Line #18 Literature/TheLineageOfTellus


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Ashei and Finn, from the cover of Book One.]]
3	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tellus_map_002.gif]][[caption-width-right:350:Tellus Ala Book One]]
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5	The Lineage of Tellus is a fantasy series by L. J. Hasbrouck, first published in 2014 by Greyhart Press. It follows the adventures of heroine Ashei Greyhawke and her band of friends, and is set in a fictional land called Tellus. It is a high fantasy series with a modern touch, including witty dialogue generously peppered with innuendo.
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7	The characters include Ashei Greyhawke, a student at the Arcane Arts Academia who bartends part-time and lives with her mother, Lenora, and their goat, Chewy. Her best friend is Marianne Theobolde, an outgoing and flirtatious pirate who goes to school with her. Her other best friend (and former lover) is Tristane Sedgrace, a half-elven mage who still harbors feelings for her. On their journeys they meet up with Finn, a talented but brash warrior, Varrus, a greedy, uncouth mercenary, and Van, a suave but oddly aloof pirate captain.
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9	Their adventures begin when Ashei loses someone close to her and she seeks answers for herself. She and her friends travel to other lands within Tellus such as Grenvale, a green, hilly land home to mercenaries and dwarves, Atland, an independent island that is technologically advanced, Malus, a volcanic island home to a banished mage and cretinous creatures, and Fleurdan, a mountainous, snowy region that is home to the Elder and the Academia.
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11	Tellus is home to Magus, an energy source of sorts split into three types: Natura, Spiritus, and Sanguinem. Nature, Spirit, and Blood respectively. Sanguinem is forbidden to teach at the Academia, and others exist not yet known to them.
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13	[[spoiler:Eventually the series progresses to include a new set of main protagonists after a TimeSkip, concluding with a collection of short stories.]]
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15	The series belongs to the HighFantasy and HeroicFantasy genres with elements of SexComedy. It can also be more broadly labeled as a {{Drama\|tropes}}, {{Action\|Genre}}, and {{Romance}}.
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18	!! This series provides examples of:
19	%%* AdventureFriendlyWorld: The heroes are perpetually traveling all over Tellus.%%Not the trope.
20	%%* ArtifactOfDoom: The Dracostones that can trigger whatever their owner wishes, especially when multiple are combined.%%Not the trope.
21	%%* BlackMagic: Levane, most of the Feall and Asahi clan.
22	%%* BloodMagic: Sanguinem Magus is literally blood magic.
23	* CastFullOfGay: Practically everyone, except for the (mostly) straight heroine, and the mercenary Varrus. Latter antagonist Shiruka is interested in women only [[spoiler: mostly Karina]], while [[spoiler: Tris and Finn]] only love each other.
24	* ConstructedWorld: Tellus is entirely original, though traces of Earth obviously inspire it. But it exists with its own modicum of energy and magus, and arguably its own universal version of time itself.
25	* DowsingDevice: The Mysticum Aqua only sees what is willed of it, via distance and time.
26	%%* EquivalentExchange: What Tristane does [[spoiler:to cure Finn]]; Sanguinem Magus in general.
27	%%* FantasyGunControl: Subverted with bombs.
28	* FantasyWorldMap: Book two includes a map showing the world of Tellus as visited within book one.
29	* FunctionalMagic: Finn, Tristane, Karina, Leander, Levane, the Ancients/some Teaglochians - not all Tellians are born with a gift for magus, but it is an thing you are born with.
30	* HitchhikerHeroes: The entire gang is constantly traveling from point A to B, to Z and back to A...
31	%%* IfItsYouItsOkay: [[spoiler: Tristane and Finn for each other.]]
32	* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: The Eochar Van finds and gives to Ashei.
33	* MagicAIsMagicA: The magus within Tellus operates within firmly established 'scientific' boundaries as pertain to the world' own set of existing energies.
34	%%* MindControl: [[spoiler: Levane over Finn.]]
35	%%* {{Mordor}}: Malus, where BigBad Levane resides.
36	%%* {{Necromancy}}: Levane can raise the dead.
37	* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Most of the creatures in Tellus are stock fantasy types, ie Vampires, Undead, Dragons, etc. However, the dragons are shapeshifters, the Vampires AREN'T seductive shapeshifters, the undead are resurrected by a mage and don't turn others with their bites ... and so forth.
38	* PlotCoupon: The Dracostones, the Eochar, the ingredients for Finn's potion. Arguably the potion Tristane retrieves from the Nether Realm.
39	* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Finn's identity as Lenora’s murderer, Levane’s son, AND Ashei’s brother; Leander as Ashei’s father; Lelouch as the villain and Lilith the ruined heroine. Also, Van as Karina's father, and Shiruka surviving her death at the end of book four.]]
40	%%* {{Revenge}}: Ashei's main motivation from the get go.
41	%%* RoyalBlood: [[spoiler: Ashei, Varrus, Aedan.]]
42	%%* {{Shapeshifting}}: Werewolves and the Draconem are two major examples of this.
43	%%* StandardFantasyRaces: Humans, giants, elves, and dwarves.
44	* StandardFantasySetting: The series contains a lot of the important elements: opposing realms, the '5' species, magic, monsters ... etc.
45	%%* WhiteMagic: Leander, Tris (to a degree).

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