History Literature / TheRedemptionOfAlthalus

* {{Expy}}: Many, many expies for characters from Eddings's earlier books.
** Althalus himself bears many similarities to both Silk and Belgarath from ''Literature/TheBelgariad''.

* InformedAttribute / OffstageVillainy: Despite the numerous comments made by Dweia, as well as Argan and Koman, suggesting that the depths of Yakhag's evil is too horrible to discuss, and Gelta's obvious terror of him, the most villainous thing he's portrayed or discussed doing is killing a relatively minor character in a fairly straightforward manner.

* NegativeContinuity: With Dweia appearance. The first time she was described as otherworldly beautiful, a level of perfection that left all the heroes speechless and was obviously beyond mortal ken. All her other encounters with mortals (Arums mostly), her beauty is unremarked by anybody or treated as any other woman in her real form. This is never explained in anyway.

* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Deiwos made the universe, but that doesn't mean he gives a damn about maintaining it in any way
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Andine and Leitha

* {{Tsundere}}: Andine

* VowOfCelibacy: Celibacy is either required or recommended for at least some religious organisations. One village priest deals very badly with it, deciding that the women to whom he is attracted must be using witchcraft on him (since a moral person like himself wouldn't struggle so, otherwise). This results in them getting [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]].
** when the main clergy sets up a new order to counter the damage caused by the [[DirtyCommies Red Robes scheme]], they discussed making the Grey Robes take the same VowOfCelibacy as the other orders... but then decided against it, realizing that Dweia (Goddess of Fertility, remember) would Not Be Pleased.

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* DesignatedLoveInterest: With the exception of Althalus-Emmy, all the romantic unions are handwaved or done off-screen in the span of two paragraphs. The most ludicrous was Andine and Elial, who passed from being obsessed with killing him (he slaughtered her father in blood frenzy) to love him desperately in the span of two weeks, after being chewed once by Althalus and Gher, because he wasn't really at fault but the person who contracted him as a soldier. The rest are not better.

* FiveManBand
** Heroes:
*** TheHero[=/=]TeamDad: [[GuileHero Althalus]]
*** TheLancer: [[BadassPreacher Bheid]]
*** TheSmartGuy: [[ChildProdigy Gher]]
*** TheBigGuy: [[DumbMuscle Eliar]]
*** TheChick: [[LadyOfWar Andine]] and [[BrokenBird Leitha]]
*** [[BigGood The Big Good]][=/=]TeamMom: [[LoveGoddess Dweia]]
** Villains:
*** BigBad: [[OmnicidalManiac Daeva]]
*** TheDragon: [[PsychopathicManchild Ghend]]
*** EvilGenius: [[SinisterMinister Argan]] and [[ConsummateLiar Khnom]] both fit this description in different ways.
*** TheBrute: Again, [[ImAHumanitarian Pekhal]] and [[BloodKnight Gelta]] both fit this description and work together for the first major conflict in the war.
*** DarkChick: Oddly enough, not Gelta, but [[TheEmpath Koman]], who is the bitch of the other members of the band.
*** SixthRanger: [[EmptyShell Yakhag]] [[spoiler:for all of ten minutes, then Bheid kills him.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: Yakhag

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* BigGood: Dweia
* BloodKnight: Gelta

* CrystalBall: The windows of the House.

* EmptyShell: Yakhag again.

* HighFantasy

* ImmortalImmaturity

* LanguageOfMagic - Proto-Indo-European.
* TheLegionsOfHell

* {{Mordor}}: Nekweros.
* MultinationalTeam

* TheOnlyOne
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Daeva

* PapaWolf: Althalus.

* PhysicalGod
* PlaceBeyondTime

* PortalToThePast

* PsychicLink

* TheQuest
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

* RewritingReality
* RippleEffectProofMemory

* SinisterMinister: Argan

* StepfordSmiler: Leitha
* TheStrategist: Khalor

* TeleportersAndTransporters

* WeddingsForEveryone

* YouKilledMyFather: The reason that Andine wants to kill Eliar, though the good guys convince her to let it go.

* OmnicidalManiac: Daeva is the god of destruction, and the job he does is important- it's when he decides to destroy ''everything'' that things get out of hand.

* FiveBadBand
** BigBad: [[OmnicidalManiac Daeva]]
** TheDragon: [[PsychopathicManchild Ghend]]
** EvilGenius: [[SinisterMinister Argan]] and [[ConsummateLiar Khnom]] both fit this description in different ways.
** TheBrute: Again, [[ImAHumanitarian Pekhal]] and [[BloodKnight Gelta]] both fit this description and work together for the first major conflict in the war.
** DarkChick: Oddly enough, not Gelta, but [[TheEmpath Koman]], who is the bitch of the other members of the band.
** SixthRanger: [[EmptyShell Yakhag]] [[spoiler:for all of ten minutes, then Bheid kills him.]]

** TheHero[=/=]TeamDad: [[GuileHero Althalus]]
** TheLancer: [[BadassPreacher Bheid]]
** TheSmartGuy: [[ChildProdigy Gher]]
** TheBigGuy: [[DumbMuscle Eliar]]
** TheChick: [[LadyOfWar Andine]] and [[BrokenBird Leitha]]
** [[BigGood The Big Good]][=/=]TeamMom: [[LoveGoddess Dweia]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of Ghend's plans to destabilise the lowlands is to forment a peasant revolt, by sending out a group of [[DirtyCommies priests in red robes to preach about the opression of the underclass, equality and the redistribution of wealth.]]

* LanguageOfMagic

* DesignatedLoveInterest: With the exception of Althalus-Emmy, all the romantic unions are handwaved or done off-screen in the span of two paragraphs. The most ludicrous was Andine and Elial, who passed from being obsessed with killing him (he slaughtered his father in blood frenzy) to love him desperately in the span of two weeks, after being chewed once by Althalus and Gher, because he wasn't really at fault but the person who contracted him as a soldier. The rest are not better.

* GeniusBonus: Appropriately enough, the Old Tongue is ([[TranslationConvention translated as?]]) Proto-Indo-European, the ur-ancestor of modern European languages.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Andine and Leitha.

* BurnTheWitch: Leitha

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of Ghend's plans to destabilise the lowlands is to forment a peasant revolt, by sending out a group of [[DirtyCommies priests in red robes to preach about social justice and the opression of the underclass.]]

* TheStarscream: Argan would kill Ghend and take his place in a heartbear if he could.

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** TheHero=/=TeamDad: [[GuileHero Althalus]]

** [[BigGood The Big Good]]=/=TeamMom: [[LoveGoddess Dweia]]

** TheHero: [[GuileHero Althalus]]

** [[BigGood The Big Good]]: [[LoveGoddess Dweia]]

* MedievalStasis: Averted.