...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Jackelian Series
- 634 statements
- 125 feature instances
- 36 referencing feature instances
| Jackelian Series | type |
TVTItem | |
| Jackelian Series | label |
Jackelian Series | |
| Jackelian Series | page |
JackelianSeries | |
| Jackelian Series | comment |
The Jackelian Series is a series of Science Fantasy novels written by English author Stephen Hunt. The series is comprised of The Court of the Air, The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, The Rise of the Iron Moon, Secrets of the Fire Sea, Jack Cloudie, From the Deep of the Dark, and Mission to Mightadore. All the novels are set in the same universe, but with a rotating cast of characters in each book.The novels are mostly set in and around the Kingdom of Jackals, a steampunk Kingdom with shades of Victorian Britain and Gilded-Age America. An economic and military powerhouse, Jackals is beset on all sides by enemies within and without. To protect Jackals, the founders of the Jackelian Parliament created the Court of the Air, an elite spy organization so secret that few who hear of it actually believe it exists. Despite their best efforts, threats to Jackals and even the world loom large. | |
| Jackelian Series | fetched |
2024-02-24T13:30:54Z | |
| Jackelian Series | parsed |
2024-02-24T13:30:54Z | |
| Jackelian Series | processingComment |
Dropped link to MakeMeWannaShout: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| Jackelian Series | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Jackelian Series / int_109b036e | type |
Abusive Precursors | |
| Jackelian Series / int_109b036e | comment |
Abusive Precursors: In The Rise of the Iron Moon, the leaders of the Alien Invasion aren't aliens at all: they're an ancient, nigh-omnipotent race of humans who'd left Jackals' Earth a barren waste, invaded another planet, and are now coming back to ravage their now-recovered homeworld because they've used that one up too. The subterranean Chimecan Empire that ruled Jackels' continent during the Ice Age exploited the scattered surface peoples as slave labor, sacrifices, and a food source. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_109b036e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_109b036e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_109b036e | |
| Jackelian Series / int_113472aa | type |
Miles Gloriosus | |
| Jackelian Series / int_113472aa | comment |
Miles Gloriosus: Omar from Jack Cloudie can barely speak a word without bragging, although the narrative reveals how much of this conduct is a ruse and/or insecure self-justification. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_113472aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_113472aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_113472aa | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1226f314 | type |
Dream Walker | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1226f314 | comment |
Dream Walker: The Whisperer's mental powers allow him to visit Oliver in his dreams, and to snoop at the dreams of others. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1226f314 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1226f314 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_1226f314 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_12628662 | type |
The Call Knows Where You Live | |
| Jackelian Series / int_12628662 | comment |
The Call Knows Where You Live: Poor Commodore Black gets dragged into every single story, willingly or not. By Deep of the Dark, he's openly Lampshading how he keeps getting coerced into these messes. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_12628662 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_12628662 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_12628662 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_145babc0 | type |
Expendable Clone | |
| Jackelian Series / int_145babc0 | comment |
Expendable Clone: The Eternal Caliph's reign is perpetuated by a combination of life-extension elixer and this trope. When his life-prolonging drug can no longer sustain him, he has seven clones of himself raised and educated in secrecy. The one who scores highest on a series of tests is implanted with his memories and becomes the new caliph; the other six are strangled. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_145babc0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_145babc0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_145babc0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_16bbbd7c | type |
This Is What the Building Will Look Like | |
| Jackelian Series / int_16bbbd7c | comment |
This Is What the Building Will Look Like: The First Senator of Jago proudly displays scale models of his preposterously over-ambitious designs for new cities, port facilities, and civic buildings to visitors. It's implied that his underlings have these models created purely to suck up to and humor their boss, as Jago lacks the resources, the prosperity, and even the population size to permit even a tiny fraction of its crackpot leader's architectural imaginings to ever come to pass. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_16bbbd7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_16bbbd7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_16bbbd7c | |
| Jackelian Series / int_17122b19 | type |
Exactly What I Aimed At | |
| Jackelian Series / int_17122b19 | comment |
Exactly What I Aimed At: Omar defeats the villain of Jack Cloudie by throwing a knife, not at his opponent, but at the control lever of the gate to a corral of untamed draks. Released, the ferocious reptiles spare Omar, who smells like a drak-rider, but hungrily tear the villain to pieces. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_17122b19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_17122b19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_17122b19 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_178ca149 | type |
The Worf Effect | |
| Jackelian Series / int_178ca149 | comment |
The Worf Effect: Happens to the Court of the Air, the Catosian Free States and the steamman army in Iron Moon, to show how badly outclassed the local nations' defenses and technology are. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_178ca149 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_178ca149 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_178ca149 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1bb67d34 | type |
Transflormation | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1bb67d34 | comment |
Transflormation: A rather grim form served as the long-ago Chimecans' food source in The Court of the Air. Womb mages in Cassarabia use this as a punishment for crimes ranging from a girl fleeing an Arranged Marriage to treachery; the latter is why the Caliph Eternal's decorative "orchard" has no actual trees in it, just this trope's victims. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1bb67d34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1bb67d34 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_1bb67d34 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1cd602ef | type |
Calling Card | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1cd602ef | comment |
Calling Card: Charlotte leaves cards with her art-thief alias "Sable Caracal" at the scenes of each robbery, to the delight of the Middlesteel press. Deconstructed in that she's not just doing so to be theatrical and/or to taunt the police, but to ensure that potential purchasers of the artwork she steals will know it's the Cat-gibbon they should speak to in order to make an offer for it. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1cd602ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1cd602ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_1cd602ef | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1f0c1d33 | type |
Couldn't Find a Pen | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1f0c1d33 | comment |
Couldn't Find a Pen: Jared Black duels and impales a villain near the first novel's ending, in the middle of a snowy field. The villain attempts to leave a Dying Clue as to Black's true identity, but the snow on which he scrawls his bloody message melts away before anyone finds his body. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1f0c1d33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_1f0c1d33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_1f0c1d33 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2084f742 | type |
New Child Left Behind | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2084f742 | comment |
New Child Left Behind: Purity Drake is the daughter of Jared Black, by way of this trope. Infiltrating the royal breeding house in his youth, he became involved with an interned female co-conspirator, but believed she'd died in the crossfire when his spy operation was exposed. Jared doesn't learn that his lover had survived being shot or that she was pregnant until Purity turns up on his doorstep, unaware they're related and motherless since the events of book 1. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2084f742 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2084f742 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_2084f742 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_24d05c2f | type |
Third Eye | |
| Jackelian Series / int_24d05c2f | comment |
Third Eye: Lashlites have one that allows their seers to see into the future. Unusually, it's located on the back of the neck rather than the forehead. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_24d05c2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_24d05c2f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_24d05c2f | |
| Jackelian Series / int_259d5879 | type |
Anachronism Stew | |
| Jackelian Series / int_259d5879 | comment |
Anachronism Stew: Aside from the Steampunk elements, Jackelian history gives us the likes of the Black-Oil Horde (think "Mongols driving Mad Max-style war vehicles") and suits of old Royalist plate armor with gas mask filters in the helmets. Had Tzlayloc prevailed in book one, he'd intended to rig up steam-driven obsidian knives for industrial-scale Human Sacrifice. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_259d5879 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_259d5879 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_259d5879 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2711e392 | type |
The Complainer Is Always Wrong | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2711e392 | comment |
The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Dick Tull's suspicions are always off-target. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2711e392 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2711e392 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_2711e392 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2933bdf5 | type |
Genetic Memory | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2933bdf5 | comment |
Genetic Memory: Justified in Molly Templar, whose instinctive recognition of her ancestor's prior discoveries in the Chimecan ruins can be attributed to the nanites inherited in her 'system juices'. Amelia's deja vu regarding Camlantis isn't as explicitly explained, while Purity's flashbacks to Elizica's time are as much supernatural as In the Blood. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2933bdf5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2933bdf5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_2933bdf5 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2af0378f | type |
Mayincatec | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2af0378f | comment |
Mayincatec: The Chimecan Empire had distinct meso-american touches, most evidently in their Aztec like human sacrifices. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2af0378f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2af0378f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_2af0378f | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2cd22076 | type |
Fantastic Drug | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2cd22076 | comment |
Fantastic Drug: Shine, an anabolic steroid used by Catosian warrior-women and by a Court agent in book one. Magnesium mixed into the coke that fuels their boiler-hearts can drug steammen reprobates into happy delirium. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2cd22076 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2cd22076 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_2cd22076 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2d53c295 | type |
Sky Pirate | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2d53c295 | comment |
Sky Pirate: Armed airships are only allowed to be used by the RAN; any private citizen who tries to fly one is labeled a Science Pirate and an enemy of Jackals. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2d53c295 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2d53c295 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_2d53c295 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2d88e42c | type |
Gender Bender | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2d88e42c | comment |
Gender Bender: This trope is the key to the conspiracy at work in Cassarabia from Jack Cloudie. One of the primary antagonists turns out to be the woman Omar'd been in love with, transformed into a male and wholly recruited into the scheme to usurp power within the Caliphate. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2d88e42c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2d88e42c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_2d88e42c | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2dbc1855 | type |
Ghost City | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2dbc1855 | comment |
Ghost City: Jago, once humanity's sole surface-world refuge from the coldtime, has been virtually deserted since the world warmed up again. Its last outpost beyond Hermetica City is being vacated at the beginning of Secrets of the Fire Sea, and emigration has been forbidden in a desperate attempt to keep the city's infrastructure staffed. By the novel's end, human/ursine warfare has left all of Jago uninhabited, save the ab-locks which might be regaining their intelligence. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2dbc1855 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_2dbc1855 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_2dbc1855 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_31708bd3 | type |
Terror Hero | |
| Jackelian Series / int_31708bd3 | comment |
Terror Hero: Hood o'the Marsh. Furnace-Breathed Nick also. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_31708bd3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_31708bd3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_31708bd3 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_34f8ef33 | type |
Mass Super-Empowering Event | |
| Jackelian Series / int_34f8ef33 | comment |
Mass Super-Empowering Event: Happens whenever the feymist rises or drifts into populated territories. The luckier feybreed gain unique powers and are conscripted into the Special Guard; the unfortunate ones are deformed and/or maddened as well as empowered by exposure and get locked up in a maximum-security asylum. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_34f8ef33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_34f8ef33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_34f8ef33 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_380faa43 | type |
Your Tomcat Is Pregnant | |
| Jackelian Series / int_380faa43 | comment |
Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Unexpectedly done with Lord Starhome, a spaceship. To be fair, the steammen who'd salvaged her after the crash call one another "he" by default, and had no cause to suspect a fellow Mechanical Lifeform could give birth. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_380faa43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_380faa43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_380faa43 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_3ebc57ac | type |
Going Native | |
| Jackelian Series / int_3ebc57ac | comment |
Going Native: An accusation leveled at the Observer and Septimoth for having spent too much time among humans. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_3ebc57ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_3ebc57ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_3ebc57ac | |
| Jackelian Series / int_3ff156fa | type |
Nay-Theist | |
| Jackelian Series / int_3ff156fa | comment |
Nay-Theist: The Circlist church advocates logic and reason, teaching that there are no divine powers worthy of worship, no matter what those so-called "gods" may have to say about it. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_3ff156fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_3ff156fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_3ff156fa | |
| Jackelian Series / int_420080ed | type |
Alien Sea | |
| Jackelian Series / int_420080ed | comment |
Alien Sea: The Fire Sea is a region of ocean underlain by intense volcanic activity, dominated by submarine-cooking Boils and fast-growing mutant corals that thrive on heat. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_420080ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_420080ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_420080ed | |
| Jackelian Series / int_43f2f606 | type |
Annoying Arrows | |
| Jackelian Series / int_43f2f606 | comment |
Annoying Arrows: It takes a lot of crossbow bolts to bring Henry Tempest down. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_43f2f606 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_43f2f606 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_43f2f606 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_441ccbad | type |
Talking Weapon | |
| Jackelian Series / int_441ccbad | comment |
Talking Weapon: Lord Wireburn | |
| Jackelian Series / int_441ccbad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_441ccbad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_441ccbad | |
| Jackelian Series / int_45fe3a2e | type |
Utopia Justifies the Means | |
| Jackelian Series / int_45fe3a2e | comment |
Utopia Justifies the Means: a lot of major villains start out this way, but go careening off the slippery slope towards the end. It doesn't help that their ideas of utopia are often different from others peoples. Commodore Black gives Oliver a heartfelt rant dismissing this trope's basic concept as the root of most of the world's evils. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_45fe3a2e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_45fe3a2e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_45fe3a2e | |
| Jackelian Series / int_4ebbbd17 | type |
Matryoshka Object | |
| Jackelian Series / int_4ebbbd17 | comment |
Matryoshka Object: The Joshua Egg from Fire Sea is a virtual example: a layered mathematical puzzle in which Hannah's mother encrypted a series of documents about the Conquests' research. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_4ebbbd17 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_4ebbbd17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_4ebbbd17 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_4ee5989a | type |
Bizarre Alien Senses | |
| Jackelian Series / int_4ee5989a | comment |
Bizarre Alien Senses: The slats have no eyes and operate by echolocation and smell. Craynarbians have sensory hairs on the backs of their necks which stiffen in the presence of lurking predators, although just what they're detecting isn't defined. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_4ee5989a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_4ee5989a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_4ee5989a | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5077c424 | type |
The Morlocks | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5077c424 | comment |
The Morlocks: The ab-locks of Jago owe their name to this trope, and are likewise the degenerate descendants of humans from a long-dead civilization. Ursks are also this trope, but applied to ursines rather than humans. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5077c424 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5077c424 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_5077c424 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The Kingdom Beyond The Waves both starts and ends with one of its dual protagonists giving their faithful companion an unothodox-to-Jackelians funeral appropriate to their culture: Amelia leaves her archaeological sidekick Mombiko to return to Nature where he lies, and Cornelius has Damson Beeton serve up Septimoth's roasted carcass at a banquet. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5313c266 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5313c266 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_5313c266 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5456f857 | type |
Too Important to Walk | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5456f857 | comment |
Too Important to Walk: The Baroness of the House of Ush. The Caliph Eternal of Cassarabia too. The Great Sage of Kaliban rides a self-hovering litter; justified because he's really really old. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5456f857 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5456f857 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_5456f857 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_566f1565 | type |
10-Minute Retirement | |
| Jackelian Series / int_566f1565 | comment |
10-Minute Retirement: Jared Black. He just never gets to settle down even though he really wants to. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_566f1565 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_566f1565 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_566f1565 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
| Jackelian Series / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: The otherwise-moral steammen have no tolerance for dead or damaged steammen whose bodies have been "contaminated" by human-crafted or siltempter replacement parts. Such "desecrations" are shunned if they refuse to commit suicide as social pressure dictates. "Mutables" — mu-bodies who achieve consciousness through repeated use, rather than being designed by King Steam — aren't very welcomed either. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_57b80b45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_57b80b45 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_57b80b45 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_57d43e40 | type |
Fantasy Counterpart Culture | |
| Jackelian Series / int_57d43e40 | comment |
Fantasy Counterpart Culture: An England where the English Civil War resulted in a crushing of the king and the church is avowedly disbelieving in any gods; a France where The French Revolution went on and on, and many more. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_57d43e40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_57d43e40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_57d43e40 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_586624e5 | type |
Genius Loci | |
| Jackelian Series / int_586624e5 | comment |
Genius Loci: Jackals itself, as manifested by the spirit of Elizica of the Jackeni. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_586624e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_586624e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_586624e5 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_58a90952 | type |
UnwillingRoboticization | |
| Jackelian Series / int_58a90952 | comment |
Unwilling Roboticization: "Equalizing" in the first book. Even steammen are occasionally subjected to this, when their original parts are replaced with, or scavenged and incorporated into, non-steamman automata which they consider a contamination. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_58a90952 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_58a90952 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_58a90952 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5ac34441 | type |
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5ac34441 | comment |
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Played straight and played with. Some expressions are logical parallelism ("Carlist" for "Marxist", "atmospheric" for "pneumatic"), but others use phrases which have entirely different slang meanings than one might expect ("flash mob" = gangsters, "cardsharp" = punch-card computer programmer). Subverted with Old Three-Eye the kilasaurus max: a term which sounds like she's a tyrannosaur under a Smeerpish name, right up until she starts bellowing words and is revealed to have a Belly Mouth. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5ac34441 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5ac34441 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_5ac34441 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5c1d5030 | type |
Grew Beyond Their Programming | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5c1d5030 | comment |
Grew Beyond Their Programming: Mu-bodies - non-sentient drones manipulated by steamman slipthinkers - occasionally develop sentience spontaneously, as does the Iron Partridge. Coss Shaftcrank is one such "mutable". | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5c1d5030 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5c1d5030 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_5c1d5030 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5d9bdbb1 | type |
World's Strongest Man | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5d9bdbb1 | comment |
World's Strongest Man: Or at least Jackals' strongest, for Gabriel MacCabe. His strongman/boxer performances boast that he's the strongest human in the nation. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5d9bdbb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5d9bdbb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_5d9bdbb1 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fb5dad8 | type |
Royal Blood | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fb5dad8 | comment |
Royal Blood: A very bad thing to have in the parliamentarian Kingdom of Jackals; royals are deliberately bred and kept around to be abused and vilified. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fb5dad8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fb5dad8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_5fb5dad8 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fc516bf | type |
Mechanical Lifeforms | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fc516bf | comment |
Mechanical Lifeforms: The Steammen were apparently created in the distant distant past as robotic servants, but are now fully sentient living beings, and have their own free state and government. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fc516bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fc516bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_5fc516bf | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fe81fea | type |
Cursed Item | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fe81fea | comment |
Cursed Item: The Joshua Egg from Fire Sea is a multi-layered mathematical puzzle that requires a computer to crack it. Decrypting a layer of the Egg reveals information that Hannah's party needs, but also has a tendency to destroy the calculating device - valve-based, Clockpunk, or whatever - that cracked it. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fe81fea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_5fe81fea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_5fe81fea | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6077534b | type |
Clock Punk | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6077534b | comment |
Clockpunk: Transaction engines, Catosian-made motorcars, and Fortune's prosthetic arm are all examples of the setting's sophisticated and widespread clockwork technology. Steam power does exist alongside it, but the overall feel is more this trope than pure Steampunk. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6077534b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6077534b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_6077534b | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6651bba7 | type |
Bio-Augmentation | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6651bba7 | comment |
Bio-Augmentation: This trope is practically Cassarabia's Hat, used by desert nomads to adapt their bodies to survive sandstorms and lack of water, and by the judicial system to equip convicts for punishment labor, e.g. giving extra arms to someone condemned to be a slave porter. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6651bba7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6651bba7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_6651bba7 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_66b32e36 | type |
Belly Mouth | |
| Jackelian Series / int_66b32e36 | comment |
Belly Mouth: Old Three-Eye the Killasaurus max has a huge one in her torso. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_66b32e36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_66b32e36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_66b32e36 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_66c29032 | type |
No Such Agency | |
| Jackelian Series / int_66c29032 | comment |
No Such Agency: The Court of the Air (the "wolftakers") are considered more Urban Legend than reality by the common population of Jackals. The Court works hard to maintain this reputation. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_66c29032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_66c29032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_66c29032 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6a25c388 | type |
Mummies at the Dinner Table | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6a25c388 | comment |
Mummies at the Dinner Table: Duncan keeps the skeletal remains of his daughter in a travel-case, and imagines she speaks to him. His inability to face her death arises because it was his own artillery unit that killed the girl, unaware that the Cassarabian border-bandits they were shelling had already seized civilians from his home village. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6a25c388 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6a25c388 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_6a25c388 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6b4763f | type |
Morph Weapon | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6b4763f | comment |
Morph Weapon: The knife left to Oliver by his father, a onetime secret agent, changes shape as Oliver wills it and endows the young man with the skill to wield it, whatever its form. Billy Snow's cane conceals another example of this trope. One of the Bandits of the Marsh wields a spear that collapses into a knuckle-duster. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6b4763f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6b4763f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_6b4763f | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6b4f4350 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6b4f4350 | comment |
Zeppelins from Another World: Jackals defends itself with the Royal Aeronautic Navy, or RAN. In Jack Cloudie, Cassarabia threatens to overturn the balance of power by launching an airship-navy of its own. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6b4f4350 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_6b4f4350 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_6b4f4350 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_72856b70 | type |
Godzilla Threshold | |
| Jackelian Series / int_72856b70 | comment |
Godzilla Threshold: Everyone treats the Hexmachina as this. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_72856b70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_72856b70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_72856b70 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7337ba69 | type |
Food Chain of Evil | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7337ba69 | comment |
Food Chain of Evil: Inverted as a Food Symbiosis Of Evil for the Kal or human chattel devoured by the Army of Shadows: the Masters feed on the life force, then the vampiric Kal drain the blood, and finally the slats chow down on the flesh. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7337ba69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7337ba69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_7337ba69 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7568eb84 | type |
Human Subspecies | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7568eb84 | comment |
Human Subspecies: Craynarbians and graspers are offshoots of humanity, adapted for survival in (respectively) the Hungry Jungle of Liongeli and underground caverns that offered shelter from an ice age. Gill-necks are an ocean-adapted variant that pre-dated the Ice Age by thousands of years. Ursines are obliquely implied to be related to humans, at least in being descended from primates. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7568eb84 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7568eb84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_7568eb84 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_76c7754f | type |
All of Them | |
| Jackelian Series / int_76c7754f | comment |
All of Them: Used word-for-word by a witness to how many lashlites are mustering to attack Camlantis. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_76c7754f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_76c7754f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_76c7754f | |
| Jackelian Series / int_77b03c0a | type |
Remember the New Guy? | |
| Jackelian Series / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Remember the New Guy?: Hannah from Fire Sea is introduced as the daughter of Amelia's companion who'd died early in Beyond the Waves. There's no hint in the former that he'd had a family, not even when Amelia receives his dying words. In Red Moon, the existence of the "Kal carnivores" comes as a complete shock to the Earthly characters, who don't actually seem to have a word for "vampire". By Deep of the Dark, the discovery of blood-drained victims with double marks on their necks immediately kicks off a flurry of vampire hunts and rumors, including ones that make it clear it's traditional Lugosi-style vampires the hunters are thinking of, not Kal carnivores. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_77b03c0a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_77b03c0a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_77b03c0a | |
| Jackelian Series / int_77bc8a56 | type |
Unable to Support a Wife | |
| Jackelian Series / int_77bc8a56 | comment |
Unable to Support a Wife: Jethro, after ejection from the Circlist church. Although the fact that he hears the abandoned gods of Jackals talking to him may have had more to do with his estrangement from Alice Gray than a loss of income. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_77bc8a56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_77bc8a56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_77bc8a56 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7f745ffa | type |
Shackle Seat Trap | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7f745ffa | comment |
Shackle Seat Trap: Seats on board the Mass darkships can sprout entwining tendrils. These serve to restrain captives or to mentally link the vessel with its pilot. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7f745ffa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_7f745ffa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_7f745ffa | |
| Jackelian Series / int_80b57bec | type |
Super-Soldier | |
| Jackelian Series / int_80b57bec | comment |
Super-Soldier: Captain of marines Henry Tempest was supposed to be one of these, but the experimental Super Serum used to enlarge and strengthen him also made him dependent for survival on alternately dosing himself with two elixers: one that pumps up his aggression and one that tranquilizes him. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_80b57bec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_80b57bec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_80b57bec | |
| Jackelian Series / int_83adb272 | type |
Crystal Dragon Jesus | |
| Jackelian Series / int_83adb272 | comment |
Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Circlist Church doesn't believe in gods, yet it does have parsons, archbishops, confessionals and sermons... they just confess to irrational thoughts, not sinful ones. The defunct Child of Light faith from pre-Commonshare Quatershift has Christian overtones. Cassarabia has some of the motifs of Crystal Dragon Islam, and the faith of the steammen has Crystal Dragon Vodou elements. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_83adb272 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_83adb272 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_83adb272 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Jackelian Series / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Although some of the "equalized" survived the first book, none of the later novels mentions what became of them or whether their Unwilling Roboticization could be reversed. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_863fa679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_863fa679 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_863fa679 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8ad43dc9 | type |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8ad43dc9 | comment |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A convicted bank robber, a crackpot steamman, an embittered secret policewoman, a botched Super-Soldier, a manic-depressive commander, a crew of convicts and border tribesmen, Jared Black (of course), and an experimental tortoise of an airship that malfunctions in mid-battle? Sounds about right to save Jackals from Cassarabia's new air fleet.... | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8ad43dc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8ad43dc9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_8ad43dc9 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8c8bd091 | type |
Fetus Terrible | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8c8bd091 | comment |
Fetus Terrible: Womb mages in Cassarabia invoke this trope upon female slaves, as forced surrogates for their artificial life forms. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8c8bd091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8c8bd091 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_8c8bd091 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8cf2497a | type |
Tiny-Headed Behemoth | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8cf2497a | comment |
Tiny-Headed Behemoth: Old Three-Eye, a female Kilasaurus max as tall as a tower, has an incongruously-tiny lizard head at the end of her neck. The huge mincing-machine maw in her abdomen more than makes up for her conventional jaw's meager size. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8cf2497a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8cf2497a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_8cf2497a | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8d718b9e | type |
Bears Are Bad News | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8d718b9e | comment |
Bears Are Bad News: Especially when they're immense, vicious, and alarmingly-crafty ursks, which roam in packs rather than alone like regular bears. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8d718b9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8d718b9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_8d718b9e | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8e5c28c | type |
Crystal Spires and Togas | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8e5c28c | comment |
Crystal Spires and Togas: Camlantis had this reputation. And apparently lived up to it for a good long time... at least, until their civil war. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8e5c28c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8e5c28c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_8e5c28c | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8f6f3188 | type |
Swiss-Army Appendage | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8f6f3188 | comment |
Swiss-Army Appendage: Cornelius Fortune's prosthetic arm, which contains enough gadgets to serve as a stand-in Utility Belt when he's being Furnace-Breathed Nick. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8f6f3188 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8f6f3188 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_8f6f3188 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8f98bbf6 | type |
Robot Religion | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8f98bbf6 | comment |
Robot Religion: The Steamo Loas, which sometimes possess or provide prophetic visions to their steamman worshipers. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8f98bbf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8f98bbf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_8f98bbf6 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8fac4a3a | type |
Superpower Lottery | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8fac4a3a | comment |
Superpower Lottery: Exposure to feymist can bestow a bewildering range of powers upon those who survive it, ranging from familiar comic-book ones like Super-Speed or teleportation to more esoteric ones like the Whisperer's dreamwalking and illusions or Oliver's energy-nullification. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8fac4a3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_8fac4a3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_8fac4a3a | |
| Jackelian Series / int_90965cc7 | type |
Hive Mind | |
| Jackelian Series / int_90965cc7 | comment |
Hive Mind: The greenmesh of Liongeli. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_90965cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_90965cc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_90965cc7 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9323741 | type |
Planet Looters | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9323741 | comment |
Planet Looters: The Army of Shadows in Iron Moon and the sea-bishops in Deep of the Dark. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9323741 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9323741 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_9323741 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_988dc0fd | type |
Living Gasbag | |
| Jackelian Series / int_988dc0fd | comment |
Living Gasbag: Skraypers are giant jellyfish-like floating beasts that lashlites hunt and aerostats must sometimes fight off. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_988dc0fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_988dc0fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_988dc0fd | |
| Jackelian Series / int_98a63dc6 | type |
Time Abyss | |
| Jackelian Series / int_98a63dc6 | comment |
Time Abyss: The earliest prehistoric civilizations of Jackels' Earth to be referenced in the books date back at least five million years. Even its all-but-forgotten ancient cities were built on top of the fragmentary remnants of previous ancient cities. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_98a63dc6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_98a63dc6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_98a63dc6 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_99298c71 | type |
Better to Die than Be Killed | |
| Jackelian Series / int_99298c71 | comment |
Better to Die than Be Killed: The hapless Jagonese "exiled" by the insane First Speaker opt to throw themselves and their children into Hermetica City's electrified defensive wall rather than be mauled by the approaching ursks. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_99298c71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_99298c71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_99298c71 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9b0b8109 | type |
Floating Continent | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9b0b8109 | comment |
Floating Continent: When Camlantis returns to its home dimension it floats in the sky. Smaller-scale floating islets arise as a result of leyline discharges (floatquakes) that rip chunks of landscape out of the ground in (super)natural disasters. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9b0b8109 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9b0b8109 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_9b0b8109 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9e943076 | type |
One-Man Army | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9e943076 | comment |
One-Man Army: Henry Tempest, who plows his way through claw-guards like they're a pack of kittens. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9e943076 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_9e943076 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_9e943076 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_a5fb0d24 | type |
Healing Factor | |
| Jackelian Series / int_a5fb0d24 | comment |
Healing Factor: Slats have a weak variant of this, as their blood clots so quickly that anything less than a penetrating wound to a vital organ isn't going to keep them down for long. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_a5fb0d24 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_a5fb0d24 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_a5fb0d24 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_a8af3e53 | type |
Secret Police | |
| Jackelian Series / int_a8af3e53 | comment |
Secret Police: Jackals' Court of the Air and State Protection Board. Quatershift's Directorate Eight. Cassarabia's Pasdaran. Subverted by the Steamman Free State, said to be the only nation on the continent where this trope doesn't apply. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_a8af3e53 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_a8af3e53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_a8af3e53 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_aa938aad | type |
Remote Body | |
| Jackelian Series / int_aa938aad | comment |
Remote Body: A small fraction of steammen are "slipthinkers", able to project their consciousness into expendable drones called "mu-bodies". King Steam and Aliquot Coppertracks each have this ability. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_aa938aad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_aa938aad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_aa938aad | |
| Jackelian Series / int_abe4d7b | type |
Blue Blood | |
| Jackelian Series / int_abe4d7b | comment |
Blue Blood: Jackals breeds its royalty like animals. The most blue blooded gets their arms amputated and displayed as a figurehead "king" or "queen" which the citizens of Jackals can abuse. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_abe4d7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_abe4d7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_abe4d7b | |
| Jackelian Series / int_acbd5c12 | type |
Perfect Pacifist People | |
| Jackelian Series / int_acbd5c12 | comment |
Perfect Pacifist People: Ancient Camlantis was like this for thousands of years. Amelia's search for its lost history is driven by her having grown up with her father's stories about it. Subverted during Camlantis's last years, when fear of invasion drove some Camlanteans to engage in physical violence to stop the rest of them from unleashing a global-genocidal weapon. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_acbd5c12 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_acbd5c12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_acbd5c12 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ad295cc3 | type |
Weaponized Car | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ad295cc3 | comment |
Weaponized Car: Amelia finds an ancient weaponized horseless carriage in the Tomb of Deisela-Khan. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ad295cc3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ad295cc3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_ad295cc3 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ae83e87d | type |
Clingy MacGuffin | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ae83e87d | comment |
Clingy Macguffin: The pistols of Hood o'the Marsh, once taken up, will reappear in the possession of the current Hood even if dropped from an aerostat or flung into a furnace. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ae83e87d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ae83e87d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_ae83e87d | |
| Jackelian Series / int_af4bb41a | type |
Shark Man | |
| Jackelian Series / int_af4bb41a | comment |
Shark Man: The praetorian guard of the Caliph Eternal consists entirely of ogre-sized shark/human hybrids, cooked up by womb mages and programmed for absolute loyalty to the true Caliph. Which is why the grand vizier tries to have them all dirt-gassed when he does away with the duplicate he's been manipulating. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_af4bb41a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_af4bb41a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_af4bb41a | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b02f996a | type |
Town with a Dark Secret | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b02f996a | comment |
Town with a Dark Secret: Wainsmouth, during the Army of Shadows' occupation of Jackels. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b02f996a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b02f996a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_b02f996a | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b2595417 | type |
Nightmarish Factory | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b2595417 | comment |
Nightmarish Factory: The transaction-engine facility on Jago is a safety-inspector's nightmare, saturated by mutation-inducing energies and full of constricting pipes, clanging mechanisms, scalding-hot steam, and savage, barely-tamed ab-locks toiling under human workers' inexpert control. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b2595417 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b2595417 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_b2595417 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b2d8059f | type |
Innocent Aliens | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b2d8059f | comment |
Innocent Aliens: The Kal are naturally inclined to this, which sadly left them almost defenseless against the Army of Shadows. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b2d8059f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b2d8059f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_b2d8059f | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b5b4b077 | type |
The Ace | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace: Business tycoon, aeronautical designer, and Utopia Justifies the Means Omnicidal Maniac Abraham Quest. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b5b4b077 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b5b4b077 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_b5b4b077 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b7e1dcc8 | type |
Empathic Weapon | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b7e1dcc8 | comment |
Empathic Weapon: Several. Notably in The Court of the Air, a legendary Steamman weapon is shown to be sentient, and it seems that the others are as well. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b7e1dcc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b7e1dcc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_b7e1dcc8 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b99c6367 | type |
The World Is Always Doomed | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b99c6367 | comment |
The World Is Always Doomed: It says a lot about the series that the least dire Big Bad in the first three books only threatens the near-total annihilation of sentient life on Jackals' Earth. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b99c6367 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_b99c6367 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_b99c6367 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_bb01ad0e | type |
Cool Boat | |
| Jackelian Series / int_bb01ad0e | comment |
Cool Boat: Commodore Black has skippered several Cool U-Boats in his day, although they tend to get destroyed a lot. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_bb01ad0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_bb01ad0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_bb01ad0e | |
| Jackelian Series / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| Jackelian Series / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Literal example: Boxiron's "top gear" turns him from a clumsy, lurching hulk to a nigh-unstoppable whirlwind of brutal destruction. Which can be a problem, as when he "fights in five", the lever that shifts him out of top gear tends to get stuck there... | |
| Jackelian Series / int_bc74ef27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_bc74ef27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_bc74ef27 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_becfca0e | type |
Princess in Rags | |
| Jackelian Series / int_becfca0e | comment |
Princess in Rags: Purity Drake is a royal kept in squalor by the Jackelian authorities. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_becfca0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_becfca0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_becfca0e | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c462436 | type |
Henchmen Race | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c462436 | comment |
Henchmen Race: Slats are this for the Army of Shadows, while two different variants of shark/man biologicks serve this purpose in Cassarabia. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c462436 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c462436 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_c462436 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c66cb5a9 | type |
Human Sacrifice | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c66cb5a9 | comment |
Human Sacrifice: Chimecan civilization was centered around the sacrifice of sentients to the dark Wildcaotyl gods. The siltempters sacrifice Gabriel to get the human blood needed to call upon their evil patron Steamo Loa. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c66cb5a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c66cb5a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_c66cb5a9 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c72af5a8 | type |
Mini-Mecha | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c72af5a8 | comment |
Mini-Mecha: The protective Rigid Armor Motile suits worn by Guild turbine-workers in the geothermal energy plant under Jago. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c72af5a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c72af5a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_c72af5a8 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c95d04f2 | type |
It Can Think | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c95d04f2 | comment |
It Can Think: When Old Three-Eye starts bellowing coherent words as she hunts Amelia's companions down. Also, when the bestial-seeming slats start using guns. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c95d04f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c95d04f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_c95d04f2 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c987803b | type |
Ursine Aliens | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c987803b | comment |
Ursine Aliens: Inhabitants of the nation of Pericur, they're actually called "ursines". | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c987803b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c987803b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_c987803b | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c9c756a8 | type |
Child Soldiers | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c9c756a8 | comment |
Child Soldiers: Jared Black leads a handful of pubescent Jagonese militia cadets against the Pericurian invasion. He has little choice, as the children they're defending are even younger. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c9c756a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c9c756a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_c9c756a8 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c9e5a0db | type |
Legacy Character | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
Legacy Character: Hood o'the Marsh, a Proto-Superhero-flavored persona passed from one secret vigilante to the next. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c9e5a0db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_c9e5a0db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_c9e5a0db | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ca7ec334 | type |
Two Lines, No Waiting | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ca7ec334 | comment |
Two Lines, No Waiting: Each novel mainly focuses on two protagonists who are having separate, yet ultimately linked, adventures. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ca7ec334 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ca7ec334 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_ca7ec334 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d70ade70 | type |
Fictional Earth | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d70ade70 | comment |
Fictional Earth: Possibly the case, as implied by a smattering of references to artifacts, lost cities, and age-old beliefs ... but if it is Earth, it's so far into the future that even long-vanished Camlantis only knew of our own era from sparse archaeological evidence. Mission to Mightadore finally rips the veil off this issue, transporting the characters to an extremely distant past that is obviously a post-apocalyptic America. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d70ade70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d70ade70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_d70ade70 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d91d0365 | type |
The Magic Goes Away | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d91d0365 | comment |
The Magic Goes Away: The laws of (meta)physics are said to have changed since ancient times, with the Black-Oil Horde's petroleum-powered vehicles and gunpowder weapons being non-functional in the current era. Electricity, implied to have once been safely utilized, has become so unpredictable and dangerous — on par with it being radioactive — that only the terminally-reckless or the transaction-engine operators of Jago still risk being near it. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d91d0365 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d91d0365 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_d91d0365 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d9d2c40b | type |
Amazon Brigade | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d9d2c40b | comment |
Amazon Brigade: The Catosian City States have all women armies. The Pericurian mercenaries hired to defend Hermetica City's boundaries are mostly female also. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d9d2c40b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_d9d2c40b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_d9d2c40b | |
| Jackelian Series / int_dce448d | type |
Reduced to Ratburgers | |
| Jackelian Series / int_dce448d | comment |
Reduced to Ratburgers: How the Whisperer avoided having to subsist on the drugged gruel at Hawklam Asylum, which would otherwise have suppressed his mental powers. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_dce448d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_dce448d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_dce448d | |
| Jackelian Series / int_de9047ac | type |
Gambit Pileup | |
| Jackelian Series / int_de9047ac | comment |
Gambit Pileup: The Secrets of the Fire Sea turns out to be based on one. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_de9047ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_de9047ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_de9047ac | |
| Jackelian Series / int_df02a97f | type |
City of Canals | |
| Jackelian Series / int_df02a97f | comment |
City of Canals: Hermetica City on Jago. Unusual in that some of the canals are boiling, Jago being geothermally active and its cities, a former refuge for human civilization during the Ice Age. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_df02a97f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_df02a97f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_df02a97f | |
| Jackelian Series / int_dff189b9 | type |
Veganopia | |
| Jackelian Series / int_dff189b9 | comment |
Veganopia: The herbivorous Kals' civilization was a strong example, mostly because predators were virtually unknown in their world's ecosystem prior to the Masters' invasion. Too bad they were so peaceful that they were helpless to repel the Army of Shadows... | |
| Jackelian Series / int_dff189b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_dff189b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_dff189b9 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e03533c8 | type |
Blood Bath | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e03533c8 | comment |
Blood Bath: Prince Doublemetal lounges in a bath of oil that the siltempters share among themselves. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e03533c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e03533c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_e03533c8 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e5cffa61 | type |
Dreaming of Times Gone By | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e5cffa61 | comment |
Dreaming of Times Gone By | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e5cffa61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e5cffa61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_e5cffa61 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e6a901a3 | type |
Meaningful Rename | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e6a901a3 | comment |
Meaningful Rename: When Slowcogs and Silver Onestack are left with no choice but to fuse themselves into one life-metal body, they adopt the name Slowstack. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e6a901a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e6a901a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_e6a901a3 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e9d6eff8 | type |
Cool Airship | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e9d6eff8 | comment |
Cool Airship: The Iron Partridge, once it becomes self-aware and is able to operate as its designer intended. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e9d6eff8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_e9d6eff8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_e9d6eff8 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ea6f361f | type |
You Are Number 6 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ea6f361f | comment |
You Are Number 6: Steammen have two names, a common-use one and a secret numerical code known only to themselves and King Steam. The latter is spoken publicly only at their funeral. Slats have numbers instead of names, being short-lived Mix-and-Match Critter weapons mass produced in vats. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ea6f361f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ea6f361f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_ea6f361f | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ea9f0351 | type |
My Brain Is Big | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ea9f0351 | comment |
My Brain Is Big: The sea-bishops are called that because their heads have evolved a miter-like shape to house their enlarged brains. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ea9f0351 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ea9f0351 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_ea9f0351 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_eb467486 | type |
Monster Progenitor | |
| Jackelian Series / int_eb467486 | comment |
Monster Progenitor: In a non-evil example, King Steam is the forefather of all Free State steammen, and personally approves and programs every one of them (except the occasional "mutable"; see Grew Beyond Their Programming). It's not known where he came from, but he's definitely thousands of years old at least. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_eb467486 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_eb467486 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_eb467486 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ebab0a5b | type |
Best Her to Bed Her | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ebab0a5b | comment |
Best Her to Bed Her: Catosian warrior-women adhere to this trope, which causes some trouble aboard Sprite of the Lake when one of the sub's crew gets his nose broken in response to making a pass at one. Commodore Black opts to "court" Veryann by trying to beat her at chess: a much safer option. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ebab0a5b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_ebab0a5b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_ebab0a5b | |
| Jackelian Series / int_f373d5e | type |
Powder Keg Crowd | |
| Jackelian Series / int_f373d5e | comment |
Powder Keg Crowd: The king is displayed for abuse to disarm it. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_f373d5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_f373d5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_f373d5e | |
| Jackelian Series / int_f56aeb67 | type |
Alien Invasion | |
| Jackelian Series / int_f56aeb67 | comment |
In The Rise of the Iron Moon, the leaders of the Alien Invasion aren't aliens at all: they're an ancient, nigh-omnipotent race of humans who'd left Jackals' Earth a barren waste, invaded another planet, and are now coming back to ravage their now-recovered homeworld because they've used that one up too. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_f56aeb67 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_f56aeb67 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_f56aeb67 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fa73ee9d | type |
Explosive Leash | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fa73ee9d | comment |
Explosive Leash: The feybreed of the Special Guard are fitted with Slave Collar torcs that can kill them if they go rogue or disobey orders. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fa73ee9d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fa73ee9d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_fa73ee9d | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fb2c8342 | type |
Robotic Torture Device | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fb2c8342 | comment |
Robotic Torture Device: Different technology, but the cross-shaped stone platform Tzlayloc uses to torment Molly and Prince Alpheus definitely qualifies. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fb2c8342 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fb2c8342 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_fb2c8342 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fd4f8299 | type |
Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fd4f8299 | comment |
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Abraham Quest sincerely cares about the plight of the world. That's why he decides to put it out of it's misery and rebuild the world in his image. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fd4f8299 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fd4f8299 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_fd4f8299 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fff371b4 | type |
Death Seeker | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fff371b4 | comment |
Death Seeker: Boxiron has shades of this at times due to his Frankenstein's Monster-like history. | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fff371b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_fff371b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_fff371b4 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| Jackelian Series / int_name | comment |
||
| Jackelian Series / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackelian Series | hasFeature |
Jackelian Series / int_name | |
| Jackelian Series / int_name | itemName |
Jackelian Series |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.