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* SquishyWizard: Shai [[spoiler: when she's not being Shaizan]]; her magic is based more around scholarship and skill than fighting strength, after all. The Bloodsealer goes down pretty easy as well once his "pets" have been dealt with.with.
* SupernormalBindings: Shai is bound with chains made of [[AntiMagic ralkalest]] metal, preventing her from Forging the shackles to make them defective. Interestingly, ralkalest is a fairly weak metal, so [[PlayAlongPrisoner if she'd really wanted to]], Shai could probably have Forged tools to break the chains.
* SupernormalBindings: Shai is bound with chains made of [[AntiMagic ralkalest]] metal, preventing her from Forging the shackles to make them defective. Interestingly, ralkalest is a fairly weak metal, so [[PlayAlongPrisoner if she'd really wanted to]], Shai could probably have Forged tools to break the chains.
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* {{Necromancer}}: The other part of a bloodsealer's abilities. They can track you with their blood- and ''sick the reanimated dead on you''. Shai is threatened not only with being attacked this way if she tries to run, but with being turned into a skeleton warrior herself if she ''is'' killed.
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* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Shai has no Uncle Won or Aunt Sol.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: What are the chances that the world's greatest forger is being held in the prison just as the world's most difficult forgery is needed? [[spoiler:Subverted; Probably quite high when [[Franchise/TheCosmere Hoid]] is the one who got her arrested.]]
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* {{Blackmail}}: Frava assumes that Shai will use her knowledge of the Emperor's new state in this way once she finishes her work. However, as Gaotona accurately assumes, this is untrue, and Shai just wants to finish her job under the assumption of DoingItForTheArt.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Shai is well aware that she will be killed once she has completed her task for the emperor, despite the promises of Frava. Therefore, part of her plan is to work to avoid this happening. [[spoiler:She succeeds.]]
** [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: The other reason she will likely be killed, having blackmail against the Heritage Faction.
** [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: The other reason she will likely be killed, having blackmail against the Heritage Faction.
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** GeometricMagic: Forgers stamps, including [[TheNecromancer Bloodsealers]] and [[TheMedic resealers]].
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* InsistentTerminology: Frava despises Shai for being a Forger, but the Heritage Faction uses Forgers to turn ordinary pots into replicas of ancient ones. However, she justifies this by calling their Forgers "Rememberers", which Shai notes is basically the exact same thing.
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* DoingItForTheArt: InUniverse, Shai's justification for Forging.
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* TearJerker: InUniverse, [[spoiler:Gaotona's reaction to finding out the sheer masterpiece of the alterations in Shai's Forging of the emperor's soul]].
* WindowsOfTheSoul: Repeatedly mentioned in interactions between Shai and Gaotona.
* WindowsOfTheSoul: Repeatedly mentioned in interactions between Shai and Gaotona.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:Shai ends the novella leaving the royal city to find Hoid, the Imperial Fool, and get payback for his betrayal.]]
* BurnBabyBurn: The novella closes on [[spoiler:Gaotona doing this to Shai's real notes on the linchpin soulstamp for the emperor after reading them to cover her tracks]].
* KansasCityShuffle: Shai made two fakes of the painting she stole from Frava, one slightly less exact than the other, and burned the original, so that Frava would find the worse fake and keep the better one without knowing what was done.
* MemoryGambit: Shai's SplitPersonality Essence Gems.
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* OutGambitted: Shai begins the story out-played by the Imperial Fool, who stole the Moon Scepter and sold her out before running off.
* OutGambitted: Shai begins the story out-played by the Imperial Fool, who stole the Moon Scepter and sold her out before running off.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gaotona has this reaction when Shai reveals [[spoiler:that Ashravan resented him for persuading him to become Emperor in the first place]].
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* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Shai has no Uncle Won or Aunt Sol.]]
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* CorruptBureaucrat: Most arbiters, though only Frava is shown as this.
* DemBones: The skeletals the Bloodsealer makes. They even come with swords, at least one DualWielding.
* DemBones: The skeletals the Bloodsealer makes. They even come with swords, at least one DualWielding.
* FakeMemories: What Forging a soul does to someone. Even the best one wears off after about twenty-four hours.
* FantasticSlurs: [=KuNuKam=], meaning roughly a man who has an anus for a mouth.
* FantasticSlurs: [=KuNuKam=], meaning roughly a man who has an anus for a mouth.
* ImpossibleTask: Shai claims to have completed several on "rare occasions", and also considers Forging a complete soul in three months to be this.
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* ComplimentBackfire: Shai tells Gaotona that she is impressed that he thinks like a Forger, and, despite his annoyance, that it was meant as a compliment.
** YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Though Gaotona gets over that eventually.
** YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Though Gaotona gets over that eventually.
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* InsultBackfire: When Gaotona calls Shai (to Zu) "a master trickster, liar, and thief" who could turn guards to clay in her hands, Shai thanks him, even though it was not a compliment.
* KillItWithFire: Shai does this to a painting when she originally came to the Rose Palace. [[spoiler:The artist, blind and unable to make any more such paintings, asked her to.]]
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* ActionGirl: Shaizan, one of the alternate personality Marks Shai made for herself.
* AntiHero: Shai is (usually) the non-violent variety.
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* TheCharmer: Shai is very good at understanding and befriending those around her.
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* FiveManBand: Using her Essence Marks, Shai is a one woman version of this trope.
** TheHero: Shai's main personality.
** TheLancer: The scout/woodsman. Also possibly the beggar.
** TheBigGuy: Shaizan.
** TheSmartGuy: The scholar personality.
** TheChick: Shai's cook escape plan.
** TheHero: Shai's main personality.
** TheLancer: The scout/woodsman. Also possibly the beggar.
** TheBigGuy: Shaizan.
** TheSmartGuy: The scholar personality.
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* ManipulativeBastard: How her captor's view her.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: Shai is not much of a fighter, preferring to talk or bluff her way through dangerous situations. However using one of her pre-prepared essence marks she can become '[[BadAss Shaizan]]', a version of herself if she'd been adopted by a harsh warrior culture and lived among them for well over a decade.
* NoNameGiven: The Bloodsealer and the Imperial Fool (though one could guess that the Fool is Hoid...).
** Indeed [[WordOfGod Brandon has confirmed]] that the Fool is in fact Hoid.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: Shai is not much of a fighter, preferring to talk or bluff her way through dangerous situations. However using one of her pre-prepared essence marks she can become '[[BadAss Shaizan]]', a version of herself if she'd been adopted by a harsh warrior culture and lived among them for well over a decade.
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* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: Shai is not much of a fighter, preferring to talk or bluff her way through dangerous situations. However using one of her pre-prepared essence marks she can become '[[BadAss Shaizan]]', a version of herself if she'd been adopted by a harsh warrior culture and lived among them for well over a decade.
** Indeed [[WordOfGod Brandon has confirmed]] that the Fool is in fact Hoid.
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* SplitPersonality: Shai used magic to create a few for herself.
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* SplitPersonality: Shai used magic to create a few for herself.herself.
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* ActionGirl: Shaizan, one of the alternate personality Marks Shai made for herself.
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* BilingualBonus: When Shai steals [[spoiler:her forgery of the painting]] from Frava she leaves a Reo rune in it's place. Readers of [[ShoutOut [[ContinuityNod Elantris]] will recognize this rune as meaning Punishment or Retribution.
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* RealityWarper: All Forgers, but only within tight limits. Their stamps are temporary, with duration depending on how plausible the change from the original history of the object is. For instance, it's easy to make gold into lead by rewriting the history of the object so it had been mixed with lead once, but turning lead into gold is essentially impossible.
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* RealityWarper: All Forgers, but only within tight limits. Their stamps are temporary, with duration depending on how plausible the change from the original history of the object is. For instance, it's easy to make gold into lead by rewriting the history of the object so it had been mixed with lead once, but turning lead into gold is essentially impossible.impossible because there's pretty much no way something meant to be lead would have been made out of gold instead.
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* EconomyCast: There are only about 6 important characters and a handful of extras. There are a bunch of arbiters, but only Frava and Gaotona have speaking roles, representing opposite sides of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: MaiPon is something like Korea to Jindo's China.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: MaiPon [=MaiPon=] is something like Korea to Jindo's China.
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* DemBones: The skeletals the Bloodsealer makes.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: MaiPon is something like Korea to Jindo's China.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: MaiPon is something like Korea to Jindo's China.
* FlatCharacter: Captain Zu stands out as the only character who's entirely what he seems to be. Even the Bloodsealer gets more dimension.
* LockedInARoom: Shai herself is literally locked in one, Gaotona has to come visit her frequently for other reasons. They grow to appreciate each other over the course of the story.
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* NoNameGiven: The Bloodsealer, Bloodsealer and the Imperial Fool.Fool (though one could guess that the Fool is Hoid...).
* CorruptBureaucrat: All the arbiters other than Gaotona are said to be this, Frava is the only one we see in action.
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* AntiHero: Shai is (usually) the non-violent variety.
* FiveManBand: Using her Essence Marks, Shai is a one woman version of this trope.
** TheHero: Shai's main personality.
** TheLancer: The scout/woodsman. Also possibly the beggar.
** TheBigGuy: Shaizan.
** TheSmartGuy: The scholar personality.
** TheChick: Shai's escape plan.
* FunctionalMagic: As with most of Sanderson's works, the rules of magic are laid out pretty well.
* GuileHero: Shai.
** TheHero: Shai's main personality.
** TheLancer: The scout/woodsman. Also possibly the beggar.
** TheBigGuy: Shaizan.
** TheSmartGuy: The scholar personality.
** TheChick: Shai's escape plan.
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* GuileHero: Shai.
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* NoNameGiven: The Bloodsealer, the Imperial Fool.
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* ShoutOut: Being set on the same world as Elantris, {{Literature/Elantris}}, this story contains a few references for fans to spot.spot.
* TheUndead: The skeletals the Bloodsealer makes.
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-->The fate of an Empire, rests in the hands of a thief.
[[ConMan Shai is a Forger]], a foreigner who can flawlessly copy and re-create any item by [[RealityWarper rewriting its history with skillful magic]]. Though condemned to death after trying to steal the emperor's scepter, [[BoxedCrook she is given one opportunity to save herself]]. Despite the fact that her skill as a Forger is considered an abomination by her captors, Shai will attempt to create a new soul for the emperor, who is almost dead from the attack of assassins.
Delving deeply into his life, she discovers Emperor Ashravan's truest nature—and the opportunity to exploit it. Her only possible ally is one who is truly loyal to the emperor, but [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure councilor Gaotona]] must overcome his prejudices to understand that her forgery is as much artistry as it is deception.
Skillfully deducing the machinations of her captors, [[GuileHero Shai needs a perfect plan to escape.]] The fate of [[TheEmpire the empire]] lies in one [[ImpossibleTask impossible task]]. [[BetterThanNew Is it possible to create a forgery of a soul so convincing that it is better than the soul itself?]]
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* BetterThanNew: The maxim of a good forgery: improve slightly on the original, and people would often accept the fake because it ''was'' superior
* BilingualBonus: When Shai steals [[spoiler:her forgery of the painting]] from Frava she leaves a Reo rune in it's place. Readers of [[ShoutOut Elantris]] will recognize this rune as meaning Punishment or Retribution.
* BloodMagic: To prevent her from escaping a sample of Shai's blood is taken daily by a Bloodsealer. This blood is used in a special stamp on her door which will let the Bloodsealer know if she leaves the room and can then be used to track her.
* BoxedCrook:
* TheCharmer: Shai is very good at understanding and befriending those around her.
* ManipulativeBastard: How her captor's view her.
* NonActionGuy: Shai is not much of a fighter, preferring to talk or bluff her way through dangerous situations. [[spoiler: However using one of her pre-prepared essence marks she can become '[[BadAss Shaizan]]', a version of herself if she'd been adopted by a harsh warrior culture and lived among them for well over a decade.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gaotona.
* RefugeInAudacity: Both a stock tool of a good forger and the entirety of the plan to recreate the Emperor's soul.
* ShoutOut: Being set on the same world as Elantris, this story contains a few references for fans to spot.
-->The fate of an Empire, rests in the hands of a thief.
[[ConMan Shai is a Forger]], a foreigner who can flawlessly copy and re-create any item by [[RealityWarper rewriting its history with skillful magic]]. Though condemned to death after trying to steal the emperor's scepter, [[BoxedCrook she is given one opportunity to save herself]]. Despite the fact that her skill as a Forger is considered an abomination by her captors, Shai will attempt to create a new soul for the emperor, who is almost dead from the attack of assassins.
Delving deeply into his life, she discovers Emperor Ashravan's truest nature—and the opportunity to exploit it. Her only possible ally is one who is truly loyal to the emperor, but [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure councilor Gaotona]] must overcome his prejudices to understand that her forgery is as much artistry as it is deception.
Skillfully deducing the machinations of her captors, [[GuileHero Shai needs a perfect plan to escape.]] The fate of [[TheEmpire the empire]] lies in one [[ImpossibleTask impossible task]]. [[BetterThanNew Is it possible to create a forgery of a soul so convincing that it is better than the soul itself?]]
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* BetterThanNew: The maxim of a good forgery: improve slightly on the original, and people would often accept the fake because it ''was'' superior
* BilingualBonus: When Shai steals [[spoiler:her forgery of the painting]] from Frava she leaves a Reo rune in it's place. Readers of [[ShoutOut Elantris]] will recognize this rune as meaning Punishment or Retribution.
* BloodMagic: To prevent her from escaping a sample of Shai's blood is taken daily by a Bloodsealer. This blood is used in a special stamp on her door which will let the Bloodsealer know if she leaves the room and can then be used to track her.
* BoxedCrook:
* TheCharmer: Shai is very good at understanding and befriending those around her.
* ManipulativeBastard: How her captor's view her.
* NonActionGuy: Shai is not much of a fighter, preferring to talk or bluff her way through dangerous situations. [[spoiler: However using one of her pre-prepared essence marks she can become '[[BadAss Shaizan]]', a version of herself if she'd been adopted by a harsh warrior culture and lived among them for well over a decade.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gaotona.
* RefugeInAudacity: Both a stock tool of a good forger and the entirety of the plan to recreate the Emperor's soul.
* ShoutOut: Being set on the same world as Elantris, this story contains a few references for fans to spot.
