An old enemy has come into town and is trying to discover Lythande's.
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The girl Lythande rescues in the beginning is enspelled by another magician to fall madly in love with her, so that the other magician can use her to try to learn Lythande's secret. The author managed to write almost the entire story without actually assigning Lythande a gender via pronouns, but did slip up at one point: Lythande drew from the folds of his robe a small pouch containing a quantity of sweet-smelling herbs, rolled them into a blue-grey leaf, and touched his ring to spark the roll alight.
He drew on the smoke, which drifted up sweet and greyish. The secret revealed at the end is that Lythande is a woman, living in disguise as a man under pain of death. Lythande demonstrates the ability to stop time with sheer force of will to consider her options. Lythande demonstrates an ability to walk through walls, though it's rather unpleasant.
Lythande trades instruments with him so that he can go back and ends up at the mercy of the wandering lute. The enchanted lute has some very specific idea about where it's going; if you have it, you're going there whether you like it or not. Lythande attempts an unbinding spell so powerful it causes clothes to unsew themselves; the lute and its spell are utterly unaffected. The lute leads the way to a small house isolated in a swamp, with a single beautiful woman living there. Initially she's taken to be a hedge-witch hiding her power from society , but it turns out that she's a were-dragon in human form.
Beauty is clearly able to take at least two human forms and a dragon one, which is likely her native body. The insult "You molester of virgin goats! In the finale, when Lythande is throwing insults at the villainous Adept to distract him before he figures out her Secret, she throws in the one about virgin goats and his reaction makes her immediately realize that that's his Secret. Who dares challenge me, man or woman or goddess? The unusual swearing in the region - "defiler of virgin goats" and similar - turns out to be the very weapon Lythande needs to destroy the villainous Adept, as it's his Secret.
Lythande buries the sword with the most powerful sealing spells she knows, and it ends up back in her pack. The priestess's sword has a mind of its own; it hunts down and kills the people who killed her, basically using Lythande just as a hand to hold it. Hidden in Plain Sight: The villainous Adept's secret has been hidden in plain sight in the community - it's used as a commonplace swear unique to the area. The priestess at the beginning presses her magic sword onto Lythande, to take back to the temple.
Only the Chosen May Wield: The goddess's swords may only be touched by women. Played with - Lythande is a woman, but she's been passing as a man for decades or longer by this point; dressing as a woman to get into the temple is awkward crossdressing to her. This is further complicated by the fact that to anyone who knows her, she still has to pretend to be a man pretending to be a woman. It turns out to be a hard decision to go through with.
The enemy Lythande is hired to fight is some sort of siren that attracts and kills all of the village's men. Revelations about the life of the creator and her husband make the line about "lips too young for kissing" somewhat painful to read. The Siren makes Lythande think back to her ancient past, before she took the name 'Lythande', making her think of her original name - but this is forcefully defied when Lythande realizes she's about to remember what her birth name was and wrenches her mind away, leaving the reader with nothing but that tantalizing hint.
The siren loses its attractive appearance at the end, snapping Lythande out of its enthrallment. Both Lythande and the siren show off hypnotic music magic. Lythande sings and enthralls most of the town. The siren causes people, mostly men, to come to it by singing. This story shows some of Lythande's backstory, where she and another girl had a relationship. For the other girl it was a phase and she grew out of it; Lythande did not.
McIntyre ; Lythande is a borrowed character. Its canonicity isn't certain; MZB consulted to make sure it fit the character and it was included in the original collection, but it is not in the The Complete Lythande. Crapsack Only by Comparison: A group of people come to Sanctuary and find it appalling. This is not so unusual Sanctuary is a Wretched Hive after all but the reason is that the place they come from is idyllic: Group relationships seem to be normal in Kaimas. He was named 'Satan' after the caption on a painting of a fiery angel, with no understanding of the connotations.
Welcome to the Big City: Four naive Northerners encounter the rough and crude denizens of the city of Sanctuary. One local tries to hire a female party member as a prostitute, and another woman is almost raped and murdered when she goes out alone. What Could Have Been: An early draft of the story had Lythande agreeing to live in Kaimas with Westerly and the others. MZB did not want the character to be permanently reformed and made happy! To undo a curse, Lythande accompanies Eirthe through a barrier around a volcano, only for it to demand a virgin sacrifice. The only virgin around is Lythande.
Appease the Volcano God: Invoked by the volcano itself; once they pass through the barrier, the volcano says they must sacrifice the virgin with them to stop it from erupting. Alnath, Eirthe's pet fire elemental , is a salamander who hangs out on her wrist. She seems to like Lythande.
The volcano turns out to be able to speak and demand its own sacrifice. The volcano demands a virgin, specifically, be tossed in.
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Take a Third Option: Given the choice "be sacrificed to the volcano or be killed when the volcano erupts and kills everyone", Lythande figures out a way to feed the volcano a different "virgin" - a magic candle shaped like a woman. Lythande comes to the kingdom of Tashgan the heir from "The Wandering Lute" for his wedding ten years later.
The most commonly-mentioned restriction on Lythande, that she may never eat or drink in sight of a man, is apparently completely forgotten for this story, and she eats and drinks at the feast. Lythande crosses path with the child of Rastafyre the Incompe Incomparable from "The Incompetent Magician" , who shows she inherited his talents.
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The innkeeper transforms travelers into pigs, and then slaughters those pigs for food. The proprietess serves humans turned into pigs to the inn's visitors. Inn of No Return: The proprietor of the inn is a witch who drugs, transforms, and slaughters the customers. The "pork" returns to visibly human meat as soon as the witch who turned the visitors into pigs is dead. Magic in this story is described as being rather Literal-Minded.
She sneezes while saying "May it be so", and thus curses someone with sneezes. The banishing spell relies on a pentagram drawn on the floor. The wuzzles are banished through certain candles, on certain places, with a certain spell. Lythande even teaches the farmer the spell; he grumbles and says he could have done that. Put on a Bus: Frennet, the girl Lythande picked up in "The Walker Behind", who knows Lythande's secret and is not really smart enough or sophisticated enough to keep it successfully, and who could be a large enough problem that Lythande considers killing her to keep the secret, ends the story conveniently and happily married off to a guy in town while Lythande wanders off again.
Lythande has never heard of "wuzzles" before being called on to get rid of them; every time she thinks of them it's in the form of "— what was it, wuzzles —" or similar in the middle of the sentence. The Footsteps of Retribution. After the reveal of the vampire's identity and circumstances, Lythande counsels the town to be less petty and give the dead their due in the future so that such things don't happen. Due to the Dead: The vampire is revealed to have been a townsman who committed suicide and was buried in unhallowed ground.
He returned as a vampire because of this improper burial. No Man of Woman Born: Lythande tells the townspeople she will not be able to kill a vampire, because it is already dead. This turns out to be true - however, should that which is dead be returned to life, it can then be killed.
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Our Vampires Are Different: The vampire is described as being a creature of pure magic unaccustomed to even being in human form anymore. Then it veers back into "our vampires are traditional", because the vampire turns out to have been a man who died of suicide and was buried in unhallowed ground. Once reduced back to human form, the vampire is immediately attempting to change shape again. The winter seems to have been extended because music in all its forms was outlawed, and she plays and sings her song, bringing spring back to the land.
The evil nature of the world is revealed by a disgusting metallic sun Lythande finds absolutely abhorrent. Lythande thinks of them as separate entities, but interchangeably, and what is described as and seems to be a dinosaur breathes fire, which dinosaurs are not known to be able to do Excalibur in the Stone: As this story was written for and published originally in an anthology about Excalibur, the unnamed sword Lythande finds and draws from the stone is implicitly Excalibur.
Lythande is carrying a crucifix, despite pointedly not being of the religion, and it proves to be a powerful force of good that hides the nature of the evil surroundings as long as she has it. The story has a couple errors within its own continuity, but it also states that Lythande has never carried a sword, which is explicitly false - she has a sword in "The Secret of the Blue Star", "Somebody Else's Magic" is all about her carrying a sword unwillingly, and in the latter she is skilled enough with the sword to show she has used one willingly in the past.
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