It's followed by a short story dealing with events a generation later, Blood Wolf.
On the Oceans of Eternity provides examples of:
- Anti-Climax: The book mostly involves the Republic of Nantucket fighting against Walker's allies and auxiliary forces in order to access his Achean holdings. Right as the time seems right for a climactic final battle where Walker will be defeated for good, a palace coup takes overthrows his rule of the Achaean state and he is assassinated.
- Artistic License – Linguistics: An inaccuracy when talking about "coal", possibly because the Ancient Greek word
is a variant on "Anthrax", which doesn't sound like coal to English ears.coal" He used the English word, there being no equivalent in Mycenean Greek - Perfect Poison: Averted in the somewhat prolonged deaths of Walker, Hong and their entourage at the end of the third book. Not that they didn't have it coming.
- Starbucks Skin Scale: A mixed race child is referred to as having "café-au-lait skin."An eight-year-old boy came up, face struggling between awe and delight; the café-au-lait skin and loose-curled hair left no doubt who his father was, in this world of palefaces.
