- Angst? What Angst?:
- Elminster is upset when his father and mother are murdered, along with his hometown being burned to the ground, but he gets over it very quickly (albeit seeking revenge even so). It's still much more believable than when he just wakes up from suspended animation over three hundred years and then finds the entire city of Hastarl is gone, destroyed by an orc horde, with everyone he'd known (including his close friends there) all long dead, which it seems doesn't affect him at all.
- Elminster ends up in stasis for a century and when he wakes up finds that Myth Drannor, the city he sought so hard to reform, has been turned into a hellish demon-ridden ruin. Elminster takes it in stride.
- Escapist Character: Elminster is an incredibly powerful mage who gets with goddesses, elves, dryads, and more.
- Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Elminster in Hell basically consists of Elminster being tortured for the entire book by an Archdemon while everyone futilely struggles to rescue him.
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