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Bitter Seeds

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Bitter Seeds	comment	The novel Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis depicts an Alternate History World War II where a Nazi Mad Scientist figures out how to turn children into powerful psychic soldiers. As a result, the Nazis are indisputably winning the war. A clever British spy witnesses one of these kids doing their thing and realizes his countrymen need a paranormal equalizer of their own. Fortuitously, his best and oldest friend Lord William Beauclerk knows a thing or two about the supernatural and is willing to bleed for king and country. Thus, the Milkweed project is born and things then proceed to get worse.The first book of The Milkweed Triptych. Followed by The Coldest War.
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Bitter Seeds / int_1c1d243c	type	Brother–Sister Team
Bitter Seeds / int_1c1d243c	comment	Brother–Sister Team: Ostensibly Gretel and Klaus, but thanks to her precognition he's always responding to her gambits rather than them working together.
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Bitter Seeds / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Bitter Seeds / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Reinhardt is a mean, bullying pyrokinetic.
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Bitter Seeds / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Bitter Seeds / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: When Will mucks up a negotiation, Marsh has to cut off one of his fingers with garden shears to appease the Eidolons. Before the events of the novel, Klaus had his fingertips stuck inside a granite wall when he lost concentration, and had to have them amputated with a bone saw.
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Bitter Seeds / int_217a1adf	type	I Love the Dead
Bitter Seeds / int_217a1adf	comment	I Love the Dead: Reinhardt is so obsessed with Heike he has sex with her corpse after she is Driven to Suicide.
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Bitter Seeds / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
Bitter Seeds / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: The British warlocks have to shed blood every time they summon the Eidolons, Eldritch Abominations that find human life abhorrent and so are attracted to the spilling of blood. It takes more and more blood to summon them each time, until British Intelligence are forced to commit major acts of sabotage against their own citizens (such as blowing up passenger trains and air raid shelters) to keep the supernatural war effort going. Worse, the more blood is spilled, the more information the Eidolons have on the nature of humanity, a necessary precursor to exterminating us.
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Bitter Seeds / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Bitter Seeds / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The Nazis in charge of the psychics project are focused on the more flashy psychics than the more subtle ones despite having a wider range of applications. Best exemplified when needing to eliminate a defector in a public area, instead of sending intangible Klaus, they send out the pyrokinetic Reinhardt to make the defector spontaneously combust in the middle of a crowded hotel bar, despite it being a covert mission.
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Bitter Seeds / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Bitter Seeds / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Doctor Von Westarp. First the amoral version, but he later suffers Sanity Slippage as well, failing to get dressed while thinking he's in uniform.
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Bitter Seeds / int_44880a8c	type	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
Bitter Seeds / int_44880a8c	comment	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: A British officer is executed on trumped-up charges of espionage and sedition because he's spreading rumors of what's going on.
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Bitter Seeds / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Bitter Seeds / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Doctor Gottlieb has one day to prove that a test subject's death wasn't accidental (the time it takes for Doctor Von Westarp to return from Berlin) or he'll be executed as The Scapegoat.
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Bitter Seeds / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Bitter Seeds / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The book ends with Marsh's wife pregnant with an unholy child, and the British government taking children and putting them in total isolation to turn them into warlocks.
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Bitter Seeds / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Bitter Seeds / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Psychic powers require giant WWII-era batteries wired directly into your brain to fuel them.
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Bitter Seeds / int_5890b975	type	One Person, One Power
Bitter Seeds / int_5890b975	comment	One Person, One Power: Each child gets one power and one power only.
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Bitter Seeds / int_5b965319	type	Language of Magic
Bitter Seeds / int_5b965319	comment	Language of Magic: Knowledge of Enochian is required to negotiate with the Eidolons once summoned.
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Bitter Seeds / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Bitter Seeds / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Raybould Marsh has no powers but finds himself up against those who do, and survives.
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Bitter Seeds / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Bitter Seeds / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: Happens literally in "What Doctor Gottlieb Saw" — Gretel arranges a fatal accident and proves her abilities as a seer making her indispensable to the Nazis, all by arranging for a single nail to end up inside a generator.
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Bitter Seeds / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Bitter Seeds / int_80b57bec	comment	Super Soldier: The Reichsbehörd.
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Bitter Seeds / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Bitter Seeds / int_83442cc3	comment	EMP: Pixies, designed by the British to knock out the batteries used by the psychic soldiers. In the short story "What Doctor Gottlieb Saw" Gretel creates an improvised EMP device by sabotaging a diesel generator, in order to murder one of the other psychics at the moment he's using his intangible powers.
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Bitter Seeds / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Bitter Seeds / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: The Willenskräfte wielded by the children. Pyrokinesis, telekinesis, phase-shifting, invisibility and, scariest of all, decades-range precognition.
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Bitter Seeds / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Bitter Seeds / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Granted, they're fighting Nazis but still, the British do some exceedingly evil things in the name of King and Country.
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Bitter Seeds / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Bitter Seeds / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Eidolons. They're so alien that they find our existence impossible and very much want to wipe us out.
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Bitter Seeds / int_8b1a664	type	Kill All Humans
Bitter Seeds / int_8b1a664	comment	Kill All Humans: The ultimate aim of the Eidolons, as the mere existence of our form of life is abhorrent to them.
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Bitter Seeds / int_9a3285c	type	Invisibility
Bitter Seeds / int_9a3285c	comment	Invisibility: Heike's superpower.
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Bitter Seeds / int_a2cb509b	type	Tested on Humans
Bitter Seeds / int_a2cb509b	comment	Tested on Humans: A group of concentration camp inmates are used for a demonstration for Heinrich Himmler.
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Bitter Seeds / int_b3acb52a	type	Innocent Flower Girl
Bitter Seeds / int_b3acb52a	comment	Innocent Flower Girl: Subverted; Gretel likes to gather wildflowers, but it's only a sociopathic facade.
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Bitter Seeds / int_b9085a47	type	Summon Magic
Bitter Seeds / int_b9085a47	comment	Summon Magic: The British Warlocks can summon the Eidolons. Then the negotiations begin, and bad things will happen if you can't deliver.
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Bitter Seeds / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Bitter Seeds / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Gretel predicts that Reinhardt will get everything he wants. He gets Heike (after she's dead), and gets to use his powers in a glorious Last Stand only to suffer How the Mighty Have Fallen in the next novel.
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Bitter Seeds / int_cb243ede	type	Teleporters and Transporters
Bitter Seeds / int_cb243ede	comment	Teleporters and Transporters: Marsh figures out how to get the Eidolons to do this for them. Unfortunately the Eidolons wait till he's in a serious fix, then make him promise the soul of a child in exchange for getting him out of it.
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Bitter Seeds / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Bitter Seeds / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Gretel. A sociopath with perfect precognition. It's not till the third novel that we discover just how far ahead she's looking.
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Bitter Seeds / int_d8963315	type	Invisible Introvert
Bitter Seeds / int_d8963315	comment	Invisible Introvert: Heike has the power of invisibility, and is easily the quietest of Dr Von Westarp's "children"; all of the Götterelektrongruppe have been mentally warped by the surgery and training used to give them their powers, but where the others are psychopaths, narcissists, hopelessly traumatized, or just brain-damaged, Heike is simply asocial and uncommunicative. She's so withdrawn that almost none of the other members of the Götterelektrongruppe notice that she's grappling with serious depression until she commits suicide; the only one of them who did notice is Greta, and that's only because she was the one encouraging Heike to kill herself.
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Bitter Seeds / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Bitter Seeds / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: The means by which the Enochian lexicon was derived; children were raised in isolation from any other language, and this was what they started speaking.
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Bitter Seeds / int_e8b3ee16	type	Ghostapo
Bitter Seeds / int_e8b3ee16	comment	Ghostapo: The Götterelektrongruppe started out as Thule Society occult hogwash, then Mad Scientist Doctor Von Westarp applied the scientific method to things and got his battery-operated psykers.
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Bitter Seeds / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Bitter Seeds / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Reinhardt comes up with a way to make roads in the desert with his pyrokinesis. It works...barely. The group efforts are more effective when clearing a path through snowfields and the Ardennes forest.
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Bitter Seeds / int_f1e837cc	type	Mind over Matter
Bitter Seeds / int_f1e837cc	comment	Mind over Matter: Kammler is an extremely powerful (and extremely brain-damaged) telekinetic.
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Bitter Seeds / int_f329f2a2	type	Got Volunteered
Bitter Seeds / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: After Klaus breaks Gretel out of the Admiralty, the British kill two birds with one stone by recruiting everyone who saw him use his supernatural powers into the new section set up to combat them, which at the time was short of recruits.
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Bitter Seeds / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Bitter Seeds / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: All the Nazi psychic children but Gretel is creepy even before she was taken in by Doctor von Westarp.
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Bitter Seeds / int_faa23aef	type	Conditional Powers
Bitter Seeds / int_faa23aef	comment	Conditional Powers: The kids' powers only work as long as their batteries are charged.
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Bitter Seeds / int_febbbf8	comment	Intangible Man: Klaus' Willenskräfte. He can use it as long as he can hold his breath but doesn't have to worry about falling through the floor.
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