History Literature / DeptfordMice

* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:Vesper and Ysabelle]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While everything the Starwife does is for a good reason, she initially comes across as rude and cruel. This probably has something to do with the fact that being a [[BrokenBird Broken Bird]] is an actual ''requirement'' for the job, as Ninnia states in the prequel ''The Oaken Throne''.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There are two characters with the name William. These are William "Twit" Scuttle the fieldmouse and William Godwin the human boy. They're from different time periods and they don't appear in the same book, however. Also, the Starwife in the original trilogy was known as Audrey before she took up the title, just like the mouse protagonist. The latter is never told of that fact, though, and the reader is only made aware of it [[spoiler:right before the Starwife dies]].

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There are two characters with the name William. These are William "Twit" Scuttle the fieldmouse and William Godwin the human boy. They're from different time periods and they don't appear in the same book, however.

* AnimatedTattoo: The face on Madame Akkikuyu'a ear, through which Nicodemus [[spoiler:(really the spirit of Jupiter)]] is able to speak to her.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:''Thomas'' could be considered this. Multiple characters lost their lives in an attempt to ensure that the EggMacGuffin wouldn't end up in enemy hands. It turns out that [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the Green Council]] had already rendered it useless and didn't tell anyone else so as not to arouse suspicion. They knew allies would be dying for essentially nothing but allowed it to happen because [[IDidWhatIHadToDo they were doing what had to be done]].]]

* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: Robin Jarvis is well-known for being a "bloodthirsty" author, so expect most of the characters to be dead by the time all is said and done. One of his bios actually states that "as a child he loved reading scary stories and was disappointed if no one died in them, something he was determined to make up for when he started writing his own". A character is very, ''very'' lucky if they survive to the end in one of his books... well, maybe not, as even if they're still alive they're likely to be miserable.

* GreatOffscreenWar: The Starwife recalls the night she ascended to the throne in her youth when she "raced uphill from the battle". No further details have been given about this particular war, but it cannot be the one between the bats and the squirrels as it has been [[http://robinjarvis.com/oakenthrone.html confirmed by the author]] that this Starwife who appears in the main trilogy is not Ysabelle.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:''Thomas'' could be considered this. Multiple characters lost their lives in an attempt to ensure that the EggMacGuffin wouldn't end up in enemy hands. It turns out that [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the Green Council]] had already rendered it useless and didn't tell anyone else so as not to arouse suspicion.]]

* SmallNameBigEgo: Master Oldnose.