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Iron Druid Chronicles

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Iron Druid Chronicles	comment	An urban fantasy series by Kevin Hearne. Atticus O'Sullivan, a 21-century old Druid living in Tempe, Arizona just likes to peddle fake magic items to hippies. Unfortunately, his peaceful life keeps getting interrupted. Then he gets out his Absurdly Sharp Blade and his iron necklace and proceeds to take names, often with the assistance of his lawyers, a firm made up of a pack of werewolves and a vampire.The main series is: Hounded (2011) Hexed (2011) Hammered (2011) Tricked (2012) Trapped (2012) Hunted (2013) Shattered (2014) Staked (Jan 26, 2016) Besieged (2017) Scourged (2018)Additionally, there are several other stories available: "Two Ravens and One Crow": A novella set between the events of Tricked and Trapped. It is available on the Kindle or included with Hunted. "A Test of Mettle": A short story, found here, that takes place during the events of Hammered. "Clan Rathskeller": Another short story, also on Hearne's website that takes place about ten months before the beginning of Hounded. "Grimoire of the Lamb": A novella set four years before the start of Hounded. "The Chapel Perilous" Set around fifteen hundred years before the events of the main series. "A Prelude to War": Set between Shattered and Staked, found in the Three Slices anthology.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1242b9d4	type	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1242b9d4	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: Judging from her Intimate Healing stunt the Morrigan seems to buy into this, even if her victim's reaction was less than enthusiastic. It's implied during her failed attempts at Character Development that this is at least partly down to being locked into the personality that people imagined for her/she may have originally had back in the Bronze Age.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: Atticus and Granuaile, almost as soon as she is a full druid. They later break up.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Manannán mac Lir lets Atticus keep Fragarach because it pisses off Aenghus Óg and helped Atticus get to North America long before that schmuck Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: As the series makes heavy use of Irish (and later, Old Norse) words and names which are not pronounced anything like they look to English-speakers (For instance, Atticus' original name is Siodhachan O'Suileabhain, pronounced roughly "Sheeyahan O'Sullivan.") the author provides a translation guide for most of the non-English names at the start of the book.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1848b3cc	type	Daywalking Vampire
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1848b3cc	comment	Day Walking Vampire: Theophilus is said to be so old he can not only stay awake during the day but even walk around outside if the weather is sufficiently overcast. For reference, Leif, who is a thousand years old and has the power to match a Physical God, has great difficulty remaining awake after sunrise.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_185f3995	type	Memetic Badass
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_185f3995	comment	Memetic Badass: Atticus is this in-universe. As the "iron druid" his touch is deadly to the Fae, creatures composed entirely of magic. Not only that, but his mastery of Cold Iron represents a direct challenge to Brighid's authority, even if he himself has no interest in usurping her, something attenuated when he agrees to at least give her a guiding hand (i.e. he won't tell her how, but he will tell her if she's going wrong). And then, after killing Aenghus Og, he pops up on the radar of a lot of deities as both a potential threat and a potential asset. All these things turn into serious problems later on.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Elephant-headed Ganesha using his trunk as a strawnote An elephant's trunk is, of course, it's nose - trying to drink through the trunk would be about as effective as a human trying to drink through their nostrils. What you see on nature programs (look closely) is the elephant picking up water in the trunk and then bringing it to their mouth to actually drink it. As Atticus observes, he's a Physical God and they are talking in a dream, so it really doesn't matter if it shouldn't be possible. Also Oberon (the Irish wolfhound) seems to think that poodles are an all female dog breed.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Druids can do all manner of things to metals and natural fabrics, like binding them to the ground, so nude is the only way one would want to face off with them before synthetic fabrics were invented. Atticus does this himself from time to time, as shifting forms does not take his clothes with him, so he is nude when he shifts back into a human.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_19ba91b5	type	Home Field Advantage
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_19ba91b5	comment	Home Field Advantage: Druids are very clever about this. Atticus has some very powerful enemies looking for him so he spent at least a century setting up his defenses. He befriended all the local nature spirits, allied himself with the local vampire lord and the local werewolf pack and put multiple layers of magical and mundane protections on his home and workplace. His ultimate home field advantage comes from an arrangement he has with Morrigan, one of his pantheon's Death Gods. As long as any battle he is in takes place under the jurisdiction of that god, Atticus cannot die in it. Unfortunately Aenghus Óg was just as smart and went to extraordinary lengths to nullify all those advantages including making sure that the final battle happened where Morrigan has no jurisdiction and could not (officially) interfere.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1a5bba2b	type	Artistic License â€“ Geology
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1a5bba2b	comment	Artistic License – Geology: This is invoked by Atticus when Coyote asks him to magically create a gold vein under some land where Coyote wants to build a mine. Atticus protests that this would be geologically impossible and will probably result in geologists all over the world questioning all they know about geology. Coyote doesn't care.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: Many characters can shapeshift. All Druids have a different set of animals they can turn into: A hoofed animal for speed, a clawed predator for fighting, a bird to fly around as and an aquatic animal for swimming. Atticus can assume the form of a stag, a hound, an owl or an otter at will. Granuaile can turn into a horse, a panther, a falcon and a sea lion. Owen Kennedy can turn into a black bear, a ram, a red kite and a walrus. The Morrigan turns into a "battlecrow". Manannán mac Lir can turn into a killer whale or a great shearwater. Aenghus Óg is mentioned to be able to turn into a swan. Werewolves are werewolves. Coyote is Coyote. Skinwalkers can change into different animals as long as they wear cloaks woven from that animal's skin. They take on the abilities of that animal, which is the main reason that Coyote doesn't want to risk dealing with them himself.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1ff3b1d6	type	Harmful Healing
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_1ff3b1d6	comment	Harmful Healing: This is the reason why druids only practice healing magic on themselves. Healing magic can easily harm the subject before making them better and if you use druid magic to directly harm a living, sentient being the magic will kill you instantly. Only the druid's own body is an exception to the rule so druids have Super Healing for themselves but cannot even try to heal even the simplest cut on someone else without risking death.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_21eb1793	type	Muggles Do It Better
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_21eb1793	comment	Muggles Do It Better: It's shown that modern human technology can handily counter Druids. Synthetic material can't be unbinded, infrared vision can see heat signatures that camoflague magic doesn't cover, Druids don't have any particular defense against bullets, and recovering from bullet wounds necessitates some lengthy contact with the Earth in order to get back up. Most of the supernatural threats are old enough to not keep up with human weapons, but certain vampires do. For their part, Druids can counter by asking an iron elemental to easily break apart the guns and bullets if they agree to be called upon in time for the fight and get into range. In Hunted, Atticus unceremoniously takes a sniper bullet to the head and would have died then and there if his soulcatcher didn't have all the necessary conditions to trigger. Granuaile manages to chase down the lone sniper in bird form, but they're told that if they hadn't listened to to the warning note and changed their route, they would have walked into a killzone surrounded by five snipers. Staked: Atticus is up against a lone gunman and isn't able to do anything himself in the encounter besides hide and bleed out on the floor from taking five gunshot wounds. His plan is to hope that his assailant is sufficiently tired out from an elemental draining his magic away. That doesn't work because the gunman drags himself over to execute Atticus. His backup plan is calling the police who show up in time to arrest the gunman. Atticus is about to take on a room of vampires when he's detected with infrared goggles and he runs the hell away once they pull out guns and fire. Owen has to sneak across his lawn in bird form to rip off a gunman's arm, before identifying him as a vampire and unbinding him. There were seven more gunmen, but they're torn apart by the werewolves staying with him. During the climax, a sniper keeps Atticus pinned behind a marble pillar in the open with him too exhausted to counter it, but the vampires rush into melee range instead of circling around and shooting him. Once the main fight is over, Owen flies over to take out the distracted sniper and other gunmen off-screen. "Blood Pudding" Granuaile takes three hollow-point rounds to the torso and immediately drops with the last of her stength used to impale the vampire with her staff and stop him from getting out of the sun. She's dragged over to a lawn to heal up and spends the next hour getting the bullets out of her. The human mercenaries Leif hired charges into the den and only takes a few casualties while wiping out the remaining eleven vampires and subduing the thralls non-lethally for Leif to charm over. According to Dirk, that makes twenty-one vampire nests they've cleared for Leif.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2462a9ba	type	Multi-Armed and Dangerous
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2462a9ba	comment	Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Durga, who shows up in India armed with five different divine weapons to help Granuaile fight a sorcerer that's summoning a bunch of rakshasas.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_26852e3d	type	Persona Non Grata
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_26852e3d	comment	Werner also leads the vampire assault on Owen's Grove which leads to Hal's death and Atticus is no longer welcome among the Tempe and Flagstaff werewolves for it.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To The Dresden Files. While they share a similar premise, they approach this premise from different sides and in different ways, perhaps most notably in that while Harry Dresden is deeply altruistic, Atticus usually only goes out of his way to help people if he's forced to, otherwise he's perfectly content to let things go their own way.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2882c8c1	comment	Career-Ending Injury: In Scourged, Atticus' right arm with all his tattoos is chopped off as recompense for his crimes against various pantheons and he's told not to regain the Druidic abilities he lost on penalty of death. He's humbled enough at that point to accept the punishment and live his remaining days as a weakened Druid in peace, though he calls in two favors from Ogma to have his arm restored in the future.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_28a1d0b	type	Sunk Cost Fallacy
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_28a1d0b	comment	Sunk Cost Fallacy: After his first trip to Asgard resulted in the deaths of the Norns and Sleipnir, Atticus still decides to aid the others in the raid to kill Thor because he'd already traded one set of problems for a much larger set and didn't see any way to trade down for something more manageable without just pulling up stakes and running away.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Atticus really likes puns, so he uses them for names for various tea blends. There's Virus Immuni-tea, Humili-tea, Mobili-tea and Immortali-tea among others. In Hammered, Atticus and Leif rattle several pee-based puns back and forth.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Theophilus, whose name means something to the effect of "loved by God", is a vampire, who are generally regarded as Always Chaotic Evil. It's suggested he may have intentionally named himself that as an Ironic Nickname.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2da9bb9b	type	Psychopomp
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2da9bb9b	comment	Psychopomp: Several show up, but the main one is the Morrigan who made a deal with Atticus that she will never choose him and take his soul beyond which no longer applies after her death.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The Morrigan, while outwardly not too far off from your average Jerkass God, secretly hated being one and made numerous attempts to change that about herself. When she finally decided she wasn't capable of change, she allowed herself to be killed by Artemis and Diana.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: Atticus fights because It's Personal, or because his loved ones are threatened, or because of mutual interests and old deals... and occasionally to deal out Gaia's Vengeance, but he makes no claim to being a hero. He spent two thousand years running away from a confrontation with Aenghus Óg, only finally deciding to fight after Brighid and Flidais conspired to force his hand, and even then he might not have gone through with it if Aenghus hadn't opened up a portal to Hell. Even that didn't do it; he only fought because opening the portal took so much power it killed a portion of the Earth outright. He eventually gets more proactive, though even then, he's largely manipulated into it.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2df4fa08	type	Omniglot
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2df4fa08	comment	Atticus is no slouch either, being an Omniglot scholar with a habit of killing whichever supernatural creature decides to pick a fight with him.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Druid magic cannot be used to kill or harm directly. It is okay to give yourself super-strength and do it with a sword.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_30509b6d	type	Shapeshifter Baggage
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_30509b6d	comment	Shapeshifter Baggage: According to the Morrigan, all the "Old Ways" have this, including druids, allowing them to disregard the Law of Conservation of Matter.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Norns attacked Atticus the second he arrived in Asgard because they foresaw that he would kill them. Which he did, because they were trying to kill him. They really should have known better.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_319e101e	type	Amplifier Artifact
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_319e101e	comment	Amplifier Artifact: Laksha's ruby necklace can apparently enhance her powers enough that she can take on an entire coven of witches by herself.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_32e9f9b4	type	Anything That Moves
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_32e9f9b4	comment	Anything That Moves: Zeus expresses interest in Hel, despite the left half of her body being a disgustingly putrescent rotting corpse.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Human Origin: The Tuatha Dé Danann were originally regular druids whom the ancient Celts started worshipping as gods. Somehow this turned them into "real" gods, but they are basically just super druids.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_35566274	type	I Let You Win
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_35566274	comment	I Let You Win: The Morrigan allowed herself to be killed by Artemis and Diana. Atticus taunts them about it.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The Morrigan told Aenghus Óg that she had promised not to take Atticus, knowing he would use his connections with Hell to summon the Christian Death, so that when Aenghus died the Morrigan wouldn't have to take him, just leave him for Death to take to Hell. Turns out Ganesha's group has been manipulating Atticus for years, correctly predicting all of his actions and setting him up to follow the correct path.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3b113b7	comment	Atticus is often an immature, selfish, irresponsible, rude prick prone to petty abuses of power, prior to his Character Development - and while a large chunk of it is an act, designed to make people underestimate him, a lot of it isn't. He's indicated to be somewhat aware of this, noting to Granuaile that Immortal Immaturity is a risk and common side-effect of a magically extended life. But even before his Character Development, he will sometimes stop truly vile things from happening and can be nice and caring to those close to him.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: "You never want to be a Nigel in Toronto." It eventually gets explained in Staked. "When I tell them about that one time with the goat and the Roman leather skirt stolen from Gaul..."
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3c7d0418	type	Doom Magnet
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3c7d0418	comment	Doom Magnet: Pretty much Atticus' raison d'etre. His actions have, directly or indirectly, caused most of the disasters that pop up in the series, most notably Loki's being freed from imprisonment and trying to start Ragnarok. Only the vampires have no direct beef with his actions; they're working on a grudge against all Druids in general. As a result of this tendency, in Staked Werner Drasche kills Hal Hauk and Hal's pack terminate Atticus' relationship with Magnusson and Hauk and threaten to kill him if he ever comes onto their land again.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3d699462	comment	The fight against Werner in Toranto has Atticus take five gunshot wounds in a Curb-Stomp Battle and his plan amounts to Depowering Werner and hoping that the police and ambalance get there before he bleeds out or is finished off. He's also dependant on Owen getting him out of the hospital before the vampires find him first.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3e06b5c7	type	Your Vampires Suck
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3e06b5c7	comment	Your Vampires Suck: After Jesus manages to convince the Hammers of God not to curbstomp Atticus, he tells them about Leif's impending absence, which would result in other vampires showing up to lay claim to his territory, so the Hammers can get their jollies killing vampires instead of him, saying:
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3fbbe6ad	type	Power Tattoo
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_3fbbe6ad	comment	Power Tattoo: The Druids' animal-shifting and planeswalking abilites are granted to them by tatoos inked through Gaia. Disfiguring the tatoos will cause their abilities to not work anymore until reinked.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: One of Laksha's primary abilities. She'd done this several times in her backstory before finally surfing into her ruby necklace to escape a Laser-Guided Karma based death. After she was exorcized from the ruby she took up residence in Granuaile's head and finally into the body of a comatose woman who didn't want to be revived.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4162ff7c	type	Men Use Violence, Women Use Communication
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4162ff7c	comment	Men Use Violence, Women Use Communication: Discussed and Subverted. Granuaille derides Atticus' tendency to resort to violence as "how men solve problems" then immediately goes straight to her step-father's office and beats the crap out of him and several security guards explicitly out of spite.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4221e01a	type	Elemental Embodiment
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4221e01a	comment	Elemental Embodiment: Atticus, as a druid, is friendly with several of these. He's friends with an iron elemental who is particularly useful to him whenever he goes up against the Fae.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Atticus insists on keeping his word to take part of an assassination attempt on Thor despite being told repeatedly from reliable sources that no good will come of it no matter how things turn out and his own personal judgement agreeing with them. And predictably, it comes back to bite him. Hard.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4566ce0a	type	Literal Disarming
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4566ce0a	comment	Owen has to sneak across his lawn in bird form to rip off a gunman's arm, before identifying him as a vampire and unbinding him. There were seven more gunmen, but they're torn apart by the werewolves staying with him.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_476302df	type	You Are a Credit to Your Race
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_476302df	comment	You Are a Credit to Your Race: The widow MacDonagh, otherwise unlikely to give a British person the time of day in a clock shop (to put it mildly), considers William Shakespeare to be quite brilliant, being quite possibly "the only Brit worth the milk he sucked out of his mother's tit."
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Thor is this according to Word of God, not that you would know from looking, since the jerk part is all that is shown and talked about (and there is rather a lot of it) which makes Thor come across as a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk despite the tales of him being one of the friendlier gods to humanity. The heart of gold becomes visible when he reappears, having been resurrected at Ragnarok, and thanks Atticus for killing off his previous incarnation, who'd veered into Jerk with a Heart of Jerk territory. Atticus is often an immature, selfish, irresponsible, rude prick prone to petty abuses of power, prior to his Character Development - and while a large chunk of it is an act, designed to make people underestimate him, a lot of it isn't. He's indicated to be somewhat aware of this, noting to Granuaile that Immortal Immaturity is a risk and common side-effect of a magically extended life. But even before his Character Development, he will sometimes stop truly vile things from happening and can be nice and caring to those close to him.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4bb0e7af	type	Mother Nature
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4bb0e7af	comment	Mother Nature: The elemental spirit of the entire earth. Atticus communes with her every decade or so. Takes a few weeks because her concept of time is severely disproportionate to his (fondly reminisces about the time of the dinosaurs like it was just last week).
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: Coyote is working on pulling this off in Tricked, after a fashion. He's actually being totally up front about wanting to help the Diné, but notes that no one will believe that he's being altruistic, so the greatest trick of all is that he isn't tricking them when they think he is.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4c782fb9	comment	Gods Need Prayer Badly: Well, not really prayer. The mere fact of knowing and thinking about them is sufficient, but active worship is needed for them to manifest, and how they do so depends on how those praying view them. Jesus notably dislikes manifesting because he almost always ends up looking pretty horrifying. This can also cause multiple versions of the same god. There's several Coyotes running around Arizona, one for each of the native tribes, and Jesus mentions that the Christian God and the Jewish Yahweh are two separate beings. The degree to which gods are shaped and empowered by believers is kind of inconsistent. In Hammered, despite apparently having no believers, Perun's weather control powers rival Thor's while in Asgard of all places, who is explicitly described as being much stronger because his is still remembered thanks to the Prose and Poetic Eddas (though this is later implied to be because Odin and Perun were part of the same cabal of gods that was manipulating Atticus). The Morrigan matches Freya effortlessly in Two Ravens and One Crow and outright kills Vidar in Tricked. In the former case, it's pretty much a case of scale. A Goddess of death, even one that's largely forgotten, would still probably have more power than a goddess who is most frequently conflated with Frigg in modern minds. And in the latter, Vidar directly submitted himself to her sphere of influence by challenging her to a fight over the ownership of a weapon that belonged to the Tuatha Dé Danann.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: This is partly how gods work, though to what extent is kind of vague. When Atticus asks the widow MacDonagh to pray for Mary with a very specific image and place in mind, he mentions that it's up to Mary to choose to appear in that place with that image.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Laksha Kulasekaran, an Indian witch who made bargains with Vedic demons and learned some really nasty magic and was generally evil...until Laser-Guided Karma happened to her. After getting a new body she decided to work on cultivating good karma to make up for all the bad things she'd done in her life.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: After Leif gives away Atticus' location to have a vampire rival killed, Atticus considers it a grievous act of betrayal to the point that he spares an evil, deadly vampire-alligned agent simply because Leif sent him on a silver platter to Atticus. Still, Atticus doesn't go hunt them down and there's some affection remaining to their relationship.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_50385f24	type	Immortality Inducer
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_50385f24	comment	Immortality Inducer: Atticus stays young thanks to drinking Immortali-tea, his Incredibly Lame Pun for the Herblore of Airmid.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: They're basically the standard medieval Christian demons, but they smell really, really bad.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Atticus has had twenty centuries to improve his magic and craft powerful defenses against his enemies. He resides in Tempe, Arizona specifically because it is the place in North America where a Tuatha Dé Danann would be at his/her weakest and thus least likely to look for him. The Morrigan accurately predicted her death at the hands of the Olympians two thousand years before it happened, and put Owen on a Time Island with a message for Brighid to ally herself with the dark elves against Loki.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: After Leif Helgarson sends a vampire Atticus' way to get killed, which leads to him getting attacked in a motel bed and Oberon getting injured, Atticus cuts off ties with him and considers him an enemy from that point forward, though never to the point of unbinding him on sight. For his part, the other party still considers Atticus a friend, thought he would have handled the fight just fine, and is open to giving warnings about the vampires.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_51f65a3e	type	Immortal Ruler
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_51f65a3e	comment	Immortal Ruler: Atticus played this role for a few centuries. Fleeing Europe, he joined an African tribe and after a while became its leader. He married and shared his Immortali-tea with his wife and children. The tribe prospered and his immortal family became the ruling elite of the nation that formed. However, after his wife was killed, he became disillusioned by how decadent and immoral his children became as a result of their immortality and left them and the country to fend for themselves.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5205b408	type	Weird Beard
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5205b408	comment	Weird Beard: The Hammers of God use magic to turn their beards into Combat Tentacles.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: Jesus warned Atticus about going to Asgard with the Thor Revenge Squad, citing incomprehensible forces as a consequence. When pressed, he would only say that he can't tell Atticus what would actually happen because that would be cheating.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_566f3ddd	type	Nature Spirit
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_566f3ddd	comment	Nature Spirit: The elementals that Atticus can talk to. They range from a local iron spirit to the Sonoran Desert to, about once a decade, Gaia herself.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5768d31	type	Super-Speed
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5768d31	comment	Super Speed: The Skinwalkers
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_586624e5	comment	By and large Atticus ascribes to the position that the Earth and her servants (i.e. Druids, i.e. Him) trump most other concerns; if it's a choice between his life and the life of Bob Q Somebody, then Bob better update his will because if Bob dies no big deal in the grand scheme of things. If Atticus dies there's no one to protect the Earth and various Genius Loci from evil sorcerers and suchlike. And in fairness, later events prove that Atticus isn't totally wrong about this (even if he is somewhat prone to abusing it).
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: Atticus' old Archdruid was prone to smacking him with his staff when he wasn't paying attention or concealed something from him, and is mentioned to have thrown a pissed off rooster at Atticus. Nevertheless his tutelage allowed Atticus to survive for the last two thousand years, and it's implied that he himself may still be alive as well, as Atticus mentions never having seen him in Tír na nÓg. At the very end of Hunted, it's revealed that he is alive because the Morrigan preserved him on a Time Island and gave Atticus its location at the beginning of said book.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police quickly zero in on Atticus as the suspect in the death of a park ranger but are in fact manipulated by his enemies. However, on their own they still prove to be a constant problem to Atticus who has to use his lawyers and various illusions to get them to back down. In the second book it is played straight because the police simply are not trained to handle rampaging supernatural beings that are immune to bullets.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5a98b9af	type	Valkyries
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5a98b9af	comment	Valkyries: They show up in the third book. Morrigan is apparently friends with some of them.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: For being a comparatively small city, Tempe Arizona has a druid, a pack of werewolves, a coven of witches, a powerful vampire, and occasional Celtic and Native American deities (among others) that show up from time to time. Justified: werewolves are all over the world, the witches and druid are specifically there because it’s unlikely to attract attention, and while some of them (like Coyote) tend to wander wherever their worshipers are (including Tempe) the deities tend to be drawn to the town by the druid, rather than anything specific about the town itself. As was the vampire.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: By and large Atticus ascribes to the position that the Earth and her servants (i.e. Druids, i.e. Him) trump most other concerns; if it's a choice between his life and the life of Bob Q Somebody, then Bob better update his will because if Bob dies no big deal in the grand scheme of things. If Atticus dies there's no one to protect the Earth and various Genius Loci from evil sorcerers and suchlike. And in fairness, later events prove that Atticus isn't totally wrong about this (even if he is somewhat prone to abusing it). Jesus pulls one of these when he warns Atticus not to go to Asgard. He even goes out of his way to specify that he knows better than Atticus what a humongous mistake it would be, but refuses to elaborate, citing incomprehensible forces and his belief that "that would be cheating". He turns out to be right about this, but an explanation would have been helpful.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: Atticus killing Thor leads Odin to demand he take on Thor's role in Ragnarok, or at least find a suitable replacement.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5e751f8	type	Fallen Angel
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5e751f8	comment	Fallen Angel: They're the first and strongest demons from the Christian end of things.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: Laksha took the name Kulasekaran in honor of the king that ruled India when she was young.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: A 12 year one between Tricked and Trapped.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_608bf5a0	comment	Shoot the Hostage: Atticus has Diana held underground and in pieces because she won't stop hunting him and as a bargaining chip against the Roman pantheon to ensure they remain peaceful. When she vows to stop hunting Atticus, she immediately breaks the vow and attempts to attack him which gets her smote by Jupiter. Afterwards, Atticus realizes he got played since killing her would resurrect her at home and free her from the imprisonment.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_60f37373	type	Attack Reflector
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_60f37373	comment	Attack Reflector: Coriander is warded to reflect attacks and do no harm which gives him free pass to travel through the Irish planes as a herald. In combat, he helpfully stands in the way, but other fae know to hit around him or use projectiles.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: The Morrigan is killed at the beginning of Hunted by Artemis and Diana - though she chose to die so as to go out on her own terms.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_63cf9a3	type	Rage Against the Mentor
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_63cf9a3	comment	Rage Against the Mentor: Granuaile gets angry at Atticus after she meets the Tuatha Dé Danann because they're mostly assholes that don't meet her ideal of a god, and she believed that being a Druid would require her to worship them. Atticus is quick to assure her that just because he worships them doesn't mean she has to; the only extra-human entity she is beholden to is the Earth itself.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: For a certain definition of Normal. While Oberon is older than any other Irish Wolfhound thanks to Atticus sharing his Immortali-Tea with the hound, and is smarter or at least more educated than normal dogs due to his Druid teaching him language, he is still merely a normal, albeit well-bred, Wolfhound. He regularly tangles with vampires, monsters, fae, and outright gods.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: In Scourged, Laksha chooses to sacrifice herself by body-snatching Jörmungandr and drowning herself beneath the sea to make sure it can't take its body back and wreck havoc during Ragnarök as her final act of good karma.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Oberon, bizarre as it may sound. Hearne stated in an interview that most of Oberon's dialogue is not even planned, but simply comes from Hearne's own snarky thoughts on the scene as he is writing. Oberon's quips often contain numerous Shout Outs to Hearne's own geeky interests.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_69aa26d1	type	Poison Is Corrosive
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_69aa26d1	comment	Poison Is Corrosive: Manticore venom.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6a2c0cc6	type	Living Distant Ancestor
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6a2c0cc6	comment	Living Distant Ancestor: Atticus was patriarch of a large clan in Africa for a few centuries, though his attempts to share his immortality with his descendants didn't end well (they started seeing him as simply their ticket to immortality). This is indicated to have rather soured him on people in general for a long while.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Bacchus, being the Roman god of madness. Doesn't help that Atticus took a hammer to his Berserk Button by calling him a pale imitation of Dionysus.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Atticus' magic has very specific rules lined out, but most of the magic seen follows specific rules even if they aren't explicitly stated. A big part of why Atticus is so powerful is because he experiments with the rules of druid magic and was able to find solutions to problems that seemed impossible to the much older and powerful Tuatha Dé Danann. Averted by Jesus who's strong enough to do whatever the hell he wants with his miracles.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_70c73c20	type	TheUnseen
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_70c73c20	comment	The Unseen: Thor until Hammered.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: Shows up on his pale horse and everything in the first book. He's a decidedly creepy person and takes Aenghus Óg to Hell when he died.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Theophilus and Loki. Theophilus is pulling on a grudge against Druids (who tended to kill vampires on sight back in the day) while Loki is just an Omnicidal Maniac.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_73f7975f	comment	Jerkass Gods: A few. Thor (prior to his reincarnation) and Aenghus Óg stand out in particular. Most believe in Might Makes Right and would murder for rudeness (The Morrigan for example) if the culprit isn't on their power level. Lampshaded in the "Clan Rathskeller" short story, though in that case it was actually a subversion.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7621a56b	type	Poison Is Evil
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7621a56b	comment	Poison Is Evil: While Atticus has given up Moralltach by this point, Atticus swears off using any poison for all the pain he suffers after getting hit with a dose of manticore venom.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_77480c5e	type	God Is Good
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_77480c5e	comment	God Is Good: In sharp contrast to most mythological figures who make appearances, there are a few who stand out for being good. Jesus, notwithstanding his invocation of Omniscient Morality License. His mother Mary even more so. Coyote is a bit of a mix. He's definitely good towards the Diné (even if they don't believe it), but he's indicated a lack of compassion towards non-Diné, only intervening to stop a demon when it attacks one of his people. Goibniu and Manannán mac Lir of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Perun is depicted as being a pretty decent guy, thanks to a millennium or two of enforced humility.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: Thanks to Clap Your Hands If You Believe, anything that enough people believe in becomes real, though not necessarily to the point where they can appear on Earth. For example, Odin explains that the comic book version of Thor can't manifest at all. There's supposedly several levels of Clap Your Hands If You Believe in universe. Apparently plenty of people know about him, and spend time thinking about him, but because nobody worships (or believes in the existence of) Marvel's Thor he has so little power he can't even manifest a body. He may have one on his own plane, but he can't come to Earth.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7831b670	type	Gaia's Vengeance
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7831b670	comment	Gaia's Vengeance: In the direct sense, Atticus calling on Sonora as Gaia's champion when he's attacked by a demon at his house. Less directly, this is one of the primary shticks of Druids, but since Atticus was the only one for something in the area of two thousand years, he can't take a very active role in the whole avenging business.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: And how! The bad: He agreed to transport an expedition to Asgard to avenge millennia of jerkassery by Thor. Standing in his way? Only most of the Norse gods. The worse: Having succeeded in killing not only Thor but the Norns, Heimdall and Freyr, he's chased down by Thor's brothers and a bunch of other thunder gods. The shit that hits the fan: With the Norns dead, their prophecies are null, meaning Ragnarok can start early. With Thor dead there's no one to fight Jormungandr. With Heimdall dead there's no one to fight Loki. Who it just so happens has broken free and is bat-shit insane. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: Melina, a witch, has a spell on her hair that gives her this ability.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7d3da681	type	The Legions of Hell
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7d3da681	comment	The Legions of Hell: Recurring bad guys and frequently show up in large numbers. They smell like ass.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7ffca8c4	type	Immortality Begins at Twenty
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_7ffca8c4	comment	Immortality Begins at Twenty: Played with in Atticus' case. He was already an old man when he first came across Airmid, who taught him the recipe for his Immortali-tea, which reduced his age to how he looked in his mid-twenties. In Shattered it is implied that it's merely a matter of dosing, as the archdruid Owen chooses to only reverse his age to about his 40's, with the logic that he'd always been Atticus's elder so looking the same age would be weird. Subverted with witches, as they use magic to hide their real age.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_808cbaeb	comment	Atticus is part of a group that goes after Thor for his crimes against them like murdering their families, pets, making fools of them or just generally being a murderous thug who destroys innocent lives. Yet, they show no reservation at invading his home, killing his family and friends and their pets. One member, Leif, confessed that at least he himself to having killed innocents during his time as a vampire. None of them care. By the end of Hammered Atticus is a thief, having stolen golden apples from Idunn, and Odin's spear (which, to be fair, he did later return), a murderer, having killed several members of the Norse pantheon who had nothing to do with Thor's actions, and technically an animal abuser too, since he killed Sleipnir and one of Odin's ravens, and a liar, having claimed to have been sent by the dark elves and to be Bacchus, thereby risking a war between the Norse and Roman and Greek pantheons. He also willingly agrees and allows the goddess Freyja (who has committed no crime) to be kidnapped by Frost Giants knowing full well they are going to rape her and blames the whole mess on Thor for not fighting the group despite said group not even announcing who they are or why they are attacking (although on that point, they assumed that Thor would remember. He didn't). All Atticus feels is a little bad about the whole mess and a little sorry for Freyja - and pleased she escaped. That part with Freyja is brought up later, at least - when Atticus cops to the fact that it was pretty awful in the face of Granuaile's horror and Freyja's justified fury, and doesn't hold a grudge when Freyja ends up lopping his arm off in exchange.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_834420aa	comment	BFS: Brighid's huge sword looks like it came straight out of a manga.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_835f53f3	type	Pals with Jesus
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_835f53f3	comment	Pals with Jesus: In the third book, Atticus has lunch and drinks with Jesus. They briefly reminisce about moving the treasure of the Templars and planting false clues. A couple of books later, they catch up in Mexico over some tequila.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: They're the children of the Tuatha Dé Danann. They're frequently mentioned, but rarely have any significant presence.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Thor pretty much personifies this. He is a bully who will do as he pleases and only seems to obey Odin. He likes to play cruel practical jokes and sees nothing wrong with killing humans and supernatural beings for petty reasons. The reincarnated version averts this, and thanks Atticus for killing off his previous self, who'd veered into Jerk with a Heart of Jerk territory.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Leif Helgarson, vampire, attorney at law, a match for Atticus in a Shakespearean quote duel, wears a tailored suit like he was born in it, and can tear you, witches, or other vampires limb from blood-pumping limb. Atticus is no slouch either, being an Omniglot scholar with a habit of killing whichever supernatural creature decides to pick a fight with him.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Hell is evil, most gods are jerks (if they don't cross the Moral Event Horizon), the viewpoint character is kind of a jerk, who tends to not get involved unless he's forced to (though this is largely out of 2000 years of keeping a low profile to avoid the literal wrath of a god) until he gets Character Development.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_88965d8d	type	TricksterArchetype
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_88965d8d	comment	Trickster Archetype: Coyote plays shows up frequently and Loki is mentioned, and is a major antagonist starting in Tricked.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_8d8c3304	type	Deadly Scratch
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_8d8c3304	comment	Deadly Scratch: Moralltach is one of Atticus' swords that can instantly kill anything with just a scratch. Granuaile obtains a whirling blade from the yetis, a Soul-Cutting Blade that can instantly kill and take the soul of the target by stabbing them anywhere with the tip.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	National Stereotypes: The widow MacDonagh is terrified when she sees Atticus kill a man but becomes quite accepting when Atticus tells her the man was British. She's old school Irish about such things.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Aenghus Óg summoned the Christian Death for his fight with Atticus, because he knew that the Morrigan wouldn't come for him. When Atticus kills him, Death takes him to Hell instead of Tír na nÓg. Laksha is Indian, so she explicitly believes in karma and works to subvert this. Having spent most of her life messing around with evil demons, she's working on collecting good karma to balance the scales.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Challenging a death goddess to a sword fight turns out to be one of Vidar's less intelligent decisions in Tricked as he's bisected for his troubles.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Aenghus Óg in the first book is really the only antagonist that fits the trope effectively. At least, until Loki reveals that he has been faking his insanity all this time and is actually quite a schemer.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Atticus usually tries to avoid any responsibility for his actions and only tries to fix things if strong-armed. He tries to skip town instead of dealing with the Maenads and only does when pressured to do so by the local coven. He blames the whole Asgard mess on the Norns and Thor, only admitting he handled things "poorly" when forced to confront Odin. He later grows out of this, accepting more responsibility for his actions and his duties (which he'd been neglecting for two thousand years on the grounds that Aenghus Og was trying to find and kill him).
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: In Hunted, Atticus runs into Werner Drasche, a vampire-loyal agent who can drain the life of anything around him and the one responsible for organizing the sniper ambush that put a lethal bullet through Atticus' head earlier, and easily takes him down as he hadn't been briefed on Druid abilities. Despite Werner's attempts to kill him during the encounter, Atticus internally acknowledging that Werner is an evil abomination that should be killed, and the war he's waging against vampires, he opts to spare him for two reasons: to avoid Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, something that rings hollow considering how much self-defense killing he does and how he only brings it up at that moment, and the main reason being simple spite against Leif and a refusal to be used as a tool against his vampire rivals; Atticus outright tells him that Leif had warned Atticus about Werner and set him up to die. The consequences are seen in the two books after which show what a terrible idea it was: Shattered: Werner kills Kodiak Black, Atticus' friend and the one handling Atticus' funds, thus preventing payment of the yewman mercenaries who were hunting vampires. Staked: The fight against Werner in Toranto has Atticus take five gunshot wounds in a Curb-Stomp Battle and his plan amounts to Depowering Werner and hoping that the police and ambalance get there before he bleeds out or is finished off. He's also dependant on Owen getting him out of the hospital before the vampires find him first. Leif is out of Theophilus' favor and unable to give better information to Atticus; the info he does give is leaked from Werner wiretapping Leif's phone which turns an assassination opportunity into an ambush Atticus is forced to flee from. Werner also leads the vampire assault on Owen's Grove which leads to Hal's death and Atticus is no longer welcome among the Tempe and Flagstaff werewolves for it.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_9820c37a	type	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_9820c37a	comment	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Owen is not shy about exercising his vocabulary of curse words, usually aimed at Atticus for being a screw-up.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_99753740	type	Soul-Cutting Blade
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_99753740	comment	Soul-Cutting Blade: Granuaile gets a whirling blade from the yetis that can instantly kill and absorb the soul of its target by stabbing them with the tip and the soul keeps the blade perpetually frozen. She is very uncomfortable about using it since all she wanted was an ice dagger.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_9c23f3a0	type	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_9c23f3a0	comment	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Atticus thinks he killed the last two Bigfoots during his time in the Everglades. He also says he was the figure in the Patterson Film because he was bored at the time. Sasquatch and Yeti are still very much alive, though. To make a long story short, the Yeti speak Old Irish and Old Norse and their mother had a penchant for saying "Graah".
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_9e6e54db	type	The Older Immortal
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_9e6e54db	comment	The Older Immortal: Pretty much every significant character has an extended lifespan. Some try to use this as a gauge for threat level (Atticus is probably X hundred years old, but I'm surely older, and therefore stronger!) In the Thor Revenge Squad, Gunnar is the youngest, being around three hundred years old, while Atticus' 2100ish is the highest confirmed age with Leif being just over a thousand. Zhang Guo Lao's age is never specified, but he should be over 4000 years and Vainamoinen (Finish culture hero) and Perun (Russian god) are probably older.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: The Morrigan. Death goddess natch.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Aenghus Óg kidnapping Oberon and Hal, then drawing power from the Earth to open a portal to Hell, which killed the surrounding land for about twenty square miles. Both huge no-nos in Druidic law, and a personal blow for anyone intimately connected to the Earth (as all Druids are). Atticus didn't take well to Hel, the Norse goddess of the dead confronting him wearing the skin of the widow Macdonagh. Similarly, Oberon being injured during the fight with Zdenik is what turned Atticus completely against Leif, since the latter had orchestrated the whole thing. Fand, as self-declared queen of the Fae, takes Atticus' and Brighid's obsession with Cold Iron personally, as it turns out Granuaile considers Loki to be her nemesis after his machinations lead to the death of her father, her leading him straight to the Arrows of Vayu, and being branded with Loki's mark. During Ragnarök, she deals the finishing blow to him and claims the Arrows of Vayu as her own for it.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a121abc7	type	Respawning Enemies
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a121abc7	comment	Respawning Enemies: Coyote threatens to gather up all the other Coyotes and become this for Atticus if he doesn't do what he wants.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a1b141f4	comment	Granuaille gets in on the action in Staked. She attacks her step-father's business explicitly out of spite, rationalizing her actions as helping the Earth. She derides Atticus' tendency to resort to violence as "how men solve problems" then goes straight to her step-father's office and beats the crap out of him and several security guards. Despite acknowledging her hypocrisy in attacking him, she continues to beat him up anyway, once again trying to justify it as her striking back against a polluter. Afterwards, however, she worries about this being part of a potential Start of Darkness.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a392f00d	type	Occult Law Firm
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a392f00d	comment	Occult Law Firm: Leif and Gunnar with his pack run one. They are open 24/7 as Leif is in at nights and the werewolves can be reached when the sun is up.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a60f7120	comment	Skinwalkers can change into different animals as long as they wear cloaks woven from that animal's skin. They take on the abilities of that animal, which is the main reason that Coyote doesn't want to risk dealing with them himself.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a7c0ee18	type	Domino Revelation
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a7c0ee18	comment	Domino Revelation: Magic animals, witches, gods & goddesses, werewolves, vampires, ghouls, demons, angels, and so more!
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Played with in Trapped. Atticus traps Bacchus in an area of slow time. He's effectively trapped, but as far as he knows time is passing normally and not even a single second has passed. A more straight example, Atticus does this to Artemis, Diana and Mercury in Hunted. He lops off their limbs and encases them in tar and has the local elemental bury their bodies. As they are immortal, they remain alive and fully aware during this. A more positive example in Laksha. After she transferred her spirit into her ruby necklace she had nothing to do but reflect on her life and the circumstances of her death so she resolved to work on collecting as much good karma as possible if she was ever freed.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_aa7b6e26	type	Muggle
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_aa7b6e26	comment	In general, this seems to pop up an awful lot in magic users. Atticus said as much to Granuaile at the end of Hounded; the world of magic isn't exactly filled with sunshine and rainbows, even the benign practitioners are often forced to make terrible choices, and tend to regard muggles as an inconvenience to be exploited as necessary, and it sometimes smells as awful as it is and you better be damn sure you know what you're getting into before you join up.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: A lot. Lampshaded by Atticus' narration that literally describes the morality of the Tuatha Dé Danann as "Bronze Age" and his own as "Iron Age". While he understands modern sensibilities, at times he's fairly transparently acting the part just to blend in, and consequently creeps out his young apprentice several times with his callous disregard of said sensibilities. One particular case of this (Atticus being willing to let the Frost Giants have Freyja, in order to secure their aid in the raid on Asgard - mercifully, she escapes, and while he's somewhat relieved about that, he didn't particularly care one way or another beforehand), revealed to said apprentice (now graduated) in the last book, leads to her genuine horror, the end of their romance and the two of them separating for the foreseeable future. In this case, though, he cops to it, and doesn't even hold the fact that Freyja chops his arm off against the insulted party.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: The gate guard at Granuaile's mother's mansion, whom Granuaile arbitrarily designates as "casually sexist", despite his only words being "Can I help you?" because she for some reason imagines him appending "little lady" to the end.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: Atticus is very careful not to attract too much attention to himself so people are more likely to dismiss anything strange going on around him. It is a constant source of frustration that his neighbours are too inquisitive. Leif, a thousand year old vampire, is very confident that people will dismiss the events at the stadium as just gang warfare. Considering that Leif killed over sixty rival vampires during one night and left all of their bodies for the police to find, Atticus is not so sure but does not have time to worry about it too much.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Any muggle or unnamed supernatural character to run into the gods, vampires and other assorted supernatural threats, except the Morality Pets, whose clothing is mauve colored.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ac5afbd8	type	Hellfire
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ac5afbd8	comment	Hellfire: Aenghus Óg gained this through a Deal with the Devil.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ae0f579f	type	De-power
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ae0f579f	comment	Depower: Atticus is able to take away Werner's life-draining abilities by having Ferris feast on the magic in their tattoos. Unfortuantely for Atticus, they're still a badass familiar with modern weapons and tactics.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: At the end of Tricked when the Morrigan shows up and calls Atticus Siodhachan (his real name), Granuaile asks if that's old Irish for "Dumbass".
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Atticus, which has led to many comparisons to The Dresden Files.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b0740635	type	Master of Your Domain
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b0740635	comment	Master of Your Domain: Atticus has gotten very good at manipulating his body over the years. Morrigan teaches him a useful technique for raising his core temperature in the third book.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: A druid's offensive magic is based on this. Druids cannot directly harm a living being using their magic or the magic will kill the druid on the spot. However, the rules of druid magic do not prohibit indirect harm. So while you cannot just stop an enemy's heart with magic, you can have a hole appear under him to trap his legs so you can cut his head off with a sword. Atticus' discovery of a loophole in the interaction of magic and iron resulted in his creation of a powerful amulet that lets him resist many types of magic - though it took him several centuries to master it. This makes him way more powerful than a normal druid and able to fight gods.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Atticus is part of a group that goes after Thor for his crimes against them like murdering their families, pets, making fools of them or just generally being a murderous thug who destroys innocent lives. Yet, they show no reservation at invading his home, killing his family and friends and their pets. One member, Leif, confessed that at least he himself to having killed innocents during his time as a vampire. None of them care. By the end of Hammered Atticus is a thief, having stolen golden apples from Idunn, and Odin's spear (which, to be fair, he did later return), a murderer, having killed several members of the Norse pantheon who had nothing to do with Thor's actions, and technically an animal abuser too, since he killed Sleipnir and one of Odin's ravens, and a liar, having claimed to have been sent by the dark elves and to be Bacchus, thereby risking a war between the Norse and Roman and Greek pantheons. He also willingly agrees and allows the goddess Freyja (who has committed no crime) to be kidnapped by Frost Giants knowing full well they are going to rape her and blames the whole mess on Thor for not fighting the group despite said group not even announcing who they are or why they are attacking (although on that point, they assumed that Thor would remember. He didn't). All Atticus feels is a little bad about the whole mess and a little sorry for Freyja - and pleased she escaped. That part with Freyja is brought up later, at least - when Atticus cops to the fact that it was pretty awful in the face of Granuaile's horror and Freyja's justified fury, and doesn't hold a grudge when Freyja ends up lopping his arm off in exchange. In general, this seems to pop up an awful lot in magic users. Atticus said as much to Granuaile at the end of Hounded; the world of magic isn't exactly filled with sunshine and rainbows, even the benign practitioners are often forced to make terrible choices, and tend to regard muggles as an inconvenience to be exploited as necessary, and it sometimes smells as awful as it is and you better be damn sure you know what you're getting into before you join up. Granuaille gets in on the action in Staked. She attacks her step-father's business explicitly out of spite, rationalizing her actions as helping the Earth. She derides Atticus' tendency to resort to violence as "how men solve problems" then goes straight to her step-father's office and beats the crap out of him and several security guards. Despite acknowledging her hypocrisy in attacking him, she continues to beat him up anyway, once again trying to justify it as her striking back against a polluter. Afterwards, however, she worries about this being part of a potential Start of Darkness.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Loki is much, much smarter and on the ball than he pretends to be.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b53077b3	comment	Malina and her coven are on the payroll of several companies as consultants. They mention that they don't actually do anything (just like real consultants), but get paid very well for what they don't do. Justified since they're using magic to convince people to give them free stuff.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b5619979	type	Was It All a Lie?
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b5619979	comment	Was It All a Lie?: Once Leif Helgarson reveals he befriended Atticus for his abilities to take revenge on Thor, Atticus is left wondering how much of their friendship was genuine. After Leif gives away Atticus' location to have a vampire rival killed by him, Atticus calls him an untrustworthy, selfish Manipulative Bastard from that point on, though he remains affable towards Atticus.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b575a2b1	type	Cold Iron
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b575a2b1	comment	Fand, as self-declared queen of the Fae, takes Atticus' and Brighid's obsession with Cold Iron personally, as it turns out
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Atticus never explains how he intends to use granny panties and a bag of marshmallows to punish Coyote for his duplicity. We do find out, however, that there was also some Icy Hot and a gopher snake to that recipe.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bb0b2739	type	Nested Story
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: In the third book, the participants in the raid on the Norse plane tell their stories about why they hate Thor and want him to die.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Brighid. Emphasis on fiery. She's a fire goddess after all. Granuaile is also an excitable red head.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bbcdd673	comment	Also Oberon (the Irish wolfhound) seems to think that poodles are an all female dog breed.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bbeea2fe	type	Percussive Prevention
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bbeea2fe	comment	Percussive Prevention: The Morrigan is not shy about using violence to remind Atticus not to do anything stupid. Not that it helps much but...
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The Hammers of God, a multi-religious military organization that targets Atticus because he was present when Aenghus Óg opened a portal to Hell. They later reel back on the more militant aspects and start focusing on explicit evils.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Atticus tells Bacchus he's "a pale imitation of a better god" just to piss him off. Granuaile gets really angry if you patronize her. Or threaten her dog. Or pollute. Or disagree with anything she says.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bf2ba07c	type	Game of Nerds
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bf2ba07c	comment	Game of Nerds: Atticus, whose geek credentials are well and truly established early on, is a big baseball fan.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bf9ed416	type	Immortality
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_bf9ed416	comment	Immortality: The various mythological figures cover almost every subtrope of immortality.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c0f8b680	type	Trickster God
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c0f8b680	comment	Coyote is a bit of a mix. He's definitely good towards the Diné (even if they don't believe it), but he's indicated a lack of compassion towards non-Diné, only intervening to stop a demon when it attacks one of his people.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c2ef5a3d	type	Druid
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c2ef5a3d	comment	Atticus is a Druid, his job is being the protector of Earth. Outside of that one Aenghus Óg-caused catastrophe he doesn't seem to care or at least is never shown to do anything environmentally conscious (closest he comes is relegating his apprentice to do it as training), though he does mention a number of times where's he's intervened to save an Elemental (local Nature Spirit). In the general sense, he justifies his lack of action as pointless. He's just one guy and could spend days sabotaging mining equipment and things like that, but the mining companies would just replace the equipment and continue right along and he'd have to start all over again. On the other hand he does take his other canonical job as bookshop owner much more seriously. Tricked expands on this quite a bit: Atticus could spend all his time being environmentally active, but a) it wouldn't help and b) the earth will survive most any non-supernatural threats. Kaibab Unleashed and Grimoire of the Lamb show us what Atticus does when something supernatural threatens the earth. He isn't gentle about it... This is expanded on further in Staked, when he points out that he spent two millennia using magic as little as possible to avoid Aenghus Og, and while Aenghus has now been dead for a decade or so, two millennia of habit is hard to break.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c3743565	type	Time Dissonance
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c3743565	comment	Time Dissonance: The spirit of the Earth fondly reminisces about the time of the dinosaurs as if it were just last week.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c3c245f2	type	Squee
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c3c245f2	comment	Squee: We are treated to a somewhat extended discussion of this in Hexed when Atticus finds out that Leif is famous in the Vampire community. Atticus asks Leif if other vampires Squee when they see him, and confesses that he has squeed over meeting "Neil Fucking Gaiman". And no, Leif, "Fucking" is not his middle name.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: Coyote shoots a demon in the butt because it's funny.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: Laksha did this for a few hundred years. Since then she's gotten a lot more polite about it.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Numerous. Atticus and Oberon are both One of Us.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: As mentioned, Atticus doesn't like getting involved or trying to put down any sort of crime unless it affects him. He had to be blackmailed into helping Coyote kill a demon, and was willing to let the Bacchants do their thing before learning they were walking Emotion Bombs that would have devastated the city. As he explains in Staked, this is in large part due to 2000 years of dodging Aenghus Og, who would detect his use of magic, encouraging him to keep a low profile.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: Väinämöinen is capable of it when he shows up in the third book. Also, Frank's Blessing Way in the fourth book.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c9d9a85f	type	Hot Witch
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_c9d9a85f	comment	Hot Witch: Nearly every witch in the series. Most of them are actually extremely old and ugly, but are magically altering their appearance.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: A number of these pop up with some being major and some minor. For example, Perun's lightning works fine in Asgard, but later Atticus doubts Zeus and Jupiter's lightning would work in another realm besides Olympus and Earth. While this might have something to do with the fact that Perun and Odin were part of Ganesha's group that was looking to carefully handle Ragnarok, and Odin might have somehow allowed Perun to use his lightning on Asgard, Atticus most definitely did not know that at the time.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Thor is this according to Word of God, not that you would know from looking, since the jerk part is all that is shown and talked about (and there is rather a lot of it) which makes Thor come across as a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk despite the tales of him being one of the friendlier gods to humanity. The heart of gold becomes visible when he reappears, having been resurrected at Ragnarok, and thanks Atticus for killing off his previous incarnation, who'd veered into Jerk with a Heart of Jerk territory.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_cc6f4612	type	Beyond the Impossible
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_cc6f4612	comment	A big part of why Atticus is so powerful is because he experiments with the rules of druid magic and was able to find solutions to problems that seemed impossible to the much older and powerful Tuatha Dé Danann.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Subverted with Thor and the other Norse who died in book 3. They're gods, and they're worshipped enough that they have the power to come back to life. The only reason they haven't is because Odin told them to lay low, just in case Loki can make Ragnarok happen, where they would really be Killed Off for Real.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ce555c91	type	Post-Modern Magik
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ce555c91	comment	Post-Modern Magik: Ghouls with refrigerated trucks, car chases with chariot riding gods, werewolf attorneys, handgun wielding Nazi witches and military weapon sporting Draugr.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: A drive-by mention of the year in Shattered sets it in 2022.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_d0309fad	type	Religion is Magic
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_d0309fad	comment	Religion is Magic: Gods run on belief and magic runs on belief and deals. Atticus' is with Mother Nature and for lesser extent with the Tuatha Dé Danann (as he is their last true priest/believer). Witches tend to make deals for power with less savoury types. Which is the very reason his apprentice chooses him.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_d155515c	comment	Especially Meteorite Iron. It's antithetical to magic, so is the best imaginable protection against it. It's also outright poisonous to beings of pure magic (The Fair Folk). Makes spellcasting extremely hard, though. Atticus' mastery of Cold Iron earned him the title of the Iron Druid. However, iron of any kind pretty much cancels out magic under normal circumstances, Atticus's own magic being the exception, (It is possible to combine the two if the smith is talented enough) resulting in the Iron Age pretty much bringing an end to magic in the world.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_d238fd9d	comment	Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Atticus clothes don't change with him, so ends up naked a lot, which is usually played for humor. At one point one of his friends demands him to put a Modesty Towel on before he gives him a car ride, not because of actual modesty, but because he doesn't want Atticus bare ass on the seat of his car.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: The widow MacDonagh is a good example. Atticus sits and drinks with her fairly often.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_d75a1703	comment	Year Outside, Hour Inside: The Time Islands in Tír na nÓg. People trapped in there experience time normally, but relative to the rest of the world it takes several millennia for them to so much as blink.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: Laksha used a Ruby Necklace as one for 160 years under the sea.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_db5e046d	comment	Immortal Immaturity: Pretty much all the gods can come off as petty children or teenagers with few exceptions. Atticus himself often acts immature for someone of his age and life experience. Part of it is an act to make people think he is really only twenty years old and to generally blend in. Often, though, it isn't - though in later books he undergoes significant Character Development and starts actually acting like the immortal millennia old druid that he is. Actually something of a plot point in Hounded: Emily, one the of witches in a local coven acts like a spoiled teenager despite being over ninety years old. Atticus uses her as an example to Granuaile, advising her to think long and hard before becoming a magic user, because it's a risk inherent in having an extended life.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: By his own admission in Hunted, Atticus' Soul Catcher probably shouldn't have worked. It'd require that he die while in contact with the earth, that his body would fall in such a way that his tattoos were actually touching the ground, that his binding would actually keep his soul in place at all and a whole slew of other requirements that the odds of it saving him once were wildly improbable and unlikely to happen again.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Toward the beginning of Hunted, the Morrigan gives Atticus the address of a Time Island where someone he may want to retrieve is frozen in time. Eventually, he does have the person pulled out of there, and on the very last page we find out who it is: his old Archdruid.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_dfe888e0	comment	Can Not Tell A Lie: Anyone caught in the effect of Fragarach, the Answerer. It forces them to speak nothing but the truth. And to leave nothing out. The goddess Brighid can speak in a powerful three-tiered voice, which not only has an aura of command, but she cannot lie while using it.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_e0c00a95	comment	Gods in general are plagued by this. Brighid tries to kill Atticus with magic despite knowing Atticus has an amulet that makes him immune to magic (well, she thought she was strong enough to overcome it, but still) and a sword that can cut through anything. According to Perun, Thor tricked virtually every other thunder god, and by extension nearly every other god on the planet, to not have their stories written down in print, but in stone statues or oral traditions that are worn away or lost, causing them to be largely forgotten in modern day compared to the gods whose stories were written down like the Greek and Norse. Thor himself is repeatedly stated to be a brutish thug and moron - though it's suggested that a) he's smarter than he acts, b) Odin put him up to it.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Atticus is the last of the ancient Celtic druids. Only the Tuatha Dé Danann still follow the ancient traditions and they're gods. Atticus can train new druids but the training takes years and over the centuries none of his apprentices lived to complete the final rituals. Except Granuaile, who becomes a full druid in Trapped, then Owen, who reappears from a time island and starts training apprentices of his own.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The Roman gods for the Greeks. Atticus even lampshades this when pushing Bacchus's Berserk Button, calling him "a feeble echo of Dionysos" and "a weak copy of a better god".
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: In Hunted, Zeus' sexual appetite. His first thought is to comment on an attraction to half-rotted Hel, has a constant erection, and has to be called out by Jupiter to focus on anything besides sex.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Druids like Atticus or the Tuatha Dé Danann can handle immortality fairly well due to their training and bond with nature. When Atticus tried to share his immortality potion with some of his children, after a few lifetimes they started going insane.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ea8168f	comment	Crossover Cosmology: Gods from any mythos you can think of appear or are at least mentioned, including Mary and Jesus.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Owen is pissed off enough by a troll that followed him home demanding gold to punch him in the groin. Unfortunately for both of them, he didn't take into account how powerful his newly crafted brass knuckles were and finds himself elbow deep into the troll's nether regions which escalates things into a fight to the death.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ee02d93c	comment	Snarky Nonhuman Sidekick: Atticus' dog Oberon generally makes humorous remarks to him psychically; frequently while he's talking to someone who can't communicate with animals.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Malina and her coven are on the payroll of several companies as consultants. They mention that they don't actually do anything (just like real consultants), but get paid very well for what they don't do. Justified since they're using magic to convince people to give them free stuff. Atticus is a Druid, his job is being the protector of Earth. Outside of that one Aenghus Óg-caused catastrophe he doesn't seem to care or at least is never shown to do anything environmentally conscious (closest he comes is relegating his apprentice to do it as training), though he does mention a number of times where's he's intervened to save an Elemental (local Nature Spirit). In the general sense, he justifies his lack of action as pointless. He's just one guy and could spend days sabotaging mining equipment and things like that, but the mining companies would just replace the equipment and continue right along and he'd have to start all over again. On the other hand he does take his other canonical job as bookshop owner much more seriously. Tricked expands on this quite a bit: Atticus could spend all his time being environmentally active, but a) it wouldn't help and b) the earth will survive most any non-supernatural threats. Kaibab Unleashed and Grimoire of the Lamb show us what Atticus does when something supernatural threatens the earth. He isn't gentle about it... This is expanded on further in Staked, when he points out that he spent two millennia using magic as little as possible to avoid Aenghus Og, and while Aenghus has now been dead for a decade or so, two millennia of habit is hard to break.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_eea93c96	comment	Blow You Away: An ability of Fragarach is that it allows the control of wind so long as you have the power.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_f46fb603	comment	Atticus really likes puns, so he uses them for names for various tea blends. There's Virus Immuni-tea, Humili-tea, Mobili-tea and Immortali-tea among others.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	After the Kennedy's Grove incident, a couple of formerly friendly werewolf packs finally got fed up with all the splashily vengeful enemies Atticus has been making lately, and banned him from their territories on pain of fanged death.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Atticus does this at the beginning of Tricked, so as to disappear from the backlash of previous hijinks.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: "You know, X would be a great band name. Think of the merchandise possibilities!" So far, we have: The Algae Shirts, Handsome Phantoms, Emo Douchebags (It's already the unofficial name of more bands than I can count) and Beefy Hairy Women. Subverted by Sasquatch on a Leash: Oberon thinks it makes a better name for a musky cologne. "Sasquatch on a Leash: Control your smelly beast."
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