History Literature / UrnBurial

[[caption-width-right:300:What is Man that thou art mindful of him? ''[[Literature/TheBible Psalm 8, v 3]]'']]

* NotSoDifferent: In spite of all the CulturalPosturing going on from the other alien races Ralph meets about how crappy humans are, it was a Fefethil who designed and built all the planet-killing super weapons that they all used in wiping out the Attock as a race. And the Wawaka are keen on conquering the rest of the galaxy, which is why they're searching for Sephotic's tomb in the first place, having gotten a few rungs up the galactic pecking order courtesy of a rare mineral found on their planet.

* NotBadForAnX: Theloc concedes that Ralph is ''"not unintelligent, for an ape."'' As part of the Fefethil's request of Ralph that he try to find the Tomb of Sephotic for them so they can hide it somewhere else, Theloc also admits that, if Ralph did manage this, he would stop calling humans apes. [[spoiler: At the end, Theloc leaves a tombstone engraved with the Psalm 8 quote above where Sephotic's tomb used to be]].

* PettingZooPeople: The Fefethil are anthropomorphic cats and the Wawaka, anthropomorphic dogs; described as looking like cheetahs and alsatians, respectively. Both are essentially upright walking humanoids with animal heads, tails and ears, animal eyes and more human hands; five fingered rather than three or four.

Not to be confused with ''Urn Burial, A Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk,'' by Sir Thomas Browne. Or ''Urn Burial'', a PhryneFisher novel that takes its title from that scholarly tome.

* EldritchAbominations: The Attock, who came from...somewhere, possibly outside of the universe, [[OmnicidalManiac glory in sadism, torture and slaughter]] and whose bodies were a bizarre mix of horns, hooves and eyes that, even when they're dead, suggest that they'd like nothing better than to turn you inside out [[ForTheEvulz for fun.]]

* {{AlienNon-InterferenceClause}}: The SufficientlyAdvancedAlien races are supposed to keep out of the affairs of planets which are not yet part of the galactic community, a crime punishable by death or by transportation to the prison camps of Bremis Three.

[[caption-width-right:300:What is Man that thou art mindful of him? ''[[TheBible Psalm 8, v 3]]'']]

* {{AlienNon-InterferenceClause}}: The {{sufficiently advanced alien}} races are supposed to keep out of the affairs of planets which are not yet part of the galactic community, a crime punishable by death or by transportation to the prison camps of Bremis Three.

Not to be confused with ''Urn Burial, A Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk,'' by Sir Thomas Browne. Or ''Urn Burial'', a PhyrneFisher novel that takes its title from that scholarly tome.

Not to be confused with ''Urn Burial, A Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk,'' by Sir Thomas Browne.

* EldritchAbominations: The Attock, who came from...somewhere, possible outside of the universe, [[OmnicidalManiac glory in sadism, torture and slaughter]] and whose bodies were a bizarre mix of horns, hooves and eyes that, even when they're dead, suggest that they'd like nothing better than to turn you inside out [[ForTheEvulz for fun.]]
* DeflectorShields: Fefethil and Wawaka ships both have deflector shields. Fefethil one's are more advanced than the Wawak's, and rather than being entirely invisble, create a highly reflective surface. This ''may'' be purely to deflect/reflect the Wawaka lasers.

* HumansAreSpecial: In spite of prevailing opinion being the above, that humans are a dangerously insane species that going to be trouble in the long run Lord Merethon, the creator, believes that they have an as yet un-realised potential and should be left along to find it.

* HumansAreSpecial: In spite of prevailing opinion being the above, that humans are a dangerously insane species that going to be trouble in the long run, Lord Merethon, the creator believes that they have an as yet un-realised potential and should be left along to find it.