObiWan: Sul, as a mentor to Attrebus. Also Wert to Glim.
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* XMeetsY: Basically ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' meets ''SpiritedAway'', in book form.

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* XMeetsY: Basically ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' meets ''SpiritedAway'', ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', in book form.
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* TheObiWan: Sul, as a mentor to Attrebus. Also arguably Wert to Glim.

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* TheObiWan: Sul, as a mentor to Attrebus. Also arguably Wert to Glim.
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*** Actually, it was good they didn't mention [[PlayerCharacter you]] because not everyone who played the game did the main quest. If anything, you're mentioned in passing and not by name as in "The Kvatch Gate closed somehow..."
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\'half-subversion\' that\'s a new one.


* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: Umbra]]. Also, BigBad Vuhon has pure white eyes with black surrounds, bit of a half-subversion.

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* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: Umbra]]. Also, BigBad Vuhon has pure white eyes with black surrounds, bit of a half-subversion.surrounds.
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* BadssArmy: The Argonians. During the Oblivion Crisis they not only drove off the Daedra...''THEY INVADED OBLIVION''. The Daedra actually had to close the gates in Black Marsh to keep from being overrun!

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* BadssArmy: BadassArmy: The Argonians. During the Oblivion Crisis they not only drove off the Daedra...''THEY INVADED OBLIVION''. The Daedra actually had to close the gates in Black Marsh to keep from being overrun!
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* BadssArmy: The Argonians. During the Oblivion Crisis they not only drove off the Daedra...''THEY INVADED OBLIVION''. The Daedra actually had to close the gates in Black Marsh to keep from being overrun!
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** Remember how, in ''Oblivion'', [[PlayerCharacter you]] saved Tamriel? Well no-one remembers you. Or at least no-one mentions you.

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** Remember how, in ''Oblivion'', [[PlayerCharacter you]] saved Tamriel? Well Well, no-one remembers you. Or at least no-one mentions you.
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In the author's typical style, despite Annaig being the top billing protagonist the book actually follows several different heroes/hero groups in a character-based third person (basically, you get no more information than what the character the narration is following receives. Likely because being in first person would make it harder to follow which character was speaking). These hero groups are Annaig and Mere-Glim, who do get separated early on and are followed seperately. Annaig works in the "kitchens," and Glim, because he can breathe underwater, is put to work in the "Marrow Sump", where all the dead of Umbriel are buried and subsequently reborn. Prince Attrebus is the WarriorPrince who quickly learns [[spoiler: [[FakeUltimateHero his whole life is a lie]] after his bodyguard is ambushed and wiped out.]] He is quickly paired with Sul, a Dunmer KnightInSourArmor who is out for the blood of those who are responsible for the [[spoiler:destruction of Morrowind, and therefore also responsible for the deaths of everyone and everything he ever held dear. The ones responsible are his [[RivalTurnedEvil former friend, Vuhon]], and the mysterious Umbra, the being once trapped in the weapon of the same name]]. They go on a chase to find the titular City by taking "a shortcut. Through Oblivion." There is also [[BadassNormal Colin]], a spy for the New Empire, sent to [[spoiler: investigate the disappearance of Attrebus,]] and continues to do so even when reassigned by a jealous superior.

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In the author's typical style, despite Annaig being the top billing protagonist the book actually follows several different heroes/hero groups in a character-based third person (basically, you get no more information than what the character the narration is following receives. Likely because being in first person would make it harder to follow which character was speaking). These hero groups are Annaig and Mere-Glim, who do get separated early on and are followed seperately.separately. Annaig works in the "kitchens," and Glim, because he can breathe underwater, is put to work in the "Marrow Sump", where all the dead of Umbriel are buried and subsequently reborn. Prince Attrebus is the WarriorPrince who quickly learns [[spoiler: [[FakeUltimateHero his whole life is a lie]] after his bodyguard is ambushed and wiped out.]] He is quickly paired with Sul, a Dunmer KnightInSourArmor who is out for the blood of those who are responsible for the [[spoiler:destruction of Morrowind, and therefore also responsible for the deaths of everyone and everything he ever held dear. The ones responsible are his [[RivalTurnedEvil former friend, Vuhon]], and the mysterious Umbra, the being once trapped in the weapon of the same name]]. They go on a chase to find the titular City by taking "a shortcut. Through Oblivion." There is also [[BadassNormal Colin]], a spy for the New Empire, sent to [[spoiler: investigate the disappearance of Attrebus,]] and continues to do so even when reassigned by a jealous superior.
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* ExtradimensionalShorcut: ''Infernal City'' includes a subplot where Prince Attrebus and Sul need to cross the entire continent of Tamriel in a hurry. The quickest way to do so is to pass through several planes of Oblivion and return at their destination.

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* ExtradimensionalShorcut: ExtradimensionalShortcut: ''Infernal City'' includes a subplot where Prince Attrebus and Sul need to cross the entire continent of Tamriel in a hurry. The quickest way to do so is to pass through several planes of Oblivion and return at their destination.
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* ExtradimensionalShorcut: ''Infernal City'' includes a subplot where Prince Attrebus and Sul need to cross the entire continent of Tamriel in a hurry. The quickest way to do so is to pass through several planes of Oblivion and return at their destination.
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* BornAsAnAdult: Everyone on Umbriel.
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!!!''This series provides examples of the following tropes:''

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** Toel has Annaig and Slyr very thoroughly bathed before admitting Annaig to his presence. See also FetishFuel.

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** Toel has Annaig and Slyr very thoroughly bathed before admitting Annaig to his presence. See also FetishFuel.
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: At the start of the first book, Mere-Glim suggests to Annaig some other things they can do instead of pursuing her idea: Stay in her father's villa and drink his wine, take some of her father's wine down to the docks and drink it there, or drink some of her father's wine at the villa and some at the docks.
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* MildlyMilitary: Prince Attrebus wants to invoke this with his men. [[spoiler: He failed, miserably.]]
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* AllThereInTheManual: The book details some of the [[spoiler:destruction of Morrowind]] that the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' expansion ''Dragonborn'' uses as {{backstory}}.

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* AllThereInTheManual: The book details some of the [[spoiler:destruction of Morrowind]] that the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVSkyrim ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' expansion ''Dragonborn'' uses as {{backstory}}.
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* AllThereInTheManual: It seems quite likely that this '''is''' the figurative Manual for the next ''Elder Scrolls'' game.

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* AllThereInTheManual: It seems quite likely The book details some of the [[spoiler:destruction of Morrowind]] that this '''is''' the figurative Manual for the next ''Elder Scrolls'' game.''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' expansion ''Dragonborn'' uses as {{backstory}}.

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