Battle Magic
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Does a cat die?
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All seven of Evvy's cats are intentionally killed. Their deaths occur off screen and their owner wakes up on a pile of corpses, the cats included.
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An army of animals, some real, some magic, fight an invading force. Several die.
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Evvy, a 12 year old stone mage, is captured, stripped nude, tied into a position that leaves her vulva accessible, and then caned across her feet. Two adult men are in the room as this happens, one doing the caning, and then an adult woman comes along and uses a rod to hit Evvy's feet instead.
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Is there a dead animal?
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One of the main characters wakes up in a pile of dead bodies, humans and animals alike. There was also floating dead animals in an earlier chapter, and likely other dead animals throughout
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The 12 year old stone mage vomits twice, after the first battle in the book, and in the final one she fights in.
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Does a horse die?
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Throughout but starting after around chapter ten, they are at war and more than once, the characters specifically aim to kill the horses.
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Is there excessive gore?
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There's a lot of gore. It's a book called Battle Magic though and it is very clear in its synopsis that a war occurs, so I don't think it can be considered excessive.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Early on Evvy is told she must wear makeup and lipstick to meet the emperor, and she refuses to wear the lipstick as she is only 12. The maid dressing her attempts to push the issue. She is also later stripped nude and tied in a compromising position while she is tortured.
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A captain in the protagonists' side of the war throws himself off the wall of the fort when it is captured, rather than let themself be captured and tortured.
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Is someone tortured?
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Evvy, a 12 year old stone mage, is tortured for the location of her friends and fellow protagonists. She is stripped naked and tied down to be tortured. She magically seals the knowledge away from her own access, and she is caned on her feet, and then a rod is used on them. They threaten to kill her cats so she uses her magic to play dead. They kill the cats anyways.
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Is rape mentioned?
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I say no, but a girl is stripped nude and tortured. Presumably the logic is to take away all weapons etc she had, but she was also put in a compromising position that left her genitals in an accessible location.
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Does a kid die?
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Offscreen, but the protagonists discover more than one pile of dead civilians, including children and infants.
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Is there body horror?
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The cave snakes are human skulls and vertebrae made of metal. There are also creatures that are depicted as creations by bored gods, that go against nature.
We are also given depictions of piles of corpses, and brief mentions of serious wounds, including ones that require battlefield amputation.
We are also given depictions of piles of corpses, and brief mentions of serious wounds, including ones that require battlefield amputation.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Offscreen it is mentioned that Rosethorn spends the night in the tent of the ex slave/prince Parahan, and in her next point of view segment, she mentions that she found him to exactly the kind of lover she was looking for. Attentive, kind, and funny. That whomever he marries will be a lucky woman.
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Is there blood/gore?
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The book is called Battle Magic. It is about three mages going to war. There is plenty of death and gore.
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Are there spiders?
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Sentient spiders aid one of the main characters. They resurface several times throughout the book after.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Early chapter, the protagonists are visiting the imperial gardens when they notice a rose with mold on its roots. They beg the emperor to not kill the rose and to not punish the gardeners for it, and they do save that rose- only to wake up to find that the Emperor has set the entire garden ablaze, complete with the team of gardeners tied in the middle of it and left to burn.
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Are there nude scenes?
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Evvy is captured and stripped nude before being tortured. Near the end, they have a communal bath, though the men cover their eyes until the women are fully settled under the water. Evvy is mentioned as climbing out of the water and making a statement before she recalls she is nude, and grabs a robe.
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Does a non-human character die?
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The plant mages are able to speak to and understand plants as fully sentient. A full garden is burned due to the Emperor's displeasure, and we are given a bit of the point of view of one of the roses as it happens.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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One of the protagonists is a stone mage. She drops rocks on people who want to kill them. At one point a mountain helps her open the ground and swallow an entire regiment. Another of the protagonists is a plant mage who makes the wooden beads on several people's necklaces grow back into full trees- around the people wearing the necklaces.
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Is someone buried alive?
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A mountain gets angry at humans for hurting his new stone mage friend, and swallows them whole.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Sort of? The eldest of the three protagonists has a fling with a man, and her student remarks that yes, if he were attracted to men, he would also think the man was quite desirable. The teacher also swooned lightly when she met the man, thinking he was quite pleasant on the eyes.
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Is there amputation?
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Briefly mentioned, they say that they are saving the pain killers for those who need battlefield amputation.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Though a history of that having happened is referenced, as all three protagonists have had a hard family life.
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Is there misophonia?
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I think this counts? The mountains sing. The stone mage finds it entrancing, and the plant mages and others find it skull shatteringly painful.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Probably. Several people are swallowed whole by the earth. Several people have trees sprout and encompass them.
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Is someone drugged?
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A character is chloroformed as she returns from a walk. In a much later chapter they are also magically spelled to make them sleep.
In a less unpleasant sense but still potentially triggering, one of the characters is also given a pain killer and sleep causing combination in order to treat one of the wounds he sustains. They do force it on him more than once as it is easier to help someone who is asleep than it is to help someone who is screaming and magically making every bit of plant material in an absurd radius fight you.
In a less unpleasant sense but still potentially triggering, one of the characters is also given a pain killer and sleep causing combination in order to treat one of the wounds he sustains. They do force it on him more than once as it is easier to help someone who is asleep than it is to help someone who is screaming and magically making every bit of plant material in an absurd radius fight you.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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One character says they would rather die than be captured. Later, after having been captured, another character asks people to kill them rather than let them be captured, and notes that they will do it themselves rather than be taken again.
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Is someone restrained?
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A number of times. We are early on introduced to Parahan who is a slave and is always cuffed at both ankles, both wrists, and his neck. Sometimes he is leashed. The main characters restrain several people using magic vines, though most are then killed in short order. Evvy is captured, stripped nude, and then tied down. Near the end of the book, all of the protagonist's side is captured, and a young boy king is put in a similar leash and chain situation as Parahan was at the beginning.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Evvy the stone mage has PTSD from her capture, and Briar the plant mage has the beginnings of PTSD nightmares that continue on and worsen into the chronologically following, but publishing preceding book, Will of the Empress.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone choked?
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During the combat, the protagonist mages use the necklaces of the enemy to choke them.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Evvy the stone mage is kept unconscious while she is being healed from torture and she is cared for by non-humans who do not understand the need, especially in those with vulvas, to not sit in their own excrement longer than absolutely required. It is also implied that Parahan intentionally soils himself to pass himself as a homeless man as he flees from slavery.
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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It is explicitly addressed that while a woman does have an affair with a man, despite having a female lover at home, she is in an open relationship with said female lover and has active permission to take others to her bed. It does still make her adoptive son a little uncomfortable.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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After her capture and subsequent faked death to freedom, Evvy has more than one panic attack about the idea of being caught again.
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Are there snakes?
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For a certain description of Snake anyways. They are metal skulls with spinal cords that apparently somehow are their own species now.
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Does someone die?
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A war happens. No main characters die.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Not a proper hospital anyways? The plant mages do use their medicines to help with wounded soldiers.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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As background civilians and villagers.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A character throws themselves off the ramparts of the fort rather than be taken alive and tortured for information. Several people may have also fallen and died during a few of the battle scenes but I can't recall any specifically being mentioned to have died from falling.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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See my other comments about capture and torture. The emperor also keeps a slave that was kidnapped from his father and sister by his uncle and then sold.
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Does someone spit?
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Several times, to curse about the Emperor who is attacking them.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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In the beginning of the book, Rosethorn has breathing troubles, speaking troubles and has a hard time staying warm. This is from a previous short time dead, depriving parts of her brain of oxygen, though she was brought back and treated before it became anything more. She is later magically strengthened and cured.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Near the end, they all have baths. That's it. Nothing sexy.
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Only in the use of medical treatment for battlefield surgery and amputations.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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But only in the context of fantasy languages that exist in that world and not ones sourced from an earth language.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Evvy is chloroformed, Briar is put under for surgery, the entire city is put to sleep for three days to make it easier to conquer.
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Is someone homeless?
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For a time after his escape from slavery, Parahan is unhomed. He cannot return home or his uncle will sell him into slavery again, so he sells his services as a warrior to the religious leader nearby. Technically he does not live there at the end of the book, but will remain there until he and his sister are prepared to retake his country from his uncle.
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Is there pedophilia?
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A twelve year old is expected to put on lipstick for the emperor, despite her rejecting it as she is still a child. She is also stripped nude while tortured and her age is brought up, although they don't act out anything more actively sexual than her positioning, and that grown men are looking at her during that. There is no evidence they enjoy her body but it's still. Iffy.
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