Line #54 Fanfic/RingMaker


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ring_5.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350: Annatar, Lord of Gifts [[note]] Image by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/phinnia.345727/ Phinnia]]. Verified Cat [[/note]] ]]
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4	->"Three Rings for the Sentinels, honest and true.\
5	Seven for the Wards, in their city of sin.\
6	Nine for the Penitent, forged anew.\
7	One for the Ring-Maker, to find light within,\
8	On the shores where the rising Sun shines through.\
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10	One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to guide them;\
11	One Ring to bring them all from out the Dark which hides them\
12	On the shores where the rising Sun shines through."
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14	''Ring Maker'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}''/''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' crossover fanfic by Lithos Maitreya.
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16	Taylor Hebert had a bad day, and [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening came out of it changed]]. Some parahumans can control bugs. Some can [[GadgeteerGenius build advanced technology]]. Some can do [[RealityWarper unspeakable things to space and time]]. Taylor can make [[RingOfPower magic rings]], [[{{Mythril}} wondrous metals]], mysterious weapons, and [[WrongContextMagic may not be a parahuman]]--or, indeed, human--[[TomatoInTheMirror at all]].
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18	Complete. Can be found on [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.39492/ Sufficient Velocity]], [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.517894/ SpaceBattles]], [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557361/1/Ring-Maker FF.net]], and [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2752483 AO3]].
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21	!!This work contains examples of the following:
22	* AbusiveParents: Sophia's stepfather Steven is the reason she triggered. WordOfGod is that it's because he's a ControlFreak, though he thankfully never physically hurt her, or tried to.
23	* AdaptationalBadass:
24	** [[spoiler: Being a Maia means this comes naturally to Taylor]].
25	** [[spoiler: Emma Barnes Triggers as a Thinker early in the fic, and eventually plays a key role in Gold Morning, personally finishing off Scion]].
26	* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: [[spoiler: Shaper, the Echidna clone of Panacea's shard, outright states that the Entities are descendants of Ungoliant]].
27	* AddictiveMagic: Minor with the Seven, Taylor tells the Wards that the power and burden will be hard to give up afterward.
28	** When Armsmaster asks to borrow a Ring during the [[spoiler: Leviathan fight]], Taylor refuses, since he has seriously underestimated the addictiveness, especially if it isn't given freely.
29	** [[spoiler: Krouse suffers this after trying on the ring of Fire after using his powers to steal it for Coil. A later look reveals that he's feeling constantly cold and shivering even when it's ''eighty degrees'']].
30	** [[spoiler: Coil, by the time Annatar tracks him down with Cauldron's help, is so hopelessly addicted to Narya that he ''begs'' Annatar, ''on his knees'' to be allowed to keep it, even swearing to serve her no matter what. After he's stripped of it and caught by the PRT, he completely breaks down to the point that he's almost non-responsive]]. More than one reviewer compared him to [[spoiler: Gollum]].
31	* AllThereInTheManual: There's a lot of information at the start of the thread.
32	* AmplifierArtifact: The Seven draw their abilities from their Bearer's own uniqueness, hence why they boost the abilities of the Wards instead of granting entirely separate abilities like the Three do.
33	* {{Anticlimax}}:[[spoiler: the Slaughterhouse Nine fight ends like this. Considering it was in the buildup to Gold Morning, this was inevitable]].
34	* AppealToObscurity: Annatar asks Bakuda who Grendel is, and when she can't answer, says that while no one really remembers him, everybody remembers Beowulf, the hero that slew him, and like what happened with Grendel, Annatar would reduce Bakuda to a mere footnote in ''her'' legend, [[spoiler:right before killing her]].
35	* ArtifactOfAttraction: The Rings of Power.
36	* ArtifactOfDoom: The One Ring, which is mentioned several times but as of yet appeared only in cameos. [[spoiler: it doesn't make its first on-screen appearance until Dawn 14.5]].
37	** [[spoiler: One of the original Rings of Power- the Witch-King's ring, left abandoned in a field outside Minas Tirith for centuries- briefly cameos in Dawn 14.6]].
38	* AttackItsWeakPoint: Auxiliary's Tinker power lets him make Tinkertech modifications to existing devices and machines, allow them to basically do whatever he can think of. However, all he makes is centralised, meaning that anything he's tinkered with has a single central core that, if taken out, makes the device inoperable. And this can have lethal results.
39	* AuraVision: The Rings allow one to see [[spoiler: an Endbringer's Core]].
40	* BewareTheNiceOnes: As Bakuda found out, you shouldn't push Annatar too far. [[spoiler:The lesson was a fatal one]].
41	* BigGood: [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Eru Iluvatar]], heavily implied to be behind the events of the plot and mentioned by Annatar in dialogue.
42	* BowAndSwordInAccord: [[spoiler: Sophia used Narsil for a brief time, and finds that she misses having a sword. Taylor offers to make her a new one]].
43	* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: Taylor during Gold Morning, riding in from Valinor with Gandalf and the Eagles of the West]].
44	* TheCameo: [[spoiler: The Witch-King of Angmar]] makes one in arc 14.
45	* TheCavalry:
46	** Taylor and the Wards during the Leviathan fight.
47	** [[spoiler: in true Tolkien tradition, the army of the West sallies forth during Gold Morning, for the opening battle of Dagor Dagorath]].
48	* CelebrityParadox: The author has remained deliberately ambiguous on whether Creator/JRRTolkien, [=LotR=], or his other works exist on Bet at all or in some manner on Aleph.
49	* CharacterDevelopment: Sophia actually starts becoming a decent human being here.
50	* ChristmasEpisode: [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ring-maker-worm-lord-of-the-rings-alt-power.517894/page-619#post-40922011 One Omake is this]], with Annatar in a sexy santa outfit asking the Wards what they desire. [[https://www.deviantart.com/zen-is-cat/art/Come-around-boys-and-girls-719198193 Sophia blushes as she tries to avoid explaining how Taylor is what she desires]].
51	* CloneDegeneration: A staple with Noelle's clones, but [[spoiler:her attempts to clone Annatar are dead on arrival, and in the form of her previous incarnation's different personas]].
52	* CoDragons: [[spoiler: After Annatar starts taking on her predecessor's EvilOverlord tendencies, she gets these in the form of Dragon, Panacea, and Coil, who are the Bearers for the Three Rings]].
53	* ComboPlatterPowers: Narya gives Protection from mastery, [[HopeBringer hope]], an aura of presence and SuperStrength. Nenya gives SuperSpeed, SuperSenses, Barriers and concealment. Vilya gives precognition, Mastery, a HealingHands ability and ElementalPowers.
54	* CoolVsAwesome: Any fight involving [[spoiler: Ainur]] fighting Capes or Endbringers is this.
55	* {{Crossover}}: Between ''Worm'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''.
56	* DarkestHour: [[spoiler: Gold Morning. Taylor and Sophia are dead, and Dragon is left to coordinate the Scion fight]].
57	* DeathByAdaptation:
58	** [[spoiler: Glory Girl survives the events of ''Worm'' and is the narrator of ''Ward''. In this fic she doesn't survive the Leviathan fight]].
59	** [[spoiler: Nilbog pulled a HeelFaceTurn during Gold Morning and teamed up with Bonesaw and Glaistig Uaine. In this fic Taylor kills him]].
60	** [[spoiler: Sophia is killed in the opening salvo of Gold Morning]].
61	* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Bakuda wanted to become immortalized through the memories of others, Taylor killed her in a way that would reduce her to a footnote in the legend of Annatar]].
62	* DeathSeeker: Little by little, [[spoiler:Emma]] develops suicidal tendencies due to hating herself but feeling unable to change for the better. By the thirteenth arc she wants nothing more than to [[spoiler:betray the Empire]] and then kill herself, but Taylor and Sophia talk her into seeking atonement instead.
63	* DefectorFromDecadence: When Annatar starts becoming more ruthless, [[spoiler:Sophia and Armsmaster leave, the latter looking for the former]].
64	* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Gold Morning ends in a Tolkienesque Eucatastrophe, with the hosts of Valinor as TheCavalry for the Protectorate, and to prepare for Dagor Dagorath]].
65	** [[spoiler: the Eagles even arrive to fight in the final battle]].
66	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Played With.
67	** [[spoiler: When Annatar second-triggers, she decides to fight off the Queen Administrator Shard rather than accept it. The trope is Zig-Zagged because Maiar could be the 'Cthulhu' in relation to the Shard]].
68	** Sophia plays it straight when she [[spoiler: stands up to ''Sauron'' in single combat]], a feat matched in canon only by [[spoiler: Luthien, Huan, Gil-Galad, and Elendil]].
69	** Again played straight by [[spoiler: Emma Barnes, who deals the coup-de-grace to finnish of Scion at the end of Gold Morning]].
70	* DistantFinale: ''the entire fic'' is one for [[spoiler: the Witch-King of Angmar]].
71	* DramaPreservingHandicap: Taylor can only use one of her rings at once.
72	* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: Noelle. Even though severing her Shard killed her, she was glad to die as a ''human'', not a monster]].
73	* TheDreaded:
74	** Annatar eventually becomes this to basically every criminal in the Bay. She scares [[spoiler: Emma Barnes]] so much that the latter [[EnemyMine allies with Empire 88 against her]].
75	** [[ArtifactOfDoom The One Ring]] is this to Taylor, who goes as far to avoid making it that she will do a VerbalBackspace when explaining her ring-making powers to Piggot and Armsmaster.
76	** It turns out there is still one who remembers Taylor's original identity: [[spoiler: the Witch-King of Angmar, who recoils when he realizes who she is]].
77	* EldritchAbomination: The Entities, as per ''Worm'' canon, but here [[spoiler: they're stated by Shaper to be the spawn of ''Ungoliant'']].
78	* EmpathicWeapon: [[spoiler: Narsil is implied to be this when it leaves Taylor/Annatar after she starts descending into darkness after her second trigger, ending up in Sophia's locker. Sophia realizes that it isn't just a sword any more than the Rings are rings when Armsmaster brings it to her and resolves to use it to help save Taylor from herself and repay her for giving her a second chance. It's destruction ends up fully reawakening Annatar's memories and turning her back from the brink]].
79	* EmptyShell: [[spoiler: Heartbreaker's fate after provoking Annatar]].
80	* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Emma, after triggering, is so desperate to take Taylor down that she joins up with the Empire. She tries to get Shadow Stalker to help her as well, but Sophia wasn't having it]].
81	* EvilCostumeSwitch:
82	** [[spoiler: Panacea, of all people, switches out her robes for a MiniDressOfPower, and a [[NaughtyNurseOutfit Naughty Nurse Hat]] after becoming Annatar's [[CoDragons Co-Dragon]]]].
83	** [[spoiler: Annatar, after becoming more of a KnightTemplar, switchers her previous weapons for the mace Burzashdurb, and her armor turns completely black (it's just soot, but it apparently remains for several weeks, and has basically the same effect). It washes off when she has her HeelRealization]].
84	* EvilCounterpart: The new Empire Tinker Auxilary is described as a villainous version of Armsmaster.
85	* EvilIsNotAToy: Before handing out her trinkets, Taylor warns Power Rings are dangerous and additive and the bearer's fate is bound to theirs.
86	-->"The Rings of Power are dangerous and powerful. They will give you strength, but they will also bind you to them. If you accept the burden of their bearing, your fates will be forever tied to theirs. These are not mere trinkets, tools and weapons like other tinkertech; these will tie themselves to your very soul, and their essence will become inextricable from yours, save by death."
87	** [[spoiler: Coil and Trickster]] end up learning this the hard way after stealing a ring, with the latter feeling cold even when it's hot out and the former [[spoiler: winding up in a state that readers explicitly compared to Gollum]].
88	* EvilOverlord:
89	** Kaiser is a BigBadWannabe with ambitions to be this, strong enough for [[spoiler: Emma Barnes]] to ally with him against Annatar, and [[spoiler: outlasts the ABB, the Merchants, the Fallen, and the Heartbroken, only going down in the most recent arc]].
90	** [[spoiler: Taylor, being the reincarnation of the TropeCodifier, begins acting like this until Sophia snaps her out of it]].
91	** Morgoth cameos in several Omakes, including one where he [[CoolVsAwesome duels the Simurgh during the fall of Gondolin]].
92	* ExactWords: Taylor saying that she can't Master the wearers of the Rings comes across as this to Armsmaster's lie detector.
93	* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler: Emma, even with her powers, missed that her sister was a cape]].
94	* TheFogOfAges: Happened to [[spoiler: the Witch-King of Angmar]]. Only when he meets Taylor does he remember everything.
95	* ForTheEvulz: Glory Girl is flabbergasted that Bakuda would create an EMP bomb that would kill thousands partially for a power trip.
96	* FromBadToWorse:
97	** [[spoiler: Hearth ends with the Endbringer attack]].
98	** [[spoiler: After Leviathan, Valefor shows up, having taken offense to Annatar standing up to the monster]].
99	** [[spoiler: Emma Barnes [[EnemyMine allies with Empire 88]] out of fear of Annatar, going as far as to unmask Annatar and Shadow Stalker in public]].
100	** [[spoiler: Then, right after Coil of all people has stolen the Ring of Fire via Trickster, ''Heartbreaker'' shows up, looking for Regent]].
101	** [[spoiler: And then the Heartbroken provoke Annatar to a Second Trigger, inadvertently setting the reborn Sauron loose on Earth Bet, provoking Armsmaster and Shadow Stalker to form an alliance against her]].
102	** [[spoiler:Echidna creating an Eidolon clone]].
103	** [[spoiler: Jack Slash recruits the Eidolon echidna clone and kickstarts Gold Morning]].
104	** [[spoiler: Gold Morning]] is this rather than the final battle in and of itself, as [[{{Gotterdammerung}} Dagor Dagorath]] looms over Earth Bet due to Morgoth being a GreaterScopeVillain.
105	* GoneHorriblyRight:
106	** Taylor gives a particularly strong TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Emma. [[spoiler: Emma Triggers as a Thinker and then allies for convenience with the Empire 88]].
107	** Heartbreaker sends his son to get Taylor out of the way. [[spoiler: He is left an EmptyShell when a pissed-off Sauron is done with him]].
108	** [[spoiler: Bonesaw's tinkering with Jack's brain gets him possessed by his own Shard. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Bonesaw breaks down]] when she realizes she accidentally killed him]].
109	* GoodIsNotSoft: As convincing Dragon that trying to take over would be an appallingly bad idea, Annatar warns that her Family (ie. [[spoiler: Eru and the Valar]]) is in charge of reinforcing Justice, and ticking them off results in sunken continents.
110	-->"Dragon…" I swooped downward, looking up at her from just below her feet. The wind rustled around us, and the sea sparkled below. "I… I have been here before. The last time I tried to rule through fear and control my enemies, I was destroyed just in the moment of my victory. The same thing the time before. It doesn't work, Dragon—and it leaves you with nothing, not even yourself."\
111	"How?" Dragon yelled. "Who would have been left to fight against us?"\
112	"That's what I thought," I said, my voice closer than ever to Ancalagon's low rumble. I rose once more, my eyes level with hers. "But there is justice in this world, and… and there are beings greater than us, too. My family. My… my Father. And even if you cannot see them, cannot know them… they are here. And they will act." I imagined the earth crumbling beneath the Bay, the sea rushing up to reclaim the tainted earth. The image made me shudder. Leviathan could not compare to the wrath of the One.
113	* {{Gotterdammerung}}: Dagor Dagorath from Middle-Earth canon. [[spoiler: Gold Morning is the opening salvo, and the epilogue ends with the forces of the West preparing for Morgoth to escape the Doors of Night]].
114	* GreaterScopeVillain: Morgoth Bauglir, who has been this since his banishment after the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age, is mentioned in passing several times.
115	* HeelFaceTurn:
116	** [[spoiler: Grue joins the Wards post-Leviathan]].
117	** [[spoiler: Emma Barnes during the downfall of Empire 88]].
118	** [[spoiler: Bonesaw after Jack Slash's death, as in canon]].
119	* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Taylor, after fully regaining Mairon/Sauron's memories, and realizing she was going [[HeWhoFightsMonsters down the same path]]]].
120	--> '''[[spoiler: Taylor]]:''' I was wrong. I was ''always'' wrong.
121	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: Taylor starts slipping into this after fully reconnecting to her past self]].
122	* HopeBringer: During the [[spoiler: Endbringer fight]], Gallant uses his ring to reinvigorate the heroes.
123	* HumanoidAbomination:
124	** [[spoiler:Shaper, Amy's Shard]] becomes one after [[spoiler: Noelle's cloning ability gives it a body]].
125	** [[spoiler:Taylor/Annatar/Mairon]] is really an older-than-time-itself fallen angel reincarnated as an human girl.
126	* IDieFree: [[spoiler: the Witch-King has his Ring broken, and is freed to go on to the Halls of Mandos, in 14.6]].
127	* IHaveManyNames: Taylor goes through several-
128	** She starts out as Taylor Hebert.
129	** She adopts the Cape Name of Annatar, [[spoiler: briefly adopting it as a full-time identity after Second-Triggering]].
130	** After [[spoiler: her Second Trigger]], she realizes she is a [[spoiler: Maia]] and her past life was [[spoiler: Sauron]].
131	** After [[spoiler: her HeelRealization]], she starts going by the full-time identity of [[spoiler: Mairë]].
132	* InvisibleToNormals: Taylor's Rings when worn. Her hammer and anvil as well; Danny actually walked ''through'' it once without even noticing.
133	* InstantExpert: Taylor has instinctive skill with the weapons she makes.
134	* ItsAllAboutMe: Bakuda wanted, above all else, to be remembered, even if it meant killing thousands.
135	* ItsPersonal: When Danny almost gets killed during Bakuda's bombing spree, Taylor decides Bakuda is living on borrowed time.
136	-->'''Sophia:''' (coldly) "Bitch. Hasn’t she caused enough trouble for one night?"\
137	'''Taylor:''' She's caused enough trouble for one lifetime. Hers."
138	* KilledOffForReal:
139	** [[spoiler: Bakuda]].
140	** [[spoiler: Glory Girl]].
141	** [[spoiler: Trickster and Noelle]].
142	** [[spoiler: Sophia during Gold Morning]].
143	* LaResistance: [[spoiler: After Annatar slips into a more Sauron-esque mindset, Shadow Stalker and Armsmaster break off, and eventually form one of these with Chevalier, Narwhal, and Shielder, to stand against (and hopefully redeem) Taylor]].
144	* LastOfItsKind:
145	** [[spoiler: Taylor]] is the last remaining Maia actively involved in Arda [[spoiler: until the hosts of Valinor show up for Gold Morning]].
146	** [[spoiler: Arc 14 reveals that there is still one remaining Nazgul and one remaining Ring from the Second Age; that Ring was ''the'' last known surviving artifact from before the Downfall of Numenor]].
147	* LastSecondChance: After talking with her privately, Taylor decides to try and work with Sophia, but makes it clear that she'll be on the tight leash that she ''should'' have been on while on probation before and that she ''will'' get shipped off to juvie if she screws up again.
148	* LegendFadesToMyth: Nearly said word-for-word by Taylor when she [[spoiler: explains her true nature to Sophia]].
149	* LoyalPhlebotinum: The Rings work for Taylor because she made them, even if she can’t compliment them like a true bearer chosen by the ring could.
150	* MadeOfIndestructium: Mithril is nearly indestructible when properly forged.
151	* MagicallyBindingContract: If a Ring-Bearer swears an oath on their Ring, they ''have'' to follow it.
152	* MagneticHero: Annatar has an uncanny knack for getting people to follow her, and getting those followers to work together as a team. A lot of heroes ''and'' villains find this to be the most dangerous thing about her, even more than the Rings of Power. [[spoiler: It's the reason Cauldron recruits her]].
153	* MeaningfulRename: Taylor renames Aeglos Iphannis after [[spoiler:Leviathan]].
154	* MindRape: [[spoiler: Heartbreaker]] learns the hard way that [[spoiler: pissing off Sauron]] is a ''really'' bad idea, by being on the receiving end of this.
155	* {{Mithril}}: Taylor uses this in her weapons and armor. It's a fanfic of the TropeNamer after all.
156	* MoralityChain: [[spoiler: Sophia eventually becomes this to Taylor]] after the latter's HeelRealization.
157	* MuggingTheMonster: [[spoiler: One does not simply antagonize the reincarnation of Sauron]].
158	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Bonesaw's reaction after her tinkering on Jack Slash's brain gets him possessed by his own Shard]].
159	* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Taylor feels that her recklessness with Bakuda, which nearly got the other Wards killed, is this, and resolves to be better]].
160	* MythologyGag:
161	** Taylor's reaction to seeing [[spoiler: Hookwolf]] is ''[[Literature/TheSilmarillion "I could show him what a real werewolf is capable of"]]''.
162	** Ancalagon the Black is mentioned at least twice in the fic, [[spoiler: his fall onto Thangorodrim being remembered as one of Sauron's failures]].
163	** Several the Omakes:
164	*** Maglor is in Russia when he hears of a Cape calling herself Annatar, and rushes to intervene.
165	*** The three Silmarils canonically wound up in a chasm of fire (fire), thrown into the sea (water), and carried through the sky on a flying ship (air), leading at least one Omake to suggest that the first three Endbringers- Behemoth (fire), Leviathan (water), and the Simurgh (air)- are corrupted silmarils, [[spoiler: one Omake with Earendil also implying that the Simurgh is also a corrupted ''Elwing'']].
166	*** Some Omakes recreate scenes from the Peter Jackson movies.
167	*** One Omake with the Valar commending on the events of the fic has them noticing that [[spoiler: Mairë]] has ''finally'' gotten the point of Iluvatar's plan.
168	** Meta-example: [[spoiler: this fic's version of Gold Morning ends in a Tolkien-style Eucatastrophe, the hosts of Valinor sallying forth like in [[Literature/TheSilmarillion the end of the First Age]] and the BigBad being done in by a secondary character like [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the end of the Third Age]]. The fic also mentions the impending BookEnds regarding Morgoth]].
169	* NamedWeapons: Taylor has a tendency to name her weapons.
170	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Taylor keeps finding new things the Three can do, which is lampshaded.
171	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The [[spoiler: Echidna]] Arc almost ended ''early'' when [[spoiler: Krouse and Noelle decide to flee Brockton]] instead of fighting Annatar. Then [[spoiler: Dragon, who'd become something of a KnightTemplar from Annatar's influence, kills Krouse]]. Cue [[spoiler: a ''very'' angry Noelle]].
172	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: the Witch-King of Angmar may have been killed by Eowyn in the Battle of Pelennor Field, but his Ring wasn't destroyed, instead being left abandoned for eons. It isn't until 14.6 that the Witch-King is ''finally'' sent to the Halls of Mandos]].
173	* ObliviousToLove: [[spoiler: It's hinted that Genesis likes Regent, but Alec's so emotionally damaged by his father using his powers on him he can't really recognize it]].
174	** [[spoiler: It's hinted throughout the story that Sophia's loyalty to Taylor is something more, and in Wildfire 9.2 Taylor finally realises that Sophia just wants Taylor to love her]].
175	* OhCrap: ''numerous'' examples.
176	** Circus after finding out Annatar was almost killed in the bank robbery.
177	** The Protectorate after [[spoiler: Valefor crashes their publicity meeting for Grue joining the Wards]].
178	** Taylor and Sophia after [[spoiler: Oracle unmasks them in public]].
179	** [[spoiler: Heartbreaker when finding himself in Sauron's crosshairs]].
180	** ''[[MassOhCrap Everyone]]'' in at least one Omake where [[ArtifactOfDoom the One Ring]] is forged.
181	** Taylor and Sophia when the Slaughterhouse Nine attack San Francisco... and recruited an Eidolon clone known as Carte Blanche.
182	** Everyone present when [[spoiler: Jack gets possessed by the Broadcast Shard. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Bonesaw in particular]] has a breakdown after the fact]].
183	* {{Omake}}: Dozens, each with at least one MythologyGag to either ''Worm'' canon or Middle-Earth canon.
184	* {{Omniglot}}: Taylor knows all the Lord of the Rings languages. The PRT chalks it up to a quirk of her powers, since those languages don't exist here.
185	* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Danny explicitly calls Taylor/Annatar an angel when she explains her origins to him]].
186	* OutOfCharacterMoment: Early on, Taylor's speech and body language suddenly became hammiest or even disturbing, freaking out everybody and hinting at her true nature.
187	-->'''Taylor:''' "And then Emma seemed to have a weak spot for me. So you cauterized it. And she learned to love the hot iron. Like a slave begging for the whip."\
188	'''Sophia:''' (blanching) "The '''fuck'''? Where did you come up with that shit?"\
189	'''Taylor:''' "Oh, don't mind me."
190	* PokeInTheThirdEye: Attempting to use Thinker powers on [[spoiler: Taylor/Sauron]] results in this; when [[spoiler: Emma/Oracle]] attempts to get a Thinker reading on [[spoiler: Annatar]], what she sees is [[spoiler: an image of Mordor and Barad-Dur]], which [[spoiler: frightens her into [[EnemyMine allying with Empire88]] against Annatar]].
191	* ProperlyParanoid: Taylor gives Narya to Armsmaster because he'll not trust her unreservedly, and she need someone who will keep watch her over. Armsmaster accepts the Ring but he doesn't want to wear it unless he has to, proving Taylor chose well.
192	* PsychicBlockDefense: Narya makes Taylor immune to Mastery while she wears it.
193	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Emma is on the receiving end of one in "Twinkle 2.3" when she tries to bully Taylor after the latter's trigger event, which [[spoiler: results in Emma Triggering with a Thinker power]].
194	-->'''Taylor:''' "Tread carefully, little Icarus. You're flying a little too close to the sun."\
195	'''Emma:''' "You think I--"\
196	'''Taylor:''' (coldly) "I knew a little girl who loved her friends, and valued the truth, and knew right from wrong. That girl suffered, as we all do. You want to know the difference between her and me?" (brief pause) "I survived my trial. She broke."
197	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Noelle. In this version, she stops her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and allows Taylor to sever her Shard. The trauma is lethal, but she's glad she gets to [[DyingAsYourself Die As Herself]]]].
198	* RedemptionInTheRain: [[spoiler: Taylor's HeelRealization comes just in time for a sudden downpour, which has the added benefit of washing the soot from her armor, turning it from black back to its original silver]].
199	* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler: There are a number of hints that Taylor is Mairon/Sauron reborn, which are eventually confirmed later, by both Taylor's recovered memories and by Noelle's failed clones of Taylor being Mairon, Sauron, and the original Annatar]].
200	* ReforgedBlade: Taylor reforged [[spoiler: the shards of Narsil]] into [[spoiler: Amauril, "The Flame Of The East" as a gift for Sophia]].
201	* RingOfPower: Naturally. Taylor starts with the Three, and later gifts the Seven to the Wards.
202	** The One Ring cameos in several Omakes, is mentioned several times beforehand, and readers anticipated [[spoiler: Taylor would forge it for real after a high-profile Master like Valefor or Heartbreaker is in town]].
203	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the Bank job goes south and Regent and Grue are captured, Tattletale and Circus leave Coil's employ, especially after they learn about Dinah's kidnapping and Coil's plans for her, joining up with Faultline for protection.
204	* {{Seers}}:
205	** Taylor, of course.
206	** [[spoiler: Emma]] has seer-like powers and takes the name [[spoiler: Oracle]]. Specifically, she can see a person's real motivations when she looks at their face. [[spoiler: When she looks at Annatar, all she sees is Sauron]].
207	* SequelHook: In the epilogue, Taylor and company share a vision of [[spoiler: Curumo, aka Saruman, who has likewise been reincarnated... on [[Literature/TheStormlightArchive Roshar]]]]. They all resolve to undergo a quest to find [[spoiler: him]].
208	* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: Emma Barnes. She appears as a Bully in the beginning, then as an Empire cape, then pulls a HeelFaceTurn, then shows up during Gold Morning and even ''deals the coup-de-grace to Scion''. All in less than a dozen Chapters of screentime]].
209	* TheSocialExpert: Taylor, after triggering, displays such an aptness for talking people into things that it's an ongoing debate, in-universe ''and'' out, whether she should be classified as a Master. WordOfGod is that, had she not gone to the Protectorate right off the bat, they likely would've classified her as a Master because, even if she doesn't actually have the ''power'' to control people, she's so good at getting them to do what she wants anyway that it's practically a moot point.
210	* SpiderPeople: [[spoiler: Panacea, after being convinced to use her powers in more...''direct'' ways, has apparently taken to creating giant spider legs from her back. Naturally, reviewers have made to connection Shelob]].
211	* StrawNihilist: Bakuda, who came to the conclusion that the world and the people in it are shit, that one can't change that with what little time they have and decided that she would do all that she could simply to be remembered.
212	* SuperEmpowering: The Rings Taylor gives the Wards enhance their existing powers, Clockblocker can now slow down time around him, but his allies still think at the normal rate, Vista can affect direction, allowing her to say that "down" is, say, a spot 5 feet in the air and cause things in an affected area to fall up and remain floating in that spot, Aegis gets a HealingFactor, Gallant's EmotionBomb powers get stronger and he has better control that lets him do more than simple blasts, Browbeat gets increased self-control (leading him to be banned from poker with the others), Kid Win's Tinkering and focus are boosted, and Sophia can teleport through shadows.
213	** She later gives a minor ring to her father that does this to a more minor degree.
214	** [[spoiler: After Victoria is killed by Leviathan, Taylor gives Nenya to Panacea]].
215	* SuperReflexes: When Clockblocker uses his new power, times slows down but his allies think at a normal rate, allowing them to fake this.
216	* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler: Taylor does this when giving Nenya to Panacea, keeping her from jumping off of the Medhall building after Vicky's death]].
217	* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted, Taylor has to see a counselor after [[spoiler: killing Bakuda]].
218	* ThenLetMeBeEvil: ''Narrowly'' Averted. After [[spoiler: Noelle's RedemptionEqualsDeath, Taylor worries that pursuing her own redemption will result in the same; if her options are limited to dying for her atonement, or becoming a Dark Lord again, than she ''will'' choose the latter]]. Thankfully, [[spoiler: Sophia]] is on hand to talk [[spoiler: her]] down by promising that [[spoiler: they can find redemption ''together'']].
219	* TogetherInDeath: Taylor tells [[spoiler: a dying Noelle]] that she'll see [[spoiler: Krouse again in the Halls of Mandos]]. [[spoiler: Noelle]] says it's a nice thought, but she doesn't believe it.
220	* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: As of 9.1, Taylor has realized that she isn't really human]].
221	* UltimateBlacksmith: Taylor/Annatar, naturally.
222	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: Taylor develops this ability after Heartbreaker's son Shutdown attacks her at her house]].
223	* WebcomicTime: Minor, but Taylor muses how it seems like she's been doing this longer than she really has.
224	* WellIntentionedExtremist
225	* WreckedWeapon: [[spoiler: Narsil. ''[[HistoryRepeats Again]]''. And just like last time, it was while being used against Annatar/Sauron]].
226	** [[spoiler: Burzashdurb is deliberately destroyed by Taylor to symbolize her moving past her darkness. She later reforges it, but with a mithril finish, and renames it "Sunrise"]].
227	* WrittenByTheWinners: [[spoiler: After Bakuda apparently kills the Wards and the kids of New Wave, Annatar tells her that, like how almost nobody remembers Grendel but everyone remembers Beowulf, no one will remember her as more than a footnote in Annatar's own story in the end. The trope name is even dropped in an Omake where she ''does'' know who Grendel is]].
228	* WrongContextMagic: Taylor/Annatar's powers are hinted to not be the result of a normal trigger, especially since Panacea notes that her Corona seems dead.
229	* VerbalBackspace: Taylor explains to Piggot that she can forge the Rings of Power, but corrects the number from twenty to nineteen because she didn't plan on forging [[ArtifactOfDoom the One Ring]].

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