Villains by Necessity
Book • 1995 • Fantasy
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Sam is implied to be the child of rape, or at least of a relationship that resulted in his mother being unable to care for herself due to trauma. His mother dies when Sam accidently starts a fire while killing a man raping her. Sam mentions he makes a point of killing every rapist he comes across. At one point he finds a group of men trying to rape a girl and kills them. One character tries to use aphrodisiac-laced wine to get a character to sleep with him, but she doesn't touch any food he gives her and gets away without him touching her. One character kisses another while both are drunk, and once sober she tells him not to do that again.
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In a dream, a character imagines their bird familiar dead. A background character's familiar is hurt, though it is unclear if the familiar dies. The main characters go hunting at one point, though not much detail is given to the gory bits.
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Does a horse die?
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At a point, all the main character's steeds are HEAVILY implied to drown. Detail is not given, only alluding to their useless waterlogged saddles. It is very sad.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Its joked that a character nearly took his eye out while balancing a knife on his nose. He's fine though.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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The demi-god character is cursed with infinite knowledge and tries to hang himself to escape it. Unfortunately, he was also gifted with immortality, so he is forced to hang forever, which he hates. He really wants to die. He does die by the end of the book, which is framed as a good thing as he is no longer on the brink of madness by his infinite knowledge. So yes, a character does die (off-screen!) to suicide, but it was a death that he wanted and that saved him from a lot of misery.
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A character tugs out a lock of his hair at one point, which is described as painful, but I wouldn't really describe it as self-harm.
I don't think it really counts here but at one point a character has to murder his magic clone and it... gets pretty gory...
I don't think it really counts here but at one point a character has to murder his magic clone and it... gets pretty gory...
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Does a kid die?
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One of the characters lost her child to genocide, as well as her partner, leaving her the only survivor. The murder of her family is described but does not go into gory detail
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Is there sexual content?
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Despite a lot of implied rape, no sexual content ever goes down.
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I would be very impressed if you could find me a book with jumpscares
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The main character is an assassin. Every fight he gets in to gets VERY bloody. Its never drawn out for the sake of being drawn out, or gory for shock factor- it's used as simply a part of battle. The worst scene is when the main character is forced to shove his hand into an enemy's intestines to kill him. It is given a gross amount of detail. It's only a few lines, though, so you can skip it. Characters nearly die to gruesome wounds several times, but no main characters die to wounds.
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Does a head get squashed?
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A character does have his head chopped off, but he deserved it
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Are there spiders?
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There is a brief scene where a character sticks his head into an old fireplace and a big spider falls on him. The spider is killed and its played for goofs.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Sam's mother and presumably several others die in a fire Sam started while fighting off his mother's rapist. A character gets severely injured by dragonfire, but doesn't die.
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Are there bugs?
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No- see spider for details
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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A character temporarily loses his skills and training and describes himself as useless several times
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Does a dragon die?
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The protagonists fight a dragon several times, but the dragon survives. They travel through the lair of a long-dead evil dragon. The bloody death of a wyvern is described, along with the death of its newly hatched baby.
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Is someone buried alive?
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The characters are underground for a bit, but never get caved in. There is a burial scene for a dead character where the body is magically sunken into the earth, but she's already dead.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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A character used blowguns as a weapon several times. He also plays darts, and attention is given to the quality of the darts (not necessarily the pointy part)
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A character describes shaving his stubble. Its very brief.
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Is there a hanging?
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One character tries to hang himself, but since he is immortal he is forced to hang for eternity. Eventually, he does die, but its what he wanted to happen anyways (see is there a suicide for more details)
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Is there hate speech?
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Not really intentional, but the g slur is used to describe a group of nomads with a penchant for theft, who the main characters visit to get the advice of a fortune teller. The main characters do express admiration for the people, and the word isn't used as an insult, but seeing the word thrown around so casually made me uncomfortable.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does someone drown?
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The characters nearly drown at one point, but get out okay.
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Does someone miscarry?
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One of the main characters, in a flashback, is seen telling her husband she's pregnant, before her entire race is murdered. By the time she joins the party, she doesn't have a baby with her, and she isn't currently pregnant, so one can infer something happened to the baby between the flashback and her introduction that killed it. Its unknown at what point the child was killed, so it could count under kid death.
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Does someone break a bone?
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One character has a rib poking out of his skin, with the bone visible. I feel like it's safe to assume he broke it
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Sam's mother died when he was very young and it was very traumatic. The other characters don't go into much detail on their parents, but it can be inferred that two of the group's members lost their parents to genocide, if they did not die by old age before the story takes place.
[MASSIVE END OF STORY SPOILER] Sam finds out who is father is towards the end of the book, and gets to kill him. It is VERY satisfying, but also rather bloody.
[MASSIVE END OF STORY SPOILER] Sam finds out who is father is towards the end of the book, and gets to kill him. It is VERY satisfying, but also rather bloody.
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The main characters are chased by the antagonists throughout the story. One character, in particular, is watched by a main antagonist, as he finds her very beautiful and wants to seduce her. The main characters are fully aware they're being followed and do their best to outrun their pursuers.
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Does the black guy die first?
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No characters have described races or skin tones.
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The characters do drink and get drunk on occasion, and one character accidentally drinks a ton of alcohol at once (to the humor of his companions). It is then joked several times that he's an alcoholic, but he isn't really.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The characters are underground in narrow tunnels twice. Both times, a claustrophobic character panics and imagines the walls closing in, but nothing bad happens and they all get out okay.
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Is someone possessed?
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The antagonist HAS brainwashed many of the people the protagonists used to know, but I don't think it counts as possession. If people having their will forcibly changed counts as possession, then yes people get possessed.
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The characters nearly fall to their death at one point, but they get out okay.
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One character is kidnapped by a dragon and held hostage. The other characters rescue her before she could get hurt, but it does happen.
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One character mentions he's gained immunity to several poisons. You could count those as drugs maybe?
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There is one implied to be, but he is friendly and his undead-ness is never used for shock or horror
[VERY MINOR END OF BOOK SPOILERS] At the very end of the book, the ghost of a dead demi-god appears to offer wisdom and congratulations to the protagonists. Since he is a demi-god, it is unclear how death affects him. He is friendly and his undead-ness is never used for shock or horror
[VERY MINOR END OF BOOK SPOILERS] At the very end of the book, the ghost of a dead demi-god appears to offer wisdom and congratulations to the protagonists. Since he is a demi-god, it is unclear how death affects him. He is friendly and his undead-ness is never used for shock or horror
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A claustrophobic character panics while the party goes underground several times, but either gets to quickly leave the area or gets reassured by his friends, calming him down.
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