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The tie-in novel for ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s '''''Zendikar''''' block is '''''In the Teeth of Akoum''''', by Robert Wintermute. It follows [[http://magiccards.info/zen/en/170.html Nissa Revane]], [[http://magiccards.info/zen/en/111.html Sorin Markov]], and [[http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/49.html Anowon, the Ruin Sage]] as they quest to the [[http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/136.html Eye of Ugin]] to [[SealedEvilInACan seal away once more]] the menace of the [[EldritchAbomination Eldrazi]].
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The tie-in novel for ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s '''''Zendikar''''' block is '''''In the Teeth of Akoum''''', by Robert Wintermute. It follows [[http://magiccards.info/zen/en/170.html [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=190411 Nissa Revane]], [[http://magiccards.info/zen/en/111.html [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=195403 Sorin Markov]], and [[http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/49.html [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177508 Anowon, the Ruin Sage]] as they quest to the [[http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/136.html [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=197881 Eye of Ugin]] to [[SealedEvilInACan seal away once more]] the menace of the [[EldritchAbomination Eldrazi]].
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The tie-in novel for ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s '''''Zendikar''''' block is '''''In the Teeth of Akoum''''', by Robert Wintermute. It follows [[http://magiccards.info/zen/en/170.html Nissa Revane]], [[http://magiccards.info/zen/en/111.html Sorin Markov]], and [[http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/49.html Anowon, the Ruin Sage]] as they quest to the [[http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/136.html Eye of Ugin]] to [[SealedEvilInACan seal away once more]] the menace of the [[EldritchAbomination Eldrazi]].
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!! ''In the Teeth of Akoum'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AlienSky: Anywhere that the Eldrazi titans attack, the sky turns this gross burnt-out mix of orange and grey.
* AntiHero: Sorin Markov, who is pretty much only interested in saving his ass. Thankfully, this means sealing the Eldrazi.
* BadassBookworm: Anowon
* BlackSpeech: Eldrazi. Also Ancient Vampire. Especially in Sorin's case, he has a spell where he swears in Ancient Vampire and it causes anything that hears it to rot.
* [[CallAHumanAMeatbag Call an Elf a "Meatling"]]: Zendikar's vampires view the other sentient races as little more than blood banks.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Sorin, one of the few Black aligned protagonists. He's still a jerkass, though.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sorin
* EldritchAbomination: The Eldrazi.
* EvilWeapon: Sorin's sword, the Parasite Blade. It feeds on the lifeforce of anything it strikes. It's so evil, it ''doesn't reflect light''.
* GreenThumb: An elvish specialty.
* FantasticRacism: Boatloads. Of note: everyone in the world is prejudiced against vampires ([[ImAHumanitarian not entirely unjustified]]) and the Joraga elves are prejudiced against everything that's not one of them.
* HumansAreUgly: There is a particularly humorous passage in the book where Nissa details how humans are, by and large, stupid, greedy savages with repulsively large noses.
* InterspeciesRomance: Mudheel, a goblin, is in love with Smara, a deeply unhinged Kor.
* LargeHam: Brinelin, the Moon Kraken, who refers to himself in the third person (with the entire title) and constantly demands sacrifices.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Nissa discovering that Sorin is a vampire is a major plot twist in the novel, and it might have actually worked were it not for the fact that all of the supplementary material released ''before'' the book, including [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=238330 Sorin's card]] make it very clear that he is a vampire. The back of the book itself includes the phrase "the ancient vampire planeswalker, Sorin Markov..."
* MathematiciansAnswer:
-->'''Nissa:''' Are we being tracked by vampires, or is Anowon a good tracker?\\
'''Sorin:''' Yes.
* MrExposition: Anowon, being the most learned archaeologist on the plane, tends to do this whenever the cast stumbles upon any sort of mysterious ancient ruins. Sorin, [[{{Immortality}} who was actually there]], explains things about the original Eldrazi invasion whenever that particular subject matter comes up.
* NatureHero: Nissa
* {{Necromancer}}: Sorin dabbles in the art.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:At the end of the book, Nissa deliberately breaks the Eldrazi's seal, believing that Zendikar will be safer if the Eldrazi aren't around anymore. Unfortunately, they decide to stick around and kill everything before they leave.]]
* NobleBigot: Nissa
* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: Nissa backpedals furiously after talking about how terrible humans are in front of Sorin (she's not aware he's a vampire yet), because he saved her life. Humorously, he plays along.
-->'''Sorin:''' Oh yes. Humans are great. Such large noses!
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Smara's level of lucidity seems to vary considerably from scene to scene.
* OddFriendship: Speaker Sutina and Brinelin the Moon Kraken.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever Sorin stops snarking, it means things have gotten serious.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: A plot point. Nissa doesn't notice that Sorin is a vampire because, anatomically speaking, he doesn't look like the vampires of her home plane.
* RedShirt: Nissa keeps a group of elite Joraga warriors as her personal bodyguards and [[SummonMagic summons]]. They're all dead by the end of their introductory chapter.
* SayingTooMuch: Nissa thinks this when she lets slip about other planes to Anowon. Of course, being the most well-read archaeologist on the plane, he had come to that conclusion already.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Eldrazi.
* SlaveRace: The vampires were forced into this role by The Mortifier, [[spoiler:better known as Sorin Markov.]]
* SummonMagic: Nissa, being a green Planeswalker, naturally excels at this.
* TearsOfBlood: Zendikar's vampires do this when heavily injured or sufficiently stressed out.
* TouchOfDeath: Sorin's sword, the Parasite Blade, has this, as do Eldrazi. [[spoiler:The Eldrazi titans have an ''Aura'' of Death, so that anything that gets remotely close to them withers and dies as they drain it of its energy.]]
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The tie-in novel for ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s '''''Zendikar''''' block is '''''In the Teeth of Akoum''''', by Robert Wintermute. It follows [[http://magiccards.info/zen/en/170.html Nissa Revane]], [[http://magiccards.info/zen/en/111.html Sorin Markov]], and [[http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/49.html Anowon, the Ruin Sage]] as they quest to the [[http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/136.html Eye of Ugin]] to [[SealedEvilInACan seal away once more]] the menace of the [[EldritchAbomination Eldrazi]].
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!! ''In the Teeth of Akoum'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AlienSky: Anywhere that the Eldrazi titans attack, the sky turns this gross burnt-out mix of orange and grey.
* AntiHero: Sorin Markov, who is pretty much only interested in saving his ass. Thankfully, this means sealing the Eldrazi.
* BadassBookworm: Anowon
* BlackSpeech: Eldrazi. Also Ancient Vampire. Especially in Sorin's case, he has a spell where he swears in Ancient Vampire and it causes anything that hears it to rot.
* [[CallAHumanAMeatbag Call an Elf a "Meatling"]]: Zendikar's vampires view the other sentient races as little more than blood banks.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Sorin, one of the few Black aligned protagonists. He's still a jerkass, though.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sorin
* EldritchAbomination: The Eldrazi.
* EvilWeapon: Sorin's sword, the Parasite Blade. It feeds on the lifeforce of anything it strikes. It's so evil, it ''doesn't reflect light''.
* GreenThumb: An elvish specialty.
* FantasticRacism: Boatloads. Of note: everyone in the world is prejudiced against vampires ([[ImAHumanitarian not entirely unjustified]]) and the Joraga elves are prejudiced against everything that's not one of them.
* HumansAreUgly: There is a particularly humorous passage in the book where Nissa details how humans are, by and large, stupid, greedy savages with repulsively large noses.
* InterspeciesRomance: Mudheel, a goblin, is in love with Smara, a deeply unhinged Kor.
* LargeHam: Brinelin, the Moon Kraken, who refers to himself in the third person (with the entire title) and constantly demands sacrifices.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Nissa discovering that Sorin is a vampire is a major plot twist in the novel, and it might have actually worked were it not for the fact that all of the supplementary material released ''before'' the book, including [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=238330 Sorin's card]] make it very clear that he is a vampire. The back of the book itself includes the phrase "the ancient vampire planeswalker, Sorin Markov..."
* MathematiciansAnswer:
-->'''Nissa:''' Are we being tracked by vampires, or is Anowon a good tracker?\\
'''Sorin:''' Yes.
* MrExposition: Anowon, being the most learned archaeologist on the plane, tends to do this whenever the cast stumbles upon any sort of mysterious ancient ruins. Sorin, [[{{Immortality}} who was actually there]], explains things about the original Eldrazi invasion whenever that particular subject matter comes up.
* NatureHero: Nissa
* {{Necromancer}}: Sorin dabbles in the art.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:At the end of the book, Nissa deliberately breaks the Eldrazi's seal, believing that Zendikar will be safer if the Eldrazi aren't around anymore. Unfortunately, they decide to stick around and kill everything before they leave.]]
* NobleBigot: Nissa
* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: Nissa backpedals furiously after talking about how terrible humans are in front of Sorin (she's not aware he's a vampire yet), because he saved her life. Humorously, he plays along.
-->'''Sorin:''' Oh yes. Humans are great. Such large noses!
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Smara's level of lucidity seems to vary considerably from scene to scene.
* OddFriendship: Speaker Sutina and Brinelin the Moon Kraken.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever Sorin stops snarking, it means things have gotten serious.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: A plot point. Nissa doesn't notice that Sorin is a vampire because, anatomically speaking, he doesn't look like the vampires of her home plane.
* RedShirt: Nissa keeps a group of elite Joraga warriors as her personal bodyguards and [[SummonMagic summons]]. They're all dead by the end of their introductory chapter.
* SayingTooMuch: Nissa thinks this when she lets slip about other planes to Anowon. Of course, being the most well-read archaeologist on the plane, he had come to that conclusion already.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Eldrazi.
* SlaveRace: The vampires were forced into this role by The Mortifier, [[spoiler:better known as Sorin Markov.]]
* SummonMagic: Nissa, being a green Planeswalker, naturally excels at this.
* TearsOfBlood: Zendikar's vampires do this when heavily injured or sufficiently stressed out.
* TouchOfDeath: Sorin's sword, the Parasite Blade, has this, as do Eldrazi. [[spoiler:The Eldrazi titans have an ''Aura'' of Death, so that anything that gets remotely close to them withers and dies as they drain it of its energy.]]
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