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* AngelUnaware: When the Goddess appears in ''Huntress'' She's dressed as a jogger, and Corey and the Pack assume She's a random woman who's stumbled upon the situation and objects to it. [[spoiler: Corey tries to tell Her to run and save Herself, and the Goddess is charmed by her "gallantry", saying She will remember it. She's mildly irritated by the Pack not figuring it out, sighing that these are corrupt times.]]
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* FairPlayVillain: The Pack in ''Huntress'' claim they give their victims a sporting chance, but Corey sees through this and understands that they offer a SadisticChoice, at best, especially since one Pack member does carry a gun for anyone who's not willing to be chased and stabbed at. [[spoiler: The Goddess who comes to Corey's aid mockingly gives them the exact same chance, which none of them manage to take.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''Elder Brother'' came from one of these - Tamora Pierce got a lot of people asking what happened to the tree that became a man when Numair transformed an enemy mage into a tree. It causes one in turn since Numair, contacting Qiom in his dreams and being told about his and Fadal's difficulties, advises them to go east and take a ship to Tortall. He feels responsible for Qiom's existence and wants to see him taken care of. It seems that's what Fadal and Qiom will do at the end of the story. Quite a few years have passed in-series since then, but no mention of either of them.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''Elder Brother'' came from one of these - Tamora Pierce got a lot of people asking what happened to the tree that became a man when Numair transformed an enemy mage into a tree. It causes one in turn since Numair, contacting Qiom in his dreams and being told about his and Fadal's difficulties, advises them to go east and take a ship to Tortall. He feels responsible for Qiom's existence and wants to see him taken care of. It seems that's what Fadal and Qiom Tortall, where Numair will do at make sure they're comfortable. At the end of the story. story, the two are heading east. Quite a few years have passed in-series since then, but no mention of either character.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: In ''Huntress'', at least one member ofthem.the Pack shows up to hunts carrying a handgun and uses it to threaten any prey who don't want to play along. As little chance as they have running, it's a better one than being shot.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: In ''Huntress'', at least one member of
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* TheWildHunt: In ''Huntress'' [[spoiler: the Goddess whistles and stray dogs converge on Her location, willing and eager. One of the Pack calls Her a bitch and she sighs. Once he would have known to whom he spoke and that his death was before him, but times are corrupt. She fears that this hunt won't be satisfying, but ends up having a good time regardless.]]
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* AssholeVictim: In ''Huntress'', one of the victims Corey hears about is a rapist, who won't be missed. [[spoiler: The Pack sees many of their 'prey' as this and reminisced about murdering a man who'd flashed his penis at one of them. They also see ''Corey'' as this because she doesn't "know her place". This is turned back on them when Corey's Goddess hunts ''them'' in turn.]]
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* AssholeVictim: In in ''Huntress'', one of the victims first murdered people Corey hears about are a rapist and a drug dealer. This is a rapist, who won't be missed. the doing of [[spoiler: The Pack sees many the Pack, a group of sociopathic SpoiledBrat track stars who like to meet up on nights when the moon is full in order to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt and kill humans]]. They claim that all their 'prey' as this victims deserve it, and reminisced some of them clearly were terrible people, but they also reminisce about murdering a man who'd flashed his penis at one of them. They also see ''Corey'' as this because flasher. When Corey, a good runner with a competitive streak, falls in with the Pack they seem welcoming and invite her on a full moon run in Central Park, only to turn on her completely the moment she doesn't refuses to participate. She didn't "know her place". This is turned back on place" when she started outrunning some of them and especially now, when she invokes morality.]] They become the {{Asshole Victim}}s themselves when Corey's patron Goddess hunts ''them'' in turn.]]appears and TheHunterBecomesTheHunted.
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* AnimalTalk: Animals in ''Mimic'' can speak to each other. Through her association with Mimic, Ri comes to be able to understand them herself.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Qiom has a very particular view of things thanks to having been a tree, and has NoSympathy for humans except when it comes to Fadal, who befriended him. Fadal is sad when she sees the bodies of bandits nailed to posts. Qium agrees with the sentiment but has different reasons.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: A newly transformed Qiom was beaten by humans and driven away, since he didn't understand such niceties as "wearing clothes" and "not defecating in the open". He thought he disliked them as a whole. Still when Fadal, who befriended him and tried to teach him how to get on as a human, is in trouble he finds that he does care very much about ''her'' well-being.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Qiom has a very particular view of things thanks to having been a tree, and has NoSympathy for humans except when it comes to Fadal, who befriended him. Fadal is sad when she sees the bodies of bandits nailed to posts.Qium Qiom agrees with the sentiment but has different reasons.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Qiom has a very particular view of things thanks to having been a tree, and has NoSympathy for humans except when it comes to Fadal, who befriended him. Fadal is sad when she sees the bodies of bandits nailed to posts.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ri's valley in ''Mimic'' benefits from a Compact between birds and humans that sees each helping the other. As well as loving the birds and playing music to them, Ri cares for any other animals she finds with an injury, including rats. Mimic, who she rescues and nurses back to health, takes it another step further, being beloved by other animals.
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** "Mimic": Ri, looking at the ugly lizard with winglike forearms she's rescued from an eagle, wonders if it's a dragon, but Mimic's got ugly pink and brown skin and a face and spine covered in weird lumps, rather than any horns or feelers or protruding scales. Plus he's ''very'' small and dragons are huge. [[spoiler:It's revealed that Mimic is ''is'' in fact a baby dragon, and that dragons in this world have to pass a trial to become one.]]
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* PredationIsNatural: Ri uses a sling on an eagle in ''Mimic'', but doesn't actually want to hurt or kill it, just prevent it from carrying off one of the lambs or any of the birds her valley has a Compact with, as she knows it's just trying to live.
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* CoolOldLady: Tonya thinks Lindri is one of these in ''Plain Magic'', but when Lindri laughs at the end she realizes she's actually maybe a handful of years older than Tonya (fourteen) herself. It might just be that Tonya couldn't imagine a young woman having Lindri's peddler lifestyle.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Tonya has magic and is apprenticed to the local wizard, but he refuses to teach her much, including how to read, for fear of competition.
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** "Plain Magic": [[spoiler:Lindri proves that the dragon is just a panicked wild animal, and that there's no need for any kind of virgin sacrifice as it just makes the dragon sick and more panicked.]]
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** "Plain Magic": [[spoiler:Lindri proves that Dragons here are long, lithe, animalistic creatures. One has been headed towards Tonya's village, burning down some of the villages along the way and skipping others. The Wizard Halen, going through his books, claims there are only three ways to stop it: it can be killed by a virtuous man with a silver spear, burned in a pit of fire, or buried in a river of ice. None of those options are available but he says [[VirginSacrifice staking out a young virgin will appease it]]. Lindri scoffs and says dragons aren't bright and virginity doesn't matter, but dragons only flame when ill and human flesh is bad for them. The villagers go with Halen's plan anyway. [[spoiler: Lindri is correct and frees Tonya before capturing the dragon is just a panicked wild animal, with her thread magic, at which point it becomes docile and friendly. She then leaves to take it back from whence it came, saying that there's no need for any kind of virgin sacrifice as it just makes the dragon sick it's lost and more panicked.would never have done nearly as much damage if people hadn't been feeding it their children.]]
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* ProportionalAging: Back in ''Wolf-Speaker'' Daine said Kitten would be an infant for thirty years. The baby dragon is larger and more capable than she was by ''The Dragon's Tale'', but is still only sixteen, and is frustrated by being young and the knowledge that she'll be young for a very long time. And especially by being unable to speak to anyone who doesn't understand the vocal language of dragons, which presumably humans can't learn or else Daine and Numair would be able to understand her by now.
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* SuddenlySpeaking: In ''The Dragon's Tale'' Kitten the baby dragon ends up able to speak decades before she'd normally have that ability.
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* SuddenlySpeaking: In ''The Dragon's Tale'' Kitten the baby dragon ends up able to speak decades centuries before she'd normally have that ability.
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* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: The Pack in ''Huntress'' take Corey on one of their 'hunts' and don't appreciate her refusal to participate [[spoiler: in recreational murder, so they hunt her instead. However, the Goddess her family has served doesn't appreciate one of Hers being put in this position, and decides to hunt ''them'', proclaiming afterwards that they made better prey than hunters.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Qiom has a very particular view of things thanks to having been a tree, and has NoSympathy for humans except when it comes to Fadal, who befriended him. Fadal is sad when she sees the bodies of bandits nailed to posts. Qium agrees with the sentiment but has different reasons.
--> "Twice a waste. A waste of living trees for the wood, and a waste of fertilizer."
--> "Twice a waste. A waste of living trees for the wood, and a waste of fertilizer."
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* SuperStrength: Qiom, thanks to having been a tree, is absurdly strong.
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* BornAsAnAdult: In "Elder Brother", Qiom the former tree comes into existence as an adult, probably because as an apple tree, he was old enough to produce apples.
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* AssholeVictim: In ''Huntress'', one of the victims Corey hears about is a rapist, who won't be missed. [[spoiler: The Pack sees many of their 'prey' as this and reminisced about murdering a man who'd flashed his penis at one of them. They also see ''Corey'' as this because she doesn't "know her place". This is turned back on them when Corey's Goddess hunts ''them'' in turn.]]
* BornAsAnAdult: In "Elder Brother", Qiomthe former turns from a tree comes into existence as an adult, adult human, probably because as an apple tree, he was old enough to produce apples.
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* DisposableVagrant: In "Huntress", [[spoiler:Felix and his "pride" prefer to run down people who are criminals, drug dealers or the homeless, because no one will either miss them or feel sorry for them.]]
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* DisposableVagrant: In "Huntress", [[spoiler:Felix and his "pride" prefer to run down people who are criminals, drug dealers or the homeless, because no one with power will either miss them or feel sorry for them.try to find out what happens.]]
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* OddballInTheSeries: "Testing" is the only non-fantasy story, and possibly the only non-fantasy work Pierce has ever published, period.
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* OddballInTheSeries: ''Huntress'' and ''Testing'' are Pierce's only published works set in the modern day. "Testing" is the only non-fantasy story, and possibly the only non-fantasy work story without any fantastic elements that Pierce has ever published, period.
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** "The Dragon's Tale": Young dragonet Kitten encounters [[spoiler:a long-dormant elemental dragon, who gives her the ability to speak mind-to-mind long before she would have ordinarily developed it]].
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** "The Dragon's Tale": Young dragonet Kitten encounters [[spoiler:a long-dormant long dormant eastern-style elemental dragon, who gives her the ability to speak mind-to-mind long before she would have ordinarily developed it]].
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* TheSociopath: Master Fairingrove from "Lost". A big moment for his daughter Adria is realizing that he would always abuse her and her family no matter how hard she tried to gain approval.
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** Master Fairingrove from "Lost". A big moment for his daughter Adria is realizing that he would always abuse her and her family no matter how hard she tried to gainapproval.approval.
** The entire Pack in ''Huntress'', who go from supporting Corey to turning on her utterly when she protests.
** Master Fairingrove from "Lost". A big moment for his daughter Adria is realizing that he would always abuse her and her family no matter how hard she tried to gain
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* UrbanFantasy: "Huntress" takes place in contemporary New York City and involves a teenage girl who discovers her family's weird pagan religion is more real than she'd thought.
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* UrbanFantasy: "Huntress" takes place in contemporary New York City and involves a teenage girl who discovers her family's weird pagan religion is more real than she'd thought. It could actually fit in neatly with any number of Creator/MercedesLackey short stories in tone and content.
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: In ''The Hidden Girl'', [[spoiler: the God in the Flame has gone a long time without its female voice being recognized. This bothers it, and it chooses Teky to spread word of that aspect of itself.]]
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* ALoadOfBull: In "Time of Proving", the people of the Veiled City are sentient minotaurs.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: In "Time of Proving", the people of the Veiled City are civilized minotaurs.
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* HumanSacrifice: "Plain Magic" is about a teenage girl whose village stakes her out as a sacrifice to a dragon that's been terrorizing the area, on the advice of the local wizard. She's saved by a peddler woman who knows that this is unnecessary; apparently dragons in this world are ordinary if dangerous wild animals and the idea that they care about having virgins to eat is just a superstition.
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* VirginSacrifice: In "Mimic", the people of Tonya's village try to deal with a dragon this way. Unfortunately, Tonya is one of the girls who draws the short end of the stick. [[spoiler:Fortunately, travelling magician Lindri stops the dragon without any deaths.]]
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* VirginSacrifice: In "Mimic", "Plain Magic", the people of Tonya's village try to deal with a dragon this way. Unfortunately, Tonya is one of the girls who draws the short end of the stick. [[spoiler:Fortunately, travelling magician Lindri stops the dragon without any deaths.]]
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* OneWordTitle: "Testing".
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The unnamed country in "Elder Brother" and "The Hidden Girl" clearly practices the Tortall Universe's version of UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}.
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* GoodWithNumbers; Adria Fairingrove is a mathematical genius who, at the end of her story, [[spoiler:is off to study at the Royal University of Tortall]].
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* GoodWithNumgers; Adria Fairingrove is a mathematical genius who, at the end of her story, [[spoiler:is off to study at the Royal University of Tortall]].
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# "Student of Ostriches" (first published in ''Young Warriors'')\\
The OriginStory of Kylaia al Jmaa, eventually to become the Shang Unicorn.
# "Elder Brother" (first published in ''Half-Human'')\\
In ''[[Literature/TheImmortals Wolf-Speaker]]'', Numair turned a mage into a tree. But that had the effect of turning a tree into a man...
# "The Hidden Girl" (first published in ''Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy'')\\
Overlapping with "Elder Brother", this is the story of a girl who sets out alone to challenge the patriarchal religion of her country after her father's death.
# "Nawat" (first published in ''Tortall and Other Lands'')\\
Following up from the end of ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Trickster's Queen]]'', Nawat has to deal with tough choices after his and Aly's children are born.
# "The Dragon's Tale" (first published in ''The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy'')\\
On a trip to Carthak, a bored Kitten the dragon finds something worthwhile to do.
# "Lost" (first published in ''Tortall and Other Lands'')\\
A self-doubting young math genius meets a darking and finds out her true potential.
The OriginStory of Kylaia al Jmaa, eventually to become the Shang Unicorn.
# "Elder Brother" (first published in ''Half-Human'')\\
In ''[[Literature/TheImmortals Wolf-Speaker]]'', Numair turned a mage into a tree. But that had the effect of turning a tree into a man...
# "The Hidden Girl" (first published in ''Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy'')\\
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# "Nawat" (first published in ''Tortall and Other Lands'')\\
Following up from the end of ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Trickster's Queen]]'', Nawat has to deal with tough choices after his and Aly's children are born.
# "The Dragon's Tale" (first published in ''The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy'')\\
On a trip to Carthak, a bored Kitten the dragon finds something worthwhile to do.
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Warriors''): The OriginStory of Kylaia al Jmaa, eventually to become the Shang Unicorn.
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Lands''): Following up from the end of ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Trickster's Queen]]'', Nawat has to deal with tough choices after his and Aly's children are born.
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::When Tonya's village becomes frightened of an approaching dragon, things don't look good for her...
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# "Huntress" (first published in ''Firebirds Rising'')
::Corey wants to fit in with the cool kids at her school and ignore her family's oddball religious practices. But there's a terrible price she's about to discover...
# "Testing" (first published in ''Lost & Found: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction'')
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''Tortall and Other Lands'' is a collection of eleven short stories by Creator/TamoraPierce, six of which take place in the ''Literature/TortallUniverse''. It was published 2011.
!!The ''Tortall Universe'' stories:
# "Student of Ostriches" (first published in ''Young Warriors'')\\
The OriginStory of Kylaia al Jmaa, eventually to become the Shang Unicorn.
# "Elder Brother" (first published in ''Half-Human'')\\
In ''[[Literature/TheImmortals Wolf-Speaker]]'', Numair turned a mage into a tree. But that had the effect of turning a tree into a man...
# "The Hidden Girl" (first published in ''Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy'')\\
Overlapping with "Elder Brother", this is the story of a girl who sets out alone to challenge the patriarchal religion of her country after her father's death.
# "Nawat" (first published in ''Tortall and Other Lands'')\\
Following up from the end of ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Trickster's Queen]]'', Nawat has to deal with tough choices after his and Aly's children are born.
# "The Dragon's Tale" (first published in ''The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy'')\\
On a trip to Carthak, a bored Kitten the dragon finds something worthwhile to do.
# "Lost" (first published in ''Tortall and Other Lands'')\\
A self-doubting young math genius meets a darking and finds out her true potential.
!!The other stories
[numlist:7]
# "Time of Proving" (first published in ''Cricket'' magazine)\\
Arimu, a girl of the Wind People on her coming-of-age trial, meets a poet from the legendary Veiled City.
# "Plain Magic" (first published in ''Planetfall'')\\
When Tonya's village becomes frightened of an approaching dragon, things don't look good for her...
# "Mimic" (first published in ''Tortall and Other Lands'')\\
Ri loves to help wounded creatures, but she's tested when she finds a particularly strange one.
# "Huntress" (first published in ''Firebirds Rising'')\\
Corey wants to fit in with the cool kids at her school and ignore her family's oddball religious practices. But there's a terrible price she's about to discover...
# "Testing" (first published in ''Lost & Found: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction'')\\
The only non-fantasy story in the collection. The residents of a group home deal with getting a new housemother.
[/numlist]
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!!Tropes:
* AbusiveParents: "Lost" has Adria's father, Master Fairingrove. A big moment for her in the story is realizing that she's never going to gain his approval no matter how hard she tries.
* CharacterTitle: "Nawat", "Lost" and "Mimic". Incidentally, all three stories made their debut in this anthology.
* TheChosenOne: In "The Hidden Girl", [[spoiler:Teky is chosen by the God in the Flame as its next Oracle, to teach the people of her country the contents of both of its holy books.]]
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: In "Elder Brother", Fadal has to help Qiom adjust to being a human, since he doesn't know anything about it.
* DeadGuyJunior: In "Nawat", Aly and Nawat name their triplets Ochobai, Junim and Ulasu, in honour of the three members of the Dodeka family who died in ''Trickster's Queen''. They're not named ''exactly'' after them due to raka beliefs that it's unlucky to give a child the same name as someone living or recently dead.
* DisposableVagrant: In "Huntress", [[spoiler:Felix and his "pride" prefer to run down people who are criminals, drug dealers or the homeless, because no one will either miss them or feel sorry for them.]]
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The unnamed country in "Elder Brother" and "The Hidden Girl" clearly practices the Tortall Universe's version of UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}.
* GoodWithNumgers; Adria Fairingrove is a mathematical genius who, at the end of her story, [[spoiler:is off to study at the Royal University of Tortall]].
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In "Huntress", [[spoiler:Felix and his friends run down people, usually low-level criminals or the homeless, in Central Park. When Corey refuses to participate, they try to use her as their prey, only for Corey's family's Goddess to turn it around on them.]]
* ALoadOfBull: In "Time of Proving", the people of the Veiled City are sentient minotaurs.
* OddballInTheSeries: "Testing" is the only non-fantasy story, and possibly the only non-fantasy work Pierce has ever published, period.
* OneWordTitle: "Testing".
* OurDragonsAreDifferent:
** "The Dragon's Tale": Young dragonet Kitten encounters [[spoiler:a long-dormant elemental dragon, who gives her the ability to speak mind-to-mind long before she would have ordinarily developed it]].
** "Plain Magic": [[spoiler:Lindri proves that the dragon is just a panicked wild animal, and that there's no need for any kind of virgin sacrifice as it just makes the dragon sick and more panicked.]]
** "Mimic": [[spoiler:It's revealed that Mimic is in fact a baby dragon, and that dragons in this world have to pass a trial to become one.]]
* TheSociopath: Master Fairingrove from "Lost". A big moment for his daughter Adria is realizing that he would always abuse her and her family no matter how hard she tried to gain approval.
* SweetPollyOliver: In "Elder Brother", [[spoiler:Fadal turns out to be Fadala]].
* UrbanFantasy: "Huntress" takes place in contemporary New York City and involves a teenage girl who discovers her family's weird pagan religion is more real than she'd thought.
* VirginSacrifice: In "Mimic", the people of Tonya's village try to deal with a dragon this way. Unfortunately, Tonya is one of the girls who draws the short end of the stick. [[spoiler:Fortunately, travelling magician Lindri stops the dragon without any deaths.]]
* TheXOfY: "Student of Ostriches" and "Time of Proving".
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!!The ''Tortall Universe'' stories:
# "Student of Ostriches" (first published in ''Young Warriors'')\\
The OriginStory of Kylaia al Jmaa, eventually to become the Shang Unicorn.
# "Elder Brother" (first published in ''Half-Human'')\\
In ''[[Literature/TheImmortals Wolf-Speaker]]'', Numair turned a mage into a tree. But that had the effect of turning a tree into a man...
# "The Hidden Girl" (first published in ''Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy'')\\
Overlapping with "Elder Brother", this is the story of a girl who sets out alone to challenge the patriarchal religion of her country after her father's death.
# "Nawat" (first published in ''Tortall and Other Lands'')\\
Following up from the end of ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Trickster's Queen]]'', Nawat has to deal with tough choices after his and Aly's children are born.
# "The Dragon's Tale" (first published in ''The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy'')\\
On a trip to Carthak, a bored Kitten the dragon finds something worthwhile to do.
# "Lost" (first published in ''Tortall and Other Lands'')\\
A self-doubting young math genius meets a darking and finds out her true potential.
!!The other stories
[numlist:7]
# "Time of Proving" (first published in ''Cricket'' magazine)\\
Arimu, a girl of the Wind People on her coming-of-age trial, meets a poet from the legendary Veiled City.
# "Plain Magic" (first published in ''Planetfall'')\\
When Tonya's village becomes frightened of an approaching dragon, things don't look good for her...
# "Mimic" (first published in ''Tortall and Other Lands'')\\
Ri loves to help wounded creatures, but she's tested when she finds a particularly strange one.
# "Huntress" (first published in ''Firebirds Rising'')\\
Corey wants to fit in with the cool kids at her school and ignore her family's oddball religious practices. But there's a terrible price she's about to discover...
# "Testing" (first published in ''Lost & Found: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction'')\\
The only non-fantasy story in the collection. The residents of a group home deal with getting a new housemother.
[/numlist]
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!!Tropes:
* AbusiveParents: "Lost" has Adria's father, Master Fairingrove. A big moment for her in the story is realizing that she's never going to gain his approval no matter how hard she tries.
* CharacterTitle: "Nawat", "Lost" and "Mimic". Incidentally, all three stories made their debut in this anthology.
* TheChosenOne: In "The Hidden Girl", [[spoiler:Teky is chosen by the God in the Flame as its next Oracle, to teach the people of her country the contents of both of its holy books.]]
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: In "Elder Brother", Fadal has to help Qiom adjust to being a human, since he doesn't know anything about it.
* DeadGuyJunior: In "Nawat", Aly and Nawat name their triplets Ochobai, Junim and Ulasu, in honour of the three members of the Dodeka family who died in ''Trickster's Queen''. They're not named ''exactly'' after them due to raka beliefs that it's unlucky to give a child the same name as someone living or recently dead.
* DisposableVagrant: In "Huntress", [[spoiler:Felix and his "pride" prefer to run down people who are criminals, drug dealers or the homeless, because no one will either miss them or feel sorry for them.]]
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The unnamed country in "Elder Brother" and "The Hidden Girl" clearly practices the Tortall Universe's version of UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}.
* GoodWithNumgers; Adria Fairingrove is a mathematical genius who, at the end of her story, [[spoiler:is off to study at the Royal University of Tortall]].
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In "Huntress", [[spoiler:Felix and his friends run down people, usually low-level criminals or the homeless, in Central Park. When Corey refuses to participate, they try to use her as their prey, only for Corey's family's Goddess to turn it around on them.]]
* ALoadOfBull: In "Time of Proving", the people of the Veiled City are sentient minotaurs.
* OddballInTheSeries: "Testing" is the only non-fantasy story, and possibly the only non-fantasy work Pierce has ever published, period.
* OneWordTitle: "Testing".
* OurDragonsAreDifferent:
** "The Dragon's Tale": Young dragonet Kitten encounters [[spoiler:a long-dormant elemental dragon, who gives her the ability to speak mind-to-mind long before she would have ordinarily developed it]].
** "Plain Magic": [[spoiler:Lindri proves that the dragon is just a panicked wild animal, and that there's no need for any kind of virgin sacrifice as it just makes the dragon sick and more panicked.]]
** "Mimic": [[spoiler:It's revealed that Mimic is in fact a baby dragon, and that dragons in this world have to pass a trial to become one.]]
* TheSociopath: Master Fairingrove from "Lost". A big moment for his daughter Adria is realizing that he would always abuse her and her family no matter how hard she tried to gain approval.
* SweetPollyOliver: In "Elder Brother", [[spoiler:Fadal turns out to be Fadala]].
* UrbanFantasy: "Huntress" takes place in contemporary New York City and involves a teenage girl who discovers her family's weird pagan religion is more real than she'd thought.
* VirginSacrifice: In "Mimic", the people of Tonya's village try to deal with a dragon this way. Unfortunately, Tonya is one of the girls who draws the short end of the stick. [[spoiler:Fortunately, travelling magician Lindri stops the dragon without any deaths.]]
* TheXOfY: "Student of Ostriches" and "Time of Proving".
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