The Soldier Son is a Fantasy trilogy by Robin Hobb, featuring a more modern setting than usual. The books are:

1. Shaman's Crossing
2. Forest Mage
3. 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.