The Corrupter: The Whisperer, or "Dark Whispers", introduced in book 3.Cliffhanger: Book 2 ends on one that then wasn't resolved for nearly a decade.Knowing this, Hunters often use young girls as bait to lure out unicorns in book 4, they even bring a group of them, the Maidens of the Hunt, to Luster for that purpose. Chronic Hero Syndrome: Unicorns are drawn to distressed maidens by instinct ( this is how Moonheart first meets "Ivy Morris", by the way).Chekhov's Gun: Cara's missing last name, and the song that Medafil's shell sings.Said whispers are the combination of those flaws, still living and acting as The Corrupter to anyone who will listen. The reason why the unicorns are so pure of heart and suffering from Chronic Hero Syndrome is because after Whiteling's death and the surge of negative emotions they felt afterward, they forcibly removed their flaws and negative traits, as revealed in book 3. Can't Argue with Elves: Deconstructed.Luckily, once she found out the truth, Firethroat went to get them. Which proves a problem when Amalia gave them the wrong directions to the final battlefield, and Firethroat and Graumag passed those same directions on to the centaurs, leading to their going the wrong way. Cara's mother follows suit off-screen in book 4. Calling the Old Man Out: Cara to Ivy in book 2 for lying to her about everything.He shares the position with Finder in the second. The Big Guy: The Dimblethum in the first book.Cara has to Mercy Kill Beloved and is stuck in unicorn form, meaning she can never return to Earth and neither can her parents, the original Dimblethum is dead, and M'Gama and Namza are comatose while helping the world heal. Bittersweet Ending: In book 4 the Hunters are defeated, Luster is saved from being destroyed, Rocky becomes the king of the delvers, and Cara's parents finally reunite.Big Damn Heroes: In the final battle of book 4, the centaurs arrive at the last minute to help the unicorns facing the Hunters and Delvers.He's still not sure if the yeti, or Abominable Snowman, is real or just a legend, but has decided not to dismiss them as such without proof either way. Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yeti: Discussed briefly in book 3, when Ian Hunter, who's traveling in Nepal, recalls the stories of them.Graumag of the dragons is actually a human transformed by her stepmother.Fallon later takes his Transformational Magic on himself, becoming the second Dimblethum so Elihu can again assume human form and use his powers to save Luster. After being manipulated by the Whisperer, he turns back into his normal state, but later sacrifices that to change Cara into a unicorn. The Dimblethum started out as Elihu, one of the Great Powers and resembling a human, before being forced into his current shape as punishment for officiating the unicorns' Purification Ceremony.She doesn't change back by the end of the book. Cara is turned into a unicorn in book 4 so that she can outrun her pursuers.
The spell reverses in the climax of book 2.
"This is for my alahim!" "And this is for my unicorns!" "This," " this one is for the delvers!" And This Is for.: Fallon gets into this when he fights the Whisperer in book 4.