Tropes:Waterburcht Burning (novel)

Tropes about the novel Waterburcht Burning include:
 * / : Renward the Younger in the second chapter. He may be the protagonist of the story, but he actually commits murder, thievery and rape, . He dies peacefully as an old man.
 * : the Etrandish/Hulran nobility are collectively depicted as : they convert to Titanism, suck up to Etrand, oppress the Hulran peasants with high taxes and forced religious conversions.
 * : In the first chapter, the inhabitants of Waterburcht try to cope with their everyday lives despite the Etrandish occupation, even as their lives become hell on earth.
 * : In the first chapter, Galfrith's sister Hrikka, who is raped by Etrandish soldiers..
 * : In the second chapter, Saint Kyneric gets lynched by an angry pagan mob, while Waldina gets raped by the chapter's main protagonist.
 * : The second chapter. An anti-Hero who commits rape and murder versus a bunch of.
 * : The first chapter is called . The last chapter?.
 * In the first chapter, the protagonist Galfrith is executed by the Etrandish, and his sister Hrikka.
 * In the third chapter, the protagonist Liudulf.
 * : In the first chapter, the Etrandish soldiers flung Galfrith's daughter out of the window.
 * : Subverted with Saint Ragenald. Despite the religious differences, he sides with the pagan rebel Liudulf and defends himself in court., but the Church lobbies for his freedom, ultimately saving him from death or imprisonment.
 * : Galfrith's sister Hrikka in the first chapter, Waldina in the second chapter.
 * : Ladislaus in the first chapter, Saint Ragenald in the third chapter.
 * Ladislaus in the first chapter hides a lot of pagan civilians who would be otherwise killed, raped or beaten up by Etrandish soldiers. He even hides a pagan priest.
 * Saint Ragenald in the third chapter sides with the pagan rebels after seeing all the exploitation done in the name of his religion.
 * : The first chapter definetely fits the bill, with a combination of blood, gore and tear jerkers that would make even some horror stories jealous.
 * : The entire first chapter (see above), the beginning of the second chapter (the execution of Renward the Elder), and the ending of the third chapter (Liudulf's death).
 * : Liudulf in the third chapter. He probably wasn't as religiously tolerant as the novel depicted him.
 * : The Etrandish are clearly the antagonists of the story, and they win by the end.
 * : The second chapter's beginning is set in year 308, but after Renward the Elder's death, there's a time-skip to year 329, where we see our protagonist Renward the Younger all grown-up.
 * There's also an (probably) implied time-skip during the end of Chapter I, because Etrandish soldiers rape and impregnate Galfrith's sister Hrikka, who dies of childbirth after running away. Human beings are normally pregnant for nine months, and she apparently gives birth, say... a few days after being impegnated? unless there's a timeskip there that was only silently implied.
 * : Zigzagged with Renward the Younger.
 * : The fate of Lynn (Galfrith's wife, the mother of Renward the Elder, the paternal grandmother of Renward the Younger) is never specified after she gives birth to Renward the Elder.
 * There's also an (probably) implied time-skip during the end of Chapter I, because Etrandish soldiers rape and impregnate Galfrith's sister Hrikka, who dies of childbirth after running away. Human beings are normally pregnant for nine months, and she apparently gives birth, say... a few days after being impegnated? unless there's a timeskip there that was only silently implied.
 * : Zigzagged with Renward the Younger.
 * : The fate of Lynn (Galfrith's wife, the mother of Renward the Elder, the paternal grandmother of Renward the Younger) is never specified after she gives birth to Renward the Elder.