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* OneSceneWonder: The mysterious toymaker, Ulfric. Lucy later speculates that perhaps he only appears when he needs to be found.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Jank, a lumberjack by trade, wields one to protect himself against "devils." Morraine carries a special obsidian-bladed model for dispatching nature spirits and ghosts.
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* DoomedHometown: The Lost Settlement for [[spoiler: Abel Dodd's grandmother.]]
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Done by His-Sey-Ak using tree branches; one of his favorite methods of executing transgressors.
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* {{Magitek}}: Ghosts are regarded as a scientific reality and ghost hunters like the Darringtons have developed a variety of impossible[[SteamPunk steampunk]] gadgets in order to fight them. Ulfric's Dreamwood-powered toys are an even more fantastic version.
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* {{Magitek}}: Ghosts are regarded as a scientific reality and ghost hunters like the Darringtons have developed a variety of impossible[[SteamPunk impossible [[SteamPunk steampunk]] gadgets in order to fight them. Ulfric's Dreamwood-powered toys are an even more fantastic version.
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* {{Magitek}}: Ghosts are regarded as a scientific reality and ghost hunters like the Darringtons have developed a variety of impossible
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* LotusEaterMachine: Dreamwood is coveted not only because of its healing properties, but for the feelings of well-being and confidence it inspires by simple proximity. [[spoiler: This is probably because [[FridgeHorror: Dreamwood trees are giant carnivorous plants that trap their prey by making it feel calm and peaceful as it lures them in to digest them.]]]]
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* LotusEaterMachine: Dreamwood is coveted not only because of its healing properties, but for the feelings of well-being and confidence it inspires by simple proximity. [[spoiler: This is probably because [[FridgeHorror: [[FridgeHorror Dreamwood trees are giant carnivorous plants that trap their prey by making it feel calm and peaceful as it lures them in to digest them.]]]]
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* GadgeteerGenius: Both Lucy and William Darrington, who have created and are skilled in the use of a variety of [[Magitek]] gadgets that aid them in their work.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Both Lucy and William Darrington, who have created and are skilled in the use of a variety of [[Magitek]] {{Magitek}} gadgets that aid them in their work.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[His-Sey-Ak feeds off of William Darrington in order to create a seed.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[His-Sey-Ak [[spoiler:His-Sey-Ak feeds off of William Darrington in order to create a seed.]]
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* SteamPunk: Used minimally, and always in the form of William and Lucy's array of ghost-fighting gadgets.
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* SteamPunk: [[SteamPunk Steam Punk]]: Used minimally, and always in the form of William and Lucy's array of ghost-fighting gadgets.
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* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:William Darrington's]] journals that Lucy keeps finding.
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* GeniusLocii: Devil's Thumb, every square inch of which is under the direct surveillance and protection of its guardian spirit, His-Sey-Ak.
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* Magitek: Ghosts are regarded as a scientific reality and ghost hunters like the Darringtons have developed a variety of impossible
[[SteamPunk]] gadgets in order to fight them. Ulfric's Dreamwood-powered toys are an even more fantastic version.
* NothingIsScarier: Lucy - and by extension, the reader, - does not see what happens to [[spoiler:Morraine]] inside the fog. Based on the sounds she hears, it can't be good.
* OneSceneWonder: The mysterious toymaker, Ulfric. Lucy later speculates that perhaps he only appears when he needs to be found.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[His-Sey-Ak feeds off of William Darrington in order to create a seed.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His-Sey-Ak, beginning with the massacre of the Lost Settlement and ongoing in the form of [[spoiler:Rust.]]
[[SteamPunk]] gadgets in order to fight them. Ulfric's Dreamwood-powered toys are an even more fantastic version.
* NothingIsScarier: Lucy - and by extension, the reader, - does not see what happens to [[spoiler:Morraine]] inside the fog. Based on the sounds she hears, it can't be good.
* OneSceneWonder: The mysterious toymaker, Ulfric. Lucy later speculates that perhaps he only appears when he needs to be found.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[His-Sey-Ak feeds off of William Darrington in order to create a seed.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His-Sey-Ak, beginning with the massacre of the Lost Settlement and ongoing in the form of [[spoiler:Rust.]]
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* RockBeatsLaser: Pete's ghost protection stone, [[spoiler:which Lucy spends most of the novel scoffing at, ultimately saves her from the ghost fog when her own ghost sweeper, which she has spent most of the novel touting the abilities of, quickly fails.]]
* StarterVillain: The Hanged Man: a ghost that Lucy encountered on one of her first missions with her father, and that still affects her to this day.
* StarterVillain: The Hanged Man: a ghost that Lucy encountered on one of her first missions with her father, and that still affects her to this day.
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* TheBigGuy: Pete, who excels in outdoor survival, to the frequent chagrin of [[CitySlicker city slicker]][[TheSmartGuy smart girl]] Lucy.
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* TheBigGuy: Pete, who excels in outdoor survival, to the frequent chagrin of [[CitySlicker city slicker]][[TheSmartGuy slicker]] [[TheSmartGuy smart girl]] Lucy.Lucy.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: His-Sey-Ak is indisputably hostile toward humans and will kill them at the slightest provocation. Taken in context, however, it is all but impossible to think of his actions as evil based on a human understanding of the word.
* DeathWorld: The Thumb, where doing so much as ''picking a feather up off the ground'' is [[EverythingTryingToKillYou a death sentence.]] It's so bad that a special potion has to be imbibed just to ''sleep'' there, lest the Thumb [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness weaponize your own dreams against you.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: Lucy encounters [[spoiler:Niwa]] twice before she reaches Devil's Thumb and both times it seems like she will play a vital role in the former's adventures from that point onward. Suffice to say, it doesn't happen.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:His-Sey-Ak underwent one prior to the events of the story, shifting from a protective spirit to a destructive one after his "children" (the Dreamwood trees,) were all cut down.]]
* FireForgedFriends: Lucy and Pete take a ''really'' long time to come around to one another, but once they are there they become a very solid team.
* GadgeteerGenius: Both Lucy and William Darrington, who have created and are skilled in the use of a variety of [[Magitek]] gadgets that aid them in their work.
* GeniusLocii: Devil's Thumb, every square inch of which is under the direct surveillance and protection of its guardian spirit, His-Sey-Ak.
* LotusEaterMachine: Dreamwood is coveted not only because of its healing properties, but for the feelings of well-being and confidence it inspires by simple proximity. [[spoiler: This is probably because [[FridgeHorror: Dreamwood trees are giant carnivorous plants that trap their prey by making it feel calm and peaceful as it lures them in to digest them.]]]]
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Being set in a world where Native Americans successfully resisted conquest and settled into uneasy co-existence with their white neighbors, this trope gets thoughtfully examined. To the settlers, the Lupine people are shapeshifting sorcerers of unbelievable power. When Lucy and Pete meet them, they turn out to be pretty ordinary folks who bicker about how to solve the Rust problem and whose leader is drowning in paperwork.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Somewhat averted in-story as it is explained that electricity disrupts ghosts. Hence, as the world modernizes, there will be less and less of a market for William's fabulous ghost-hunting inventions. Even so, one would think that a device that ''sees backward into time'' would always be able to find a buyer...
* SteamPunk: Used minimally, and always in the form of William and Lucy's array of ghost-fighting gadgets.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Jank and Silas: by far the two most talkative and argumentative of Morraine's team of [[MauveShirt Mauve Shirts]].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One of many powers that the settlers attribute to the Lupine people, and the Lupines do nothing to disabuse them of the notion.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: His-Sey-Ak is indisputably hostile toward humans and will kill them at the slightest provocation. Taken in context, however, it is all but impossible to think of his actions as evil based on a human understanding of the word.
* DeathWorld: The Thumb, where doing so much as ''picking a feather up off the ground'' is [[EverythingTryingToKillYou a death sentence.]] It's so bad that a special potion has to be imbibed just to ''sleep'' there, lest the Thumb [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness weaponize your own dreams against you.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: Lucy encounters [[spoiler:Niwa]] twice before she reaches Devil's Thumb and both times it seems like she will play a vital role in the former's adventures from that point onward. Suffice to say, it doesn't happen.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:His-Sey-Ak underwent one prior to the events of the story, shifting from a protective spirit to a destructive one after his "children" (the Dreamwood trees,) were all cut down.]]
* FireForgedFriends: Lucy and Pete take a ''really'' long time to come around to one another, but once they are there they become a very solid team.
* GadgeteerGenius: Both Lucy and William Darrington, who have created and are skilled in the use of a variety of [[Magitek]] gadgets that aid them in their work.
* GeniusLocii: Devil's Thumb, every square inch of which is under the direct surveillance and protection of its guardian spirit, His-Sey-Ak.
* LotusEaterMachine: Dreamwood is coveted not only because of its healing properties, but for the feelings of well-being and confidence it inspires by simple proximity. [[spoiler: This is probably because [[FridgeHorror: Dreamwood trees are giant carnivorous plants that trap their prey by making it feel calm and peaceful as it lures them in to digest them.]]]]
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Being set in a world where Native Americans successfully resisted conquest and settled into uneasy co-existence with their white neighbors, this trope gets thoughtfully examined. To the settlers, the Lupine people are shapeshifting sorcerers of unbelievable power. When Lucy and Pete meet them, they turn out to be pretty ordinary folks who bicker about how to solve the Rust problem and whose leader is drowning in paperwork.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Somewhat averted in-story as it is explained that electricity disrupts ghosts. Hence, as the world modernizes, there will be less and less of a market for William's fabulous ghost-hunting inventions. Even so, one would think that a device that ''sees backward into time'' would always be able to find a buyer...
* SteamPunk: Used minimally, and always in the form of William and Lucy's array of ghost-fighting gadgets.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Jank and Silas: by far the two most talkative and argumentative of Morraine's team of [[MauveShirt Mauve Shirts]].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One of many powers that the settlers attribute to the Lupine people, and the Lupines do nothing to disabuse them of the notion.
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''Dreamwood'' is a Young Adult fantasy novel by Heather Mackey. Set in an alternate history version of the United States' Pacific Northwest region during the 1800's, ''Dreamwood'' tells the story of Lucy Darrington, a young girl who has just run away from boarding school in search of her father, the professional ghost hunter William Darrington. Discredited due to his approach to supernatural research, Lucy's father has set off for the redwood forests of Saarthe in order to solve a problem that will redeem his reputation and save the local timber industry. Saarthe's trees are falling victim to a plague, and a rare substance known as Dreamwood may hold the key to its cure. When he seemingly vanishes during his mission, Lucy takes it upon herself to discover what happened, with no thoughts to spare for the predatory forces - both human and supernatural - that wait for her on Saarthe's forbidden island known as The Devil's Thumb...
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''Dreamwood'' is a Young Adult fantasy novel by Heather Mackey. Set in an alternate history version of the United States' Pacific Northwest region during the 1800's, ''Dreamwood'' tells the story of Lucy Darrington, a young girl who has just run away from boarding school in search of her father, the professional ghost hunter William Darrington. Discredited due to his approach to supernatural research, Lucy's father has set off for the redwood forests of Saarthe in order to solve a problem that will redeem his reputation and save the local timber industry. Saarthe's trees are falling victim to a plague, and a rare substance known as Dreamwood may hold the key to its cure. When he seemingly vanishes during his mission, Lucy takes it upon herself to discover what happened, with no thoughts to spare for the predatory forces - both human and supernatural - that wait for her on Saarthe's forbidden island known as The Devil's Thumb...
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*AnAxeToGrind: Jank, a lumberjack by trade, wields one to protect himself against "devils." Morraine carries a special obsidian-bladed model for dispatching nature spirits and ghosts.
*ArcWords: "Take nothing that is not given to you."
**[[spoiler:"He killed them all."]]
*AxCrazy: Jank, who becomes increasingly so the more certain he is that "The Devil" is stalking him.
*BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:Angus Morraine]] and His-Sey-Ak, the "Devil" of Devil's Thumb.
*TheBigGuy: Pete, who excels in outdoor survival, to the frequent chagrin of [[CitySlicker city slicker]][[TheSmartGuy smart girl]] Lucy.
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''Dreamwood'' is a Young Adult fantasy novel by Heather Mackey. Set in an alternate history version of the United States' Pacific Northwest region during the 1800's, ''Dreamwood'' tells the story of Lucy Darrington, a young girl who has just run away from boarding school in search of her father, the professional ghost hunter William Darrington. Discredited due to his approach to supernatural research, Lucy's father has set off for the redwood forests of Saarthe in order to solve a problem that will redeem his reputation and save the local timber industry. Saarthe's trees are falling victim to a plague, and a rare substance known as Dreamwood may hold the key to its cure. When he seemingly vanishes during his mission, Lucy takes it upon herself to discover what happened, with no thoughts to spare for the predatory forces - both human and supernatural - that wait for her on Saarthe's forbidden island known as The Devil's Thumb...
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!!This work contains examples of the following tropes:
AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Angus Morraine,]] to such an extent that most of the time he comes off as a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable authority figure.]]
''Dreamwood'' is a Young Adult fantasy novel by Heather Mackey. Set in an alternate history version of the United States' Pacific Northwest region during the 1800's, ''Dreamwood'' tells the story of Lucy Darrington, a young girl who has just run away from boarding school in search of her father, the professional ghost hunter William Darrington. Discredited due to his approach to supernatural research, Lucy's father has set off for the redwood forests of Saarthe in order to solve a problem that will redeem his reputation and save the local timber industry. Saarthe's trees are falling victim to a plague, and a rare substance known as Dreamwood may hold the key to its cure. When he seemingly vanishes during his mission, Lucy takes it upon herself to discover what happened, with no thoughts to spare for the predatory forces - both human and supernatural - that wait for her on Saarthe's forbidden island known as The Devil's Thumb...
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!!This work contains examples of the following tropes:
AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Angus Morraine,]] to such an extent that most of the time he comes off as a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable authority figure.]]
