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A Tale with No Names

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  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The very first chapter has animals and trees talking about the poor state of the kingdom. While it helps with the symbolism, it contrasts with the rest of the book, which has no talking animals and plants, not even a single other supernatural element.
  • Catharsis Factor:
    • How Judge Hareheart is dealt with. After covering up Cunningson's crimes, beating up and imprisoning innocent people and betraying his own country, leading it to near-total disaster, it's beyond cathartic to see him trembling in fear in front of the consequences, being dragged to a trial by one of his victims and finally getting hanged for his crimes.
    • Uncle King's defeat is this both In-Universe and out, as his insulting gift is returned to him in an equally insulting way.
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • Cunningson crosses it by stealing from both the royal family and the poor for his own gain.
    • The jester crosses it by taking the dead Cunningson's stolen loot for himself.
    • Hareheart already shows himself as an asshole by being a Dirty Coward who bullies the poor, but he hits rock bottom by becoming a traitor.

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