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* AwesomeMomentofCrowning: [[spoiler: Torina's crowning sees both her crowned and the Sword of Bellandra returned to Landen. The princess is restored, the Sword has been returned to its rightful owner, and Landen and Torina are poised for a happily ever after.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all they have been through, all of the surviving characters have earned the happy ending [[spoiler: though Torina and Landen are definitely the most deserving.]]
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* TheyDo: [[spoiler: [[EarnYourHappyEnding After years of hardship, separation, and mortal danger,]] Landen and Torina finally pledge their love to one another. The events of the next book see them HappilyMarried with BabiesEverAfter.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: After being revealed as the man who murdered Kareed, Vesputo attempts to stab Torina in the back in broad daylight. The captain of the guard sees it, and Vesputo pays for his crimes with a knife through the heart. A fitting end for a man whose murder weapon of choice was a dagger.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Twice in quick succession at the climax.
**[[spoiler: Disguised as a boy, Torina shoots Vesputo in the shoulder as he is about to condemn Landen to death. And it is glorious.]]
**[[spoiler: Two minutes later, while they are escorting the "boy" assassin up, King Dahmis and Bellanes' men make their big entrance (though some of the dramatic thunder has already been stolen by Torina), providing Torina with the backup she needs to reveal that she is alive and Vesputor murdered Kareed.]]
**[[spoiler: Disguised as a boy, Torina shoots Vesputo in the shoulder as he is about to condemn Landen to death. And it is glorious.]]
**[[spoiler: Two minutes later, while they are escorting the "boy" assassin up, King Dahmis and Bellanes' men make their big entrance (though some of the dramatic thunder has already been stolen by Torina), providing Torina with the backup she needs to reveal that she is alive and Vesputor murdered Kareed.]]
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* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: The boy assassin who shot Vesputo dramatically lowers "his" hood, revealing a woman with long, red hair and unmistakable features, proudly announcing that she is none other than Torina Archelda, the lost princess of Archeld.]]
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* PublicExecution: [[spoiler: Vesputo attempts to publicly execute Landen for the murder of King Kareed. This sets the stage perfectly for Vesputo's crimes to be revealed.]]
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** When Vesputo convinces the other kings to send assassins after Vineda [[spoiler: Vineda, Dahmis sends [[spoiler:sends Landen to rescue her and fake and]] fakes her assassination.]]
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* AssassinOutclassin: Thanks to the mysterious seer's warning, High King Dahmis sees through the "envoy" from Archeld and pricks him in the shoulder with his own poisoned stiletto. [[spoiler: Dahmis sends Toban's body back to Vesputo as a warning.]]
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* AssassinOutclassin: Several times
** Thanks to the mysterious seer's warning, High King Dahmis sees through the "envoy" from Archeld and pricks him in the shoulder with his own poisoned stiletto. [[spoiler: Dahmis sends Toban's body back to Vesputo as a warning.]]
** When Vesputo convinces the other kings to send assassins after Vineda [[spoiler: Dahmis sends Landen to rescue her and fake her assassination.]]
** King Dahmis receives word of another assassin coming to kill him [[spoiler:namely, Beron,]]and forces him to drink his own poison. [[spoiler:Seriously, Vesputo should have learned from the first time, even if he did think Torina was dead.]]
** Thanks to the mysterious seer's warning, High King Dahmis sees through the "envoy" from Archeld and pricks him in the shoulder with his own poisoned stiletto. [[spoiler: Dahmis sends Toban's body back to Vesputo as a warning.]]
** When Vesputo convinces the other kings to send assassins after Vineda [[spoiler: Dahmis sends Landen to rescue her and fake her assassination.]]
** King Dahmis receives word of another assassin coming to kill him [[spoiler:namely, Beron,]]and forces him to drink his own poison. [[spoiler:Seriously, Vesputo should have learned from the first time, even if he did think Torina was dead.]]
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**After warning Dahmis of an impending assassination attempt, Landen goes racing back to Archeld Castle in an attempt to reclaim the Sword of Bellandra, getting captured by Vesputo's men along the way. [[spoiler: He is, of course, completely unaware that he himself had already stolen it from Archeld Castle and that the Sword is in Dahmis' possession, waiting for the rightful heir of Bellandra.]]
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* LoveConfession: Just before he races off to save Dahmis, [[spoiler: Landen]] tells [[spoiler: Torina]] that even if she sees them as [[JustFriends nothing more than friends]], he loves her and has loved her since the day they met [[spoiler:and she freed him. Torina doubts her worthiness, but realizes she loves him too and always has, even though she "lost her senses" for awhile.]] Leads to a proper BigDamnKiss and RelationshipUpgrade.
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* LoveConfession: Just before he races off to save Dahmis, warn Dahmis of another assassination attempt, [[spoiler: Landen]] tells [[spoiler: Torina]] that even if she sees them as [[JustFriends nothing more than friends]], he loves her and has loved her since the day they met [[spoiler:and she freed him. Torina doubts her worthiness, but realizes she loves him too and always has, even though she "lost her senses" for awhile.]] Leads to a proper BigDamnKiss and RelationshipUpgrade.
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* LoveConfession: Just before he races off to save Dahmis, [[spoiler: Landen]] tells [[spoiler: Torina]] that even if she sees them as [[JustFriends nothing more than friends]], he loves her and has loved her since the day they met [spoiler:and she freed him. Torina doubts her worthiness, but realizes she loves him too and always has, even though she "lost her senses" for awhile.]] Leads to a proper BigDamnKiss and RelationshipUpgrade.
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* LoveConfession: Just before he races off to save Dahmis, [[spoiler: Landen]] tells [[spoiler: Torina]] that even if she sees them as [[JustFriends nothing more than friends]], he loves her and has loved her since the day they met [spoiler:and [[spoiler:and she freed him. Torina doubts her worthiness, but realizes she loves him too and always has, even though she "lost her senses" for awhile.]] Leads to a proper BigDamnKiss and RelationshipUpgrade.
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* LoveConfession: Just before he races off to save Dahmis, [[spoiler: Landen]] tells [[spoiler: Torina]] that even if she sees them as [[JustFriendsnothing more than friends]], he loves her and has loved her since the day they met [spoiler:and she freed him. Torina doubts her worthiness, but realizes she loves him too and always has, even though she "lost her senses" for awhile.]] Leads to a proper BigDamnKiss and RelationshipUpgrade.
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* LoveConfession: Just before he races off to save Dahmis, [[spoiler: Landen]] tells [[spoiler: Torina]] that even if she sees them as [[JustFriendsnothing [[JustFriends nothing more than friends]], he loves her and has loved her since the day they met [spoiler:and she freed him. Torina doubts her worthiness, but realizes she loves him too and always has, even though she "lost her senses" for awhile.]] Leads to a proper BigDamnKiss and RelationshipUpgrade.
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* LoveConfession: Just before he races off to save Dahmis, [[spoiler: Landen]] tells [[spoiler: Torina]] that even if she sees them as [[JustFriendsnothing more than friends]], he loves her and has loved her since the day they met [spoiler:and she freed him. Torina doubts her worthiness, but realizes she loves him too and always has, even though she "lost her senses" for awhile.]] Leads to a proper BigDamnKiss and RelationshipUpgrade.
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* ItsAllMyFault: When she finds out that by cutting ties with Dahmis due to her anger over his alliance with Vesputo she endangered all of the Northern Kingdoms, [[spoiler: Torina tells Landen that it is her fault. Landen corrects her, pointing out that the war was not her fault.]]
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* ItsAllMyFault: When she finds out that by cutting ties with Dahmis due to her anger over his alliance with Vesputo she endangered all of the Northern Kingdoms, [[spoiler: Torina tells Landen that it is her fault. Landen corrects her, pointing out that she could not have prevented the war was not her fault.war.]]
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*ItsAllMyFault: When she finds out that by cutting ties with Dahmis due to her anger over his alliance with Vesputo she endangered all of the Northern Kingdoms, [[spoiler: Torina tells Landen that it is her fault. Landen corrects her, pointing out that the war was not her fault.]]
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* SpoiledSweet/SpoiledBrat: Downplayed, as Princess Torina has shades of both of these: While she frees Landen almost immediately and is very loving, good person, she can also be very headstrong, opinionated, thoughtless, proud, superior, and used to getting what she wants. [[spoiler:As an adult, Torina realizes that she was a bit of a brat, and begs Landen's forgiveness. Of course, he has already forgiven her.]]
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* SpoiledSweet/SpoiledBrat: SpoiledSweet: Downplayed, as Princess Torina has shades of both of these: this and SpoiledBrat: While she frees Landen almost immediately and is very loving, good person, she Torina can also be very headstrong, opinionated, thoughtless, proud, superior, and used to getting what she wants. [[spoiler:As an adult, Torina realizes that she was a bit of a brat, and begs Landen's forgiveness. Of course, he has already forgiven her.]]
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* SpoiledSweet/SpoiledBrat: Downplayed, as Princess Torina has shades of both of these: While she frees Landen almost immediately and is very loving, good person, she can also be very headstrong, opinionated, thoughtless, proud, superior, and used to getting what she wants. [[spoiler:As an adult, Torina realizes that she was a bit of a brat, and begs Landen's forgiveness. Of course, he has already forgiven her.]]
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* FriendshipTrinket: Torina gives Landen one of her rings just before he leaves Archeld. [[spoiler:Near the end of the book, the ring allows Torina to recognize her mysterious kidnapper is actually Landen.]]
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* FriendshipTrinket: Torina gives Landen one of her rings just before he leaves Archeld. [[Near [[spoiler:Near the end of the book, the ring allows Torina to recognize her mysterious kidnapper as is actually Landen.]]
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* StartingANewLife: Both Landen and Torina are flee Archeld and start new lives [[spoiler: after Vesputo murders King Kareed.]]
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* DeathFakedForYou: Vesputo fakes Torina's death, just as he faked their wedding after she fled Archeld. It works, and all of Archeld [[spoiler:save for her mother and the captain of the guard]] and the neighboring countries believe she is dead. It does complicate matters for him a little, as Torina notes that he can't exactly advertise for "The Ghost of Princess Torina, Wanted Dead or Alive".
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Vineda/[[spoiler:Torina]] breaks ties with Dahmis after finding out his alliance with Vesputo. Vesputo uses this to accuse her of working with the invading Sliviites, [[spoiler: simultaneously convincing the other kings to hunt Torina down and allow Vesputo to be rid of her once and for all and covering up the fact that Vesputo himself is the traitor.]]
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Averted. The plan for repelling the Sliviite invasion, after being discussed extensively, goes exactly according to plan.
* TrojanPrisoner: Landen uses the bounty on him to infiltrate [[spoiler:Archeld Castle.]]
* TrojanPrisoner: Landen uses the bounty on him to infiltrate [[spoiler:Archeld Castle.]]
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Averted. The plan for repelling the Sliviite invasion, after being discussed extensively, goes exactly according to plan [[spoiler: save Landen forgetting his flotation log. But by then the attack plan is complete, and it is only a question of individual survival and not the success of the overall plan.]]
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** [[spoiler: Likewise, during the Sliivite invasion, Landen wrestles with the moral implications of his plan, which will condemn thousands of the invaders to their deaths. He also realizes that if he does nothing, thousands of innocents will die.]]
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** [[spoiler: Likewise, during the Sliivite Sliviite invasion, Landen wrestles with the moral implications of his plan, which will condemn thousands of the invaders to their deaths. He also realizes that if he does nothing, thousands of innocents will die.]]
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Bellanes' code. [[spoiler:Though he is in the awkward position of having granted mercy to a unrepentant man who murdered a child out of spite. The King of Desante only agrees to free Bellane's men on the condition that the murderer is executed. Landen doesn't kill the murderer personally, but orders his soon-to-be right-hand man to do it. Landen admits that the man deserved to die, though he wishes justice had come from another hand.]]
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**[[spoiler:Though he is in the awkward position of having granted mercy to a unrepentant man who murdered a child out of spite. The King of Desante only agrees to free Bellane's men on the condition that the murderer is executed. Landen doesn't kill the murderer personally, but orders his soon-to-be right-hand man to do it. Landen admits that the man deserved to die, though he wishes justice had come from another hand.]]
**[[spoiler: Likewise, during the Sliivite invasion, Landen wrestles with the moral implications of his plan, which will condemn thousands of the invaders to their deaths. He also realizes that if he does nothing, thousands of innocents will die.]]
**[[spoiler:Though he is in the awkward position of having granted mercy to a unrepentant man who murdered a child out of spite. The King of Desante only agrees to free Bellane's men on the condition that the murderer is executed. Landen doesn't kill the murderer personally, but orders his soon-to-be right-hand man to do it. Landen admits that the man deserved to die, though he wishes justice had come from another hand.]]
**[[spoiler: Likewise, during the Sliivite invasion, Landen wrestles with the moral implications of his plan, which will condemn thousands of the invaders to their deaths. He also realizes that if he does nothing, thousands of innocents will die.]]
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*ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: One thing is certain: [[spoiler:Vesputo]] will betray anyone if it is to his advantage. [[spoiler:First Kareed, and then the entire Northern Alliance.]]
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