Truth Series

A quadrology of Fantasy books written by Dawn Cook (also author of Urban Fantasy series The Hollows). It consists of the following books:

• First Truth (2002)
• Hidden Truth (2002)
• Forgotten Truth (2003)
• Lost Truth (2004)

The first two books centre on Alissa, a girl of mixed heritage, and her quest to the Hold and subsequently acquiring the Book of First Truth. The third book focusses on Alissa's unintentional travel back through time and her dealings with that. In the last book she tries to find the missing Masters of the Hold. Needs a Better Description.

Tropes used in Truth Series include:

• Apocalypse How - Class 1. It is implied this happens regularly.
• Arranged Marriage: The Masters practice this, because their population is tiny and arranging marriages helps them keep a more viable gene pool.
• Babies Ever After
• Battle in the Center of the Mind
• Chekhov's Gun - Talon is rather old for her kind of bird.
• "Close Enough" Timeline - There are minor changes but it's not like there was another chance to do it right. See Laser-Guided Amnesia.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus - By implication and invocation of her name, Mirim.
• Dying Race - The whole point of Masters and the Hold is to prevent the extinction of rakus.
• Fate Worse Than Death - Shaduf's first death experience is their own. Then the death of everyone they meet or think of, and their power is permanently active.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
• Laser-Guided Amnesia - Justified in it was the how of time travel that was erased.
• Love Triangle - Strell, Alissa and Lodesh
• Magic A Is Magic A - How wards work, among others.
• Manipulative Bastard - Keribdis
• Mayfly-December Romance - Justified and later on subverted.
• Our Dragons Are Different - Rakus
• Our Ghosts Are Different - Residual energy of tragic past events. Only death unleashes such energies.
• Psychic Powers - Shaduf are precognitive of a persons - and their own - death. The consequences of such unbidden knowledge are explored. Septhama are able to see ghosts and make them disappear for the regular eye.
• Really 700 Years Old - Masters. Lodesh is cursed and as such 300+ years old
• Shown Their Work - The part on recessive and dominant geno- and phenotypes as well as preparing food.
• Split Personality Merge - Beast does this at the end of the Last Truth in her desire to understand love.
• Split Personality Takeover - If the wild side of the Masters gains the upper hand.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body - Played with
• Voluntary Shapeshifting - Rakus and Master are interchangeable. They can theoretically change into another form, would be stuck in that, though, due to the Functional Magic.
• We Are as Mayflies - Masters usually live for hundreds of years.