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• 10-Minute Retirement: Jared Black. He just never gets to settle down even though he really wants to.
• Affably Evil
• Adventurer Archaeologist
• Awesome McCoolname: Molly Templar, Amelia Harsh, Purity Drake, Hannah Conquest to name just a few.
• Blue Blood
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Used to manipulate machines in The Court of the Air
• Come to Gawk
• Crystal Dragon Jesus
• Dreaming of Times Gone By
• Due to the Dead
• Empathic Weapon
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: An England where the English Civil War resulted in a crushing of the king and the church is avowedly disbelieving in any gods; a France where the French Revolution went on and on and many more.
• Fisher King
• Floating Continent
• Genetic Memory
• King in the Mountain: Invoked in an allusion
• Luke, I Am Your Father
• Made a Slave
• The Magnificent
• Mayincatec
• Meaningful Rename
• Mechanical Lifeforms: The Steammen
• Powder Keg Crowd: The king is displayed for abuse to disarm it.
• Royal Blood: A very bad thing to have in the parliamentarian Kingdom of Jackals; royals are deliberately bred and kept around to be abused and vilified.
• Sky Pirate
• Sacred Hospitality
• Swiss Army Tears
• Talking Weapon
• Truly Single Parent
• Unable To Support A Wife: Jethro, after ejection from the Circlist church.
• Utopia Justifies the Means
• Well-Intentioned Extremist
• Zeppelins from Another World