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* FantasticMeasurementSystem: Magical power is measured in "shandars," so-called after the famous wizard Shandar. Devices called "Shandarmeters" can measure the amount of shandars certain acts of magic take to cast, and all children have their shandar rates measured to test for magical aptitude. The national average is about 150 shandars. Protagonist Jennifer rated about 159.3. It takes 200 shandars to make a toad burp, and 1000 shandars to boil an egg.
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* FantasticMeasurementSystem: Magical power is measured in "shandars," so-called after the famous wizard Shandar. Devices called "Shandarmeters" can measure the amount of shandars certain acts of magic take to cast, and all devices called "shandargraphs" can measure background levels and usage of magical powers in the local area. All children have their shandar rates measured to test for magical aptitude. The aptitude, with the national average is at about 150 shandars. Protagonist Jennifer rated about at 159.3.3 shandars. It takes 200 shandars to make a toad burp, and 1000 shandars to boil an egg.
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* FictionalCurrency: The units of currency used in the Ununited Kingdom include the spondoolip, dollop, acker, and moolah.
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* FictionalCurrency: The units Units of currency used in the Ununited Kingdom include the spondoolip, dollop, acker, half-moolah, and moolah.moolah. King Snodd also issues "coin vouchers" to his subjects.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Jennifer and Tiger are both foundlings who were raised in an OrphanageOfFear, but they treat the experience as something that made them tougher and more mature than their civilian peers.
* OrphanageOfFear: PlayedForLaughs - the convent where Jennifer and Tiger were raised, the Covenant of the Blessed Ladies of the Lobster, is housed in a dreary, medieval castle next to a firing range/ military installation where the army routinely shoots live munitions across the border into the Duchy of Brecon. The foundlings live a life of deprivation, eating gruel that is somehow thinner than water and lacking basic necessities like bedding and changes of clothing. The children have no rights to citizenship, and once the reach the age of 12 or so they're rented out as indentured servants until they turn 18. It sounds horrific, but Jennifer and Tiger both treat it as a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood that made them tough and resourceful.
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* RapidAging: The fate of [[spoiler: Brian Spalding, after he appoints Jennifer his successor in the field of Dragon Slaying]]. He was over 150 years old, and only "Old Magic" kept him from passing away until he could pass the torch. Once his job is complete, he ages decades in the span of a minute and dwindles away to "a fine smattering of gray powder."
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* RapidAging: The fate of [[spoiler: Dragonslayer Brian Spalding, after he appoints Jennifer his successor in the field of Dragon Slaying]]. He was over 150 years old, and only "Old Magic" kept him from passing away until he could pass the torch. Once his job is complete, he ages decades in the span of a minute and dwindles away to "a fine smattering of gray powder."
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%%** The number of foundlings at the convent seems to fluctuate. In "The Last Dargonslayer," Jennifer says that Mother Zenobia "had hundreds of foundlings ready to take up servitude" - and that number would only have included those of working age, presumably older than 10 or 12. In "Song of the Quarkbeast," Jennifer mentions that she had to fight "all forty" other girls at the convent to use the single handkerchief. Later she says that Tiger still hasn't acclimated to having his own room after spending his whole life sleeping in a dormitory with "eighty other boys."
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* ThemeTwinNaming: David and Dennis Price, who are on record as the "least identical twins," also go by the names Half and Full Price. (David is tall and thin and looks like he might be blown away by a stiff breeze, while Dennis is short and fat "like a pink pumpkin.")
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* BalkanizeMe, exaggerated: The Ununited Kingdoms.Kingdoms is comprised of 23 separate political entities.
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* [[BugWar Troll War]]: Why Jennifer and Tiger are foundlings.
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* [[BugWar Troll War]]: Why The Ununited Kingdom is in a constant state of war with the Trolls of Trollvania. This is believed to be why Jennifer and Tiger are foundlings.
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* MagicCarpet: Kazam has two carpeteers on staff: Prince Nasil and Owen of Rhayder. They've been relegated to non-passenger work like delivering pizzas and transporting live organs for donation after a terrible accident 30-some years ago, when a carpeteer named Brother Velobius and his two passengers died when the Turkmen Mk18-C Bukhara carpet they were flying on broke up in midair.
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* MagicCarpet: Kazam has two carpeteers on staff: Prince Nasil and Owen of Rhayder. They've been relegated to non-passenger work like delivering pizzas and transporting live organs for donation after a terrible accident 30-some years ago, when a carpeteer named Brother Velobius and his two passengers died when the Turkmen Mk18-C [=Mk18-C=] Bukhara carpet they were flying on broke up in midair.
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* TheRecordingKnewYouWouldSayThat: Both times Jennifer encounters a recorded message from Shandar, the recording mentions that it's a recording just as she begins to wonder if it's a recording.
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* TheRecordingKnewYouWouldSayThat: TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Both times Jennifer encounters a magically recorded message from Shandar, the recording mentions that it's a recording just as she begins to wonder if it's a recording.
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* MagicCarpet: Kazam has two carpeteers on staff: Prince Nasil and Owen of Rhayder. They've been relegated to non-passenger work like delivering pizzas and transporting live organs for donation after a terrible accident 30-some years ago, when a carpeteer named Brother Velobius and his two passengers died when the Turkmen Mk18-C Bukhara carpet they were flying on broke up in midair.
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--> An hour later I was heading off to the Dragonlands again, the Rolls-Royce bedecked with Fizzi-Pop stickers. On Painted on the door was a big sign:
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* CastFromCalories: On an industrial scale! Much of the UnUnited Kingdom is powered by marzipan, which in the world of "The Last Dragonslayer" is dug out of the ground the way coal is in the real world. After mining, the marzipan is refined into "almondolium" in industrial plants.
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* CastFromCalories: On an industrial scale! Much of the UnUnited Ununited Kingdom is powered by marzipan, which in the world of "The Last Dragonslayer" is dug out of the ground the way coal is in the real world. After mining, the marzipan is refined into "almondolium" in industrial plants.
* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: Not a superhero perse, but a Corporate Sponsored Dragonslayer. When Jennifer takes up the mantle of Dragonslayer several companies start a bidding war to get her to endorse their product, with Yummy Flakes cereal and Fizzi-Pop soda leading the charge. In order to save the Dragonstation from being repossessed by King Snodd (and to keep herself out of debtor's prison after assuming responsibility for the back-charged property tax, rent, gas, water, and electricity), Jennifer accepts a 100,000 moolah contract with Fizzi-Pop.
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'''[[center:[-Dragonslayer-]]]'''
[[center:[-Officially sponsored by Fizzi-Pop, Inc.-]]]
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--> An hour later I was heading off to the Dragonlands again, the Rolls-Royce bedecked with Fizzi-Pop stickers. On the door was a big sign:
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[[center:[-Officially sponsored by Fizzi-Pop, Inc.-]]]
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* BlindSeer: Mother Zenobia has no eyes, but she occasionally has visions of both present and future events. She wasn't surprised when Jennifer dropped by unannounced because she'd had a vision that Jennifer's orange car would appear.
* CastFromCalories: On an industrial scale! Much of the UnUnited Kingdom is powered by marzipan, which in the world of "The Last Dragonslayer" is dug out of the ground the way coal is in the real world. After mining, the marzipan is refined into "almondolium" in industrial plants.
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* CoolSword: Exhorbitus, the sword of the Dragonslayers. It's an AbsurdlySharpBlade that can cut through boulders, brick walls, and carbide steel as if they were wet paper. It's got a giant ruby "the size of an orange" embedded in the pommel. And anyone who ''isn't'' the Dragonslayer [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield is vaporized if they try to touch it]]. (And apparently, it can only be sharpened with a banana.)
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* FantasticMeasurementSystem: Magical power is measured in "shandars," so-called after the famous wizard Shandar. Devices called "Shandarmeters" can measure the amount of shandars certain acts of magic take to cast, and all children have their shandar rates measured to test for magical aptitude. The national average is about 150 shandars and protagonist Jennifer rated about 159. It takes 200 shandars to make a toad burp, and 1000 shandars to boil an egg.
* FantasticMeasurementSystem: Magical power is measured in "shandars," so-called after the famous wizard Shandar. Devices called "Shandarmeters" can measure the amount of shandars certain acts of magic take to cast, and all children have their shandar rates measured to test for magical aptitude. The national average is about 150 shandars and protagonist Jennifer rated about 159. It takes 200 shandars to make a toad burp, and 1000 shandars to boil an egg.
* NamedWeapon: Exhorbitus, sword of the Dragonslayers.
--> "Why is it called Exhorbitus?"
--> "Probably because it was very expensive."
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Only the Dragonslayer or their apprentice can wield the sword Exhorbitus and the lance of the Dragonslayers. Anyone who isn't the Dragonslayer disappears in a puff of smoke.
--> "Why is it called Exhorbitus?"
--> "Probably because it was very expensive."
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Only the Dragonslayer or their apprentice can wield the sword Exhorbitus and the lance of the Dragonslayers. Anyone who isn't the Dragonslayer disappears in a puff of smoke.
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* PaperThinDisguise: During Being the climax, Jenny disguises subject of a massive manhunt after "disappearing" into Kazam, Jennifer can't show her face in public. To sneak out of Kazam and back into the Dragonstation, Tiger comes up with the idea that she should disguise herself as a Troll War Widow, Widow with a wig, an old dress, and the a cardboard sign begging for coins. The Quark Beast is disguised as her baby, in order baby with a bonnet and a baby pram to sneak him past some of King Snodd's guards. The guards are complete idiots though, so it works perfectly.
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Imagine your {{standard fantasy setting}}, some place like [[TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]]. You have your green, pastoral fields, your villages, your sheep, your kings and knights, and your medley of mythical creatures, including, naturally, dragons. Now, imagine that this place ''didn't'' stay frozen in {{medieval stasis}}, and instead continued to change through the years, and that it now exists at a point in time closer to modern age--the year 2007, to be specific.
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Imagine your {{standard fantasy setting}}, some place like [[TheLordOfTheRings [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Middle-earth]]. You have your green, pastoral fields, your villages, your sheep, your kings and knights, and your medley of mythical creatures, including, naturally, dragons. Now, imagine that this place ''didn't'' stay frozen in {{medieval stasis}}, and instead continued to change through the years, and that it now exists at a point in time closer to modern age--the year 2007, to be specific.
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* CoolCar: Instead of a horse, the current Dragonslayer now has a [[CaptainObvious Slayermobile]], a Rolls Royce ''armoured car'' with sirens, emergency vehicle lights, weapon racks for sword and lance, and the whole studded all over with copper spikes to make it unpalatable to dragons.
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* CoolCar: Instead of a horse, the current Dragonslayer now has a [[CaptainObvious Slayermobile]], Slayermobile, a Rolls Royce ''armoured car'' with sirens, emergency vehicle lights, weapon racks for sword and lance, and the whole studded all over with copper spikes to make it unpalatable to dragons.
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* AerithAndBob: "My name is Feldspar Axiom Firebreath IV, and this is Colin."
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* OverlyLongName[=/=]RepetitiveName: Jennifer's assistant Dragonslayer is Gordon van Gordon Gordonson ap Gordon-Gordon of Gordon.
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*PaperThinDisguise: During the climax, Jenny disguises herself as a Troll War Widow, and the Quark Beast as her baby, in order to sneak past some of King Snodd's guards. The guards are complete idiots though, so it works perfectly.
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**This is odd, as the book mentions various real-world nations and places such as France and Persia, which exist In-Universe, so this may be a case of AlternateHistory .
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It was adapted for televison by Creator/SkyOne, and broadcast on Christmas Day 2016.
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* TankGoodness: Cranked UpToEleven with King Snodd IV's "landships": tower block-sized, diesel-powered siege engines on treads.
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* CoolCar: The one used by Dragonslayers: the [[CaptainObvious Slayermobile]], a Rolls-Royce ''armoured car'' with sirens, emergency vehicle lights, weapon racks for sword and lance, and studded all over with copper spikes.
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* CoolCar: The one used by Dragonslayers: the [[CaptainObvious Slayermobile]], a Rolls-Royce ''armoured car'' with sirens, emergency vehicle lights, weapon racks for sword and lance, and studded all over with copper spikes.
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One day, a prophecy gets out that she is destined to kill the last surviving dragon, Maltcassion, allowing [[MegaCorp Consolidated Useful Stuff]] to take over the dragon's vast domain and exploit it for financial gain. But Jenny doesn't ''want'' to be the Last Dragonslayer; in fact, she takes a moral stand against it. The book chronicles her adventures as she confronts the problem--and, naturally, Maltcassion himself.
It was followed with ''The Song of a Quarkbeast'' and ''The Eye of Zoltar.'' A fourth novel, ''Strange and the Wizard'' is forthcoming.
It was followed with ''The Song of a Quarkbeast'' and ''The Eye of Zoltar.'' A fourth novel, ''Strange and the Wizard'' is forthcoming.
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One day, a prophecy gets out that she is destined to kill the last surviving dragon, Maltcassion, allowing [[MegaCorp Consolidated Useful Stuff]] to take over the dragon's vast domain and exploit it for financial gain. But Jenny doesn't ''want'' to be the Last Dragonslayer; in fact, she takes a moral stand against it. The book chronicles her adventures as she confronts the problem--and, problem-and, naturally, Maltcassion himself.
It was followed with ''The Song of a Quarkbeast'' and ''The Eye of Zoltar.'' A fourthnovel, novel entitled ''Strange and the Wizard'' is forthcoming.
It was followed with ''The Song of a Quarkbeast'' and ''The Eye of Zoltar.'' A fourth
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[[quoteright:310:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The-Last-Dragonslayer-by-Jasper-Fforde_5331.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:310:That's her on the hilltop.]]
-->''Thus it was that I, Jennifer Strange, sixteen years next month and loyal subject of King Snodd IV in the Kingdom of Hereford, took on the rights and responsibilities of [[TitleDrop the last Dragonslayer]].''
Imagine your {{standard fantasy setting}}, some place like [[TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]]. You have your green, pastoral fields, your villages, your sheep, your kings and knights, and your medley of mythical creatures, including, naturally, dragons. Now, imagine that this place ''didn't'' stay frozen in {{medieval stasis}}, and instead continued to change through the years, and that it now exists at a point in time closer to modern age--the year 2007, to be specific.
''The Last Dragonslayer'', the first {{young adult}} {{fantasy}} novel by Creator/JasperFforde, is set herein. It was published in 2010. Our protagonist is Jennifer Strange, a fifteen year-old indentured servant and acting manager of Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers in a world where [[TheMagicGoesAway the magic is gradually ebbing away]] and succumbing to the advent of technology, while the manager Mr. Zambini is away for undisclosed reasons.
One day, a prophecy gets out that she is destined to kill the last surviving dragon, Maltcassion, allowing [[MegaCorp Consolidated Useful Stuff]] to take over the dragon's vast domain and exploit it for financial gain. But Jenny doesn't ''want'' to be the Last Dragonslayer; in fact, she takes a moral stand against it. The book chronicles her adventures as she confronts the problem--and, naturally, Maltcassion himself.
First of a planned trilogy.
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!!Tropes:
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Maltcassion
* BalkanizeMe, exaggerated: The unUnited Kingdoms.
* TheChosenOne: Jennifer.
* [[CrystalDragonJesus Crystal Dragonslayer Jesus]]: The Mighty Shandar is regarded this way; Heaven, at least for dragonslayers, is referred to as the Palace of Shandar.
* InformedAbility: Jenny is 16, but apart from a minor romantic subplot (all of maybe three paragraphs) she could as well be 30 or 50.
* InItsHourOfNeed: Part of the LastStand
* LastStand: The Duke of Brecon pledges one.
* MegaCorp: Consolidated Useful Stuff, or [=ConStuff=], and their many subsidiaries.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Gordon van Gordon]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Dragons here are intelligent, erudite creatures with an unfortunate habit of torching villages and eating people.
* ThePardon: At the end
* PokemonSpeak: The Quarkbeast. "Quark!"
* SelfFulfillingProphecy
* TalkAboutTheWeather: wizards don't.
* ThinkNothingOfIt: Lady Mawgon
* TheWatson: Tiger Prawns, and many times Jenny herself.
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[[caption-width-right:310:That's her on the hilltop.]]
-->''Thus it was that I, Jennifer Strange, sixteen years next month and loyal subject of King Snodd IV in the Kingdom of Hereford, took on the rights and responsibilities of [[TitleDrop the last Dragonslayer]].''
Imagine your {{standard fantasy setting}}, some place like [[TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]]. You have your green, pastoral fields, your villages, your sheep, your kings and knights, and your medley of mythical creatures, including, naturally, dragons. Now, imagine that this place ''didn't'' stay frozen in {{medieval stasis}}, and instead continued to change through the years, and that it now exists at a point in time closer to modern age--the year 2007, to be specific.
''The Last Dragonslayer'', the first {{young adult}} {{fantasy}} novel by Creator/JasperFforde, is set herein. It was published in 2010. Our protagonist is Jennifer Strange, a fifteen year-old indentured servant and acting manager of Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers in a world where [[TheMagicGoesAway the magic is gradually ebbing away]] and succumbing to the advent of technology, while the manager Mr. Zambini is away for undisclosed reasons.
One day, a prophecy gets out that she is destined to kill the last surviving dragon, Maltcassion, allowing [[MegaCorp Consolidated Useful Stuff]] to take over the dragon's vast domain and exploit it for financial gain. But Jenny doesn't ''want'' to be the Last Dragonslayer; in fact, she takes a moral stand against it. The book chronicles her adventures as she confronts the problem--and, naturally, Maltcassion himself.
First of a planned trilogy.
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!!Tropes:
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Maltcassion
* BalkanizeMe, exaggerated: The unUnited Kingdoms.
* TheChosenOne: Jennifer.
* [[CrystalDragonJesus Crystal Dragonslayer Jesus]]: The Mighty Shandar is regarded this way; Heaven, at least for dragonslayers, is referred to as the Palace of Shandar.
* InformedAbility: Jenny is 16, but apart from a minor romantic subplot (all of maybe three paragraphs) she could as well be 30 or 50.
* InItsHourOfNeed: Part of the LastStand
* LastStand: The Duke of Brecon pledges one.
* MegaCorp: Consolidated Useful Stuff, or [=ConStuff=], and their many subsidiaries.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Gordon van Gordon]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Dragons here are intelligent, erudite creatures with an unfortunate habit of torching villages and eating people.
* ThePardon: At the end
* PokemonSpeak: The Quarkbeast. "Quark!"
* SelfFulfillingProphecy
* TalkAboutTheWeather: wizards don't.
* ThinkNothingOfIt: Lady Mawgon
* TheWatson: Tiger Prawns, and many times Jenny herself.
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