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* EveryManHasHisPrice: While Berk isn't allowed to force Eochiad to free his thralls under SacredHospitality, they ''are'' allowed to pay compensation. It doesn't work.
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* EveryManHasHisPrice: While Berk isn't allowed to force Eochiad Eochaid to free his thralls under SacredHospitality, they ''are'' allowed to pay compensation. It doesn't work.
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* HostageMacGuffin: Toiréasa was trained to be a spy same a Heather to feed information about Eochiad to Alvin with the threat that her infant daughter Mhairi would be tortured and killed if she didn't comply, unaware that Alvin was overthrown and Mhairi is now safe and sound on Berk as Heather's adopted sister.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eochaid is a jerk, but he apparently really likes children.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eochaid is a jerk, but he apparently really likes children.
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* HostageMacGuffin: Toiréasa was trained to be a spy same a as Heather to feed information about Eochiad Eochaid to Alvin with the threat that her infant daughter Mhairi would be tortured and killed if she didn't comply, unaware that Alvin was overthrown and Mhairi is now safe and sound on Berk as Heather's adopted sister.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eochaid is a slimy jerk, but he apparently really likes children.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eochaid is a slimy jerk, but he apparently really likes children.
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* ScyllaAndCharybdis: Berk has reached this with the Eochaid's group, having just found out that they brought their thralls with them. Berk had just promised them SacredHospitality, meaning that they had already been given room and board and safety for as long as they are there, with the gods as witness whether they uphold it. With that said, the Hooligans - both on a judicial and an ethical level - are very much anti-thralldom and thralls would usually be liberated the moment they set foot on Berk, and to do so now would only cause insult to their guests. Bladewit is consulted over it and reluctantly chooses hospitality as precedent.
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* ScyllaAndCharybdis: ScyllaAndCharybdis[=/=]ToBeLawfulOrGood: Berk has reached this with the Eochaid's group, having just found out that they brought their thralls with them. Berk had just promised them SacredHospitality, meaning that they had already been given room and board and safety for as long as they are there, with the gods as witness whether they uphold it. With that said, the Hooligans - both on a judicial and an ethical level - are very much anti-thralldom and thralls would usually be liberated the moment they set foot on Berk, and to do so now would only cause insult to their guests. Bladewit is consulted over it and reluctantly chooses hospitality as precedent.precedent.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: From the description, it seems that this is what Vladimir and the other Rus' are doing.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: From the description, it seems that this is what Vladimir and the other Rus' are doing.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Einar calls out Tuffnut for his lack of ambition in life.
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* GoodTamingEvilTaming: In-contrast to Berk's idea of treating dragons with respect, Mildew has learned that breaking a dragon's will at a young age and treating them like thralls also works to an extent. The exception seems to be his Whispering Death Mold, and even then it is unclear as to ''how'' much a difference there is.
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* GoodTamingEvilTaming: In-contrast to Berk's idea of treating dragons with respect, Mildew has learned that breaking a dragon's will at a young age and treating them like thralls also works to an extent. The exception seems to be is his Whispering Death Death, Mold, and even then it is unclear as to ''how'' much because they have bonded over a difference there is.shared hatred of Toothless.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eochaid is a jerk, but he apparently really likes children.
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* BatmanGambit: Close analysis of the scene and WordOfGod shows that Eochaid damn well ''knew'' about Berk's universal freemanship, and brought thralls anyway to provoke them into losing their cool so he could have a negotiation advantage. Him claiming he thought it was "bardic exaggeration" is just a cover.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Eochiad apparently had heard of Berk's anti-thrall policies and dismissed it as "bardic exaggeration."
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* RefugeInAudacity: Eochiad apparently had heard of Berk's anti-thrall policies and dismissed it as "bardic exaggeration."" WordOfGod is that he knew full well about Berk's laws and is just using "bardic exaggeration" as a cover.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[Invoked}}. Mildew deliberately misrepresents Stoick as a ControlFreak, his CatchPhrase "A Chief Protects His Own" as a front for a man who demands absolute loyalty, subtly destroys opposing opinions and forces his subjects into indentured servitude. All so that Taskill and through him King Mac Bethad gets the wrong ideas necessary to make it more likely they will destroy Berk.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[Invoked}}.{{Invoked}}. Mildew deliberately misrepresents Stoick as a ControlFreak, his CatchPhrase "A Chief Protects His Own" as a front for a man who demands absolute loyalty, subtly destroys opposing opinions and forces his subjects into indentured servitude. All so that Taskill and through him King Mac Bethad gets the wrong ideas necessary to make it more likely they will destroy Berk.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[Invoked}}. Mildew thinks of deliberately misrepresents Stoick as a ControlFreak, his CatchPhrase "A Chief Protects His Own" as a front for a man who demands absolute loyalty, subtly destroys opposing opinions and forces his subjects into indentured servitude.servitude. All so that Taskill and through him King Mac Bethad gets the wrong ideas necessary to make it more likely they will destroy Berk.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Einar might be an EvilAdvisor who's been [[RegentInCharge using Magnus as a puppet]], but even he's disgusted by Tuffnut's lack of ambition, and tries to rectify it via a combo of WhatTheHellHero and pep talk.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Einar might be an EvilAdvisor EvilChancellor who's been [[RegentInCharge [[RegentForLife using Magnus as a puppet]], but even he's disgusted by Tuffnut's lack of ambition, and tries to rectify it via a combo of WhatTheHellHero and pep talk.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Einar might be an EvilAdvisor who's been [[RegentInCharge using Magnus as a puppet]], but even he's disgusted by Tuffnut's lack of ambition, and tries to rectify it via a combo of WhatTheHellHero and PepTalk.pep talk.
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* PetTheDog: Einar gives Tuffnut a pep talk about not letting his potential go to waste after seeing the latter had no meaningful ambition to speak of.
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--> '''Stoick''': He wants control—but not at the point of a sword. No, that's boring. He'd rather have you give it up to him and let him dictate what you do. So his takeover of Vedrarfjord? Completely in character for him. Put people in a terrible position—having their homes burned or having to starve... and then offering a way out... through loyalty to ''him''.
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--> '''Stoick''': '''Mildew''': He wants control—but not at the point of a sword. No, that's boring. He'd rather have you give it up to him and let him dictate what you do. So his takeover of Vedrarfjord? Completely in character for him. Put people in a terrible position—having their homes burned or having to starve... and then offering a way out... through loyalty to ''him''.
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* HostageMacGuffin: Toiréasa was trained to be a spy same a Heather to feed information about Eochiad to Alvin with the threats threat that her infant daughter Mhairi would be tortured and killed if she didn't comply, unaware that Alvin was overthrown and Mhairi is now safe and sound on Berk as Heather's adopted sister.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Mildew thinks of Stoick as a ControlFreak, his CatchPhrase "A Chief Protects His Own" as a front for a man who demands absolute loyalty, subtly destroys opposing opinions and forces his subjects into indentured servitude.
--> '''Stoick''': He wants control—but not at the point of a sword. No, that's boring. He'd rather have you give it up to him and let him dictate what you do. So his takeover of Vedrarfjord? Completely in character for him. Put people in a terrible position—having their homes burned or having to starve... and then offering a way out... through loyalty to ''him''.
* GoodTamingEvilTaming: In-contrast to Berk's idea of treating dragons with respect, Mildew has learned that breaking a dragon's will at a young age and treating them like thralls also works to an extent. The exception seems to be his Whispering Death Mold, and even then it is unclear as to ''how'' much a difference there is.
* HostageMacGuffin: Toiréasa was trained to be a spy same a Heather to feed information about Eochiad to Alvin with the threats that her infant daughter Mhairi would be tortured and killed if she didn't comply, unaware that Alvin was overthrown and Mhairi is now safe and sound on Berk as Heather's adopted sister.
--> '''Stoick''': He wants control—but not at the point of a sword. No, that's boring. He'd rather have you give it up to him and let him dictate what you do. So his takeover of Vedrarfjord? Completely in character for him. Put people in a terrible position—having their homes burned or having to starve... and then offering a way out... through loyalty to ''him''.
* GoodTamingEvilTaming: In-contrast to Berk's idea of treating dragons with respect, Mildew has learned that breaking a dragon's will at a young age and treating them like thralls also works to an extent. The exception seems to be his Whispering Death Mold, and even then it is unclear as to ''how'' much a difference there is.
* HostageMacGuffin: Toiréasa was trained to be a spy same a Heather to feed information about Eochiad to Alvin with the threats that her infant daughter Mhairi would be tortured and killed if she didn't comply, unaware that Alvin was overthrown and Mhairi is now safe and sound on Berk as Heather's adopted sister.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: The reason why Eochaid came to Berk in the first place was because he followed Camilla there, wanting to resume his advances after they ''literally'' drove her to run in the first place.
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* BribeBackfire: While it is implied that Eochaid was planning on taking advantage of them regardless, he takes this opportunity when he finds out about Berk's anti-thrall values and Stoick's willingness to buys his thralls from him and milks SacredHospitality for all he can.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: While Berk isn't allowed to force Eochiad to free his thralls under SacredHospitality, they ''are'' allowed to pay compensation. It doesn't work.
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* ScyllaAndCharybdis: Berk has reached this with the Eochaid's group, having just found out that they brought their thralls with them. Berk had just promised them SacredHospitality, meaning that they had already been given room and board and safety for as long as they are there, with the gods as witness whether they uphold it. With that said, the Hooligans - both on a judicial and an ethical level - are very much anti-thralldom and thralls would usually be liberated the moment they set foot on Berk, and to do so now would only cause insult to their guests. Bladewit is consulted over it and reluctantly chooses hospitality as precedent.
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!!'''Book II, Chapter 12'''
-> ''To modern eyes, the historical emphasis on the importance of hospitality between guests and hosts seems to be of exaggerated, even absurd levels of importance. We forget, with our modern mass transportation systems, or even just the freedom of movement that dragon-riding grants, that prior to the domestication of dragons, a journey of twenty miles was a day's trip by foot, with no guarantee of shelter or food at the end of it, except for hospitality. Thus these rules resulted from tradition, practicality, and social necessity in order to keep peace between neighbors.''
-> ''Further emphasizing hospitality's importance, in nearly all pre-dragon societies and religions, hospitality was mandated by divine decree or example.''
-> ''...the Norse religion's canon offers up the Hávamál, with the oral antecedents of the text dating prior to the Reformation, which details significant instructions on the duties and responsibilities of hosts and guests, dictated by Odin as wisdom and instruction on proper behavior...''
-> ''...the Abrahamic religions all have strong injunctions and passages about the importance of hospitality. Beginning with Abraham himself, he offered bread and gave a feast to guests and was blessed—and the subsequent passages deal with Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities that routinely and violently breached hospitality and were destroyed in divine punishment...''
-> ''...Hinduism tells of the god of death, Yama, in the story Nachiketā, who returned home after an absence to find that he had kept a guest waiting for three days. Having violated hospitality by causing trouble for a guest, even unknowingly, Yama offered his guest three boons, and revealed secrets of the gods in the act of fulfilling them...''
-->-- ''Nationbuilding: How People Move, Talk, Think, Organize, & Structure Themselves, 1888, Amsterdam University Press''
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!!Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eochaid apparently really likes children.
--> It was perhaps his one saving grace in Toiréasa's eyes, that he was extremely and genuinely fond of children.
* TheMagnificent: Vladimir is nicknamed Vladimir the Nimble for his impressive dancing abilities.
* MythologyGag: When asked by Einar what he wants out of life, Tuffnut responds with "a finely crafted mace and a chicken".
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-> ''To modern eyes, the historical emphasis on the importance of hospitality between guests and hosts seems to be of exaggerated, even absurd levels of importance. We forget, with our modern mass transportation systems, or even just the freedom of movement that dragon-riding grants, that prior to the domestication of dragons, a journey of twenty miles was a day's trip by foot, with no guarantee of shelter or food at the end of it, except for hospitality. Thus these rules resulted from tradition, practicality, and social necessity in order to keep peace between neighbors.''
-> ''Further emphasizing hospitality's importance, in nearly all pre-dragon societies and religions, hospitality was mandated by divine decree or example.''
-> ''...the Norse religion's canon offers up the Hávamál, with the oral antecedents of the text dating prior to the Reformation, which details significant instructions on the duties and responsibilities of hosts and guests, dictated by Odin as wisdom and instruction on proper behavior...''
-> ''...the Abrahamic religions all have strong injunctions and passages about the importance of hospitality. Beginning with Abraham himself, he offered bread and gave a feast to guests and was blessed—and the subsequent passages deal with Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities that routinely and violently breached hospitality and were destroyed in divine punishment...''
-> ''...Hinduism tells of the god of death, Yama, in the story Nachiketā, who returned home after an absence to find that he had kept a guest waiting for three days. Having violated hospitality by causing trouble for a guest, even unknowingly, Yama offered his guest three boons, and revealed secrets of the gods in the act of fulfilling them...''
-->-- ''Nationbuilding: How People Move, Talk, Think, Organize, & Structure Themselves, 1888, Amsterdam University Press''
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!!Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eochaid apparently really likes children.
--> It was perhaps his one saving grace in Toiréasa's eyes, that he was extremely and genuinely fond of children.
* TheMagnificent: Vladimir is nicknamed Vladimir the Nimble for his impressive dancing abilities.
* MythologyGag: When asked by Einar what he wants out of life, Tuffnut responds with "a finely crafted mace and a chicken".
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