History Literature / DarkReflectionsTrilogy

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: Lucifer]]

* EveryoneIsRelated: [[spoiler: Sakhmet was impregnated by [[BiggerBad Lucifer]] and gave birth to the Son of the Mother. She started incestuous relationship with her son and thus sphinxes were born. She then created stone lions, so they can be seen as her children as well. Merle’s mother is a sphinx and Merle herself is also granddaughter of Lord Light.]] All of this means she is distantly related to the half of the bad guys and the BigGood of the series simultaneously.

!!This series provides examples of:

* [[spoiler:TheMultiverse: is revealed to exist and that there is a in-between world through which one can travel from one universe to the next.]]

* [[{{Mummy}} Mummies]] / OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Egyptian Empire's flying sunbarks raid burial grounds and cemeteries for corpses, for them to be 'processed' into mummies and re-animated by the Egyptian magicians' magic.

* PortalDoor: The Glass Word transforms every reflective surface into a two-way portal [[spoiler: into the Mirror World]].

* UsefulNotes/{{Venice}}: The plot starts in an alternative universe of Earth, in the city of Venice at some point in the past. Meyer depicts the city realistically, with mention of regular floods, the canal's dirty water, the desolate states of some quarters etc.

* PhysicalGod: There were once gods walking the Earth. [[spoiler: The Flowing Queen was one of these in her orginal body.]]
* UsefulNotes/{{Venice}}: The plot starts in an alternative universe of Earth, in the city of Venice at some point in the past. Meyer depicts the city realisticially, with mention of regular floods, the canal's dirty water, the desolate states of some quarters etc.

''Dark Reflections'' is a trilogy by Kai Meyer: ''The Water Mirror'', ''The Stone Light'', and ''The Glass Word''. The trilogy follows the adventures of the orphan Merle in the Venice of an alternative universe of Earth.

* FantasyKitchenSink: We have magic mirrors; mermaids and sea witches; living stone lions; Egyptians magicians, mummies, sphynxes; [[spoiler:alternative universes and the disembodied forms of travelers of them; the seasons as living beings; references to Literature/BabaYaga; {{Atlantis}}; the lilim and ''Satan/Lucifer''. There are also references to the Mayas and Incas so we can assume their mythical creatures exist or existed in the series' universe as well]].

This series provides examples of:

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Seems to be the case with sphinxes [[spoiler: and is justified by the fact they are children of the series's BigBad.]] Lalapaja, herself one of the good guys, argues it's more a case of BlueAndOrangeMorality than anything else.

* FantasyKitchenSink: We have magic mirrors; mermaids and sea witches; living stone lions; Egyptians magicians, mummies, sphynxes; [[spoiler:alternative universes and the disembodied forms of travelers of them; the seasons as living beings; references to BabaYaga; {{Atlantis}}; the lilim and ''Satan/Lucifer''. There are also references to the Mayas and Incas so we can assume their mythical creatures exist or existed in the series' universe as well]].

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Seems to be the case with sphinxes [[spoiler: and is justified by the fact they are children of the series's BigBad.]] Lalapaja, herself one of the good guys, argues it's more a case of OrganeAndBlueMorality than anything else.

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler Lucifer]]

* EveryoneIsRelated: [[spoiler: Sakhmet was impregnated by [[BiggerBad Lucyfer]] and gave birth to the Son of the Mother. She started incestuous relationship with her son and thus sphinxes were born. She then created stone lions, so they can be seen as her children as well. Merle’s mother is a sphinx and Merle herself is also granddaughter of Lord Light.]] All of this means she is distantly related to the half of the bad guys and the BigGood of the series simultaneously.

* EveryoneIsRelated

* EveryoneAreRelated

''Dark Reflections'' is a trilogy by Kai Meyer: ''The Water Mirror'', ''The Stone Light'', and ''The Glass Word''. The trilogy follows the adventures of the orphan Merle.

* TheCorruption: [[spoiler: Lucifer and his light.]]
* FantasticRacism: The humans of Venice think of mermaids as little more than beasts.
* FantasyKitchenSink: We have mermaids and sea witches, living stone lions, Egyptians magicians, mummies, [[spoiler:the disembodied forms of dimension travelers, alternative dimensions, sphynxes, the seasons in antropomorphic form, references to BabaYaga, the lilith and ''Satan/Lucifer''. There are also references to Middle/South American cultures so we can assume their mythical creatures exist in the series' universe as well.]]
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Merle notes to her companions in book 1 how quiet it was when they passed over the siege wall. The Flowing Queen points out she is right that there was absolute silence. "Deathly silence." The only living persons on almost any of the Empire's war materials are the captain and the high priest - the rest are the undead mummy soldiers.
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:[[{{Satan}} Lucifer]].]]

* FantasyKitchenSink: We have mermaids and sea witches, living stone lions, Egyptians magicians, mummies, [[the disembodied forms of dimension travelers, alternative dimensions, sphynxes, the seasons in antropomorphic form, references to BabaYaga, the lilith and ''Satan/Lucifer''. There are also references to Middle/South American cultures so we can assume their mythical creatures exist in the series' universe as well.]]

* AllMythsAreTrue

* LightIsNotGood
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent

* UsefulNotes/{{Venice}}

* {{Venice}}

* Mummies / OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Egyptian Empire's flying sunbarks raid burial grounds and cemeteries for corpses, for them to be 'processed' into mummies and re-animated by the Egyptian magicians' magic.
* Venice

* Mummies/OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Egyptian Empire's flying sunbarks raid burial grounds and cemeteries for corpses, for them to be 'processed' into mummies and re-animated by the Egyptian magicians' magic.

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent