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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Angus and Alan Wallace for Cleod and Leod, although later they apear all together.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Angus and Alan Wallace for Cleod and Leod, although later they apear appear all together.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Asmodeus takes it to mad levels. Even Curdy turns slightly snarky to his side.
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* FiveManBand: Asmodeus's team.
** TheLeader: Asmodeus.
** TheLancer: Gurlip.
** TheBigGuy: The Grimmig brothers, and the six or seven other fog demons.
** TheSmartGuy: Hugin and Munin.
** TheChick: Keily.
** TheLeader: Asmodeus.
** TheLancer: Gurlip.
** TheBigGuy: The Grimmig brothers, and the six or seven other fog demons.
** TheSmartGuy: Hugin and Munin.
** TheChick: Keily.
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* HornyDevils: The second book introduces Keily, a sexy female spirit in Asmodeus’s squad, and a green fairy named Artemis which is really a succubus.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Keily is apprently the only female spirit in Asmodeus's squad.
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* SuccubiAndIncubi: The second book introduces Keily, a sexy female spirit in Asmodeus’s squad, and a green fairy named Artemis which is really a succubus.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Keily isapprently apparently the only female spirit in Asmodeus's squad.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Keily is
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* ActionGirl: Ylke is forced to become one.
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* BackToBackBadasses: Curdy and Asmodeus.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the second book.]]
* BigBad: Aurnor the Great.
* BigBad: Aurnor the Great.
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* {{Expy}}[=/=]CaptainErsatz: Where should we start? We have Cormac Mac Kinley for [[Literature/HarryPotter Cormac McLaggen]], Asmodeus for [[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy Bartimaeus]], The Jester for ComicBook/TheJoker, [[spoiler:Cormac]] for [[Film/TheDarkKnight Two Face]], and all of them are important characters.
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* {{Expy}}[=/=]CaptainErsatz: {{Expy}}: Where should we start? We have Cormac Mac Kinley for [[Literature/HarryPotter Cormac McLaggen]], Asmodeus for [[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy Bartimaeus]], The Jester for ComicBook/TheJoker, [[spoiler:Cormac]] for [[Film/TheDarkKnight Two Face]], and all of them are important characters.
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* CoolMask: Lord Malkmus of Mordrecq wears a grinning silver mask which is thought to belong to the late [[KingArthur Mordred]]. Later, the Spherical Mask shows an even cooler mask which grants him shapeshifting powers.
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* CoolMask: Lord Malkmus of Mordrecq wears a grinning silver mask which is thought to belong to the late [[KingArthur [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Mordred]]. Later, the Spherical Mask shows an even cooler mask which grants him shapeshifting powers.
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** Also the monks are straight from Rafael Ábalos's ''Grimpow: The Invisible Road'', more specifically friar Canuto, who is an expy of Kense, and friar Conrad, another to friar Brasgdo.
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** Also the monks are straight from Rafael Ábalos's ''Grimpow: The Invisible Road'', ''Literature/GrimpowTheInvisibleRoad'', more specifically friar Canuto, who is an expy of Kense, and friar Conrad, another to friar Brasgdo.
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* {{Expy}}[=/=]CaptainErsatz: Where should we start? We have Cormac Mac Kinley for [[Literature/HarryPotter Cormac McLaggen]], Asmodeus for [[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy Bartimaeus]], The Jester for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, [[spoiler:Cormac]] for [[Film/TheDarkKnight Two Face]], and all of them are important characters.
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* {{Expy}}[=/=]CaptainErsatz: Where should we start? We have Cormac Mac Kinley for [[Literature/HarryPotter Cormac McLaggen]], Asmodeus for [[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy Bartimaeus]], The Jester for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, ComicBook/TheJoker, [[spoiler:Cormac]] for [[Film/TheDarkKnight Two Face]], and all of them are important characters.
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* RedHeadedHero: Curdy, naturally.
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** The Spherical Mask looks and acts pretty much like The Alchemist from the French film ''Film/{{Vidocq}}''.
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* CrapsackWorld: Virtually none of the heroes' attempts to stop the bad guys ruining the world has effect. By the last book, we have a formerly bright magic world turned into a cynic dump with a wizard society so estranged that we are lucky to not being told very much about it.
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* CrapsackWorld: Virtually none of the heroes' attempts to stop the bad guys from ruining the world has effect. By the last book, we have a formerly bright magic world turned into a cynic dump with a wizard society so estranged that we are lucky to not being told very much about it.
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The series, a trilogy for now, is composed by three books, ''Curdy y la Cámara de los Lores'', ''Curdy y el Cetro de Carlomagno'' and ''Curdy y el Vampiro de Gothland'', but it's unknown if will be a fourth installment. In any case fans are crying for one, as the series, while pretty entertaining, has {{Plot Hole}}s you could pilot the Death Star through.
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The series, a trilogy for now, is composed by three books, ''Curdy y la Cámara de los Lores'', and the Chamber of the Lords'', ''Curdy y el Cetro de and the Scepter of Carlomagno'' and ''Curdy y el Vampiro de and the Vampire of Gothland'', but it's unknown if will be a fourth installment. In any case fans are crying for one, as the series, while pretty entertaining, has {{Plot Hole}}s you could pilot the Death Star through.through.
Connected to the series is also an earlier book by Balder, ''The Monarch's Stone'', which serves as background to the trilogy.
Connected to the series is also an earlier book by Balder, ''The Monarch's Stone'', which serves as background to the trilogy.
* Really700YearsOld: If Luitpirc the Storyteller is the same Storyteller from ''The Monarch's Stone'' as it is implied, then he is ''really'' old.
* RetCon: At the beginning of the first book, Luitpirc tells Curdy about his ancestor, the first Curdy Copperhair, and his adventures with the dwarves around the Monarch's Stone. Those are actually the events related in the homonym book, but they have a strange difference: the character from ''The Monarch's Stone'' was not named Curdy, but Bláin Copperhair. Though they are confirmed to be one and the same, this oddity is never explained.
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* UnknownCharacter: Ardlúk the Old is lampshaded several times through the first book as a dreadful OrcusOnHisThrone-type villain, but he actually never appears in the story, and after the first book he is not mentioned anymore.
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* UnknownCharacter: Ardlúk the Old is lampshaded several times through the first book as a dreadful OrcusOnHisThrone-type villain, but he actually never appears in the story, and after the first book he is not mentioned anymore. Same with the Prince of Gargamonte from ''The Monarch's Stone''.
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* DeusExitMachina: The band of demons led by Asmodeus fulfills their first mission despite some losses and is portrayed as a very badass team, but they later disappear for no explanation and never return to the story, with the exception of Gurlip, who anyway disappears a book later.
* FiveManBand: Asmodeus's team.
** TheLeader: Asmodeus.
** TheLancer: Gurlip.
** TheBigGuy: The Grimmig brothers, and the six or seven other fog demons.
** TheSmartGuy: Hugin and Munin.
** TheChick: Keily.
** TheLeader: Asmodeus.
** TheLancer: Gurlip.
** TheBigGuy: The Grimmig brothers, and the six or seven other fog demons.
** TheSmartGuy: Hugin and Munin.
** TheChick: Keily.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Asmodeus is sent by the Higher Powers to a deliberate one to Curdy.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Asmodeus is sent by the Higher Powers to be a deliberate one to Curdy.
* OhCrap: Asmodeus and Gurlip's reaction at seeing the spectre of Brynhildr of Worms.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Keily is apprently the only female spirit in Asmodeus's squad.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Hathel, for no apparent reason, in the second book.
* UnknownCharacter: Ardlúk the Old is lampshaded several times through the first book as a dreadful OrcusOnHisThrone-type villain, but he actually never appears, and after the first book he is not mentioned anymore.
* UnknownCharacter: Ardlúk the Old is lampshaded several times through the first book as a dreadful OrcusOnHisThrone-type villain, but he actually never appears, and after the first book he is not mentioned anymore.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Hathel, in-universe for no apparent reason, in the second book.
book. He is implied to have being brainwashed by [[spoiler:his father.]]
* UnknownCharacter: Ardlúk the Old is lampshaded several times through the first book as a dreadful OrcusOnHisThrone-type villain, but he actually neverappears, appears in the story, and after the first book he is not mentioned anymore.
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* WhatHappenedtothemouse: Many characters, like lord Leubrandt, Gurlip and the rest of the Asmodeus's servants, simply disappear after their respective books.
* WholePlotReference: Seriously, reading ''El Vampiro de Gothland'' is like reading a fantasy version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'''s script, almost scene-by-scene. ''El Cetro de Carlomagno'' also echoes ''[[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy The Golem's Eye]]'' to a truly ludicrious degree, even having a couple of scenes literally taken from it.
* WholePlotReference: Seriously, reading ''El Vampiro de Gothland'' is like reading a fantasy version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'''s script, almost scene-by-scene. ''El Cetro de Carlomagno'' also echoes ''[[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy The Golem's Eye]]'' to a truly ludicrious degree, even having a couple of scenes literally taken from it.
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* WhatHappenedtothemouse: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Many characters, like lord Leubrandt, Gurlip and the rest of the Asmodeus's servants, simply disappear after their respective books.
books for no explanation. Only occasionally they get mentioned afterwards.
* WholePlotReference: Seriously, reading ''El Vampiro de Gothland'' is like reading a fantasy version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'''s script, almost scene-by-scene. ''El Cetro de Carlomagno'' also echoes ''[[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy The Golem's Eye]]'' to a truly ludicrious degree, even having a couple of scenes literally taken fromit.it (including an especially infamous one which references the Holy Roman Empire, which would have made sense in ''The Golem's Eye'' but not at all in ''Curdy'').
* WholePlotReference: Seriously, reading ''El Vampiro de Gothland'' is like reading a fantasy version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'''s script, almost scene-by-scene. ''El Cetro de Carlomagno'' also echoes ''[[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy The Golem's Eye]]'' to a truly ludicrious degree, even having a couple of scenes literally taken from
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** ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' gets some too. Many demons and characters are expies to those from the books: Gurlip to the scythe-wielding Roman afrit from the prologue of ''The Golem's Eye'', the briefly mentioned Aksharkand Demon to the spirit of the Amulet of Samarkanda, the Charlemagne corpse-possesing spirit to Honorius, the Aachen wolves to the London police, and many more.
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** ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' gets some too. Many demons and characters are expies to those from the books: Gurlip to the scythe-wielding Roman afrit from the prologue of ''The Golem's Eye'', the briefly mentioned Aksharkand Demon to the spirit of the Amulet of Samarkanda, Samarkand, the Charlemagne corpse-possesing spirit to Honorius, the Aachen wolves to the London police, and many more.more.
** Also the monks are straight from Rafael Ábalos's ''Grimpow: The Invisible Road'', more specifically friar Canuto, who is an expy of Kense, and friar Conrad, another to friar Brasgdo.
** Also the monks are straight from Rafael Ábalos's ''Grimpow: The Invisible Road'', more specifically friar Canuto, who is an expy of Kense, and friar Conrad, another to friar Brasgdo.
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* BigGood: Luitpirc of Magonia is considered it by the good side, but he remains as a pretty inactive character, and when he shows up to fight Aurnor, [[spoiler:he gets swiftly one-shot and killed.]]
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* BigGood: Luitpirc of Magonia is considered it as one by the good side, but side. However, truth is that he remains as a pretty inactive character, character for most of the second book, and when he shows up to fight Aurnor, [[spoiler:he gets swiftly one-shot and killed.]]
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** ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' gets some too. Many demons and characters are expies to those from the books: Gurlip to the scythe-wielding Roman afrit from the flasback of ''The Golem's Eye'', the briefly mentioned Aksharkand Demon to the spirit of the Amulet of Samarkanda, the Charlemagne corpse-possesing spirit to Honorius, the Aachen wolves to the London police, and many more.
* ChekhovsGun: Straight and then subverted with the gorgon head in the third book. The Jester is shown getting it and later uses it against Asmodeus, apparently killing it. But, given that Asmodeus is a spirit and thus he is immune to that kind of magic, he returns briefly later.
* ChekhovsGun: Straight and then subverted with the gorgon head in the third book. The Jester is shown getting it and later uses it against Asmodeus, apparently killing it. But, given that Asmodeus is a spirit and thus he is immune to that kind of magic, he returns briefly later.
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** ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' gets some too. Many demons and characters are expies to those from the books: Gurlip to the scythe-wielding Roman afrit from the flasback prologue of ''The Golem's Eye'', the briefly mentioned Aksharkand Demon to the spirit of the Amulet of Samarkanda, the Charlemagne corpse-possesing spirit to Honorius, the Aachen wolves to the London police, and many more.
* ChekhovsGun: Straight and then subverted with the gorgon head in the third book. The Jester is shown getting it and later uses it against Asmodeus, apparently killing it.But, given that But thanks to Asmodeus is being a spirit and thus he is immune to that kind of magic, he returns briefly later.
* ChekhovsGun: Straight and then subverted with the gorgon head in the third book. The Jester is shown getting it and later uses it against Asmodeus, apparently killing it.
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* ContinuityDrift: Each one of the books, especially the third one, bizarrely forgets a chunk about the previous one and leaves questions unanswered. So, we never actually discover [[spoiler:what happened with Grendel, Gotwif and the Higher Powers after the second book, who was under the Spherical Mask, what the heck was the Jester, and the ultimate fate of Godfrey of Bouillon]].
* CoolMask: Lord Malkmus of Mordrecq wears a grinning silver mask which is thought to belong to the late [[KingArthur Mordred]]. Later, the Spherical Mask shows an even more cool mask which grants him shapeshifting powers.
* CrapsackWorld: Virtually none of the heroes' attempts to stop the bad guys ruining the world had effect. By the last book, we have a formerly bright magic world turned into a cynic dump with a wizard society so estranged we are lucky to not very told very much about it.
* CoolMask: Lord Malkmus of Mordrecq wears a grinning silver mask which is thought to belong to the late [[KingArthur Mordred]]. Later, the Spherical Mask shows an even more cool mask which grants him shapeshifting powers.
* CrapsackWorld: Virtually none of the heroes' attempts to stop the bad guys ruining the world had effect. By the last book, we have a formerly bright magic world turned into a cynic dump with a wizard society so estranged we are lucky to not very told very much about it.
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* ContinuityDrift: Each one of All the books, especially the third one, bizarrely forgets forget a chunk about the previous one installment and leaves leave questions unanswered. unanswered only to open more in the next. So, we never actually discover [[spoiler:what happened with Grendel, Gotwif and the Higher Powers after the second book, who was under the Spherical Mask, what the heck was actually the Jester, and the ultimate fate of Godfrey of Bouillon]].
* CoolMask: Lord Malkmus of Mordrecq wears a grinning silver mask which is thought to belong to the late [[KingArthur Mordred]]. Later, the Spherical Mask shows an evenmore cool cooler mask which grants him shapeshifting powers.
* CrapsackWorld: Virtually none of the heroes' attempts to stop the bad guys ruining the worldhad has effect. By the last book, we have a formerly bright magic world turned into a cynic dump with a wizard society so estranged that we are lucky to not very being told very much about it.
* CoolMask: Lord Malkmus of Mordrecq wears a grinning silver mask which is thought to belong to the late [[KingArthur Mordred]]. Later, the Spherical Mask shows an even
* CrapsackWorld: Virtually none of the heroes' attempts to stop the bad guys ruining the world
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* DiabolusExNihilo: The Jester comes out from nowhere. Even Asmodeus just can barely figure out he is a tarot-themed being.
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* DiabolusExNihilo: The Jester comes out from nowhere. Even Asmodeus just can barely figure out theorize that he is a tarot-themed being.being made of pure chaos or something.
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* DownerEnding: At the end of the series, Malkmus, the Spherical Mask and the Jester have been all defeated, but Luitpirc and most of the big good guys are dead, Gothland and the world is devastated and Aurnor stills undefeated, which would be simply SequelHook had not Balder said that it is an "open ending" which possibly will not be continued.
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* DownerEnding: At the end of the series, Malkmus, [[spoiler:Malkmus, the Spherical Mask and the Jester have been all defeated, but Luitpirc and most of the big good guys are dead, Gothland and the world is devastated and Aurnor stills undefeated, which undefeated,]] and this would be simply a SequelHook had not Balder said that it is an "open ending" which possibly will not be continued.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Asmodeus is sent as one.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Asmodeus is sent as one.by the Higher Powers to a deliberate one to Curdy.
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* NonActionBigBad: Bishop Ranulf of Flambard is presented as the number two behind Malkmus, but he barely appears and never takes part in the events.
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* NonActionBigBad: MinorMajorCharacter: Bishop Ranulf of Flambard is presented as the number two behind Malkmus, but he barely appears and never takes part in the book's events.
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* SacrificialLion: Clodoveus becomes an inverted example when he gets (accidentally) killed by Curdy.
* ShoutOut: Again, many to ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Grendel is said to live in a realm called "pensieve", "Adava Kedav" is a dark magic formule, Hexmade has four element-themed houses, there are Hagrid-esque half-giants, and words like "legeromancy" are used. ''Curdy'' could be comfortalby set in the ''Harry Potter'' universe.
* ShoutOut: Again, many to ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Grendel is said to live in a realm called "pensieve", "Adava Kedav" is a dark magic formule, Hexmade has four element-themed houses, there are Hagrid-esque half-giants, and words like "legeromancy" are used. ''Curdy'' could be comfortalby set in the ''Harry Potter'' universe.
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* SacrificialLion: Clodoveus becomes an inverted a villanous example when he gets (accidentally) killed by Curdy.
* ShoutOut: Again, many to ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Grendel is said to live in a realm called "pensieve", "Adava Kedav" is a dark magic formule, Hexmade has four element-themed houses, there are Hagrid-esque half-giants, and words like "legeromancy" are used. In general, ''Curdy'' could becomfortalby comfortably set in the ''Harry Potter'' universe.
* ShoutOut: Again, many to ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Grendel is said to live in a realm called "pensieve", "Adava Kedav" is a dark magic formule, Hexmade has four element-themed houses, there are Hagrid-esque half-giants, and words like "legeromancy" are used. In general, ''Curdy'' could be
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* UnknownCharacter: Ardlúk the Old is lampshaded several times through the first book as a dreadful villain, but he never appears.
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* WholePlotReference: Seriously, reading ''El Vampiro de Gothland'' is like reading a wizard version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', almost scene-by-scene. ''El Cetro de Carlomagno'' also echoes ''[[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy The Golem's Eye]]'' to a truly ludicrious degree, even having a couple of scenes literally taken from it.
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* WholePlotReference: Seriously, reading ''El Vampiro de Gothland'' is like reading a wizard fantasy version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'''s script, almost scene-by-scene. ''El Cetro de Carlomagno'' also echoes ''[[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy The Golem's Eye]]'' to a truly ludicrious degree, even having a couple of scenes literally taken from it.
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* AndIMustScream: The Jester's ultimate fate is to be wrapped into a strechter with an eyeless mask. Forever.
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* AndIMustScream: The Jester's [[spoiler:The Jester]]'s ultimate fate is to be wrapped into a strechter with an eyeless mask. Forever.
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* CaptainErsatz: Where should we start? We have Cormac Mac Kinley for Cormac McLaggen, Asmodeus for Bartimaeus, The Jester for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, and all of them are important characters. Also Kroter and Kreichel start as stands for Dobby and Kreacher, and even Aurnor could physically pass for lord Voldemort. At the end of the saga, [[spoiler:Cormac]] becomes a Two Face expy.
** Expy: Falco Daugner is one to Draco Malfoy. Cleod and Leod to Fred and George.
** ShoutOut: The Pensieve, Adava Kedav, the common room
** Expy: Falco Daugner is one to Draco Malfoy. Cleod and Leod to Fred and George.
** ShoutOut: The Pensieve, Adava Kedav, the common room
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* CaptainErsatz: {{Expy}}[=/=]CaptainErsatz: Where should we start? We have Cormac Mac Kinley for [[Literature/HarryPotter Cormac McLaggen, McLaggen]], Asmodeus for Bartimaeus, [[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy Bartimaeus]], The Jester for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, [[spoiler:Cormac]] for [[Film/TheDarkKnight Two Face]], and all of them are important characters. Also characters.
** The rest of characters inspired from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' are countless. Kroter and Kreichel start as stands for Dobby and Kreacher, Falco Daugner is an expy to Draco Malfoy, Tulk and Gumma to Crabbe and Goyle, Cleod and Leod to Fred and George, Luitpirc to Dumbledore, and even Aurnor could physically pass forlord Voldemort. At Voldemort.
** ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' gets some too. Many demons and characters are expies to those from theend books: Gurlip to the scythe-wielding Roman afrit from the flasback of ''The Golem's Eye'', the briefly mentioned Aksharkand Demon to the spirit of the saga, [[spoiler:Cormac]] becomes a Two Face expy.
** Expy: Falco Daugner is oneAmulet of Samarkanda, the Charlemagne corpse-possesing spirit to Draco Malfoy. Cleod Honorius, the Aachen wolves to the London police, and Leod to Fred and George.
** ShoutOut: The Pensieve, Adava Kedav, the common roommany more.
** The rest of characters inspired from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' are countless. Kroter and Kreichel start as stands for Dobby and Kreacher, Falco Daugner is an expy to Draco Malfoy, Tulk and Gumma to Crabbe and Goyle, Cleod and Leod to Fred and George, Luitpirc to Dumbledore, and even Aurnor could physically pass for
** ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' gets some too. Many demons and characters are expies to those from the
** Expy: Falco Daugner is one
** ShoutOut: The Pensieve, Adava Kedav, the common room
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* ContinuityDrift[=/=]WhatHappenedtothemouse: Each one of the books bizarrely forgets a good chunk about the previous one and leaves questions unanswered, only to open more in the next. So, we never discover [[spoiler:if Grendel was actually Aurnor or not, what happened to Gotwif throughout the entire saga, who was under the Spherical Mask, what the heck was the Jester, and the ultimate fate of Godfrey of Bouillon]]. Many characters, like lord Leubrandt, Gurlip and the rest of the Asmodeus's servants, simply disappear for no reason.
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* ContinuityDrift[=/=]WhatHappenedtothemouse: ContinuityDrift: Each one of the books books, especially the third one, bizarrely forgets a good chunk about the previous one and leaves questions unanswered, only to open more in the next. unanswered. So, we never actually discover [[spoiler:if Grendel was actually Aurnor or not, what [[spoiler:what happened to with Grendel, Gotwif throughout and the entire saga, Higher Powers after the second book, who was under the Spherical Mask, what the heck was the Jester, and the ultimate fate of Godfrey of Bouillon]]. Many characters, like lord Leubrandt, Gurlip and the rest of the Asmodeus's servants, simply disappear for no reason.Bouillon]].
* FootnoteFever: In the second book.
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* HornyDevils: The second book introduces Keily, a sexy female spirit in Asmodeus’s squad, and a green fairy which is really a succubus.
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* HornyDevils: The second book introduces Keily, a sexy female spirit in Asmodeus’s squad, and a green fairy named Artemis which is really a succubus.
* ShoutOut: Again, many to ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Grendel is said to live in a realm called "pensieve", "Adava Kedav" is a dark magic formule, Hexmade has four element-themed houses, there are Hagrid-esque half-giants, and words like "legeromancy" are used. ''Curdy'' could be comfortalby set in the ''Harry Potter'' universe.
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* WhatHappenedtothemouse: Many characters, like lord Leubrandt, Gurlip and the rest of the Asmodeus's servants, simply disappear after their respective books.
* WholePlotReference: Seriously, reading ''El Vampiro de Gothland'' is like reading a wizard version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', almost scene-by-scene. ''El Cetro de Carlomagno'' also echoes''The ''[[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy The Golem's Eye'' Eye]]'' to a truly ludicrious degree, even having a couple of scenes literally taken from it.
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A series of novels by Artur Balder. The series focuses in Idruk Maiflower, a young alchemist apprentice living in a dark 11th century who is called by his master to investigate a crime. The journey will lead him to discover his true name, Curdy, and he will have to face inimaginable evil powers who threat the entire old world.
The series, a trilogy for now, is composed by three books, ''Curdy y la Cámara de los Lores'', ''Curdy y el Cetro de Carlomagno'' and ''Curdy y el Vampiro de Gothland'', but it's unknown if will be a fourth installment. In any case fans are crying for one, as the series, while pretty entertaining, has {{Plot Hole}}s you could pilot the Death Star through.
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'''This series contains examples of:'''
* ActionGirl: Ylke is forced to become one.
* AdultsAreUseless: Big time. Adult wizards are pretty much useless or downright nuisances, and the teenage main cast has to solve every problem, including defeating the big bad guys. It gets worse from book to book.
* AerithAndBob: The author ShownTheirWork with most of the character's names, but some others are a bit strange even to the 11th century.
* TheAlliance: Hexmade and the Council of Magonia eventually turn into this.
* AlternateHistory: The story starts within an only slightly altered history, in which the Medieval Inquisition was controlled by some shadowy dark socerers, but later grows into a fully alternate plane when Gothlands is founded.
* AnarchyIsChaos: The Jester clearly thinks it, but given he is batshit insane, it is understandable.
* AndIMustScream: The Jester's ultimate fate is to be wrapped into a strechter with an eyeless mask. Forever.
* AntiMagic: The Spherical Mask is initially identified as an "antimage", but his powers are really just shapeshifting skills. The Jester, on the other hand, is a straight example, as he is completely immune to magic.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Played straight both with the dark lords and the wizards from Hexmade.
* BackToBackBadasses: Curdy and Asmodeus.
* BadassLongcoat: This is the attire for Gothland officers, especially Cormac.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the second book.]]
* BigBad: Aurnor the Great.
* BigGood: Luitpirc of Magonia is considered it by the good side, but he remains as a pretty inactive character, and when he shows up to fight Aurnor, [[spoiler:he gets swiftly one-shot and killed.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Where should we start? We have Cormac Mac Kinley for Cormac McLaggen, Asmodeus for Bartimaeus, The Jester for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, and all of them are important characters. Also Kroter and Kreichel start as stands for Dobby and Kreacher, and even Aurnor could physically pass for lord Voldemort. At the end of the saga, [[spoiler:Cormac]] becomes a Two Face expy.
** Expy: Falco Daugner is one to Draco Malfoy. Cleod and Leod to Fred and George.
** ShoutOut: The Pensieve, Adava Kedav, the common room
* ChekhovsGun: Straight and then subverted with the gorgon head in the third book. The Jester is shown getting it and later uses it against Asmodeus, apparently killing it. But, given that Asmodeus is a spirit and thus he is immune to that kind of magic, he returns briefly later.
* CliffHanger: The first book famously ends with a MindScrew-filled one.
* ContinuityDrift[=/=]WhatHappenedtothemouse: Each one of the books bizarrely forgets a good chunk about the previous one and leaves questions unanswered, only to open more in the next. So, we never discover [[spoiler:if Grendel was actually Aurnor or not, what happened to Gotwif throughout the entire saga, who was under the Spherical Mask, what the heck was the Jester, and the ultimate fate of Godfrey of Bouillon]]. Many characters, like lord Leubrandt, Gurlip and the rest of the Asmodeus's servants, simply disappear for no reason.
* CoolMask: Lord Malkmus of Mordrecq wears a grinning silver mask which is thought to belong to the late [[KingArthur Mordred]]. Later, the Spherical Mask shows an even more cool mask which grants him shapeshifting powers.
* CrapsackWorld: Virtually none of the heroes' attempts to stop the bad guys ruining the world had effect. By the last book, we have a formerly bright magic world turned into a cynic dump with a wizard society so estranged we are lucky to not very told very much about it.
* CursedWithAwesome: Despite it was inoculated into him to turn him into the Cruormante, Curdy's vampire curse acts protecting him from harm [[spoiler:and even from Aurnor's influence]] at the most vital times.
* DeadpanSnarker: Asmodeus takes it to mad levels. Even Curdy turns slightly snarky to his side.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The Jester comes out from nowhere. Even Asmodeus just can barely figure out he is a tarot-themed being.
* DragonInChief: Even after his first defeat, lord Malkmus serves as the manin antagonist through books one and two.
* DramaticUnmask: Curdy unmasks Malkmus to reveal he is [[spoiler:Whylom Plumbeus.]]
* DownerEnding: At the end of the series, Malkmus, the Spherical Mask and the Jester have been all defeated, but Luitpirc and most of the big good guys are dead, Gothland and the world is devastated and Aurnor stills undefeated, which would be simply SequelHook had not Balder said that it is an "open ending" which possibly will not be continued.
* TheGhost: The true BigBad of the series, Aurnor, never appears before the reader until the end of the second book, and then he disappears again.
* HornyDevils: The second book introduces Keily, a sexy female spirit in Asmodeus’s squad, and a green fairy which is really a succubus.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Asmodeus is sent as one.
* ChefOfIron: Teofobus Bombastus.
* LargeHam: Lord Malkmus, especially after his unmasking.
* LoveTriangle: Between Curdy, Ylke and Cormac.
* NonActionBigBad: Bishop Ranulf of Flambard is presented as the number two behind Malkmus, but he barely appears and never takes part in the events.
* OnlySaneMan: Gurlip behaves this way in Asmodeus's squad.
* PowerTattoo: Adelbrand Wendel has one in his palm.
* RedHeadedHero: Curdy, naturally.
* SacrificialLion: Clodoveus becomes an inverted example when he gets (accidentally) killed by Curdy.
* SinisterScythe: Gurlip wields one.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Angus and Alan Wallace for Cleod and Leod.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Hathel, for no apparent reason, in the second book.
* UnknownCharacter: Ardlúk the Old is lampshaded several times through the first book as a dreadful villain, but he never appears.
* WizardingSchool: The Hexmade university.
* WholePlotReference: Seriously, reading ''El Vampiro de Gothland'' is like reading a wizard version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', almost scene-by-scene. ''El Cetro de Carlomagno'' also echoes ''The Golem's Eye'' to a truly ludicrious degree, even having a couple of scenes literally taken from it.
The series, a trilogy for now, is composed by three books, ''Curdy y la Cámara de los Lores'', ''Curdy y el Cetro de Carlomagno'' and ''Curdy y el Vampiro de Gothland'', but it's unknown if will be a fourth installment. In any case fans are crying for one, as the series, while pretty entertaining, has {{Plot Hole}}s you could pilot the Death Star through.
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'''This series contains examples of:'''
* ActionGirl: Ylke is forced to become one.
* AdultsAreUseless: Big time. Adult wizards are pretty much useless or downright nuisances, and the teenage main cast has to solve every problem, including defeating the big bad guys. It gets worse from book to book.
* AerithAndBob: The author ShownTheirWork with most of the character's names, but some others are a bit strange even to the 11th century.
* TheAlliance: Hexmade and the Council of Magonia eventually turn into this.
* AlternateHistory: The story starts within an only slightly altered history, in which the Medieval Inquisition was controlled by some shadowy dark socerers, but later grows into a fully alternate plane when Gothlands is founded.
* AnarchyIsChaos: The Jester clearly thinks it, but given he is batshit insane, it is understandable.
* AndIMustScream: The Jester's ultimate fate is to be wrapped into a strechter with an eyeless mask. Forever.
* AntiMagic: The Spherical Mask is initially identified as an "antimage", but his powers are really just shapeshifting skills. The Jester, on the other hand, is a straight example, as he is completely immune to magic.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Played straight both with the dark lords and the wizards from Hexmade.
* BackToBackBadasses: Curdy and Asmodeus.
* BadassLongcoat: This is the attire for Gothland officers, especially Cormac.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the second book.]]
* BigBad: Aurnor the Great.
* BigGood: Luitpirc of Magonia is considered it by the good side, but he remains as a pretty inactive character, and when he shows up to fight Aurnor, [[spoiler:he gets swiftly one-shot and killed.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Where should we start? We have Cormac Mac Kinley for Cormac McLaggen, Asmodeus for Bartimaeus, The Jester for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, and all of them are important characters. Also Kroter and Kreichel start as stands for Dobby and Kreacher, and even Aurnor could physically pass for lord Voldemort. At the end of the saga, [[spoiler:Cormac]] becomes a Two Face expy.
** Expy: Falco Daugner is one to Draco Malfoy. Cleod and Leod to Fred and George.
** ShoutOut: The Pensieve, Adava Kedav, the common room
* ChekhovsGun: Straight and then subverted with the gorgon head in the third book. The Jester is shown getting it and later uses it against Asmodeus, apparently killing it. But, given that Asmodeus is a spirit and thus he is immune to that kind of magic, he returns briefly later.
* CliffHanger: The first book famously ends with a MindScrew-filled one.
* ContinuityDrift[=/=]WhatHappenedtothemouse: Each one of the books bizarrely forgets a good chunk about the previous one and leaves questions unanswered, only to open more in the next. So, we never discover [[spoiler:if Grendel was actually Aurnor or not, what happened to Gotwif throughout the entire saga, who was under the Spherical Mask, what the heck was the Jester, and the ultimate fate of Godfrey of Bouillon]]. Many characters, like lord Leubrandt, Gurlip and the rest of the Asmodeus's servants, simply disappear for no reason.
* CoolMask: Lord Malkmus of Mordrecq wears a grinning silver mask which is thought to belong to the late [[KingArthur Mordred]]. Later, the Spherical Mask shows an even more cool mask which grants him shapeshifting powers.
* CrapsackWorld: Virtually none of the heroes' attempts to stop the bad guys ruining the world had effect. By the last book, we have a formerly bright magic world turned into a cynic dump with a wizard society so estranged we are lucky to not very told very much about it.
* CursedWithAwesome: Despite it was inoculated into him to turn him into the Cruormante, Curdy's vampire curse acts protecting him from harm [[spoiler:and even from Aurnor's influence]] at the most vital times.
* DeadpanSnarker: Asmodeus takes it to mad levels. Even Curdy turns slightly snarky to his side.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The Jester comes out from nowhere. Even Asmodeus just can barely figure out he is a tarot-themed being.
* DragonInChief: Even after his first defeat, lord Malkmus serves as the manin antagonist through books one and two.
* DramaticUnmask: Curdy unmasks Malkmus to reveal he is [[spoiler:Whylom Plumbeus.]]
* DownerEnding: At the end of the series, Malkmus, the Spherical Mask and the Jester have been all defeated, but Luitpirc and most of the big good guys are dead, Gothland and the world is devastated and Aurnor stills undefeated, which would be simply SequelHook had not Balder said that it is an "open ending" which possibly will not be continued.
* TheGhost: The true BigBad of the series, Aurnor, never appears before the reader until the end of the second book, and then he disappears again.
* HornyDevils: The second book introduces Keily, a sexy female spirit in Asmodeus’s squad, and a green fairy which is really a succubus.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Asmodeus is sent as one.
* ChefOfIron: Teofobus Bombastus.
* LargeHam: Lord Malkmus, especially after his unmasking.
* LoveTriangle: Between Curdy, Ylke and Cormac.
* NonActionBigBad: Bishop Ranulf of Flambard is presented as the number two behind Malkmus, but he barely appears and never takes part in the events.
* OnlySaneMan: Gurlip behaves this way in Asmodeus's squad.
* PowerTattoo: Adelbrand Wendel has one in his palm.
* RedHeadedHero: Curdy, naturally.
* SacrificialLion: Clodoveus becomes an inverted example when he gets (accidentally) killed by Curdy.
* SinisterScythe: Gurlip wields one.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Angus and Alan Wallace for Cleod and Leod.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Hathel, for no apparent reason, in the second book.
* UnknownCharacter: Ardlúk the Old is lampshaded several times through the first book as a dreadful villain, but he never appears.
* WizardingSchool: The Hexmade university.
* WholePlotReference: Seriously, reading ''El Vampiro de Gothland'' is like reading a wizard version of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', almost scene-by-scene. ''El Cetro de Carlomagno'' also echoes ''The Golem's Eye'' to a truly ludicrious degree, even having a couple of scenes literally taken from it.
