- Genius Bonus: Both In-Universe and out of it. When the Red Knight drops a pair of dice into the river as he sets out to fight the Duke of Thrake and rescue the Emperor in The Fell Sword, Sauce explains the meaning of the gesture to those who are puzzled by it: "the die is cast", and there's no turning back. However, what none of them realize is that the Morean general who first said that phrase did so when he committed himself to a course of action that would end with him either on the throne or dead.note As the Red Knight himself later admits, he had been planning to make himself Emperor of Morea since before the events of the first book.
- Plot Tumor: The fight against Ash and his forces for control of the inter-dimensional gates scattered around the world gradually takes over the plot, to the point where the last two books are centered entirely around it. Whether that's a good thing or not is, of course, entirely up to the reader.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The Red Knight (aka Gabriel) is basically Mordred of Arthurian Legend. He's introduced as his mother's vengeance on the King of Alba, a Wild sorcerer of unrivaled power that all creatures of the Wild, including Thorn, refer to as "the Dark Sun". When the King learns who the Red Knight is at the end of the titular book, he's terrified of the implications. However, the King is unceremoniously killed off in The Dread Wyrm before anything can come of it, and Ash's appearance steers the conflict away from the throne of Alba.
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