WINNER'S TRILOGY

Deaths and executions occur, including losses affecting major characters; grief and the consequences of war are important.

Occasional descriptions of injuries sustained in combat or by torture, but generally not excessive.

Occasional mild profanity appropriate for the genre.

Features minor LGBTQIA representation within the secondary cast.

Cultural belief systems are integrated into the world-building, though not central to the plot.

The central relationship includes attraction, longing, kissing, conflict, separation, and difficult questions of trust and loyalty.

Frequent peril includes imprisonment, torture, war, betrayal and threats of execution. The tension is intense and sustained, though the story is not primarily horror.

Some romantic tension and mild intimacy, but no explicit sexual content.

Occasional social drinking by adult characters.

War, battles, raids, beatings, assassination attempts, torture, and other physical violence recur across the trilogy.