Belgariad: Difference between revisions
Nephewism and Forgot About His Powers examples. Copied from my own edits on TVTropes.
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* [[Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt]]: Anyone who owns Murgo red gold has probably been bribed by them. Justified in that red gold has addictive qualities to it.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Blink and you'll miss it in ''Pawn of Prophecy''. Garion, while talking to Barak, mentions an augury for Durnik {{spoiler|that said he would die twice.}}
* [[Forgot About His Powers]]: The Orb's basically infinite power is often forgotten when Garion and/or other members of the party need to do something strenuous via sorcery, causing them to tire themselves out when it's not really necessary. Used mostly for [[Played for Drama|dramatic effect]].
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Belsambar. Belgarath recollects: "I think he knew half the rabbits and deer in the vale by their first names, and birds used to perch on him the way they would have if he had been a tree." Polgara is a friend to all birds. Ce'nedra talks to trees - ''and'' they listen to her!(she's a dryad, after all.)
* [[Functional Magic]]: The Will and the Word -- Focus your will, and then say the word. If you [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|believe]] (and happen to be a sorcerer), it'll happen. There are a variety of other types of magic users, including witches (who deal with spirits in nature, magicians (who summon and "control" demons), "wizards" with unspecified minor powers, necromancers, and seers, but in the end they are all stated to be variations of the same concept. Also, alchemy turns lead into gold... and glass into steel (or possibly high-durability plastic).
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{{quote|'''Garion:''' (in response to Ce'Nedra) "Why dear, I didn't even think you knew what half of those words meant!"}}
* [[Nay Theist]]: At the age of nine, Belsambar, after being forced to witness [[Human Sacrifice|a religious ritual]] involving his parents, rejected not just Torak but all the gods.
* [[Nephewism]]: Garion was raised by his "aunt" Polgara, who in actuality is his great-great-great-etc-aunt.
* [[No Loves Intersect]]: Yep, no love triangles here. Except for one (Mandorallen and two minor characters), and Garion cleans that up quite handily. Technically, Silk's [[Unrequited Love]] for Queen Porenn would also count, except he basically gets over it in ''The Malloreon''. Literally everyone gets married to their ideal counterpart in the end with no serious griping from anybody else. Justified in that the Purpose that guides the Child of Light likes to reward the people working in its favor (even the small roles, such as the Darine prophet's daughter) by giving them extremely happy marriages. [[Earn Your Happy Ending|Possibly as an apology for the stuff it puts them through in the process.]]
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Silk gets several, including but not limited to: interfering with a ploy of Bethra's involving the Nadrak ambassdor, causing her to attempt to have him killed; being smuggled out of Cthol Murgos by a Thullish lady of high station, possibly for reasons related to the also-never-clearly-explained incident which led to the death of the Murgo crown prince; and fleeing Tol Honeth "posing as an acrobat in a travelling circus, and about one jump ahead of the police".
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