The Chosen One: Karis, who was chosen as Harald G'deon's successor and then quickly shipped off to a remote mining village when her addiction to smoke was discovered.

Zanja calls her 'Little Hurricane' with good reason. Bratty Half-Pint: Norina and J'han's daughter Leeba.The Black Death: A subplot in Earth Logic concerns the main characters' attempts to stop an epidemic of this disease.Big Labyrinthine Building: The House of Lilterwess was this before its destruction.It's the only building in the town large enough for the purpose unfortunately, it is also so spectacularly ugly that Karis immediately names it 'Travesty'. Big Fancy House: The house used as Karis's seat of government starting from the end of Earth Logic.'Be Quiet!' Nudge: J'han to Norina when she's about to recount Zanja's death in front of their five-year-old daughter.Badass Bookworm: Emil Paladin, scholar and respected commander.Amazonian Beauty: Karis, described as possessing 'musculature and form that might make a sculptor weep.'.Action Mom: Norina in the later books Zanja and Karis might also count, since by Shaftali custom all the adults in a household are considered the children's parents.The series is notable, however, for avoiding the Double Standard inherent in both this trope and Non-Action Guy, as pretty much any occupation one can think of is equal-opportunity and one never sees the 'She's a soldier and also a woman OMG!' attitude found in other series. Interestingly enough, Karis, despite her great size and muscular build, is a healer, and rarely fights - but she can certainly hold her own when she does.

Action Girl: Zanja na'Tarwein, katrim of the Ashawala'i.

The central players include Zanja na'Tarwein, a tribal warrior woman whose clan was destroyed by the Sainnites Karis, a half-giant metalsmith who possesses powerful healing abilities but has long been addicted to a drug that slowly but surely kills its users and Emil Paladin, a scholar who finds himself leader of a company of Shaftali rebels.Ī character-driven fantasy series, Elemental Logic is particularly notable for its prominent LGBT themes (the first two novels both won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award) and its presentation of a fantasy setting in which men and women are equally likely to be farmers or soldiers, healers or craftsmen.

Without a G'deon, and with the House of Lilterwess toppled in a single night, Shaftal is left at the mercy of the invading Sainnites, descending into poverty and a state of constant guerrilla warfare. It is a Low Fantasy series set in the land of Shaftal, whose citizens are left without a spiritual leader after Harald G'deon, earth witch of the ruling House of Lilterwess, dies, apparently without vesting a successor with his power. Elemental Logic is a tetralogy written by American fantasy author Laurie J.

Fire logic by laurie j marks