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Secret Histories

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Secret Histories	comment	Simon R. Green's Secret Histories is about Shaman Bond, aka Edwin "Eddie" Drood, black sheep of an ancient, superpowerful family (the Droods) that protects humanity from its nightmares. The books are a take-off of Ian Fleming's James Bond books with a supernatural element to them. It consists of a dozen full-length novels and one novella: The Man with the Golden Torc (2007) Daemons are Forever (2008) The Spy who Haunted Me (2009) From Hell with Love (2010) For Heaven's Eyes Only (2011) Live and Let Drood (2012) Casino Infernale (2013) Property Of A Lady Faire (2014) From a Drood to A Kill (2015) Dr. DOA (2016) Moonbreaker (2017) Night Fall (2018) Novella: Question of Solace (2014)note Set simultaneously with the first half of book 9; released in the anthology Tales From the Hidden World.Night Fall is a Doorstopper crossover with Green's Nightside series, and is intended (barring short stories) to serve as a Grand Finale for both series.Not related The Secret History
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Secret Histories / int_1240ff57	type	Thinking Up Portals
Secret Histories / int_1240ff57	comment	Thinking Up Portals: Molly can conjure portals but it uses up a lot of her energy.
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Secret Histories / int_14e25fef	type	Magical Counterfeiting
Secret Histories / int_14e25fef	comment	Magical Counterfeiting: An elf in the first book over pays a taxi driver. Edwin says he'd need to bank the money before it touched Cold Iron and turned back into a leaf or something.
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Secret Histories / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Secret Histories / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Droods, right from when they are born until they die.
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Secret Histories / int_157c6c4f	type	My Grandson, Myself
Secret Histories / int_157c6c4f	comment	My Grandson, Myself: Alexander King's real agenda in The Spy Who Haunted Me is to assume his grandson Peter's identity after self-rejuvenation and plastic surgery, while killing off several renowned up-and-coming rival spies to establish "Peter" as a worthy successor.
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Secret Histories / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
Secret Histories / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: Elves used to rule this world, but we beat them by out-reproducing them, so most of them left. They're generally sadistic bastards who think growing roses through people is a minor punishment. They're also incapable of reproducing in their new home. They can only have children when they cross back to Earth and lie with humans.
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Secret Histories / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Secret Histories / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: Happens to an unfortunate Drood far-seer when she attempts to scry on Little Stoke in For Heaven's Eyes Only.
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Secret Histories / int_19a8e3ae	type	Magical Database
Secret Histories / int_19a8e3ae	comment	Magical Database: A particularly literal case, the Karma Catechist is a living database of every spell, ritual and magical concept conceivable in his universe.
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Secret Histories / int_1ba5dc68	type	The Greys
Secret Histories / int_1ba5dc68	comment	The Greys: One materialises in the street holding a map in the first book as Edwin explains how many supernatural people are walking the streets.
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Secret Histories / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Secret Histories / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Martha Drood dueled three of her own sisters to claim her late mother Sarah's status as Matriarch. Previously, she'd dueled Sarah herself for the right to defy family strictures and wed her second cousin Arthur.
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Secret Histories / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Secret Histories / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Done at the end of From Hell With Love, when an Immortal disguised as Isabella stabs Eddie, then bites his poison tooth and dies while Eddie is slowly dying.
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Secret Histories / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Secret Histories / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: The "hey, rube!" squirrel in Molly's wild woods. Archie the owl at Castle Inconnu.
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Secret Histories / int_2222a43e	type	Nebulous Evil Organisation
Secret Histories / int_2222a43e	comment	Nebulous Evil Organisation: The Immortals are this to the Droods. The "Teen-age" leader "Methuselah" got to the Heart before the Droods did. The Heart gave himself, some family, and friends immortality and shapeshifting. The new Satanic Conspiracy was a tacky version, and the Sceneshifters were a literally nebulous version in that even their own membership kept shifting whenever they changed reality.
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Secret Histories / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
Secret Histories / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: Melanie Blaze didn't so much get "lost" as "deliberately misplaced", sent dangerously far into the Subtle Realms after a rogue agent who might not actually have been rogue, on account of being an elf who dared marry not only a Drood but James Drood, the famous Gray Fox and favorite son.
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Secret Histories / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Secret Histories / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: The series was originally planned as just three books, but continued due to popularity, with the twelfth and final installment being a mass crossover with his earlier works.
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Secret Histories / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Secret Histories / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The James Bond like devices Eddie gets. Subverted in The Spy who Haunted Me (2009) since Eddie never uses the items his uncle gives him to his uncle's extreme frustration. However in From Hell With Love (2010) he uses the items he didn't use in the last book. The arrow that makes it through the golden torc comes back in full force by the end of the first book. Eddie sees an Armoury assistant testing a protein exploder in one book, and Molly gets to wield one in the next. Played so straight it practically had a big, flashing, neon "This Is A Chekhov's Gun!" arrow pointing to it with the gray card Eddie receives from the Martian tombs in Casino Infernale.
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Secret Histories / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Secret Histories / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: To date, all of them, except the lesbian clones. Blue dies in The Spy Who Haunted Me, and Harry and Roger die at the end of For Heaven's Eyes Only.
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Secret Histories / int_2ba97f22	type	Faerie Court
Secret Histories / int_2ba97f22	comment	Faerie Court: The court of the elves. Once ruled by Queen Mab, she was overthrown by Titania and Oberon who cast her into hell and took over. Upon escaping from hell, she creates a civil war between the elves in order to reclaim her lost position as well as get revenge for her banishment.
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Secret Histories / int_2cf5eb14	type	Endless Winter
Secret Histories / int_2cf5eb14	comment	Endless Winter: Ultima Thule is perpetually cold enough to chill Eddie even through his armor. Also, southern Siberia in Property of a Lady Faire is covered in snow, even though it's stated earlier in the same book that it's summertime.
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Secret Histories / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
Secret Histories / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Most Droods are described as being tall and good looking so the women would definitely count.
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Secret Histories / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Secret Histories / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Eddie himself is branded a traitor in the first book and has to go rogue. In the second book, he calls every rogue Drood home, sins provisionally forgiven, on the grounds that a nonzero number are probably this, exiled for figuring out something was corrupt at the heart of the family rather than actually being bad people.
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Secret Histories / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Secret Histories / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Even elves don't like Mr. Stab. An exiled elf lord is mortally offended that Eddie thinks he might know where the man is. Subverted, however, when it comes to the war against the Loathly Ones; while everyone else has standards when it comes to soul-eaters, the elves hate humanity so much that they actually don't.
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Secret Histories / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Secret Histories / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: When Eddie realizes that the blood-red men have Healing Factor, he starts tossing them out the windows: a pretty effective tactic, given they're on a speeding train at the time.
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Secret Histories / int_330ef176	type	Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious
Secret Histories / int_330ef176	comment	Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: The Spy Who Haunted Me puts a Greenverse spin on some classic cryptids.
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Secret Histories / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
Secret Histories / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: MI13. Also whatever unnamed US agency Honey Lake really worked for, while ostensibly serving the CIA.
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Secret Histories / int_342f0ffa	type	Discriminate and Switch
Secret Histories / int_342f0ffa	comment	Discriminate and Switch: Martha Drood does not approve of Roger and Harry. Both Harry and Eddie assume it's because she's part of the conservative Drood old guard and therefore doesn't like that Harry's gay. Actually, she's fine with his sexuality; her real issue is that Roger's a half-demon... and also Harry's half-brother.
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Secret Histories / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Secret Histories / int_3517000d	comment	He also comments on how the Droods have technology from various mad scientists. A Moon Cannon; a Mole Driller; and a Giant Mechanical Spider they got from some American Mad Scientist from the Wild West.
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Secret Histories / int_3678bb22	type	Russian Roulette
Secret Histories / int_3678bb22	comment	Russian Roulette: Shaman has to play this in the introductory round of games at Casino Infernale.
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Secret Histories / int_38305779	type	Baby as Payment
Secret Histories / int_38305779	comment	Baby as Payment: The first book reveals that every Drood was born with a twin who was sacrificed to the Heart in exchange for their torc.
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Secret Histories / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Secret Histories / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Grendel Rex/Gerard Drood arranged events up and down the timestream, including his own imprisonment and nearly everything Edmund Drood pulls, in order to engineer a comeback, instate himself as a living god, and give humanity an extreme makeover. The only reason it doesn't work is that he meets Morgana La Fae, falls in Love at First Sight, and decides they've got better things to do.
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Secret Histories / int_38e4b69d	type	Mister Seahorse
Secret Histories / int_38e4b69d	comment	Mister Seahorse: The Batman Cold Open of the first book is Eddie tracking down a male politician who's been impregnated by a demon.
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Secret Histories / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
Secret Histories / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: The Apocalypse Door. The Droods also have a bunch of them that they keep the Armageddon Codex, such as: Oath breaker — A long stick of ironwood with pre-human symbols. It undoes all agreements, all bonds... right down to the atomic level. Torc Cutter — Exactly What It Says on the Tin Sunwrack — For putting out the stars one at a time. Juggernaut Jumpsuit — Possibly makes the wearer invincible The Time Hammer — For changing the past through brute force. Winter's Sorrow — Size of a paperweight. Break it and you unleash the Fimbulwinter: an eternal winter that covers the world. Dissector — the ultimate scalpel created by Baron Von Frankenstein. It can cut through any thing, neat as you like. Dominator — A laurel wreath made from silver. The user's thoughts and wishes becomes other peoples thoughts and wishes. The Merlin Glass — can be used to teleport and contact any Drood from the past and future. The Deplorable End — a box with a Big Red Button that, when pressed, destroys the entire universe it's in. Moxton's Mistake — A self-driven suit of Drood armor that killed its own inventor and despises humanity. In Casino Infernale, the Crow Lee Inheritance — a key booby-trapped to open a portal to a black hole, which sucks in everything in reach including the person who activates it.
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Secret Histories / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Secret Histories / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: The Droods have their golden armor that comes out of the torcs.
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Secret Histories / int_3e922887	type	Not of This Earth
Secret Histories / int_3e922887	comment	Not of This Earth: The elves have special arrows that can pierce Drood armour that Edwin guesses can only be made from a material that comes from Another Dimension.
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Secret Histories / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Secret Histories / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: It's one of those series where you need to be one to survive.
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Secret Histories / int_408c2692	type	Shapeshifter Showdown
Secret Histories / int_408c2692	comment	Shapeshifter Showdown: At Casino Infernale, this trope is offered as one of the Medium Games. Played with when Shaman competes, as he mostly battles his opponent in his human form, rather than transforming into powerful shapes. Inverted when Molly plays World War, in which combatants retain their own shapes but change everything about their environment to overcome one another's "world".
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Secret Histories / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Secret Histories / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Some sentient Drood creations, like Ivor the Time Train, are entirely happy to serve. Moxton's Mistake, however...
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Secret Histories / int_43d9dc6a	type	Ridiculously Long-lived Family Name
Secret Histories / int_43d9dc6a	comment	Ridiculously Long-lived Family Name: The Drood family are an Ancient Order of Protectors (or Ancient Conspiracy, depending on whom you ask) dating back from the present day to Roman Britain, when they began as a Druid splinter sect.
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Secret Histories / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Secret Histories / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: While Eddie doesn't lose sight of his Drood identity or obligations as Shaman Bond, he often remarks that he likes being Shaman, who has no overbearing responsibilities and can be carefree about life, a lot better than being Edwin Drood.
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Secret Histories / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Secret Histories / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: The hungry gods/ the loathly ones.
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Secret Histories / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Secret Histories / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Grendel Rex. He was a Drood who murdered his family members and stole their torcs, fusing them with his own to gain godlike power, and almost took over the world. The rest of the Droods managed to put him down, but he was too strong to kill, so they buried him in Siberia. Moonbreaker reveals that he let them do it as part of a Batman Gambit to come back when the family had forgotten how to deal with him, and he could use the titular artifact to remake the world from the literal ground up. The Drood in Cell 13, the Living Library, is also this. He knows everything the family knows, and actually asked them to imprison him...except it's been a long time, and he changes his mind about wanting to be down there every so often. And, like Grendel Rex, he can actually get out whenever he wants; he's the villain of Property of a Lady Faire.
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Secret Histories / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Secret Histories / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Mr. Stab, of all people. The reason he's so willing to help Eddie (apart from because Molly asks) is that he wants to make up for the fact he chose to become a vicious serial killer in exchange for immortality. Played with in that he doesn't actually stop doing the thing he's trying to atone for and is still a total monster 90% of the time. Eddie finally calls him out for being all talk and kills him.
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Secret Histories / int_51a485d1	type	Brought Down to Badass
Secret Histories / int_51a485d1	comment	Brought Down to Badass: Even when a Drood's torc is suppressed and they can't armor up, they're all trained in unarmed combat and usually keep a lot of nasty tricks up their sleeves. Eddie himself holds off an entire horde of Satanists without his armor in For Heaven's Eyes Only, and kicks ass in Casino Infernale's combat challenges as torc-less Shaman Bond. Molly remains quite a Badass even when her magic is suppressed or exhausted.
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Secret Histories / int_521144cf	type	Challenging the Chief
Secret Histories / int_521144cf	comment	Challenging the Chief: Martha Drood dueled and defeated three of her sisters to become Matriarch. Subverted by her successor Capability Maggie, who evidently had no surviving sisters with equal claim to the job.
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Secret Histories / int_52e23ce	type	Inn Between the Worlds
Secret Histories / int_52e23ce	comment	Inn Between the Worlds: The Wulfshead is a supernatural nightclub that can be accessed from cities all over the world and Eddie suspects it exists in a different time period.
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Secret Histories / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Secret Histories / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: During Eddie's sojourn in Limbo after he's been poisoned, he finds himself in an empty, frozen version of Drood Hall where all the windows look out over the snow-covered grounds and mysterious hedge maze.
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Secret Histories / int_56572916	type	Bedtime Brainwashing
Secret Histories / int_56572916	comment	Bedtime Brainwashing: The Sceneshifters altar reality by manipulating the dreams of the head of their old professor.
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Secret Histories / int_56585e87	type	Combat Clairvoyance
Secret Histories / int_56585e87	comment	Combat Clairvoyance: The Dancing Fool claims he's a martial arts master, but he's really a wannabe who benefits from this trope.
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Secret Histories / int_59aa1ff8	type	Deface of the Moon
Secret Histories / int_59aa1ff8	comment	Deface of the Moon: An ancient Drood who went to the bad carved his face on the moon, and it was apparently a hell of a lot of work to clean up. Becomes less comedic and a lot more understandable at the end of Moonbreaker, which reveals that it was his dead wife's face he'd carved, not his own.
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Secret Histories / int_5b47c8c7	type	Magic Mirror
Secret Histories / int_5b47c8c7	comment	Magic Mirror: The Merlin Glass is Eddie's go-to scrying and transportation artifact, and probably the Droods' most useful magical artifact. Certainly, it's prized enough that the family keeps pressuring Eddie to return it. Fat chance, is Eddie's response.
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Secret Histories / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
Secret Histories / int_5c1ec068	comment	The Deplorable End — a box with a Big Red Button that, when pressed, destroys the entire universe it's in.
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Secret Histories / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Secret Histories / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Mr. Stab earned his name. In-universe example is anybody named "Drood." The mere mention in the first book is enough to empty a bar. Subverted by Shaman Bond, the use-name/code name of our narrator and protagonist. He intentionally keeps that persona very friendly and low-key, so that no one would associate him with the Droods. In some circles, Molly Metcalf's name rouses even more alarm than Eddie Drood's. At least with the Droods, you know they'll walk right over anyone in their way to do what their mission demands, then leave; with Molly, she might do anything, to anyone, for any good, bad, petty, or nonexistent reason.
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Secret Histories / int_62e7f243	type	Instant Armor
Secret Histories / int_62e7f243	comment	Instant Armor: The Droods' chief asset in their countless world-saving battles is the magical golden (or silver, in a couple of books) flexible armor that retracts into their torcs when it's not needed.
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Secret Histories / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Secret Histories / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Averted except in three instances in the first book, when the strange matter arrow pierced the golden armor, when Eddie figures out how to merge it with the armor of his opponent near the end, and when dealing with Torc Cutter. Other than those times, the golden torc is indestructible as long as it is on.
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Secret Histories / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Secret Histories / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Janissary Jane. The Indigo Spirit. All the Drood field agents when they're not in their armor.
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Secret Histories / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Secret Histories / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Harry's mother, a highly skilled spy and one of the few non-Droods to successfully marry into the family, slipped in between dimensions somewhere and was never seen again. Revealed to be the result of a Uriah Gambit in From A Drood to a Kill; the Drood old guard wanted her out of the way, because they couldn't stand that James, their best operative, married an elf.
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Secret Histories / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Secret Histories / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Roger, Harry, and company find out at the worst possible time that a half-demon only has powers when their demonic parent wants them to. This is brutally demonstrated by the application of quite a lot of damage to a Roger suddenly without his Healing Factor.
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Secret Histories / int_677ecaa9	type	People Farms
Secret Histories / int_677ecaa9	comment	People Farms: People factories, actually: the generic people who run the Medium Games and the Shadow Bank are produced by one. The horde of Nazi clones from For Heaven's Eyes Only probably were too, although Eddie doesn't actually see the clone-production facility.
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Secret Histories / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Secret Histories / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: Drood Hall becomes filled with this when the villain of Moonbreaker disrupts the spells which lock away many formerly-hidden rooms, corridors, oubliettes and prisons that the Droods had seen fit to shut away in their own secure Pocket Dimension, over the centuries. Rather than expanding to contain them, the mansion's once-familiar layout is permeated by wayward chunks of long-lost architecture, furnished in different historical periods, that penetrate it at crazy angles.
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Secret Histories / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Secret Histories / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding / Massive Multiplayer Crossover: In Daemons Are Forever the Droods are revealed to be the ancestors of Giles Deathstalker. Janissary Jane (in both Man with the Golden Torc and Daemons are Forever) also appears in the Nightside series. Walker from Nightside is a character in The Spy who Haunted Me and then reappears after his death to question the now dead Eddie for his new bosses in For Heaven's Eyes Only. In From Hell With Love Methuselah was in the Nightside during the events of Agents of Light and Darkness and steals an angel's hand, then makes it into a Hand of Glory. The Apocalypse Door, from the same novel, is reputed to have been created by Nicholas Hob, from Drinking Midnight Wine. Molly and Isabella are tipped off about the Immortals when they visit Carys Galloway, another character from that novel. The director of the Ghost Finders appears in Live And Let Drood. Merlin Satanspawn gave the family the glass which bears his name in payment of a favor. Dead Boy from the Nightside and J.C. Chance of the Ghost Finders attend the Casino Infernale Summit meeting and turn up at the end for the final fight. The Little Lord, a minor character from one of the Hawk & Fisher stories, shows up as one of the gamblers in the Casino itself. The 23rd-century sexbot Eddie has a fling with in the first novel is actually Dead Boy's Transforming Mecha girlfriend. Yes, Eddie has had sex with Dead Boy's car. The Confusulum, a really bizarre whatzit that Eddie makes use of in The Man With the Golden Torc, reappears in Once in a Blue Moon, the final book in the Forest Kingdom series. Aside from being a Secret Histories/Nightside crossover, Night Fall features a guest appearance by Wolfsbane, one of the Infernal Devices from the Forest Kingdom novels. Jimmy Thunder, from Drinking Midnight Wine, and Dead Boy, the Doormouse, and Hadleigh Oblivion from the Nightside, all make appearances in Property of a Lady Faire. Dead Boy returns, with Julien Advent in tow, in From a Drood to a Kill.
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Secret Histories / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Secret Histories / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: In Daemons are Forever Roger uses it to stand up to the Soul Gun. Harry uses it again in For Heaven's Eyes Only to banish a major demon of Hell so he can get to Roger.
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Secret Histories / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Secret Histories / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Is Harry nice when he criticizes some of Eddie's decisions about how to run the family? Not in the slightest, and he's definitely playing to the crowd a little in the bargain. Is he completely correct when he says Eddie was a complete idiot to send Droods who didn't have torcs up against the Loathly Ones, no matter how well-armed they were? Even Eddie has to admit that yes, he is.
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Secret Histories / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Secret Histories / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: In-Universe, Loathly One drones really creep people out, because they look human but are incapable of showing human attentiveness, reactions, or even of moving like actual people do.
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Secret Histories / int_6d01755e	type	Monstrous Cannibalism
Secret Histories / int_6d01755e	comment	Monstrous Cannibalism: The used-to-be-cars in Little Stoke, the piranhas in Crow Lee's fountain, the huge monsters attacking Drood Hall in the alternate reality: lots of nasty critters in this series chow down on their own dead or wounded.
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Secret Histories / int_6f19f5e0	type	Unusual Halo
Secret Histories / int_6f19f5e0	comment	Unusual Halo: Truman has inserted steel rods into his brain, joined by a large steel ring over his head, which he claims unlocks the true power of the human mind.
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Secret Histories / int_6ff54932	type	Hereditary Twinhood
Secret Histories / int_6ff54932	comment	Hereditary Twinhood: Justified in the climax of the first book as the Awful Truth behind the Drood family. Their deal with an Eldritch Abomination causes all Droods to be born with an identical twin, who is sacrificed to the entity in exchange for magical power.
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Secret Histories / int_72cc2b00	type	The Dividual
Secret Histories / int_72cc2b00	comment	The Dividual: Maxwell and Victoria Drood: genius lab assistants who work, talk, and act lovey-dovey so much in sync that when they take over management of the Armory from Jack Drood, everyone refers to the pair as the Armourer.
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Secret Histories / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Secret Histories / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Anything, for the family."
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Secret Histories / int_74abf030	type	Summon to Hand
Secret Histories / int_74abf030	comment	Summon to Hand: The holder of the Serjeant-at-Arms position within the Drood family can pull weapons out of thin air as needed.
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Secret Histories / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Secret Histories / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Harry is dating Roger, his half-demon half-brother.
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Secret Histories / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
Secret Histories / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: In From a Drood to a Kill, Eddie realizes he's not dealing with the real Molly but a copy, because the real deal would never need as much rescuing as he's been having to do.
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Secret Histories / int_7786a6f1	type	Zeroth Law Rebellion
Secret Histories / int_7786a6f1	comment	Zeroth Law Rebellion: The generic people were tasked to run the Shadow Bank by their human masters, as efficiently as possible. As the generics quickly determined that their human masters' involvement was making the Bank less efficient, they converted all of their masters into more clones like themselves.
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Secret Histories / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
Secret Histories / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: No matter how Eddie himself gets described, Molly is always referred to as "the infamous Molly Metcalf". She gets rather frustrated by it eventually.
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Secret Histories / int_781f2467	type	Shooting Superman
Secret Histories / int_781f2467	comment	Shooting Superman: All the freaking time, when mooks confront Droods in armor. If it's Eddie they're shooting, they'll eventually give up and try shooting Molly, only to find her magical shielding is no less invulnerable.
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Secret Histories / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Secret Histories / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Moon-shattering, rather, as the titular artifact sought in Moonbreaker is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. The Droods themselves installed it centuries ago as a last-ditch Mercy Kill device, to be used only in the event humanity were reduced to an And I Must Scream condition in which flying chunks of Moon annihilating the planet would rate as a blessing.
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Secret Histories / int_7c8ef64d	type	Portal Pool
Secret Histories / int_7c8ef64d	comment	Portal Pool: The Blue Fairy creates these from his own half-elven blood, just so he can go fishing in them.
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Secret Histories / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
Secret Histories / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: Eddie and Molly Metcalf—he's a Drood, she's the wild witch of the woods who believes the Droods are fascists. Also, Roger and Harry—a Drood and a half-demon who might or might not still be working for Hell at any given moment.
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Secret Histories / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Secret Histories / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Doctor Delirium, a villain who threatens to unleash diseases unless he is paid ransom in rare postage stamps — once a collector, always a collector. He sends his goons to steal the Apocalypse Door in order to make the world take him seriously.
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Secret Histories / int_801415e6	type	Hand of Glory
Secret Histories / int_801415e6	comment	In From Hell With Love Methuselah was in the Nightside during the events of Agents of Light and Darkness and steals an angel's hand, then makes it into a Hand of Glory. The Apocalypse Door, from the same novel, is reputed to have been created by Nicholas Hob, from Drinking Midnight Wine. Molly and Isabella are tipped off about the Immortals when they visit Carys Galloway, another character from that novel.
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Secret Histories / int_8159411a	type	Extreme Omnisexual
Secret Histories / int_8159411a	comment	Extreme Omnisexual: The Lady Faire was designed to be this by Baron Frankenstein.
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Secret Histories / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
Secret Histories / int_82d2715f	comment	Eddie getting all sorts of clever Magitek spy gadgets from the Armourer, then completely forgetting to use them.
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Secret Histories / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Secret Histories / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: In a heroic example, the more Droods that take the field, the more Droods are likely to die on it, whereas a small team will usually do much better. Justified, as the family isn't an army; they use highly skilled operatives working alone or in small groups. If they ever need a bigger force, they end up having to deploy people who are pretty much newbies to field work. There's also the fact that any threat that requires this kind of large-scale deployment is pretty much by definition extremely dangerous and capable.
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Secret Histories / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Secret Histories / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist:Start with any book but the first, and you quickly learn that the Heart was evil and the strange matter/Ethel ends up replacing it.
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Secret Histories / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Secret Histories / int_8409a385	comment	Torc Cutter — Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Secret Histories / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Secret Histories / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: When last seen in The Spy Who Haunted Me, Coffin Jobe had succumbed to his necrolepsy and died at the Independent Agent's secret lair. It's never mentioned whether he revived in time to leave before Eddie and Walker finished looting the place and blew it up. Even Jobe's cameo appearance in For Heaven's Eyes Only doesn't resolve the issue, as Eddie's near-death experiences are an enigma in themselves, and it seems fairly certain that most of the other people Eddie sees in that particular sequence aren't real.
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Secret Histories / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Secret Histories / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Despite being in the wrong series, Walker gets one in The Spy Who Haunted Me:
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Secret Histories / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
Secret Histories / int_88e7f8b8	comment	Batman Cold Open: Books usually open with Eddie in the middle of a fracas, often one that is on the edge of going horribly wrong.
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Secret Histories / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Secret Histories / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The Hirondel is packed with gadgets: EMPs, flamethrowers and much much more. Likewise, pretty much every other car Eddie or anyone in his family drives.
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Secret Histories / int_8b6de1eb	type	Airborne Aircraft Carrier
Secret Histories / int_8b6de1eb	comment	Airborne Aircraft Carrier: Used as a secret base of operations by Cassandra, Inc.
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Secret Histories / int_8ce7eec0	type	The Tunguska Event
Secret Histories / int_8ce7eec0	comment	Played with in The Spy Who Haunted Me, when Eddie and the other competitors must track down the truth behind several stock cryptids and pop-culture enigmas (Bigfoot, Tunguska, etc). They all have a basis in something much weirder than generally claimed.
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Secret Histories / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Secret Histories / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Martha Drood apparently had to fight the previous Matriarch for the right to marry Arthur Drood, her first husband, because they were second cousins.
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Secret Histories / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
Secret Histories / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The servitor-drones who run the Medium Games for Casino Infernale. And who also operate the Shadow Bank. The Loathly Ones share a collective mind, but can compartmentalize information so each drone knows exactly what it needs to. The Jackson Fifty-Five, mercenary clones who provide security for Casino Infernale, may or may not be an example. Eddie and Molly discuss how it'll be a lot harder to defeat or avoid them if this trope applies.
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Secret Histories / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Secret Histories / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: In Daemons Are Forever, Janissary Jane recounts how a parallel reality had been completely overrun by Hell's demons, forcing her mercenary group to annihilate that entire universe as a scorched-earth tactic. A similar doomsday-device is used to destroy the Hungry Gods' home universe at the novel's end.
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Secret Histories / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
Secret Histories / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: The sceneshifters are made to never have existed when the Red King, the man they imprisoned as a severed head and forced to reshape reality for them, wakes up and takes his revenge.
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Secret Histories / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
Secret Histories / int_97522514	comment	Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door: Roger. First he's only pretending to have defected for Harry, then he's really defected for Harry, then Hell persuades him to rejoin them, then he returns to the Droods at the very last second...
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Secret Histories / int_978b5f6d	type	Screw You, Elves!
Secret Histories / int_978b5f6d	comment	Screw You, Elves!: Most Droods any chance they get, because elves are universally sadistic and awful. Well, almost universally, but the only one who isn't was still on the receiving end of this anyway. Also literally, which is how you end up with the Blue Fairy.
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Secret Histories / int_999b994b	type	Dead to Begin With
Secret Histories / int_999b994b	comment	Dead to Begin With: Eddie in For Heaven's Eyes Only , he's stuck in limbo in a copy of the Drood hall
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Secret Histories / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Secret Histories / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The van driver who drops off William in book two makes a quip that seems like a theatrical Shout-Out. Then Pook reveals himself in For Heaven's Eyes Only, and you realize the guy really did have a giant invisible rabbit to deliver next: one that slipped out one stop early, to stick with William. It is mentioned that a certain character's favorite movie is The Wild Bunch, which famously ends extremely bloodily with most of the protagonists dead in a huge shootout. Fast forward to the end of the book, and this character has also gone out with a massive bang, pulling off a heroic last stand.
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Secret Histories / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Secret Histories / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Roger Morningstar (human/succubus), and the Blue Fairy (human/elf). Half-demons are more common than half-elves, but both are equally mistrusted (and for good reason, usually).
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Secret Histories / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Secret Histories / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: The Lambton Worm from Casino (drawing on the original folk-tale) and the blood-red men from Lady Faire. Half-demons will also shrug off basically anything, provided they haven't been disowned by their demonic parent.
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Secret Histories / int_a7e424c	type	Doctor Whomage
Secret Histories / int_a7e424c	comment	Doctor Whomage: One of the patients in Saint Baphomet's is a hand that's trying to regrow a new body. It belonged to a Time Agent who accidentally turned himself inside out the last time he regenerated.
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Secret Histories / int_abfa92a3	type	Jack the Ripoff
Secret Histories / int_abfa92a3	comment	Jack the Ripoff: Mr Stab is an immortal serial killer who used to be known as Jack, which implies he might have been Jack the Ripper.
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Secret Histories / int_ad3a0404	type	Magical Seventh Son
Secret Histories / int_ad3a0404	comment	Magical Seventh Son: Droods' torcs can be seen by seventh sons of seventh sons, or seventh daughters of seventh daughters (like Madame O).
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Secret Histories / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Secret Histories / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Alexander King's competition is a total sham. The prize doesn't exist (anymore), and it was a put-on so he could set up a prestigious new identity for himself, making the competitors' deaths this.
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Secret Histories / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Secret Histories / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Eddie seems to be physically incapable of not snarking.
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Secret Histories / int_b13bb418	type	Alien Among Us
Secret Histories / int_b13bb418	comment	Alien Among Us: One of The Greys is walking around Harley Street in the first book and The Droods have given a few races of shapeshifters permission to live on Earth if they stay out of the public eye.
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Secret Histories / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Secret Histories / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: Practically namechecked by Melanie Blaze when she discusses her romance with a certain Drood. She knew his life was an eyeblink compared to hers and decided he was worth it anyway.
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Secret Histories / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Secret Histories / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: The Colt Repeater has infinite ammo and flawless auto-aim. That doesn't mean the bullets always do damage, mind you...
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Secret Histories / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
Secret Histories / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: Subway Sue can steal other people's luck and use it herself or sell it on.
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Secret Histories / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Secret Histories / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Penny. Despite being repeatedly warned by everyone, including the man himself, not to get close to Mr. Stab, she insists he's a good person at heart. Right up until he murders her.
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Secret Histories / int_b6ae5569	type	Transforming Mecha
Secret Histories / int_b6ae5569	comment	The 23rd-century sexbot Eddie has a fling with in the first novel is actually Dead Boy's Transforming Mecha girlfriend. Yes, Eddie has had sex with Dead Boy's car.
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Secret Histories / int_b8243c2c	type	Monster/Slayer Romance
Secret Histories / int_b8243c2c	comment	Monster/Slayer Romance: The Drood family aren't too pleased that Harry is dating the half-demon Roger, not least because of his ongoing Conflicting Loyalty with Hell. Love wins out in the end.
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Secret Histories / int_b83a9363	type	This Is Your Premise on Drugs
Secret Histories / int_b83a9363	comment	This is Your Premise on Drugs: In-Universe, Molly says that Within Temptation are like ABBA on crack.
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Secret Histories / int_b8fdf22a	type	Fighting a Shadow
Secret Histories / int_b8fdf22a	comment	Fighting a Shadow: In Daemons Are Forever, the "Loathly Ones" who are possessing humans are only fragments of the "Hungry Gods" invading our reality.
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Secret Histories / int_b99c6367	type	The World Is Always Doomed
Secret Histories / int_b99c6367	comment	The World Is Always Doomed: Only to be expected, given the Droods' role as big-league defenders of humanity. Lampshaded in Daemons:
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Secret Histories / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Secret Histories / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: Even by the standards of the Droods and the Greenverse, Eddie's had some extremely bizarre experiences. Becomes a self-perpetuating trope in Dr. DOA's Batman Cold Open, in which Eddie is assigned to take down Cassandra Inc. because he's so much this trope that there's no way that organization can predict what'll happen if he's involved.
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Secret Histories / int_c0935922	type	Dragon Rider
Secret Histories / int_c0935922	comment	Dragon Rider: The elves that attack Edwin on the motorway ride on the back of hideous dragons.
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Secret Histories / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Secret Histories / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Manifest Destiny are a pro-human science based organisation that round up non-humans and cook them alive in huge ovens.
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Secret Histories / int_c2ef5a3d	type	Druid
Secret Histories / int_c2ef5a3d	comment	Druid: The origin of the Drood family name.
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Secret Histories / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Secret Histories / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: How Eddie himself deals with being fatally poisoned by his Alternate Universe counterpart Edmund, aka Dr. DOA.
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Secret Histories / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Secret Histories / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Dr. Delirium. He really is a brilliant scientist, it's just that he's terrible at all the logistics that go into actually using his discoveries effectively. (It doesn't help that he always insists his ransom be paid in postage stamps.)
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Secret Histories / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Secret Histories / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Even the name Eddie Drood is a shout out to the last novel of Charles Dickens. All of the titles of the books are variations of James Bond titles. (Property of a Lady Faire is the only one that isn't a movie title; "The Property of a Lady" was one of the stories in Octopussy and The Living Daylights, elements of which were used in the film of Octopussy.) In Daemons Are Forever, Eddie suits up in Silver Armor that covers his entire body, jumps up onto a helicopter; punches through the window, and tells the pilot to "Get out." He also comments on how the Droods have technology from various mad scientists. A Moon Cannon; a Mole Driller; and a Giant Mechanical Spider they got from some American Mad Scientist from the Wild West. The Kandarian amulet from the first novel psychically projects creepy pleas to "Join us" into Eddie's head. In Spy, we get reference to the Wizard of Northampton, who has been writing comic books for twenty years or so. Which has done odd things to his perceptions of gods and monsters, if Walker is to be believed. For Heaven's Eyes Only references "Description Theory" of Planetary fame. The same book also mentions SAS combat sorcerers a couple of times. The Scarlet Lady bears a suspicious resemblance to Christine, another red Plymouth Fury with a mean streak. Property gives us the Painted Ghoul, and given his description, one could be forgiven for mistaking him for Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
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Secret Histories / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
Secret Histories / int_c8bea4ec	comment	My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Eddie runs into a pocket dimension full of rogue elves, who reject the dominant hyper-sadistic elf culture (although that doesn't mean you should turn your back on them). Melanie Blaze is the chief example, as she genuinely fell in love with James Drood, and when she discovers the Droods can't help her travel back in time to avert his death, she just lets Eddie leave.
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Secret Histories / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Secret Histories / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Lethal Harmony of Kathmandu, aka Katt, is supposed to be the world's greatest honeytrap. Unfortunately, she doesn't actually get to seduce anybody on-page, due to being surrounded by the people best equipped to resist her and Honey Lake murdering her within the first couple chapters.
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Secret Histories / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Secret Histories / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: William the Librarian is...not all there. He's barely well enough for Harry to bring him home from the institution he was committed to, and he talks to people who aren't there. Turns out at least one of those people is Pook, who is there but only selectively visible, and he's only crazy because the Heart made him that way.
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Secret Histories / int_cb57df2	type	Fate Drives Us Together
Secret Histories / int_cb57df2	comment	Fate Drives Us Together: Subverted by Hell to get an agent cozy with the Droods. However, Roger actually does fall in love with Harry.
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Secret Histories / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Secret Histories / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: This is done twice. In the first book the Heart was destroyed. In the second, the Loathly Ones/Hungry Gods are destroyed.
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Secret Histories / int_cd6b88cd	type	Angels, Devils and Squid
Secret Histories / int_cd6b88cd	comment	Angels, Devils and Squid: As with the rest of the universe this is set in, the series features angels, demons and Outsiders, creatures from beyond reality.
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Secret Histories / int_cdc4a218	type	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
Secret Histories / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Bruce the Sceneshifter jokingly wonders if anyone believes World War II could have been averted if they gave Hitler back his missing testicle.
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Secret Histories / int_d302b1c5	type	Run the Gauntlet
Secret Histories / int_d302b1c5	comment	Run the Gauntlet: The first book, wherein Eddie Drood has to survive attacks by (in order) Men in Black in Black Helicopters, car-eating entropic Ghost Cars, Elves riding Dragons, Demonic Ghost Cars and, finally, a fleet of human-built Magitek Flying Saucerers (not a misspelling.)
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Secret Histories / int_d355ba37	type	Turned Against Their Masters
Secret Histories / int_d355ba37	comment	Moxton's Mistake — A self-driven suit of Drood armor that killed its own inventor and despises humanity.
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Secret Histories / int_d4763430	type	Golden Super Mode
Secret Histories / int_d4763430	comment	Golden Super Mode: The Droods' torques coat them in magical Instant Armor that makes them super fast, super strong, Invisible to Normals and near invincible.
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Secret Histories / int_d4cd6668	type	Precautionary Corpse Disposal
Secret Histories / int_d4cd6668	comment	Precautionary Corpse Disposal: The Drood Ancient Order of Protectors teleports its dead into the sun, both to protect them from enemy Necromancy and because its membership tends to be strong-willed, ornery, and prone to haunting over Unfinished Business.
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Secret Histories / int_d50a5478	type	Unlimited Wardrobe
Secret Histories / int_d50a5478	comment	Unlimited Wardrobe: Molly has a literal magical version by reusing the same fabric and transforming it with magic.
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Secret Histories / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Secret Histories / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: Droods who are declared rogue are erased from the family's history, their past achievements credited to relatives who know how to toe the line.
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Secret Histories / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
Secret Histories / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: Basically every book. If it's not the Loathly Ones trying to take over the planet, it's Satanists trying to bring about literal Hell on Earth, and if it's not them, it's a rogue Drood. Even the regular Droods themselves have a strategy in place to initiate this if things get bad enough for humanity - see the Earth-Shattering Kaboom entry.
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Secret Histories / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
Secret Histories / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: Molly, being a witch, keeps her heart hidden outside her body. While she's not invulnerable and can die permanently from Losing Your Head, her sisters can use her Soul Jar to restore her from damage that would otherwise be fatal. She did the same thing to Eddie on the sly to protect him, which is how he survives his first poisoning. He makes her put his heart back afterwards, as his family doesn't approve of such things.
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Secret Histories / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Secret Histories / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Eddie Drood and Molly Metcalf, a Magitek Powered Armor secret agent and the Witch of the Wild Woods.
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Secret Histories / int_dc1a6b76	type	Reality Is Out to Lunch
Secret Histories / int_dc1a6b76	comment	Reality Is Out to Lunch: Loathly One ghoulvilles; also Little Stoke; the Shifting Lands.
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Secret Histories / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Secret Histories / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman / The Man Behind the Man / What Happened to the Mouse?: Philip MacAlpine in The Spy Who Haunted Me he was thrashed by Eddie and Molly he was demoted to MI-13. He then used his contacts to find members of the old satanic conspiracy. Then made himself the leader of the new satanic conspiracy.
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Secret Histories / int_e1ff8ff6	type	Fantasy Kitchen Sink
Secret Histories / int_e1ff8ff6	comment	Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Psychics, aliens, spies, elves, gargoyles, elementals, ghouls, trolls, ogres, gods, gorgons, werewolves, ghosts, zombies, angels, demons, Frankenstein's creations, witches, interdimensional mercenaries, Lovecraftian monstrosities, satanists, superscience of various stripes and a few superheroes to boot.
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Secret Histories / int_e268e2	type	The Clan
Secret Histories / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: The Drood family obviously. Also The Immortals and the Road Rats.
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Secret Histories / int_e276cd	type	The Cowl
Secret Histories / int_e276cd	comment	The Cowl: The Indigo Spirit is basically a Captain Ersatz for Batman — except that he has no problem killing people.
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Secret Histories / int_e3319624	type	Badass Transplant
Secret Histories / int_e3319624	comment	Badass Transplant: Many of the Droods who've never left the manor are formidable in their armor, but haven't kept up their training enough to shine without it. Subverted by Eddie, who's repeatedly proven himself still Badass even when his armor is unavailable, and Martha Drood, who soundly kicked the ass of a far-future supersoldier in a demonstration fight without even touching her torc.
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Secret Histories / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Secret Histories / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: The Heart, an otherworldly entity that's embodied as a gigantic diamond of eye-searing brilliance, is a murderous criminal that delights in corruption and infant sacrifice. The original golden armor it provided to the Droods was crafted from the babies their complicit leaders secretly fed to it.
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Secret Histories / int_e5507f60	type	Truce Zone
Secret Histories / int_e5507f60	comment	Truce Zone: The Wulfshead is supposed to be one but the odd fight does break out.
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Secret Histories / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Secret Histories / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Played literally. There is someone in the family who is working with their enemies—in particular, whoever it is pushed to bring the Loathly Ones through during WWII, even though there were plenty of other options.
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Secret Histories / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Secret Histories / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Sceneshifters get their power from the Red King, the living head of a captured professor. They alter reality by manipulating his dreams. He's not happy with them when Edwin wakes him up. How did the Droods get their golden armor when the Heart was in charge? Droods always gave birth to twin babies, one of which was sacrificed to the Heart to make a torc.
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Secret Histories / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Secret Histories / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Happens to Methuselah. He wants to leave earth because he's done and seen everything. He also wants break into heaven to enjoy its splendor.
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Secret Histories / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Secret Histories / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Several standard examples, plus an exaggerated instance in Live And Let Drood where Molly subjects her attacker to one with a protein exploder.
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