Literal Change of Heart: Aeriel gives up her heart to save Irrylath.How Do You Like Them Apples?: Apricoks, produced by a tree on the Bern shore of the Sea-of-Dust.Hammerspace: Aeriel's velvet bag from the first book.Hair of Gold: Aeriel has platinum-blond hair.Green Eyes: Aeriel's eyes are originally described as 'fig-green,' later as 'peridot.'.Empty Shell: Icari's brides, known as wraiths, are the hollow, bloodless, nearly mindless remnants left of women whose souls have been stolen.Aeriel is set apart from everyone except Erin Because Destiny Says So. Downer Ending: The ending of the last book.Dead Little Sister: Eoduin to Aeriel what kicks the story off is darkangel!Irrylath abducting and making a wraith out of her.Bedouin Rescue Service: The Pendarlon leaves Aeriel in the care of a clan of desert-dwellers after rescuing her when she escapes the Darkangel.While most of the Lorelei's pets and flunkies are hideous (the mudlick, and implied to be the case of the trolls) or at least scary (the weaselhounds, jackals, and rhuks), Oriencor herself is beautiful (albeit, once again, in a way that's disturbing and clearly inhuman). The gargoyles are bony, awkwardly proportioned, scabby-looking, and initially unfriendly once Aeriel befriends them, they're good even before the Baleful Polymorph effect concealing their idealized animal Nature Spirit true forms is removed. Irrylath is beautiful (albeit in an eerie, colorless, too-perfect way) as a darkangel, but it's later revealed that that's because he's still got some fragment of his humanity remaining most darkangels are flat-out creepy and not pretty at all. Bad Dreams: The titular Darkangel is stricken with these as a result of Aeriel's stories.

Given his maker, this is somewhat justified.

Ambiguous Innocence: The titular Darkangel still has very much the attitudes of a child, despite being chronologically about thirty.They were almost certainly deliberately engineered for it. Amazing Technicolor Population: Depending on origin, people can be white ( not pale beige), black ( not dark brown), copper, amber, blue, green, teal, or purple (possibly two different shades of that last, no less) skin.Arc Number: 7 and to a lesser extent, 14.

Tropes used in The Darkangel Trilogy include:

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