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* HarmfulHealing: Ember notices that Julia has had her memories altered and "fixes" them, causing her to relive the traumatic experience of summoning Reynard.


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* SuperSerum: Ember gives Quentin and Julia some of his, uh, "essence" in order to boost the magic of TheChosenOne.
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--> '''Quentin:''' Wait, which one do you think I am?
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Eliza, who turned out to be Jane Chatwin, also turns out to be the Watcherwoman. Lampshaded.
-->'''Quentin:''' ''[narrating]'' Chapter 3: The Watcherwoman or The Other, ''Other'' Identity.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: When Quentin finds out that the Beast isn't Plover but is instead Martin Chatwin, he feels bad for Martin because of what events all led to him becoming the Beast in the first place. Averted with Plover himself, for obvious reasons. Quentin actually threatens to feed Plover to Martin.
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* MundaneUtility: The invisibility spell cast on The Castle That Isn't There was [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall for budgetary reasons]].
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* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: Fillorian animal traps have riddles on them, to make sure the trappers don't end up eating any intelligent animals.


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* SugarBowl: Fillory in 1942. By the present day, it's gone downhill a bit.
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* StableTimeLoop: Quentin knows the answer to the riddle Jane needs to escape from the trap because he remembers reading about how she escaped from the trap in one of the Fillory books.
* YouWillBeBeethoven: Quentin and Julia end up being "the witch and the fool", two minor characters from the Fillory books.
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After travelling to Fillory, Julia and Quentin discover they've been followed by Martin Chatwin, who they promise to help find Jane. They commission a blade to help them kill the Beast, and meet the Watcherwoman, a future Jane Chatwin. She says her farewells and helps them go back to their present. As they arrive in the precent, Quentin and Julia receive the enchanted letter and map leading to Penny, Eliot and Margo. They get the blade, but Eliot has to marry the blade maker's daughter, as he was revealed via a second magic blade to be the future High King.

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After travelling to Fillory, Julia and Quentin discover they've been followed by Martin Chatwin, who they promise to help find Jane. They commission a blade to help them kill the Beast, and meet the Watcherwoman, a future Jane Chatwin. She says her farewells and helps them go back to their present. As they arrive in the precent, present, Quentin and Julia receive the enchanted letter and map leading to Penny, Eliot and Margo. They get the blade, but Eliot has to marry the blade maker's daughter, as he was revealed via a second magic blade to be the future High King.
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* TheReveal: The Beast's true identity is revealed to be Martin Chatwin, despite the group originally assuming it to be Christopher Chatwin.

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* TheReveal: The Beast's true identity is revealed to be Martin Chatwin, despite the group originally assuming it to be Christopher Chatwin.Plover.

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Travelling to Fillory, Julia and Quentin discover they've been followed by Martin Chatwin, whom they promise to help find Jane. They commission a blade to help them kill the Beast, and meet the Watcherwoman, a future Jane Chatwin. She says her farewell to them and helps them go back to the present time. As they arrive at the present time, Quentin and Julia receive the enchanted letter and map leading to Penny, Eliot and Margo. They get the blade, but Eliot has to marry the blade maker's daughter, as he was revealed via a second magic blade to be the future High King. Quentin and Julia look for Ember, who can give them enough power to hold the blade. Ember unlocks Julia's memories, revealing that she and her friends, instead of summoning a god, had been tricked to summon a trickster god called Reynard the Fox, who raped Julia and killed her friends. After, she asked Marina's help to erase and alter her memories of the incident. Penny, Alice, Eliot and Margo rescued the Beast's prisoners, Victoria and Christopher Plover, who reveal that the Beast is Martin Chatwin. Josh and Victoria leave the group and return to Earth, while the rest travel to the source of Fillory's magic, to ambush the Beast. There, the Beast overpowers them. Julia gets the blade from Alice, and holds the empowered knife to the Beast's throat. Julia makes a deal with the Beast to kill Reynard, and they leave, with Quentin the only one left standing

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Travelling After travelling to Fillory, Julia and Quentin discover they've been followed by Martin Chatwin, whom who they promise to help find Jane. They commission a blade to help them kill the Beast, and meet the Watcherwoman, a future Jane Chatwin. She says her farewell to them farewells and helps them go back to the present time. their present. As they arrive at in the present time, precent, Quentin and Julia receive the enchanted letter and map leading to Penny, Eliot and Margo. They get the blade, but Eliot has to marry the blade maker's daughter, as he was revealed via a second magic blade to be the future High King. King.

Quentin and Julia look for Ember, who can give them enough power to hold the blade. Ember unlocks Julia's memories, revealing that she and her friends, instead of summoning a god, friends had been tricked to summon a trickster god called into summoning Reynard the Fox, who Fox. He raped Julia and killed her friends. friends. After, she asked Marina's help Marina to erase and alter her memories of the incident. incident.

Penny, Alice, Eliot and Margo rescued rescue the Beast's prisoners, Victoria and Christopher Plover, who reveal that the Beast is Martin Chatwin. Josh and Victoria leave the group and return to Earth, while the rest travel to the source of Fillory's magic, magic to ambush the Beast. There, the Beast overpowers them. Julia gets the blade from Alice, Alice and holds the empowered knife to the Beast's throat. Julia makes a deal with the Beast to kill Reynard, and they leave, with Quentin the only one left standing
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* AdaptationExpansion: In the books, Alice is able to kill the Beast, but it is at the cost of her life. In the episode, she is unable to kill him because of Julia's intervention and he is allowed to live on and return for the second season.
** Julia in the books was not in Fillory during the confrontation as she was not invited.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While Julia was raped by Reynard in the books, she never betrayed her friends as a result of this.

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In the books, Alice is able to kill the Beast, but it is at the cost of her life. In the episode, she is unable to kill him because of Julia's intervention and he is allowed to live on and return for the second season.
** In the books, Julia in the books was not in Fillory during the confrontation confrontation, as she was not invited.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While Julia was raped by Reynard in the books, she never betrayed her friends as a result because of this.it.



* DownerEnding: The episodes ends with the plan to kill the Beast failing because Julia stole the knife from Alice. This results in the Beast presumable killing Alice, Eliot, Margo, and Penny leaving Quentin unharmed when Julia puts the knife to his throat and proposes a deal with him and they teleport away [[{{Cliffhanger}} leaving Quentin to wonder what to do next]].

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* DownerEnding: The episodes episode ends with the plan to kill the Beast failing because Julia stole the knife from Alice. This results in the Beast presumable apparently killing Alice, Eliot, Margo, and Penny leaving Quentin unharmed when Penny. Before he can attack Quentin, Julia puts threatens him with the knife to his throat and proposes a deal with him and they deal. They teleport away away, [[{{Cliffhanger}} leaving Quentin to wonder what to do next]].



* RapeAsDrama: It is revealed that Julia was raped by Reynard The Fox, who was disguising himself as the goddess her group was summoning. She had the memory of the incident erased from her memory and when the spell is reversed. The trauma of the memory results in her making the decision to from an alliance with the Beast in order to find a way to kill Reynard for what he did to her.
* TheReveal: The Beast's true identity is revealed to be Martin Chatwin, when the group was under the assumption that Christopher Plover was the Beast because of his background revealing that he used to sexually assault Martin as a child.

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* RapeAsDrama: It is revealed that Julia was raped by Reynard The Fox, who was disguising himself as the goddess her group was summoning. She had the memory of the incident erased from her memory and erased; it returns when Ember removes the spell is reversed. FakeMemories that were hiding it. The trauma of the memory results in her making the decision to from form an alliance with the Beast in order to find a way to kill Reynard for what he did to her.
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* TheReveal: The Beast's true identity is revealed to be Martin Chatwin, when despite the group was under the assumption that originally assuming it to be Christopher Plover was the Beast because of his background revealing that he used to sexually assault Martin as a child.Chatwin.



* SixthRangerTraitor: Julia betrays the group when she steals the knife that can kill the Beast and ruins their only chance to kill him and this also results with everyone except Quentin getting killed by the Beast.
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* SixthRangerTraitor: Julia betrays the group when she steals the knife that can kill the Beast and ruins their only chance to kill him and this also results strikes a deal with everyone except Quentin getting killed by the Beast.
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* AdaptationVillainy: While Julia was raped by Reynard in the books, she never betrayed her friends as a result of this.

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* AdaptationVillainy: AdaptationalVillainy: While Julia was raped by Reynard in the books, she never betrayed her friends as a result of this.

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* AdaptationExpansion: In the books, Alice is able to kill the Beast, but it is at the cost of her life. In the episode, she is unable to kill him because of Julia's intervention and he is allowed to live on and return for the second season.
** Julia in the books was not in Fillory during the confrontation as she was not invited.
* AdaptationVillainy: While Julia was raped by Reynard in the books, she never betrayed her friends as a result of this.


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* LemonyNarrator: Quentin narrates the events of the first half of this episode with a lot of sarcasm and lampshade hanging.
* RapeAsDrama: It is revealed that Julia was raped by Reynard The Fox, who was disguising himself as the goddess her group was summoning. She had the memory of the incident erased from her memory and when the spell is reversed. The trauma of the memory results in her making the decision to from an alliance with the Beast in order to find a way to kill Reynard for what he did to her.
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'''Season 1, Episode 13'''

!Have You Brought Me Little Cakes

Travelling to Fillory, Julia and Quentin discover they've been followed by Martin Chatwin, whom they promise to help find Jane. They commission a blade to help them kill the Beast, and meet the Watcherwoman, a future Jane Chatwin. She says her farewell to them and helps them go back to the present time. As they arrive at the present time, Quentin and Julia receive the enchanted letter and map leading to Penny, Eliot and Margo. They get the blade, but Eliot has to marry the blade maker's daughter, as he was revealed via a second magic blade to be the future High King. Quentin and Julia look for Ember, who can give them enough power to hold the blade. Ember unlocks Julia's memories, revealing that she and her friends, instead of summoning a god, had been tricked to summon a trickster god called Reynard the Fox, who raped Julia and killed her friends. After, she asked Marina's help to erase and alter her memories of the incident. Penny, Alice, Eliot and Margo rescued the Beast's prisoners, Victoria and Christopher Plover, who reveal that the Beast is Martin Chatwin. Josh and Victoria leave the group and return to Earth, while the rest travel to the source of Fillory's magic, to ambush the Beast. There, the Beast overpowers them. Julia gets the blade from Alice, and holds the empowered knife to the Beast's throat. Julia makes a deal with the Beast to kill Reynard, and they leave, with Quentin the only one left standing

!!Tropes That Appear In This Episode:

* ArrangedMarriage: Eliot is forced to marry the blade maker's daughter as part of a deal to get the knife that can kill the Beast.
* DownerEnding: The episodes ends with the plan to kill the Beast failing because Julia stole the knife from Alice. This results in the Beast presumable killing Alice, Eliot, Margo, and Penny leaving Quentin unharmed when Julia puts the knife to his throat and proposes a deal with him and they teleport away [[{{Cliffhanger}} leaving Quentin to wonder what to do next]].
* TheReveal: The Beast's true identity is revealed to be Martin Chatwin, when the group was under the assumption that Christopher Plover was the Beast because of his background revealing that he used to sexually assault Martin as a child.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Julia ruins the only chance to kill the Beast because she needs his help to get revenge on Reynard.
* SixthRangerTraitor: Julia betrays the group when she steals the knife that can kill the Beast and ruins their only chance to kill him and this also results with everyone except Quentin getting killed by the Beast.
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