The Soldier Son is a Fantasy trilogy by Robin Hobb, featuring a more modern setting than usual. The books are:
- Shaman's Crossing
- Forest Mage
- Renegade's Magic
- A Friend in Need - Arguably a major theme throughout the books. For example, one of the major differences between Nevare and is how they behave in situations like this. Many of the subtropes show up, too.
- Agent Mulder - Epiny.
- A Million Is a Statistic - As it turns out,
- Anti-Anti-Christ -
- Anti-Magic - Iron.
- Anyone Can Die
- Arranged Marriage - Nevare and Carsina.
- Attempted Rape
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- Balancing Death's Books - Well, Soldier's Boy tries, at least.
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- Big Bad Friend - Of course, things are a bit more complicated than usually in this trope, since there's no clearly Evil side. Not to mention he couldn't exactly help it.
- Blessed with Suck - Being a wizard sounds great, but not when you realize what it can and will do to you, should you ever go against the will of your magic.
- The Caligula - becomes this after the Speck Plague strikes his family.
- The Cassandra - Nevare throughout most of the second book.
- Cosmic Plaything - and others, for the magic.
- Country Mouse - Nevare and most of the battle lords' sons, compared to the old nobles' sons.
- The Chosen One - You get one guess.
- Culture Clash - Between the Gernians and the Specks.
- Cute Kitten - Comes into play near the end.
- Cycle of Revenge
- Daddy's Girl - This time it's Epiny.
- Dating Catwoman - Olikea.
- Defrosting Ice Queen - Amzil.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance - Gernian gender roles, among other things.
- Despair Event Horizon - crosses it, and it drives him mad.
- Used as a weapon by the in Forest Mage.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty
- The Dutiful Son - A variation runs between Nevare and his female cousin Epiny.
- Earn Your Happy Ending - Robin Hobb seems fond of these.
- Enemy Within
- Equivalent Exchange - Magic/
- Faking the Dead
- Fantastic Racism - Goes with the Mighty Whitey attitude of the Gernians, mentioned below.
- Fantasy Gun Control - Averted.
- Functional Magic - the "Wild" subtype (Speck); the Plains magic appears to be some kind of Force Magic.
- Gaia's Vengeance - Subverted.
- Going Native - Although "being dragged" might be a better verb choice.
- Gollum Made Me Do It - A curse here, a hand sign there, a steel knife there...
- Grey and Gray Morality
- I Just Want to Be Normal - Nevare, fiercely. Provided "nobility, with lots of privileges" counts as normal.
- In Mysterious Ways
- It's All My Fault
- It's Not You, It's My Enemies
- Laser-Guided Amnesia
- Love Makes You Evil -
- Man-Eating Plant - Corpse eating plant,
- Mighty Whitey - Deconstructed in Gernia's colonization of the Plainspeople and the Specks.
- Moral Myopia - On all sides, regarding the others.
- Murder the Hypotenuse - See Love Makes You Evil above.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero - Nevare gets a couple of these from Hitch, among others.
- The Neidermeyer - Colonel Stiet, among others.
- Noble Savage - Dewara. Possibly. the Specks.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
- Pater Familicide - Mention is made of a father who strangled his wife and drowned his children before shooting himself.
- The Plague
- Powered by a Forsaken Child - The Dance generates
- Reality Ensues
- Rebellious Princess - Epiny
- Refusal of the Call - Nevare has practically disconnected the phone, and yet it keeps ringing ...
- Rich Bitch - Carsina, and Epiny's mother.
- Spirit World - Nevare and Dewara's spirit journey, later
- Split Personality
- Villainous BSOD - Although the villain in question is a lesser one.
- Weaponized Weakness - Iron beats magic. And mages.
- We Have Reserves - Kinrove's attitude towards the Dancers.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist - All the Great Ones except Jodoli.
- Wham Chapter - At least one per book.
- What the Hell, Hero? - Despite meaning well, poor Nevare gets way more of these than words of encouragement.
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