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a character can't be an Expy of two or more characters. Also commented out a ton of examples that lack sufficient context
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* AdiposeRex: Gosti [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Big Belly]] is just a clan chief, but otherwise fits the bill.
* TheAlcoholic: Twengor [[spoiler: until Althalus cures him.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Bheid, eventually]].
* TheAlcoholic: Twengor [[spoiler: until Althalus cures him.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Bheid, eventually]].
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%%* TheAlcoholic: Twengor [[spoiler: until Althalus cures him.
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%%* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Bheid, eventually]].%%Does not explain the trope
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Lampshaded: Each good character has an evil counterpart, and they are the only ones who are allowed to confront them, despite Althalus preferring to get things over with quickly.
* BigBad: Daeva
* BigBrotherInstinct: Deiwos threatens Althalus with divine retribution if he doesn't treat Dweia right. Althalus gets the IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer speech from God.
* BigEater: Eliar (though he grows out of it), and Gosti.
%%* BigGood: Dweia
%%* BloodKnight: Gelta
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The last section of the book is Althalus going back in time to revisit his adventure in Gosti's hall and his meeting with Ghend, and making it play out differently this time.]]
* BrokenBird: Leitha
* BigBad: Daeva
* BigBrotherInstinct: Deiwos threatens Althalus with divine retribution if he doesn't treat Dweia right. Althalus gets the IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer speech from God.
* BigEater: Eliar (though he grows out of it), and Gosti.
%%* BigGood: Dweia
%%* BloodKnight: Gelta
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The last section of the book is Althalus going back in time to revisit his adventure in Gosti's hall and his meeting with Ghend, and making it play out differently this time.]]
* BrokenBird: Leitha
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%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Deiwos threatens Althalus with divine retribution if he doesn't treat Dweia right. Althalus gets the IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer speech from
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%%* BigEater: Eliar (though he grows out of it), and
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%%* BloodKnight:
* BookEnds:
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* BurnTheWitch: Nearly happens to Leitha, before Althalus and crew save her.
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%%* CrystalBall: The windows of the House.
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%%* CrystalBall: The windows of the House.%%Does not explain the trope
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* DivineDate: Althalus and [[spoiler: Dweia]]
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%%* EmptyShell: Yakhag again.
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%%* EmptyShell: Yakhag again.%%Does not explain the trope
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* EvilCounterpart: Everybody has one (Ghend for Althalus, Argan for Bheid, Koman for Leitha, Khnom for Gher, Gelta for Andine, Pekhal for Eliar and Daeva for Dweia).
* {{Expy}}: Althalus himself bears many similarities to both Silk and Belgarath from ''Literature/TheBelgariad''.
* {{Expy}}: Althalus himself bears many similarities to both Silk and Belgarath from ''Literature/TheBelgariad''.
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* {{Expy}}: Althalus himself bears many similarities to both Silk and Belgarath from ''Literature/TheBelgariad''.
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** Given his reactions to it, Yakhag's life is this.
** Koman's reaction to [[spoiler: Leitha disconnecting his ability to read minds]] certainly suggests this is how he viewed it.
** Koman's reaction to [[spoiler: Leitha disconnecting his ability to read minds]] certainly suggests this is how he viewed it.
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%%** Koman's reaction to [[spoiler: Leitha disconnecting his ability to read minds]] certainly suggests this is how he viewed it.%%Does not explain the trope
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* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Daeva's headquarters Nahgharash apparently looks like this.
* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Played straight with Deiwos, averted with Dweia.
* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Played straight with Deiwos, averted with Dweia.
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* TheGodsMustBeLazy:
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* HeelFaceTurn: Andine, who spends the first part of the book trying to kill Eliar.
* HeroicBSOD: Bheid has this after [[spoiler:he kills Yakhag]].
%%* HighFantasy
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: [[spoiler:Deiwos]] to Althalus.
* HeroicBSOD: Bheid has this after [[spoiler:he kills Yakhag]].
%%* HighFantasy
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: [[spoiler:Deiwos]] to Althalus.
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%%* HeroicBSOD: Bheid has this after [[spoiler:he kills
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%%* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: [[spoiler:Deiwos]] to Althalus.%%Does not explain the trope
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%%* ImmortalImmaturity:
* InvincibleHero: The Villains are, to a T, incredible stupid and incompetent compared to the heroes and in the over Five different war fronts, they never, ever so much as put a dent into the heroes plans [[spoiler: the closest was when Perka nearly killed Eliar, cutting the heroes from the doors, and yet their armies were slaughtered over and over and over again with barely an effort]].
** Justified, as many of the villains are people who weren't recruited for competence, and include a cannibal from the stone-age, a merchant who was caught selling adulterated goods, and a pariah and lumberjack of an ancient stone-age village. They weren't brought on because they were good at anything, but because they had useful qualities and were willing to sell out the entirety of mankind in exchange for a seat at the table.
* LanguageOfMagic: Proto-Indo-European fulfils this role.
%%* TheLegionsOfHell
* InvincibleHero: The Villains are, to a T, incredible stupid and incompetent compared to the heroes and in the over Five different war fronts, they never, ever so much as put a dent into the heroes plans [[spoiler: the closest was when Perka nearly killed Eliar, cutting the heroes from the doors, and yet their armies were slaughtered over and over and over again with barely an effort]].
** Justified, as many of the villains are people who weren't recruited for competence, and include a cannibal from the stone-age, a merchant who was caught selling adulterated goods, and a pariah and lumberjack of an ancient stone-age village. They weren't brought on because they were good at anything, but because they had useful qualities and were willing to sell out the entirety of mankind in exchange for a seat at the table.
* LanguageOfMagic: Proto-Indo-European fulfils this role.
%%* TheLegionsOfHell
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%%* ImmortalImmaturity:
ImmortalImmaturity:%%Does not explain the trope
* InvincibleHero: The Villains are, to a T, incredible stupid and incompetent compared to the heroes and in the over Five different war fronts, they never, ever so much as put a dent into the heroes plans[[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the closest was when Perka nearly killed Eliar, cutting the heroes from the doors, and yet their armies were slaughtered over and over and over again with barely an effort]].
**effort]]. Justified, as many of the villains are people who weren't recruited for competence, and include a cannibal from the stone-age, a merchant who was caught selling adulterated goods, and a pariah and lumberjack of an ancient stone-age village. They weren't brought on because they were good at anything, but because they had useful qualities and were willing to sell out the entirety of mankind in exchange for a seat at the table.
* %%* LanguageOfMagic: Proto-Indo-European fulfils this role.
role.%%Does not explain the trope
%%*TheLegionsOfHellTheLegionsOfHell%%Does not explain the trope
* InvincibleHero: The Villains are, to a T, incredible stupid and incompetent compared to the heroes and in the over Five different war fronts, they never, ever so much as put a dent into the heroes plans
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* MerlinAndNimue: Dweia and Althalus, minus the betrayal.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Leitha thinks so anyway.
%%* {{Mordor}}: Nekweros.
%%* MultinationalTeam
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Leitha thinks so anyway.
%%* {{Mordor}}: Nekweros.
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%%* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Leitha thinks so
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%%* TheOnlyOne
%%* OrcusOnHisThrone: Daeva
* PaintingTheMedium: The scenes where the villains [[spoiler: and Dweia]] try to change history or the future are printed in a different font than the rest of the narrative.
%%* PapaWolf: Althalus.
%%* OrcusOnHisThrone: Daeva
* PaintingTheMedium: The scenes where the villains [[spoiler: and Dweia]] try to change history or the future are printed in a different font than the rest of the narrative.
%%* PapaWolf: Althalus.
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%%* TheOnlyOne
TheOnlyOne%%Does not explain the trope
%%* OrcusOnHisThrone:Daeva
Daeva%%Does not explain the trope
* PaintingTheMedium: The scenes where the villains[[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and Dweia]] try to change history or the future are printed in a different font than the rest of the narrative.
%%* PapaWolf: Althalus.%%Does not explain the trope
%%* OrcusOnHisThrone:
* PaintingTheMedium: The scenes where the villains
%%* PapaWolf: Althalus.%%Does not explain the trope
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%%* PhysicalGod
%%* PlaceBeyondTime
* PortalNetwork: both the House and Nahgharash.
%%* PortalToThePast
%%* PlaceBeyondTime
* PortalNetwork: both the House and Nahgharash.
%%* PortalToThePast
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%%* PhysicalGod
PhysicalGod%%Does not explain the trope
%%*PlaceBeyondTime
*PlaceBeyondTime%%Does not explain the trope
%%* PortalNetwork: both the House andNahgharash.
Nahgharash.%%Does not explain the trope
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%%* PsychicLink
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%%* PsychicLinkPsychicLink%%Does not explain the trope
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%%* TheQuest
%%* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
* RevengeMyopia: Andine to Eliar over her father's death. She gets over it eventually.
%%* RewritingReality
%%* RippleEffectProofMemory
%%* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
* RevengeMyopia: Andine to Eliar over her father's death. She gets over it eventually.
%%* RewritingReality
%%* RippleEffectProofMemory
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%%* TheQuest
TheQuest%%Does not explain the trope
%%*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld%%Does not explain the trope
%%* RevengeMyopia: Andine to Eliar over her father's death. She gets over iteventually.
eventually.%%Does not explain the trope
%%*RewritingReality
RewritingReality%%Does not explain the trope
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%%* RevengeMyopia: Andine to Eliar over her father's death. She gets over it
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%%* SinisterMinister: Argan
* SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler: Andine's relationship with Eliar starts out with her wanting to brutally and slowly kill him for the death of her father]], and ends with them getting HappilyMarried.
* SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler: Andine's relationship with Eliar starts out with her wanting to brutally and slowly kill him for the death of her father]], and ends with them getting HappilyMarried.
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%%* SinisterMinister: Argan
Argan%%Does not explain the trope
* SlapSlapKiss:[[spoiler: Andine's [[spoiler:Andine's relationship with Eliar starts out with her wanting to brutally and slowly kill him for the death of her father]], and ends with them getting HappilyMarried.
* SlapSlapKiss:
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%%* StepfordSmiler: Leitha
%%* TheStrategist: Khalor
%%* TheStrategist: Khalor
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%%* StepfordSmiler: Leitha
Leitha%%Does not explain the trope
%%* TheStrategist:KhalorKhalor%%Does not explain the trope
%%* TheStrategist:
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* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Deiwos made the universe, but he has not interfered further with it.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Andine and Leitha.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Andine and Leitha.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Andine.
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%%* WeddingsForEveryone
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* YearInsideHourOutside: played straight and inverted.
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