History Literature / ANetOfDawnAndBones

* ColonyDrop: Divine wrath is closely associated with this; Myrrh argues that Gomorroh was destroyed because of a meteor while being on a plain filled with natural gas. Stimson mentions a bodhisattva in Mughal India “prayed for iron from beyond the stars” which was passed down through genetic memory.
** At the climax of Seeds of Blood [[spoiler: Myrrh brings down a satellite imbued with celestial magic on the Demongate with the aid of Sister Usagi and Church’s NASA wrench.]]

** One of the POV characters, Christophe Savonarola, is a self-doubting, {{Wangst}}ing firstborn heir to a powerful family with an affinity for [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]]. The BigBad, his brother Steven Savonarola, is the [[PrincelingRivalry secondborn]] son, [[HardWorkHardlyWorks highly skilled]], [[HundredPercentAdorationRating popular]] and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections well-connected]] - and his specialty is manipulating ''[[MakingASplash water]].'' Readers familiar with Fanfic/EmbersVathara could be forgiven for seeing Cristophe as a Zuko-expy with Steven as Katara.

** Magecraft is InherentGift that cannot be taught to people who aren’t born with it, and is relatively rare and the fastest kind of magic. It is magic tied to elements and the cycles of the world and is often indicative that there has been ancestral contact with powerful beings. Examples are Aidan’s [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]] inherited from his demonic father, and Steven's [[MakingASplash water magic]] from his mother's Finwife ancestry. [[MutuallyExclusiveMagic Having one type of magecraft may prevent the emergence of another type, as Steven laments that his water magecraft makes it all but impossible to access the fire magecraft from his father's side]].

* KillEmAll: Apparently a bad habit of Muslim Hunters: if there is a town with a vampire hiding in it, they would think nothing of burning the whole town. Myrrh states she dislikes working with them for this reason.

** One of the POV characters, Christophe Savonarola, is a self-doubting, {{Wangst}}ing firstborn heir to a powerful family with an affinity for [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]]. The BigBad, his brother Steven Savonarola, is the [[PrincelingRivalry secondborn]] son, [[HardWorkHardlyWorks highly skilled]], [[HundredPercentAdorationRating popular]] and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections well-connected]] - and his specialty is manipulating ''[[MakingASplash water]].'' Readers familiar with Fanfic/{{Embers}} could be forgiven for seeing Cristophe as a Zuko-expy with Steven as Katara.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Church deals with werewolves and vampires while on the police force and her best friend is a gorgon. She doesn't believe O'Malley when he says that hell and demons do exist. They just prefer it that people don't know they're there as it makes it easier to operate out in the world.
** Pointed out by Aidan in regards to Raphael.
--> “You turn into a werewolf, there’s a vampire club downtown, and you don’t think demons are real?”

* [[{{Astrologer}} Astrology]]: Wizadry involves the use of this.

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In the midst of a stakeout gone wrong, two mysterious wanderers drop into Detective Church’s life. Aidan, who moves like flames and holds secrets in his shadows... and Myrrh, a holy warrior born of ancient Alexandria. Enchantress. Heretic. Hell-raider. Welcome to Intrepid. Evil’s in for a hell of a night....

The Amazon pages can be found [[https://www.amazon.com/Net-Dawn-Bones-C-Chancy-ebook/dp/B012GZ1LAY here]].

* RealityEnsues: By the beginning of ''Seeds of Blood'' Church is placed on administrative leave due to having opened fire on the werewolf pack in the previous book. Even though she was attacked, the Intrepid Police Department still needs to investigate a shooting by an officer that caused several deaths.

* ElementalMagic: Magery is based on this. Aidan is a fire mage.

** The POV character, Christophe Savonarola, is a self-doubting, {{Wangst}}ing firstborn heir to a powerful family with an affinity for [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]]. The BigBad, his brother Steven Savonarola, is the [[PrincelingRivalry secondborn]] son, [[HardWorkHardlyWorks highly skilled]], [[HundredPercentAdorationRating popular]] and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections well-connected]] - and his specialty is manipulating ''[[MakingASplash water]].'' Readers familiar with Fanfic/{{Embers}} could be forgiven for seeing Cristophe as a Zuko-expy with Steven as Katara.

* {{Hellgate}}: The Demongates, vast sorcerous constructions built from HumanSacrifice and evil acts that allow demons to invade Earth from Hell with impunity. They are relatively rare because the knowledge and patience required to create a gate isn’t something most sorcerers, but the last few times one has been completed it has caused catastrophe to occur. The BigBad is trying to create a new one in Intrepid, and has had twenty odd years to build the foundations. [[spoiler: Despite the best efforts of everyone involved it opens of Halloween during ''Seeds of Blood'', before being destroyed by [[HolyHandGrenade celestially powered]] ColonyDrop.]]

* ShoutOut: “As kin of mine once said,” Myrrh smiled, [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia “I am not a tame lion.”]]